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Sonya Warren was declared the new councillor for the multi-member ward of Buckie, with 1,485 votes.
Independent Norman Caldwell came second with 696 votes, with Conservative Tim Eagle third on 315.
Independent councillor Joe Mackay died in January, leading to the by-election. The turnout was 32.3%. The 26-member Moray Council is led by an Independent and Conservative coalition.
The result means that the number of SNP councillors is now 11, equal to the number in the administration group.
The SNP also won council by-elections in Fife and West Lothian on Thursday.
Dean Saunders, 25, died at HMP Chelmsford, Essex, in January 2016.
He had been arrested after he stabbed his father during a paranoid episode.
Lynn Johnston told the hearing she was aware of Mr Saunders' intentions to take his own life. She said she could not remember if she had shared the information with her colleagues.
Dean Saunders had been charged with attempted murder after the incident involving his father Mark Saunders.
His father previously told the inquest he had walked on to a knife held by his son to prevent his son from harming himself.
Ms Johnston was one of three specialists who assessed Mr Saunders' mental health while in custody.
She told the hearing at the Essex County Coroner's Court, in Chelmsford, that Mr Saunders had told a medic he wanted to die.
The information was written in a report which she had been given when she assessed his mental health.
Ms Johnston told the inquest she "hoped" she had shared the information with her colleagues before his death.
"I would have thought that I would have done, but I can't be certain," she said.
Mr Saunders' family allege a decision not to detain him under the Mental Health Act and to withdraw continuous observation in prison contributed to his death.
The hearing continues.
Dame Glenys Stacey said the standard of some services in the county was now "significantly lower" than before.
In 2014, the government replaced probation trusts in England and Wales with 21 rehabilitation companies, made up of private firms and charities.
A Probation Service spokesperson said it would "monitor performance closely".
Probation reforms, implemented by the then Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, overhauled the supervision of released prisoners and people serving community sentences in England and Wales.
As part of the changes, the probation service was split in two, with community rehabilitation companies (CRCs) supervising low and medium-risk offenders.
At the same time a National Probation Service (NPS) took over the supervision of high-risk offenders.
In one of her first inspection reports since the new system was introduced, Dame Glenys says she found no evidence that public protection was being made a priority by Reducing Reoffending Partnership - the CRC that won the contract in four counties in the East Midlands.
Her report said the "quality of work" provided by the company in Derbyshire was "significantly lower" than it was under the former Probation Trust - describing it as "poor" in some areas.
Dame Glenys said many staff felt the new approach to rehabilitation was "not yet a reality".
She said the CRC had "ambitious plans for an effective and modern probation service, to make a difference to people's life chances and reduce re-offending".
However, she said the implementation of the changes has been "troublesome and slow" and that "standards have slipped".
"Leaders do need to focus on delivering good quality services today as well as improving tomorrow," she said.
She went on: "The public can be reassured, however, that the National Probation Service in Derbyshire is managing high-risk offenders well."
Catherine Holland, chief executive of Reducing Reoffending Partnership, said the probation team in Derbyshire was working hard to keep the public safe "by reducing reoffending".
"We welcome this inspection report which identifies recommendations and many areas of good practice. We will use its findings to further strengthen our work," she said.
A government spokesman said "public protection and reducing reoffending will always be our priority.
"We hold providers rigorously to account for their performance and insisted a robust action plan was developed by the CRC. We will continue to monitor performance closely."
However, Andrew Neilson, from the Howard League for Penal Reform, said the report indicated the probation service was "letting down people who are trying to change their lives."
"The Howard League warned that ministers were taking a huge risk by dismantling a service that was performing well. We remain of that view," he added.
The 31-year-old West Brom defender is expected to be out of action for six months after damaging his anterior cruciate ligament.
Brunt, capped 54 times, was injured during the Baggies' 3-2 Premier League win over Crystal Palace at the weekend.
The left-back played eight times for Northern Ireland during the Euro 2016 qualifying campaign.
"It's a big blow for Chris and everyone is feeling for him right now," said West Brom head coach Tony Pulis.
"It will be disappointing for us not to have him for the rest of the season because he is a terrific player who gives the team great balance.
"But obviously it is made even more cruel because it has denied him a career highlight with Northern Ireland this summer."
Brunt was accompanied by Albion's director of performance Dr Mark Gillett when he flew to France for surgery on Thursday.
"We are hopeful Chris will be nearing the completion of his rehabilitation towards the start of next season," he said.
Brunt made his Northern Ireland debut against Switzerland in 2004 and was regularly deployed on the left wing, but more recently reverted to a full-back role.
The team are preparing for their first appearance at a major finals since 1986.
Northern Ireland have been drawn in Group C, alongside Ukraine, Poland and world champions Germany. Their first match is against Poland in Nice on Sunday, 12 June.
"It's a devastating blow for Chris. To play as long as he has at international level and now to miss out on the finals is heartbreaking," said Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill.
"All we can do is sympathise with him and support him at this time."
Yet the chicken, spices and rice in that box are in reality the result of a series of complex trading relationships.
The chicken may have come from Thailand, the pilau rice from India and the spices from elsewhere in Asia. Even the packaging is likely to have been sourced internationally, while the meal itself may well have been produced outside the UK.
The recent scandal at Waitrose, which was forced to rebrand the lamb ready meals in its "British" range because some are made with lamb from New Zealand, has highlighted the issue.
"When we go into a supermarket, restaurant or coffee shop, we're at the very centre of a huge web of food and drink trading relationships, with layers and layers of exchanges going on out of sight," says James Walton, chief economist at food and grocery research charity IGD.
All those deals add up to a significant industry. We import more than we export of all types of food. The UK imported a whopping £38.5bn worth of food, feed and drink in 2015, the most recent official statistics available.
The number dwarfs the £18bn worth of food we exported that year. In fact, just half of the food we eat in the UK originates here, with most of the rest imported from Europe.
A recent vegetable shortage, driven by bad weather in southern Europe, highlighted this dependence, and led to a flurry of pictures on social media of empty supermarket shelves.
On top of this, the pound's 14% fall against the euro since the Brexit vote means imports cost more, and there is huge uncertainty over what effect leaving the EU will have on the cost and availability of food from Europe.
All of this begs the obvious question: shouldn't supermarkets simply rely more on British suppliers instead?
Supermarkets are coy on just how much they source from the UK, with Morrisons the only one of the "Big Four" to answer my email on this question. Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's did not reply.
Morrisons, which says it already sources around two-thirds of its supplies from the UK, has pledged to recruit 200 more British suppliers after a report it commissioned found global uncertainties meant it "makes increasing sense to build up a stronger local food sector".
The report's author, Prof Tim Benton, said the aim of doing this "is not to disengage from reliance on global trade, but to hedge our bets by increasing local production for local consumption".
Local is all the rage right now, with the popularity of farmers' markets, homemade artisan breads and craft beers continuing apace. People expect food and drink that hasn't travelled thousands of miles to taste better. The assumption is also that production standards will be higher.
People are also keen to support their local economy. In fact, three-quarters of people said they try to buy British food and drink if it is available, mainly with the motivation to support British manufacturers and jobs, according to IGD's December survey of 1,700 shoppers. Although notably, a lot less - just under a third - said they were willing to pay more for the privilege.
Tesco was criticised last year for tapping into this trend, using fictional British-sounding farm names on labelling for a range of meat and fresh produce, some of which was sourced from abroad.
But while the notion of buying British may be appealing, the reality is that on a bigger scale it's very difficult to achieve.
Even if we ate all the food we exported, we would still generate less than two-thirds of what we need, according to Prof Benton.
And while Morrisons has pledged to source more from the UK, the chain is in an unusual position in that it already owns an abattoir and meat-processing operations, as well as bakeries and produce-packing sites, making it easier for it to be more self-reliant.
For many of its rivals, replicating this kind of domestic supply chain would be much tougher.
Paul Martin, head of retail at consultancy KPMG, says often the economics just don't stack up.
"On paper, it's very appealing, but the challenge is that due to the high cost of manufacturing in the UK, you need to have a very high utilisation rate. If you are a supermarket then you're likely only to supply to yourself," he says.
The hurdles aren't just financial. The UK doesn't actually have enough room to grow all the crops and keep all the animals that we currently eat. The climate means there are also certain items, such as bananas, that we simply cannot grow at scale in the UK.
Given the massive housing shortage in the UK, Mr Martin says it's unlikely to be desirable politically to use more land for farming.
And while supermarkets may talk of looking at alternative supply sources - something he notes is a good way of putting overseas suppliers under pressure to keep costs low - the reality is that the impact on consumers may also be unpalatable.
"If you suddenly say we'll shift 30% or 40% of imported food categories, even if it was possible, it would have a significant shift on the way people consume goods," says Mr Martin.
Lots of products, such as tomatoes and strawberries, which we take for granted as being available all year round, no longer would be. And, he says with a smile, the UK could never produce enough wine to satisfy demand.
The other problem is producing more home grown products in significantly more volume in an economy almost entirely reliant on the services economy would require a dramatic revolution that would take years.
"The evolution of our supply chain moving abroad took some years and moving it back would take a similar length of time. The reality is this is something that cannot be changed quickly, whether you're talking about courgettes or cotton trousers," says veteran retail analyst Richard Hyman.
While the rising costs of imports are expected to push the cost of our supermarket shop higher, Mr Hyman thinks the intensity of competition from discounters Lidl and Adli, and the ever-present threat of Amazon, means supermarkets will be willing to absorb much of these to protect their market share.
He believes for supermarkets this fierce war for customers is a far bigger priority than sourcing more food from the UK.
"This is the real challenge. A lot of questions go far, far deeper than a hut in a field in Lincolnshire. Would that it was that simple," he says.
They want the airport to be named after John Harrison, who invented the longitude watch in the 18th Century.
Harrison lived in the village of Barrow-upon-Humber, less than 10 miles (16km) from the airport.
The airport said it had no plans to change the Humberside name and it was not the right time do so.
One of the campaigners Dr Robert Jaggs-Fowler described Harrison as a "remarkable man".
Harrison developed highly accurate timepieces as part of a competition run by the British Admiralty to provide an accurate method of navigation for naval ships.
His watches were incredibly reliable, losing only a few seconds over a long sea journey.
By knowing the correct time, a navigator could calculate a vessel's longitude, its east/west position.
Despite his innovations, Harrison was denied the prize money by the government for solving the longitude problem, although he did receive other payments for his work.
He died in 1776 at the age of 83.
The campaign, run by the John Harrison Foundation, said it was appropriate to rename the airport to mark the 300th anniversary of the establishment of the longitude prize, which was set up by Queen Anne in 1714.
Dr Jaggs-Fowler said Harrison's invention "saved thousands of lives".
"Simply because he enabled people to find longitude," he said.
"And from that, as Neil Armstrong, our man on the moon said, it enabled mankind to go forward and not just find their way across the seas but in the skies and ultimately to the moon and beyond."
The airport's commercial director Paul Litton said, although John Harrison's achievements deserved wider recognition, "it was not the right time" to change the airport's name in light of increasing investment in the region.
"We need to link the airport clearly to the Humber area," he said.
This year visitors can follow in the footsteps of plant hunters of the past, as the show takes them on a virtual journey around the world.
Visitors will follow a trail of light installations around the garden.
Ten original pieces of music have been written for the 22-night event, which is now in its third year. Last year the show attracted 28,000 visitors.
Supported by his business partner, Norman Smurthwaite, Wildes's Alchemy Investment Group's bid finally went through on Tuesday evening.
The deal had to be done by midnight before the bidders' exclusivity period expired with the club's administrators.
That could have led to another offer being accepted from rival bidders.
Vale had been in administration since March, but the Football League confirmed they are now out.
"I would like to welcome Paul Wildes and Norman Smurthwaite to the Football League and thank them for their efforts in helping to rescue Port Vale Football Club," Football League chairman Greg Clarke said.
It has been a long process but we are delighted to have finally taken over the club and look forward to a long and successful association
"The Football League remains committed to improving the financial health of professional football and, as with any club which has been through a period of administration, will continue to monitor the situation at Port Vale over the coming years to help ensure the club remains on an even financial footing."
Vale's new owners received approval from the Football League last week, but had to wait before all the final legal details were in place.
Sheffield-born Wildes, 35, who also attempted a takeover at Darlington earlier this year, runs a variety of businesses, from hotels to hairdressers.
A former finance director for the Caudwell Group, which owned brands such as Phones 4u, Wildes owns some of the franchise for the hotel chain Holiday Inn.
He set up his own company in 2007, Mansion Group, which he sold three years later, before establishing a new holding company, the Wildes Group.
In a statement on the club's website, Wildes, who was named as the preferred bidder last month after Keith Ryder's summer-long bid ended, said: "I would like to thank the Port Vale supporters, once again, for their ongoing patience and support.
"It has been a long process but we are delighted to have finally taken over the club and look forward to a long and successful association.
"As I have previously stated, our intention is to develop the club both on and off the field."
Micky Adams' side are second in League Two, although they had not won in five league games before beating Bristol Rovers 4-0 on Tuesday night.
City have paid a six-figure fee for the 22-year-old forward, who scored 16 goals in 120 appearances for Boro.
Stevenage, who finished bottom of League One last season, had considered selling ex-Arsenal trainee Freeman in January after he attracted interest from Championship sides.
In May, the club activated a 12-month extension to his deal, to keep him under contract until next summer.
"The enthusiasm to do well made me come here, as well as the enthusiasm from Steve Cotterill," Freeman told BBC Radio Bristol.
"Like any footballer, I want to play at the highest level I can. I believe Bristol City have the right attributes to go up and I'm really happy to be here."
City manager Cotterill added: "He's someone we've been keeping tabs on for some time and I'm delighted we've been able to bring Luke on board.
"I've wanted to add a left-sided player to the squad and Luke can actually play in a variety of positions. He can play on the left, on the right and cut in, or play in a midfield three.
"In truth, it's probably going to take six to 12 months to work out his best position, but that'll come by working with him in training.
"He's a good, young, exciting player. He's an excellent addition to the football club for the short term and long term."
Freeman spent his youth career with Charlton and Gillingham before signing for Arsenal in 2008.
He gained Football League experience with Yeovil and Stevenage, who made his loan spell permanent in January 2012.
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Cookson ran British Cycling for 17 years, becoming UCI president in 2013.
UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) officials are investigating allegations against Team Sky, which they deny.
The allegations surround therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) and the administering of medication to riders.
Former Team Sky rider Jonathan Tiernan-Locke said last week painkiller Tramadol was "freely offered" when he was riding for Great Britain at the 2012 World Championships.
British Cycling vice chairman Charlie Jackson dismissed claims of a crisis.
He added: "It's been a rollercoaster for a period of time, that is true. We'll fight through this, there are a lot of good people, good volunteers in the sport."
Cookson said Team Sky was established in 2010 so that British Cycling could "trust the development of our riders in a safe, clean environment with the highest levels of integrity".
"In my time as British Cycling president we insisted on the highest possible standards of integrity in anti-doping. I would be surprised and disappointed if things have not been continued at that level," Cookson said. "Let's see what this investigation produces."
Talking about British Cycling's thinking behind setting up Team Sky, Cookson recalled: "We were developing young riders, we were taking them virtually all the way to the top but then for that last few percentage we had to put them in the trust of organisations over which we had no knowledge and very little control.
"We saw the ethical and integrity issues that resulted from that."
Ukad has met with British Cycling's "full co-operation", while Team Sky says it is "confident there has been no wrongdoing" following an internal review.
It accuses Mr Mugabe of dictatorial tendencies, egocentrism and misrule.
It was not immediately clear if all of the war veterans agreed with the text.
Pressure on Mr Mugabe, 92, is growing, with factions in the governing Zanu-PF party openly fighting to succeed him and protests about the failing economy.
But he has said he plans to run for president again in 2018 and rule until he dies.
BBC World Service Africa editor James Copnall says that even in the most difficult moments of his 36 years in power, Mr Mugabe could always rely on the war veterans - his former comrades in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle in the 1970s.
They were loyal supporters who sometimes provided him the muscle for political violence, our correspondent adds, so this development will be quite a blow.
"We note, with concern, shock and dismay, the systematic entrenchment of dictatorial tendencies, personified by the president and his cohorts, which have slowly devoured the values of the liberation struggle," warned the statement released on Thursday after a meeting of representatives from across the country.
Sources told the BBC Zimbabwe analyst Lewis Machipisa that the statement reflected not only the views of some war veterans, but also senior military figures. Mr Mugabe relies heavily on the military to remain in power.
The statement said the veterans would not support Mr Mugabe's re-election campaign, accusing him of abandoning them for the Zanu-PF's youth league.
It also blamed Zimbabwe's economic crisis on "bankrupt leadership". Banks have run short of cash and the government struggles to pay civil servants.
"We are dismayed by the president's tendency to indulge, in his usual vitriol against perceived enemies, including peaceful protesters, as well as war veterans, when the economy is on its knees," the veterans' association's statement said. "He has a lot to answer for the serious plight of the national economy."
Mr Mugabe responded to the anti-government protests earlier this week by telling the pastor who organised a nationwide strike, Evan Mawarire, to leave Zimbabwe if he was unhappy with conditions there.
Pastor Mawarire was arrested last week, but was released after a court threw out the charges of subversion against him.
He subsequently left Zimbabwe for South Africa, where he told the BBC on Thursday that he was more scared of his daughters' criticism of inaction than what the state could do to him if he returned.
The incident happened at Icon Stores on George Street at about 22:00 on Saturday.
The man escaped with a three-figure sum of money. The type of weapon involved has not been specified.
Police said the culprit was described as being in his 30s, about 5ft 6in tall, and of slim build. He was wearing a black tracksuit top and dark jeans.
Det Sgt Stephen Beattie said: "Fortunately no one was injured during the incident, however the member of staff who was working at the time was left understandably shaken.
"This is the second incident reported to police in recent weeks involving the same premises, which is an obvious concern.
"I would like to take this opportunity to reassure local people and the wider public that officers are doing everything possible to trace the individual involved, and that extensive inquiries are ongoing."
A 15-year-old male was charged in connection with the earlier incident.
Jodi Denton was reported missing in Ryton on Monday morning, but at about 21:00 GMT the force tweeted the girl "had been found safe and well".
The force had appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
The police also thanked everyone who shared the messages about her disappearance.
Bosses at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley want to increase its size by a third.
Proposals include creating a new 1940s'-style town complete with a pub and library.
They also include moving the Tipton Road entrance to Castle Hill and linking the site with attractions such as Dudley Zoological Gardens.
Museum chief executive Andrew Lovett said: "There's great opportunity to fulfil potential here.
"There's great opportunity to increase attendance and tell the story... the Black Country had a global impact, so why shouldn't the museum have a global impact?"
Bosses said 60 jobs would be created as a result of the expansion, while hundreds more short-term jobs would be created during construction.
Mr Lovett said the project would allow the museum to contribute an extra £3m to the local economy - taking the total up to £7m.
"There is no doubt we can help change perceptions of the town and the region and I think it needs that," he said.
"By creating a bigger and better museum there's a great opportunity."
The plans are subject to raising £18.9m required to do the work.
Investment is being sought from the West Midlands Combined Authority. The remainder will be achieved through fundraising activities.
Cpl Liam Riley was killed in Helmand Province attempting to rescue his friend L/Cpl Graham Shaw following an explosion in February 2010.
The steel statue has been installed next to a bench in his home village of Killamarsh.
His mother, Cheryl Routledge, said she was delighted with how the statue looked.
She said: "We're so chuffed with it. I'll be able to drive home from work and he's going to be standing there at the at the side of the road welcoming me home."
Cpl Riley, 21, and L/Cpl Shaw, 27, from Huddersfield, were on patrol with 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, when they stood on improvised explosive devices.
Prince Harry, who trained alongside him in Canada, described him as "a legend" after learning of his death.
His statue, which sits alongside the Trans Pennine Trail on Forge Lane, forms part of a national public art installation by cycling charity Sustrans, funded by the Big Lottery Fund.
It will stand between statues of Sheffield boxer Clinton Woods and Rotherham-born Colin Savage who has campaigned to make the countryside more accessible.
Sustrans has already organised similar installations along public paths in Hastings, Northampton and Port Talbot.
Reid, alongside Belgian Joachim Gerard, won 6-3 3-6 1-0 (10-3) against fellow Briton Alfie Hewett and Gus Fernandez.
The Scot, 25, won Wimbledon last year alongside Hewett, after previously winning the US and French Open (twice).
"It was a last-minute decision to play with Jo but one that has paid off," Reid said.
"I don't think any one of us played our best tennis today but we upped our level when it mattered."
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There could be more British success in Melbourne after Andy Lapthorne reached the quad singles final.
Lapthorne, 26, will meet Australia's Dylan Alcott, who beat him in the 2016 Rio Paralympics final, on Rod Laver Arena on Saturday after semi-final opponent Heath Davidson pulled out through injury.
Lapthorne is aiming for a double after teaming up with American David Wagner on Thursday to win his fifth Australian Open quad doubles title.
The claim: On some days Oxford Street in London is the world's most polluted street.
Reality Check verdict: This was true of Nitrogen Dioxide pollution in 2013. But on average in 2014, Brixton Road in Lambeth was worse than Oxford Street.
He unveiled a plan to deal with London's pollution problems last month.
His claim comes from research by King's College London, and it only refers to one pollutant: Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2).
NO2 pollution is mainly caused by diesel traffic and most of Oxford Street is only open to buses and taxis, which means a very high proportion of the traffic is using diesel.
Also, researchers at King's explain that a high proportion of the bus fleet on Oxford Street uses technology that burns off sooty particles but at the cost of increasing NO2 emissions.
In 2014, which is the latest full year for which data is available, Oxford Street had an average of 143 micrograms of NO2 per cubic metre and there were 1,532 hours during the year when that figure was above 200, although there were gaps in the data collected from Oxford Street.
The EU limit based on World Health Organisation guidelines is that the average NO2 should be below 40 micrograms per cubic metre and there should be no more than 18 occasions when that figure is above 200.
In 2013, researchers at King's said that average NO2 levels on Oxford Street were clearly the highest in Europe and that data available in the rest of the world suggested there were unlikely to be higher levels anywhere else, particularly because the heightened levels of NO2 were being caused by particular types of diesel engines.
But in 2014, Brixton Road in Lambeth was even worse, with an average of 153 micrograms per cubic metre, and 2001 hours above the 200 microgram limit.
So there may have been days when Oxford Street had the highest level of NO2 in the world, but overall, in 2014 Brixton Road in Lambeth was worse.
The final report for 2015 is not yet out, but from the raw data it seems that Oxford Street was back in top spot, although this time there are gaps in the data from Brixton Road.
To understand the shock, let me first present three key facts.
First, US President Barack Obama could not have taken this decision without Aung San Suu Kyi's approval. She is just too influential.
Secondly, Ms Suu Kyi has long defended sanctions as a way to keep pressure on the powerful Burmese military.
Thirdly, despite Ms Suu Kyi's rise to power, the Burmese army has shown little sign of stepping back from political life or allowing the country's undemocratic constitution to be changed.
So why then has Ms Suu Kyi removed the last remaining stick with which to prod the military?
"It is the right thing to do in order to ensure that the people of Burma see rewards from a new way of doing business and a new government," President Obama said, as he announced the decision.
But there are a few problems with that.
First, most of the US sanctions were targeted - not aimed at the Burmese people but deliberately focused on key individuals and companies who supported the old military regime.
One hundred and eleven individuals and companies are on the soon-to-be-scrapped blacklist.
They are some of Myanmar's dodgiest characters.
Among them, men who gave the orders to fire on demonstrators and imprison activists and opposition leaders, including Ms Suu Kyi.
There are businesses that helped procure weapons and others that were dubiously awarded juicy contracts to build, among many things, Myanmar's empty capital, Naypyitaw.
In the upmarket bars of Yangon, also known as Rangoon, the generals and their families will be toasting President Obama.
Their crony businesses can now freely compete for US investment with cleaner, more ethical, companies.
For their part, American companies coming to Myanmar now have greater choice of partners and much fewer restrictions.
It will be easier for them to make money.
So how is Ms Suu Kyi explaining it?
In Washington, she said: "We think that the time has now come to remove all the sanctions that hurt us economically, because our country is in a position to open up to those who are interested in taking part in our economic enterprises."
So no real justification of the change to her position - perhaps she just feels it is time to move on.
Ms Suu Kyi's critics will see the sanctions issue as further evidence she now cares about power, not principle.
The greater democracy and constitutional change that she once campaigned for are now accepted as distant goals.
Perhaps she thinks the time has come to reward the military for the progress that has been made, to consolidate the growing confluence between the former democracy campaigner and the generals.
There is another plausible explanation suggested to me by a Washington insider - one that explains Ms Suu Kyi's seemingly sudden change of heart.
I was told that, despite appearances, Ms Suu Kyi was not in full agreement with the decision, but had been left with little choice.
American sanctions on Myanmar are authorised under what is known as the National Emergencies Act.
In place since 1997, it rather bizarrely categorises the country as an "extraordinary threat" to US national security, giving the president emergency executive powers.
For obvious reasons, Ms Suu Kyi wanted the misleading act to be terminated but also thought some of the targeted sanctions, particularly on military companies, should remain.
But, according to my source, US officials told her it was all or nothing, and the historic decision was made to lift all sanctions.
Attempts to clarify whether Ms Suu Kyi had indeed had reservations went unanswered, both from the US and the Burmese sides.
Organisers of the Hebridean Celtic Festival have described this year's event as the "most successful" in its history.
HebCelt was held earlier this month in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis.
The headline acts included The Waterboys, Imelda May, Lucy Spraggan and Skerryvore.
Also, the Peatbog Faeries and Dougie MacLean.
There were more than 40 acts and more than 70 hours of performances on the main arena in Stornoway town centre and sold-out community shows elsewhere on Lewis and on neighbouring Harris.
Almost 16,000 people attended over the four days.
HebCelt's 20th anniversary festival in 2015 had about 15,000 people.
Caroline Maclennan, the event's director, said: "Our 22nd festival was a great success.
"The beautiful weather added to the wonderful atmosphere in and around the arena and the feedback from the artists, audience and traders has been extremely positive, demonstrating the enormous benefit to the community the festival undoubtedly brings.
"It is a relaxed, chilled out occasion and, with the kids running around enjoying themselves too, it provides a superb family experience."
She added: "The demise of other festivals underlines just how challenging it is to organise these large-scale events, particularly outside the bigger population centres.
"Our continued success is testament to the fantastic support we get from our audiences, funders, sponsors, supporters and from this community."
Stars of the Rio 2016 games will be in Leeds city centre on 28 September from late afternoon for a parade.
Leeds triathletes Alistair and Jonny Brownlee, who took gold and silver in Brazil, will be attending.
Gold medal-winning rower Paul Bennett and triathlon bronze winner Vicky Holland will also be taking part.
Yorkshire contributed 14 medals to Team GB's overall tally of 67 at the 2016 Olympic Games. The Paralympic Games gets going in Rio on Wednesday.
Leeds City Council said further details of the homecoming event, including other attendees, would be announced shortly.
Alistair Brownlee, who now has won two Olympic golds, said: "To be greeted on your home turf by fans will be a real high after Rio.
"We can't wait to bring home our medals to Yorkshire and to thank everyone for their overwhelming support."
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia says GPs are often seen as barriers to a diagnosis.
Its
report
says some people have to wait more than a year for an appointment at a memory clinic.
The Department of Health in England says the number of memory services is increasing.
The inquiry was set up to examine big discrepancies in dementia diagnosis rates. Across the UK it is estimated that only 43% of people with the disease have a formal diagnosis.
Scotland has the highest rate with 64.5%. In Northern Ireland it is 61.5% and in England it is 41%. The diagnosis rate is lowest in Wales, with 37.4%.
The report says there is strong evidence to show the benefit of early diagnosis for people with dementia, their families, and also to the taxpayer.
This is reflected in official government policy across the UK, and was reinforced recently by Prime Minister David Cameron setting out his national dementia challenge for England.
But the inquiry highlights what it calls "barriers" to diagnosis and treatment, after looking at evidence submitted by more than 1,000 carers, GPs and hospital specialists.
These include poor public understanding of dementia. More than a third of carers who responded said the person with the condition had waited more than a year to go to their GP.
The report says many came to regard GPs as barriers to diagnosis rather than gatekeepers.
It also identifies big variations in access to memory services. Some people reported having to wait more than a year for an appointment at a memory clinic, while for others it was just a few weeks.
And it says people often received no information or support following diagnosis.
In March this year the prime minister called for a dramatic increase in dementia diagnosis, as part of his strategy to deal with the disease as a "national crisis".
This included plans to increase public awareness, and to encourage GP referrals to memory clinics, for assessment, diagnosis and support.
The recommendations in the report include more training for GPs and other health workers, improved accreditation and more investment in memory services.
Jo Webber, from the NHS Confederation, said dementia was one of the biggest challenges facing the NHS.
"It is quite clear that every part of the health service is going to have to adapt to the needs of this growing group of patients - from the GP surgery to the hospital ward. We have to be honest and say we are not there yet."
The care services minister in England, Paul Burstow, agreed on the importance of early diagnosis.
"Some areas are doing fantastic work, but there is still too much regional variation.
"That is why we are driving forward measures to improve the quality of memory services, including work to increase the number of accredited... services and work to help local commissioners map the need in their area."
The Canadian star broke the news on his Facebook page. He did not give any details about the type of cancer.
He said he and Lopilato, a model and actress, were giving up work commitments to concentrate on "helping Noah get well".
Buble has appeared on TV and radio in recent days to promote his new album.
His statement said: "We are devastated about the recent cancer diagnosis of our oldest son Noah who is currently undergoing treatment in the US.
"We have always been very vocal about the importance of family and the love we have for our children. Luisana and I have put our careers on hold in order to devote all our time and attention to helping Noah get well.
"At this difficult time, we ask only for your prayers and respect for our privacy.
"We have a long journey in front of us and hope that with the support of family, friends and fans around the world, we will win this battle, God willing."
Buble and Lopilato have another son, nine-month-old Elias.
During a recent appearance on ITV's Loose Women, the 41-year-old crooner said: "I had no idea how much I would love being a dad.
"That's it, that's all I care about... I love them too much probably, if there was such a thing.
"It's made everything else so insignificant, moments that I was afraid of and moments that would overwhelm me have now become a joy because I've realised how not serious they are compared to what is really important, which is Noah and Eli and that's it."
Buble's scheduled appearances in the coming months include a slot at the BBC Music Awards on 12 December.
He is also due to host the Brit Awards in London on 22 February and the Canadian equivalent, the Juno Awards, in Ottawa on 2 April.
His spokesman said he did not know "anything more at this stage" about whether these and other engagements would be called off.
Buble's new album Nobody But Me went into the UK chart at number two last week.
An average of 3.2 million people watched a TV special, titled Buble at the BBC, on BBC One on Thursday, according to overnight ratings.
On Monday, Lopilato, from Argentina, announced that she was working on a new film titled Los Que Aman, Odian (Those Who Love, Hate), adapted from the novel by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo.
To mark Noah's third birthday in August, she posted five of her son's "best moments" on her website, including a shot of him just after birth and a video of him on stage singing with his father on New Year's Eve 2015.
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Damian O'Hagan, 60, of Homestall Road in Norris Green, Liverpool, was jailed for 18 months after admitting VAT fraud at Liverpool Crown Court.
Checks by HM Revenue and Customs found O'Hagan had kept more than £90,000 of VAT which he had charged a client.
O'Hagan attempted to cover up his crime by trying to become VAT-registered.
The director of Foodservice Interim Management Limited, who owed £91,761 in VAT, moved to Benidorm in January 2015 to run a bar but could not resist the lure of the Toffees.
He was arrested as he tried to enter Goodison Park ahead of Everton's 2-0 defeat against Manchester City on 23 August 2015.
Sandra Smith, assistant director of the HMRC's fraud investigation service, said: "O'Hagan knew his business transactions were under scrutiny and the game was up. This was one match he wasn't going to win.
"He chose to pocket the VAT he had collected from his client at the expense of UK taxpayers and because of his dishonesty he has been jailed."
O'Hagan also faces a full confiscation hearing to recover the VAT.
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A van was driven into a crowd of people coming out of a mosque in an area called Finsbury Park in North London.
Several people were hurt, and one man died.
Police say the attacker acted alone, and a man has been arrested.
The prime minister Theresa May has spoken out to say the UK will not give in to hate, and across London vigils were held last night, to remember the people affected.
Martin went to one of the vigils.
3rd-7th centuries AD - Berber and Arab migrants arrive in present-day Mauritania.
9-10th centuries - Empire of Ghana has its capital in present-day south-west Mauritania.
1076 - Berber Almoravid warriors defeat the Empire of Ghana.
1500s - European mariners and traders establish settlements.
1644-74 - Mauritanian Thirty-Year War: Berbers unsuccessful in repelling Arab warriors.
1850s-60s - French forces gain control of southern Mauritania. In 1898 France wins the allegiance of Moors in the region.
1904 - France establishes Mauritania as a colonial territory.
1920 - Mauritania becomes part of French West Africa, and is administered from Senegal.
1946 - Becomes a French overseas territory.
1958 - Mauritania becomes self-governing.
1960 November - Mauritania becomes independent.
1976 - Mauritania and Morocco divide up Spanish Sahara, now known as Western Sahara, after Spain pulls out. Guerrillas of the Polisario front, aiming to establish an independent state in the territory, fight the forces of both countries.
1978 - First post-independence president, Moktar Daddah, is deposed in a military coup, prompted partly by pressure of Polisario campaign.
1979 - Mauritania signs a peace agreement with the Polisario front and renounces its claim to Western Sahara. Morocco annexes Mauritania's former share of the territory.
1984 - Coup brings Colonel Maaouiya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya to power.
1989 - Race riots erupt in Mauritania and Senegal after a border dispute. Tens of thousands of black Mauritanians are driven out of the country into Senegal. Others become the targets of attacks and land seizures. Hundreds of people are killed.
1992 - Colonel Ould Taya elected president.
1993 - US ends development aid over Mauritania's treatment of its black population and its support for Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War.
1997 - President Ould Taya re-elected in a poll boycotted by the main opposition parties.
2002 January - Opposition party Action for Change, which campaigns for greater rights for blacks and descendants of slaves, is banned.
2003 June - Attempted coup: Troops loyal to President Ould Taya regain control of the capital after heavy fighting with rebel soldiers.
2003 November - President Ould Taya re-elected with 67% of vote in first round of elections. Opposition alleges fraud.
2004 September - Government says it has foiled a coup plot - the third in 15 months. In October President Taya accuses Libya and Burkina Faso of financing recent coup attempts.
2005 January - UN calls for food aid in the wake of locust invasions in 2004. Mauritania was the African country worst hit, with its crop production obliterated.
2005 August - With President Ould Taya out of the country, troops seize government buildings and a group of officers announces the overthrow of the president and the formation of a military council.
2006 February - Offshore oil production begins.
2006 June - Voters in a referendum approve constitutional changes which will limit the president to two five-year terms in office.
2007 March - Presidential elections won by Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
2007 April - Mauritania is readmitted to the African Union, having been suspended after the 2005 coup.
2007 August - Parliament outlaws slavery, a practise still widespread in spite of a 1981 ban.
2008 January - The 2008 Dakar Rally is cancelled following the murder of four French tourists in Mauritania in December, allegedly by attackers linked to al-Qaeda.
2008 April - Eight al-Qaeda suspects alleged to have been involved in killing of French tourists and attack on Israeli embassy are arrested.
2008 May - Members of moderate Islamist opposition party join government for first time.
2008 August - The military overthrows President Abdallahi - the country's first democratically elected leader - and forms a state council to rule the country. The move came after the president tried to dismiss several senior army commanders.
Al-Qaeda activity
2009 July - Gen Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz - leader of the August 2008 military coup - wins presidential elections.
2010 April - Mauritania, Mali, Niger and Algeria set up joint command to tackle threat of terrorism.
2010 August - Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped in Mauritania by al-Qaeda in November are set free in Mali after nine months in captivity.
2011 November - Government approves new radio and TV stations following an announcement of media liberalisation.
2012 January - Malian refugees stream into Mauritania over several months, fleeing a Tuareg rebellion in the north of their country.
2012 April - Public burning of religious texts allegedly condoning slavery sparks widespread controversy. Abolitionist leader Biram Ould Abeid is detained.
2013 December - President Ould Abdel Aziz's Union for the Republic party wins a majority of seats in the first parliamentary polls since 2006. The vote was boycotted by most opposition groups.
2014 June - President Ould Abdel Aziz wins another five-year term in elections boycotted by the opposition.
2014 July - France announces establishment of a long-term military operation aimed at preventing jihadist groups from establishing safe havens in the Sahel, including Mauritania.
2014 December - A blogger, Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed, is sentenced to death for supposed blasphemy against the Muslim prophet, Muhammad. He awaits the decision of the Supreme Court.
2015 January - Three activists, including former presidential candidate Biram Ould Abeid, are sentenced to two years in prison for their part in anti-slavery protests.
He said that as the man "ultimately responsible for all content, and in the light of the unacceptable journalistic standards" he would quit.
Mr Entwistle had admitted Newsnight's report, which led to Thatcher-era Tory Lord McAlpine being wrongly implicated, should not have been aired.
The broadcast covered cases of child abuse at north Wales care homes.
BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten, who appeared alongside Mr Entwistle when he delivered his statement, will answer questions on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme on Sunday morning.
Mr Entwistle took up the post of director general on 17 September, and his sudden resignation makes him the shortest-serving BBC director general.
In his statement, he said: "In the light of the fact that the director general is also the editor-in-chief and ultimately responsible for all content, and in the light of the unacceptable journalistic standards of the Newsnight film broadcast on Friday 2 November, I have decided that the honourable thing to do is to step down from the post of director general."
He said that when he was appointed to the role, he was confident BBC trustees had chosen the best candidate for the post and the "right person to tackle the challenges and opportunities ahead".
"However, the wholly exceptional events of the past few weeks have led me to conclude that the BBC should appoint a new leader," he said.
By Torin DouglasMedia correspondent
George Entwistle said he was stepping down because as director general of the BBC he was also its editor in chief.
He said it was the honourable thing to do after a BBC Newsnight film alleged child abuse by an unnamed Conservative politician - which was proved to be unfounded.
Coming on top of the Jimmy Savile crisis, which was prompted partly by the fact that Newsnight had shelved an earlier investigation into allegations of child abuse, this was particularly damaging to the BBC.
But this was also about the handling of the crisis. Last month, Mr Entwistle was accused by MPs of showing "an extraordinary lack of curiosity" over the Jimmy Savile affair and they told him to "get a grip".
On Saturday in an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said he knew nothing in advance about the Newsnight broadcast nor had he seen a newspaper report revealing Lord McAlpine may have been wrongly accused.
MPs, former editors and broadcasting executives were unimpressed and so, I understand, were members of the BBC Trust.
On Sunday, the job of acting director-general will be taken by Tim Davie, who's been running the radio side of the BBC but who has no direct journalistic experience.
The BBC still faces very serious questions, not just about its journalism but about how the organisation is run.
This crisis - one of the most serious in the BBC's history - is not yet over.
"To have been the director general of the BBC even for a short period, and in the most challenging of circumstances, has been a great honour.
"We must not lose sight of the fact that the BBC is full of people of the greatest talent and the highest integrity.
"That's what will continue to make it the finest broadcaster in the world."
Later, speaking outside his home following his resignation, Mr Entwistle said he was going to "spend some time with my family".
During his 54 days in charge, Mr Entwistle has also had to deal with controversy over the BBC shelving a Newsnight investigation into former BBC presenter and DJ Jimmy Savile, who police say could have abused as many as 300 people over a 40-year-period.
As a result, an inquiry is examining whether there were BBC management failings surrounding the Newsnight's Savile programme not being broadcast, and another inquiry has begun into the culture and practices at the BBC in the era of alleged sexual abuse by Savile. Another review is to examine sexual harassment policies at the BBC.
Mr Entwistle's resignation came after he was criticised for his performance during an interview on the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme on Saturday, in which he admitted he had not read a newspaper article revealing the case of mistaken identity involving Lord McAlpine, and that he had not seen the Newsnight broadcast when it aired on 2 November as he "was out".
Lord Patten said: "This is undoubtedly one of the saddest evenings of my public life."
He added: "At the heart of the BBC is its role as a trusted global news organisation.
"As the editor in chief of that news organisation George has very honourably offered us his resignation because of the unacceptable mistakes - the unacceptable shoddy journalism - which has caused us so much controversy.
"He has behaved as editor with huge honour and courage and would that the rest of the world always behaved the same."
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Culture Secretary Maria Miller said: "It is a regrettable, but right decision. It is vital that credibility and public trust in this important national institution is restored.
"It is now crucial that the BBC puts the systems in place to ensure it can make first-class news and current affairs programmes."
But Labour MP Ben Bradshaw, who sits on the culture select committee, said Mr Entwistle's departure was a "terrible mistake" and that he had been "hung out to dry".
He described Mr Entwistle as "an honourable, highly talented, very very good man who is trying to do the right thing".
"George Entwistle has been badly let down by BBC News managers and the people around him. He was trying to get to grips with that. The BBC should have given him time."
Conservative MP Philip Davies, who also sits on the culture select committee, said Lord Patten should resign. "He is responsible for the public's trust in the BBC," Mr Davies told the BBC. "That trust is at an all time low."
Tim Davie, director of BBC Audio and Music, will take over as acting director general immediately.
BBC home editor Mark Easton said the BBC was at a "real crossroads, because its whole future depends on convincing the public in the United Kingdom that this is an organisation in which they have confidence, and in which they have trust, and that they believe in the integrity of our news coverage".
BBC Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman said Mr Entwistle's departure was "a great shame."
"He has been brought low by cowards and incompetents."
Newsnight reported on 2 November abuse victim Steve Messham's claims against a leading 1980s Tory politician, but he withdrew his accusation a week later, saying he had been mistaken.
Lord McAlpine, although not named on Newsnight, was identified on the internet as the subject of the allegations.
Mr Messham apologised to Lord McAlpine saying he was not the man who assaulted him, while Lord McAlpine said the claims were "wholly false and seriously defamatory".
The BBC has ordered an "immediate pause" in Newsnight investigations to assess editorial robustness and a suspension of all co-productions with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which worked on the Newsnight broadcast.
Before his departure, Mr Entwistle had commissioned a report from BBC Scotland director Ken MacQuarrie into what happened with the Newsnight investigation.
It potentially opens the door to preventing 10,000 disorders that are passed down the generations.
The US and South Korean team allowed the embryos to develop for five days before stopping the experiment.
The study hints at the future of medicine, but also provokes deep questions about what is morally right.
Science is going through a golden age in editing DNA thanks to a new technology called Crispr, named breakthrough of the year in just 2015.
Its applications in medicine are vast and include the idea of wiping out genetic faults that cause diseases from cystic fibrosis to breast cancer.
US teams at Oregon Health and Science University and the Salk Institute along with the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea focused on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
The disorder is common, affecting one in every 500 people, and can lead to the heart suddenly stopping beating.
It is caused by an error in a single gene (an instruction in the DNA), and anyone carrying it has a 50-50 chance of passing it on to their children.
In the study, described in the journal Nature, the genetic repair happened during conception.
Sperm from a man with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was injected into healthy donated eggs alongside Crispr technology to correct the defect.
It did not work all the time, but 72% of embryos were free from disease-causing mutations.
Dr Shoukhrat Mitalipov, a key figure in the research team, said: "Every generation on would carry this repair because we've removed the disease-causing gene variant from that family's lineage.
"By using this technique, it's possible to reduce the burden of this heritable disease on the family and eventually the human population."
There have been multiple attempts before, including, in 2015, teams in China using Crispr-technology to correct defects that lead to blood disorders.
But they could not correct every cell, so the embryo was a "mosaic" of healthy and diseased cells.
Their approach also led to other parts of the genetic code becoming mutated.
Those technical obstacles have been overcome in the latest research.
However, this is not about to become routine practice.
The biggest question is one of safety, and that can be answered only by far more extensive research.
There are also questions about when it would be worth doing - embryos can already be screened for disease through pre-implantation genetic diagnosis.
However, there are about 10,000 genetic disorders that are caused by a single mutation and could, in theory, be repaired with the same technology.
Prof Robin Lovell-Badge, from the Francis Crick Institute, told the BBC: "A method of being able to avoid having affected children passing on the affected gene could be really very important for those families.
"In terms of when, definitely not yet. It's going to be quite a while before we know that it's going to be safe."
Nicole Mowbray lives with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and has a defibrillator implanted in her chest in case her heart stops.
But she is unsure whether she would ever consider gene editing: "I wouldn't want to pass on something that caused my child to have a limited or painful life.
"That does come to the front of my mind when I think about having children.
"But I wouldn't want to create the 'perfect' child, I feel like my condition makes me, me."
Darren Griffin, a professor of genetics at the University of Kent, said: "Perhaps the biggest question, and probably the one that will be debated the most, is whether we should be physically altering the genes of an IVF embryo at all.
"This is not a straightforward question... equally, the debate on how morally acceptable it is not to act when we have the technology to prevent these life-threatening diseases must also come into play."
The study has already been condemned by Dr David King, from the campaign group Human Genetics Alert, which described the research as "irresponsible" and a "race for first genetically modified baby".
Dr Yalda Jamshidi, a reader in genomic medicine at St George's University of London, said: "The study is the first to show successful and efficient correction of a disease-causing mutation in early stage human embryos with gene editing.
"Whilst we are just beginning to understand the complexity of genetic disease, gene-editing will likely become acceptable when its potential benefits, both to individuals and to the broader society, exceeds its risks."
The method does not currently fuel concerns about the extreme end of "designer babies" engineered to have new advantageous traits.
The way Crispr is designed should lead to a new piece of engineered DNA being inserted into the genetic code.
However, in a complete surprise to the researchers, this did not happen.
Instead, Crispr damaged the mutated gene in the father's sperm, leading to a healthy version being copied over from the mother's egg.
This means the technology, for now, works only when there is a healthy version from one of the parents.
Prof Lovell-Badge added: "The possibility of producing designer babies, which is unjustified in any case, is now even further away."
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The 93 year old was sedated and placed on a respirator on Tuesday after being taken to the Sheba Medical Centre.
On Wednesday, hospital director Yitzhak Kreiss said he was still in intensive care, but was stable and conscious.
Doctors were seeking to reduce Mr Peres' sedation to evaluate him, he added, calling it "a good sign".
Earlier, the Novel Peace Prize laureate's son-in-law and personal physician, Rafi Walden, said there appeared to be no imminent threat to his life anymore.
At a briefing for reporters outside the hospital near Tel Aviv, Prof Kreiss said Mr Peres was "in a pretty tough condition".
"But he is stable and we see some improvement. He is conscious, he's awake."
"We are trying to reduce some of the sedation in order to evaluate him, and that's a good sign. We will keep on evaluating him continuously in the neurosurgery intensive care unit. "
Prof Kreiss hoped to see further improvement over the next 24 hours.
Prof Walden meanwhile revealed that after his sedation was lowered, Mr Peres had indicated that he understood what was being said to him, had been responsive and squeezed his hand.
"We will continue to sedate him in order to ease his breathing and prevent him from getting upset about the things that are happening around him, which may raise his blood pressure - not because it is required neurologically," he said.
"The very mild anaesthesia allows him to rest completely and provides optimal conditions for his brain to recover."
Mr Peres was taken to the Sheba Medical Centre, outside Tel Aviv, on Tuesday for examination when he complained that he had a headache after giving a speech.
While in hospital, he suffered a massive stroke in the right side of the brain.
Prof Walden said it was too early to say whether Mr Peres had suffered any irreparable brain damage.
As one of Israel's most popular figures, his condition is being closely followed by the media and the public.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted: "Shimon, we love you and the entire nation is wishing for your recovery,"
Mr Peres has held almost every major political office since Israel was founded in 1948, and was the architect of Israel's secret nuclear programme.
He twice served as prime minister and was president from 2007 to 2014.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 for his role negotiating the Oslo peace accords with the Palestinians a year earlier, a prize he shared with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was later assassinated, and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Despite his age, Mr Peres has maintained an active public schedule, mostly through his non-governmental Peres Centre for Peace, which promotes closer ties between Israel and the Palestinians.
In January, Mr Peres underwent minor surgery after suffering a small heart attack.
It was discovered in the back garden of a house at Innisfree Gardens in Strabane.
Army bomb experts examined the device and it has been taken for tests.
Residents have returned to their homes.
Police have asked anyone with information about the incident to contact them on the non-emergency number 101.
Loo-Loo, formerly called Armitage after the toilet she was found in, was rescued from Cashinos in Morden last month.
She has now joined two other chickens living with the RSPCA's hen expert.
"She's missing quite a few feathers but she's on the mend and settling in well," said Mia Fernyhough. "It's an absolute mystery how she ended up where she did."
"We'll never know what happened to her."
Loo-Loo is believed to be an Aseel hen, a particularly intelligent breed that originated in India and Pakistan.
When she was found in the Surrey casino, she was dehydrated and too exhausted to fly, said Ms Fernyhough.
"My hens Matilda and Rachael were a bit unsure of Loo-Loo at first as she's quite different to them, both in appearance and - at first - in behaviour too. Loo-Loo didn't seem to recognise chicken food or the trough it's fed to them in so I think she may have been fed kitchen scraps.
"She watches my other hens and copies them so she is quickly getting the hang of things."
Ibrahimovic only joined United on a one-year deal last summer.
There is an option for the Swede to stay longer but while the club are desperate to keep him, the 35-year-old is yet to agree.
Ibrahimovic has scored 26 goals for United this season.
He will start Thursday's Europa League last-16 first-leg tie with Russian side Rostov but is about to serve a three-match domestic ban after accepting a charge of violent conduct for elbowing Bournemouth's Tyrone Mings in the face at Old Trafford on Saturday.
In 2016, Brazilian forward Kaka was the highest paid player in MLS, with a published annual salary from Orlando City of $7.167m (£5.89m).
LA Galaxy paid former England midfielder Steven Gerrard $6.1m (£5.01m) last season. He has since retired.
Sources have told BBC Sport that Galaxy see Ibrahimovic as having the potential to make as big an impact on soccer in the United States as David Beckham did when he joined the club from Real Madrid in 2007.
It is not known what contract length Galaxy - winners of three out of the last six MLS titles - would be willing to offer Ibrahimovic but the club feels it has a realistic chance of signing the veteran frontman.
With his contract expiring in the summer, LA Galaxy could sign Ibrahimovic in advance of a move to MLS during the July transfer window. That is what they did with Beckham in 2007, a signing that was announced in the January prior to his Real Madrid contract coming to an end on 30 June.
However, United will almost certainly have other ideas.
Following their EFL Cup final win over Southampton, when Ibrahimovic scored United's late winner, manager Jose Mourinho said that while he would not beg the forward to stay at Old Trafford, he thought United fans would be willing to camp in the striker's garden in an attempt to persuade him.
RBS blamed a "dramatic shift" in banking, with branch transactions falling 43% since 2010.
In the same period, online and mobile transactions have increased by more than 400%.
About 770 staff will be affected as 30 RBS and 128 NatWest branches are closed, but hundreds of workers will be redeployed.
An RBS spokesman said the bank now had 4.2 million customers who used its mobile app - an increase of two million since 2014.
"We interact with our customers over 20 times more through digital channels than physical ones. As customers change the way they bank with us, we must change the way we serve them," he said.
"The role of the branch is fast moving to a centre for advice, away from basic transactions. While the branch will still be a core part of our offering to customers, inevitably some branches will have to close."
RBS said it was creating two new roles. Community bankers will give customers personal assistance and support and focus on rural communities. There will be 50 such bankers across the UK by the end of this year.
The bank is also creating specialist roles for staff who will support customers with training and support with digital skills.
After the closures 151 RBS and 856 NatWest branches will remain.
RBS remains still majority-owned by taxpayers following its multi-billion government bailout almost a decade ago.
Unite union acting general secretary Gail Cartmail accused the bank of "turning its back" on the communities that have kept it in business for generations.
"Banks have a duty to the wider community and that is especially the case for banks like RBS that have large taxpayer-owned shareholdings," she said.
"People like the face-to-face contact that having a physical presence in the high street provides. It's time for banking regulators and government to intervene, to force banks to maintain an adequate network that properly serves communities across the UK."
Sgt Maurice McCabe had claimed there was corruption in the Republic's driving licence penalty points system.
There will also be an independent review of police operations.
The Independent Alliance, part of the coalition government, had sought the review as part of the government's response to the controversy.
It is understood the review will involve an international policing expert.
Sgt McCabe was investigated by the Republic's child and family agency (Tusla) following allegations of abuse, that were later found to be untrue.
Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan said Supreme Court judge Peter Charleton has agreed to lead the inquiry into Sgt McCabe's treatment.
Mr Noonan said the judge expects to begin work next Tuesday and to have completed his work in nine months.
The tribunal will prioritise allegations against Sgt McCabe, with other high-profile whistleblowers expected to be looked at in a separate module.
The terms of reference will include Tusla and the Health Service Executive, where relevant, and are understood to state that the tribunal will look at any negative patterns between the Garda (Irish police) and Tusla.
The tribunal is expected to issue an interim report within three months.
Another Irish policeman also wants his case to be included as part of the inquiry into the alleged smear campaign against Sgt McCabe.
Keith Harrison, who is based in County Donegal, has also said that he was the subject of untrue abuse accusations.
Meanwhile, speaking after a meeting with taoiseach (prime minister) Enda Kenny on Wednesday, the Independent Alliance said the review of police operations would examine the culture, administration and ethos within An Garda Síochána (Irish police).
The controversy began more than three years ago when two whistleblowers - Sgt McCabe and the now retired John Wilson - alleged there was widespread corruption with the Republic of Ireland's driving licence penalty points system.
The Garda commissioner last week denied telling journalists that Sgt McCabe was facing sex crime allegations.
The claim against Nóirín O'Sullivan was made by Irish Labour Party leader Brendan Howlin in the Dáil.
Ms O'Sullivan said she was surprised by and refuted Mr Howlin's claim. The commissioner reiterated her position on Monday.
A commission has been established to examine whether there was a smear campaign against Sgt McCabe, orchestrated by senior police officers.
CCTV footage showed a man barging into the 33-year-old woman on Putney Bridge on 5 May.
In doing so, he knocked her into the path of an oncoming bus.
It was only the quick reactions of the bus driver - who swerved to avoid the woman - that prevented her being hit, the Metropolitan Police Service said.
Officers said the jogger ran the other way across the bridge about 15 minutes later and the victim attempted to speak to him, but "he did not acknowledge her".
Sgt Mat Knowles of the Met Police said his team was now following a number of "viable leads" in their search for the jogger.
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Rea was second fastest in Friday's practice, narrowly behind Chaz Davies, while Eugene Laverty was 11th quickest.
The Northern Irishman is one of four riders to clinch back-to-back Superbike titles but is aiming to become the first to clinch three in a row.
"I'm thinking of this as a completely new challenge," said Rea, 30.
"I believe in our ability as a team, as a manufacturer and in myself as an individual."
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Rea still lies two titles behind Carl Fogarty's record of four championship successes but will start this season as favourite after recording a phenomenal 46 podiums from his 52 races to date with Kawasaki.
The Isle of Man-based rider has already laid down a marker by topping this week's timesheets in the final pre-season outing at Phillip Island.
"I have to be clever, stay healthy and injury-free, and put a good season together," said Rea.
"I'm putting the thought of three championships to the back of my mind and just focusing on the first race. I have the right people behind me to help me with the job," he added.
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The Ulsterman's main rival this season is expected to be Ducati-mounted Davies, given the strong manner in which the Welshman finished last season.
Rea's Kawasaki team-mate Tom Sykes and Italian Marco Melandri, another Ducati rider, will also hope to be in the mix.
Toomebridge rider Eugene Laverty is back in the series after two campaigns in the MotoGP paddock but is struggling to find a good set-up with his Milwaukee Aprilia.
Laverty is a twice former race winner at Phillip Island but faces an uphill struggle to secure a high leaderboard finish.
The first race of the new season will take place at 04:00 GMT on Saturday, with the second at the same time on Sunday.
General Sir Richard Shirreff, Nato's deputy supreme commander from 2011-2014, says the US President-elect should re-dedicate himself to the common defence of the western allies soon after his inauguration in January.
The general says Mr Trump must send the "strongest possible signal …that America will, no ifs, no buts, no prevarication, come to the aid of a Nato member if attacked".
If that doesn't happen, Gen Shirreff warns, it "will strike right at the heart of Nato's founding principle of collective defence".
Alexander Vershbow, an American career diplomat who was Nato's Deputy Secretary-General from 2012-2016, says the election of the new president sends a clear signal to European members of the pact who have been under-investing in their defence.
"This was a change election in the United States," Mr Vershbow told the BBC, "so there will be change and I think allies have to be prepared to adapt."
During the campaign Mr Trump said of unspecified Nato allies: "They're not paying their way". He suggested that, if one of them was attacked, the US would be entitled to ask "have they paid?" before deciding to go to their assistance.
The use of this language has caused alarm in many Nato capitals.
There is also concern about suggestions that Mr Trump, as part of a rapprochement with Russia, might be prepared to concede a "zone of influence" to the Kremlin in former Soviet republics, or to reduce pressure over the issue of Ukraine.
"Ratifying the results of Russian aggression in Ukraine would buy you some short term stability," said Mr Vershbow, when asked about the possibility that Mr Trump might accept the Kremlin calling the shots in eastern Europe in return for better relations.
"But I think it would create a much more unstable situation in Europe, encourage the Russians to continue to press forward for some kind of Yalta 2 with a new division of Europe into spheres of influence, which I think would bring back some of the instability we saw in previous decades."
Prior to his Nato role, Mr Vershbow was US ambassador to Moscow from 2001-2005.
Acquiescing to further Russian operations in Ukraine (which is not a Nato member) might send a signal that the president-elect effectively recognises Russia's right to dominate certain neighbouring states, many Nato decision-makers feel.
They fear also a possible knock-on effect in former Soviet republics that are now part of Nato (and indeed the European Union), the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
"There must be absolutely no doubt about the imperative of defending and protecting Nato territory. There must be no discussion or deals about zones of influence, new Yaltas," says Gen Shirreff, "because that strikes right at the heart of what Nato is about".
Sendles-White joined the Robins on a free transfer after being released by Scottish Premiership side Hamilton Academical.
The 21-year-old started his career at QPR, and has also had loan spells with Colchester United and Mansfield.
"I think for sure I need to make an impact," he told BBC Radio Wiltshire.
"Obviously I'm still young, I'm still 21 so it's a lot about learning at this stage. I think for me now I just need to get settled at a club and go from there.
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"You just have to look at the players that have gone on from this club to bigger clubs, and last year they got to the play-off final, so it's obviously a good club."
Owain Arwel Hughes said a lack of tuition opportunities meant musicians from Wales could "disappear" from some orchestras.
He is a former conductor at National Youth Orchestra of Wales, which had a record low in applications this year.
The Welsh Government said it would help fund instruments for schools from 2017.
Mr Hughes, who founded the Welsh Proms and was a former conductor with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, said: "One of the joys I still have is conducting different orchestras everywhere and finding Welsh people, Welsh-speaking very often, in orchestras.
"But if we're not going to have this development of the youngsters playing instruments and being taught, that will disappear.
"Some of the world's greatest musicians achieved their success because they were able to play an instrument in school.
"And that's what's awful today is that the instruments aren't there and on top of that the teachers aren't there either. So I think it's a crisis, a real crisis at the moment."
Music services for schools vary across Wales. Some councils, such as Cardiff, have cut the budget and replaced it with specific funding for music within the broader schools budget. In 2016/17 £172,000 is being made available.
Local authorities also share music services that provide some access to teaching and instruments.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates recently published a long-term vision for culture in Wales which included the creation of a new fund for musical instruments.
Music is also part of the Welsh Government's £20m cultural programme being piloted in some schools, called Creative Learning through the Arts.
Mr Skates said: "There's no doubt that local government, just as Welsh Government, have had major issues trying to manage reducing budgets during this period of austerity.
"But the falling amount in revenue that we are getting from UK government should not impact on the life chances of young people.
"For that reason we are putting together a music endowment fund, so that all people, no matter what their background, can realise their musical talent and potential."
Since Cardiff council cut the budget for its music service, schools in the area must fund their own instrument lessons and activities.
Emma Coulthard is head of the Cardiff council and Vale of Glamorgan council music service, working with head teachers to fund and provide music lessons and instruments.
She said: "There's been quite a cultural change, in that music tuition in Wales used to be free and it was doled out to schools.
"But the financial challenge has forced us to think about what can we create that people would be willing to invest in.
"Because ultimately there would never be enough money for every child in every school to have any instrument they wanted, so I suppose it was a matter of focusing on the best of what we did do and creating that hunger for schools to buy into it so that more children have the opportunity."
Ms Coulthard said the opportunities for talented children to make further progress with an instrument had reduced since budgets were cut.
"We have had to focus more on whole-class provision, because schools will have a budget for that and are more likely to buy into it. The bit that is missing is those children who show real talent - we would like to be able to provide better progression routes.
"Sometimes we can talk to a head teacher and identify those children who are more able and talented, but finding instruments is a bit of a challenge because we don't have a stock of spare instruments.
"We are hoping that, with the new endowment fund, that will be tackled so that children get the same opportunities."
Her clients include Baden Powell Primary School in Tremorfa, where head teacher Jason Clark said the benefits to the school were worth the investment.
"The self-confidence is fantastic and it obviously helps develop their music skills," he said.
"But incidentally, by learning an instrument they develop their cooperation, their communication, their team-work skills, their problem-solving skills, their evaluation skills, which they then can take back into the classroom to help them with their literacy and numeracy development."
The 24-year-old Czech Republic player, who was on loan with Reading last season, has signed a four-year deal.
"It's a strong team with a very good manager," Vydra told BBC Radio Derby.
"They have ambition to be in the Premier League and I come with this as well because I know how good it is to play in the top league in the world."
Vydra first moved to England on loan from Italian side Udinese at the start of the 2012-13 season.
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He had two spells with Watford, and a stint with West Brom in between, before signing for the Hornets in a permanent deal in July 2015.
Following his season with the Royals, Vydra returned to Watford at the the start of this season, making a late substitute appearance against Chelsea in the Premier League and also playing in the League Cup against Gillingham.
The fee for Vydra breaks the record set when Derby paid about £6m for Bradley Johnson when he joined from Norwich City in September 2015.
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Fears had been expressed that people who pay into some auto-enrolment pensions could lose their money, should their scheme collapse.
The Pensions Bill will provide for stricter supervision of so-called master trust schemes by the regulator.
In February, an investigation by the BBC found that dozens of master trusts were too small to survive.
Experts said up to a quarter of a million people were at risk of losing their savings.
The bill will give the Pensions Regulator (TPR) greater powers to authorise the schemes and step in where necessary.
Master trusts themselves will need to demonstrate that their schemes meet strict new criteria.
At the moment, only nine of 72 master trust schemes are listed on TPR's website as qualifying for their kitemark.
The regulator has no responsibility for checking that the schemes' claims are accurate.
MPs on the Work and Pensions Committee previously expressed concern about "potentially unstable master trusts" and called for swift government action.
The Pensions Regulator itself welcomed the new bill.
"We have voiced concerns for some time about the need for stronger legislative standards for master trusts and have worked with government and other regulators to improve levels of protection for members," said Lesley Titcomb, TPR's chief executive.
"We have been calling for a significantly higher bar regarding authorisation and supervision, and we are pleased that today's announcement proposes to give us the power to implement these safeguards."
The bill will also help those who have been trying to withdraw money from their pension funds, but have been faced with early exit fees.
Data collected by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) suggests that as many as 700,000 people might be liable to pay such charges.
As previously announced, those fees will now be capped - although it is not known at what level.
A new guidance body will also be set up, to give help to people retiring, as well as those in debt.
It will bring together the Pensions Advisory Service, Pension Wise and the Money Advice Service.
"We will work closely with the sector in the coming months to further shape our plans," said pensions minister Ros Altmann.
More than 190 countries have committed to the deal that aims to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Mr Trump noted the potentially "tens of billions of dollars" that the US was required to spend on the Green Climate Fund - set up to raise money from the wealthiest nations to be spent on environmental projects in developing countries. Established in 2011, 43 countries have now pledged to the fund, raising $10bn (£7.8bn) to date. Mr Trump complained that other countries had not paid and that the agreement was against America's interests.
The US has spent more than any other country. However, there is no obligation for countries to pay into the fund, as it is voluntary.
So far, money from the fund has gone on projects across the world including water conservation in Morocco and helping farmers tackle extreme weather in Sri Lanka.
As Mr Trump noted, the United States has pledged $3bn (£2.3bn) and actually spent $1bn (£776m) so far.
President Obama submitted the second half of that amount only three days before Mr Trump's inauguration. It came from the State Department's Economic Support Fund (ESF), which finances a range of development, security, counter-terrorism and humanitarian projects to advance political and strategic interests in countries such as Iraq, South Sudan, Colombia and Afghanistan.
Mr Trump said funding was "raided out of America's budget for the war against terrorism". Although money from the ESF could be used in counter-terrorism, it is not the main source of funding for America's war against terrorism - that is the defence budget.
As Mr Trump noted in his speech, one goal of the Paris Agreement was to raise $100bn (£77.7bn) a year by 2020 to support climate action in developing countries, first discussed as a target in 2010. The money would be used to help poorer countries invest in green energy and renewable technology.
The Green Climate Fund is one mechanism set up to raise money to reach that annual target.
US - $3bn (£2.3bn)
Japan - $1.5bn (£1.2bn)
UK - $1.2bn (£931m)
France - $1bn (£776m)
Germany - $1bn (£776m)
Source: Green Climate Fund
The UK has paid about £400m into the fund so far, and Japan nearly half of its pledged amount. However, this does not necessarily paint the same picture if you take the population size of the countries into account. According to the Green Climate Fund's tracker, the US pledge amounts to just over $9 (£7) a person. Sweden's pledge represents almost $60 (£47) per person, the highest out of any country. The UK has proposed almost £15 a person. India and China have not put forward any cash into the Green Climate Fund.
China has made available significant funds for a different fund to help developing countries combat climate change.
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The attack happened in Gardner Road, in the Kincorth area, at about 07:45 on Saturday morning.
A man in his 30s was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with serious injuries.
Two boys aged 15 and 16 from Aberdeen and Edinburgh - who cannot be named for legal reasons - were charged at Aberdeen Sheriff Court with assault and attempted murder.
They made no plea and were released on bail.
John Ogston, 54, from the Banff area, died after the crash which happened in Plaidy, near Turriff, at about 07:45 on Thursday.
His wife Lesley said the whole family was "absolutely devastated at the loss of Oor Jocky" who was "born in his leathers" and had a "big heart".
She said motorbikes had been a huge part of his life since he was 16.
"He loved his current job at Fisher Offshore in Oldmeldrum and helped out in the evenings at Lesley's bakery in Whitehills," she said.
"He forced everyone around him not to take life too seriously. His many friends and family will know what a great loss to the world he will be but he will be in our hearts and minds forever."
With more than 5,000 schools in England now academies, the system for monitoring them needs reassessment, says the Education Select Committee.
The role of Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs), appointed to approve and monitor free schools and academies, is unclear, the MPs add.
The government promised "swift" action from commissioners to improve schools.
The growing number of academies outside council control meant increasing numbers of schools had lacked any local oversight until RSCs were appointed in 2014, says the report.
Committee chairman Neil Carmichael said the commissioners were doing a "necessary job" and were "a pragmatic response to a problem".
But the report says a fundamental reassessment of accountability and oversight for all schools will be needed and calls for improvements to the commissioners' transparency, accountability and working relationships.
"Without attention to these issues, RSCs will be seen as undemocratic and opaque," it warns.
For commissioners to be effective in delivering school improvement they must improve relationships with schools, communities, local authorities and Ofsted, says the report.
It adds that the structure of the eight regions is also a problem, with London divided into three.
London should have a single commissioner, say the MPs, who suggest Greater Manchester might also need a dedicated commissioner.
Mr Carmichael said the Department for Education had "for too long and under all parties... made changes to structures without setting out the big picture".
He added: "It's hardly surprising that most people have never heard of RSCs and even those who have are unclear about their role.
"RSCs are a product of the Department's 'acting first, thinking later' approach when it comes to big changes in the schools landscape.
"The DfE needs to take a long hard look at this picture once the number of academies stabilises and design a more coherent system for the future which ensures proper accountability for schools."
Council leaders said they were concerned that commissioners lacked "the capacity and local knowledge to have oversight of such a large, diverse and remote range of schools".
Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said councils had a proven record in school improvement with more than 80% of council run schools rated good or outstanding by Ofsted.
"The LGA opposes significant powers relating to education being given to an unelected body with parents and residents unable to hold it to account at the ballot box," said Mr Perry.
National Union of Teachers deputy general secretary, Kevin Courtney, described the committee's concerns as "decidedly worrying".
"This situation has arisen from the ill-thought out nature of government policy, which has created a fragmented and confusing school landscape where roles and responsibilities are unclear," he said.
"Parents in particular lose out in such a system with many having no idea about who is responsible for oversight of their school and to whom they should go if they have concerns."
A Department for Education spokesman said it would carefully consider the report's findings but believed the RSC system would be effective, with commissioners supported by locally-based "head teacher boards... as part of a school-led, self-improving system".
He added: "Regional Schools Commissioners are using their local knowledge to hold schools to account and thanks to that expertise, and the support of head teacher boards, they are able to take swift and targeted action to tackle underperformance rather than schools being left to stagnate under local authority control."
Eight people were taken to hospital following the terrorist attack near Finsbury Park Mosque, police said.
The prime minister chaired a Cobra meeting of the government's emergency committees earlier and said the attack was "every bit as sickening" as other recent attacks to hit the UK.
The Royals have now received clearance from the Football Association and US Soccer Federation.
London-born Stobbs played for Chelsea Ladies before enrolling at university in New York in 2012.
"Amber is a player we believe can compete in WSL 1 and score goals," boss Kelly Chambers told Reading's website.
An arrest warrant had been issued for Trevor Devamanikkam, from Witney, after he failed to appear at Bradford Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
Mr Devamanikkam was accused of six sexual offences allegedly committed while he was a vicar in Bradford.
His body was found by police just after 16:00 BST on Tuesday, at an address at Otters Court, Priory Mill Lane.
Thames Valley Police officers attended the scene after concerns for Mr Devamanikkam's welfare were raised.
A spokesman said: "Officers entered the property and found a man in his 70s deceased.
"He was declared dead at the scene. At this stage the death is not believed to be suspicious.
"A file is being prepared for the coroner."
The six offences Mr Devamanikkam was accused of are alleged to have taken place against a 16-year-old boy, between March 1984 and April 1985.
The 42-year-old Filipino crew member died when a lifeboat, with five crew, became detached from the fifth deck during a safety exercise.
It fell 10m (33ft) into the water. Two crew members are in hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The accident happened during a stopover in Marseille.
The injured crew members included three other Filipinos and an Indian man, AFP reports.
The Royal Caribbean Cruise company, which operates the Harmony of the Seas, also confirmed the death on its Twitter account. "We're keeping our colleagues and their families in our thoughts and prayers," the company said.
Harmony of the Seas is the world's largest cruise ship at 362m long, and can hold more than 8,000 passengers and crew.
It is higher than a 25-storey building, and longer than the height of the Eiffel Tower. It entered service in May this year.
Among its luxurious facilities are 20 restaurants, 23 swimming pools, a theatre and a casino.
Under the deal, migrants arriving in Greece are now expected to be sent back to Turkey if they do not apply for asylum or their claim is rejected.
The influx of people crossing to Greek islands grew ahead of the deadline, and Greece said it would not be able to implement the deal immediately.
On Sunday, volunteers on the Greek island of Lesbos were dealing with the first arrivals under the new regime.
Just hours before the agreement came into force, a four-month-old baby girl drowned when a boat carrying migrants sank off the Turkish coast, Turkey's Anadolu agency reported.
The deal says that for every Syrian migrant sent back to Turkey, one Syrian already in Turkey will be resettled in the EU.
However, there were still many doubts about the implementation of the agreement, including how the migrants would be sent back.
Some 2,300 experts, including security and migration officials and translators, are set to arrive in Greece to help enforce the deal.
But Greek officials said none of the experts had yet arrived and the deal could not be implemented immediately as key details still needed to be worked out.
"A plan like this cannot be put in place in only 24 hours," said government migration spokesman Giorgos Kyritsis, quoted by AFP.
With the deal, it is hoped people will be discouraged from making the dangerous journey by sea from Turkey to Greece. In return, Turkey will receive aid and political concessions.
Since January 2015, one million migrants and refugees have entered the EU by boat from Turkey to Greece. More than 143,000 have arrived this year alone, and about 460 have died, according to the International Organization for Migration.
The Turkey-EU statement in full
Most of them are keen to go to Germany and other northern European Union countries, and tens of thousands are now stuck in Greece as their route north has been blocked.
Critics, however, have said the deal could force migrants determined to reach Europe to start using other and potentially more dangerous routes, such as the journey between North Africa and Italy.
On Saturday, the Italian coastguard said more than 900 people were rescued amid an increase in traffic through the Strait of Sicily.
And Libyan authorities said the bodies of four women were recovered but at least 20 others were still missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the country's coast.
Officials there said they rescued nearly 600 people from three other boats on Saturday.
Human rights groups have strongly criticised the deal, with Amnesty International accusing the EU of turning "its back on a global refugee crisis".
On Saturday, thousands of people protested in support of refugees and against racism. Rallies were held in London, Athens, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Geneva and some other cities.
In the Greek capital, protesters, including some Afghan refugees, chanted "Open the borders" and "We are human beings, we have rights".
In London, about 4,000 people joined a protest carrying placards with slogans like "Refugees welcome here" and "Stand up to racism".
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.
McMullen achieved the Games consideration mark for a second time this season after a leap of 7.80m.
His jump was 0.02m beyond the Commonwealths consideration standard.
McMullen, who set his personal best of 7.85m earlier this summer, also produced a leap of 7.94m but it had an illegal wind reading of 2.4.
The county Derry man finished in second place, behind Dan Bramble who jumped 7.95m.
A number of Northern Ireland's other Commonwealth Games contenders were in action in the team match which also involved England, Scotland, Denmark, Wales, Great Britain Juniors and an International Select.
Mollie Courtney won the 100m hurdles in 13.40 second but her time will not go down as a Commonwealths consideration mark as she had a 2.4 following wind.
Amy Foster was fifth in the women's 200m in 23.98 seconds with Kerry O'Flaherty taking second in the 3,000m steeplechase in 10:16.21.
Sommer Lecky was second in the women's high jump with 1.78m.
The Northern Ireland men's 4x400m relay team won their event in a time of 3:12.23.
Kim Shillinglaw, who has the task of finding Clarkson's replacement after he was dropped from Top Gear, said the host had not been banned by the BBC.
"It's serious and unfortunate what happened but there is no ban on Jeremy being on the BBC," she said.
"It's a big deal what happened and Jeremy, as any human being would, needs some time."
Clarkson was removed from presenting duties on Top Gear after assaulting producer Oisin Tymon.
The decision caused an outpouring of support from Top Gear fans, with more than a million people signing an online petition to reinstate him.
The row, which took place in a North Yorkshire hotel, was said to have occurred because no hot food was provided following a day's filming.
After an internal investigation in March, BBC director general Tony Hall confirmed Clarkson's contract would not be renewed.
In his latest Sunday Times column, Clarkson revealed he thought he probably had cancer at the time he hit Tymon.
He said the incident came on his "most stressful day... in 27 years at the BBC" - but added other people facing stress "manage to cope better than I did".
Shillinglaw said it was an "open book" on who might replace the 55-year-old, following rumours it could be a woman.
She said: "We'll definitely look at some women but it's not a driving priority."
The executive also confirmed Clarkson's final Top Gear scenes would be screened later this year
"No way would I want the available material not to be seen by viewers," she said.
However, there is not enough footage to piece together the three remaining episodes of the series, which was pulled off air in the aftermath of the altercation with Tymon on 4 March.
Sue Perkins, the host of BBC One's The Great British Bake Off, was named the bookmakers' favourite to replace Clarkson a fortnight ago.
Bookmakers Coral said she was the front-runner for the job, followed by Dermot O'Leary and Jodie Kidd.
The news prompted a barrage of abusive tweets for Perkins, whose Twitter timeline was filled with "blokes wishing me dead", including threats from someone who "suggested they'd like to see me burn to death".
She later quit Twitter, leading Clarkson's co-presenter James May to suggest those who sent the abusive tweets should "do the world a much bigger favour by killing yourself".
"Obviously I don't actually want people to kill themselves but, really, we don't want them as fans," May added.
The Blues controlled the match but were frustrated by Sam Allardyce's lowly Hammers, who defended stoutly.
Oscar had a shot touched onto the bar by Adrian, who also kept out efforts from John Terry and Samuel Eto'o.
Eto'o thought he had scored late on after assuming the West Ham keeper had wrongly placed the ball for a free-kick, but his effort was disallowed.
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That was one of several frantic moments in the last 10 minutes for the visitors, with Frank Lampard forcing Adrian to make a superb save with his feet and another Blues substitute, Demba Ba, hitting the post with a flicked effort.
The result meant the Hammers avoided their 14th defeat in 17 meetings against Chelsea, but they remain in the bottom three.
The hosts, meanwhile, stay two points adrift of Arsenal, who drew with Southampton on Tuesday, but are three behind Manchester City, who went top with a 5-1 win at Tottenham.
Chelsea face City at Etihad Stadium on Monday.
If they are to have any hope of winning that game, Jose Mourinho's attackers must rediscover the killer instinct they were lacking against West Ham, who had conceded 17 goals in their previous five matches.
Chelsea had 39 shots (including blocked shots) - the most by any team who failed to score in the Premier League since 2003-04
The visitors showed greater resolve in west London, although it was striker Andy Carroll who was their best defender.
The 25-year-old, making his first league start of the season, was regularly well positioned when Chelsea threatened with set-pieces, but spent more time in his own box than the opposition's.
The hosts dominated possession throughout, but only hit something near top gear towards the end of the first half, when Adrian made excellent saves to keep out Terry's header and Eto'o's fierce drive.
Prior to that, the Spaniard had tipped Oscar's curling effort onto the bar.
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Despite their dominance, Chelsea lacked a striker hovering around the six-yard area, with Eto'o often dropping deeper in order to get involved in the build-up.
That pattern continued until the final five minutes, when Ba's close-range flick struck the woodwork.
Lampard also went close to a winner in stoppage time, but his side-footed effort from 10 yards was blocked by the alert Adrian, soon after the goalkeeper had escaped a potentially embarrassing incident.
Eto'o thought he had made a misjudgement when placing the ball for a free-kick and tapped into the net, but referee Neil Swarbrick disallowed the Cameroon striker's effort.
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The statistics agency currently publishes data at 10:00 local time and had planned to change that to 07:00.
But traders argued it could create instability in the currency, as well as making it tricky to get their children to nursery.
The agency has now agreed to publish the data at 08:00.
Statistics Norway said it had been contacted by several people in the finance industry, pointing out that such an early release time might lead to increased volatility in the buying and selling of the Norwegian krone at a time of day when trading on the markets is thin.
"By adjusting the new release time from 7 to 8am we believe we have found a good balance between the needs of Statistics Norway and the finance industry", a statement said.
The data has been released at 10:00 for nearly 20 years. The agency said this was in part because it used to be printed on paper, but now there were no such technical limitations since they were now released digitally.
The change will be introduced on 23 September.
The Norwegian Securities Dealers Association said it was "an important improvement" since dealers could at least contact clients at that hour. A spokesperson said that while they were not totally satisfied, they would accept the decision and monitor its effect on liquidity when it was introduced.
The £1m scheme would include the construction of flood walls and gates along Church Street.
The town suffered significant flooding following a tidal surge in December 2013.
Scarborough Borough Council said the scheme would not damage the character of the town.
Funding for the project has been provided by the Environment Agency, the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee and the council.
Construction is expected to begin in 2016.
Kirk's Vixens lost 3-1 to Reading in Women's Super League One, kicking off an hour after the end of Bristol City and Barnsley's Championship meeting.
The WSL side had played at Ashton Gate previously, for Champions League games.
"I'd love to play all our home games here," Kirk told BBC Radio Bristol.
"I enjoy playing at the college [Stoke Gifford Stadium] but to play our home games here would be brilliant. It suits us.
"It is a nice, big, flat pitch in unbelievable condition to play football on. The girls really enjoyed it so it would be great to be back here sooner rather than later."
A crowd of 1,127 was recorded for Saturday's loss to Reading, in what was the Vixens' first game back in the top flight after promotion in 2016, but the former Hibernian Ladies boss admitted he had hoped for more.
"To be honest, I'm a little bit disappointed with the attendance," Kirk added.
"Maybe that's me being greedy, but I think more Bristol City fans can get behind us and can come out. More can stay after the men's game.
"We were competing with Chelsea against Spurs in the FA Cup semi-final, which is tough, but actually being in this stadium and playing was fantastic."
Julie Saunders said she alerted staff after her son spotted a mouse sticking its head out from under a door at Hull Royal Infirmary.
She said: "It was a bit of a shock really, you don't expect mice in a hospital."
A spokesman at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust said a pest control team had been called in.
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Mrs Saunders said staff put blankets along the bottom of the door to stop them getting in, while she put her legs up on the chair to avoid contact with the rodents.
She and her son spotted two mice, while other patients reported seeing four.
The trust said: "As a result of the incident we contacted our local pest control service immediately.
"The team are currently on site working hard to ensure any disruption is minimal and we are aiming to reopen the unit as soon as possible."
After a delayed start due to heavy traffic before kick-off, Exeter came close to taking the lead when Joe Day saved David Wheeler header.
The visitors took the lead when Tom Owen-Evans fired in from long-range.
Alex Samuel could have doubled their lead with an ambitious shot two minutes later but shot just over the bar.
Hartlepool's draw with Morecambe and Cheltenham's draw away at Wycombe means the Exiles reduce their five-point deficit from safety to just three with victory.
Match ends, Exeter City 0, Newport County 1.
Second Half ends, Exeter City 0, Newport County 1.
Attempt saved. Troy Brown (Exeter City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Substitution, Newport County. Jennison Myrie-Williams replaces Alex Samuel.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Mark O'Brien.
Darren Jones (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Matt Oakley (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Darren Jones (Newport County).
Pierce Sweeney (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Williams (Newport County).
Substitution, Newport County. Darren Jones replaces Mark Randall.
Attempt blocked. Reuben Reid (Exeter City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Reuben Reid (Exeter City).
Tom Owen-Evans (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by David Pipe.
Mark Randall (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jake Taylor (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mark Randall (Newport County).
David Pipe (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Wheeler (Exeter City).
Attempt saved. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Pierce Sweeney (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Williams (Newport County).
Substitution, Exeter City. Matt Oakley replaces Lloyd James.
Foul by Lloyd James (Exeter City).
Tom Owen-Evans (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Newport County. Aaron Williams replaces Ryan Bird.
Attempt missed. Jake Taylor (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Alex Samuel (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Dan Butler (Newport County) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Exeter City. Ollie Watkins replaces Jordan Tillson.
Goal! Exeter City 0, Newport County 1. Tom Owen-Evans (Newport County) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Mitch Rose (Newport County) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Ryan Bird (Newport County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Foul by David Wheeler (Exeter City).
Mickey Demetriou (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Reuben Reid (Exeter City).
Mark Randall (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Luke Croll.
Attempt missed. Tom Owen-Evans (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
The motorway is closed between junctions 1 and 4 after the bridge fell on to the London-bound carriageway.
A motorcyclist was hurt but his injuries are not life-threatening.
Travel disruption is said to be severe, with the motorway - the main route to the Channel Tunnel - expected to remain closed until at least midday on Sunday.
Part of the bridge also fell on to a second lorry, during the incident which happened shortly after 12:05 BST. The driver was treated for shock at the scene.
South East Coast Ambulance Service tweeted that a motorcyclist in his 70s had been taken by ambulance to Tunbridge Wells Hospital with suspected broken ribs after the bridge collapsed.
Officers from Kent Police have now left the scene but the force said it "continues to support Highways England in ensuring the motorway is reopened as quickly as possible".
The force said no-one had been arrested in connection with the incident.
Local roads including the A20 are congested and motorists are advised to avoid the area and find alternative routes if possible.
Gary Coleman from Highways England said: "We are facing a real challenge to lift two HGVs and a motorbike clear of the scene and deal with all of the rubble from the collapsed bridge strewn across both carriageways.
"There is also the issue of the remaining part of the footbridge, which is still in place over the coast-bound side of the motorway. We have crews on scene ready to take action as soon as the police have completed their investigation. We also have cranes en route and lighting so work can continue through the night.
"We are doing everything we can to safely reopen the motorway."
The crash happened near the junction with the M26, which links the M25 London orbital with the M20.
Kent Police said it was investigating the circumstances of the crash and appealed for witnesses to get in touch by calling the appeal line on 01622 798538 and quoting the reference 27-0690.
The crash had knock-on effects across the motorway network after the eastbound M26 was closed to stop further congestion in the area, leading to queues on the M25, which travel reports said was "effectively down to two lanes".
About three hours after the collision, all traffic trapped on the southbound M20 had been released.
Cross-Channel traffic is being diverted on to the A2 and M2 from the M25 and the Port of Dover, Highways England said.
Sonny Gladdish was on the M20 about four or five cars behind the crash when it happened.
He said a lorry carrying a digger was driving on the hard shoulder and hit the bridge with a loud bang.
He said the bridge collapsed on one lorry and he believed the motorcyclist had thrown himself off his bike to avoid the impact.
Another motorist, Fade Ogunro, said: "I was driving down the M20, looked up and slammed on the brakes.
"Across the road a footbridge had literally just collapsed."
She said everyone "went into panic mode" and that people were unsure about whether to approach the vehicles involved or to drive under the bridge on the other side for safety reasons.
"We were all just like in a state of shock. It was something like out of a movie."
Witness Andy Sunnucks, 24, a graphic designer who was travelling from Maidstone to Sevenoaks, said: "It looked like a lorry had jack-knifed, and I could see half the bridge was missing. We went to have a look and the back end of the lorry was in pieces."
Alex Magaisa, his wife and two young sons were driving to Gatwick Airport and were just passing the lorry when the bridge collapsed.
He said: "My instinct was just to drive through. My wife saw the bridge falling and there was a big noise. I had to manoeuvre through the debris.
"It was a big shock. It's only just starting to sink in now what might have happened. We could have been crushed."
Another witness, Sean Fisher, said: "I spoke to [the woman in] the first car behind the lorry. She seemed to be all right. Her daughter was quite brave and went under the bridge and was the first responder to the fallen motorcyclist."
Some drivers also tried to stop traffic on the other side of the road, Mr Fisher said, as they feared the bridge might collapse on the coast-bound carriageway as well.
People took to social media to share pictures of the collapsed structure.
Helen Ayres posted: "Now that's what I call timing. Just as well the M20 is usually free-flowing on a Bank Holid... Oh. 😣"
Jimmy tweeted: "Couple of guys playing football on the m20; not something you see everyday #m20 #motorway #traffic ..."
Some drivers objected to the handling of the aftermath of the crash, with William Gaunt tweeting: "@kent_police why so long to close M20? 1000s joined 45 mins after bridge strike now trapped."
During the assault, the woman was punched, kicked and dragged her around her home.
Brendan McIvor, 30, from Templeard in Derry, carried out the attack in the victim's home last July.
He admitted kicking and punching the woman to the head and pulling her by the hair.
The woman was later treated for bruising to her right eye, a head injury and friction burns to her arm.
A defence barrister told Deputy District Judge Terence Dunlop that McIvor was close to completing his nursing degree, after which he aimed to find work placement.
He also hoped to study for his masters degree in nursing.
The barrister said that McIvor accepted his behaviour was outrageous and that he had anger management issues.
McIvor was placed on probation for 18 months and ordered him to complete 70 hours of community service.
Real Sociedad are famous across Europe for the high standard of their academy and Malaga have promised to bring their best prospects.
The Spanish teams will play in the competition's Premier Section.
Sociedad are managed by former Everton and Manchester United boss David Moyes, a long-time supporter of the international youth tournament.
Moyes regularly sent teams to the Milk Cup when he was in charge at Everton and he conducted the draw in 2003 along with Wayne Rooney, the current United captain who played in the tournament for the Toffees.
"It's a fabulous event which seems to enhance its reputation as the years go on," said Moyes.
"The atmosphere it generates around the region and its high standard of football at all levels is superb - a real credit to the volunteers who painstakingly organise it to exacting standards."
Former Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso and Arsenal's Mikel Arteta are products of Sociedad's youth system.
Only one Spanish club has won the Premier Section - the sparkling Barcelona team including Sergio Busquets and Giovanni dos Santos which defeated a Chelsea side coached by Brendan Rodgers in the 2005 final.
Meanwhile, Chilean outfit O'Higgins will be returning to the 26 July-31 July tournament in the Premier Section.
The victim is in a "stable condition" in hospital following the incident that happened at about 21:25 GMT on Thursday.
Elsewhere, a 30-year-old man was stabbed at Waveney Road in Ballymena, County Antrim, on Thursday afternoon.
Police said a man and a woman, both aged 23, had been released on bail pending further enquiries.
The injured man was described on Friday as being in a "stable condition".
Also, a man who was very seriously injured in a stabbing in west Belfast on Thursday is now also stable in hospital.
He was attacked at Hawthorn Street, near the Falls Road, at about 13.40 GMT.
The ITV News journalist said she lost four stone (25kg) and was close to organ failure but found "there wasn't really the help there" for her.
There were not enough services to meet a mental health "epidemic", he said.
MP Sarah Wollaston said the health select committee was to hold an inquiry into child mental health services.
She said too many children with serious mental health conditions were being turned away from treatment.
Mr Austin told told the BBC Radio 4's The World at One his daughter stopped eating and entered a "very bleak, dark world of depression" when she was 17 or 18.
"She was there but she was gone and it all happened very quickly and we thought we were losing her.
"So we tried to get help but there wasn't really the help there," he told the BBC Radio 4's The World at One.
He said she required "quick, significant intervention" but was instead offered counselling once a fortnight.
She became "very dangerously ill" after four or five months, he added, falling to less than six stone in weight (38kg).
He said his family decided to pay for private care, but withdrew because they did not agree with some of the treatments - including forced feeding.
Mr Austin, who presents the ITV Evening News, said the situation became more complicated when his daughter turned 18 because he was no longer able to see her medical notes.
The family began caring for her at home and were "lucky" to find somewhere to treat her during the day, he told the programme.
"Had it not been for the fact that my wife is an A&E doctor, I'm not sure what would have happened, but she was getting close to organ failure," Mr Austin said.
"There were no beds available, there was no specialist unit available, she needed to be in somewhere where they were looking after her with people of her own age."
He called on the government to "spend more money" and to ensure there were specialist units available for young people.
Mr Austin said his daughter was now "doing fine".
He added: "We were very lucky. I've got money, I can have private insurance.
"I've got a wife who is an A&E doctor but what about the people who don't have that? What about the people who don't have the resources to go private?"
Richard was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder when he was 15.
"I remember every night climbing in and out of bed without touching my carpet and being terrified of falling out of bed," he told The World at One.
"I think it got to a stage where I couldn't mask it anymore, I couldn't hide it, I couldn't disguise the behaviour, I couldn't pass it off as, 'oh I'm fine I'm just feeling a little weird today.'"
When he was 18, he reached a stage where he could not get out of bed and "couldn't touch anything", or be touched by his own father.
"People get shocked when I say I spent nine months bed-bound because of mental illness.
"It creeps up on you very slowly but happens very very quickly at the same time. I really can't remember the day I just thought 'I can't go downstairs'."
Richard's father Barry said he was told by a professional to bring Richard to them, but said: "What do I do? Pick up an 18-year-old? I just couldn't help him."
Seeing his father break down in front of him and offering to help them both take their own lives turned "all of the lights back on", Richard said.
"I suddenly went, 'I need to get better for him.'".
Conservative MP Dr Wollaston, a GP, said "too many" young people were being treated for "the most complicated and severe problems for the want of early intervention".
She said: "Although a lot of money has been given towards children and young people's mental health, relatively little of that is getting to the frontline and there's huge variations, so some councils are spending as little as £2 per child on mental health services whereas others are spending over £100."
Dr Wollaston, chair of the health select committee, told the programme: "Young people told us that they wanted services to be available within schools.
"We are today launching a call for evidence for a follow-up inquiry into children's and adolescents' mental health and the role of schools in prevention and early intervention.
"This will include examining the impact of social media and bullying."
The government last year pledged £1.4bn for child mental health by 2020, but a report found millions of pounds was being used to offset NHS cuts elsewhere and was not making the frontline.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said child mental illness was an area where the government needed to do "a lot better", telling The World at One that changes needed to be made.
He said: "It is partly about making financial commitment which I believe we are making. It is also about consistency of service because, as Mark Austin and other people have pointed out, it is very patchy."
Listen to The World at One's special programme on child mental health here.
They are Avanti Architects, John McAslan and Partners, LDN Architects LLP, Page\Park Architects, and Purcell.
The firms will submit their plans by mid-March. The successful bid will be announced at the end of March.
The Grade A-listed art nouveau Mackintosh building was badly damaged in the blaze on 23 May.
An investigation by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service concluded it was caused by flammable gases from a canister of expanding foam.
The report, released in November, said the gases ignited as they came into contact with the hot surface of a projector in Studio 19.
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) aims to raise £20m towards the eventual cost of restoration.
Liz Davidson, Mackintosh Restoration Project director at GSA, said: "All of the shortlisted practices have a strong record in undertaking major restoration and work in historic buildings, together with an impressive commitment to the use of new technology and the finest craftsmanship.
"They each bring the level of experience and expertise that is vital to the restoration of Mackintosh's masterpiece.
"We are now looking forward to hearing more about their proposed approaches."
Inside the Mackintosh
Pauline McLean, BBC Scotland arts correspondent
It's not the blackened walls or the sooty statues which are the strangest part of any visit to the Mack at the moment, but the vacuum left by students and staff.
True, there are still plenty of people around. Fluorescent-jacketed workmen securing the upper part of the building, and forensic archaeologists still sifting through the ashes of the library, but no students hurrying along the corridors, reading in the library or working in the studios. Those famous front doors, constantly swinging in and out, are still and like the rest of this building, awaiting restoration.
Today, five firms have been shortlisted for the task. Not only one of the biggest restoration projects of the moment, but one of the most high-profile. The world is watching - and the aftermath of the fire and subsequent restoration appeal suggests the world holds this building dear.
The debate has already begun about whether the restoration - of the library at least - should be faithful to the original, or as modern and clever as the original once was.
All five companies have enough experience of the heritage sector to know there's a fine balance to be struck between new and old. And that modern social media means the public will have much to say.
London-based Avanti Architects' past portfolio includes the project to bring back into use Alfred Waterhouse's 1887 Victoria Building at Liverpool University and the restoration of the iconic Art Deco Midland Hotel in Morecambe.
Edinburgh, London and Manchester-based John McAslan and Partners' past projects include the restoration of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's re-design of 78 Derngate in Northampton and the restoration of Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff's Grade-I listed De La Warr Pavilion.
Edinburgh and Forres-based LDN Architects LLP have a range of past heritage projects, including Sir Walter Scott's Abbotsford House, Strathpeffer Spa Pavilion and the A-Listed Fort Augustus Abbey on Loch Ness.
Among the projects in Glasgow-based Page\Park's historic buildings portfolio are the redevelopment of Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Art, the recent refurbishment of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the conversion of Mackintosh's Herald Building into The Lighthouse architecture and design centre.
UK and Hong Kong-based Purcell's historic building projects have ranged from the redevelopment of Hong Kong's 1841 Central Police Station to work at Kew Palace, Knowle House, The School of Arts in Chatham and the National Mining Museum in Scotland.
Network Rail said the closure between Oxenholme and Windermere would mean "short-term pain for long-term gain."
Spokesman Simon Evans said work across the network costing £33m was taking place nationwide.
While engineers renew the track, bus services will be in place between Glasgow and Carlisle, and Carlisle and Preston until Monday.
Mr Evans said: "Far fewer people travel on bank holidays, so we are taking this opportunity to get on and do important work.
"We are renewing some of the track and replacing overhead equipment - it is short-term pain for long-term gain."
Inside Out won the Oscar for best animated film beating Anomalisa, Boy and the World, Shaun the Sheep Movie and When Marnie Was There.
British actor Mark Rylance won the best supporting actor Oscar for his role in Bridge of Spies, with fellow Briton Sam Smith winning best original song.
Spotlight took home the best picture Oscar with Mad Max: Fury Road picking up the most awards of the night, with six prizes.
This year's Oscars ceremony had been criticised by some Hollywood actors protesting about the lack of diversity among this year's nominees, as all 20 nominees in the best acting or supporting acting categories are white.
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The imam, 54, was shot in the head in the stairwell of his home in Stromsund.
He was initially in a coma and is now suffering from brain damage.
The imam's family have accused the Uzbek government of orchestrating the crime, but the court ruled that it was clear that Yury Zhukovsky "acted on behalf of someone in Russia".
The court said that the evidence presented was not sufficient for it to say with certainty whether the Uzbek state was involved.
The February 2012 attack on the imam, Obid-kori Nazarov, sent shockwaves through Stromsund, a small town of just a few thousand inhabitants in sparsely populated northern Sweden.
The town is home to hundreds of Uzbek asylum seekers who have fled the repressive government in their home country, thousands of miles away.
Many are devout Muslims who fell foul of the authorities for practising their religion outside of government control.
Mr Nazarov fled Uzbekistan in 1998 after an arrest warrant for extremism was issued against him. He went into hiding in neighbouring Kazakhstan until the UN approved his refugee status eight years later, allowing him to go to Sweden in 2006. He has always denied being an extremist.
Judge Goran Ingebrand said on Tuesday that "everything indicated" that there was a connection between Zhukovsky and "someone in Russia".
He said the defendant had made and received at least 34 telephone calls and text messages to a number in Russia on the day Mr Nazarov was shot.
Zhukovsky was extradited to Sweden in August from Moscow where he had been detained under an international arrest warrant. He admitted tracking down Nazarov's location in Sweden but has denied carrying out the shooting.
The imam's son on Tuesday accused the Uzbek government of being behind the assassination attempt.
Human rights organisations have accused Uzbekistan of imprisoning thousands of Muslims whom it depicts as extremists seeking to overthrow the government and set up an Islamic state.
Mr Nazarov had a reputation for criticising his country's record in dealing with social and economic problems and human rights. Correspondents say that as such he was a prime target of the Uzbek security services.
In July 2012 a court in Sweden cleared a man and woman from Uzbekistan of aiding the assassination plot against Mr Nazarov, which correspondents have described as reminiscent of a Cold War undercover operation.
The court ordered Zhukovsky to be deported after serving his time. His lawyers say he may appeal against his conviction.
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Six fire engines and 35 firefighters are tackling the blaze after being called to the refinery on Manorway in Erith at 13:10 GMT.
London Fire Brigade (LFB) said the three-storey building which is alight contains two oil refinery cylinders.
The cause of the blaze is not currently known.
Another two men had evacuated from the ground floor of the building before fire crews arrived.
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It said the lack of public trust in banking after numerous scandals was an "ongoing concern" for the industry and the government.
In a new report, ResPublica called for an oath for bankers to "fulfil their proper moral and economic purpose".
Small businesses should also be treated as consumers, said the report.
The think tank said this could ensure banks treated struggling firms fairly.
Director at ResPublica, Philip Blond, said: "As countless scandals demonstrate, virtue is distinctly absent from our banking institutions.
"Britain's bankers lack a sense of ethos and the institutions they work for lack a clearly defined social purpose."
He said an oath would "finally place bankers on the road to absolution".
The think tank said the British Bankers' Association, Building Societies Association and the new Banking Standards Review Council should adopt the oath for their members.
An extract from the oath says: "I will do my utmost to behave in a manner that prioritises the needs of customers.
"It is my first duty to provide an exemplary quality of service to my customers and to exhibit a duty of care above and beyond what is required by law."
Another part adds: "I will confront profligacy and impropriety wherever I encounter it, for the conduct of bankers can have dramatic consequence for society."
BBA executive director for financial policy and operations, Paul Chisnall, said: "Restoring trust and confidence is the banking industry's number one priority.
"But meaningful cultural change in an industry as complex and diverse as banking takes time."
He said a banking oath "very well could be part of the answer".
ResPublica also said bank shareholders should have more responsibility to make sure banks are held to account.
The full report, Virtuous Banking: Placing ethos and purpose at the heart of banking, was launched on Tuesday by the chairman of the Banking Standards Review Council, Sir Richard Lambert.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Lambert said: "Over the last ten or 15 years ... the norms of behaviour in bits of the banking sector have slipped out to a way which is unacceptable".
"I am strongly in favour or robust regulation, but the law can only go so far.
"Banks should decide what is the purpose of banking.
"Why are they in business? Are they there just to maximise profits, are they a utility, are they there to serve the public and not make profits? What are they for?"
On Monday Lloyds Banking Group was fined £218m for "serious misconduct" over a key interest rate set in London, Libor.
Part of the fine, from the Financial Conduct Authority, was for abusing a scheme set up by the Bank of England to help the financial industry during the crisis.
Richard Jeffrey from Cazenove Capital Management told the BBC that it was "shocking that Lloyds was biting or, at least trying to bite, the hand that was feeding it.
He said: "A lot has changed in the banking industry. I think ethics have changed but a lot needs to be done.
"Banks were far more inwardly focussed on the money they were generating ... One of the key changes we have got to see in ethics within banking is that every decision [banks take have] to be focussed on the wellbeing of your clients".
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The group was meeting to consider if it should recommend a new referendum on abortion law in the Republic.
Currently abortions are permitted only when the mother's life is in danger.
The Citizens' Assembly is meeting for a weekend-long session in Malahide, County Dublin.
Speaking at the meeting, Dr Brendan O'Shea, a member of the regulatory body for general practitioners, said financial constraints were leading some women to carry on with unwanted pregnancies.
Meanwhile, a speaker from the HSE's Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme, Janice Donlon, said that between 2010 and 2012 an average of 821 women on the island of Ireland were sent abortion pills annually.
Cork obstetrician and gynecologist, Professor John Higgins, said over 2014 and 2015, the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act had facilitated 26 terminations.
Most arose from a mother's life-threatening physical illness, with just three involving the threat of suicide.
Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, Anthony McCarthy, quoted international research on the damaging effects of pressurising women in crisis pregnancies.
The specialist at the National Maternity Hospital said that the surveys consistently found that women who are pressurised to have an abortion, or not to have one, suffer significant mental health problems because of that.
The chair of the assembly, the Supreme Court Judge Mary Laffoy, told members their meetings between now and March will be their most difficult as they debate the issue.
On Saturday morning, the assembly heard an address on the history of the Eighth Amendment.
The amendment, introduced in 1983, essentially gives constitutional protection to an unborn child.
Outside the meeting, a small group of protestors staged a demonstration.
Prof Eoin Carolan of UCD said that although abortion had been illegal in Ireland since 1861, the 1983 amendment made it clear for the first time that the right to life applied to the unborn.
Prof Carolan recalled that in 1992, the Supreme Court ruled in the X case that abortion is allowed where there is a real and substantial risk to the life, as distinct from the health, of the mother and where the risk could only be avoided by the termination of her pregnancy.
He said that the risk could be from either a threat of suicide or because of a physical condition.
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1917 April - Lenin and other revolutionaries return to Russia from Germany.
1917 October - Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government led by Alexander Kerensky, with workers and sailors capturing government buildings and the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, and eventually taking over Moscow.
1918 - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk according to which Russia ceded large tracts of land to Germany; Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan proclaim their independence from Russia.
1918-20 - Civil war between Bolsheviks, or Reds, and anti-Bolsheviks, or Whites, ravages Russia. In northern Russia, British, French and US troops capture Murmansk and Archangel until 1919, while in the Russian Far East they occupy Vladivostok, which was held by the Japanese until 1922.
1918-21 - Policy of "war communism" enunciated, with the state taking control of the whole economy; millions of peasants in the Don region starve to death as the army confiscates grain for its own needs and the needs of urban dwellers.
1920 - War with Poland.
1921 - Peace treaty with Poland signed.
1921 - New Economic Policy ushers in a partial return to the market economy and a period of stability.
1922 - Union treaty formally joins Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasus - which were divided in 1936 into Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan - into the Soviet Union.
1922 - Germany recognises the Soviet Union.
1924 - Soviet Union adopts constitution based on the dictatorship of the proletariat and stipulating the public ownership of land and the means of production; Lenin dies and is replaced by Joseph Stalin.
1928 - Adoption of first Five-Year Plan, with the state setting goals and priorities for the whole economy, signifies the end of the New Economic Policy.
Collectivisation of agriculture begins; numerous relatively prosperous peasants, or Kulaks, killed; millions of peasant households eliminated and their property confiscated.
1936-38 - Announcement of the discovery of a plot against Stalin's regime headed by Leon Trotsky ushers in a large-scale purge in which thousands of alleged dissidents in the armed forces, the Communist Party and the government were sentenced to death or long imprisonment.
1933 - United States recognises the Soviet Union.
1934 - Soviet Union admitted to League of Nations.
1939 August - Soviet Union and Nazi Germany conclude a non-aggression pact; Germany invades Poland, triggering World War II.
1939 September - Soviet troops enter Poland, which is then divided between Germany and the USSR.
1939-40 - Russian-Finnish war, which ends with Finland ceding territory to the USSR - the present Russian constituent republic of Karelia.
1940 - Soviet troops occupy Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, which are then incorporated into the USSR; Romania cedes Bessarabia and North Bukovina to the USSR which declares the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic - the present independent republic of Moldova.
1941 April - Soviet Union and Japan sign a non-aggression pact.
Khrushchev, right, was premier of the USSR between 1958 and 1964
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1941 June - Germany invades the USSR and by the end of the year occupies Belarus and most of Ukraine, surrounds Leningrad (now called St Petersburg). Although a Soviet counter-offensive saves Moscow, by June 1942 the Germans were at the gates of Stalingrad (now called Volgograd) and close to the Caucasus oil fields.
1943 - Germans fail to take Stalingrad; Soviet troops launch a general counter-offensive which eventually culminates in the capture of Berlin in May 1945.
1945 - Soviet Union and the Allies reach understanding on postwar spheres of influence in Europe during the Yalta and Postdam summit conferences.
1945 August - Soviet Union declares war on Japan, eventually annexing the southern half of Sakhalin and the Kuril islands.
1948-49 - Berlin blockade: Soviet Union fails to prevent supplies from reaching the sectors of Berlin occupied by Western forces.
1949 - Soviet Union explodes its first atomic device; recognises the Communist government in China.
1950 - Soviet Union and China sign 30-year alliance treaty.
1950-53 - Outbreak of Korean war sees relations between the Soviet Union and the West deteriorate markedly.
1953 March - Stalin dies and is succeeded by Georgi Malenkov as prime minister and by Nikita Khrushchev as first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
1953 - Soviet Union explodes its first hydrogen bomb.
1955 - Nikolay Bulganin replaces Malenkov as prime minister.
1955 - Warsaw Treaty Organisation, or Warsaw Pact, set up.
1956 - Soviet troops help crush uprising in Hungary.
1956 February - Khrushchev makes a secret speech to the 20th Communist Party congress denouncing Stalin's dictatorial rule and cult of personality.
1957 - First-ever artificial earth satellite, Sputnik, orbits the earth.
1958 - Khrushchev becomes prime minister - in addition to Communist Party chief - after dismissing Bulganin.
Late 1950s - China falls out with the Soviet Union over Moscow's policy of peaceful coexistence with the West.
1960 - Soviet Union shoots down US spy plane U-2 over Soviet territory.
1961 - Yuri Gagarin makes the first manned orbital flight.
1962 - Cuban missile crisis erupts over presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
1963 - Soviet Union joins the US and Britain in signing a treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests; US-Soviet "hot line" set up.
1964 - Khrushchev is replaced as first secretary of the Communist Party by Leonid Brezhnev; Aleksey Kosygin becomes prime minister.
1982: Brezhnev rumours sweep Moscow
1968 - Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to stem a trend towards liberalisation; "Brezhnev doctrine" enunciated, giving communist countries the right to intervene in other communist states whose policies threatened the international communist movement.
1969 - Soviet and Chinese troops clash across the border.
1972 - Soviet Union and US sign SALT-1 arms control agreement, heralding the start of detente.
1974 - Soviet Union agrees to ease its emigration policy in return for most-favoured-nation trade status with the US.
1977 - Brezhnev elected president under new constitution.
1979 - Soviet Union and US sign SALT-2 agreement; Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, formally ending the period of detente with the West.
1980 - Kosygin is replaced as prime minister by Nikolay Tikhonov; Kosygin dies.
1982 - Brezhnev dies and is replaced by KGB chief Yuri Andropov.
1984 - Andropov dies and is replaced by Konstantin Chernenko.
1985 - Chernenko dies and is replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev as general secretary of the Communist Party; Andrey Gromyko becomes president. Gorbachev begins an anti-alcohol campaign and promulgates the policies of openness, or glasnost, and restructuring, or perestroika.
His reforms hastened the end of communism
1991: Gorbachev resigns as Soviet Union breaks up
BBC History: Mikhail Gorbachev
1989 - Europe's revolution
1986 - Chernobyl nuclear power station explodes, showering large areas in Ukraine, Belarus and beyond with radioactive material.
1987 - Soviet Union and US agree to scrap intermediate-range nuclear missiles; Boris Yeltsin dismissed as Moscow party chief for criticising slow pace of reforms.
1988 - Gorbachev replaces Gromyko as president; challenges nationalists in Kazakhstan, the Baltic republics, Armenia and Azerbaijan; special Communist Party conference agrees to allow private sector.
1989 - "Revolutions of 1989" see the toppling of Soviet-imposed communist regimes in central and eastern Europe. Events begin in Poland and continue in Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Romania. In East Germany, an unprecedented series of mass public rallies leads to the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November.
Elsewhere in the USSR: Soviet troops leave Afghanistan; nationalist riots put down in Georgia; Lithuanian Communist Party declares its independence from the Soviet Communist Party; first openly-contested elections for new Congress of People's Deputies, or parliament.
1990 - Soviet troops sent to Azerbaijan following inter-ethnic killings between Armenians and Azeris; Communist Party votes to end one-party rule; Gorbachev opposes independence of Baltic states and imposes sanctions on Lithuania; Yeltsin elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic by the latter's parliament and leaves the Soviet Communist Party.
Soviet Union's Last Stand
1991 August - Senior officials, including Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov, Vice-President Gennadiy Yanayev and the heads of the Interior Ministry and the KGB detain Gorbachev at his holiday villa in Crimea, but are themselves arrested after three days; Yeltsin bans the Soviet Communist Party in Russia and seizes its assets; Yeltsin recognises the independence of the Baltic republics; Ukraine, followed by other republics, declares itself independent.
1991 September - Congress of People's Deputies votes for the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
1991 8 December - Leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus sign agreement setting up Commonwealth of Independent States.
1991 25 December - Gorbachev resigns as Soviet president; US recognises independence of remaining Soviet republics.
1991 26 December - Russian government takes over offices of USSR in Russia.
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It comes after Ballymena's Michelin tyre plant announced it would close in 2018 with the loss of 860 jobs.
Michelin and other large businesses in Northern Ireland have long warned about the impact of high energy costs.
However, news of the closure was blamed on a decrease in demand for truck tyres in Europe since the financial crisis.
Enterprise Minister Jonathan Bell said he wants the panel to deliver proposals by the end of next February.
But he said his response would be limited by wholesale energy costs, which are set by global markets.
The minister recently met the Utility Regulator and System Operator Northern Ireland to discuss if "market reform" would help.
However, he said: "Taking costs off one group means increasing them for others and we currently have the highest level of fuel poverty in the UK.
"I do not want anyone to think there is a quick fix."
The crash happened at about 17:00 GMT on Monday on Oldbury Road in Rowley Regis.
West Midlands Ambulance Service said it arrived at the scene within six minutes of being called and found the rider in cardiac arrest but it was "not possible to save him".
No-one in either of the cars was injured, according to a spokesman for the service.
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West Midlands Police said the man who died in the collision, opposite the junction with Summer Road, was 39 years old and from the local area.
PC Chris Ridge said: "We understand the man was riding with another biker along Oldbury Road towards Blackheath when the collision occurred."
Boyce, 26, has had two previous loan spells with the Mariners, making a total of 21 appearances for the club.
He was released by Scunthorpe in May, having failed to make an appearance for the League One side last season.
Browne, 20, has signed for an undisclosed fee after scoring six goals in 37 National League games last term.
The Antigua and Barbuda international joined the Shots in July 2015 following his release by Charlton.
Meanwhile, winger Nathan Arnold, 28, and defender Richard Tait, 26, have left Grimsby after rejecting contract extensions.
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He claimed a shock victory over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in Tuesday's election.
First Minister Arlene Foster said she looked forward to working with his administration.
She said Northern Ireland has "strong historical, economic and political ties to the United States".
"As our largest inward investor, the US plays a massive role in our economic progress," she said.
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said he would "work constructively with President Trump" to "maintain and strengthen our well established and deeply valued relationship with the US".
"Over many years, successive US administrations have made a major contribution to both our peace process and economic development and I expect this to continue," he said.
In comparison to Hillary Clinton, who made several visits to Northern Ireland over the past 21 years, Donald Trump is more of an unknown quantity so far as most Stormont politicians are concerned.
But not entirely unknown. The New York billionaire shook hands with Gerry Adams at a Manhattan fundraiser in 1995.
More recently, he met the late Ian Paisley in 2007 to discuss buying a North Coast golf resort. But the deal never came off.
He does own a golf resort in County Clare which he referred to both as "perfecto" and "small potatoes" during the campaign.
Some locals in Doonbeg hope Donald Trump will do for them what Barack Obama did for Moneygall.
The kind of access Stormont politicians might have enjoyed at the White House under a Hillary Clinton presidency seems unlikely under Mr Trump.
Indeed in the wake of controversy over some of Donald Trump's comments about women and Muslims the SDLP leader Colum Eastwood pledged not to attend a Trump St Patrick's Day reception.
But to be honest no-one had expected that Northern Ireland would be or should be anywhere near the top of a new US President's bulging in tray.
Those days are long gone and we are now entering a new era for the world, never mind Northern Ireland.
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood reiterated his pledge not to attend a Trump White House.
"I feel it is important that as an Irish leader I take a stand, even if only small and only symbolic, for the kind of politics which we continue to believe in," he said.
"Across the western world, politics is facing a dark and difficult moment.
"As Rowan Williams recently wrote, we are now understandably terrified about the potential triumph of a politics of resentment, fear and unchallengeable untruthfulness."
Alliance leader Naomi Long also expressed disappointment over the election.
"The problem with a protest vote is that you're left then with a protest president. What does a protest president look like in such an uncertain world?" she said.
"It will be interesting to see if can he unite the (Republican) party and then can he unite the country."
However, Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt congratulated Mr Trump on his victory and said he looked forward to continued US engagement with Northern Ireland.
Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Enda Kenny also congratulated Mr Trump.
"I look forward to working with the new administration in the time ahead in the cause of international peace and security," he said.
Mr Kenny also praised defeated candidate Hillary Clinton for being "a friend to Ireland who fought such a tough campaign".
US firms employ more than 20,000 people in Northern Ireland.
There might also be concern about whether a crackdown on immigration from Mexico could have consequences for the undocumented Irish working in the USA.
The Republican president-elect adopted a protectionist economic stance during his campaign, talking about renegotiating trade deals and imposing tariffs.
If he turns that into policy it could mean a less open global trade system which would not be not good for small economies banking on export-led growth, adds our correspondent.
Mr Trump has also said he will reduce the headline rate of US corporation tax from 35% to 15%.
That could have particular implications for the Republic of Ireland which has attracted lots of tax sensitive US investment.
It could also make weaken the impact of the Northern Ireland Executive's plan to use reduced corporation tax as a tool for attracting investment, adds our correspondent.
The temporary injunction signed by Judge Reed O'Connor follows a challenge to President Barack Obama's directive by 13 states and applies nationwide.
The injunction was passed the day before many students go back to school.
The right of transgender people to use bathrooms of their choice has become highly controversial in the US.
Judge O'Connor, who was appointed by George W Bush, said schools should have been allowed to have a say before the White House directive was issued.
He said: "This case presents the difficult issue of balancing the protection of students' rights and that of personal privacy... while ensuring that no student is unnecessarily marginalised while attending school."
The injunction does not prohibit schools from allowing transgender students to use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity, but those that don't will not have to conform.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, argued that President Obama was "attempting to rewrite the laws enacted by the elected representatives of the people".
The Justice Department issued a brief statement saying it was disappointed in the ruling and was reviewing its options.
Paul Castillo, a Dallas attorney for the gay rights group Lambda Legal, which argued in court against the injunction, said the ruling was the latest attack on transgender rights.
He said: "I think today is going to be a hard day for transgender students. The decision is certainly emotional and certainly an attack on transgender students' dignity.''
Public bathrooms have become a flashpoint in the battle over transgender rights in the US. In March, North Carolina passed a law requiring people to use public toilets that correspond with the sex listed on their birth certificate.
The Justice Department sued the state over the law and US Attorney General Loretta Lynch likened that law to the policies of racial segregation. The state's Republicans argued that the law was necessary for privacy and safety.
With disagreement at state and federal level over whether anti-discrimination laws apply to transgender people, the issue may go to the Supreme Court for resolution.
The lawsuit against President Obama's directive was filed in May by Texas, Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah and Georgia, and the Republican governors of Maine, Mississippi and Kentucky.
Two small school districts in Arizona and Texas, which have fewer than 600 students combined and no transgender people, also joined the effort.
In 2015, O'Connor granted an order that temporarily blocked federal rules that would have expanded medical leave benefits to some gay couples.
Yang's seven-year exemption for winning the 2009 US PGA Championship was set to expire but he finished tied 11th.
Englishman Nathan Kimsey won the event on 13 under par, while compatriots Tom Lewis and Eddie Pepperell were among the well-known players to also qualify.
Ricardo Gonzalez of Argentina became the oldest Q School graduate aged 47.
The annual event took place over six rounds at PGA Catalunya, near Barcelona.
Italian Molinari, who played on Europe's triumphant 2010 Ryder Cup team at Celtic Manor with younger brother Francesco, qualified for the second straight year in a tie for second on 12 under.
Welshman Stuart Manley earned a card, but countrymen Rhys Davies and Oliver Farr missed out.
England's Richard McEvoy was the final player to secure his qualification.
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Nicky Morgan called for books by authors like Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and Emily Bronte to be made available so all pupils can enjoy them.
The government is also offering new resources to help get children reading before they start school.
Author David Walliams is backing the push to get more children reading.
At a speech, made during a visit to Charles Dickens Primary School, in Southwark, south-London, Ms Morgan will say: "If a child fails to learn how to read - the consequences can be nothing short of devastating, holding them back for the rest of their lives
"I am absolutely determined to make sure that every child, no matter where they live or what their background, learns to read, to read widely and to read well - giving them the best opportunity to get on in life.
"In fact, we're going further than that - in the next five years, I want children in this country to become the best readers in Europe."
International surveys show that nine and 10-year-olds in England are currently ranked sixth in Europe - although the best readers in this country are already the best readers in Europe.
Ms Morgan also wants to see school libraries stocked with the classics.
She said: "Our ambition is that every secondary school should have sets of a wide range of classics so that whole classes can enjoy them together - books I loved as a teenager by authors like Jane Austen, Charles Dickens or Emily Brontë.
"I am delighted that a number of publishers are currently exploring how to make collections of our greatest novels available to schools at minimal cost - and I encourage more to get involved."
And she says she wants to tackle the "long tail of underachievement" which is leaving too many children behind, especially the most disadvantaged.
The government is also continuing with its push to get children learning to read with what it describes as good quality phonics schemes.
The campaign also includes a partnership with the Reading Agency to create at least 200 new book clubs across England and a push to get every eight-year-old enrolled at their local library.
The Warwickshire all-rounder has not played international cricket since June after struggling with a side strain.
He will replace fellow pace bowler Toby Roland-Jones, who took four wickets at Edgbaston as England won the first Test by an innings and 209 runs.
"It's a great chance for Chris to come back into the side and show his class," captain Joe Root said.
West Indies drew criticism for their lacklustre performance in the previous Test - which was a day-night match - as England thrashed them in three days to take a 1-0 series lead.
The three-match series is England's last Test preparation before they travel to Australia in November for the Ashes.
Woakes took seven wickets and scored 65 on his return to first-class cricket against Middlesex earlier this month.
A regular in all three formats for England, the 28-year-old bowled just two overs in England's first Champions Trophy match against Bangladesh, before leaving the field.
He was an important part of England's Test side last summer, taking 26 wickets in four Tests against Pakistan, and scoring 177 runs in seven innings.
Woakes was replaced in the Test squad by Middlesex seamer Roland-Jones, who has taken 14 wickets at an average of 19.35 in three Test appearances this year.
"Roland-Jones has not done a lot wrong at all, he's played some fantastic cricket and I see him being a massive part of our future moving forward," Root added.
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West Indies have not won a Test in England since 2000 and have not won a series away from home against a team other than Bangladesh and Zimbabwe since 1995.
However, wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow said England were wary of a West Indies fight-back following their poor performance in the first Test.
"There's talent and a lot of desire in the West Indies side, a lot of want to prove people wrong and we don't want to be at the other end of that," the Yorkshire player told BBC Sport.
"We're expecting the West Indies to come back at us pretty hard after Edgbaston."
England have lost two of their past four Test matches at Headingley and still have issues in their batting line-up, with Durham's Mark Stoneman the latest player to open alongside Alastair Cook.
Bairstow backed the team to score runs in Leeds.
"If you don't respect the conditions, then it can be difficult," the 27-year-old said.
"If you get through those difficult periods - if it's a bit cloudy and it's nipping or swinging - then it's a fantastic place to bat."
West Indian bowling great Sir Curtly Ambrose was one of many to criticise the side following the first Test, describing the performance as "embarrassing and pathetic."
Head coach Stuart Law said he was disappointed that Ambrose - a former bowling coach with the national side - had criticised the side in a newspaper column, rather than addressing the players face-to-face.
"We have to understand why it is there. We are not performing as well as we want," Law said.
"What can we do? We have to get our noses down, our backsides up and play better. I believe in these young men. They have got high skills.
"It is just the experience of learning how to play in a very tough environment."
Despite having fast bowler Shannon Gabriel available for selection, West Indies are expected to go with the same side that lost in Birmingham.
The Scots won one silver and four bronzes at the World Bowls Championships in New Zealand.
"I thought the team did fantastically well to medal in five of the eight events and just to miss out in the other three," said captain Marshall.
"It was a great team effort in difficult conditions."
Marshall was one of three former world indoor singles champions in the Scotland squad and was a double gold medal winner at the last Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
But he was satisfied with the medal haul, including his own bronzes in the pairs and fours, in New Zealand despite the lack of golds.
"You were playing in 50-60mph winds, so conditions were very different to what they are in the UK, so we are very pleased," Marshall told BBC Scotland.
"I was very happy with two bronze medals - playing with Paul Foster in the pairs and just missing out by a couple of shots to the Aussies and we got well beat by the Kiwis in the final of the fours, but the score wasn't a fair reflection."
Although Marshall captained the Scots in New Zealand, he still has to win a place in the Scotland team to compete in Australia's Gold Coast.
"I am 50 next year, so I'm getting on a bit now, but I try to improve each year I play and hopefully I'll be selected for Broad Beach and it is something I'll look forward to," he said.
"It is going to be very hard back over in the southern hemisphere, but I think we will be more prepared as we've been there before and we'll be going over with plenty of confidence."
Representing Scotland for the first time, Lesley Doig was her country's top performer in New Zealand, winning silver in the women's singles and taking bronze in the pairs along with Lauren Baillie.
However, she is not taking it for granted that she will be on the plane for the Gold Coast.
"I didn't expect to be coming home with a silver and bronze, so I definitely achieved more than I expected and I'm really chuffed," she said.
"There's a lot of good up-and-coming players in Scotland, so you can never assume anything.
"But, if I stick in and keep playing well, hopefully I'll make it into that team.
"You are out there playing against the best players in the world, so to have beaten some of them out there means everything."
Commission director Maria Luisa Sepulveda said they had identified another 9,800 people who had been held as political prisoners and tortured.
The new figures bring the total of recognised victims to 40,018.
The survivors will get lifetime pensions of about $260 (£157) a month.
An earlier report by the commission recognised 27,153 people who suffered human rights violations under military rule.
The official number of those killed or forcibly disappeared now stands at 3,065.
'Peace and reconciliation'
Ms Sepulveda said the commission had examined 32,000 new claims of human rights abuses over the past 18 months.
By Gideon LongBBC News, Santiago
The report from the Valech commission doesn't change the substance of what we know about human rights abuses during the Pinochet years, but it does alter the numbers - particularly as far as the victims of torture and detention are concerned.
Until now, we knew there were around 28,000 victims of torture and abuse. Now, that figure needs to be revised upwards to nearly 38,000.
This is the fourth major report into human rights abuses in Chile since 1990. The first, in 1991, looked specifically at deaths. We know that around 3,200 people were killed in political violence during General Pinochet's rule.
The second and third reports, published in 2004 and 2005, looked at torture. This latest report is an update to those two.
With it, the Valech commission has concluded its work. But that doesn't mean an end to human rights investigations in Chile. Hundreds of cases are still before the country's courts, and will be for many years to come.
She said of those, 9,800 were found to fulfil the commission's criteria.
In order to be officially recognised as victims, people had to have been:
Furthermore, all the cases had to have happened between 11 September 1973 and 10 March 1990, when Gen Pinochet was in power.
The BBC's Gideon Long in Santiago said Ms Sepulveda did not give details of the kind of abuses the victims had suffered, nor did she release the names of the victims.
The report was presented to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera at a ceremony in the presidential palace.
Justice Minister Teodoro Ribera said the document would contribute to peace and reconciliation in Chile.
In the first half of 2017, private equity investment in the capital's tech sector totalled £4.5bn, said the Mayor of London's agency, London & Partners.
At the same time, venture capital invested £1.1bn in London's tech firms.
That total was more than in any other six-month period in the past decade, the agency said.
The city's "fundamental strengths" as a centre for technology and business were unchanged, said London & Partners.
"The Brexit vote has understandably created some uncertainty, but it is no surprise to see that London continues to attract more than double the amount of investment [of] any other European city," said Laura Citron, chief executive of London & Partners.
"We have everything companies need to be successful: policymakers, finance, infrastructure, world-class universities and talent."
According to London & Partners, London's tech sector has attracted more venture capital investment than any other European city since the Brexit vote, including Dublin, Paris and Amsterdam.
It said the city had received £1.8bn in venture capital funding for 544 deals in the tech sector since the UK voted to leave the EU on 23 June 2016.
During the same period, Berlin, the next most popular city for venture capital tech investment, had received £775m for 136 deals, London & Partners said.
One of the companies benefiting is virtual reality start-up Improbable, which saw investment of £388m during the first half of this year.
Improbable's chief executive, Herman Narula, said: "For a technology business looking to raise growth capital and scale, investment can come from anywhere in the world, but London is a great place to be located.
"London provides access to the UK's tremendous tech talent, and is also an attractive place to work for the global talent vital to growing a tech business."
Civil servants are currently in control of Stormont's finances because the executive collapsed before agreeing a 2017-18 budget.
James Brokenshire's intervention will, however, stop short of imposing a budget for now.
He will instead reallocate underspends and other money in what is known as a monitoring round.
In a statement, Mr Brokenshire said that having taken advice from civil servants he had concluded it was necessary to "provide additional clarity... in addressing financial pressures and maintaining public services".
He will make a written statement to the House of Commons with adjusted indicative budget positions and departmental allocations.
He said these will take account of extra money arising from the UK's spring budget, which has not yet been allocated.
The BBC understands that about £116m will be allocated, including £42m flowing from the spring budget.
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 to be the more probable time for this, if a political deal continues to prove elusive.
A budget would give Northern Ireland access to all of its block grant.
The report, commissioned by the BBC Trust, examined how the corporation reflects views from across the UK.
It found the BBC had been "slow" to catch up with public opinion on areas such as immigration and the EU.
But former ITV chief Stuart Prebble, who led the review, praised the BBC for an "impressive breadth of opinion".
"I have been impressed by the commitment of the BBC's journalists to ensuring that they bring a diversity of voices and viewpoints on a wide range of news stories to audiences across the country," he said.
The report found that too much weight is given to the views of politicians and the BBC should find ways to report more "contentious" views from people outside Parliament, which would reflect wider public opinion.
Mr Prebble said it was clear "the BBC cannot afford to rest on its laurels and it should ensure it does all it can to keep up with the ebb and flow of public opinion, which means avoiding over-reliance on Westminster voices, making efforts to find new voices even if they are contentious, and challenging their own assumptions on the accepted consensus."
The report suggested that the audience of Question Time should be chosen from a wider group, rather than just BBC viewers.
BBC coverage of immigration, religion and the European Union between 2007 and 2012 was examined as part of the study.
On reporting religion, if found there were some gaps in knowledge among some generalist reporters
Mr Prebble said the BBC had not fully reflected concerns about immigration's effect on Britain saying coverage was too often "dry and clinical".
He put this down to an over reliance on interviewing politicians, many of whom were reluctant to address the issue.
Mr Prebble's investigation picked up from a 2007 report by John Bridcut, which set out 12 "guiding principles" aimed at protecting against biased reporting and ensuring impartiality.
Mr Bridcut's report found that technological and social change had led to a wider range of opinion in society than the traditional right and left wing views.
BBC Trustee David Liddiment said: "Our impartiality reviews are an important inducement for the Executive to question itself, in this case on its breadth of opinion, to ensure it is doing all it can to achieve what licence fee payers expect and that it is constantly alert to changing public opinion.
"We deliberately chose some complex and controversial subject areas for the review in immigration, religion, and the EU, and our generally positive findings are testament to programme-makers across the corporation.
"It is clear that there is more to do and we will look to the Executive to deliver on this." he added.
The BBC executive team has set out a series of actions in response to the report's findings, including:
Mr Prebble's review is the fifth report examining impartiality commissioned by the BBC Trust. Previous reports have focused on business, science, coverage of UK nations and the Arab spring.
In a statement, the BBC said it was "pleased" its news coverage was found to be "remarkable" and "impressive", adding that it set out "interesting insights".
"Stuart Prebble has concluded, overall, that our coverage of immigration is 'broad and impressive', that on the EU we offer 'a wide and comprehensive range of information and viewpoints' and that the BBC's coverage of religion is 'comprehensive and impressive'.
"He also states that the overwhelming number of journalists within the BBC leave their personal politics at home.
"We agree it is always vital to guard against unconscious bias or 'group think' and will continue to do so and we've committed to a number of actions to improve our coverage even further."
Victor Nealon was living in Redditch, Worcestershire, when he was found guilty of attacking a woman and jailed for life.
In December, his conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal after fresh DNA evidence came to light.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has turned down a claim and said there was no automatic right to compensation.
A spokesperson for the MoJ said claims were dealt with on a case-by-case basis and that it would not comment on individual claims.
Mark Newby, Mr Nealon's solicitor, said his client was "very angry" about the decision and planned to challenge it.
Mr Nealon was arrested after a woman was sexually assaulted on her way home from a nightclub in Redditch in 1996.
Despite being jailed for life in January 1997, Mr Nealon always maintained his innocence.
Last month, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) ,a body set up to investigate claims of miscarriages of justice, apologised after two previous appeals to have the case reviewed were turned down.
On the third attempt, the CCRC referred the case to the Court of Appeal.
Last year, three judges heard DNA material found on the the 22-year-old victim's blouse belonged to an "unknown male" and called into doubt the jury's original guilty verdict.
However, in turning down Mr Nealon's claim for compensation, the MoJ said the owner of the DNA could not be identified, and added it could not be established that it "undoubtedly belonged to the attacker".
National Grid has consulted on routes for the cables to run between the station and to the east of Llangefni.
It said its chosen route would "keep the effects of the new connection" as low as it could.
Plans to connect Wylfa Newydd at Cemaes Bay to a substation at Pentir, Gwynedd, have proved controversial.
Campaigners have been concerned about the impact of pylons on the countryside.
Last year, the National Grid said it would use underground cables instead of pylons under the Menai Strait between Anglesey and the mainland.
It has also confirmed up to three miles (5km) of underground cables with no pylons close to Gaerwen and Bangor.
For the latest section of the route, the National Grid said it had taken feedback into consideration following a consultation.
"People said if an overhead line was progressed, that we should keep close to the existing line," it added in a statement.
The National Grid has published an interactive map showing the proposed routes of the power cables.
The lock in Buckland, Buckinghamshire, collapsed on 28 March, leaving boats in the nearby town of Aylesbury unable to connect back to the main waterway.
The Canal and River Trust said the boats would be pulled out this week and reunited with their owners.
The cause of the collapse is unknown, but the charity estimated the damage at "several hundred thousand pounds".
The trust said it was called about the lock by a passing member of the public, but no boat was using it at the time.
Work began earlier to move the boats, which are being taken by lorry to the Willowbridge Marina in Bletchley.
Jeff Whyatt, senior waterways manager for the Canal and River Trust, said: "We are still working on how and why the towpath and lock wall at Buckland Lock collapsed and hopefully we'll have a clearer idea in the next few weeks when our investigations are complete.
"Thankfully, no-one was hurt and we are working as quickly as we can to get the lock and the Aylesbury arm back open as soon as possible."
It is hoped the repair work would be completed by the August bank holiday weekend.
Nathan Edge filmed the moment he, his girlfriend and dog, Hudson, were turned away from the Shangri-La, near Mansfield, on Saturday where they had planned to celebrate his birthday.
Eating establishments are legally required to let assistance dogs in.
The restaurant has since apologised and said it was due to a lack of space.
The video of them being refused entry has been viewed more than 50,000 times.
Mr Edge, 21, said most places he eats "go above and beyond" to make him feel welcome.
He said: "I was surprised and incredibly disappointed. All I wanted to do was have a nice night out with my girlfriend and have an equal choice.
"I wasn't asking for any special measures just to be treated equal, so it was very hurtful."
Under the Equality Act, service providers must make reasonable adjustments to make sure disabled people are not treated less favourably, including amending "no dogs" policies to allow guide dogs entry.
Guide dogs and assistance dogs are highly trained and hygienic, according to Kelly France from the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.
"Guide dogs are there to give people independence and mobility. To have someone say 'you can't come in here' is terrible."
Jason Liu, from the Shangri-La in Mansfield Woodhouse, said the incident was not about discrimination but "purely around adequate spacing and health and safety".
"I would like to apologise and understand this incident has greatly upset Mr Edge and his party," he said.
"I would like to make it very clear that we have no issues accepting guide dogs into our establishment, this is a proven fact as Mr Edge has dined with us previously."
Mr Edge said he joined over 100 campaigners in Westminster last week to lobby MPs to do more for the rights of assistance dog owners.
"A matter of days later I was facing the same problems myself," he said.
Archaeologists and volunteers have uncovered what could be the remains of walls dating back to 700 to 500 BC at Nybster in Caithness.
Andy Heald, of AOC Archaeology, said further investigations would need to be made to confirm the structure's age.
Evidence of possible Pictish and medieval occupation has been recorded.
A key feature of the site are the remains of a massive stone wall roundhouse, known as a broch.
Caithness has more brochs per square mile than any other part of Scotland, according to Highland Council.
Examples of the ancient buildings are also found on Orkney.
What lies beneath Nybster has intrigued the dig team, which is being led by AOC Archaeology and Caithness Archaeological Trust.
Mr Heald said he believed the site may have been occupied long before the Iron Age and provided habitation to various communities for 1,000 years.
He said: "We have dug down to what might be the earliest wall on the site and this wall may have been used to seal off the site as a territory, as if someone was saying 'this land is mine'.
"Typical of sites like these, it was reused and modified at different times."
Archaeologists are wary of any alterations that may have been made to the site during excavations led by Sir Francis Tress Barry in the early 19th Century.
A series of stone steps that may have been constructed on Sir Francis' instructions have been uncovered at the settlement.
From his Highland home at Keiss Castle, the British consul to Spain explored the ruins of nearby Caithness brochs.
According to an obituary written following his death in 1907, Sir Francis found the remains of elk, wolf, wild boar and a great auk, an extinct seabird.
Older artefacts found in the latest dig include the core, or centre, of a cannel coal bracelet.
The smooth circular stone was cut to create the hole in the bracelet.
It also suggests trade between the residents of Nybster and other parts of the Highlands because the nearest source of cannel coal is 50 miles (80km) away in Brora, in Sutherland.
Pieces made of bone have also been found.
Pep Guardiola's side fell behind early in the second half when Oscar Wendt scored for Borussia Monchengladbach.
Lars Strindl and Fabian Johnson added goals in quick succession for the home side, who moved into third spot.
Ribery, on as a substitute for his first match since injuring an ankle in March, struck with nine minutes left.
Bayern had dropped just two points in 14 league matches this season, and have looked imperious despite uncertainty over the future of coach Guardiola, who is out of contract at the end of the season.
Former Arsenal and Germany goalkeeper Jens Lehmann had suggested during the week that Guardiola's team could go through the whole Bundesliga season without defeat.
They were on top in the first half, with Borussia goalkeeper Yann Sommer making superb saves to deny Robert Lewandwoski and Thomas Muller, before Kingsley Coman hit the post.
But Sweden left-back Wendt surprised them nine minutes into the second half, slotting in after being set up by midfielder Raffael.
Borussia struck twice more in three second-half minutes, with striker Strindl finishing well from Granit Xhaka's knockdown, before Fabian Johnson took on Julian Korb's through ball and placed his shot beyond keeper Manuel Neuer.
France midfielder Ribery, brought on for the final 15 minutes, found the net after being set up by Arturo Vidal, but it was too late.
Match ends, Borussia Mönchengladbach 3, FC Bayern München 1.
Second Half ends, Borussia Mönchengladbach 3, FC Bayern München 1.
Attempt blocked. Rafinha (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Franck Ribéry.
Substitution, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Thorgan Hazard replaces Lars Stindl.
Offside, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Lars Stindl tries a through ball, but Josip Drmic is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Josip Drmic (Borussia Mönchengladbach) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Oscar Wendt.
Offside, FC Bayern München. Rafinha tries a through ball, but Franck Ribéry is caught offside.
Substitution, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Josip Drmic replaces Raffael.
Rafinha (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lars Stindl (Borussia Mönchengladbach).
Offside, FC Bayern München. Jérôme Boateng tries a through ball, but Franck Ribéry is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Javi Martínez (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Arturo Vidal following a set piece situation.
Rafinha (FC Bayern München) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Rafinha (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lars Stindl (Borussia Mönchengladbach).
Substitution, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Marvin Schulz replaces Mahmoud Dahoud.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Mahmoud Dahoud.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Julian Korb.
Goal! Borussia Mönchengladbach 3, FC Bayern München 1. Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Arturo Vidal.
Attempt blocked. Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Arturo Vidal.
Attempt missed. Kingsley Coman (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Thomas Müller.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Mahmoud Dahoud.
Attempt blocked. Sebastian Rode (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Mahmoud Dahoud.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Franck Ribéry replaces Robert Lewandowski.
Lars Stindl (Borussia Mönchengladbach) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lars Stindl (Borussia Mönchengladbach).
Foul by Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München).
Granit Xhaka (Borussia Mönchengladbach) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Philipp Lahm (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fabian Johnson (Borussia Mönchengladbach).
Foul by Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München).
Havard Nordtveit (Borussia Mönchengladbach) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Arturo Vidal with a cross.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Andreas Christensen.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Granit Xhaka (Borussia Mönchengladbach).
Goal! Borussia Mönchengladbach 3, FC Bayern München 0. Fabian Johnson (Borussia Mönchengladbach) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Julian Korb with a through ball following a fast break.
Attempt missed. Javi Martínez (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Arturo Vidal with a cross following a corner.
Sixty Senedd seats are being contested, with the results expected in the early hours of Friday morning.
Wales is also electing four police and crime commissioners (PCCs), while a parliamentary by-election is taking place in the Ogmore constituency.
Polling stations will remain open until 22:00 BST on Thursday. Counting for the PCC elections in Wales will take place on Sunday.
For the assembly election, voters will be given two ballot papers.
Forty assembly members will be elected for constituencies as in general elections, and the other twenty via another vote to represent five larger regions.
Regional AMs are elected from lists of candidates to represent North Wales, Mid and West Wales, South Wales West, South Wales East, and South Wales Central.
There will be full coverage of the results and their implications across BBC Wales television, radio and online.
The BBC Wales Election 2016 website and mobile apps will be live throughout Thursday night and Friday.
The Times Educational Supplement asked councils how much maintained schools had asked to borrow since 2013-14.
Borrowing in the 137 of 174 local authorities that responded rose £20m to £56.7m, the TES said, over three years.
The government says school budgets have been protected, but heads say they continue to face rising cost pressures.
The Department for Education added it was up to head teachers to prevent their schools from going into debt.
"We have always been clear that local authorities need to work with schools to prevent any deficits and surpluses becoming significant," it said.
The figures obtained under Freedom of Information laws looked at the financial years 2013-14, 2014-15, and up to the end of November 2015.
They do not cover academies which are not maintained by local authorities.
The data also revealed the average permitted deficit per school, for indebted schools, has almost doubled to £122,828 since 2013-14.
Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said cost pressures were really biting in schools.
"The simple fact is that there has been no real-terms increase in schools' budgets, and schools have had to deal with extra costs and inflationary pressures," he said.
Although the chancellor's Spending Review confirmed per pupil funding will be stable as numbers increase, the Institute of Fiscal Studies has warned there will be significant cost pressures of up to 8% on schools over the next five years.
Schools will have to find extra resources to cover rises in pension, National Insurance and pay costs over the course of this Parliament.
Mr Trobe predicted the situation was likely to get worse, saying: "If you can't balance the budget this year, you're going to struggle to balance the budget next year and to pay off the deficit."
The DfE is to look at what needs to be done to rebalance school funding from area to area and is launching a consultation on the issue.
Presently schools are funded at quite different levels, as local authorities receive varying grants based on estimates of their historic needs. Schools are then allocated per pupil funding based on rates set by their local authority.
They then receive extra funds based on how many disadvantaged pupils they have and the characteristics of the school.
It happened on Saturday afternoon. There are no reports of any injuries.
Bedford Street is expected to stay closed until about 18:30 GMT.
By coincidence, the street had been closed since Saturday morning to allow filming to take place for a BBC drama series.
The popular crime thriller staring Adrian Dunbar and Vicky McClure is now in its third series.
Set in the 50th state, the police drama starring Jack Lord as Detective Steve McGarrett ran from 1968-1980.
It featured an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police force and was perhaps best known for McGarrett's catchphrase, "Book 'em, Danno", and the show's memorable theme tune.
The new show pays homage to the original, although it is a 21st Century take on the classic series.
"We're trying to retain the integrity of the original ideas, characters and stories in a new contemporary, aggressive kind of way," says Alex O'Loughlin, the Australian actor who plays McGarrett.
"The sense of humour is different. If you look at the original show it was a long time ago, it came off the air 30 years ago and the humour was very different.
"We can do a lot more, we're pushing a lot of boundaries," he says. "It's a really modern reboot."
Fresh from Lost, where he played Jin-Soo Kwan, actor Daniel Dae Kim gets to stay in Hawaii as Detective Chin Ho Kelly.
"I was really excited because I felt like after a run of six years on Lost I was ready for something new in terms of energy and creative input," he explains.
"There are so many times when you start a project and no-one knows anything about it, and you spend a lot of time trying to explain to people what the premise is.
"We're very fortunate in that everyone knows what Hawaii Five-O is and what they're going to get."
But viewers will get something very different. The re-imagination of Hawaii Five-O is a fast-moving, action-packed drama with a much grittier feel than the original.
Acting has evolved and stylistically the differences are enormous, says O'Loughlin.
"You look at television back then and you look at it now. We want a documentary feel to some of this stuff… we want to find as much realism as we can," he adds.
Only one episode, the pilot show, has been made. During the summer the first series will be shot on location in Hawaii, and the drama will air for the first time in the US in the autumn.
The first show sets the scene and explains McGarrett's background.
"The difference between this show and the original is that in the original you didn't know where McGarrett came from," explains O'Loughlin.
"You didn't know his back story and in this one you do. You know why he comes to the island - it's all revealed in the pilot and that's how we kick the show off.
"He's a navy seal. He has a mission that he sets out on in the beginning of the pilot, and that's what leads him to the beginning of our adventure which will be Hawaii Five-O."
Hawaii Five-O is just one of a several new dramas that network executives in the US hope will become the next must-watch show on TV.
The CBS network is also launching Blue Bloods, a legal and family drama starring Tom Selleck. The show follows a family of cops in New York.
The Defenders is a legal drama/comedy set in Las Vegas starring Jim Belushi and Jerry O'Connell.
"It's a show about two men who are very good attorneys but not so good at handling life," says executive producer Carol Mendelsohn.
In the cut-throat world of television, finding that magic formula for a new show can be fraught with problems.
"Broadcasters are looking to the American production machine for the next CSI, for the next NCIS, for the next Lost, the next 24," says Armando Nunez, president of CBS Studios International.
Hawaii Five-O is a tried and test franchise, although re-working an old idea does not guarantee success.
"There are certain problems peculiar to launching a show that is already a named brand like Hawaii Five-O, which would be similar to when we launched the spin-offs to CSI," says Ms Mendelsohn, executive producer behind both CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and The Defenders.
"There are also problems attendant to launching a brand new show that nobody is familiar with... you never know until you're on the air," she adds.
"We love everything about The Defenders… we just hope that a year from now we're talking about season two."
Daniel Dae Kim says he hopes the lure of paradise will help build a loyal audience for Hawaii Five-O.
"In the dead of winter when there's no sunlight around half of the planet, when you turn on your TV after a long hard day, you want to be able to see something that brings you a little pleasure," he says.
"When you see beautiful beaches and palm trees and beautiful people, it'll be a little bit of escapism with your entertainment."
The injury means Willey could be unavailable for some of England's one-day international series against Sri Lanka next month.
He has played 13 one-dayers and 11 Twenty20 matches for the national team.
The 26-year-old took two wickets in his first match for Yorkshire against Notts last week and 3-55 in their latest game against Surrey.
The research, published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, analysed data involving nearly 295,000 patients.
The findings stood despite patients at these hospitals being sicker and suffering more complications.
Researchers also found death was more likely following a weekend admission, which they said showed staffing was factor in the so-called weekend effect.
That is the term given to the on-going debate about Saturday and Sunday services.
Ministers in England are looking to improve staffing levels on the weekend, citing previous research as the basis for their policy.
Higher rates of death following weekend admissions and among babies born at weekends have been identified in two papers published by the British Medical Journal since the summer.
While this study confirms what would be expected - better resourced hospitals provide better care - it is this link with weekend care that has sparked interest.
The St George's University of London team looked at what factors were behind variation in death rates following emergency abdominal surgery at 156 NHS trusts between 2005 and 2010.
This included surgery on ulcers, to remove appendixes and repair hernias.
While only a small number died within 30 days - just over 12,000 patients - there were small but significant variations in the death rates between those hospitals with the highest level of staffing and those with the lowest.
The third of hospitals with the lowest number of doctors per bed had death rates 7% higher than the third with the most. The difference was the same for nurse staffing levels.
Weekend admissions for emergency surgery led to an 11% increased risk in death compared with weekdays.
Lead researcher Dr Peter Holt said it was likely there would be a number of factors behind the higher death rates at weekends, but "clearly" staffing was one.
"We need to ensure the whole system is safe seven days a week," he said.
But he added the government needed to focus on getting emergency care right before even thinking about non-urgent services.
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Janet Davies said the study highlighted the importance of supporting "hard-working" staff.
"The NHS could reduce its staff turnover and save on the cost of temporary staff if it valued and invested in its permanent staff," she said.
"The benefits for all - staff, patients, and the NHS itself would be immeasurable."
Ms Tsai, 59, leads the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) that wants independence from China.
In her victory speech, she vowed to preserve the status quo in relations with China, adding Beijing must respect Taiwan's democracy and both sides must ensure there are no provocations.
China sees the island as a breakaway province - which it has threatened to take back by force if necessary.
In her speech, Ms Tsai hailed a "new era" in Taiwan and pledged to co-operate with other political parties on major issues.
The will of the Taiwanese people would be the basis for relations with China, Ms Tsai said.
"I also want to emphasise that both sides of the Taiwanese Strait have a responsibility to find mutually acceptable means of interaction that are based on dignity and reciprocity.
"We must ensure that no provocations or accidents take place," Ms Tsai said, warning that "any forms of suppression will harm the stability of cross-strait relations".
She thanked the US and Japan for their support and vowed Taiwan would contribute to peace and stability in the region.
Ms Tsai had a commanding lead in the vote count when Eric Chu of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) admitted defeat.
Mr Chu congratulated Tsai Ing-wen and announced he was quitting as KMT head. Taiwan's Premier Mao Chi-kuo also resigned.
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The election came just months after a historic meeting between the leaders of Taiwan and China.
However, the flagging economy as well as Taiwan's relationship with China both played a role in the voters' choice, correspondents say.
The KMT has been in power for most of the past 70 years and has overseen improved relations with Beijing - Ms Tsai's is only the second-ever victory for the DPP.
The first was by pro-independence advocate Chen Shui-bian; during his time as president between 2000 and 2008 tensions with China escalated.
Analysis: Cindy Sui, BBC News, Taipei
The victory by Tsai Ing-wen marks a defeat for not only the pro-unification ruling party KMT but also China.
Despite the past eight years of reduced tensions and much improved relations built by the KMT and China, Taiwanese voters have voted for Ms Tsai from the pro-independence party instead. Basically, they've voted to keep Beijing at a distance.
This reflects not only widespread dissatisfaction with President Ma Ying-jeou of the KMT over insufficient measures to improve the lacklustre economy, low wages and widening wealth gap - it also reflects growing worries by Taiwanese people that the island may become too economically dependent on China and that this will make it hard for Taiwan to fend off pressures by Beijing to reunify with it one day.
The message voters have sent Beijing is that, while they want reduced tensions and good relations, they cherish Taiwan's sovereignty, democracy and self-rule even more.
The challenge now is for Ms Tsai to find a way to work with China, the island's biggest export market, trade partner and security threat.
Ms Tsai, a former scholar, has said she wants to "maintain [the] status quo" with China.
She became chairwoman of the DPP in 2008, after it saw a string of corruption scandals.
She lost a presidential bid in 2012 but has subsequently led the party to regional election victories. She has won increased support from the public partly because of widespread dissatisfaction over the KMT and President Ma Ying-jeou's handling of the economy and widening wealth gap.
Saturday's polls come after a historic meeting between President Ma and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Singapore in November for talks that were seen as largely symbolic - the first in more than 60 years.
Eric Chu, 54, is the mayor of New Taipei City and stepped up to become chairman of the party in October.
The KMT has lost its majority in the legislature for the first time in history.
The former accounting professor was seen as popular with young people in the party, but had been unable to change public opinion that is increasingly unhappy with the party's friendly stance towards China and the island's economic travails.
In 2014, hundreds of students occupied the parliament in the largest show of anti-China sentiment on the island for years. Labelled the Sunflower Movement, protesters demanded more transparency in trade pacts negotiated with China.
Taiwan for all practical purposes been independent since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, when the defeated Nationalist government fled to the island as the Communists, under Mao Zedong, swept to power.
Glyn Jones, 54, died on the farm at Brynsiencyn, Anglesey, last January.
A pathologist told the inquest at Llangefni that he did not die from the one tonne-weight of the bale but from noxious fumes when he was trapped.
The inquest jury returned a unanimous conclusion of accidental death.
The father-of-two was killed while he was in a shed removing bales to place on a trailer with a vehicle similar to a forklift, the inquest heard.
His younger brother, David Jones, said in evidence: "He was crouched down, silage was on top. He had a handful of silage in his right hand and a phone in his left."
Coroner Dewi Pritchard-Jones said it was a mystery how he came to be buried, adding: "The evidence is not clear."
12 March 2017 Last updated at 14:58 GMT
It's a Hindu spring festival that came from India but is now celebrated all over the world.
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Two annexes to existing grammar schools in Kent will be set up on KCC land at the old Wildernesse School site in Sevenoaks.
The law forbids the opening of any new grammar schools, but changes made last year enable existing schools to expand.
Parents in Sevenoaks set up an online petition to campaign for the expansion.
More than 2,600 people signed, arguing the area was the only part of Kent without a grammar, meaning more than 1,100 pupils who passed the 11-plus had to travel for an hour to Tunbridge Wells.
The new "satellite schools" are expected to take in 120 pupils in a year. KCC initially said the annexes would be linked to existing grammar schools in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.
Academic selection and grammar schools were abolished in most areas of England in the 1960s and 70s but some areas retained them - including Buckinghamshire, Kent and Trafford.
KCC's preferred site, in Seal Hollow Road, is currently used by Knole Academy, whose lease runs out in 2015.
A new £18.3m building is under construction for the academy.
"We said back in March 2012, that we were determined to provide young people in Sevenoaks with access to a local grammar school, within current legislation," said KCC leader Paul Carter.
"The team has been working very hard to get this far.
"Our property team will be taking a close look at the site to assess its suitability for refurbishment or whether any rebuild will be required.
"We will be making a provisional allocation in the capital budget for this."
KCC said it would submit detailed proposals for the grammar school expansion to the government in the coming weeks.
"I expect them to do their job", he said, and consider the candidate as required by the US Constitution.
Scalia, a long-time conservative on the court, died on Saturday.
Leaders of the Republican-controlled Senate have said they would delay confirming any nomination until a new president is in power next year.
Republicans argue it should be up to the electorate to pick a president who can nominate the right candidate for the job.
Scalia's death leaves the court finely balanced with four judges appointed by Democratic presidents and four by Republican ones, so the new appointment would leave the court liberal or conservative leaning.
Why is this a big deal?
Scalia - in his own words
"The Constitution is clear about what is supposed to happen now, said Mr Obama, during a news conference at an economic summit in California for South-East Asian countries.
The president must nominate someone for the court and then it's up to the Senate to confirm or reject him or her, he said.
"There's no unwritten law that says that it can only be done on off years. That's not in the constitutional text."
The president vowed to announce his preferred candidate "in due course" and called on Washington to employ "basic fair play" to get it done.
In recent years, the court has made key rulings on gay marriage, abortion and Mr Obama's key healthcare legislation.
Names on Michael Lowe's nomination form for the East Retford South ward on Bassetlaw District Council included three Labour supporters and a former Labour councillor, MP John Mann said.
Nottinghamshire Police said the matter had been referred "for consideration".
The local UKIP party said it would not comment as police inquires continued.
Mr Mann, who is running for re-election as the Labour MP in Bassetlaw on 7 May, tweeted earlier a police investigation was underway into the allegations.
Kevin Sly, whose name appears on the nomination form alongside those of his two daughters, Gemma and Jessica Sly, said they had been interviewed by officers.
"I'm not very happy at all," said Mr Sly, who describes his family as Labour supporters but not "active" members of the party. "I don't even know the guy."
Mr Sly, who lives in Ordsall, Nottinghamshire, near Retford, said the signatures alongside their names were not real.
Mr Mann said another person whose name was on the form, Anne Moore, was a Labour supporter who lived in the same town.
Signatures of 10 registered electors from the ward in which the candidate is standing must be obtained in order to apply, the Electoral Commission states.
David Scott, UKIP candidate for Bassetlaw in the general election, said Mr Lowe, who unsuccessfully contested the Worksop West seat at the county council elections in 2013, would not comment while a police investigation was under way.
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The 24-year-old defender, who previously had spells with Hull City, Aldershot and Portsmouth, is the 11th new signing made by Argyle this summer.
He has moved to Home Park after failing to agree a new deal with the Red Devils, after two years in Sussex.
Bradley played 49 games for Crawley last season, with his only goal coming at Argyle's fierce rivals Exeter City in a 2-2 draw on 14 November.
Plymouth have not disclosed the length of Bradley's contract with them.
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Police said the 18-year-old woman was raped in the toilets of Moo Moo nightclub in Tunbridge Wells in the early hours of Friday.
The attack happened between 01:30 BST and 02:03 at the Newton Road club, which held the party on A-level results day.
Officers seized CCTV from the nightclub as part of their enquiries.
The attacker is described as a white man with brown hair. He was wearing dark jeans and a short-sleeve T-shirt.
Moo Moo's Facebook page billed the event, from 21:30 to 03:00, as an "adventure as we go Pokemon mental to celebrate everyone's A-Level results when our three floors become three different Indigo League Locations."
Matthew Gordon said locals threatened him and his girlfriend at a restaurant, and that he was forced to write a letter of apology at a police station.
However police told BBC Hindi they had not insisted on an apology letter.
Australia's high commission in India issued a statement asking its citizens to research and respect local customs.
It was "concerned" by the incident and was speaking to local authorities, it added.
Bangalore police said they are investigating the incident.
Speaking to local media about Saturday's incident, Mr Gordon said they had been harassed by a group of people who appeared to be political activists.
"One of them came to me and confronted me about my tattoo. Soon they surrounded us and threatened to skin my leg and remove the tattoo," he was quoted as saying.
Ramesh Yadav, identified as one of the people responsible for heckling Mr Gordon, is a known activist from India's governing BJP party.
He denied threatening Mr Gordon and said he had only advised him to cover the tattoo because it could hurt local sentiments.
Mr Gordon's Facebook posts on the incident have been widely shared in India.
In one post he shared a picture of his letter of apology that he alleged police had forced him to write before he could leave the station.
"I should not have to apologise for what is on my skin and be put in a traumatising situation where it is apparently acceptable to be harassed, threatened and mobbed," he said.
However Bangalore Commissioner of Police NS Megharikh told BBC Hindi that they had never insisted on an apology letter and that Mr Gordon had written it on the advice of a "local friend".
"There was some altercation near the restaurant. In any case, the police responded to a call from the spot and only brought them to the police station to resolve the issue,'' he said.
Police also believe it may have been home to the people responsible for one of the US's most deadly mass shootings.
At around 5pm on Wednesday, acting on a tip off, police raided a house on Redland's Center Street, a leafy residential road about 15 minutes' drive from where the San Bernardino shooting occurred.
Using battering rams, police smashed through a window and climbed in.
It was a quick but measured entry - police were worried the home might contain explosives.
From a house opposite, 20-year-old Adrian Tejeda filmed everything.
"[Police said] lock all the doors," he tells the BBC.
"I got some calls from family saying 'Have you seen the news?'.
"I said 'Yeah I can see it because I'm right here!'"
Late into Wednesday night police continued to search the property. The surrounding houses were quiet, curtains drawn.
But nowhere was forcibly evacuated, a police officer at the scene said, although some residents had opted to leave - perhaps more due to the 20 or so satellite trucks that had descended on the scene, rather than any worry over a possible threat to their safety.
As is so often the case in these shocking incidents, those who knew or came into contact with the suspect were surprised that something like this could possibly happen.
"What kind of neighbourhood is this?" Mr Tejeda continues. "It's peaceful. Nothing really bad happens.
"It's a bunch of innocent people."
He says he thought he had seen the at least one of the suspects in the past, going in and out of the house, but nothing ever stood out as being unusual or strange. Certainly nothing that hinted at what would take place in San Bernardino.
"That's crazy stuff to think they're living right next door to you," Mr Tejeda says.
Hours before the arrest, at an unconfirmed address in the same town, the suspected shooters Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, both later killed by police, are said to have taken their six-month-old daughter to the home of Farook's mother.
According to a family spokesman, the couple said they had to go to a doctor's appointment.
Debate about what the shootings will mean for America's continued soul-searching on violence has already started here.
At a nearby bar, a man who did not want to be named said he worried that the shooting would be used to fuel anti-gun law arguments - due to California's apparently "restrictive" gun laws.
The state's strict - by American standards - regulations require passing a test to get hold of a weapon, and there is a waiting period.
But "Guns and Ammo" shops can still be seen peppered throughout the state, promoted with neon lights.
At least two of the weapons used in the shooting were bought legally, it has been established - news that will perhaps push the possibility of action even further away.
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Rebels belonging to the Garo National Liberation Army opened fire on migrant workers who were playing cards late on Sunday in Goalpara district.
Nine workers were also injured in the attack, police said.
Assam has been plagued by ethnic clashes and separatist violence in recent years.
Goalpara has witnessed violence between the Rabha and Garo tribes.
Reports say that Sunday night's violence happened after Garo militants from neighbouring Meghalaya state fired at a group of Hindi-speaking migrant workers who were playing cards and gambling to celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights.
"These militants in army dress came and fired indiscriminately... after the attack, they retreated to Meghalaya," AP Raut, a senior Assam police official, told the NDTV news channel.
Correspondents say many tribespeople resent the presence of outsiders, who they believe are taking their jobs and marrying local women.
The Peugeot failed to stop after the collision, which happened at the junction of Raby Road and Perth Street in Hartlepool, Cleveland Police said.
The boy was hit as he crossed the road with his mother at about 21:35 BST on Tuesday.
A 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion dangerous driving and possession of an offensive weapon.
He was also suspected of driving while unfit through drugs.
The boy, who suffered bruising, did not need medical treatment, police said.
The vehicle also caused damage to the wall of a property, before crashing and ending up wedged between a wall and a car on Zetland Road.
Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward.
Harambe, a western lowland gorilla, was killed at Cincinnati Zoo earlier this year after a three-year-old boy fell into his enclosure.
On Wednesday, Philadelphia Zoo said it would allow the public to vote on a name for the newborn.
Social media users quickly swamped the zoo with thousands of messages.
The newborn is the same subspecies - Gorilla gorilla gorilla - as Harambe.
Zookeepers, however, said the name will be put to a public poll from a selection chosen by staff members.
There has been no confirmation that Harambe will make that shortlist and the competition has not even opened yet.
That, however, has not stopped thousands of calls for the name online.
Philadelphia Zoo said they were "amazed and humbled" by the "outpouring of support and genuine excitement".
The newborn's sex is still unknown, as the baby is being held close by its mother, Honi.
Zookeepers said staff will make suggestions once they know if it is a boy or a girl - and rely on the public to vote from those choices in the coming weeks.
"We are very excited to welcome Honi's new baby," said Dr Andy Baker, the zoo's Chief Operating Officer.
"This birth is an opportunity to engage our visitors in caring about the future of gorillas in the wild."
Harambe's death in May this year, accompanied by sensational video footage of the three-year-old child in danger, made international headlines.
In the wake of the shooting, many questioned the need for killing the animal, despite the keepers at Cincinnati Zoo insisting they had no choice.
That led to a wide range of internet memes and an online campaign of "Justice for Harambe", which later became a joke in online circles.
The zoo itself said it was "not amused" by the online jokes and closed its Twitter account, after months of Harambe references being posted in response to every tweet.
Gen Karake, 54, was arrested at Heathrow Airport on Saturday, accused of ordering massacres in the wake of the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
He was arrested by Met police officers under the European Arrest Warrant on behalf of the Spanish authorities.
Williams Nkurunziza, Rwanda's High Commissioner to the UK, said it was "an insult to our collective conscience".
Prime Minister David Cameron's official spokeswoman said it was an "operational matter" for the police who were legally obliged to act on valid European Arrest Warrants.
Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwanda's foreign minister, called the arrest "an outrage" adding: "Western solidarity in demeaning Africans is unacceptable".
Andrew Mitchell, former international development secretary, said he believed the arrest was a "reprehensible abuse" of the law.
In 2008, Spanish investigative judge Andreu Merelles indicted Gen Karake for alleged war crimes along with 39 other current or former high-ranking Rwandan military officials.
He is also accused of ordering the killing in 1997 of three Spanish nationals working for Medicos del Mundo.
But the Rwandan government is said to be puzzled by the timing of Gen Karake's arrest, as he has travelled to the UK several times since the indictment was issued.
Mr Nkurunziza told the BBC World Service: "We take strong exception to the suggestion that he's being arrested on war crimes.
"Any suggestion that any of our 40 leaders are guilty of crimes against humanity is an insult to our collective conscience."
Gen Karake was remanded in custody after appearing at Westminster magistrates court and he will reappear on Thursday.
A spokesman for Spain's National Court said it was now up to the British authorities to decide whether or not to extradite him.
By BBC foreign correspondent Karen Allen
The arrest of General Karenzi Karake in London is bound to strain what is increasingly becoming a fragile relationship between Britain and Rwanda.
Like two best friends, harsh words are exchanged from time to time, but on this occasion it feels like a smart slap whose sting may last for some time.
It is perhaps not surprising that the detention of Rwanda's head of intelligence is being flagged up by London as a European "obligation" rather than a British decision.
There is a strong ambition in Whitehall that the matter simply goes away. After all it was a Spanish high court judge that made the accusation of war crimes, not a British one.
Read more from Karen here.
Mr Mitchell told the BBC he thought the arrest was "completely wrong".
"It's being used by supporters of the genocidal regime against those who stopped the genocide.
"I think it is reprehensible that the European Arrest Warrant is being abused in this way by a junior Spanish judge," he said. "It's being used for political reasons and not judicial ones."
He added that he agreed with American officials who have described the indictments as "un-researched, politically motivated and lacking in facts".
Phil Clark, lecturer on Africa's Great Lakes Region at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, said there were concerns about the evidence in the Spanish indictment.
"There's a sloppiness I think in much of the investigation that underpins this and even very critical human rights groups, that have tended not to be very friendly to Rwanda in the past, have raised questions about the quality of the Spanish arrest warrants."
By Mary Harper, BBC World Service Africa editor
Rwanda's furious reaction to the arrest is typical.
Whenever it is criticised, especially in relation to reprisal killings of Hutus, it lashes out, accusing its critics of "genocide denial".
In some ways, it seeks to exploit the collective international guilt arising from the world's failure to stop the genocide of 1994.
Britain finds itself in a difficult position. It has been a close friend of Rwanda, praising the government of Paul Kagame for turning the country around and becoming one of Africa's economic "success stories".
However, the Kagame government comes down hard on dissent, stifles media freedom, and has been accused of meddling in conflicts across its borders.
Phillip Gourevitch, a leading writer on Rwanda, told Newsnight that Gen Karake's arrest was the equivalent of the head of the UK's MI6 or the US's CIA being arrested.
In a statement the British High Commission in Rwanda said the arrest was a "legal obligation" carried out on behalf of the Spanish authorities but stressed the UK had a "close relationship" with the Rwandan government.
"We co-operate closely on a growing range of regional and international issues," the statement said.
It is understood that on Thursday Westminster magistrates will fix a date for an extradition hearing within three weeks. There, a district judge will decide whether to proceed with the extradition. The whole process should take no more than 90 days.
Gen Karake is director general of Rwanda's National Intelligence and Security Services and a member of Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).
Nicknamed KK, the Rwandan government hail him as one of the people who stopped the genocide. He went on to be deputy commander of the country's first UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur before returning to his role as spy chief.
During the genocide an estimated 800,000 people were killed between April and June 1994 by ethnic Hutu extremists.
Most of the dead were members of the minority Tutsi community and politically moderate Hutus.
The killings ended when the RPF, a Tutsi-led rebel movement that entered Rwanda from Uganda, seized control of the country.
But Human Rights Watch reported that in their drive for military victory and to control the population, the RPF killed thousands, including government troops, members of the militia and some civilians in numerous executions and massacres.
Ignacio Jovtis, of Amnesty International in Madrid, said he hoped Gen Karake would be sent to face trial in Spain: "We think that Spain has started the investigation in 2008 and nothing happened until today. It is good news".
Gen Karake is the first major RPF figure to be arrested under charges brought abroad.
The German's switch from Red Bull for next season was announced minutes after Alonso's departure was confirmed.
"When I was a kid Michael Schumacher in the red car was my greatest idol. It's an incredible honour to get the chance to drive a Ferrari," said Vettel, 27.
Two-time world champion Alonso, 33, will join McLaren.
The Spaniard still had two more years to run on his contract with Ferrari but he and the Italian team have agreed to part company.
"It was a difficult decision to take, but a carefully considered one from start to finish," said Alonso. "My love for Ferrari was a prime consideration."
Alonso said he had begun to think about leaving Ferrari as long ago as 2013.
"It was not a special moment of the year that I opened my eyes," he said. "Last year I had some doubts about 2014.
"I knew that it was a big change of regulations so I thought best thing to check how the 2014 new turbo era was going for Ferrari.
"I had a very close relationship with president [Luca] di Montezemolo. We talked every week and we more or less agreed that if this year we were not competitive again we could think of different options.
"In the summer break it was time to sit with the president and say, 'OK, I would like to go'."
McLaren will not announce their two drivers until at least 1 December as they decide whether to retain Jenson Button or Kevin Magnussen alongside Alonso.
The current season has one more race to run, with Britain's Lewis Hamilton battling Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg of Germany for the title at this weekend's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Vettel will partner former world champion Kimi Raikkonen at Ferrari.
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"Scuderia Ferrari has decided to put its faith in the youngest multiple champion in the history of Formula 1," said team boss Marco Mattiacci.
Ferrari last won the world drivers' title in 2007, when Raikkonen finished top in his first stint with the Italian team.
"Sebastian Vettel is a unique combination of youthfulness and experience," added Mattiaci.
"He brings with him that sense of team spirit which will prove invaluable when, together with Kimi, they tackle the challenges awaiting us, as we aim to be front runners again as soon as possible."
Alonso, world champion with Renault in 2005 and 2006, joined Ferrari in 2010 and went on to win 11 times for the Scuderia.
"Without a shadow of a doubt, these five years produced some of the best moments of my career and I also feel that, in leaving the team, it is family rather than friends I am leaving behind," said Alonso, who narrowly missed out on the world title to Vettel in both 2010 and 2012.
"In the Scuderia Ferrari roll of honour of great drivers, Fernando Alonso will always occupy a special place," said Mattiacci.
"We offer him our heartfelt thanks for what has been an extraordinary adventure with the Scuderia, when in the past five years, he twice came so close to winning the world championship."
BBC Sport's chief F1 writer Andrew Benson says although Alonso may have failed to win a title at Ferrari, it is hard to judge his stay in Maranello as a failure.
"Alonso's reputation as arguably the most complete F1 driver of all has only been enhanced by his battles against the odds in inferior cars over the last five years," said Benson.
"Despite being considerably more successful in statistical terms, Vettel is not held in as high regard within the sport.
"But if he can turn Ferrari into winners again - as his childhood hero and friend Michael Schumacher did two decades ago - he could attain legendary status."
They were trying to explain why the animals have lower levels of cancer than would be expected by their size.
The team at the University of Utah said "nature has already figured out how to prevent cancer" and plan to devise new treatments.
But experts said the focus should be on the "ridiculous" and "absurd" things humans do to increase risk.
There is a train of thought that says every cell can become cancerous so the more of them you have, the more likely you are to get cancer.
So if an elephant has 100 times as many cells as a person then the trunk-swinging mammals should be 100 times more likely to have the disease.
And yet the analysis, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed only 5% of elephants die from cancer compared to up to 25% of people.
The scientists turned to the elephant's DNA - the blueprint of life - to find an explanation.
Cancer is caused by mutations in a cell's DNA that produce faulty instructions leading to rampant growth as the cell spirals out of control,
But animals also have "smoke alarms" that detect the damage and either lead to the cell being repaired or killed.
One of these alarms is called TP53, and while humans have one TP53 gene, elephants have 20.
As a result, elephants seem far more keen to kill off cells on the cusp of going rogue.
Dr Joshua Schiffman, one of the researchers and a paediatric oncologist, said: "By all logical reasoning, elephants should be developing a tremendous amount of cancer, and in fact, should be extinct by now due to such a high risk for cancer.
"Nature has already figured out how to prevent cancer, it's up to us to learn how different animals tackle the problem so we can adapt those strategies to prevent cancer in people."
Animals have evolved different ways of tackling cancer including the naked mole rat, which is also incredibly cancer-resistant.
But Prof Mel Greaves, from the Institute of Cancer Research in London, says we should focus on why humans have such high levels of cancer.
He told the BBC News website: "In terms of adaptive mechanisms against cancer we have the same as a chimp, but we get a lot more cancer than a chimp.
"I think the answer is humans are completely unique as a species in having very rapid social evolution in a short period of time."
He pointed to the rise of unhealthy, cancer-causing behaviours, such as obesity and sunbathing.
"You've never seen an elephant smoke!" he added.
The menopause is also a potential explanation for why humans have not evolved better ways of preventing cancer.
In an evolutionary sense "success" is judged by the number of descendants you have rather than how long you live.
Elephants have the greatest reproductive success towards the end of their lives, while humans can live for decades after the menopause.
It means there is little evolutionary pressure in humans to develop ways of preventing cancer in old age.
"Humans have engineered socially extended lifespans way beyond reproductive senescence - you can't find another species like that," concluded Prof Greaves.
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Thousands of extra places, offered this year, have meant some universities have been unable to house all their first-year students in halls of residence.
BBC research found the universities of Bristol, Aberdeen and Winchester were particularly badly affected.
Bristol University said the situation was "not ideal" and it was working to resolve it as soon as possible.
First-year philosophy student Darcy Ramsden applied on time, put Bristol as her first choice and met the required grades.
When she started she was expecting her own room.
Instead, she is sharing with another first-year, sleeping in bunk beds in a room meant for one, with a single sink and desk.
"I wasn't expecting to have another person to come home to, I was expecting to have my own space and everyone needs their own space. It's a bit strange I'm never on my own," Ms Ramsden told BBC News.
This year, the government raised the cap on student numbers in the UK, allowing universities to recruit an extra 30,000 students.
Next year, student number controls will be removed altogether.
At some universities this has forced a squeeze on student accommodation.
At Bristol, 200 students are doubling up in single rooms, in return for discounted rent and free food, until the university finds them their own places.
David Alder, the university's director of marketing and communications, said: "This year, in particular, a very large number of people applied to Bristol, including some people who traded up when they got better A-level results than they were expecting.
"Clearly it's not ideal that some of our students are having to share. Having said that, overall, they are taking to it very well.
"They are relatively positive about the situation and we are working very closely with them to address the situation as soon as we can."
In other popular university cities like Aberdeen and Winchester, students had to be housed in hotels at the start of term.
At Aberdeen, up to 300 were sent to hotels, the students' union told BBC news.
A university spokesman confirmed they have all "now been offered a permanent place to stay".
The spokesman said requests for student accommodation rose by 10% this year and it had refurbished 700 rooms to meet demand.
At Winchester, the students' union over 150 were without places in halls of residence at the start of term but "the uni management were very good", paying for hotel rooms for about 70 and finding spaces for the rest in "uni-managed housing".
The union said it hoped management would "learn the lessons of this year as there will be increased volatility and uncertainty in future".
The university said it had met its guarantee to provide university accommodation for all those who applied by the end of May.
"The university and the student housing team worked tirelessly to secure permanent accommodation for other students as soon as possible," a spokesman said.
Everyone has now been found a permanent place to live, although some accommodation is in Southampton.
The university says it has given students living in Southampton £550 each to help meet transport costs.
Universities and private developers are investing heavily in new halls of residence.
But student housing specialist Roger Lown of GVA property consultants, warns that in cities like Bristol, Brighton, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Canterbury and Winchester "it is increasingly difficult to find purpose-built accommodation and students want to live in purpose-built accommodation".
Mr Lown says this can put students in competition with locals for housing, resulting in higher rents for everyone.
Tom Phipps, of Bristol Students' Union warned: "It's something that is affecting [students] right across the higher education sector and with the drive from universities for expansion we need to be really careful the student experience regarding accommodation isn't diminished as a result."
Striker McAlinden headed in Kevin McDonald's cross a minute after Dons substitute Sanmi Odelusi was sent off for two bookings in two minutes.
Michael Jacobs and Nouha Dicko also went close for Wolves, while Dons' Dean Bowditch saw a free-kick tipped wide.
Defeat for the hosts left them three points off the play-off places.
Cannock-born McAlinden, who has come through the Wolves academy, made his first-team debut at Molineux in a 2-1 home defeat by Burnley in April 2013.
He joined Shrewsbury on loan in October last year and scored three times in nine appearances.
It was the Dons' fourth successive home defeat but Wolves, who were backed by more than 8,800 fans as a new record attendance was set at Stadium MK, now have daylight between themselves and the chasing pack.
They are now six points ahead of second-placed Brentford, who were held 0-0 at Oldham, and 10 clear of Leyton Orient in third after they lost 1-0 at home to Bradford.
Wolves had marginally the better openings of a cagey first half as Jacobs shot tamely at home keeper David Martin, who also tipped over a Dicko effort.
Dicko went close again at the start of the second half, while at the other end striker Bowditch saw his free-kick pushed around the post by Wolves keeper Carl Ikeme.
But the game swung in the visitors' favour when Odelusi, a 58th-minute substitute, was shown two yellow cards in quick succession for fouls on Scott Golbourne.
And McAlinden, whose only previous senior Wolves goal came in a Johnstone's Paint Trophy tie against Walsall last August, made his side's numerical advantage count immediately when he nodded in to win it.
MK Dons boss Karl Robinson told BBC Three Counties Radio:
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"I thought the players' hunger, their fight, determination and bravery, in and out of possession, was tremendous.
"These young players are getting tremendous experience; the future is certainly bright at MK Dons.
"You've got to accept we've been beaten here by the best team in the league. I think it was a very fair and equal game today.
"I think the players, young and old, gave everything they've got in their bodies and I don't think they could have done much more."
Wolves head coach Kenny Jackett told BBC WM:
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"It was a terrific win here on a pitch that made it very difficult for both teams, we just had to find a way of winning.
"I just think you need a variation in tactics, you can't just play one way. Our midfield players have scored goals this season so it's worked for us.
"The advantage for myself is I've been around these leagues for a long time. I've just spent three years in the Championship and before that three years in League One.
"Look forward positively is the important thing for us now. We're hoping that Bakary Sako and perhaps Matt Doherty will come back."
Heather Knight was named as England's new captain on 3 June, following the retirement of Charlotte Edwards. Here, she reflects on her appointment as skipper - and the start of a new era for the team.
With the retirement of both Lottie (Charlotte Edwards) and Lyd (Lydia Greenway) from the international game, we're entering a new chapter for the team, beginning with our home series against Pakistan this summer.
Any words I write wouldn't do justice to what both Lottie and Lyd have achieved for the women's game in this country.
It's been a pleasure to share a cricket field with them for the entirety of my England career, and to share the highs and the lows that international cricket brings, as well as calling them mates off the pitch too.
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I'd known about taking over the captaincy for a few weeks before it was announced officially at Lord's, so my poker face has been tested to the max recently, having to keep it under my hat! I only told a few people close to me including my parents and it was great sharing the news with them, as they've been a massive part of my journey to get here.
Despite the changes, as a squad we're totally looking forward to what we have coming up in the next few weeks. I don't think I've ever seen the girls so focused at training as I have in the last month, and credit to them all, they've been brilliant.
Listen: TMS women's cricket special - Mark Robinson & Clare Connor speak to Jonathan Agnew
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I'm obviously very proud and hugely excited to lead this group of girls into the next chapter alongside Robbo (coach Mark Robinson) and Anya (Shrubsole, the new vice-captain).
Yes, there have been some changes, and yes, there will be some challenges along the way, but there's a real excitement around the team about where we could go moving forward. There's some serious talent in this squad and I have no doubt we'll see that coming to the fore in the forthcoming one-day international and Twenty20 international series against Pakistan.
We kick off our new chapter at Leicester's Grace Road on Monday for our first ODI against Pakistan, and it will be a proud moment to lead the team onto the pitch for the first time. Follow us on Test Match Special to see how we get on!
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The decision sent global financial markets into a spin and saw the pound plunge to its lowest level in more than 30 years, as investors bet that the UK economy would suffer.
The FTSE 100 share index of the UK's 100 biggest companies has since bounced back, but the pound is still down at levels last seen in the 1980s.
Now we have a deadline for when the formal Brexit talks will start - the end of March 2017 - the pound has fallen back to the lows it hit in the days after the 23 June vote.
The companies whose shares have fared best since referendum day are those which make most of their money in other currencies and are less exposed to the UK economy.
So who have the markets judged to be the biggest winners and losers so far?
In the days after the referendum result, many investors started looking at FTSE 100 companies with large businesses outside the UK.
British fashion designer Burberry, which generates about 85% of its sales abroad, was one.
Even though the company warned staff it would be stronger inside the EU, its share price has shot up 24% since 23 June, adding more than £2bn to its market value and making it one of the biggest winners on the index.
Burberry is in the "sweet spot" for UK companies, says Laith Khalaf, an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
Because of the pound's fall, the money Burberry makes abroad in dollars, euros and yen is worth more back in the UK, and the costs in its UK head office are relatively lower, he says.
The iconic trench coat maker could also benefit from more Asian tourists bargain-hunting in the UK after the pound's fall.
"Chinese tourists are very savvy in their understanding of global foreign exchange rates," says an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, although he adds that more visitors to Burberry's UK shops could come at the expense of sales in other regions.
Like all companies on the FTSE 100, Burberry's shares have also been affected by non-Brexit issues, including a boost from last month's London Fashion Week and poaching a new chief executive from Céline.
Banking giant HSBC was also critical of the idea of leaving the EU, but since the referendum has seen its shares surge, by around 27%.
The bank - the UK's second biggest company - earns about three quarters of its profits in Asia, according to Mr Khalaf, which could explain why investors think, as with Burberry, the weaker pound will boost its prospects.
Shares in more UK-focused banks Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland have dropped 24% and 29% respectively.
The recent shift in UK interest rates will also have played a part. Lower rates make it harder for banks to make a profit but that's less of a problem for HSBC with its large overseas interests, than it is for the domestic banks.
Ian Gordon, a banking analyst at Investec, says most of HSBC's business is outside the UK, including the US, where interest rates are forecast to rise.
Royal Bank of Scotland, in comparison, is an "almost pure UK business and 'lower for longer' interest rates is a UK phenomenon," he says.
Also working in HSBC's favour, Mr Gordon adds, is that the bank is handing back $2.5bn (£1.9bn) to shareholders this year after it sold its Brazilian business.
The biggest winners, though? Mining companies. Something of a surprise for investors after the industry's volatility in the last 12 months.
Edward Sterck, a metals and mining analyst at BMO Capital Markets, says: "This time last year mining investors were feeling pretty negative, and in January many were feeling very negative indeed.
"Sitting here today they are pretty buoyant."
Mexican gold and silver miner Fresnillo's shares have risen 46%, putting it top of the post-Brexit leaderboard. Swiss mining trader Glencore is up 39% and British miner Anglo American has also gained 39%.
The companies' large foreign earnings, as well as rising metal prices, have helped turn around their fortunes.
Gold and silver have increased 6% and 12% respectively since the referendum. Seen as "safe haven" assets, they have been boosted by uncertainty in global financial markets and rock-bottom interest rates, two issues further intensified by the Brexit vote.
At the other end of the scale, the biggest loser on the blue chip index has been budget airline Easyjet.
Its shares are still down more than 34%, leaving the Luton-based firm in danger of being relegated from the FTSE 100.
Stephen Furlong, an analyst at Davy, says its shares haven't recovered since warning shortly after the Brexit vote that the weaker pound would put off some UK holidaymakers and would make fuel - which it pays for in dollars - more expensive.
"The share price has taken a hammering and there's still a lot of uncertainty," Mr Furlong says.
Analysts at Barclays estimate that factors outside the airline's control, such as terror attacks, strikes in France and congestion at Gatwick, will cost Easyjet at least £150m this year.
Also towards the bottom of the FTSE performance table is British Airways owner IAG, which has seen its shares fall 23% on similar fears about a drop-off in UK travel abroad.
Like airlines and UK banks, housebuilders are seen as the most at risk in the FTSE 100 if the UK economy slows down or enters recession.
Shares in construction companies are down significantly since the referendum, despite lower interest rates, an ongoing housing shortage and schemes like Help to Buy bolstering the property market.
Mr Khalaf says: "The big elephant in the room is what effect Brexit will have on the economy and will it take its toll on house prices?"
Taylor Wimpey, Barratt Developments and Persimmon, three of the UK's biggest homebuilders, have made back some share price losses, but are still down 20%, 14% and 13% respectively.
More than 100 days on, the market seems settled in its forecasts on construction firms and which other companies will gain and lose in the post-Brexit landscape, says Mr Khalaf.
"It may or may not end up being the right call but for now it looks pretty rational," he adds.
Prime Minister Stefan Lofven visited the centre for unaccompanied migrants in Molndal, near Gothenburg, hours after the killing.
An asylum seeker of 15 was arrested on suspicion of murder. The victim has been named locally as Alexandra Mezher.
Mr Lofven said many Swedes feared that such attacks could happen again.
"I believe that there are quite many people in Sweden who feel a lot of concern that there can be more cases of this kind, when Sweden receives so many children and youth, who come alone [to seek asylum]" he was quoted as saying by Radio Sweden.
Police officers arriving at the scene at Molndal near Gothenburg found a "crime scene with a lot of blood", said spokesman Thomas Fuxborg.
"The perpetrator had been overpowered by other residents, people were down and upset."
The victim, whose family was described as Lebanese in origin, died in hospital of her injuries.
Ms Mezher had worked at the asylum centre for a few months and a cousin quoted by Expressen newspaper said she was "an angel who wanted to do good". She had been planning to do a postgraduate course in social sciences, Goteborgs-Posten reported.
A knife believed to be the one used in the attack was recovered.
The residents at the home, all aged between 14 and 17 and about 10 in number, were moved to new accommodation for the night, according to local media.
Sweden's National Police Commissioner, Dan Eliasson, has requested 4,100 additional officers and support staff to help fight against terrorism, carry out migrant deportations and police asylum facilities, Swedish news agency TT reports.
"We are forced to respond to many disturbances in asylum reception centres," he was quoted as saying.
"In some places, this takes significant police resources. This was not the case six months ago and it means that we won't be able to respond as effectively in other areas."
Sweden accepted almost 163,000 asylum applications last year, almost a third of them from Syria. Migration officials say 35,400 unaccompanied minors sought asylum in Sweden in 2015, five times the number in 2014.
The national migration agency has described the surge in arrivals from unaccompanied minors as "a great challenge for all municipalities in the country".
Along with Germany, it is a prime destination for refugees and other migrants entering the EU illegally.
However, it recently introduced temporary border checks in a bid to control the influx of people.
Ofsted found investigations into abuse "are not always compliant" with guidelines, poor record management and inadequate services for care leavers.
Inspectors said senior leaders were aware of issues but a "corporate failure" over recruitment meant they were not addressed.
Wirral Council said £2m was being invested to improve the service.
In the report, Ofsted rated leadership and management, the experiences and progress of care leavers and the services provided to children who need help and protection as inadequate.
The council performs well with children most at risk, but does not react as quickly to those at a "lower risk".
It found staff turnover was high, there has been a failure to recruit a permanent head of services and social workers' caseloads, though not excessive, are often complex.
The watchdog said the authority does not know where many of those who leave care are or what they are doing.
Julia Hassall, director of children's services said: "Social workers are constantly being asked to do more, with much less... but we need to create the right environment for our staff, and give them the right tools to do their jobs well."
The improvement plan, with the additional £2m investment from council reserves, includes more effective training and development for staff and recruiting and retaining social workers.
Eric Robinson, chief executive of the council, said: "These failings are unacceptable... It is absolutely vital we put them right as quickly as possible."
The Department for Education said it takes "tough action where councils are failing children" and expects Wirral Council to improve as a matter of urgency.
It added it would review the authority's progress in six months.
Ofsted rated the council's fostering and adoption services as good in 2011.
The US travel ban on refugees and citizens from nations including Syria, Iran and Iraq has sparked protests.
Number 10 said a "committee for state visits" had recommended the president be invited to the UK.
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The Foreign Office has said the clampdown should not affect UK nationals travelling to the US, even if they had shared nationality with one of the countries on which restrictions have been placed.
But the US embassy in London has issued a statement telling any citizens of the seven countries in question and also those holding dual nationality not to apply for a visa for the time being.
A UK government spokesman insisted the FCO guidance "was cleared by the top team in the White House and they are in charge".
An executive order signed by Mr Trump on Friday halted the US refugee programme for 120 days, indefinitely banned all Syrian refugees and suspended the entry of all nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries, also including Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Libya.
The White House says a ban is justified on grounds of national security.
It has also indicated that it might extend so-called "extreme vetting" procedures to more countries.
The move has been criticised by MPs from all parties, with former Conservative cabinet minister Baroness Warsi describing it as a "Muslim ban" in all but name.
She told the BBC that the UK government must be forthright in its response.
"If we want to continue to be a country which supports liberal progressive values in which all have equal worth and equal value in our society then we have to be clear that we voice that view and that opinion so that people in this country know that whatever crazy things the President of the United States may be doing it is not what we believe and it is not what we support," she told Radio 4's Today.
But former UKIP leader Nigel Farage said many British politicians were guilty of "double standards", suggesting he had not heard any condemnation of President Obama for imposing a six month ban on Iraqis entering the US in 2011 following the discovery of two suspected Iraqi terrorists living in Kentucky.
He added: "This was all part of his (Donald Trump's) manifesto, In fact, in some ways he has not gone as far as he said during some parts of the campaign."
Mr Farage said he would like tougher vetting procedures in the UK as well.
"You were always going to find individual cases where families will have a grievance but... I have got moderate Muslims friends living in this country who feel every time there is a terror attack, that their quality of life is declining hugely."
In addition to the ministerial statement, expected to begin at 15:30 GMT, former Labour leader Ed Miliband is pushing for an emergency debate on the issue.
Over a million people have signed a petition calling for Mr Trump's state visit to be stopped.
Pressed on why the honour of a state visit had been extended to the president so soon after taking office, the PM's spokesman told journalists normal procedure had been followed after recommendations were made by a committee for state visits which works within the Foreign Office.
The spokesman said he was not aware of the membership of the committee.
On Wednesday, Evans told BBC Radio 5 live that the "on-camera" Top Gear team would "definitely" include a woman.
However later in the day, Shillinglaw said there would be "no gender diktats" with regards to the presenting line-up.
She said female presenters would be considered, but the decision "will be about what's right for the show."
"It has always been a very male world hasn't it?" Shillinglaw told Steve Hewlett on BBC Radio 4's The Media Show.
"I think it's a part of thinking about how we could do things differently, to get a lot more spontaneity in to the show."
"I really care about women on television. I really care how that sits in terms of the channel mix as a whole on BBC Two," she said
But added: "I have never in my life thought about an individual show in terms of gender diktats and I certainly wouldn't start doing that now."
Like Shillinglaw, Evans has insisted that any female addition to the show would be chosen "not for the sake of it".
Asked by Steve Hewlett, on Radio 4's The Media Show, whether there would be a female on the Top Gear team, Evans said: "I think there has to be."
"There are some fantastic girls in and around the motoring world - it would be silly not for them to be represented."
He further clarified his comments on his Radio 2 breakfast show on Thursday.
"It was quoted in the papers, and it has been again this morning, that I said yesterday there would definitely be a female co-presenter," said Evans.
"There'll definitely be a female presence on the show and that could well be a co-presenter. It could be two. It could be no co-presenters, and film reporter or a driver..."
Evans has announced open auditions for his Top Gear co-hosts, saying anyone from around the world with "a real appetite for cars" was welcome to apply, whether they were "famous people" or not.
"If you're up for it, we want to hear from you," said the Radio 2 DJ, "but you've got to know about cars".
Evans said the hosts could be "male, female, young or old, it doesn't matter" and suggested the three-host format would not necessarily return.
On Thursday's radio show, Evans gave details of the audition process, which invites applicants to post a video on an as-yet-to-be-revealed website, from Friday, 19 June.
The videos must meet the following criteria.
• Applicants must be over 16.
• They should talk direct to camera.
• Videos should be shot "from the waist up".
• Cars should not feature in the video.
• No stunts.
• No gimmicks.
• Entrants must be knowledgeable about cars "because Top Gear has to have an authenticity".
• The video must be no longer than 30 seconds. "If it is, we won't watch it."
Classic Car Show host Jodie Kidd and Formula One presenter Suzi Perry have both been tipped for presenting roles alongside Evans - effectively replacing co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond.
The original line-up quit the show after Jeremy Clarkson was sacked for punching a Top Gear producer in March.
Speaking on the Media Show, Shillinglaw confirmed that May and Hammond had considered returning to the show, but turned down the BBC's offer last week.
"In the end a deal was offered to them and they felt that deal wasn't quite right for them. You know what, that's absolutely their choice," said the BBC2 controller.
She said the offer was made to Evans when those discussions came to an end.
"The important thing was there weren't multiple conversations going on at any one time. We felt we wanted to do this right and do this respectfully.
"Everyone as far as I am aware has conducted themselves with real grace and thoughtfulness."
Evans, who has signed a three-year deal to host and produce the BBC Two show, will also continue with his Breakfast Show slot on BBC Radio 2, and is reported to be earning £5m from the Top Gear deal.
"Chris... has a brilliant quality for generating surprise on television. I think that's something that a show like Top Gear needs," said Shillinglaw.
"Having had an awful lots of ups and down in this career, I think that he wants to work with us to make sure that the surprise ends up on screen, and is to the benefit of the show and to the benefit of the viewers," said Shillinglaw.
Top Gear is watched by 350 million viewers worldwide, with overseas sales worth an estimated £50m a year.
The 36-year-old joined from Hearts on Friday to replace Karl Robinson, who left the club in October.
"The facilities are here to take this team to the very top," Neilson told BBC Three Counties Radio.
"It's a club that has the potential to get there, 100%. As we all know the facilities are there, the chairman's there, so it's all coming together."
The Scotsman's first league game in charge will be at home to arch-rivals AFC Wimbledon on Saturday.
Neilson left a club sitting second in the Scottish Premier League to be appointed to the third-tier Dons, a move some had reservations about.
"It's a step up in the progression of my career - all Scottish managers want to manage in England," he added.
"You don't move from the top end of the SPL into the top league in England, it doesn't happen.
"Stevie [Crawford, new assistant manager] came down and he was astounded by the size of it and the infrastructure's that here.
"If people were to look at the club and do their homework on it, they'd realise this club has massive potential."
There were almost six weeks between Robinson's departure and the appointment of Neilson, but Dons chairman Pete Winkelman insists he has no regrets over the time he took to find a successor.
"I really don't understand the criticism that I've had with taking my time to be really honest," he said.
"The longer I took, the worse the opportunities were this season to do something about it, and that was the thing that was actually playing on my mind - the fact that I was throwing this season away - but would I have done that to get the right person, in my mind? Yes."
Winkelman says no decision has yet been made over the future of Richie Barker, who had been in temporary charge of the team, though he shares Neilson's lofty future ambitions.
"Do I need this club to be in the Premier League? Yes, because Milton Keynes needs it in the Premier League," Winkelman added.
"Absolutely, mark my words - this club one day, with or without me, is in the Premier League. That's the only way this story can finish."
The Fawcett Society, which campaigns for equality, said Caribbean and white Irish working women, on average, earn more than men from the same background.
Its report found that, for most ethnic groups, men earned more than women.
It used hourly pay data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) covering full-time employees in the UK.
The gender pay gap, or the average difference in hourly pay between men and women, currently stands at 13.9% for full-time workers, according to the ONS.
The society found the biggest pay gap between white British men and women, where male full-time workers were paid £15.35 an hour on average and women £13.21, between 2010 and 2015.
Caribbean women, by contrast, earned £14.51 on average, compared with £13.34 for their male counterparts.
White Irish women also had higher earning power - £18.04 per hour, compared with £17.39 for men, the Fawcett Society found.
The report is based on analysis of ONS Labour Force Survey figures from 2010 to 2015, which collects information from 100,000 people every three months.
The research excluded Arab people because of the sample size being too small, but included other groups such as Indian and Chinese people working at least 30 hours a week.
The smallest sample was for Chinese workers, at 534, and the largest sample was available for white British workers - 106,123 people.
The "reverse" pay gap for black Caribbean people could be explained by mothers in this group returning to work while their children are very young, explained Anthony Breach, one of the report's authors.
But he said that black Caribbean men and women were more likely to experience discrimination in the workplace.
"They have more difficulties in the labour market as a whole and we know men's unemployment rate is higher," he said.
Meanwhile, pay for white Irish women in the UK has outpaced counterpart male salaries since the 2000s, the report said.
Mr Breach said white Irish women were more likely to do full-time work than white British women, and have a low unemployment rate compared with the rest of the population.
Sam Smethers, the Fawcett Society's chief executive, added that the gender pay gap was a "complex picture" in which many women were still left behind.
"This is a story of low labour market participation and low pay when they are in work - together with high levels of unpaid caring work," she said.
The animal was spotted by officers on the loose running amok on a road in Hunstanton, Norfolk, on Monday night.
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The Ariane 5 rocket was due to take a South Korean satellite and a Brazilian satellite into orbit later on Tuesday.
But the booster could not be rolled to the launch pad because of the protest at the Guiana Space Center over what workers for energy company EDF said were "deplorable working conditions".
The launch has been moved to Wednesday.
Workers used tyres and wooden pallets to erect barricades at the facility in French Guiana.
Satellite launch company Arianespace said in a statement that "due to a social movement, it was not possible to carry out today's [Monday's] scheduled transfer of the launch vehicle from the Spaceport's Final Assembly Building to the launch zone."
It said that the launch vehicle, as well as the satellites had been "placed in a stand-by mode and are being maintained in fully safe conditions".
The two satellites, owned by Brazil and South Korea respectively, aim to improve internet access to remote communities in Brazil and provide a range of video and data services over East and Southeast Asia.
It is not the first time industrial action has delayed a launch at the Kourou Space Centre.
In 2011, another Ariane 5 rocket launch had to be moved back when workers demanded extra pay for working on Sundays.
The Scotsman Hotel's pervious owner was placed in an unusually complex liquidation procedure.
The price for the former newspaper office, which has 69 bedrooms, is not being made public.
However, it is claimed this is the biggest purchase by the G1 group in its 27 years.
It runs five hotels already, along with 47 other pubs, clubs and restaurants in Scotland.
Mr King said: "We have enjoyed huge support from Edinburgh City Council, the patrons and the teams employed in our Edinburgh venues over the years.
"The acquisition of The Scotsman Hotel is a significant reflection of a continued commitment to the city, and to the creation of further opportunities for the group and its employees.
"We aspire to build on the iconic presence and reputation of The Scotsman Hotel to be at the forefront of hotel venues in the city."
In a pulsating eight-try match Mark Bennett's interception try with seven minutes to go seemed to have sealed one of the great World Cup upsets.
But with time running out referee Craig Joubert called a deliberate offside when replays seemed to indicate the ball had come off a Wallaby player.
Bernard Foley stroked over the three points to steal the game away.
At the final whistle Joubert ran for the tunnel to a deafening chorus of boos, Scotland's players and vast support shattered by the cruel finale.
Scotland's defeat means that for the first time in history there will be no northern hemisphere team in the World Cup semi-finals.
But all the talk will be of Joubert's late decision and later behaviour, even if the laws of the game meant he could not ask for assistance from the television match official for the fateful penalty.
Replays being shown on the big screens inside the ground as Foley lined up his kick meant that the referee was almost the only man among the 80,000 who did not realise an error may have been made.
Australia will now meet Argentina in next weekend's semis but they will be mightily relieved to have escaped from a battle which pushed them to their limits.
Scotland's last win at Twickenham was 32 years ago, but a team that ended this year's Six Nations with the wooden spoon produced one of their nation's finest displays to come agonisingly close to reaching the last four for the first time since 1991.
Australia dominated the early exchanges, and after Foley almost wriggled across the try-line his centre Tevita Kuridrani bounced through Tommy Seymour's ineffective tackle, drew the last defender and put Adam Ashley-Cooper away into the right-hand corner.
But Scotland struck back through a Greig Laidlaw penalty and then roared into a shock lead when Peter Horne darted through off a badly defended ruck after a series of muscular drives from his forwards.
Laidlaw's conversion and another penalty extended the advantage to 13-5, before Kurtley Beale's long mis-pass freed Drew Mitchell on the left to score Australia's second try.
Foley again could not land his conversion, and when Scotland's forwards won a scrum penalty Laidlaw took the lead back to six.
But as a breathless first half came to a crescendo, Australia kicked a penalty to the corner, set up the rolling maul off the line-out and shoved Michael Hooper over the line.
Foley's third miss meant the Wallabies still trailed by a point at the break, and they had never before won a World Cup match from such a position.
Yet within a few minutes they were ahead. Sean Maitland was controversially sin-binned for a deliberate knock-on, Australia drove again off the line-out and Mitchell dived in for his second try as Will Genia exploited the space vacated by Scotland's left winger.
This time Foley did convert, only for Laidlaw's boot to keep Scotland in touch - and when Ashley-Cooper had a try ruled out by the TMO for a knock-on missed by almost everyone else, the blue-shirted thousands in the crowd roared with renewed hope.
Their team responded in wonderful fashion. Finn Russell charged down Foley's horrible kick, gathered and fed the onrushing Seymour off the deck to make it a one-point game.
Again the momentum swung, Scotland losing their own line-out inside their own 22 to set up a series of drives that ended with Kuridrani crashing over, Laidlaw answering with his fifth penalty for 32-27 with 10 minutes to go.
Bennett then picked off James Slipper's poor pass to dive under the posts, the flawless Laidlaw converting to give Scotland a two-point lead and put victory within their grasp.
But then came the late, late drama, Scotland losing their own line-out, the ball ricocheting loose and Joubert making his critical call.
Matt Giteau won the sponsor's award, his all-round game in midfield essential as Foley suffered a difficult afternoon until his late nerveless penalty.
But Scotland captain Laidlaw's 19 points from a possible 19 from the boot and energy off the breakdown kept his side in the game and almost inspired them to a remarkable win.
Australia coach Michael Cheika: "It's a penalty and that's the way it works. We gave away a try on a charge-down, and an intercept - and that one through the ruck wasn't good. We've got to block that area.
"All credit to Scotland, it was a great game and we just had to get through it somehow. We got the job done, we got five tries and we'll enjoy moving on."
Scotland coach Vern Cotter: "It's pretty tough. The guys played very well, they never let go and fought the whole way, and it's fine margins isn't it?
"They put this team, who were favourites for the tournament, under pressure. This will make them better and more confident. They did believe throughout the game - and we nearly got there."
Australia: Beale; Ashley-Cooper, Kuridrani, Giteau, Mitchell; Foley, Genia; Sio, Moore, Kepu, Douglas, Simmons, Fardy, Hooper, McCalman.
Replacements: Phipps for Genia (71), Slipper for Sio (50), Polota-Nau for Moore (62), Holmes for Kepu (54), Mumm for Simmons (65) Not Used: McMahon, Toomua, Cooper.
Scotland: Hogg; Maitland, Bennett, Horne, Seymour; Russell, Laidlaw; Dickinson, Ford, Nel, R Gray, J Gray, Cowan, Hardie, Denton.
Replacements: Vernon for Horne (71), Lamont for Seymour (63), Reid for Dickinson (47), Brown for Ford (54), Welsh for Nel (75), Swinson for J Gray (67), Strauss for Cowan (67)
Not Used: Pyrgos
Sin Bin: Maitland (42)
Att: 77,110
Channel 4 confirmed to BBC News it was "looking at options" for the show, which would form part of its Stand Up To Cancer fundraiser in October.
According to reports, the problem-solving show would feature celebrity contestants, with former Doctor Who star David Tennant tipped to host.
However Channel 4 said it was "premature" to confirm the details.
The Crystal Maze originally ran from 1990-95 and was first hosted by Rocky Horror Show creator Richard O'Brien and then Ed Tudor-Pole in its last two years.
It saw members of the public tackle a range of physical, mental, skill and mystery timed challenges across four themed zones.
The format was recently revived as an immersive live experience in London thanks to a crowdfunded project.
Organisers for the The Crystal Maze experience told Buzzfeed the new Channel 4 special would be filmed on their premises.
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From bins being converted into toilets to women being caught on CCTV dumping cats in them, the wheeled receptacles are rarely out of the headlines.
Now Birmingham, one of the last - and biggest - parts of England where the bins are not supplied to homes, is in the process of introducing them.
The council says a £30m government grant means it can give two bins - one for recycling and one for general rubbish plus an optional third for garden waste - to every household.
The exceptions will be maisonettes, along with people who live on steep hills and other "unsuitable" areas.
Bins have been delivered to pilot areas Brandwood and Harborne before they reach the rest of the city, to bring it in line with 82% of England's councils.
But critics of the bins say they clutter streets and are unsuitable for a city such as Birmingham which has a lot of terraced housing, meaning residents would have to wheel them through their homes, or store them permanently in front of them.
"It's a Marmite topic," said Councillor Bassam Mahfouz, who is in charge of waste for Ealing Council, in London.
His authority has only brought in wheelie bins in small parts of the borough that requested them - the rest of it, including areas of terraced housing, still use bin bags.
"You get the people who love them because they stop vermin like rats and mice from getting to their rubbish - and you get lots of people who hate them and think they signal the end of the world," he explained.
"Bringing them into one area at a time has its benefits though - I think sceptics see them working there, see the plus side, find out how other people overcome problems and realise it's not Armageddon after all."
Other councils have found other practical problems with them.
In Malvern, Worcestershire, original plans to give them to all households had to be abandoned over concerns they would roll down the town's famous hills.
The district council is still going ahead with introducing them but only in streets that have been tested for dangerous gradients.
In several towns and cities, the introduction of wheelie bins has also coincided with rubbish collections dropping from weekly to fortnightly.
In Hinckley, Leicestershire, the strength of feeling was so strong that when the wheelie bins were introduced in 2004, residents marched to the council's offices - with their bins in tow.
And over the decades, the seedy side of them has also emerged.
In 2007, South Yorkshire Police said inhaling toxic wheelie bin fumes had become the "drug of choice" for teenagers, and several murder victims have also been found dumped in wheelie bins.
Some residents found their bins were even spying on them after councils in some areas, including Bristol, started using microchips to monitor how much rubbish homes were throwing away.
Building fires have also been started by arsonists setting the bins alight.
And campaigners warn wheelie bins can become obstacles in Britain's already-cluttered streets and can be particularly hard to negotiate for parents with pushchairs, disabled people and those with sight problems.
Kevin Golding-Williams, from pedestrian campaign group Living Streets, said councils introducing wheelie bins had to check they did not become a nuisance.
"They're another part of street clutter," he said.
"Particularly when people have no front garden, they can just leave them out permanently on the pavement.
"Councils need to monitor the situation and check the environmental benefits the wheelie bins bring strongly outweigh the negative impacts."
But there are lots of people who love wheelie bins - not least businesses that have emerged because of their existence.
From wheelie bin cleaners to firms that make wooden huts to cover them and stickers that identify which houses they belong to, everything has become a business opportunity.
Peter Bond owns BritishBins Ltd, which, among other things, sells wheelie bins to individuals who want their own, even if their local councils do not provide them.
"They might want them to transport the rubbish and keep the rats and mice out," he said.
"Different councils have different policies about what they do about emptying people's own bins - Bromley, for instance, are happy to empty them anyway but others, including Wandsworth, won't."
Mr Bond's website contains a newsfeed of all wheelie bin-related news from the local and national press and has researched the history of the bins - from their design in Germany to their introduction to the UK in the mid-1980s.
"You hear a lot of bad press when it comes to wheelie bins," he said.
"The stories you read in the likes of the Daily Mail include the worst cases of 'health-and-safety-gone-mad', including elderly ladies being asked to push bins long distances because binmen aren't allowed and the chips used to spy on people.
"You also hear a lot about rows with neighbours - people who have taken the wrong wheelie bin and others who have put rubbish in the wrong bin.
"One way or another wheelie bins have definitely made their mark on Britain."
He did, though, give the green light to sending more US troops to Afghanistan.
So Reality Check decided to look into which countries have a military presence in Afghanistan and how numbers have changed over the course of nearly 16 years of armed conflict.
Of any foreign country, the US has deployed by far the largest number of troops.
The majority of the American servicemen and women work with the Nato mission "Resolute Support", which comprises troops from 39 nations (full list at the end of this article), to train, advise and assist the Afghan security forces.
A recent official figure put the total number of troops involved in Resolute Support at 13,576.
The sizeable number of US troops not deployed with the Nato mission conduct counter-terrorism operations.
The Nato combat mission, which numbered more than 130,000 in 2011, ended in December 2014.
Some of the wealthiest Nato members, like France and Canada, no longer contribute troops. During a violent part of the war in 2011, with troop levels at their peak, the UK had 9,500 troops in the country. It now has 500 in support of the Nato train-and-assist mission.
But over the last year, the Taliban has made significant territorial gains and security incidents have reached their highest level since 2007.
In February, Gen John Nicholson, senior commander of US forces in Afghanistan, told a senate committee that there was a shortfall of a few thousand troops needed to help break the "stalemate".
Although President Trump did not reveal exactly how many more military personnel might be deployed, it is thought around 4,000 may be added to the roughly 8,300 currently there.
Even with an additional few thousand, US troop numbers are significantly down on recent years.
The Taliban government was toppled less than two months after the war began in October 2001 and the US military declared an end to major combat in May 2003.
However the new Afghan government struggled to establish control and Taliban fighters regrouped.
President Obama announced an additional 30,000 troops in 2009 and by 2011 there were 100,000 US troops in the country. Numbers dropped back again after the US surge.
Albania - 83
Armenia - 121
Australia - 270
Austria - 10
Azerbaijan - 94
Belgium - 62
Bosnia-Herzegovina - 55
Bulgaria - 92
Croatia - 95
Czech Republic - 223
Denmark - 97
Estonia - 4
Finland - 29
Georgia - 872
Germany - 980
Greece - 4
Hungary - 90
Iceland - 2
Italy - 1,037
Latvia - 22
Lithuania - 21
Luxembourg - 1
Mongolia - 120
Montenegro - 18
Netherlands - 100
New Zealand - 10
Norway - 42
Poland - 198
Portugal - 10
Romania - 587
Slovakia - 38
Slovenia - 7
Spain - 8
Sweden - 25
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - 139
Turkey - 659
Ukraine - 10
United Kingdom - 500
United States - 6,941
Total 13,576
[Source: Nato]
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Inter-party talks began in September to resolve the current political crisis.
They have been focused on the budget, welfare reform as well as past and present paramilitary activity.
The current crisis at Stormont was triggered when police said they believed IRA members had been involved in the murder of a former IRA man.
The parties have also been deadlocked over the issue of welfare.
The Northern Ireland parties had agreed on a welfare reform deal in December but Sinn Féin withdrew its support in March.
Speaking at a Remembrance Sunday event in Enniskillen, Mr Kenny said: "I'm very hopeful and happy that the reports I'm getting are that a deal is on here.
"I do hope it can be concluded successfully in the next couple of days."
Mr Kenny said he would raise the issue with Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday.
He also revealed that he would be meeting Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minster Martin McGuinness.
Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers told the BBC that she expected this week to be crucial in finding a resolution.
"I think there has been some progress on certain issues, the gap is closing, but it is still a very difficult task," she said.
"There are still some very sensitive and difficult issues, where getting a resolution and finding common ground between all the participants in the talks is going to be very difficult."
Mr Robinson and Mr McGuinness held a private meeting with Mr Cameron at Downing Street on Friday.
Robert Bates, 74, has been given the maximum sentence recommended by jurors for second-degree manslaughter.
He killed Eric Harris, 44, in a sting operation over gun sales in Tulsa in April 2015. The victim's family said they did not think race was a factor.
Bates' lawyer said he would appeal.
The incident was captured on video and showed Mr Harris being chased and brought to the ground before he was shot.
A gunshot is heard and a man says, "Oh, I shot him. I'm sorry."
Mr Harris is heard calling out "He shot me, oh my God!" He later died in hospital.
At the time of the shooting, Bates had been a reserve deputy in Tulsa County Sheriff's office, a volunteer position, since 2008.
He was also chief executive of an insurance firm and a major donor to the Sheriff's office.
Judge Bill Musseman said the prison sentence was a "legitimate and moral consequence" of Bates' actions.
The accused, wearing orange jail clothing with his hands shackled, said in court: "I'm very remorseful for what happened."
A jury last month had found him guilty and recommended the four-year sentence.
The case provoked an outcry as it followed other incidents where a white officer killed a black man, raising concerns of racial discrimination and lack of police training.
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Julie Tuckley, from Walsall, has been campaigning for the meningitis B vaccine since her son, four-year-old Tommy, was diagnosed as a baby.
Although it's now available to newborns on the NHS, her younger daughter is not eligible because she is too old.
Health officials say vaccination for all children is "not cost-effective".
The vaccine is available for newborns who are born from 1 April 2015. But Jorgie missed out because she was born a month earlier.
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When she came up in a rash at five-months-old, her mother was terrified.
"Straight away they [doctors] were pumping needles into her, obviously for meningitis, to be safe. But it just cracked me up."
When Tommy was born, there was no vaccine available on the NHS for meningitis B. He contracted the infection when he was five-months-old.
"Its devastating. I'm a mother of five children and our whole family has been affected by it," said Ms Tuckley.
Luckily Jorgie's rash was a false alarm. But this encouraged Ms Tuckley to campaign for all children under-fives to be given the vaccine.
A petition of more than over 800,000 signatures supporting this was rejected by the government.
However, parents can pay for the vaccine privately.
"They're charging hundreds of pounds and I just can't afford it," said Ms Tuckley.
She aims to continue campaigning in the hope that the government will reconsider its decision.
The Scottish government legislation is aimed at reducing children and young people's exposure to tobacco.
The ban has been in place for larger retailers since April 2013.
The Scottish Grocers Federation has claimed the move will lead to longer transaction times and inconvenience customers.
It also argues that it will make it difficult for staff to locate stock.
The new law applies to shops with a selling area smaller than 280 sq m.
Imperial Tobacco lost a legal challenge against the ban after bringing the issue before Supreme Court judges.
The company had claimed the legislation was outside the competence of Holyrood as sales supply and product safety were matters reserved to Westminster.
But a panel of five judges unanimously ruled that its challenges were not well-founded.
The law means cigarettes, cigars and rolling tobacco must be covered up.
Harrington leaves her role as group operations director at the Football Association to take over from Ian Drake, who stepped down last month.
British Cycling has been subject to a UK Sport independent investigation into culture and practices at the organisation and there is also an ongoing UK Anti-Doping investigation into allegations of wrongdoing in cycling.
Drake, who had led British Cycling for eight years, said when he stepped down that it was "the natural moment" for a new figure to lead the organisation "forward into Tokyo 2020".
Harrington is currently responsible for running both Wembley Stadium and St George's Park for the FA. She has almost 15 years' experience in senior leadership roles in sport
"I am thrilled to be asked to lead British Cycling as it embarks on a new chapter in its history," she said. "This is the right time to be joining one of this country's leading governing bodies.
"British Cycling already has a fantastic track record of using elite success to inspire millions of people to get active by getting on their bikes and is now setting its sights on new ambitions and a new way of working."
She will start working for British Cycling in May.
Last week the head of British Cycling apologised for "failings" following accusations of that elite cyclists were victims of bullying and sexism.
Chairman Jonathan Browning said the governing body would make changes to be more caring to riders.
"Where there are failings we apologise," Browning told BBC sports editor Dan Roan.
An investigation into the culture at British Cycling was launched last year after former riders complained about their treatment. A report on its findings is imminent.
Last week MP Damian Collins said British Cycling's credibility was "in tatters" following a separate inquiry into doping.
MPs heard "some detailed and worrying" evidence from former British Cycling coach Simon Cope and Ukad chief Nicole Sapstead, covering issues from poor record-keeping of riders' medical details to the mysterious contents of a jiffy bag delivered from British Cycling to Team Sky at a race in France.
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Julie Harrington must enjoy a challenge, because she will start her new job with beleaguered British Cycling embroiled in the most difficult period in its history. Along with new chairman Jonathan Browning, her task will be to help the country's most successful and best-funded governing body to recover after an unprecedented year of crises and scandal.
After recent allegations of sexism at British Cycling, the appointment of a well-respected female chief executive will certainly encourage the government at a time when sports organisations are being told they need more diversity in their leadership.
But there is lots at stake, with UK Sport warning that millions of pounds of public funding could be lost if governance and duty of care reforms are not forthcoming, and new sponsor HSBC anxious that there is an end to the recent spate of negative headlines surrounding bullying and doping allegations.
The 40-year-old Dutchman moved to Old Trafford from Fulham in 2005.
Ajax's Maarten Stekelenburg, Atletico Madrid's David de Gea and Schalke's Manuel Neuer have all been linked.
"We know the keeper we want and are in a good position and I'm sure we can get the deal done," Gill told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek programme.
Former Netherlands international Van der Sar has made 262 appearances for the Red Devils and helped them win four Premier League titles and the 2008 Champions League, producing the decisive save from Nicolas Anelka in the penalty shootout to triumph in the final.
He also won a hat-trick of back-to-back Premier League crowns with the club between 2007 and 2009, the 2006 Carling Cup and the 2008 Fifa Club World Cup.
During the 2009-10 season, he set a new Premier League record by going 1,311 minutes without conceding a goal.
He has twice been named Europe's best goalkeeper by Uefa, has made the Premier League team of the year on two occasions and was named in the team of the tournament for Euro 2008.
"We've made the decision of who we want, we've been associated with all the top goalkeepers in Europe over the past six months, but we've known who we wanted for many months and we aim to achieve that," added Gill.
It looks as if United will miss out on Neuer after Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness announced on Sunday that an agreement has been reached for the signing of the German international.
Neuer will reportedly move to the Allianz Arena for a fee of £13m.
Meanwhile, Ajax told BBC Sport they are in discussions with Stekelenburg over a new deal.
Gill also stated that there would be further signings at United in the close season as they look to strengthen the squad.
"We've got some major decision to make over the summer," admitted Gill.
"We've go to replace Edwin, Gary Neville has also retired, we don't know what Paul Scholes is going to do. He may well want to retire at the end of the season - though we are very much prepared and happy to offer him a further year.
"So without doubt there is going to be some activity in some key areas of the club and we have been preparing for that.
"It is not like we are going to start now - we've been preparing for that for the past 12 months and we will see what we can achieve in the summer."
Gill paid tribute to Scholes' contribution to the club and expects the midfielder to discuss his future with manager Sir Alex Ferguson in the coming weeks.
"It wouldn't surprise us if Paul retired," said Gill.
"We are enjoying the success we are having, so at the end of the season, he will have a conversation with Sir Alex about that.
"I am sure he will let us know his decision and we will respect it.
"He has been a brilliant player for many years. It is interesting that while Ryan [Giggs] got his 12th title yesterday, that was Paul's 10th.
"It shows what he has achieved for us and what an absolutely fantastic player he has been."
As well as Van der Sar, Neville and possibly Scholes, long-serving defender Wes Brown seems likely to leave, as does striker Michael Owen, whose two-year deal expires this summer.
Midfielder Owen Hargreaves is another who appeared destined for the Old Trafford exit door, although it is thought he is considering a one-year pay-as-you-play deal to remain with United.
But striker Danny Welbeck and midfielder Tom Cleverley are both expected to return from impressive loan spells at Sunderland and Wigan respectively.
Brendan Cox said the 120,000 events taking place showed the country was "crying out" for sense of togetherness.
The Great Get Together is based on the message in Mrs Cox's maiden speech in Parliament that "we have more in common than that which divides us".
Mr Cox said "the thing that really drove Jo was bringing communities together".
"She wanted to bring people together of different types and backgrounds and she would be incredibly humbled by the scale of the response," he said.
"I think we know of about 120,000 events so far across the country. And I think what that shows is just the sense that the country's crying out for these moments of togetherness."
The events come as 78-year-old Bernard Kenny, who tried to stop Mrs Cox's killer, was awarded the George Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
There were also awards for two PCs, who arrested the killer Thomas Mair, and Mrs Cox's senior caseworker Sandra Major.
Mrs Cox's family said people's responses to this week's Grenfell Tower fire in London and recent terror attacks showed how people could come together.
Mrs Cox's mother Jean Leadbeater said: "Seeing communities coming together - seeing west London - that's an amazing sight, all colours, creeds, everybody pulling together.
"I think we're getting through, maybe it will take a while but the message will get through. We need to be united. Hate doesn't do anything, it's hope that counts.
"And hopefully we're doing Jo proud by doing the things that she would have been doing."
The events, organised by the Jo Cox Foundation, began on Friday, the first anniversary of the mother-of-two's death, but most will be held on Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs Cox was fatally shot and stabbed in Birstall in her Yorkshire constituency of Batley and Spen on 16 June.
On Friday, her parents and sister attended a ceremony at Upper Batley High School, where the conference centre was renamed in honour of their daughter, and visited Birstall Market Place, close to the scene of the murder.
Kim Leadbeater, Jo's sister, said: "We decided very early on that we would not remember how Jo died, we would focus on how Jo lived."
She said the response to the Great Get Together showed people had an appetite for something positive after the "really horrendous" things that had happened in the past 12 months.
"What you see when those horrible things happen is that people do come together and we see the best of community spirit," she said.
"And with The Great Get Together, what we've got is a reason to come together that isn't a bad reason.
"It's actually a really, really good reason we're encouraging people to come together."
Police discovered 22 dogs and eight cats - some of them in cages - in the basement and back room of Armley Vets in February.
Four dogs and a cat had to be put down following the raid on the Town Street practice.
Vet Gary Samuel and assistant Rochelle McEwan were found guilty after a trial at Leeds Magistrates' Court.
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RSPCA inspector Nikki Cheetham said officers discovered some of the animals by accessing a trap door covered with carpet, while others were found shut in a separate room.
"The dogs were found living in cages in a pitch black dungeon," she said.
"It was filthy, there was faeces everywhere, and they had no access to food or water. Most of the cats were shut in one room, which was also covered with excrement.
"The condition of these animals and the way in which they were being kept was appalling."
All the dogs were husky-types, including several puppies, with the exception of two Chinese crested dogs.
The majority were signed over to the RSPCA, which launched an investigation and 21 animals have now been rehomed.
Samuel, 49, of Weston Road, Enfield, north London, was struck off by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2013 following a conviction for theft, common assault and a public order offence.
The Privy Council overturned this in 2014 after ruling his removal from the veterinary register was a "disproportionately severe" punishment.
An earlier investigation in 2011 by the RCVS into Samuel's conduct while working as a veterinary surgeon at Nottingham Greyhound Stadium was dismissed.
Samuel and McEwan, 28, of Stonecliffe Close, Leeds, were convicted on Thursday of six offences under the Animal Welfare Act and will be sentenced next month.
The RCVS said it would launch an investigation in light of the new conviction. The Privy Council declined to comment.
Peter Toulson, who died on Monday, sold the magazine from a pitch outside Marks & Spencer on Parliament Street, York.
A friend of the vendor - who travelled from Leeds to York to sell the magazine - has started a JustGiving page to raise £3,000 for Mr Toulson's partner Karen, website YorkMix has reported.
The appeal for the "gentle giant" currently stands at about £1,300.
John Mcgall, who set up the JustGiving page, said the money would help provide "a funeral befitting of a proud, dignified, lovely man".
Mr Mcgall said his friend "always had a smile or friendly banter with both his customers and the general public".
Mr Toulson, who was from Leeds, started selling the Big Issue after he nearly lost a leg and spent four months in hospital. He then lost his job and was evicted from his flat, according to YorkMix.
Steve Crowther, a regular customer, said he was "shocked and saddened" to hear of Mr Toulson's sudden death.
"Like many people, I always stopped by to chat to him at his 'office' outside M&S.
"Standing outside M&S in all weather, travelling to York and back from Leeds, was a massive ask. And yet I rarely heard him complain.
"The thing that would upset him most, he told me, was the people who passed him by without acknowledgement, as if he didn't exist."
Nic Backhouse, of Big Issue North, said: "We are really saddened Peter has passed away.
"Peter had sold Big Issue North in York for a long time and clearly had a good relationship with the people who bought the magazine."
Muhammed Hammad poured white spirit on Nazia Akhtar, 31, during a row at their home in Birmingham in April 2015, the city's crown court heard.
He set himself alight to suggest the fire was an accident but his wife told police what happened before she died.
Hammad, 30, was found guilty of murder, given a life sentence and told he would serve at least 25 years in jail.
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While decorating at their home in Fox Hollies Road in Acocks Green, the pair got into an argument, the court heard.
Neighbours heard the couple's screams as they staggered out of the house with severe burns after Hammad had doused them both with white spirit, West Midlands Police said.
They were both taken to hospital and placed into induced comas.
Ms Akhtar suffered 60% burns to her face, ears, neck body, arm and leg.
The husband and wife initially claimed the fire had been caused accidently by a cigarette setting some white spirit alight.
However, fire investigators and medical experts doubted their claims because of the severity of the burns.
Hammad was charged with murder when Ms Akhtar suddenly died in hospital on 12 June.
Det Insp Justin Spanner, who led the murder investigation, said: "This was an unusual investigation where the victim, Nazia Akhtar, awoke from a coma and was able to give us an account of the circumstances leading to her sustaining her injuries.
"Her account was recorded and played to the jury. They were able to hear it in her own words. She was unaware she would pass away as a result of the deep burn injuries."
Mrs Akhtar's family paid her tribute calling her "a happy, bubbly, friendly person".
Dean Jones, 38, was due to stand trial for the murder of Alison Farr-Davies, 42, in Swansea last September, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
She had suffered a brain haemorrhage and injuries to her body.
The court was previously told the couple's neighbour thought she heard someone fall down the stairs.
Home Office pathologist Dr Richard Jones said a post-mortem examination suggested the most likely cause of death was blunt head and chest injuries, as well as a penetrating cardiac injury.
He said Miss Farr-Davies suffered injuries to her face, neck, arm and torso, and the overall pattern was "in keeping with assault, and not a fall".
Ms Farr-Davies, from Kidwelly, had qualified as a solicitor in 2001 and practised in Cardiff and England.
She had become a drug user and met Jones when she was sleeping rough in Swansea. They moved into a flat on Neath Road and started a relationship.
The day before her death a neighbour peered through their letterbox after hearing what she thought was a person falling down the stairs.
Jones said "nothing was wrong" and promised to call an ambulance. It was not until the next day that he made the call, and when police arrived he escaped through a window.
Reading her impact statement, Louise Staples said her sister's death has "destroyed us all".
"I have nightmares. Seeing her face in the mortuary haunts me," she said.
She told court she had asked Jones to take care of her sister and he said he would.
The hearing continues.
Although he died in exile the Fenian leader, who fought for Irish independence, was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.
The commemoration is the first in the Republic's 1916 centenary events.
Fifteen hundred members of the public who applied for tickets attended.
Members of the diplomatic corps, including from the UK, are in attendance as well as members of the extended O'Donovan Rossa family whose ancestor spent long periods in British jails for his activities.
Large screens showed the event outside the cemetery where there was a public viewing area, with spaces for up to 5,000 people.
At the original funeral, the Easter 1916 leader Padraig Pearse delivered the oration in which he famously said: "The fools, the fools, the fools! They have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace."
The oration was read out again on Saturday.
The original funeral is seen as a pivotal moment in Irish history, as several of those who attended went on to take part in the Rising.
In the 1850s, O'Donovan Rossa was sworn into the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) known colloquially as the Fenians, a reference to Na Fianna, a band of warriors who defended Ireland from invaders in Irish mythology.
The IRB was a small, secret, revolutionary body committed to the use of force to establish an independent Irish republic.
O'Donovan Rossa was imprisoned in various jails in England for his activities and later moved to New York following his release, continuing his efforts to oppose British rule in Ireland.
After his death, his remains were brought to Ireland by the American liner St Paul from New York to Liverpool.
They were then transferred to the steamer Carlow, which carried them to Dublin.
Separately, Sinn Féin organised a full-scale re-enactment of the funeral, which was one of the largest in Ireland's history.
A number of road closures have been in place while the events took place.
He urged the congregation to rid Mexico of drug dealer "merchants of death".
Ecatepec, with 1.6 million inhabitants, is notorious for drug violence, kidnappings and gangland-style killings, particularly of women.
The Pope was speaking at the biggest scheduled event of his visit to Mexico.
Throughout his trip he has condemned the evils of forced emigration and drugs, urging Mexico's leaders to provide "true justice" to suffering citizens.
The Pope has described drug trafficking as a cancer that has devoured and destroyed Mexican society, while calling on the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico to do more than just condemn the problem.
Mexicans hope papal visit brings change
Thousands of admirers lined the route of the Pope's motorcade as it made its way to the huge field in Ecatepec where Sunday's Mass was celebrated.
In a final prayer in Ecatepec he urged Mexicans to turn their country into a land of opportunity "where there will be no need to emigrate in order to dream, no need to be exploited in order to work".
On Saturday he celebrated mass at the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, in front of tens of thousands of people.
On Monday, he visits Mexico's poorest and least Roman Catholic region, the indigenous state of Chiapas in the south of the country.
The following day he heads to the capital of Michoacan, a western state also scarred by drug violence.
The Pope concludes his five-day trip in Ciudad Juarez on the US border, a city which has been blighted by drug-related murders. A mass there will highlight the plight of migrants.
Thanks to a Middle Sunday being played this year as a result of poor weather, the tennis championship's attendance of 494,000 was up on the previous year.
Overall, total gates at professional sports events in the UK were 69.8 million, down 1% on 2015, according to Deloitte's sports business group.
Meanwhile, football matches made up two thirds of the total attendance figures.
This year's total is slightly less than last year's 70.5 million, but in 2015 the Rugby World Cup was hosted in the UK.
"Attendances of almost 70 million means 2016 has been another hugely successful year for sport in the UK," said Deloitte's Dan Jones.
The top 10 attended showpiece events were all multi-day affairs, such as Wimbledon and the British Grand Prix.
With 14 days of play, the Grand Slam event, won by Andy Murray, was again comfortably the best-attended sporting event in the UK this year.
And looking at individual sports, as opposed to individual events, football was the biggest winner in the attendance stakes, at 45.2 million.
Overall, 2016 was the third-strongest year this century in terms of live sport attendances, behind the Olympic and Paralympic year of 2012 (75 million), and 2015.
"The fact that the total is so high, despite the absence of hosting any major one-off global events, is a reflection of the UK public's enduring appetite for watching live sport," said Mr Jones, a partner in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte.
Football was followed by horse-racing meetings - such as Royal Ascot and the Cheltenham Festival - and equestrian events (7.4 million), which accounted for five of the top 10 best-attended individual events of the year.
Alan Switzer, director in the Sports Business Group, said: "Events such as the Cheltenham Festival, Royal Ascot and Epsom Derby are some of the highlights in the UK's sporting calendar, and this is reflected by their continued presence in the top 10.
"The enhanced exposure likely to be brought about by horse-racing's move to ITV next year should build further interest in the sport and help cement its place as the UK's second most popular sport in terms of attendances."
Top Ten Attended UK Sports Events 2016
Source: Event organisers, Deloitte analysis
In other sports, rugby union's attendances (stripping out the one-off effect of the 2015 World Cup) remained constant at five million.
Meanwhile, including the successful hosting of the Four Nations competition across six different venues, Rugby League's attendances reached 2.3 million in 2016, with Super League attendances up slightly compared with 2015.
The sports events making up the top 10 best-attended were actually the same as in 2015, although the order differed slightly. The Cheltenham Festival was boosted by the opening of a £45m redevelopment and overtook the ATP World Tour Finals to claim fourth place.
Major sporting events in the UK next year include the UEFA Champions League Final in Cardiff, the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup in multiple venues, and the IAAF World Championship athletics in London.
Earlier this month the university said it was assessing potential locations as its current campus was near capacity.
The new Temple Quarter Campus will house a "digital innovation hub", a "business school of the future" and student residential village.
Elected mayor Marvin Rees said he is glad the site is being transformed as it was "dragging Bristol down".
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"In future, visitors will no longer be welcomed to Bristol by a derelict building, but by a flourishing and inclusive home of digital excellence, innovation, education and industry," he added.
It is hoped the campus will open in time for the start of the 2021/22 academic year.
The former Royal Mail sorting office at Cattle Market Road has been derelict since 1997.
Haydn Price pursued damages for defamation against Gwen Watkins, from Swansea, after she wrote a letter saying he had "blackened my otherwise serene old age".
But Judge Raymond Groarke told Dublin's Circuit Court there was no proof the letter had been published.
Mr Price was ordered to pay costs.
In the letter to an American publisher who Mr Price was pursuing for copyright infringement over the use of a Dylan Thomas picture, Mrs Watkins said Mr Price had "plotted" to visit her after learning she was deaf and partially sighted.
She added he had visited her and "stayed for seven hours", returning the following day to offer £1,000 for the copyright of several of the photographs.
Summing up, Judge Groarke said: "I am not going to go so far as to say Mr Price took advantage of Mrs Watkins but he certainly should have been a lot more careful with the way he dealt with an elderly person."
The images of the writer and his wife Caitlin were taken by Mrs Watkins' husband Vernon, who died in 1967 and were sold to Mr Price, director of Pablo Star Ltd, in 2011.
Pablo Star - which has offices registered in London and Dublin - has taken action against a number of companies in the UK and abroad, claiming copyright breaches.
One photo Mr Price bought from Mrs Watkins is entitled Just Married and features Thomas and Caitlin shortly after their wedding in 1937.
Another is labelled Pennard and shows the couple playing croquet.
The three are believed to have carried out the worst attack, at the Bataclan theatre, where 90 people died.
The IS files, obtained by German, UK and Syrian opposition media, are said to identify thousands of jihadist recruits from at least 40 countries.
German officials have said the files can be assumed to be genuine.
Roughly 22,000 fighters are reportedly identified by the documents, with one file for each recruit listing a name, address and other information. However, many of the names given may be duplicates.
Among them are Samy Amimour, Foued Mohamed-Aggad and Omar Ismail Mostefai, the three men who attacked the Bataclan during a concert by Eagles of Death Metal, killing 90.
The documents have been obtained by German public broadcasters WDR and NDR, and the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
WDR said the files indicate that the three men entered IS territory in 2013 and 2014.
Germany's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere earlier said the information contained in the files could help to prosecute IS fighters, and help prevent future recruitment.
Files were first published online (documents in Arabic) by Zaman Al-Wasl, a Qatari-based Syrian news website.
Sixteen Britons reportedly appear in the files, including Junaid Hussain and Reyaad Khan, who were killed in September in Syria by an RAF drone strike.
Two others listed, Kerim Marc B and Abdelkarim B, are currently on trial separately in Germany, while another two Germans on the list, Farid Saal Yassin Oussaiffi, have appeared in IS videos
Dutch media identified Abu Jihad al-Hollandi from the documents as Amsterdam teenager Achraf Bouamran, who was killed in a US air strike on the Syrian IS stronghold of Raqqa in January 2015. His file reads: "Born 1997. Moroccan origin. Wants to be a fighter."
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Counter-terrorism police in Germany are studying the documents.
"The German Federal Bureau of Investigation acts on the assumption that the documents are authentic," Mr de Maiziere said.
His counterpart in the UK, Home Secretary Theresa May, said she could not comment on "specific national security matters".
IS "poses a severe threat... it is important for us to work together to counter this threat", she said.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said: "We are extremely interested in information which would allow us to ... neutralise terrorists, but such information has to be authenticated."
Sky News said the documents came from a man called Abu Hamed, an IS fighter who said he had become disillusioned with the group's leadership and stolen a memory stick from the head of the IS internal security force before handing it over in Turkey.
Stefan Kornelius, foreign editor of Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, told the BBC the paper had obtained the documents from a "trusted source".
"It gives some proof on the state of Isis [IS] right now, since many of those members and those being close to the terrorist group are trying to make money, quite honestly, because obviously the Isis is in a desperate financial state," he said.
1,700
files obtained by Syrian opposition website Zaman al Wasl. If authentic, they suggest:
40 countries from where IS recruited jihadists, including Russia and Iran
72% of the fighters are Arab
Main nationalities: Saudi Arabian, Tunisian, Moroccan, Egyptian
25% are Saudi Arabians
Some analysts have raised questions about the authenticity of the documents, noting inconsistencies in language and other oddities in the recruitment questionnaires such as:
But none of that is conclusive. The documents were clearly not intended for public consumption, so those who drafted the questionnaire may not have paid as much attention to detail as for public documents.
And they should be compared not with IS documents of today, but of around two years ago, when they appear to originate - before the group's rapid land grab across northern Iraq and Syria, when its bureaucracy and administrative capabilities were less well developed.
The 28-year-old replaces Colin Doyle, who joined Bradford for just £1 on 12 July after they met a release clause.
Ex-Scunthorpe keeper Slocombe has the option of a second year with the League Two club in his contract.
"He's been promoted with Scunthorpe United and Oxford United and is another strong addition to the squad," said Blackpool boss Gary Bowyer.
Slocombe added: "The project that the gaffer is putting together here seems quite appealing and we have a really good opportunity this season to give it a right good go."
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Theo Francken posted an image of an empty office on Facebook, although it soon emerged nothing had been taken.
The Syrian family, who live in the war-ravaged Syrian city of Aleppo, were granted visas by a Belgian tribunal.
They have been offered food and lodging by friends in Namur (Namen).
Mr Francken argues the family's links to Belgium are weak and he will not open the door to "asylum chaos".
The minister has refused to pay fines of €4,000 (£3,600 ; $4,450) per day - a total bill now said to have surpassed €30,000.
He was handed a letter by bailiffs on Monday and posted a picture of an empty party office on Facebook on Wednesday.
"With or without furniture we carry on working," he said. "My team and I can always request political asylum anyway in the office of my good colleague and friend, (Interior Minister) Jan Jambon," he joked.
A spokeswoman later told the BBC that no furniture had yet been taken although the threat existed. The ministry was appealing against both the fine and the ruling, she said.
The family seeking asylum includes two children of five and eight and has the support of a Belgian family who have promised to pay for all their costs.
The family of four live in Aleppo, which has seen years of bombardment and fighting between the government and rebels, and their home is said to have been destroyed.
The father left the city in August to travel to Beirut in neighbouring Lebanon to apply for asylum at the Belgian consulate. Reports said he did not want to subject his family to the risk of people smugglers and a dangerous Mediterranean crossing.
"The (court) has said their situation is exceptional," said their lawyer, Mieke Van den Broeck. "This is really urgent for us: the situation in Aleppo is getting worse. There's an offensive under way, and we've lost contact with our clients."
The lawyer accused Mr Francken of trampling on Belgium's separation of judicial and government powers. "He's actually playing with our clients' lives and with Belgian tax money."
But Mr Francken, who is a member of the centre-right New Flemish Alliance, countered that the family should have applied for refuge in Lebanon itself, and that courts should not set asylum policy.
"I am elected to serve the public interest and will continue to do so," Mr Francken said, insisting that Belgium had already welcomed refugees but did not support granting the family a home in this case.
If he did let the family in, he argued, then he would have to send every Syrian a three-month visa, even if they had no connection with Belgium.
Sandeep and Reena Mander said they were told by Adopt Berkshire that white British or European applicants would be given preference as only white children were in need.
It is not illegal for adoption agencies to prioritise on the basis of race.
A spokesman for Adopt Berkshire said: "We do not comment on ongoing court cases."
"They took the colour of our skin as the overriding reason not to progress with the application," Mr Mander said.
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead has also not responded to a request for a comment.
The couple contacted Adopt Berkshire, the official adoption agency for Windsor & Maidenhead Council, to look at adoption after several failed attempts at fertility treatment.
"We said that, having thought about it for six months, it was something that we really wanted to do," Mr Mander told the BBC.
"I could tell on the phone it wasn't going to end nicely.
"She asked what background we were from.
"I said we were from an Indian background, and she said that they were 'unable to prioritise us', and they wouldn't look at our case.
"They said we should, 'seek other means of adopting a child'."
Adoption agencies are allowed to prioritise on the basis of race in order to match children to prospective parents of the same ethnic background.
But the government has also said that a child's ethnicity should not be a barrier to adoption.
Adopt Berkshire's website says children in need of adoption "will reflect the racial, cultural and religious backgrounds of the populations within the areas from which they originate."
It adds that the authority will seek prospective parents of a similar background to the child, though they would not keep children waiting to "achieve a direct match".
"Although my cultural background is Indian, I don't have any links with India, I'm a British person," Mr Mander said.
"We are a great couple, we're happily married for 10 years and financially stable.
"We have a five-bedroom house with four spare bedrooms.
"We thought we would be able to at least get to an application stage."
Mr Mander said he understood that cultural heritage was important and should be looked at, but he said a number of factors should be considered and people should not be prevented from getting to the application stage because of one particular area.
"We are angry and upset that this happens in this particular day and age," he continued.
"We know that we will be very good adopters."
The Manders are applying to Slough County Court seeking a declaration that the policy should allow them to adopt.
Their case is supported by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
Mr and Mrs Mander have also decided to pursue adoption abroad instead of locally.
"We are now looking at inter-country adoption, which is so costly", added Mrs Mander.
She said they wanted to raise awareness about their case so that other couples did not go through what they have experienced.
The Football Association has asked Wenger, 66, to explain comments he made about doping in an interview with French newspaper L'Equipe.
The Frenchman said: "I am open to talking to the FA, of course. I want deeper, better tests because what we test is superficial.
"We have to tackle these problems."
Dinamo Zagreb midfielder Arijan Ademi failed a drug test following September's Champions League win over Arsenal.
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Speaking before Saturday's Premier League match with West Brom, Wenger said it was naive to think that football did not have the same issues with doping as other sports.
He said: "You see the doping problem has suddenly turned up in track and field as well, we have a problem in cycling and then to think that we in football are immune because they are football players is absolutely wrong.
"When people are caught they need to be punished and the clubs punished as well. Because it's a little bit unreasonable to think just because we are football we have no problems with it."
Wenger also wants blood tests introduced, as urine samples are insufficient and inefficient in his view.
"Today, when you play away in the Champions League, most of the time we lose two hours when there is a doping control because people cannot fulfil the [urine] tests," he added.
"It's simple. Why can we not do it? In the other sports they do it."
The actress, who plays adoptive mother Sue Brierley, has two adopted children in real life.
Kidman told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she wished she had more children.
But, she added, her husband Keith Urban tells her to "shut down" such urges.
Kidman told the programme that - in showing how an adoptive mother's love for a child is the same as a birth mother's - the film makes her cry.
"When it's shown in the film with such warmth and openness and compassion, I think that's a beautiful thing for people to see."
She said it brings her to tears "probably because I'm so connected to it, and it's so succinctly put by the writer".
Kidman has two adopted children with her former husband Tom Cruise - Isabella, 24, and Connor, 21.
In the film, directed by Garth Davis, her character adopts a five-year-old boy, Saroo, from an orphanage in the Indian city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).
Saroo had become tragically separated from his family after he boarded a train and was transported hundreds of miles from his rural village.
Kidman says one scene in the film - which is based on a true story - epitomises an adoptive mother's love for her children.
When Saroo begins his journey to find his birth mother, Kidman says her character Sue Brierley "wanted his biological mother to know she'd kept him safe [and] raised him with love into a beautiful human being".
Kidman describes the film as a "love letter" to all her children, and "to other mothers and children too".
"It's rare that we get [to talk about] unconditional love - that no matter where you go, what you do, what your journey is… I'm here and I love you."
Kidman has two young children, Sunday Rose, eight, and Faith, six, with country musician Urban.
Kidman, 49, is the same age her grandmother was when she gave birth for the final time.
She told Victoria Derbyshire she wished she had "two or three more children".
But, she added: "My husband says 'that is the wanting mind Nicole, shut it down'."
Nevertheless, Kidman told Derbyshire: "I love children, I love raising children. My sister has six children… they make me feel good.
"I love being around them, the ups and downs, watching them grow - the things they say and teach."
Kidman said she did not have any regrets in life, counting herself as "blessed".
But, she added: "Would I enjoy giving to more young people? Yes."
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.
The generosity of the Judicial Pension Scheme is being reduced along with most other schemes in the public sector.
But judges who were within 10 years of retirement, in April 2012, are excluded from the changes.
The new scheme, starting in 2015, will provide lower pensions for new and younger judges, and will abolish the large lump sums they receive.
"The new pension arrangements will continue to provide a good way of saving for retirement and the new judicial pension scheme will remain among the most generous in the public sector," said the Justice Minister, Chris Grayling.
Under the far-reaching and controversial government changes to most public sector pensions, all judges started making modest contributions for the first time in April 2012, but will have to increase those contributions substantially in 2013 and 2014.
Their scheme, one of the most generous in the country, currently offers them a pension of half their final salary, at age 65, but after a maximum of just 20 years' service, plus a lump sum of two and a quarter times their annual pension.
The Ministry of Justice said currently a High Court judge, who retired after 20 years, might earn a pension of £86,500 plus a lump sum of £173,000 after tax.
Under the rules of the new scheme - which will be a career average arrangement rather than a final-salary one - that would be cut to £75,000 with no lump
The judges would also have to pay an annual allowance tax charge each year while they were working, of £11,000.
That is because the rate at which their notional pension pot builds up will probably exceed the forthcoming limit of £40,000 a year, and land them with a personal tax bill.
A Circuit Court judge who retired after 20 years might, under present rules, receive an annual pension of £64,000 plus a lump sum of £144,000 after tax.
In the new scheme this would be cut to £55,000 and with no lump sum.
These judges too would have to pay an annual allowance tax charge of about £3,000 a year while employed.
The normal pension age for judges in their new scheme will rise in line with the state pension age: to 66, 67 and probably 68 in the coming decades.
However judges will in future not have their pension accrual capped at 20 years and will be credited with pension for as many years as they work.
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.
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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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Lara Casalotti, 24, is part-Chinese, part-Thai and part-Italian.
People who are black, Asian or mixed-race are far less likely to find a match than a white northern European, so a celebrity-backed viral campaign (Match4Lara) was started by the Casalotti family.
Within weeks, a match was found. But perhaps more importantly, people who turned out not to be a match signed up to the register too.
Since the beginning of the Match4Lara campaign more than 15,600 people have joined the Anthony Nolan register.
This compares to 4,135 during the same period last year - a 277% overall increase.
The has also been a sharp increase of black, Asian and mixed-race donors signing up during this period - 684% higher than the same period last year.
According to Jack Wilson at Anthony Nolan, a complete match with a stranger is "like gold dust".
"It's incredible to think there could be someone on the register who is essentially your genetic twin," he said.
"It doesn't mean they have exactly the same background or heritage as you - for example Lara's match may have been someone part-Chinese, part-Thai and part-Spanish. But it's really special and personal thing to have a match."
Currently, about 60% of patients find a perfect match - often with a sibling - and while partial matches can be considered they are not as successful.
But that 60% drops to just 20% when the patient is of black, Asian or mixed ethnicity.
There are a few potential reasons for this - the vast majority of donors registered are white, northern Europeans, so matching stem cells simply cannot be found.
According to NHS figures there are three times as many white people registered as all the black, Asian and mixed-race donors put together.
Another reason for the difficulty is that a mixed heritage is likely to be more complex than one which is completely one race - which further narrows down potential matches.
In the words of Mr Wilson: "If we knew the answer to that, we could tackle it."
But he suggested that in some ethnic groups there "may be more barriers" to signing up.
"In some communities, older people are very influential and many people still have outdated information about the donation process, which may be off-putting. People don't seem to realise how very easy it is."
He also suggested a general lack of awareness in all demographics.
"People think it will hurt, or they'll need time off work. They won't - it's just like donating blood but takes a little bit longer. Plus you can register all online and it's all completely free," he said.
Matching is based on human leukocyte anitgen (HLA) tissue type. HLA is an individual genetic characteristic inherited from each parent.
It is similar to blood groups, but more diverse and complicated.
HLA is made up of genes and to find a match, experts look at five key sites. Each of the sites has two alleles (types of genes) making 10 in total.
The genes are compared to those of donors. If all 10 match then it is a 10/10 match.
When it comes to finding a match, the higher the better, because bodies need to recognise and accept the donor's stem cells.
If the genes do not match, the body will treat them as intruders and reject them.
Source: Anthony Nolan Trust
According to the Anthony Nolan Trust, although it is too soon to see a direct impact from the surge in registries, in the coming months and years there will be "a massive" effect.
"Any one of those people would be a match for someone in the future," said Mr Wilson. "And remember, you're not just saving the person who needs a transplant - in many ways you're saving their loved ones too.
"The odds are, if you register, you won't be called - it's quite rare. But 2,000 people need a transplant every year - and you could be their lifeline, which is quite incredible really."
Recruitment events organised by the Casalotti family which were scheduled for later this year will still go ahead, encouraging more mixed-race donors to sign up.
If the trend continues, Lara's legacy could be more than simply her own recovery.
The tourist from eastern Jiangxi province was trying on the bracelet in a shop in Ruili in Yunnan province near the border with Myanmar, where much of the jade in China is from.
When she was told the bracelet's price she quickly took it off but in her haste dropped it, state media reported.
No agreement over compensation for the shop has yet been reached.
Shop staff attempted to calm the woman after the breakage, but she turned pale, began sweating and eventually fainted, a report on news website 163.com quoted the shop owner's son as saying.
She came round after other customers who had rushed to help pinched her under her nose, the People's Daily reported.
Shop staff then told the woman she could pay $25,000 to resolve the matter, but she said she could only afford $1,500, the 163.com report said.
Police were unable to persuade the parties to reach an agreement and the matter may need to go to court.
A local precious gem association told news portal Sina that the bracelet was worth only $26,000.
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The centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron said Ms Le Pen's nationalist proposals amounted to "economic warfare".
But she was also accused from the right of not being tough enough on France's membership of the EU.
Francois Fillon, meanwhile, said that France needed Europe when up against the US and China.
Ms Le Pen, leader of the National Front (FN) party, promised to restore control of France's borders and scrap the euro, or else hold a referendum on EU membership.
Speaking alongside 10 other candidates as things got a little heated in the second of three televised French presidential election debates, she said that her presidency would improve the lives of French citizens.
Mr Macron, the frontrunner, accused Ms Le Pen of lying, and said that "nationalism is war".
"You are saying the same lies that we've heard from your father for 40 years," he said.
Ms Le Pen, who also came under attack from conservative candidate Mr Fillon, retorted: "You shouldn't pretend to be something new when you are speaking like fossils that are at least 50 years old."
Meanwhile, nationalist right-wing outsider Francois Asselineau said that he was "the only true candidate of Frexit", and promised to trigger Article 50 - the process to start the country's divorce from the EU - immediately if he were to win power.
The debate was extended to include the six minor candidates, so inevitably it is on the six minor candidates that water-cooler conversation is going to focus.
On Jean Lasalle - "son of a shepherd, brother of a shepherd" - with his impenetrable Pyrenean accent; on Francois Asselineau with his "Frexit" obsession; on the rival Trotskyites Philippe Poutou and Nathalie Arthaud with their rousing calls to punish the bosses.
Some of it was diverting, some of it was deadly serious. But after a while you realised that there were really only two people out there who were in any sense defending - more or less - the way things are. Those two are Francois Fillon and Emmanuel Macron.
Everyone else - from Marine Le Pen to the uber-Gaullist Nicolas Dupont Aignan to the firebrand of the left Jean-Luc Melenchon (as brilliant as ever on stage) - wants the rules of Europe and the economy totally rewritten.
Small wonder this first round boils down to a fight between Mr Fillon and Mr Macron. It is a fight for the chance - in round two - to stand up for the existing order against the anti-system.
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Turning the topic to security, Ms Le Pen said that France had become a "university for jihadists", prompting angry interruptions from the left-wing candidates.
Most polls suggest that Ms Le Pen and Mr Macron will face each other in the two-candidate run-off for presidency on 7 May.
However, Tuesday's debate gave Mr Fillon, 63, an opportunity to close the gap on the leaders.
Mr Fillon was the frontrunner in the campaign until he was hit by the "fake jobs" scandal and placed under formal investigation. He is accused of paying hundreds of thousands of euros to his family for work they did not do.
He was trailing third in the first round, according to polls, a position which would eliminate him from the race.
The UN says 12 civilians were shot dead on 11 November when they tried to stop militants launching rockets from the roofs of the homes in the Bakir area.
Militants allegedly killed 27 others suspected of passing information to Iraqi security forces.
The government launched an offensive to recapture Mosul six weeks ago.
Special forces and army units entered the city's eastern outskirts at the start of this month.
However, their progress has since been slowed by sniper fire, suicide car bomb attacks and the presence of more than a million civilians still living there.
A spokeswoman for the UN high commissioner for human rights, Ravina Shamdasani, said reports continued to arrive of serious breaches of international human rights and humanitarian law in and around Mosul.
"[IS] has been installing rocket launchers and placing snipers on the rooftops of civilian houses," she said.
"Those who refuse to allow their houses to be used in this way are threatened or killed. These families are effectively used as human shields, placed squarely in harm's way, caught between IS and Iraqi Security Force fire responding to rocket and sniper attacks."
Ms Shamdasani said IS was also continuing to abduct and forcibly move civilians, and to kill those it suspected of leaking information to the government.
Reports suggest that on Friday, militants publicly shot to death 27 civilians in Muhandiseen Park, in the north of Mosul, she added.
There have also been reports of IS shooting at fleeing civilians, including one from 22 November of an IS sniper killing a seven-year-old child who was running towards troops in the eastern Adan district.
Human Rights Watch meanwhile said on Tuesday that an Iraqi government or US-led coalition air strike targeting IS militants south of Mosul last month had hit a medical facility and killed eight civilians, including five children.
Two IS militants and the IS "transport minister" were also killed in the attack on 18 October in Hamam al-Alil, a witness told HRW.
A healthcare worker said militants had forcibly taken over an office at the clinic and that several had been there at the time of the attack, along with about 50 patients.
"Forces attacking [IS] should take all necessary measures to minimise harm to civilians, including those that [IS] forces may have placed at risk," said Lama Fakih, HRW's deputy Middle East director.
HRW called for an impartial, thorough and transparent investigation into the incident to establish who was responsible and whether it was lawful.
The occasion planned for Church Street would form part of Highland Council's efforts to support a Scottish government children's play strategy.
In a report to councillors, council officers have set out progress and also further plans to provide youngsters with opportunities to play.
Officers said the "play event" was planned for later this year.
Highland Council's education, children and adult services committee will consider the report at a meeting on Wednesday.
The recordings, which cannot be independently verified, are believed to have come from the security services.
They have been placed in the public domain by the Abdullah Abdullah camp who refuse to disclose their source.
Fraud allegations have been made by Dr Abdullah and by his rival Ashraf Ghani.
But the audio tapes appear to reveal a partisan senior election official working in Dr Ghani's interest.
However the former world bank executive's team say secret recordings without a court order are illegal and must be investigated.
The audio tapes - which the BBC has heard - appear to capture conversations between a senior election official, Zia Ul-Haq Amarkhail, and colleagues in at least four other provinces.
In an apparent reference to ballot box stuffing, the tapes appear to show Mr Amarkhail urging a colleague to "bring the sheep stuffed and not empty". The reference to sheep and goats - ballot boxes and people or votes - is made several times during the recorded exchanges.
In a separate conversation, the senior official also apparently deals with concerns from a colleague in one of the north-western provinces, who warns that "others make the majority in our office".
Mr Amarkhail apparently responds to him with the words "why don't you get rid of them, take a stick and kick them all out" and goes on to suggest new officials are recruited from ethnic groups, assumed to back Ashraf Ghani.
Many awkward questions still surround the release of tapes, copies of which have now been handed to the presidency and the Independent Election Commission (IEC).
The UN, which is being urged by Mr Abdullah to step in and help arbitrate disputes, has also been made aware of their existence.
In a statement, the UN said the Afghan election authorities should consider the "validity, weight and implications" of the tapes and "take action in line with the principles of accountability".
It wants the Afghans to sort out their own problems but do so in a "transparent" manner.
For the past week the IEC has been under pressure to suspend Mr Amarkhail pending an investigation.
An altercation between him and a senior police official on election day, after the police chief had become suspicious of his movements, was aired on Afghan TV.
Since then the cries for him to be relieved of his duties have grown louder, but so far the election body has resisted taking any action.
Mr Amarkhail has not responded to BBC requests for an interview. The election authorities simply stated that his "privacy" was protected by the constitution when asked for a comment about the tapes.
Many questions arise from these audio recordings. How were they obtained, why are they being released now and will they be admissible as "evidence" of alleged fraud?
The Abdullah camp has tossed this explosive material into the public domain but the presidential hopeful himself has been away from the media spotlight - in sharp contrast to his public appearances earlier this week.
He has suspended his co-operation with the election authorities, a position the UN has described as "regrettable" and says he will not recognise any result they release.
More demonstrators from Mr Abdullah's camp have been out on the streets of Kabul on Sunday.
Many say they are there to "protect their vote" from fraud.
Both sides have lodged complaints about the conduct of these elections and for Abdullah Abdullah, who felt he was robbed of the presidency back in 2009, there is a sense that history is repeating itself.
Yet both teams are being reminded by the UN's second most senior envoy here, Nicholas Haysom, that there "will be a winner and there will be a loser" in the landmark presidential election.
And, as the slow task of counting and verifying votes continues for some time to come, they are quietly being urged to show restraint.
They made the appeal a week after Penelope Davis, 47, known as Pennie, was found stabbed to death in a field where she was tending to her horses.
Her five children and husband said they were "overwhelmed" by people's support.
Crimestoppers has offered a £5,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the killer.
A 22-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released on bail.
Hampshire Constabulary said it was possible Pennie may have been followed on the day of her murder, on 2 September, from the local supermarket where she worked to the horse paddock.
Her children, Sophie, Alex, Georgia, Daniel and Josef, and her husband Pete, said in the statement: "It has been a long, agonising week since our precious mum and wife was selfishly taken from us.
"We had no idea how many lives she had touched, as we have been overwhelmed by love and support. Despite this, the void in our hearts only continues to grow.
"The police have made progress, but there is still much more to be done. We only hope that no other family should ever have to go through the ordeal that we are currently facing.
"No other person deserves to ever have to go the way our poor mum and wife did. We will never begin to understand how scared and how alone she must have felt.
"This is why we are pleading for anybody with any information to come forward. Even if you think it won't make a difference, it might just be the call we were waiting for."
The mother-of-five's body was found by her husband in the paddock near Leygreen Farm in Beaulieu. A post-mortem examination revealed she died from multiple stab wounds.
Mrs Davis, from Blackfield, worked in a local supermarket and visited the field daily to tend to her horses.
Police would like to hear from anyone who may have seen or heard anyone acting suspiciously near Sainsbury's on Hampton Lane, Blackfield, between 13:00 and 15:00 BST on 2 September.
The departure of Bevington, who was appointed in March, comes a month after David Bernstein and Lord King resigned from the club's board.
Villa, who finished bottom of the Premier League, were relegated to the Championship in April.
Owner Randy Lerner has been seeking a buyer for the club since May 2014.
The club are also awaiting to appoint a new manager after the sacking of Remi Garde in March.
Bevington said he told chairman Steve Hollis that he would not be taking on a full-time role with the club.
"I know how hard Steve is working on a number of levels and I hope he can conclude the ownership and managerial positions very soon," Bevington said in a statement.
"There is a huge amount of work ahead for Aston Villa. A club of its size with its great support should be competing at the higher levels of the Premier League, not in the position it currently finds itself.
"To move forward, now more than ever, it is crucial the club makes the right calls on the big decisions it is faced with."
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Fifteen new celebs will be hitting the dance floor in the hopes of winning the coveted glitter ball trophy.
We caught up with some of them on the red carpet to find out how they are feeling ahead of the competition, and to show us their best "game" faces!
The 45-year-old woman was found in a "seriously ill" state, according to police, who were called to The Avenue, Gurnard, shortly after 16:10 GMT on Thursday.
She was taken to St Mary's Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Hampshire Constabulary said a 60-year-old man from Sandown was being held on suspicion of murder.
Unite members were set to stage three walkouts later this month in a dispute over the closure of a final-salary pension scheme.
The union said it was not recommending the deal to workers at the Oxford, Goodwood near Chichester, Hams Hall and Swindon plants.
BMW said it believed the offer was "fair".
Staff at the sites have already held four strikes - the first ever by BMW employees in Britain.
The union's national officer for BMW, Fred Hanna, said it was not recommending the new offer "as it will have different outcomes for different people and their pensions".
He added: "Members should be proud that by standing together they have forced BMW into making this offer.
"Without the action that Unite members have taken and the resolve they have shown in recent weeks, BMW would not have made this latest offer."
According to BMW, 67% of those affected by the changes who were eligible to vote backed the action.
A company spokesman said: "The company is keeping all staff fully informed and we await further feedback from Unite following its ballot.
"We believe the offer to be fair and in the long-term interests of both the company and all our employees."
The ballot is expected to run from 24 May to 9 June.
The Brexit committee said ministers' claim that "no deal is better than a bad deal" was "unsubstantiated" until an economic assessment was published.
But the report divided the cross-party committee, with some members saying it was too pessimistic about Brexit.
The government said it was "preparing for all potential outcomes".
Prime Minister Theresa May has formally triggered Brexit using Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, with the UK due to leave in March 2019.
The Brexit committee's report assesses the government's objectives for the negotiations that are to come over the next two years, as set out in a white paper in February.
A total of 12 principles were set out, including migration control and "taking control of our own laws".
The report said it was important to avoid no deal being reached, saying: "The government has talked about walking away from a bad deal, but has not yet explained what terms would be demonstrably worse for the UK than 'no deal'."
It called for a "thorough assessment of the economic, legal and other implications" to be published, adding: "Without an economic assessment of 'no deal' having been done and without evidence that steps are being taken to mitigate what would be the damaging effect of such an outcome, the government's assertion that 'no deal is better than a bad deal' is unsubstantiated."
The MPs said it said it was "essential" for Parliament to get a vote on whether to proceed if no deal was reached.
Labour MP Hilary Benn, who chairs the committee, said the government was right to push for both negotiations on a new trade deal and separation talks to take place at the same time.
But he said ministers had to be prepared for "the worst case", given the "particularly tight" timescale.
The committee said it was possible that the current "convergence" between the UK and EU would mean talks could move more quickly than previous negotiations, but added: "It is not yet evident, however, that the two-year timetable for achieving this is realistic."
The report looks at different aspects of the EU talks, saying the status of EU nationals "cannot be left unresolved" until the end of talks and warning new migration controls should not damage the economy.
It also says the government has to recognise "differences in the negotiating priorities of the different parts of the UK".
Some MPs walked out of a private meeting of the committee as the report was being finalised, saying it was too "gloomy", and six MPs voted against it, with 10 backing its publication.
Five Conservatives - including former ministers John Whittingdale and Dominic Raab - and Democratic Unionist Sammy Wilson voted against the report, but were outnumbered by 10 Labour, Tory, Liberal Democrat, SNP and SDLP committee members, all of whom backed Remain in last year's referendum.
Mr Whittingdale said he thought the report was "unduly negative" and had "very much concentrated on the problems without really recognising the opportunities" of Brexit, and Mr Raab added: "The report was rushed, skewed and partisan. After two reports that had strong support, it's regrettable that this one split the committee.
"That undermines its credibility and influence, but I hope and expect the committee will learn the right lessons as we move forward."
But Lib Dem committee member Alistair Carmichael said the report was "a devastating critique of the shambles that is the Conservative Brexit strategy".
Brexit Secretary David Davis said: "We are confident that such an outcome is in the interests of both sides. However, a responsible government should prepare for all potential outcomes, including the unlikely scenario in which no mutually satisfactory agreement can be reached, and that is exactly what we are doing.
"We have also been analysing the impact of different scenarios on different sectors of the economy.
"We are clear that no deal is not what we want or expect, but that it would be better than a deal which sought to punish the UK."
The eligibility rules will be broadly the same as for a general election, rather than local or European votes.
Irish citizens in the UK are eligible. Residents from two other EU nations, Malta and Cyprus, also qualify, along with others from the Commonwealth.
The SNP's Humza Yousaf said excluding other EU citizens risked entering "into the rhetoric of division".
He urged the government to rethink eligibility rules.
David Cameron is to hold talks with the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at Chequers later.
Legislation for the voting eligibility of the referendum - which the Conservatives have promised to hold before the end of 2017 - will be introduced to Parliament via the EU Referendum Bill on Thursday.
The Bill will make clear that the franchise will follow broadly the same rules as the general election:
A Number 10 source said: "No Brit under the age of 58 has had their say on the UK's membership of the European Union.
"It is time to put this right and to give people the choice - in or out.
"This is a big decision for our country, one that is about the future of the United Kingdom. That's why we think it's important that it is British, Irish and Commonwealth citizens that are the ones who get to decide."
Eurosceptics have previously claimed that as many as 1.5 million people from other EU countries could have been allowed to vote in the referendum, if it had taken place under the rules for local government elections.
I'm sure you've got better ideas of how to spend a bank holiday Monday than me.
But I wouldn't mind being that bluebottle on the wall at Chequers tonight, assuming the government's fly-swatters aren't up to much.
Less than a year ago, the prime minister was doing his best to make sure Jean Claude Juncker didn't get the gig as President of the European Commission.
Well, you win some, you lose some. And David Cameron lost that one. Because they call him President Juncker now.
So, Mr Cameron has invited the president around for tea at his country retreat, Chequers. I'm told the prime minister will be "open, practical and friendly" in his approach.
Later in the week, David Cameron will visit Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Poland and Germany. And the talking is only just beginning.
Former Tory defence secretary Liam Fox, a Eurosceptic, said allowing EU citizens to vote in the referendum "would have been an unacceptable dilution of the voice of the British people".
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the plans were "sensible and reasonable".
However, the SNP's Mr Yousaf, the party's Europe minister in the Scottish parliament, urged the government to reconsider.
He told BBC News: "Excluding EU citizens, many of whom live here for a number of years, pay their taxes, their children attend local schools, to disenfranchise them over their own future in this vote is illogical, is utterly perverse and creates a democratic deficit."
He added: "We don't want to enter into the rhetoric of division and I think that's exactly what this franchise aims to do."
The party's Westminster leader Angus Robertson also called for the voting age to be lowered for the referendum.
He said: "Young people are our future. It is their UK - and their Europe - so they must have their say."
Labour's shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn agreed.
"It's a matter of principle," he said. "If a person aged 16 to 17 is old enough to work and pay taxes - and they are - to marry, to join the armed forces, why should they not be allowed to participate in our democracy?"
In 2014, the Conservatives promised to remove the 15-year cap on expats voting in general elections if they were returned to power.
Party chairman Grant Shapps said at the time: "Being a British citizen is for life... we believe it should also give you the lifelong right to vote."
But Conservative backbencher John Redwood told the Today programme it would be "wrong to hijack" the referendum to extend the vote to groups not previously included in the franchise.
And he said it was "a myth put around by the pro-Europeans" that 16 and 17-year-olds were interested in the issue of Europe.
The Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, welcomed his citizens' opportunity to make their voices heard in a "seminal exercise in democracy".
This week, Mr Cameron will take a whistle-stop European tour, meeting the leaders of Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Poland and Germany to talk about the UK's agenda for reform.
No 10 said he hoped to talk to the other leaders of EU member states individually before the European Council at the end of next month.
But UKIP MP Douglas Carswell said the prime minister's promised renegotiation would be "more or less worthless".
He added: "We now know he's not seeking treaty change and none of the new deal that he is looking for will apply specifically to Britain... none of it is going to fundamentally change our relationship with Europe."
One victim was a four-year-old Bosnian migrant, snatched in October from a refugee registration centre in Berlin. The other boy disappeared last July.
The judge said the guard, identified only as 33-year-old Silvio S, kidnapped and sexually abused the boys, then killed them to cover up the abuse.
Silvio S was arrested after his mother recognised him in CCTV footage.
In the court in Potsdam he admitted both murders and expressed remorse.
The life term means he will have to serve at least 15 years before seeking early release.
Elias, aged six, was abducted from a Potsdam playground, near Berlin, last July. Later the boy was murdered and buried in a rented garden plot. His body was found after the defendant led police to it.
Mohamed Januzi, aged four, came to Germany with his family from Bosnia-Hercegovina. He was murdered in October.
As the murder was being described in court, Mohamed's mother stood up and screamed at the defendant: "What have you done with my child?"
The German news website RBB said court officials restrained her and led her away at that point.
The attack followed a minor crash between a car and a van on Gressel Lane, Kitts Green at about 18:30 BST on Friday.
The van driver hit the car driver in an "unprovoked" assault before leaving the scene, police said.
The motorist suffered serious head injuries and is unconscious in hospital.
"This was a vicious attack on a family man who was on his way home to his partner and four-year-old child," Det Cons Katie Lees of West Midlands Police said.
"The road is a really busy road and we are sure that there were lots of people who would have seen what happened and we are appealing for them to come forward."
She appealed to the van driver to "search his conscience".
"We have several lines of inquiry and it is only a matter of time before we come knocking at your door," she added.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond also said new F-35 Lightning jets would be flying from the base in 2018.
After Mr Hammond's briefing Elizabeth Truss, Conservative MP for South West Norfolk, said the development would boost job opportunities.
It is also the culmination of a long campaign to keep the base open.
Four years ago RAF Marham's future was under threat as plans favoured a transfer of aircraft and facilities to RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland.
Ms Truss welcomed the new announcement and said more than 5,000 people were now employed at the base by the RAF and contractors.
"Many of these people are highly skilled in disciplines like engineering," she said.
"They now have an opportunity to provide maintenance facilities for other countries' aircraft and this will create even more jobs.
"Already we know the base is protected until 2040 when the strike fighter goes out of service.
"The base is hugely important to the local community as the biggest employer in south west Norfolk with a variety of jobs in many skilled disciplines."
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Butcher made his senior debut as a substitute in August's 4-0 League Cup victory over Hartlepool.
The teenager played the full match as the Cherries beat Birmingham 2-1 in the FA Cup last month.
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Liverpudlian Sean O'Brien, who now lives in London, was trolled in March after being spotted dancing at a gig.
He was dubbed "The Dancing Man" by a social media campaign to uncover his identity and offer support.
During his LA trip he has been feted by stars, appeared on TV shows and thrown the first pitch at an LA Dodgers game.
Campaigner Monica Lewinsky, musicians Andrew WK and Moby attended his party, while Pharrell Williams recorded a special video message of support that was played at the party.
Mr O'Brien's story has become popular in the US after the social media campaign brought his story to the public's attention.
Pictures of him dancing and then looking upset after he was mocked were posted online, first on message board 4chan and then to the website Reddit.
They were posted with the caption: "Spotted this specimen trying to dance the other week. He stopped when he saw us laughing."
This led to a mass outpouring of support from Twitter users, who managed to track him down.
A group of American supporters, including American writer Cassandra Fairbanks, arranged for him to fly to California for this weekend's events.
His party, which was attended by about 1,000 people, raised money for anti-bullying charities.
Mr O'Brien has also appeared on US television dancing with pop star Meghan Trainor on the Today show.
He told its viewers his experiences after becoming famous had been "completely surreal".
He added: "It's something I never thought would ever happen in my life. It's amazing. What happened to me appeared to touch a lot of nerves.
"We've raised some good money for charity, we've got more money coming in. We're just really trying to help people know that there's support there.
"There'll always be bad in the world but there's far more good people."
He also said that he liked to dance often, "but badly - very, very badly".
Moby acted as the DJ at the party , held at the Avalon nightclub, where Mr O'Brien also met Ms Lewinsky, an anti-bullying campaigner famous for her affair with the former US President Bill Clinton.
On Sunday, Mr O'Brien threw the symbolic first pitch at a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres, wearing a Dodgers shirt with "Dancing Man" printed on the back.
But as a young man growing up in the town of Rampur in northern India, Mohammad Javed never imagined his love for a Pakistani relative would see him branded a terrorist and sent to jail for eleven and a half years.
Two years after a court cleared him of all charges, he shared with the BBC his extraordinary tale of falling in love, the letters they exchanged, his abduction and torture by the Indian authorities, the long years spent in prison and the most heartbreaking part of all - losing his love.
Javed, now 33, met Mobina for the first time in 1999 when he took his mother to Karachi to visit her cousins and uncles who had migrated to Pakistan after the partition of India in 1947. For the couple, it was love at first sight.
"Within a month of our meeting, we expressed our love for each other," Javed told me when I visited him at the modest home he shares with his parents, brothers and their families.
"We were at a family wedding where there were other young women and I think she felt insecure. She took me aside and told me that I was not to look at any other girl since she was in love with me. I told her I felt the same way."
Love blossomed - and deepened - during the three-and-a-half months that Javed spent in Karachi.
"She would leave home in the morning telling her family that she was going to college. I would meet her outside the college gate, and we would go and hang out in Sipari Park," he said.
On his return to India, the television mechanic spent his entire salary on calls to Mobina whom he still refers to by her pet name Gudiya, or Doll.
"Cellphones hadn't arrived here then. So I would go to a telephone booth and call her. It was very expensive, I had to pay 62 rupees [at the time nearly £1; $1.45] a minute to speak to her."
A year later, he travelled to Karachi again, this time for two months.
By now, their families were aware of their feelings and although no-one had any objection to their union, there was one bone of contention - Mobina's family wanted Javed to move to Pakistan, while Javed and his family wanted her to come to India.
"This time as I prepared to leave, she said, 'You go, I will convince my family and then you come back and take me with you.' I didn't know that when I left, I would never return. That I would never see her again," he says, wistfully.
Over the next two years, Javed regularly called Mobina and they wrote each other long love letters.
When Javed received the first letter, he hit a hurdle - he had little schooling and couldn't read Urdu, the language in which Mobina wrote.
So he enlisted the help of his friends - Maqsood who read the letters out to him, Taj Mohammad who translated and wrote the letters in Hindi so Javed could read and re-read them, and Mumtaz Mian who printed a floral design along with "MJ" - the initials of the young lovers - on sheets of paper on which Maqsood wrote out Javed's response to Mobina.
"Her letter was 10 pages long. I wrote her a 12-page letter. It took me 12 days to write it," he says.
And then one day, everything changed.
"I still remember the day very clearly," says Javed. "It was 10 August 2002. It was a Saturday. I was in my shop when a man came and asked me to go with him and fix his television. I told him I didn't do house calls, but he seemed quite distraught, so I agreed."
As they walked a few metres from the shop, a car pulled up and he was abducted.
Initially, Javed says, he thought they were criminals, "but then I overheard them talking and I could understand that they were from the police".
His ordeal began in the car.
"They took away my wallet, watch and other things. I had two of Mobina's letters on me and they took them away too. They threatened to shoot me if I didn't keep quiet. They said they'd abducted my family too and that they were being tortured in another car.
"I was crying, begging them for mercy."
After a while, they blindfolded him and when they took it off, Javed found himself in a room where he says he was tortured for the next three days.
"They beat me black and blue, hung me upside-down and kept lowering my head into a tub of water. It was so painful. I couldn't bear it any longer. I begged them to kill me."
Javed was accused of being "an agent" for Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency, and his tormenters claimed he had been passing on secrets about the ministry of external affairs and defence ministry to Islamabad.
Three days later, they brought him back to Rampur and his three friends - Maqsood, Taj Mohammad and Mumtaz Mian - were also arrested.
The next day, the four men were produced in court and paraded before journalists as "dreaded terrorists" who were "waging war against India".
The authorities said Javed's two visits to Pakistan had been to meet his ISI contacts and that his calls to Karachi were to pass on secrets to them.
A month and a half later, they were charged under India's controversial special anti-terror law, The Prevention of Terrorism Act (Pota).
"This meant we couldn't get bail. We were so demoralised. We were told if we were convicted, we could get the death penalty."
Javed says he has no idea why he was singled out. "But in jail, people said it was because of the Kargil conflict and that any Muslim who had travelled to Pakistan soon after the fighting was a suspect."
A spokesman for the campaign group Rihai Manch told the BBC that there are dozens of young Muslim men like Javed who have been held in prisons across India on trumped-up charges.
The hardest part of jail life, says Javed, was when there was a family wedding or when his father fractured his leg and he couldn't visit him. "I was lodged in Rampur jail. I was so near, yet so far."
In prison, he also lost his best friends - Maqsood, Taj Mohammad and Mumtaz Mian blamed him for giving their names to the police.
Javed says it was the memory of his love that kept him sane during the long years in jail.
"I used to tell my fellow prisoners about Mobina, how we fell in love, her habits, how she would tease me when I visited her. This made my time in prison more bearable and helped me keep her memory alive."
The years were tough for his parents too.
Javed's mother Afsana Begum blamed herself for her son's misfortune. "If I hadn't insisted on going to visit my relatives in Karachi, maybe he would have been spared the ordeal," she tells me, wiping away tears.
His father sold his land and the family jewellery and accumulated massive debts to hire lawyers to fight his son's wrongful confinement.
Finally Javed was freed from jail on 19 January 2014, a day after a court threw out all charges against him and the judge said the prosecution's evidence did not add up.
"When I walked out of jail, for a while it was difficult to believe that I was really free," he says, adding, "but one-third of my life, which was the most important time of my life, my entire 20s, was taken away from me."
Over the past two years, Javed has been trying to rebuild his life, bit-by-bit. He's taken a shop close to his house where he repairs old TV sets, but he's angry that there's been no compensation and no punishment for the people who ruined his life.
I ask him if he's been in touch with Mobina since his release.
"No, it's been a long time, she may be married," he says.
I ask him if he would like to get in touch with her?
"I have managed to expel her from my head, but not from my heart. I still love her, but I'm afraid to call her. What happens if they go after me or my family again?"
Baker, 33, follows defender Matt Clarke and midfielder Danny Rose as new additions to Pompey manager Paul Cook's squad for next season.
The former Morecambe and Coventry player scored 15 goals in 72 games during his two seasons with MK Dons.
He was offered a new deal by the club at the end of last season, but opted to join Portsmouth instead.
Baker's move to Fratton Park will become official on 1 July, a club he admitted he nearly joined two years ago.
"It's lovely to finally arrive on the south coast," he told the club's website.
"Since then I've kept a close eye on their results and another big factor in me coming here is that Paul Cook was my boss at Southport, where I started out."
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An IPC taskforce has unanimously recommended the suspension, imposed in August, stays in place.
Russia was banned from last September's Rio Paralympics after revelations of systematic doping,
A taskforce report has expressed its concern at Russia's lack of action ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Last month, IPC president Sir Philip Craven told the BBC that the country's athletes may still be banned at next year's Games.
Russia was suspended after World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren detailed widespread drug use, and cover-ups allegedly involving government officials.
However, officials have not "specifically addressed'' McLaren's findings, either by accepting them or "properly rebutting'' them, according to the report from the IPC taskforce, which has been working with the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC).
"Unless and until the problems that led to the suspension are fully understood and addressed, the IPC taskforce is of the view that there can be no meaningful change in culture,'' said taskforce chairman Andy Parkinson, the chief executive of British Rowing.
Parkinson did report "various positive developments" since the taskforce started its work, including trying to set up an effective short-tern testing programme.
Athletics' world governing body, the IAAF, earlier this month voted to extend Russia's suspension from international competition.
Andrew Bache, from Portsmouth and known as Pepe, is in a critical condition after Russian fans went on the rampage with iron bars in Marseille.
His brother said his injuries were no longer life-threatening but could be "life-changing".
Friends who launched an appeal to help him have raised more than £5,000.
Chief Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said Mr Bache had been beaten around the head by Russians armed with iron bars.
He said officials had been unable to stop the Russian troublemakers as they had arrived in the city by train.
UEFA said the behaviour of both England and Russia fans before and after the 1-1 draw was "unacceptable".
A message from Mr Bache's brother, shared on Facebook, read: "He is still in a serious condition and they won't know the extent of his injuries until he is taken out of the induced coma.
"I was told that the chief inspector of the local police has informed them that they have excellent CCTV footage of the attack and have indentified those involved and pictures have been forwarded to French police."
Muir, 19, from Milnathort, near Kinross, will run in the 1500m, with Child competing in the 400m in Gothenburg and the 4x400m relay.
Muir made her GB debut in Glasgow in January.
Child's latest indoor run in Birmingham at 51.50 seconds was the fourth fastest all-time by a British woman.
Lynsey Sharp, who won a silver medal at the European Championships in Helsinki last summer, opted not to compete indoors this year despite setting the required standard and will turn her focus to outdoors as she targets 800m at the World Championships in August.
Muir is at Glasgow University studying veterinary medicine.
She won the Scottish cross country title a year ago this week at Under-20 level and then went to the World Juniors at 3000m.
"I'm delighted to be heading to Gothenburg and it will be good to have Eilidh Child there on the team as well," said Muir, the only British woman named at 1500m.
"I won the UK title in Sheffield and had the qualifying time from a previous race in Vienna so knew I had done enough. I could relax a wee bit and didn't need to race in the Birmingham Grand Prix.
"I was due to run in the Scottish Cross Country Champs at Falkirk on Saturday but even though I love that event it is better not to risk anything so close to Sweden. I plan to be there to cheer on my friends and my brother.
"After that it is Gothenburg and then I will try and fit in warm weather training ahead of the outdoor season. I have to do a certain amount of work experience to complete as part of my course but it is over a two-year period. I did the lambing last spring and really enjoyed that."
Full-time athlete Child has been in fine form indoors as the hurdler works on her speed via the 400m flat - breaking the Scottish Native and Scottish Indoor records in the process.
The 25-year-old from Perth won a silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and reached the semi-final stage at last year's Olympics.
Great Britain and Northern Ireland team:
MEN:
60m: Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, Dwain Chambers, James Dasaolu; 400m: Michael Bingham, Nigel Levine, Richard Strachan; 800m: Mukhtar Mohammed, Michael Rimmer, Joe Thomas; 60m hurdles: Andrew Pozzi; 4x400m: Michael Bingham, Richard Buck, Luke Lennon-Ford, Nigel Levine, Richard Strachan, Conrad Williams; High Jump: Robbie Grabarz; Pole Vault: Steve Lewis; Long Jump: Chris Tomlinson.
WOMEN:
60m: Asha Philip; 400m: Eilidh Child, Shana Cox, Perri Shakes-Drayton; 800m: Jenny Meadows (Captain); 1500m: Laura Muir; 3000m: Lauren Howarth; 4x400m: Margaret Adeoye, Meghan Beesley, Eilidh Child, Shana Cox, Christine Ohuruogu, Perri Shakes-Drayton; Pole Vault: Holly Bleasdale; Long Jump: Shara Proctor; Triple Jump: Yamile Aldama.
England bowled Australia out for 242 on Saturday to seal a 169-run victory in four days and take a 1-0 series lead.
"The players have been heading in the right direction over the last series with New Zealand and I was lucky to come in at this time," said Bayliss.
"They are interested in playing good, attacking cricket."
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Australian Bayliss, 52, was appointed as successor to Peter Moores at the end of May but this was his first match in charge, with assistant coach Paul Farbrace looking after the side in the interim.
During that time, they produced a number of attacking displays during the drawn two-Test series with New Zealand and the subsequent one-day international series victory against the World Cup finalists - form they carried over into the first Ashes Test in Cardiff.
Bayliss was full of praise for his players, singling out captain Alastair Cook for his leadership qualities.
"Any win is a fantastic feeling," said Bayliss. "I thought Alastair's captaincy was top notch. It always helps when the players underneath him are playing well."
However, Bayliss warned against any complacency from the hosts.
"The boys are aware that when you beat Australia, the next match is going to be even tougher because they will come back hard," he added.
"There is a long way to go in this series. To win we will have to play some very good cricket."
The second Test begins at Lord's on Thursday.
Despite appeals from human rights groups, he was executed in Pakistan on Tuesday.
His lawyers claim he was 14 when he was tortured into a confession and charged with involuntary manslaughter more than 10 years ago.
But the Pakistani authorities have said Shafqat Hussain's legal team failed to submit sufficient evidence to show he was a juvenile.
His brother, Manzoor, was at the jail to receive his body after the execution.
"What justice system is this?" Manzoor said. "He was just two and half years my junior - he was a young man."
Shafqat Hussain's uncle, Mohammad Altaf, who was also at the jail when he was executed, said his long imprisonment was inhumane.
"This is cruel... unjust. He was sentenced 12 years ago and all the appeals were rejected in one year. If he had been in prison for two more years he would have served a life imprisonment term already."
Shafqat Hussain met his family one last time before midnight, then was hanged shortly before dawn at the jail in Karachi.
Legal challenges and civil society campaigns saw his execution postponed four times this year.
But in the end, all the appeals and lobbying were ultimately turned down, including two letters from the provincial governments of Sindh and Pakistani-administered Kashmir which both asked for a stay on the execution.
Shafqat Hussein's case may have caused an international outcry to get him off death row but inside Pakistan it was cause for debate.
Many here support the death sentence and see it as justice being served in capital crimes.
Amnesty International described his hanging as "a sad day" for Pakistan. The sentiment was echoed by many activists on social media.
Others however, criticised NGOs for wanting to stop the hanging of someone they described as a child killer.
The authorities insist that Shafqat Hussain's case was properly handled.
"[His] case was given due process," Ashtar Ausaf Ali, minister of state and a special assistant to the prime minister on law, told the BBC.
Mr Ali also added that for the last few months the government has revised the case very closely and looked at it a number of times.
The Pakistani government partially lifted a moratorium on capital punishment in the aftermath of an attack on a school in Peshawar last December, in which more than 150 pupils and teachers were killed by the Taliban.
The attack shocked the Pakistani people and put the political and military leadership in a very tough spot.
Since then the government has been trying to prove it's taken measures to combat militancy.
At the time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the country was in an "extraordinary situation" that needed "extraordinary actions".
Later in the year the authorities lifted the moratorium on all capital punishment.
Pakistan is believed to have the largest number of death row inmates in the world. More than 8,000 prisoners are awaiting execution - many of whom have been in jail for over a decade.
So far about 200 people have been executed since December - only a small fraction of them were linked to terrorism.
Legal charities and human rights organisations have criticised the move saying the death penalty will not combat terrorism.
"The very logic of this is wrong," said Shahzad Akbar, a fellow at the legal charity Reprieve. "How can you deter a would-be suicide bomber by the death penalty?"
But Mr Ali insists that it has acted as a deterrent.
"The last eight months when the death penalty has been carried out was better than the last eight years (of the moratorium)," he said.
However, he didn't give any specific crime rates before or after the lifting of the moratorium.
"This is the law of the land," Mr Ali added. "It should be respected by all and adhered to."
But lawyers say the difficulty lies in Pakistan's flawed criminal justice system.
"There are inherent problems within the Pakistani justice system - like due process, proper legal representation and examining evidence," said Shahzad Akbar.
"What worries me is that there are many cases like Shafqat's that we don't have access to."
"People who have been languishing in jail for years and unless their cases are opened and looked at properly - the government should not hang them."
The Cube in Corby, which has cost £48m, now has its fourth floor office space completed and available for rent.
The rest of the building includes Corby Borough Council offices, a library, theatre and register office.
Tom Beattie, the council's Labour leader, said: "There was a cost over-run, but we held our hands up and accepted responsibility."
The Cube opened in November 2010, but it had issues, which included a leaking roof.
Building inspectors said the helical staircase was "dangerous, like a helter skelter" and it was described by the then Conservative opposition leader David Sims as a "poorly managed, waste of taxpayers' money".
Work to bring it up to scratch has now been completed, the council said.
Mr Beattie said: "We know it's taken a while, but we've got a building which is functional, people have got used to it and it makes a statement about Corby's ambition.
"As you see the developments taking place around the town centre, I don't think any of that would have happened without this building being here - it's acted as a magnet to attract further business."
Rob McKellar, current Conservative opposition leader, said: "The Cube is a building Corby can be proud of and it represents Corby's ambitions.
"It was controversial and there are multi-million pound overspends.
"The public did punish the Labour administration at the ballot box in May and Labour has apologised, but now it's time to look to the future and Corby's is certainly a bright one."
Earlier this year, council officer Steven Redfern, reached an out-of-court settlement after launching a £1m damages claim after he turned whistle-blower over the spiralling costs of the project.
The 22-year-old was one of 20 people who suffered burns when the substance was sprayed at the Mangle E8 club in Hackney, east London on Monday.
Arthur Collins, 25, from Hertfordshire, the boyfriend of TV celebrity Ferne McCann, is wanted for questioning.
Investigating officers have arrested three people in Hertfordshire.
A 33-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of firearms offences and is in custody in a north London police station.
The others were held when officers went to Mr Collins' home in Broxbourne and found a cannabis farm and illegal firearms.
A spokesman for Hertfordshire Police said the 54-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of cultivation of cannabis.
One of the victims of the acid attack on Monday night told BBC 5 live: "It was just a normal night out. To be involved in something like that… it annoys me, especially when you're just minding your own business and just going about what you normally do."
She added that she was not aware of a fight or argument breaking out until she was burned.
"I didn't clock until I got burned which is annoying because If there is an argument or a fight then my natural instinct is to walk away. I don't get myself involved in anything like that.
"So if I heard an argument I would have walked away straight away but there wasn't an argument, there wasn't a fight. The minute it happened was when I knew. I thought water had just been thrown or alcohol or something like that."
The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, added: "My burns and what I've got are not ideal and I hate the fact that they are going to scar and that I'm in pain with them.
"But I think what upsets me more is the fact that you are seeing young girls my age and even young men my age that have got scars on their face that you know are going to scar and make a massive impact on their life."
Ms McCann has appealed for Mr Collins to go to a police station.
Scotland Yard believe the acid was sprayed at two men, but hit others, following a dispute between two groups.
The injured men, aged 24 and 29, remain in a specialist burns unit hospital in Essex, both in a serious but stable condition.
A 22-year-old woman, who was also injured, said the men were black, but their faces were turned white by the acid.
Det Insp Lee McCullough said the "noxious substance used" was still being analysed.
Two other men, as well as Mr Collins, are wanted for questioning over the attack although police have not released any further information about them.
Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from the LoveJuice event.
These were reported to include three stars of The Only Way Is Essex - Jamie Reed, Jade Lewis and Chloe Meadows.
The company behind the event tweeted it was co-operating with the police investigation.
The acid attack is one of three similar reports made to police in London over the past week.
On Good Friday a carjacking victim was sprayed with a "noxious substance" in Bow, while an 18-year-old man suffered possibly life-changing injuries when he and another woman had a corrosive substance thrown over them in Fulham.
Midfielder Schumacher notched his first League Two goal of the season and Godden doubled the lead as the visitors grabbed two goals in four second-half minutes, before Michael Smith set up a thrilling finale.
Pompey winger Kyle Bennett sliced a 25-yard snapshot against the post in the eighth minute, with the hosts keen to prolong a four-match unbeaten streak.
Godden blasted a shot straight at goalkeeper David Forde, who took it at the second attempt, before Bennett's header on the stretch was held by Jamie Jones at the other end in a poor opening 45 minutes.
Bennett caused more problems in the second half, with his fierce swerving drive forcing Jones to parry, and then substitute Conor Chaplin lashed over before the goal flurry.
Schumacher's powerful drive went under Forde from a Ben Kennedy centre in the 71st minute, before Godden capitalised on a poor clearance from the goalkeeper to slide home.
Smith set up a nervy finish when he lashed in his third of the week at the back post with 10 minutes to play.
Jack Whatmough nodded against the post with the last action of the game as Boro continued their excellent form on the road.
Report provided by the Press Association.
Second Half ends, Portsmouth 1, Stevenage 2.
Matthew Clarke (Portsmouth) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Jack King (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jack King (Stevenage).
Attempt blocked. Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Gareth Evans (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card.
Gareth Evans (Portsmouth) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Attempt missed. Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Jack Whatmough (Portsmouth).
Matt Godden (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Carl Baker (Portsmouth) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Portsmouth 1, Stevenage 2. Michael Smith (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Carl Baker (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dean Wells (Stevenage).
Goal! Portsmouth 0, Stevenage 2. Matt Godden (Stevenage) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Matt Godden (Stevenage) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Hand ball by Ben Kennedy (Stevenage).
Matthew Clarke (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Matthew Clarke (Portsmouth).
Matt Godden (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Stevenage. Charlie Lee replaces Steven Schumacher.
Goal! Portsmouth 0, Stevenage 1. Steven Schumacher (Stevenage) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Foul by Amine Linganzi (Portsmouth).
Henry Cowans (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Conor Chaplin replaces Kyle Bennett.
Foul by Michael Smith (Portsmouth).
Dean Wells (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Steven Schumacher (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Matthew Clarke (Portsmouth).
Harry McKirdy (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Carl Baker (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Kennedy (Stevenage).
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Henry Cowans (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Stevenage. Harry McKirdy replaces Dale Gorman.
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Dale Gorman (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Mr Murphy has been replaced as shadow international development secretary by transport spokeswoman Mary Creagh.
Ms Creagh is succeeded by Michael Dugher, a close ally of Mr Miliband's.
Lucy Powell has been promoted to the shadow cabinet to take on responsibility for day-to-day operations for May's general election.
Ms Powell, a former chief of staff to Mr Miliband who became an MP only in 2012, promised to inject some new "energy and vigour" into Labour's campaigning on the ground.
She told the BBC she would review the party's campaign machine to ensure it was working "at its very best".
"I am going to make sure we put out the very best of our talents and communicate the very strong message that we have got going into the next election and unblock the system so our operation is serving all of those fantastic candidates, our fantastic front bench and our leader," she said.
Labour is facing a growing threat from UKIP in some traditional heartlands in the north-west of England.
It hung on to the seat of Heywood and Middleton, which is close to Ms Powell's Manchester Central seat, by just 617 votes last month.
Ms Powell, who was previously an education spokeswoman, said shadow ministers "need to be more visible and I will enable them to do that" in her role - previously held by Mr Dugher.
She added: "I am going to get Ed Miliband out there more because he is a fantastic asset out in the country meeting people directly and talking to people directly, not seeing things through the prism of the media down here [in London], who do not always give him the best ride."
The BBC's chief political correspondent Vicki Young said the changes were a reflection that Labour wanted it election campaign machine to run "more smoothly" and portray a more female-friendly image.
One recent opinion poll suggested that Labour support had dipped below 30% for the first time since 2010 amid concerns about the party's economic policy and Mr Miliband's leadership.
In other changes, Jon Trickett has been brought into Mr Miliband's office as a senior adviser while Alison McGovern has replaced Ms Powell as shadow children's minister. Anas Sarwar, who quit as the deputy leader of Scottish Labour, will take a shadow ministerial role in international development
The Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) said its full-year results would come in at the lower end of market expectations.
The company blamed a "marked deterioration in the UK print advertising market".
Shares in DMGT fell more than 8% in morning trading on Thursday.
DMG Media, which includes the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, saw revenues fall 3% in the third quarter.
This follows falls in revenue of 6% and 7% in the first two quarters respectively.
The group said MailOnline digital advertising revenue growth of £1m in the third quarter - an 8% rise - had partly offset a £7m decline in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday revenues.
"Given the weaker than anticipated UK print advertising market for DMG media and the more challenging market conditions for B2B [business to business publishing], the outlook for the group's full year results is now towards the lower end of market expectations," it said in a statement.
City analysts expects DMGT to report revenues of between £1.82bn and £1.93bn and pretax profit of between £275m and £292m.
DMGT join rivals Trinity Mirror and Johnston Press in warning of weaker ad markets.
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On paper it is easy: agriculture employs less than half a million people; financial services more than a million. Farming adds £8.5bn to the value of the UK economy, financial services £120bn.
Their Brexit concerns are very different. Agriculture is worried about potential average tariffs of 22.5% on meat imposed on non-EU countries and needs access to low-skilled labour to harvest and process food.
Finance is worried that foreign banks based in the UK will lose the right to sell their services throughout the EU from their substantial London operations.
When it comes to Brexit - which one do you prioritise? Neither - at least not according to the employers' group the CBI.
In its most comprehensive surveys of the post-Brexit needs of its members, it is urging the government to take a "whole economy" approach to negotiations. The success or failure of some sectors have knock-on effects for others. Energy and environmental regulations impact construction, housing manufacturing and other sectors.
Faced with this matrix of interconnected industries, the CBI is recommending some common principles to guide the government's hand. They include barrier-free access to our largest trading partner; a flexible approach to allow access to skills and labour; and a focus on global economic relationships with UK business interests at its heart.
It also endorses a smooth transition through the EU exit, which has become common code for an early agreement on a transitional period to avoid sleep-walking over a trade and regulation cliff-edge.
That all sounds like common sense - but it also sounds vague.
Once outside the EU, the UK will have to make some precise and delicate decisions.
One of the potential benefits of being outside the union is our ability to do new trade deals on our own terms. But that is when the toughest choices between different industries will have to be made.
For example, we may want to gain better access to New Zealand or South America for our world-beating financial services. In return, New Zealand and Argentina, say, may want to send more of its plentiful lamb and beef to the UK - something presently capped by an EU import quota to protect European farmers.
At that point, the finance or farming question may become less hypothetical than it seems at the moment.
One of Theresa May's key challenges will be delivering on a promise to deliver an economy that works for all. Delivering a post-Brexit economy that works for all businesses promises to be just as challenging.
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A sawfly, aphids and a mite were among the eight species new to the UK that have been identified on the 10,000-acre (4.046.8-hectare) estate.
A biting midge feeding on a larger cranefly was also observed during the survey that was made in 2012.
This behaviour had not previously been recorded in Europe, according to the estate's owner, Trees for Life.
The new species recorded were the sawfly Nematus pravus and Cinara smolandiae, an aphid.
Also recorded were two species of aphid parasitoids - Ephedrus helleni and Praon cavariellae - and three species of fungus gnats called Brevicornu parafennicum, Mycomya disa and Sceptonia longisetosa.
Ceratozetella thienemanni, a mite, was also recorded.
Trees for Life's executive director, Alan Watson Featherstone, observed the midge feeding on the cranefly.
He said: "The surprisingly rich variety of life at Dundreggan highlights the vital importance of conservation work and of protecting and enhancing habitats across the Highlands.
"The discoveries are not only demonstrating that the estate is a special site for biological diversity - they are also revealing that there is still much to learn about Scotland's biodiversity."
The decision was taken for the safety of children and teachers after some schools were left submerged in water, minister Riziki Pemba Juma said.
The rains have also destroyed property and roads.
More than 350,000 students are currently enrolled in school in the semi-autonomous region of Tanzania.
However, students are still sitting their school-leaving exams, Ms Juma said.
A deluge of rain on East Africa's coast has also reportedly killed 14 people and left 1,500 people homeless in neighbouring Kenya.
Alex Makwana's labour of love has seen him create 11 designs on Jo's stomach, including Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear and a mocked-up ultrasound scan.
Mr Makwana, 29, of Salisbury, said his wife of 12 days sat and watched Call The Midwife and One Born Every Minute during the four-hour painting sessions.
The baby will be the family's seventh child.
Mr Makwana said the other children "love" the paintings.
It is the second time Mr Makwana has created art on his 35-year-old wife's stomach, having done the same for their sixth child, Ava.
"Loads of people loved it last time so we've embraced it this time," he said.
He was lent the face-painting kit by Sarah Cookson, Ava's godmother.
The 11 designs include images the pair kissing at sunset - a replica of a photograph of the married couple taken at a recent wedding.
Mrs Makwana, whose baby is due in three weeks, described the process as a "bonding experience".
"It's a really lovely way to have memories of being pregnant with this baby," she said.
"It will be lovely when they are older to be able to show them the pictures and tell them the excitement which was centred around their bumps."
Christie, 22, has won five World Cup gold medals and broken the 500m world record this season.
She says she wants more time to prepare for the World Championships in March.
"We have put a lot of thought into this decision. I've been European champion more than once, but not yet world champion," Christie said.
"This extra training time could help me achieve that goal. It's a risk, but I am willing to try."
Christie has won overall gold at the last two European Championships - including the clean sweep of all three distances last year. This year's Championships begin on 13 January.
The fifth World Cup event of the season takes place in Dresden, Germany on 3-5 February and the World Championships take place from 10-12 March in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Offenders face a £50 fixed penalty from October in the latest measure to crack down on the harm caused by second-hand smoke, which was approved by AMs.
Smoking is already banned in public service and work vehicles under the legislation passed in 2007.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said smoke posed "a real and substantial threat to children's health".
"Children cannot escape from the toxic chemicals contained in second-hand smoke when travelling in cars," he said.
"They often don't have a choice over whether or not they travel in cars and may not feel able to ask an adult to stop smoking."
He added: "As with the existing smoke-free regulations, success will not be based on the number of enforcement actions that are taken but by how behaviour, attitudes and health outcomes change over time."
Currently, people are allowed to smoke in private vehicles but from October it will be banned if anyone under the age of 18 is on board.
While local authorities enforce the existing restrictions on smoking in public places, police will be responsible for action against offenders in private vehicles.
A ban on smoking in cars carrying children had already been approved for England.
The public spending watchdog says the level of error in the department's financial statements is "pervasive".
Since 2012-13, the DfE has consolidated the accounts of all academies with its own and that of its executive agencies.
As academies have a different reporting period, this has made it hard to make sense of the figures, the NAO says.
NAO chief executive Amyas Morse said that the inability of the department to provide statements that gave a "true and fair view" of the financial activity of its organisations meant it was not meeting the requirements of Parliament.
"I have provided an adverse opinion on the group financial statements, concluding that they are not true and fair and that the level of error I have identified is both material and pervasive," he says in the report.
The watchdog says that problems have arisen because the DfE has had to combine the accounts of more than 2,500 organisations - including academy trusts collectively running 3,905 individual academies - its own statements and that of its executive agencies.
To add to the confusion, the DfE has a different reporting period to academy trusts - the department has to produce its statements by the end of March, whereas the trusts' reporting period runs until 31 August, the end of the school year.
This has left the department facing a significant challenge in preparing and providing accounts that give a fair and true reflection of the financial activity across all bodies over the 12 months and the financial position at the end of the year, the report says.
Mr Morse said: "I recognise the importance of not placing unnecessary additional burdens on the academy sector.
"But the inability of the Department for Education to prepare financial statements providing a true and fair view of financial activity by its group of bodies means that it is not meeting the accountability requirements of Parliament.
"In particular, I believe that, if the challenge posed by consolidating the accounts of so many bodies and the fact that so many have a different reporting period is to be surmounted, the department and Treasury need to work together to find a solution."
A DfE spokesman said: "We are pleased the NAO has found no material inaccuracies in the financial statements of the department, the EFA and the 3,905 academy trusts included in this report.
"However consolidating the accounts of thousands of academies is an enormous task - a complex procedure and the largest of its kind carried out in the UK - and we recognise the issues identified by the NAO with this process. We take the concerns very seriously.
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said: "This is a straightforward, open-and-shut-case of incompetence by David Cameron's government.
"The accounts reflect serious management and leadership failings at the Department for Education that go all the way to the top.
"The findings in the accounts raise very serious questions about the ability of ministers to run the department."
Two out of three adults aged over 65 in the study said they had never talked to their family about the issue.
But Independent Age said cuts to social care budgets meant it was more important than ever for families to talk about the future.
One in four over-65s said they were not planning to broach the subject at all.
This group also said they were not planning to discuss issues such as who would care for them and where they would live if they could no longer look after themselves.
Around 2,000 adults completed an online questionnaire for the research.
Although 82% of adults recognised it was important to talk to older relatives about issues of ageing, only a minority had actually had these conversations.
This tended to be because they didn't want to face up to the issue, didn't know how to start the conversation or didn't want to upset their relatives.
But the charity warned that families risked making rushed decisions about care, health, housing and financial matters if they didn't starting talking.
It has launched a new online guide to help families broach the potentially difficult subject of ageing.
Janet Morrison, chief executive of Independent Age, said: "For many families, having these conversations will never be easy. For older people, it can mean facing the prospect of losing independence.
"For their relatives, it can mean facing the thought of losing a loved one or feeling overwhelmed by a sense of responsibility.
"But these are issues that only get more pressing with time. It is vital that families start talking about these issues now, so they're not left making important decisions at times of crisis or suddenly struggling to cope with significant caring responsibilities."
She added that an ageing population meant that fewer people were receiving care from local councils and were more reliant on informal care from family members.
It is estimated that the number of older people living with a disability will rise from 2.9 million to 4.8 million between 2015 and 2035.
Over the same time period, the number of disabled older people receiving informal care is projected to increase from 2.2 million to 3.5 million.
Fresh-faced financial technology start-ups (fintechs) are coming up with new mobile-first services - payments, loans, money transfers, digital currencies - and threatening to steal customers, particularly younger ones.
Investment bank Goldman Sachs estimates that $4.7tn (£3.3tn; €4.1tn) in revenue for traditional financial services is at risk of being displaced by these fintech upstarts.
"From Amazon's transformation of the retail sector, to Uber's revolution in personal transportation, banks are taking heed of what is happening in other industries," says Mohit Joshi, global head of financial services at tech consultancy, Infosys.
"The biggest banking market challenge is coming not from challenger banks, but from fintech start-ups."
This is why many old banks have been flirting with younger models in an effort to stay hip. But are such apparently mismatched relationships doomed to failure?
At the southern tip of Africa, in Cape Town, global banking giant Barclays is busy developing a secret tech solution to make it easier for consumers to make payments online.
But it has called on the expertise of local tech start-up Peach Payments to help, and the two are working on a product aiming to change the way people transact online in emerging markets.
Rahul Jain, co-founder of Peach Payments, says: "We are helping them actually design the product since we have the feedback from the market and understand e-commerce from the perspective of the merchant and the consumer.
'Invaluable feedback'
"This is invaluable feedback which the bank doesn't have normally."
From the bank's point of view, "it's about recognising that not all innovation has to happen within our own four walls," says Lubaina Manji, head of Barclays' group innovation office.
"There is a talented and vibrant start-up community globally, which Barclays can work with to co-create the future of financial services."
Peach Payments was one of 10 start-ups to participate in a 13-week Tech Lab Africa accelerator programme hosted by Barclays in Cape Town in December.
The bank also runs programmes and hubs in the UK, USA, and Israel, and has plans to launch activities in India and Lithuania.
Another start-up taking part in the programme was Nigerian firm Aella Credit, which has built an instant loan approval and payment platform that relies on data analytics to identify creditworthy borrowers.
Aella Credit director Akinola Jones says his firm has remained in constant communication with Barclays' innovation team since taking part in the programme.
But sceptics will point out that Barclays' recent decision to sell its Africa operations shows that such partnerships may be more to do with playing catch-up than leading from the front.
All those attractive fintech start-ups may appear tempting, but there is no consensus among the big beasts on the best way to get a piece of the action.
Some banks, such as Santander, National Bank of Australia and Citigroup, are providing venture funding and seed investments for fintechs.
Others, such as Barclays, Bank of America, and Sberbank, are creating or partnering with start-up incubator programmes.
Others still, like Spain's BBVA, are simply buying them up.
"We're yet to see which type of approach will prove the most fruitful, but industry experts are unanimous in their belief that those banks which bury their heads in the sand and fail to acknowledge the impact of fintechs are putting their entire business at risk," says Vincent Bastid, chief executive of Efma, a research and networking organisation for financial institutions.
Efma has just produced a report looking at the impact of fintechs on the established financial services industry.
In a similar example, French bank BNP Paribas has linked up with Swiss fintech accelerator, Fusion - a partnership the bank says is "at the heart" of its digitisation plan.
Based in Geneva, Fusion takes on 10 start-ups each year, and puts them through a 12-month intensive programme of mentoring, funding, and access to markets.
Kim Potvin, chief operating officer at BNP Paribas (Suisse), believes the partnership is already yielding tangible results, and will help its Swiss arm become "a leading player in the financial services of the future."
Fusion's programme director Sebastien Flury describes the partnership as a "win-win" situation, with benefits for banks and start-ups alike.
But if all this sounds a little too cosy, entrepreneur Daniel Doderlein, chief executive of Norwegian cloud-based mobile payments platform Auka, has this stark warning for fellow fintech start-ups.
"If you partner with banks too early on, they can basically poison the well for you - you effectively become a consultant. They take the air out of the innovation balloon and the project dies instantly."
By building his own platform, mCash, and establishing a consumer business first, Mr Doderlein found he was then able to sell it to initially sceptical banks from a position of strength. Norway's Sparebank 1 bought the mCash business in October last year.
And Gareth Mellon of research firm Frost & Sullivan warns that the jury is out on just how effective such partnerships are.
Many are purely "defensive strategies" by the banks, he says, and have proved difficult to integrate within existing business models.
"While fintechs have brought heightened innovation, they remain limited in their scope and, in many ways, are forced to rely upon the established players to ensure market adoption," says Mr Mellon.
Perhaps the biggest threat to banks, in Europe at least, is the European Commission's forthcoming Payment Services Directive 2, due to come into force early in 2018.
This aims to open up electronic payments to more competition by forcing banks to open up their IT systems to new entrants, thus encouraging innovation.
"If you don't provide a mobile payments app to your customers, your risk being marginalised," says Mr Doderlein. "It's going to be a bloodbath."
Perhaps the banks need tech start-ups more than tech start-ups need the banks.
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The head of Mexico's emergency services, Luis Felipe Puente, said 10 bodies were found when his staff entered the site. Three workers had already been reported dead.
The blast hit a state facility in the southern city of Coatzacoalcos. The cause of the explosion is unclear.
More than 100 people were injured and thousands had to leave their homes.
Footage showed a large fire and huge plumes of smoke.
The facility is owned by Mexico's state oil company, Pemex. Several explosions have been reported at Pemex facilities in recent years.
Mr Puente tweeted on Thursday: "We have examined the affected area and can say that unfortunately so far there are 13 people dead."
The director of Pemex, Jose Gonzalez Anaya, said in a radio interview that of 136 injured people, 13 were in a critical condition while 48 had been discharged from hospital.
He said the explosion "was caused by a leak" but "we don't know how that leak occurred".
Mr Anaya said the death toll could still rise.
The incident occurred at around 15:15 local time (20:15 GMT) on Wednesday. Veracruz state Governor Javier Duarte told a radio station the blast was felt 10km (six miles) away.
In pictures: Mexico explosion
The fire was under control by early evening, Pemex said. Residents were told to stay indoors because of the possible toxic nature of the smoke from the blast, but Pemex said the smoke dissipated quickly, lessening any possible toxic effects.
On Thursday the company said there was no longer any danger from the smoke.
Pemex said the part of the factory hit by the explosion was managed by a sister company, Mexichem.
Associated Press reported that the plant produces vinyl chloride, a dangerous chemical used to make PVC pipes and packaging materials.
Exports of oil from the plant, one of the largest terminals for oil distribution in Mexico, would not be affected, the company added.
In September 2012, an explosion then a fire at a gas plant in the northern state of Tamaulipas killed 33 people.
Pemex's own headquarters in Mexico City was hit by a large gas blast in January 2013, killing 37 people.
A number of fires also struck the company's rigs in the Gulf of Mexico last year, and a worker was killed in another fire at the Veracruz plant in February this year.
Henley, 28, shot three birdies in his first six holes on his way to a six-under-par 64 in Old Westbury, New York.
Johnson only dropped one shot in the first of the PGA Tour's four FedEx Cup play-off events, as defending champion Rory McIlroy carded a three-over 73.
"I hit a lot of really good shots," said Johnson, 33.
"I drove it well, did everything really well. It's the first time in a long time I've done that."
Johnson retains the top spot despite struggling to find the form that resulted in three victories heading into the Masters in April, when he was forced to pull out after slipping and injuring his back on the eve of the tournament.
"Today was the first time it's kind of felt - the golf swing - I was in control, like I was leading into the Masters," he added.
Justin Rose finished the day on two under par, while fellow Englishman Paul Casey and Martin Laird of Scotland are a stroke further back.
Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy is nine shots off the pace after a disappointing three-over-par 73.
Jacqueline Perry, of Morriston, allegedly took cash, medication and jewellery from semi-conscious patients at Swansea's Morriston Hospital.
The 49-year-old is accused of stealing ??1 coins from the glasses case of one elderly cancer sufferer and valuable gold heirloom rings from another.
She faced eight counts of theft at Swansea Magistrates' Court.
Perry was working at the hospital over the period in question, which covers the three months until January this year.
All the alleged victims were vulnerable and elderly patients on ward G at the hospital, who were recovering from surgery, prosecutor Linda Baker said.
Items Ms Perry allegedly stole include a 22 carat gold wedding ring belonging to 89-year-old Nancy Thomas.
The cancer sufferer also lost two other gold rings of "sentimental value," with all three collectively worth ??1,800, the court heard.
Ms Perry is also accused of stealing a gold ring from a patient recovering from surgery for stomach cancer.
She allegedly stole wallets containing small amounts of cash from chronically ill patients and medication including co-codamol and gabapentin, from the ward.
Magistrates sent the case to be heard before a judge next week at Swansea Crown Court.
Ms Perry was released on unconditional bail.
Their lungs showed no decline, on average, after they inhaled healthy copies of the gene that causes CF once a month for a year, results published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine show.
And the lungs most clogged before the trial showed a 3% improvement.
The lungs of patients that did not take the gene therapy showed a decline of 3-4% on average over the same period.
Prof Eric Alton, of Imperial College London, who led the trial, warned: "The effect is modest and it is variable. It is not ready to go straight into the clinic yet."
Prof Alton and his colleagues at the UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy consortium, which includes scientists at Edinburgh and Oxford Universities as well as Imperial, are hoping to have a further trial next year.
Cystic fibrosis is an inherited condition caused by a faulty gene that leads to a build up of sticky mucus causing debilitating infections in the nose, throat and lungs.
Patients' average life expectancy is 41.
Kieran Kelly, who usually takes about 40 pills, injections and inhaled medicines throughout the day, was among those taking part in the trial.
He told BBC News: "I did feel a lot healthier. It might have been psychological, but I did feel better in myself.
"You have to live every day that you have," he added. "You have to be as positive as you can, just live your life and enjoy it."
Nadia Lloyd lives with Mr Kelly in Brighton, and they are planning to marry later this month.
She said: "You have to be quite hopeful. When we first met [nine years ago], the average life expectancy was 28.
"So every time you see medical developments, it is always so encouraging".
But they both know the new gene therapy probably will not be ready in time to help Mr Kelly.
"The chances are that it will have an effect on anyone taking part in the trials are quite slim," he said. "It would be great if it does."
But Miss Lloyd said he had already benefited from drugs developed as a result of other people taking part in previous trials.
She added: "What Kieran is doing could help so many people in the future. I am very proud of him."
Prof Stuart Elborn, of Queen's University in Belfast, said the results were "encouraging" but the therapy had been no more effective than some of the drugs currently available.
And he called for more small-scale tests to see if a larger dose would be more effective.
"If I was on the board of a pharmaceutical company, I would require further studies to determine the best dose and whether the current treatment could be combined with other drugs to increase the effect," he said.
"It is too soon to proceed with larger phase-three trials costing many millions".
Cystic Fibrosis Trust chief executive Ed Owen said: "The advantage of gene therapy is that it attacks the basic defect of cystic fibrosis and that has the potential to reduce the daily routine of drugs that those with cystic fibrosis endure each day and (offers the possibility) of long-term improvement to transform their lives".
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The Ferguson Brown, worth up to £20,000, is one of 100 vintage tractors for sale in Dromore, County Tyrone on Saturday.
The collection owner spent 40 years lovingly restoring the vehicles but has now decided to sell them off.
And the sale has attracted interest from the US and Germany.
David Graham of Euro Auctions said there has been "huge interest" in the sale.
He said he believed it was due in part to people's nostalgic connection to the land.
David Marshall from Omagh is hoping to buy the Ferguson Brown for a customer in Cumbria.
But he was not prepared to say what he would be prepared to pay for the "iconic little lady".
"It'll definitely go for more than the £226 it was worth when it was new," he said.
The Ferguson Brown revolutionised farming as it was the first tractor which allowed implements like ploughs to be connected directly to the vehicle and raised and lowered using a gear system.
Also in the sale are 15 racing red Porsche tractors - with a top speed of 20mph.
They were built under franchise in the Republic of Ireland in the post war years.
They are expected to make between £10-20,000 depending on the model.
That was the moment he knew he was safe. The rickety boat in which he had fled Vietnam was so full of sick and faeces it was burnt by the British crew.
Seeing that, "I felt ecstatic," he told me, because he knew then he would not be taken back.
He was speaking to me from his home in Wiltshire where he works in social care and is married to the great granddaughter of the former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
His life in Britain has been a far cry from his early years looking after water buffalo and scraping a living in the jungle of south Vietnam.
He arrived in the UK in 1979 when 25 thousand people were leaving Vietnam every month by boat. The UNHCR reckons 400,000 died at sea in the years that followed.
Ka Fue Lay's nephew Tat Wa Lay, who was just a baby when the family left, has now returned to work in Vietnam.
Seeing the current refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, he was moved to write on Facebook about the warm welcome his family received in Britain all those years ago and called for people to open their minds and hearts.
His mother had told him about the moment in 1984 when they arrived on a council estate expecting hostility and racism and instead a "young scruffy man" took off his coat and handed it to the freezing cold refugees.
The gesture was so touching he said that others soon followed. His mother never forgot that moment and he wrote "my brother still remembers the warmth of that coat and it stays in his heart to this day".
12.5 million people have now viewed that post and it's been shared 150,000 times.
Will those who have fled Syria follow the pattern being set by the Vietnamese?
Many of Vietnam's 4 million-strong diaspora are - like Tat Wa Lay - now returning.
Living in Britain he was always curious about why he was "different".
He never understood why his uncle had long fingernails and why his mother squatted on the floor to chop chicken when they had perfectly good work surfaces.
His parents never spoke of what happened so it was only from a relative that he learnt that he was a refugee.
Living in Ho Chi Minh city has answered some of his childhood questions. And he feels that he has something to contribute to society here. He's teaching English and is developing iPad apps to help children learn the language.
As we chatted on the banks of the Saigon River, I was struck by how different the city must look from the time his parents fled. Our backdrop was a glass high-rise tower with built-in helipad.
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But many of the old ways survive. Fishing boats passed that looked little different to those that had saved his family.
And within earshot was our government minder - a prerequisite of getting a visa from the communist authorities to report here.
We had to give him a list of those we wanted to interview. It is not unknown for people to have lost their job or worse for what they have said to reporters.
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is trying to work out how to allow enough capitalism to fuel the rapidly growing economy and the expectations of its increasingly sizeable middle class, whilst still allowing the old communist regime to retain power.
That is where their interests may align with the free market of Silicon Valley.
For what is bringing many people back is not just the beauty of the country, nor the ties to their homeland but the opportunities of a very 21st century industry: technology.
Ngan Lee runs a technology forum. In a high rise rooftop bar she told me that Wi-Fi in Ho Chi Minh City is faster and cheaper than any other South East Asian city.
The whole of the city of Da Nang has free Wi-Fi - families even use it when they head out to the park.
It helps explain why more than 40 million of Vietnam's 90 million population are online.
Dream-plex in central Ho Chi Minh city is the kind of trendy, co-working space you'd find in California.
A large open plan office with kitchen and games room where people can rent desk space and benefit from chatting to others who are dreaming big. The people I spoke to here had almost all been educated overseas or had recently arrived in the country.
They were all excited about the opportunities afforded by the hustle and fast pace of this city.
As one recent arrival told me about this ancient city: "Vietnam is a start-up".
The PCS Union had balloted its members over an improved offer to stop the continuous strikes that have affected its sites since April.
NMW has been attempting to end "premium payments" paid to many frontline staff for working weekend shifts.
Other ad-hoc strikes had taken place over the past two years over the issue.
It will see some of NMW's lowest paid staff having their take-home pay reduced.
Earlier this month, workers were offered a buy-out equivalent to five years' worth of weekend payments, and a 4% pay rise. The lump sum was double the museum's previous best offer.
Depending on how many Saturdays and Sundays they work, the payments for affected staff will range from £163 to £20,000.
The Welsh Government is providing all of the extra money being offered as part of the new deal.
Ministers' support is significant as NMW has previously blamed government cuts to its budget for forcing it to cut the wages of some of its lowest paid staff.
David Anderson, director general, said he hoped all would now move forward together.
"I am very pleased that we have reached an agreement with PCS, and therefore all our recognised trade unions, on the cessation of Premium Payments, and the dispute has come to an end," he said.
"I would personally like to thank visitors for their patience during this time and look forward to offering them - the people of Wales and beyond - a high-quality museum experience."
Charteris missed the first two matches against Italy and England with a broken hand but was a second-half replacement in the 29-13 defeat in Scotland.
After starting for Bath in their 24-3 defeat by Wasps on Saturday, Charteris believes he is ready to face Ireland in Cardiff six days later.
"I feel good and would give it a go," the Bath lock said.
Scarlets second-row Jake Ball has partnered captain Alun Wyn Jones in the first three games.
Charteris, who will celebrate his 34th birthday on Thursday, played just under an hour in Bath's defeat against Premiership leaders Wasps at the Rec.
"It was a fast paced game," he said.
"It was good to get a run out, it has been a stop start season so far.
"The hand felt good, which was the main thing. I might have been back sooner but I managed to pull my hamstring in training.
"I am fully over that now with two games under my belt.
"Hopefully it will be good to finish the season, stay injury free and play some rugby."
Fellow Welsh forward Taulupe Faletau also played 80 minutes for Bath and is battling for a starting spot in the back-row after recovering from a knee problem.
"It is good to see him back," added Charteris.
"He is a quality player and you can see when he gets his hands on the ball he is such a threat."
The Scottish government said this second phase of pilots - stretching from Dumfries to Shetland - was due to begin by the summer of 2017.
In November, it was announced that Aberdeen, Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders would be the first test areas.
Ministers said they were working to improve how parents accessed free childcare, which is due to rise from 600 to 1,140 hours a year by 2020.
Some parents have said they struggle to access the existing free entitlement, given to all three and four year olds and vulnerable two year olds, because of a lack of flexibility.
The pilots will try out models including;
These will commence by summer 2017
These will commence in January 2017
The first phase beginning in January will see the Borders introduce extended days and cover for school holidays.
There will also be a "stay and play" scheme for two year olds in Aberdeen and a woodland play area scheme in Edinburgh will be extended.
The cost of the 14 trials will be £950,000.
Minister for Childcare and Early Years Mark McDonald said that providing better access to "high-quality early learning and childcare (ELC)" was key to improving attainment.
He added: "By giving Scotland's young people the best possible start in life we can ensure they develop the skills and confidence they need to reach their full potential.
"This government is committed to almost doubling the free entitlement to 1,140 hours per year by 2020, while delivering the flexibility that families need.
"By trialling different delivery models in partnership with local authorities we will be better able to understand what parents and children need and want."
Celtic's dramatic win over Spartak Moscow on Wednesday clinched a place in the knock-out phase of the Champions League from a tough group that also included Barcelona.
Draw for the Champions League last 16 takes place on Thursday, 20 December
But defending champions Chelsea were knocked out despite thrashing Nordsjaelland 6-1 at Stamford Bridge.
Manchester United and Arsenal had already qualified for the next round prior to the final match day, but Premier League champions Manchester City failed to qualify for the Europa League after losing 1-0 at Borussia Dortmund - a result that means they did not win any of their six Champions League group games.
Liverpool and Tottenham joined Newcastle in the last 32 of the Europa League after beating Udinese and Panathinaikos respectively on Thursday.
The draw for the Champions League last 16 and the knockout stages of the Europa League takes place on Thursday, 20 December.
Here, BBC Sport looks at who has gone out and who has gone through across Europe.
Paris Saint-Germain and Porto comfortably qualified with Dynamo Kiev taking the Europa League spot.
Schalke topped the group with Arsenal second.
The German side's 1-1 draw with Montpellier was enough to win the group as Arsenal lost to Olympiakos in their final game. The Greek side go through to the Europa League.
Malaga and AC Milan both secured their places in the last 16 before the final group games, with the Spanish side top. Zenit St Petersburg took the Europa League spot thanks to their win in Milan on Tuesday night.
Borussia Dortmund won the group and ended Manchester City's European season with a 1-0 win in Germany on Tuesday. Real Madrid are also into the last 16, with Ajax taking the spot in the Europa League.
Juventus won the group with a win against Shakhtar Donetsk that ensured Chelsea will have to make do with a place in the Europa League.
Blues boss Rafael Benitez but they still finished third.
Bayern Munich and Valencia were already sure of their progress before the final round of matches and both teams rounded off their group campaign with wins.
The German side thrashed BATE Borisov 4-1 to ensure they went through as group winners, while Valencia beat Lille 1-0 in France. BATE already knew they would finish third and go into the Europa League.
Neil Lennon's side needed to better Benfica's result in the final round of matches, and the Portuguese side could only draw 0-0 at group winners Barcelona.
Benfica will now play in the Europa League.
Galatasaray pipped Cluj to second place behind United after a dramatic late win over Braga.
The Turkish side, who trailed to Mossoro's first-half goal, levelled through Burak Yilmaz's header and triumphed when Aydin Yilmaz tapped home after Braga keeper Quim failed to hold on to a shot.
That meant they finished above Cluj on the head-to-head rule, leaving the Romanian side to settle for a Europa League spot.
Liverpool won their group following their 1-0 win over Udinese.
Anzhi were already through, but slipped to a 3-1 defeat away to Young Boys.
Newcastle had already qualified but their 2-0 defeat away to Bordeaux saw them finish in second place behind the French side.
Tottenham ensured their progress with a 3-1 win over Panathinaikos at White Hart Lane, but they finished second behind Lazio, who beat NK Maribor.
A large air and sea search began following the discovery on a beach in north Cornwall shortly after 08:00 GMT on Saturday, amid concerns there could be other people in the water.
The man's body was pulled from the shoreline at Treyarnon Bay.
Police say they do not believe there are any suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.
The coastguard helicopter, coastguard rescue teams, police and ambulance crews were all called to the scene.
Rescuers say they tried to revive the man, but were not successful.
He is described as being in his 40s with cropped ginger hair, and was wearing brown trousers and a black Yamaha top.
Officers want to hear from anyone who may have seen him in the area in the hours before his body was discovered.
The Israel striker calmly converted after Jiri Skalak had been sent tumbling in the area by Jackson Irvine.
Hemed and team-mate Bruno also went close, while Irvine forced David Stockdale to save well.
Brighton's Lewis Dunk headed against the bar eight minutes after the break from Skalak's corner as Burton failed to carve out many good chances.
The victory, which kept Brighton in the top six, was the club's second successive 1-0 win, having inflicted a first defeat of the season on leaders Huddersfield on Tuesday.
Having lost their opening two games of the season, Burton had gone into the match unbeaten in their previous five league encounters, but offered little in terms of clear-cut chances against last season's beaten play-off semi-finalists.
Hemed had a first-half shot that was easily saved, while Bruno and Anthony Knockaert both missed the target for the Seagulls and Brewers forward Jamie Ward stung the palms of Stockdale on the stroke of half time.
Brighton turned the screw on their hosts after the break following Dunk's brush with the frame of the goal as Hemed shot wide and Shane Duffy headed over after a ball in by Knockaert.
But Brighton finally broke through with three minutes left as Hemed scored for the first time since the EFL Cup win at Oxford United on 23 August.
Burton boss Nigel Clough: "It's unbelievably frustrating. We have lost three games now by the odd goal and we just keep shooting ourselves in the foot.
"We contributed to the defeat giving the ball away on the halfway line and we don't need to give Brighton a helping hand.
"They are the best side we have played this season. To hang on in there until the 87th minute with organisation and will not to concede a goal and then to give one away in those circumstances is difficult to take."
REACTION: Burton Albion manager Nigel Clough speaks to BBC Radio Derby
Brighton manager Chris Hughton: "We had to really fight for that today. They came into the game with a few injuries but they played to a game plan.
"I don't think anybody would deny that we deserved to win the game. The later the game went the more we thought that it wouldn't be our day but we just had that little bit of something at the end to win it.
"When it gets that late in the game, we certainly felt that we should have put the game to bed earlier than that but you have to give Burton credit, they worked very hard and had a few opportunities themselves."
Match ends, Burton Albion 0, Brighton and Hove Albion 1.
Second Half ends, Burton Albion 0, Brighton and Hove Albion 1.
Offside, Burton Albion. Marcus Myers-Harness tries a through ball, but Matthew Palmer is caught offside.
Gaëtan Bong (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gaëtan Bong (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Jamie Ward (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dale Stephens.
Goal! Burton Albion 0, Brighton and Hove Albion 1. Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty Brighton and Hove Albion. Jiri Skalak draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Lee Williamson (Burton Albion) after a foul in the penalty area.
Foul by Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Oliver Norwood.
Attempt missed. Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Jackson Irvine.
Foul by Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Tom Flanagan.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Oliver Norwood replaces Beram Kayal.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Ben Fox replaces Hamza Choudhury.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Rob Hunt replaces Bruno.
Attempt missed. Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Anthony Knockaert with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Tom Naylor.
Attempt blocked. Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lewis Dunk.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Lee Williamson (Burton Albion) because of an injury.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Glenn Murray replaces Jamie Murphy.
Foul by Beram Kayal (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Jamie Ward (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dale Stephens (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marcus Myers-Harness (Burton Albion).
Substitution, Burton Albion. Marcus Myers-Harness replaces Will Miller.
Foul by Jamie Murphy (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Tom Naylor (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jamie Ward.
Tom Naylor (Burton Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Beram Kayal (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Naylor (Burton Albion).
Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) hits the bar with a header from the right side of the six yard box. Assisted by Jiri Skalak with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by John Brayford.
Campaigners say the proposed wet dock crossing could ease traffic problems, help create jobs and regenerate the waterfront.
Bridges crossing the River Orwell would also link the town with an island site.
Funding of £151m was confirmed in the Budget for both the Ipswich crossing and a third crossing in Lowestoft.
Ipswich MP Conservative Ben Gummer, who has campaigned for the scheme, said it was a "fantastic day".
"It is the single most important piece of new infrastructure that the town needs at the moment," he said.
"It will link the town better, release development land for jobs and prosperity in the centre of the town and help us to re-stitch the waterfront to the town centre."
A campaign for the £81m project was launched in October 2014 and a business case submitted to the Department for Transport in December by Suffolk County Council and the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership.
The council said the scheme could trigger local economic growth worth more than £8bn.
Council leader Colin Noble said he was "pleased" by the chancellor's announcement and the council would now proceed with developing the proposals.
"This is a massive piece of work and... will deliver jobs and much improved infrastructure," he added.
An initial study into the crossing was given £100,000 in the 2014 autumn statement, before £2m was released in last year's budget for a feasibility study.
It is hoped it could be built in 2020.
The Spaniard scored from the penalty spot and on the counter-attack in injury time to wrap up the points and net his first hat-trick for the club.
Earlier, he gave Brentford the lead from a tight angle before Rotherham levelled through Aimen Belaid's header.
Nico Yennaris turned in Ryan Woods' cross and Anthony Forde's long-shot made it 2-2, but Semi Ajayi's handball allowed Jota to claim the victory.
Jota was recalled early from a loan spell at Spanish side Eibar in January and has been in fine form since his return.
The 25-year-old's contribution was telling against bottom side Rotherham, who were denied just a second point on the road this season.
Playing as a forward because of an injury to Lasse Vibe, he found the bottom corner after good work from Florian Jozefzoon to set the Bees on their way.
Despite their perilous position, the Millers fought back admirably and Daniel Bentley was forced to save one-on-one from Danny Ward, while Ajayi and Jon Taylor also had chances.
After Belaid and Yennaris traded goals, substitute Forde looked to have made a telling contribution with his 25-yard strike - but it was Jota who had the final say in added time.
He placed his penalty down the middle to make it 3-2 before rounding off a move on the break to take his side up to 13th and condemn Rotherham to a seventh defeat in their last eight league games.
Brentford manager Dean Smith:
"Jota has saved it for us late on. He is a terrific player and I have not worked with a player with such good balance.
"When we move the ball quickly we look at our most effective and always look like scoring, but I wish we didn't have these five-minute spells where they have chances.
"We were in total control in the first half but after the break they got a little lift and we got a bit sloppy and gave too many cheap free-kicks away, which I was disappointed with because we'd spoken about their threat from set-pieces."
Rotherham interim manager Paul Warne told BBC Radio Sheffield:
"The result wasn't fair on us. I don't think it flattered us when it was 2-2. I thought we played really well and I told the lads they had to take pride in their performance.
"I'm not going to say we are down until we are down but we are all realists. I think we have a responsibility to our fans, our sponsors, our chairman and our families to perform every week.
"I think if you came here today and said my lads had given up then you'd been drinking heavily before you came in."
Match ends, Brentford 4, Rotherham United 2.
Second Half ends, Brentford 4, Rotherham United 2.
Goal! Brentford 4, Rotherham United 2. Jota (Brentford) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal following a fast break.
Attempt saved. Sergi Canos (Brentford) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Romaine Sawyers.
Foul by Andreas Bjelland (Brentford).
Dexter Blackstock (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Brentford 3, Rotherham United 2. Jota (Brentford) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Penalty conceded by Semi Ajayi (Rotherham United) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
Rico Henry (Brentford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dexter Blackstock (Rotherham United).
Goal! Brentford 2, Rotherham United 2. Anthony Forde (Rotherham United) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
Corner, Rotherham United. Conceded by Maxime Colin.
Substitution, Rotherham United. Dexter Blackstock replaces Richard Smallwood.
Foul by Justin Shaibu (Brentford).
Anthony Forde (Rotherham United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Will Vaulks (Rotherham United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a set piece situation.
Foul by Andreas Bjelland (Brentford).
Danny Ward (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Rotherham United. Joe Mattock replaces Aimen Belaid.
Hand ball by Anthony Forde (Rotherham United).
Foul by Justin Shaibu (Brentford).
Semi Ajayi (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Sergi Canos (Brentford) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Romaine Sawyers.
Goal! Brentford 2, Rotherham United 1. Nico Yennaris (Brentford) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Ryan Woods with a cross.
Substitution, Brentford. Justin Shaibu replaces Konstantin Kerschbaumer.
Attempt missed. Jon Taylor (Rotherham United) header from the left side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Will Vaulks with a cross.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Semi Ajayi.
Attempt blocked. John Egan (Brentford) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jota with a cross.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Anthony Forde.
Substitution, Brentford. Sergi Canos replaces Florian Jozefzoon.
Attempt saved. Aimen Belaid (Rotherham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Will Vaulks.
Corner, Rotherham United. Conceded by Konstantin Kerschbaumer.
Attempt blocked. Danny Ward (Rotherham United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Forde with a cross.
Corner, Rotherham United. Conceded by John Egan.
Attempt blocked. Jota (Brentford) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Konstantin Kerschbaumer.
Goal! Brentford 1, Rotherham United 1. Aimen Belaid (Rotherham United) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Anthony Forde following a set piece situation.
Foul by John Egan (Brentford).
Jon Taylor (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Rico Henry (Brentford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Will Vaulks (Rotherham United).
It will have been sometime in the 1970s, and I was on a family camping holiday in the middle of France. How on earth it ended up in our possession I have no idea: my parents were certainly not the kind of people to read obscene political cartoons!
But I do remember what was in it.
There'd been some demos outside a nuclear plant that was being built and a protester had died in clashes with police. I have a clear recollection of the front page: the ultimate caricature of a brutish French riot-cop, a grinning bovine Uruk-Hai; and in his hand the blood-dripping head of a long-haired hippy.
A nerdy teenager at the time and distinctly damp behind the ears, I remember thinking: we don't get much of that back home!
But it was vaguely stirring. What audacity! The image was so grotesquely exaggerated that you know the message lay deeper.
They weren't just saying: we think the police are thugs. They were saying: we think the police are thugs; and to make our point, we are prepared to push to their limits any notion of taste, decency and accuracy. Why do we do it? Because we can. Because it's funny. Why not?
Conservative types were shocked by Charlie Hebdo, and they were supposed to be.
In those days the main target - apart from the police - was the Catholic Church. I've seen defecating popes, nuns in sex orgies; nuns in sex orgies defecating on popes.
Charlie Hebdo drew on an anti-clerical tradition in France that goes way back in time, and at some point the Church quite sensibly gave up complaining.
In my mind Charlie Hebdo merged with other childhood memories of France. Smelly loos at campsites; countryside that took your breath away; bosomy farmers' wives in patterned blue dresses; all that bucolic stuff and the chateaux - and then this blast of raw anarchy.
Instinctively I knew it was all part of the French mix.
Quite possibly the artist who drew that totally over-the-top picture of the French riot-cop was the cartoonist Cabu.
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That's another part of the mix - in France if you want to be taken seriously as an anarcho-agit-prop illustrator, get yourself a nom de plume. In the obituaries this week the cartoonists have all been designated by their nicknames - I don't think anyone cares what they are actually called.
Cabu was definitely around and drawing for Charlie Hebdo back in the 1970s. He'd been around for ever. In his 80s he still dressed like he did half a century ago, and his mop of young hair over a humorous old man's face made him look like a cross between Ronnie Corbett and Elton John.
Anyway, Cabu's dead now. He was murdered. I'll say that again - he was murdered. He was murdered for drawing pictures.
Could Cabu possibly have imagined in his wildest nightmares, when he set out on his career taking on the establishment 60 years ago, that his last seconds on this earth would be that sudden noise at the door of the editorial meeting room; the incomprehension; the shouts; the shots.
And then they say "Which one's Cabu?" and the Islamist's Kalashnikov is pointing at your own head.
That's how far the world has moved. Back when Cabu started, it was police and the Pope. Now we have other things to worry about.
And if there is one thing that everyone in the West frets about, it's Islam; it's Islamism; it's our countries' relationship with Islam; and it's our fear of what the future holds in a world where Islam - once our neighbour, once our enemy - is now part of us.
Cabu and the others knew this, and their reaction was to say: well if you're part of us, then think like us, be like us. Understand that there is a difference between mockery and persecution; that words and pictures are only just that; and that part of the deal is that we rise above offence - yes, even when its towards our religion.
Cabu would have been gratified by the outpouring of support on the streets of France these last dreadful few days.
But he would probably also have said: where were you all when we needed you? He and the others stuck their necks out for freedom. No-one else did.
I miss the world of the anarchic 70s when the worst that could happen when you showed a copulating Christ figure was a letter in Le Figaro from "outraged" from Aix-les-Bains. Now you die.
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Cae Post will stop working in Welshpool and the north of the area after the local authority decided to take on the work itself.
While Powys Council took on workers, 17 staff have been made redundant.
Cae Post is a social enterprise which employs disabled and disadvantaged workers.
Chairman of trustees John Harrington said the loss of the contract would cause "difficulties", but the charity would look for other opportunities.
The 30-year-old operation plans to distribute 3D printer filament and offer a trade waste collection service.
Powys Council has distributed new boxes and plans to run collections in line with collection work around the county.
Roedd y cyflwynydd wedi cael ei wahodd i'r pentre yn Sir Benfro i gyflwyno darlith yn seiliedig ar ei lyfr am gapeli Cymraeg Llundain ar nos Wener 23 Mehefin.
Yn ei helpu i gyfleu ei straeon roedd y gantores leol Delun Gibby. Roedd hi'n canu caneuon oedd yn gysylltiedig â chapeli Cymraeg y ddinas i gyfeiliant ei thad ar y gitâr.
Roedd Delun yn awyddus i ganu emyn enwog Elfed 'Rho i'm yr hedd'. Roedd yr Archdderwydd wedi bod yn weinidog yn Llundain am 40 mlynedd. Ond roedd 'na broblem. Roedd angen pianydd ar Delun.
Y newyddiadurwr Hefin Wyn, un o drefnwyr y noson, sy'n egluro beth ddigwyddodd wedyn.
"Ro'dd Delun yn gwybod bod Huw Edwards yn organydd o fri ac yn chwarae'r offeryn yn rheolaidd yng ngwasanaethau Capel Jewin, Llundain. Edrychodd y ferch ifanc i fyw llygaid Huw a gofyn iddo yn chwareus a fyddai'n fodlon cyfeilio ar y piano iddi hi.
"Edrychodd Huw o'i gwmpas yn gyflym yn y gobaith y bydde' cyfeilydd arall yn gwirfoddoli gan ofyn "Do's neb arall i'w gael yma 'te?"
"Ro'dd Delun yn parhau i syllu arno gyda llygad llo gan erfyn arno i dderbyn yr her. 'Whare teg iddo fe, fe gododd ar ei draed a chamu at yr offeryn gan gyfeilio'r emyn-don 'Rhys' yr un mor ddeheuig â ro'dd e wedi darlithio ychydig ynghynt.
"Fe orffennodd y noson gydag arddeliad trwy chwarae 'Hen Wlad fy Nhadau'. 'Na fachan yw'r crwt o Langennech!"
If approved by Sedgemoor District Council, Bristol Water's £125m proposal will see a 9,400 million litre reservoir built close to the existing Cheddar Reservoir.
The company said it was needed to meet growing demand for water, and hopes it can be operational by 2025.
Two public consultations into the plans have taken place this year.
Project spokesman Jeremy Williams said the majority of respondents were "more than satisfied" with the plans.
"We believe that, apart from providing vitally needed water supplies, it will also offer major recreational and conservation benefits."
But farmer Sarah Parsons said the reservoir would be detrimental to wildlife and plants.
Her family farm is on the proposed site of the reservoir, which she says is prime agricultural land.
"It's going to have a disastrous effect on the flora and fauna of the area," she said.
Plans for the new reservoir include a visitor centre, swimming and water sport facilities, as well as a cafe and picnic areas.
Gregory had already poked an effort straight at Chris Neal before opening the scoring after 31 minutes.
The lively Fred Onyedinma burst into the box and was pulled down by Ashley Eastham, and Gregory stepped up to send Neal the wrong way.
Two minutes after the restart, Millwall were awarded another penalty after Nathan Pond tussled with Byron Webster at a corner.
Gregory made no mistake as he delicately rolled the ball into the bottom right-hand corner.
And the striker almost completed his hat-trick in the 50th minute, racing onto a clever through-ball from Steve Morison, but Neal stood firm in the Fleetwood goal to deny him.
Substitute Ashley Hunter got Fleetwood back into the game with a fine finish in the 65th minute, but Millwall held on.
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Match ends, Millwall 2, Fleetwood Town 1.
Second Half ends, Millwall 2, Fleetwood Town 1.
Attempt missed. Jimmy Ryan (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Nadjim Abdou.
Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Mahlon Romeo.
Foul by Shaun Williams (Millwall).
Cian Bolger (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Millwall. Shaun Hutchinson replaces Lee Gregory.
Attempt saved. Steve Morison (Millwall) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Millwall. Joe Martin replaces Shane Ferguson.
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Cian Bolger replaces Ashley Eastham.
Attempt missed. Lee Gregory (Millwall) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Jimmy Ryan (Fleetwood Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Shane Ferguson (Millwall) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jimmy Ryan (Fleetwood Town).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Attempt saved. Lee Gregory (Millwall) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Conor McLaughlin.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Jimmy Ryan.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Jimmy Ryan.
Shaun Williams (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Devante Cole (Fleetwood Town).
Substitution, Millwall. Nadjim Abdou replaces Aiden O'Brien.
Shaun Williams (Millwall) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kyle Dempsey (Fleetwood Town).
Foul by Shane Ferguson (Millwall).
Bobby Grant (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Kyle Dempsey (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Ashley Eastham.
Delay in match (Millwall).
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Devante Cole replaces Chris Long.
Foul by Ben Thompson (Millwall).
Kyle Dempsey (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Millwall 2, Fleetwood Town 1. Ashley Hunter (Fleetwood Town) left footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner.
Foul by Steve Morison (Millwall).
Chris Long (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Conor McLaughlin.
Foul by Mahlon Romeo (Millwall).
Chris Long (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Ashley Hunter replaces Martyn Woolford.
The demonstrations were organised by campaign group Border Communities against Brexit.
Protesters maintain that Northern Ireland's referendum result - in which a majority voted to remain in the EU - should be respected.
They are also opposed to any strengthening of border controls.
Its members said their voices must be heard when decisions are taken.
"I have friends and relations within a three mile radius, either side of the border, but mostly [affected is] my livelihood and my husband's livelihood," said one.
Over 100 people attended the protest at the Fermanagh-Leitrim border between Belcoo and Blacklion.
Protests were also held at Carrickcarnan on the Louth-Armagh border, at Moybridge between Tyrone and Monaghan, Aghalane Bridge between Fermanagh and Cavan, Lifford Bridge between Tyrone and Donegal and at Bridgend on the border between Londonderry and Donegal.
Politicians from a number of political parties were present, including Sinn Féin, the SDLP and Fianna Fáil.
Alina, 41, and 11-year-old Emilia Kordaszewska died in the fire in South Street, Braintree, on 21 December.
The fire was started accidentally by a candle. No official cause of death has been released but provisional tests suggested they died from smoke inhalation.
An inquest was opened by Chelmsford coroners and adjourned to 27 March.
Essex Fire Service, which investigated the blaze, said the candle which caused it was in the lounge on the ground floor of the house.
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A crowdfunding page set up by friends of Mrs Kordaszewska's eldest daughter, Milena, who survived the fire, has so far raised more than £24,000 to help the family.
On a visit to New Zealand, Mr Johnson thanked locals for teaching him the hongi greeting, in which people touch their noses together.
He said it was a "beautiful form of introduction - though it might be misinterpreted in a pub in Glasgow if you were to try it".
He is on a nine-day international tour which also takes in Australia.
During his New Zealand trip, the foreign secretary visited the town of Kaikoura, northeast of Christchurch, the scene of a powerful earthquake last year. He thanked locals for looking after British tourists in its aftermath.
With the UK government keen to sow the seeds of international trade deals after Brexit, Mr Johnson is due to visit Australia for talks with his counterpart Julie Bishop.
Responding to the Glasgow reference in Mr Johnson's joke, the SNP said he had "made a career out of travelling the globe with his foot firmly in his mouth".
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Gary Fraser scored in between doubles from Kris Doolan and Robbie Muirhead, with Kilmarnock's goals from Josh Magennis and Mark Connolly not enough.
"Today it was a chance to get above them that's all we're looking to do," Archibald told BBC Scotland.
"Same as last week, the chance to get out of the bottom two and we did it."
And Archibald said the victory at Rugby Park was the best performance from the Jags this season.
"The second-half certainly," he said. "I think we were unplayable for a spell.
"We created some great chances and scored some very, very good goals. Absolutely delighted with it.
"Our ambitions today were a massive incentive for us."
Partick Thistle are now looking up the table but Archibald says hopes of a top-six finish remain some way off.
"Not at the moment, it's far too early for that," he explained.
"Seven or eight games ago we were relegation candidates - nearly favourites probably - so, no, it's been a good turnaround but there's a lot of hard work to be done."
In contrast, Kilmarnock manager Gary Locke was furious with what he called an "embarrassing" display, especially after a creditable 0-0 draw at Celtic Park last weekend.
"[I am] very angry," said Locke. "They got a bit of credit last week about how they went about the game and then you've got to take that on to this week.
"From minute one to minute 90 we were all over the place at times.
"It was virtually the same team [that played at Celtic Park], we worked on the same things. Credit to Partick, they created good opportunities but we simply never did our job.
"Too many players were out there and didn't do what was required. We need to make sure we respond because that performance was embarrassing at times."
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A bus transporting workers collided with a lorry carrying construction materials in the Zakhir district of the oasis city of al-Ain.
According to GulfNews.com, most of the workers were cleaners of Indian, Bangladeshi or Pakistani origin.
Millions of foreign workers, mostly from South Asia, live in the UAE.
The accident took place on the Old Truck Road during morning rush hour.
The lorry ended up on top of the bus, Gen Hussein al-Harithi, director of Abu Dhabi traffic police told state news agency WAM.
He said the lorry had overturned when its brakes failed and that there had not been a safe distance between the two vehicles.
"Twenty-two people were dead at the scene," he said. "There were 24 others injured, and their injuries ranged from minor and moderate to serious."
The lorry was reported to be carrying either gravel or sand.
The per-capita death toll on UAE roads is among the highest in the world, according to the World Health Organization.
But the ban must be based on internal company rules requiring all employees to "dress neutrally", said the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
It cannot be based on the wishes of a customer, it added.
This is the court's first ruling on the wearing of headscarves at work.
The ECJ's ruling was prompted by the case of a receptionist fired for wearing a headscarf to work at the security company G4S in Belgium.
The issues of Muslim dress and the integration of immigrant communities has featured prominently in debates in several European countries in recent years.
Austria and the German state of Bavaria have recently announced bans on full-face veils in public spaces.
Rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday's ECJ rulings were "disappointing" and "opened a backdoor to... prejudice".
The ECJ ruled on the case of Samira Achbita, fired in June 2006 when, after three years of employment, she began wearing a headscarf to work.
She claimed she was being directly discriminated against on the grounds of her religion and Belgium's court of cassation referred the case to the EU's top court for clarification.
At the time of Ms Achbita's hiring an "unwritten rule" had been in operation banning overt religious symbols, and the company subsequently went on to include this explicitly in its workplace regulations, the court explained in a press release about the ruling.
That covered "any manifestation of such beliefs without distinction", and was therefore not discriminatory, it said.
It said "an employer's desire to project an image of neutrality towards both its public and private sector customers is legitimate" - but national courts had to make sure this policy of neutrality had been applied equally to all employees.
In practice, such a policy must therefore also ban other religious insignia such as crucifixes, skullcaps and turbans, the court confirmed to the BBC.
To avoid claims of indirect discrimination, national courts must ascertain that people adhering to a particular religion or belief have not been put at a particular disadvantage, unless "objectively justified by a legitimate aim" achieved by means that are "appropriate and necessary".
For instance, the Belgian court ruling on Ms Achbita's case would need to ascertain whether it could have been possible to offer her another post not involving visual contact with customers.
The ECJ also considered the case of design engineer Asma Bougnaoui, who lost her job at French firm Micropole, after a customer complained that she wore an Islamic headscarf. The court ruled that any ban on headscarf could not be based on "subjective considerations".
"The willingness of an employer to take account of the wishes of a customer no longer to have the services of that employer provided by a worker wearing an Islamic headscarf cannot be considered a genuine and determining occupational requirement," it said.
A French court would have to determine whether the company in this case had dismissed Ms Bougnaoui solely to satisfy a customer or in accordance with a wider internal prohibition on religious symbols, the court ruled.
For years, courts across Europe have faced complex decisions on religious symbols in the workplace.
Jonathan Chamberlain, a partner at UK firm Gowling WLG, told the BBC that Tuesday's ruling reflected "what has been the UK's approach for some years".
Germany's constitutional court ruled in 2015 a ban on teachers wearing the headscarf across the country's 16 states was unconstitutional. Such as measure was only justified if religious symbols represented a "concrete danger, or the disturbance of school peace".
But John Dalhuisen, director of Amnesty International's Europe and Central Asia programme, said the ECJ's decision gave "greater leeway to employers to discriminate against women - and men - on the grounds of religious belief".
"The court did say that employers are not at liberty to pander to the prejudices of their clients. But by ruling that company policies can prohibit religious symbols on the grounds of neutrality, they have opened a backdoor to precisely such prejudice."
The British Humanist Association, meanwhile, found more nuance in the ruling, saying that while direct discrimination had been ruled out, whether the company policies constituted indirect discrimination or not "has been remitted back to the Belgian and French courts to determine".
GlenWyvis Distillery Community Benefit Society is working with Community Shares Scotland to raise more than £1.5m in investment.
So far the effort has received more than £517,000 in pledges to take shares in the venture.
The distillery would be built on farmland and be fully community-owned and powered by renewable energy.
Construction could start in June this year with the first run of whisky planned for Burns Night on 25 January 2017.
Farmer John Mckenzie, who is helping to lead the project, said: "From the outset we have envisaged the project as more than a distillery.
"It is an opportunity for all social investors to help reinvigorate the historic town of Dingwall."
He added: "GlenWyvis will be built on its whisky heritage, its community-ownership and its environmental credentials."
The community shares scheme was launched last month and is due to come to an end in June. The project's board have the option to extend the scheme if necessary.
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The Steelers won 6-5 in second overtime to deny the Devils a grand slam.
"What an epic game. I won't forget this one for a long time," Sarich told BBC Radio Sheffield after Levi Nelson' winning goal saw Sheffield come back from 3-1 down to clinch victory.
"We worked so hard for it. Hats off to Cardiff as well."
The Devils had been bidding to become the first team to win an Elite Ice Hockey League grand slam since 2012-13.
But they were denied by the Steelers, who also came from behind to beat Nottingham Panthers earlier in the play-offs.
"To pull the rabbit out of the hat against Nottingham and now to do it here in double overtime, it is a fairytale," Sarich added.
"This is right up there, it is tops. What a battle to get here and then, to do it like that, we're really happy."
The Steelers had not won the Elite League play-offs since 2013-14.
Photographer Richard Nicholson took a look inside that box, capturing those who have helped bring the silver screen to life.
"When I first stepped into a projection box, I was struck by the claustrophobic atmosphere," says Nicholson.
"It was a dark, cramped space, and, as the projector whirred into motion, it became increasingly hot and noisy.
"As I watched the projectionist wrestle with a giant spool of film, the scene reminded me of a railwayman shovelling coal into a locomotive."
Working with The Projection Project, Nicholson's pictures are accompanied by the thoughts of the projectionists, many of whom are experts on the history of cinema.
Nicholson usually works on a large-format film camera - but, paradoxically, for this project, he shot the images on a digital camera.
Following a test shoot, he realised he would require a vast amount of lighting to work on film, whereas a digital approach allowed him to use smaller flashguns to light the projection boxes.
With cinemas across the country still under threat from redevelopment and closure, it is perhaps the perfect time for this project.
"I think it's a wasted opportunity if you go to a cinema and it's just a blank screen, and no curtains, with some feeble lighting, and it just sort of starts," said projectionist Peter Howden.
"I remember going to the cinema and the lights would change colour and the organist would come up out of the floor. It's simple and it's effective and it would be a pity to lose that.
"I think it's part of the magic of going to the cinema. Putting on a show rather than just showing a film."
The projectionist is the final step between the film and the public. And, for many, that flickering light that pierces the darkness of the cinema is still magical.
"When I used to go to the cinema with my mother, I was never looking at the film, I was always looking to see where it came from," said projectionist Rachel Dukes.
"In those days everybody used to smoke. And so when the beam of light was coming down, you'd have these pretty patterns of the smoke in the light.
"I'd be looking at these patterns and my mother would tell me off because she's paid for the tickets to watch the film and I'm not watching it.
"I'm looking to see where it's coming from."
Thankfully, the smoky cinema is no more, but it will be a sad day if the remaining sites capable of projecting film shut the gates once and for all.
The Projectionists is part of the Flatpack Film Festival and can be seen at The Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 20-24 April 2016.
The incident happened in Leven Walk in Livingston at about 18:15 on Thursday.
The 19-year-old was treated in hospital after he was hit with a weapon by the pair.
Both attackers are thought to be in their mid-teens. The first was about 5ft 2in with black hair. He was wearing a light blue jacket and denim jeans.
The second attacker was about 5ft 7in with brown hair and was wearing a dark blue jacket and denim jeans.
Det Sgt David McMillan, of Police Scotland, said: "This was a violent, unprovoked attack that left a young man needing hospital treatment.
"I'm particularly keen to trace any witnesses who saw the incident or the suspects in the area around the time of the assault."
Copeland was given six life sentences in June 2000 for three counts of murder and three counts of causing explosions in London in order to endanger life.
Copeland, 35, from Hampshire, admitted killing three and injuring 139 people.
Under new legislation, a High Court judge set a minimum term of 50 years and the Court of Appeal upheld that sentence on Tuesday.
The original recommendation in his case was that he should serve a minimum of 30 years before he can be considered for parole.
But High Court judge Mr Justice Burton later described it as a "really exceptional case of deliberate, multiple murder".
During 13 days in April 1999 Copeland caused explosions in Brixton, south London Brick Lane in east London and Soho, central London.
The final blast at the gay pub the Admiral Duncan killed Andrea Dykes, 27, who was pregnant, and friends John Light, 32, and Nik Moore, 31, from Essex.
Copeland intended his bombing campaign to ignite a race war across Britain, his trial heard.
He was tried at the Old Bailey in 2000 for murder after the prosecution refused to accept his plea of guilty to manslaughter on the grounds that he was suffering a mental illness - paranoid schizophrenia.
A Broadmoor Hospital consultant had described him as psychotic and diagnosed schizophrenia.
The original trial judge, Michael Hyam, concluded that Copeland's crimes were motivated by his hatred of black and Asian people and homosexuals.
The group was arrested after heroin, cocaine and cannabis worth about £192,000 was seized following a major police operation in 2014.
It involved the supply of drugs from the Torry area of Aberdeen.
The men were jailed at the High Court in Glasgow after pleading guilty to drugs offences. Three other men received non-custodial sentences.
Michael Clark, 28, was locked up for five years and two months.
Jaimie Campbell, 21, was sentenced to three years and seven months.
Kevin Tolmie, 30, was jailed for two-and-a-half years, while Lee Nicol, 23, was sentenced to two years and five months.
Scott White, 29, was jailed for 18 months and Lee Hulse, 21, sentenced to 13 months.
Stewart Sutherland, 24, Alexander MacPherson, 28, and Gary Clark, 33, were handed community payback orders.
Det Supt Martin Dunn said: "This was a significant operation as it involved the dismantling of a well-established group in the Torry area of Aberdeen, which was distributing drugs throughout the north east."
Richard Dart was jailed for six years, Imran Mahmood received nine years and nine months and Jahangir Alom was jailed for four years and six months.
The London-based trio, who pleaded guilty in March, discussed targeting the town of Royal Wootton Bassett.
The judge said the three were "committed to acts of terrorism".
They were arrested in the capital city weeks before the Olympic Games.
Dart, 30, of Broadway, Ealing, west London, and Mahmood, 22, from Dabbs Hill Lane, Northolt, west London, were both born in the UK. Alom, 26, of Abbey Road, Stratford, was born in Bangladesh but is a British citizen.
Mr Justice Simon told them they held "radical Islamist beliefs and have shown yourselves to be committed to acts of terrorism".
Dart refused to stand when he was sentenced, and said: "I don't wish to stand up, I believe ruling and judging is only for Allah."
The judge said that they were all "committed fundamentalists" who would have been prepared to kill.
Mahmood and Dart were both given extended sentences, meaning that they will serve two-thirds of their prison terms rather than half, and they will spend five years on licence.
He told Dart and Mahmood: "I'm satisfied to the required criminal standard that neither of you had ruled out an attack in the United Kingdom, and that you, Mahmood, were looking at arming yourself with a bomb."
After the sentencing, the Metropolitan Police said the convictions followed a painstaking investigation by the Met's counter-terrorism command and security services that had uncovered secret conversations about potential attacks in the UK and abroad.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Osborne, head of the Met's counter-terrorism command, said the investigation had involved a "mixture of dedicated, diligent traditional detective work combined with the latest technology and computer techniques".
He said the trio were "dangerous men".
"This case serves as a classic example of how terrorists live in our midst while preparing their acts and their determination to travel overseas to train before returning to the UK," he said.
The three men admitted carrying out the offence between July 2010 and July last year at a previous hearing last month.
Dart and Alom travelled to Pakistan to try to get terrorist training, and took advice from Mahmood who had already visited the country.
Former BBC security guard Dart also discussed bomb making with Mahmood, and spoke of targeting the Wiltshire town of Royal Wootton Bassett - which became a focal point for the repatriation of UK soldiers from Afghanistan.
Police discovered fragments of text on Dart's laptop that revealed that the pair had used the computer to have a "silent conversation" to avoid possible surveillance bugs.
They would open a word processor document and take it in turns to type, before deleting the text and mistakenly assuming none of it would be stored on the machine.
However forensic experts were able to plough through 2,000 pages of computer code to decipher fragments of what was said.
These included Mahmood making a reference to Royal Wootton Bassett and then adding "if it comes down to it it's that or even just to deal with a few MI5 MI6 heads".
Counter-terrorism teams also believe that the pair used the same tactic walking down the street with a mobile phone.
All three had been stopped at airports while travelling to and from Pakistan.
When Mahmood was stopped at Manchester in 2010, traces of explosives were found on two rucksacks that he had with him.
He later admitted that he had received rudimentary training in explosives while in Pakistan.
Dart, who changed his name to Salahuddin al-Britani, became involved in extremism after moving from his home town of Weymouth, Dorset, to east London and fraternising with radical Muslim Anjem Choudary.
His beliefs were brought into the spotlight as part of a BBC television documentary My Brother The Islamist, by his stepbrother Robb Leech.
Alom joined the Territorial Army in 2006 as part of the G Company 7th Battalion the Rifles, but did not complete his training due to medical reasons.
The following year he became a PCSO but left the job in September 2009.
Mr Justice Simon said that he and Dart were "the object of suspicion" for their fellow radicals, and may have felt the need to prove themselves.
Alom had his own contact with a fourth man, Mohammed Tariq Nasar, a Briton now living in Pakistan, to try to get terrorist training, it is claimed. Mr Nasar has not been charged with any offence.
The trio were arrested on 5 July last year just before the start of the Olympics, and were charged on 18 July.
The lender, majority owned by the UK government, has axed more than 2,500 jobs since January.
RBS has been reducing the scale of its international operations to focus on the UK and Ireland.
BBC Scotland business editor Douglas Fraser said unions made news about the cuts public after staff had been informed.
He said the job cuts will be in back office and technology operations, with some of the IT jobs affecting staff in Scotland.
The bank chose not to announce the staff reductions to the public, but confirmed they were taking place.
RBS's total UK workforce is down to 64,000, with the total worldwide at 89,000. When the bank was bailed out at the height of the global financial meltdown eight years ago it had about 180,000 staff.
A spokeswoman for the bank said: "As RBS becomes a smaller UK-focussed bank, we are restructuring our support services to better align with the business we are becoming. These changes unfortunately mean some job losses.
"We understand how difficult this is for our staff and will be offering as much support as we can, including redeployment to other roles where possible."
Most RBS job cuts have fallen on its branch network, where the bank had previously announced plans to cut about one in every 10 jobs in 2016.
There have been reports that more cuts are expected to be announced in the coming months.
Best motion picture - drama
Winner: The Revenant
Carol
Mad Max: Fury Road
Room
Spotlight
Best motion picture - comedy or musical
Winner: The Martian
The Big Short
Joy
Spy
Trainwreck
Best performance by an actor in a motion picture - drama
Winner: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
Will Smith, Concussion
Best performance by an actress in a motion picture - drama
Winner: Brie Larson, Room
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Rooney Mara, Carol
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Best performance by an actor in a motion picture - comedy or musical
Winner: Matt Damon, The Martian
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Steve Carell, The Big Short
Al Pacino, Danny Collins
Mark Ruffalo, Infinitely Polar Bear
Best performance by an actress in a motion picture - comedy or musical
Winner: Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Melissa McCarthy, Spy
Amy Schumer, Trainwreck
Maggie Smith, The Lady in the Van
Lily Tomlin, Grandma
Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a motion picture
Winner: Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Paul Dano, Love & Mercy
Idris Elba, Beasts of No Nation
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Michael Shannon, 99 Homes
Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a motion picture
Winner: Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
Jane Fonda, Youth
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Helen Mirren, Trumbo
Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina
Best director - motion picture
Winner: Alejandro G Inarritu, The Revenant
Todd Haynes, Carol
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
George Miller, Max Max: Fury Road
Ridley Scott, The Martian
Best screenplay - motion picture
Winner: Steve Jobs
The Big Short
The Hateful Eight
Room
Spotlight
Best animated feature film
Winner: Inside Out
Anomalisa
The Good Dinosaur
The Peanuts Movie
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Best foreign language film
Winner: Son of Saul
The Brand New Testament
The Club
The Fencer
Mustang
Best original score - motion picture
Winner: The Hateful Eight
Carol
The Danish Girl
The Revenant
Steve Jobs
Best original song - motion picture
Winner: Writing's On the Wall, Sam Smith - Spectre
Love Me Like You Do, Ellie Goulding - Fifty Shades of Grey
One Kind of Love, Brian Wilson - Love & Mercy
See You Again, Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth - Fast & Furious 7
Simple Song #3, Sumi Jo - Youth
Best television series - drama
Winner: Mr Robot
Empire
Game of Thrones
Narcos
Outlander
Best television series - comedy or musical
Winner: Mozart in the Jungle
Casual
Orange is the New Black
Silicon Valley
Transparent
Veep
Best mini-series or motion picture made for television
Winner: Wolf Hall
American Crime
American Horror Story: Hotel
Fargo
Flesh and Bone
Best performance by an actor in a television series - drama
Winner: Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Rami Malek, Mr Robot
Wagner Moura, Narcos
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan
Best performance by an actress in a television series - drama
Winner: Taraji P Henson, Empire
Caitriona Balfe, Outlander
Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder
Eva Green, Penny Dreadful
Robin Wright, House of Cards
Best performance by an actor in a television series - comedy or musical
Winner: Gael Garcia Bernal, Mozart in the Jungle
Aziz Ansari, Master of None
Rob Lowe, The Grinder
Patrick Stewart, Blunt Talk
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent
Best performance by an actress in a television series - comedy or musical
Winner: Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Jamie Lee Curtis, Scream Queens
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Gina Rodriguez, Jane the Virgin
Lily Tomlin, Grace and Frankie
Best performance by an actor in a mini-series or motion picture made for television
Winner: Oscar Isaac, Show Me a Hero
Idris Elba, Luther
David Oyelowo, Nightingale
Mark Rylance, Wolf Hall
Patrick Wilson, Fargo
Best performance by an actress in a mini-series or motion picture made for television
Winner: Lady Gaga, American Horror Story: Hotel
Kirsten Dunst, Fargo
Felicity Huffman, American Crime
Sarah Hay, Flesh and Bone
Queen Latifah, Bessie
Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a series, mini-series or motion picture made for television
Winner: Christian Slater, Mr Robot
Alan Cumming, The Good Wife
Damian Lewis, Wolf Hall
Ben Mendelsohn, Bloodline
Tobias Menzies, Outlander
Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a series, mini-series or motion picture made for television
Winner: Maura Tierney, The Affair
Uzo Aduba, Orange is the New Black
Joanne Froggatt, Downton Abbey
Regina King, American Crime
Judith Light, Transparent
Almost all of the 2,000 who responded to an NASUWT survey said they had come into contact with mentally ill pupils.
Members of the teaching union suggest schools are struggling to access enough support to deal with the issue.
The Department for Education said it was investing £1.4bn to ensure all children get the help they need.
The union is highlighting the problem at its annual conference in Manchester this weekend and it will also discuss school funding and the online world.
The survey found:
Nine in 10 said they had experienced a pupil of any age suffering from anxiety and panic attacks, while 79% were aware of a pupil suffering from depression and 64% knew of a youngster who was self-harming.
Around half (49%) were aware of children with eating disorders, and a similar proportion (47%) knew about a youngster with obsessive compulsive disorder.
Pressure of exams and testing, family problems such as ill health or a break-up and social media were all seen as having an impact on mental health.
And when asked about how it affected pupil behaviour, most teachers agreed that it led to an inability to concentrate in class and led to a pupil being isolated from other students or have problems making friends.
Chris Keates, NASUWT general secretary warned there was concern among teachers about a gap in the availability of experts and counselling to help children with mental health needs.
"It is clear that teachers and school leaders are seeing many more children and young people who are exhibiting the signs of serious mental distress.
"Teachers and school leaders take very seriously their duty of care to their students and it is clear there is a great deal of concern in the profession about the gulf in the availability of expert physiological support and counselling for pupils with mental health needs."
A Department for Education spokesperson said no child should suffer from mental health issues and that it was investing a record £1.4bn to ensure all children get the help and support they need.
"We are strengthening the links between schools and NHS mental health staff and later this year will publish proposals for further improving services and preventative work.
"Schools can teach about mental health in a number of ways and we have funded the PSHE Association to provide guidance for teachers on how to do this.
"We have already announced plans for every secondary school in the country to be offered mental health first aid training. We trust teachers to deliver assessment in a sensible manner that will not create stress among children."
The NUT is also meeting in Cardiff for its annual conference this weekend.
Speaking beforehand, the union's general secretary Kevin Courtney said: "Funding is going to be a theme that dominates the conference.
"In schools around the country, class sizes are going up. We are seeing arts, dance drama and music being cut. Vocational education is being cut.
"We are seeing schools around the country sending letters to parents asking for money on a regular basis to make up for the the gap that the government is leaving in school budgets."
The Department for Education insists that schools in England are funded at record levels and that its investment will rise as pupil numbers rise.
The tennis champion said he used to struggle to get out of bed but now relishes early starts so he can spend time with Sophia Olivia.
He told the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2 that he "always wanted to start a family".
The world number two was back on the practice court ahead of Great Britain's Davis Cup match with Japan next week.
Speaking about fatherhood, he said: "It's something I've been looking forward to for a long time so I'm sure it's going to have a lot of positive effects on my life.
"For me, the first time I was left alone with her was when it really sank in. It hits you that this is a huge responsibility, but during every day now I really look forward to going home to see her.
"Waking up is a lot easier now. I used to love sleeping in later but getting up early and getting to see her in the morning is great."
The Davis Cup marks Murray's return to a match court for the first time since losing his fifth Australian Open final to Novak Djokovic.
Immediately after the defeat, he paid an emotional tribute to his wife Kim before catching the first flight home for the birth of his daughter.
The top four players in the world are now fathers and Djokovic has credited the birth of his son Stefan as one factor behind his success.
Murray was reticent about whether he thinks his daughter, who was born on 7 February, will change his game.
He said: "I think obviously priorities change significantly.
"I haven't played a competition so I don't know how I'm going to feel the next time I'm on a match court, but I always wanted to start a family."
According to Israeli media reports, the children will initially get temporary residency status and allowed to stay indefinitely after four years.
Israel has technically been at war with Syria for decades, but has officially taken a position of neutrality in the current conflict.
It has however brought in thousands of casualties for medical treatment.
Under the plan, the orphans would be housed in dormitories to begin with, then absorbed into the education system, Israel's Channel 10 News reported.
They could also be taken in by foster families or adopted at a later stage, the report said.
Israel is also considering special provisions to eventually allow other immediate family members to join them, according to the report.
In recent years, Israel has treated more than 2,600 casualties from the war, in hospitals in Israel or in a military field hospital on the occupied Golan Heights.
Last month Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the government was looking at ways to step up the medical assistance.
Ronaldo struck the base of the post with his spot kick after Austria defender Martin Hinteregger had wrestled him to the ground and later headed home only to be denied by the offside flag.
But huge credit for Austria's point must go to keeper Robert Almer, who made a string of sensational saves.
He stopped a crisp low strike and a header from Ronaldo as well as blocking from Nani, who struck the post with a first-half header as Portugal looked to pick up their first win of the competition.
Portugal dominated large swathes of the first competitive meeting between the sides since 1995 but were almost caught out several times, in particular when Stefan Ilsanker forced a good save with a crisp low strike shortly after the restart.
The result means that Hungary top Group F with four points, Portugal and Iceland both have two and Austria one - a situation which leaves all four in with a shout of reaching the last 16.
It might have been a record-breaking night for Ronaldo, who was making his 128th appearance for Portugal, but he can't have endured few more frustrating ones since making his debut against Kazakhstan in 2003.
With Luis Figo, the man whose record he eclipsed, watching in the stands the scene was set for the 31-year-old to steal the headlines with his penalty but after sending Almer the wrong way he drilled his effort into the base of the post.
Ronaldo had become something of a pantomime villain after criticising Iceland's "small mentality" following their 1-1 draw in their opening match.
And his Euro 2016 didn't improve much during an opening half at Parc des Princes when he was a largely peripheral figure - save for one poor miss after a neat one-two involving Raphael Guerreiro had carved open the Austrian right side.
Seemingly unwilling to run at opponents and settling instead on probing along the Austrian defensive line, the Real Madrid forward seemed to take an age to make his way off the field at half-time, a dejected and troubled figure.
However, he nonetheless rebounded after the break, troubling Almer and forcing the game's best chance after Hinteregger fouled him.
But his failure to score means that his wait to become the first man to score in four European Championship finals goes on.
Way back in 2000 Austrian FA technical director Willi Ruttensteiner began reshaping Austrian football, introducing what was known as Project 12 with the aim of identifying and nurturing the best talent in the country.
Four from this venture started on Saturday, while another, defender Aleksandar Dragovic, was suspended. Marcel Sabitzer, one of the graduates, almost created a goal in the opening two minutes with a superb cross from the right but Martin Harnik could not convert his superb headed chance, scuffing the ball wide.
Austria were also denied by a superb defensive header at the end of the first half by Vieirinha after David Alaba, another of the scheme, whipped in a free-kick from a tight angle.
And Ilsanker also threatened at the very start of the second half and although Marcel Koller's team were largely second best on the night they are nonetheless still in contention for a place in the last 16.
For a team that climbed from 105th to a record high of 10th in the world rankings during their journey to qualifying for the finals in Paris, there is still hope.
However, they will be looking for more from key player Alaba, who played in an advanced role on Saturday but who was surprisingly withdrawn with more than 25 minutes remaining.
Portugal boss Fernando Santos: "Fair or unfair is a moot point, the only difference in the two matches we've played is that against Iceland we scored one and conceded one, here we didn't score but we didn't concede either.
"We had plenty of chances, but we didn't score. Now we have to think about the next match.
"Iceland wasn't great, if we had won it that would have been a major step forward. Today we had another very positive match but what we need now is to play the next one and to win it; that will make the team grow.
"Hungary will be happy to draw against us, they are primed to go through. They will be highly motivated but we will have to break that wall down."
Austria coach Marcel Koller: "It was important not to lose this game. Portugal had more chances but we have won a point with a good defensive effort.
"Normally that's not our type of game but you have to be flexible in a tournament and adapt to the teams you are playing.
"We are still in the race. We're in very different place mentally now compared to the last game; now the players are happy and that makes it easier for us. We have a final in the last game, and I hope we can win it."
Group F concludes on Wednesday, with both games kicking off at 17:00 BST. Portugal finish their group campaign with a match against Hungary in Lyon. Austria face Iceland at the Stade de France in Paris, which is obviously pretty handy for their fans.
Match ends, Portugal 0, Austria 0.
Second Half ends, Portugal 0, Austria 0.
Attempt blocked. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Vieirinha.
Offside, Austria. Julian Baumgartlinger tries a through ball, but Marko Arnautovic is caught offside.
Foul by William Carvalho (Portugal).
Martin Harnik (Austria) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Vieirinha (Portugal) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Portugal. Rafa replaces Nani.
Hand ball by Alessandro Schöpf (Austria).
Substitution, Austria. Kevin Wimmer replaces Stefan Ilsanker.
Alessandro Schöpf (Austria) is shown the yellow card.
Hand ball by Alessandro Schöpf (Austria).
Offside, Portugal. Raphael Guerreiro tries a through ball, but Cristiano Ronaldo is caught offside.
Substitution, Austria. Lukas Hinterseer replaces Marcel Sabitzer.
Hand ball by Christian Fuchs (Austria).
Substitution, Portugal. Eder replaces André Gomes.
Foul by Raphael Guerreiro (Portugal).
Marcel Sabitzer (Austria) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. André Gomes (Portugal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high following a set piece situation.
Penalty missed! Still Portugal 0, Austria 0. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) hits the left post with a right footed shot.
Martin Hinteregger (Austria) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty Portugal. Cristiano Ronaldo draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Martin Hinteregger (Austria) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Christian Fuchs (Austria) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Foul by João Moutinho (Portugal).
Julian Baumgartlinger (Austria) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. João Mário (Portugal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Portugal. João Mário replaces Ricardo Quaresma.
João Moutinho (Portugal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Julian Baumgartlinger (Austria).
Foul by William Carvalho (Portugal).
Alessandro Schöpf (Austria) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal).
Martin Hinteregger (Austria) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Substitution, Austria. Alessandro Schöpf replaces David Alaba.
João Moutinho (Portugal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Julian Baumgartlinger (Austria).
Corner, Portugal. Conceded by Martin Hinteregger.
Christian Fuchs (Austria) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
With growing public awareness and news stories about transgender people, an online petition to boycott the film had gathered 10,000 signatures by Tuesday morning, saying the "cartoonish mockery... was the modern equivalent of using blackface" - white people blacking up to mock black people.
So what is the status of blackface in acting, and is such a comparison a fair one?
When the director of a university theatre company in Ohio cast a play about Martin Luther King with a white and a black man alternating the role earlier this autumn, it made headlines on both sides of the Atlantic.
It wasn't "blacking up "in the traditional sense, as no make-up was involved, and the intention certainly wasn't to mock.
The director, Michael Oatmen, who is black, said his casting of The Mountaintop was not intended as a "stunt, but a true exploration of King's wish that we all be judged by the content of our character and not the colour of our skin".
But the play's author, Katori Hall vigorously objected.
She said it wasn't the same as colour-blind casting, where black actors are cast in traditionally white roles because of the huge imbalance in the visibility of black actors in mainstream parts.
"The casting of a white King is committing yet another erasure of the black body," she wrote.
Last year Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings came under criticism for a cast dominated by make-up-tanned and black-wigged Egyptians played by non-Middle-Easterners, including Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver.
Scott argued the criticism was misplaced, as a blockbuster film needed big names to get funding.
Film writer and programmer Ashley Clark, author of Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee's Bamboozled, is unimpressed by the "funding" argument and points out each individual film or TV casting decision is part of a bigger picture in which black actors are often not seen or limited to stereotyped supporting roles.
He accepts that many black and Asian British actors have headed West for better opportunity.
But he adds: "We live in a context where the Hollywood Reporter, doing a big photo spread of leading actors, marginalised women of colour... in a climate where the cultural product is not diverse, things that are on the line and are offensive need to be held accountable whether they like it or not."
American actor Dylan Marron was so disturbed by the invisibility of black actors that he began collating "every single word spoken by a person of colour" in individual Hollywood films and found they usually amounted to a few seconds often as servants or prostitutes.
There has been widespread criticism of blacking up for at least 30 years, going back to Alec Guinness and Amy Irving playing painted Indians in A Passage To India and The Far Pavilions (both 1984).
So why is it still happening?
Angelina Jolie in curly wig and tan make-up as the mixed-ethnicity Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart (2007) is a recent "borderline" example.
The actors' union, Equity, has called for those who make commissioning decisions to make reflecting the nation's diversity core to casting on stage or on screen.
Together with the Arts Council England it strongly criticised Trevor Nunn's decision earlier this year to cast an all-white version of Shakespeare's Wars of the Roses history plays for supposed "historical authenticity".
Many people have pointed out that women and Jewish people wouldn't have been allowed to perform in Shakespearean times, and many of the characters are French.
Actress Tanya Moodie told The Stage: "And yet someone with black skin comes in, and it's like, 'Let's avoid the black people, because that's not historically accurate… you can cherry-pick.' In any way you put it, it's offensive."
Leading TV writer Russell T Davies, creator of Cucumber and Queer as Folk, has a commitment to writing diverse parts in all his dramas.
The creation by fellow Doctor Who writer Steven Moffat of the lesbian inter-species detective duo, the Silurian Lady Vastra and Victorian human Jenny Flint, is testament to how charmingly it can be done.
On British TV, blackface casting has endured longer in comedy than in film - take for instance Come Fly With Me, Matt Lucas and David Walliams's ill-received 2010 follow-up to Little Britain.
But TV comedy is also at the cutting edge.
The acclaimed sitcom Boy Meets Girl stars transgender actress Rebecca Root as a trans woman negotiating a new relationship.
And on the big screen, the independent film Tangerine is winning plaudits for its central performances by two trans women - both non-professional actors.
A decade on from Felicity Huffman's Oscar-nominated performance as a trans woman in Transamerica (2005), could this be a breakthrough moment for the representation of trans men and women?
Film critic Juliet Jacques, author of Trans: A Memoir, says: "Higher-budget studios more reliant on 'star' actors are still using people such as Jared Leto or Eddie Redmayne as trans characters, and lots of the discourse around them focuses on how good they look, or the challenges of playing the role - the humanity of trans people gets lost in that, I think.
"That's before you get on to the use of trans bodies or identities in films from Ace Ventura (1994) to The Hangover: Part II (2011), that get laughs out of the idea that trans people are undesirable, and/or that having sex with one is shameful - the jokes about our genitalia in the Zoolander 2 trailer are nothing new."
Writers such as Jacques are helping challenge how we present diversity on screen, but she is wary of comparing portrayals of trans people to blacking up.
"I don't like the 'blacking up' analogy - trans people have different issues with 'passing' and 'stealth' in a transphobic society than people of colour in a racist one," she says.
"But many of the contemporary portrayals of trans people by cis[gender] actors look dated now - I think they're only going to look worse in a decade's time."
The voluntary group provides rescue cover for an area of more than 2,600 sq miles (6,733 sq km), and includes 41 mountains of Munro height.
The team has spent two years raising £185,000 for the base to be built on a site in Dingwall Business Park.
Construction work should be completed in September. The team already has bases in Ullapool and Dundonnell.
Those two sites are provided by the charity St John Scotland.
Vale of Glamorgan and Rhondda Cynon Taf councils had been asked to consider borehole drilling at four separate sites by Coastal Oil and Gas.
Three of the locations are in the Vale, while the fourth is at Llantrisant.
A Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) council report said future extraction requests would need separate approval.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, involves injecting water and chemicals into shale rock at high pressure. The rocks shatter in the process, releasing trapped natural gas.
But the process has led to widespread protests in the UK, including in Wales - with demonstrators gathering outside the assembly in Cardiff last week.
The plans before RCT council were recommended for approval.
The report before the development control committee said: "This application is for exploration works only and does not entail any ground stimulation, more familiarly known as fracking, nor does it involve directional drilling.
"Any future proposals for extraction would require a further application for planning permission and the grant of planning permission for mineral exploration does not indicate a presumption in favour of future exploitation of any mineral resources found.
"Therefore, concerns about fracking, and the perceived consequences of it, are not material in the determination of this application."
By Iolo ap DafyddBBC Wales environment correspondent
While fracking for oil and gas isn't new in Britain - and continues in dozens of drilling wells - prospecting commercially for shale gas in recent years, is proving more problematic.
Even if the UK government is backing the industry, and Carwyn Jones the Welsh First Minister supports this new transition energy source, provided there is proper regulation in place, companies involved in reaching unconventional gas underground are inching forward under a barrage of criticism.
There are concerns about the environment, water contamination, noise and pollution.
Cintec International's inventions and adaptations could conceivably ease some planning concerns about gas escaping from drilling wells, and water contamination.
The south Wales company's fire services-tested plastic, temporary water storage tanks could be a real help in several ways.
The PVC membrane is tough, double sided and drop-stitched.
The prototype tank I've seen can hold over 14,000 gallons.
The tanks pumped full of air onsite, can filter waste water, and re-use it - which avoids having dozens of trucks ferrying back and fore with water to be treated elsewhere.
Final approval for the well casing system has to given by the Health and Safety Executive.
Campaigners have raised concerns about the possible impact on the environment, including water contamination, and pollution.
Wayne Edy runs a commercial deer farm near one of the borehole sites being considered in the Vale of Glamorgan near Llantrithyd.
"The big concern is if it does go towards fracking eventually," he said.
"The UK is a lot smaller country than say the USA where fracking was founded and they pioneered there.
"They mustn't underestimate the negative effects that come with fracking."
The initial boreholes bids agreed on Thursday will be to explore the structure and geography of the sites, and whether they are suitable for shale gas extraction.
Coastal Oil and Gas say their approach is being backed with engineering support from a Welsh company, Cintec.
It has developed a technique using super-strong Kevlar material, commonly found in bullet-proof armour, to wrap around the drill bore pipes before being filled with concrete to form a barrier against pollution.
Cintec has also developed an inflatable water storage system, which would remove the need for water reservoirs to be built on potential fracking sites.
Gerwyn Williams, director of Coastal Oil and Gas, insisted that the case for shale gas extraction was growing.
"Shale gas extraction offers us a secure and viable solution to boost our economy, create significant employment and lead the way towards energy self-sufficiency for the whole of the UK," he said.
"What is needed now is a better understanding of the industry and the process, in order to enable communities and the wider public to allay concerns and enjoy the process's many benefits.
"If we do not investigate alternative solutions, fuel supplies will run out."
Prosecutor Iain McSporran QC told the High Court in Glasgow the case against William Paterson was circumstantial but his guilt was beyond doubt.
Des Finnieston, defending, said eyewitness descriptions did not "in any shape" look like the 35-year-old.
Mr Paterson denies shooting 29-year-old gangland figure Mr Carroll in an Asda carpark in Glasgow on 13 January 2010.
In his summing up, Mr McSporran described the shooting as "a brazen, organised assassination" that put the public at risk in the carpark in Robroyston.
He told the jury: "There are no eyewitnesses, no confession to police, it is just a circumstantial case, that's all I've got.
"But what more could you possibly need?"
Mr McSporran also invited jurors to consider Mr Paterson's DNA on the handle of a bag that one of the murder weapons was found in.
He said that the DNA of Mr Paterson's "associate" Ross Monaghan - who was cleared of the murder in 2012 - was found on the handle of the other gun.
He said: "What do we find on the handle of the carrier bag containing the other gun? Unchallenged and undisputed DNA of William Paterson."
The court was told that "10 days after the shooting with the police investigation in full flow" Mr Paterson left Scotland for Spain.
Mr McSporran spoke to the the jury about telephone evidence suggesting a mobile phone attributed to Mr Paterson by police, ending in 1411, was near the scene of Asda at the time of the shooting.
He said the phone told the story "just as clearly as if we could see it happening ourselves".
In evidence the jury heard about another phone which was accepted as being Mr Paterson's.
Mr McSporran invited them to accept that both phones belonged to the murder accused.
The court heard that both phones were "co-located", meaning they were active within five minutes of each other and on 87 different occasions throughout January 2010, never contacted one another and were always in the same area.
A phone expert said if the phones belonged to different people they would need to be "joined at the hip".
Mr McSporran said: "Much more obvious you may think, in the same person's possession."
He said that the 1411 number could be traced to the area where the Volkswagen Golf - believed to have been involved in the shooting - was captured on CCTV a short distance away from Asda shortly before the murder.
He said that the phone was traced near Asda at the time of the murder, then at the area where the weapons were dumped.
Mr McSporran said: "It's as plain as can be from evidence that 1411 was in that Golf, in the possession of the driver, or one of the two gunmen."
He told the jury that the phone received a call "seconds before the shooting" and added: "You're not going to be taking calls when you are about to kill someone."
Mr McSporran added: "Whoever made that call enables us to say that phone, that man was right at Asda right at the time of the shooting."
He described it as a "tremendous breakthrough" for police and "bad luck for William Paterson".
The prosecutor also said that another man had the 1411 number stored in his phone under the name "Billy".
He said that at 14:11 that day the phone is turned off.
He said: "It's served its purpose, it's the criminal phone."
In his speech, Mr Finnieston said that his client went to Spain where, according to a member of his family who gave evidence, he has worked before.
He said: "We know this man volunteered to come back. He gave himself up with a view to being extradited."
The jury were told he left when there was no warrant for him and he returned afterwards.
The lawyer said Mr Paterson returned "on the basis he is innocent".
Mr Finneston said that from evidence it was heard that DNA has an indeterminate date.
He said it does not mean Mr Paterson touched any gun or that guns were in the bag when he touched the handle his DNA was later found on.
In relation to the 1411 phone he said there was "no direct evidence" to say that the phone was Mr Paterson's and that he had it on the day of the shooting.
Mr Finnieston said that according to an expert phone witness the phone could equally have been used by Victor Gallagher - one of the men Paterson is incriminating - who also stayed in the Cumbernauld area.
The defence solicitor advocate also said that eye witnesses described two people at the scene being the gunmen and one of them getting in and out of the driver's seat.
He said the descriptions given of them were too short to be Mr Paterson who is over 6ft tall.
The jury were invited to return a verdict acquitting Mr Paterson of the charges.
Mr Finnieston said it was the "proper, just and safe" verdict.
Mr Paterson denies the charges against him and has incriminated six other people.
He has lodged a special defence of alibi claiming he was at an address in Cumbernauld at the time of the shooting.
The trial before judge Lord Armstrong continues.
The 71-year-old rhythm and blues and jazz artist - real name Clive Powell - will have a star added to Believe Square at Leigh Town Hall later.
He is the third recipient following Leigh Centurions rugby league team and rugby league great Alex Murphy.
Fame is also playing a gig at Leigh Sports Village for Leigh Centurions player Steve Maden's testimonial.
Believe Square is a walk of fame established by Wigan Council to honour the achievements of Leigh's citizens.
Fame is the only British star to have had three UK numbers ones from his only three top 10 hits - Yeh, Yeh in 1964, Get Away in 1966 and The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde in 1967.
He learned to play the piano at the former Leigh Central County Secondary School.
Fame's fame came aged 16 touring with names including Marty Wilde and Eddie Cochran.
He also had hits with his own band Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames.
Over the years he has collaborated with Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Wigan's own The Verve and is a founder member of Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings.
Patriarch Filaret, a Ukrainian Orthodox Church leader, accused Russia of "aggression" and "evil".
Russian Church Patriarch Kirill asked God to end the designs of those who wanted to rip apart Russia and Ukraine.
Pro-Russian activists in the east continue to occupy government offices.
Patriarch Filaret heads a Kiev church which broke away from the Moscow Patriarchate. A rival Ukrainian Orthodox Church - reckoned to have more followers - remains affiliated to Moscow and is recognised by the wider Eastern Orthodox community.
Meanwhile Russia media are reporting several deaths in a gunbattle near the eastern town of Sloviansk.
TV pictures showed what was described as the aftermath of an attack on a pro-Russian checkpoint at about 01:00 local time (22:00 on Saturday GMT), including the body of a man under a cover.
The BBC is unable to verify the footage, and it is not clear how many people were killed and injured in the incident. A Reuters journalist at the scene reported seeing two bodies in a truck.
The Russian foreign ministry blamed the Ukrainian ultra-nationalist Right Sector group for the attack.
"Russia is indignant about this provocation by gunmen, which testifies to the lack of will on the part of the Kiev authorities to rein in and disarm nationalists and extremists," it said in a statement.
A mediator from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is scheduled to hold talks with pro-Russian activists on Sunday.
Ertogrul Apakan, who heads the special OSCE mission in Kiev, said his deputy would be in Donetsk to try to get them to comply with an agreement reached on Thursday to ease the crisis.
In his Easter message, Patriarch Filaret said: "Against our peace-loving nation, which voluntarily gave up nuclear weapons, there has been aggression, there has been injustice.
"A country which guaranteed the integrity and inviolability of our territory has committed aggression. God cannot be on the side of evil, so the enemy of the Ukrainian people is condemned to defeat," he said.
"Lord, help us resurrect Ukraine."
In Moscow, Patriarch Kirill appealed for peace, saying it "should reign in the hearts and minds of our brothers and sisters by blood and by faith".
But he also said Ukraine was "spiritually and historically" at one with Russia, and he prayed for it to have authorities that were "legitimately elected".
"We are a single people before God," he said.
Ukraine's acting President, Olexander Turchynov, said in his Easter message: "We are living in a fateful time when the Ukrainian people have decisively affirmed their striving for freedom and justice."
In an interview to be aired in full later on Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press, Ukraine's interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk accuses Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to "restore the Soviet Union".
If Mr Putin succeeded, Mr Yatsenyuk says, it would be "the biggest disaster of this century".
Ukraine has been in crisis since President Viktor Yanukovych was toppled in February.
Russia then annexed the Crimean peninsula - part of Ukraine but with a Russian-speaking majority - in a move that provoked international outrage.
The annexation followed a referendum in Crimea that backed a move to join the Russian Federation.
Pro-Russian activists then occupied buildings in several eastern Ukrainian cities, many calling on Moscow to support them.
Russia, Ukraine, the EU and US agreed during talks in Geneva on Thursday that illegal military groups in Ukraine must be dissolved, and that those occupying government premises must be disarmed and leave.
But the separatists' spokesman in the city of Donetsk said that the Kiev government was "illegal", and vowed they would not go until it stepped down.
Swiss envoy Christian Schoenenberger, whose country chairs the OSCE, said its monitors had spoken to some dissidents in the east.
"For the time being the political will is not there to move out," he said.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsia has said that operations against the pro-Russian militants have been suspended over Easter.
Ukraine's interim authorities have appealed for national unity and promised to meet some of the demands of pro-Russian protesters.
These include the decentralisation of power and guarantees for the status of the Russian language.
But the US has warned the next few days will be pivotal and has threatened more sanctions against Russia if it fails to abide by the agreement.
US Vice-President Joe Biden is set to visit Kiev on Tuesday.
The victim was struck on the head with a blunt instrument before being robbed of money and other personal items.
The attack took place in an open field area in Bourtreehill, Irvine, at about 20:00 on Friday.
The injured man was taken to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock where he was treated for a head injury before being released.
The three suspects are described as being around 30 years old and were wearing grey-coloured clothing.
Det Sgt John Deans, of Saltcoats CID, said: "This was a very cowardly attack on a frail, defenceless man who suffers from various health problems and I appeal to members of the public who have any information that could assist our inquiries to contact police immediately.
"There were many youths in the area at the time this incident took place and we believe that they may have seen the three suspects hanging around. If so, please get in touch with police before they cause misery and harm to someone else."
A large plume of smoke could be seen over the accident, which happened near Livingston shortly before 09:00.
The road has been closed between J3 and J2, with eastbound traffic coming off at J3A and westbound at J2.
The fire has now been extinguished. It is not yet known whether anyone has been hurt.
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Pendleton won race one of the three-leg final against Australia's Meares by 0.001 seconds but was disqualified for riding out of the sprinting lane.
The Briton - the defending champion - tried to hit back in race two.
But a stunning Meares finish gave her a 2-0 win and left Pendleton with silver.
Guo Shuang of China took bronze after beating Germany's Kristina Vogel 2-0.
"I would have loved to have won on my final race, but I'm just so glad that's it all done and I can move on," said Pendleton."
With Laura Trott winning gold in the omnium and Sir Chris Hoy defending his keirin title, Britain end with seven golds, one silver and a bronze to show for six days in the velodrome.
Britain have won seven out of 10 track cycling gold medals at the London 2012 Olympics
Women's individual sprint: Anna Meares (Aus)
Men's keirin: Sir Chris Hoy (Gbr)
Women's omnium: Laura Trott (Gbr)
Defeat by her fiercest rival was an unhappy end to Pendleton's illustrious career on the track, but the six-time sprint world champion has the consolation of taking keirin gold away from London 2012.
Meares, in contrast, came into the final with only a bronze from the team sprint to her name at London 2012, but the 28-year-old left with Australia's first gold medal in the velodrome of these Games.
The two riders have enjoyed some epic duels on the track in the past and their first cat-and-mouse encounter did not disappoint.
Meares stalked Pendleton like a tiger around the track and won the first race after the British rider was adjudged to have come out of her lane as she held off the Australian by the width of a tyre.
That left Meares needing just one more win to take gold, which she sealed with a burst of speed on the final bend that left Pendleton unable to respond.
"There was no disputing that final race. Anna Meares was just the better sprinter. We have to hand it to her, it was a great race but it's disappointing for Victoria Pendleton. I don't think Anna thought she could win judging by the look on her face at the end. She looked surprised. Meares was just stronger and she knew she had it on that final bend."
Tears followed from an emotional Pendleton, whose dream of becoming the first British woman to win three Olympic golds was dashed.
However, her two golds mean she remains alongside runner Kelly Holmes, swimmer Rebecca Adlington, fellow track cyclist Trott and sailors Sarah Webb, Sarah Ayton and Shirley Robertson as the country's most successful female Olympians.
Meares, meanwhile, was left to celebrate her second Olympic gold medal, eight years after she won her first in the 500m time trial in Sydney.
"Victoria's such a hard-fought opponent and she's dominated the sport for so long," said Meares. "It's been such a difficult challenge and to be able to win the Olympic title for me, it's so special."
The hosts led after a tight first half thanks to Bruno Ecuele Manga's header.
Chris Martin's scrappy equaliser early in the second half sparked the game into life with a flurry of chances.
The hosts pressed relentlessly and got their reward as Stuart O'Keefe slid the ball in from a corner to keep Cardiff within two points of the top six.
Defeat saw Derby drop to sixth, a place below Sheffield Wednesday, who won at Huddersfield.
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For Cardiff, victory closed the gap between them and the Rams to two points and gave the home supporters ample reason to cheer.
A deal giving free tickets to fans buying or renewing season tickets prompted an attendance of 28,680, exceeding the stadium's previous best for a Cardiff game, 28,018 for the 6-3 Premier League defeat by Liverpool in 2014.
The hosts thrived on the charged atmosphere, starting energetically and registering the game's first shot with Joe Ralls' volley wide.
Derby soon settled, however, and kept the ball for long periods with their five-man midfield stifling Russell Slade's side.
For all their possession, the visitors failed to trouble Cardiff's defence, and it was one of the Bluebirds' back four who gave them the lead.
Peter Whittingham's outswinging corner floated temptingly towards the back post, where centre-back Ecuele Manga timed his jump perfectly and headed the ball powerfully into the top corner.
Having failed to muster a shot on target in a blunt first-half display, Derby managed one four minutes into the second half with Martin's equaliser.
After the striker's initial shot was blocked, the ball ballooned into the air and Martin seized on the rebound before Cardiff keeper David Marshall to head in from close range.
The home side could have reclaimed the lead within seconds, but Craig Noone's shot was well saved by Scott Carson.
Scott Malone was the next to test Carson with a neat half-volley as Cardiff upped the ante before eventually scoring their second goal.
Whittingham was the creator again, his corner nodded down by Sean Morrison into the path of O'Keefe, who scrambled the ball in from close range for a winning goal met with rapturous celebrations in the stands.
Cardiff manager Russell Slade:
"It was a very professional performance. There weren't many chances but we made enough use of the ball to create enough chances to win.
"What pleased me most was that when Derby got themselves back into the game early in the second half, there was a great response from us and we got the all-important second goal.
"We've got a mountain-load of character and we showed that in front of a big crowd to win a big game.
"However the challenge remains to get into the top six. Despite winning, we are still a couple of points adrift and we are running out of games."
Derby head coach Darren Wassall:
"We're very disappointed, particularly on the back of such a good result against Nottingham Forest two weeks ago.
"It's unacceptable to concede two goals from set-pieces. Our defending at home has been good but on the road it just hasn't happened for us.
"The lads are hugely disappointed because there was very little in a game of few chances. But that just makes conceding two goals from corners all the more disappointing.
"We came out of the blocks quickly for the second half and Chris (Martin) was brave with the header for the goal and we all thought we would kick on from there."
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Peaty won the 100m breaststroke in a world-leading 58.41 seconds, with Ross Murdoch second and James Wilby third.
Peaty told BBC Sport: "There's no better feeling."
World silver medallist James Guy (400m freestyle) and Hannah Miley (400m individual medley) won their events in Rio qualification times.
Welsh swimmer Jazmin Carlin claimed victory in the 200m freestyle final ahead of Eleanor Faulkner and rising star Georgia Coates.
Carlin's time was not quick enough for a guaranteed individual Rio place, but should be enough for the 4x200m freestyle relay team.
Her main events - 400m and 800m - are later in the week.
Peaty set a world record in the event at last year's British championships in London but has plotted a different strategy this season.
"My coach and I were looking at doing it differently and peak for later in the year, so hopefully there are quicker times to come at the Olympics," he said.
Murdoch's time of 59.31 secs is likely to be enough for Rio 2016 selection, but the world championship bronze medallist will return for the 200m competition on Friday.
Guy had to be taken off poolside while he was physically sick following the 400m freestyle final, which he completed in three minutes 43.84 seconds.
"It was a great swim and I'm so happy to qualify for the Games, but it definitely hurt towards the end and I was sick everywhere," Guy told BBC Radio 5 Live.
Scotland's Miley booked a place at her third Olympics after moving clear of long-time English rival Aimee Wilmott in the closing stages to finish in four minutes 33.40 seconds.
She said: "It's always great to come here and was really pushed by Aimee and I owe her a lot for making me get that time."
British swimmers will be nominated for Rio 2016 selection after the trials with the British Olympic Association [BOA] due to ratify the Team GB squad later this month.
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Wes York scored the winner in the second half, adding the slightest of touches to Dominic Vose's low cross.
Aldershot, who had been on top before the goal, then lost midfielder Jake Gallagher as he collected two yellow cards in the space of six minutes.
The visitors had little problems protecting the lead, with Sean Newton going close to doubling the lead.
Aldershot Town boss Barry Smith told BBC Surrey:
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"I don't think there was a lot in the game but a lapse in concentration allows them to score at the other end and if they have a lapse of concentration we don't put in the net.
"That's been the story over the past few games, with not taking our chances.
"We've got to be picking up the guy that scores and if you make those mistakes you don't win games. We know what Chris Barker's experience has got him through the game but it does show how threadbare our squad is. We put him in at centre-back which is not somewhere I would see him play but he did his job.
Wrexham manager Gary Mills told BBC Radio Wales:
"Our shape was really good and we had to be patient again.
"But I always feel there's goals in us, I always feel one of our front five are going to score for us.
"I thought we deserved to win, there's no two ways about that. To win 1-0 away from home is a great result for us."
Match ends, Aldershot Town 0, Wrexham 1.
Second Half ends, Aldershot Town 0, Wrexham 1.
Attempt missed. Jim Stevenson (Aldershot Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Rob Evans (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Rob Evans (Wrexham).
Dipo Akinyemi (Aldershot Town) wins a free kick.
Foul by Rob Evans (Wrexham).
Jim Stevenson (Aldershot Town) wins a free kick.
Sean McGinty (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card for dissent.
Foul by Sean McGinty (Aldershot Town).
Wes York (Wrexham) wins a free kick.
Offside, Wrexham. Connor Jennings tries a through ball, but Connor Jennings is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Sean McGinty (Aldershot Town) left footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Jamal Fyfield (Wrexham).
Dipo Akinyemi (Aldershot Town) wins a free kick.
Offside, Wrexham. Wes York tries a through ball, but Wes York is caught offside.
Sean Newton (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sean Newton (Wrexham).
Cheye Alexander (Aldershot Town) wins a free kick.
Attempt saved. Omar Beckles (Aldershot Town) header from the centre of the box is saved. Assisted by Chris Barker with a cross.
Foul by Jamal Fyfield (Wrexham).
Richard Brodie (Aldershot Town) wins a free kick.
Attempt missed. Mark Carrington (Wrexham) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Sean Newton (Wrexham) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Corner, Wrexham.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Dipo Akinyemi replaces Charlie Walker.
Offside, Wrexham. Dominic Vose tries a through ball, but Dominic Vose is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Dominic Vose (Wrexham) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Second yellow card to Jake Gallagher (Aldershot Town) for a bad foul.
Foul by Jake Gallagher (Aldershot Town).
Jamal Fyfield (Wrexham) wins a free kick.
Attempt saved. Adriano Moke (Wrexham) right footed shot from outside the box is saved.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Rhys Browne replaces Sam Hatton.
Jake Gallagher (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jake Gallagher (Aldershot Town).
Dominic Vose (Wrexham) wins a free kick.
Goal! Aldershot Town 0, Wrexham 1. Wes York (Wrexham) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Dominic Vose.
Attempt saved. Dominic Vose (Wrexham) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved.
Attempt saved. Wes York (Wrexham) header from the centre of the box is saved. Assisted by Rob Evans with a cross.
Foul by Sean McGinty (Aldershot Town).
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Wrexham beat 10-man Aldershot to secure a fourth successive win in the National League.
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Users of BBC services can already create an online account - known as a BBC ID - but this is not currently required in order to access iPlayer.
From Tuesday, BBC ID holders also have to add a postcode to their account.
TV Licensing has access to the information but the BBC says it has no current plans to use it for enforcement purposes.
The corporation says the changes are part of an attempt to make its services more personal and localised.
Anyone watching BBC programmes via iPlayer has been required to have a TV licence since the start of this month.
A BBC ID - which allows users to personalise BBC content such as online news - currently requires only an email address and password, though anyone wishing to comment on stories must also provide a date of birth.
About seven million accounts already exist, the BBC said.
By David Sillito, BBC media correspondent
Coming less than a month after the extension of the licence fee to the iPlayer, it's hard not to see this as just a way of encouraging people to pay up.
The inclusion of a postcode as part of the new compulsory sign-up information certainly suggests it could be a way of alerting TV licensing to homes that currently don't have a licence but are watching the iPlayer.
The BBC says the information won't be used for enforcement - but adds it may be in the future.
The personalisation argument has some weight. With young people watching less and less "live" TV, the key to ensuring they are even aware of what is on offer is to find out who's watching, track their tastes and try to tempt them with programmes that reflect their age and where they live.
All broadcasters want to know more about their audience, especially the harder-to-reach younger viewers.
The rule change earlier this month closed the so-called iPlayer loophole.
Previously, a TV licence was only necessary for viewers watching live television, allowing iPlayer users who only watched programmes after they had been broadcast to avoid paying the £145.50 annual fee.
The BBC has said "significant numbers of new people" have bought a licence since the new rules came into effect.
BBC director of radio Helen Boaden said the move was not connected to changes to the supposed loophole, but was "about giving you a better BBC".
She added: "We will keep our processes under review to make sure they are effective. The government has asked us to review whether a verification system for accessing the iPlayer will be required in the future."
Tony Hall, BBC director general, said: "By learning about what you want and like we can take you to more of the great programmes you love, stories you might be interested in and content you might otherwise never have discovered.
"This is a real transformation - reinventing public service broadcasting for the digital age."
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All users of the BBC's iPlayer service will have to log in with a personal account from early 2017.
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Officers were searching a property at Cockret Court in Cockret Road after arresting a man on suspicion of racial/religious aggravated harassment and criminal damage.
Neighbouring flats within a 100m cordon have been evacuated and residents are being offered temporary shelter nearby.
A 60-year-old man remains in police custody.
North Yorkshire Police warned there would be disruption to the surrounding area as emergency services attended the scene.
It said the flats were being evacuated as a precaution.
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Homes in Selby, North Yorkshire, have been evacuated after police found suspected hazardous material.
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Midfielder Josh McEachran is not yet fit to return from an ankle problem which has kept him out since February.
Jason Shackell (back), Nick Blackman (knee), Craig Forsyth (knee) and George Thorne (leg) are long-term absentees for Derby.
Cyrus Christie, Ikechi Anya, Darren Bent, Will Hughes, Abdoul Camara and Matej Vydra are all hoping for recalls.
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Brentford centre-back Andreas Bjelland will not face Derby, but could return for the Bees at Barnsley on Monday.
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Dettori, 45, had been booked for Fascinating Rock before trainer Dermot Weld decided the 2015 Champions Stakes winner would not make the race.
Dettori is aiming for a fifth win in the 12-furlong feature after victory on Golden Horn last year.
Order Of St George, trained by Aidan O'Brien, suffered defeat in the Irish Ledger last time out.
Dettori hopes that O'Brien has coaxed the four-year-old back to the form that could trouble favourite Postponed however.
"Postponed is clearly the biggest threat. It's difficult to see any flaws in the favourite but my horse is trained by a genius. Now I've had the good news confirmed I can relax a bit and start looking forward to a big run," he wrote in his blog for bookmaker Ladbrokes.
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Frankie Dettori has picked up a ride on Gold Cup winner Order Of St George for Saturday's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
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Colum Eastwood said the idea of a deal being struck during the campaign was "not credible" and politicians "should give up the pretence of negotiations".
The parties will review the talks process on Thursday with the UK and Irish governments, Sinn Féin has said.
At Westminster, MPs have passed an emergency bill to extend the talks.
A new 29 June deadline is proposed to give parties more time for negotiations after the election.
The bill would also allow the collection of rates in the absence of an executive, and could become law by the end of the week.
Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire has published indicative figures for a budget he will impose if Stormont's parties do not reach a deal.
It would include a 2.5% cut to spending on education.
Speaking in the House of Commons, he said the government would be prepared to implement it "as a last resort".
"This is not a step any government would take lightly," he said.
"But this house must not forget the duties we uphold for the people of Northern Ireland."
A round-table discussion involving the parties took place on Monday, with more bilateral meetings due in the coming days.
The leaders of the two main unionist parties are meeting on Monday to discuss a possible electoral pact.
But Ulster Unionist leader Robin Swann said Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster has "made the conversation a bit more difficult" after she outlined her party's position in the Belfast Telegraph.
The snap general election comes after devolved government in Northern Ireland collapsed in January over a botched energy scheme.
The late Martin McGuinness, of Sinn Féin, quit as deputy first minister in protest at the DUP's handling of the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme scandal.
It led to a snap Northern Ireland Assembly election on 2 March, which saw a surge in Sinn Féin's vote.
Stormont's two largest parties have been unable to reach agreement to share power since that date, and were warned they face either a second assembly election or direct rule from Westminster.
However, Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to call an election to the House of Commons made a deal even less likely as parties switched to campaign mode.
The government published its Ministerial Appointments and Regional Rates Bill on Friday.
It began its accelerated passage through Westminster late on Monday afternoon, with MPs discussing the measures in a debate lasting just under four hours.
Members of the House of Lords will get their opportunity to scrutinise the bill on Wednesday.
Once passed, the law will give he Northern Ireland civil service the authority to collect the regional rate, increased in line with inflation, and push the deadline for restoring devolution back to 29 June.
That means the Stormont parties will not face the near impossible task of finding a compromise while campaigning in the general election.
However, whether they can reach a deal in the summer, which they could not do in the spring, remains open to doubt.
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Talks to restore a power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland should be "paused" until after the snap general election, the SDLP leader has said.
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Cox was one of the standout performers at Rio 2016, winning gold in both the athletics and cycling competitions.
The 26-year-old has multiple sclerosis, which affects the nervous system.
"I can have a relapse at any point that can throw me out," she said. "I hope it's a long time until it gets worse."
Cox, who is competing at July's World Para-athletics Championships, added: "I have severe relapses that put me in hospital. I'm unlucky in that sense. But I have a disease modifying treatment that manages it.
"I used to not plan ahead because of the condition I've got. But I've put that at the back of mind and not let MS control my life."
She said: "The aim is to be able to replicate in Tokyo what I achieved in Rio or even perform better."
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Cox has had "up and down" periods in the year since winning Paralympic gold medals in the athletics T38 400m and cycling's C4-5 time trial, as well as two other medals in Rio's athletics events.
First, there was the issue over her appearance in Channel Four winter sports game show The Jump, which had resulted in a serious injury for former British gymnast Beth Tweddle in a previous series.
Cox had her funding taken away by British Athletics during her time on the show but has since had it reinstated.
"They put me back on it when I returned to training and showed form," she added. "I've got no complaints. They were supportive.
"No sport wants me to get involved in something dangerous. They wanted me to focus on London 2017 - but I needed a break from sport."
And last month, the Manchester Metropolitan University student had her Paralympic medals stolen from her car. However, after an appeal on social media, they were returned.
The Leeds-born athlete can now focus on the forthcoming championships and the build-up to Tokyo 2020, where once again she plans to compete in both athletics and cycling. She has, however, taken a year's break from cycling partly due to her "academic workload" and a work placement.
Cox is one of a handful of British athletes to compete in more than one sport at the Paralympics and Olympics.
Five-time Olympic cycling gold medallist Sir Bradley Wiggins is hoping to join that select bunch having announced he hopes to make the Great Britain rowing team for Tokyo 2020.
"He's a legend," said Cox of the 37-year-old. "As an athlete you have it in-built - he has to be a sponge and take in all the new information.
"Eventually you build up to being the good athlete that you are. He's a legend and will do well."
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British Paralympic champion Kadeena Cox says she is focused on defending titles in two sports at Tokyo 2020 despite not knowing whether her medical condition will curtail her ambition.
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In Russia he has become a focus of accusations that "fascists" and extremists control the government in Kiev.
However, the nature of his duties, and the extent of his influence in the armed forces, remains to be seen.
Mr Yarosh is the head of Right Sector, which first burst to prominence as an ultra-nationalist umbrella organisation, battling riot police and helping man the barricades during anti-government protests last year.
After the February revolution, which brought a new pro-Western government to power, Right Sector morphed into a political party.
However, Mr Yarosh received less than 1% in presidential elections, and his party failed to pass a 5% barrier to enter parliament - though he himself was elected as a deputy.
From there, Right Sector created from its numbers one of the many volunteer battalions, fighting alongside regular government forces against Russian-supported insurgents in eastern Ukraine.
And now Mr Yarosh and his group have made yet another leap in legitimacy: Ukrainian officials announced at the weekend that the Right Sector leader would serve as an adviser to the army chief of staff, Viktor Muzhenko, acting as a liaison between the military and the volunteer battalions.
Russian media were quick to condemn the move. "Neo-Nazis are strengthening their positions," proclaimed Russia's state-owned Rossiya 1 TV. "Radical armed groups will become a separate assault brigade, led by Yarosh."
Russia accuses him of incitement to terrorism and at Russia's request he is listed as wanted by Interpol. He denies the charges.
The claim that Mr Yarosh comes from neo-Nazi ranks, or represents them, is a distortion.
"He is a nationalist - though there is a discussion, among experts, on whether labels like 'ultra-nationalism', 'fascism' or 'extreme right' should be applied to him," wrote Andreas Umland, an expert on the far right in Ukraine.
Mr Umland points out that Mr Yarosh, unlike many other far-right activists, defines nationality according to citizenship. That is, not just ethnic Ukrainians are considered to be, so to speak, "true Ukrainians", but Russians, Jews, Tartars or any other group living on Ukrainian territory.
That said, Mr Yarosh's political beliefs fall firmly to the right of the political spectrum.
"In the past, he has made critical statements about Western liberalism and European integration," Mr Umland said.
Mr Yarosh's appointment could simply be a bit of canny public relations: the promotion of a popular combat leader, one who received serious injuries in the battle of Donetsk airport and was subsequently photographed, bruised and bandaged in his hospital bed.
The big question is what his position portends for the future of the volunteer battalions, which previously operated free of direct government control. Now, however, Ukraine's leaders are making concerted efforts to limit their autonomy.
Right Sector was the last prominent battalion to resist joining a government structure. Now, officials said the group would "submit to the military leadership over questions of national defence."
That is also significant, given that it potentially removes Right Sector from under the influence of the Ukrainian billionaire, Ihor Kolomoisky.
Mr Kolomoisky showed himself willing to use armed groups in what appeared to be a power struggle last month with Kiev authorities.
But the extent of their subordination to the government could also be open to debate.
A Right Sector spokesman was quoted as saying that his organisation would now be funded by the defence ministry, but it would still remain operationally independent.
"Our combatants will be well-armed from now on, as up until now equipment was supplied by volunteers," said Artem Skoropadskiy, quoted by the AFP news agency.
Still, with Mr Yarosh now a part of the general staff - but crucially not in a deciding role - he and his fighters may now be subject to a degree of oversight. And the volunteer battalions in general may now be better controlled by those who, by law, should be in charge.
Cluff Natural Resources said it was halting work while the SNP ministers decide on their approach.
Campaigners want Cluff's development of underground coal gasification (UCG) included in a moratorium on fracking.
A review of Scotland's energy needs is under way and the issue may be debated at the SNP's autumn conference.
In an exchange of private letters between Alex Cluff, the chairman and chief executive, and Scottish infrastructure secretary Alex Neil, which was later made public, the minister made clear that he did not see UCG developments as being included in the moratorium on shale fracking as well as coal-bed methane.
Despite that, the public campaign is seen as having "the ability to impact the development of the Kincardine Project," Cluff's UCG plan for the inner estuary.
Mr Cluff told shareholders: "We have deemed it prudent to await clarity on these matters before committing fully to, in particular, the expense of an environmental impact study.
"As a result, work on a planning application will likely be postponed until after such time as the political situation is more certain.
"Preparatory work including site selection studies, modelling and design work are, however, well under way."
The energy entrepreneur still hopes to persuade Scottish government ministers to see his plans as fitting in with their own political ambitions.
He said: "In our judgment the gasification of the coal contained under these licences would represent a major advance towards Scottish energy self-sufficiency and is therefore entirely consonant with the concept of Scottish independence."
Mr Cluff said central government should take over planning decisions on energy projects from local authorities, warning that a local block would turn some areas into "industrial wastelands".
He also challenged the UK government on the spread of offshore windfarms in the southern North Sea, where he said they could impede the development of new gas resources in those offshore areas.
Cluff reported a loss of £745,000 for the first half of this year, down from £809,000 in the same part of 2014.
Lang Banks, director of environment lobby group WWF Scotland, said: "People power is clearly working, and it's now clear that Cluff's plans are in real trouble.
"If Cluff is so convinced its plans will have no impact on the climate and wider environment, then it should be actively encouraging the scrutiny of the technology as part of the Scottish government's existing examination of other unconventional fossil fuels."
Brady was due to attend a mental health tribunal on Monday regarding his application to be transferred to a Scottish prison and be allowed to die.
He is currently in Fazakerley Hospital, Merseyside, where he will remain for at least 24 hours and will undergo tests after his seizure on Monday.
Brady, 74, jailed in 1966 for murdering three children, has been detained at Ashworth Hospital, Maghull, since 1985.
Jackie Powell, Ian Brady's mental health advocate, told the BBC it was "too early" to say whether Brady's mental health tribunal would go ahead as planned on Monday.
The BBC has also learned of a letter written by Brady in the last few days in which he complained that the public and press would only be able to view the mental health review tribunal via videolink rather than in person, a situation he described as a "parody" of a public tribunal.
He gave no indication of any health problems in the letter which might have explained his admission to hospital for medical treatment.
Brady has been on successive hunger strikes since 1999 in an attempt to kill himself.
The murderer is sectioned under the Mental Health Act, so he is not allowed to take his own life.
He has been held at Ashworth Hospital, a secure psychiatric institution, since 1985 and has been tube fed since refusing food 12 years ago.
In a statement, Ashworth hospital said Brady had been admitted to a general hospital after becoming "acutely physically unwell" on the ward.
In a statement, it said Brady had undergone a series of tests "and as a precaution he will be kept in".
It said he is in a single room and will be accompanied in that room at all times by two nurses from Ashworth Hospital, with two other members of its staff on duty outside his room throughout his stay.
Seizures, which can start at any age and may be a one-off event, result from abnormalities in the brain, but there are many different types and causes.
They may be a sign of underlying health problems like epilepsy or a brain tumour, although some remain unexplained.
Brady and his girlfriend Myra Hindley lured children and teenagers to their deaths, torturing them before burying their bodies on Saddleworth Moor, Greater Manchester.
Pauline Reade, 16, disappeared on her way to a dance on 12 July 1963 and John Kilbride, 12, was snatched four months later.
Keith Bennett was abducted on 16 June 1964 after he left home to visit his grandmother.
Lesley Ann Downey, 10, was lured away from a funfair on Boxing Day 1964 while Edward Evans, 17, was killed in October 1965.
After details of Brady's seizure emerged, Alan West - Lesley Ann's stepfather - told ITV Granada Reports: "I only wished in one way that he would end up the same way as Hindley did.
"Don't come out of the hospital. The only way out is in a box. I'll be happy."
Brady was jailed for life at Chester Assizes in 1966 for the murders of John, Lesley Ann and Edward, while Hindley was jailed for life for killing Lesley Ann and Edward and shielding Brady after John's murder.
In 1987 the pair finally admitted killing Keith and Pauline.
Both were taken back to Saddleworth Moor in 1987 to help police find the remains of the missing victims but only Pauline's body was found.
Hindley died in jail in November 2002, aged 60.
He was arrested in East Dulwich on suspicion of sexual offences and taken to central London police station, where he remains.
It follows assaults on at least five women including two 13-year-old-girls on 24 and 27 January in Lewisham and Southwark.
The Metropolitan Police said they were treating the incidents as linked.
Offices launched an appeal on Friday to identify a suspect in connection with the assaults.
They said they had had a good response from the public but continued to appeal for witnesses.
Speaking during a sometimes ill-tempered hustings debate in Glasgow, he also warned that the party could split unless Mr Corbyn was replaced.
Mr Corbyn again insisted he voted to Remain in June's EU referendum.
And he warned against splitting the party, saying it was important that Labour remained "democratic and accountable".
The event at the SECC was the latest in a series of debates being held by the two politicians during the Labour leadership contest.
Mr Smith is attempting to unseat Mr Corbyn less than a year after he was overwhelmingly elected as leader.
The leadership contest was triggered after dozens of Mr Corbyn's frontbench team - including then-Work and Pensions spokesman Mr Smith - quit in the wake of Hilary Benn's sacking on 26 June.
But despite having little support among Labour MPs - who accuse him of having a lacklustre EU referendum campaign - Mr Corbyn's backers believe he remains popular among grassroots party members.
Mr Smith told an audience of Labour members that he was "gutted" by the vote to leave the EU, and was prepared to fight Brexit up to opposing a vote to trigger Article 50 in parliament.
Repeatedly questioning whether Mr Corbyn voted to Remain, he added: "The reason I think that Jeremy can be so complacent and passive about this is that he's happy about the result. He's not bothered about the result.
"If he's so concerned about protecting workers' rights why on earth would we allow the Tories to implement a Brexit deal which is going to see workers' rights in this country sold down the river?
"He didn't fight hard last time round. I will."
Mr Corbyn said the referendum had taken place and delivered a result which was not the one he wanted, but had to be respected.
He said he would fight to protect workers' rights and consumer rights and to ensure "there is an effective economic relationship with Europe when the Brexit negotiations are completed".
He added: "We don't want to become a low-wage tax haven bargain basement economy offshore of Europe."
Speaking earlier in the debate, Mr Smith insisted he would be "Labour till I die" and would not play any part in a split.
But he said his "grave fear" was that the party could end up divided unless a new leader is elected.
Mr Smith claimed Labour had gone backwards in Scotland under Mr Corbyn, with the party finishing third behind the SNP and Conservatives in May's Holyrood election.
He said: "People in Scotland cannot look to Labour in Westminster right now and anticipate us winning a general election, therefore we are ill-serving the Scottish Labour Party and we are ill-serving the people of Scotland.
"We need to get back to being a radical and credible government-in-waiting, and we need to be much more powerful in attacking the Tories."
Mr Corbyn pledged greater investment in Scotland if the party was to win the next general election, and said Labour needed to challenge the SNP more on their "underfunding" of Scottish local authorities.
He said the SNP were "very good" at pretending to "adopt the clothes" of the Labour tradition in Scotland.
Mr Corbyn added: "The reality is something very, very different, of what they do in their economic strategy. And that surely is something that has to be challenged in the Scottish Parliament."
The Labour leader also said Scottish government statistics released on Wednesday showed independence would not be in the best interests of Scotland.
The Gers figures revealed a Scottish deficit of £14.8bn in 2015/16 when a geographic share of North Sea revenues was allocated.
Asked about any potential Labour Party split, Mr Corbyn said: "It's an enormous honour to be selected and elected as a Labour Member of Parliament.
"You have a huge responsibility to the community that has elected you and the party that has selected you and put you there so the idea, as happened with the SDP in the 1980s, that you could walk away into the arms of wealthy donors and set up some other organisation is complete and utter anathema to me.
"I want our party to be democratic and accountable."
Both candidates also emphatically rejected any suggestion of forming a "progressive alliance" with the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Greens.
Labour Party members have already started voting in the leadership contest, with the outcome due to be announced on 24 September.
Scottish Labour Party leader Kezia Dugdale, who is supporting Mr Smith's candidacy, did not attend the debate, which was shown live on the BBC News Channel.
There was jeering from some sections of the debate audience when Ms Dugdale's name was mentioned, and laughter when Mr Smith said she was doing a "great job".
But Mr Corbyn again insisted he would be able to work with Ms Dugdale if he won the leadership contest.
Mr Corbyn had earlier secured a seat in a Virgin rail carriage for his trip to Glasgow as he returned to the operator following a row about overcrowded trains.
Virgin had disputed his claim he was unable to find a seat on a "ram-packed" service earlier this month.
On Thursday morning, Mr Corbyn was photographed in a seat on a Virgin service from London Euston to Glasgow.
Twitter user David Rose posted an image of the Labour leader and said: "My kids just got on @VirginTrains from Euston to Glasgow with @jeremycorbyn. He has a seat. Good job @richardbranson."
Virgin Trains responded by wishing Mr Corbyn a "great trip". In a Twitter message the operator said: "Welcome onboard! Hope you all have a great trip to Glasgow this morning."
Mr Morales accused the agency of seeking to "conspire against" the Bolivian people and his government.
US state department spokesman Patrick Ventrell rejected the allegations as "baseless and unfounded".
USAID has been working in Bolivia for almost five decades, and had a budget of $52.1m (??33.4m) for the country in 2010, according to its website.
The agency said it deeply regretted Mr Morales' decision.
On previous May Days, Mr Morales had announced the nationalisation of key industries, such as hydroelectric power and the electricity grid.
But on Wednesday he said he "would only nationalise the dignity of the Bolivian people".
Speaking at a rally in La Paz, the president said there was "no lack of US institutions which continue to conspire against our people and especially the national government, which is why we're going to take the opportunity to announce on this May Day that we've decided to expel USAID".
He then turned to his Foreign Minister, David Choquehuanca, and asked him to inform the US embassy of his decision.
The president said the expulsion was in protest at a recent remark by US Secretary of State John Kerry, who referred to Latin America as "the backyard of the United States".
Mr Kerry made the remark as he tried to persuade US Congressmen of the importance of the region.
Mr Morales has threatened USAID with expulsion in the past, saying that its programmes have "political rather than social" ends. He has also accused it of "manipulating" and "using" union leaders.
Mr Ventrell said Mr Morales' decision "harms the Bolivian people".
"We think the programmes have been positive for the Bolivian people, and fully co-ordinated with the Bolivian government and appropriate agencies under their own national development plan," he said.
In a statement USAID said: "Those who will be most hurt by the Bolivian government's decision are the Bolivian citizens who have benefited from our collaborative work on education, agriculture, health, alternative development, and the environment."
Mr Morales, who heads his country's union of coca growers, has also been critical in the past of US counter-narcotic programmes in Bolivia, repeatedly stating that the fight against drugs is driven by geopolitical interests.
In 2008, Mr Morales expelled the US ambassador and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for allegedly conspiring against his government.
Bolivia is among the top three producers of coca in the world, according to the United Nations World Drug report. Coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine, has been used in the Andes for thousands of years as a mild stimulant and sacred herbal medicine.
USAID cites as its main aims the strengthening of Bolivia's health system and the provision of "equal access to health care by eliminating social exclusion", as well as improving "the livelihoods of economically and socially disadvantaged people by increasing income and managing natural resources".
The agency also supports programmes to help Bolivian farmers to replace coca with other crops.
The US government had a separate budget of $20.3m (??13m) for its counter-narcotics and military programme in 2010, but it is not clear which agency distributes that money in Bolivia.
Evo Morales became Bolivia's first indigenous president in 2005.
He was re-elected by a landslide in 2009, but has since faced protests from indigenous communities angered by the construction of a major road through their territory, and by police and army officers demanding better pay.
Since 2011 the assembly has had powers to make its own laws - and in the last five-year term the Welsh Government almost completed its legislative programme, producing 25 new acts with one final law failing at the last hurdle.
This time around there is a shake-up over how ministers in Cardiff Bay have laid out how they will make legislation in the Senedd, with six new laws proposed for the next year.
Political commentator Daran Hill, who previously dubbed the last series of laws "mainly managerial and unambitious", told the BBC there was a "clear aim" to keep the legislative programme as "uncontroversial as possible".
Previously, the Welsh Government laid out which laws it was going to make for the following five years from the start.
But in June, shortly after the European Union referendum result, First Minister Carwyn Jones told AMs he was moving to a yearly schedule for announcing which laws he would be making.
He said this was "one step in developing our practices to ensure they befit the parliamentary responsibilities of this place".
Outlining his plans in the Senedd in June, Mr Jones said his government would bring forward six bills over the following 12 months, saying they would "deliver real improvements for the people of Wales".
There are to be two laws on taxation on two small levies which are being devolved by April 2018 - the Welsh versions of stamp duty land tax and landfill tax.
The longstanding plan is that the Welsh Government will no longer wholly be reliant on block grant funding from the UK Treasury, although the revenue generated by these two taxes is small.
Neither will keep their names. Stamp duty will be known as land transactions tax, while the landfill levy will become landfill disposals tax.
Ministers have promised a bill to overturn parts of the UK government's recent Trade Union Act as they apply to devolved services.
Labour had objected to the law, which sets new rules for industrial action including requiring 40% of workers eligible to vote to back strikes in key areas such as health and education, because of its impact on services that are governed from Cardiff.
While the plan will pose a potential flashpoint with the UK Government, a letter leaked in February admitted ministers in London had a "very weak case" to impose the law in Wales.
But the possible row is unlikely to translate into controversy in the Senedd, given that in the last assembly AMs from Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats were united in opposition with Labour to the curbs.
The remaining Liberal Democrat - Kirsty Williams - is now in the cabinet, while Labour and Plaid Cymru together would give ministers the majority they need to pass the law.
One of the casualties of the aftermath of the assembly election was the proposed restrictions on e-cigarettes championed by former Health Minister Mark Drakeford.
The measure, commonly known as the e-cig ban, was the only example of a law which the minority Labour government failed to get through at the last hurdle.
With both the Liberal Democrats and the Tories opposed, it failed after a last-minute change of heart from a small number of Plaid AMs who were going to back the law until the now-infamous cheap date jibe by Leighton Andrews.
The Public Health Bill will be returning to the assembly, but stripped of the e-cigarette ban, leaving the government with a bill full of proposals on public toilets, sunbeds and tattooing that had not generated the opposition the e-cigarette measures did.
Within the year the Welsh Government is also planning a bill to provide a new legal framework for supporting children and young people with additional learning needs, as well as a bill to abolish social housing tenants' "right to buy".
"The Welsh Government attitude to legislating in this assembly is very much based on two significant political considerations," said Welsh political commentator Daran Hill, who heads public affairs firm Positif.
"The first is the practical experience of the past when the programme became weighed down, and it has therefore indicated a shorter list of laws for this assembly.
"The second factor is the lack of an outright majority on the floor of the assembly to pass any law at all.
"This means there's an added incentive to keep to a minimum the number of laws taken to a vote on the floor of the assembly."
He said the "clear aim is to keep the programme as uncontroversial as possible in order to get consensus or at least a simple majority of votes whenever a piece of law has to be taken through".
The Welsh Government said it did not plan to respond directly to the comments, but pointed to the bill for the land transaction tax as being "the longest and most complex piece of legislation the National Assembly will consider to date".
The former second row played 55 Tests within 133 games for the All Blacks between 1957 and 1971.
He was diagnosed with cancer in 2016 and his wife Verna had told local media on Saturday that he was seriously ill.
"This is a sad day for New Zealand rugby and for New Zealand," said the country's Prime Minister Bill English.
"I have had the privilege of getting to know Sir Colin. He was not only a great All Black but also a genuinely good New Zealand bloke.
"He represented what it means to be a New Zealander. He was no-nonsense, reliable, hardworking, warm and very generous with his time."
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Meads, nicknamed Pinetree, was knighted in 2009 as recognition of his achievements as a rugby player with the All Blacks and for his charitable work. He was given a statue in his home town, Te Kuiti, in June 2017.
"I remember when I was younger hearing stories about how he used to shear sheep all day and go running at night," English added.
"I thought I'd give it a go. I quickly learned the Meads legend was built on physical and mental toughness.
"My thoughts are with Sir Colin's wife Lady Verna, and his family and friends at this time."
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Now in its 13th year, the award celebrates people from around the UK who volunteer their time and effort in encouraging the talents of others, and whose work enables local clubs and groups to thrive and flourish.
Following the nomination period, a panel met in each of the BBC's 15 Nations and English Regions - and a winner was chosen from each area. These men and women will join sporting icons at the 2015 BBC Sports Personality of the Year event in Belfast, where one of them will be chosen as the overall 'Unsung Hero' winner.
Meet each of the regional winners below.
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Colin Lee, of Northampton-based football team Thorplands Club 81, has won the 2015 BBC East Unsung Hero Award.
The 76-year-old, still registered as a player, is general secretary of all 10 teams and responsible for organising all training sessions and weekly matches for around 140 members.
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Pete coaches three teams at Ibstock United Football club and has founded a regional Futsal league as well as setting up a team for children with disabilities.
Giving up his free time nearly every day, Pete also looks after child protection, safety and coaching standards at his club, and has won the FA Charter Standard Club of the Year in four of the last five seasons.
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Dawn Davies has been chosen as the Unsung Hero for the London region for her work with Guildford Saints Football Club.
She dedicates over 30 hours per week to the club in her role as club secretary.
Guildford Saints, recognised by the Football Association as a Charter Standard club, provides football coaching for 25 teams, containing over 300 players, including boys, girls, ladies and pan-disability groups.
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Liz has been involved in netball for over thirty years, and has had a part in almost every area of the sport for the past two decades - from goal-scorer to time-keeper and umpire.
She's set up two leagues in Tyneside and oversees the operation of 90 netball teams in the area.
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Carl Eaton has collected the BBC Sport Unsung Hero award for the North West region after setting up and running Skelmersdale Mens-Aces disability football club.
He helped set up the team up in 2009 despite the increasingly debilitating effects of spina bifida, and the club now has up to 50 people turning out each week.
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St James Swifts football coach Damien Lindsay wins the Northern Ireland BBC Get Inspired Unsung Hero award for 2015.
Damien formed the west Belfast club, which has helped to tackle anti-social behaviour in the area.
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As a veteran boxing coach from Coatbridge in Lanarkshire with a longstanding dedication to the sport, Rab Bannan has won this year's Unsung Hero award in Scotland.
He has been a mainstay at the Barn Boxing Club for more than four decades.
He trains boxers at the club for eight hours a day, five days a week and also on Saturday mornings during the boxing season.
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Riding for the disabled (RDA) trainer Trish Willats has been named the BBC Sport Unsung Hero for the South.
Willats, from Hampshire, has run the Wellington and Dummer RDA group from her home near Basingstoke for 24 years.
Her association with RDA stretches back a further six years and includes coaching and administrative roles.
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Steve James has been named BBC Sport's Unsung Hero for the South East, for his work in helping grassroots sports in the village of Groombridge.
After volunteering to improve access to sport at local primary schools, the reach of his commitment has been felt throughout the local community.
The 61-year-old was instrumental in raising £85,000 to build a sports pavilion which has allowed more people to enjoy fitness activities, and has helped create an annual village sporting event.
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A marathon runner who set up his own club after having open heart surgery and having to learn to walk again has won the 2015 BBC South West Unsung Sporting Hero award.
Scott Allen set up Storm Running Club in Plymouth in April and numbers have already reached 300 members.
The club's aim is to get people more active and many of the members had never ran before joining Storm.
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Farming friends Jane Roberts and Nerys Ellis, have jointly won Wales' Unsung Hero award for their work with Llanrwst Swimming Club.
Known as 'Auntie Jane' and 'Auntie Nerys', the pair who are both grandmothers in their 60s, have worked voluntarily to teach generations of local children to swim and gain their swimming badges.
Their coaching has given many youngsters the opportunity to learn life-savings skills in a rural area which includes many lakes and rivers.
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Over the past 17 years, Minety Rugby Club has grown from a small group of just nine juniors to a squad of more than 200 boys and girls, thanks to the help of Cliff Garland.
He has turned the small village in Wiltshire into a thriving rugby community, and has guided more than 30 adults to achieve coaching qualifications.
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Alec Davies has been the timekeeper for Worcester St John's cycling club for 43 years.
The 92-year-old from Worcester, is out on the roads in all weathers to officiate at club meetings, and assists in national meetings at weekends. He has also previously served as an official for British Cycling.
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Paul Jubb has collected the Unsung Hero award for the Yorkshire region for his work as head coach of Bradford Disability Football Club.
He started the team in 2001 with just ten players and now works with over 130 boys, girls, men and women ranging in age from six to 55.
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A swimming veteran who has held classes for 30 years is this year's Get Inspired Unsung Hero for East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
June Cooper, who is nearly 80, runs exercise sessions in a pool in Hull to help people with mobility issues.
She impressed the judges in part because of her own disability - she lost almost all of her hearing as a child during World War Two when a German plane dropped a bomb close to her home.
Watch the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2015 on BBC One from 18:50 GMT on Sunday 20 December to find out who wins.
Research by Dundee University and Derbyshire Fire and Rescue found that of 34 children tested, 27 repeatedly slept through smoke detector alarms.
They have developed an alarm with a lower pitch and a woman's voice, which issues a warning: "Wake up, the house is on fire."
They now want 500 families to test the new alarm.
Prof Niamh Nic Daeid, a forensic scientist at Dundee, said: "Boys are especially hard to wake, and we think they will respond to a human voice."
Standard smoke alarms have a frequency of around 3,000Hz, but the prototype has a lower pitch of 520Hz, to which young children are more likely to respond.
Dave Coss, watch manager at Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service, got involved in the research after the deaths of six children in a house fire in Derby in 2012, which was started deliberately by their parents.
The children, aged five to 13, all slept through the sound of smoke alarms.
Mick Philpott was jailed for life for manslaughter, while his wife, Mairead, and an accomplice were sentenced to 17 years.
Mr Coss told me: "When we investigated this tragic case, we thought the children may have been incapacitated in some way and prevented from getting up, as all were found in their beds."
He said that toxicology reports proved negative, so the only other option was that "the children didn't respond to the smoke detector and just carried on sleeping".
Mr Coss and Prof Nic Daeid conducted tests involving smoke alarms in the homes of 34 children aged between two and 13.
Each child was tested six times in their own home and were not warned that the smoke alarm was to be set off.
Twenty-seven children slept through the alarms on all six tests. Seven children, all girls, woke at least once.
None of the boys woke during the tests.
Among the children tested were the four boys of Melanie and Stuart Wilkins, who are aged three to 13.
Melanie is the niece of Mr Coss, who contacted her to help in the research.
Melanie told me that Jack, 13, Daniel, 10, Lewis, seven, and Oscar, three, had been repeatedly tested and had never woken up when she had activated the smoke alarm.
The BBC filmed at night with the Wilkins family. Daniel was the only child to wake up when Melanie set off the smoke alarm in the hall landing.
Smoke alarms are required to reach 85 decibels at 3m (10ft).
The portable speaker used to play the experimental alarm is not as loud, so in order to make a comparison Melanie needed to open the boys' bedroom doors.
When Melanie set off the new sound alert, all four boys woke up immediately.
She told me: "Your children are like gold, they're the most precious things. I didn't think in a million years that our smoke alarm would not wake them up."
Melanie thought the voice recording of a woman's voice was an excellent idea.
She said: "It's like the voice of a parent that they are used to listening to day-in and day-out and maybe subconsciously that is what they hear when the alarm goes off."
Researchers at Dundee say there are several theories they were exploring as to why standard smoke alarms may not wake children.
Rodney Mountain, from the University's School of Medicine, said: "Children's hearing ability, brain function, sleep patterns and stage of brain development is very different to adults.
"We are programmed to respond to human voices warning of danger, such as a mother's voice shouting to warn a child.
"Children are not born pre-programmed for our modern world of danger warning sounds from digital beeps and sirens - they have to learn, recognise and interpret these sounds."
Some 500 families from across the UK with children aged between two and 16 are being sought to take part in a trial comparing standard smoke alarms with the new sound.
Prof Nic Daeid said: "Protecting our children in the event of fire is so fundamentally important that we want to involve parents and their children in expanding this research."
The researchers said it was important the study did not undermine the need for every home to be fitted with smoke alarms, as these will wake adults and had a proven record in saving lives.
The Fire Industry Association, which represents manufacturers of smoke alarms, said it had done no specific research with a focus on children but there were different types of alarm available, such as vibrating pads that could fit under a pillow, for those with hearing problems.
The Chief Fire Officers Association said it was "crucial" that people tested their smoke alarms regularly, adding: "As this research does indicate that some children may not wake to the sound of a smoke alarm, parents, guardians and responsible adults should ensure that they prepare an escape plan which must account for this.
"Children must woken and evacuated as part of this plan."
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Space fans around the world have marked Rosetta's demise with a mix of celebration and poignancy.
"Today is the big moment: #Rosetta lands on #67P and reunites with #Philae *so excited* :D," tweeted one German fan.
Many were sad about the end of the probe, as it headed towards the 4km-wide, duck-shaped comet.
Scientists have used Rosetta to study 67P's characteristics, such as its chemical and mineralogical composition.
Data from the comet has also had implications for scientists studying the origin of the solar system. Perhaps these guys were one discovery?
Many also recalled Philae, the robot lander launched from Rosetta, which dropped onto the comet in 2014.
Philae was lost in February when its battery ran out, but ground control managed to find it again through images Rosetta sent back.
The images and other data suggested Philae landed at an awkward angle and so could only work off one single charge of its solar battery.
More than one person has imagined a happy reunion between Rosetta and Philae.
Rosetta was named after the Rosetta Stone, which was key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Philae is an island in the Nile where archaeologists found another inscription that confirmed their interpretation of the stone.
Those who have been following the mission since it began in 2004 prepared accessories to help them face the end.
And it's not just scientists - the media have also eagerly followed the mission.
And some fans just wanted to mark the moment...
Dr Paul Coxon told the whole story of Rosetta with creative use of emojis:
The NASA Cassini spacecraft tweeted its respects to Rosetta:
As did the Mars Curiosity Rover:
And finally Rosetta's last tweet...
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The 24-year-old, who made 25 league appearances as the Whites reached the play-offs, had been offered a new contract by the Kent club.
"Gary Waddock is a manager that I have always wanted to work with," the former Ebbsfleet United player said.
"I really believe in his philosophy and with the team that he is building here I think we can have a good season."
Aldershot have not disclosed the length of Bellamy's deal at the EBB Stadium.
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An exhibition of pieces by the Nobel Prize winner was due to begin at the neighbouring Castle Fine Art Gallery.
The fire started in the building where the gallery is based, before spreading to surrounding buildings including the Royal Clarence Hotel.
Fifteen signed Dylan prints were lost, along with works from other artists.
More on the lost artworks, plus more Devon and Cornwall news
The fire - which started around 05:30 BST last Friday - burned for days, with up to 150 firefighters on the scene at its peak.
While no one was injured during the blaze, the Royal Clarence Hotel - described as England's oldest - was destroyed, with the shell eventually being completely demolished.
County are tenants at the ground which is also used by rugby teams Newport Gwent Dragons and Newport RFC.
Three football matches have been postponed or abandoned this season and a Football League investigation is reported to have found the current situation unsustainable.
"The pitch is a disgrace," he said.
"It's not a pitch which should be a venue for the Football League.
"For me, if it was a contract that I'd negotiated - and I haven't seen the contract - I'd be asking some serious questions whether the investment has gone in and whether we are getting value for money."
The ground is owned by Rodney Parade Limited, who in 2013 agreed a 10-year lease for the football club to use the ground.
Newport Gwent Dragons coach Kingsley Jones is not concerned about the surface from a rugby playing point of view.
He said: "The pitch was excellent against Enisei (on January 13). It's not perfect, we know that and it's a heavy work-load. But it was a real fast track."
The state of the pitch after heavy rain has been a long-running concern for Newport County though, with previous Exiles manager John Sheridan criticising the club's ground staff when an FA Cup third-round tie against Blackburn was postponed.
This season, two games - against Morecambe and Barnet - were abandoned at half-time and a match against Stevenage was postponed on 1 October.
Westley continued: "If you're our football club and you're saying 'you've accepted a contract to enable us to play Football League games on your pitch' - have you really put the investment in to put this pitch in order?
"'Is this pitch really being looked after in a way that is deserving of you accepting money from us to play Football League matches on it?'
"The guys at the top of the club who negotiated that arrangement, I'm sure they're feeling let down.
"I'm sure they're feeling that things aren't in order but I'm sure equally they're trying to reach a solution."
Newport County are bottom of League Two and Westley believes the state of the pitch is hindering the club's battle to avoid the drop.
"As a football manager you have to try and construct a game of football from the dinosaur age," he said.
"That's no good to you as a coach, you can't show what you can do. You just have to construct a rugby game, for a rugby pitch and do the best that you can do.
"We can't even train there so it's not as if we can get used to the surface or make real use of home advantage."
Rodney Parade Limited has declined to comment.
The 29-year-old from Wrexham won silver in the double sculls at Rio 2016 alongside Katherine Grainger.
Thornley considered quitting after the Games in Rio but is part of a 43-strong GB squad for May's first World Rowing Cup in Belgrade.
"I knew I could be better," Thornley said.
She continued: "In Rio, I was the best I'd ever been, but I knew I wasn't the best I could be. I wanted to see how much faster I could get and not have those 'what if' questions."
Thornley will compete in the women's single sculls, her first single race since 2014, first World Rowing Cup of the season which starts on 5 May.
She secured her place in the British team by winning her fourth consecutive national title at the British Senior and under 23 rowing trials in Caversham in April.
In August 2016, Thornley became the first Welsh woman to win an Olympic rowing medal with silver in the double sculls with Grainger.
Grainger retired after she became Britain's most decorated female Olympian when she won a fifth medal - a fourth silver to go with her 2012 gold - in Rio.
Thornley considered her own future in the sport after the Rio Olympics, taking a longer break than her two months off after London 2012, but aims to compete in the next Games in Tokyo.
"Rio was the best race we had ever put together and I am so proud of the race we delivered on that day," Thornley said.
"Katherine and I had a great working relationship and still enjoy a friendship now.
"It's all about the Olympics. They are a long way away at the moment but I have signed up for Tokyo.
"That's my aim and I want to improve on the silver medal. That's why I have come back."
Eye-witnesses say an employee was cleaning the two-metre high chandelier when it came down on Wednesday.
The crash scattered tourists, but no-one was injured in the accident.
Tour guides have accused those responsible for maintaining the site of negligence.
The 60kg chandelier normally hangs under the Royal Gate, the outer gate through which the Taj Mahal is first viewed.
Experts from the Archaeological Survey of Indian (ASI) said the fall was probably caused by general wear and tear.
"The copper chandelier was hanging by a chain. I am personally conducting a probe into it," said Dr Bhuwan Vikram Singh, superintending archaeologist.
"It would only be decided after analysing the condition of the jhumar (chandelier) whether it should be fixed again or not," he said.
The chandelier was given as a gift to India in 1905 by the former British Viceroy, Lord Curzon, who ordered the restoration of the Taj Mahal after it was defaced by British soldiers during the 1857 Indian rebellion.
Dogs evolved from wolves tens of thousands of years ago.
During this time, certain genes that make dogs particularly gregarious have been selected for, according to research.
This may give dogs their distinctive personalities, including a craving for human company.
"Our finding of genetic variation in both dogs and wolves provides a possible insight into animal personality, and may even suggest similar genes may have roles in other domestic species (maybe cats even)," said Dr Bridgett vonHoldt of Princeton University.
The researchers studied the behaviour of domestic dogs, and grey wolves living in captivity. They carried out a number of tests of the animals' skills at problem-solving and sociability.
These showed that wolves were as good as dogs at solving problems, such as retrieving pieces of sausage from a plastic lunchbox.
Dogs, however, were much more friendly. They spent more time greeting human strangers and gazing at them, while wolves were somewhat aloof.
DNA tests found a link between certain genetic changes and behaviours such as attentiveness to strangers or picking up on social cues.
Similar changes in humans are associated with a rare genetic syndrome, where people are highly sociable.
Dr Elaine Ostrander of the National Institutes of Health, who was not connected with the study, said the information would be useful in studying human disease.
"This exciting observation highlights the utility of the dog as a genetic system informative for studies of human disease, as it shows how minor variants in critical genes in dogs result in major syndromic effects in humans," she said.
Dogs were domesticated from wolves between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago.
This process began when wolves that were tolerant of humans sneaked into hunter gatherer camps to feed on food scraps.
Over the course of history, wolves were eventually tamed and became the dogs we know today, which come in all shapes and sizes.
The finding of genetic changes linked to sociability in dogs shows how their friendly behaviour might have evolved.
"This could easily play into the story then of how these wolves leave descendants that are also 'friendlier' than others, setting the path for domestication," said Dr vonHoldt.
The research is published in the journal, Science Advances.
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The fan was given emergency medical treatment including CPR at the scene but Atlanta police later confirmed his death.
The man fell close to the where the players' wives and families sit and many could be seen in tears.
Police said the man was in his early 60s but they have not named him.
A security guard said the man appeared to be hanging on to a wire but then fell on to the lower seats during the seventh inning.
An Atlanta Braves statement read: "We have received confirmation that the fan involved in an accident at this evening's game has passed away. The Atlanta Braves offer their deepest condolences to the family."
Spectator Greg Shiver told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution he had told his son to watch Yankees batter Alex Rodriguez come to the plate when he heard a thud.
"I saw a guy falling from the top. I grabbed my son and ran for security," he said.
Another fan died in a fall in 2013 at Turner Field that was later ruled to be a suicide.
Forward Bowditch has scored 48 goals in 227 appearances for MK Dons, helping them reach the Championship in 2014-15.
"I've enjoyed some fantastic memories during six years at MK Dons but all great things come to an end and it's time for a new challenge," he said.
The 30-year-old joins Darren Potter and David Martin in announcing their departure from Stadium MK.
Bowditch, who was out of contract in the summer, is the third long-serving MK Dons player to confirm their exit at the end of the campaign in the last week, while the future of the club's record appearance-maker Dean Lewington is also in doubt.
MK Dons chairman Pete Winkelman said of Bowditch: "Dean has been an important member of the squad for a long period of time and we will always be grateful for what he's done for the club."
Coetzee, 52, coached Stormers and Western Province in the Super 14, before a brief stint with Japanese side Kobe Steel Kobelco Steelers.
He succeeds Heyneke Meyer, who resigned in December after leading the Springboks to third place at last year's World Cup.
"I am very excited and grateful for this opportunity," Coetzee said.
"This job comes with a huge amount of responsibility because our passionate fans rightfully demand the best from the Springboks at all times."
Coetzee was part of the Springbok coaching team in 2000 and, most notably, between 2004 and 2007, including during their World Cup triumph in France.
"Allister's appointment marks the changing of the guard at the top of Springbok rugby," South Africa Rugby president Oregan Hoskins said.
"He was the outstanding candidate in terms of his rugby credentials, his understanding of our unique South African transformation imperatives and also in the image he will present as Springbok coach."
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Alex Rowley, the MSP for Cowdenbeath, has quit his role as Labour's local government spokesman at Holyrood and urged Mr Murphy to stand down.
Another Labour MSP, Elaine Smith, has backed Mr Rowley's call saying the party needs "new direction."
Scotland's only Labour MP Ian Murray accused those criticising Mr Murphy of "digging knives into the party".
Pressure has been growing on the Scottish Labour leader to step down following last week's general election results.
Labour lost all but one of its 40 Scottish seats to the SNP in last Thursday's election. Mr Murphy's once-safe majority in East Renfrewshire - a seat he had held for nearly 20 years - was eliminated by the SNP's Kirsten Oswald.
Unison Scotland has also called for a "radical change in approach" from the Labour party in Scotland.
The union said it was not its place "to initiate a change in leadership" but said if there was a wider movement proposing change it would "not oppose it".
It comes after both the Unite union and the train drivers' union, Aslef, called on Mr Murphy to resign.
Alex Rowley is a Holyrood new boy, entering parliament via a by-election in January last year. But he is very far from a beginner in Labour politics. He has been at various times a council leader, the party's general secretary in Scotland and a senior aide to Gordon Brown.
So, when he says that Jim Murphy should quit as Scottish Labour leader, he commands a degree of attention.
Only a degree, mind. Among Labour at Holyrood, there are as many views about the future of the party as there are group members. By contrast, the Scottish Labour group at Westminster is entirely united.
Mr Rowley is adamant that he is not revisiting the leadership contest which followed the departure of Johann Lamont. (He backed Neil Findlay.) And he praises Mr Murphy's energy and application.
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Mr Rowley is a former general secretary of the Labour Party in Scotland and ran Neil Findlay's campaign for the leadership against Mr Murphy last year.
At the weekend, Mr Findlay also resigned from the Scottish shadow cabinet saying the election had been "a disaster".
Before being elected as an MSP, Mr Rowley was a councillor in Fife and worked as an assistant, election agent and constituency manager to Gordon Brown. He is considered by some as Mr Brown's "right-hand man and protégé".
Mr Rowley said Labour needs "a fundamental change in direction and strategy" but he told the BBC Mr Murphy and his aides had focused instead on loyalty to the leadership.
He warned that if Mr Murphy remained leader, Labour was heading for another big defeat at the Holyrood elections in 2016.
The MSP's resignation letter said he thought Mr Murphy's post-election result speech, in which he vowed to stay on as leader, was "a mistake".
Mr Rowley wrote: "I sincerely hold the view that you continuing as leader whilst not in the Scottish Parliament, and not in an elected position holding a democratic mandate, means you will become an unhelpful distraction from the real issues that Scottish Labour must focus on."
Mr Murphy met Labour MSPs on Monday to discuss the party's disastrous election performance.
Mr Rowley added: "It is clear from the discussion yesterday that dissent in public from the leadership view is perceived as disloyalty, but I am convinced we need a fundamental change in direction and strategy and therefore cannot sign up to your leadership as one of your shadow team."
A spokesman for the Scottish Labour Party said: "It's disappointing that Alex chose to resign. The task for the Scottish Labour Party going forward is to work together to rebuild our movement and regain the trust of the people of Scotland."
Elaine Smith, Labour MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, praised her colleagues, Mr Rowley and Mr Findlay, for resigning as party spokesmen.
She said: "They are putting loyalty to the Labour Party ahead of personal career or position and I think Jim Murphy should do likewise and step down as leader.
"In the face of the worst result for Labour since 1918 we do need a new direction."
She is a member of the Campaign for Socialism which has already called on Mr Murphy to "stand aside".
Scotland's only Labour MP, Mr Murray, hit out at those calling for Mr Murphy to stand down immediately.
The shadow Scottish secretary said the last thing any party should do after a heavy election defeat is make "knee jerk reactions and turn in on themselves".
He said: "Everyone who is looking for a camera and a TV studio to dig knives into the Scottish Labour party should go home, sit in a darkened room, reflect how the election was lost and work together."
A statement from Unison Scotland's Labour Link said: "It is unprecedented for a party leader not to stand down after such a defeat, particularly when he loses his own seat.
"The campaign may have been energetic, but it lacked focus and clearly voters do not regard Jim Murphy as a credible messenger of Scottish Labour values.
"Scottish Labour has a limited period of time to reorganise itself to provide a credible challenge in the Scottish Parliament elections next year."
At the weekend, the Unite union said the Labour leader should go "without delay" and warned that, otherwise, "extinction looms" for the party.
After Monday's three-hour meeting of Labour MSPs, finance spokeswoman Jackie Baillie told the BBC that the "overwhelming majority of MSPs were very clear, they want Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale to lead us forward into the future".
Fireworks may have their critics but many others will be out this weekend enjoying all they have to offer.
"If I'd fired each firework one after another it would have lasted for two and half hours," explains Dave Mason, pyrotechnist and MD of Dragonfire Scotland, talking about his last show a few days ago.
"I'm now doing 10 minutes with all of this material and I'm trying to make a story, I'm trying to make something beautiful."
He is preparing for his 21st Guy Fawkes Night firing a professional show. He reckons a minute of fireworks takes about a day to complete with one person working. On the day itself more people might be rigging.
He rarely sees his shows as he chooses to fire the fireworks by hand, using a stopwatch.
"It's all overlapping," he says.
"It's layer on layer on layer. What I want is everybody in the audience to have all the hairs on the back of their neck stand up - that's it."
But if there is art in placing fireworks in the sky where you want them, you need science to help you do that, to make light and colour. In earlier times fireworks were only gold and silver, colour is a relatively new phenomenon.
"When you ignite the firework you're basically kick-starting a bunch of chemical reactions," says Dr Zara Gladman.
She works for the Glasgow Science Festival and is a contributor to BBC The Social.
The colours vary depending on which metal salt is contained in the firework. So sodium produces a yellow colour, strontium makes red, copper makes blue.
"You can combine these in the same way that an artist would combine colours painting," Dr Gladman adds.
"So strontium plus copper will produce purple. It really is a lovely example of science meets art."
But the science does not stop there. There is also the chemistry of the noise producers, the thrusters to get the fireworks up into the air. There is physics involved in modelling where debris might land.
"There's a delay that burns as this thing rises into the air, a pyrotechnic delay," says explosive consultant, Dr Tom Smith, who is secretary of the British Pyrotechnists Association.
"It then transfers the fire to what's called the bursting charge of the shell, which both lights all the stars and produces that enormous burst of colour in the sky and spreads those stars out."
And it is those bits of magic which it is all about for Dave Mason.
He says: "There are moments when you hit something and it works, you hear the audience just gasp and that to me is solid gold.
"I think we are alchemists, we take very base chemicals like charcoal and we turn it into gold inside of people."
A sample taken from Chernova at the 2009 World Championships tested positive for a banned steroid.
The Russian anti-doping agency has banned her and annulled her records from 15 August 2009 to 14 August 2011.
Chernova, now 27, won world gold in Daegu, South Korea, on 30 August 2011.
Ennis, then the defending world champion, had to settle for silver.
However the following year Ennis - now Ennis-Hill - took Olympic gold in London, where Chernova finished third.
Chernova's two-year ban has been backdated to 22 June 2013.
Compatriot Yulia Zaripova, the Olympic women's 3,000m steeplechase champion, has been banned for two and a half years by the Russian anti-doping agency.
The ban has also been backdated, to July 2013, leaving her eligible for Rio 2016.
The 28-year-old's biological passport showed the use of a banned method for replicating high-altitude conditions.
Zaripova won gold at London 2012 with a personal best, but that result has been annulled and she could lose the medal.
The Russian missed the August 2013 World Championships in Moscow after injuring her leg in training, and then said she was taking a break to have a baby.
Last week, Russia's athletics head coach Valentin Maslakov resigned after a number of athletes from the country were found guilty of committing doping offences.
The World Anti-Doping Agency is investigating allegations of widespread doping and corruption in Russian athletics after claims were aired in a recent German television documentary, with a report due to be published by the end of the year.
The IAAF said last week it was concerned about the number of Russian doping cases in the sport.
Loud explosions were heard at the site of a siege at a Jewish supermarket in Paris on Friday afternoon.
Shortly after, a number of people, believed to have been hostages, were seen fleeing accompanied by police.
Other images showed children apparently escaping from the supermarket siege.
In Dammartin-en-Goele, where two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo shootings were holding at least one hostage, explosions were also heard. The two suspects were killed and their hostage escaped, police said.
After the explosions, police were seen on the roof of the building where the siege was taking place.
There are reports a number of people have been killed during siege in Paris. Ambulances were seen at the site.
Police had closed a number of streets around the supermarket in eastern Paris before officers stormed the site.
As darkness fell the phrase Paris is Charlie was projected onto the Arc de Triomph in the centre of the capital.
Alan Johnson said Wales still needed to work towards its own destiny.
The EU is providing £1.8bn to Wales between 2014 and 2020, to spend on schemes to improve economic growth.
But some campaigners to leave said some money saved by not paying EU membership fees could be spent on the poor areas.
Between 2000 and 2006, Wales was awarded more than £1.5bn of European funding.
In the second round of funding, between 2007 and 2013, programmes for west Wales and the valleys - covering 15 local authority areas - invested £1.8bn in funds.
When the first round of funding was announced in 2000, the then-First Minister Rhodri Morgan said: "We now have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform our economy and make a major difference to the lives of people in west Wales and the valleys."
But there have been criticisms of the way the money has been used, since areas supposed to have benefited remain among the poorest in the EU.
On a visit to a project in Cardiff University, funded in part by the EU, Mr Johnson said it was not realistic to have thought EU funding would create "a land of milk and honey".
He told BBC Wales Sunday Politics programme: "Europe isn't going to solve all our problems. Europe isn't going to take away the necessity for us to work towards our own destiny, whether that's at Westminster or Cardiff.
"Yes, Europe has this ambition that all parts of Europe should come up to the same level of prosperity, and you've seen that money come to you in Wales, but to somehow grudgingly say 'ah, but it hasn't created a land of milk and honey', I think is a bit unfair."
A spokesman for Grassroots, a cross-party campaign to leave the EU, said money saved on membership fees "would be better spent on schools and hospitals in Wales and in the poorest parts of our own communities".
"Welsh taxpayers' money should be spent in Wales, not given to other countries in the European Union," he said.
Last week, David Cameron told BBC Wales voters "could not be certain" that the UK government would spend the same amounts if the UK left the EU.
Sunday Politics is on BBC One Wales at 11:00 GMT
The hosts led 21-0 after 22 minutes, with Matt Smith, Lachlan McCaffrey and Owen Williams all touching down.
Tries from Teimana Harrison, George North and Jamie Gibson wrestled Saints back into it, before Burns and Stephen Myler traded kicks to make it 27-27.
But Tigers, boosted by the return of Manu Tuilagi, stole it at the death.
England centre Tuilagi, who ended speculation linking him with a move away from Leicester by signing a new contract last month, had not played since October 2014 because of an ongoing groin problem.
But the 24-year-old came on for the final 29 minutes against Northampton, demonstrating his trademark physicality as Leicester eventually broke their resistance with the final kick of the game.
Richard Cockerill's side, comfortably beaten by Saracens last week, had looked to be cruising to victory when tries from Smith, McCaffrey and Williams, who was later taken off with a suspected broken jaw, put them in command after a dominant opening quarter.
But Harrison's score following a line-out catch-and-drive moments before half-time gave Saints hope, and North ran from deep inside his own half to drag them to within four points early in the second period.
Shortly after Northampton had a further try through Paul Hill ruled out for a high tackle, two Burns penalties stretched Leicester's lead back to 10 points - only for Gibson's touchdown against his former club and Myler's penalty with five minutes to go to leave the scores tied.
However, Burns, who had already missed one drop-goal attempt, split the posts from the tee to send Tigers up to fourth in the table, seven points above their fifth-placed local rivals.
Leicester Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockerill:
"Credit to them for getting back into it, but credit to our players for the first 30 minutes and then for digging themselves out of a hole they probably shouldn't have got themselves into.
"Good sides win when they do some average things, and we did some average things today but we found a way to win, however fortuitous that may or may not have been."
Northampton Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder:
"My reaction is clearly one of disappointment. I spoke to Courtney Lawes afterwards, and he said he tripped (in the incident that led to the last-minute penalty being awarded).
"In the first half, we had a terrible 20 minutes - they were good, but we were terrible for 20 minutes - and you should not go 21-0 down at Welford Road."
Leicester Tigers: Veainu; Betham, Tait, Smith, Thompstone; Williams, B Youngs; Ayerza, T Youngs (capt), Cole, De Chaves, Kitchener, Fitzgerald, O'Connor, McCaffrey.
Replacements: Thacker, Mulipola, Balmain, Pearce, Croft, Harrison, Burns, Tuilagi.
Northampton Saints: Foden; Elliott, North, Burrell, Collins; Hanrahan, Dickson (capt); Waller, Haywood, Hill, Lawes, Matfield, Gibson, Harrison, Dickinson.
Replacements: Williams, Waller, Denman, Day, Wood, Kessell, Myler, Mallinder.
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Danish firm Maersk Oil was given government approval for the Culzean project last year, despite the oil price being close to its lowest.
From 2019, the platform is expected to supply about 5% of Britain's gas need.
Much of the work for the $4.5bn (£3.2bn) project is being carried out in the Far East.
The steel-cutting ceremony for the first of the three topsides modules was held on Thursday at a yard in Singapore.
Maersk said the work had to be done in Singapore because the facility required high pressure, high temperature technology which was not available in the UK.
The company added that the UK would benefit from both production jobs and the tax income when it started producing.
The Culzean Field is about 145 miles east of Aberdeen and is expected to be operational for at least 13 years.
Speaking at the ceremony in Singapore, Maersk Oil chief executive Jakob Thomasen, said: "Starting the fabrication of the topsides is an important milestone.
"When the field begins to produce in 2019, Culzean will become a key contributor to Maersk Oil's ambition to become a top five operator in the North Sea in the 2020s, and provide around 5% of UK gas demand at peak production.
"Maersk Oil and coventurers' investment will also support employment in both the UK and Asian supply chains."
The other companies involved in the field are JX Nippon and BP.
Sohel Rana and more than a dozen government officials are among 42 people to face charges.
They are accused of ignoring warnings not to allow workers into the building the day before it collapsed.
It was the worst industrial disaster in the country's history - and prompted criticism of global retail practices.
The 41 people accused of murder, who include owners of factories housed in the complex and government officials, initially faced charges of culpable homicide.
Prosecutors say that the seriousness of the accident meant that the charges have been upgraded to murder. If convicted, defendants face the death penalty.
Eighteen people, including 17 of those charged with murder, have been charged with building code violation.
The prosecution says that Mr Rana should now appoint a lawyer ahead of the trial process. A court hearing is due to take place on 28 June to decide further proceedings.
The fact that it has taken more than two years to bring formal charges in relation to the factory collapse has led to allegations that officers dawdled during the investigation process.
Questions have been raised about the government's willingness to bring the guilty to justice.
Factory owners in Bangladesh have political power to influence government policy.
But investigators argue that it has not been an easy task. They have had to record statements from more than 1,200 people including injured factory workers, government officials and experts.
Furthermore they have been under pressure from some politicians, officials and factory owners who have tried to hinder their investigation and prevent certain people from being charged.
What is happening now is unprecedented - no-one in the past has been punished for accidents at garment factories. But such is the seriousness of the disaster - it is alleged that the factory was a death trap - there is no way this case could have been ignored.
Public Prosecutor Khandaker Abdul Mannan told the BBC that the government's permission was required to include the names of officials in the list of those charge, which he described as "a long procedure".
Mr Rana was arrested days after the disaster as he attempted to flee to India.
The building code violation charges allege that three extra stories were added to the factory.
The factory, in Savar, some 30km (20 miles) outside Dhaka, collapsed suddenly on 24 April 2013.
More than 2,500 people were rescued alive, some suffering from terrible injuries.
The disaster drew attention to the poor working conditions in Bangladesh's garment industry, one of the world's largest.
Bangladeshi factories provide cheap clothing for major Western retailers, which benefit from the country's widespread low-cost labour.
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The crash, 120km (75miles) north-west of Philadelphia, left trucks and cars strewn across three lanes of traffic and the central reservation.
The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency said 40 people had been taken to hospital and 70 to a temporary shelter.
Drivers have been urged to use caution during the icy weather.
A spokeswoman for Penn State Hershey Medical Center said three patients had been brought in in a critical condition, three more with moderate to severe injuries and four with minor injuries.
Agency spokesman Cory Angell said drifting snow had been reported in the area of the crash, which took place in strong winds on the eastern carriageway of Interstate 78 near Bethel Township.
"You could be driving down the interstate and all of a sudden conditions change because the winds are drifting the snow," he said.
Witnesses described a scene of devastation with reports that some people remain trapped in vehicles.
"The snow just started and it was a total whiteout. The car in front of us just disappeared," driver Ashley Fisher told NBC News. "We were able to stop, but a couple cars slid and hit the shoulder. It was a mess."
Officials have warned people in the north-eastern US to stay indoors during what the National Weather Service described as "life-threatening temperatures".
The group used a drill adapted from a car wash to cut into the Khumbu glacier in the foothills of Everest.
Working at an altitude of roughly 5,000m (16400ft), they spent three days drilling 150m (492ft) into the glacier.
Its internal structure was then recorded using a 360-degree camera.
The 10.5 mile (17km) long glacier flows from as high as 7,600m (25,000ft) down to 4,900m (16,000ft) and is often used by climbers on their way to Everest base-camp.
The six-week expedition was a part of the Everdrill project, which is collecting data to understand how the glacier moves and changes over time, and how it might respond to anticipated climate change.
Prof Bryn Hubbard from Aberystwyth University, who led the drilling, said dams and lakes that form on the glacier presented a "real risk" of flash flooding that could "endanger the lives of thousands of people".
He said: "Understanding what actually happens inside these glaciers is critical to developing computer models of their response to anticipated climate change.
"Equally important is developing a better understanding of how they flow so that we can better predict when dams that form on these glaciers are likely to be breached, releasing life-threatening volumes of water to the valleys below."
The opposition-controlled assembly passed the bill after a heated discussion late on Tuesday.
President Nicolas Maduro said he would block the bill, which he argued would benefit "criminals and terrorists".
The opposition won the parliamentary elections in December on a promise to work towards the release of dozens of what it considers political prisoners.
Among the more than 70 detainees who could be freed if the bill becomes law is Leopoldo Lopez, a prominent opposition leader who was sentenced to 13 years and nine months in prison last year for inciting violence during mass protests.
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The prosecutor in the case later fled Venezuela and told media abroad that Mr Lopez's conviction had been a political show trial.
But government officials maintain Mr Lopez is responsible for the violence which erupted during the 2014 protests in which 43 people on both sides of the political divide were killed.
Mr Lopez's wife, Lilian Tintori, welcomed the passing of the bill, saying it was "felt in all of Venezuela, like a fireworks rocket going off in Caracas, full of emotion, freedom and strength".
"Today, with this amnesty law, we're taking a major step towards the rescue of democracy and liberty," she said.
"We're going to free not just the political prisoners but the whole of Venezuela," she added.
Other political leaders who could be freed are the former mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma, who is under house arrest, and the former mayor of San Cristobal, Daniel Ceballos.
But members of the governing PSUV party said the amnesty was a carte blanche for "murderers".
President Maduro spoke on national television while the debate was still under way to say he would veto it.
"You can be certain that that law will not be making it through here," he said.
Under the Venezuelan constitution, the president can send a bill back to the National Assembly, but the latter can override the veto with an absolute majority (half of those present at the time of the vote plus one).
President Maduro could also send the bill to the Supreme Court if he has doubts about its constitutionality.
Critics of the government say the top court is stacked with supporters of the president and could therefore pose a serious threat to the bill becoming law.
Socialist lawmakers backed President Maduro in his rejection of the bill.
"There's going to be justice here and everyone who is in jail for corruption, for murder or for violating the constitution or the law will stay locked up," Dario Vivas said.
Venezuela is deeply divided into those who support the socialist government of Nicolas Maduro and those who oppose it.
Last month, the opposition announced it would try to drive President Maduro from power by means of a recall referendum or a constitutional amendment to shorten his term.
The government denounced the plans as an attempted coup.
An estimated 21,000 runners are expected to take part in the race on Sunday 4 October.
Geoff Williams, BBC Wales Head of Sport, said: "BBC Wales is delighted to be televising the Cardiff Half Marathon for the first time. It promises to be an unmissable day."
BBC Radio Wales will also provide live commentary of the elite race.
Presenter Jason Mohammad's radio programme has already started following a handful of entrants as they prepare for the race.
He will present the TV coverage with Lowri Morgan and Dot Davies reporting from around the course on BBC Two Wales between 08:30-11:15 BST, with highlights from 18:00 BST.
BBC Radio Cymru will also be broadcasting live from the race.
Two shots were fired as the suspects attacked the building on High Street, Boston Spa, on the outskirts of Leeds.
Although no one was shot, one post office worker suffered minor injuries as he tried to stop the pair, who escaped with an amount of cash.
One vehicle used in the robbery, a Nissan Juke, was found on fire at Beeches End in the commuter village.
Det Insp Phil Jackson said: "We are in the early stages of our investigation into this armed robbery, which is being treated as an isolated incident.
"From our inquiries it would appear that a firearm has been discharged twice, once inside the premises and once outside. No one was injured as a result of these discharges.
"It was initially reported that two female suspects entered the post office but it has now been established that the suspects were dressed as women and wearing wigs.
"We believe that two vehicles were used in this incident and in addition to the two suspects who entered the post office there may have also been a driver involved.
"One of the vehicles, a Nissan Juke, has been located burnt out in Beeches End. The other vehicle involved is believed to be a white Mercedes."
The girl was reportedly dragged into a car by two men as she walked down a street in Longsight on Wednesday, then raped and sexually assaulted.
Officers now say she was not abducted or raped, but she has been a victim of sexual offences.
Police said specially-trained officers are supporting her.
Det Ch Insp Andy Cunliffe from Greater Manchester Police said: "We do not believe that there is a threat to the wider public and would like to reassure the community that we are carrying out a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding this incident."
Items made at Nantgarw Chinaworks, near Caerphilly, once decorated the dinner tables of royalty and aristocracy.
But it was very difficult to fire, leading to losses of up to 90% and the ultimate closure of the works in 1821 after just four years.
Now, it hopes to uncover the original recipe and start making it again.
Artist and potter William Billingsley's recipe was revered as the whitest, finest and most translucent porcelain ever made.
Plates, cups, bowls and decorative items were fired in bottle kilns before being sold to London's finest porcelain decorators, ending up on the dining tables of the rich and famous across the world.
But it tended to warp and crack in the kiln and there are few remaining examples of it - most of which are held in collections at National Museum of Wales and London's V&A.
After porcelain production ceased, the factory switched to making stoneware bottles and earthenware until it closed in 1920, before later reopening as a museum.
For 200 years the exact formula and production methods have remained a mystery.
But recent analysis and research, including coded documents found in museum archives, look to provide the opportunity to recreate the porcelain for the first time.
Using traditional and modern materials, practices and kilns, the Nantgarw Chinaworks team wants to create a small production facility to make items at the same premises used by Billingsley in 1813.
The team, including Nantgarw's resident artists, university specialists, clay manufacturers, industrial chemists, mould makers and porcelain and bone china experts, will work together to improve the original porcelain body and glaze.
But to get the project started, the works needs to raise £15,000 through the Art Happens crowdfunding campaign, hosted by charity Art Fund.
The money will pay for new kilns, materials and equipment and donors will get a chance to own one of the first pieces made.
Charles Fountain, project manager at Nantgarw Chinaworks, said: "This is not just an academic exercise. We are keen to start making new work at the china works and encouraging other contemporary artists to start working with this exceptional porcelain.
"If the project is successful then in 2018/19 we plan to commission contemporary artists to make new bodies of work which will then be sent out for decoration in the same way as was done in the early 19th Century.
"The possibilities are limitless and extremely exciting."
The Oxfordshire box, dating from 1901, was reduced to rubble overnight as campaigners watched from a bridge.
One protester said former signalmen would be "turning in their graves", while another described the flattened Banbury North box as a "crime scene".
Network Rail said it was replacing more than 800 remaining signal boxes with 12 Regional Operating Centres (ROCs).
It said the change would deliver savings of up to £250m a year while allowing "greater control" over the network.
The company delayed the demolition of the box to allow railway fans to take farewell tours in 2016.
More than 3,500 visitors came to look at its bells, levers and coal-fired stove, between 10 August and 2 October.
Banbury Civic Society supported plans to convert the box into an education centre but the project failed to raise sufficient funds.
Rob Kinchin-Smith, its acting chair, said the company had demanded that the campaign raise £168,000 in three weeks to save it.
He took to social media to rue the demolition, commenting: "The party's over and the star guest departs... Banbury North, it was great knowing you."
Mr Kinchin-Smith said the interior of the box had been saved with a view to reconstructing it for future public display.
Rails bosses said the stretch of track was now controlled from Rugby ROC, whose wider view of the network and modern traffic management software could help to reduce rail delays.
Sources in Whitehall told the BBC that expansion at Heathrow is the clear front runner.
However, the prime minister has made it clear she wants to hear the wide-ranging opinions of colleagues.
The BBC has been told the Cabinet will discuss the issue tomorrow but no final decision is expected.
It will then be left to the Economic Affairs (Transport) sub-committee, chaired by Mrs May, to make the final choice on whether to back Heathrow or Gatwick.
One option being looked at is for that committee to meet next Tuesday, 25 October, with an announcement on the same day.
Government officials believe that a third runway at Heathrow or an expansion of the existing runways are now the leading options, although it has been made very clear to me that no final decision has been taken.
In the Cabinet there are splits.
Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, has been a long-time opponent of Heathrow, describing it as a "fantasy".
Justine Greening, the education secretary, is also opposed.
Heavyweights who have previously been pro-Heathrow include Liam Fox, the international trade secretary, and Sajid Javid, the communities secretary.
Philip Hammond, the chancellor, has been careful not to express a view, but senior Treasury officials have made it clear they believe Heathrow is the better option for boosting economic growth.
That is because it is closer to many more population centres in the UK compared to Gatwick, including Bristol and the South West, the Midlands and the north of England.
One other Cabinet minister told me: "I would do both Heathrow and Gatwick - that would tell the world Britain is open for business."
That option is not officially on the table, although if the government does back Heathrow, it could make positive noises about Gatwick expansion in the future.
It has been pointed out to me by Whitehall sources that expansion at Heathrow more easily fits with the government's overall transport strategy.
High Speed 2, the fast rail link planned to run between London and Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester, will run close to Heathrow.
The Scottish government also backs Heathrow, as does the business lobby group the CBI.
Labour is also expected to officially support Heathrow expansion, despite opposition from the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell.
Heathrow's greatest challenge is on the environment and noise, and many within the government believe a myriad of legal challenges are inevitable from local groups and environmental organisations if a third runway is given the go-ahead.
The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday that the prime minister has been warned by some ministers that there will be "chaos" if she backs Heathrow because of the legal challenges, which could last "for decades".
Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat, and Republican Lindsey Graham sent the letter to the FBI on Wednesday.
They requested "any warrant applications and court orders... related to wiretaps of President Trump, the Trump campaign, or Trump Tower".
Mr Trump tweeted the unsubstantiated claim over the weekend.
"Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory," he posted in a series of tweets on Saturday morning.
Mr Trump was reportedly in high spirits after making the broadside on Twitter, advisers told the New York Times.
But according to the newspaper, after a round of golf, Mr Trump seemed to think he had gone too far, though still maintained his phones had been tapped.
Despite repeated requests, the White House has not supplied any evidence for the claim.
It has called on Congress to look into the allegation as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US election.
Mr Graham and Mr Whitehouse, two senior members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also addressed Wednesday's letter to the Department of Justice.
"Congress must get to the bottom of President Trump's recent allegation that President Obama wiretapped President Trump's phones during the 2016 election," they wrote.
Mr Graham met Mr Trump for lunch on Wednesday, telling CNN it "really was great" and the president is in a "problem-solving, deal-making mode".
But he did not mention whether he discussed the wire-tapping claims with Mr Trump.
Meanwhile, details are emerging about how Mr Obama reacted to the explosive accusations.
The former president reportedly "rolled his eyes" after learning of Mr Trump's allegations, a source close to him told NBC News.
Mr Obama reportedly thinks his successor's unfounded claims "undermine the integrity of the office", according to the source.
But he is "much more concerned" about his successor's actions on health insurance, understaffing the government, rolling back regulations and allowing mentally unstable people to buy guns with no scrutiny, the source added.
"He cares about all those things much more than what President Trump tweets at the TV each morning," the source added.
That reaction contradicted an earlier report from the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, alleging that Mr Obama was "livid" with anger about the wire-tapping accusations.
Mr Trump reportedly called Mr Obama to thank him for the letter he left in the Oval Office, but his call was never returned, according to the newspaper.
FBI Director James Comey has reportedly rejected the allegation while James Clapper, the director of national intelligence at the time of the election, flatly denied the claim.
When pressed about the allegations, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters on Tuesday the president has "absolutely" no regrets about making the claims.
The 28-year-old will miss next week's Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village in Ohio.
The Northern Irishman was treated for a stress fracture to his ribs earlier in the year and pulled out of this week's PGA Championship at Wentworth.
"All focus is on getting back to full health for the US Open," McIlroy's agent Sean O'Flaherty said.
McIlroy originally suffered the rib problem in the close season - a time when he was hitting a lot of balls in practice while trying to decide on new equipment after Nike decided to stop producing clubs.
The injury flared up as he lost a play-off to Graeme Storm at the South African Open in January, and the four-time major winner did not play again until the WGC-Mexico Championship in March.
McIlroy then felt discomfort at the Players Championship at Sawgrass earlier this month and was "advised to take a conservative approach" to his recovery.
The US Open takes place at Erin Hills in Wisconsin from 15-18 June.
Bath and North East Somerset Council had shortlisted two sites close to the A4, but a "huge public outcry" followed that decision.
It said it would now look at a raft of "joined up transport improvements".
Council leader Tim Warren said the eastern park-and-ride had been "challenging" but said ultimately it must put the safety of road user first.
He said some of the other transport measures the authority would look at included:
Two preferred sites for a park-and-ride to the east of Bath were chosen from a shortlist of eight.
A greenbelt site on the west side of Mill Lane at Bathampton Meadows was eventually chosen over neighbouring council-owned land because the 800-car site would be less visible and have potential for a future rail link.
Mr Warren added improving transport and tackling Bath's traffic problems "remain one of our highest priorities".
"In light of the issues with site access, and taking into consideration all the various factors with these two sites, it is therefore recommended that the council should not proceed with either of these sites and we should instead commit all our efforts to pursuing the other traffic and transport measures we have set out."
The proposed eastern park-and-ride would have joined the city's other three at Newbridge, Lansdown and Odd Down.
It said the cortege will leave a morgue on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning to go to the Union Buildings where his body will lie in state.
Mourners are being encouraged to line the route.
His family has expressed gratitude for the support it had received.
Family spokesman Lt Gen Themba Templeton Matanzima said the past two days had not been easy, after losing a "great man, a pillar of the family".
"But with the support we are receiving from here and beyond, and in due time, all will be well for the family," said spokesman Lt Gen Themba Templeton Matanzima.
Vigils for the former leader have been continuing across South Africa.
Hundreds of mourners have gathered outside Mr Mandela's home in Johannesburg's northern suburb of Houghton where he died, and thousands of flowers and candles have been laid outside.
1918 Born in the Eastern Cape
1943 Joins ANC
1956 Charged with high treason, but charges dropped after a four-year trial
1962 Jailed for five years for incitement and leaving country without a passport
1964 Charged with sabotage, sentenced to life
1990 Freed from prison
1993 Wins Nobel Peace Prize
1994-99 Serves as president
2004 Retires from public life
2010 Last major public appearance at football World Cup in Johannesburg
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Remembering the man
South African papers pay tribute
Mr Mandela died on Thursday evening aged 95.
On Saturday the government published further details of the 10-day state funeral, saying as many people as possible would be given the opportunity to pay their last respects.
On Tuesday, an official memorial service will be held at the FNB Stadium on the outskirts of Johannesburg.
When the three days of lying in state are over, Mr Mandela's body will then be flown from an air force base in Pretoria to Qunu in the Eastern Cape for burial.
Qunu is where Mr Mandela grew up and later retired to.
Flags at all official buildings will fly at half mast throughout the period and books of condolence are being circulated across the country and online for people to post tributes, record memories and express their emotions.
Sunday has been designated an official day of prayer and reflection and President Jacob Zuma urged South Africans to to go to stadiums, halls, churches, temples or synagogues.
"We should, while mourning, also sing at the top of our voices, dance and do whatever we want to do, to celebrate the life of this outstanding revolutionary who kept the spirit of freedom alive and led us to a new society. Let us sing for Madiba," he said, using Mr Mandela's clan name.
A government statement recalled the former president's own thoughts when asked how he wished to be remembered.
"It would be very egotistical of me to say how I would like to be remembered," Mr Mandela said.
"I'd leave that entirely to South Africans. I would just like a simple stone on which is written, 'Mandela'."
Ahmed Kathrada, Mr Mandela's friend of 67 years and his companion in prison on Robben Island, told the BBC of his "overwhelming emotion" at seeing his old friend in hospital earlier this year.
"For 67 years I knew him as a strong man. I was shocked [to see] this strong man, a shadow of himself. That was overwhelming... so much so that I told [his wife] Mrs Machel that I don't want to see him again. I thanked her very much but I said, please, I can't bear it."
Mr Kathrada said Graca Machel had sent him a message earlier on Thursday that the former leader would die that evening.
"They were told by the doctor that he was on his very last," he said.
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Tributes to Mr Mandela have come from leaders, celebrities and members of the public around the world.
US President Barack Obama said Mr Mandela "achieved more than could be expected of any man".
Pope Francis said Mr Mandela had forged "a new South Africa built on the firm foundations of non-violence, reconciliation and truth".
The former South African leader spent 27 years in jail before becoming the country's first black president in 1994.
He served a single term before stepping down in 1999.
Mr Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 along with FW de Klerk, South Africa's last white president.
He suffered repeated bouts of ill health and since September had been receiving treatment at home for a recurring lung illness.
The lift, the fastest in the world, would take 43 seconds to go from the first to 95th floor in the Guangzhou CTF Financial Centre, the company said.
The skyscraper is scheduled to be completed in 2016.
Currently, the Taipei 101 building in Taiwan holds the record for fastest lift - it can travel up to 60.6km/h.
Hitachi promised a "comfortable ride" even at high speeds in the new lift.
The lifts would prevent ear blockages, Hitachi said, by artificially altering air pressure in the car.
Dr Gina Barney, an expert in lift technology, said protecting passengers from discomfort was a big challenge for high-speed lifts.
"When you're travelling that distance, you're going to get pressures on your ears changing," she told the BBC.
"That's probably the most significant problem with high-speed travel in buildings - people suffer some pain."
Hitachi said guiding "rollers" that adapted to warping caused by wind pressure would mean the ride remained smooth.
And brakes able to resist extreme heat would activate in the "unlikely" event of a malfunction.
The building will have in total 95 lifts, two of which will be operate at the ultra-high speed.
Twenty-eight "double-decker" lifts will also be installed into the building.
The Guangzhou CTF Financial Centre will house office, hotel and residential space.
If the Hitachi lift performs as well as the company has said, it will comfortably top the global chart for fastest lift.
Today's record is held in Taiwan, where passengers in the Taipei 101 building are flung from the fifth to the 89th floor in 37 seconds, a speed of 1,010m (3,313ft) per minute.
The Yokohama Landmark Tower in Japan moves its passengers at 750m per minute, while the world's tallest building, Dubai's Burj Khalifa, has a lift that moves at 600m per minute.
London's Shard, the tallest building in Western Europe, has lifts that move at 360m per minute.
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He damaged cartilage in his left knee in a collision with Leighton Baines in a 3-1 home win over Everton.
Manager Jurgen Klopp had said Mane, 25, needed surgery, leaving it "pretty much impossible for him to play again this season".
Liverpool are third in the Premier League and have six games left.
The injury is expected to rule him out for two months.
Mane joined the club for £34m from Southampton last summer and has started all but six of Liverpool's league games this campaign.
Of those, one was won, three were drawn and two were lost.
Klopp, speaking before Saturday's win at Stoke, also said Adam Lallana was "much better but is not in training" as the midfielder continues his recovery from a thigh injury suffered on England duty in March.
Captain Jordan Henderson, who has been out since February, is "in a good way, but I don't know when he can be part of training again", the German added.
Anthony Pilkington scored two goals for Cardiff and an own goal, but several of his team-mates squandered good chances.
As a result, ninth-placed Bluebirds stayed five points off the top six.
"Of course, it's frustrating. We've not lost any ground, but it could have been so much better," said Slade.
"There are not going to be too many opportunities between now and the end of the season in games like that when you have created the greater chances.
"The opposition have not been a fantastic threat.
"You can't waste those - that's a problem there. You are not going to be getting too many more of those now."
Pilkington's imperfect hat-trick was the main talking point of an eventful match against a team one point and one place above the relegation zone.
Republic of Ireland international Pilkington had switched from his customary role on the wing to a roaming attacking position behind lone striker Joe Mason, as he had done for the preceding 3-1 win at Wolves.
"I thought it was another excellent performance by Anthony Pilkington and he grabbed another couple of goals," said Slade.
"He's played there a bit before, but it was only his second game in that position for me and he's really enjoying it in there.
"He is finding pockets of space and was quite inventive.
"I thought he was unfortunate with the own goal. There wasn't much he could do."
As well as the own goal, the one other blotch on Pilkington's fine display was a second-half booking for what referee Jeremy Simpson deemed a dive in the Rotherham penalty area.
"I don't think it was fair call," added Slade.
"There was a shout for a penalty, but sometimes the player makes more of it than there is. In our opinion, it could have been given."
Mohamed Zaouari, 49, was shot dead at the wheel of his car outside his home in Tunisia's second city, Sfax, on Thursday.
The Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, said he had worked for the "resistance" for 10 years.
It declared a day of mourning and vowed to avenge Mohamed Zaouari's death.
Israel has not responded to the claims.
"Qassam Brigades mourns the martyr of Palestine, martyr of the Arab and Muslim nation, the Qassam leader, engineer and pilot Mohamed Zaouari, who was assassinated by Zionist treacherous hands on Thursday in Sfax," a statement posted on the group's website said.
"The enemy must know the blood of the leader Zaouari will not go in vain," the statement added.
Hamas, which is in control of the Gaza Strip, does not recognise Israel's right to exist, and there have been years of conflict between the two sides.
It has occasionally sent drones across the border into Israel but these have either crashed or been shot down.
Tunisia's interior ministry said a Tunisian woman had been arrested at Tunis airport, on suspicion of involvement in the murder.
It said that four rental vehicles had been seized, along with two guns equipped with silencers.
Deputy prosecutor general Mourad Turki told the private radio station Shems FM that the arrested woman was a journalist who had previously interviewed the victim.
He added that eight Tunisian suspects had been detained, and two others were still at large.
Mohamed Zaouari has been buried in Sfax. Private radio station Mosaique FM reported that his body was riddled with 20 bullets.
Hamas has offered no proof of its claims that Israel was behind the murder, but the country is believed to have assassinated members of militant groups abroad in the past.
In 1997, agents from the Israeli spy agency Mossad conducted a failed bid to kill Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Jordan by spraying poison into his ear.
Mossad is also believed to have been behind the 2010 murder of top Hamas militant Mahmud al-Mabhuh, who died in a Dubai hotel.
Israel has never confirmed or denied involvement in his killing.
The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) and the Association of German Chambers of Commerce (DIHK) said uncertainty over "business critical" issues such as workers' rights, tax and customs arrangements needed to be tackled.
DIHK said the uncertainty was affecting German firms which traded with the UK.
Most BCC members say they want "at least" a three-year transition period.
The groups called for political leaders to "build an atmosphere of mutual trust and constructive dialogue", to deliver clarity and certainty for businesses.
With the third round of Brexit negotiations getting under way on Monday, a number of critical issues were still unresolved, while there are "hundreds" of practical and technical issues which also needed to be negotiated, they said.
"There is real business appetite from both sides for a focus on practical, day-to-day business concerns, and a desire for clarity on future trading arrangements," said BCC director general Dr Adam Marshall.
"The UK and the EU must begin work on transitional arrangements, particularly on customs, so that firms on both sides of the Channel have the confidence to make investment decisions."
The UK is the third largest market for the export of German goods, while Germany is the UK's second biggest market for exports of goods and services.
German firms employ an estimated 400,000 workers in the UK, while British firms employ around 220,000 workers in Germany.
DIHK chief executive Martin Wansleben said German companies were concerned that Brexit would have "a major negative impact", with more trade barriers such as extra bureaucracy, and stricter border controls, leading to higher costs.
"The terms of exit are still completely unclear.
"Many of our members are reporting that they are already shifting investments away from the UK in anticipation of these barriers," he added.
Ms Barnes was elected as an independent candidate in 2012 but has been a controversial figure during her tenure.
A report last year found she may not have been properly insured when she was in a car crash and she was criticised for taking part in a documentary.
In a statement on her website, Ms Barnes said: "I am content that I have delivered what I said I would."
She said she had made several promises when elected, all of which she had kept, including ensuring victims and witnesses came first and preventing the politicisation of the PCC role.
"I have also raised the profile of police and crime commissioners - not always in the way that I intended," she said.
Ms Barnes also noted her proudest achievements were the establishment of a dedicated sexual assault referral centre in Maidstone and the crime victim support centre in Ashford.
The former Kent Police Authority chairwoman said she had now spent more than 15 years in police accountability and governance.
"Fifteen years service in this intense and all-consuming role is probably long enough," she said, adding that Kent Police was in "a very strong and sustainable position for the future".
Ms Barnes said it would be "business as usual" until her term of office finished on 11 May.
Super troupers Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, and Colin Firth are set to reprise their roles.
The songs of Abba will also be back to provide a fresh soundtrack, featuring some songs which did not make it in to the original.
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again is scheduled for release in July 2018.
The original film was based on a musical first staged in London's West End, but its successor is set to be written and directed by British filmmaker Ol Parker.
Abba members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus will be executive producers, Deadline reported in an article later tweeted by Mr Parker.
He is best known as writer of the The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, and Bill Nighy.
The 2008 Mamma Mia was based on a bride-to-be's scheme to discover her father's identity - by inviting all three possible candidates to her wedding.
Despite mixed reviews, it made money, money, money - an estimated $600m (£460m) worldwide, almost 12 times its budget.
The musical is so successful there has even been a musical restaurant based on the Greek wedding of the plot.
Perth-based Peak Resources said a site on the Wilton complex, near Redcar, had been earmarked for the development.
The refinery would process minerals for use in a range of products including mobile phones, wind turbines and automotive parts.
The company said the devaluation of sterling since the EU referendum had made the project more cost-effective.
The Wilton site is already home to several major chemical companies.
If the proposals are approved by planners, production could start in 2019, the company said.
Managing director Darren Townsend said: "The choice of Tees Valley as the location for the refinery was compelling.
"Whilst the long-term impact of Brexit is not yet fully understood, the devaluation of the pound is expected to improve operating costs and the UK's progressive stance on maintaining competitive corporate fiscal regimes post Brexit are both positives."
Sue Jeffrey, leader of Redcar and Cleveland Council and Tees Valley Combined Authority member, said: "It is great that our area has been recognised as a preferred location by a company from the other side of the world, signalling a very clear indication of our global reputation for successful manufacturing."
Peak Resources currently mines and processes neodymium and praseodymium - two soft metals, found mainly in Tanzania.
Both are already used in the manufacture of components for electric cars and bikes, and wind turbines.
Polling stations opened their doors at 07:00 BST and will close at 22:00.
Votes are being cast to elect the mayor of Bristol, Bristol City Council councillors, and the police and crime commissioner (PCC) is being elected for Avon and Somerset.
Elsewhere in England, elections are taking place for more than 120 councils, and to elect mayors in Liverpool, London and Salford.
Netherlands player Cruyff died of cancer aged 68 in March.
He made his name as a forward with Ajax and Barcelona, and was European footballer of the year three times.
The council is giving £250,000 to the Cruyff Court project at Hutcheon Court. The astroturf surface would also be used for hockey and street dance.
The plan is in partnership with The Denis Law Legacy Trust and the Cruyff Foundation.
The playing area would be called Cruyff Court Denis Law, also honouring the Aberdeen-born football great.
Law starred for Manchester United and Scotland.
There are almost 200 Cruyff Courts in more than 15 countries around the world.
Mr Kenny's party, Fine Gael, last week agreed a deal with Fianna Fáil to allow for a Fine Gael-led minority government in the Republic of Ireland.
Fine Gael will now meet the Independent Alliance and the Rural Alliance.
Mr Kenny said he would like to think a deal would be concluded this week.
Earlier, acting Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney said he hoped an agreement would allow a vote for taoiseach on Thursday.
Mortgage arrears
The talks with independent members of parliament (known as Teachtaí Dála or TDs) are expected to cover a wide range of issues from mortgage arrears and crime to wind turbines and cardiac care.
Independent TD for Kerry Michael Healy-Rae was less upbeat.
He said it was unlikely a vote for a taoiseach will take place this week.
Efforts to form a new government have been continuing since the Republic of Ireland's general election on 26 February.
They tweeted: "The fire brigade were quickly on the scene and the AOC's emergency plan was put in place."
The fire involved two pieces of cardboard in a basement car park, Rio 2016 officials said.
The Australian delegation initially refused to move into the building on Sunday citing "blocked toilets, leaking pipes and exposed wiring".
"The incident in the basement car park of building 23 in the Olympic Village was quickly controlled by the fire authorities who are constantly present," said Rio 2016 media manager Philip Wilkinson.
"The occupants of the building were evacuated and were allowed to return inside the building after 30 minutes. The incident is being investigated."
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Murray, 28, dominated throughout against the former junior world number one to secure a 6-1 6-2 6-3 victory.
The world number two will now face Australian Sam Groth, holder of the game's fastest serve, on Thursday.
Murray joined fellow Briton Johanna Konta in the second round but Dan Evans and Aljaz Bedene both went out.
Relive wins for Murray and Konta
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"It got tough at the end and there were a lot of long games and rallies. Alex fought hard and made it very competitive," said the Scot.
"It was hot so I was glad to get it done in three sets."
Murray has said he will leave the Australian Open if his pregnant wife, Kim, goes into labour, although she is not due to give birth until February.
"I don't have any news because I've just come off the court," he joked in his post-match interview.
"I'm hoping my phone hasn't been buzzing in my bag but Kim will message the team if anything happens in any of the matches."
Zverev, 18, is widely considered one of the game's rising stars but the winner of last year's ATP Star of Tomorrow Award could not match Murray's consistency in the first two sets.
The 6ft 6in German, ranked 83rd in the world, improved in a final set that lasted almost an hour but Murray's experience was key.
The Scot broke Zverev's serve six times, saved six out of six break points and dominated when he came to the net, winning 12 points, to seal victory in just over two hours.
Dan Evans' first appearance at the Australian Open ended in a 6-1 6-0 6-4 defeat in 88 minutes by Spain's Feliciano Lopez.
The 25-year-old came through three rounds of qualifying but could not cope with Lopez's powerful serve.
Evans made a better fist of the final set and held his first four service games but could not make any impression on the Spaniard's serve.
British number two Aljaz Bedene was unable to overcome American 31st seed Steve Johnson and fell to a 6-3 6-4 7-6 (7-3) defeat.
Bedene, ranked 49th in the world, said he found the speed of the Melbourne courts difficult to handle.
"I didn't really settle. It was way too quick for my game," said the Slovenia-born player.
"I don't really like the quick surfaces like here. I am disappointed."
The authority hopes external sources can, within two years, pay for its Birmingham-based European & International Affairs team - plus £120,000 for its office in Brussels.
Supporters say the office is "required as much, if not more, post-Brexit".
A UKIP MEP thinks the office should be "closed down immediately".
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The debate comes as British prime minister Theresa May says the UK "cannot possibly" remain within the European single market, as staying in would mean "not leaving the EU at all".
Birmingham's Labour-run council says since opening in 1984, the Brussels office and its European team have helped Birmingham access more than £1bn of funding from the European Union (EU) but the authority needs to save £54m a year by 2018 on top of the savings it has already made.
EU-funded projects in Birmingham
- £50m investment for the International Convention Centre (ICC)
- £30m for the National Exhibition Centre (NEC)
- £25.6m for Millenium Point
- European Social Fund contributed to the Rover Task Force following the collapse of MG Rover
- The University of Birmingham's €13.5 million ENCCA project about cancer treatments for children and adolescents
- £741,000 for four International Dance Festival Birmingham events since 2008
According to its head Lloyd Broad, Birmingham's European & International Affairs team "leads on Brexit issues for the city" and looks after relations with its partner and sister cities including Chicago, Guangzhou, Johannesburg, Lyon, Milan, Leipzig and Frankfurt - the model, he says, for Birmingham's Christmas German market.
Salaries for the individual members of the team have not been disclosed.
The annual rent of the Brussels office is £135,000, with contributions to running costs coming from council partners including the University of Birmingham, Aston University, Birmingham City University, the University of Warwick and Jaguar Land Rover. Hiring out the facilities for conferences also provides some income.
Those partners, Mr Broad said, have insisted the Brussels office is "required as much, if not more, post-Brexit" as EU policies "would still impact on the region" and funding "may still be available dependent on the type of Brexit deal negotiated for example research and innovation funding".
Bill Etheridge, a West Midlands UKIP MEP, said if universities had money to "splash around" it should be used to cut tuition fees "not to perpetuate links with a failing federal superstate".
The council is seeking the public's views on its budget proposals. The deadline is Wednesday.
The Nigeria forward pounced on a headed knockdown from Troy Deeney to fire in from eight yards and score the club's first goal at home this campaign.
Watford were reduced to 10 men when Valon Behrami was sent off after appearing to stamp on Andre Ayew.
Bafetimbi Gomis went closest for the Swans with a shot that was well saved.
Reaction to this match and the rest of Saturday's action
Read how Watford recorded their first win
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It is a cliche, but belief appeared to be the key.
They reduced previously unbeaten Swansea to just eight efforts on goal - four of those off target.
Unsurprisingly, the visitors, who prefer to play a passing game as opposed to the Hornets' more direct approach, had the most possession with 61.8%.
But Swansea were second best in the duels, with Quique Sanchez Flores's men winning 54.8% of those battles in the second half.
This fighting spirit has been typical of Watford this season so far, having held Southampton, West Brom and Everton. The difference at Vicarage Road on Saturday was that they also managed to score.
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The focus was on last season's hero Deeney, who scored 21 goals in total to help the Hornets to promotion.
He has yet to get off the mark this season, but played a major role in the goal and had support on Saturday from the scorer Ighalo.
The 26-year-old Nigeria international was impressive as a target man. He caused all sorts of trouble for Swansea's backline, with the usually unflappable Ashley Williams finding it difficult to handle his physical presence and pace.
His 84.6% success rate in distribution was the third best in his team and he won 50% of his duels.
Watford manager Quique Sanchez Flores:
"It was a really big experience to win first match in Premier League. It was a really tough match as Swansea is a good team.
"In the first half we played well and had control. It got complicated after the sending off.
"In the second half we had to defend a lot, I don't like to play like this. I'm really pleased and would like to dedicate this win to the fans."
Swansea manager Garry Monk:
"We got what we deserved. We just didn't perform. We couldn't get into it when the sending off came. We are very disappointed.
"We had a lack of focus on the things we do well. Our job is to come back and put those things right.
"We have no excuses. We were quite sluggish. I have no complaints with the result."
Watford, who have risen to 12th, face a trip to Newcastle next week, while Swansea, who fell to sixth, are at home to Everton.
Match ends, Watford 1, Swansea City 0.
Second Half ends, Watford 1, Swansea City 0.
Dangerous play by Eder (Swansea City).
Ikechi Anya (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Federico Fernández (Swansea City) header from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jefferson Montero with a cross.
Attempt missed. Jonjo Shelvey (Swansea City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Bafétimbi Gomis.
Etienne Capoue (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Lukasz Fabianski (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Etienne Capoue (Watford).
Attempt saved. Steven Berghuis (Watford) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Steven Berghuis (Watford) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jurado.
Corner, Swansea City. Conceded by Jurado.
Offside, Swansea City. Neil Taylor tries a through ball, but Bafétimbi Gomis is caught offside.
Jonjo Shelvey (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Etienne Capoue (Watford).
Attempt saved. Jonjo Shelvey (Swansea City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Jurado (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Foul by Neil Taylor (Swansea City).
Jurado (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Watford. Alessandro Diamanti replaces Troy Deeney.
Attempt missed. Jefferson Montero (Swansea City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Ki Sung-yueng.
Attempt saved. Etienne Capoue (Watford) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Steven Berghuis.
Foul by Jefferson Montero (Swansea City).
Nyom (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Federico Fernández (Swansea City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Ki Sung-yueng.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Heurelho Gomes (Watford) because of an injury.
Foul by Eder (Swansea City).
Heurelho Gomes (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Watford. Steven Berghuis replaces Odion Ighalo.
Substitution, Swansea City. Eder replaces Gylfi Sigurdsson.
Attempt missed. Etienne Capoue (Watford) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Jurado (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Ki Sung-yueng (Swansea City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ki Sung-yueng (Swansea City).
Odion Ighalo (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Watford. Ben Watson replaces Almen Abdi.
Substitution, Swansea City. Ki Sung-yueng replaces Jack Cork.
Valon Behrami (Watford) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
André Ayew (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
An order to keep birds indoors was issued after H5N8 cases in Europe, with the first UK case now confirmed.
Indoor gatherings of birds at events like fairs, auctions and bird shows are now banned until further notice.
People are assured it is safe to eat poultry and eggs, with Christmas supplies not expected to be affected.
The ban does not apply to pigeons or caged birds which present a much lower risk of passing the disease to domestic poultry, the Welsh Government said.
It follows the discovery of the disease at a turkey farm at Louth, Lincolnshire, on Thursday.
Most of the 5,000 birds there died and the rest were subsequently destroyed.
Rural Affairs Secretary Lesley Griffiths said: "While there have been no cases of avian influenza in Wales, this ban on gatherings is an additional measure aimed at protecting our poultry flocks and other domestic birds from the disease.
"I would encourage all poultry keepers, including those with fewer than 50 birds, to provide details of their flocks to the Poultry Register.
"This will ensure they can be contacted immediately in the event of an avian disease outbreak so that they can take action to protect their flock at the earliest opportunity."
Chief Veterinary Officer Christianne Glossop added: "Bio security should never be compromised.
"Even when birds are housed, there remains a risk of infection and keepers of poultry and other captive birds should ensure that every effort is made to prevent contact with wild birds.
"The movement of poultry should be minimized, and clothing and equipment should always be disinfected."
The initial restrictions introduced earlier in December had been imposed for a period of 30 days, but the latest measures have no end date, the Welsh Government said.
Similar bans have been introduced in England and Scotland.
Six Cabinet posts have been shaken up in the reshuffle, with some rookies taking top roles.
Major changes include Chrystia Freeland's move from international trade to foreign affairs.
Immigration and democratic reform portfolios are affected, along with one key diplomatic post.
It is the first major cabinet shuffle since Mr Trudeau took power in November 2015 and comes as Ottawa prepares for a protectionist administration about to take power in the US.
President-elect Donald Trump is to be sworn in on 20 January.
Chrystia Freeland, who helped prevent the collapse of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ceta) last October, will be one of Canada's main voices on the world stage as new global affairs minister.
She will retain the Canada-US relations file, including trade relations with Canada's largest trading partner.
Ms Freeland has lived in both Russia and the US, and spent time in Moscow as the former bureau chief of the Financial Times. She is known to be well connected in Washington.
While she is also known in Moscow, Ms Freeland does not have the warm relationship her incoming US counterpart Rex Tillerson has with Russian officials.
In fact, she is currently banned from Russia. Ms Freeland, who has been outspoken in her support of Ukraine, was one of 13 Canadian officials and politicians sanctioned by Moscow in 2014 in retaliation for sanctions imposed by Canada over Russia's annexation of Crimea.
Mr Trudeau praised Ms Freeland as an "extremely strong member of the team" and for her handling of the Ceta file, and brushed off any possible tensions with Russia.
"As to how she gets a long with Russia, well, she speaks fluent Russian," he said.
Ms Freeland also waved off her ban from Russia, saying it was an issue for Moscow to tackle.
She is being replaced at international trade by neophyte MP Francois-Philippe Champagne, a trade lawyer, who will work closely with Ms Freeland on a portfolio that includes Ceta and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Mr Trump has said he wants to either renegotiate or scrap Nafta altogether and has said he will quit the TPP on his first day in the White House.
Speaking in context of his re-shuffled team, Mr Trudeau noted on Tuesday that "obviously the new administration to the south will offer both opportunities and challenges as well as a shift in global context".
Ms Freeland is replacing Stephane Dion, who announced on Tuesday that he was leaving politics after 21 years. He has been offered an ambassadorial position by the prime minister.
John McCallum, who helped oversee efforts to fast-track 25,000 Syrian refugees into the country, is being shuffled from the immigration portfolio and will become Canada's new ambassador to China.
The veteran politician will help oversee the country's move to deepen economic ties with China, including exploring a possible free trade deal with the Asian nation.
Senior officials in the Trudeau government have been working hard to lay the groundwork for the new relationship between Canada and the US as Mr Trump prepares to replace President Barack Obama.
They have been meeting regularly with members of Mr Trump's advisory team since the presidential election south of the border, and there have been efforts to reach out to lawmakers from the 35 northern US states.
Two of Mr Trudeau's top aides met last week with Mr Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon and the president-elect's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, according to reports.
Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who helped negotiate Nafta, has also been playing an intermediary role between Ottawa and Washington.
James Kew, 41, died of severe burns in a field in Newport, Essex, in July 2012 when he came into contact with a low hanging cable.
A jury inquest into the death of Dr Kew is under way in Chelmsford.
The hearing heard that, at the time, UK Power Networks would isolate a line only after it had an engineer on site.
This policy, the inquest was told, has since been changed.
But in the 14 minutes between the power company verifying the location of the conductor, which was hanging below the required height, Dr Kew had come into contact with it and died.
An engineer sent to fix the cable fault was there at the time of Dr Kew's death.
Giving evidence, chartered electrical engineer John Steed, who is also an inspector with the Health and Safety Executive, said there had been two similar cases to the one in Newport during the last five years.
He said different power companies had different policies for acting on reports of loose cables from members of the public.
Three of the six companies he spoke to, he said, would switch off a line as soon as they verified a location with the member of the public calling.
The inquest heard the ceramic insulating cap on the cable had a defect which might not have been spotted even under close inspection.
The inquest continues.
Sadiq Khan said there was real concern among business leaders that companies could leave the City.
It comes as the mayor of Frankfurt told BBC London his city's "arms and our doors are open".
London-based financial technology firm Transferwise said it had been courted by several European countries already.
The company's chief executive Taavet Hinrikus said his company was being courted by Ireland and Switzerland among others.
A spokesman for Transferwise, which processes international currency payments, said moving away from London was "not something the firm was actively talking about".
The spokesman added that Transferwise had chosen to make its base in London and that the company "hoped it could make that work".
But he added that businesses needed greater certainty in order to operate successfully.
Mr Khan told BBC London there was genuine concern among leading figures in the City he had spoken to, including Bank of England governor Mark Carney and London Stock Exchange chief executive Xavier Rolet.
"There is a concern that if we don't have access to the single market, if we haven't got passporting of financial services, that could lead to businesses leaving London to go to those cities where there is access to the single market," he said.
The latest government figures estimate the FinTech industry - financial technology - generates about £20bn in annual revenue.
And Mr Khan said it was just one industry being targeted by other European centres.
"The mayor of Milan was here this week, I met with him, Why was he here? He wants to pinch our business. Who can blame him?
"The mayor of Paris and the deputy mayor have already said they're rolling out the red carpet to invite businesses to come to Paris. Why wouldn't they?"
Dublin-based investment group IDA Ireland is planning an advertising campaign in the autumn highlighting Ireland's tax regime, its proximity to London, and the shared language to businesses thinking about relocating.
Peter Feldmann has had a busy few days. Frankfurt's lord mayor has been celebrating the birth of his second daughter on Monday night.... and who knows perhaps a new lease of life for his city too.
He greets us in the grand surroundings of the Kaiser Hall in Frankfurt's equally grand City Hall and can barely contain his smiles.
Opportunity, he believes, has come knocking with the UK's decision to leave the EU.
"Our arms and our doors are open," he tells me when it comes to London businesses big and small that are looking to relocate.
At a business meeting the day after the Brexit vote, people cheered and clapped him saying: "here is the winner from Brexit".
In the coming weeks his team will fly to London to make their case. Frankfurt already has a video selling its wares and a team of English speakers taking calls from businesses.
Mr Khan told the BBC: "London is open: we're open for talent, we're open for business, we're open for investment. The government has got to help me do my job as mayor to make sure that we send that message out loud and clear around the country, around Europe and around the world.
"We've got competitors who want to pinch that business, we've got competitors who want businesses to go to their cities. We cannot allow that to happen."
Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark said giving businesses the certainty they need to plan for the future is a "key priority".
"That's why we are working closely and collaboratively with businesses across all sectors to ensure that the UK remains the best place in the world to do business," he said.
A minute after the Brexit vote was announced Frankfurt launched a website and phone line in a bid to encourage businesses that want to remain in the single market to relocate there.
The mayor of Frankfurt, Peter Feldmann reiterated that invitation on Thursday, telling BBC London: "If you want to become rich, if you want to stay wealthy, you should have a [department] in Frankfurt.
"If you want to become isolated and see from a binocular perspective what is going on in the world, stay in London."
Meanwhile, German business development group Berlin Partner said earlier this week that at least 10 London start-up firms had made enquiries about moving to Berlin since the UK voted to leave the EU last month.
Berlin is attempting to woo London's FinTech industry and, like Frankfurt, has stepped up efforts to promote itself as a more affordable and creative alternative to other cities.
At London's FinTech conference earlier this week, Berlin Partner director Stefan Franzke said: "The most concrete enquiries are coming from London FinTechs. They are considering a move to Berlin so as not to lose access to the European single market."
Berlin's senator for economics, technology and research, Cornelia Yzer, has sent hundreds of letters to UK businesses and earlier this week travelled to London Fintech Week to lobby start-up founders.
She told BBC London: "We are an international community and that's why companies will find talents there they need. So welcome, and we'll bring all hurdles down, we'll offer programmes for relocation. So pick up the phone talk to me and my team and relocate to Berlin."
More than 100 companies have already been in touch with her team since the Brexit vote, she says, and in September they will open an office in London.
But Mark Boleat policy chairman at the City of London Corporation said he remained confident London would continue to be the world's leading financial centre.
"While some European cities might look to entice businesses and jobs to the continent, we have so many strengths which make us such an attractive place to do business," he said
"Highly skilled workers, excellent infrastructure and a stable regulatory system are but some of those, and crucially the capital is a place where people want to work and live."
Asked whether London had been ill prepared for the Brexit result, Mr Khan said that was now important was that London now dealt "with the hand that we've been given".
Mr Khan said it was "really important that we explain to the government it's in the country's interest for them to listen to us."
"Uncertainty isn't helping."
It is understood Christopher Steele gathered information on football body Fifa and other countries bidding to host the tournament, mainly Russia.
Mr Steele was hired through the London-based company he founded, Orbis.
The England connection comes after Mr Steele was named as author of a series of papers containing allegations about US President-elect Donald Trump.
Mr Trump has dismissed the unverified claims that Russian security officials have compromising material about him as "fake news" and "phoney stuff".
It is not yet known whether Mr Steele's information surrounding the bid process for the 2018 World Cup brought about an investigation into alleged corruption within Fifa, but he did report his findings to the Eurasian crime department of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Russia won the 2018 bid, with Qatar earning the right to host the 2022 World Cup, both of which are currently under investigation by the Swiss authorities.
US officials have said Mr Steele's work on the World Cup bid, which he shared with the FBI, gave the Trump dossier "credence", according to news agency Reuters.
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The king made the order because of fears over Mr Rajab's health, it said.
An appeals court in May upheld the six-month prison sentence he had received.
He is a member of the island's Shia majority who has served several prison sentences since setting up the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights in 2002.
Mr Rajab was arrested in April and charged with insulting public institutions on Twitter.
Bahrain's Sunni Muslim rulers forcibly quelled a 2011 uprising which had been triggered in large part by unrest among Shias.
Mr Rajab also fell foul of the authorities in September after suggesting in a tweet that security institutions in Bahrain served as an "ideological incubator" for jihadists.
Human rights groups described his arrest and conviction as developments which should give the US pause for thought as it considered whether to lift restrictions on sending arms to the kingdom.
In June US State Department spokesman John Kirby said that Bahrain's progress on human rights, including the release of political prisoners, meant that Washington would resume aid to the military in Bahrain.
Shia-dominated demonstrations against Bahrain's Sunni monarchy have occurred sporadically since 2011.
Dozens died when the government moved to quash the protests.
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Last season's runaway League Two champions Northampton took just nine minutes to open their account in the third tier. When David Buchanan's shot was only partially cleared, Alex Revell's effort hit the upright and the ball bounced into the net off the diving Chris Neal.
Fleetwood found it difficult to create openings but the lively David Ball had a deflected shot saved by Adam Smith before shooting into the side-netting from a tight angle.
The Cobblers went close when Matt Taylor's free-kick caused problems at the far post and Revell's close-range effort was cleared off the line by Amari'i Bell.
Northampton should have increased their lead just before the interval when Kenji Gorre volleyed over from six yards from Harry Beautyman's pinpoint cross.
But Fleetwood were back on level terms seven minutes after the restart when Northampton failed to deal with Conor McLaughlin's cross and Nirennold stole in at the far post to score.
The Cobblers went close straight from the restart when Zander Diamond turned Taylor's free-kick over the bar from close range and Marc Richards fired straight at Neal.
At the other end Ball's shot on the turn was saved by Adam Smith as Fleetwood got on top. Richards should have restored Northampton's lead when he shot weakly at Neal while Fleetwood's Eggert Jonsson volley from the edge of the box flew wide.
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Match ends, Northampton Town 1, Fleetwood Town 1.
Second Half ends, Northampton Town 1, Fleetwood Town 1.
Foul by Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town).
Jimmy Ryan (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Devante Cole (Fleetwood Town).
Alfie Potter (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Conor McLaughlin (Fleetwood Town).
Attempt missed. Eggert Jónsson (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town).
Amari'i Bell (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Michael Duckworth replaces Bobby Grant.
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Eggert Jónsson (Fleetwood Town).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match (Fleetwood Town).
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Conor McLaughlin.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Sam Hoskins replaces Kenji Gorré.
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Aaron Holloway replaces David Ball.
Marc Richards (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ashley Eastham (Fleetwood Town).
Foul by Marc Richards (Northampton Town).
Nathan Pond (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Marc Richards (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Devante Cole (Fleetwood Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Devante Cole replaces Ashley Hunter.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Alfie Potter replaces Harry Beautyman.
Alex Revell (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Harry Beautyman (Northampton Town) header from a difficult angle on the right misses to the left.
Attempt saved. David Ball (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by David Ball (Fleetwood Town).
Attempt saved. Marc Richards (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Zander Diamond (Northampton Town) right footed shot from very close range is too high.
Goal! Northampton Town 1, Fleetwood Town 1. Victor Nirennold (Fleetwood Town) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Second Half begins Northampton Town 1, Fleetwood Town 0.
First Half ends, Northampton Town 1, Fleetwood Town 0.
Attempt missed. Kenji Gorré (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Harry Beautyman (Northampton Town).
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Victor Nirennold earned Fleetwood a deserved point from a 1-1 draw at Northampton on the opening day of the League One season.
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Mixu Paatelainen succeeded Jackie McNamara but United are 13 points adrift at the foot of the table.
Thompson apologised to supporters for "abysmal" performances.
"We have failed miserably on the pitch with only three wins in 25 league matches and an early exit from the League Cup," said Thompson.
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"The current position [in the league] is wholly unacceptable."
United fell to a 3-0 home defeat by Motherwell at Tannadice on Tuesday and have 13 league games remaining this season.
Paatelainen took up the managerial reins in October and described as "wonderful" returning to manage a club he starred for as a player.
Thompson, in a statement on the club's website, challenged the playing squad to preserve their top-flight status and restore their reputations.
"It is not where Dundee United should be under any circumstance," the chairman added.
"The board and myself have made certain decisions in the last 18 months which in hindsight were incorrect but were made for the greater good of the club and with the ambition of maintaining our position at the top of Scottish football, something we have done successfully for the last eight years.
"This included supporting a playing squad that commands the third highest wage bill in the Ladbrokes Premiership.
"However, we have failed miserably on the pitch with only three wins in 25 league matches and an early exit from the League Cup. Performances such as last night simply cannot be tolerated.
"The current playing squad now have 13 matches to preserve the club's Premiership status and redeem their own professional reputations."
Speaking following Tuesday's defeat by Motherwell, Paatelainen said: "We were very flat and that performance was not acceptable.
"The first two goals were set-pieces and it's cost us. It's been the story of the season conceding goals like that and it's simply not good enough."
A revolutionary plan and the collective will to carry it through changed their fortunes and culminated in Sunday's 1-0 win over Argentina.
Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has challenged England to win the World Cup in 2022 - so can the low of group-stage exit in Brazil be one day viewed as the bust before the boom?
BBC Sport examines how, and indeed if, England can 'do a Germany'.
Exiting a major tournament at the group stage, as England did this summer, will sound familiar to Germany.
They finished bottom of their group at Euro 2000 and, although they reached the World Cup final in 2002, failed once again to progress to the knockout stages at Euro 2004. That led to a pivotal moment for the country and the national team - the decision that a radical overhaul was needed.
Along with his assistant Joachim Low, new coach Jurgen Klinsmann set about restructuring German football. The path to do so was challenged by many.
But the German football association, the DFB, put "a lot of pressure" on clubs to develop academy programmes.
"We held workshops with coaches and players, asking them to write down on flip charts three things: how they wanted to play, how they wanted to be seen to be playing by the rest of the world and how the German public wanted to see us playing," said Klinsmann in 2010, the year Germany reached the semi-finals of the World Cup.
While the Football Association in England does support the Premier League's Elite Player Performance Programme - which aims to enhance youth development - total unity on a direction has proven elusive.
"People who write, 'England should follow the German route', are oblivious to the obstacles or believe in magic wands," tweeted Gary Neville on the complexity of creating a holistic approach.
Unity was fundamental in Germany's approach, according to Lutz Pfannenstiel, head of scouting at Bundesliga side Hoffenheim.
"I think there was not one important part of the system Jurgen started, it was the whole thing. If you lifted one part of the skeleton out, it wouldn't work," said Pfannenstiel, who played for 25 different clubs.
"You cannot take it and use it in any country. For example, if you were to use this in Brazil now, with the size of the country, you would need 50 years longer maybe because of all the states and different leagues."
At the same time, Germany invested more in the players' education, increasing the number of elite coaches.
The reward of that is clear today, with, Uefa data suggesting the country boasts 6,934 coaches holding Uefa's A and Pro qualification badges. England, meanwhile, has 1,457. Furthermore, there are 21,731 holders of Uefa B badges in Germany, compared to 9,420 in England.
But while the number of elite coaches may be lower than in some other European countries, the FA says England has the largest and most comprehensive age-specific coaching setup in the continent, awarding 40,000 qualifications a year.
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Coaching methods have also been redefined and that, coupled with the opening of the FA's centre of excellence St George's Park in 2012, means it is an area that is not only increasing in quality, but is also becoming a benchmark other Football Associations appear keen to copy.
Interestingly, a delegation from the DFB were visitors to Burton-upon-Trent last month on a fact-finding mission, observing one of the FA's youth coach education programmes.
"Since the end of 2009 we have been developing a new pathway for children to learn and play the game which focuses on skill and technique development, so smaller-sided version of the game," Nick Levett, FA's National Development Manager, told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"In terms of coaching, we are very much leading the way around Europe in youth and age-appropriate coaching qualifications.
"There is a huge amount going on but ultimately it is a 10-year plan. It is a bit like gardening. You stick a bulb in the ground and you don't get a flower the next day. It is a long-term thing."
The core of Germany's World Cup-winning squad came through the international youth ranks together.
Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, defenders Mats Hummels, Benedikt Howedes and Jerome Boateng and midfielders Sami Khedira and Mesut Ozil all started the 2009 Under-21 European Championship final, in which they trounced England. All but the injured Khedira were in the starting XI against Argentina.
A seventh player from that crop - Fabian Johnson - was also in Brazil as part of the United States squad.
Meanwhile, the only player from England's 23-man World Cup squad to have played in that 2009 final was James Milner.
The likes of Luke Shaw, Adam Lallana, Raheem Sterling and Ross Barkley had not played in a major tournament at under-21 level, with the latter three playing less than 10 games at that age group. In contrast, the six who featured for Germany in 2009 all made at least 15 appearances before progressing to the senior side.
"That is something we could learn from Germany," former England defender Phil Neville said. "Germany keep a core of players together and they are exposing them to championship football at U21 level.
"We could have had six or seven of our World Cup squad at the last U21 tournament but we did not take them.
"That is something we could look to improve upon because if they did, that batch of players could then go on to go to a World Cup together two years later."
The likes of Neuer, Ozil and Khedira came through the DFB's talent development programme, introduced as part of German football's youth development overhaul.
Similarly, in 2011 the Premier League introduced the EPPP, a four-tiered academy system designed to expose developing footballers to the best coaching and education.
It is a system that Neville believes works, but his concern lies with what happens to those players once they graduate from the youth ranks.
"I believe we are producing a better technical players than we have ever done," he said. "Our players were always technically inferior to foreign ones but now there are English players who are technically as good as those from overseas at the same age.
"The biggest problem is the gap from 19 to 21, where players lose their way a little bit because they are not getting the opportunity.
"I broke into the first team at 17. Now the young players are not breaking in until they're 21, 22. They need to be getting in younger. They lose 12-18 months of their career by not getting enough experience of the top level.
"This is the biggest area for me that we need to address."
After England's exit in Brazil, manager Roy Hodgson was asked if a successful national team and thriving Premier League could co-exist.
The statistics suggest that may be a struggle. English players contributed to only 32% of the minutes played in the Premier League's first three months of last season, compared to 50% of home-grown players in Germany and 58% in Spain.
Indeed, only the Cypriot league boasts more overseas talent than England's top flight, according to a study of 31 countries carried out by the Centre International d'Etude du Sport in January.
"We want the best players in the world coming to the Premier League. The only way players can get better is by playing with the best," added Neville, who believes work is under way on an English plan to blood more talent.
"It is the rung below that we don't want. They are filling the spaces available to young players and that is what we don't want - the middle and lower tier of foreign players."
English managers have long cited the fact home talent is overpriced as a reason to scour the globe, with in excess of 1,500 foreign players arriving in the Premier League since its inception in 1992.
The club-over-country power struggle is one Germany can stomach, with strong lines of communication and a collaborative process in place between the Bundesliga and the DFB.
Working for the greater good does not shackle the individual cogs in the system, either. While no other league can match the Premier League's record TV deal - £3.018bn over three years - the Bundesliga yields around £2bn for a four-year package.
It remains the only one of Europe's major five leagues in which TV revenue is not the largest revenue source, instead generating money through the highest attendance figures and by maintaining lower wage levels.
Point four in Dyke's report into improving the game domestically is that England "lags behind in the quantity and quality of affordable grassroots facilities".
Indeed, the FA's own grassroots survey in 2011 returned a damning finding, as 84% of respondents identified facilities as the biggest issue facing the game.
Strain on the system is high - with 3.5 million five-to-15-year-olds playing each month and some 6.5 million adults claiming to play the sport - but funding is scarce.
To avoid the typical abandonment of winter football at youth level, artificial 3G pitches are in demand and England boasts 639.
By comparison, Germany has over 5,000 - a number stimulated greatly by the fact they are funded by government and local authorities.
"Facility wise at the elite level, there is not much difference in the academies of the top clubs," added Pfannenstiel, who recently visited Aston Villa to share ideas.
"Where things are better in Germany is the surrounding facilities. So for example, we are willing to use gyms with newer technology and different medical approaches, working with more futuristic methods if you like.
"Also, we tie a close link in between football and education, so a player at an academy can do his studies, have the psychological help he may need and specific support, so it is a full A to Z coaching approach."
The Premier League and FA Facilities Fund, managed by the Football Foundation, commits £34m per year to grassroots facilities. This includes £12m a year each from the FA and Premier League, and £10m from the government.
The contributions are not enough according to the Local Government Association and it seems more spending, more coaches and a collaborative approach will be needed if one day countries will aim to 'do an England'.
For BBC pundit and former England striker Alan Shearer, the national team "still has a long way to go", adding: "We have to be able to organise and get further in the World Cup than we have done. This tournament has proved you don't have to have great players all over the park to progress."
Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker is more optimistic.
"It was massively disappointing to go out after two games and so early in the tournament, but I saw enough in those games to suggest the future is not as bleak as I thought it was four years ago," he said.
"With this bunch of young players, in two or four years' time, there is reason for hope."
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Knole House in Sevenoaks, Kent, was taken over by the charity in 1946 and has battled costly decay problems.
Extensive repairs, part-funded by the National Lottery, have now been carried out in what the Trust described as its largest conservation project to date.
Specialists will also work on precious paintings and furniture in front of visitors in a newly created studio.
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The 15th Century house was formerly an Archbishop's palace and for 400 years was the home of the Sackville family. It also inspired Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando.
Some of the items undergoing treatment include the 17th Century Knole sofa, which inspired copies around the world.
The Royal 'Stool of Easement', an early toilet thought to have been used by Charles II, is also among the collection.
The King's Bedroom, with its suite of silver furniture and bed designed for a visit from James II, now features bespoke lighting and controlled heating systems to protect the collections.
Dame Helen Ghosh, the trust's director general, said: "Knole is one of the Trust's most important houses and this is an exciting moment where we can begin to open new spaces within this vast property to tell the story of its occupants and outstanding collections.
"The new conservation studio is a first-class space for our expert conservators to work on collections from Knole and across the trust, and share their expertise with our visitors."
The project was part-funded by a £7.75m lottery grant.
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Williams' fellow Welshman Ryan Day is also through after a 4-2 win over England's Mike Dunn.
Williams, 40, will play Norway's Kurt Maflin, who beat Ireland's Leo Fernandez 4-1.
Earlier, home hope Matthew Stevens beat England's Martin O'Donnell 4-2, while Michael White beat Tom Ford 4-3.
However, Daniel Wells went down 4-1 to Hong Kong's Marco Fu.
Two-time world champion Williams, Wales' top-ranked player at 13th, was the last home winner back in 1999.
Meanwhile world number one Ronnie O'Sullivan defended opting for a 146 instead of 147 break in his opening-round win against Barry Pinches.
The deputy justice minister said the brutality of the men's crimes meant there was no reason to show mercy.
Campaigning human rights group Amnesty International has condemned the move as "cold-blooded killing".
The executions - by shooting - "made a mockery of the authorities' stated commitment to abolish the death penalty", Amnesty said in a statement.
"It is abhorrent to justify taking someone's life because prisons are overcrowded or the public's alleged support for the death penalty," the statement said.
The executions were carried out in three separate prisons in different parts of the country - two in the capital, Taipei, two in the central city of Taichung and two in the south of the island.
All six of the men had been convicted of murder.
The BBC's Cindy Sui, in Taipei, says the executions come at a time of inflamed public debate about the death penalty following the death of a boy in a video arcade.
Local media reported the 29-year-old suspect had said he would get life in prison at most "even if he were to kill two or three".
He also reportedly said he would get free room and board in prison.
The reports led to public calls for all of those on death row to be executed.
A spokeswoman for the ministry of justice said that the executions had been carried out on a Friday evening to avoid a strong public reaction.
Though religious and human rights groups oppose capital punishment, most victims' families are in favour, and surveys suggest that most of the population also support the death penalty.
The ministry said it has the obligation to carry out the law until there is public consensus on abolishing the death penalty.
According to the state-run Central News Agency, there are a total of 55 death row inmates following the executions.
Taiwan executed five prisoners in March 2011 and four in April 2010.
The 2010 executions were the first after a hiatus that had lasted since 2005, when it adopted an informal moratorium on the death penalty.
The parade through the city centre was part of the International Association of Women Police (IAWP) conference, which also celebrates its centenary.
Ahead of the event, South Wales Police launched an appeal to find the family of one of its first women officers, WPC1 Elsie Joan Baldwin.
Her relatives were among those to attend the event on Sunday.
South Wales Police's Ass Chf Cons Nikki Holland said the conference recognised the "huge contribution that women make towards policing" and was a place to discuss local and international issues and share best practice.
As well as tracing WPC1 Elsie Baldwin's family, the force has discovered more information about her fellow female colleagues.
ACC Holland added: "I believe that these women whose families we have met were incredible, not only having served in World War Two but also were among the first women to police south Wales leading the way for women, including myself, to forge a career in the police."
South Wales Police - formed after the Glamorgan Constabulary merged with Cardiff, Swansea and Merthyr Tydfil police forces - is hosting the International Association of Women in Policing training conference from 23-27 August.
As finance minister of then-President Nicolas Sarkozy, she approved an award of €404m ($429m; £340m) to Bernard Tapie for the disputed sale of a firm.
Mr Tapie had supported Mr Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential election.
She is accused of allowing the misuse of public funds, rather than corruption. She denies wrongdoing.
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The case originates in the early 1990s, when Mr Tapie was a majority shareholder in sports goods company Adidas.
After launching a political career and becoming a cabinet minister in Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government in 1992, Mr Tapie had to sell the company.
In 1993, he sued Credit Lyonnais, a state-owned bank that handled the sale, alleging that the bank had defrauded him by deliberately undervaluing the firm.
By 2007, the long-running case was referred by Ms Lagarde to binding arbitration. A three-member panel awarded the compensation a year later, causing a public outcry.
Last year, after eight more years of legal wrangling, a French court ruled that Mr Tapie had not been entitled to compensation and should repay the €404m.
Ms Lagarde, 60, is now facing the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) on charges of "negligence by a person in position of public authority".
The court, composed mostly of politicians rather than judges, handles allegations of crimes committed by cabinet ministers in office.
Ms Lagarde was sent to trial by CJR magistrates even though prosecutors had argued that the case should be dropped. The trial is due to last until 20 December.
If convicted, Ms Lagarde could face one year in prison.
She replaced Dominique Strauss-Kahn as IMF managing director in 2011.
Mr Strauss-Kahn - also a former French finance minister - resigned following his arrest in New York on charges of sexual assault that were later dropped.
1993: Credit Lyonnais bank handles sale of Adidas to enable tycoon to pursue ministerial career under then Socialist President Francois Mitterrand
1993-2007: Mr Tapie claims Credit Lyonnais undervalued Adidas and that he was cheated; lengthy court battle ensues
1994: Bernard Tapie's highly indebted group collapses and is wound up by Credit Lyonnais
2007: Mr Tapie supports conservative Nicolas Sarkozy in presidential election. Finance Minister Christine Lagarde intervenes in Tapie case to order binding arbitration
2008: Special judicial panel rules Mr Tapie should receive damages of €404m; Ms Lagarde decides not to challenge ruling
2011: Public prosecutor recommends investigation into Ms Lagarde's decision to order arbitration
2013: Ms Lagarde questioned by magistrate and her home searched. Mr Tapie under investigation.
2014: Ms Lagarde is cleared of the most serious charges of corruption, but investigated on charges of negligence
2015: Appeals court orders Mr Tapie to pay back €404m with interest
After 270 council election results, the anti-immigration party won two seats but with a net loss of 11 councillors.
The BNP lost all five of its seats in Stoke-on-Trent, where it launched its election campaign in England, and one of its two councillors in Burnley.
BNP candidates finished ahead of Liberal Democrats in four seats in the Welsh Assembly, but failed to win any.
Before the vote, party leader Nick Griffin said he was confident a candidate would reach the 7% needed to gain a seat, but none reached the threshold.
In Stoke-on-Trent the wards previously held by the BNP were all subject to boundary changes, and due to those changes there were 16 fewer seats available.
The party, which had two MEPs elected in 2009, lost almost half its council seats in last year's local elections, losing all 12 of its seats on east London's Barking and Dagenham Council.
As well as elections in England, the BNP also fielded 32 candidates for the Scottish parliament and candidates for the assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland.
However, the party had to rein back on its campaign spending with debts of more than £500,000, which it has said it expects to pay off by the end of the year.
The BNP has been hit by internal divisions and was facing doubts over its future after costly court cases brought against it including one by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
The party has said it will not be incurring any more debts as a result of Thursday's elections.
The BNP contested 338 seats in the 2010 general election and lost its deposit in 266 of them.
Hearts host the Kirkcaldy side in their replay on Wednesday after a 1-1 draw.
Scottish champions Celtic host Inverness Caledonian Thistle in one of three all-Premiership ties.
Ross County entertain Aberdeen, while Partick Thistle travel to face St Johnstone, with Rangers hosting Championship side Greenock Morton.
Top-flight Hamilton Academical also face second-tier opposition and are away to Dunfermline Athletic.
Championship strugglers St Mirren's reward for their surprise win away to top-flight Dundee is a trip to Methil to face in-form League One side East Fife.
Two replays will decide who plays in the final tie.
The winner of the game at Hampden between League One side Queen's Park and Championship visitors Ayr United will host a team from League Two, with Clyde entertaining Stirling Albion.
On the way to beating Rangers in last season's final, Hibs defeated Hearts 1-0 in a replay after a 2-2 draw at the same fifth-round stage.
Caley Thistle are the only Premiership side to have taken a point from Celtic, who beat Albion Rovers 3-0 on Sunday, this season.
Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers though insists the game is not about revenge.
"The only reason to win is to get into the next round," Rodgers told BBC Scotland. "We deserved to win the away game earlier in the season (the 2-2 draw with Inverness), their goalkeeper had an outstanding game.
"You're always happy to get a home draw and we'll look forward to that when the time comes.
"I'm not thinking about (the treble), my thinking is each game. We're in every competition to win it. We've had a good win, now we move on to Wednesday night (at home to St Johnstone), which will be a tough game for us, and try to maintain the momentum."
Ayr United or Queen's Park v Stirling Albion or Clyde
Celtic v Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Dunfermline Athletic v Hamilton Academical
East Fife v St Mirren
Raith Rovers or Hearts v Hibernian
Rangers v Greenock Morton
Ross County v Aberdeen
St Johnstone v Partick Thistle
Ties to be played 11/12 February
Killers Jeremy Bamber, Peter Moore and Douglas Vinter had asked the court to rule on whole life sentences.
The murderers said condemning them to die in prison amounts to "inhuman or degrading treatment". They argued all sentences should be regularly reviewed.
The Ministry of Justice said the government welcomed this decision.
Bamber was jailed for shooting five members of his family dead in Essex in 1986.
He has always protested his innocence, claiming his schizophrenic sister shot the victims before turning the gun on herself at their farmhouse at Tolleshunt D'Arcy.
Peter Moore, from Kinmel Bay in Conwy county, was convicted of murdering four men for his sexual gratification and Douglas Vinter, of Normanby, Teesside, killed both his wife and a work colleague.
The trio's legal team had argued that any sentence under which the offender's rehabilitation cannot lead to a review of release breaches articles three, five and seven of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The men lost their appeal to the court that whole life tariffs condemning prisoners to die in jail amounted to "inhuman or degrading treatment".
The judges ruled that the whole life tariff is not "grossly disproportionate" and in each case London's High Court had "decided that an all-life tariff was required, relatively recently and following a fair and detailed consideration".
Lawyers representing Vinter plan to appeal against the ruling on his case.
In a statement released by his supporters, Bamber said: "If the state wishes to have a death penalty, then they should be honest and re-introduce hanging.
"Instead, this political decision that I must die in jail is the death penalty using old age or infirmity as the method.
"It is a method whereby I'm locked in a cell until I'm dead - no matter if it should take 70 or 80 years to happen. I shall be dead the next time I leave jail."
'Quite extraordinary'
Bamber said both the trial judge and the Lord Chief Justice set his minimum tariff as 25 years.
"Quite why the home secretary felt that I should die in jail when the judges felt otherwise is a mystery," he said, adding that it was "quite extraordinary" that the European Court felt it was "reasonable" for him to die in jail.
Following the ruling, a Ministry of Justice spokesman said the government "strongly welcomes this decision".
He said: "We argued vigorously that there are certain prisoners whose crimes are so appalling that they should never become eligible for parole.
"We are pleased that the European court has upheld the whole life tariff as a legitimate sentence in British courts."
Workers at Big Pit, in Blaenavon and St Fagans, in Cardiff are the first to walk out in this latest run of strikes.
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has said the strikes will run every weekend from 9 April to 1 May.
National Museum Wales said it is facing a cut in its budget and needs to make savings.
The action follows a strike over Easter after talks about a pay row broke down.
National Museum Wales said it was facing a 4.7% cut in its annual grant in aid from the Welsh Government and weekend payments cost about £750,000 a year.
PCS members are protesting against plans to stop extra payments to weekend and bank holiday staff.
However, two brave souls are wearing only swimsuits and woolly hats, about to dip their toes - and more - in the water.
Jenny Latto and Anna Neubert-Wood are part of a recently-formed sea swimming group, which goes out regularly in all weathers.
So why open water, and not a pool?
Mrs Neubert-Wood said: "You're out in the elements, you're connecting to nature. There's always a chance that a fish might jump up at you or a seal might swim alongside you."
Mrs Latto said she gets nervous before taking the plunge.
However, she said: "Once you're submerged and your body's under, it's fine. It's the coldness in the water which I find invigorating, and you don't get that in a swimming pool."
According to Scottish Swimming, more people are taking to the open water.
The organisation runs a number of courses to prepare people for the hazards of wild swimming.
Kirsten Philips, Scottish Swimming spokeswoman, said: "The popularity of these events have grown and grown. And many people are taking part with the view to do open water swimming in 2016.
"There's always been a love of the great outdoors and this is an extension of this.
"The mass participation events such as the Great Swim series have captured the imagination and people realise you don't have to be an elite swimmer to take part in these."
However, she warns that swimmers need to be prepared.
"The coldness of the water can really take people by surprise. The body can go into shock and while the surface of the water may look calm, you don't see the undercurrents.
"And the sense of direction is often more difficult swimming in the open, and with the currents and weather conditions you can swim off track."
The Portobello pair follow safety guidelines and never swim alone. They also look out for each other in the water.
Emerging from the sea after their morning splash, Mrs Latto and Mrs Neubert-Wood said they felt refreshed and ready to face the day.
Despite numb fingers and toes Mrs Neubert-Wood said: "That was amazing. Now the sun's out and if you close your eyes you can imagine you're somewhere warm."
Mrs Latto said it was addictive.
She said: "I just feel completely refreshed. It gives you a boost of energy, and your mood is completely lifted and you just feel brilliant."
Luckily, there are Turkish Baths nearby where they can warm up.
Militants led by the jihadist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) took over parts of the cities of Falluja and Ramadi in late December.
Since then, troops and allied tribesmen have struggled to regain control.
The number displaced by the unrest is the highest since the peak of the sectarian insurgency from 2006 to 2008.
A further 1.1 million internally displaced people (IDPs) have still not returned to communities in Iraq wracked by violence since 2003.
By Nahed AbouzeidBBC Arabic, Baghdad
The tourist village of Habbaniya, south-west of Falluja, was once a popular destination for the Iraqi elite during Saddam Hussein's rule. It has now turned into a refuge for those fleeing the fighting in Anbar.
Inside the village's chalets and seven-story hotel are hundreds of families, crammed into rooms that lack adequate sanitation and other basic facilities.
In the absence of appropriate medical care due to the army's blockade of the area, skin diseases and viral and bacterial infections are spreading uncontrollably. Children and women are the most vulnerable, especially pregnant women who cannot get access to female doctors.
The main roads in and out of Fallujah and Ramadi are part of the battlefield as the army aims to secure supply routes for troops and tries to cut off militant groups.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said some 50,000 families had fled their homes since clashes erupted in Ramadi and Falluja after security forces dismantled a long-standing anti-government protest camp led by the Sunni Arab community.
While security forces backed by pro-government tribesmen have made steady progress in retaking areas of Ramadi, they have not launched an offensive to recapture Falluja, fearing a repeat of the two bloody urban battles US troops fought in the city in 2004.
Over the weekend, Anbar Governor Ahmed al-Dulaimi gave the militants a week to surrender, but said officials would not negotiate with Isis.
"With the conflict in Anbar continuing UN agencies continue to receive reports of civilian casualties and sustained hardship in communities impacted by the fighting and the influx of internally displaced persons," said UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming.
Most of the displaced had fled to outlying communities in Anbar province, while 60,000 had ended up in more distant provinces, she added. Many are living in schools, mosques and other public buildings and urgently needed humanitarian aid.
In Anbar, Ms Fleming said access remained a challenge, citing reports that a consignment of World Health Organisation (WHO) medical supplies had been detained at an Iraqi army checkpoint since 30 January.
Many bridges have also been destroyed and roads blocked.
The 23-year-old Ireland team captain beat Murodjon Akhmadaliev of Uzbekistan on a unanimous points decision in Doha.
Conlan shaded the first round and clearly took the second but had to hang on at the end after being knocked down in the final minute.
He adds the world crown to his European and Commonwealth titles.
Conlan had already qualified for next year's Olympic Games in Rio.
"I am a bit embarrassed at getting knocked down in the last round," said Conlan.
"It is the first time I have been on the canvas in my life. He hit me sweet on the chin and it was the best punch I have ever been hit with.
"But I recovered really quickly and I am really happy."
Irish light-heavyweight Joe Ward is also through to the final at the World Championships and fights Julio La Cruz of Cuba on Thursday evening.
Earlier, Michael O'Reilly lost a controversial decision to Hosam Abdin of Egypt in their box-off for a place at the Olympics.
CCTV footage was released showing a succession of vehicles, including a coach, making the manoeuvres near Crick, Northamptonshire in July.
Police were unable to trace the vehicles but said the footage had highlighted "selfish" driving.
Road safety charity Brake said the drivers "seemed to have got away" with their "risky behaviour".
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Motorists drove the wrong way down a slip road to get off the M1, near Crick, to avoid a queue further ahead caused by a serious accident at Junction 19.
A coach driver was spoken to by police following the incident and resigned.
Brake spokesman Dave Nichols said the "selfish drivers" put their lives and other people's at risk.
"They seemed to have got away with their risky behaviour, despite it being caught on film," he said.
PC Dave Lee, of Northamptonshire Police Safer Roads Team, said in July the drivers had been "behaving ridiculously" and "risking lives".
After a Freedom of Information Act request by the BBC revealed no drivers would be prosecuted, Mr Lee said: "Although the CCTV footage clearly shows the motorists committing offences, it is not clear enough to read the number plates of most of the vehicles involved and so we have been unable to trace the owners and take the action we would like to.
"We released the footage to show how some motorists do put themselves and others in danger by acting selfishly and to remind people that the rules of the road are there for a reason, to keep all road users as safe as possible."
Wigton-based coach company Reays confirmed their driver who performed an illegal U-turn had resigned, but did not want to comment further.
Chasing 201 for victory, Wayne Parnell (3-33) reduced Middlesex to 11-2 and Denly's inspired spell secured victory.
The highlight was a superb one-handed return catch to dismiss James Franklin.
Earlier, Sam Northeast's 55 helped Kent post 200 all out after Toby Roland-Jones (3-35) removed in-form opener Daniel Bell-Drummond for a duck.
Bell-Drummond had scored centuries in his previous two One-Day Cup outings against Somerset and Sussex, but his stay at the crease on Sunday lasted for only one legitimate delivery.
Roland-Jones' first ball was a wide, but Bell-Drummond edged the second behind to wicketkeeper John Simpson to fall without scoring.
After a shaky start to their reply, Nick Compton (37) and Franklin (33) looked like getting Middlesex close to Kent's total, but Compton's dismissal by James Tredwell sparked another collapse of four wickets for 22 runs.
Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service said 25 firefighters were still damping down hotspots and observing the area.
Most of the fire engines left at about midnight, after 75 firefighters were deployed to tackle the blaze at its height.
The Forestry Commission said the hot weather was a "contributing factor".
The fire started at about 13:40 BST off the B1107 between Thetford and Brandon, near Kingfisher Lake.
Derek Sim, fire station manager at Thetford, said he expected crews to remain on site for the rest of Thursday.
"The fire got into the undergrowth and it's quite difficult to deal with when it's in the undergrowth," he said.
"It's very dry, the wind is just picking up and the temperatures are expected to rise again today.
"It's mostly been undergrowth damage although some of the lower levels of the trees have been damaged by the fire."
Roger Woods, communications manager for the Forestry Commission, said on Wednesday the weather was a "contributing factor" and they were on "high alert".
The site is Forestry Commission land and was planted with Corsican pine in 1988.
The forest's series of concerts will go ahead as planned as the blaze affected a different part of the woodland.
A fire investigation into the cause is to be launched.
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Dibben, 22, won the final two sprints to reach 48 points - the same score as Andreas Graff - but crossed the finish line of the 160-lap race first.
Earlier, Andy Tennant edged out fellow Briton Owain Doull by 0.175 seconds to win bronze in the men's pursuit.
Laura Trott, who won GB's first gold medal on Thursday, helped the hosts win another bronze in the team pursuit.
But it was the talented Dibben who stirred the 8,000 crowd into a thunderous roar as he attacked on the final sprint to win a four-man battle for gold.
"I'm lost for words," Dibben told BBC Sport. "I came into this to give it my all. I rode it like an omnium points race. For 100 laps I was at my limit and in the last 20 everyone else just died off."
So impressive was the Team Wiggins rider's performance, the European omnium bronze medallist has given the British selectors an Olympic dilemma.
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The celebrated Mark Cavendish finished on 84 points after three events in the omnium, an excellent performance in the elimination race on Friday night boosting his chances of a medal.
British Cycling technical director Shane Sutton has said the Manxman has to finish in the top three to secure his spot for Rio.
Even if the 30-year-old achieves that aim in London, the selectors face a conundrum as Cavendish's inclusion in the omnium would mean having to select him as part of the five-man team pursuit, and his coach Heinko Salzwedel has admitted the rider has a "long way to go" to reach the required standard.
His main rival for a place in the team is Dibben, who is currently the stronger of the two in the team pursuit and is a classy omnium operator.
"That's going to put him right back in contention for the omnium," said Boardman. "I wouldn't want to be a selector with Cavendish doing so well in the omnium."
But Cavendish, who is hoping to balance his road commitments with his quest for a first Olympic gold, is well placed with the kilo, flying lap and points race remaining on Saturday.
In the day's two other events, he finished sixth in the 15km scratch and 13th in the pursuit, his weakest event.
Boardman said the Briton rode a "fantastic" strategic race in the elimination.
Six-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy added: "He's been off the track for a while but you could see his brilliance coming back at the end. He can't afford to have a bad event now. He has to be consistent. The points event is a good race for him - he's got to make sure he's not outside the top three or four in each event."
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Britain's quartet of Trott, Elinor Barker, Ciara Horne and Joanna Rowsell Shand put Thursday's disappointing qualifying display behind them with two superb rides on Friday.
They broke the British record with a time of four minutes 16.350 seconds to qualify for the bronze medal race and went on to beat rivals New Zealand by nearly four seconds to secure third place in 4:16.540.
Trott, the women's scratch world champion, said the team wanted to "prove people wrong" after a ragged ride on Thursday.
"We were disappointed at how we rode and to come back fighting and post 4:16 in two races was better than we thought we were going to do," said the double Olympic champion.
Trott, who could end these championships with a hat-trick of medals as she competes in the gruelling six-event omnium over the final two days, said Friday's performances had given her momentum.
In the last competition before the Olympics, this week's team pursuit offered a glimpse at how closely contested the event will be in Rio with the United States going close to breaking the world record in the semi-finals and dipping below 4:17 to win gold in the final.
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Team-mates Tennant and Doull produced a sensational finish with just a 10th of a second separating the pair as Tennant won in 4:18.301.
Welshman Doull, 22, hauled himself back into contention in the closing stages, but was pipped by his fellow Team Wiggins rider.
"That's the icing on the cake for me," said 28-year-old Tennant. "To come away with individual bronze medal - if you'd asked me three weeks ago, I'd have been betting against myself."
Italy's Filippo Ganna (4:16.141) secured gold, beating Germany's Domenic Weinstein (4:18.275) in the final.
Olympic champion Jason Kenny qualified in second place as he made a strong start to the individual sprint competition.
The 27-year-old has endured a lean few years since winning two gold medals at the London 2012 Games but showed promising signs by advancing serenely to the quarter-finals.
Team-mate Callum Skinner joined him there by beating defending champion Gregory Bauge.
Kenny was just 0.001secs behind fastest qualifier Matthew Glaetzer of Australia while Skinner was fifth fastest in 9.824.
Police were called to the Chimney Corner Hotel in Mallusk at about 03:20 GMT on Sunday.
When they arrived a man in his 30s was being treated by ambulance staff for stab wounds and a man in his 20s was subsequently arrested.
The injured man is currently in hospital being treated for what are believed to be non-life threatening injuries.
Police have appealed for witnesses to contact them.
Reaction Engines Ltd (REL) of Culham, Oxfordshire, ran a series of tests on key elements of its Sabre propulsion system under the independent eye of the European Space Agency (Esa).
Esa's experts have confirmed that all the demonstration objectives were met.
REL claims the major technical obstacle to its ideas has now been removed.
"This is a big moment; it really is quite a big step forward in propulsion," said Alan Bond, the driving force behind the Sabre engine concept.
The company must now raise the £250m needed to complete the next phase of development.
This would essentially take the project to the final designs that could be handed to a manufacturer.
Although the British government has put significant sums into REL's technology in the past, the company's preference is to pursue city finance.
"The project to date has been more than 90% privately funded, and we intend to continue with that type of structure," explained Tim Hayter, the CEO of Reaction Engines Ltd.
"Yes, we would encourage government money but we're not reliant on it and we're certainly not depending on it.
"What is more important to us is government endorsement. That gives everyone the confidence that the UK is behind this project."
REL's idea is for an 84m-long vehicle called Skylon that would do the job of a big rocket but operate like an airliner, taking off and landing at a conventional runway.
The vehicle would burn a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen but in the low atmosphere the oxygen would be taken from the air, in the same way that a jet engine breathes air.
Only once it had achieved very high speeds would Skylon switch to full rocket mode, burning onboard fuel supplies.
Taking its oxygen from the air in the initial flight phase would mean Skylon could fly lighter from the outset with a higher thrust-to-weight ratio, enabling it to make a single leap to orbit, rather than using and dumping propellant stages on the ascent - as is the case with current expendable rockets.
If such a vehicle could be made to work, its reusability should transform the costs of accessing space.
But its success depends on the Sabre engine's ability to manage the very hot air entering its intakes at high speed.
These gases have to be cooled prior to being compressed and burnt with the onboard hydrogen.
REL's solution is a module containing arrays of extremely fine piping that can extract the heat and plunge the inrushing air to about -140C in just 1/100th of a second.
Ordinarily, the moisture in the air would be expected to freeze out rapidly, covering the piping in a blanket of frost and dislocating their operation.
But the company's engineers have also devised a means to control the frosting, permitting the Sabre engine to run in jet mode for as long as is needed before making the transition to full rocket mode to take the Skylon spaceplane into orbit.
It is the innovative helium cooling loop with its pre-cooler heat-exchanger that REL has been validating on an experimental rig.
"We completed the programme by getting down to -150C, running for 10 minutes," said Mr Bond. "We've demonstrated that the pre-cooler is behaving absolutely as predicted."
The UK Space Agency asked Esa's propulsion division to audit the tests, and the Paris-based organisation has declared its satisfaction with the outcome of the experimental programme.
"One of the major obstacles to developing air-breathing engines for launch vehicles is the development of the lightweight high-performance heat exchangers," it said in a statement.
"With this now successfully demonstrated by REL, there are currently no technical reasons why the Sabre engine programme cannot move forward into the next stage of development."
Dr Mark Ford, who heads the propulsion engineering group at the agency, added: "The gateway is now open to move beyond the jet age."
The next phase is a three-and-a-half-year project. It would see a smaller version of Sabre being built on a test rig. The demonstrator would not have the exact same configuration as the eventual engine but it would allow REL to prove Sabre's performance across its air-breathing and rocket modes.
"Its parts will be spread out slightly; there's no need for us to package it as we would a real engine," said Mr Bond.
"Also, we will want the ease of access to exchange parts, so it will look a little bit like an anatomy exhibition."
The UK government is currently assessing what its involvement should be in the next phase of Skylon/Sabre, but David Willetts, the science minister, was keen on Wednesday to add his personal support to the project: "The engine being developed by Reaction Engines is a potential game-changer in terms of space technology," he said.
"This successful testing validates the assessment made of the engine concept by the UK Space Agency back in 2010 and is yet another example of the UK's world class space industry. It would be a fantastic achievement if we could one day use this home-grown technology for our own commercial space launches."
Esa is certain to do more study work with REL. Although it is currently working on new versions of its Ariane rocket - a classic expendable vehicle - the agency also wants to keep an eye on future launcher technologies.
REL itself is considering other applications for its technology. These could include incorporating Sabre-like heat-exchangers into existing gas turbine jet engines to improve their fuel-burn efficiency; and also into desalination plants.
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The news comes as survivor James Nugent demanded to know why it was still awaited when an investigation on last year's Clutha bar helicopter crash in Glasgow had been published.
Mr Nugent was among nine people who survived when a Super Puma went down.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch said the inquiry was progressing.
Sarah Darnley, 45, from Elgin, Gary McCrossan, 59, from Inverness, Duncan Munro, 46, from Bishop Auckland, and George Allison, 57, from Winchester, lost their lives in the Shetland crash.
Keith Conradi, the chief investigator at the AAIB, told BBC Scotland: "There's no delay, these reports are complicated, they take a long time and we need to get it right.
"It's in its later stages and should be out by the end of the year, early next year."
Mr Nugent said of getting a report: "It does not bring the people that were involved back, but it does maybe help to give some closure.
"We are still sitting here with open wounds.
"I feel they do not want to give us answers."
James Maurice Henderson, of Limehill Road, Lisburn, admitted his careless driving caused the death of Alexander McEntee, 65, from Castleblaney, County Monaghan.
It happened on the A5 Mulvin Road between Newtownstewart and Victoria Bridge.
Henderson will be sentenced next month.
He also admitted causing grievously bodily injury to his own wife Hazel Henderson.
A prosecution lawyer told Dungannon Crown Court, that no mechanical defects were found with Mr Henderson's vehicle.
The court heard that the collision occurred when Henderson drove straight ahead, "for some unknown reason", instead of following the contours of a shallow bend in the road.
Mr Henderson's defence agreed that the case be adjourned for pre-sentence reports and for an impact report from the family of Mr McEntee.
Leicestershire struggled early on as Ben Sanderson (6-58) took three wickets for nine runs in just five overs.
Eckersley hit 107 in 160 balls, including 11 fours and two sixes, as he helped Leicestershire to reach 519.
The visitors took two early wickets before Rob Keogh put on 91 for the third wicket with Rob Newton, who had made 69 when Northants closed on 142-4.
After his 117 and 104 against Derbyshire, Eckersley became just the third Leicestershire batsman in their history to score a century in three consecutive innings.
Leicestershire batsman Ned Eckersley told BBC Radio Leicester:
"There's been some sticky periods for me where I haven't got the runs I wanted so it's great to come here and put us in a good position.
"Ben and I managed to switch momentum and put them back under pressure. Ben was brave and we got into a good flow and made a big stand.
"The wickets at the end of the day give us something to go into tomorrow. There's definitely some spin there and a couple a turning off the straight so that's positive signs for us."
The opinion of the advocate-general effectively ends Nestle's attempts to trademark the snack.
It also brings to an end the latest chapter in the internecine chocolate wars between Nestle and Cadbury.
The High Court had already rejected Nestle's trademark application in 2013.
Advocate-general opinions are usually, although not always, followed by the European Court judges.
Had its application been successful, Nestle would have been able to prevent competitors making rival chocolate bars of the same shape and size.
But Nestle faced significant opposition to is trademark application from bitter rival Cadbury's and its US owner, Mondelez International.
The advocate-general opinion is the latest development in a more than 10-year battle between Nestle and Cadbury fought in the courts, which started when Cadbury tried to trademark the purple colour it uses on its Cadbury chocolate wrappers.
Nestle objected and finally had the original decision allowing Cadbury to trademark the colour overturned in 2013.
Now it appears Cadbury has had its revenge.
Nestle argued that, over time, the four-fingered chocolate bar's physical form had acquired a distinctive character associated with the company since its launch in 1935, and should become a trademark.
It did not seek to trademark the two-fingered bar.
It cited a survey in which 90% of people shown a picture of the bar, without any names or symbols embossed on it, mentioned KitKat in their comments.
But a rival bar called the Kvikk Lunsj, meaning "quick lunch", launched in Norway in 1937 is available in some UK shops, and although less well known, looks similar.
Patients and staff were evacuated from Cerahpasa hospital on Wednesday after a man receiving treatment at the clinic threatened to shoot himself and others.
Officers were deployed to negotiate with the man, a young police officer.
Earlier reports that the armed man had taken several people hostage proved incorrect.
The chief consultant of Cerahpasa hospital, Zekayi Kutlubay, who was evacuated from the facility, said that there had been "no hostage crises", adding that the man was "alone in the room".
Dr Kutlubay said that the man had been receiving psychiatric treatment for the past two years.
He said that the hospital had previously submitted a report stating that the man should not be permitted to carry a gun.
"His firearm was taken away," Dr Kutlubay said, adding that the gun in the officer's possession on Wednesday was not his issued firearm.
The incident comes amid tension in Istanbul following several attacks in crowded areas, including the deadly assault on the Reina nightclub on New Year's Eve which left 39 people dead.
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His side bounced back from the 16-16 draw in Ireland to beat Scotland 27-23 in Cardiff.
After France, Wales face England at Twickenham on 12 March before hosting Italy in Cardiff.
"If we can beat France then you're potentially playing England for the Championship," said Gatland.
"That's what it boils down to. That's taking nothing away from Italy in the last game, but if we win the next two the motivation will be there against Italy at home.
"But one step at a time."
Wales, who have won their last four matches against France, trailed until the 65th minute against Vern Cotter's Scotland team before tries from Jamie Roberts and George North broke the visitors' resistance.
The New Zealander singled out man of the match Roberts and winger North for special praise after their match-winning exploits.
"We had a couple of chances and we took those chances," he added.
"Jamie Roberts was man of the match and deserved to be, and we saw something special from George North too.
"Sometimes you need that in games, you need someone to do something special for you.
"It was a tough game - we had to dig deep and we had to grind out a victory.
"We had to use everything we had in the tank with the six day turnaround it was tough as well."
Gatland also praised the impact of the substitutes, with Gethin Jenkins, Bradley Davies and Dan Lydiate - all with more than 50 caps to their names - helping Wales see out the win.
Roberts says Wales need to produce a markedly improved performance to beat France.
"In every facet, we need to improve our defence certainly, we need to improve our attack," Roberts told BBC Wales Sport.
"But we did some good stuff, and we need to look at the positives, improve on the positives, and the negatives as well."
Roberts' midfield partner Jonathan Davies says the Harlequins centre's efforts are a barometer for Wales' performances.
"Jamie's showing great form at the moment - in a rich vein of form - and when he plays well, we play well we normally get the result," said Davies.
The inquest into the deaths of 30 Britons at the Royal Courts of Justice heard that lives could have been saved.
Some units took about 30 minutes too longer than they should have to reach the scene, according to the report from a Tunisian inquiry read out in court.
It also said the gunman had taken a drug that causes "extreme anger".
Islamist Seifeddine Rezgui killed 38 people at the five-star Riu Imperial Marhaba, near Sousse, on 26 June 2015, before he was shot dead by police.
The attack was the deadliest on Britons since the 7 July 2005 London bombings.
A summary of an investigation by Tunisian Judge Akremi was read out in court, which said that a post-mortem examination showed that Rezgui had been shot 20 times.
It added that toxicological tests revealed the presence of a drug, the main effects of which include "the feeling of exhaustion, aggression and extreme anger that leads to murders being committed".
The summary said another effect of such drugs is that they "enhance physical and mental performance".
The judge's report also included an assessment by the secretary of state to the minister of the interior responsible for security matters.
He had examined cameras which "showed that the tourist security team vehicle patrol and bike patrol deliberately slowed down and did not intervene to stop the terrorist attack at that time".
The patrol committed "what is considered a serious mistake, and that its delay was deliberate and unjustifiable".
He referred to a unit that went in search of more body armour and weapons instead of going straight to the scene of the incident, a move he said was "unjustifiable" as the vehicle was equipped with enough weapons to stop the attack.
The assessment said that what this team did "amounts to an offence for which it must take the blame".
The inquest heard from the head of the operations room for the Northern Sousse National Security as part of the Akremi report summary.
That person, whose role was to co-ordinate the various security authorities, said the refusal to intervene to stop the attack was "due to simple cowardice, when they could have prevented the loss of life".
The report summary referred to the divisional head of the Tourist Security Police in Sousse, saying: "He stated that he panicked and was afraid because there was an armed attack on the tourist area for which he was responsible."
It was the divisional head, referred to as AE, who made the decision to stop off for more weapons instead of rushing to the incident, according to the report summary.
Judge Akremi observed that AE spent more than eight minutes inside the police station.
"AE could have intervened and stopped the terrorist attack in no more than three minutes," he said.
"In fact it took AE more than 30 minutes to arrive at the scene."
It added that it took others about 35 minutes to reach the scene, when it should have taken them no more than five minutes.
A delay for one unit was "due to lack of clarity of information", while another responder "deliberated over whether the intervention would be effective".
The inquest heard that quad bike units were delayed because they were in "very poor condition" and "incapable of driving over sand".
The delay of those on horseback was said to be the result of "caution" they had shown in getting there after hearing the terrorist was armed with a Kalashnikov.
The inquest was adjourned to 23 February.
Willstrop, 32, has slipped to world number 24 after suffering a career-threatening hip injury.
But he took 64 minutes to beat Egypt's Elshorbagy 11-4 11-7 10-12 11-7 in Seattle to reach the quarter-finals.
"In the context of everything that has gone on over the past 18 months this is one of my best ever performances," said Willstrop.
Willstrop joins fellow countryman and the man he lost to in last year's Commonwealth Games final, second seed Nick Matthew, in the last eight.
"I feel great for the moment but I can't get too carried away - it's not the end," he said.
In the quarter-finals, Yorkshireman Willstrop faces Colombian Miguel Angel Rodriguez, who has become the first South American to reach this stage (Saturday, 02:00 GMT).
Matthew beat Mohamed Elshorbagy's brother, Marwan Elshorbagy, 13-11 12-10 11-5. He now plays Egypt's Tarek Momen (Saturday, 04:00 GMT).
Dr Jasmine Donahaye called for a national debate on why women are not represented as widely as men such as Sir Gareth Edwards, Aneurin Bevan and Tommy Cooper.
She became interested after writing a biography of author Lily Tobias.
There are statues of Queen Victoria in Wrexham and Boudicca in Cardiff City Hall.
Dr Donahaye told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement there are lots of generic women and angel statues in Welsh towns and cities, but few individuals.
"People who read (Lily Tobias' biography) are taken aback. They ask 'how come we have never heard of her? Why was she lost and fell from view?'"
Cardiff North AM Julie Morgan said the contributions of many women "have been submerged".
She said there is a health board named after "the Welsh Florence Nightingale" Betsi Cadwaladr, but no statue.
Mrs Morgan also said she would like to see statues of the Davies sisters, Gwendoline and Margaret, who contributed their vast art collection to the National Museum of Wales.
"An unchecked Iran has the potential to travel the same path as North Korea and to take the world along with it," Mr Tillerson said.
President Donald Trump earlier ordered a review of the Iran nuclear deal.
However, the US admits that Tehran is complying with the 2015 agreement.
Iran has so far made no public comments on the latest developments.
Iran has repeatedly denied accusations by the West that it was ever trying to develop nuclear weapons.
On Tuesday, Washington accused North Korea of trying to "provoke something", after Pyongyang conducted a failed missile test over the weekend.
In response, North Korea said it may test missiles on a weekly basis, and warned of "all-out war" if the US takes military action.
Speaking on Wednesday, Mr Tillerson said the Iran review, which he announced in a letter to Congress a day earlier, would not only look at Tehran's compliance with the nuclear deal but also its actions in the Middle East.
Mr Tillerson accused Iran of undermining US interests in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
"A comprehensive Iran policy requires we address all of the threats posed by Iran, and it is clear there are many," he said.
In announcing a broad review of Iran policy the Trump administration has not jettisoned the nuclear deal.
But Rex Tillerson has come pretty close to saying the agreement is not worth keeping, even though he's had to admit it's working.
This week the secretary of state informed congress that Tehran is keeping its side of the bargain to restrict its nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, which he's required to confirm every 90 days.
In spoken remarks, though, he talked only of Iran's bad behaviour and linked that to the future of the deal - a message that will resonate far more on Capitol Hill and to which it was probably aimed.
Former President Barack Obama would have agreed with all the charges: that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism, that it supports proxies which undermine US interests in the region, that it's hostile to Israel and that its ballistic missile tests challenge UN Security Council prohibitions.
But Mr Obama kept those issues separate from the nuclear agreement, which would have been impossible to achieve without that narrow focus.
Mr Tillerson, on the other hand, called this a mistaken approach and said the review would take a comprehensive look at all of the threats posed by Iran.
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The secretary of state earlier acknowledged the Iranians had met the terms of the 2015 deal, but raised concerns about the country as a "state sponsor of terrorism".
President Trump has described the landmark agreement as the "worst deal ever".
However, his predecessor Barack Obama argued the deal, between Iran and six world powers including China, Russia and the UK, was the best way to prevent Iran getting a nuclear weapon.
Sanctions were lifted after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) certified Tehran had restricted its sensitive nuclear activities.
Jeffrey Chandler, spotted driving at 90mph near Penrith in June, tested positive for Class A and B drugs.
The 53-year-old, of Ventura Close, Manchester, admitted drug-impaired driving and possessing cannabis.
The judge at Carlisle Crown Court handed him a four-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months.
Recorder Andrew Shaw said Chandler's drug readings indicated a "staggeringly high level of cocaine use".
He also ordered him to complete a rehabilitation requirement, a three-month night-time curfew and a 30-month driving ban.
Ted Harris, from Oldbury, was driving a Honda Jazz which crashed with an Audi S4 in Wolverhampton Road, Sandwell, about 19:00 BST on Saturday.
He suffered serious injuries in the collision at the Castle Road East junction and died on Sunday night.
Officers closed the road temporarily on Monday to carry out a reconstruction to establish what happened.
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The Audi driver sustained minor injuries in the crash.
Sgt Steve Newbury, of West Midlands Police, said: "We are keen to hear from anyone who was travelling along the dual carriageway at the time of the collision and saw what happened.
"Our thoughts remain with Mr Harris's family as they come to terms with his loss."
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Police were called after the boy was hurt in an incident in Gainsborough Road, Reading, on Sunday afternoon.
He was taken to hospital where he is in a serious but stable condition. Detectives said they believed it was an "isolated incident".
The girl was arrested, near the scene later on Sunday, on suspicion of grievous bodily harm with intent.
She remains in custody.
The 58-year-old man and 56-year-old woman were riding on a Harley Davidson motorbike when it was involved in the crash on Sunday afternoon.
Police said the bike collided with a black Land Rover Freelander on the A76 near Sanquhar at about 13:15.
Officers have appealed for help from witnesses to the accident, near the road to Kellofoot Cottages.
Sgt Bob McNay said "As a result of this tragic collision the road was closed for nearly eight hours while officers carried out a full crash scene investigation.
"We are still appealing for witnesses to this collision and would ask that anyone who can help call Police Scotland at Lockerbie on the 101 number."
He said the victims would be publically identified once relatives had been informed.
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BBC weather presenter Carol Kirkwood brightened up School Report News Day by passing on some good advice to pupils from Lilian Baylis Technology School in south London.
She told Elizabeth and Marta that the secret to good broadcasting was all in the breathing.
Scott Mills and Radio 1 co-presenter Chris Stark came in to the School Report newsroom to help pupils phone schools around the UK for updates for the live page.
It reminded Scott of his first work experience placement and Chris said everyone was working really hard, despite the lack of coffee!
School reporters Sherona and Marijudy, both 14, from St Mary's Catholic High School in Croydon, have been learning how to use their smartphones to shoot video and edit audio.
They've also picked up some top tips on zooming in with your feet rather than the camera.
What's the worst thing about getting up early? When has a news story changed while you're on air?
Pupils asked their questions live on BBC Radio 2.
School Reporters from Lister Community School in Newham interviewed BBC Radio 3 presenter Suzy Klein and British solo-clarinettist Emma Johnson.
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School Reporters from Prendergast Ladywell School in Lewisham spent their BBC School Report News Day at the BBC's 1Xtra studios.
They met and interviewed the radio station's Sarah Evans and presenter A. Dot, and discovered how the studio operates from day to day.
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A city council report said the yacht racing in July 2015 boosted visitor numbers and raised the city's profile.
However, it highlighted confusion among spectators about ticketing and criticised steel fencing at the site.
Among changes planned for this year's event is scrapping of evening entertainment.
The four-day weekend event in July 2015, run by TeamOrigin Events, marked the opening stage of the sailing series as Sir Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR) began Britain's bid to win the 35th America's Cup.
While the Saturday events attracted about 100,000 spectators, racing was cancelled and the public viewing areas evacuated due to bad weather on Sunday.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were among those disappointed as racing was abandoned and there was criticism on social media over spectator provision.
On the Friday, ticket holders to a cancelled South Coast proms concert were offered a refund plus free entry to Saturday's pop concert, angering people who had paid up to £48 for tickets for Saturday's show.
The council report said the event was a success, on the whole, and generated £9m of economic benefit.
It said "operational issues" had been addressed ahead of the next event planned for 21-24 July.
Changes include shortening the on-shore events to three days, from 11:00 to 18:00, after a "community/preview" day on 21 July, and no evening events planned.
There will be no perimeter barriers around Southsea Common and a large open area on the common with direct views of the sea is planned to allow viewing of the racing.
It said the offer would "support the average demographic" of 40-61 years.
Hugh Sim, 30, from Renfrew, was caught after the pictures were spotted in a chat group by police in New Zealand.
He was convicted of sexually abusing the girl, and making and distributing indecent photos.
Sentencing him at Glasgow High Court, the judge said the damage to his victim was "catastrophic".
Sim was assessed as being at a high-risk of re-offending and will be monitored in the community for two years after his release.
Judge Johanna Johnston told him: "You photographed and filmed abuse which took place many times for your sexual gratification. These images were distributed online and found by police in New Zealand.
"The damage you have caused to that little girl is catastrophic and she now has difficulty forming attachments."
The judge said Sim had done his best to conceal his actions and added: "Had it not been for the work of the police in this country and the authorities in New Zealand your offences may never have come to light.
"You have shown no remorse and continue to protest your innocence."
The 30-year-old had denied he was the person in the images, but a former lover identified him by his heavyset build and ginger hair.
During a police inquiry in New Zealand into the members of the paedophile chat group it was established that one of the users had logged on from the UK and an internet search uncovered the subscriber as Sim.
Defence counsel Susan Duff said: "He accepts that he has been convicted of these offences, but maintains his position of claiming he is not guilty."
Sim was placed on the sex offenders register.
Det Ch Insp Fil Capaldi of Police Scotland said: "Hugh Sim's sentence today reflects the gravity of his actions and demonstrates that there is no hiding place for people who commit these types of depraved crimes against children, wherever they may be - crimes which would have impacted on this young girl's ability to enjoy a normal, happy childhood.
"I must praise the swift actions of the Police Scotland officers and detectives from the New Zealand Police Service involved in this inquiry."
One Reds supporter paid £700 for tickets for the game against current holders Sevilla in Basel, Switzerland.
The forgeries are almost identical to genuine tickets, with only the genuine Uefa hologram missing from the fakes.
Liverpool initially received 10,000 tickets, with a further 2,000 made available after Sevilla returned some of their allocation.
One Liverpool fan, who wished to remain anonymous, told BBC Radio Merseyside: "I was willing to pay over the odds for a pair of tickets and came across an Instagram account.
"I got into a conversation with the account holder and agreed to buy two tickets for £800, which we negotiated down to £700."
He added: "We met outside Anfield and he came with two tickets in a white envelope, which I thought was strange because I was expecting official documentation.
"He gave me the tickets to look at and they looked absolutely real. If you look at them now, against a real one, the difference is very minimal."
Supt Jon Ward, a match commander with Merseyside Police in Switzerland, warned supporters to avoid paying for tickets through unofficial sources.
"We are aware of this and we always knew there was a likelihood people would take an opportunity to create counterfeit or forged tickets," he said.
"I understand fans will want to get to this game and I understand the demand for tickets, but the game is sold out.
"I am confident there will be a number of checks fans have to go through to get to the stadium.
"They will check whether those tickets are genuine. If they are not you will not get near the stadium."
Merseyside Police released a statement confirming it was investigating an allegation of fraud.
"On Thursday 12 May, a complaint was received of fake tickets having been sold to the victim. Inquiries are ongoing to identify those responsible."
Unison, GMB and Unite - which said they represented more than 1.5 million people in these roles - had organised a strike next week over pay.
But they said Tuesday's action had been suspended after the Local Government Association (LGA) made "new proposals".
The unions said they would now consult their members on the proposals.
They said the LGA's pay offer covered the period from 1 April this year to 31 March 2016.
The workers involved have the "lowest pay in the public sector and have suffered significant attacks on their conditions of work in recent years", the unions added.
On Thursday the SECC changed its name to the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) to incorporate the Clyde Auditorium (Armadillo) and The SSE Hydro.
A Network Rail spokesman said it rarely changed station names.
He said such a change could involve spending a six-figure sum.
"Those funds can usually be better spent elsewhere on new infrastructure," he said.
He said high costs were incurred in a name change due to a number of factors, including updating nationwide computerised booking, timetabling and signalling systems as well as more localised costs such as new signage, new network maps and rerecording in-station/on-train announcements.
Live entertainment has now become a significant part of the SEC's business.
SEC chief executive Peter Duthie said the rebrand aimed to reflect the changes to the business over the past 30 years and to showcase the company's ability to stage large-scale events.
He added that, historically, the company had found that many people did not realise all of the buildings were part of the SECC.
When it was originally built in 1894, the station was called Stobcross. It closed in 1959 and after a 20-year absence reopened in 1979 as Finnieston. It was renamed the Exhibition Centre in 1986.
The slogan is being considered by Visit Suffolk for a tourism campaign in 2013.
Peter Aldous, MP for Waveney, said: "It could mean interesting and unusual, but it also means odd and it doesn't stand out as the right branding."
The advertising agency behind it said it was meant to describe the range of attractions on offer and generate conversation and reaction.
Mr Aldous said: "To my mind it doesn't seem the most obvious way of marketing the county and getting people to come here."
Guy McGregor, a Suffolk Country Councillor, said: "Are the coast, Constable Country or the Waveney Valley curious?
"It's certainly an attractive place to visit, but will the slogan make it a more attractive place to visit?
"There's got to be a grain of truth, but I'm not sure the idea of Suffolk as a curious county will resonate with people."
James Kindred, from the agency Condiment, said: "We wanted to get people's interest piqued a little bit from outside Suffolk in a way that would generate conversation and a reaction, which is one of the most important things in marketing."
Chris Waters, from Condiment, said: "It's very difficult to describe a quintessential Suffolk scene - is it the coast, the countryside or the coastal towns which, even when they're next to each other such as Lowestoft and Southwold, are very different?
"Ultimately, we think we've created something that's good and we stand by our idea."
Amanda Bond, brand manager for Visit Suffolk, said: "The crux of the concept is simple and unlike anything that's been done before, which is why there's naturally trepidation.
"We want holidaymakers to visit our curious assets for themselves."
Ronald Cooke, of Granville Road, Cradley Heath, in the West Midlands, attacked his partner Tina Billingham at their home on February 6, before driving her to a doctor's surgery claiming she had "stabbed herself".
Ms Billingham, a mother of two, died in hospital later that day.
Cooke, 55, was convicted of murder at Wolverhampton Crown Court and ordered to serve a minimum of 24 years.
West Midlands Police described Cooke's 20-year relationship with 54-year-old Ms Billingham as "abusive and controlling".
He had previous convictions for assault and actual bodily harm against two former partners, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
The court heard neighbours had witnessed Cooke shouting at his partner before ordering her to get into his van. The argument continued in his vehicle where he stabbed Ms Billingham twice, piercing her heart.
He then drove to the surgery. Staff there found her bleeding heavily from her injuries.
Cooke told them Ms Billingham had stabbed herself in his van with an ornamental sword stick - a weapon with a blade screwed into the scabbard - following an argument, police said.
A post-mortem examination confirmed Ms Billingham had died as a result of stab wounds to the chest and stomach area.
Det Insp Harry Harrison said: "Cooke was clearly a bully and was the root cause of an awful lot of misery in Tina's life.
"Arrogant to the end, he has shown no remorse.
"Men with his character traits have no place in a civilised society. He has now rightly been brought to justice."
He hopes that motivation will drive the players on when the World Cup qualifiers start on Sunday in Malta.
"It was painful," McGhee said. "I did my best to enjoy the Euros, but I was jealous of nations that were there.
"I kept trying to superimpose us on certain games and wondering just what we might have achieved."
Along with Scotland and Malta, Group F contains England, Slovakia, Slovenia and Lithuania. McGhee acknowledges the importance of making a positive start to the campaign but says a win over bottom seeds Malta should not be taken for granted.
"We're under no illusions, we've looked at the video, we've done an analysis of Malta, we know their strengths and weaknesses and we'll prepare for a difficult game but one we're determined to try to win," McGhee said.
"If we do win, it will represent a very positive start and you need that in a campaign.
"We've made it clear to the players that they will be a more serious proposition than Gibraltar were. Anybody who thinks it's just about turning up, they're badly mistaken.
"They're very tactical, they play an unusual shape. They have a bit of physicality in their back three, they have a centre-forward who will run in behind. They have a bit of everything.
"Tactically, we have to make sure that we understand their shape and then we've got to impose our abilities and strengths on them. We're going there to win the game."
McGhee says that, with a lower average age, there is an "enthusiasm and energy" about the squad as they prepare to start the qualifying campaign.
He admits that the withdrawals of Leigh Griffiths, Kevin McDonald, James McArthur and Kieran Tierney is a "disappointment" but urged the remaining players to "step up" and take their opportunity, with Lee Wallace and Tony Watt having been called up as replacements.
McGhee said that two conversations with Watt during the summer convinced him that the player's attitude and mentality were right to be included in the squad again, if the opportunity arose.
He has since been impressed with the Charlton Athletic forward's form since he joined Hearts on loan but added that Aston Villa striker Ross McCormack is not out of the international frame despite not being called up.
"We've been big fans of Tony since we first picked him," said McGhee. "We brought him in for a training camp in an early squad. He had certain issues at that time.
"I had a couple of conversations with him over the summer, quite long conversations, and I reported back to Gordon [Strachan] that what I was hearing was responsible, mature, a change in a sense.
"It's no surprise to me that he's doing well where he is and he's at a level now where we can bring him in. We're delighted to have that type of player in the form he's in now.
"During the summer, we had a meeting where we drew up a list of those we feel we need to watch regularly, to assess and see how they're playing. That list was 45 players long and there are only 24 of those players here.
"So there's a lot more than just Ross not here. We've got a long campaign, 10 games, and I'd imagine that, by the end of those games, we'll have used maybe 40 for the squads.
"There will be people here next time who aren't here today and people who are here today and won't be next time.
"On this occasion, the manager has picked a group of players who he thinks are appropriate for this game."
A virtue advocated by the ancient Chinese sage and philosopher Confucius, it promotes absolute respect to elders, particularly parents and ancestors.
On 10 February, Qilu Evening Post, a regional paper in eastern Shandong Province, shared pictures of 46-year-old Zhang Jinli, who works for a pharmaceutical company in Beijing, virtually prostrate on the station floor at his parents' feet.
He was apparently begging his parents, who are both in their eighties, for forgiveness. The paper reported that Mr Zhang was "emotional, did not think that he had been a filial son, and believed that he had been unworthy to his parents".
Such an overt and profound display of filial piety was praised as a "touching scene" by many social media users, but some chimed in asking whether it was "a bit much".
More than 7,500 users of Sina Weibo, a popular Chinese social media forum, used the hashtag #StationManKneelstoParents, discussing the importance of showing respect to your elders.
The concept of filial piety goes back to 400 BC and is a core virtue of Confucianism, described in the early works of China's best-known philosopher.
Respect towards parents, elders and ancestors are considered key values in Chinese society and culture, and are commonly the subject of debate on Chinese social media.
In September, the hashtag #SaveMotherOrGirlfriend trended, with thousands of Sina Weibo users debating who they would save if one of the two were drowning.
The majority of users said that they would save their mother, saying that you can "always find another girlfriend", or your partner might not be "the one", showing how important the concept remains in contemporary Chinese society.
But it has also been heavily contested following a string of incidents earlier in the year, which saw Chinese elders reacting violently to younger people not giving up their seats on public transport, with social media users asking whether the concept can be followed blindly without question.
In August, a middle-aged woman beat and stripped a younger girl on the Wuhan subway for not letting her sit down.
And in July, an elderly man in Harbin hit a young girl for not giving up her seat on a bus.
It has also has been a recurring theme in Chinese soap operas and dramas, with relationships tested because a mother cannot approve her child's fiancée, and the boyfriend or girlfriend having to win their future in-law's respect.
Despite the Qilu Evening Post reporting that Zhang had not visited his parents in four years, by kneeling to his parents, he warmed the hearts of Chinese social media users.
Popular comments said that his conduct was a "good move" and commended him for his actions, which they said showed "the greatest courtesy".
"You can miss the train, but filial piety cannot wait!" said one user, receiving more than 800 likes.
Another user said his behaviour was "indescribably sad". "No one wants to leave home and their parents. We love them, really love them." But he added that because the pressures of modern life to move away "life is not easy".
Other users contested his behaviour and asked whether his behaviour was a bid to grab attention.
"Filial piety can be expressed," said one user, "but doing this in a large area with a crowd, I inevitably suspect him of grandstanding".
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The former Tory vice-chairman and elections adviser to David Cameron announced the diagnosis via Twitter to raise awareness of the condition.
He has been diagnosed with melanoma and basal cell carcinoma, but says he is "optimistic" because specialists told him they have caught it in time.
The Tory is defending the West Midlands seat of Lichfield after 18 years as MP.
Mr Fabricant, well known in the Commons for his shock of blond hair, said he intended to continue campaigning with his "usual enthusiasm".
"The reason why I decided to tweet this - and I thought long and hard about whether to do so - is because if you deal with it early enough it is probably not a life-threatener," he said.
"So the moral of the story is: if you spot something which is changing on your skin, go and see a doctor."
Mr Fabricant was inundated with get-well messages from fellow Twitter users after making his announcement.
The candidates for Lichfield are:
"I just want to go out on a high note. I can't wait," he said on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday.
Although some people on social media weren't too thrilled about the news, a lot of fans are excited about the actor's return.
One Twitter user is so happy about the announcement that it's probably going to be all they'll be talking about for a while:
End of Twitter post by @shesJamesEvans
James Evans wrote: "Daniel Craig is doing another James Bond and your [sic] gonna have to deal with me flailing about this for the next two weeks, at least."
From one Craig to another, the actor has won singer Craig David's approval too:
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The UK Treasury uses the Barnett formula devised in the 1970s to allocate money to the four UK nations.
The system, based on population and which powers are devolved, gives more money per head to Scotland than Wales.
In a televised debate on Wednesday night, Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy said he would "keep the Barnett formula today, tomorrow and forever, and that's what you get with Labour".
But Mr Jones said Wales' funding needs could be met, without changing the formula.
Jenny Downey, described Michael Freshwater, 49, as the "perfect gentleman" and said she "still can't accept" his death.
He was found dead at his flat in Westridge Road, Southampton, on 29 April.
To date 12 arrests have been made in connection with Mr Freshwater's death, but no-one has yet been charged.
In an emotional appeal, Ms Downey said: "Micky was the love of my life, my rock, my best friend, my world, my everything. I will never stop missing him or loving him.
"I feel so lost without him and the pain never ends. I still can't accept he's gone."
Crimestoppers is offering a £10,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of those responsible.
Ms Downey added: "I just want to know what happened and get justice for something that is so, so cruel."
Hampshire Constabulary said it is believed there was a dispute at the property before Mr Freshwater's body was discovered.
The child fell from a property in Lewiston Drive in the Summerston area of Glasgow at about 17:00 on Thursday.
He was taken to the city's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where his condition was described as serious.
Police said inquiries were under way to establish the circumstances surrounding the incident. Officers could not confirm which floor the boy fell from.
She succeeds former secretary general Jerome Valcke, who was banned from football-related activity for 12 years.
Samoura, 54, spent 21 years working for the United Nations and will start at football's governing body in June.
"It is essential Fifa incorporates fresh perspectives as we continue to restore and rebuild our organisation," said Fifa president Gianni Infantino.
"She has a proven ability to build and lead teams, and improve the way organisations perform. Importantly for Fifa, she also understands that transparency and accountability are at the heart of any well-run and responsible organisation."
Samoura's appointment, announced at Fifa's congress in Mexico City, completes a new-look to an organisation which has been dogged by corruption allegations under Valcke and previous president Sepp Blatter.
Blatter, who had led Fifa since 1998, stood down last year and was later suspended from football for six years for breaching ethics guidelines.
On his appointment in February, Infantino said he would "work tirelessly to bring football back to Fifa and Fifa back to football".
Samoura, who will undergo an eligibility check before her role is ratified, currently works for the UN in Nigeria, and speaks four languages.
She started her UN career as a senior logistics officer with the World Food Programme in Rome in 1995 and has since served as country representative or director in six African countries, including Nigeria.
"Today is a wonderful day for me, and I am honoured to take on this role," she said.
"This role is a perfect fit for my skills and experience - strategic, high-impact team building in international settings - which I will use to help grow the game of football all over the world.
"I also look forward to bringing my experience in governance and compliance to bear on the important reform work that is already underway at Fifa.
"Fifa is taking a fresh approach to its work - and I am eager to play a role in making that approach as effective and lasting as possible."
BBC sports editor Dan Roan:
"For an organisation that has been accused in the past of being "blatantly sexist", the appointment of the first woman to such a senior position will be seen as a positive move.
"With new reforms limiting the powers of the Fifa president, Ms Samoura arguably becomes the most important figure in world football. Effectively the chief executive of the governing body, she will be in charge of the day-to-day running of the organisation as it attempts to recover from the corruption crisis that has threatened its very existence.
"With sponsors, campaigners and fans demanding more independence in the running of the sport, the arrival of a figure from outside football politics will also please some critics. A veteran of UN humanitarian programmes, it will be interesting to hear Ms Samoura's views on Qatar and concerns over the treatment of workers in the country as it prepares to host the 2022 World Cup.
"A Senegalese secretary general will also help FIfa's European president Gianni Infantino build bridges with Africa and other confederations, some of whom no doubt miss his predecessor Sepp Blatter."
The research, published in The Lancet medical journal, says two-thirds of men in China now start to smoke before 20.
Around half of those men will die from the habit, it concludes.
The scientists conducted two nationwide studies, 15 years apart, covering hundreds of thousands of people.
In 2010, around one million people in China died from tobacco usage. But researchers say that if current trends continue, that will double to two million people - mostly men - dying every year by 2030, making it a "growing epidemic of premature death".
While more than half of Chinese men smoke, only 2.4% of Chinese women do.
The study was conducted by scientists from Oxford University, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and the Chinese Center for Disease Control.
But co-author Richard Peto said there was hope - if people can be persuaded to quit.
"The key to avoid this huge wave of deaths is cessation, and if you are a young man, don't start," he said.
In many parts of China, meals often fit a comfortable pattern. After putting down their chopsticks, men commonly push their chairs back from the table and light cigarettes. No wonder China has struggled to impose a smoking ban in public places. Here, relationships are often built amid clouds of smoke.
Expensive brands of cigarettes, often decorated with gold detailing on the cartons, are given as gifts. And ordinary brands are affordable to all but the very poor, costing just 2.5 yuan ($0.4; £0.25) a pack.
In a country where smoking is so ingrained in daily life, few understand the harmful effects of tobacco use. According to the World Health Organization, only 25% of Chinese adults can list the specific health hazards of smoking, from lung cancer to heart disease.
Perhaps it should come as no surprise, then, that only 10% of Chinese smokers quit by choice. Instead, most are forced to give up their cigarettes because they're too sick to continue.
The country that will not quit smoking
While smoking rates have fallen in developed countries - to less than one in five in the US - they have risen in China, as cigarettes have become more available and consumers richer.
China is the world's biggest consumer of cigarettes - one in three cigarettes smoked globally is in China - as well as the world's biggest tobacco producer.
More than 300 million people - about a quarter of the population - smoke, with the average smoker consuming 22 cigarettes a day.
Authorities have shown concern over the rise, with Beijing even introducing a public smoking ban. But efforts have been hampered by the habit's popularity, and its usefulness as a source of tax revenue - the government collects about 428bn yuan (£44bn, $67bn) in tobacco taxes each year.
Globally, tobacco kills up to half of its users, according to the World Health Organization.
A match played on the field in Eriskay has been filmed for screening in the football governing body's new museum in Zurich in Switzerland.
The Fifa World Football Museum is due to be opened to the public next year.
Eriskay is renowned for a shipwreck that inspired the book and film Whisky Galore.
Martin Macaulay, manager of Eriskay FC, told BBC Alba the playing surface was "well bumpy. It's just all over the place.
"One time we had five corners, now we are down to four corners."
But he added: "It is unique with its views of Eriskay. It is a nice place."
Eriskay's other claim to fame centres on the SS Politician, which ran aground off the island on 5 February 1941.
Its cargo included more than 250,000 bottles of whisky.
Author Compton MacKenzie used the grounding of the ship as the basis of his book Whisky Galore in 1947, and an Ealing comedy followed in 1949.
O'Neill says the West Brom defender has the tactical brain to become a coach.
The former Manchester United and Sunderland player, 29, has already won 60 caps for his country.
The Northern Ireland squad are holding a training camp in Turkey this week to prepare for their World Cup qualifier against Azerbaijan on Saturday.
Ahead of the game, O'Neill singled-out the Belfast native when he was asked which of his players was most suited to a career in management.
"Jonny's very bright, very intelligent, he knows the game and has strong opinions on the game," O'Neill said.
"Jonny certainly has all the attributes that you would look for in a manager and he's got good qualities as a human being as well as a football coach."
Evans made his Manchester United debut under Sir Alex Ferguson and the centre-back has also been coached by David Moyes, Louis van Gaal, Roy Keane and Tony Pulis during his 11-year senior career.
"Within the squad, they all have capabilities and know the game," O'Neill added. "We have a lot of people who have a lot of good human qualities that I think would make them a good manager."
"But you just never know with players. Everyone comes at different times and has a different career path. The biggest thing now is, 'Are you prepared to do the work? Are you prepared to go and start somewhere and work your way into it?'."
"The modern-day player may not just have that desire. You've so many opportunities outside the game. We're seeing people who were perceived as if they were going to be top managers actually settle for being pundits."
"If you have the playing career that some of those guys had I think that's fully understandable. I had to go and start at Brechin City while I was working in financial services - that was what was open to me."
"You do it, work as hard as you can, and hopefully have success. It's where lads get the opportunity and whether they're prepared to take it and stick at it."
"It's a very challenging career but that's what makes it enjoyable. It's very difficult to find something after your playing career that will give you that level of focus and that level of challenge, and certainly management does that."
Northern Ireland are second in Group C, five points behind Germany but remain on course for a play-off spot.
It is the first time in about 20 years that the loyalist organisation has held such a large parade in the town.
The Parades Commission judged it to be "sensitive" and placed conditions on the march.
The organisers said they expected about 3,600 people, including 61 bands, to participate in the parade.
The Apprentice Boys of Derry is an organisation set up to commemorate the Siege of Derry in August 1689.
It is named in memory of 13 young apprentices - supporters of the Protestant King William III - who closed the gates of the walled city to stop the advancing army of the Catholic King James II.
Passenger Warren Becker told local media that jewellery and $1,800 (£1,300) in cash was stolen from his bag while he slept on a flight from Johannesburg to Hong Kong last month.
SAA says there is a suspicion that a crime syndicate is targeting the route.
Three such thefts occurred over as many weeks in December, a spokesman added.
In 2014, there were thefts of $2.6m on flights to Hong Kong, according to official police figures.
The name and nationality of the blacklisted passenger have not been revealed.
He was not charged.
A fellow passenger alerted Mr Becker after seeing the alleged thieves remove his luggage from the overhead compartment and rifle through it, Traveller24 website reports.
Police boarded the plane and carried out searches on several suspects on landing in Hong Kong, but could not find any of the money, the site added.
The witness, who did not wish to be named, said she suspected that the money had been handed over to another accomplice on board, who had managed to give the waiting authorities the slip.
In another of the reported thefts, money was recovered, but the victims were not willing to hand it over to police for evidence to build a case, according to SAA spokesman Tlali Tlali.
A pilot for SAA quoted in the local Times newspaper, said that if the thefts continued, the airline "might have to start installing additional security measures on board such as CCTV cameras."
The photograph was taken near Dingwall, about 14 miles (22km) north west of Inverness, by Scottish Wildcat Action.
A hybrid, a cat with a mix of domestic and wildcat ancestry, was also photographed by the same camera.
The cats were pictured in Scottish Wildcat Action's Strathpeffer priority area.
Wildcats are not known to have been previously recorded in the location where the photographs were taken.
Meanwhile, the project's camera traps in Strathbogie in Aberdeenshire have photographed unidentified cats.
Scottish Wildcat Action has begun what has been described as the largest ever survey for Scottish wildcats.
The 60-day effort involves more than 300 cameras and more than 130 volunteers.
It focuses on five of Scottish Wildcat Action's six priority areas - Strathpeffer, Strathbogie, Strathavon, North Strathspey and the Angus Glens.
Work will be carried out in the other area, Morvern, later in the year.
Photographs can be used to identify wildcats and hybrids by checking the markings on their coats and tails.
Scottish Natural Heritage, one of the project's partners, said data gathered would help inform wildcat protection measures.
These include an extensive neutering campaign to stop feral and pet cats from interbreeding with the endangered wildcats and passing disease on to them.
Last year, the project identified the Angus Glens as having the "most quality wildcats" of its priority areas.
Few pure-bred Scottish wildcats survive because of crossbreeding with feral cats and also loss of habitat and disease.
In a separate project, not involving Scottish Wildcat Action, locations on the remote Ardnamurchan peninsula in the north west Highlands was designated a Scottish wildcat sanctuary in 2014.
Domestic cats near the area have neutered to prevent them breeding with pure wildcats.
The new cardinals are mainly from developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The appointments on Sunday emphasise the growing influence at the Vatican of clerics from the developing world.
Only one of the new cardinals is from Italy, the nation that has dominated church politics for centuries.
Pope Francis, who celebrates his 80th birthday in December, is putting down important markers for the future of the Catholic Church.
Three of those named are American, his first promotions of US clerics to key positions in the church. They include the recently appointed archbishops of Chicago and Indianapolis.
The move reflects the success of Pope Francis' first visit to North America last year.
Cardinals are the most senior members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy after the pope.
It is the third time Pope Francis has appointed new cardinals since his election in 2013 as the first Latin American to lead the Roman Catholic Church.
The number of tech-savvy scams is rising "exponentially", shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said.
In her speech to the party's annual conference she pledged to create a specific offence of identity theft.
A Labour government would also make lessons about online pornography compulsory in schools, she told delegates in Brighton.
"Fraud is up 30%," she said. "But we know that's the tip of the iceberg because most online crime like credit card and identity fraud goes unreported."
Ms Cooper has herself been a victim of credit card fraud, she told the BBC News website, when "like a lot of people" she discovered payments on her bank statement "from strange places" that she had not made.
She reported the problem to her bank, who "immediately sorted it out", but she said the experience highlighted how much card fraud is not properly investigated.
"It became clear that they (the bank) did not expect me to report it to the police, they were not going to report it to the police themselves, and when I did report to the police they were really surprised to have somebody complain.
"And it's clear that most of these credit card cases - a lot of them - are never reported at all and also that the teams that investigate it in the police are still really limited.
"And yet this is a kind of crime that's growing, it's massively escalating, and of course we all pay for it in the end through higher charges, and businesses and banks lose out too."
Ms Cooper used her conference speech to propose a fast-track, "police-first" scheme to encourage IT graduates into policing, she added: "The police say it's growing exponentially, but the government hasn't got a grip."
The police have identified 1,300 organised crime groups targeting the UK that use fraud as their main means of gaining money. They are believed to be operating out of 25 different countries.
"Alongside reductions in some kinds of crime like car theft, is an increase in online crime," she told BBC Two's Daily Politics programme after her speech.
"That's there we live our lives are now and of course organised crime knows that too."
On the final day of Labour's conference the shadow home secretary also turned her fire on Michael Gove, who she accused of blocking a proposal to update sex education to include lessons about the internet.
The education secretary and the coalition government had not "faced up to the 21st century pressures on our children", she said.
"We need a Labour government to make sure there is updated sex and relationship education for boys and girls - zero tolerance of violence," she told activists.
If the party wins in 2015 such lessons would be "compulsory too", she added.
Officers were called to a property in Beckbury Road in Weoley Castle at 10:00 BST on Saturday, police said.
The child was taken to hospital having suffered a suspected cardiac arrest but was later pronounced dead.
A 35-year-old woman from Weoley Castle remains in custody after police were granted more time to question her.
A 37-year-old man from Stourport in Worcestershire who was arrested on Sunday has been released on bail.
A second man, aged 34 and from Oldbury, has been released on bail and will return for further questioning next month.
A post-mortem examination was inconclusive and further tests will now be carried out.
The collision happened on a stretch of the A63, also known as the Great North Road, at South Milford, on Thursday evening.
A local man was pronounced dead at the scene, while a man and two boys were taken to Leeds General Infirmary with serious injuries.
A third boy suffered minor injuries. They were all travelling in the cart.
The van driver suffered minor injuries and was arrested in connection with the incident. He is currently in custody.
North Yorkshire Police wants to speak to anyone who saw the crash, or a small silver Ford van and the horse and cart prior to the collision on the northbound carriageway.
The much-travelled former Blackburn Rovers, Barnsley, Port Vale and Chesterfield striker is in his second spell at Northampton, where he has hit 62 goals spread over 185 appearances.
"Marc is not just a very good player," said manager Justin Edinburgh.
"He's a captain, a leader and someone who helps set the dressing room tone."
Richards' new deal follows the lead of midfielder John-Joe O'Toole, who signed a new two-year deal with the League One club on Friday.
"We have kept hold of two of our key players from the last two seasons," said Edinburgh. "It is an excellent way to begin our summer's work.
"He has a fantastic attitude, his goal tally this season is impressive, he looks as fit and strong as ever and I know he feels happy and settled at the club."
Richards, who was out of contract in June, was part of the Cobblers' side who drew 0-0 in Sunday's final game of the season against Gillingham to finish the season in 16th.
He has scored 13 goals this season, matching O'Toole's total of 10 in the league.
That has taken his career total to 186 from 591 games with 10 different clubs.
Meanwhile, goalkeeper James Goff and striker Joe Iaciofano have signed their first professional contracts with the club.
Donna Newby was last seen at her home address on Rawlinson Street in Barrow shortly before 10:00 GMT on Saturday.
The 33-year-old, described as white, of slim build, with blond hair and about 5ft 4in (1.6m), is believed to have taken baby Corey Coward with her.
She is thought to be wearing a black puffa-style jacket and black trousers.
A force spokesman said: "Police are concerned for her and the child's wellbeing and appeal to anyone who may have seen Donna or Corey to get in touch."
The British got hold of the 105-carat diamond in 1849 when the East India Company annexed the region of Punjab.
The lawyer behind the suit argues the gem is part of Punjab's heritage, and belongs to Pakistan. Punjab was split between India and Pakistan in 1947.
Analysts say the court is unlikely to hear the case.
The petition comes weeks after an Indian pressure group reportedly instructed lawyers to begin legal proceedings in the High Court in London to demand the return of the jewel.
Over the years politicians in India have urged the return of the diamond to what they see as its rightful home.
In 1947, India was granted independence from the British empire, leading to the formation of two nations - India and Pakistan.
Punjab was one of the states partitioned between the two sides.
The Koh-i-Noor diamond was worn by the late Queen Mother and was displayed on top of her crown when her coffin lay in state after her death in 2002.
Experts say its ownership has changed many times and includes Mughal princes, Persian warriors, Afghan rulers and Punjabi Maharajas.
The Pakistani petition, lodged with a court in Lahore by Javed Iqbal Jaffry, names Queen Elizabeth II as a respondent.
"Grabbing and snatching it was a private, illegal act which is justified by no law," he told Reuters.
He is quoted as saying that he has written 786 letters to the Queen and Pakistani officials about it.
Javed Iqbal Jaffry is known in court circles in Lahore, as he often submits petitions on controversial subjects, the BBC's Shumaila Jaffery reports from Lahore.
There has never been a popular debate or campaign to get the Koh-i-Noor diamond returned in Pakistan, our correspondent adds.
However, analysts say that even if his petition is heard, it is very unlikely to achieve its objectives.
In 2010 David Cameron rejected calls for the diamond to be returned to India, saying such a move would set an unworkable precedent.
Varela, 20, had a trial at Old Trafford last season and is David Moyes's first signing as Manchester United manager.
The defender has made one appearance for Penarol but has nine caps for Uruguay's Under-20 side.
"I'm very pleased to be a part of this club, one of the best in the world," he said after signing a five-year deal.
"As everyone in the world knows, this is a huge club that has won everything and I really hope that continues."
Varela is taking part in the Under-20 World Championships, which runs from 21 June to 13 July, in Turkey.
Last week, Penarol head coach Jorge Da Silva, who is reported to have since resigned, said he believed the youngster has earned the move.
Da Silva said: "This is what he deserves. It is a shame to see him go but you can't deny him the opportunity to join a club like this."
Rafael was United's regular right-back last season, with Phil Jones and Chris Smalling also featuring in the role.
South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay, 50, of Sion Hill, Ramsgate, Kent, is accused of two counts of knowingly making a false election expenses declaration.
His campaign director Marion Little, 62, and election agent Nathan Gray, 28, also face charges.
At Southwark Crown Court, Mr Justice Edis set the trial for 14 May next year.
Mr Gray, of Red Oak, in Hawkhurst, Kent, faces one charge of knowingly making a false election expenses declaration.
Ms Little, of New Road in Ware, Hertfordshire, is accused of three counts related to aiding Mr Mackinlay and Mr Gray in making false declarations.
The judge told the three defendants their trial would start on 14 May and was estimated to last six weeks.
The earliest that children tend to be diagnosed at present is at the age of two, although it is often later.
The study, published in the journal Nature, showed the origins of autism are much earlier than that - in the first year of life.
The findings could lead to an early test and even therapies that work while the brain is more malleable.
One in every 100 people has autism, which affects behaviour and particularly social interaction.
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The study looked at 148 children including those at high risk of autism because they had older siblings with the disorder.
All had brain scans at six, 12 and 24 months old.
The study uncovered early differences in the part of the brain responsible for high level functions like language - the cerebral cortex - in children who went on to be diagnosed with autism.
Dr Heather Hazlett, one of the researchers at the University of North Carolina, told the BBC News website: "Very early in the first year of life we see surface brain area differences, that precede the symptoms that people traditionally associate with autism.
"So it gives us a good target for when the brain differences might be happening for children at high risk of autism."
The study opens up possibilities for big changes in the way autism is treated and diagnosed.
Giving children brain scans, particularly those in high-risk families, could lead to children being diagnosed earlier.
In the long run, it might be possible to do something similar for all infants if DNA testing advances enough to become a useful tool to identify children at high risk.
If it can be diagnosed early, then behavioural therapies such as those that train parents in new ways of interacting with an autistic child can be introduced earlier when they should be more effective.
Prof Joseph Piven, another researcher on the project, told the BBC: "Now we have the possibility that we can identify those who are most likely to go on to to get autism.
"That allows us to consider intervening before the behaviours of autism appear, I think there's wide consensus that that's likely to have more impact at a time when the brain is most malleable and before the symptoms have consolidated.
"So we find it very promising."
The researchers fed the brain scan images into an artificial intelligence. It was able to predict which children would develop autism with 80% accuracy.
Carol Povey, director of the National Autistic Society's Centre for Autism, said: "It's possible that MRI scanning of this type could be developed to help families who already have an autistic child to access earlier diagnosis for subsequent children.
"This would mean those children could receive the right support as early as possible."
However, she warned that autism was manifested in many different ways and "no single test is likely to be able to identify potential autism in all children".
The study also pours further cold water on the debunked claims that the MMR jab causes autism.
One of the reasons the link took hold was that autism tends to be diagnosed around the time that the vaccine is given to children.
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In June 2010, a man now in his 40s, made an allegation of sexual assault at St Benedict's School in Ealing, west London.
The wanted man has been named by police as Lawrence Soper, 68.
Police believe he may be in Italy and are appealing to the public to notify them of his whereabouts.
Mr Soper was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault in September 2010.
He was bailed to return to a west London police station in March last year but failed to appear, said police.
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The microchips will be coded with owners' details, and owners who do not comply could face fines of up to £500.
A legal loophole may also be closed, meaning owners could be prosecuted over an attack by their dog on private land.
The RSPCA welcomed the proposals, but said it doubted that they alone would "make owners more responsible or ensure fewer dogs bite people".
Government figures reveal that more than 100,000 dogs are dumped or lost each year, at a cost of £57m to the taxpayer and welfare charities.
Ministers hope the change in the law will help reunite owners with lost or stolen pets and relieve some of the burden on animal charities and local authorities.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said: "It's ludicrous that in a nation of dog-lovers, thousands of dogs are roaming the streets or stuck in kennels because the owner cannot be tracked down."
He added: "Microchipping is a simple solution that gives peace of mind to owners. It makes it easier to get their pet back if it strays and easier to trace if it's stolen."
The change in the law will be effective from 6 April 2016. Any owner whose dog is found without a chip and can be traced by local authorities will have a short period of time to have the dog microchipped.
Laws governing dog attacks will also be extended to cover private property, closing a loophole which has meant that dog owners whose animals have attacked people on private property are immune from prosecution.
David Bowles, the RSPCA's head of public affairs, said: "Compulsory microchipping and extending the law to cover private property as well as public spaces is a welcome move.
"However, on their own we don't believe they will make owners more responsible or ensure fewer dogs bite people or other animals."
He said that the number of warnings issued to dog-owners because of poor welfare last year had been up 12% on 2011, while in the last four years there had been a 26% rise in the number dog bites requiring hospitalisation.
"If the government are trying to tackle these, we don't see how compulsory microchipping will help reduce either of these figures," he said.
Eight children and six adults have been killed in dog attacks since 2005, with many of these incidents taking place in the home, figures from the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs show.
In the past 12 months, more than 3,000 postal workers were attacked by out-of-control dogs, with 70% of these attacks happening on private property.
But householders will be protected from prosecution if their dog attacks a burglar or trespasser on their land.
Currently some animal charities, such as the Dogs Trust, Blue Cross and Battersea Dogs and Cats home, offer a free microchipping service to owners.
The procedure, which costs about £20-£30 at a private veterinary clinic, involves inserting a sterile chip the size of a grain of rice between a dog's shoulder blades.
Free microchips, donated by the Dogs Trust, will be circulated to veterinary clinics, although it is currently unclear whether vets will charge for the service.
Clarissa Baldwin, chief executive of the Dogs Trust charity, said the scheme would make "a huge difference".
Most of the 16,000 dogs looked after by the trust each year had not been microchipped, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"We could get those dogs back to their worried owners if they have a microchip and are identifiable," she said.
"With a register, kept up to date, people will be able to get their dogs back far more easily."
But Beverley Cuddy, editor of Dogs Today magazine, said the scheme was flawed because many owners did not keep their information up to date.
"The National Dog Warden Association says 40% of the dogs they pick up that are chipped have got incomplete or inaccurate data, meaning they can't be returned," she said.
"People don't know how to update their records. The chip is invisible - once it's in there people forget it's there. "
Compulsory microchipping was introduced in Northern Ireland in April 2012.
Similar plans were considered in Wales in 2012, although no formal policy announcement has yet been made.
The Scottish government has said that, while it recognised the benefits of microchipping, there was "no evidence compulsory microchipping would effectively tackle welfare issues".
A spokesman added that Holyrood would watch developments in the rest of the UK and "may consider the matter further in future".
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The vote in Strasbourg is intended to close loopholes in the EU's 2005 anti-torture regulation, and the move is backed by EU governments.
The ban includes items such as portable electric shock devices, shackles and handcuffs modified to inflict pain.
The changes extend restrictions on chemicals used in executions and ban training in torture techniques.
The EU's prohibition on the death penalty has already limited US prison authorities' access to some chemicals used to kill death row prisoners by lethal injection.
The new legislation also seeks to block the transit of torture equipment through EU countries.
European companies will be barred from advertising such equipment at trade fairs or online.
Amnesty International says there is a flourishing global market in "sinister equipment like leg chains and spike batons, which can easily be turned into tools of torture" and "introducing tighter EU restrictions on the sale, brokering and promotion of these devices will bring us a step closer to eradicating this shameful trade".
The Dutch liberal MEP steering the new law, Marietje Schaake, says tougher rules are needed because "torture continues in half of the 158 countries that ratified a convention banning it".
"In the name of security and counter-terrorism we often turn a blind eye to very grave human rights violations," she said.
The updated regulation now needs formal approval by the Council - the EU governments - to become law.
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With both sides fighting for their lives, the first half was a tense affair with few chances, but Aldershot seized control with two goals in four minutes after the break.
Will Evans broke the deadlock with a bullet header from Nick Arnold's corner after 55 minutes, before Bernard Mensah made it four goals in as many games soon after to put the result beyond doubt.
Aldershot finish the season in fifth place and will face Tranmere in the play-offs, while Braintree go down in 22nd place having needed to win and hope other results went their way on the final day.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Aldershot Town 2, Braintree Town 0.
Second Half ends, Aldershot Town 2, Braintree Town 0.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Matt McClure replaces Kundai Benyu.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Anthony Straker replaces Bernard Mensah.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Craig Braham-Barrett replaces Sean Clohessy.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Lee Barnard replaces Harry Lee.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Jake Gallagher replaces Idris Kanu.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Sam Corne replaces Kyron Farrell.
Goal! Aldershot Town 2, Braintree Town 0. Bernard Mensah (Aldershot Town).
Goal! Aldershot Town 1, Braintree Town 0. Will Evans (Aldershot Town).
Second Half begins Aldershot Town 0, Braintree Town 0.
First Half ends, Aldershot Town 0, Braintree Town 0.
Nick Arnold (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jack Midson (Braintree Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
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Fire and lava started spewing out of Wolf volcano on Monday, with smoke rising six miles into the air.
Experts say the eruption poses no risk to people living on the island, but there are fears plants and animals could be harmed.
The island holds the world's only population of pink iguanas - but they are not in immediate danger, officials say.
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A volcano on Isabela Island in the Pacific Ocean has erupted for the first time in 33 years.
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Russia said the latest fighting suggested preparations for a new offensive by the Ukrainians.
But Kiev accused the rebels of shelling the outskirts of Mariupol - a key port city - from 12km (7.4 miles) away.
Meanwhile, the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has visited Crimea, which Moscow annexed last year.
He said it would be "dangerous" for ethnic groups to seek special status, seen as a reference to the Tatars who make up about 10% of Crimea's population and largely opposed the takeover.
Mr Putin also alleged that Ukraine's government was "under external control, with key positions in the government and regions filled by foreign citizens".
The former Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has been appointed as governor of Odessa while three government ministers are foreign-born.
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko called Mr Putin's visit "a challenge to the civilised world".
The latest escalation in eastern Ukraine has left the ceasefire signed in February looking more fragile than ever.
Among the dead were seven civilians and two government soldiers, reports said.
Kiev, Western governments and Nato say there is clear evidence of Russian regular troops helping the separatists and arming them with heavy weapons - something Moscow denies.
Sartana and Lebedynske - villages on the eastern outskirts of Mariupol - came under heavy rebel fire, the Kiev authorities said.
They said two Ukrainian troops and two civilians were killed by the rebel shelling.
Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Kiev of refusing to demilitarise Shyrokyne, a village east of Mariupol that has seen some of the heaviest fighting.
"We're alarmed by the developments in recent days, which very strongly remind us of preparations for another round of combat operations," he said.
The news service of the self-styled rebel "Donetsk People's Republic" said government artillery had shelled the outskirts of Donetsk, killing two civilians, and the city of Horlivka, where three civilians died. Rebel-held Horlivka is just north of Donetsk.
Under the ceasefire, signed in the Belarusian capital Minsk, both sides were supposed to pull back their heavy weapons. But they accuse each other of reneging on the agreement.
At the end of last month a senior UN official, Cecile Pouilly, said nearly 7,000 people had been killed in eastern Ukraine since fighting erupted there in mid-April 2014. She said more than 17,000 had been injured in the conflict.
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Striker Ibrahimovic was allowed too much time in the box to latch on to fellow substitute Paul Pogba's pass and tuck in from close range to set up a quarter-final tie against Premier League leaders Chelsea.
Danny Graham had given the hosts the lead with a rising finish following excellent play by Marvin Emnes, who himself had tested Sergio Romero with a thumping effort moments earlier.
In response, Rovers goalkeeper Jason Steele pushed away Ander Herrera's fierce shot, but Marcus Rashford equalised for the visitors by going round the goalkeeper and slotting in from Henrikh Mkhitaryan's precise pass.
Rovers striker Anthony Stokes had a goal rightly ruled out offside following Romero's triple save late on.
Relive Manchester United's win over Blackburn
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Victory for United maintains their hopes of a cup treble this season, as they travel to Saint-Etienne in the Europa League on Wednesday with a healthy last-32 first-leg advantage, and face Southampton in the EFL Cup final next Sunday.
Jose Mourinho's side did not have it all their own way at Ewood Park and were slow and sloppy in possession, while struggling to carve open clear-cut opportunities.
But they had summer signings Ibrahimovic and Pogba to thank as the two players combined for United's winning goal, with the side now losing just one of their last 10 away games in all competitions.
World-record signing Pogba, who reportedly said he left the club in his first spell after failing to play against Blackburn in 2011, picked out Ibrahimovic with an inch-perfect pass, although the home defenders should have done better to close the Swede down for his 24th goal of the campaign.
It was also Mkhitaryan's incisive, outside-of-the-foot pass which opened up the Blackburn's defence for the opening goal. The excellent Armenian controlled much of the match with his intricate passing and pacy forward play, driving a strike narrowly wide in the first half.
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Premier League title rivals against United during the mid-1990s, Rovers have fallen on difficult times since and find themselves at the wrong end of the Championship, in real danger of being relegated to the third tier.
When once they could boast the likes of Simon Garner, Alan Shearer and Andy Cole in their starting line-up, this side is mostly put together from free and loan signings.
Nomadic front man Graham, acquired for nothing from Sunderland, has impressed this term and rolled back to happier times for Rovers with a well-taken effort after 17 minutes, turning Chris Smalling and striking high past Romero for his 12th goal of the season.
Graham's spin and shot when looking for a second provided no problems for the United goalkeeper and winger Craig Conway was wasteful by lashing over the crossbar from a promising position.
Defeat means Owen Coyle's men have won only once in five games and now turn their attention to preserving their Championship status.
Blackburn boss Owen Coyle: "We gave a very good account of ourselves but nobody likes losing games. We did enough to get another shot at it today.
"We now have to show that display week in, week out in the Championship.
"We know we have good footballers here, nobody could see they are short changed by us when it comes to entertainment.
"We showed great spirit and courage to try and get an equaliser at the end and we will need those qualities for the rest of the season."
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho: "Did they give us a good game? More than good, they gave us a hard game and congratulations to them. Their approach was brave, strong. They had real competitors and if we didn't have the right attitude from everybody we would be in real trouble.
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"For long periods of the game you couldn't feel which one was the strongest team, they were brilliant. If they transfer this quality to the Championship they will have a big chance to survive.
"We conceded a brilliant goal. It was a brilliant goal. The movement and shot was really good, it didn't affect any player individually for us. We kept stable and we then scored a great goal."
Blackburn travel to Burton Albion in the Championship next Friday (kick-off 19:45 GMT), while Manchester United head to Saint-Etienne for the second leg of their Europa League last-32 tie on Wednesday (kick-off 17:00 GMT).
Match ends, Blackburn Rovers 1, Manchester United 2.
Second Half ends, Blackburn Rovers 1, Manchester United 2.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Anthony Stokes (Blackburn Rovers).
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Chris Smalling.
Substitution, Manchester United. Juan Mata replaces Marcus Rashford.
Foul by Matteo Darmian (Manchester United).
Connor Mahoney (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Marvin Emnes tries a through ball, but Anthony Stokes is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Marvin Emnes (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Anthony Stokes (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Connor Mahoney (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Willem Tomlinson.
Foul by Paul Pogba (Manchester United).
Connor Mahoney (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ander Herrera (Manchester United).
Craig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Willem Tomlinson replaces Danny Guthrie.
Matteo Darmian (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Connor Mahoney (Blackburn Rovers).
Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Anthony Stokes replaces Danny Graham.
Goal! Blackburn Rovers 1, Manchester United 2. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Paul Pogba with a through ball.
Attempt blocked. Ander Herrera (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Chris Smalling (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Charlie Mulgrew (Blackburn Rovers).
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Matteo Darmian.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Connor Mahoney replaces Liam Feeney.
Ashley Young (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ashley Young (Manchester United).
Craig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Darragh Lenihan.
Attempt blocked. Ander Herrera (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Jason Lowe.
Attempt blocked. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul Pogba.
Attempt missed. Ander Herrera (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Paul Pogba following a corner.
Substitution, Manchester United. Zlatan Ibrahimovic replaces Anthony Martial.
Substitution, Manchester United. Paul Pogba replaces Jesse Lingard.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Derrick Williams.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Ashley Young.
Hand ball by Marvin Emnes (Blackburn Rovers).
Jose Mourinho made eight changes from the team beaten by Manchester City and an Anthony Martial shot going wide was their only first-half chance.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic came on for the visitors and headed wide as he failed to turn around his side's fortunes.
Instead, Nicolai Jorgensen, who was offside, crossed for Tonny Vilhena to drive in Feyenoord's late winner.
Ibrahimovic went close to an equaliser with a drilled free-kick but it was saved at the second attempt by former Liverpool keeper Brad Jones.
The defeat means United have lost four successive European away games for the first time.
Relive Feyenoord's win over Manchester United
Paul Pogba, who re-joined United in a world-record £89m move from Juventus in August, had his lack of discipline and positioning heavily criticised by ex-Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher following Saturday's derby defeat by City.
If playing alongside Ander Herrera and Morgan Schniederlin in midfield against Feyenoord was supposed to allow him freedom to display his attacking skills, Pogba failed to take the opportunity to do so.
The France international was a peripheral figure in the first half as he epitomised a lack of urgency and intensity from the visitors.
Pogba pushed further up the pitch after the break and, despite looking a little more threatening as he attempted two long-range shots which went comfortably off target, he could not find the quality to help find a way through the Dutch side's defence.
England forward Wayne Rooney has played behind United's main striker so far this season but was rested for this trip.
United boss Jose Mourinho claimed he had other "solutions" for the role but the poor performance of his supporting cast of players can have done little to persuade him of the strength of his other options.
The midfield trio of Herrera, Schneiderlin and Pogba, along with wingers Anthony Martial and Juan Mata, left Marcus Rashford too isolated.
Rashford, who burst on to the scene with two goals in a 5-1 Europa League win over FC Midtjylland on his Manchester United debut in February, struggled as he made his first start of the campaign.
He was replaced by Ibrahimovic, who was part of a triple substitution after 63 minutes which also introduced Memphis Depay and Ashley Young, and the Swede gave the attack more of a threat but United still did not look like scoring.
Asked if the players who came in failed to take their chance, Mourinho said: "I don't want to go in that direction. I don't want to personalise. Obviously, some played better than others. It was the first game for some."
On his selection for this coming Sunday's Premier League trip to Watford, the manager added: "We go back to a normal team without so many changes."
Eredivise leaders Feyenoord came into the game in good form, having won their opening five league games, scoring 15 and conceding twice in the process.
Managed by former Arsenal and Barcelona left-back Giovanni van Bronckhorst, their team included former Liverpool players Dirk Kuyt, who scored a hat-trick against United in 2011 in his time at Anfield, and Jones.
Keeper Jones had a much quieter evening than he might have expected and the Dutch side could have taken the lead in the first half when Jens Toornstra blazed high when he had time and space to shoot.
They defended with purpose to nullify United's limited threat and were rewarded with Vilhena's goal, even though Jorgensen was clearly offside when he supplied the cross.
Feyenoord manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst: "In the second half you saw that Manchester United want to win with the tempo and the three substitutions, you sensed that they want to leave here with the win.
"At the right moment we scored the goal - a fantastic goal on the counter-attack.
"After that the spirit came in the team and the determination to be there for the last 15 minutes. We fought hard to get the result and after 90 minutes we did."
Manchester United are in Premier League action on Sunday, when they travel to Watford for a 12:00 BST kick-off. Feyenoord face a trip to PSV Eindhoven in a top-of-the-table Eredivisie match.
Match ends, Feyenoord 1, Manchester United 0.
Second Half ends, Feyenoord 1, Manchester United 0.
Attempt blocked. Eric Bailly (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Memphis Depay with a cross.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Terence Kongolo.
Attempt blocked. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Feyenoord. Bart Nieuwkoop replaces Rick Karsdorp.
Marcos Rojo (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dirk Kuyt (Feyenoord).
Attempt missed. Marcos Rojo (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Memphis Depay (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Rick Karsdorp (Feyenoord).
Attempt missed. Ashley Young (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a set piece situation.
Attempt blocked. Chris Smalling (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Ander Herrera (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Nicolai Jørgensen (Feyenoord).
Morgan Schneiderlin (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nicolai Jørgensen (Feyenoord).
Matteo Darmian (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Terence Kongolo (Feyenoord).
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Dirk Kuyt.
Attempt blocked. Memphis Depay (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ashley Young with a cross.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Tonny Vilhena.
Attempt blocked. Memphis Depay (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Marcos Rojo (Manchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Paul Pogba.
Goal! Feyenoord 1, Manchester United 0. Tonny Vilhena (Feyenoord) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nicolai Jørgensen.
Attempt missed. Memphis Depay (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Ashley Young.
Attempt blocked. Memphis Depay (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul Pogba.
Attempt missed. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) header from very close range is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Ashley Young with a cross following a set piece situation.
Ashley Young (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jan-Arie van der Heijden (Feyenoord).
Attempt missed. Bilal Basacikoglu (Feyenoord) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Ashley Young is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Nicolai Jørgensen (Feyenoord) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jens Toornstra.
Foul by Paul Pogba (Manchester United).
Rick Karsdorp (Feyenoord) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Feyenoord. Bilal Basacikoglu replaces Steven Berghuis.
Paul Pogba (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Karim El Ahmadi (Feyenoord).
Foul by Marcos Rojo (Manchester United).
The Warriors struggled to utilise their most potent attacking threats.
"We didn't look after the ball well enough," Townsend told BBC Scotland.
"We lost too many balls in the tackle area and gave away two or three penalties which gave them an easy way back into the game."
Townsend was impressed by the magnitude of the fixture, played before a record 23,642 crowd.
"I thought it was a great occasion, there was a real intensity, the atmosphere was fantastic," he said.
"To get over 20,000 to a club game in Scotland is a testament to the appetite for professional rugby in Scotland, and Edinburgh played well and deserved to win."
The Warriors' defence pleased their head coach, but it was their lack of accuracy with the possession they won that frustrated Townsend.
"I thought both teams showed a real intensity - it takes two teams to play like that," he stated. "I thought (flanker) John Hardie was outstanding and key in a lot of the balls Edinburgh won.
"In general, we defended well. I thought in parts of the first half, it was about the best we've defended this season. We just didn't build on that and didn't do enough with the balls we won back from Edinburgh."
Their call came as a senior Scotland Yard detective admitted that police corruption damaged the investigation.
Mr Morgan, 37, was found with an axe in his head in a south-east London pub car park on 10 March 1987.
No-one has been brought to justice despite five police inquiries.
Mr Morgan's family said: "The criminal justice system is not fit for purpose."
Metropolitan Police (Met) Det Ch Supt Hamish Campbell said: "This current investigation has identified, ever more clearly, how the initial inquiry failed the family and wider public.
"It is quite apparent that police corruption was a debilitating factor in that investigation. This was wholly unacceptable."
The case has become one of Britain's longest unsolved murders.
Unofficial estimates put the cost of five police inquiries and three years of legal hearings at about £30m.
Mr Morgan, a father-of-two from Monmouthshire, was found with an axe embedded in his skull outside the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, south-east London.
Five people were arrested in 2008 but two, including a former detective accused of perverting the course of justice, were discharged after a string of supergrasses were discredited.
The Crown Prosecution Service has now dropped the case against the remaining three people - Mr Morgan's former business partner Jonathan Rees and brothers Garry and Glenn Vian.
Mr Morgan's brother Alastair, 62, said: "My family is devastated by this news.
"We put some flowers on the grave. It's just horrible."
He said he believed there had been a number of police cover-ups over the years and alleged his brother was murdered because he was about to expose police corruption.
By Chris SummersBBC News
Behind the headline figure of £30m spent on a police investigation and legal expenses is the human cost.
In the early 1990s, while working on a weekly newspaper, I met Daniel Morgan's brother, Alastair, who came in to do work experience. Over the years I have spoken to him several times.
He and his elderly mother, Isobel, will be devastated at this latest turn of events.
The trial was due to start last year but was delayed by legal argument as the defence sought more disclosure about the evidence.
As witness after witness was undermined and more and more was disclosed about the police investigation, prosecutor Nicholas Hilliard QC resembled a man carrying a box full of sand with a hole in the bottom.
Reporters at the Old Bailey were unable to report any of the proceedings until now because of the increasingly slim chance that a trial would take place in the spring.
Now the CPS has finally thrown the towel in and the mystery of who killed Daniel Morgan will remain unsolved.
"It was obvious my brother was going to blow the lid off the links between the police and criminals," he added.
A family spokesman said: "His family have seen that the criminal justice system is simply not fit for purpose to address the crime with which they have been required to live over the last two-and-a-half decades.
"So they have been left with no option but to call upon the Home Secretary today to order a full judicial inquiry into the handling of the case by the Metropolitan Police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)."
Alastair Morgan added: "For almost a quarter of a century, my family has done everything democratically and legally possible to secure justice for Daniel.
"For much of this time, we have encountered stubborn obstruction, and worse, at the highest levels of the Metropolitan Police.
"We have found an impotent police complaints system.
"And we have met with inertia, or worse, on the part of successive governments.
"We have been failed utterly by all of the institutions designed to protect us."
But he said those responsible for the present inquiry and prosecution had done their best "to redress the catastrophic failures of earlier investigations".
Mr Rees, 56, Garry Vian, 50, and his brother Glenn, 52, all denied murder.
Their associate James Cook was freed in November last year and former detective sergeant Sid Fillery, 63, was discharged in February last year.
Outside court, Mr Rees said: "I should never have been prosecuted."
"My sympathy goes out to Danny Morgan's family," he added.
Len Duvall, former chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority, said officers had been working hard to rectify the force's "wrongs".
"I am in no doubt that if this terrible crime had been committed today, the perpetrators would have been brought to justice," he added.
Det Ch Supt Campbell said: "There are important issues which we need to examine now in order to understand what led to today's decision."
The family was behind the current investigation by hand-picked Scotland Yard officers.
But the case collapsed before a jury was sworn in.
The CPS statement said: "We have decided that a prosecution cannot continue in these circumstances. We cannot be confident that the defence necessarily have all of the material that they are entitled to.
"This point would be raised by the defence during any trial, so we are no longer satisfied that there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction."
A Home Office spokesperson said: "It is deeply regrettable that, after so long, Daniel Morgan's killers have not been brought to justice.
"The Metropolitan Police inquiry remains open."
The case throws up serious questions about the use of supergrass deals which offer reductions in sentences in return for evidence, and the offer of rewards.
Underworld figures had volunteered to give evidence after a £50,000 reward was offered.
One had a lengthy prison term reduced after agreeing to be a prosecution witness.
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The man targeted the 57-year-old victim at a newsagent's in Crossways, Hounslow in west London, on 5 November.
He made off with cash and cigarettes after the shopkeeper pressed the panic alarm.
Police believe the robbery may be linked to a similar incident at the same newsagent's on Sunday, and another at a barber's a week earlier.
Police said the suspect is an Asian male, aged between 20 and 25. He is about 6ft and was wearing black clothing but his trainers had red laces.
She will judge alongside chef and food writer Allegra McEvedy.
Forty of the best junior bakers will compete for the title and they'll complete two bakes over 10 heats.
Nadiya said: "This time last year I was in the Bake Off tent and now I get to go back and help encourage the next generation to get their bake on."
Oxford musicians TTNG was held after a raid by police and immigration officers on a warehouse venue in the Kwun Tong area in May.
According to the band's Facebook page, their bail has been extended to 17 July.
Since returning home a crowdfunding campaign has raised £7,650 to pay for further plane fares to and from China.
The band said it was "truly grateful for the compassion and understanding" shown by fans.
Under Hong Kong immigration law, the band could be charged with working without the required permit, while concert agency Hidden Agenda could be charged with hiring the bands as illegal workers.
Both offences can be punished with prison sentences and hefty fines.
A Foreign & Commonwealth Office spokesman said: "Our staff continue to advise and support several British men following an incident in Hong Kong in May."
TTNG, formerly known as This Town Needs Guns, were part of the UK's noughties math rock scene which also included fellow Oxford band Foals.
The Ayrshire club turned down a slightly smaller bid from Oldham for the 25-year-old Northern Ireland striker earlier in the week.
However, this latest offer is being considered by the Rugby Park club as it will involve financial add-ons.
It is understood Charlton are confident a £3,000-a-week package will be enough to secure his signature.
Should Magennis leave for Charlton it would be a blow to Killie boss Lee Clark, since the player has been a key figure in his line-up since he became the manager in February.
Magennis featured as a substitute in all of Northern Ireland's games at Euro 2016.
Morgan Hehir, from Warwickshire, was stabbed with a steak knife in the street on 31 October last year. Three men were jailed last month.
His father, Colin, said the company should help the bereaved family and avoid "going down a legal route".
Apple said it was "not appropriate" to make that decision without permission.
The 20-year-old, from Nuneaton, died in a "ferocious" and "unprovoked" attack as he walked through the town on Halloween.
Declan Gray was given a life term after admitting murder at Warwick Crown Court.
Karlton Gray and Simon Rowbotham were jailed after pleading guilty to manslaughter.
Mr Hehir told the BBC he had provided Apple with death and probate certificates but was informed by the company he need a court order to access data on his son's Macbook.
He said the family had not anticipated it would be a problem and did not understand why Apple would not help them.
"Morgan owns the computer and it's Morgan's data. [But] Apple controls the access to Morgan's data, even though they don't own his computer or have privilege to his data.
"We're put on this earth to help one another and Apple should help people in our situation," he said.
An Apple spoikesman said: "In the absence of permission for third party access to an account, it is impossible to be certain what access the user would have wanted and we do not consider it is appropriate that Apple make the decision.
"However, in such cases, we can assist subject to appropriate court order.
"We understand this kind of situation is extremely difficult and will continue to do everything possible to help."
Police said a 37-year-old, believed to be the son of an owner of the Rhondda Cynon Taff company whose van was used in Monday's attack, is in custody.
Richard Evans allegedly posted: "It's a shame they don't hire out steam rollers or tanks could have done a tidy job then."
His father, Lee Evans, said he condemned the remarks.
South Wales Police said a 37-year-old man was being held on suspicion of displaying threatening, abusive, insulting written material with intent that is likely to stir up racial hatred.
Comments made by an account under the name of Richard Gear Evans Facebook, which were then shared by others on Twitter, read: "Glad I'm not running the van hire the police wouldn't like what my answer would be.
"It's my dad's company I don't get involved it's a shame they don't hire out steam rollers or tanks could have done a tidy job then."
The comments and account profile appear to have since been deleted.
Lee Evans said: "I want to condemn in the strongest possible terms these ill-considered Twitter comments, which in no way reflect my own view or indeed those of anyone else in the family.
"The attack in Finsbury Park was shocking and cowardly. Together with all the staff at Pontyclun Van Hire, I am doing everything I can to assist the Metropolitan Police in their inquiries."
Darren Osborne, 47, from Cardiff, is being held on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorism, attempted murder and murder following the incident at Finsbury Park.
On Tuesday evening, the Met's counter terrorism unit was given an extension until the early hours of Saturday to question Mr Osborne.
The attack in Finsbury Park happened as an ill man was receiving first aid from the public near the mosque, where people had been saying Ramadan night prayers.
The van was apparently driven at people who were helping him.
Police said they were still trying to establish if there was a link between the man's death and the attack.
The man died and nine people were taken to three London hospitals, while two others were treated for minor injuries.
Witnesses said they heard the driver, who was detained by members of the public before police arrived, shout: "I am going to kill Muslims."
One of Mr Osborne's neighbours said they thought they had seen him sleeping in a van on Saturday night.
South Wales Police confirmed that 24 hours before the London attack it had responded to a 101 call following reports of an "insecure van" in the Llanedeyrn area of Cardiff.
Officers found a man asleep inside, but no offence had been committed.
The 50-year-old, known as 'Tank', has an inoperable brain tumour and cancer of the kidneys and liver.
He has since fundraised for charities, staging an all-star benefit game at the Falcons' Kingston Park home in 2016.
"Doing charity work has been like therapy," van Zandvliet said.
"It has allowed me to put something back into the game I love, but to be recognised with the Blyth Spirit award is a true honour."
The rights group said it believed 694 people were killed between 1 January and 15 July, almost three times the figure acknowledged by the authorities.
It said credible reports suggested Iran executed at least 743 people in 2014.
Amnesty said the surge was disturbing as the death sentences were invariably imposed by courts "completely lacking in independence and impartiality".
"They are imposed either for vaguely worded or overly broad offences, or acts that should not be criminalised at all, let alone attract the death penalty," it added.
"Trials in Iran are deeply flawed, detainees are often denied access to lawyers, and there are inadequate procedures for appeal, pardon and commutation."
As of 15 July 2015, the Iranian authorities had officially acknowledged 246 judicial executions this year but Amnesty International said it had received reports of a further 448 executions.
If confirmed, that would be the equivalent to more than three a day.
In 2014, 289 people were executed according to official sources but reports suggested that the real figure was at least 743, the group added.
"Iran's staggering execution toll for the first half of this year paints a sinister picture of the machinery of the state carrying out premeditated, judicially-sanctioned killings on a mass scale," said Said Boumedouha, deputy director of Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa programme.
He added: "The use of the death penalty is always abhorrent, but it raises additional concerns in a country like Iran where trials are blatantly unfair."
Amnesty said the reasons behind the surge in executions were unclear, but that the majority of those killed in 2015 were convicted of drug charges.
"The [Iranian] authorities have confirmed that around 80% of executions are for these [drugs] offences," Amnesty researcher Raha Bahreini told the BBC.
Iran's anti-narcotics law provides mandatory death sentences for a range of drug-related offences, including trafficking more than 5kg (11lbs) of narcotics derived from opium or more than 30g (1oz) of heroin, morphine, cocaine or their chemical derivatives.
Amnesty said this was in direct breach of international law, which restricts the use of the death penalty to only the "most serious crimes" - those involving intentional killing.
"For years, Iranian authorities have used the death penalty to spread a climate of fear in a misguided effort to combat drug trafficking, yet there is not a shred of evidence to show that this is an effective method of tackling crime," Mr Boumedouha said.
Among those executed are members of ethnic and religious minorities convicted of "enmity against God" and "corruption on earth", including Kurdish political prisoners and Sunni Muslims.
Amnesty said that several thousand people were believed to be on death row on Iran. In many cases, they are notified that they will be executed only a few hours beforehand. The families of those executed are sometimes informed days, if not weeks, later.
Hants were bowled out for 423, in reply to Surrey's 637-7 declared, after Lewis McManus (132*) and Brad Wheal took their 10th-wicket stand to 96 runs.
The hosts, forced to follow-on, lost regular wickets but looked comfortable on 198-6 with 10 overs left in the day.
But Gareth Batty (6-51) and Stuart Meaker (4-40) took the last four wickets for three runs to seal victory.
McManus and Wheal added 25 to Hampshire's overnight total of 398-9 at the Ageas Bowl before Wheal was run out before lunch, leaving Hampshire 214 runs behind.
With only Ryan McLaren (59) offering real resistance with the bat in the follow-on, Hampshire slumped to 121-6.
McManus and Gareth Berg looked to have steadied the ship but Surrey skipper Batty trapped the former lbw for 35 and had Gareth Andrew caught in the slips three balls later.
Meaker then finished off the innings, removing Berg (38) lbw before Mason Crane was caught behind for a duck.
Surrey's second County Championship win of the season moves them up to seventh in the table, 10 points ahead of Nottinghamshire and 23 ahead of bottom side Hampshire, who have a game in hand.
Hampshire acting captain Will Smith told BBC Radio Solent:
"The story of four-day cricket is you've got to get over the line, whether you're fighting to win or draw the game.
"It's been shown here over the last couple of years that you've got to go hard right to the very end.
"That's the sign of a good game of cricket that you have four days of hard fought cricket and it goes right down to the last session.
"We're obviously bitterly disappointed that we couldn't get over the line and get those extra five points. They're obviously crucial in our situation."
Surrey skipper Gareth Batty told BBC Radio London:
"It was a flat wicket and the young fella, McManus, for Hampshire made it incredibly hard.
"He's one for the future, obviously, but for us to get over the line was a monumental effort from the fast bowlers, from the fielders, everybody - it was very hard graft for the 200-odd overs we fielded for.
"The boys were brilliant, they looked after each other throughout. Everybody, to a man, was magnificent, doing the little things that go unnoticed.
"We've got a wonderful coach, some wonderful people behind us and I think we've got some good cricketers. We'll got from strength to strength with this."
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Corn buntings, which are also known as the fat bird of the barley, are an RSPB red list species having suffered "dramatic population decline".
In Scotland, the birds are restricted to "four core areas" - Fife, Angus, Western Isles and Moray/Aberdeenshire.
The report suggests a halt to declining numbers in Moray/Aberdeenshire.
The study for Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) examined the effect of six years of agri-environment schemes that encourage farmers to work their land in a way that benefits wildlife.
Methods involved include cutting hay and silage at times that avoid disturbing nesting buntings, and sowing crops that provide the birds with food.
The report said numbers of corn buntings had stabilised on farms involved in the schemes, were no longer declining as steeply on farms without schemes and could even be recovering across the wider area.
SNH said the study's findings included a "slight increase" in corn bunting numbers across the 48 farms surveyed, with 246 territorial males in 2015, compared with 232 in 2008-09.
It said this was "in sharp contrast" with severe, long-term decline across Scotland in the 1970s to 2000s.
Jessica Shaw, SNH ornithologist, said: "It's wonderful news that the number of corn buntings in Aberdeenshire and Moray has stabilised, with the good work done by many farmers in the area.
"But we can't be complacent, as the population is still much lower than 20 years ago.
"We're committed to working with farmers to increase the number of corn buntings in Scotland."
Allan Perkins, RSPB Scotland conservation scientist, said: "The results of the survey are very encouraging, and a reflection of the many years of partnership working with farmers in these areas to improve the fortunes of this fantastic bird.
"Corn buntings favour farmland which is managed less intensively, especially late-cut meadows and weedy cereal fields, along with a rich source of seeds and grain during winter.
"Government funding is available for this type of management, and we encourage more farmers to participate to help restore corn bunting numbers to what they were in the 1990s."
The Scottish Championship club have also retained defender Frazer Wright and midfielders Garry Fleming and Grant Gallagher, also on one-year contracts.
Pettigrew had previously played under Sons manager Stevie Aitken with the Blues, who signed the 29-year-old from Auchinleck Talbot in 2014.
Midfielder Andy Stirling had already agreed to move from Stranraer and striker Robert Thomson from Brechin.
Pettigrew made 45 appearances for Stranraer last season as they finished fourth in League One.
Having missed out on promotion after losing to Ayr United in the play-off final, Pettigrew himself takes a step up a division next season.
The 37-year-old Wright made 31 appearances for Dumbarton after leaving St Johnstone in August.
Fleming, the 29-year-old who arrived from Irvine Meadow in 2012, contributed 11 goals in 42 appearances.
Gallacher made 37 appearances in the 25-year-old's first season for Dumbarton since arriving from Stranraer.
The English Championship club can now begin negotiations with McInnes over their managerial vacancy.
In a statement, Aberdeen said they had "reluctantly" given Sunderland permission to speak to McInnes and assistant Tony Docherty.
David Moyes left the Stadium of Light following Sunderland's relegation from the Premier League last season.
The Scottish Premiership outfit said: "The club can confirm that early this afternoon Sunderland FC agreed to meet all the contractual obligations for both Derek McInnes and Tony Docherty and they have, reluctantly, been granted permission to speak with both of them about the vacant managerial position at Sunderland.
"Aberdeen FC will be making no further comment at this moment in time."
Earlier, Aberdeen's new major shareholder Dave Cormack said the Dons would "move heaven and earth" to keep McInnes.
"Derek is extremely happy here. It's not just down to money. He's a very astute individual."
Cormack sold his software company for £630m last year and the former Pittodrie chief executive has returned to the club as a non-executive director.
He says McInnes, who guided Aberdeen to second place in the Premiership last term and saw his side beaten by Celtic in the Scottish Cup and League Cup finals, has not indicated any desire to leave.
"Talking to the chairman [Stewart Milne], his family are very happy here," said Cormack. "We are 100% focused on getting ready for next season.
"We're only 10-12 days away from the players coming back. And so it's not a great position to be in."
Cormack says his corporate experience has taught him that retaining employees against their will is unwise and unproductive.
"Keep Sunderland and Derek aside for one minute - I know through bitter experience, trying to keep any employee with my companies, forcing somebody to stay doesn't work for anyone," Cormack added.
"I've had the opportunity to chat with him a couple of weeks ago, and he takes a holistic approach to a football club - he doesn't just think of the football operation and event the sports science, he thinks of the marketing, the communication with supporters, the off-field stuff, and that's a rarity.
"We would do our utmost - if he wanted to consider [Sunderland's approach] - to pull out all the stops to keep him."
Cormack will not disclose how much he is to invest in Aberdeen, but says the figure is "several million".
He is eager to harness his American business connections to generate further investment into the club, and insists the proposed move to a new £50m stadium is vital to achieve that aim.
"Moving to a new stadium is crucial," Cormack said. "One of my remits is going to be looking for partnerships and investments in the States.
"There are a lot of people there that love to be involved in sports clubs in the UK. Many of these Americans are golfers, and we have a lot to offer here in Scotland and the Aberdeen area.
"If we're going to attract investment, though, they'll look at it as investment, and Pittodrie just doesn't stack up. We all love Pittodrie, but it's not fit for purpose. By that, I mean there's only a small footprint that's here, there's only so much we can do.
"From a commercial standpoint, from a corporate perspective, the stadium is 100-plus years old. The new stadium is certainly necessary for us to kick on and bring in other investment."
The 27-year-old international says he rejected an offer in February to play in the Chinese Super League.
"It was unbelievable money for the club and financially tempting for any footballer but I chose to stay here," he told BBC Sport.
"My family love it here, and clearly happiness comes before money."
A host of high-profile names, including Colombian striker Jackson Martinez, former Chelsea midfielder Ramires, Fredy Guarin, Ivory Coast forward Gervinho, Cameroon captain Stephane Mbia and compatriot Obafemi Martins recently made switches to the Far East.
But Ideye, who joined Olympiakos from West Bromwich Albion last summer and has 10 goals in 30 appearances so far this season has no desire to join their number.
His goals and assists helped Olympiakos clinch a record-extending 43rd Greek Super League title in late February.
It was their 18th title in the last 20 seasons and was their earliest they have ever wrapped up the title.
After winning his first league title in European football, Ideye wants to win more honours with the Greek giants.
"From where I come from [Nigeria] it's easy to hear people say go to China for the money but I'm happy here," he continued.
"Honestly I don't have (a genuine reason to) leave Olympiakos. I have been shown love and this is the place to be right now.
"My ambitions are the same as Olympiakos' because I came to a club with a strong habit of winning titles and playing regularly in the Champions League.
"I have individual goals and team goals; with the family atmosphere and strong fighting spirit within the club I believe we can achieve great things together.
"I want to continue winning trophies here and make a big contribution to the history of this great club."
Ideye scored 34 goals in 74 league appearances during his three seasons with Ukrainian side Dynamo Kiev before moving to England in July 2014.
But the Super Eagle had a disappointing and injury-hit season in English football after signing for a then club-record fee of £10 million at West Brom.
He only made 31 appearances in all competitions scoring just seven goals for the Baggies, but has quickly put his disappointing spell at the Hawthorns behind him.
Ideye made his international debut for Nigeria in August 2010 and has scored five goals in 24 appearances for the Super Eagles.
In 2013, he helped his country clinch their third African Cup of Nations title, scoring in the 4-1 semi-final victory over Mali.
A member of their 2010 World Cup squad in South Africa, Ideye was omitted from the Super Eagles squad that reached the second round at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
The blaze broke out shortly after 21:00 BST on Sunday night.
Twenty-two firefighters from Strabane, Londonderry, Castlederg and Newtownstewart fought the flames. The operation ended at midnight.
The building has been "significantly damaged by the fire", said NIFRS western commander Mark Deeney.
There have been a series of arson attacks at the site in recent years, including two fires within the space of two days in June.
The former linen mill dates back to 1835 and was owned by the Herdman family for more than 170 years.
It once employed more than 1,000 people but it closed as a working mill in 2004.
Ten years later, the derelict site was bought by County Tyrone lottery winner Margaret Loughrey from Strabane.
It was reported at the time that she paid £1m for the site, just months after she won almost £27m in the Euromillions jackpot in December 2013.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he was "deeply troubled" by the decision.
But during a visit to Lebanon, Mr Kerry noted the ministers were independent technocrats and insisted that they would be watched "very closely".
The Islamist movement is considered a terrorist group by Israel and the US.
After swearing in the unity government on Monday, Mr Abbas stressed that no ministers were affiliated to Hamas.
Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said his cabinet was committed to all previous agreements with Israel and would continue "programmes of peace" aimed at establishing an independent Palestinian state.
Such assertions were rejected by Mr Netanyahu, who urged Washington to "make it absolutely clear to the Palestinian president that his pact with Hamas, a terrorist organisation that seeks Israel's liquidation, is simply unacceptable".
"I'm deeply troubled by the announcement that the United States will work with the Palestinian government backed by Hamas," he told the Associated Press.
At a news conference in Beirut, Mr Kerry played down the dispute and stressed that US officials would work with the new cabinet only "as we need to, as is appropriate".
"We are going to be watching it very closely, as we have said from day one, to make absolutely ensure that it upholds each of those things that it has talked about, that it doesn't cross the line."
Both the UN and EU have welcomed the new government, on the basis of the assurances that it will abide by its commitments of recognition of Israel, non-violence and adherence to previous agreements.
"The process of Palestinian reconciliation faces many challenges but it also creates new opportunities for the peace process, for democratic renewal and for the Palestinian people in both Gaza and the West Bank," EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Tuesday.
Hamas, which won parliamentary elections in 2006, ousted forces loyal to Mr Abbas in Gaza during clashes in 2007 and set up a rival government.
Numerous reconciliation attempts have failed, but efforts were stepped up after US-brokered direct peace talks with Israel collapsed in April.
Mr Hamdallah has said the cabinet is focusing on "how to reunite the institutions in the West Bank and Gaza".
It is not clear how the dual civil services will be merged and whether Hamas will cede any control of security in Gaza, where in addition to its 25,000-strong military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the group controls 20,000 other armed personnel.
While in Lebanon, Mr Kerry also said Tuesday's presidential election in areas of Syria controlled by the government was "meaningless".
He said millions were not able to vote and the ballot changed nothing.
Mr Kerry called the humanitarian situation in Syria one of the worst catastrophes, and announced an extra $290m (£173m) in aid for UN agencies looking after the 1.1 million refugees in Lebanon.
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I, Daniel Blake
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
I, Daniel Blake
American Honey
Denial
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Notes on Blindness
Under the Shadow
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Tom Ford - Nocturnal Animals
Ken Loach - I, Daniel Blake
Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester by the Sea
Denis Villeneuve - Arrival
Emma Stone - La La Land
Amy Adams - Arrival
Emily Blunt - The Girl on the Train
Natalie Portman - Jackie
Meryl Streep - Florence Foster Jenkins
Casey Affleck - Manchester by the Sea
Andrew Garfield - Hacksaw Ridge
Ryan Gosling - La La Land
Jake Gyllenhaal - Nocturnal Animals
Viggo Mortensen - Captain Fantastic
Viola Davis - Fences
Naomie Harris - Moonlight
Nicole Kidman - Lion
Hayley Squires - I, Daniel Blake
Michelle Williams - Manchester by the Sea
Dev Patel - Lion
Mahershala Ali - Moonlight
Jeff Bridges - Hell or High Water
Hugh Grant - Florence Foster Jenkins
Aaron Taylor-Johnson - Nocturnal Animals
Manchester by the Sea - Kenneth Lonergan
Hell or High Water - Taylor Sheridan
I, Daniel Blake - Paul Laverty
La La Land - Damien Chazelle
Moonlight - Barry Jenkins
Lion - Luke Davies
Arrival - Eric Heisserer
Hacksaw Ridge - Robert Schenkkan, Andrew Knight
Hidden Figures - Theodore Melfi, Allison Schroeder
Nocturnal Animals - Tom Ford
Under the Shadow - Babak Anvari (writer/director), Emily Leo, Oliver Roskill, Lucan Toh (producers)
The Girl with All the Gifts - Mike Carey (writer), Camille Gatin (producer)
The Hard Stop - George Amponsah (writer/director/producer), Dionne Walker (writer/producer)
Notes on Blindness - Peter Middleton (writer/director/producer), James Spinney (writer/director), Jo-Jo Ellison (producer)
The Pass - John Donnelly (writer), Ben A William (director)
Son of Saul - Laszlo Nemes, Gabor Sipos
Dheepan - Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux
Julieta - Pedro Almodovar
Mustang - Deniz Gamze Erguven, Charles Gillibert
Toni Erdmann - Maren Ade, Janine Jackowski
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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
The Eagle Huntress
Notes on Blindness
Weiner
Kubo and the Two Strings
Finding Dory
Moana
Zootropolis
La La Land - Justin Hurwitz
Arrival - Johann Johannsson
Jackie - Mica Levi
Lion - Dustin O'Halloran, Hauschka
Nocturnal Animals - Abel Korzeniowski
La La Land - Linus Sandgren
Arrival - Bradford Young
Hell or High Water - Giles Nuttgens
Lion - Greig Fraser
Nocturnal Animals - Seamus McGarvey
Hacksaw Ridge - John Gilbert
Arrival - Joe Walker
La La Land - Tom Cross
Manchester by the Sea - Jennifer Lame
Nocturnal Animals - Joan Sobel
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - Stuart Craig, Anna Pinnock
Doctor Strange - John Bush, Charles Wood
Hail, Caesar! - Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh
La La Land - Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, David Wasco
Nocturnal Animals - Shane Valentino, Meg Everist
Jackie - Madeline Fontaine
Allied - Joanna Johnston
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - Colleen Atwood
Florence Foster Jenkins - Consolata Boyle
La La Land - Mary Zophres
Florence Foster Jenkins - J Roy Helland, Daniel Phillips
Doctor Strange - Jeremy Woodhead
Hacksaw Ridge - Shane Thomas
Nocturnal Animals - Donald Mowat, Yolanda Toussieng
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Arrival - Claude La Haye, Bernard Gariepy Strobl, Sylvain Bellemare
Deepwater Horizon - Mike Prestwood Smith, Dror Mohar, Wylie Stateman, David Wyman
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Hacksaw Ridge - Peter Grace, Robert Mackenzie, Kevin O'Connell, Andy Wright
La La Land - Mildred Iatrou Morgan, Ai-Ling Lee, Steve A Morrow, Andy Nelson
The Jungle Book - Robert Legato, Dan Lemmon, Andrew R. Jones, Adam Valdez
Arrival - Louis Morin
Doctor Strange - Richard Bluff, Stephane Ceretti, Paul Corbould, Jonathan Fawkner
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - Tim Burke, Pablo Grillo, Christian Manz, David Watkins
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Neil Corbould, Hal Hickel, Mohen Leo, John Knoll, Nigel Sumner
A Love Story - Khaled Gad, Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara, Elena Ruscombe-King
The Alan Dimension - Jac Clinch, Jonathan Harbottle, Millie Marsh
Tough - Jennifer Zheng
Home - Shpat Deda, Afolabi Kuti, Daniel Mulloy, Scott O'Donnell
Consumed - Richard John Seymour
Mouth of Hell - Bart Gavigan, Samir Mehanovic, Ailie Smith, Michael Wilson
The Party - Farah Abushwesha, Emmet Fleming, Andrea Harkin, Conor MacNeill
Standby - Charlotte Regan, Jack Hannon
Tom Holland
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Lucas Hedges
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The flight from Pyongyang had to land in the North-eastern Chinese city of Shenyang because of smoke in the cabin. No one was injured in the incident.
China's Civil Aviation Administration announced "relevant measures to limit operations" without giving any details.
The state-owned airline was also told to improve training and maintenance.
Most of Air Koryo's international flights are to China, with a few scheduled flights to Russia.
"China has become a little bit more active recently in naming and shaming airlines that make mistakes," Greg Waldron of Flightglobal told the BBC. "And we've noticed a recent pick up in that."
"The North Korean airline would likely be a very resource-deprived airline, operating a number of older airplanes. And often, that older equipment is difficult to maintain. By international standards it would not be a great airline."
The Chinese aviation regulator did not give any details on the measures it would impose but Mr Waldron thinks it's unlikely there would be a ban on flights or even a fine for the North Korean carrier.
"It's really hard to say exactly what they could do. Anything between North Korea and China is very difficult because it's always also political."
Britain-based airline ratings website Skytrax lists the carrier as the world's only "one star" airline, though its rating does not measure safety standards.
Though by no means a tourist airline, Air Koryo is the main way that visitors to North Korea can enter the country.
Simon Cockerell of Beijing-based Koryo Tours, a leading independent tour agency focusing on North Korea, told the BBC that he doubts the new development would have an impact on tourism.
"Our guests are generally happy with the airline. And they mostly fly at least one route with Air Koryo, some take the train on the way back. They do some research and then aren't put off by that Skytrax ranking which has nothing at all to do with safety standards."
Air Koryo is North Korea's only airline and was established in 1950. The airline has only a small fleet, mostly consisting of Russian-built Tupolev and Ukrainian Antonov aircraft, for its international flights.
The service from Pyongyang to Beijing uses a Russian Tupolev Tu-204, a medium-range jet airliner that can carry about 140 passengers.
"The oldest planes they are using on international routes are from 2008," Mr Cockerell explains. "For their Antonov planes built in Ukraine for instance they have Ukrainian technicians doing the maintenance."
On domestic routes however, older Soviet-era aircraft are still used, some of which are so old that aviation enthusiasts can book specialised tours to experience flying in aircrafts dating back to the early days of the Cold War.
It was the biggest monthly rise since January 2010 and left the average UK house price at £164,729.
It means prices are only 0.7% lower than a year ago, despite the recession and continued mortgage rationing.
However, the society's chief economist, Robert Gardner, warned that "we should never read too much into one month's data".
"Nevertheless, the fact that the annual pace of house price decline moderated to minus 0.7% in August from minus 2.6% the previous month provides evidence that conditions remain fairly stable.
"This may be explained by the surprising resilience evident in the UK labour market, with further increases in employment in recent months, even though the UK economy has remained in recession," he added.
Russell Quirk, of estate agents eMoov.co.uk, said: "Read nothing more into August's 1.3% rise than low transaction levels.
"Prices are jumping around from one month to the next and September could just as likely see a reverse."
Separate figures suggest that the Bank of England's Funding for Lending scheme, which started at the beginning of August, has yet to make mortgages cheaper or more easily available.
Commentators have pointed out that improving the flow of mortgage funds depends not so much on cutting the interest rates payable by borrowers, but on relaxing the stringent deposit requirements being set by lenders.
Figures from the financial information company Moneyfacts show that 68% of all mortgage deals on offer still need a deposit of at least 20% of the value of the home being bought.
A year ago, only 64% of mortgages required a deposit of this size.
Funding for Lending will offer lenders about £80bn of cheap money, on condition it is lent to borrowers.
At the end of July, some big lenders launched four- or five-year fixed rate deals at ultra-low interest rates of less than 3%.
These have now become slightly more expensive, with interest rates just above 3%, but in any case, they were aimed only at borrowers who could put down a 30% or 40% deposit.
At the other end of the scale, Moneyfacts says there are only five deals currently requiring no deposit at all, just 62 asking for a 5% deposit and 259 requiring a 10% down payment.
Altogether they amount to just 14% of all the deals on offer, similar to the position a year ago.
Aaron Strutt, of mortgage brokers Trinity Financial, said: "There are only four of five lenders offering stand-alone 95% loan-to-value mortgages that do not require parental assistance and the rates are still not cheap.
"There are a number of lenders offering 95% mortgages, but they often ask for a family guarantee. Also, a few of them will only lend in selected postcodes."
Dramatic pictures show Ian Bowman being brought to the ground at Worcester Cathedral by a specialist rescue unit.
The accident happened during evensong on Saturday when the bell-ringing rope caught Mr Bowman's heel. He was taken to Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
Mr Bowman, 51, fractured a bone in his back but is able to walk.
Mr Bowman, who was performing as a visiting bell-ringer, said: "[The rope] pulled me up in the air and I came crashing down on the floor with a big bang."
The mechanic, from Widecombe-in-the-Moor, in Devon, said he had been ringing the tenor bell, which requires two people.
Mark Regan, ringing master at the cathedral, told the Worcester News it was a "freak accident".
"He went up in the air a couple of feet and landed awkwardly," he said.
Patrick Harvie rejected the view that the richest in Scotland would move their tax affairs if the rate went up.
He told the BBC that HMRC was working to reduce the risk of people looking for a more favourable tax set up.
The Scottish Greens want to see a new 60p income tax introduced for those earning more than £150,000 a year.
The party has also set out plans - ahead of the Holyrood election on 5 May - for a new 43p rate, starting at £43,000.
Speaking to BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr Harvie said: "A great many of the people who are in that highest tax band in Scotland I believe would remain in Scotland.
"I am very confident that it [new 60p rate] would raise additional revenue, but for safety sake we have not build in an assumption about the additional revenue that would come in from that highest tax bracket.
"The most important thing about our tax proposals though is that most people would be better off."
Currently, basic income tax is charged at 20p in the pound; higher rate earners are charged 40p in the pound and additional rate earners pay 45p in the pound.
The SNP said the time was not right to increase the additional rate because of worries the 17,000 people who pay it in Scotland might move their tax affairs elsewhere.
Scottish Labour wants to see the 45p rate raised to 50p; the Scottish Conservatives are proposing no change and the Scottish Liberal Democrats want a penny on all bands including the 45p going to 46p.
The Scottish Greens estimate that under their plan, tax payers would only start to pay more once they were earning about £27,000 a year.
Mr Harvie argues that those people who benefit from the Greens' plan on income tax would "also benefit from our proposals on replacing the council tax".
He told presenter Gary Robertson: "Most houses would be of a higher value in absolute terms but under our proposals most households would be paying less in their local tax.
"Yes, we would be talking about an increase for those that are of extremely high value properties and if you are sitting on a property which has gone up dramatically in value, the economy as a whole, our community as a whole, has increased the value of the asset you are sitting on.
"It is reasonable that some of that increased value comes back to the public purse."
The 71-year-old man and 65-year-old woman were walking in the north of the city when the incident happened.
It took place at about 16:00 on Friday in the park at the junction of Boswall Parkway, Grierson Road and Boswall Drive.
The 49-year-old will now be reported to the procurator fiscal.
The unrestrained dog was described as being a pit bull type breed.
The couple, who had been walking their own dog at the time, were treated in hospital for their injuries, but were released the same day.
The horse, named Shaktiman, had gone into shock after being administered anaesthesia by doctors who wanted to change his bandage.
The horse was fitted with a prosthetic leg and had been recovering well.
A legislator from the northern state of Uttarakhand was arrested after he allegedly beat Shaktiman at a rally. Ganesh Joshi denies the accusation.
He has been released on bail.
Video footage of the event appeared to show the animal's leg getting caught in a grill as it tried backing away from stick wielding protesters led by Mr Joshi.
The incident took place near the legislative assembly in the state capital, Dehradun last month, during a protest against the state government.
Dehradun senior superintendent of police Shivanand Datey told BBC reporter Raju Gusain that the horse had gone into shock after being administered the anaesthesia and vets had been unable to revive him.
Vets had been changing his bandage twice a week and the animal had been recovering well.
Rakesh Nautiyal, the veterinary officer looking after Shaktiman, had told the BBC that the horse was standing and "improving day-by-day".
The news has caused an outpouring of shock and grief on Indian social media.
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The 25-year-old was injured during his side's 2-0 home defeat by St Johnstone in the Scottish Premiership.
Manager Jim McIntyre told BBC Scotland: "We will know more about Liam's injury later on.
"But we think it is a medial ligament injury and we are hoping he's not out too long."
Boyce, who has won seven caps for his country, is County's top scorer this season with six goals this season - all in his last six games.
And he was named in Michael O'Neill's squad on Thursday for the Group C double header on 8 and 11 October.
But he had to be helped off the field five minutes before the end of County's match on Saturday.
Boyce collided with Zander Clark as the goalkeeper parried a shot from Chris Burke, the former Scotland winger making his debut for County.
Northern Ireland are already without Will Grigg, with the Wigan Athletic striker having been left out for family reasons.
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Ross County striker Liam Boyce is an almost certain withdrawal from the Northern Ireland squad for World Cup qualifiers with San Marino and Germany.
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The ex-Plaid leader said Lord Barnett, who has died aged 91, was a "lovely, gentle, intelligent colleague".
Wales would get an extra £1.2bn a year if it received the same funding per head as Scotland, Lord Wigley said.
Government spokesman Lord Newby said Wales would get funding in line with "what people think is fair."
The Barnett formula, devised in the late 1970s, determines how much Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland receive if the UK government alters spending on services such as health and education in England.
Under the formula, extra funding - or cuts - from Westminster are allocated according to the population size of each nation and which powers are devolved to them.
However, Lord Newby told the House of Lords that "virtually nobody understands how we've got to where we are today" in terms of funding the devolved administrations.
He added: "For the period ahead Wales will be receiving a figure in line with most definitions, I believe, of what people think is fair."
Lord Wigley said that if Wales received the same funding as Scotland relative to population it would get £1.2bn more.
He asked: "On what possible basis of equity can Wales be denied parity with Scotland in regards to such funding?"
"Would it not now be a fitting tribute to Lord Barnett if the government today pledged to revive the formula to deliver for Wales parity with Scotland in funding matters?"
During the Lords debate on Monday warm tributes were made to the former Labour cabinet minister who died on Saturday.
Lord Wigley said Lord Barnett was among the first to recognise that the funding formula in his name needed radical reform.
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Thomas of Gresford said that Lord Barnett was a "delightful person", while Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, Labour leader in the Lords, said that Lord Barnett was an "extraordinary" man.
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Griffiths had not netted in four games, including Scotland's win over Denmark, and missed a penalty before his brace.
"There's been talk of me hitting a barren spell and a few reporters giving me a bit of stick," he said.
"My all-round game's about scoring goals; if I'm not scoring I'm disappointed."
Griffiths, 25, feared another frustrating outing beckoned when Scott McDonald levelled after his opener at Fir Park.
Motherwell goalkeeper Connor Ripley denied Celtic on several occasions before allowing Griffiths' shot to squirm through his legs and re-establish the visitors' advantage.
The result put the champions eight points clear of second-placed Aberdeen, who were beaten at Hearts on Friday, at the top of the Scottish Premiership.
"When Motherwell pegged us back, I thought it was going to be one of those afternoons," said Griffiths. "The goalie was terrific and it's unfortunate he's made a mistake for my goal."
Griffiths was booked for removing his shirt after scoring his first and said his animated reaction was the culmination of pent-up frustration.
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"The last three weeks haven't been good enough by my own standards, especially Wednesday night [in the 0-0 draw with Dundee], my first touch wasn't good enough, and I was criticised and rightly so."
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Tornados were seen in Indiana and Mississippi, and strong winds wreaked havoc in Tennessee.
In the Clarksdale, Mississippi, where this footage was filmed, planes at an airport were overturned and the roads were closed.
At least six people have been killed and dozens have been injured by flying debris.
Members of the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) said talks had been held to try to resolve the row.
The union said proposals to mitigate pilot fatigue would now be put to members in a ballot.
Brian Strutton, Balpa's general secretary, said it did not mean the dispute was over, but "sufficient progress" had been made.
He said: "We have been working hard today and over the last few days to find a solution to this dispute about pilot fatigue.
"Easyjet management have put a proposal on the table that the Balpa team feel has closed the gap between us considerably on a range of issues.
"We therefore feel it is right and proper to consult with our members at this stage and so we are suspending serving notice of industrial action on the company."
It was revealed earlier this month that pilots were considering strike action over the week that coincides with the half-term holiday in many schools.
In a letter to pilots leaked to The Daily Telegraph, Balpa outlined strike action blaming a "dispute with Easyjet purely concerning pilot fatigue".
It claimed the core issue of the dispute was that "fatigue had risen year on year, to levels pilots and Balpa find unacceptable".
The airline said the new proposal had been developed after "extensive" discussions and would be put to its UK pilots in the hope that a "mutually agreeable solution" could be reached.
This meant there was currently "no threat of strike action", it added.
After the Swans had edged a goalless first half, United took the lead early in the second as Luke Shaw's marauding run and cross set up Juan Mata to blast in from close range.
Andre Ayew headed the hosts level after a swift counter-attack as United conceded their first league goal of the season.
Ayew then provided a marvellous pass for Bafetimbi Gomis, whose shot squirmed under Sergio Romero to give Swansea a third straight win against United.
Having done the double against United for the first time last season, Garry Monk's side became only the sixth team to claim three successive league victories against the Red Devils.
For visiting manager Louis van Gaal, a first loss of the campaign was a miserable way to mark his 50th game in charge.
With both teams protecting unbeaten starts to the season, there was a bristling intensity to the early exchanges.
United had not conceded in their opening three matches, but that record was under threat as Swansea pressed with chances for Gomis and Gylfi Sigurdsson.
Daley Blind, a midfielder currently playing at centre-back, offered little resistance as Gomis skipped past him and his central defensive colleague Chris Smalling before clipping the post with a delicate low shot.
Those fragilities were eventually exposed when Ayew and Gomis took advantage of slack marking and dubious goalkeeping to put Swansea ahead.
There may have been a few eyebrows raised when, with his team trailing after 57 minutes, Monk replaced winger Wayne Routledge with midfielder Ki Sung-yueng.
But the switch to a midfield diamond was vindicated after just four minutes as Ashley Williams strode out of defence and freed Sigurdsson, whose precise cross found Ayew for Swansea's equaliser.
The hosts were ahead four minutes later, as Ayew's artful through-ball with the outside of his foot found Gomis, whose low finish beyond Romero sent the Liberty Stadium crowd wild and gave Monk the satisfaction of a tactical alteration paying off in style.
United's two changes from the midweek Champions League win at Club Brugge saw Van Gaal recall two of his highest-profile summer signings, Bastian Schweinsteiger and Morgan Schneiderlin.
That pushed fellow central midfielder Ander Herrera into a more advanced role behind striker Wayne Rooney, but United struggled for fluency.
The one positive was another bright display from Mata but, playing in his unfavoured position wide on the right, he was substituted after 70 minutes.
Swansea manager Garry Monk: "It was an amazing atmosphere. The first half, Manchester United played very well and made it very difficult for us.
"We showed our character. I don't think we were at our best, but we were organised and kept our shape.
"They were causing us problems centrally. I changed it with four midfielders inside and that allowed us to get into the game."
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal: "We controlled the game for 85 minutes but we lost in five minutes and that cannot happen.
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"They changed the shape and we had to be compact. We forgot that maybe because we are too dominant. We have to learn from that.
"First you have to create chances, with scoring goals you need luck that we don't have at the moment.
"I have enjoyed our football but you need the result and we lost again. All the players were very motivated to beat them."
Former Arsenal striker Ian Wright on BBC Radio 5 live: "I haven't got a clue what Van Gaal is trying to do. What's their system? Surely Manchester United have got to play with a bit more pace and thrust and tempo. They seemed desperate."
The international break allows both teams to take stock. Once the Premier League returns, Manchester United take on north-west rivals Liverpool in the tea-time game on Saturday, 12 September.
Swansea will travel away to Watford earlier in the day.
Jordanian forces used tear gas against stone-throwing refugees who had set fire to tents and vehicles.
Both sides blame each other for provoking the violence. The dead person was a Syrian refugee, officials say.
The sprawling camp has seen several protests since opening two years ago, mainly over poor living conditions.
Zaatari is located in the Jordanian desert, about 12km (7.5 miles) from the Syrian border.
It is the world's second-largest refugee camp - behind Dadaab in eastern Kenya - and has become the fourth largest city in Jordan.
Jordanian authorities said the violence broke out after police arrested a group of refugees who were trying to leave the camp illegally.
"The rioters burned six tents and two caravans and tried to attack police stations," the Public Security Directorate said in a statement.
Residents of Zaatari, however, claimed the clashes occurred because a Jordanian policeman had run over a Syrian child.
Eyewitnesses also said the number of refugees injured in the unrest was much higher than the three cases confirmed by officials.
"We are always treated unfairly, we've escaped from an injustice [in Syria] to another injustice," said a refugee interviewed by the Associated Press news agency.
Brig Gen Waddah Hmoud, the director of the Syrian Refugees Camp Affairs Department, said 29 police and gendarmerie officers had been taken to hospital with injuries.
"Unfortunately two of the Syrian refugees were injured by gunshot, one of them passed away this morning," he told the AP news agency.
Opened in July 2012 with some 100 refugee families, Zaatari is now made up of roughly 30,000 shelters and administration buildings.
It costs about $500,000 (£320,000) a day to run, with half a million pieces of bread and 4.2m litres of water distributed daily.
Correspondents say life inside the camp can be harsh, as residents - mostly hailing from the Daraa governorate of Syria, face a number of challenges - the biggest being security.
An overflow camp - Azraq - is under construction in the desert to meet demand. It will have the capacity to host up to 130,000 people.
More than 2.5 million people have fled Syria since the civil war broke out there in March 2011.
Earlier this week, the UN confirmed that the number of Syrian refugees registered in Lebanon had surpassed one million, making it the highest per capita concentration of refugees worldwide.
This is followed by Jordan, which houses almost 600,000 refugees. Other main host countries include Turkey, Iraq and Egypt.
The ban was backed by local authorities in Urumqi, state media reported.
The move is the latest in a campaign against Islamic clothing and symbols in the mainly Muslim region.
China's government has blamed Uighur militants for several recent attacks - but activists say the violence has been fuelled by Chinese repression.
The Uighurs traditionally practice a moderate form of Islam. Recently, though, the influence of stricter forms of the faith from the Gulf and Pakistan has led to more women covering their faces.
According to the BBC's Asia Pacific editor, Charles Scanlon, the Chinese authorities regard wearing an Islamic face veil as an act of defiance at a time of growing violence in the region.
In August this year, the northern city of Karamay banned men with long beards from boarding buses.
Some experts believe such restrictions could backfire at a time when many Uighurs believe their culture is under attack.
James Leibold, an expert on China's ethnic policy at Melbourne's La Trobe University, told Reuters news agency that the ban on the veils would make them "more popular as a symbol of resistance and assertion of ethno-national identity".
He is quoted as saying that China's Communist party had made a direct link between certain Islamic dress styles and religious extremism.
The law passed in Urumqi is set to come into force after it has been approved by a regional body.
China's authorities have attributed a wave of recent violence, some of which has targeted civilians in public places, to Uighur militants inspired or aided by overseas terror groups.
It has launched a crackdown in the region, arresting and jailing scores of people.
But Uighur activists say that China's strong-arm tactics in Xinjiang - including cultural and religious repression - are fuelling tensions.
Why is there tension between China and the Uighurs?
In August, the EU ruled Apple's tax arrangements in Ireland were illegal, and demanded the record penalty.
The tech giant says it has been singled out and was "a convenient target".
Ireland is also contesting the decision, claiming that EU regulators were interfering with national sovereignty.
Apple issued a lengthy statement, pointing it out that it was the largest taxpayer in the world, in the US and in Ireland.
It said if the EU ruling went against it, the company would pay 40% of all the corporate taxes collected in Ireland.
Apple said it paid a 26% tax rate on its worldwide earnings, but said it was correct that it paid most of that in the US.
"Because our products and services are created, designed and engineered in the US, that's where we pay most of our tax... this case has never been about how much tax Apple pays, it's about where that tax is paid."
Apple's European headquarters are located in Ireland - where the standard rate of corporate tax is 12.5%.
But in August, the European Commission said that Ireland had enabled the company to pay substantially less than other businesses, in effect paying a rate of no more than 1%.
€13bn
demanded in back taxes. Equal to:
ALL of Ireland's healthcare budget
66% of its social welfare bill
15 million iPhones
27% of Apple's 2015 profit
On Monday, in a strongly-worded statement, Ireland's finance ministry Ireland's finance ministry said that the European Commission had "misunderstood the relevant facts and Irish law".
"Ireland did not give favourable tax treatment to Apple - the full amount of tax was paid in this case and no state aid was provided," it said. "Ireland does not do deals with taxpayers."
Although it will be years before this case is settled, the tax landscape is already changing.
The Commission may end up losing this particular battle but there is progress in the international war against tax avoidance.
The notoriously complex "double Irish" tax structure is being phased out, the OECD's work on preventing profit shifting to low tax areas is being fairly widely adopted and companies are even moving their headquarters to places where they have a real physical business (Mcdonalds from Luxembourg to the UK for example).
And, if Donald Trump does cut US taxes from 35% to 15% as he hinted during his campaign, the sea of US corporate cash lapping around the shores of Ireland and Luxembourg may start flooding back home.
Read more from Simon, here:
Apple's general counsel Bruce Sewell told the Reuters news agency that the commission had disregarded tax experts brought in by Irish authorities.
"Apple is not an outlier in any sense that matters to the law. Apple is a convenient target because it generates lots of headlines," Mr Sewell said.
Even if Apple lost its appeal, the record tax bill should not be a problem for iPhone maker, which saw a net profit of $53bn in the 2015 financial year.
Apple is not the only company that has been targeted for securing favourable tax deals in the European Union.
Last year, the commission told the Netherlands to recover as much as €30m (£25.6m) from Starbucks, while Luxembourg was ordered to claw back a similar amount from Fiat.
The two nations had a "deep and firm" friendship, Mr Xi said in an article in Zimbabwe's state-run Herald newspaper.
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has strongly pursued a "Look East" policy since the West isolated him over his controversial land reform programme.
China is major investor in Zimbabwe, helping to keep its economy afloat.
The BBC's Brian Hungwe in the capital, Harare, says President Mugabe was at the airport to welcome the Chinese leader, who received a 21-gun salute before inspecting a guard of honour.
Chinese nationals, waving both Zimbabwean and Chinese flags, were also there to welcome Mr Xi.
The two governments are expected to sign agreements to boost Zimbabwe's agriculture, mining and manufacturing sectors.
Mr Xi, who is on his first visit to Zimbabwe, said it remained a cornerstone of China's foreign policy to consolidate its relationship with Zimbabwe and other African states.
"This will never change," he added.
Mr Xi and a large Chinese delegation will fly to South Africa on Wednesday, where he will attend the first China-Africa summit to be held in Africa. It is expected to be attended by leaders from across the continent.
Analysis: Brian Hungwe, BBC Africa, Harare
For a government desperate for foreign direct investment and struggling to raise revenue Mr Xi is a welcome guest.
I am told there are several bid deals, spanning manufacturing, agriculture and mining, waiting to be signed.
But what worries some is that such deals have been signed before and nothing tangible has materialised.
Government sources say the Chinese are hesitant to pump money into Zimbabwe because of its uncertain political climate.
President Mugabe is turning 92 in three months and the Chinese want guarantees that their investments will be safe if there is a change in leadership.
Last year, nearly one in four foster children in the UK moved at least once, some six or more times, data obtained by Action for Children suggests.
The charity sent Freedom of Information requests to every UK local authority - and more than two-thirds responded.
Councils said they were doing everything possible to limit the need for children to move around the system.
In the year to March 2015, there were 64,372 children in foster care in the 143 councils that responded to the request.
Most children stayed in the same placement for the year but 14,583 had two or more placements, some 22.7% of foster children: of these 168 had seven or more placements.
A shortage of foster carers means it can be hard to find "the right fit" for each child and relationships can break down, the charity explains.
The more frequently it happens, the more damaging it can be for children who have already had tough starts in life, said chief executive Sir Tony Hawkhead.
"Sadly we know that it can be necessary to move children from their current foster homes as relationships between a carer and child can break down, especially for children who have faced the most traumatic experiences and find it hard to trust someone new."
Sir Tony appealed for more would-be foster carers to come forward, "to help children and young people overcome trauma".
Roy Perry of the Local Government Association, which represents councils in England, said that while the majority of placements worked out, "unfortunately there are occasions when they don't".
Mr Perry, chairman of the Association's children and young people board, said the trauma and neglect experienced by many children in the care system could have an impact on their daily lives with foster families.
"Other common factors for having to move a child to a different carer include court decisions, a relationship breakdown between a child's biological family and foster carer, or if the child has severe behavioural problems or health issues that emerge as the child begins to open up about what brought them into care in the first place.
"Whatever the circumstances, councils will do everything possible to limit the need for children to move around the system."
A spokesman for the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) said Scotland's councils were "fully committed to looked-after children and take their duties with regard to them very seriously.
"In all honesty, one of the main difficulties for councils placing children with foster carers is actually recruiting foster carers in the first place."
A spokeswoman for England's Department for Education said the government had put in place "comprehensive and far-reaching support" for children in foster care since 2010.
The spokeswoman also said the government was working closely with councils "to help them recruit foster carers who can meet the needs of children who are harder to place, such as sibling groups and children with complex needs".
She said foster carer recruitment was improving in England while the government also wanted a broader range of foster carers to come forward to help improve placement stability and permanence.
Iwona Monica Kowal was caught with contraband cigarettes hidden in her baggage on three separate occasions at Glasgow and Edinburgh airports in 2013.
The 44-year-old, from Dundee, admitted trying to avoid paying excise duty.
A civil order was made for recovery of the £9,240, and a sheriff sentenced Kowal to 200 hours of unpaid work.
The English student was first caught with 15,800 contraband cigarettes at Glasgow Airport on 8 April, 2013, as she flew back from Poland.
She was let off with a warning that the upper limit was 800 cigarettes, but was caught with a further 15,000 on 2 June that year after arriving at Edinburgh Airport from Gdansk. She was caught again with 3,800 cigarettes on 21 October.
On each occasion, Kowal insisted that she had funded the trips from her own savings, and said the cigarettes were for herself, her partner and a friend.
She claimed to smoke two cartons a week herself, and defence agent Charlie McCusker told Paisley Sheriff Court that Kowal had become a "heavy smoker" following the death of her son.
The court heard that HM Revenue and Customs suspected that the cigarettes were being brought into the country for onward sale.
Sheriff Colin Pettigrew said he also had "serious concerns" about the idea the cigarettes were for personal use.
However, after hearing that a civil action for recovery of the duty money had been granted, he sentenced Kowal to a 12-month community payback order, requiring her to complete 200 hours of unpaid work.
The Facebook message from survivor Joe Smith, now 35, has been shared more than 100,000 times since Wednesday afternoon.
Mr Smith, from Kirkby, saw himself on the shoulders of his rescuer while watching a BBC Two documentary.
He said he is following up "one potential strong lead" to find the man who helped him.
He wrote on the social media site: "The man whose shoulders I am on is the man who helped save my life at Hillsborough!"
"I've never in 27 years seen this image until the documentary just released, and it's thrown me big time.
"I would love to find this man and thank him for what he did for me that day."
Mr Smith had gone with his stepdad and his brother to watch Liverpool play Nottingham Forest in the FA cup semi-final on 15 April 1989.
Inquests last month concluded 96 fans who died in the crush were unlawfully killed.
Mr Smith said watching the documentary "brought up a lot of memories of the day".
"It was footage I had never seen before and it was the first time I had seen this guy since the disaster," he said.
"It stirred the emotions a lot more than usual."
Mr Smith said his legs were being crushed as he sat at the Leppings Lane end of Sheffield Wednesday's ground and his stepdad lifted him to get him out.
He was passed over people's heads and taken to the other end where fans looked after him.
"I always had difficulty remembering how I got out off the ground," Mr Smith said.
"It's only when I saw the footage I realised this guy had pulled me out and put me on his shoulders and helped me."
He also recalled the man assured him "everything was going to be okay".
If he were to find his rescuer he said he would "thank him, embrace him and buy him a pint."
Guto Bebb, seeking re-election in Aberconwy, referred to Gary Burchett as an "idiot" after he told Mr Bebb he no longer had his backing.
Mr Crabb told BBC Radio Wales political parties were like families which had "tiffs and rows".
But he insisted Mr Bebb was a "great candidate" with "huge" support.
The row broke out when Mr Bebb sent an email questioning Mr Burchett's lack of involvement in his campaign for re-election.
Mr Burchett, a former mayor of Llandudno, replied by suggesting Mr Bebb had been promoting himself more than the party, saying he had "spent the last 18 months making excuses for you not using the Welsh Conservative brand".
Asked about the row by presenter Jason Mohammad, Mr Crabb said: "Like every family you don't want your arguments in public and disagreements.
"It's a little bit embarrassing, but people on the doorsteps are much more interested in the big issues."
10 August 2015 Last updated at 17:52 BST
The Yorkshire Cosplay Convention welcomed more than 3,500 fans dressed as people from the world of sci-fi, comics, game and film.
The celebration, which is now it in eighth year, took place at the Magna Science Centre in Rotherham, as BBC Look North's Cathy Booth reports.
England vice-captain Heather Knight is writing another series of columns this winter. Having played in the inaugural Women's Big Bash League, she is now in South Africa with England for their limited-overs series which begins on Sunday, 7 February.
It's great to be back with the team - everyone is ready and raring to go with what is set to be a pretty big 2016, starting here with three one-day internationals and three Twenty20 internationals against South Africa.
One of the big things on the immediate "to do" list for the girls that have come straight from playing in the WBBL has been to meet our new head coach Mark Robinson. A lot of the girls (me included) had never met Robbo before and we're all really excited to start this new era for the team. A fresh start is never a bad thing, and we are now focused on what's ahead of us.
It's fair to say the inaugural WBBL was a pretty big success. People came to watch, particularly in the double-header fixtures alongside the men's Big Bash League (BBL), the competition was well publicised, and there was some great cricket played.
For Hobart Hurricanes, our season unfortunately ended in a rain-affected semi-final defeat at the MCG. It was a disappointing way to go out, but having been written off without a ball having even been bowled as 16-1 rank outsiders for the tournament, it was quite an achievement to finish second in the group stage and make the last four.
It's also been a great experience to captain the Hurricanes. Having played with most of the girls last year, I knew them all pretty well and the team has been an absolute pleasure to lead.
We seemed to love a close finish, and with a lot riding on each game you learn an awful lot when you're put in those high-pressure situations, win or lose. Having those experiences to draw upon going back into international cricket is brilliant and I'm sure the other England girls who played in the WBBL will be in the same boat.
Kate Cross seems to have learned a new diving technique at least… (sorry Crossy!)
Overall, it's been great for the women's game to bring some of the best players in the world together to play in the tournament, and hopefully it will push forward the standard of international cricket too.
It's brilliant that the Women's Cricket Super League will be starting back home in England this summer to continue this momentum. While the WBBL has to some extent benefited through piggybacking on the success of the men's BBL, it's exciting to see how a standalone women's competition will go in England.
It might end up taking slightly longer to develop the competition to the same scale as the WBBL, as the six hosts are effectively starting from scratch, but I'm certain that in time, the Super League will be just as successful.
Ultimately, it's massively exciting to see how the game develops in the next few years.
Read more: Anya Shrubsole & Lydia Greenway look ahead to the Super League
It's been great to "feed" off other international players during the WBBL - here's my Hurricanes team-mate Hayley Matthews. The West Indies batter is never to be seen without a packet of her favourite brand of crisps!
There is absolutely nothing which is less fun than staring at a wall from the depths of an ice bath - sadly a frequent occupational hazard for any professional cricketer. So when you get the opportunity to do your recovery in the sea at Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach instead, you jump at the chance.
We were doing just this after a training session when things got even better as we bumped into some of the lifeguards that patrol the beach, along with the TV crew that was following them for the show Bondi Rescue.
Obviously we challenged them to a game of beach cricket and had a pretty decent game, despite being interrupted a few times as they had to pop off to save a few tourists who had got into trouble in the sea. Thanks guys, ice baths will never be the same again.
Another bonus of being a professional cricketer, is that on occasion, you get the odd freebie and loving a good book, I was excited to hear that a Tasmanian author was a fan of the Hurricanes and had given us all a copy of her recent book.
That excitement turned to shock and then hilarity, when we found out the book was called 50 Bales of Hay - a farming version of the erotic bestseller 50 Shades of Grey. Definitely the oddest freebie I've ever been given - and yes, I left the book in Tassie...
The last and only time I toured South Africa was back in 2011 and we played all our games at Senwes Park in a small town called Potchefstroom. This time we're lucky enough to see a bit more of the country, including matches at the iconic grounds of Newlands and the Wanderers - definitely a couple to tick off any cricketer's bucket list.
I actually took my first international wicket back on that 2011 tour, bowling my old filthy seamers - I definitely didn't expect to come back to South Africa as a spinner five years later!
This is going to be a really important tour for us, the three ODIs are massive in terms of the ICC Women's Championship and qualification for the 2017 Women's World Cup in England, and the three T20 matches are the last games we will play before the World T20 in India in March.
Get behind us!
BBC Radio will have commentary on all of England's ODI and T20 international matches in South Africa. Under a new rights deal announced on Monday, the BBC Sport website will show video highlights of ICC events for the next four years, including the World Twenty20 and Women's World Cup.
Residents of flats in Clyne Court, Sketty, and Jefferys Court, Penlan, were concerned when the material used failed initial tests.
Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant hailed results of a new whole-system test as a "positive development".
It follows the failure of a system test on material used in Newport.
At least 80 people died in the Grenfell fire, and the UK government demanded urgent fire tests on all tower blocks.
Cladding from three tower blocks in Newport and four blocks of flats in Swansea had failed initial fire safety tests on the type of panels used.
Since then, the Building Research Establishment (BRE) has been carrying out whole-system tests to judge the risk of fire spreading from panels made of aluminium composite material (ACM) to entire buildings.
In a written update to assembly members, Mr Sargeant said one set of results related to tests on material "similar to the combination in place on four buildings owned by the City and County of Swansea, samples of which had previously been tested by the BRE".
This featured ACM with a fire retardant polyethylene filler with mineral wool insulation.
"The tested system passed the test, which is a positive development," Mr Sargeant said.
"Of course, landlords and owners must continue to draw on all expert advice and guidance in relation to their individual buildings."
Andrea Lewis, Swansea council's cabinet member for housing, welcomed the "very reassuring news" which she said backed up the authority's own whole-system test of the cladding system used.
She added that work to fit sprinklers in all 11 of the council's high-rise blocks would begin in November, with priority given to those with exterior cladding.
Earlier in August, it was confirmed that a whole-system test on material used in three tower blocks owned by social landlord Newport City Homes had failed.
Rockwool, the makers of the insulation involved, said the test did not properly assess their product.
The role was created in the wake of former head of rugby Josh Lewsey's departure.
Geraint John took Lewsey's title in January, 2016 and ex-Osprey and British and Irish Lions back-rower Jones will work alongside him.
"I will champion at board level the needs, concerns and direction of the community game in Wales," said Jones.
"I want to remain both visible and accessible and I would encourage those with a modern perspective on the game and a desire to innovate to get in touch and share their ideas."
Jones, 34, quit playing in August, 2015 having made 78 Test appearances, three of them for the Lions.
Hefinished his career at Bristol having started at Risca RFC before moving on to Newport, Bridgend and Celtic Warriors and then spending 10 years at Ospreys.
A shoulder injury forced Jones into retirement, bringing to a close a career that included three Six Nations Grand Slams.
The calculator works by adding up your costs for tickets, food and programmes and multiplying them across the season.
This season we have also compiled data on replica shirt prices, sourced from the clubs.
Because there is such a great variation in ticket prices between and within clubs, this figure is intended to give a general indication only.
Choosing 'season ticket' assumes that the holder buys the cheapest season ticket, and attends every home game in that league during the season, spending the same amount on food and drink per game.
Cup ties and play-off games are not included in the calculation.
The comparison of ticket costs between clubs works best if you enter realistic figures.
To provide a comparison at the end, we show how the price of the cheapest season tickets vary within your club's league.
Throughout the calculator, we compare how various costs have changed using data from previous BBC Price of Football surveys.
Some data comparisons are not available for clubs which were not included in previous years.
The 'price of a goal' is calculated by dividing the cost of a club's cheapest season ticket last season by the number of goals scored by the team at home in the same season.
Comparisons are not available for clubs which were not surveyed last season, or promoted to the Conference in 2014 (Altrincham, Dover, Eastleigh and Telford) or which do not operate traditional season tickets (Barnet).
Programme costs were not collected from European clubs, as many do not publish match-day programmes in the same way as British teams.
Some women's teams did not provide costs for a replica shirt; in these cases the calculator uses the equivalent price for a replica men's shirt.
The BBC contacted 207 clubs for the study. Of those, 176 were in England, Scotland and Wales and another 31 in Europe.
We recorded the prices for the most expensive, and cheapest, season tickets and adult match-day tickets as well as the cost of a cup of tea, a pie, a programme and an adult replica shirt.
The data was collated and verified by BBC Sport journalists.
Rangers FC are omitted from the survey and calculator because they did not provide data to the BBC.
A major incident was declared at Featherstone Prison on Thursday, the Prison Office Association (POA) said.
Riot staff were drafted in to deal with the trouble, which also included a hostage situation.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said any prisoners involved could face disciplinary action.
An extra 20 staff have now been called in to maintain order at the category C prison near Wolverhampton, the POA said.
More updates on this and other stories in Birmingham and the Black Country
An inmate at the jail, which holds more than 600 prisoners, contacted the BBC on Thursday and said the disorder started following a fight in one of the prisoner accommodation blocks.
The fight could not be brought under control and officers had to call in reinforcements.
He claimed three people were taken to hospital on Tuesday after further trouble, and prison staff were assaulted on Wednesday when they attempted to move some inmates were to another block.
Prisoners set fire to cells on Thursday and Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service sent two crews to the jail but have not released any more details.
The POA said a specialist team was drafted in to deal with the hostage situation and disturbances which has now been stood down.
The union said its members are facing increasing levels of violence, with assaults rising by 40% in the last year.
In a statement, it said "it will do everything it can to protect the safety of our members and prevent them from being used as punch bags on a daily basis."
"We need to flood our prisons with staff to ensure stability and safety. The chronic staff shortages brought about by savage budget cuts and failures by the employer will no longer be tolerated," it added.
The MoJ said safety in prisons was "fundamental to the proper functioning of the justice system" and a vital part of reform plans.
He was the world's longest reigning monarch, but ruled one of the most oppressive countries.
Just days ago, blogger Raif Badawi was lashed 50 times for "cybercrime" and "insulting Islam". He faces 1000 lashes in total.
Here's what else you need to know about Saudi Arabia:
Saudi Arabia is one of the world's biggest oil producers, which is why it is such a wealthy nation.
It sits on more than 25% of the world's known oil reserves. It is currently able to produce more than 10 million barrels per day.
King Abdullah's death caused a spike in oil prices because uncertainty makes markets volatile.
King Abdullah had very close ties with the US, largely driven by Saudi Arabia's oil power and America's security strength.
The two nations also had a common enemy in al-Qaeda, the terror group behind the 9/11 attacks on the US back in 2001.
Of the 19 hijackers, 15 were Saudis, including Osama bin Laden. Abdullah eventually beat back al-Qaeda, forcing them to flee to Yemen.
In a statement, George H W Bush called Abdullah a "wise and reliable ally." Tony Blair also released a statement saying the king was "loved".
Westminster Abbey and the Foreign Office are two of the British institutions flying their flags at half mast.
David Cameron and Barack Obama have paid tribute to Abdullah.
Away from politics, Kim Kardashian is reportedly being paid $1m (£667,347) to spend an evening with a Saudi prince.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia might have been listed at number 26 with $20bn (£15bn) on the Forbes rich list, but that was not good enough for the Saudi businessman.
He claimed he was worth $9bn (£6m) more and threatened to sever all links with the magazine.
In one letter, his chief financial officer wrote: "Forbes is putting down the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and that is a slap in the face of modernity and progress."
Forbes refused to make the changes.
The Saudi royal family own the sixth largest super yacht in the world, the Prince Abdulaziz.
The 5,200-tonne yacht has a deck that is said to resemble the Titanic. It also has a mosque, a cinema and a hospital on board.
Falconry is a popular hobby in the Middle East, so fashionable that a hawk seat (yes, a seat for a hawk) has been developed for private jets.
Lufthansa Technik has come up with a gadget for those who want to keep their bird of prey by their side when travelling.
Called the Falcon Master, the platform and stand for transporting falcons or other birds can slot above a folded-down seat in a range of Airbus or Boeing aircraft.
Citizens of Saudi Arabia are some of the biggest users of Twitter. There are 2.4 million active users, the most in the Arab world, according to the Mohammed bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai.
One of the reasons ordinary Saudis say they like using Twitter is because it allows them to discuss what they really feel.
The hashtag #WhydidTwittersucceedinSaudiArabia began trending a year ago, with users sharing their reasons they liked the site.
One user tweeted: "People need an outlet to express themselves, to start to disclose what's hidden and drop the masks, without fear or commands, or censorship from anyone."
Another posted: "The reason is that none of the newspapers are concerned with your worries nor do any officials care about you."
The new King Salman wasted no time in changing his Twitter handle, suspending his old account @HRHPSalman to @KingSalman. He has 1.27m followers and follows no one.
Google Maps was rapid too. Within 24 hours of the news Prince Salman road was changed to King Salman road.
Some of the tributes to King Abdullah have described him as a "great reformer".
Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF (International Monetary Fund), an organisation which controls the world's money, said: "In a very discreet way, he was a strong advocate of women.
"It was very gradual, appropriately so probably for the country. I discussed that issue with him several times and he was a strong believer."
While King Abdullah did appoint 30 women to a council which could make recommendations to the government, they were still unable to drive themselves to work.
However in 2013 Saudi Arabia's religious police lifted a ban on women riding bicycles and motorbikes, but only in recreational areas and while dressed in full Islamic veil and accompanied by a male relative, it's claimed.
Saudi Arabia has a male guardianship system, which means that women cannot apply for a passport, marry, travel, or access higher education without male approval.
Some hospitals also require male consent for women to receive treatment.
Human Rights Watch released a statement on King Abdullah's death saying: "King Abdullah came to power promising reforms, but his agenda fell far short of achieving lasting institutional gains on basic rights for Saudi citizens."
It's probably advisable to read this advice on the UK government's website before you travel.
Bringing porn magazines with you is forbidden, as is bacon (or any pork products, should you have a stick of pepperoni in your hand luggage).
If you get off the plane drunk you could be imprisoned too.
A Filipino man was sentenced to jail and 75 lashings for bringing two chocolate bars containing alcohol into the country.
He claimed he had bought the chocolates on a flight stopover and hadn't realised they were alcoholic.
Men should not wear shorts in public and women should wear loose fitting clothing. Saudi Arabia carries the death penalty for importing drugs.
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The animal was a top predator in Madagascar 170 million years ago, around the time dinosaurs roamed Earth.
Its huge jaw and serrated teeth suggest that, like T. rex, it fed on hard animal tissue such as bone and tendon.
It appears to be the earliest and biggest representative of a group of croc-like animals called Notosuchians.
The animal's scientific name is Razanandrongobe sakalavae, which means "giant lizard ancestor from Sakalava region".
This specialised predator differed from present-day crocodilians in having a distinct skull shape and powerful straight legs.
In the open access journal, PeerJ, Cristiano Dal Sasso, Simone Maganuco and colleagues describe new bones from the skull of this massive crocodilian - which is nicknamed Razana.
"Based on the preserved skull bones, we infer a body shape similar to that of baurusuchids [another type of Notosuchian from South America], and consequently an overall length of 7m - 1.6 m at the hips - and a weight of 800-1000 kg," Dr Dal Sasso, from the Natural History Museum in Milan, Italy, told BBC News.
These dimensions are comparable to those of modern relatives of Razana: "As a matter of fact, an adult salt-water crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) can reach 7m in length and weigh up to one tonne," Dr Dal Sasso added.
Previously, researchers didn't have enough fossil material to classify the species with confidence. But the new fossils allowed the Italian team to assign Razana to a group called mesoeucrocodylians - answering remaining questions about its relationship with other crocs.
The study shows that Razana is by far the oldest representative of the Notosuchians, pre-dating other members of this group by 42 million years.
"Like these and other gigantic crocs from the Cretaceous, 'Razana' could outcompete even theropod dinosaurs, at the top of the food chain", said Dr Dal Sasso. Indeed, the carnivore may even have fed on certain dinosaurs, which it shared the landscape with.
Hi colleague, Simone Maganuco, also from the Natural History Museum in Milan, said: "Its geographic position during the period when Madagascar was separating from other landmasses is strongly suggestive of an endemic lineage."
At the same time, he said, it represented a further signal that the Notosuchians originated in southern Gondwana - an ancient "super-continent" made up of Madagascar, Africa, South America, Australia and other present-day landmasses.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency, citing unnamed Foreign Ministry officials, says the group were flown back to Pyongyang on Tuesday.
It said the group were detained in Laos earlier this month and handed over to China, despite Seoul's appeals.
China traditionally repatriates North Korean refugees, ruling them economic migrants.
The nine North Koreans, aged between 15 and 23, left their country via China for Laos in April, Yonhap reported.
Laos authorities sent them to China on Monday - local reports said to Kunming - and they were put on an Air Koryo flight to Pyongyang on Tuesday, the agency said.
The South Korean Foreign Ministry has not yet commented formally on the case.
But an unnamed ministry official told Yonhap news agency that South Korea had asked UN human rights agencies to help ensure the safety of nine refugees.
Human Rights Watch, meanwhile, accused both Laos and China of showing blatant disregard for the group's welfare by returning them to North Korea.
"These three governments will share the blame if further harm comes to these people," Deputy Asia Director Phil Robertson said.
In a statement, the US State Department urged "all countries in the region to co-operate in the protection of North Korean refugees within their territories".
Most North Korean refugees leave via China and head for nations in South East Asia, from where they can get to South Korea - which provides financial assistance and training.
Last year, just over 1,500 North Koreans arrived in the South, official figures showed. Rights groups say refugees who are repatriated can face punishment and imprisonment.
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Kisner wobbled on some of the closing holes but finished on seven under, a shot ahead of fellow American Chris Stroud and Japan's Hideki Matsuyama
Stroud carded a level-par 71 while Matsuyama, who started level with Kisner, slipped back with a 73.
Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth finished four over and three over respectively.
Despite firing a 71, it effectively ends American Spieth's hopes of breaking Tiger Woods' record as the youngest career Grand Slam champion as he will begin the final round 10 shots adrift of Kisner.
Another American, Justin Thomas, made a two-under 69 to tie for fourth alongside South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen who shot 71.
Former US PGA champion Jason Day carded a quadruple bogey eight on the 18th to fall from four under to level par, eight off the lead.
England's Paul Casey finished bogey, bogey, double bogey to drop back to level par but remains the highest placed British player.
Kisner and Stroud will be the final pairing to tee off on Sunday at 19:45 BST and the winner of the tournament has come from the last group in 18 of the past 20 years.
Kisner's consistency had seen him finish as co-leader in the opening two rounds and he continued that until a bogey on the 12th ended a run of 25 holes without dropping a shot.
He recovered with birdies on 14 and 15 to stretch his lead and move to 10 under.
But on 16 - the first of Quail Hollow's fearsome closing stretch nicknamed the 'Green Mile - he found the water and made double bogey.
That took the world number 25 back to eight under and briefly level with Stroud before the latter bogeyed the 17th moments later and did the same on 18.
Kisner made par on 17 but on the final hole hit his second shot into a stream only for it to fortunately bounce out and into the rough.
The American could only make bogey though which saw his lead cut back to one shot.
"I didn't make the putts I've been making the first two days and had just a terrible finish there," said Kisner.
"It feels easy until you smack one in the water and then it seems hard again."
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Day - US PGA winner in 2015 - started the day on six under putting him in the final group alongside Kisner and Matsuyama.
His round included four birdies, four bogeys, a double bogey and a quadruple bogey as he ended out of contention.
The Australian started the 18th hole four shots off the lead but hit his first short close behind a tree.
From there he attempted a risky second around the tree but only succeeded in hitting the ball further right and into more bushes.
He was forced to chip out and after eventually reaching the green, three-putted for an eight.
Day's playing partner Matsuyama lacked the precision of his previous rounds and carded three bogeys as he bids to become Japan's first male major winner.
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The build-up to this year's event was heavily focussed on McIlroy and Spieth with the Northern Ireland player favourite at Quail Hollow - where he holds the course record - and the American bidding to beat that record held by compatriot Woods.
Neither had threatened the top of the leaderboard in the opening rounds but day three was where their challenges ended.
McIlroy said he required "two 67s" to have a "really good chance" after finishing his first 36 holes on two over, but instead hit a two-over-par 73 which included five bogeys.
"It was sort of the same as the first couple of rounds," McIlroy said. "I have been struggling to get anything going."
Spieth played a better level-par round which included three consecutive birdies on the back nine before being spoiled by a double bogey six on the 18th hole.
Woods was aged 24 years, seven months and 25 days when he completed the full set of majors and Spieth will be older than that when he returns for the US PGA - the only major he is yet to win - when it moves to May in 2018.
"I didn't have it written in a diary from when I was young that I need to win a career Grand Slam as the youngest ever. That wasn't the goal," Spieth said.
"The PGA Championship I think is going to be the toughest for me. I think I will play this tournament worse than the other three majors just in the way that it's set up."
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More than 50 of the marine mammals were sighted at the weekend in the sea between Point Lynas and Porthwen.
Sea Watch Foundation director Dr Peter Evans said he came across several groups on Saturday and Sunday.
He described the numbers gathered in Welsh waters as "exceptional".
The dolphin species is not a common visitor to UK shores, with only a handful normally seen in this area every year.
"They do come to the same areas every year - but normally there are no more than about 10 or a dozen at most," said Dr Evans.
The Risso's dolphin is the largest of the species, with adults appearing almost white, which has seen them sometimes mistaken for killer whales.
There were also large numbers of younger animals in the groups, which are a darker grey and brown.
"These were engaged in lots of playful behaviour, swimming in a tight bunch often in direct contact with one another," said Dr Evans.
The mammals feed on squid, octopus and cuttlefish, which experts believe are the clue to why so many of the dolphins have appeared.
"I imagine there is plenty of food around at the moment, and that is what has attracted them," he said.
The sightings will help provide vital scientific data for the Sea Watch Foundation and researchers, as the migration patterns of the dolphins are still shrouded in mystery.
Some images snapped by Dr Evans show known individual dolphins, identified by scars, and will be compared with photographs of Risso's dolphins seen recently near the Isle of Man.
Dr Evans said it will help establish the movements of the groups over the autumn months, before they disappear into deeper westerly waters for the winter - returning to the Irish Sea in the spring.
He also urged anyone spotting dolphins off the Welsh coast to let the Sea Watch Foundation know, so they can continue to monitor and help protect dolphin populations.
Garnant ward councillor Kevin Madge will be succeeded as Labour leader by Jeff Edmunds, from Llanelli, who represents the Bigyn ward.
The decision was made at the local party's annual general meeting on Monday.
Mr Madge has led the council in coalition with independent councillors since 2012.
He survived a no confidence vote in February 2014 after the Wales Audit Office ruled the council's chief executive Mark James had received "unlawful" pension payments.
Commenting on Mr Madge's replacement, Plaid Cymru assembly member Rhodri Glyn Thomas said: "I and my colleagues have always maintained that Kevin should have done the honourable thing and resigned his position after the council's unlawful pension payments scandal was exposed.
"It is curious, though, that those who then gave him a vote of confidence have now ousted him from office."
Mr Edmunds's name is expected to be submitted for the leadership of the council at the authority's annual general meeting on 20 May.
Grit Birch, 45, of Rifford Road, Exeter, faces two charges of money laundering under the Proceeds of Crime Act and four fraud charges.
She is jointly charged on these counts with 62-year-old Joseph Birch, of Horns Cross, North Devon.
He has been remanded in custody while Grit Birch was granted conditional bail.
Ms Birch is accused of removing criminal property worth £1,872,308.50 by a bank transfer to Liechtenstein between June and August 2003.
She faces a second charge of converting criminal property worth £734,000 to buy a car, furniture and fittings and pay for building work at Higher Lowton farm at North Tawton, Devon, in 2005.
Ms Birch also faces four charges of fraud by false representation relating to amounts totalling £3.3m and centred on Las Vegas and New York.
She also faces a charge that between 2008 and 2013 she concealed, disguised, converted, transferred or removed criminal property totalling £3,268,622 by means of cash withdrawals and payments for personal items.
Mr Birch also faces a charge of possessing ammunition for a firearm.
He told the crowd in a packed football stadium in the city of Morelia that they were "the wealth of this land".
Michoacan has seen some of the worst violence in Mexico's drug war, which has left more than 100,000 people dead or missing in the past 10 years.
On Wednesday, the Pope will hold a mass in Ciudad Juarez on the US border.
Francis is expected to speak about the plight of migrants and will also visit a prison in the northern city, as he concludes his five-day visit to Mexico.
Tens of thousands of people will be travelling to Ciudad Juarez from El Paso, Texas, to listen to the pontiff's speech.
Mexicans hope papal visit brings change
"Don't lose the charm of dreaming. Dare to dream," Pope Francis told the crowd in Morelia on Tuesday.
"I understand that often it is difficult to feel your value when you are continually exposed to the loss of friends or relatives at the hands of the drug trade, of drugs themselves, of criminal organisations that sow terror.
"It is a lie to believe that the only way to live, or to be young, is to entrust oneself to drug dealers or others who do nothing but sow destruction and death.
"Jesus would never ask us to be assassins; rather, he calls us to be disciples," the pontiff said.
He earlier told members of the local clergy not to give up in the face of violence and corruption.
"Faced with this reality, the devil can overcome us with one of his favourite weapons: resignation," Francis warned.
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They spoke to BBC Asian Network on the understanding their real names would not be used, with one recalling how unmarried women were advised to shun her in case pregnancy difficulties were "passed on".
Another called for more understanding about a subject she said was "taboo" in South Asian communities.
The women are from these communities in the West Midlands and an infertility specialist said such attitudes were familiar.
Dr Geetha Venkhat, from Harley Street Fertility Clinic, said: "The blame [for miscarriage] is usually put on [the woman]. Some people believe it's supernatural, maybe it’s a curse, but scientifically none of this makes any sense.
"We have to educate people in our community."
The light beams travel through the eyelids and this tells the brain to re-set the body's inner biological clock, the Stanford researchers believe.
They tested the method in 39 volunteers and found it shifted a person's body clock by about two hours.
An hour of the flashlight therapy was enough to achieve this effect.
People's bodies synchronise to the 24-hour pattern of daytime and night they are used to. And when they travel across time zones to a new light-dark schedule, they need to realign.
While most people can easily manage a long-haul flight across one or two time zones, crossing several time zones messes with the body clock.
Jet lag can leave travellers tired, irritable and disorientated for days.
As a remedy, some people take melatonin tablets, which mimic a hormone released in the evening.
Some try phototherapy - light boxes that simulate daylight.
But Dr Jamie Zeitzer and colleagues at Stanford University School of Medicine believe sleeping in front of a strobe light could work better.
They asked volunteers to go to bed and wake up at the same times every day for about two weeks.
Next, they were asked to sleep in the lab, where some were exposed to continuous light and others a strobe light (two-millisecond flashes of light, similar to a camera flash, 10 seconds apart) for an hour.
The flashing-light group reported a nearly two-hour delay in the onset of sleepiness the following night.
In comparison, the delay in sleepiness was 36 minutes for the continuous-light group.
Dr Zeitzer calls his therapy "biological hacking". Cells in the back of the eye that detect the light send messages to a part of the brain that sets the body clock.
The light fools the brain into thinking the day is longer than it really is, which shifts the inner clock.
"This could be a new way of adjusting much more quickly to time changes than other methods in use today," Dr Zeitzer said.
Flashing light was particularly powerful because it gave the light-detecting cells at the back of the eye a chance to recover or recalibrate in the darkness between the flashes, he added.
Stuart Peirson, an expert in neuroscience at Oxford University, said: "It is great to see advances in this area being translated into effective treatments.
"Whilst drugs can be used to shift the clock, light is readily available and is what our bodies have evolved to respond to.
"I'm amazed that they got such a dramatic effect.
"You would normally have to sit in front of a light box for several hours to get an effect.
"The idea underlying this is certainly based on solid biology."
The coastguard was called at 16:44 GMT on Wednesday after the pair got stranded between Constitution Hill and Clarach near the Ceredigion town.
Aberystwyth and Borth coastguard teams rescued the walkers and the coastguard helicopter from Caernarfon also attended.
The pair were uninjured.
Edwardian goalkeeper Leigh Richmond Roose - born in Holt, Wrexham, in 1877 - dominated the sport, playing for many clubs and winning 24 caps for Wales.
He also made headlines off the pitch, courting married music hall star Marie Lloyd.
Children and artists will create a collage of Rhoose in Wrexham.
The pupils from Alexandra Community Primary School and St Giles VC Church in Wales Primary will recreate the footballer's role in the first international match to be captured on film, between Wales and Ireland at Wrexham's Racecourse ground on 2 April 1906.
The silent black and white film, which lasts for two minutes 10 seconds, is now lodged for safe keeping with the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales, in Aberystwyth.
Kevin Critchley, the manager of Eagles Meadow shopping centre where the collage is to be displayed, said: "It has always been and always will be a football-mad town and it is right and proper we remember the important part Wrexham has played in the history of world football, along with the story of the remarkable Leigh Richmond Roose."
Roose started his amateur career at Aberystwyth Town in 1895, while studying medicine at the university there.
At first he was famed for his antics - turning his back on play to tell jokes to the crowd and performing acrobatics from the crossbar.
But within five years he had led the team to the Welsh Cup and was increasingly appreciated for the style of play which earned him his big money move to the English First Division.
He went onto play for Stoke City, Everton, Sunderland, Celtic, Aston Villa and Woolwich Arsenal.
His biographer, Spencer Vignes, explained the Football Association was even forced to change the rules of the game because of him.
"Before Leigh, goalkeepers were just shot-stoppers, if they came off their line they had no protection from being punched, shoulder-charged and trampled by the forwards, in a game which was vastly more physical than today.
"Usually they were too terrified to come out of their goal, even though - in those days - they were allowed to handle the ball anywhere in their own half of the field.
"But Leigh was such a physical specimen that he could take on the forwards at their own game.
"He'd flatten the striker, catch the ball, and carry play up field like a rugby fullback does today.
"So in 1912, at the end of his career, the rules were changed so that keepers could only handle the ball inside the penalty area."
At the outbreak of World War One, Roose joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, and latterly the Royal Fusiliers, for whom he earned the Military Medal.
But just weeks after learning of the honour, Roose was killed on 7 October, 1916, in the final days of The Battle of The Somme.
The group, aged between 43 and 76, were detained on Tuesday after raids were carried out on 12 properties in the London and Kent areas.
Brian Reader has been named as the 76-year-old. He was arrested in Dartford.
The contents of 56 safe deposit boxes were taken during the raid in London's jewellery district over the Easter weekend.
All nine suspects, described as white British men, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to burgle.
Four, aged between 48 and 74, were arrested in Enfield, north London.
A 59-year-old was detained in north London while Mr Reader was held alongside a 50-year-old in Dartford, Kent.
The two remaining men were also arrested in North London.
Officers have continued to search a number of addresses in connection with the arrests.
Det Supt Craig Turner, head of the Met Police Flying Squad, appealed for information about a white Transit van seen at the time of the raid.
He said the vehicle, registration DU53 VNG, had been captured on CCTV near Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd on 2 April.
The footage had been in police hands for "quite a period of time", Det Supt Turner said, but it had not been released for operational reasons.
The Flying Squad also apologised after confirming alarm response procedures had not been followed, but rejected the suggestion they were bungling "Keystone Kops".
There has been no official detail of what was stolen but it is believed jewellery worth up to £200m was taken during the raid.
The Premiership leaders conceded three tries in the first eight minutes and eight in total as they were beaten 64-23 at Allianz Park on Sunday.
"We didn't see it coming and it's hard to put into words what happened out there," he told BBC Radio London.
"This is a very big setback. The important thing is what happens next."
Saracens conceded the most points at home in their history as they suffered just their second defeat of the season.
"It went wrong right from the beginning and we were given a real lesson by Wasps with and without the ball," McCall added.
"When you concede 60 points, there is clearly an issue. Every time they got down our end they came away with a try.
"We have shown some real energy and resilience in the last couple of performances but that, as a collective, wasn't the case against Wasps."
Saracens had seven players on Six Nations duty with England in Italy, but McCall declined to blame international commitments for their defeat.
"This squad we played with had a great result at Exeter last week, so we are not going to use that as an excuse," the 48-year-old said.
"This is a challenging period, no question about that.
"Next week we play against a team on form in Gloucester. It is important we put some of the really bad things right."
After Mohammed Rehman, 25, discussed possible targets on Twitter under the name Silent Bomber, an investigator contacted him.
Mr Rehman allegedly told him he was planning a martyr operation.
He and his wife Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, both of Reading, deny charges of preparing terrorist acts.
About two weeks before their arrest, Mr Rehman's Twitter account came to the attention of anti-terrorism authorities.
He argued with and taunted other users after asking whether his target should be a "Westfield shopping centre or London Underground".
Mr Rehman allegedly wanted to carry out an attack on the 10th anniversary of the 7 July bombings.
Prosecutor Tony Badenoch QC told an Old Bailey jury an undercover investigator, who used the name Abu Mohammed, then engaged Mr Rehman in a private conversation.
He said: "Silent Bomber revealed his true intentions, asking 'how dumb these Kuffar are lol'."
Mr Rehman also told the officer he was "preparing against them" before his account was suspended, but he reactivated it under slightly different details a week later, the court heard.
"He told the undercover investigator that he was preparing for a Istishaadi (martyr) operation," Mr Badenoch said.
"The level of commitment to an atrocity was perfectly clear, as Mohammed Rehman also asked the undercover investigator if he wanted to join him in a joint operation or whether he preferred to follow the lone-wolf route."
He is also charged with possessing an article for terrorist purposes.
It is understood a number of tractors and farm vehicles are parked at the entrance to the Lidl regional distribution centre near Nutts Corner.
There have been several protests by farmers about the slump in milk prices in recent weeks.
These have been held across the UK.
Earlier on Tuesday, Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill met Environment Secretary Liz Truss in London to seek support in lobbying the European Union over the dairy crisis.
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The female cat was thrown out of a stationary, dark-coloured 4x4 onto Oakfield Street in the early hours of Wednesday.
It is not clear whether the cat was purposely dumped or had climbed into the car.
It was picked up by a member of the public who looked after it before it was taken to the Scottish SPCA centre in Edinburgh.
SSPCA Ch Insp John Chisholm said: "She's been named Cleo by our centre staff in Edinburgh where she is now recovering from her ordeal.
"We are unsure if she was purposely dumped or climbed into the person's car accidentally.
"She's a friendly cat but is still slightly nervous, which is understandable as she's not had the best couple of days."
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UK and Wales Green Party leaders Natalie Bennett and Pippa Bartolotti joined about 200 people on the march from the Guildhall at 12.30 BST.
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It was announced at the end of last month that all current accounts with the Norwich and Peterborough building society will be closed by the end of August.
The brand will also be abolished, and some branches closed.
The society's parent mutual said customers would be helped to switch.
Owners Yorkshire Building Society (YBS), the UK's second largest mutual, said it would close 28 N&P branches this year. The others will be rebranded as YBS branches.
Customers who want to continue operating a current account will have to find a new bank or building society.
Mike Regnier, chief executive of YBS, told BBC Radio 4's Money Box that it was a "real shame" that the accounts had to close. He said that too much investment would be required to keep the current accounts compliant with regulation if offered by the mutual.
Instead it is to concentrate on savings and mortgage products.
He said that the society was working with High Street banks to assist people as they switched accounts, even though the building society is not part of the official current account switching service.
Customers with overdrafts would be able to find a home with a selection of banks, he added.
Regarding branch closures, he said that a regional building society was not immune to the advance of digital banking.
The branches being closed in the society's latest round of shut downs had an average of seven customers a day, he said.
They were cheered by 500,000 well-wishers who gathered outside the palace, as RAF planes flew past in honour of the new royal couple.
In the evening the pair returned to the Palace for a dinner and dance, expected to continue into the early hours.
The couple will now be known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Police estimate a million people lined the procession route from the abbey to the palace following the wedding.
Prince William later drove his new bride back to Clarence House, following a buffet reception at Buckingham Palace, at the wheel of his father's classic blue Aston Martin, before returning to the palace in the evening.
The vehicle was decked in ribbons and balloons with "Just Wed" on the number plate.
The church service, watched by 1,900 guests, ran smoothly but the prince did struggle to place the wedding ring on the duchess's finger.
Following a long tradition, the ring has been fashioned from Welsh gold given to Prince William by the Queen.
After the couple said their vows - in which the bride did not promise to obey her husband - the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Dr Rowan Williams, declared: "I pronounce that they be man and wife together, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen."
They spent a private moment together with their families, as they signed the marriage register.
Prince William has been given the title of the Duke of Cambridge by the Queen, and Miss Middleton has become Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge on their marriage.
The duchess, who managed to keep her wedding dress a secret, wore an ivory and lace gown by Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen. The prince wore the red tunic of an Irish Guards colonel - his most senior honorary appointment.
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The excitement, which had been building throughout the morning, peaked at about 1330 BST when the prince kissed his new bride.
The crowd, decked in union jacks, tiaras, and fascinators, reacted with deafening cheers and demands for more.
Much neck-craning was required for the best view of the spectacle, which was obscured by a sea of cameras, periscopes and flags.
Some people had tears in their eyes as they watched the fly-past, with "amazing" a common response when asked about the day's events.
As one American spectator put it, "No-one does pageantry like the British - you can't help being infected by the energy and emotion."
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Among the guests at Westminster Abbey were singer-songwriter Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish, former England rugby coach Sir Clive Woodward, and former England football captain David Beckham and his wife Victoria.
Actor Rowan Atkinson, a close friend of Prince Charles, Prince Harry's friend Chelsy Davy and film director Guy Ritchie were also there.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha, Australian prime minister Julia Gillard and former British PM Sir John Major were among the politicians present.
For those lining the route, large speakers broadcast the wedding service, and hundreds of millions of people were estimated to watch the proceedings worldwide on television.
Royal officials said the couple were involved in planning their wedding day, from the music at the ceremony to the flowers and the cake.
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Inside Westminster Abbey, an avenue of trees lined the red carpet leading up to the altar.
The bride walked up the aisle to coronation anthem I Was Glad, by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, from Psalm 122. Her brother James Middleton gave the Lesson, reading Romans 12: 1-2, 9-18.
Classical compositions by Elgar, Britten and Vaughan Williams featured during the ceremony, alongside the hymn Jerusalem and the English melody Greensleeves.
A canape reception was held for 650 guests at Buckingham Palace in the afternoon.
Later, about 300 close friends and relatives were invited to a dinner and disco, hosted by Prince Charles.
The couple changed outfits for the event - Prince William was in black tie while his bride wore a strapless white satin gazar evening gown with diamante embroidered detail round the waist, by the same designer, Sarah Burton.
But the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh left for a weekend away after hosting the lunchtime reception.
They will miss Prince Harry's best man speech and Michael Middleton's father of the bride address.
Despite predictions of showers, the weather stayed dry for the royal couple. Temperatures in London reached around 18C (64.4F) at 2pm.
The £842m facility, formerly known as the South Glasgow University Hospital, started taking patients in April.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the hospital and the next-door Royal Hospital for Sick Children during a day in Glasgow.
The 1,109-bed facility was built on the site of Southern General is one of the largest acute hospitals in the UK.
The new campus, which has been dubbed a "super-hospital", replaces the Royal Hospital for Sick Kids at Yorkhill, the Southern General Hospital, the Western and Victoria infirmaries and the Mansionhouse Unit.
Operated by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, it incorporates two accident and emergency departments, one for adults and one for children, a maternity hospital, and state-of-the-art laboratory services.
During their visit to Glasgow, the Queen and Prince Philip also attended the opening of a new research unit at Strathclyde University, where they took part in a minute's silence for the victims of the Tunisia shootings.
They then attended the official openings of the two hospitals, which were formally named the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children.
The royals were greeted by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Health Minister Shona Robison, before embarking on a tour of the wards where they met patients and staff.
Batsman Duckett, 21, is also nominated for PCA Young Player of the Year, with the awards given for performances in the County Championship this season.
There are three Women's Player of the Summer nominations - Tammy Beaumont, Natalie Sciver and Lauren Winfield.
The awards dinner is on 29 September.
Kent's Daniel Bell-Drummond, Surrey's Sam Curran and Lancashire's Haseeb Hameed have also been put forward for the young player award.
Duckett, who has been named in England's winter tour squad for Bangladesh, has made 1,338 runs in Division Two this summer, including two double centuries.
South Africa-born opening batsman Jennings, 24, who has been included in the England Lions' winter programme, is the County Championship's leading run-scorer with 1,522 runs in Division One, having hit seven centuries.
New Zealand international spinner Patel, 36, is the leading Championship wicket-taker with 66 Division One victims.
Perennial one-day matchwinner Napier, 36, is set to retire and has enjoyed a fine final Championship season, taking 63 wickets and making 298 runs to help Essex win promotion as Division Two champions.
Chief constable Ian Hopkins told BBC Radio Manchester the bomber was arrested for minor offences in 2012.
Prevent aims to deradicalise young people or prevent others from being radicalised.
MI5 has launched an inquiry into how it dealt with warnings from the public about Abedi.
Two people who knew Abedi while he was a college student made separate calls to an anti-terrorism hotline to warn police about his extremist views.
Mr Hopkins said: "At this stage I have no other information other than what is on our system about his theft, receiving stolen goods, minor assault... Five years ago, so he would have been 16/17."
"Abedi was not known to the Prevent programme, was not on any sort of Prevent agenda," he said.
He added the force would continue to check previous records but said: "Obviously I am not privy to what the security service did or didn't know about that individual at this time."
Over the next three days, military personnel deployed under Operation Temperer will be stood down after the UK terror threat level was downgraded to severe.
British troops who have been guarding key locations including Buckingham Palace in the days after the attack will be removed.
Meanwhile, Manchester Victoria railway station reopened on Tuesday more than a week after the attack at the city's arena.
The station, attached to Manchester Arena, was shut after the bombing at the Ariana Grande concert, which left 22 people dead and dozens injured.
Staff were visibly upset when they returned to work, with 15 of them among those first on the scene. They were joined by Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to lay wreaths.
Mr Burnham told the BBC: "People went above and beyond what you would expect. Those who rushed into the danger were station staff.
"In these moments, you do see the best of people, you see the best of our public services and it is quite awe-inspiring to hear that."
By Michelle Adamson, BBC Manchester reporter at Victoria station
There is a sombre atmosphere among commuters as Victoria station reopens.
The heartache is still raw following the Arena attack and some commuters are in tears as they attempt to get back to their normal routines.
People have been emotional but what unites them all is a steely defiance to carry on. Commuter Hannah Khan, 32, said: "I just want to hold my hands out and hug everyone."
Black cab driver George Berry, 60, from Bury, is back on the taxi rank at Victoria Station.
He said he had "mixed feelings but I'm glad to be back at work".
He said the lives of those not directly affected by the attacks would be returning to normal.
"They won't forget, but you have to make a living."
Hamilton, 22, has been the Edinburgh club's first choice goalkeeper this season, having made his debut in August 2014.
Defender Souttar, 20, was signed from Dundee United on a three-and-a-half year contract in February 2016.
Currie, 19, made his Premiership debut in November and has scored once in nine appearances.
"This is positive news and shows that this club continues doing what it has always done, in committing to and excelling in the development of young Scottish players," head coach Ian Cathro told the club website.
"These are three players who are at different stages of their development but have all had a positive impact at first-team level.
"Our priority is to always work to improve the squad, we will work collectively across all number of markets to try and do this, however as this club has shown many times before - it's commitment to and focus on the development of its own players - and of young Scottish players - will always be of the greatest importance."
The 22-year-old Croat defender's move fell through late on deadline day.
"It is not true that I have not passed [a] medical," he said on Twitter.
"Everything was perfect, I am completely healthy and fit. Transfer was not realised because Torino at the last minute wanted to change the initial agreement with Celtic."
Simunovic joined Celtic from Dinamo Zagreb exactly a year ago but made the last of his 18 appearances in January, when he suffered a knee injury against St Johnstone.
Some reports claimed that Torino had reservations following medical checks after Simunovic travelled to Italy.
But the player refuted those accounts and said he was speaking out because, "most important of all", he wanted to stress that he remains committed to Celtic.
He must now fight for his place in Brendan Rodgers' side with fellow central defenders Kolo Toure, Eoghan O'Connell, Erik Sviatchenko and Efe Ambrose.
"I prefer to talk only on the field, but this time I want to say something to the Celtic fans who have always supported me and as a player it means a lot to me," said Simunovic.
"My head is in Celtic and I am 100% focused on the field and the challenges ahead.
"I am fit, I train with the team and, of course, the coach decides when I will start to play.
"And, when I start, I can promise one thing. I'm going to give more than maximum for Celtic.
"Behind me is 'turbulent' period, starting from injury until transfer to Turin."
Celtic's only deadline-day business was to loan right-back Saidy Janko to Barnsley for the season.
Simunovic's fellow central defender, Ambrose, rejected a transfer to Belgian top-flight club Standard Liege after a fee was agreed between the clubs.
WBA world super bantamweight champion Rigondeaux, 35, boxes in the UK for the first time as he defends his title against Liverpool's Jazza Dickens.
He is widely considered to be one of the world's top pound-for-pound boxers.
"I know you guys are great boxing fans and I am ready to go for you," Rigondeaux told BBC Wales Sport.
Rigondeaux is undefeated in 16 bouts as a professional and recorded 475 victories in 487 contests as an amateur.
The Cuba-born fighter won gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and in 2004 in Athens.
He co-headlines a bill featuring WBO world lightweight champion Terry Flanagan's defence against former IBF world champion Mzonke Fana.
British and Commonwealth super welterweight champion Liam Williams, from Clydach Vale, also defends his titles against Gary Corcoran in front of his hometown fans.
Rigondeaux's coach Pedro Diaz, who also trained the now Miami-based boxer in his amateur career, says his fighter could well be the best in the world.
"If he is not the best he is the most complete," Diaz told BBC Wales Sport.
"It is difficult to speak about who is the best, there are a lot of good boxers.
"For us, he is in a class of his own, he is an extraordinary boxer. He is the only champion to only fight boxers with winning records."
On 21 May, she stood on top of the world, defying all conceivable odds, and achieved what was unthinkable to many.
"I turned my artificial leg into my strength and stubbornly chose the most difficult sport for myself," says Ms Sinha, a former national-level volleyball player.
There are inspiring words from an extraordinary woman. Also, a stunning demonstration of how she turned her supposed weakness into a winning force.
"When I reached the summit, I felt like screaming at the top of my voice. I wanted to tell the world: here I am. I have saved that moment inside me," she says.
"Actually, my screaming did not last long. You see, I didn't have much energy left. Had I been a painter, I would have tried to capture that image on a canvas," she adds.
Just two years ago, Ms Sinha says it was her "darkest hour".
Her life changed when she was "pushed out of the train" after she refused to hand over her gold chain to robbers.
Police disputed her version - they said she was either attempting suicide or had jumped out to evade arrest for travelling without a valid ticket. The fate of the case is unknown.
Ms Sinha was admitted to hospital with serious leg and pelvic injuries. Doctors had to amputate her left leg below the knee to save her life. A rod had to be inserted inside her leg to provide support to the damaged limb.
"I was shattered. Here was someone who was totally independent, and now I was dependent on others for support. Visitors who came to see me at the hospital showed sympathy. But then I decided to do something that would inspire others."
She says her family's support gave her immense confidence.
"I decided to challenge myself with the toughest sport. And I chased my dream with passion."
Equipped with a prosthetic leg and an iron will, Ms Sinha rang up Bachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to scale Mount Everest in 1984, as soon as the hospital discharged her four months later.
She had read about Pal but did not know her personally. Pal heads an adventure foundation, supported by India's Tata Steel company, in the city of Jamshedpur in the eastern state of Jharkhand.
Sinha underwent a year of rigorous training in Uttarkashi in the northern state of Uttarakhand which demanded toughness - both physical and mental.
"I felt low when I couldn't catch up with other 'normal' able-bodied people. But I was determined to outpace them. And I did," she says.
It took her 52 days of torturous climbing on the snowy peaks to conquer the 8,850m (29,000 ft) summit.
At one point, fearing that her energy and oxygen levels were depleting fast, her team leader suggested that she return. But she refused.
While descending, she began to sweat so profusely that at one point she felt the prosthetic leg would slip out.
"I couldn't take off my gloves to support the leg for fear of frostbite, so I dragged myself till the camp," she says.
Ms Sinha has dedicated her achievement "to those who lose hope".
She is now busy with plans to open a sports academy for the poor and physically challenged children. For this purpose, she has already bought a piece of land in Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh.
"I want to train these children so that they achieve their dream. This is my dream too," she says.
B Ramalinga Raju, who founded the software services giant, denied charges of conspiracy, cheating and forgery but admitted to accounting malpractices.
Raju was also fined $800,000.
The collapse of Satyam Computers in 2009 cost shareholders more than $2bn and rocked India's IT industry.
The BBC's Simon Atkinson in Mumbai says it is the biggest fraud at a listed company in India.
The convicted men are expected to appeal. The maximum sentence Raju faced was life in jail.
Analysis: Theo Leggett, BBC News
It's often described as India's Enron - and certainly the fraud at Satyam had much in common with the scandal that brought down the US energy giant in 2001. In both cases, the men in the boardroom systematically inflated profits in order to make their companies appear much healthier than they actually were.
Enron executives also concealed substantial debts. Both affairs, when they came to light, caused widespread shock and undermined confidence in the corporate sector. But the consequences of the Enron scandal were much greater. It caused the company to collapse. 20,000 employees lost their livelihoods and shareholders lost more than $70bn.
In the case of Satyam, the Indian government intervened to keep the company operating and engineered a takeover by the Mahindra Group. Shareholders still lost money, but the wider fallout from the scandal was much more limited.
Satyam was one of the biggest players in the booming Indian software market. The jobs of 50,000 Satyam workers were only saved after the government intervened.
Another Indian firm, Tech Mahindra, bought a controlling stake in the company in April 2009.
"All the accused have been convicted of almost all charges," prosecutor K Surender told reporters outside court,
Those convicted include two brothers of Raju.
Scandal timeline
The scandal emerged in January 2009 when Mr Raju, one of the pioneers in the Indian IT industry and Satyam's founder and then chairman, confessed to manipulating his company's accounts and inflating profits over many years to the tune of about $1.15bn.
In a letter to the board he claimed he had fudged the numbers in order to be in the top four of the Indian IT industry.
"The concern was that poor performance would result in a takeover," he told shareholders.
"It was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten."
Prosecutors say that when the scam unravelled, it cost shareholders $2.3bn at today's rates.
The scam had been going on for nine years and the confession sent shockwaves across the industry.
Court papers filed by India's stock market regulator said that Mr Raju along with 13 other friends and family made about $400m in illegal wealth in the scam - by cashing in on a surging share price - offloading stakes in the company at a high price and making substantial profits despite knowing that accounts were overstated.
Raju was arrested in January 2009 and jailed before being bailed two years later. He also spent nearly a year in hospital being treated for hepatitis.
Satyam had been one of the biggest players in the booming Indian IT software market, supplying back-office services to firms from around the world, including General Electric and Qantas Airways.
Sir Paul joins the likes of Bob Dylan and Sir Paul McCartney in becoming an officer of the Légion d'honneur, or Legion of Honour.
French Ambassador to the UK, Sylvie Bermann, presented him with a medal at a ceremony in London.
The Nottingham-born designer said he was "thrilled".
"It feels very special because I've had a strong relationship with Paris especially, but with France for about 40 years now," he said in a video on the Embassy of France in the UK YouTube channel:
"I've had 80 fashion shows in Paris and I've got five shops so to have this honour is really lovely, very special."
The designer's first shop, which opened in Nottingham in 1970, had a French name "Vêtements pour Hommes", meaning men's clothes.
Mr Smith held his first fashion show in Paris in 1976 and has shown each new collection in the capital since then.
Sylvie Bermann described him as a "revolutionary figure in British design" who had "left an indelible mark on French fashion".
"I am thrilled that this uniquely talented man chose to make France a focal point for his creativity and entrepreneurship," she said.
"He is an inspiration to a whole generation of young designers on both sides of the Channel."
The Legion of Honour was created by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802, and officer is the second highest of five ranks.
The pictures were published by the team investigating the 1989 tragedy, in which 96 people died after a crush during an FA Cup game in Sheffield.
In total, pictures of 100 people at the Liverpool v Nottingham semi-final match have been released in 10 appeals.
Of those, 47 have been identified or have come forward.
Images of those yet to be traced are available on the Operation Resolve website.
New inquests into the disaster are being held in Warrington, Cheshire.
Pwllheli and Barmouth stations in Gwynedd are each getting the charity's "most agile and manoeuvrable" Shannon class all-weather lifeboat at a total cost of £4.4m.
New Quay station in Ceredigion will have its Mersey class all-weather lifeboat replaced with a much smaller inshore one, costing £214,000.
The RNLI said the decision was the result of a five-year coast review.
All three stations currently run Mersey class all-weather lifeboats, which are said to be "nearing the end of their operational life".
The charity said the new lifeboats will allow volunteer crews to "respond quicker and travel further to help those in trouble at sea".
Pwllheli and Barmouth will receive their new lifeboats once building work to modify their stations is complete, and the change at New Quay will happen in 2020.
Capt William Pritchard was killed when British forces blew up Normandy Dock, St Nazaire, in 1942, in a bid to prevent the Tirpitz leaving.
The attack put the dock and the Tirpitz out of action until after the war.
The battleship was later sunk off the coast of Norway.
Royal Engineer Capt Pritchard, of Llandaff, came up with the plan after witnessing the bombing of Cardiff docks in 1941.
RAF bombs were not accurate enough to hit the gate of Normandy Dock in the French port from afar so he devised a plan to blow it up from the inside.
He remodelled an old ship - HMS Campbeltown - to look like a German vessel and placed a four-and-a-half tonne bomb on board.
Training for the mission took place at Cardiff docks.
The plaque was unveiled at a short ceremony in Llandaff on Wednesday.
On the night of 28 March 1942, HMS Campbeltown made it part way up the Loire estuary before the Germans detected it.
But it managed to reach the dock and the British commandos onboard off-loaded and began destroying what they could.
Hours after it was supposed to have destroyed the gates, the bomb on HMS Campbeltown had still not blown.
The Germans, not realising explosives were on board, had begun a tour of the ship, when just before midday the next day, it finally detonated.
Nearly 170 British servicemen, including Capt Pritchard were killed in the attack.
Many survivors were captured and spent the rest of the war as prisoners at Colditz.
To mark his contribution to the mission, known as Operation Chariot, The Llandaff Society, Royal Engineers in Cardiff and St Nazaire Society funded the plaque in Capt Pritchard's honour.
Michael Cook said the fight would go on to convince the RNLI that it was a very bad move.
The charity has confirmed the closure date at St Abbs of 8 September.
Thousands of people have signed a petition against the move but the RNLI has said an additional inshore boat will be provided at nearby Eyemouth.
Mr Cook said he believed the organisation had got its decision wrong.
"The simple fact is that they seem to be creating enhanced risk on the coastline around Berwickshire, particularly around St Abbs Head, by reducing the number of stations that they have available," he said.
"Try as everybody might, the effort to secure an explanation which really sets out the stall of the RNLI really hasn't availed us of anything at all.
"Their explanation seems to be caught up in the cost of alterations to the lifeboat house to accommodate a different type of boat.
"It really isn't very clever at all - and I think people are still bemused and they are angry."
An RNLI statement said it understood the disappointment in the area but said the "difficult decision" was "unanimous and final".
It added: "After the RNLI announced in May that the St Abbs lifeboat station was to close, there has been a hard-fought campaign by the station's volunteers and the community to keep it open.
"However, the charity is committed to putting another lifeboat at Eyemouth to cover St Abbs, which is only two nautical miles away.
"The crew at St Abbs have proved themselves to be committed and courageous in their service to the RNLI in the 104 years that the station has helped save lives at sea and the RNLI is very grateful to them and the community that has supported them.'"
Scottish Natural Heritage and Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University examined the sites in St Kilda and North Rona last year.
They said the entrances to the caves were teeming with life.
The creatures included scorpion fish, jewel anemones and lion's mane jellyfish.
North Rona is an uninhabited island that lies off Scotland's north west coast, while St Kilda is an archipelago off the Western Isles.
St Kilda was inhabited for thousands of years until 1930 when the last 36 islanders left.
Today, scientists, conservationists and workers at a military radar station spend months at a time on the main island of Hirta.
The Londoners WSTRN were announced as winners of best song and gave a speech before organisers revealed the prize should have gone to MC Abra Cadabra.
However, it is not the first time the wrong winner - or loser - has been announced at an awards ceremony or live on TV.
It was possibly the shortest reign in history.
One minute Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutierrez, was being hailed as the winner of Miss Universe, the next she was watching "her" crown being placed on the head of Miss Philippines, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach.
In a mistake of truly universal proportions, 2015 contest host Steve Harvey announced the wrong winner and the winner's sash and crown were put on the wrong woman. Harvey then had to tell the world a terrible mistake had been made. Awkward.
Miss Colombia mistakenly crowned as winner
The organisers may have got this one right, but one high-profile member of the audience certainly disagreed.
Singer Taylor Swift had just won best female video for her song You Belong With Me at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. However, Kanye West didn't agree with it.
Before Swift managed to utter a single thank you, the rapper snatched the microphone from her and proceeded to tell the audience - and everyone watching on TV - that Beyonce should have won. Cue opened-mouthed shock from Miss Swift.
Kanye West's rants, the best so far
"I'm feeling sick about this," Australia's Next Top Model presenter Sarah Murdoch uttered to the astonishment of viewers.
Kelsey Martinovich had already been crowned as 2010 champion by public vote and was halfway through her acceptance speech.
Murdoch - wife of Lachlan Murdoch, the eldest son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch - then announced the actual winner of the TV contest was 18-year-old Amanda Ware.
"This is what happens when you have live TV, folks," Murdoch added.
Australia's Next Top Model show crowns wrong winner
Not so much announcing the wrong winner, as announcing the correct loser at the wrong time.
X Factor host Olly Murs had to apologise to 2015 contestant Monica Michael after he announced to the nation that she was leaving the talent show.
In fact, he had miscounted the votes from the four judges, thinking that three judges were sending Monica home. It was actually tied two-two and it went down to the public vote.
She lost the vote anyway - but everyone then thought it was a fix.
Olly Murs apologises to X Factor Monica Michael
The UK public had been voting to decide who would represent the UK at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, with bubblegum pop group Scooch and solo singer Cyndi both among the hopeful finalists.
So there was understandable confusion when hosts Sir Terry Wogan and Fearne Cotton simultaneously announced different winners live on air.
Moments later Cotton announced that Scooch had indeed won the public vote. A BBC statement later apologised for the gaffe but confirmed Scooch had won and would be making the trip to Helsinki. Meanwhile, Cyndi's hopes of Euro glory were well and truly Finnish-ed.
Scooch later finished joint 22nd out of the 24 Eurovision finalists.
Gaffe mars Scooch Eurovision win
Somewhat bizarrely Michael Jackson actually accepted a non-existent award at the 2002 MTV video music awards.
The show happened to be held on the "King of Pop's" birthday, and after calling him on stage to receive a birthday cake, singer Britney Spears told the audience she considered him to be the "artist of the millennium".
Jackson then began a full acceptance speech.
"When I was a little boy growing up in Indiana if someone told me that one day as a musician I'd be getting the artist of the millennium award, I wouldn't have believed it," he said.
He thanked God, his mother, Diana Ross and magician David Blaine, among others.
Singer Katy Perry accepted the award for best international song during France's 2009 NRJ Music Awards, held in Cannes.
However, the gong wasn't actually meant for her. It should have been awarded to Rihanna.
Perry's embarrassment was eased slightly by the fact she did legitimately win best international album for her One of the Boys album at the same awards ceremony.
Sacré bleu.
DJ Brandon Block stumbled on stage at the 2000 Brit Awards believing he had won something.
In fact, Rolling Stones' guitarist Ronnie Wood and American Beauty actress Thora Birch were in the middle of presenting the best soundtrack award to the film Notting Hill.
Block later recalled that - having been enjoying the corporate hospitality to the full - he had been duped into thinking he had won an award by his mates, and had obligingly trooped up to collect it.
It ended with Block being manhandled by security and Wood throwing his drink over him.
After seeing a commotion outside Borough Market's Bread Ahead bakery, where he works, he invited some distressed Brazilian women inside and gave them a glass of water.
When they told him that three men were stabbing people in the market, he headed outside with two crates to tackle the attackers.
Speaking to the Victoria Derbyshire show, he said: "I felt pity for the victims, I didn't know how to handle things or react, I thought to myself I'm also in danger.
"I just threw the crate at [one of the attackers].
"I threw the first crate and I knew he was going to dodge it. While he was dodging it, I walked towards him and hit him in the head with the other crate."
He said a policeman then shouted at him to stand back, before discharging a grenade.
An off-duty policeman - an amateur rugby player - was stabbed after tackling one of the three attackers. He remains in critical condition.
Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick praised the "utterly heroic" actions of the officer, who was taken to hospital in a police car.
She said: "It's hard to pick out individual stories but I am immensely proud of him and what he did."
A British Transport Police officer, who faced the attackers armed only with a baton, was seriously injured but is now in a stable condition.
Chief Constable Paul Crowther from the BTP said the bravery he showed was "outstanding".
Giovanni Sagristani, 38, and his friends were in the El Pastor restaurant on Stoney Street when one of the attackers came in and stabbed a woman in the chest.
"He came in shouting and just stabbed her," he said.
Mr Sagristani's partner Carlos Pinto, 33, who works as a critical care nurse in London, looked after the woman, with the help of his friend, another nurse.
"They took some ice and cloths and tried to stop the bleeding. She lost half a litre of blood in the beginning. He was keeping pressure on the wound," Mr Sagristani said.
He said fellow diners had managed to push the attacker out of the restaurant by throwing chairs and bottles at him. Once the attacker was outside, staff lowered a security gate and locked people inside.
"After the initial moment of panic, everyone tried to help this girl and stay calm. We were all at the back of the restaurant. There were shots going off outside and we didn't know what was going on."
Mr Sagristani said it was more than two hours before the paramedics were able to reach them.
"They kept her conscious. It was very lucky they were there," he added.
Eyewitness Gerard Vowls told the BBC how he tried to stop the attackers stabbing a woman. He threw bottles, pint glasses and chairs at the men.
"I tried to help, but at the end of the day I was defenceless," he said.
A Spanish man used his skateboard to try to defend a woman who was being stabbed by one of the London Bridge attackers.
Ignacio Echeverría, 39, saw the attack unfolding at London Bridge and rushed to help the woman.
But there is growing concern for Mr Echeverria, who is originally from Madrid and has not been seen since.
According to his father, friends saw the HSBC employee "lying on the floor on the sidewalk after defending someone with his skateboard".
He is reportedly not listed among the dead, not all of whom have been named by police.
Sunday Express business editor Geoff Ho attempted to help a bouncer at the Southwark Tavern, who was being set upon by two of the attackers.
The boxing and martial arts enthusiast is in intensive care after being stabbed in the neck.
Footage of him being escorted to an ambulance by police has been posted on the Daily Express website.
In it he is clutching his neck and using his shirt as a bandage.
After the attack Mr Ho wrote on Facebook: "Don't know whether it was stupid or noble to jump in and break up the fight outside the Southwark Tavern, but two a***s trying to do over the lone bouncer on the door isn't happening on my watch."
On Monday the journalist wrote on Twitter that he had been in surgery and was "on the mend".
Consultant at the Royal London Hospital Dr Malik Ramadhan was cycling home after his shift at Accident and Emergency when he sensed something was wrong.
He was cycling south on Tower Bridge, when he noticed emergency vehicles speeding towards the London Bridge area.
"It was clear that something was happening both from the way they were driving and the number of vehicles."
He said: "Given what's been happening, I turned back to work."
When he arrived at the Royal London a major incident had been declared, and on-call staff were ready to treat all of the patients within 30 minutes.
"The 12 were all very badly injured. The people who had been stabbed, had been stabbed with an intent to kill."
Patients were "startled to the point that they couldn't speak".
Dr Ramadhan added that many doctors and nurses are not drinking on the weekends in case a major attack occurs.
Student nurse Rhiannon Owen was at a cash point when a taxi driver shouted at her to run.
"I saw the knife and I didn't turn around again. I just started running as fast as I could," she said.
The 19-year-old, from Cheshire, saw the attacker behind her and ran into Applebee's pub where she joined 30 or 40 others and hid in a stock room.
She said she owes her life to that taxi driver, and appealed for him to get in touch: "You saved my life and you let me go and make sure other people were safe."
Elsewhere, there were tales of generosity as people did their bit to support the emergency services.
Supermarket workers were pictured offering food and drink to police officers on Sunday morning.
A paramedic who was at the scene said the manager of a McDonald's closed the restaurant to the public and gave all remaining food and crates of water to the emergency services.
Paul Ashworth, from Surrey, has been cycling around the London Bridge area giving out water to the police.
"I've just come to give the police some cold water. It's nothing in comparison to what they do. It's just to try and give something back. They're protecting us, saving our lives," he said.
The plumber, who cycled 21 miles from the Surrey border into London, said: "We've just got to keep together - the whole world has."
Cat-calling and other types of harassment are seen as normal by some in Buenos Aires, but the city council voted on Wednesday to draw a line.
"Direct or indirect comments referring to a person's body" are among offences which could attract punishment.
Argentina has seen an increase in campaigning by women to change the way they are viewed by society.
The rape and murder of 16-year-old Lucia Perez in the city of Mar del Plata in October prompted widespread outrage.
Thousands of women marched in protest and many staged strikes.
A weekend of street harassment, mapped
Grieving mother's plea to end Argentine gender violence
Struggling with sexism in Latin America
One of the main groups campaigning against violence against women in Argentina, NiUnaMenos (Not One Less), says a woman is killed there every 30 hours simply because of her sex.
Such crimes are seen by many as arising from cultural tolerance of disparaging attitudes to women, including casual harassment.
The Buenos Aires law against harassment takes in offences including making images of genitalia without consent, unwanted physical contact, pursuing someone, and public masturbation and indecent exposure.
Offenders could also be made to do community service. The law envisages public education campaigns, too, to try to change attitudes.
"Some forms of sexual harassment in public are accepted as a traditional part of our culture," said Pablo Ferreyra, the lawmaker behind the bill.
"That should not be a reason to tolerate this abuse."
President Mauricio Macri received relatives of victims of sexual violence at the presidential palace in November.
But he was himself criticised by his daughter after once suggesting that women liked to be told: "What a nice ass you have". He later apologised.
England's Howell, 41, the world number 228, is on seven under, four behind joint leaders Rafa Cabrera Bello of Spain and Australian Sam Brazel.
Englishman Fleetwood is on nine under after a round of 67 and well placed for the final day.
But it could have been even better for the 25-year-old who bogeyed the 18th.
Howell's career highlight was beating Tiger Woods to win the to win the inaugural HSBC Champions in Shanghai in 2005 but he has struggled at times since and came to this event after six weeks off with a foot injury.
He started the third day at Fanling on the cut mark of level par, but a run of birdie, birdie, eagle at the turn laid the platform for him to match the course record held jointly by Chris Wood and Lucas Bjerregaard.
"This whole calendar year has been a real struggle for me with injury," Howell said. "Czech (Masters) and The Open, really, were the highlights of last season but it's been a while."
The last UK great bustard, the world's heaviest flying bird, was shot in 1832.
Since 2004, the Great Bustard Group (GBG) has been re-introducing Russian great bustards on to Salisbury Plain.
However, research has shown the Spanish version of the bird is a closer DNA match to the British bustard.
Thirty three of the birds from Spain will now be released in the county later this year.
Using chicks and eggs, exclusively sourced in Russia, The Great Bustard Group (GBG) has released more than 100 birds in the last decade.
But, with the UK Government restricting its importation of eggs to those rescued from destroyed and abandoned nests, the group said it had only been able to import as few as six a year.
"We've proved that great bustards can survive in Wiltshire and that they can breed," said David Waters, GBG director.
Last year, a genetic comparison of European great bustard populations was carried out by the University of Chester.
Using skin samples from stuffed "old English" specimens at Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, as well as blood samples from European populations, researchers found the Spanish bird to be the "closest living" match.
"It's exciting news - the previously released Russian birds tended to disperse in a south westerly direction, some even reaching France," said Mr Waters.
"But the Spanish population is the largest in the world, is increasing and is largely sedentary."
Eggs have been collected from the Castilla la Mancha region of Spain and incubated and hatched at Birdworld in Farnham, Surrey.
The group hopes to release the birds at two secret sites later this year.
He said the only thing Stormont ministers involved in promoting the deal were going to get out of their efforts was to see an eventual upturn in the construction trade.
The DUP leader said he only became aware of the plan for multi-million pound fixer fees in relation to the sale when the issue became public knowledge.
Mr Robinson told the BBC there had been "no vulgar talk about fees" at any meetings involving ministers.
Mr Robinson denied that the DUP had crossed a line by seeking to promote the sale of the Nama portfolio, first to the Pimco investment fund, and then the US firm Cerberus.
The first minister said he believed the public would have considered ministers "derelict in their duty" if they had not sought to get the best possible deal for Northern Ireland.
Mr Robinson denied the DUP had "gone it alone" in relation to the Nama deal.
He said other executive ministers had been kept informed and there is a paper trail related to such matters.
The first minister denied there is a conflict of interests between his role in government and the business activities of his son, Gareth.
Mr Robinson said that his son, who runs a PR firm called Verbatim Communications, had been the target of a "witch hunt" by those trying to get at the first minister.
The first minister said he had enjoyed a good relationship with both Ian Coulter, the former partner at Tughans legal firm and Frank Cushnahan, a former member of Nama's northern advisory committee.
It is understood Mr Coulter controlled an Isle of Man account central to the latest NCA investigation, whilst Mr Cushnahan was named in an Irish parliament (Dáil) committee on Thursday as a potential beneficiary of a £5m fixer fee related to the aborted sale of Nama properties to Pimco.
The DUP leader warned against "rushing to make villains out of people".
Asked, if in retrospect, he regretted Sammy Wilson's appointment of Mr Cushnahan to the Nama advisory committee he described the businessman as a "significant player and significant supporter of the executive".
Mr Robinson welcomed the NCA-led investigation of the affair as preferable to sensationalist stories.
He indicated he would cooperate fully with the investigation.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) opened its investigation into the sale of Nama's Northern Ireland property portfolio on Friday.
Investigators from the agency met senior PSNI detectives and Assistant Chief Constable Will Kerr, the officer in charge of crime operations, in Belfast.
It is understood they discussed how the inquiry will be taken forward, and what support the PSNI will provide.
The NCA is now expected to begin the process of securing relevant documents and electronic material.
It was announced on Thursday that the NCA would lead the investigation into the sale of Nama's NI property portfolio.
It will also investigate claims about money contained in an Isle of Man bank account.
It is understood the PSNI asked the NCA to take the lead because of the complexity and scale of the investigation.
It is the NCA's first major investigation since it began operating in Northern Ireland in May.
The National Assets Management Agency (Nama) is the Republic of Ireland's "bad bank", set up to deal with toxic loans during the Irish banking crisis, and the sale of Nama's Northern Ireland portfolio is known as Project Eagle.
A strike on Tuesday has also been suspended, but strike action is still planned for 3 October. The GMB union said a work-to-rule would remain.
Refuse and recycling truck drivers walked out earlier this month over pay, staff grading and responsibility.
The city council said it was pleased strike action had been suspended.
The union is claiming people at the council are doing equivalent jobs to its members, but being paid more.
It also said the authority had failed to "consult meaningfully" over new working practices and long-standing issues over round allocation and distribution.
GMB representative Mark Turner said the union was planning to hold more talks with the council next Tuesday.
In a statement, Brighton and Hove City Council said it was looking at a "full service redesign to ensure we meet the needs of the city and to resolve work-to-rule".
It added: "We cannot favour one group of workers over another and increasing allowances for one group of staff would require us to increase it for many others at great cost to the council's overall pay bill.
"The agreement we reached with our trade unions and staff last year was to better ensure we were equal pay compliant."
A series of strikes last summer led to waste piling up in the streets.
The men, aged 23 and 27, were on a bridge between Durham Street and Cullingtree Road in the Westlink area of the city when they were attacked by an armed man at about 07:00 GMT.
Their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Police have asked for anyone with information about the attack to contact them on the emergency number 101.
The Indian Express reported that Mr Bachchan was appointed director in at least four offshore shipping companies in 1993, registered in the British Virgin islands and Bahamas.
He and Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai are among the 500 Indians listed in the Panama papers, the newspaper said.
Ms Rai's media adviser has questioned the authenticity of the documents.
The Indian Express reported that Mr Bachchan had initially not responded to requests for comment, but he issued a statement on Tuesday denying any involvement.
"I have never been a director of any of the... stated companies. It is possible that my name has been misused," the statement said.
"I have paid all my taxes including on monies spent by me overseas have been in compliance with law, including remittances through Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS), after paying Indian taxes."
"In any event the news report in Indian Express does not even suggest any illegality on my part."
The Indian Express also reported that Aishwarya Rai and her family were appointed as directors of a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands in 2005, which was dissolved in 2008.
A media adviser to Ms Rai has told the newspaper that "all information that you have is totally untrue and false."
Ms Rai is married to Amitabh Bachchan's son Abhishekh.
Crowds of people, including those who remember standing for days in queues and teenagers who were not even born in the 1980s, lined up at the state-run Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) to buy the game.
"I'm too young to remember, I'm just trying to find a way to explore this period of time. I'm interested in the history of the country and my parent's history," said Anna Moronczyk, as she queued with her 17-month-old son to get a copy.
The IPN is the home of Poland's communist-era archives and investigates crimes from that period. It also promotes awareness of that time and devised the game as an educational tool, to teach young Poles about history in an entertaining way. Half of the first batch is being reserved for schools.
"We hope it will show young Poles how difficult it was to buy everyday supplies like sugar, bread or furniture," said Karol Madaj, the game's designer. He was only nine years old when communism ended in Poland in 1989, so he had to seek tips about those days from his older boss.
"Some young Poles don't believe there were queues in those days. You can see it written on the internet forums. They think queues only started when department stores began the sales," he added.
To prove queues did exist, minutes earlier Karol screened black-and-white documentary footage of people lining up in butchers' shops in the hope of getting a cut of meat.
A Polish education ministry spokesman, Grzegorz Zurawski, acknowledges that currently there is too little focus on recent history in schools. Only the last few weeks of a student's final year is devoted to it.
"We are changing our way of teaching modern history because we know now that many young Poles know nothing about this period," he said. The ministry plans to introduce a new curriculum in 2012 which reflects greater emphasis on 20th-Century history.
The game comes in a box designed to look like it was wrapped in brown paper and tied with string. On top is a coupon, which the communist authorities issued so they could ration items like meat.
Between two and five players compete to be the first to buy the 10 items on their shopping list. Players send out family members, represented by coloured wooden figures, to line up outside different shops for the authentic 1980s products, such as a tape recorder with two spools of tape, tinned ham or "Popularna" tea, which promised "heaven in your mouth".
The problem is that the shelves in the neighbourhood shops are empty and players must queue without knowing which store will soon get a delivery.
Once a delivery arrives, there is only enough stock for people at the front of the queue to make a purchase. Special cards help players to queue-jump, such as one showing a mother carrying a baby or another which gives insider delivery information from a friend in the local Party apparatus.
There is also a black market, where everything is twice the normal price.
Some of those who had queued to buy the game and could not wait to get home to play it sat down at specially-prepared tables in the IPN building to test it out.
"It was exactly like this," Piotr Zochowski, 44, told me as he played the game with his wife and three children.
"Then you had to queue for everything. I remember when I bought shoes with coupons. The only ones I could buy were about half a size too small - but there were no others, so I had to buy them," he said.
At the next table, students Ania, Lukasz and Maria, who were happy to describe themselves as "board game geeks", said it surpassed their expectations.
"It's well-designed, it looks nice, it could be a commercially-produced game," Lukasz said. Of the three, only Lukasz had been born when communism ended in Poland in 1989, but they all remembered the products from those days.
"I had this cassette player," Ania said. "And I had that lamp," Maria said, pointing to an orange metal table lamp with a flexible stand. "Everybody had that lamp," she added.
The boy was the passenger in a car which was in collision with a van on Lough Shore Road at about 13:00 BST on Wednesday.
Police said the 23-year-old driver of the car and the 47-year-old driver of the van have been taken to hospital.
Their injuries are believed to be serious, but not life-threatening.
The boy has been transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
The child was taken to Furness General Hospital from Old Park Wood in Grange-over-Sands on Monday afternoon.
He was transferred to Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool but died earlier.
Cumbria Police said an investigation was under way into the youngster's death, but it was not being treated as suspicious.
In a statement, the force said: "Police can confirm that the four-year-old boy involved in this incident has sadly died.
"Our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time."
It is believed the boy was staying with his family at the site, described on its website as "a luxury, private holiday park", set within the grounds of the Holker Estate.
He said Labour must strive to reduce the gap between "haves and have-nots", with all policies tested against that benchmark.
Mr Smith, who joins Angela Eagle in challenging leader Jeremy Corbyn, also said he was the one to unite the party.
Speaking to Labour members, he vowed the party would not split on his watch.
Mr Corbyn has vowed to fight the challengers in the upcoming contest, which was prompted after the leader lost a vote of no confidence among Labour MPs by 172 votes to 40.
Formally launching his leadership campaign in his Pontypridd constituency, Mr Smith said: "I say it is time for us in words to commit ourselves by rewriting Clause IV of the Labour Party's constitution... to put tackling inequality right at the heart of everything that we do.
"Every Labour policy has to be tested against that benchmark - is it going to reduce inequalities in wealth, in power, in outcomes and opportunities, or is it not?
"And if it is not going to reduce those inequalities, then we in the Labour Party should not do it."
Clause IV is the part of the Labour Party's written constitution that sets out the aims and values of the party. It was amended in 1995 by Tony Blair to remove its historic commitment to mass nationalisation.
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The Welsh MP and former shadow work and pensions secretary Mr Smith repeatedly praised Mr Corbyn's influence on the party and endorsed his anti-austerity agenda.
But he said too many working people had doubts and concerns that they felt were not being addressed, as he warned that Labour was "not on the pitch" in British political debate.
Mr Smith argued that the party needed to "put in place the policies that allow us to illustrate what prosperity looks like".
He outlined plans to:
Speaking earlier to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Smith also vowed to increase the top rate of tax, to 50p, saying a more "progressive" tax system was needed.
Explaining his reason for standing, Mr Smith said it was to ensure that the party "cannot split" - as he pitched himself as the candidate that could "unite" Labour.
"There is a clear and present danger that some in our party are getting fatalistic about the prospect of that split.
"It cannot happen. It will not happen. If I've got anything to do with it, never on my watch will this party split."
The Dow Jones rose 19.6 points to 17,535.3, while the S&P 500 gained 1.1 points to 2,037.
The technology-based Nasdaq index fell 6.7 points to 4,766.7.
The Commerce Department reported on Monday that consumer spending, which makes up two-thirds of the US economy, rose 0.1% in February.
On Friday, the Commerce Department revised its estimates of US economic growth in the fourth quarter to 1.4% - up from 1.1%.
On Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen will speak before the Economic Club of New York. Investors are waiting to hear hints about when the Fed might next raise interest rates.
Starwood shares rose 2% after Anbang increased its offer for the hotel chain to $14bn. Shares in Marriott, which made a $13.4bn offer for the hotel chain last week, rose 3.9%.
Shares in troubled drug company Valeant fell 7% after its chief executive was called to testify before a US Senate committee.
Music streaming company Pandora fell 12% after it said its founder Tim Westergren, would return as head of the company.
Videogame seller GameStop dropped 2.4% after it projected a slide in store sales for the first quarter.
Two goals at the end of the first half from Matty Kennedy and Jake Jervis put the Pilgrims in control before Graham Carey made the win safe.
The promotion party was in full swing before Ryan Taylor added a fourth and Kennedy a fifth as the Exiles wilted.
Jervis scored Plymouth's sixth before Aaron Williams' consolation strike.
Plymouth's victory keeps alive their hopes of winning the League Two title.
Newport remain one point outside of the relegation zone thanks to Hartlepool's 2-1 defeat by Leyton Orient, but they have seen their goal difference take a hit.
The result was Newport's heaviest defeat of the 21st Century.
Plymouth Argyle captain Luke McCormick told BBC Radio Devon: "It's overwhelming really, we've been trying to do this for certainly the last three years and even before that.
"The club's been through some real tough times and this is the other end of the scale.
"The fans on the pitch in front of me, they deserve it more than anything."
Newport County boss Mike Flynn told BBC Radio Wales Sport: "We played a very good team and congratulations to them on their promotion.
"Matching them was just a step too far for us today."
Match ends, Plymouth Argyle 6, Newport County 1.
Second Half ends, Plymouth Argyle 6, Newport County 1.
Attempt missed. Matthew Kennedy (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Goal! Plymouth Argyle 6, Newport County 1. Aaron Williams (Newport County) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Sean Rigg.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Craig Tanner replaces Graham Carey.
Yann Songo'o (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alex Samuel (Newport County).
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Mickey Demetriou.
Attempt saved. Ryan Taylor (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Gary Miller (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Gary Miller replaces Oscar Threlkeld.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Jazzi Barnum-Bobb.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Connor Smith replaces David Fox.
Substitution, Newport County. Sid Nelson replaces Scot Bennett because of an injury.
Goal! Plymouth Argyle 6, Newport County 0. Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ryan Taylor.
Attempt saved. Dan Butler (Newport County) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Aaron Williams (Newport County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Matthew Kennedy (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mitch Rose (Newport County).
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Darren Jones.
Darren Jones (Newport County) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Plymouth Argyle 5, Newport County 0. Matthew Kennedy (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Antoni Sarcevic.
Attempt saved. Alex Samuel (Newport County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Ryan Taylor (Plymouth Argyle).
(Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Alex Samuel (Newport County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Ryan Taylor (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Newport County. Aaron Williams replaces Mark Randall.
Gary Sawyer (Plymouth Argyle) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gary Sawyer (Plymouth Argyle).
Alex Samuel (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Matthew Kennedy (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Darren Jones.
Attempt blocked. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Taylor (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Goal! Plymouth Argyle 4, Newport County 0. Ryan Taylor (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matthew Kennedy.
Matthew Kennedy (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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The woman said she drove past Ms Bailey between 15:40 and 15:50 BST on 11 April last year.
Ms Bailey's fiancé, Ian Stewart, is accused of killing her between 10:51, when her internet and phone activity stopped, and 14:30 on that day.
Mr Stewart, who is on trial at St Albans Crown Court, denies murder.
The Electra Brown author's body was found last July in a cesspit at the home she shared with Mr Stewart in Royston, Hertfordshire.
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He is accused of drugging her before suffocating her and throwing her in the pit.
Neighbour, Angela John, told the court she recognised Ms Bailey, but under cross-examination admitted she had never seen Ms Bailey wearing the clothes she described - stone or beige trousers and a shirt.
"She was walking with her head down and her hands going to her head, which made me look more carefully at whether it was Helen or not," Ms John said.
Asked again by Simon Russell Flint, defending, "what date and time did you last see Helen Bailey?", she replied: "April 11, 3.40pm to 3.50pm-ish."
Mr Russell Flint asked if she had "any doubts... about that", to which she replied "no".
The court also heard from another two neighbours of Ms Bailey who said they saw her walking her dog Boris between about 13:20 and 14:20 BST on 11 April.
Mr Stewart, 56, of Baldock Road, Royston, Hertfordshire, denies murder, preventing a lawful burial, fraud, and three counts of perverting the course of justice.
The trial continues.
Hundreds of non-EU citizens are said to have got student visas after paying fake "sitters" to take language exams on their behalf.
Four people were found guilty at Southwark Crown Court of immigration law offences. A fifth pleaded guilty and four others were convicted earlier.
The trials resulted directly from a BBC Panorama investigation.
To qualify for a visa in the UK, overseas students must demonstrate a certain level of the English language.
The then-government-accredited Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) examines reading, listening, grammar and vocabulary.
It involves a written and oral section and a separate multiple-choice question paper.
However, in 2014 Panorama revealed that the TOEIC exams at two test centres were being taken on behalf of foreign visa applicants in exchange for cash.
The programme secretly filmed fake "sitters" at Eden College International (ECI) in east London and at the Universal Training Centre in Watford.
Undercover footage in which entire rooms of registered candidates stepped aside so that exams could be taken by people who spoke better English was shown at the trials.
The plotters were equally brazen when it came to a multiple-choice paper - the secret filming showed an invigilator simply reading out the answers for candidates to copy.
The oral and written test answers were recorded on computers. However, ETS, the US company that set and marked the exam, failed to detect that the same voices appeared numerous times under different names.
The court heard that "proxy sitters" were paid £50 for each exam they took.
Clients were promised a "guaranteed pass" for £500, about three times the official exam fee.
The footage from the Universal Training Centre showed candidates waiting in a separate room while their tests were faked.
Spreadsheets recovered from the two test centres listed more than 1,000 candidates who had passed the exam fraudulently. Beside their names another column - headed "proxy", "assistant" or "pilot" - listed the people who sat the test for them.
The defendants in the Southwark Crown Court case were connected to ECI and Studentway Education, an immigration agency in Southall.
ECI staff member Mohammed Hasan, Total Care London directors Talal Choudhury and Shaheen Ahmed, and former Studentway employee Harinder Kumar were found guilty of conspiring to facilitate breaches of immigration law.
Immigration agent Chowdhury Baker Habib pleaded guilty to the same charge.
Total Care helped stage the exams at the test centre.
It can also now be reported that in May, four employees of Universal Training Centre and Bright Consultant Services - an immigration centre based in East Ham and Wembley - were convicted of similar offences at an earlier trial in May.
UTC director Zahid Hafeez received a five-year prison sentence but one of the accused fled abroad to escape justice.
Bright Consultant Services director Fassiuddin Mohammad was tried in his absence and sentenced to five years.
Two other Bright Consultant Services staff, Faiza Noreen and Sameer Shaikh, received suspended sentences.
The Home Office stopped accepting TOEIC pass certificates for visa applications, and launched a nationwide investigation, following Panorama's revelations.
Thakor departed first, but not before making 132, and was swiftly followed by Wayne Madsen and Alex Hughes.
Godleman was finally bowled for 141, with Daryn Smit (40) and Gary Wilson (97) nudging the hosts further along.
Tail-enders Tom Taylor and Rob Hemmings helped the hosts to 532-8 at stumps, still trailing by 87.
Leicestershire's Zak Chappell took 3-107, while Clint McKay finished the day with 2-78 with 11 maidens.
It favoured some religious beliefs over others and would mean unequal treatment for gay people, the judge said.
The measure was intended to protect people who objected on religious grounds to gay marriage, extramarital sex and changing gender.
State attorneys are expected to appeal the ruling.
US District Judge Carlton Reeves issued the injunction blocking the law from taking effect on Friday.
Mississippi's "Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act" would have allowed those who cite religious beliefs to refuse a broad range of services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Critics have said the law is so broad it could apply to almost anyone outside of a heterosexual marriage, affecting business practices, adoptions, foster care, school bathroom policies and marriage licences.
"The state has put its thumb on the scale to favour some religious beliefs over others," Judge Reeves wrote, adding that it violated the Constitution's equal protection guarantee.
Republican Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant, who signed the bill into law in April, said he was disappointed at the ruling.
"Like I said when I signed House Bill 1523, the law simply provides religious accommodations granted by many other states and federal law," Bryant said.
"I am disappointed Judge Reeves did not recognise that reality. I look forward to an aggressive appeal."
More than a dozen US states have passed or considered "religious liberty" laws in response to last June's historic Supreme Court decision to legalise gay marriage nationwide.
Lawyers for a trust which owns the rights to Cornell Woolrich's story, had claimed film company DreamWorks did not get permission to turn it into a film.
In both plots, a man spies on a neighbour from his window and becomes convinced they have committed murder.
But a New York District Court judge said the similarities were not enough to constitute copyright infringement.
"The main plots are similar only at a high, unprotectible level of generality," judge Laura Taylor Swan wrote in her ruling dismissing the complaint.
"Where Disturbia is rife with sub-plots, the short story has none.
"The setting and mood of the short story are static and tense, whereas the setting and mood of Disturbia are more dynamic and peppered with humour and teen romance," she added.
Disturbia made $117 million (£74.6m) at the box office worldwide in 2007.
Alfred Hitchcock made an Oscar-nominated 1954 version of the story which was filmed with permission.
A TV version was also made in 1998 starring Daryl Hannah and the late Christopher Reeve.
A lorry became wedged under the railway bridge over the A5 in Hinckley, Leicestershire, in the latest incident on Thursday.
The bridge is one of the worst nationally for so-called "bridge strikes", according to Network Rail.
The group recorded 1,606 of these strikes in the 2015/16 financial year.
A spokesperson said: "We can't stress enough how important it is that vehicle owners know the height and width of their vehicle and pay close attention to warning signs at bridges.
"If you're not sure whether or not your vehicle will fit, you should look for an alternative route rather than taking a risk."
The warning comes as the Local Government Association (LGA) called for legislation to be brought in to make sure lorry drivers in England and Wales use a GPS system suitable for HGVs.
1. A205 St Mildreds Road, Hither Green, London - struck 26 times
2. A205 Thurlow Park Road, Tulse Hill, London - struck 22 times
3. Lower Downs Road, Wimbledon, London - struck 16 times
4. A52 Barrowby Road, Grantham, Lincolnshire - struck 14 times
5. A624 Hayfield Road, Chinley, Derbyshire - struck 13 times
6. A636 Denby Dale Road, Wakefield, West Yorkshire - struck 12 times
6. A142 Stuntney Road, Ely, Cambridgeshire - struck 12 times
8. A5 Watling Street, Hinckley, Leicestershire - struck 11 times
8. A51 Upper St John Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire - struck 11 times
10. A429 Kingway, Hullavington, Wiltshire - struck 10 times
10. B5008 Repton Road, Willington, Derbyshire - struck 10 times
Source: Network Rail
Amanda Sokhi, who owns a business near the bridge in Hinckley, said the situation was "completely ridiculous".
"I know they've got signs saying there's a low bridge but lorry drivers aren't seeing it, they are just carrying on," she said.
Her husband, Raj Sokhi, fears someone may be killed there soon.
"A lorry driver hit the bridge and he actually came through the cab. That was quite messy," he said.
"One was on a Saturday and the whole road was shut all day, and then 10 minutes after the road opened at 10 o'clock another lorry hit the bridge again."
Network Rail said there had been more than 150 bridge strikes in Leicestershire alone over the last five years.
These caused rail passengers more than 12,000 minutes of delays and cost the taxpayer-funded organisation more than £800,000 in compensation.
Edinburgh Pentlands MSP Gordon MacDonald said Kausar Uddin, from Broomhouse, had tripped and grabbed hold of the nearest person for balance.
He told MSPs the person Mr Uddin grabbed turned out to be a police officer, which led to him being imprisoned for assault.
Mr Uddin was being accompanied by his wife and three children at the time.
They had travelled to Mecca last month with other pilgrims from the city's Blackhall Mosque.
Speaking during First Minister's Questions, Mr MacDonald said: "During the final prayer of the day there was a surge in the crowd and Mr Uddin grabbed hold of the nearest person for balance.
"Unfortunately, that person turned out to be a police officer and he was arrested for assault. Mr Uddin was sentenced to 35 days in prison and there is concern that he may be subject to another trial which could result in a far longer sentence.
"Given that people who are on holy pilgrimage with their family do not travel with the intention to assault anyone, I ask if there is any way that the first minister can intervene to assist my constituent."
Ms Sturgeon said: "I am very concerned to hear about Mr Uddin's situation. Very large numbers of my own constituents go on pilgrimage to Mecca every single year so I understand the concerns that have been raised by this case.
"My officials have already been in contact with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and they have advised that the British Embassy are now in touch with Mr Uddin by phone and they have requested a prison visit via the ministry of foreign affairs.
"They have also advised us that, at this stage, they have not had Mr Uddin's sentence confirmed as the case appears to be still under investigation.
"We have asked to be kept updated and informed of any progress."
Patients were moved out of two wards at Louth's County Hospital last month over fire inspectors' concerns about the "ageing fabric of the building".
The work, which includes upgrades to alarms and fire doors, is expected to take up to three months to complete.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust said 25 patients had moved and may not be returning to finish their treatment at the hospital.
Craig McLean, deputy director of operations at the trust, said: "It may well be that the decision is taken that it's appropriate for them to finish their treatment where they are rather than disrupting them again and bringing them back."
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The number of beds was reduced from 50 to 16 across Manby and Carlton wards. The trust said there would be "a phased reopening of beds until the two wards return to their original capacity" when the work was completed.
It had said the move was "a precautionary measure" and not in response to the Grenfell Tower fire in west London.
Patients have been transferred to other hospitals or care providers. Those who were due to be discharged were sent home with planned packages of care, a spokesperson for the trust said.
NHS Property Services, which owns the hospital, said the upgrade works also included improving fire exit signs, lighting and changes to escape routes and walls.
Bob Berry, 60, from Stockport was one of only three to take part in the trial at Manchester's Christie Hospital.
Andrew Hughes, who ran the trial, said a combination of two drugs were used to first attack the cancer and then help boost the body's immune system.
"Lucky is an understatement - I was in the right place at the right time," said Mr Berry. "I feel great now."
Three years ago, after spotting the cancer during an unrelated X-ray, doctors only gave him 12-18 months to live.
"It was really hard - a real shock to my family and friends," said Mr Berry of his original prognosis.
After two rounds of chemotherapy and one of radiotherapy, he was referred for the trial at the specialist cancer hospital.
He received two new drugs which have not yet been named.
"As of his last scan, we're not able to detect any lung cancer at all," said Prof Hughes, chair in experimental cancer medicine at The Christie.
"It is a remarkable response - actually only about one in five people with immuno-therapies get the response akin to Bob's."
While the other two patients in the hospital's trial have responded to the treatment, they have not done so to the extent that Mr Berry has.
Mr Hughes acknowledged his good fortune: "You think 'that's it, you don't stand a chance', but drugs have come on so much these last few years, it's unbelievable - hence why I'm still here now."
Prof Hughes said many cancers grow "simply because the immune system fails to pick them up as foreign material" - they hide behind an "invisibility cloak".
"The first drug damages the very essence of the cancer's life - its DNA - and as the cancer is dying we hit it with a second drug that takes the 'invisibility cloak' away from the cancer so that the immune system can recognise it," he added.
He said very few people get on to this kind of trial, with only about three in every 10 people referred to The Christie by their GP actually taking part.
Only 12 people have taken part in the trial globally.
The Christie is currently running about 600 cancer trials, of which 50 are "first in human" experiments.
"Every cancer drug begins with a 'Bob' story," said Prof Hughes, "and then a larger trial is done".
It typically takes "three to seven years" to bring successful "first in human" trials into widespread use, he added.
The other two patients in the hospital's trial have responded to the treatment, but not to the degree Mr Berry has.
Cosgrove ended unbeaten on 81, having earlier retired on 77 when he was hit on the hand with the score at 142-4.
Derbyshire were 282-8 overnight and added 25 with Harvey Hosein 83 not out.
Ned Eckersley and Cosgrove shared 93 to guide Leicestershire to 137-3 but when they departed, Will Davis (4-60) shone to leave the visitors trailing by 79.
After a 30-minute delay at the start to drain a waterlogged pitch, Doncaster went ahead through Tommy Rowe's deflected 28th-minute strike.
But Crewe made it 1-1 at the break thanks to Callum Ainley's tap-in before Marcus Haber and Brad Inman struck.
Doncaster's inferior goal difference gives them no real chance of survival.
Rovers have one game left and are on -16. They are three points behind Fleetwood, who have two matches to play, and whose goal difference is -4.
Led by Prof Graham Donaldson of Glasgow University, it will be "comprehensive, wide ranging and independent", Huw Lewis said.
In January, school inspectors raised concerns about the "variable" quality of teaching and standards generally, especially in secondary schools.
The review will consider education from the age of three right through to 16.
Mr Lewis said Prof Donaldson had been "instrumental" in a curriculum reform programme for the Scottish government and had recently reviewed teacher education in Scotland.
Mr Donaldson, he said, had been asked to "articulate a clear, coherent vision for education in Wales".
Schools inspectorate Estyn's annual report said: "Fewer than half of secondary schools are good or better [compared to the previous year] and the proportion that is unsatisfactory has increased from one in seven to one in four.
"One in seven is excellent. Over two-thirds of secondary schools will be monitored in 'follow-up' visits."
Responding to AMs' questions on the report in January, First Minister Carwyn Jones said the Welsh government was now offering education a "clear way forward", but conceded that there had been a "blurring of the lines of accountability, in terms of leadership in schools [and] in terms of leadership in local education authorities" previously.
On Wednesday, Mr Lewis said: "Here in Wales we have already put in train important changes with the introduction of the Literacy and Numeracy Framework and our tests.
"Building on this, I recently consulted on proposals aimed at strengthening and supporting the teaching and learning of literacy and numeracy in schools - as well as setting out my intention to introduce a wider skills framework that will ensure alignment with, and progression towards the new Welsh Baccalaureate.
"I will be publishing my response to that consultation shortly."
"In agreeing to undertake this review, Professor Donaldson brings with him a wealth of experience, knowledge and skill, as well as a personal commitment to continuous improvement and attainment of the highest standards."
The minister added that Prof Donaldson would be "at the forefront of a truly transformational programme of work and a historic step forward in Welsh education history."
The NASUWT teaching union called for "genuine engagement" with teachers and "recognition of the challenging context in which teachers and schools in Wales are operating".
General Secretary Chris Keates said issues such as the lower spending per pupil in Wales compared to England should be considered.
"The funding gap, the excessive workload of teachers and the absence of an entitlement for teachers to professional development are all material factors in this review," she said.
"The NASUWT looks forward to the opportunity to engage with Professor Donaldson as he takes forward this important work."
Plaid Cymru education spokesman Simon Thomas welcomed Prof Donaldson's appointment, but said it was "absurd that we have not yet managed to establish a national Welsh curriculum since devolution, almost fifteen years".
"Teachers tell us that the current situation where we have a 'national' curriculum running alongside a 'Welsh' curriculum is overloading their workload and I'm glad that the matter is being addressed," he said.
"We need to make space in our curriculum to allow teachers to get on with the job of teaching.
"We want to allow them to be innovative and creative, to keep learners motivated and engaged.
"The Welsh government's work thus far has been piecemeal, and teachers desperately need a sense of overall direction."
Liberal Democrats education spokesman Aled Roberts also welcomed the review but called for "a period of stability" once it was completed.
"Once we've set off on this course and we've got a clear way forward as far as both the curriculum and assessment is concerned, it's important they are allowed to bed down so that we can ensure that the profession's minds are applied to improving attainment rather than, perhaps, continually being taken off course by review upon review," he said.
Mr Lewis is due to receive Prof Donaldson's report later this year.
Ex-Mansfield and York man Meikle, 28, finished last term at National League North Alfreton and exercised his option to join a higher-league club.
He has signed a one-year deal with an option for a further 12 months based on appearances, as have Parry and Harvey.
Parry joined in February, while Harvey has been at Barrow since 2012.
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The former Manchester United trainee, 23, scored five goals in 46 appearances in all competitions as the Clarets won the Championship title last season.
When contacted, Burnley declined to comment on the story.
The Foxes signed Sporting Gijon defender Luis Hernandez on a four-year deal on Tuesday.
The England international was replaced after seven minutes of Sunday's 6-0 FA Cup quarter-final win over Millwall.
He was hurt when defender Jake Cooper blocked his shot close to the byeline.
Spurs said the injury is similar to the one Kane picked up against Sunderland on 18 September.
The 23-year-old missed five Premier League games and two EFL Cup matches after twisting his ankle tackling Sunderland's Papy Djilobodji.
Kane is likely to miss England's friendly in Germany on 22 March and a home World Cup qualifier against Lithuania four days later.
It is not clear if the top flight's joint leading scorer with 19 goals will be available for Tottenham's FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea at Wembley on the weekend 22-23 April.
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The incident happened in High Street and was reported just after 22.25 GMT on Friday.
A man got in the passenger side of the woman's car, whilst another man pulled her out of the vehicle before making off in the car.
The two men are believed to be in their late teens.
Both were of slim build and were wearing dark hooded tops and scarves over their faces.
Police have appealed for information.
He will be replaced by chief operating officer Mark Fields, 53, who has been with Ford since 1989.
In a statement, the company said Mr Mulally, 68, will be remembered for engineering "one of the most successful business turnarounds in history".
Chairman Bill Ford said Mr Mulally had been a "hall of fame" chief executive.
The succession was widely expected: Mr Mulally had previously announced that he would retire at the end of this year.
Ford has posted a profit for nearly five consecutive years under his leadership, and it was the only one of the big three US carmakers that did not have to seek a bailout from the US government during the recession.
Mr Fields was named chief operating officer in December 2012.
By Michelle FleuryBBC business correspondent, New York
The challenge for Mark Fields is how to continue to build on Mr Mulally's formidable legacy and Ford's current success.
And they are big shoes to fill.
But executive chairman Bill Ford told me Mr Fields "is up for it".
Mr Fields oversaw the company's international operations, having worked in Japan, Europe and Argentina. He also ran the company's North American operations during a difficult time - experience that will come in handy running a global carmaker.
One of his first challenges involves Ford's F series truck.
The bestselling vehicle in the US is a major profit-maker for Ford. It's getting a dramatic makeover with a body built almost entirely out of aluminium.
But, now that he's behind the wheel, few expect Mr Fields to make any major changes to the 'One Ford' strategy, especially as it's working. The bigger question perhaps is how he will handle his first crisis, when it happens.
Executive chairman Bill Ford told the BBC that Mr Mulally is a "hall of fame" chief executive.
"There are very few people that brought his skill set, his humility, and his humanity to the job," said Mr Ford.
Mr Mulally originally trained as an aeronautical engineer, and spent 36 years at Boeing, before he was approached by Bill Ford in 2006.
Mr Ford said he still remembered meeting Mr Mulally eight years ago.
"It was a fabulous first day - I look back at it now and realise we were finishing each other's sentences within an hour," he said, adding that Mr Mulally should be credited with changing Ford's culture to focus more on transparency and "dealing with reality".
However, he added that Mr Fields was more than up for the task of leading Ford.
Mr Fields, who was passed over for the job in 2006 when Mr Mulally was appointed chief executive, joined the company as a market research analyst in 1989.
In 2000, he was made chief executive of Mazda - in which Ford owned a stake at the time - and was later head of Ford's European division.
However, Mr Ford emphasized that it was as the head of Ford's North American division that Mr Fields really proved his mettle.
"He took on the hardest job at the company," said Mr Ford, noting that as a young leader there were some who thought he would not be up for the task.
However, "he emerged as a leader and gained the trust of his team".
Ford has planned the leadership succession for a number of years, Mr Mulally said, and he brought forward his retirement as "everything is in place" for a "very orderly" transition.
"We are absolutely fully confident we are absolutely ready," he said in a conference call announcing the transition.
Mr Mulally will not retain a place on the board after retirement.
Analysts say that one can expect "more of the same" with Mr Fields in charge.
"Ford has had a renaissance under [Mr] Mulally, but [Mr] Fields has been there the entire time and has been his partner in this vision," Edmunds.com senior analyst Jessica Caldwell told the BBC.
"Ford knew [Mr] Mulally was not going to stay on forever - by partnering him up with someone who was already in the organisation, and someone they thought could be a leader, that the best thing they could do," she said.
"I can't imagine a better scenario."
National League leaders Lincoln are the first non-league team since 1914 to make the last eight of the competition.
They come up against a Gunners side in disarray - they have lost five of their past seven games, including two 5-1 defeats by Bayern Munich, and seen protests against manager Arsene Wenger.
"He is under pressure," said Waterfall.
The Gunners suffered a humiliating 10-2 aggregate loss against Bayern in the Champions League and since the end of January, have also been defeated by Liverpool, Chelsea and Watford.
Against the Bundesliga side, home supporters held banners before and during the game calling for Wenger - who has been in charge since October 1996 - to leave the club.
On Thursday, the Frenchman said the opinion of fans will influence his decision over whether to remain in charge next season.
Waterfall added: "Some Arsenal fans might be going there wanting us to win. If we start well, we might have 60,000 people behind us, not just 9,000.
"We will go there believing in ourselves. We won't park the bus, we will play our usual game.
"We want their big players to play. Their manager is under pressure so I would expect their big names to play."
Republicans said Mrs Clinton received special treatment and compromised national security.
However, Mr Comey testified that she did not break the law or mislead investigators.
Mrs Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, used private email servers while secretary of state.
She said she used the email servers for convenience and said she did not send or receive classified information.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Mr Comey's recommendation proves Mrs Clinton is "living above the law" and questioned whether she should be briefed on classified information as a presidential candidate.
Mr Comey said he and the FBI investigated the case in a "professional and apolitical way".
"No reasonable prosecutor would bring this case," FBI Director James Comey said of his recommendation that Hillary Clinton not charged for her use of a private email server. "I know that frustrates people."
It certainly had Republicans up in arms, expressing incredulity at Comey's assertions that Mrs Clinton set up her server for "convenience" and that she did not instruct her lawyers to permanently delete all her emails they deemed personal.
Perhaps the biggest news, however, came when committee chairman Jason Chaffetz said he would instruct the FBI to investigate whether Mrs Clinton lied when she told Congress under oath that she did not email classified information. Mr Comey said that this was a matter previously outside his purvey.
On Tuesday we learned the number of Clinton emails bearing classified markings - three - and that the markings were the letter "c" in parenthesis in front of paragraphs that contained classified details.
Mr Comey said, however, that Mrs Clinton may not have known this denoted the presence of classified information.
It was another chance for Republicans to express shock and outrage. And given that the FBI could be back in the Clinton-investigating business, it likely won't be the last.
The FBI found more than 100 pieces of classified information on the servers.
Mr Comey said Clinton and her staff were "reckless" but no "reasonable prosecutor" would bring forth criminal charges in the case.
"If your name isn't Clinton, or you're not part of the powerful elite, then Lady Justice will act differently,'' Republican Representative from Utah Jason Chaffetz said.
He said the FBI set a "dangerous precedent" in recommending not charging Mrs Clinton.
Mr Comey said the "c" markings were in the body of the emails and not at the top where they would have been more visible.
Democratic members of the committee holding the hearing said Republicans were using it as way to hurt Mrs Clinton politically.
"This should be called out for what it is, another blatant political stunt by Republicans to try and keep the issue alive after career DOJ officials declared the case closed because they didn't get the outcome they wanted," a Clinton campaign official said in a statement.
A House of Lords committee was told the devices were also being flown in protected airspace and that officers found it difficult to identify the people responsible.
The warning came from Ch Insp Nick Aldworth, of the Metropolitan Police, who is part of a nationwide group tasked with looking at the issue.
Civilian use of the aircraft, which can be legally flown, is increasing.
Drones, which are officially known as Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems, range in size from small craft operated by enthusiasts, TV companies, police forces and surveyors and weighing a few kilograms, to larger military versions.
Smaller ones can be flown without special permission although restrictions apply if they are used in congested areas or near people's homes.
The Lords Internal Market, Infrastructure and Employment Committee has been holding an inquiry into their use by civilians.
Ch Insp Aldworth said the devices, which he described as "things that fly and do not have pilots in them", could be used in a "reckless" or "malicious" way.
Baroness O'Cathain, the committee chairwoman, said a number of concerns about privacy had been raised, but Ch Insp Aldworth said this was not a police matter as there was no criminal privacy law.
However, he said other legislation could be used, for example laws banning voyeurism, in the event of drones with cameras "hovering outside people's bedrooms for whatever nefarious reasons".
Footage posted posted on the internet was the most common way of drone use coming to light, he said, and the peers were told of the difficulties of finding the people responsible.
If a drone "whizzes past your window and catches something that you would rather it didn't catch", he said, it was difficult to catch the person flying it unless the police arrived immediately.
Ch Insp Aldworth said his group's task was to find a "sensible application" of existing laws to control the use of the drones.
He said there was no doubt drones had been used in London and around the UK, pointing to footage posted of football stadiums which he said was a contravention of air navigation rules as well as being a potential safety risk if a device fell from the sky.
"We also know it has been used to embarrass people - either VIPs or members of the public," he said.
Ch Insp Aldworth said a drone had been flown as a protest in front of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and that he expected "copycat behaviour" in the UK.
He added: "The concerns are really around the fact that we are seeing this technology being used for criminal conduct.
"We have undoubtedly seen it flown in controlled airspace, we have undoubtedly seen it used to harass people, and we have seen it flown in contravention of the air navigation orders, so I think that concern arises by the fact that there is clearly a means of offending that we do not seem to be able necessarily to address quickly."
With Christmas approaching, and prices expected to drop, use of the drones could increase, he added.
Last month, pilots' association Balpa told the committee remote aircraft the same size as small passenger planes could be operated commercially in the UK within 10 years, and called for strict controls over their use.
The 32-year-old right winger arrives after a season in the Asia League with Japanese club Tohoku Free Blades, where he was the competition's top scorer.
Pope has also played in the American Hockey League, Denmark and Italy.
"Pope is a power forward and wins battles all over the ice," said Devils player-coach Andrew Lord.
"He can score, make plays or grind it out in the corners. I see him as a real complete player.
"He led the league he was playing in last season in scoring and has been a top scorer wherever he goes. I expect him to bring that offensive ability to the Elite League this season."
Pope will also be studying at Cardiff Met's School of Management while playing for the Devils.
After four pre-season games, the club's first competitive game of the season will be their Champions League tie away to Swiss team HC Davos on 24 August.
They will also face Bili Tygri Liberec of the Czech Republic and Sweden's Vaxjo Lakers in Group E.
Michael Rankine gave the hosts the lead straight from a long-range free-kick before the break but Dover came back.
Nicky Deverdics and Chris Kinnear worked together to set up Ricky Miller to tap in their first from close range.
Dover wrapped up the win when Stefan Payne took the ball and fired in from an acute angle.
Altrincham slip to 22nd following the defeat and are now three points from safety while play-off chasing Dover remain fourth and have a six-point cushion on sixth-placed Braintree.
Jane Khalaf, 19, from Huddersfield, reportedly died on 20 November, eight days after being put on life-support at St Marien Hospital in Cologne.
Speaking in the House of Commons, Barry Sheerman, the Labour MP for Huddersfield, criticised German police for not investigating her death.
Ms Khalaf was on an exchange trip from Northumbria University.
It is thought she was put on a life-support machine after collapsing at the hospital during the annual carnival festivities in the west German city.
Mr Sheerman said there had been no help for Ms Khalaf's family from the German authorities.
He called for help from the Foreign Office during Foreign Office Questions in the House of Commons.
"A young girl in my constituency has been tragically murdered in Cologne," the MP said.
"There is no police investigation although there is every evidence that her drink was spiked - she was poisoned."
John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons, said the Foreign Office was now aware of Mr Sheerman's concerns.
In a statement, Northumbria University said its representatives had met with the family to offer support.
"We can confirm that one of our students has tragically passed away while studying at a partner university in Germany.
"We are in contact with the authorities in Germany and the UK, and stand ready to assist further where we can."
Cologne police are yet to respond to a BBC request for a comment.
Per Mertesacker and Olivier Giroud missed the game in Shanghai, which Arsenal won 3-2 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in normal time.
New signing Sead Kolasinac, Aaron Ramsey and Theo Walcott played but struggled with illness.
"The doctor thinks it is food poisoning. I don't know what they may have eaten," said boss Arsene Wenger.
"We have a little virus in the camp."
Robert Lewandowski put Bayern ahead after eight minutes, before Alex Iwobi scored a 93rd-minute equaliser.
The game was played in temperatures of 36C and Wenger said the conditions had been "a bit of a shock", after arriving from Australia where it was "freezing".
Elsewhere, Leicester beat West Brom 7-6 on penalties in the Premier League Asia Trophy in Hong Kong after the game finished 1-1 in normal time.
Jay Rodriguez, who joined West Brom from Southampton for £12m, marked his Baggies debut with a stunning strike in the ninth minute, before Riyad Mahrez equalised.
Leicester will play Liverpool in the final on Saturday, after Jurgen Klopp's side beat Crystal Palace 2-0, with new signing Dominic Solanke and Belgian forward Divock Origi scoring.
He was speaking to at least a crowd of at least a million who had gathered in Turkey's biggest city.
The rally followed last month's failed military coup.
Mr Erdogan also said the state would be cleansed of all supporters of the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
The cleric is blamed by the Turkish government for the attempted uprising. He denies any involvement.
Religious figures and leaders of two of Turkey's three opposition parties attended the rally. The Kurdish party was not invited.
More than 270 people died in events surrounding the 15 July coup attempt, which triggered a government crackdown.
Thousands of alleged supporters of Mr Gulen have been detained or dismissed from government jobs.
Western nations have been critical of the government's response to the coup. The European Union - which Turkey has applied to join - refuses to accept capital punishment in member states.
The parade ground, built to hold more than a million people, was overflowing, with streets of surrounding neighbourhoods clogged by crowds, Reuters news agency reports.
Turkish government sources said five million people had attended, with the event broadcast live on public screens at smaller rallies across Turkey's provinces.
Mr Erdogan told the rally: "It is the Turkish parliament that will decide on the death penalty... I declare it in advance, I will approve the decision made by the parliament.
"They say there is no death penalty in the EU... Well, the US has it; Japan has it; China has it; most of the world has it. So they are allowed to have it. We used to have it until 1984. Sovereignty belongs to the people, so if the people make this decision I am sure the political parties will comply."
The president railed against Mr Gulen's movement, hinting of further hardline measures to come.
"July 15 showed our friends that this country isn't just strong against political, economic and diplomatic attacks, but against military sabotage as well. It showed that it will not fall, it will not be derailed," Mr Erdogan said.
"Of course we have to uncover all members of this organisation and eradicate them within the framework of the law, but if we content ourselves with just that, then we as a state and a nation will leave weak our defence against similar viruses."
The "Democracy and Martyrs' Rally" was the climax of three weeks of nightly demonstrations by Mr Erdogan's supporters around the country.
Speaking ahead of Mr Erdogan, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told the rally that Mr Gulen would be brought to Turkey and made to pay the price for the coup attempt.
"Let all of you know, the leader of this terrorist group will come to Turkey and pay for what he did," Mr Yildirim said.
In a rare address to a public rally, the head of Turkey's armed forces, Hulusi Akar, said "traitors" would be punished in the harshest way, and thanked civilians for their role in defeating the uprising.
The crackdown in Turkey has seen tens of thousands of public sector workers suspended or dismissed, with many having their passports cancelled. There has also been a massive reshuffle of the military.
About 18,000 people have been detained or arrested.
Local branches of the AK Party have been told to begin a purge of suspected Gulenists in their ranks.
Mr Gulen was a close ally of President Erdogan until a bitter split between his movement and the party of the president three years ago.
Turkey has listed Mr Gulen's movement as a terrorist organisation.
McCombe appeared 61 times in a two-year spell with the Minstermen prior to leaving the club last month.
The 30-year-old was a member of the York side that reached the League Two play-off semi-finals in 2013-14.
Starting his career with Huddersfield Town, he also played for Port Vale and Hereford and won promotion from League Two with both sides.
The study said relative poverty had fallen over the past decade.
But it said a greater proportion of those struggling to get by were now facing either severe or extreme poverty.
People are classed as being in severe poverty if their household income is less than 50% of the UK average.
The report was based on data from 2012-13, when anyone whose household income was below £11,500 would have been classed as living in severe poverty.
Extreme poverty is defined as being 40% or less of the UK median annual household income - or less than £9,200 in 2012-13.
A total of 510,000 individuals - or 10% of the population - were living in severe poverty in 2012-13, the report said.
This included 330,000 working-age adults, 100,000 children and 80,000 pensioners.
But when housing costs were factored in, the number facing severe poverty increased to 710,000.
This included 500,000 who were in extreme poverty after paying their rent or mortgage. A total of 370,000 working-age adults, 90,000 children and 40,000 pensioners were all affected by this.
The report said that the problem of poverty had "deepened in recent years", saying while relative poverty had fallen over the decade from 2002-03, "a greater proportion of households in poverty are now in severe or extreme low income".
It added: "Those in poverty in 2012-13 are more likely to be in extreme low income than in 2002-03.
"This is especially the case after housing costs: in 2012-13, 50% of all people in poverty lived in extreme low income after housing costs, compared with 36% in 2002-03."
Changes in employment were one reason given for the rise in severe and extreme poverty, with the report stating: "There have been decreases in real earned income, a rise in insecure employment (including zero hour contracts) and increases in the numbers in low pay.
"The combination of these factors is likely to increase the numbers living in severe and extreme poverty, and reduce the chances of those in low-paid work to lift their families out of poverty."
Inflation has seen costs rise faster then wages, with this "adding to the pressures being experienced by low-income families".
The research also said that "welfare reform is another key factor", adding: "For low-income working families reliant on benefits and tax credits, cuts combined with changes in eligibility have seen household income decrease in 2012-13."
The report concluded: "In short, poverty is changing; work is no longer a guarantee of a life free of poverty; people in poverty face increasing costs; and those in receipt of benefits and tax credits - which of course includes many in work - are finding their incomes squeezed."
Scottish Social Justice Secretary Alex Neil said it was a "disgrace" that so many people were affected, and claimed it was an "unfortunate and inevitable result of the UK government's failed austerity agenda and welfare cuts that are slashing incomes for some of our poorest households".
Mr Neil added: "With employment increasing and unemployment down, Scotland is outperforming the rest of the UK, yet the statistics show that a job is no longer any guarantee against severe or extreme poverty.
"That's why we opposed cutting in-work tax credits and why the Scottish government and its agencies are paying the living wage, encouraging other employers to follow suit."
A UK government spokesman said there was "no simple solution" to alleviating poverty.
"We are supporting the living standards of poor families by freezing fuel duty, increasing personal tax allowance and cutting income tax for those on the minimum wage by almost two-thirds," he added.
"In addition, the Scottish government has substantial powers at their disposal on areas such as childcare, education, health and housing - all essential for helping those most in need.
"We need to bring all of that together in a joined-up approach across all areas of government in Scotland."
Meanwhile, Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy has announced a commission to address the problem of low pay in Scotland.
Mr Murphy said the commission would report later this year on how the party's vision of eradicating low wages could be achieved.
It will by led by MSPs Jackie Baillie and Neil Findlay and include representatives from Poverty Alliance Scotland, RBS, the Federation of Small Businesses, shop workers' union Usdaw and Barnardo's.
The announcement was made in advance of a Labour summit in Glasgow this week on the living wage, which will bring together trade unions, business leaders and anti-poverty groups and inform the commission's work.
Mr Murphy said: "I'm making it my mission to abolish low pay in Scotland.
"Too many Scots families are just a rainy day away from real financial trouble. More than one in four Scots get paid less than the living wage. This isn't right, and we need to fix it fast."
Several Africans moved to China prior to its transfer window closing this week, including Super Eagles John Mikel Obi, Odion Ighalo and Brown Ideye.
"We play football because we want to make a living," said Amokachi.
"We don't have that platform whereby everything has already been set for us from the day we were born - like Europeans. We don't live on welfare."
The Chinese Super League kicked off on Friday with veteran Zambian James Chamanga scoring the first goal of the season as his Liaoning Whowin drew 1-1 with newly-promoted Guizhou Zhicheng.
A former assistant coach of Nigeria who now manages JS Hercules in Finland, the onetime Everton forward said this lack of financial support explained the wave of Africans and South Americans moving to China.
While some have questioned the ambition of footballers who have quit the top leagues of Europe for the vast wealth of China, Amokachi begs to differ.
He points to Mikel who has yet to turn 30 but who won the European Champions League, two Premier League titles, four FA Cups and the Europa League during his decade-long spell with Chelsea.
The midfielder joined Tianjin Teda in January after failing to feature for the Blues this season.
"Mikel played for a top team in Europe and won practically everything that he needs to win as a footballer," Amokachi told BBC Sport.
"What's left for him is to make a lot of zeros to secure his future and that of his kids and family back home."
Like Mikel, the 28-year-old Ideye has signed for Tianjin Teda who finished 11th in last season's Super League.
Ighalo, meanwhile, was sold for £20m by Premier League side Watford to Changchun Yatai.
Amokachi's former international team-mate Sunday Oliseh fully agrees that the players are entitled to chase riches above glory.
"If a man leaves his country and goes abroad, firstly he wants to work - because football is his job," the former Nigeria coach told BBC Sport.
"Secondly, he goes to the country where he gets better remuneration for the services he is giving - so it's going to be good and the way the Chinese are really putting attention on football now, it can only be good."
Amokachi, who went by the nickname 'The Bull', said selectors should not be put off choosing Nigerians in China for the national team.
"Don't forget that the Chinese are very physical when it comes to training," he explained.
"I think the players will be fit but match fitness is a different ball game. That's why it's important for a manager to look at players who have that 90 minutes week in week out."
This week, Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr left Mikel, Ighalo and Brown out of the squad for this month's friendlies against Senegal and Burkina Faso.
This was to allow the trio time to settle in China, while also giving an opportunity to younger players to have their chance.
Other Africans to have moved to China in recent times include Senegal's Demba Ba, Ivorian Gervinho and Cameroon's Stephane Mbia.
European scientists have turned on the first part of a web-based database of information to help them cope.
Called Rapyuta, the online "brain" describes objects robots have met and can also carry out complicated computation on behalf of a robot.
Rapyuta's creators hope it will make robots cheaper as they will not need all their processing power on-board.
The Rapyuta database is part of the European Robo Earth project that began in 2011 with the hope of standardising the way robots perceive the human world.
Instead of every robot building up its own idiosyncratic catalogue of how to deal with the objects and situations it encounters, Rapyuta would be the place they ask for help when confronted with a novel situation, place or thing.
In addition, the web-based service is able to do complicated computation on behalf of a robot - for example if it needs to work out how to navigate a room, fold an item of clothing or understand human speech.
The system could be particularly useful for drones, self-driving cars or other mobile robots who have to do a lot of number crunching just to get round, said Mohanarajah Gajamohan, technical head of the project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
"On-board computation reduces mobility and increases cost." said Dr Heico Sandee, Robo Earth program manager at the Dutch University of Technology in Eindhoven in a statement. As wireless data speeds increase more and more robotic thinking could be offloaded to the web, he said.
Without access to such a database, roboticists fear machines will be restricted to working in very tightly controlled environments such as production lines and never live easily alongside humans.
The project, which involves researchers at five separate European research labs, has produced the database as well as software that robots can run to connect to and quiz Rapyuta.
The name Rapyuta is taken from the Japanese film by Hayao Miyazaki Castle in the Sky - in the film it is the place where all the robots live.
The team had been in a long-running dispute with governing body USA Hockey over equal pay and support.
The two sides have reached an agreement but are keeping the terms private.
"We stood up for what we thought was right and USA Hockey's leadership listened," said women's team captain Meghan Duggan.
As well as a pay deal, the new agreement will see more marketing, promotion and fundraising for the women's team and extra support at grassroots level, USA Hockey said.
Many players had complained during the 14-month dispute that they were paid only $1,000 (£800) a month during a six-month Olympic period and nothing for the remaining three-and-a half years.
They also cited the extra support structure in place in the men's game.
The US women - who are world champions - will now look to defend their title on home ice, starting with a game against Canada on Friday, 31 March.
The Advertising Standards Authority says current descriptions of speeds "up to" a certain amount are confusing and will be changed in 2017.
However, the UK watchdog has yet to decide how they will be replaced.
Digital Minister Matt Hancock said he was "delighted" by the move because the current adverts were "incredibly misleading".
The announcement comes just over a fortnight after internet providers were ordered to make other changes to their adverts, to make monthly charges clearer.
The industry gave a guarded welcome to the latest announcement.
"Any new guidance needs to reflect that whilst speed is an important factor, it is not the only reason a customer decides on a deal," said James Blessing, chair of the Internet Services Providers' Association Council.
"Crucially, the ASA's research has not identified an effective alternative for the current approach to 'up to' speed claims."
At present, a broadband company can tell customers they will get "up to" a certain speed, if a minimum of 10% of all subscribers on the tariff achieve it.
But the ASA says a survey carried out on its behalf indicated that while most consumers understood a higher number was better, they were still unclear what speed they would likely achieve.
Moreover, the watchdog says users demonstrated a low level of understanding of what speeds they needed to carry out daily online tasks.
"Clearly the current guidance isn't doing the job, but there's no silver-bullet solution," a spokesman for the ASA told the BBC.
"There are pros and cons to all the alternatives."
The three main options considered to date are to give:
The plan is now to hold a short consultation before deciding upon a solution in the spring.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling applies to all EU member states.
Even after six months' residence in an EU state a migrant may still be refused any social assistance, the ECJ ruled.
The judgement concerned a Bosnian-born Swedish national - Nazifa Alimanovic - who had claimed subsistence allowances after losing her job in Germany.
The UK Conservatives say the ruling strengthens Prime Minister David Cameron's hand in his push for major EU reforms.
Changes to EU policy on migrant benefits are a key part of his renegotiation, ahead of a UK in/out referendum on EU membership, set to take place by the end of 2017.
In 2012 a job centre in Berlin stopped paying social security to Ms Alimanovic. She and her daughter Sonita had been receiving unemployment benefits since December 2011. Child support had also been paid for two more children - Valentina and Valentino.
Denying certain non-contributory benefits - also called "social assistance" - to EU jobseekers from another EU country "does not contravene the principle of equal treatment", the ECJ said.
An ECJ ruling in November 2014 found that Germany also had a right to refuse benefits to EU migrants who had no intention of finding work in Germany, in the Dano case.
Ms Alimanovic's three children were born in Germany. The family had returned there from Sweden in 2010. Ms Alimanovic and her elder daughter had worked for less than a year before claiming benefits.
The Conservatives' employment spokesperson in Europe, Anthea McIntyre, called the ruling "a major endorsement of our stance on benefit tourism and our views on free movement.
"Increasingly the rest of Europe is seeing things our way. It bodes well for one of our key areas of renegotiation."
A UK government spokesperson said the ruling "shows we are right to restrict benefits going to EU nationals who haven't paid into the system in the UK.
"It is also further supports our argument that individual member states should have the freedom to design their own welfare systems without being constantly challenged by the courts."
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) - with 24 MEPs the largest British contingent in the European Parliament - said "abuse of the welfare system by non-nationals is also clearly becoming an issue in Germany".
"The [UK] government needs to examine this judgment closely, and if need be, look to alter the rules on habitual residence, which give EU migrants open access to many UK benefits, even though some of them in reality are not seeking work or have only worked for a very short time," said UKIP's employment spokeswoman Jane Collins.
A British Liberal Democrat MEP, Catherine Bearder, said the ruling had "huge implications for the current EU debate in the UK.
"It confirms that jobseekers from elsewhere in the EU are not automatically entitled to claim benefits. I hope the myth of benefit tourism will now be put firmly to bed."
Calum MacRae's team went down to tries from Werner Kok, Dylan Sage and captain Philip Snyman at Stade Jean Bouin.
The Scots had beaten South Africa in their opening fixture, going on to top Pool A with wins over Japan and Canada.
They saw off defending series champions Fiji and England in the quarter and semi-finals on Sunday.
That meant Scotland, who have only won one series leg - the London event last year - in their history, had beaten the three highest-ranked sides in world sevens en route to the showpiece.
But despite Scott Wight's second-half touchdown, a power-laden South African team prevailed to seal the series for the first time since 2009.
The alleged attack took place at the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester on 23 May.
The judge at Gloucester Crown Court told jurors the trial could not proceed at this stage.
The four accused - three aged 22 and one aged 20 - deny charges of rape and sexual assault.
A 20-year-old woman was allegedly raped and assaulted at the university end of term party.
The trial has been adjourned until Thursday.
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Gayle has scored 7,534 runs in fours and sixes in his domestic T20 career, making 18 centuries and 61 fifties.
He smashed five boundaries and seven sixes against Gujarat, making 77 as RCB finished on 213-2.
Brendon McCullum made 72 in response as Gujarat slipped to a 21-run loss.
Gayle has played domestic T20 cricket around the world, which has included stints with Somerset and Worcestershire.
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"Save Coombe Allotments" campaigners say the site, near Wotton-under-Edge, was there in 1847 with some evidence suggesting it dates back to 1763.
But the half-acre plot is privately owned and the landowner says she is within her rights to seek possession.
Campaigners say there is still hope they might be able to buy it to preserve it for the community.
There have been reports that the landowner has been approached by a developer.
Susan Ballinger, who has not responded to requests for a comment from the BBC, has previously said she requires the land back for grazing her horses.
She served allotments holders with a "notice to quit" by 25 March 2016, 12 months ago - prompting a social media campaign to save the allotments.
Villagers in Coombe have had the site registered as a "community asset", which gives them a shot at buying it, if it goes up for sale.
"The site has such a history, we want to keep it as a community area," said campaign manager Martin Clarke.
But he told BBC Radio Gloucestershire that while it was a day of "optimism and hope", whether they would be able to buy it would depend on whether there was a "realistic valuation".
Allotment owners held a party on Friday to "go out with our heads held high".
Ms Ballinger previously told BBC Inside Out West she was within her rights to seek possession of her own land and had given plenty of notice.
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Rooney apologised to Southgate and the Football Association after "inappropriate" pictures taken during the squad's downtime following the World Cup qualifying win against Scotland at Wembley last month were made public.
Former boss Fabio Capello introduced a notoriously hardline approach during his time in charge, but Southgate, speaking at Wembley after signing a four-year contract to succeed Sam Allardyce, said: "I'm not convinced that draconian is going to work for English players.
"We have maybe had a go at that in the past, with the Italians. That regime of how they have prepared for club matches is very similar to the national team."
Southgate, 46, earlier told BBC Radio 5 live: "There's a time to have a glass of beer or wine but at the appropriate time and the right level.
"We talk about pressure. We spend most of our time trying to relieve that pressure and if we put ourselves in positions where we are going to increase that pressure, then that is not intelligent."
Southgate made it clear England's players must adopt their own strict code in an attempt to end the years of international failure.
"There has got to be lines of what is acceptable and what isn't," he said.
"Look at top sports teams like the All Blacks, who are one of the best examples of teams that have won consistently over the years.
"The players are involved in that, because you are giving them ownership and accountability."
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Southgate added: "If our players want to be top, top players, which I believe they do, then they have got to recognise the things that are going to help us achieve that, and the things that are going to detract from that.
"The days are gone from when I was younger where we did have beers after a game - fish and chips and beer on the way home on the coach and probably fall off the bus.
"The rest of the world isn't doing that, so we are competing in a different landscape and have to be as prepared and professional as everybody else."
The Sun published images it said showed Rooney drunk at a party late on Saturday night on 12 November, a day after England's 3-0 win over Scotland.
Southgate said: "If I was to give you one bit of detail, it would be that the only time I saw Wayne was at about 10.30pm that night.
"I was watching a video of the Spain game, which is a usual Saturday night for me, and he popped his head through the door to see what we were doing as a group of coaches."
FA chief executive Martin Glenn insisted Southgate was subjected to a stringent interview by a five-man panel at St George's Park on Monday, and rejected suggestions the process was simply a formality after the former defender's four-game spell as caretaker boss.
Glenn said the process of appointing Allardyce after Roy Hodgson's resignation following Euro 2016 meant they were already prepared after speaking to summer contenders such as Steve Bruce and RB Leipzig sporting director Ralf Rangnick.
"It was reported as a 'fireside chat' but it was anything but," said Glenn. "It was three hours - Howard Wilkinson, Graeme Le Saux, the chairman Greg Clarke, me and technical director Dan Ashworth.
"It started off with a review of 'OK, go through the last four games, what have you learned?' and there was some pretty feisty opinions from the more technical people in the room about some things.
"So that was a good example of saying 'OK, do Gareth's powers of analysis stand up to scrutiny?' - and, as Gareth has said himself, thinking correctly under pressure.
"It's really important for the England team and is important for anyone in what is a high-pressure role.
"We had Gareth independently assessed for mental strengths and how he takes decisions, so that was a separate set.
"We also had extensive background checks, as you might imagine. There was a number of different data sets that went in. We went through the psychological assessments together."
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Southgate has been portrayed as a safe appointment following the turbulence of Allardyce's 67-day reign - but his introductory news conference was measured, assured and confident performance, with Glenn and Ashworth nodding approvingly at various stages.
He has none of the self-confidence bordering on bluster possessed by Allardyce and loses no marks for that.
Southgate may be more low-key but there was a mixture of determination and self-deprecation in his demeanour.
Southgate dealt sensitively and maturely with the inevitable inquisition about the current claims of child sexual abuse at football clubs, while also handling the questions about discipline and the future of the England captaincy with the same calmness he demonstrated throughout his interim tenure.
This may not be an appointment that has got the pulses of England fans racing, but it was certainly a reassuring day for those at the FA who have placed the future in his hands.
More than 20,000 tickets were issued to paramedics after they were caught on speed cameras responding to 999 calls.
Only 400 of those tickets were upheld, a Freedom of Information request by the BBC has found.
The police said some speed cameras only captured the speed and number plate of the vehicle.
Health bosses have called for the automatic exemption on emergency vehicles to be better enforced. Some trust staff are spending 40 hours a month appealing against the fines.
A Freedom of Information request by the BBC to all ambulance trusts in England showed they received 23,227 speeding tickets between 2009 and 2014.
If not appealed against, some trusts would be facing a bill of up to £160,000 a year.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service Trust had to appeal against fines that would amount to more than £774,000 over five years, while the South Central Ambulance Service Trust, covering Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire, spent up to 10 hours a week appealing against the fines.
The highest speed recorded was 115mph in a 50mph zone by the South Western Ambulance Service.
Appeal process:
Carl Rees, from the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives, said "common sense should be applied" and "notices should only be sent out if no blue lights can be seen flashing".
"After the appropriate checks have been made the PCN (penalty charge notice) should be waived. We understand that this is what happens in the majority of cases," he said.
The law:
Section 87 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 states:
Source: "Guidance regarding the legal obligations placed on forces as body corporate when dealing with speeding and red light offences by emergency service vehicles"
Association of Chief Police Officers of England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Assistant Chief Constable Stephen Barry, from the National Police Chiefs' Council, said while police would generally stop notices from being sent out, this was more difficult since the introduction of average speed checks.
"When an emergency vehicle clearly displaying blue lights triggers a camera, but the police can see that it was being driven safely in accordance with the law with blue lights displayed, they would generally stop notices from being sent out.
"This has been made more difficult with the introduction of average speed checks in recent years, which usually capture the speed and number plate of the vehicle but not necessarily an image."
Miriam Rodríguez Martínez was shot in her home in the town of San Fernando in Tamaulipas state.
She was known for successfully investigating the kidnap and murder of her daughter by a local drug cartel, the Zetas.
The information she gave the police ensured the gang members were jailed.
But in March one of them escaped and her colleagues said she started to receive threats.
She was killed on Mexico's mother's day, 10 May.
Her colleagues said she had asked for police protection but was ignored.
State prosecutor Irving Barrios told a news conference that security needs had been met and police officers made rounds three times a day. Her family disputes this.
The Mexican human rights commission issued a statement saying it deplored her murder and called for a full investigation.
Mrs Rodríguez founded the local group for families who were victims of violence after her daughter, Karen Alejandra, was kidnapped in 2012.
She had managed to find her daughter's body in a clandestine grave and put her murderers in jail.
She also foiled an attempted kidnapping by the Zetas of her husband, when she chased the gang in her car, at the same time notifying the army who then managed to arrest them.
According to one of her fellow campaigners, Mrs Rodríguez felt she could not sit back after her daughter's killers were caught.
"She told us that she was incomplete, that although she had found her daughter, nothing would ever return to normal for her," Graciela Pérez told the BBC.
Ms Pérez, who also has a missing daughter, described the murdered activist as someone "with a very strong, caring and cheerful character".
The group she established was part of a wider trend which mushroomed after the October 2014 disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa in the southwestern state of Guerrero.
Frustrated by a lack of government help, groups of families began their own searches for people who had disappeared in their areas, taking courses in forensic anthropology, archaeology, law, buying caving equipment and becoming experts in identifying graves and bones.
There are now at least 13 of these groups across the country.
The administration of former President Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) militarised the Mexican security forces to fight the drug cartels.
In 10 years, the so-called war on drugs he launched left tens of thousands of murder victims with numbers varying widely between civic institutions and government figures.
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) issued its annual survey of armed conflict on Tuesday, saying that 23,000 people had died in Mexico in armed conflict in 2016
The Mexican government has questioned these figures.
Mogadishu used to be like any other capital city in the region.
Poet braves wrath of al-Shabab
I remember the days spent swimming and having picnics and then, in the evening, we would go out to the cinema or even to the theatre.
That was when we still had a government.
And in those days we had embassies here in Mogadishu for all the other countries in the world.
So many foreigners lived here. It was so cosmopolitan.
Not xenophobic like it is today.
My city was beautiful and we had tranquillity.
I will never forget one situation that happened one day while we were at the beach.
My friend ended up arguing with an Italian woman.
He was floating around on his lilo in the sea, as was this Italian woman, who also had a lilo, and he was moving so close to her so she was asking why he was very close to her.
He ended up being stupid - he was still a teenager - and spoke indecently to her.
The lady called the police. They came and took him straight away to the court.
In those days both Somalis and foreigners used to enjoy equal rights.
My friend was told off and ordered to apologise to the lady in front of the court.
The situation now is incomparable. I am so full of nostalgia.
Exactly three months ago I came back to Mogadishu but I left a long time ago.
Somaliland's hopes
I remember when I left - It was 1992. I can remember the violence and the conflict.
There was fighting going on and that was the reason why I left at that time.
The situation was chaos and it was a really difficult situation at that time.
I was looking for a future and a better life. I reached London on 23 April 1993.
I recently returned because my mum was sick and so I could not stay away from her any longer. That is the reason I risked my life to come back.
My mum is doing ok now and so I am thinking that soon I will be able to go back to my lovely country, the UK.
There is no better place than London for me.
But it wasn't always. Mogadishu used to be the best city in Africa.
A place where your family and friends were there. A normal life. It was a wonderful life.
I can't see any way how we can have that life again.
Now, in Mogadishu, things are really different. I could not compare it to anywhere. It is divided. Mogadishu is not a place you can trust or make a better life.
There is not a single postman who can deliver you a letter. There is no normal daily life. There is no security. There is no night life. As soon as four o'clock in the afternoon comes there is no single car on the roads and you cannot walk in the roads.
Life is limited. I feel trapped. No-one in Mogadishu is free.
My mum still lives in the same area that I grew up in but I am staying in a hotel, which is well-guarded.
Twenty years ago the hotel I am staying in - the Sahafi - was one of the best hotels and the area was like Chelsea in London. It was a rich area and very nice at that time. It was the heart of the city.
Inside the hotel is OK and the rooms are fine. It is not like a four star but maybe a two star but the food is good.
But outside of the hotel things are different.
It is like there is no life. It is another world. You face so many consequences.
War is everywhere. The walls are broken. There are no trees. There is not one beautiful place where you can sit.
It really is terrible. I hope I will be able to go home soon.
In the heyday when our country was at peace, it was incomparable.
Honestly speaking, I remember when students come out from school, all in their uniforms... you cannot imagine how colourful they were.
All education grades - from primary to university - were free of charge and now poor people can't pay school fees and they have to remain ignorant.
If I remember that time, I am nearly crying.
The youth used to think of their future and had good minds but now you see most of our Somali youth are some way, directly or indirectly, involved in violence.
We used to see good cars, good houses and good minds but now it is the opposite.
We see destroyed houses, battle wagons and people with clan mindsets and empty bellies.
Before, a policeman with only a small stick would be obeyed.
But now, we live in anarchy - a young man fires and everyone runs away.
Nowadays, we no longer have music.
Mortars and gun shots are the terrible music to our ears.
I worry about our destiny.
I wish to see my country stable and my people living in harmony.
But I am not sure whether I will witness that admirable era again before I die.
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The man, 46, was knifed at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham at about 10:30 GMT, West Midlands Police said.
A 41-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The man has been taken to hospital.
An area of the stadium, which hosts Diamond League events and the national championships, was cordoned off while forensic examinations were conducted.
Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the stabbing.
He called for a focus on fixing health and education problems rather than "taking our eye off the ball".
Mr Davies, a leading campaigner for the UK to leave the EU, was speaking on BBC Radio Wales on Thursday.
He also told the Jason Mohammad programme he would be happy to welcome President Trump to the Welsh Assembly.
Mr Davies criticised assembly Presiding Officer Elin Jones for tweeting her support for Commons Speaker John Bercow's view that Mr Trump should not address MPs and peers.
Taking questions from listeners on Brexit, Mr Davies said: "What we need to be starting to do is look at the more day-to-day things that are going on in our lives like, regrettably, fewer teachers in our schools, A&E response times here in Wales and ambulance response times.
"I accept there are challenges across the health service in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and that is why we shouldn't be taking our eye off the ball and just focussing on Brexit, because it's the day-to-day things in people's lives that people want their politicians to sort out on their behalf."
Mr Davies also called on pro-EU campaigners to apologise for claims that the economy would face an "apocalypse" if the UK voted to the leave the European Union.
Asked whether he would welcome Donald Trump to the Senedd when he makes a state visit to the UK, Mr Davies said: "I would, because he's the president of the United States."
"I don't subscribe to some of the beliefs he has, to some of the policies - in some instances they are abhorrent.
"But I cannot help the fact that he's been democratically elected and you are welcoming the person in the most senior democratic office of the most powerful country on the planet.
"You have to engage with that individual. We are a democracy."
Mr Davies added: "I do think it's unfortunate that the presiding officer has chosen without consultation to put such a tweet out because she's basically saying that she doesn't want the representative of the American people to come to the National Assembly."
Abdeslam is being interrogated in Belgium following his arrest in a dramatic raid in Brussels on Friday.
Many weapons and a new terror network had been uncovered in the city, Mr Reynders told a foreign policy forum.
The Paris attacks, claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS), left 130 people dead and dozens injured.
Mr Reynders cited information that he said had come to light since Abdeslam's arrest.
"He was ready to restart something in Brussels," he told the German Marshall Fund of the United States meeting in the city.
"And it's maybe the reality because we have found a lot of weapons, heavy weapons, in the first investigations and we have found a new network around him in Brussels."
Mr Reynders said the number of suspects had risen markedly since the November attacks.
"We are sure for the moment we have found more than 30 people involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris, but we are sure there are others."
France has reinforced its border security and Interpol has warned that accomplices may try to flee across frontiers now that Abdeslam is in custody.
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In another development, Abdeslam's lawyer, Sven Mary, said he planned to take legal action against Paris prosecutor Francois Molins for breach of confidentiality.
Mr Molins told reporters on Saturday that Abdeslam had admitted he wanted to blow himself up during the attacks on 13 November, but then changed his mind.
Mr Mary said he would take legal action against Mr Molins for breaching the confidentiality of the investigation.
The Belgian authorities have charged Abdeslam with terrorism offences.
The 26-year-old French national, born in Belgium, spent four months on the run.
He is fighting extradition to France, which could take up to three months, though Mr Mary says his client is co-operating with the Belgian authorities.
Abdeslam is believed to have fled shortly after the November attacks, returning to the Molenbeek district of Brussels.
He is being held at a high-security jail in the Belgian city of Bruges.
Investigators believe he helped with logistics, including renting rooms and driving suicide bombers to the Stade de France.
The subject of a massive manhunt, Abdeslam was arrested about 500m (1,600ft) from his home in Molenbeek. His brother, Brahim, was one of the Paris attackers who blew himself up on 13 November.
Another man arrested at the same time as Salah Abdeslam on Friday, Monir Ahmed Alaaj, has also been charged with participation in terrorist murder and the activities of a terrorist group, Belgian prosecutors say.
The raid came after Abdeslam's fingerprints were found in a flat in another Brussels district, Forest, raided on Tuesday.
Footage showed Abdeslam being bundled into a police car on Friday after a volley of gunfire. Alaaj was also injured during the arrests.
Prosecutors said Alaaj had travelled with Abdeslam to Germany last October, where his fingerprints were taken during an identity check.
Kirsty Williams launched the Digital Competence Framework (DCF) on Wednesday in order for pupils to be able to use technology effectively.
The scheme, which includes learning on iPads, has been fast-tracked.
But she stopped short of saying the Welsh Government had been slow in rolling out such a programme.
While the turnaround since being given the go-ahead last year has been quick, experts warned in 2014 schools were in danger of being left behind over digital education.
DCF is available now to all schools but it will not be compulsory until 2021, which by then will come seven years after the warning.
By 2021, it will also be seven years since England introduced a new national curriculum for computing, although that is focused on learning how to code.
"We are dealing with a curriculum that was designed before the fall of the Berlin Wall, before everybody had mobile phones and before tablets had even been invented," said Ms Williams.
"We've recognised that we need to change our curriculum and this area was the area we identified which could make the biggest difference most quickly and that why we have acted and we've done so with pace."
The framework is designed to map out the use of technology for children from nursery age through to 16.
It is also said to be "future-proof" as pupils will be able to apply their skills to technology which at the moment does not exist.
Ms Williams said digital skills would "sit alongside" numeracy and literacy in lessons so they will be able to read, do maths and use technology in all aspects of their learning.
The framework - which has 13 are "pioneer schools" who helped develop it - is available to all schools to take on now but it will become compulsory in 2021 when the new Wales curriculum is fully rolled out.
But Ms Williams denied a suggestion from an OECD global study which warned classroom technology could be a distraction.
"The OECD said in their report there are limitations in what technology can deliver within a classroom but what the OECD also recognises is the important skills that people need to enter into the world of work," she said.
"We're not throwing out the traditional methods, we're using digital technology to complement what we already do in Welsh schools.
"Crucially, this is about being able to give young people the skills that employers will look at and will be looking for when students leave education."
The Welsh Conservatives questioned whether the plans could work given a lack of access to broadband in many parts of Wales.
Education spokesman Darren Millar said: "When the Cabinet Secretary states that the framework has been designed for 'all children in Wales', she forgets that many parts of the country lack access to even the most basic internet speeds.
"I will therefore be seeking assurances from the Labour-led Welsh Government as to how they will ensure that children, for example, living in rural Wales are not at a disadvantage because of their failure to banish broadband not-spots."
The 36-year-old leaves Hearts second in the Scottish Premiership, replacing Karl Robinson at a side currently 19th in England's third tier.
He will be joined at the Dons by Stevie Crawford, who has been Neilson's assistant since he took his first job in management at Tynecastle in 2014.
Neilson will take charge after Saturday's FA Cup tie with Charlton.
Caretaker Richie Barker will remain in charge against an Addicks side managed by Robinson, after his six-year reign at MK Dons ended in October following a poor start to the season having been relegated from the Championship last term.
Dons chairman Pete Winkelman said: "I'm hugely excited. Robbie has been on our list from day one - he's the most exciting young manager in the UK, by a country mile.
"Hearts are a good club. They didn't stand in Robbie's way and they made it possible. They worked with us to make sure it was as smooth as it could be, given that it's in the middle of the season."
Neilson's final match in charge of the Edinburgh side was a 2-0 victory over Rangers at Tynecastle, and afterwards he described his time at Hearts as "a phenomenal journey".
The former Scotland international full-back led his side to the Scottish Championship title and promotion in his first season in charge, and a third-placed finish in the top flight last term.
Neilson said of his appointment: "It's great to be here and I'm looking forward to developing the club, developing the players and moving the club forward.
"The most important thing for me was picking the right chairman and the right club, and this was the right match at the right time - it's a club that's going places.
"Hopefully the fans are ready for the ride. We want to create excitement but, most importantly, win football matches. With the squad that we've got here, we should be winning football matches - our job is to help them do that."
Neilson joins a side who had previously held talks with former England and Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard over the vacancy.
However, the 36-year-old said the role came "a bit too soon" for him after his exit from LA Galaxy.
"If you allege something you should prove it," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
He was responding to a statement by Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Russia says Turkey downed the jet as it was flying over Syria.
Turkey says the plane entered its airspace and was warned to leave.
One Russian pilot was killed and the other rescued after Russia's Su-24 bomber was shot down by a Turkish F-16 fighter on the Syrian border on 24 November.
A Russian marine was killed during the rescue operation in north-western Syria.
Russia has insisted the plane did not cross the border and that it gave advance notice of the flight path to the US, Turkey's ally.
But the US has supported Turkey's version of events. On Monday state department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said that "evidence from Turkey and our own sources indicates that Russian aircraft violated Turkish airspace",
She added that Russia had not informed the US or its coalition of its air operation. "We do not co-ordinate operations with the Russian Federation," she said.
"You should put your documents on the table if you have any. Let's see the documents," Mr Erdogan said.
"We are acting with patience. It is not positive for the two countries which have reached a position which could be regarded as a strategic partnership to make emotional statements."
President Erdogan also vowed to step down if the allegation that Turkey was buying oil from IS proved true, suggesting that President Putin should do the same if he was wrong.
Russia is a major ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and its air strikes have targeted rebel groups, including IS.
Turkey strongly opposes Mr Assad and has been accused of turning a blind eye to jihadist fighters crossing from its territory into Syria.
Until a few months ago, Turkey was reluctant to play an active role in the coalition against IS. However, in August it allowed the US-led coalition to begin using its airbase at Incirlik.
Russia has imposed sanctions on Turkey over the downing of the plane, including restrictions on imports of Turkish food and an end to visa-free travel.
IS earns much of its money from illegal oil fields it controls in north-eastern Syria and western Iraq.
Some of the oil is sold to the Assad regime and some is smuggled through middlemen to Turkey. However, the Turkish government has consistently denied being involved in the trade.
"We have every reason to think that the decision to shoot down our plane was dictated by the desire to protect the oil supply lines to Turkish territory," Mr Putin said at a news conference in Paris on Monday.
Mr Putin also accused Turkey of harbouring "terrorist organisations" operating "in various regions of Russia, including the North Caucasus".
The Moscow government earlier said the Su-24 had been attacking "terrorists" from the North Caucasus based inside Syria when the Turkish jets attacked them.
Turkey and Russia have important economic links. Russia is Turkey's second-largest trading partner, while more than three million Russian tourists visited Turkey last year.
President Erdogan said Turkey would act "patiently, not emotionally" before deciding its response to the economic sanctions.
Memories of her most popular sitcoms including The Liver Birds, Butterflies, and Bread have been shared online.
Here is a selection of tributes that have been posted.
I loved liver birds I followed that series till the end, I also followed Bread, I laughed so hard and Butterflies all of them are out of this world, I've been in the USA 13 yrs and I still go back to YouTube to cheer myself up and watch them.
I remember Carla Lane in 1995 when she joined us protesters down at Shoreham Port authority who were against the live export of animals. Carla and Celia Hammond both came down and added support to the cause and helped bring the public attention to it after it had died down a bit following the initial furore when it was hijacked by anti-police protesters. Carla was doing some work against the live export trade from her house and I went there to help out. It was an amazing place with lots of animals a lot of whom were rescued. She was a very genuine person - not at all stuffy like some celebrities just very normal.
An extraordinary talented, genuine, sensitive, inspirational and compassionate lady who dedicated her life to giving pleasure and humour to her fellow man. History will also forever cherish her memory as a champion and voice for all animals, not only for those who needed a safe haven but for those thousands of animals who were forced on long hazardous journeys to the slaughterhouse, their pain was Carla's pain, their tears were Carla's tears. Although for only a brief period, It was a privilege to have worked with this exceptional legend. Her heart made space for all humanity and she strived to make this world more humane. The world has lost a precious and irreplaceable jewel.
Compiled by Andree Massiah
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Joyce, 30, had a considerable size advantage over his 27-year-old opponent, and shook Morais with the first punch he landed.
Morais was cut over the left eye within a minute, took a standing count after two, and failed to beat the count when he hit the canvas shortly afterwards.
Joyce will next fight on Tuesday.
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Abbie Lee Everett posted the image of her nephew Ben, 14, on Facebook saying he was "lucky to be alive".
"It's not an easy photo to look at is it? He ended up in a coma because of somebody spiking his drink," she said.
North Wales Police is investigating an incident in Old Colwyn, Conwy county, on Saturday night.
Ms Everett said "people may not like this picture" but Ben, who is now home from hospital, had agreed for it to be shared to show what can happen.
She added that few people show the consequences of when "kids can get their hands on drugs".
"He ended up in a coma because of somebody spiking his drink.. he was lucky to be alive if another lad didn't carry him home when he did and my sister and her husband phoning an ambulance when they did, he wouldn't be here," she posted.
"His bloods came back as some alcohol in his blood but really high of MDMA. A dodgy drug nearly took his life, is it really worth taking these kind of drugs?"
She added: "Please share to show kids what can actually happen."
Police said no arrests have been made but appealed for information.
The claim: The falling pound has made the UK the world's sixth biggest economy, down from fifth.
Reality Check verdict: The World Bank produces the rankings which are based on average exchange rates over the period. The UK has not fallen behind France so far.
In an article in the Telegraph, former trade minister Lord Livingston wrote: "In the long term, this is unacceptable for the sixth-largest economy (it was the fifth largest, but the fall in the pound since June means we have fallen behind France)."
Sixth place would put the UK behind the US, China, Japan, Germany and France in US dollar terms, with France having leapfrogged the UK into fifth.
It is all down to exchange rates, in theory. If the pound is almost a fifth weaker against the US dollar since the EU referendum, our annual GDP of about £1.8 trillion is worth fewer dollars, dropping us down the table.
Newspapers were full of the news that the UK had slipped to number six after the vote to leave the European Union, pointing out that if you applied the weaker pound exchange rates to the output of the economy in 2015, France did indeed come out ahead of the UK. But that's not how it works.
The World Bank produces the rankings. It takes official annual GDP figures and then converts them into US dollars using an average exchange rate for the whole year. The GDP figures for 2015 based on exchange rates from last year rank the UK at number five.
So will the slide in exchange rates move the UK down the World Bank's table in 2016? It might.
The Office for National Statistics published its first estimate of GDP figures for the third quarter of 2016 on Thursday morning, suggesting the economy grew 0.5%.
That means that GDP for the first nine months of the year was about £1.400 trillion.
Over the same period the average exchange rate was $1.3925, according to data from the Bank of England. So if we convert our GDP in pounds into US dollars that gives us a GDP of $1.949 trillion in the first nine months of 2016.
In France, GDP data for the third quarter came out on Friday morning, suggesting that French GDP was €1.641 trillion in the first nine months of 2016.
Convert that to US dollars at an average exchange rate, taken from the European Central Bank, of $1.1157 and France's GDP on the World Bank measure is $1.831 trillion.
Still smaller than the UK. And indeed, UK GDP for just the third quarter was also bigger than French GDP using this method.
If the pound stays as weak as it is at the moment then France may overtake the UK in the full year.
But it makes no sense, as many people have done, to relegate the UK economy by adjusting 2015 GDP using current exchange rates.
If France does overtake the UK, it will be a reflection of exchange rates rather than how much is being produced in the economy.
It is unlikely there has been a huge change in the amount the economy is producing since the EU referendum. The fall in exchange rates reduces its value in US dollar terms, but the substance of the economy hasn't really changed.
Professor Diane Coyle, author of GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History, explains: "Making a judgement about international rankings based on one quarter of currency movement is not meaningful, although it has certainly made consumers worse off.
"There might well be a change in the future. The UK might fall below France in a meaningful way but we would see that in real changes, not just the currency movement.
"We would see jobs going abroad, businesses not getting investment, start-ups not getting funding. That's when we might see a significant change in the GDP rankings."
Converting output into US dollars to rank economies may not be the best way to look at it.
As a World Bank analysis of the best way to compare economies puts it: "Exchange rate-converted GDPs can be highly misleading on the relative sizes of economies and levels of material well-being."
Another way to approach the problem is to use a measure called purchasing power parity. This tracks prices across the world to adjust for the different prices we pay for the same things in different countries.
What that does is allow a fair comparison between countries that looks at the underlying size of economies without the numbers being warped by price or currency fluctuations.
On that measure, also produced by the World Bank, the UK was the ninth-largest economy in the world in 2015.
France was the 10th.
Based on the latest forecasts, the World Bank expects the UK to stay ahead of France for the whole of 2016, measured by purchasing power or by converting to US dollars.
There were some bad experiences for rugby fans getting to and from venues by train. Generally it feels like the service itself has been patchy.
While I'm told the trip to Brighton for South Africa v Japan on Saturday was a breeze, the trains to Cardiff for Ireland vs Canada organised by First Great Western were rammed.
The problem there, I'm told, is lots of fans turned up at the same time to travel. Great Western admits its messaging was not strong enough to encourage fans to travel earlier in the day.
For the game on Wednesday in Cardiff between Australia and Fiji it says passengers with later tickets can travel on earlier trains (not vice-versa). It says it was an issue with travel management and not the number of services available, and it wants as many passengers as possible to travel just after the morning peak.
On Saturday, Twickenham station itself had to be shut after a man was struck by a train and because of that there was even more overcrowding than usual. Eyewitnesses told us it was not far off serious crushing outside.
Twickenham station struggles to cope with crowds at the best of times. It is a suburban rail station and not really designed for big sporting events, and when it deals with them it is at capacity.
I'm told other routes like the shuttle bus to Hounslow Central were quite good.
This weekend fans should be aware there will be six sets of engineering works across London.
While Network Rail has suspended work on key routes to the venues, fans should check their routes so they don't get caught out. For example, on the Great Northern to Peterborough there will be a bus replacement service from midnight on Saturday.
Network Rail says: "It is vital that we continue to maintain and upgrade the rail network millions of people in and around the capital rely on every day."
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Thomas, 23, watched as his ball bounced once and flew into the hole on 13, helping him to a round of 66.
He leads on 12 under, one clear of Johnson (66) and two ahead of Rory McIlroy (70) and Phil Mickelson (68).
Jordan Spieth of the US made a bogey-free 63 to move to seven under par.
Johnson led for much of the day as overnight leader McIlroy failed to fire, but after five birdies the American slipped back with a bogey on 16, allowing Thomas to go past him.
Thomas came through the back nine in 31 shots, adding birdies at the 15th and 16th to ensure he will go out last alongside Johnson on the final day.
Mickelson finished the day on 10 under par after an extraordinary back nine, which saw him require three free drops in succession after a spectator picked up his ball on the 10th, and he then drove into the bushes on 11 and 12.
Playing partner McIlroy remained very much in contention after a back nine that produced one birdie and eight pars.
"It was hard to get any rhythm because Phil was here, there and everywhere, so I was waiting a lot," McIlroy said after his one-under-par round.
"It probably shouldn't have affected me but it did a little bit."
England's Westwood moved within a shot of the Northern Irishman thanks to a 66, while compatriots Tommy Fleetwood (66) and Tyrrell Hatton (68) are one further back on eight under.
McIlroy will return to world number one if he wins in Mexico and Johnson finishes worse than fourth on his own.
If it passes, the country will be the largest developed nation to end marijuana prohibition.
The law was tabled on Thursday, and would allow adults over 18 to possess up to 30g of dried marijuana.
The proposed legislation would allow the federal government to license producers, but provinces would be in charge of regulating consumer sale.
Other issues, such as pricing, taxation and packaging must still be worked out.
"This is a very important day, I've spent most of my adult life keeping children and communities safe," said MP Bill Blair during a press conference shortly after the legislation was presented to parliament.
The former police chief had chaired the government's cannabis task force, which laid out a blueprint for legal recreational pot in Canada.
The government is pitching the legislation as a way to keep pot out of the hands of minors and undercut organised crime.
The law would increase penalties for those who sell to children, and revamp impaired driving laws to make it easier to prosecute people who drive under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
It would allow police to test people's saliva if they think a driver has been using marijuana.
The current legal prohibitions have been an "abject failure" at keeping the children from getting a hold of marijuana, says Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale.
Canada has some of the highest marijuana use in the world, according to the task force, especially amongst young people. About 30% of people aged 20-24 use cannabis.
The new framework would make it illegal to market marijuana products to children, or sell to anyone under 18. Provinces could raise the minimum age of consumption if they choose, the government says.
New laws would also increase the penalty for people who sell to the under-aged, as well as create a new offence for people "exploiting children in the trafficking of cannabis".
Trafficking cannabis outside the government's new legal framework would remain illegal.
Initially, only fresh and dried cannabis, cannabis oils, seeds and plants would be licensed for sale, but adults could grow up to four plants and make edibles at home for their personal use.
Marijuana won't become legal overnight. The government still has to debate the bill and provinces will have to draft their own regulations for sale.
"There's still a lot of questions," said Lynne Belle-Isle, who works for the Centre for Addictions Research.
Ms Belle-Isle participated in the task force's public consultations, and said she's happy with the government's focus on health and safety.
"We agree that legalisation is the way to go, I think criminalisation is a lot more harmful," she said. One thing her organisation has been pushing for is to have the sale of marijuana contained to government-controlled stores that enforce minimum pricing. The system is already used in many provinces for hard alcohol, and she said research shows it cuts down on abuse.
In a report released on Tuesday, the CD Howe Institute warned that if the cost is too high, it would do little to undercut the illicit market, but if it is too low, it could encourage consumption and fail to generate significant government revenue.
Mr Goodale advised that, in the meantime, police will enforce existing marijuana laws.
"This is an orderly transition, not a free-for-all," he admonished.
Illegal pot dispensaries have sprouted up in cities across Canada in the last few years, especially in Vancouver and Toronto.
Many have been regularly raided by police and two prominent marijuana activists and retailers - Marc and Jodie Emery - were recently arrested and charged with a number of offences including drug trafficking.
Medical marijuana has been legal in Canada since 2001 and is grown by 42 federally licensed producers.
The medical marijuana framework would continue to operate under the new legislation, but licensed Canadian producers who grow for the medical marijuana market are already jockeying to enter the lucrative recreational retail sector.
The site of the former Lafarge cement works in Eastgate had been earmarked for the multi-million pound scheme.
Durham County Council was set to buy the land for £1, and, with regional development agency One North East, spend £1.5m to kick-start development.
With the agency now abolished, the plan has been put on hold. The council said it was still working with Lafarge on the future of the site.
The planned eco-village would have used hot water pumped from underneath the Weardale hills to heat homes, a hotel, and a recreated Roman spa.
There were hopes it would have have created up to 250 jobs.
Lafarge, which still owns the site, said in a statement: "We remain committed to the outline plans for a renewable energy village at Eastgate.
"However the majority of our work has taken place during the severe economic conditions that the UK has been facing over recent years, and so far we are not able to give a more detailed update on those plans."
Durham County Council said in a statement: "We are still working with Lafarge on the future of the land."
Just over 4.2 million people registered to vote in last year's independence referendum, the largest electorate ever recorded in Scotland.
But this figure included 16 and 17-year-olds who are not eligible to vote on 7 May.
The deadline for registering to vote in the general election is 20 April.
With the exception of 2009, Scottish electorates have increased each year since 2003.
Figures from the National Records of Scotland show that by 2 March a total of 4.04 million people in Scotland had registered to vote in the 2015 general election.
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But the conduct panel's ruling means Jahangir Akbar can apply after five years to have this ban set aside.
Mr Akbar was accused of trying to "eliminate" the celebration of Christmas in school and "undermining tolerance" of other beliefs.
The tribunal said Mr Akbar's behaviour was "misconduct of a serious nature".
Mr Akbar had been acting head of Oldknow Academy in Small Heath, one of the Birmingham schools caught up in the Trojan Horse claims of a takeover by groups promoting a hard-line Muslim agenda.
The National College for Teaching and Leadership began a series of misconduct hearings in the autumn - and Mr Akbar was found guilty in December.
With the announcement of the prohibition order, he becomes the first to face sanctions.
The professional conduct panel, acting on behalf of the education secretary, concluded that Mr Akbar had "failed to uphold public trust in the profession and maintain high standards of ethics and behaviours".
Mr Akbar was found to have narrowed the range of religious education and "cultural events", such as downplaying the celebration of Christmas and cancelling "non-Islamic" events.
The panel concluded that this "tended to undermine tolerance" and "respect for the faith and beliefs of others".
When a parent challenged Mr Akbar about his daughter's education, he was found to have shouted at the parent and "reacted inappropriately".
But a number of claims against Mr Akbar were rejected.
The panel did not accept accusations that he had tried to "exclude the proper teaching of sex and relationship education" or that he had tried to reduce the amount of music and art.
The panel did not find evidence of gender segregation or that he was "reforming the school curriculum to include greater emphasis on religion".
And the misconduct panel said it had not found that Mr Akbar was "promoting religious extremism".
But the panel concluded that his "conduct was incompatible with being a teacher".
The ruling means that Mr Akbar is banned from teaching in any school or educational setting, but he will be able to apply for this to be lifted in five years.
"This should allow Mr Akbar sufficient time to demonstrate his understanding of, and ability to implement, a balanced and broadly based curriculum which promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural and mental development of pupils."
Oldknow School has subsequently been renamed as Ark Chamberlain Primary Academy.
A new report says that activists, journalists and government critics are locked up for years and often have their sentences extended arbitrarily.
The Uzbek authorities say there are no political prisoners in the country and that torture is being eliminated.
The report looks at the cases of 34 current and 10 former prisoners.
"We have concluded that at least 29 out of these 44 prisoners have alleged credibly that they have been tortured either during the pre-trial custody phase or in prison," Steve Swerdlow, Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch, told the BBC.
One case highlighted in the report is that of prominent journalist Muhammad Bekjanov who has been held since 1999.
Mr Bekjanov is the brother of Uzbek opposition leader Muhammad Salih and used to work on the opposition Erk newspaper.
He fled Uzbekistan for Ukraine but was abducted by Uzbek security forces in 1999 following a series of explosions in the Uzbek capital Tashkent which were blamed on the opposition.
His daughter Aygul - 18 at the time - told the BBC the family was in shock when they discovered what had happened.
"Inside the flat we saw the signs of a struggle. Everything was broken, all the furniture was smashed. Our family and personal photographs had disappeared. We couldn't believe our eyes."
Aygul Bekjanova says she has not seen her father since then, but that her mother visited him two years ago and found him in a terrible state, suffering from TB and with most of his teeth missing.
"My mum says she could not recognise him. He had lost weight to such an extent - he was like skin stretched over bones."
Ms Bekjanova says her father was so severely beaten during one interrogation that his leg broke.
"He told my mother that once prison guards formed two rows, forced him to walk between them while they were indiscriminately beating him with sticks," she said. "Afterwards they left him on the concrete floor for four days without food or water, lying there covered in blood."
Mr Bekjanov was due for release in 2012, but just before that date his sentence was extended by five years for breaking prison rules.
Human Rights Watch says that such methods are a regular occurrence.
"We documented here that the Uzbek government has a policy of extending the sentences of political prisoners on absurd, farcical, completely baseless grounds which they call violation of prison rules," Steve Swerdlow says.
In one case the violations included "incorrectly peeling carrots" in the prison kitchen, according to HRW.
The allegations of torture in the report are serious and include simulated suffocation, beatings, electric shock, hanging by wrists and ankles, as well as threats of rape.
Human Rights Watch says that the prisoners include people who have tried to uncover corruption or seek democratic reforms in a state regarded as one of the region's most authoritarian.
"Uzbekistan should immediately and unconditionally release everyone imprisoned on politically motivated charges, stop arbitrarily extending prison sentences and put a stop to torture in prison," Human Rights Watch says.
Uzbekistan routinely denies that there are political prisoners in its jails. Its officials say that torture is being eliminated and that some officers accused of torture have been prosecuted.
Would he be interested in David Cameron having one of his paintings to pass on as a gift to the most powerful man in the world?
"My first thought was 'wow, Ronald MacDonald is going to have one of my paintings - amazing!"
Eine, whose perky typography has been popping up across London for a number of years, chuckles at the memory of how his professional life has been turned on its head.
To date, his highest profile work has been a collaboration with handbag designer Anya Hindmarch, and spray painting the entire alphabet on the shop shutters of a street in Spitalfields in his signature ice-cream palette.
Now, his work has made its way to Washington DC and the walls of the White House.
It's a long way for the south London-born street artist who started out because he "wanted to be part of that hooded track suit gang thing".
"I was just completely shocked, yeah, just completely shocked and completely amazed to get that call," admits the 39-year-old.
"I'm not a massive artist by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, I've been in papers and magazines, but you never have any idea if anyone actually reads it or pays any attention.
"So, to receive a phone call from Number 10 saying they like your work, they want a piece of your work, and they want to give it to President Obama, it's like this can't be happening, this can't be true, it's just too weird."
But it was true and, this week, Cameron handed the £2,500 canvas - entitled Twentyfirst Century City - to President Obama, along with scented candles for his wife and two pairs of candy-coloured wellies for the kids.
"I had a little think about it before I said 'Yes'," admits Eine, who has gradually been making a name for himself on the street-art scene.
"I assessed the pros and the cons, and I went back to them and said 'Yeah, cool, what are you interested in?'"
The 'cons' in this case were Eine's fear he would be branded a sell-out by his peers, or that the painting would be left in bubble wrap and abandoned in a darkened room in the White House.
The 'pros' were summed up with the name of one artist - Shepherd Fairey.
Fairey's now famous Hope poster, a stencil portrait of Obama in red, white and blue, became an iconic symbol during the 2008 presidential campaign.
"I wasn't prepared to give them something I felt wasn't going to be looked at and appreciated," says Eine.
"But Obama used the poster by Shepard Fairey - probably the most famous street artist besides Banksy - so it was clear to me he has an idea and an appreciation of street art.
"So the fact that I'm comfortable it's going to go up on a wall somewhere was a 'Yes', and the fact it was going to Obama - and he is a dude - was a 'Yes' too.
"If it had been going to one of the old presidents, then I probably would have said no."
The three feet by two feet canvas was chosen by Cameron's political aides from a selection suggested by Eine.
He describes his typography-based work as "negative words painted in a beautiful and a happy way" and admits he was pushed to find something suitable at first.
"Because of the time frame, it had to be something I had already painted, so there wasn't a massive amount they could choose from," he said. "They couldn't exactly give him a painting that said 'monsters' or 'delinquents'.
"I e-mailed some images that I had and at the last minute, I remembered about a painting I had in a gallery in Brighton, so I sent them a picture of Twentyfirst Century City.
"They came back immediately and said 'Yeah, we love it, Can we have it?' And I was like 'Yeah... that's cool'."
Now Eine is hoping to get some feedback from Downing Street on what Obama thought of his work.
"Hopefully I'll get a photo of the handover with the two of them standing there with their cheesy grins and their thumbs up," he laughs. "I'd put that on my wall - my 15 minutes of Andy Warhol fame.
"It's a bit of a fairytale story for me, really, one that will hopefully have a happy ending."
The advert for 'Snowz' features famous Thai actress Cris Horwang attributing her success to fairer skin.
The company behind the product, Seoul Secret, issued a "heartfelt apology", saying it had not meant to offend.
The incident has reignited the debate about attitudes to skin colour in Thailand.
Comments about the shade of a person's skin have been commonplace in a country with an abundance of skin-whitening products, although many younger Thais now refuse to accept the stereotypes associated with skin colour.
"In my world there is tough competition. If I don't take care of myself, everything I have built, the whiteness I have invested in, could be gone," Cris Horwang warns in the video advert.
At that point her skin turns almost black, and a young, and very white, rival appears by her side. She looks down in dismay at her dark complexion and muses "if I was white, I would win".
The advert stirred up a storm of debate online, with many Twitter users critical of the advert itself as well as the decision to withdraw it.
One person wrote on a Thai-language forum Pantip.com: "I'm perfectly fine being dark-skinned and now you're saying I've lost? Hello? What?"
"Suggesting people with dark skin are losers is definitely racist," wrote another.
Seoul Secret quickly withdrew the advert, although it could still be seen on YouTube on Friday, and offered a swift apology.
"What we intended to convey was that self-improvement in terms of personality, appearance, skills, and professionalism is crucial," the firm said.
The BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok says that as an advertising slogan it could not have been blunter - ending as it does with "Eternally white, I'm confident".
The abundance of skin-whitening products available in Thailand, and the efforts many Thai women go to shelter from the sun, highlights the obsession with pale skin, our correspondent says.
Two years ago, when Nonthawan "Maeya" Thongleng won the 2014 Miss Thailand World beauty contest, much comment centred on how dark her skin was compared to typical contestants.
At the time she said she wanted to encourage all other women who felt insecure because of their darker skin.
Darker skin is often associated in Thailand with manual, outdoor labour, and therefore with being "lower class".
Also much of the urban elite are of ethnic Chinese origin, who tend to have lighter skin than the indigenous people of the Thai countryside.
"This is not a problem that is unique to Thailand. It's a problem that exists all over the world," says social critic Lakkana Punwichai.
"The issue also underlines the issue of class in Thailand, where those with darker skin are viewed as the poor from the rural north-east. We look down on them, on Cambodians, and Indians with darker complexions.
"However, attitudes are changing as Thai elites start to look down on women who long to be white, the same way some westerners look down on "blonde bimbos"," she said.
Wheater, 29, made more 100 league appearances in five years at the club.
Heskey, 38, will also leave after scoring only three goals in 45 league appearances for Wanderers.
Goalkeeper Paul Rachubka, 34, midfielder Neil Danns and striker Stephen Dobbie, both 33, will also depart in the summer.
Defenders Oscar Threlkeld, 21, and Niall Maher, 20, will also leave.
Departures also include midfielder Liam Feeney, 29, striker Rob Hall, 22, and defender Hayden White, 21 - who ended the season on loan at Ipswich, MK Dons, and Blackpool respectively.
In addition, 10 development squad players will not have their contracts renewed.
They were deregistered by the firm following a regionwide review.
Now new services have been registered for Hawick, Peebles and Selkirk along "similar routes" to those previously operated.
Perryman's Buses will run services in Hawick town centre, Bannerfield to Galashiels and a school bus between Oxton, Lauder and Earlston High School.
The announcement follows the decision by Peeblesshire firm BARC Coach Hire to operate the Peebles town services on a commercial basis.
Negotiations are continuing regarding other services which First identified as part of its review.
All the new services will start on 15 August.
Councillor Gordon Edgar said: "I am pleased that the council has managed to work with local bus operators to ensure a number of vital services will continue.
"Going forward, the message is now that communities must support these services in order for them to have a future.
"Otherwise we could be faced with a similar scenario in future years."
Claire Lark, operations manager at Perryman's Buses, said it was committed to "providing a reliable bus service in and around the Scottish Borders".
"We are pleased to be introducing a number of new routes in Hawick, Selkirk and Galashiels and look forward to quickly establishing good working relations with the towns and their people," she said.
She added that the company would be investing about £500,000 in new vehicles.
Stampy - whose real name is Joseph Garrett - will give the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Christmas lecture at the city's Caird Hall on Monday.
The creator of the "Let's Play" videos for Minecraft and other games has more than 6.7m subscribers on his YouTube channel.
The lecture will be shown exclusively on BBC iPlayer next Thursday.
BBC Scotland said Minecraft fans would, for the first time, be able to see Stampy demonstrate how he makes his videos during a session with Dundee games entrepreneur Chris van der Kuyl.
Stampy will talk through the making of his Christmas special while giving the audience an insight into his life and a career which has seen him become one of the world's most popular YouTubers.
Mr van der Kuyl said Stampy was the "epitome of the 21st Century digital native" who would inspire audiences whatever their age.
"Stampy is an inspiration to a whole new generation of young people who can clearly see that future careers will rely on a unique blend of talents, creativity, technical and design skills that can be mastered by everyone," he added.
The RSE lecture will be shown as part of the BBC Make it Digital initiative to encourage digital creativity amongst young people.
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Malachi Halstead, 35, allegedly carried out the attack on Teerath Mann, 23, as he thought he was stealing money.
The defendant, from Newport, and known as DJ Madskie, put the picture on the mobile app saying: "See that? I chopped that off", Cardiff Crown Court heard.
He denies actual bodily harm, wounding with intent, unlawful wounding and carrying an offensive weapon.
Mr Halstead's partner, Nicole Seaborne, also from Newport, denies encouraging or assisting in the commission of an indictable offence believing it will be committed.
The court heard Mr Mann was selling drugs for the DJ who suspected money had gone missing and the victim was lured into a trap by the defendants.
Heath Edwards, prosecuting, said: "Halstead asked Seaborne to go into her home to get a 'big, dirty, sharp knife'.
"She handed it over to Halstead, knowing full well he was intending on assaulting Mr Mann."
The court heard the defendant then attacked Mr Mann in his car, breaking his nose before telling him: "Tonight you're losing something."
Mr Edwards said: "He drove to a nearby place and parked up, and both got out of the vehicle.
"Mr Mann was made to place his finger on a wooden pole, and when he did, Halstead chopped off a large part of that finger."
The jury was shown the Snapchat recording. The app allows users to send videos and pictures, both of which expire after being watched once.
The trial continues.
Mimmi Larsson's powerful headed goal in the second half proved decisive.
Chances were at a premium in an evenly fought affair at the Tunavallen Stadium.
Hayley Lauder and Haley Rosen came closest to finding a leveller for the visitors, but City could not find an important away goal.
They will take heart from having matched their Swedish opponents for long spells in the match, however, and will feel they can turn around the one goal deficit in next Thursday's second leg at Airdrie's Excelsior Stadium.
Glasgow City manager Scott Booth: "We knew it was going to be a tough first leg here in Sweden, but we feel we did our homework well and put into practice a game plan that has kept us in this tie.
"The players worked extremely hard but we know we need to do the same in the second-leg as well as taking a couple of chances to get us through."
Those still waiting for 2016 payments under the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (LFASS) will receive letters by the end of the month inviting them to apply.
Scottish ministers announced the move following calls from the National Farmers' Union of Scotland (NFUS).
The NFUS want the troubled IT system to be bypassed.
The £178m system set up to deliver European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments has been beset by delays and increasing costs.
Ministers were forced to issue loans last year after some farmers and crofters warned they faced severe financial hardship.
Earlier this year, Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing admitted there were still "significant risks" around the system.
Announcing the new loan scheme, he said: "Fixing the CAP payment issues remains my number one priority.
"And while our focus remains on getting 2016 payments made as soon as possible, the situation regarding LFASS is not good enough.
"I understand absolutely how important these LFASS payments are to farmers and crofters in our most remote and marginalised areas."
Mr Ewing also provided an update on progress to deliver remaining 2016 farm payments, with 90% of basic, greening and young farmers payments now made.
Additional 10% top-up payments are due by the end of June.
A range of other payment types are due to be made throughout the coming months, into the autumn.
"I want to reassure all farmers and crofters that officials continue to work flat out to a detailed plan to put 2016 payments on to a better footing," he said.
Jeremy Feinberg, of Rutgers University in New Jersey, who led the study, first reported the discovery when he heard their "very odd" chorusing call.
Teaming up with genetics experts to confirm the finding, Mr Feinberg has now published the discovery in the journal Plos One.
It is the first new frog species found in the region for nearly 30 years.
Mr Feinberg told BBC News he knew he might be on to something when he heard a group of them calling in chorus at a wetland study site on Staten Island.
"Frogs have very stereotyped calls within a species, so I knew this was different," the ecologist told BBC News.
"But it took me two years to find someone to partner with me on the genetics side."
He believes the frog, named Rana kauffeldi - a leopard frog - probably once inhabited Manhattan, so it had been seen before. But it was assumed to belong to a similar-looking, previously known species of leopard frog (so named because of its spots) found in the same area.
Mr Feinberg's familiarity with the known species meant that its call finally gave it away.
When his colleagues tested samples of tissue taken from the frogs, they confirmed that he was right - this urban-dwelling amphibian was a genetically distinct species.
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It is a rare finding in North America: the continent's frog species are well documented.
"This is only the third new species of frog to be discovered north of Mexico since 1986," said Mr Feinberg.
"What also makes this crazy is that it's in a urban area - [that's] what makes it a double whammy."
But he explained: "You wouldn't find it hopping around Times Square" - or even in the ponds in Central Park.
"[These frogs] probably require wetland areas of something on the average minimum of 10 acres or more," said Mr Feinberg.
"If I took you to this site on Staten Island [where he found the frogs], apart from the fact that you could see the Manhattan skyline in the distance, you wouldn't know you were in the city."
Dr Gerardo Garcia, a specialist in conservation of rare amphibians and reptiles, based at the UK's Chester Zoo, described the discovery as "big news".
"[This] comes thanks to the combination of new technologies and advances in techniques in genetic analysis," he said.
"Elsewhere though, in places such as Madagascar, taxonomists and conservationists are racing against time to describe species before they become extinct.
"There is a huge backlog of species to describe and find out about that we do already know of, but sadly we're late because the speed of extinction is faster than the capacity to protect them."
Mr Feinberg said that the species' need for expansive wetland habitats in such a developed area could make it vulnerable.
"This frog is entitled to live. and we're entitled to our houses, too," he said. "So I think we have to consider that this is a planet that we share."
He added: "Imagine we moved forward 50 years and this frog had never been discovered. We might have destroyed its habitat and never known it was there.
"But this gives me hope that the species could be protected."
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Scott Curtis, William Malkin and Rogan Millar were held following the Operation Sylvan probe in the city last October.
Malkin, 25, was jailed for five-and-a-half years at the High Court in Glasgow.
Curtis, 26, and Millar, 28, were jailed for four-and-a-half years and four years respectively.
Malkin, of Dundee, was convicted of being concerned in the supply of the class A drugs between April and October last year.
Curtis, of Dundee, and Millar, of Tayport, Fife, admitted the same charge committed between September and October last year.
A previous court hearing was told Curtis and Malkin were seen entering a tenement close carrying a cardboard box and bags.
Drugs were discovered inside the box and bags during a raid at a flat in the building
The court was told Curtis had a knife, a baseball bat and a knuckle duster in his car.
The court heard Millar's home was also searched and what appeared to be the remains of a drugs "tick list" were discovered.
Lady Scott told the men: "This was a significant operation in respect of class A drugs."
The pair have clashed several times, notably when Samuels saluted after Stokes' dismissal in a Test in 2015.
The sides play a solitary Twenty20 at Durham on 16 September, before a five-ODI series starts on 19 September.
"I'm going to come to England and be a good boy, at least for the start," 36-year-old Samuels told the Guardian.
"As long as he keeps quiet, I won't start anything, so if anything does happen that means he has said something to me first.
"He should stay on the boundary when I'm batting, as far away as possible."
Stokes and Samuels exchanged words during the second Test in Grenada in 2015, after which Samuels said "the English boys don't learn".
When Stokes was dismissed later in the game, Samuels stood and saluted as the all-rounder left the field.
Stokes, 26, said Samuels "lacks respect" after he put his feet on the table during a news conference following West Indies' World T20 final victory over England in 2016.
Samuels added: "He wanted to take me on a couple of years ago. He started something and I told him he better be prepared to finish it.
"But I saw him during the IPL this year and he didn't say anything. I hope he can continue on that path. If not, I have things in place."
England meet West Indies in the third and final Test at Lord's starting on Thursday, with the series level at 1-1.
Stokes, who was reprimanded for using "obscene, offensive or insulting" language during the second Test West Indies at Headingley, is one demerit point away from a ban.
But her first passion is ballet, and as president of the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), Bussell is excited about the return of the prestigious Genee International Ballet Competition, which has come home to London after a five-year hiatus.
The Genee, named after the RAD's first president, Dame Adeline Genee, attracts top dancers aged 16 to 19 from across the globe, who are trained in the RAD syllabus.
The competition began in 1931 in London and was held there annually - bar the odd year where the contest didn't run - until 2002, when the RAD held the competition outside London for the first time, in Australia.
Since then it has travelled to countries including Canada, Singapore and South Africa.
Following a rigorous audition process, the 70 or so dancers selected each year have the chance to work with renowned choreographers and teachers for five days at Sadler's Wells before a select few perform at the semi-finals, and then the final - this Saturday - where they compete for a range of medals.
Past Genee medallists have gone on to dance for the Royal Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre and the English National Ballet, to name but a few.
But Bussell is keen to widen the talent pool, and for the first time this year, the RAD has offered nine bursaries - bearing Bussell's name - to dancers who would not otherwise be able to finance their trip to the competition.
The scheme is open to any individual from any country wishing to compete and will run for five years.
"There are lots of talented kids who can't afford to come to the competition. The bursary is to get them here.
"I'm excited - it's back in London, and it's bigger and better than ever.
"We intend to get nine (bursaries) every year, getting these kids the opportunity - there's so much talent out there that can't be seen."
Bussell never entered the Genee herself, but she did compete in Switzerland's Prix de Lausanne, where she unsurprisingly won a prize back in 1986.
So what do the Genee finalists get out of the competition?
"You're getting coached by the top teachers, you get to perform in a top opera house, Sadler's Wells. It's extraordinary for a kid that age - is this the life they want? And most of them are, like: 'Yes, yes, yes!'"
Bussell's message to young, aspiring dancers is simple: "If you love it, you can make it, you just need that determination.
"I didn't have everything going my way all the time, some people told me to give up - but I just loved it, it's either inside you or it's not."
Of course, ballet isn't the only thing on her mind at this time of year - series 13 of Strictly Come Dancing is just around the corner, having showcased its celebrity dancers and professional partners earlier this month.
"I'm very much looking forward to it - it's a really lovely group with a very positive vibe," enthuses Bussell.
Is it difficult to switch between ballet and ballroom?
"I like any social dance, ballroom and Latin. It would be wonderful if we could open up all those old ballrooms again.
"It's all about dance for me - as long as people are trying it out."
The final of the Genee International Ballet Competition will take place at Sadler's Wells in London on Saturday 19 September.
He and another man Mohammed Rahman, indicated they would plead not guilty.
Anjem Choudary was remanded in custody until 28 August.
Both men have each been charged with one offence under section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000, alleged to have taken place between 29 June 2014 and 6 March this year.
The BBC's Simon Jones, reporting from outside the court, said that when asked by the judge to give an indication of how he would be pleading Choudary said: "Cameron and the police are guilty."
The judge replied to say he took that to mean he would be pleading not guilty.
Mr Choudary 48, was described in court as a "high-profile figure" in the media and on social media.
The court also heard that the charge is related to him sending messages to his followers on social media.
Mr Choudary, of Ilford in east London, and Mohammed Rahman, 32, of Whitechapel in east London, were arrested on 25 September last year on suspicion of being members of IS, which is a proscribed organisation.
Proscription means membership of the militant group is a criminal offence, and that the organisation cannot lawfully operate in the UK.
Sue Hemming, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "It is alleged that Anjem Choudary and Mohammed Rahman invited support for Isis [also known as IS] in individual lectures which were subsequently published online."
Mr Choudary is the former UK head of Islamist group al-Muhajiroun - also known as Islam4UK - which was banned in 2010.
The former lawyer planned an Islam4UK march through Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, to honour Muslims killed in the Afghanistan conflict, but those plans were later scrapped.
The town is where repatriated bodies of dead UK soldiers were driven through the streets from nearby RAF Lyneham.
Ofcom launched an investigation into interviews broadcast on BBC, ITV and Channel 4 with Mr Choudary in the days following the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby.
Many great cinematic oddities and eccentrics have flowed from the pen of US director Wes Anderson - Max Fischer, Royal Tenenbaum, Steve Zizzou and the latest addition to the list, Monsieur Gustave H, the concierge at The Grand Budapest Hotel, the titular establishment of Anderson's latest movie.
The Grand Budapest Hotel reunites the director with regular cohorts Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and, of course, Bill Murray.
Added to the cast are Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel and Ed Norton from his previous and most successful film to date Moonrise Kingdom. And then there is Ralph Fiennes in the central role of the unflappable Gustave H.
A serial romancer of his elderly guests, a liberal user of L'Air de Panache cologne, prone to spontaneously bursting into recitation of romantic poetry and a stickler for the finest details of life and service in the imaginary mountaintop spa hotel in the fictional eastern European nation of Zubrowka.
Fifty percent art heist, 50% murder mystery, 100% Anderson, the film stars veteran actor F. Murray Abraham as the mysterious Mr Moustafa, who relates to Jude Law's author the tale of how, after being taken under the wing of Gustave, he rose from the lowly rank of lobby boy to become the owner and proprietor of the Grand Budapest Hotel.
Fiennes brings a lightness of touch to the character who in the hands of lesser actors may have come across as buffoonish.
Though Fiennes is not perhaps best known for his comedic roles, save for his amusingly profane and utterly terrifying role in Martin McDonough's In Bruges, Anderson says he was never in doubt of his lead actor's abilities.
"He's very scary (in In Bruges) but he's funny, like all of (director) Martin McDonough's work, it's all funny.
"I assume it's because in Schindler's List, he made such an impression that it steered him in that direction. He did do The English Patient and Quiz Show. He's played a range of parts but I suppose he hasn't played one quite like this. I never had a second thought about it."
Anderson reveals Fiennes almost made it into the final draft of the script for his previous film.
"I haven't mentioned this to Ralph but in Moonrise Kingdom, there was a character in the story that isn't in the movie but was a part of it in its early stages that I always imagined him playing - it was a darker character who was in the mix.
"I haven't thought about this for ages but now that I do, it probably wouldn't have done the movie any harm to have this character and Ralph would gave been very good in it.
"But anyway, its too late," he adds wistfully.
In amongst his big name cast, Anderson has cast a brand new face as the young Zero Moustafa. That face belongs to 18-year-old Tony Revolori.
Like Jared Gillman and Kara Hayward in Moonrise Kingdom, who were cast following open auditions at US high schools, Anderson says he "wanted to have someone that no-one recognises".
"I rarely want to have children in movies where we know this kid, I wanted to find somebody new. But its complicated because they're not waiting there to be found, you've got to get them.
"He could have come from Israel or Lebanon or Egypt but he's from a made up country. We searched everywhere in that part of the world and in Europe but we found him in Anaheim in California."
The character is a refugee from a fictional country in the middle east though his accent doesn't betray his roots. In fact, the entire cast was urged to use their own accents rather than adopt a generic Hollywood-style Russian schtick for the movie's duration.
The effect is less jarring than Sean Connery's Edinburgh twang while playing a Russian submarine commander or Colin Farrell (and weirdly Val Kilmer) using Irish accents in the flop epic Alexander.
"We could have gone the old-fashioned way where, in American movies set in Prague or Warsaw, the people talk like Jack Benny and James Stewart," explains Anderson.
"We have Americans, some English, Saoirse Ronan speaks in her own Irish accent and they're all meant to be from the same country Zubrowka - except for Tony who's from Aq-Salim-al-Jabat."
The movie has opened both the Berlin and the Glasgow film festivals and has been enthusiastically received.
In its review, Variety praised Anderson's "captivating 1930s-set caper," which "offers a vibrant and imaginative evocation of a bygone era".
However, some film buffs remain unconvinced by Anderson's flights of whimsy and suggest that, at least in visual terms, Anderson has failed to move far from his comfort zone.
While an Anderson film is unquestionably easy to spot thanks to his frequent use of certain camera angles and framing techniques, the filmmaker insists he attempts to make all his films different.
"I always feel that I am trying something, I don't know if it's radically different but I feel I'm definitely doing something different.
"This movie is set in three time periods in Europe and its interpretation of history is maybe a sort of riff on historical events.
"It's set in eastern Europe, it's got lots of dialogue and it's also quite violent - it's different from what I've done.
"But when I go about making the film, it begins to resemble my other work and so when I'm looking at the end result, I don't exactly control how that evolved."
The Grand Budapest Hotel is out in UK cinemas on 7 March.
Four people died when a roadside bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad, while a car bomb in southern Baghdad killed at least one more person.
The attacks come one day after bombings across Baghdad killed at least 40 pilgrims and injured more than 100.
One million pilgrims are expected to gather at the Moussa al-Kadhim shrine on the final day of the festival.
The attacks come despite a vast security operation. Thousands of extra police and military officers have been drafted onto the streets of Baghdad and vehicle traffic has been restricted.
By Gabriel GatehouseBBC News, Baghdad
The nature of the conflict has changed since mid-2007, when sectarian violence in Iraq was at its height.
Today we have an insurgency which, while reduced in size and capability, still carries out attacks on a daily basis.
Their targets fall generally into three categories: members of the Iraqi or American armed forces; government buildings or institutions; and large religious events.
By targeting Shia pilgrims, it seems clear that the bombers are intent on reigniting that sectarian violence which nearly tore the country apart.
However, this spark does not appear to be catching fire. Despite the horror of these bombings, Iraqis in general are not turning against their fellow countrymen of the opposite sect.
At least four people died in Bab al-Muazam neighbourhood when a roadside bomb exploded as pilgrims were walking home from the mosque in Kadhimiya, officials said.
Meanwhile, a car bomb in southern Mashtal area killed at least one other person. About 80 people were injured in the two blasts, the AFP news agency reported.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but similar attacks in the past have been blamed on extremist Sunni groups.
Just a day earlier, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest as he walked among pilgrims in Baghdad's predominantly Sunni Adhamiya district, killing at least 30 people.
It was the deadliest in a series of explosions targeting the worshippers that killed more than 40 people and wounded 100 more.
Despite the bombs the worshippers continued to stream into the city to mark the anniversary of the death of Imam Kadhim, the seventh of 12 holy figures who defined the Shia faith.
"There was a blast [on Wednesday] carried out by base-minded people, killing the elderly, women and children," pilgrim Abdul Zahra told the BBC. "We will not be deterred by blasts and we will continue observing our rituals."
The annual event is frequently hit by tragedy.
Last year, two female suicide bombers blew themselves near the shrine, killing 65 people, including 20 Iranian pilgrims.
And in 2005, nearly 1,000 pilgrims were killed in a stampede on the Imams Bridge, which crosses the River Tigris between Kadhimiya and Adhamiya, after rumours spread that a suicide bomber was walking among them.
The attacks come one year after Iraqi forces took over control of security in Iraq's towns and cities from the US military.
Confidence in their ability to protect the population, especially at large religious events such as this one is still fragile, says the BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse in Baghdad.
The US is speeding up the pace of its withdrawal, aiming to reduce its presence to 50,000 non-combat troops by the end of next month, in preparation for a full military departure by 2012.
The woman was walking on Carmuirs Avenue at its junction with Mariner Road when a man walked past her, before turning back and assaulting her.
The incident happened between 17:00 and 17:30 on Friday 27 May.
The man was described as white, in his late 30s, about 5ft 8in tall, of medium build and with short fair hair.
He was wearing a dark blue zip-up cardigan with a red t-shirt underneath and dark jeans.
Det Con Grant Stronach said: "This attack was completely unprovoked and it's possible that someone witnessed this from a nearby house."
Dane Massey headed Stephen Kenny's visitors ahead in the 16th minute.
Nathan Boyle equalised just before half-time with a low shot after finding space in the penalty box.
Barry McNamee dinked the ball over keeper Gabriel Sava to give Derry the lead and skipper Ryan McBride headed the third five minutes from time.
It means three wins out of three for Derry and moves them up to second in the table.
Kenny Shiels' side are three points behind Cork City, the only other team with maximum points, and Derry have a game in hand.
Dundalk had gone into the game on the back of three straight wins, and they looked on course to make it four when Massey met John Mountrey's corner to glance the ball past Ger Doherty in the Derry goal.
But the hosts, completing their first home fixture at their temporary base of Maginn Park in Donegal, got level through Boyle's third goal of the season.
The young forward's trickery gained him some space in the box and his shot beat keeper Sava who will be disappointed he was unable to save.
Derry went ahead in the 69th minute when Sava failed to hold on to Aaron McEneff's effort and McNamee pounced to lift the ball over the keeper.
McBride made sure of a brilliant night for the Candystripes with an 85th-minute headed goal.
Kevin McGuigan Sr , 53, was shot dead at his home at Comber Court in the Short Strand on Wednesday.
A police spokesman said a 44-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman were arrested "as part of the overall investigation".
A number of searches have also been carried out.
Mr McGuigan, a father-of-nine, was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital but died a short time later.
Police believe two men shot him several times in the head and chest at point blank range before running off.
US officials said in a new report that Mustafa al-Aziz al-Shamiri was a low-level Islamic fighter rather than a significant member of the group.
The 37-year-old Yemeni, who has been held without charge, appeared before a board on Tuesday.
He is one of 107 prisoners at the base where nearly 50 are awaiting release.
Captured in Afghanistan and imprisoned as an enemy combatant, his release has not been approved yet.
A detailed profile of him finds he was an Islamic fighter who fought for jihadists in Afghanistan and was associated with al-Qaeda members, but US officials said they were wrong in thinking he was a trainer for the group, confusing him for someone else with a similar name.
"He vocalised to us that while he cannot change the past, he would definitely have chosen a different path," representatives for Al-Shamiri appointed by the US government said in a statement. "He wants to make a life for himself."
His representatives said he would go to any country that would accept him.
It is likely that Al-Shamiri could not be sent back to Yemen because the US believes it is too unstable to house past Guantanamo prisoners.
President Obama is determined to shut down the prison before the end of his term in 2017, but faces bipartisan opposition in Congress.
The US has slowly been sending prisoners back to their home countries or to third countries.
The camp was established in 2002 by the Bush administration to detain the most dangerous suspects for interrogation and the prosecution of war crimes.
Controversy has centred on the period of time detainees have been held without charge and the use of interrogation techniques.
The flight was about to leave from Rygge airport near the Norwegian capital, Oslo, when it was evacuated.
Two men were detained by police after their behaviour aroused suspicion but were later released.
The situation was "back to normal", police said in a tweet. Ryanair said the passengers would also depart.
No suspicious devices were found on the plane.
News reports quoting a police official say one of the arrested men was British and the other was from Sri Lanka.
The reports said the men had been heard arguing loudly and the word "bomb" was overheard on the flight, which had been due to leave at 18:55 local time (15:55 GMT).
The evacuation in Norway came hours after Manchester's Old Trafford football stadium was cleared after a suspicious item was found.
It was later confirmed by British police that the item had been "accidentally" left by a private company after a training exercise.
Arter, 27, was signed from non-league Woking for £4,000 in 2010 and became a key player for the Cherries during their rise to the Premier League.
The Republic of Ireland midfielder, who began his career at Charlton, made 35 appearances for Eddie Howe's side last season as they finished ninth in the top flight.
Arter made his international debut in 2015 against England and has six caps.
"Once I heard the club wanted to give me a new deal, it was a pretty easy decision," he said. "The team has been successful over the last few years and you want to be part of somewhere that is continually progressing."
Meanwhile, Bournemouth say they have identified an area of land on which they intend to build their new stadium.
The club have found a suitable location within Kings Park, with support from Bournemouth Council, and hope to have their prospective new home completed by the summer of 2020.
Bournemouth announced they would leave their current home, the 11,450-capacity Vitality Stadium, in December.
The council had previously stated it would not welcome a "significantly bigger stadium" in the Kings Park area of the town.
Party leaders also struck a culinary note, with visits including a butcher's shop, a bakery and a coffee shop.
SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, has highlighted her party's pledge to increase spending on the NHS by at least the rate of inflation if she remained first minister.
Visiting a cafe in Leith, where she tried her hand at icing cupcakes, Ms Sturgeon also pledged to build a network of new regional treatment centres to cope with the pressures of an ageing population.
Kezia Dugdale met Labour activists in Leith for an early morning coffee prior to a day's Holyrood election campaigning.
The Scottish Labour leader urged other parties to support anti-austerity policies, backing her plans to add a penny to income tax.
Ms Dugdale also insisted she had never supported the SNP amid claims she had applied for work experience with the rival party after university.
She said she had applied for a number of placements, but said she had never voted for or supported the SNP.
Ruth Davidson visited a butcher's shop recently re-opened after flooding in Ballater while campaigning in Aberdeenshire.
The Scottish Tory leader said her party supported a review of business rates, but said the taxes should be frozen in the meantime to relieve pressure on businesses.
Asked about air passenger duty, which the SNP want to cut, Ms Davidson said her priority was to help working families rather than cut the levy.
She also responded to speculation about David Cameron's tax affairs, saying the prime minster had made his position "perfectly clear".
Willie Rennie said new powers coming to Scotland were a "great opportunity" to do things differently.
The Scottish Lib Dem leader promoted his plans for a 1p rise in the basic rate of income tax, saying this would be "appealing" to people as it would provide extra money for education.
Mr Rennie focused on education during a visit to the Science Festival at Summerhall in Edinburgh.
He said: "At school I always loved science, and went on to study biology. I want every child to have the same chance to study subjects that tehy are passionate about, and that is what our digital plans will deliver."
Patrick Harvie launched the Greens campaign in the west of Scotland alongside England and Wales Green Party leader Natalie Bennett.
The pair met with activists in Paisley before visiting the Woodlands Community Garden in Glasgow
Ms Bennett said: "The Green party won more than a million votes at last year's general election, but because of the first past the post electoral system this translated into just one seat.
"This year's elections in Scotland use a form of proportional representation, giving voters the opportunity to realistically elect politicians who will commit to Holyrood using its significant powers to take radical action."
Speaking after talks in London between 21 coalition states, Mr Kerry said about half the group's leaders had been killed since strikes began in August.
The UK foreign secretary said the coalition was determined to defeat IS.
But Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi warned falling oil prices could hurt Iraq's fighting capacity.
Mr Abadi thanked the coalition for providing training to his forces but said it needed more help with the supply of weapons.
BBC diplomatic correspondent James Robbins says the recent attacks by Islamist militants in France have put even greater political pressure on governments to show decisive results.
As well as the US, UK and Iraq, the talks included Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Spain.
Gulf coalition partners Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the UAE also took part.
Speaking after the talks, Mr Kerry said: "In recent months we have seen definitively... momentum halted in Iraq and in some cases reversed."
After nearly 2,000 air strikes, ground forces had reclaimed some 700 sq km (270 sq m) of territory, he told the news conference.
At the start of the coalition air strikes, the group was thought to control nearly 91,000 sq km of territory across Syria and Iraq.
Giving details of military operations against IS, Mr Kerry said the coalition was "taking out" its fighters "in the thousands thus far, single digits but thousands".
"About 50% of the top command" had been eliminated, he said.
Hundreds of vehicles and tanks had been destroyed, he continued, as had nearly 200 oil and gas facilities being used by IS to fund its operations, and more than 1,000 IS military sites.
The host of the London talks, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, had warned at the start of the meeting that it could be months before Iraq was ready to take the offensive to IS.
But the country had clearly demonstrated its commitment to defeating radical Islamists who preach hatred, he said at the concluding news conference.
"So long as Iraq delivers on its commitments, the international community will stand behind it," he said.
Stressing that the collapse in the oil price had been "disastrous", Prime Minister Abadi pointed out that oil revenue accounted for 85% of Iraq's budget.
"We don't want to see a reverse of our military victory because of our budget and fiscal problems and we have been assured that every member of this coalition will stand with Iraq in its fight against Da'esh [IS]," he said.
Among other issues discussed at the one-day conference was that of stopping foreign fighters travelling to the war zone.
Mr Hammond said that Turkey, a key route for jihadists, was "doing a fantastic job of intercepting people who are seeking to get across the border into Syria".
"The final bit of the jigsaw", he added, was to ensure EU states had the necessary access to passenger data to intercept suspects.
By the time Anderson left the field to undergo treatment on a side injury that must make him a doubt for the fourth Test at Trent Bridge, Finn's brilliance had taken England to the verge of a series lead as they reduced Australia to 168-7 by the close of day two.
I have huge admiration for Finn, who has been to rock bottom and got back to the top.
I have a really sad memory of him on the last day of the final Ashes Test match in Sydney in January 2014 when England lost in three days.
Finn, who had not been picked for any of the Tests, was bowling at cones in the nets for the umpteenth day in a row looking utterly downtrodden.
There he was, sending down ball after ball at about the pace I used to bowl. He had lost everything: his pace, his rhythm, his enthusiasm, and it was a horrible sight. I thought to myself 'This guy needs putting out of his misery'.
When Finn was eventually sent home during the one-day series, then-coach Ashley Giles described the 26-year-old as "unselectable". It was an unfortunate term but it was entirely accurate because sending Finn home was the kindest thing to do.
It has taken time, but Finn's bowling has been dismantled and put together.
Great credit must go to his bowling hero and mentor Angus Fraser, as well as the other coaches at Middlesex, who have helped him finally rediscover that great knack for taking wickets that was so in evidence during the first two days at Edgbaston.
As a bowler, when you truly find your rhythm the game becomes effortless.
Finn has bowled a lovely line, has been hitting the crease at a good pace and finding that nasty bounce which makes him so dangerous.
Some of his dismissals are unusual - look at the way Steve Smith and Mitchell Johnson's mis-hit pull shots sent the ball ballooning into the air - but Finn is very tall and when he bowls the short ball batsmen often underestimate how high it's going to bounce.
They play a bit low, the ball hits the top part of the bat and up it goes.
Finn is also as nice a bloke as you will find in the game. Players have been queuing up on Twitter to express their delight for him after his five-wicket haul because he's such a warm and generous guy.
England will need Finn to perform just as well at Trent Bridge as he has at Edgbaston because if Anderson has anything more than just a slight strain he will not be able to play in the fourth Test.
Side injuries can be a big problem for a bowler and unless you allow them to fully recover they can easily go again.
England's medical staff will do all they can, but Anderson would have to be bowling flat out on Wednesday at the latest to have any chance of being passed fit to play on Thursday.
With or without their bowling talisman, England appear certain now to be heading to Nottingham next week with a 2-1 lead after another dreadful batting display by Australia.
The pitch has done just enough to be interesting but it's not a minefield and some of their ineptitude has been extraordinary.
With England back in the ascendancy, Michael Clarke's side have serious work to do in order to get their Ashes campaign back on track.
Jonathan Agnew was speaking to BBC Sport's Sam Sheringham.
Michael McLaughlin, from Hollymount Park, Londonderry, offered his ex-wife £13,000 not to give criminal evidence against him in a trial.
On 3 February, two days before his ex-wife was due to give evidence against him, Michael McLaughlin offered her the money by text message.
The father of four was married for 12 years and had 37 previous convictions, most of them for domestic-related issues.
Michael McLaughlin pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
The judge said that his offending had caused his ex-wife great distress and the five-year restraining order also related to his ex-wife's new partner.
Meanwhile, Bolsover in Derbyshire came lowest for happiness, worthiness and life satisfaction.
Pendle in Lancashire had the highest anxiety levels, the Office for National Statistics poll of 165,000 adults said.
The ONS also warned the data suggested a "growing inequality" between people rating their lives highly and those reporting low levels of well-being.
It said ministers needed to consider how to address this apparent disparity.
1. Fermanagh and Omagh
2. Ribble Valley
3. Eilean Siar
4. West Somerset
5. Orkney Islands
1. Bolsover
2. Cannock Chase
3. Dundee City
4. Dover
5. Liverpool
People were questioned on four measures of well-being: Happiness, life satisfaction, feeling life was worthwhile and anxiety.
The ONS said personal well-being had risen every year since 2011/12 when data was first collected, with the greatest improvement for levels of anxiety.
But the proportion of people giving the highest ratings for well-being increased "significantly" in the financial year to 2015, while the decreases in low well-being "were small" in comparison.
"It indicates that while improvements are widespread across the population, they are uneven," said the ONS.
Northern Ireland recorded higher average ratings for well-being for all measures except anxiety, which the ONS says has been the case for the past four years.
Wales was the only country to not have any significant improvement in the last financial year, according to the ONS.
Londoners reported lower well-being than the UK averages, but has seen improvements in each of the four measures since the survey was first carried out.
The 2014/15 study asked how happy people felt the previous day, with zero meaning "not at all happy" and 10 "completely happy".
Those in the district of Fermanagh and Omagh, which covers most of south-west Northern Ireland and includes rural areas as well as the towns of Enniskillen and Omagh, gave an average score of 8.26.
Those in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, which includes the market towns of Clitheroe and Longridge as well as part of the Forest of Bowland, scored second highest with 8.21.
Eilean Siar in the Outer Hebrides, one of the most remote areas of the UK, scored 8.15.
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Meanwhile, the bottom of the table was the largely rural area of Bolsover, which used to have one of the biggest concentrations of coalmines in the country, with 6.89.
It was followed by Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, an area of woodland and heathland which is the smallest designated Area of Outstanding Beauty in Britain, on 6.92 and Dundee City, Scotland's fourth largest city, on 7.02.
Asked how anxious they felt, residents of Pendle, Lancashire, which borders Yorkshire and has the UK's second highest percentage of the workforce employed in manufacturing, scored the highest with 3.58.
They were followed by Greenwich, south-east London, on 3.55 and Lisburn and Castlereagh, Northern Ireland, on 3.52.
The least anxious places were Nuneaton and Bedworth, in Warwickshire, with 1.84, Rushmoor, Hampshire, on 2.01, and Boston, Lincolnshire, on 2.06.
Eilean Siar scored top for life satisfaction, on 8.41, and was also fourth highest for feeling the things residents do in the lives are worthwhile, with a score of 8.47.
West Somerset gave the highest score for feeling worthwhile, on 8.58, followed by Staffordshire Moorlands on 8.58 and Mid Ulster on 8.48.
Glenn Everett, ONS director of well-being, said: "Overall, people are generally rating their lives higher than they did four years ago.
"But what is interesting is that they show a slight growth in inequality between people rating their lives highly and those reporting low levels of personal well-being... a growing inequality that policy makers need to consider."
David McMillan's header and a flicked finish from Dane Massey put the champions 2-0 ahead.
McBride was shown a straight red card for a heavy challenge on Stephen O'Donnell on 28 minutes.
McMillan slotted in and completed his hat-trick after Daryl Horgan fired in Dundalk's fourth goal.
Derry were behind after just 90 seconds with McMillan's header squirming through the legs of keeper Gerard Doherty.
The visitors dominated the early stages but City came to life as Aaron McEneff saw his shot deflected wide before Gary Rogers tipped over a Rory Patterson header.
Massey doubled the lead on 20 minutes after connecting with a free-kick from former City midfielder Patrick McEleney.
McBride's dismissal ended City's hopes and McMillan stroked past Doherty five minutes before the break after the keeper had denied John Mountney.
Substitute Nathan Boyle and Dean Jarvis went close as Derry made a bright start to the second half before Dundalk regained control.
Horgan drilled in from close range after 59 minutes before McMillan secured his treble 10 minutes from time with a fine turn and strike into the top corner.
City remain third but are now 12 points behind an impressive Dundalk outfit.
Meanwhile, next Friday's league game between Shamrock Rovers and Derry has been postponed due to the Dublin side's Europa League involvement.
The letter, from all political group leaders at East Sussex County Council (ESCC), said the county faced cuts that would significantly reduce the quality of life for many people.
It comes as the council considers raising council tax by 3.99%, which includes the 2% social care precept.
The government said ESCC's spending power was forecast to grow by 1%.
Conservative-run ESCC said it had saved more than £78m since 2010 but faced a further £70m to £90m savings by April 2019, including £40m from its adult social care budget.
The letter said the government's approach to local government did not reflect the "varying needs" of different areas and East Sussex's ageing population made it particularly vulnerable to cuts.
And it said there would be significant savings in adult social care, withdrawal of early help and support to young people, significant reductions in library services, and reductions in the integrated transport offer.
Council leader Keith Glazier said savings being made would place a heavy burden on some residents.
A spokesman for the Department of Communities and Local Government said: "This government is providing a long-term funding settlement for the first time allowing local authorities to plan with certainty.
"Councils will have almost £200bn to spend on local services, including a £3.5 billion social care package, over the lifetime of this parliament.
"East Sussex County Council core spending power is forecast to increase by 1% and the county will still have over £1.4bn to spend between now and 2020."
Carrie Wright, from Hull, was cooled down for two hours during the operation - more than twice the recommended amount of time.
She was subsequently unable to walk or stand unaided and she died, aged 20.
Her surgeon, Dr Nihal Weerasena, was struck off in January following a General Medical Council investigation.
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The inquiry was into seven other cases.
Dr Weerasena was referred to the GMC in 2014 after Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust reviewed its paediatric care services.
The previous year, children's heart operations at Leeds General Infirmary had been stopped for a fortnight on the orders of NHS England, amid concerns about the safety of the unit.
Carrie's mother, Dawn Clayton, said: "Prior to the operation, Carrie was just like any other active nine-year old girl.
"She left me early on the day of the operation and came back from surgery that evening changed forever.
"Yet she was not deterred, she was determined to live her life. We were so proud of her."
Andrew Harrison, medical negligence lawyer at Hodge Jones and Allen, said surgical notes showed Carrie's body was cooled and put into circulatory arrest for 121 minutes.
At that time, circulatory arrest of more than 45 minutes was avoided by hospitals because it was regarded as likely to result in brain injury.
Mr Harrison said none of the medical notes revealed why there was such a long period of circulatory arrest.
He said: "In the absence of any explanation in Dr Weerasena's notes, it can only be the case that he negligently failed to appreciate the risk of brain damage that the prolonged period of circulatory arrest could cause.
"If he had appreciated that risk, he would have taken steps to avoid it and there were alternatives as it was not an emergency."
He said if circulatory arrest had been 45 minutes maximum it was "highly likely" that Carrie would not have been brain damaged and would be alive today."
Her mother has now received compensation from the NHS trust following a 10-year legal battle.
She said she received an apology from the hospital last year, 13 years after the operation.
"All the time we were adjusting to a new life with Carrie and fighting to make sure she received the right care, we were also in a long, hard battle with the hospital for them to admit liability," Ms Clayton said.
"I have always felt that they wanted to sweep this matter under the carpet.
"I can only wonder if there are other cases like Carrie's that have gone unreported and whether closer investigation by the hospital could have prevented these later cases from happening.
"My heart goes out to all those who have also suffered at the hands of Dr Weerasena."
Dr Yvette Oade, Chief Medical Officer for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "On behalf of the hospital I would like to express my sincere condolences to the family of Carrie, and deeply regret that we failed to provide the standard of care that she and her family were entitled to expect.
"I welcome the fact that this settlement has now been agreed with the NHS Litigation Authority."
Chelmsford Prison said the figures were being used to "remind people of the consequences of breaking the law".
But Frances Crook, of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said the cut-outs were "insulting to staff".
The Prison Service has now made the decision to remove the 7ft (2.1m) tall figures "to avoid confusion".
Earlier a spokesman said there had been "no removal of CCTV" and the cardboard figures were "an additional measure only".
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Ms Crook said the cut-outs "sounded like a bit of a joke, but the trouble is there is a serious problem".
"I shouldn't think they cost very much, but it just makes the prison look a bit silly," she said.
"I think it's insulting to staff. They have to do a very professional, dangerous, difficult job, and we should be treating them with respect.
"Having cardboard cut-outs of coppers outside is insulting."
The prison recently sent letters to nearby residents asking them to help stop packets of "illicit articles" being thrown over the jail walls.
Last month, a woman who lives near the prison said the problem of packages being thrown over the wall was "getting quite bad".
One former inmate said the jail was "notorious" for being "flooded" with mobile phones and synthetic cannabis.
In 2010, a scheme involving cardboard cut-outs of police officers in shops, supermarket and petrol stations was scrapped after it failed to reduce crime.
The figures were installed in 2009 and were meant to be a relatively cheap way to deter would-be criminals.
At the time, Essex Police said the trial of the cardboard police officers had little impact on crime or anti social behaviour.
The dead are a man and a woman, police said in a statement. A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Ikea spokeswoman Anna Pilkrona-Godden said that the Erikslund shopping centre containing the store had been closed.
The injured victim is a man of about 35, Swedish television reported, citing eyewitnesses.
Officers were called to the store at 13:00 (11:00 GMT) and found three people with knife injuries in the kitchenware section, police spokesman Per Stromback told reporters at the scene.
"The suspect had stabbed three people, of whom two died at the scene and one is very seriously injured and is being operated on," Mr Stromback said.
"We do not have a motive at the moment," he added.
The injured victim arrived at Vasteras hospital with life-threatening injuries, head nurse Lena Moren told Sweden's SVT public broadcaster.
The victims were "ordinary shoppers", Mattias Johansson, the store manager, told local newspaper VLT. They were known to one another, police said.
Several ambulances were at the scene and the area was cordoned off by police, eyewitnesses said.
"Our thoughts are with those affected," said Mrs Pilkrona-Godden.
The Ikea store in Vasteras, which is about 70 miles (115km) west of the capital Stockholm, is one of the largest in the country.
But India's most popular movie industry also produces films that initiate social debates on issues that matter to the country.
Aamir Khan's PK is one such movie.
It questions superstitions in a country where religion is deeply rooted in social consciousness of the people.
Khan plays an alien in the film who comes to visit the earth and almost immediately falls victim to human greed.
His "remote control" - a device without which he cannot go back to his planet - gets stolen.
From that moment, he embarks on a journey to discover the world. He meets people, "both good and bad", visits places and learns the language.
He painstakingly discovers that many people believe that only god can help him find his remote control.
He visits remote temples, mosques and churches. He follows advices given by priests and religious leaders to convince the god of every faith.
But Khan's character slowly finds out some self-styled gurus or "godmen" use superstitions and "fraud" to "cheat" people.
PK is not the first movie that has taken a controversial but critical look at religious practices in India.
But then why is the film generating strong reactions?
The answer lies in the movie's simple narrative. It doesn't reach any conclusion on the existence of religion, but simply questions superstitions.
In one of the scenes, a priest tells a man to take an arduous journey to a temple in the Himalayas to ensure that one of his sick family members gets well.
PK jumps into the conversation and asks the priest if it's true that god considers all humans as his sons and daughters.
Yes, says the priest.
PK follows up with another question: "Which father would send an already troubled son on an arduous journey?".
Such simple but important questions have made the movie a thought-provoking drama.
I remember many moist eyes in the theatre after a particular scene in which PK recounts his efforts in convincing "the almighty" to return his remote control.
The sequence shows PK bathing in holy rivers, trekking to reach holy temples and painfully beating himself in mourning.
He later discovers that such advice doesn't mean much and most "godmen" use religions to do business and make profits.
The rest of the movie is all about PK's debate with one such powerful "godman" who is in possession of his remote control.
In the end, he proves the guru wrong, falls in love with a female journalist who helps him, and returns to his planet.
The movie has received mixed reviews from critics, but most have praised Khan and director Rajkumar Hirani for showing courage to take on a deeply sensitive subject.
Film analyst Namrata Joshi says the duo deserve credit for bringing such a sensitive topic in a mainstream commercial film.
"Aamir is a superstar and that is why this movie has reached millions. It has made people think. Religion has been debated in many regional language films and earlier Bollywood films, but Aamir's presence has made the difference this time," she says.
Many say the film's timing has also been critical.
It has come at a time when issues like religious conversion are being debated in parliament and prominent gurus have been arrested on charges like murder and rape.
It is hard to know that how many people actually agree with the movie's message. But Joshi says many are watching the film and it shows that people want to discuss and debate even sensitive issues like religious practices.
But not everybody agrees.
Many have criticised the film for "maligning Hinduism" and other religions in the films.
A hashtah called #boycottPK started trending almost immediately after the movie was released.
But many also praised the film and started a rival hashtag called #IsupportPK.
Joshi says Twitter cannot be taken as an indicator of how people are reacting to the film.
But the hashtags prove that people are willing to discuss the issue.
Aamir Khan recently defended the film, saying it is not against any particular religion.
When I walked out of the theatre, most of my fellow moviegoers seemed interested in repeating this key line from the film.
"Believe in the god who created you, not the one you created."
And there were others who seemed offended.
But as Joshi says, the movie ensures that the issue of religious superstition is being debated in the country of 1.2 billion people and many religions.
Mr Ratsiraka, who seized power as a young naval officer in 1975, governed Madagascar until 1991 and again from 1996 to 2002.
He left the country after losing disputed elections.
His return comes three days after a unity government was unveiled to try to end the political deadlock in Madagascar.
In 2003, a Madagascan court sentenced Mr Ratsiraka in his absence to 10 years' hard labour for corruption. However, the current President, Andry Rajoelina, who seized power two years ago, has said that the 75 year old is free to return home.
The former president has refused to sign the deal brokered by the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) which aims to resolve Madagascar's long-running political crisis.
Journalist Tim Healy told the BBC hundreds of supporters gathered at the airport in the capital, Antananarivo, to welcome Mr Ratsiraka.
In a speech, he said he was opposed to the unity government as he believes it is not consensual.
"There should be a conference not just by the four main political leaders, but all the other parties and civil society groups must be involved," AFP news agency quotes Mr Ratsiraka as saying.
"There's need for reconciliation. I will shake everybody's hands in the overall interest of the nation. The government says it wants to reach out, I'm reaching out in return."
But Mr Rajoelina, who is unelected, has already refused the proposal of the so-called "conference of four presidents", reports Mr Healy.
The most recent imaging search by the overflying Rosetta "mothership" can find no trace of the probe.
Philae touched down on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November, returning a swathe of data before going silent when its battery ran flat.
European Space Agency scientists say they are now waiting on Philae itself to reveal its position when it garners enough power to call home.
Researchers have a pretty good idea of where the robot should be, but pinpointing its exact location is tricky.
On touchdown, Philae bounced twice before coming to rest in a dark ditch.
This much is clear from the pictures it took of its surroundings. And this location, the mission team believes, is just off the top of the "head" of the duck-shaped comet.
The orbiting Rosetta satellite photographed this general location on 12, 13 and 14 December, with each image then scanned by eye for any bright pixels that might be Philae. But no positive detection has yet been made.
Rosetta has now moved further from 67P, raising its altitude from 20km to 30km, and there is no immediate plan to go back down (certainly, not to image Philae's likely location).
Even if they cannot locate it, scientists are confident the little probe will eventually make its whereabouts known.
As 67P moves closer to the Sun, lighting conditions for the robot should improve, allowing its solar cells to recharge the battery system.
The latest assessment suggests communications could be re-established in the May/June timeframe, with Philae distributing enough electricity to its instruments to resume operations around September.
This would be at perihelion - the time when the comet is closest to the Sun (185 million km away) and at its most active.
Scientists continue to pore over the data Philae managed to send back before going into hibernation.
Some of the results - together with ongoing Rosetta observations - were reported at the recent American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
Highlights include a clearer idea of the nature of the comet's surface. Researchers say this appears to be covered in many places by a soft, dusty "soil" about 15-20cm in depth.
Underneath this is a very hard layer, which is thought to be mainly sintered ice.
The conference had the rare opportunity to see pictures from Rosetta's Osiris camera system.
These high-resolution images are not normally shown publicly because the camera team has been given an exclusive period to study the data and make discoveries.
Among them was a shot looking into a pit on the surface, revealing an array of rounded features that the Osiris team has nicknamed "dinosaur eggs".
These features have a preferred scale of about 2-3m and may be evidence of the original icy blocks that came together 4.5 billion years ago to build the comet.
The dino eggs have been seen at a number of locations, including in cliff walls.
Early interpretations of the general surface of the comet indicate that many structures are probably the result of collapse over internal voids.
Although a small body just 4km across, 67P's gravity is still strong enough to shape depressions and arrange fallen boulders.
A good example of this is in "Hapi" valley - the giant gorge that forms the "neck" of the comet.
It contains a string of large blocks at its base, which one Osiris team-member argued very likely fell from the nearby vertical cliff dubbed "Hathor".
All the surface features on 67P carry names that follow an ancient Egyptian theme.
Hapi was revered as a god of the Nile. Hathor was a deity associated with the sky.
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All on board died when the Bond Super Puma came down in 2009.
Relatives have called for a criminal inquiry, but the Crown Office defended its decision not to prosecute.
Sheriff Principal Derek Pyle said the precautions which might have avoided the deaths included following agreed procedures and communications.
He said the operators had considered replacing part of the gearbox just a week before the crash but did not do so because of a failure of communication with the manufacturer.
Sheriff Pyle said: "During the course of the inquiry there was much discussion about the circumstances which led Bond not to follow the clear terms of the maintenance.
"Bond readily acknowledged that they ought to have done so.
By James CookScotland Correspondent, BBC News
As the families of Flight 85N sat down to face the cameras in Aberdeen, the air throbbed as a helicopter passed overhead.
It was an eerie reminder of why we were here.
Every day hundreds of North Sea oil workers place their faith in helicopters and those who manufacture and operate them.
The relatives of some of those who died say that faith was betrayed twice: once by Bond's failure to operate "by the book" and again by a failure to bring anyone to justice.
Crash relatives 'one big family'
"The essential fact is that everyone in the company well knew that maintenance must be done by the book.
"On one occasion, that fundamental rule was broken. It resulted in the failure to detect a significant fault in the helicopter's gearbox, which possibly - but only possibly - resulted in the crash."
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) pinpointed a catastrophic failure of the gearbox in its examination of the crash.
Sheriff Pyle acknowledged that the exact cause of the gearbox failure which led to the crash could not be fully determined.
He concluded that on the balance of probabilities the spalling - the fracturing of metal - in the gearbox was the probable cause of the accident.
Lawyer Tom Marshall, for the families, said he was pleased the sheriff principal had accepted that the crash could have been prevented if Bond had followed the maintenance manual.
He said there was a need for a wider public inquiry, and that the families wanted to meet the Lord Advocate to discuss the earlier decision not to pursue criminal prosecutions.
Audrey Wood, whose son Stuart died, said: "Safety is absolutely paramount, and everything must be done by the book.
"We, the families, feel let down by the system. We just wanted answers.
"We will never have closure, this will go on and on for us."
Helicopter operator Bond said: "We have always accepted that we made mistakes through honest confusion over telephone calls and emails.
"Lessons needed to be learned, lessons have been learned and lessons continue to be learned.
"We would like to express again our deep sorrow at the 16 lives lost.
"Bond Offshore hopes that Sheriff Principal Pyle's determination brings a degree of closure to the families, friends and dependents of those who died in the tragedy of 2009."
Tommy Campbell, from the Unite union, said it was a "travesty of justice" that there had not been a criminal prosecution.
He also called for the decision to be reconsidered, and added: "These failings have cost lives."
A Crown Office spokesman said Crown Counsel had "fully assessed" the evidence before deciding there was not enough evidence for a prosecution.
"For a criminal prosecution to have taken place, the Crown would have to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. The Sheriff Principal makes clear that a reasonable doubt remained over the technical cause of the crash.
"The evidence presented during the FAI has not altered the insufficiency of evidence, therefore the decision not to hold criminal proceedings remains the correct one.
"We will be offering to meet relatives again to discuss the Sheriff Principal's judgement."　
A six-week hearing into the crash was held in Aberdeen earlier this year.
It heard evidence from the helicopter operator Bond Offshore Helicopters and manufacturer Eurocopter, as well as crash investigators.
Senior AAIB operations investigator Timothy Atkinson told the fatal accident inquiry that the gearbox failure meant there was nothing the crew could do - and the crash was "not survivable".
Eight of the victims came from the north east of Scotland, seven from the rest of the UK, and one from Latvia.
The two crew who died were Capt Paul Burnham, 31, of Methlick, Aberdeenshire, and co-pilot Richard Menzies, 24, of Droitwich Spa, who worked for Bond Offshore Helicopters.
The KCA Deutag employees killed were Brian Barkley, 30, of Aberdeen; Vernon Elrick, 41, of Aberdeen; Leslie Taylor, 41, of Kintore, Aberdeenshire; Nairn Ferrier, 40, of Dundee; Gareth Hughes, 53, of Angus; David Rae, 63, of Dumfries; Raymond Doyle, 57, of Cumbernauld; James John Edwards, 33, of Liverpool; Nolan Goble, 34, of Norwich, and Mihails Zuravskis, 39, of Latvia.
The other victims were James Costello, 24, of Aberdeen, who was contracted to Production Services Network (PSN); Alex Dallas, 62, of Aberdeen, who worked for Sparrows Offshore Services; Warren Mitchell, 38, of Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, who worked for Weatherford UK; and Stuart Wood, 27, of Aberdeen, who worked for Expro North Sea Ltd.
The beech trees were found with drill holes at their bases in a wood near Accrington known as Laund Clough.
The trust believes a weed killer, "likely to be glyphosate", was used. A spokesman said the trees would now have to be removed at a cost of £2,000.
A Tree Preservation Order is in place, meaning the incident is being treated as a criminal offence.
Lancashire Police have been informed of the incident which happened close to nearby housing.
Colin Riley, site manager, said: "During my fifteen years at the Woodland Trust, I have never seen damage on this scale.
"I cannot fathom why someone would wilfully destroy trees in this way - especially given their age and protected status."
He added: "Our native woods suffer enough from threats such as tree disease and a changing climate - without someone setting out to intentionally kill them."
Laund Clough is a popular local wood for nearby residents, mainly used by dogwalkers and children.
The Bank of Japan's news conference on Friday will be watched closely any news of further stimulus measures.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 index closed down 1.13% at 16,476.84.
Shares in export-related companies fell as the yen strengthened against the dollar. A stronger yen makes Japanese goods more expensive overseas.
Overnight, the US central bank decided to keep rates on hold, at between 0.25% and 0.5%. The Federal Reserve said "near-term risks to the economic outlook have diminished", however the dollar weakened after the bank gave now clear indication it was thinking of raising rates at its next meeting in September.
In Australia, the benchmark ASX 200 share index closed up 0.31% at 5,556.60.
Shares of Macquarie Group closed up 1.5% after the country's top investment bank confirmed it would meet its full-year earnings guidance.
China's benchmark Shanghai Composite index ended flat at 2,994.32 at the open. Investors have turned cautious following reports in local media that Chinese regulators are planning a clampdown on wealth management products, to curb risks to China's banking system.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index finished the day 44.65 points lower at 22,174.34.
In South Korea, the Kospi closed down 0.2% at 2,021.10.
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Now schoolchildren in Northern Ireland will be playing Minecraft in their classrooms as part of a project devised by Londonderry-based innovation festival CultureTECH.
Minecraft allows players to create their own world which they are then free to explore.
Secondary-schools will use MinecraftEdu, a special version appropriate for the classroom, in lessons to help teach traditional subjects such as history and art.
CultureTECH chief executive Mark Nagurski said the overwhelming response to Minecraft events at last year's festival sparked the idea.
"We spent a couple of months talking with the MinecraftEdu guys who showed us the content that could be produced, so we decided to take a punt," he says.
"We need more kids getting into STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and coding if we are to build a pipeline to meet the increasing demand for jobs in the technology sector, and this is a great way for children to get into that."
So, how can playing a video game during class-time benefit children?
St Joseph's Boys' School in Derry has been running a pilot of the scheme as part of a collaboration between its history and IT departments.
The game was offered to the school for free and history teacher Darren Currie says that made it "an opportunity we couldn't resist, especially when school budgets are so tight".
His pupils are using the game to construct virtual replicas of Plantation period sites such as Brackfield bawn outside Derry and Monea Castle in County Fermanagh.
"The Plantation period is a part of history that can be quite dry, so anything that helps pupils take it in better has to be a good thing," he explains.
"The boys create these structures, label them and then work out and explain why, for example, this house was fortified, why these gun turrets are positioned where they are, and gain an understanding of the period as a result."
An assessment is the summer will determine whether the scheme has been a success, but Mr Currie says the benefits are already beginning to show.
"I work with a mixed ability group and this has helped with their motivation. Pupil engagement has increased and there is a collaborative and competitive element to it, too.
"The pupils work in groups to build the best bawn, and that will over time help with their employability skills - not only are they gaining computing and programming skills, but this is also team-building."
Mr Currie is encouraging other schools to follow St Joseph's lead.
"What we are doing is just the tip of the iceberg - there are so many different applications for different subject areas.
"There does have to be a structure and outcomes must be clear, and that way pupils will take over the learning themselves."
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The defending champions, who won all four Grand Slams in 2014, progressed to this year's final with a 6-0 6-3 victory over Britain's Louise Hunt and Germany's Katharina Kruger.
Whiley and Kamiji will face Aniek Van Koot and Jiske Griffioen on Sunday.
The Dutch second seeds beat Britain's Lucy Shuker and Germany's Sabine Ellerbrock 6-2 6-4 in their semi-final.
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"Safety is my main concern. People get worried about walking around on their own.
Police started coming around but they've disappeared now.
It's not like years ago when there were regular patrols.
I know they're busy but prevention's better than cure."
"I don't even know who's running apart from Lee Jasper. None of them have come here.
I want genuine people who care about the constituency they're going to represent.
A lot of candidates don't even come from the area, it's a chance to gain a seat."
"I'm very disillusioned - the crime here has gone up so much.
We've had five robberies in the last couple of weeks near here.
My opinion is all politicians are the same.
They're all sweetness then when they get into power it's all mouth and no actions."
"If they're going to create jobs then I'm up for that.
I'm looking for a job, I just finished college and I used to be a chef.
I used to live in Hackney for 30 years - it was a bit crime ridden.
Up here seems more pleasant."
"Probably a little more safety in the area.
There's not a lot of crime but sometimes you hear people drunk at night.
I'd like to see more jobs because I just came here from Brighton in June.
I'm looking for a job and it's very hard - I have a degree."
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The 36-year-old Plymouth-born ex-Yeovil midfielder took over in a caretaker capacity following previous boss Paul Sturrock's departure on 1 December.
Since then, Yeovil have drawn three of their four League Two matches.
They also beat Stevenage to reach the third round of the FA Cup, in which they have been drawn at Carlisle.
Way, who will have long-serving Terry Skiverton as his assistant manager, remained coy about the length of any contract.
"Everyone's asking that question and that's including myself, with regard to contract lengths and negotiations," he told BBC Somerset.
"But all I'm focusing on is making sure that we win football matches and I think everything else will fall into place.
"I am honoured and privileged to become manager of Yeovil Town. I am ready to take this club into battle and secure our Football League status.
"I have shown the same passion and commitment as a manager that I did when I played. feel the players have given everything for me since I have taken charge and the supporters have shown a lot of love and respect."
Yeovil currently stand just two points adrift of safety, ahead of Saturday's home game against fellow strugglers York City.
The 31-year-old has played more than 50 games for Rovers since arriving from Mansfield in the summer of 2015.
Sutton's season was cut short by an Achilles injury which kept him out for the final six weeks.
"I'm very pleased that Ritchie is remaining at the club to help us build on the togetherness of the squad from last season," said boss Micky Mellon.
Nottinghamshire batsman Taylor has been forced to give up the game because of a serious heart condition.
Taylor, 26, returned to the England Test side for the first time in three years in October, a move that was welcomed at the time by Cook.
"He proved people wrong time and time again and was a great character to have around the dressing room," he said.
"It's a career cut very short but, on the flip side, at least it's been detected and we're not talking about something a lot worse."
Taylor has been diagnosed with Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC), a condition similar to the one which affected footballer Fabrice Muamba, and needs an operation.
He played in seven Tests and 27 one-day internationals, having started his career with Leicestershire.
"When I found out on Monday night it was a huge shock, and a realisation of how lucky we are that we are able to play this great game," Cook told BBC Essex.
"If there's a guy that can handle what he's going through, it's him because of his character.
"Hopefully the operation can go well and we'll see him around, and adding his talent to the English game in a different way."
Yorkshire and England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow, a former room-mate of Taylor, says cricket's current heart screening process is in place to save lives.
"Naturally, something like that is very tough to take and is a bit scary in many ways," said the 26-year-old, who also played cricket and rugby against Taylor at schoolboy level.
"Hopefully we can keep doing the checks, as it has been found early enough to save someone's life.
"I'm keen on things like that. I've been checked and, touch wood, everything is OK. You can't be 100% certain in life, but as far as I'm concerned the checks and procedures are in place and get taken care of."
The PM said Labour was "scaremongering" over NHS cuts but would not match her candidate's opposition to the downgrading of maternity services.
And she said the Tories were committed to the nuclear industry amid questions about a new multibillion power plant.
Labour criticised her "lack of action" on the Moorside plant's future.
It comes after Toshiba, a major backer of the £10bn scheme, sustained heavy losses - raising question marks about its involvement.
During her visit to the west Cumbrian constituency, Mrs May said the consortium involved in Moorside had been "absolutely clear" about their commitment to the project, adding that the Conservatives were the party most committed to the nuclear industry.
But the GMB Union, which is calling for a "government-backed Plan B", accused her of "ducking the question".
Labour's shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said the government should take a share in the project - which is opposed by the Green Party - accusing ministers of a "failed and incoherent energy strategy".
On the NHS, Mrs May said the government was considering commissioning a professionally-led review of the recruitment and retention of doctors in west Cumbria.
She made the announcement as she was asked about plans to move consultant-led maternity services at West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven to Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle, 40 miles away.
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron accused her of "weasel words" and called for a "clear and definitive decision that services will be protected".
UKIP, which came third in the 2015 general election, is campaigning on a pro-nuclear platform and for the full return of fishing rights to the region after Brexit.
The Copeland by-election, triggered by the resignation of Labour MP Jamie Reed, takes place on 23 February.
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The ex-Birmingham City trainee, 20, who was on loan at Kidderminster Harriers in 2014-15, was used as a non-contract player in Marcus Bignot's National League North title-winning side.
"He impressed us enough to be offered his first contract with ourselves for next season," Bignot told BBC Sport.
"It's a real opportunity for him to play National League football."
Kelly is one of several ex-Harriers players at Damson Park as the promoted club prepare for life at the fifth tier of English football for the first time.
Manager Bignot, who played at Aggborough in his non-league playing days, signed goalkeeper Danny Lewis, 33, and midfielders Callum Gittings, 30, and Jack Byrne, 26, last summer.
And he has now also brought in former Harriers manager Gary Whild to join his backroom team, following former Aston Villa and Walsall striker Darren Byfield's departure to take up a managerial role at Redditch.
Gittings, 30, who ended last season on loan at Leamington, is expected to stay in National League North by joining AFC Telford.
Defender Michael Nottingham has already left, having agreed terms with Northern Premier League side Salford City.
But the Moors have made two signings - Worcester City goalkeeper Nathan Vaughan, 34, and Redditch midfielder Jamey Osborne.
Solihull's first season in the National League is likely to kick off on Saturday, 6 August, with fixtures due to be released on Wednesday, 6 July.
Sanna Ibrahim was found guilty of murdering Jeremie Malenge, along with Tre Morgan, 18, a 17-year-old boy and 14-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
Jeremie, 17, from Hackney, died in Homerton High Street less than an hour after police spoke to him on 6 January.
The Old Bailey heard Ibrahim passed on information to Jeremie's killers.
The trial was halted after jurors reported seeing someone in the public gallery making a cut-throat gesture in their direction while Ibrahim was giving evidence in her defence.
However, the jurors agreed to carry on and went on to find all four defendants guilty of murder after deliberating for less than two hours.
The court heard Ibrahim had travelled with Jeremie and his friend from Swindon to London on the evening of the attack.
When the group arrived at Hackney Central at about 23:00 BST, they were chased by the three male attackers through the streets for half an hour.
While Ibrahim was with Jeremie, she secretly texted and called one of her co-accused 36 times, the court heard.
As Jeremie ran away, Ibrahim managed to meet the attackers face-to-face to pass on information, then rejoined him, the jury heard.
The prosecution said she was "as cool as you like" as she rejoined the victims who were trying to get away in a minicab.
When the attackers caught up with Jeremie in Homerton High Street, east London, he was stabbed multiple times and received a fatal 5in (12.5cm) wound through his ribs, piercing the heart, the court heard. He was later pronounced dead at the scene.
Prosecutor Timothy Cray said: "No excuse has been put forward for these actions and there can be no excuse.
"Instead, the four defendants in their various ways either say 'not me' and then point the finger at each other or say that they were not there at all, despite the clearest evidence that they were."
Jeremie's friend managed to get away.
Ibrahim claimed in court that she had been held hostage by Jeremie and his friend, who had forced her to travel from Swindon to London so they could steal some drugs she was looking after.
Ibrahim was not present at the time of the killing, but was sitting yards away and and saw the killers dispose of bloody knives, the jury was told.
The police said witness statements and CCTV played a key role in the investigation as the footage had captured the stabbing and the attackers fleeing the scene.
Jeremie's father said: "He is a big loss to our family and the killers of Jeremie have really broken our hearts."
Ibrahim, of Hackney; Morgan, of south west London, and the two youths had denied murder.
The 17-year-old boy was also found guilty of a further count of wounding with intent relating to an earlier incident in March 2014, which the Old Bailey heard may have sparked the murder of Jeremie.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is also investigating the Met Police's prior contact with the victim on the night of the attack.
The referral was made because it was understood that, in the hour before he was killed, Jeremie was spoken to by police responding to reports of youths being armed with knives in the area.
The group were all remanded in custody until sentencing on 25 September.
Alice Hooker-Stroud, assembly election candidate for Mid and West Wales, will take over from Pippa Bartolotti.
"This is an exciting time for the Wales Green Party - we enter the Welsh assembly election as a determined and energetic party, we can and we will win seats," said Ms Hooker-Stroud.
Hannah Pudner will succeed Anthony Slaughter as deputy leader.
"The Wales Green Party has the solutions to many of the problems we face in our communities," said Ms Hooker-Stroud, an activist and events assistant from Machynlleth, Powys.
"Solutions that tackle not just social, but environmental problems, solutions not just for local problems, but global problems too."
Ms Bartolotti, who is stepping down after four years at the helm, said: "Over the last few years the Wales Green Party has gone from strength to strength and, as we build momentum to the Welsh assembly elections in May, it will carry on doing so.
"Voters are ready to hear people speak out with real solutions and that is what the Wales Green Party offers.
"I look forward to working with Alice over the coming months and supporting her during her leadership."
The new Wales Green Party office will be run by campaign manager Dan Boyle, a former Green MP in Ireland.
He said it was a "momentous time" for the party and he had "every confidence" the first Green AMs would be elected in May.
"We have an excellent set of candidates, a strong and motivated supporter base, and the infrastructure to realise our potential," he said.
The 34-year-old is training with Russell Slade's Sky Blues with a view to being pitched into their fight for League One survival.
"He's had his first training session," Slade told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire.
"He's not played for a while. That's the only concern. But he's got a great pedigree," added the City manager.
"He's a one in every two games man, goals-wise, so if that's the sort of thing he can do for us we've got to be interested."
In a decade in English football, Yakubu scored 114 times in 250 league starts, plus 43 substitute appearances, mostly in the top flight, at Portsmouth, Middlesbrough, Everton, Leicester City, Blackburn Rovers and Reading.
He was a target for National League side Boreham Wood earlier in the season after returning to England following a spell in the Turkish top flight with Kayserispor.
Coventry made four loan signings in the January window, including strikers Michael Folivi (Watford) and Charles Vernam (Derby County).
Derby also loaned them defender Farren Rawson, while midfielder Callum Reilly came from Burton Albion and another forward, Stuart Beavon, arrived on an 18-month deal.
Coventry are currently bottom of League One, five points behind Chesterfield - and eight points adrift of safety.
They have 17 games left to avoid the prospect of being relegated to the fourth tier of English football for the first time since 1959
They are not helped by ongoing feelings of discontent among City supporters towards the club's owners.
But those feelings will be put to one side on Tuesday when Slade's team take on Wycombe Wanderers in the semi-finals of the EFL Trophy.
Victory would book only their third-ever visit to Wembley - and their first since their two visits in 1987, when they famously beat Spurs in the FA Cup final in May, then lost 1-0 to Everton in the Charity Shield in August.
But City boss Slade is more intent on ending the club's 13-game winless run in the league which goes back to 1 November, six weeks before his appointment as manager.
"We have to do something about it now," he said. "Not in three or four weeks' time. By then it could be too late. We have to address it now to give ourselves a chance."
If Coventry make it to Wembley, they would meet the winners of the semi-final between Oxford United and whoever wins Tuesday's quarter-final between Luton Town and Yeovil Town.
Arlene, a 15-year-old from Castlederg, County Tyrone, vanished after a night at a disco in County Donegal in 1994. Her body has never been found.
The Kent officer, Det Supt Colin Murray, was in charge of investigating child killer and rapist Robert Howard.
The teenager was last seen in a car driven by Howard.
Det Supt Murray said he was told by Police Service of Northern Ireland in 2002 that they had information suggesting Arlene was buried under the kitchen floor of her sister Kathleen's house.
The inquest heard that officers allegedly told Det Supt Murray they did not plan to act on that information.
At the time, Det Supt Murray was investigating Howard for the murder of 14-year-old London schoolgirl Hannah Williams and that the murder of Arlene Arkinson could also be part of the prosecution's case.
He told senior officers within the PSNI he would raise a complaint with the Ombudsman if they did not investigate it properly as it could undermine his case.
He added he did not believe the information was credible, but it was important to disprove it.
Military equipment was used in a ground penetrating radar search which showed Arlene was not buried at Kathleen's home.
Meanwhile, the inquest also heard from Patrick John Heggarty, who had been with Arlene on the night she disappeared.
"Arlene seemed normal. She seemed in good enough form," he said
Mr Heggarty, then about 25, was dating the 18-year-old daughter of Robert Howard's girlfriend.
Howard, Mr Heggarty, his girlfriend and Arlene Arkinson, all travelled to and from Bundoran together and on the return journey an intoxicated Mr Heggarty and his girlfriend were dropped off first.
Although he had heard rumours about Howard's background and allegations of sex offences, he said he had no concerns about Arlene's safety when she was driven off with him, alone late at night.
In the days after Arlene disappeared, at the request of his then girlfriend, Mr Heggarty lied about being in her company, but later told police the truth.
Howard, 71, died at HMP Frankland in County Durham last October while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Hannah Williams.
The case has been adjourned.
A task force, set up after a public outcry over police shootings, said some officers had "no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of colour".
It said the department had alienated blacks and Hispanics by using excessive force and honouring a code of silence.
The report asks for more than 100 sweeping changes.
The panel found that 74% of the hundreds of people shot by officers in recent years were African-Americans even though blacks account for only 33% of the city's population.
The summary of the report, commissioned by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, said that fear and lack of trust in law enforcement among minorities was justified.
Chicago's new police chief, Eddie Johnson, who is African-American, has vowed to eradicate racism within the force.
"We have racism in America. We have racism in Chicago. So it stands to reason we would have some racism within our agency. My goal is to root that out,'' he told reporters after being sworn in.
The city's police department is the third largest in the US.
Task force chairwoman Lori Lightfoot called the report a "blueprint for change" and urged city police and officials to forge a better relationship with citizens.
"The pain and the anger and the frustration that people across this city have articulated to us... is something that has to be understood, has to be respected. And it has to be embraced if we are ever to move forward,'' she told a news conference.
The Task Force on Police Accountability described the existing independent review body, which investigates misconduct, as "badly broken" and recommended replacing it with a "new and fully transparent and accountable Civilian Police Investigative Agency".
"There's no doubt we have a lot of work to do," said Mr Emanuel, adding that people had to have confidence in the agency that reviews police behaviour.
He said he was waiting to be briefed by the task force and to see the whole report before giving further details.
Activist Greg Livingston said the report "raises consciousness", adding: "It shines a light into the darkness."
Figures released last month showed Chicago's murder rate had risen 84% in the first months of 2016 compared with last year.
The city saw 575 shootings and 125 murders up to 20 March compared to 290 shootings and 68 murders in the same period of 2015.
Police Chief Johnson, who has 27 years' experience, took office amid public anger over the shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald by a white officer.
The shooting sparked days of protests and led the US Justice Department to open an investigation into Chicago police shootings.
Already 3-0 up from the away tie in Belfast, the Glasgow side extended their lead through Efe Ambrose's powerful 16th-minute header.
But it took until the 70th minute for their pressure to bring a second, a close-range Georgios Samaras header.
While Cliftonville's hard work avoided the feared rout, it is Celtic who will host Swedes Elfsborg next Wednesday.
Elfsborg, who have on-loan Celtic striker Mo Bangura and former Portsmouth forward James Keene in their squad, had earlier completed their own demolition of Daugava.
Already 7-1 up from the home leg, they showed they will be a tough hurdle to overcome for Neil Lennon's side, hopeful of matching the £23.5m earned from last season's march to the last 16, winning 4-0 in Latvia.
Despite striker Gary Hooper's recovery from a groin strain, Northern Irishman Lennon named an unchanged side from the one that won in his homeland.
Last season's top scorer was on the bench even though he has been the subject of a transfer bids from Norwich City and, most recently, QPR.
Cliftonville manager Tommy Breslin had voiced his determination not to leave Scotland with a humiliating scoreline and not surprisingly named a more defensive formation, with former Werder Bremen striker Liam Boyce on his own up front.
The expected onslaught began with a Samaras shot being beaten away by goalkeeper Conor Devlin.
It was clever play by Sweden full-back Mikael Lustig that finally prised open the visiting defence, setting up Anthony Stokes to deliver a cross that was dispatched past Devlin by Nigeria defender Ambrose.
Part-timers Cliftonville battled away gallantly and threatened momentarily when Marc Smyth had a close-range effort blocked after a rare corner for the Northern Irish champions, while Ciaran Caldwell fired wide.
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That was a brief respite as Kris Commons and James Forrest threatened a second goal from range, with the latter's effort clipping the top of the crossbar.
Celtic's intensity dipped after the break, but Stokes forced a fine fingertip save from Devlin with a clever drive the Irishman steered towards the far corner.
Stokes was not so smart when presented with an easier chance after being set up by Scott Brown, the striker curling his shot wide of Devlin and the post.
Just as Cliftonville appeared to be tiring, a desperate clearance from Kelvin Wilson prevented a cross presenting Boyce the chance of a surprise tap-in equaliser.
Minutes after Hooper came off the bench, Celtic extended their lead when a fine Commons cross found the head of Samaras eight yards from goal.
Hooper fired an effort against the base of the post and summer signing Amido Balde headed just wide on his debut from the bench, but Cliftonville managed to restrict Celtic to a two-goal victory.
Full Time The final whistle goes and the game is over.
Direct effort from the free kick comes in from Joe Gormley,
The ball is swung over by Mikael Lustig.
George McMullan is flagged offside by the assistant referee. Free kick taken by Emilio Izaguirre.
Tom Rogic has an effort at goal from long range that misses to the right of the goal.
Tom Rogic takes a shot. Blocked by Jamie McGovern.
Free kick taken by Conor Devlin.
Substitution Joe Gormley is brought on as a substitute for Liam Boyce.
The assistant referee flags for offside against Gary Hooper.
The ball is delivered by Emilio Izaguirre, Barry Johnston manages to make a clearance.
Foul by Liam Boyce on Emilio Izaguirre, free kick awarded. Tom Rogic restarts play with the free kick.
Emilio Izaguirre delivers the ball, Header by Amido Balde from deep inside the penalty area misses to the right of the target.
Tom Rogic has an effort at goal from outside the box which goes wide left of the goal.
Substitution Diarmuid O'Carroll comes on in place of Tomas Cosgrove.
Substitution James Forrest goes off and Amido Balde comes on.
Kris Commons takes a shot. Conor Devlin makes a save.
James Forrest delivers the ball, Gary Hooper produces a overhead kick right-footed shot from deep inside the penalty area and hits the post.
Outswinging corner taken from the left by-line by Kris Commons, clearance made by Barry Johnston.
Short corner taken by Georgios Samaras. Georgios Samaras delivers the ball, Gary Hooper takes a shot. Save by Conor Devlin.
Assist by Kris Commons.
Goal! - Georgios Samaras - Celtic 2 - 0 Cliftonvle Georgios Samaras grabs a headed goal from inside the six-yard box. Celtic 2 (5)-(0) 0 Cliftonville.
A cross is delivered by Kris Commons,
Tom Rogic takes a shot. Marc Smyth gets a block in. Kris Commons decides to take the corner short.
Shot from long range by Georgios Samaras goes wide of the left-hand upright.
Inswinging corner taken left-footed by Kris Commons, Headed effort from inside the area by Efe Ambrose misses to the right of the goal.
Mikael Lustig produces a cross, Eamonn Seydak makes a clearance. Short corner taken by Kris Commons.
Substitution Gary Hooper replaces Anthony Stokes.
Substitution Tom Rogic is brought on as a substitute for Beram Kayal.
Corner taken by Eamonn Seydak played to the near post, clearance by Scott Brown.
The ball is swung over by Stephen Garrett, clearance by Kelvin Wilson.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Kelvin Wilson on Chris Curran. The free kick is swung in left-footed by Eamonn Seydak, Efe Ambrose makes a clearance.
Effort from 35 yards by Scott Brown missed to the right of the target.
Shot by Anthony Stokes from deep inside the penalty area misses to the right of the target.
Shot by James Forrest went wide right of the net.
Substitution Chris Curran joins the action as a substitute, replacing Ciaran Caldwell.
Scott Brown takes a shot. Blocked by George McMullan. Georgios Samaras produces a left-footed shot from just outside the area that goes harmlessly over the bar.
Anthony Stokes takes a shot. Save made by Conor Devlin. Short corner taken by Kris Commons.
Emilio Izaguirre crosses the ball, Marc Smyth manages to make a clearance.
The ball is swung over by Anthony Stokes, Jamie McGovern makes a clearance.
James Forrest takes a shot. Blocked by Jamie McGovern.
Anthony Stokes takes a shot. Eamonn Seydak gets a block in. Kris Commons produces a right-footed shot from deep inside the penalty area which goes wide of the left-hand post.
Kris Commons fouled by Stephen Garrett, the ref awards a free kick. Fraser Forster restarts play with the free kick.
A cross is delivered by Eamonn Seydak, Georgios Samaras makes a clearance.
Corner taken short by George McMullan.
The referee gets the second half underway.
Half Time The referee blows for half time.
Georgios Samaras produces a right-footed shot from close range which goes wide of the right-hand upright.
The ball is swung over by Mikael Lustig.
Eamonn Seydak takes the inswinging corner, clearance made by Georgios Samaras.
Mikael Lustig fouled by Stephen Garrett, the ref awards a free kick. Free kick taken by Kris Commons.
Effort on goal by James Forrest from just inside the penalty box goes harmlessly over the target.
The ball is swung over by James Forrest.
Kris Commons delivers the ball. Georgios Samaras is flagged offside by the assistant referee. Free kick taken by Conor Devlin.
Kris Commons produces a right-footed effort from long distance that goes harmlessly over the bar.
Kris Commons takes a shot. Marc Smyth gets a block in.
The offside flag is raised against Ciaran Caldwell. Free kick taken by Emilio Izaguirre.
Effort on goal by Ciaran Caldwell from inside the box misses to the right of the target.
Ciaran Caldwell produces a cross, blocked by Kelvin Wilson. Corner taken by Eamonn Seydak, Marc Smyth takes a shot. Clearance made by Kelvin Wilson.
Kris Commons takes a shot. Conor Devlin makes a save.
The ball is sent over by James Forrest, save by Conor Devlin.
Unfair challenge on Barry Johnston by Anthony Stokes results in a free kick. Free kick taken by Marc Smyth.
The ball is swung over by Mikael Lustig.
Emilio Izaguirre produces a cross, clearance made by Jamie McGovern.
Centre by James Forrest, Jamie McGovern manages to make a clearance. Corner taken by Kris Commons.
The ball is crossed by Ciaran Caldwell. A cross is delivered by Stephen Garrett, Close range headed effort by Ciaran Caldwell misses to the right of the target.
Assist on the goal came from Anthony Stokes.
Goal! - Efe Ambrose - Celtic 1 - 0 Cliftonvle Efe Ambrose scores a headed goal from close range. Celtic 1 (4)-(0) 0 Cliftonville.
Anthony Stokes produces a cross,
Centre by Mikael Lustig, save by Conor Devlin. Short corner taken by Kris Commons.
The ball is crossed by Emilio Izaguirre, Marc Smyth manages to make a clearance.
James Forrest fouled by Eamonn Seydak, the ref awards a free kick. Mikael Lustig takes the free kick.
Kris Commons takes the outswinging corner, Marc Smyth manages to make a clearance. Mikael Lustig delivers the ball, Georgios Samaras takes a shot. Save made by Conor Devlin.
James Forrest fouled by Stephen Garrett, the ref awards a free kick. The ball is swung over by Kris Commons, Scott Brown has a headed effort at goal from deep inside the area missing to the left of the target.
Unfair challenge on Tomas Cosgrove by Efe Ambrose results in a free kick. Conor Devlin takes the free kick.
Anthony Stokes takes a shot. Barry Johnston gets a block in. Corner taken by Kris Commons, Conor Devlin makes a save. Georgios Samaras takes a shot. Save by Conor Devlin.
Liam Boyce fouled by Efe Ambrose, the ref awards a free kick. Free kick taken by Ryan Catney.
A cross is delivered by Mikael Lustig. The referee blows for offside against Georgios Samaras. Conor Devlin takes the free kick.
The referee gets the match started.
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Lander de Meulenaere, 33, from Fishponds, Bristol, died in August 2014 while working on The Surround Festival at Sallywood Farm, near Stroud.
Gloucester Coroner's Court heard the vehicle he was using to lift a cover on to a geodesic dome toppled over, and he was hit by its telescopic arm.
The coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death.
Gloucester coroner Katy Skerrett said that although nobody witnessed the accident it was "more probable than not" that Mr de Meulenaere got out of the cab of the telehandler - a vehicle with forks on an extendable arm - for an unknown reason, before it toppled over.
The inquest heard the machine had its boom extended, and was on a slight slope when it overbalanced.
It was still in gear and the handbrake was not on. One of its tyres was also at a significantly low pressure, which may have led to it becoming unstable.
The court heard Mr de Meulenaere was tired and under pressure to get the job finished, when the accident happened.
"It is more probable than not that it was a misjudgement on the day by a man working under pressure," Ms Skerrett said.
"It was an an error by Lander under tragic circumstances, resulting in fatal consequences."
The festival was cancelled following the death.
American firm wHY beat off competition from 125 teams from 22 countries to design the £25m project to revitalise West Princes Street Gardens.
The design will see a series of new green spaces connected by an undulating promenade linked to the Royal Mile.
There will be a new Ross Pavilion and indoor visitor centre.
During the five-month search, seven teams were shortlisted including Adjaye Associates, Bjarke Ingels Group, Flanagan Lawrence, Page Park Architects, Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter, wHY and William Matthews Associate Architects.
Norman Springford, competition jury chairman, said he was delighted with the whole process. He said: "As is always the case with initiatives of this size and stature, the jury had a hard job.
"We are confident, however, that we have a winning concept that embodies an imaginative ensemble landscape approach, creating a wonderful stage for our iconic Edinburgh Castle.
"In addition, the design concept offers a creative energy and a series of unique elements which will all combine to create a new and contemporary landscape.
'We thoroughly enjoyed meeting all the shortlisted teams and understanding each approach.
"However with wHY, they demonstrated an impressive collaboration which respects and enhances the historical context and backdrop of the castle and the city, whilst creating new heritage and increasing the green space within the gardens.
"All of which were key aspects for us all and respected the importance of the space within a World Heritage Site."
Kulapat Yantrasast, founder and creative director of wHY, said: "wHY is built around an ecology of disciplines, the convergence of ideas, experience, nature and people.
"The Ross Pavilion and West Princes Street Gardens represent this convergence and this was the perfect ground to further our approach to design. To be selected from so many extraordinary thinkers is an honour.
"We felt a personal connection to the gardens and believe our design embodies how important collaboration and people are to making a place remarkable."
Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton and Darlington councils believe a new body could boost job-creation and investment.
Middlesbrough Labour MP Andy McDonald said it would allow the area to bid for extra money and power from government.
Critics argue the councils should, instead, join the combined authority covering the rest of the North East set up in April.
South Tyneside council leader Iain Malcolm said one combined authority for the whole of the North East would allow the region to "speak with one voice".
"The danger for us is that we will have two combined authorities catching the train to London, knocking on the door to ministers and civil servants, when really it would have been good to have one set of people arguing strongly on behalf of the whole of the north east region," Mr Malcolm said.
Combined authorities are supported by the coalition government, which has signalled its willingness to give them extra power and responsibility.
Mr McDonald said: "This is a body that will come together with much greater clout to deal with issues of transport infrastructure, economic development and skills."
The proposed combined authority would not be a so-called "super council" as it would not run services such as refuse collection, libraries and schools and the five authorities would not merge.
Similar authorities are already running in West Yorkshire, Sheffield, Liverpool and Greater Manchester.
The 30-year-old played Beethoven's Ode To Joy as an unscripted encore, wearing an EU flag on his lapel pin.
Although he gave no explanation for the choice, Levit is a fierce advocate of the EU, which he has described as "a project of unity and peace".
He has also challenged European politicians to stand up to the "angry, dangerous" rhetoric of President Trump.
After coming off stage at the Royal Albert Hall, the musician tweeted: "Hey guys, I've been away for an hour and a half. Is @realDonaldTrump still President?"
The BBC said it had been aware of his intention to play Ode To Joy in advance but saw it "an artistic choice".
Levit based his initial phrases on Liszt's transcription then segued into his own, lyrical improvisations.
The pianist has been called "the future of piano" and the "player of the century". He was born in Russia in 1987, but moved to Germany at the age of eight.
At that age, he had already been playing for five years. His first recording (of Beethoven's late sonatas, usually tackled much later in a pianist's career) brought him widespread acclaim; and he won the 2014 newcomer categories in both the BBC Music Magazine and Royal Philharmonic Society awards.
Having adopted Germany as his home, he describes himself as "a grateful, happy, respectful, political, curious and responsible European".
When Britain voted to leave the union last June, he posted an image of the EU flag, missing one star, accompanied by a sad face emoji.
Levit's billed performance, of Beethoven's third piano concerto, occupied most of the first half of the Proms' opening night.
Tackling one of the composer's most soulful pieces, he played with nuanced intimacy, and seemed visibly moved towards the climax.
Earlier, the 123rd Proms season had opened with the world premiere of St John's Dance, by 29-year-old British composer Tom Coult.
The five-minute piece was inspired by a bizarre social phenomenon from medieval Europe, known as dancing mania.
According to Proms presenter Katie Derham, it would find "groups of peasants" dancing "in a trance-like state for days or even weeks on end, often until they collapsed".
Appropriately, then, Coult's composition was a discordant and often frantic cacophony of competing phrases. Or, in his own words: "A relentless series of dances, often spiralling out of control, often with two or more heard simultaneously."
After the interval, the first night audience were treated to a choir of more than 400 people performing John Adams' Harmonium.
The mass chorus included the BBC Symphony Chorus and the BBC Proms Youth Choir. Many of the latter were newcomers to classical music - including a beatboxer and a death metal vocalist.
Their shimmering, mesmeric performance was conducted by Edward Gardner, who paid tribute to the choristers, saying: "I'm completely moved by the commitment of people who have been learning this piece for six months and haven't sung in any kind of organised choir before".
Based on poetry by John Donne and Emily Dickinson, Harmonium is a complex work featuring hundreds of "human voices riding upon waves of rippling sound," in Adams' own words.
It is perceived as a work of minimalism, but Gardner challenged that view.
"When we speak about minimalism, we think about something quite clinical, quite mathematical," he said, introducing the piece on BBC Two.
"Although this piece has some of those elements - it has a very strong pulse, sometimes it has the chorus singing individual notes with one syllable - this piece rises emotionally way above anything I consider to be minimalist.
"It's much more of a romantic piece. It's about everything we deal with through life and towards death."
John Adams' music will feature throughout the 2017 Proms season, in honour of the US composer's 70th birthday. An excerpt of his new opera, Girls of the Golden West, will be played at the Last Night, on 9 September.
Overall, the season incorporates more than 90 shows, including performances in Hull and a tribute to cult musician Scott Walker.
Stars including Nicola Benedetti, Jarvis Cocker, Beatrice Rana, Daniel Barenboim, Jools Holland and Tom Jones all appear on the line-up.
All of this year's concerts will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and more than 20 will be filmed for television or the iPlayer. The BBC is also experimenting with lossless audio - by streaming the season in CD quality via the BBC Proms website.
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Polls have his La République en Marche, alongside its MoDem allies, winning at least 355 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly.
The winning margin is lower than some expected with turnout down from 2012.
The party was formed just over a year ago, and half of its candidates have little or no political experience.
The result, if confirmed, sweeps all of the mainstream parties aside, and gives the 39-year-old president a strong mandate in parliament to pursue his pro-EU, business-friendly reform plans.
The second round of the parliamentary election was marked by low voter turnout, with an estimated record low of about 42%, down sharply on five years ago.
Correspondents say opponents of Mr Macron may simply have not bothered to turn out for the vote.
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe acknowledged the low turnout, promising his party would act for France as a whole.
Two polls projected La République en Marche (Republic on the Move or LREM) and MoDem combined winning 355-365 seats, which is more than the 289 seat threshold required to control the National Assembly.
It will be seen as a big blow to traditional parties on both the left and right.
The conservative Republicans and their allies could form a large opposition block, with 125-131 seats. But this figure is down from 200 seats in the last parliament.
The Socialists, who were in power for the past five years, alongside their partners, were predicted to get only 41-49 seats - their lowest tally ever.
Socialist leader Jean-Claude Cambadélis announced his retirement from post, and urged the left "to change everything, its form and its substance, its ideas and its organisation".
The far-right National Front (FN) party looks set to get at least six seats, although it was aiming for 15.
FN leader Marine Le Pen, 48, has won a seat in parliament for the first time, representing Henin-Beaumont, a depressed former mining town in the north. But two of her top aides, including her deputy leader, were eliminated.
Ms Le Pen said President Macron may have got a large parliamentary majority, but "he must know that his ideas are not of the majority in the country and that the French will not support a project that weakens our nation".
It has all happened so quickly that the country feels slightly dazed.
People are looking at their new leader, and many more than voted for him are honestly impressed by his calibre. But many are also wondering: where do we go from here?
There is an unknown aspect to the coming mandate that sets it apart from all that went before.
President Macron's party didn't exist until he dreamed it up, and half of the new parliamentarians will need lessons (literally) in how to do their jobs.
And never before - at least not since Charles de Gaulle in 1958 - has a head of state had such a powerful majority, made up of men and women who depend on him so personally for their new careers.
Macron's conquest is complete - what now?
Based on provisional results:
The new French president needed a majority to push through the changes that he promised in his campaign, which include:
The interim LREM leader, Catherine Barbaroux, said the party could now start work towards changing France:
"Far from postures, our members of parliament, through their multiple experiences, will vote for laws to unlock our economy, free up our energies, create new solidarities and protect the French," she said.
Macron's economic plans
At least half of LREM candidates are unknown, drawn from a range of backgrounds. They include a retired bullfighter, a Rwandan refugee and a mathematician.
Mr Macron sought gender equality in candidate selection, which resulted in a 50:50 male to female ratio.
Dearden, 19, will join the first-team squad for their pre-season programme.
"Harry has impressed everybody with his performances and, at 19, is a very exciting young cricketer," said chief executive Wasim Khan.
"He is a left-hander who bats at the top of the order and so he will create competition for places."
Infantino's comments come after he attended a party on Thursday hosted by the chairman of the Council of Southern African Football Associations, which has endorsed Caf candidate Ahmad Ahmad.
Madagascar FA chief Ahmad is the lone rival to Caf president Issa Hayatou.
"It is up to the Caf members to elect their own president," said Infantino.
"It is not up to the Fifa president to say anything about that.
"Whatever the Caf members decide will be the right decision and I will support whatever decision is taken."
Cosafa chairman Phillip Chiyangwa - also the chief of the Zimbabwe Football Association - held the event in Harare to celebrate his birthday.
He also invited other African FA chairmen from outside the Cosafa region.
Before the event took place Caf, in a letter sent on behalf of Hayatou, accused Chiyangwa of "trying to destabilise" the continent's governing body and warned he could face sanctions.
Hayatou is attempting to win an eighth term in office in the elections on 16 March.
Acton, 25, was charged with "other contrary behaviour" after an incident in their defeat by Catalans on 1 July.
The case was adjourned on 4 July for one week after Leigh requested more time to prepare for the hearing.
He is accused of grabbing Greg Bird's shirt, lifting him and then pushing him to the floor as he lay injured.
The secondary delay request was granted, provided Acton does not play for Leigh in Friday's match against Huddersfield.
Acton has already missed a 50-10 defeat by Warrington after the case was adjourned the first time.
He was charged with a Grade F offence, the most serious on the Rugby Football League's disciplinary scale, which carries a minimum ban of eight games if found guilty.
Meanwhile, Warrington forward Ben Westwood has been given a three-match ban for a Grade D dangerous throw offence in their win over Leigh, and Salford centre Junior Sa'u will serve a one-match suspension after submitting an early guilty plea over a Grade B high tackle charge.
The website of the influential Al Jazeera network is among those now blocked by Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain.
Qatar says the comments attributed to Sheikh Tamim were fake and appeared after hackers took control of the state news agency website.
Online users in the four countries have confirmed they could not access the websites.
The disputed statement touched on many sensitive regional issues, but above all, praised Saudi Arabia's arch-rival Iran and carried thinly-veiled criticism of the kingdom.
In the report, Sheikh Tamim was quoted as saying: "There is no reason behind Arabs' hostility to Iran and our [Doha's] relationship with Israel is good."
The statement also had favourable words about the Lebanese Shia militant movement Hezbollah, a close ally of Iran.
Saudi media continued to report the comments even after Qatar said they had been "fabricated".
Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said his country will sue the perpetrators of the hacking attack, and described the incident as part of a "media campaign" against his country.
Pan-Arab Sky News Arabia TV has aired video footage apparently taken from Qatari TV in which the controversial comments appeared in a screen caption.
The incident comes after participants at Sunday's Arab-Islamic-US summit in Riyadh unleashed a wave of condemnation of Shia-led Iran, blaming it for spreading terrorism and criticising its interference in the region.
Sunni-ruled Bahrain is currently facing internal unrest among its majority Shia population. It has banned Wefaq, the main Shia opposition group in the country, and stripped top cleric Isa Qassim of his Bahraini nationality, prompting protests and violence.
Tensions between Qatar and other Arab states came to the fore following the ousting of Egyptian Islamist President Mohammed Morsi by the army in July 2013.
Official media outlets in several Gulf States have repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction with Qatar's alleged support of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group - of which Morsi was a member - and Hezbollah, which some Arab countries designate as terrorist organisations.
In March 2014, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar in protest over Doha's alleged interference in their affairs.
Announcing the ban this week, Egypt accused Al Jazeera of "inciting terrorism" and "fabricating news".
Qatar's financial clout and regional influence brought about by the popularity of Al Jazeera have long been of concern to Gulf neighbours.
Saudi Arabia, historically the uncontested leader of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, has sponsored several agreements with the Qatari government to rein in its media arms.
The coverage of the Doha-based pan-Arab network shows some inclination towards Islamists in Egypt and describes the ousting of Morsi by the military as a "coup".
Egyptian security officials have also cracked down on Al Jazeera journalists working in Egypt.
The channel is the most widely watched in the Arab world and portrays itself as a fearless bastion of objective journalism.
However critics say it is a tool of Qatari foreign policy and will rarely challenge the interests of its backers.
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The man, who has not been named in court documents, has been held in custody for nearly 18 months.
No criminal charges have been filed against him.
The man's lawyer has argued that his client is protected by the Fifth Amendment, which protects US citizens from incriminating themselves.
A police search in 2015 at the suspect's home recovered an Apple iPhone 5S, Mac Pro computer and two external hard drives.
Authorities allege that they found evidence suggesting that child sexual abuse images had been accessed with the devices after they were able to decrypt the Mac Pro.
Prosecutors also say that images of a six-year-old girl that "focused" on her genitals were found on his iPhone 6 Plus, which had been seized separately and which the suspect unlocked during a forensic examination.
The external hard drives remain inaccessible, however, and the suspect has been held in contempt of court - and remanded in custody - since late 2015.
At one hearing, court documents say the suspect claimed he could not remember the password to unlock the drives.
"The government has provided evidence to show both that files exist on the encrypted portions of the devices and that [the suspect] can access them," wrote the circuit judges, rejecting the appeal.
They added that they disagreed the Fifth Amendment was grounds for a successful appeal in this instance.
"We are disappointed in the ruling and [are] studying the decision to determine what further review it may be appropriate to seek," said Keith Donoghue, a federal defender representing the suspect.
"The fact remains that the government has not brought charges and our client has now been in custody for nearly 18 months based on his assertion of his constitutional right against self-incrimination."
The US Supreme Court has never ruled on the issue of whether suspects can cite constitutional protection when refusing to unlock a smartphone or decrypt a computer drive.
However, it is becoming an increasingly common discussion in American courts.
Last year, in a separate case, a Florida court said a suspected voyeur could be compelled to reveal his iPhone passcode to investigators.
"I think they got it wrong," Mark Rumold, a senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the BBC at the time.
He added that he believed there were "sound constitutional reasons" for preventing the state from compelling information from a defendant's mind.
He was attacked by two masked men inside a bookmakers' shop at Central Drive in the Creggan area of the city.
It happened at about 20:35 BST on Monday. The man's injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
Sinn Fein councillor Kevin Campbell described it as "another pointless shooting" and said a number of young people from a nearby youth club had witnessed the attack.
"He had played a football match earlier, across the way on the football field, then came over," he said.
"He was playing a poker machine when two masked men came in and forced him to ground and shot him in the leg.
"You could see he was injured as there was blood on the ground.
"This community doesn't want this type of behaviour."
Lawyers for businessman Gareth Graham told a judge investigations into the sale to US investment fund Cerberus are under way in three jurisdictions.
Mr Graham is a director and shareholder in property firms whose loans were among those transferred over to Nama.
He is challenging the appointment of administrators to his companies.
Contending that his businesses were financially strong and never missed a repayment, his legal team are set to claim that an improper motive was involved.
With the main case not due to be heard until January, administrators acting for Cerberus are now seeking to sell the Lyndon Court building in Belfast city centre.
Their lawyers argued that previously issued judicial directions only require that notification is given to the court.
However, Mr Graham is opposed to the deal going through without his consent or court order.
Mr Graham's barrister said the administrators had signed up to a restraint on any sale until after the court case.
She told the court: "The context we are dealing with here is a possible illegality... any possible illegality concerning the sale of the Northern Ireland loan book to Cerberus."
Pressed for details by the judge, she mentioned the potential involvement of third parties in the deal.
The barrister later referred to Frank Cushnahan, a former Nama adviser who also worked for the Graham bookmaking business from 2005 to 2008.
Earlier this month Mr Graham told a Stormont inquiry the adviser was conflicted in his Nama role because he retained shareholdings in some Graham property companies that were moved into the "bad bank" category.
The barrister told the court on Monday that those shares amounted to 5%.
Mr Cushnahan has rejected the criticisms made at Stormont, saying that he gave up the shareholdings in 2009.
According to his account he would only remain on the share register if Graham companies have not provided the necessary updates.
The court was also told on Monday that investigations into the loan portfolio deal are now being carried out by authorities in Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic and the United States.
"One of the allegations is that there was corruption," the barrister said.
"For example, that £7m was paid to include third parties as fixers for that transaction."
She said that if any were involved, without declaring any necessary interest, "that would also render the sale illegal".
The case continues.
There has been lots of positive feedback about the scheme, George Ferguson said, but added: "It would have been impossible to have got everything right at first go".
He wants a staged rollout of RPZs to reduce commuter parking in Bristol.
But some business owners said the scheme had damaged trade.
Tony Golledge, of The Mall Newsagents, Clifton, said he had lost £10,000 since March.
He said the new parking zones meant there was "no room for people to pull up and run in" and he had made "that painful decision to give up our business".
RPZs were introduced in Clifton in the face of much opposition in March. They also operate in Kingsdown, Cotham and central areas of the city.
A straw poll of 30 independent Clifton stores by BBC Bristol this week found half thought RPZs made no difference, seven welcomed the scheme, while eight said it had hurt business.
Mr Ferguson said while he was sorry for Mr Golledge's problems, he was "almost certain it is not to do with parking" - and said he had "lovely letters" in praise of the scheme.
He added: "We are monitoring it. We will change it. There are some things that are probably not right about it. It would have been impossible to have got everything exactly right first go but I thank all the people who have been involved in designing this scheme ... because I think largely, they have got it right."
He added that there were "hard conversations" ahead with South Gloucestershire Council about a park and ride scheme for north Bristol.
Join us on BBC World News, World Service and on BBC online from 1530 GMT to find out the result.
The five-man shortlist was announced on Saturday 14 November during a special live launch broadcast in Johannesburg, South Africa, with voting ending at 1800 GMT on Monday 30 November.
Algeria's YacineBrahimi, the 2014 winner, is on the shortlist along with Gabon's Pierre-EmerickAubameyang, Ghanaian Andre Ayew, Senegal's Sadio Mane and Yaya Toure of Ivory Coast.
The winner, who is voted for by African football fans, will be announced during a special live broadcast on both BBC World News and BBC World Service between 1530 and 1600 GMT , with the BBC Sport and BBC Africa websites also carrying the announcement.
Three of this year's shortlist, which was voted for by journalists from 46 African countries, have previously won the BBC award - Ayew in 2011, Toure in 2013 and Brahimi.
Aubameyang makes the shortlist for the third year running, while Mane is on it for the first time.
Striker Aubameyang, 26, finished as Borussia Dortmund's top scorer last season before creating German records in 2015-16.
In October, he became the first man to score in the first eight matches of a Bundesliga season, with his first 17 competitive games resulting in 20 goals - a run that included back-to-back hat-tricks.
The year has had plenty of highs for Ayew, but February's Africa Cup of Nations final reduced the 25-year-old to tears as the Black Stars lost to Ivory Coast.
But the tournament's joint top scorer was crucial to Ghana's run and he transferred his form to the Premier League, with an impressive five goals from his first 10 games for Swansea City.
Brahimi, 25, has added goals to his stellar wing play, netting a career-best 13 last season, while helping Porto reach their first Champions League quarter-final in six years.
The number of dribbles he completed prior to the semi-finals was only bettered by Chelsea's Eden Hazard and Barcelona legend Lionel Messi.
On 16 May, Southampton's Mane needed just 176 seconds to score the fastest hat-trick in the 23-year history of the Premier League.
He has scored 10 goals and five assists in 29 Premier League games this year, a run made more impressive given the 23-year-old plays as an advanced midfielder rather than in the central striking role.
The only player on the shortlist to lift a trophy this year is Toure - the 32-year-old captaining Ivory Coast to a first Nations Cup title in more than two decades.
The oldest nominee, the midfielder is key to Manchester City's fortunes and his performances have been recognised by Fifa, which named him as the only African on its prestigious Ballon d'Or shortlist.
The set features nine characters from the existing Star Wars franchise and three from the upcoming release.
The new characters are Rey, played by Daisy Ridley; Finn, played by John Boyega; and Kylo Ren, whom Adam Driver plays from behind a mask.
British actress Ridley celebrated by launch by posing with her stamp, which also features robot companion BB-8.
Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and Darth Vader also feature on the set of first class stamps, illustrated by British artist Malcolm Tween.
A miniature sheet with six vehicles and spaceships from the series, set against the landscape of the Death Star, has also been released.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is out in the UK and Ireland on 17 December.
European papers highlight inequalities in American society, and a South African commentator sees echoes of his country's own grim racial history.
The death of Michael Brown, whose killing sparked the unrest, is "a stark reminder for Uncle Sam that there are a lot of human rights violations on its own soil," says China's official news agency Xinhua.
"It should first fix its own problems before criticizing other countries."
Xinhua adds that few other countries are "as self-righteous and complacent as the United States when it comes to human rights issues, but the Ferguson tragedy is apparently a slap in the face".
Iran's Press TV dedicated all of its morning programmes to the Ferguson clashes, showing what appeared to be "live" video from the protests.
Press TV reported that attorneys for Mr Brown's family had said that the "grand jury process was rigged to clear the white officer" who shot him.
Iran's State TV said the grand jury decision "indicates the existence of racial discrimination in the USA".
The protests in Ferguson are also one of the top stories in the Iranian press.
The conservative newspaper Kayhan carried a collage of pictures from Ferguson, including a US flag being set on fire. Its headline said: "A rebellion in 90 American cities as a result of the non-indictment of the murderer policeman."
Javan, another hardline daily, carried a report headlined, "Non-indictment of a white policeman; anger engulfs 90 American cities".
The story also features on the front pages of several Arab dailies.
In Egypt, Al-Wafd sums up the widely-expressed view in the headline "An uprising against racism in the USA".
Qatar's Al-Watan says US cities have been denouncing "lethal racism", and Syria's official Al-Thawrah newspaper notes that protests against police violence and racism are on the increase.
On social media, some Arabic-language posts have been mocking the US government and even gloating over its mishandling of the case. The Twitter hashtag #USAprotests in Arabic has been used more than 4,000 times since Tuesday.
The #Ferguson hashtag is also among the top 10 Twitter trends in Russia, and press articles have drawn parallels between Ferguson and the Maidan protests in Ukraine.
"Barack Obama gets his own Maidan", the pro-Kremlin daily Izvestiya says.
Ren TV plays on the racial aspect of the Ferguson protests and also brings in the Ukrainian crisis, describing the demonstrations as a "colour revolution" and "an attempt to start a civil war in the US".
Ferguson is also a front-page story in the German press.
Uwe Schmitt, the former Washington correspondent for Germany's centre-right daily Die Welt, writes it is a "predictable explosion" given the juxtaposition of a "grotesquely over-armed police force" with a black community "untouched by economic recovery".
He accuses many Americans of "self-delusion" when they ask how such violence can recur again and again, while abroad "people shake their heads unsurprised, either in mourning or glee".
An editorial in France's Liberation newspaper says: "Ferguson is a long way from being the post-racial America dreamed of by Barack Obama."
In Spain, Pere Vilanova writes in El Periodico that "perhaps the symbolic value of the election of a black man as president in 2008 has been overestimated and inter-communal wounds will never be healed".
In Italy, La Stampa's New York correspondent Paolo Mastrolilli says the discussion has become one about the race problem "connected to inequality and economic disparity". He notes that some of the white demonstrators in New York and Los Angeles wanted to broaden the debate in that direction.
Writing in South Africa's Daily Maverick, Richard Poplak finds that images of officers facing off against enraged citizens show "an American city aping South African archival footage".
"It's a reminder that in divided countries, with histories of institutionalized racism, reconciliation without actually reconciling... justice is not just impossible, but a massive cover-up, a ruse used by power."
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After Chester's Sam Hughes had headed against the bar, Moors led on 17 minutes when Jamey Osborne fired home through a crowded box after Liam Daly's header had hit the post.
Chester then hit the woodwork again from Evan Horwood's left-foot free kick before home striker James Alabi had a close-range header saved.
But Solihull doubled their lead from big centre-half Daly's thunderous right-foot volley from a free-kick, following Jordan Chapell's challenge on Shepherd Murumbedzi.
Home keeper Alex Lynch denied Harry White from close range before Daly headed against the bar.
But White got the Moors' third from the spot, crashing home right-footed off the underside of the bar after referee Peter Wright had harshly awarded a penalty when Murumbedzi's fierce 25-yard shot struck Chester defender Luke George's arm.
Chester drop to ninth, seven points shy of the play-offs, nine points ahead of 16th-placed Solihull, who had won 3-2 at Damson Park against City's 10 men on Boxing Day.
Match ends, Chester FC 0, Solihull Moors 3.
Second Half ends, Chester FC 0, Solihull Moors 3.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Pearson Mwanyongo replaces Omari Sterling-James.
George Carline (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Akwasi Asante replaces Harry White.
Goal! Chester FC 0, Solihull Moors 3. Harry White (Solihull Moors) converts the penalty with a.
Tom Shaw (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Curtis Obeng replaces Jack Byrne.
Goal! Chester FC 0, Solihull Moors 2. Liam Daly (Solihull Moors).
Substitution, Chester FC. Theo Vassell replaces Evan Horwood.
Second Half begins Chester FC 0, Solihull Moors 1.
First Half ends, Chester FC 0, Solihull Moors 1.
Goal! Chester FC 0, Solihull Moors 1. Jamey Osborne (Solihull Moors).
Evan Horwood (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Previous opinion polls suggested Prime Minister Theresa May's party would increase their majority, which is currently 17 seats.
But the projection, published in the Times and based on YouGov research, suggests a possible hung parliament.
Sterling fell more than half a percent against the US dollar to $1.28.
The Times said the YouGov data suggests the Tories could lose up to 20 of the 330 seats they held in the last parliament, with Labour gaining nearly 30 seats.
The Conservatives would still be the biggest party, but would not have an overall majority.
The model is based on 50,000 interviews over a week, with voters from a panel brought together by YouGov
It uses a new "constituency-by-constituency" model for polling, which the paper says allows for big variations.
According to the Times, "the estimates were met with scepticism by Tory and Labour figures".
YouGov's chief executive, Stephan Shakespeare said the model had been tested during the EU referendum campaign, when it consistently put the winning Leave side ahead.
But he added: "It would take only a slight fall in Labour's share and a slight increase in the Conservatives' to result in Mrs May returning to No 10 with a healthy majority."
Northern Ireland's deputy first minister is in France as part of a two-day trip to World War One battlefields.
On Wednesday, he was in Flanders at the site of the Battle of Messines, where he laid a wreath.
Mr McGuinness said he "could never have envisaged that I would've been [at the Somme] as deputy first minister and a proud Irish republican".
His visit to the Somme was an attempt to recognise soldiers from Ireland who died in the battle and its importance to unionists, he said.
The battle of the Somme began on 1 July 1916 and lasted four-and-a-half months.
More than 3,500 soldiers from the 36th (Ulster) and 16th (Irish) divisions were killed and thousands more were injured.
"My duty is to represent everybody and I think it is very important that we all step out of our comfort zones and that we do recognise that reconciliation is the next important phase of the peace process," Mr McGuinness said.
"I do that knowing that there will be some people who are not in favour of that."
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The Holst Birthplace Museum in Cheltenham has been closed for repairs since June, when water poured through the roof and badly damaged three rooms.
A fundraising campaign was launched in the summer, with the repairs costing around £30,000.
Holst was born on 21 September 1874 and is best known for his work The Planets.
Sara Salvidge, from the museum, said there had been very heavy rain and she had been concerned with the yard flooding and water coming through a downstairs door.
"I said I'd just check the loft before we go, I went up there and it was like a waterfall, it was horrendous," she said.
"[Downstairs] there was a massive blister of water behind the wallpaper and that held back some of the water - but the water was falling behind the painting... but also running along the ceiling and pouring down on to a regency sofa which was there."
She is referring to the humans but magic is at the heart of the play and at the Royal Shakespeare Company theatre in the bard's birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon, technology is playing a big role in bringing that to life.
Hovering above the stage is a blue figure - nicknamed Mushy by the crew - a virtual version of Ariel, Shakespeare's shape-changing sprite.
Lurking in the shadows is cyber-thespian Mark Quartley, speaking the words of Ariel and also controlling the movements of Mushy.
He is wearing a motion-capture suit that allows him to dictate the movements of the avatar in real time.
"I'm thinking of it as one character. For me it is just a character with superpowers. He gets to divide into many different forms, fly around the stage, burst into flames. I suppose it feels quite powerful in hopefully a non-egotistical way."
It wasn't just his ego he had to curb; he refers to rehearsals as feeling somewhat "schizophrenic".
"I was spending a lot of time in the main rehearsal room, working on it like any other play, developing relationships with Prospero and other characters in the play, getting to grips with the text.
"Then at the other side of the scale, I'd be rigging myself into the sensor suit working with the avatars finding the best ways to make them perform and do exciting things."
Technical rehearsals have been taking place for three weeks at the theatre with technical partners Intel and Imaginarium Studios, which has created motion-capture effects for a range of Hollywood movies,
Imaginarium's Bren Jordan admitted that bringing the technology to the stage had involved a "great deal of blood and sweat".
"We've been through about five or six previews now and each one we've fixed another problem. The very first preview, basically everything went wrong from our point of view," said Mr Jordan.
The suit that Mark wears is highly sensitive to magnetic fields and is normally used in a fairly sterile environment - ideally an empty room.
"We've brought it into this theatre, surrounded by 27 projectors, hundreds of lights, hundreds of speakers, big metal girders under the stage and pretty much putting it through its paces in terms of what it can cope with," said Mr Jordan.
As a result, it was discovered that some positions Mark adopted meant the sensors on the suit failed to connect to the system.
"We've had to pull back a little bit of the performance so that it is isolated in just the areas that we know it is going to work well. We need to make sure it works consistently every night so we have had to say, 'OK, we can do the performance here but we can't do it here.'
"Little things like that that we've had to find the solution for."
The studio has been working for over a year on pre-production with the RSC and been through many iterations of Ariel. But the partnership with Intel actually began three years ago at the most unlikely of places - the CES technology show in Las Vegas.
"We flew a giant virtual whale over the consumer electronics show and Sarah Ellis from the Royal Shakespeare Company saw the flying whale and showed it to Greg Doran, the creative director, and his answer was, 'I want that'," said Intel's director of client research, Tawny Schlieski.
Some would say that director Doran was the bravest man in theatre for taking on such a challenge but he said that it was a "wonderful opportunity" to marry digital and analogue.
He is convinced the final result is both in keeping with the play and with how Shakespeare would have liked to show it off.
At the end of Shakespeare's career, an entirely new form of theatre was emerging - the Jacobean masque tradition, which was the multimedia theatre of its day.
Productions put on at court could cost the equivalent of near to £1m to stage and utilised a range of effects.
"They involved stage machinery, lighting effects and all sorts of extravagant ways of clouds opening and chariots descending from the gods, scenery turning round," said Mr Doran.
"What Shakespeare is tapping into is some of the latest cutting-edge technology in 1610 and referencing that in his work. I am absolutely sure that if Shakespeare was alive today he'd be going, 'Give me some more of that.'"
Theatre has traditionally embraced technology. In Victorian times, John Henry Pepper showed off a technique that became known as Pepper's Ghost at a theatrical production of Charles Dickens's The Haunted Man and theatregoers were suitably impressed.
Reaction from a digitally cynical 21st Century audience was, according to Mr Doran, equally good.
'There were some pretty astonished faces. It is quite mind-blowing when you see it for the first time. It is amazing technology when you can harness it. It takes quite a while to harness it but I think it is a brave new world."
Analysis by Jane Wakefield
I haven't seen the whole play but did sit in on rehearsals for a couple of scenes.
There is a magical quality to seeing an other-worldly sprite flying above the stage but there was also a mismatch - the audience can hear Mark in the shadows and can see him moving to make the avatar perform and it is hard to know whether to watch him or the projected version of himself.
The avatar itself feels strangely separate from the play - like an add-on rather than an integral part of the action. And, given that it is intended to give Ariel superpowers, it felt rather limited in what it could do.
Many hardened theatregoers will disapprove of the use of technology, believing that the theatre is a place for actors and the imagination of the audience.
This backlash was most apparent when Emma Rice announced that she would step down as artistic director of The Globe theatre earlier than planned, after criticism of her use of contemporary sound and lighting technology.
Oddly, the most impressive part of the RSC's The Tempest, in technical terms at least, is the altogether more old-fashioned projection work that conjures up ghostly ships and other amazing backdrops.
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Speaker Radek Sikorski and the health, treasury and sports ministers said they had quit for the good of the ruling centre-right Civic Platform party.
The resignations come four months before general elections, as the popularity of PM Ewa Kopacz is waning.
The officials were secretly recorded in Warsaw restaurants discussing private deals and promotions in 2013-14.
The leaks were published by the Wprost magazine, angering many Poles.
Although bugging conversations to gain information is illegal in Poland, the series of leaks has hit the Polish government hard.
It also led to charges against several people, including waiters - with some media labelling the affair "Waitergate".
"As long as I am the prime minister, I will not allow for political games over the tapes," Mrs Kopacz said on Wednesday.
"Today, on behalf of Civic Platform, I extend my heartfelt apologies" to party supporters, who "listened to the tapes with disgust and irritation".
In one of the recordings, Mr Sikorski - who was then foreign minister - called British PM David Cameron "incompetent" over his handling of EU affairs.
Mr Sikorski was also overheard describing Warsaw's alliance with the US as "worthless".
Using vulgar language, he compared Polish subservience to the US to giving oral sex. He also warned that such a stance would cause "conflict with the Germans, Russians".
He has not denied using such language.
In another recording, then Interior Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz appeared to ask the the country's central bank chief to give the economy a boost to help the government get re-elected.
Under Polish law, the central bank must remain independent of politics.
The scandal proved hugely embarrassing for the Civic Platform, but most ministers kept their jobs, the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw reports.
Mrs Kopacz has now decided that everyone tainted by the scandal must go if she is to stand any chance of being re-elected in October, our correspondent adds.
Ericsson, 24, made his Formula 1 debut in 2014 with Caterham, who went into administration last month.
Their decision means one of their current drivers, Adrian Sutil and Esteban Gutierrez, is likely to lose his place in the sport next season.
Sauber team boss Monisha Kaltenborn described Ericsson as a "highly motivated driver" whose signing would give the Swiss outfit "fresh impetus".
Sauber have been struggling financially this season and Ericsson comes with substantial backing from his native country.
Ericsson said: "Fresh from a very turbulent week, I was suddenly given my best early Christmas present ever.
"Sauber has put its trust in me for 2015 and it makes me proud as Sauber is known as one of the best teams in developing young drivers. It will be a great challenge."
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The move leaves three drivers hoping to land one empty seat.
Along with Sutil, who says he has a contract for 2015, and Gutierrez, reserve driver Giedo Van Der Garde said at the US Grand Prix on Friday that his target was a race seat at Sauber next year and that it was "looking good".
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The People's Energy promises to return profits to its customers in a more transparent, ethical way of working.
However, energy analysts warn it is a difficult market and other small suppliers have failed in the past.
David Pike and Karin Sode, from Gullane, said the firm would give 75% of profits back to customers.
One year on after being set up with support from crowdfunding, the People's Energy Company has received its licence from Ofgem.
It can start registering customers now to supply gas and electricity across Britain from August.
One energy analyst has warned there are risks especially when wholesale energy prices rise.
Mr Sode, said: "The vision for People's Energy is to have over one million customers, all of whom are in control of their gas and electricity and getting a percentage of the company's profits back.
"Our company is about putting trust back into the market, currently there is very little. We want our customers to know that we have their best interests at heart and that with us they will have a say in how the company is run."
Mrs Sode said: "Energy comes from natural resources that should belong to us all, not private entities. We are absolutely passionate about returning ownership of this natural resource to consumers."
To date the duo has raised over £450,000 on Crowdfunder from the pledges of 2,000 supporters. People's Energy will start providing energy from the beginning of August.
David Hunter, Schneider Electric director of market studies, said: "When the wholesale markets are volatile particularly when they start to rise after a period of decreases then there have been cases of independent suppliers like GB Energy supply going to the wall and that ultimately means you need to find a new supplier.
"So you should be aware of the risks, especially if your talking about getting free shares in the company."
The downgrade could increase the airline's borrowing costs and sends a warning to investors.
The move by S&P comes after the airline issued a surprise profit warning and announced 1,000 job cuts on Thursday.
The carrier expects to make losses of up to A$300m ($271m; £165m) in the July-to-December period.
S&P said the rating cut reflected its view "that intense competition in the airline industry has weakened Qantas' business risk profile to fair from satisfactory, and financial risk profile to significant from intermediate."
It lowered the carrier's rating from the lowest investment grade, BBB-, to BB+.
Gareth Evans, chief financial officer of Qantas, said the downgrade was "not unexpected" and "highlights the unprecedented pressures that the Qantas Group is facing from several external forces but particularly from an uneven playing field in the Australian aviation market".
However, he added that Qantas "retains a strong financial position, including a large cash balance and a significant asset base".
The airline said in a statement that it had a cash balance of A$2.8bn as of 30 June 2013 and had reduced its debt by A$1bn in the last financial year.
Moody's rating agency warned on Thursday that it may also lower the Australian flag carrier's rating.
Qantas has been hurt by a range of factors in recent times including higher fuel costs, subdued global travel demand and increased competition.
The airline has claimed that its ownership rules, which limit total foreign holding of Qantas to 49%, with foreign airlines allowed to own just 35%, have further hurt its growth.
Qantas has argued that limits on its foreign ownership have benefited arch rival Virgin, which has attracted investment from foreign carriers Etihad, Singapore Airlines and Air New Zealand.
Last month, the airline backed a suggestion by Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey that these rules should be changed.
Qantas has also said it needs government action to help it compete more effectively.
Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott indicated that the government was unlikely to give Qantas any financial support.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation quoted Mr Abbott as saying that Qantas had to "get its house in order".
"That's what has to happen," he said. "If we subsidise Qantas, why not subsidise everyone?"
"And if we subsidise everyone, that's just a bottomless pit into which we will descend."
Mr Abbott added that while Qantas was an iconic company, it was also a private one, and that it "must run itself competently and profitably".
Farhan Mirza, 38, of Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, secretly filmed Muslim women and threatened to share the intimate footage unless they handed him large sums of money.
He was jailed for eight and a half years in November.
Newport Crown Court was told Mirza had made £8,500 from his crimes.
But a proceeds of crime investigation ruled he can only pay back £3,425 and he has 28 days to do so or faces an additional three months in jail.
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Timothy Evans, prosecuting, told the court Mirza had gone on a marriage website to target women who had money and could fund his lifestyle.
"There are cases where there are women who he targeted because they were vulnerable and naive. That is not this case.
"He targeted women who had money available to bank roll him and his family."
The court heard one of the women was a successful doctor, another a former news reporter, and a third a psychology graduate.
Mr Evans added: "These are intelligent, but eventually duped and pressurised, victims. And they were women with means."
Mirza had denied nine charges including voyeurism, fraud, theft and blackmail but was found guilty by a jury.
A souvenir edition has been published which includes the original front page and a letter of congratulations from The Queen.
The issue also marks the start of year-long multi-platform project called 200 voices.
It will feature columns from 200 "remarkable people who have played a major role in the nation".
Award-winning poet William Letford has also produced a special work to mark the 200th anniversary.
The first edition of the paper was published on 25 January 1817.
It was founded by lawyer William Ritchie and customs official Charles MacLaren.
The paper's original premises were at 257 High Street on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. It now has its headquarters on Queensferry Road in the capital.
In a letter to the Scotsman, The Queen writes: "Please convey my congratulations to all those on the newspaper's staff and my good wishes to your readers in Scotland, and elsewhere, as you mark this significant anniversary."
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has also sent her congratulations, writing: "The Scotsman occupies a special place in Scottish journalism, and I commend its staff, past and present, for all the work they have done in ensuring its success over so many years."
The newspaper's owners, Johnston Press, said the special edition marked the start of a year-long calendar of celebrations "showcasing both the paper's rich heritage and looking ahead to the publication's future, shining a light on the digital innovations across the brand's platforms".
Ian Stewart, editor at The Scotsman, said: "For two centuries The Scotsman has been at the heart of Scotland as a nation, covering the breaking news stories that have shaped our past and influenced our future; and we're incredibly proud to be part of that story.
"The celebrations that have kicked off today are just the beginning, with various events and editorial initiatives still to come throughout 2017.
"We very much look forward to taking our readers on this journey with us, as we take our step together into the third century of The Scotsman as Scotland's national newspaper."
The discovery was made at Toms Hill in Chandlers Cross, after Hertfordshire Police were alerted by a member of the public at about 11:00 BST.
The Thames Valley force, which is investigating her disappearance, said her family had been told of the find.
Ms Hemming's partner Paul Hemming, 42, was charged with her murder on 6 May.
Ms Hemming, 31, of Alderney Avenue, Newton Leys, Milton Keynes, was last seen in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, at about 15:00 on 1 May and was reported missing by a relative on 3 May.
Police have conducted searches for her body in an area around Salden Wood near Newton Longville in Buckinghamshire and a disused railway line, both near the family home.
The Thames Valley force said it was working closely with Hertfordshire Police, whose officers discovered the woman's body.
Mr Hemming was remanded in custody by Milton Keynes magistrates on 7 May and is next due to appear in court in July.
Murphy Oil revealed in July that a deal had been signed with the Klesch Group, safeguarding 400 jobs at the refinery.
On Monday it said 228 of its petrol stations - 78 in Wales - are being sold to Motor Fuel Group (MFG) in a deal Reuters say is worth £200m.
The petrol stations will retain the Murco brand and name.
MFG currently operates about 60 petrol station forecourts in Britain including some operated under the BP and Total brands.
Murphy Oil put its British refining and retail fuel subsidiary Murco up for sale more than two years ago.
The company said in a statement: "Murphy is pleased to announce the signing of this agreement, following closely the signing of the agreement for the sale of the Milford Haven refinery."
The deal is expected to be done by 30 September, it added.
The future of the refinery had been in doubt since Murphy announced it was no longer buying crude oil to be processed at the site.
Workers were already fearing the worst when a £300m deal to save the plant collapsed in April.
But the deal with the Klesch Group was greeted with "relief" and described "great news for workforce and for Wales".
Brian Madderson, chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association, said MFG will also take over the responsibility for transporting fuel to all 78 stations in Wales.
He said: "This is a really positive piece of news and there's no reason to be concerned. The fuel stations should remain accessible to the communities they serve."
Margaret Aspinall told MPs it was a "disgrace" South Yorkshire Police was publicly-funded during the inquests but the families were not.
Her call came after Labour said funds should be made available for relatives in Hillsborough-type legal fights.
Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham said the odds were stacked against families.
Speaking during an event in Westminster chaired by Mr Burnham, Mrs Aspinall attacked cuts to legal aid.
The Hillsborough Family Support Group chairwoman, who lost her 18-year-old son James in the 1989 disaster, said: "The police cannot be funded the way South Yorkshire were funded.
"To go back into court for two years, and for them to be funded again to come out with the same lies again is a disgrace.
"At least give the victims a level playing field."
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was among the MPs who listened to Mrs Aspinall's comments at Portcullis House.
She broke down in tears as she described how she had to accept an insurance payout of just over £1,000 after her son's death, because she was told she had to raise £3,000 to pay for a barrister at the original inquest in 1990.
She said: "All of you sitting here are no better than anyone else. Everybody deserves fairness in this country.
"It's up to the government, opposition, everyone to work as a unit to get to the truth.
"It was a massive cover-up. If they can do that on the scale of 96, what have they done to individuals?"
Mr Burnham told the BBC: "In the original inquest you had a situation where the police were spending lots of public money to make sure they were represented.
"But the families had to scratch around for whatever they could get.
"If the families had been able to get good quality lawyers like they had in the recent inquests, I believe they would have been able to challenge that cruel 3.15 cut-off that prevented scrutiny of the shambolic emergency response."
In the first inquest the coroner decided not to take evidence after 15:15 from the day of the disaster, ruling that the victims had either died or received the injuries which led to their deaths by that time.
Mr Burnham said: "If the families had better legal representation back in the day the whole Hillsborough story would have been different."
Four were found guilty of beating Samiul Alam Rajon to death after they said he tried to steal a rickshaw. Six other men were jailed.
The murder, filmed by one attacker on his phone, caused widespread outrage.
In the second case, two car mechanics were condemned for the death of a former employee.
Rakib Hawlader died in August after air was pumped into his body in retaliation for leaving his job.
Rajon was attacked in July after a group of men accused him of stealing a bicycle rickshaw van in the north-western city of Sylhet.
One of the attackers filmed the assault on his mobile phone. The footage showed the boy being tied to a pole and hit repeatedly with a rod.
The video, which was posted on the internet, showed the boy pleading for his life and crying for water, and screaming: "Please don't beat me like this, I will die."
An autopsy found that the 13-year-old had 64 separate injuries.
While suspected thieves are often attacked by mobs in Bangladesh, the brutality of this particular attack sparked protests, says the BBC's Mahfuz Sadique.
Thousands of people demonstrated in Sylhet and other parts of the Bangladesh over the killing.
Thirteen men were originally charged in the case, but three were acquitted. Six received sentences of between a year and life.
Kamrul Islam, described as the prime suspect, was one of those who received the death penalty.
He had fled to Saudi Arabia after the murder but was arrested less than a week later after officials were reportedly tipped off by members of the country's large expatriate Bangladeshi community. He was extradited in October.
One of the other four men condemned to death is on the run, and so was sentenced in absentia.
And so it proved - just not in the way anyone could have predicted - as he resigned suddenly on Tuesday night after only five months at Selhurst Park before penning what was effectively his retirement speech.
So is this really the end of the road for the 62-year-old who has been one of the domestic game's most enduring, controversial and divisive personalities? And how should he be viewed if this is farewell to the man known as "Big Sam"?
Sam Allardyce was often left alone to talk up his managerial credentials - condemned as a footballing dinosaur as he produced evidence to suggest he was actually among the game's modernisers.
Allardyce's most famous quote was arguably his claim: "I won't ever go to a top-four club because I'm not called Sam Allardici, just Sam Allardyce."
He quickly added: "That was tongue in cheek" - or was it?
It actually hinted at the under-appreciation Allardyce often felt was his lot in football, characterised as a back-to-basics long-ball exponent working in the shadows of what he regarded as more glamorous foreign names, whose body of work could not stand up to his.
And Allardyce had a point.
He took charge of six Premier League clubs in Bolton Wanderers, Newcastle United, Blackburn Rovers, West Ham United, Sunderland and finally Crystal Palace - more than anyone else in the competition.
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A study of the fates of Bolton, Newcastle, Blackburn and Sunderland confirms they have all ended up in different divisions after his departure, while he took West Ham back into the Premier League and stabilised them before performing a familiar rescue act on Palace this season.
Allardyce's highest Premier League position was sixth with Bolton, a remarkable feat, but this statistic must be viewed through the prism of his being consistently cast in the role of firefighter rather than foundation builder.
After one of his final matches in charge of Blackburn in December 2010, a 3-0 win against Wolves, I asked him would he ever get the credit he deserved?
The response was typical Allardyce: "We never get credit for things, but that's the way it is. We are just a small town club enjoying ourselves by winning football matches. The fortress of Ewood Park is back and the walls are getting higher."
And how they crumbled when he was sacked by new owners Venky's days later.
Allardyce was also happy to work some of the game's stellar names and, despite his public perception, they were happy to work with him.
At Bolton he successfully incorporated France World Cup-winner Youri Djorkaeff, Nigerian maverick Jay-Jay Okocha and Real Madrid legend Fernando Hierro into his team. Ivan Campo also flourished.
And as he guided Palace to safety, he utilised the flair of Yohan Cabaye, Wilfried Zaha and Andros Townsend while using his tried and trusted methods to rejuvenate Christian Benteke.
Allardyce can also point to the fact he has always been a man in demand, even when his stock was at its lowest after his departure as England manager.
He managed for 488 games in the Premier League, the fifth highest in the competition and a tally second only to Harry Redknapp among English managers.
And he has called time on his managerial career with his proud record of never having a Premier League relegation on his CV still intact.
An achievement all the more commendable considering he took over at Sunderland in October 2015 when they were second bottom and winless after eight league games, and at Palace on Christmas Eve 2016 when they were 17th, just one point off the relegation places.
Palace were, at that stage, the worst performing of all 92 Premier League and Football League sides in 2016 before York City - who were bottom of the National League at the time - with 26 points from 36 games, an average of 0.72 points per game.
When history looks back at Allardyce's career, it may well eventually be viewed more generously and with greater credit.
Sam Allardyce openly coveted the England job for a decade - while others might have played down their ambitions or ability to do the job, he openly revelled in the possibility and was confident of success.
He even went as far as to claim his chances of succeeding Sven-Goran Eriksson back in 2006 were damaged by the FA's lack of PowerPoint facilities.
Allardyce wrote in "Big Sam: My Autobiography": "I wanted to do a real knock-your-socks-off PowerPoint which looked at every single detail. There was nothing missing. Nobody but nobody was going to beat it."
He was the told there were no PowerPoint facilities at the interview venue and he was reduced to handing out hard copies of his presentation.
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So, despite his rehabilitation at Crystal Palace, the manner of his dismissal departure after only 67 days and a single World Cup qualifying win in Slovakia, will be a stain on his reputation forever.
In the wider context, he will always be the man who was forced to give up the job that was his life's ambition after one match.
Increasingly, questions have been raised about whether he said or did anything wrong when he was caught in a Daily Telegraph "sting".
But his lack of judgement and naivety in ending up in a situation where he admitted "entrapment has won", left the Football Association feeling it could not continue with a manager tainted in this fashion and by what it called "inappropriate" behaviour.
And this will be a cause of regret to Allardyce forever.
To watch him in action as the national manager was to see someone at home in the spotlight in which so many had been dragged down, including his predecessor Roy Hodgson when he resigned after England's last-16 exit to Iceland at Euro 2016.
Comfortable and relaxed with the media, clearly taking such pleasure in using the phrase he had hoped to utter for a decade, "I am England manager", the man who started his first interview on the FA website with the words "I can't stop smiling" found the laughter had stopped.
Sam Allardyce was, and remains, a highly popular figure within the game - approachable, humorous and with a rich source of stories and one-liners.
He was, however, a taste that was never quite acquired by many who questioned his methods and his blunt refusal to be burdened down by any sense of modesty about his achievements.
Allardyce's advocates, and there are many, suggest he simply has great self-belief and confidence and can back up his words with results - his detractors painted him as a bluff figure of limited tactical ambition, who dressed up constant mid-table and lower-table survival as major success.
It was perhaps that "Allardici" quote and his claim that he would win a title every year if he was in charge of Real Madrid or Inter Milan, that made him derided in some quarters - as well as his obvious relish in getting under the skin of some of management's biggest games.
When Jose Mourinho accused Allardyce's West Ham of playing "football from the 19th century" to get a goalless draw at Chelsea in January 2014, he insisted he did not care - albeit using a more colourful turn of phrase.
Allardyce added: "He can't take it, can he?
"He can't take it because we've out-tactic-ed him, out-witted him. He just can't cope."
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger used to become infamously frustrated by Allardyce at Bolton.
He won only four of 12 games against him in that time and was badly wounded by a 2-2 draw that virtually cost the Gunners the title in 2002-03.
Allardyce wrote in his book: "I enjoyed beating Arsenal more than anyone when I was in charge at Bolton. We'd really got to them and Arsene Wenger hated us."
He also provoked a sarcastic response from current Newcastle United manager Rafael Benitez when he claimed Liverpool's 2005 Champions League win, when they came from 3-0 down at half-time to beat AC Milan on penalties in Istanbul, was "nowt to do with him" in his autobiography, instead saying the victory was down to captain Steven Gerrard.
It was part of a long-running feud between the pair and Benitez, then at Real Madrid, asked his Spanish inquisitors: "Do you know who Sam Allardyce is? Do you know how many trophies he has won? Well, that's my answer."
It was this refusal to bow down before so-called bigger clubs, their managers and their supporters - even his own, when he cupped his ear to angry West Ham fans during a win against Hull City in January 2015 - that has made him a manager and personality who divides opinion, but never a man afraid to fight his corner.
Allardyce did it his way, using his methods, and will say his record shows he was successful.
And if they did not like it he might use the same colourful quip he once delivered in Mourinho's direction.
Rarely has the public's perception of a manager's methods differed so vastly from his own - Allardyce, with justification, regarded himself as well-versed in the most modern methods, while those who disapproved believed his tactics were simply a long-ball, physical throwback to a previous age.
It is worth listening to a player who worked under him, former Liverpool defender Stephen Warnock, who was with Allardyce at Blackburn Rovers.
He said: "Before I played for him, I was unsure what it would be like because of the perceptions there are of him. The reality could not have been further away from what some people think.
"Sam is a thorough, analytical manager as tuned into the demands of the modern game as any I have worked for."
He added: "Look at the job he did with Bolton, and the calibre of technically gifted players he had. You're not telling me they would have hung around if they thought they weren't being encouraged to express themselves."
Allardyce is renowned for having a specific game plan for every occasion and passionate about the importance of recovery periods, nutrition and supplements.
He was one of the first to make use of ProZone data and used meticulous performance analysis techniques at the cutting edge of sports science.
He was also happy to use sports psychologists to improve results.
It is at odds with the image many have.
In reality, he was always happy to embrace modern techniques.
If this is to be the end of Sam Allardyce's career, the verdict delivered on it will be as divisive and varied as ever.
Allardyce's supporters will talk of a man ahead of his time, denied a top job by an unflattering public image.
Those who never acquired his taste will question a man they believe found his true level as one of football's most efficient and successful firefighters.
The sadness for Allardyce is that one short period now threatens to always overshadow a managerial career that has had many outstanding moments and left the fans of many clubs grateful - even nostalgic - for the time he spent with them.
Allardyce, unfairly or not, will be remembered by many as the man who spent a career building up to his life's ambition - only to see the dream crumble in 67 days as England manager.
The home side were disappointed not to go in front in the first 15 minutes when Koby Arthur's shot was saved by David Gregory.
At the other end, Brett Williams nearly broke the deadlock with a deflected shot that was tipped over by Shwan Jalal.
In the second half, affairs remained tight and the visitors' Iffy Allen fired just over from the edge of the box.
Noe Baba produced a late, spectacular drive that went just over, but both sides ended up with a point.
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Match ends, Macclesfield Town 0, Bromley 0.
Second Half ends, Macclesfield Town 0, Bromley 0.
Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Scott Wilson replaces Koby Arthur.
Substitution, Bromley. Jordan Higgs replaces Luke Wanadio.
Substitution, Bromley. George Porter replaces Brett Williams.
Frankie Sutherland (Bromley) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Bromley. Adam Mekki replaces Iffy Allen.
Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Mitch Hancox replaces Ryan Lloyd.
Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Billy O'Brien replaces Shwan Jalal.
Second Half begins Macclesfield Town 0, Bromley 0.
First Half ends, Macclesfield Town 0, Bromley 0.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Mr Megraw, one of those known as the Disappeared, was 23 when he was abducted from his home in the Twinbrook area of west Belfast in April, 1978.
His body was returned to his family earlier this week.
This was six weeks after it was found in a bog in County Meath.
At Mass in St Oliver Plunkett's Church in west Belfast, Fr Aidan Brankin told the congregation that Mr Megraw's mother Brigid had died in 2002, without getting to see her prayer answered.
"She prayed for this day, when Brendan was found and he could have a funeral and be buried in the family grave," he said.
"Unfortunately, she didn't get to see that prayer answered, but it is answered today. She wasn't just praying for Brendan. She prayed for all those who had been taken.
"She shared in the joy of other families of the Disappeared when their loved ones were found. She shared their disappointments when a search proved unsuccessful.
"They became like an extended family, supporting, encouraging and praying for each other - putting out appeals for fresh information, even having their own song."
Fr Brankin said that Mr Megraw's family and friends were still praying for those who are still missing, hoping "that they too will soon be found".
He said that Mr Megraw had loved "metalwork, woodwork and just being creative".
Mr Megraw will be buried with his parents in Glenavy, County Antrim.
The Disappeared were people abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA in the 1970s.
Six victims are still to be found.
Mr Megraw had recently been married and was expecting the birth of a daughter when he was taken away by the IRA and murdered.
He was found through the efforts of the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims Remains.
The commission, set up by the British and Irish governments in the wake of the Good Friday peace agreement, was tasked with investigating the cases of 16 people killed and secretly buried by republicans during the Troubles.
Last week, the commission said it was mapping an area close to the same rural bog where Mr Megraw was found before beginning a search for another victim.
Specialist forensic investigators are scanning sections of land in the locality of the Oristown bog with radar in advance of a search for the remains of former west Belfast monk Joe Lynskey.
It is suspected two more of the disappeared - Kevin McKee and Seamus Wright - are buried in moorland only a few miles from the Oristown bog in an area near Wilkinstown, County Meath.
It was a sign of the hold that the charismatic German has on his Liverpool squad after eight months in charge - and how they have come to believe that every word he tells them carries weight.
After the League Cup final defeat by Manchester City on penalties in February, Klopp assured his disappointed players that there would be other finals. And so it has proved, as Liverpool face Sevilla in the Europa League final in Basel on Wednesday.
This is not simply a quick win for Klopp. With Champions League qualification the prize, this is the game that will shape his summer strategy and Liverpool's immediate future.
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The Europa League has almost been treated as an unwanted intrusion into the calendar, Uefa's second-class citizen behind the riches and glory of the Champions League.
This all changed when a Champions League place was awarded to the winners - leaving Klopp and Liverpool with the opportunity to compensate for a pedestrian eighth-place finish in the Premier League with a seat at European football's top table.
Klopp wants to win silverware swiftly after losing out on the League Cup, which came on the back of three successive final defeats with previous club Borussia Dortmund - in the Champions League in 2013 and the German Cup in 2014 and 2015.
"I have too many silver medals, it's true," Klopp said in his pre-match news conference in Switzerland. "But better that than no medals at all. The longer and longer it is without a win, the harder you try and the more likely it is you will win."
It is not simply the success itself that will mean so much to Klopp and Liverpool, even though it would give them their first trophy since the 2012 League Cup. It would give huge momentum to their plans to challenge at the top of the Premier League and in Europe.
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Liverpool's name and history alone are guaranteed to attract top players, while Klopp's record of success, his personality and his natural bond with players are other qualities they will be able to exploit.
A move to Anfield is not quite such an enticing prospect without European football. For any potential signing, the extra burnish will be added by a Champions League place.
Put together, an offer of Liverpool, Klopp and Champions League football would tick most of the boxes for top players in a summer when competition for targets will intensify with the arrival of Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, Antonio Conte at Chelsea and, potentially, Jose Mourinho at Manchester United.
Those inside Anfield will need to be able to play every card at their disposal - and that is the difference between victory and defeat on Wednesday.
Win and Liverpool are right back in the elite. Lose and a big chunk of their summer bargaining power disappears at a stroke.
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When Klopp walked into Anfield in October, he said his first task was to turn "doubters into believers".
It was hard to find any Liverpool fans in Basel who are not convinced by Klopp, but any remaining doubts will be blown away if he wins the Europa League so soon after his appointment.
And watching the German in action in a small media room at St Jakob-Park, barely throwing a glance at the huge silver trophy to his right, it was easy to see why he is already so revered.
Liverpool fans like to feel their manager represents them, feels like them, in the technical area. Klopp's all-consuming passion and animated demeanour does the job.
In Basel, he was talking their language once more as he said: "We already know about the desire of our supporters. We know how much they want to win this cup. They showed us in an impressive way at home and away travelling with us.
"It was great to see some people who didn't even travel away, Liverpool supporters who lived in Russia. We would really love to be the team that can make their dreams come true."
Klopp does not just get his players involved - when it was needed against Borussia Dortmund in the quarter-finals and Villarreal in the last four, he got Liverpool's fans involved. He has not simply revitalised a group of players, he has revitalised the club's support.
As Liverpool's players went through an hour-long open training session in front of the world's media beneath the steepling stands in Basel, Klopp circled as they took one last chance to impress before he names his line-up.
They were in high spirits and Klopp was all smiles as he shook hands with the winners of a game between his squad before players such as James Milner, Jordan Henderson and Daniel Sturridge broke off to practise penalties.
Klopp has been in charge of Liverpool for 51 games, winning 23, drawing 17 and losing 11. It is a mixed record but one that would look so much better with a trophy at the end of it.
And the bonus has been Klopp's ability to rejuvenate players who will play key roles for Liverpool in Basel.
Dejan Lovren will be the centrepiece of Liverpool's defence. The Croatia international had a shocking first season at Anfield following a £20m move from Southampton but has been commanding in this campaign, while Adam Lallana, who also struggled since arriving from St Mary's for £25m, has thrived under the German.
Milner has been one of Liverpool's most important players in recent weeks, while young Belgium striker Divock Origi, criticised for his early efforts under previous manager Brendan Rodgers, now looks a potent force and a star of the future.
All may have very big parts to play on Wednesday.
There is nothing better than a trophy to send managers, players and fans off happy into the summer break - but failure in Basel may just concentrate Klopp's mind even further on what needs to be done in the summer.
Christian Benteke says he wants to stay and fight for his place after a mixed first season following his £32.5m summer move from Aston Villa. Will he get a chance to prove his worth on Wednesday? Sturridge has the opportunity to show just how much talent he possesses and how he can make a difference on the big occasion.
Klopp will need to strengthen in some areas and the win that would bring Champions League football would enable him and Liverpool to attract bigger and better.
Liverpool have already secured Schalke defender Joel Matip on a free transfer for next season, while they are being heavily linked with Mainz's 22-year-old goalkeeper Loris Karius in a £5m deal designed to increase pressure on first choice Simon Mignolet.
A new left-back appears to be a priority given Alberto Moreno's struggles, while Liverpool have also been linked with Bayern Munich's Mario Gotze and Udinese's emerging young Poland midfielder Piotr Zielinski, rated at £10m.
Places in the team and in the Champions League are up for grabs on Wednesday. The stakes could not be higher as Liverpool prepare to take on Sevilla.
This design has now replaced the three-stripe livery the jets had flown since the 1960s.
A special one-off design was also created last year to mark the team's 50th display season.
Squadron Leader David Montenegro said the new tail fin "perfectly illustrates the spirit of the Red Arrows" and reflected British excellence.
He said it represented "the UK, our engineering excellence and the capability of the Royal Air Force to protect our skies".
Last year, the Lincolnshire-based Red Arrows celebrated their 50th season, performing more than 80 displays across the UK and in nine other countries.
The milestone was marked with a special, one-off tailfin design on its aircraft.
Now, instead of returning to this original paint scheme following the season-long 50th pattern, the new Union flag design has been adopted for the future.
The team of fast-jet pilots, engineers and support staff are currently preparing for their new display season, which begins in May.
Sqn Ldr Montenegro said: "The Red Arrows have a major ambassadorial role. When we go abroad, it's not just defence we are representing, or the armed forces in isolation, it's all of the UK's industry.
"To have this ability, to keep spreading the message and promoting the UK in this unique, powerful way around the world, is invaluable."
The Red Arrows team was founded in 1965 at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.
Ond wrth roi tystiolaeth, dywedodd Clifford Christie, peiriannydd gafodd ei alw gan gwmni Whirlpool i archwilio'r peiriant yn y fflat ar Sgwâr Ancaster, na allai ddiystyru'r posibilrwydd yn llwyr.
Cafodd Doug McTavish, 39 oed, a Bernard Hender, 19 oed, eu lladd yn y tân ym mis Hydref 2014.
Llwyddodd trydydd dyn, Garry Lloyd Jones i ddianc o'r adeilad.
Ar ail ddiwrnod y cwest, dywedodd Mr Christie fod y sychwr wedi ei ddifrodi'n sylweddol yn y tân, ond bod rhai o'r cydrannau'n gyfan.
Wedi iddo archwilio'r peiriant, dywedodd ei fod yn sicr nad yr amserydd na'r motor oedd wedi dechrau'r tân, ac nad oedd llwch wedi cronni yn y peiriant - sy'n achos cyffredin pan fo sychwyr yn mynd ar dân.
Serch hynny, doedd y botwm i ddechrau'r peiriant ddim wedi goroesi'r tan, ac er nad oedd yna dystiolaeth ddigamsyniol mai yno y dechreuodd y tân, fedrai Mr Christie ddim â diystyru'r posibilrwydd.
Dywedodd ei fod o'r farn bod y tân wedi dechrau yn yr ystafell lle'r oedd y sychwr yn cael ei gadw, a'i bod yn bosib bod nam ar haearn smwddio oedd yn cael ei gadw yn yr un ystafell.
Ychwanegodd ei bod yn bosib fod Mr Lloyd Jones, yn ei dystiolaeth ddydd Mawrth, wedi camgymryd, pan ddywedodd fod yr haearn wedi ei ddiffodd.
Er bod gan haearnau declynnau i'w hatal rhag gorboethi, dywedodd na ellir diystyru'r posibilrwydd hwnnw chwaith.
Mae'r cwest yn parhau.
Google said a "majority" of users were affected by the short-term software problem.
While people could still access and use Gmail many people saw "unexpected behaviour" because of the problem.
Many reported the errors via Twitter seeking clarification from Google about what had gone wrong.
The error messages started appearing early on 4 April and hit people trying to send email messages from Gmail and some of the firm's messaging apps.
The problems arose because Google had neglected to renew a security certificate for Gmail and its app services. The certificate helps the software establish a secure connection to a destination, so messages can be sent with little fear they will be spied upon.
Google's own in-house security service, called Authority G2, administers the security certificates and other secure software systems for the search giant.
Information about the problem was posted to status pages Google maintains for its apps and email services.
In the status message, Google said the problem was "affecting a majority of users" who were seeing error messages. It added that the glitch could cause programs to act in "unexpected" ways.
The problem was resolved about two hours after it was first noticed.
The glitch comes soon after Google started refusing security certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). Google said a security lapse by the CNNIC meant the certificates could no longer be trusted. CNNIC called the decision "unacceptable and unintelligible".
Dutch pilot Niels Wartenbergh, 28, flew the rented aircraft into Redhill Aerodrome on 21 April with 27-year-old passenger Ricardo Vorstenbosch.
Beforehand it slipped under the radar to drop the drugs in Kent where they were picked up by courier Joseph Peel, 39, Croydon Crown Court heard.
All three pleaded guilty to conspiring to import class A drugs.
Wartenbergh and fellow Dutch national Vorstenbosch were each jailed for 18 years and Peel, from North Kensington in north-west London, for 16 years.
The court was told the helicopter was being tracked as part of an investigation involving the National Crime Agency (NCA), Metropolitan Police, Border Force, and the Dutch and Belgian authorities.
The NCA said Wartenbergh and Vorstenbosch were arrested shortly after they landed at Redhill.
Meanwhile Peel was making a 100mph getaway on the M20 in a hired BMW from the drop at Yalding.
He was stopped and arrested by the Metropolitan Police after he suddenly pulled on to the London-bound M26.
They found six holdalls in the boot containing 43kg (95lb) of cocaine and 60kg (132lb) of heroin with a street value of £12m, along with more than 30 encrypted mobile phones.
Later the same day Dutch police searched Vorstenbosch's home in Eindhoven and uncovered another 3kg (7lb) of cocaine, a drug press, vacuum-packing machines and a gun.
Gary Fennelly, head of the NCA's team at Gatwick, said it was targeting criminals who tried to use small airfields as a way into the UK.
"In addition to recovering over 100kg of class A drugs, the operation prevented crime on a much wider scale by denying the sale of drugs worth millions to the crime group."
Speaking in Davos, Switzerland, he said that the Canadian economy was "more than just natural resources".
In recent days, the prime minister has said that the low oil prices and weak Canadian dollar were doing significant damage to the Canadian economy.
Canada's dollar has plummeted to a 12-year low against the US dollar.
Mr Trudeau was in Switzerland promoting Canada to business leaders as a safe place for investment amid an shaky global economy.
With the devaluing currency in mind, Canada's central bank said on Wednesday that it was leaving its interest rate unchanged at 0.5%.
Some analysts believed that the bank was going to cut the rate, which could have caused the currency to devalue further.
The rate was last changed last year, when it was lowered to try and counteract the effect of falling oil prices.
Mr Trudeau was also asked if he fears another global recession, and said that he is confident in the world's ability to solve its problems.
Canada is the world's 11th largest economy, based on a dominant service sector and vast oil reserves. It is also a major exporter of food and minerals.
The 26-year-old, injured in Sunday's McKenna Cup defeat by Cavan, will need surgery followed by a lengthy recovery and rehabilitation process.
McAliskey had scans at the Ulster Clinic in Belfast on Monday.
The loss of McAliskey, a renowned finisher, is a serious blow to Tyrone's prospects for the forthcoming season.
He was the Red Hands' top scorer in the 1-13 to 0-12 loss to the Breffni men at the weekend with five points, before suffering the injury to his left knee in the 62nd minute.
Apart from Tyrone's first defeat in the competition in six seasons, Sunday's reversal came at a heavy cost in terms of injuries.
Michael Cassidy suffered a hamstring injury just 15 minutes into his debut, while Rory Brennan and Ronan O'Neill also picked up knocks which could rule them out of next weekend's meeting with Ulster University at Healy Park.
Tyrone must win their remaining games against UU and Donegal to have any hope of reaching the McKenna Cup semi-finals.
Their chances of winning the title for a sixth successive season have suffered a further setback with All-Star Mattie Donnelly being suspended following a straight red card in the closing stages of Sunday's game.
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The men, who are all from the town and were held on suspicion of conspiracy to rape, have been bailed until April, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.
All five were detained as part of the agency's Operation Stovewood which is looking into allegations of sexual abuse between 1997 and 2013.
Nine people previously arrested as part of the operation remain on bail.
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Operation Stovewood is being conducted at the request of South Yorkshire Police following publication of the Jay Report, which found at least 1,400 girls were abused in Rotherham during the period.
The head of one of the Scottish Parliament's most high-profile committees has strongly criticised Cosla.
SNP MSP James Dornan expressed "concern and frustration" at their failure to explain the funding gap.
His comments came in a letter to Cosla's education spokesman.
Mr Dornan, convenor of the education committee, wrote to Councillor Stephanie Primrose expressing disappointment that councils have not provided promised information to explain the discrepancy.
It follows the revelation by BBC Scotland in September that millions of pounds given to councils to pay for free childcare had not been spent on funding the programme, according to a government report.
A financial analysis of the Scottish government's flagship childcare policy revealed that local authorities were given an extra £329m to fund the scheme. But it said they had spent or planned to spend just £189m of it on childcare.
Local authority umbrella group Cosla disputed the figures at the time and said the report was a "crude assessment".
They were then called to explain the underspend to the education committee at Holyrood last month and said they had "concerns about the data that was used [in the financial review]".
They said they would provide information to refute the report but have so far failed to do so.
The letter from Mr Dornan states: "Your correspondence of 26 October stated that Cosla would endeavour to provide further information as quickly as possible. I reiterate my comments to you from 5 October that parents looking for funded childcare places who see a considerable underspend... have the right to an explanation."
A spokesman for Cosla said: "We are still finalising the figures and will respond to the committee next week."
Mr Dornan's letter also refers to correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary in which he said: "I am at a bit of a loss to understand how there can be a problem with the data because they were provided for formulation of the report by local government."
The Scottish government has made childcare expansion a key priority. At the SNP conference Nicola Sturgeon announced plans for a consultation on new accounts that would allow the funding to follow the child rather than the nursery.
Since August 2014, all children aged three and four as well as vulnerable two year olds in Scotland should be offered 600 free hours of childcare a year.
But many families have said they have been unable to access the free hours.
Gabriel Rasmus, 28, of Stratford Road, Small Heath, Anas Abdalla, 26, of Fox Hollies Road, Acocks Green, and Mahamuud Diini, 25, of Coventry Road, Small Heath were arrested on 3 April.
At Westminster Magistrates' Court, they denied committing acts of terrorism.
They were remanded in custody and are due before the Old Bailey on 14 May.
They are accused of trying to smuggle themselves out of the UK in a lorry.
Two other men, arrested at the same time, are no longer suspected of terrorism offences, West Midlands Police said.
They have been handed to immigration authorities.
One, the driver of the lorry, has been charged with an offence under the Immigration Act.
He is up against Adrian Lester, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kenneth Branagh and Kenneth Cranham for best actor.
Productions of Gypsy and Kinky Boots lead the nominations with eight and seven nominations respectively.
The Olivier Awards, which celebrate their 40th anniversary this year, will be held at London's Royal Opera House on 3 April.
The nominees for best actress are Gemma Arterton, Denise Gough, Janet McTeer, Lia Williams and Nicole Kidman.
Olivier Awards 2016: Nominations in full
Rylance is nominated for his role as King Philippe V of Spain in Farinelli and the King, which played at the Duke of York's Theatre.
Claire van Kampen's play received six nominations in total. It goes up against The Father, Hangmen and People, Places And Things for the title of best new play.
Rylance's nomination was announced on Monday in the aftermath of his win for best supporting actor at the Academy Awards for his role in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies.
Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company's production of The Winter's Tale is also nominated in six categories.
One of them is best supporting actress, for Dame Judi Dench's portrayal of the noblewoman, Paulina.
It marks Dame Judi's 15th nomination, having previously received six awards and one special award.
Kinky Boots, the music for which was composed by Cyndi Lauper, picked up seven nominations.
It faces Bend It Like Beckham, In The Heights and Mrs Henderson Presents for the best new musical award.
Benedict Cumberbatch's nomination is one of four received by the Barbican's production of Hamlet.
Its has competition in the best revival category from Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Winter's Tale, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton announced the full list of this year's Olivier nominees at an event in central London.
Imelda Staunton herself has been nominated for her lead role in Gypsy.
Ball will also host this year's ceremony. He previously co-hosted the awards in 2011 and 2012.
Last year's big winners were Kinks-inspired musical Sunny Afternoon and drama A View From the Bridge, with Dame Angela Lansbury winning her first Olivier Award for her role as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, her first West End role in nearly 40 years.
Voting has already opened for the Audience Award, the only Olivier voted for by the public.
The machines will not be used from October as they failed to get a decision from the European Commission (EC) after the three-year trial ended.
They will be replaced by "privacy-friendly" scanners at a cost of £1.3m and an extra 55 security staff.
Andrew Harrison from the airport said it was "frustrated" because all parties were happy with the scanners.
Mr Harrison, Chief Operating Officer at Manchester Airport Group, said: "Everyone involved is happy with them - they are safe, security like them and in a recent survey 100% of passengers were satisfied with them and prefer them to frisking.
"It's frustrating that Brussels has allowed this successful trial to end by failing to make a decision on them at an additional cost of £1.3m to Manchester Airport."
He added: "Our security surveys and those run by the Department for Transport show passengers regularly rate their experience at Manchester as one of the best security processes in the UK if not Europe.
"There's no doubt that body scanners play a big part in these results."
The body scanners use a low dose of X-rays to scan through clothing, producing naked images of passengers to identify whether they have concealed items.
They were deemed safe in a report by the EC in March.
The EC had stopped trials of the scanners last November while concerns they could emit harmful levels of radiation were investigated. However, Manchester Airport continued to use them as it was an existing trial.
Unlike the body scanners, the new "privacy-friendly" scanners will not need a member of security in a remote room to check the images.
They produce automatic cartoon-style images of passengers, thus providing more privacy.
But additional staff are required to frisk passengers when the images show potential "threat areas" suggesting there might be concealed items.
A spokesman for the EC said: "It is important to remember that we are now coming to the end of what was always a trial and while the European Commission authorised the use of the ionising radiation 'Backscatter' scanners back in 2010.
"Technology has taken significant steps forward since then allowing for increased privacy and a move away from radiation technology.
"The Commission takes note of Manchester Airport's intended upgrade to radio frequency based millimetre wave technology scanners offering the highest protection to the privacy of those subjected to screening."
Mr Santos credited public pressure with forcing the kidnappers to release the seven men and one woman.
According to the army, gunmen forced the hostages into a boat on Sunday, taking them deep into the jungle in the western Chocó department.
The government had accused the National Liberation Army (ELN) of being behind the kidnapping.
Peace negotiations with the ELN - Colombia's second largest rebel group - started in February and another round of talks is due to begin in Ecuador next week.
The government demands that the rebels stop kidnapping people, as they frequently do, for financial gain.
Details are still unclear about Sunday's incident, which happened in a rural area of the town of Novita, 540km (335 miles) west of the capital, Bogota.
The hostages are seven men and a woman, all of them youngsters, local media report.
Colombia's Defence Minister, Luis Carlos Villegas, said 500 soldiers would be deployed to the region, in addition to the 6,300 men already in the area, a statement said (in Spanish).
The country's chief negotiator, Juan Camilo Restrepo, said on Twitter that the kidnappings "hamper enormously" the negotiations with the ELN.
The talks with the group follow a peace agreement between the government and Colombia's largest rebel group, the Farc, last year.
It is a step up from what was until now a preliminary inquiry. The judge can still decide to drop the case.
The inquiry does not mention directly Mr Fillon, who is suspected of paying his wife and children for "fake jobs".
He denies wrongdoing, but has said he would quit the presidential race if placed under formal investigation.
The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says the latest decision gives Mr Fillon breathing space but his promise to quit the race could be tested.
There is every expectation now that the examining magistrate will at some point decide there is enough evidence to start a criminal investigation, our correspondent adds.
Until recently, Mr Fillon, the Republican candidate, was the favourite to win the elections in April and May.
But the former prime minister has now slipped behind far-right leader Marine Le Pen and lies neck-and-neck with centrist Emmanuel Macron.
Le Canard Enchaine a weekly satirical French magazine, alleged that Mr Fillon's wife Penelope was paid hundreds of thousands of euros for work she may not have done.
The couple have said she was legitimately employed as his parliamentary aide, and her lawyer, Pierre Cornut-Gentille, said she had submitted evidence of the work she did.
But French media later aired a 2007 interview with Mrs Fillon in which she said she had never worked as her husband's assistant.
Investigators are also looking into payments of more than €80,000 (£69,000; $86,000) made to Marie and Charles Fillon, when their father was a senator between 2005 and 2007.
Mr Fillon said his children were paid as lawyers, for specific tasks. But neither was a qualified lawyer at the time.
According to Le Canard Enchaine, they drew pay cheques not for assignments, but for two full-time jobs.
The Belfast store, on Castle Place in the city, was among the last 22 of the chain's UK outlets to cease trading on Sunday.
BHS stores in Lisburn, Newtownabbey and Belfast's Holywood Exchange also closed in recent weeks.
The retailer was placed in to administration in March but failed to find a buyer.
The brand will now disappear from the high street after almost 90 years of trading, marking the end of an era for some shoppers.
Staff in the Belfast city store were seen toasting the closure in the shop's window on Sunday afternoon.
The store was stripped of all stock and customers said they were given free hangers.
Michaela Lafferty, area organiser of Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) said some staff were angry.
"The shock that they (the staff) felt has now settled, they are angry.
"The staff built and rebuilt this store through the dark days of the Troubles and now they have spent the last few days dismantling it.
"It has been soul destroying."
The future for some of the staff in Belfast is unclear as talks continue between Sir Philip and the pensions regulator.
If they fail, then 11,000 BHS staff who have lost their jobs could get a smaller pension than expected.
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Johnson, 31, carded 10 birdies in his opening 15 holes and leads compatriot Brendan Steele by a stroke with Day among a group of players on six under.
Luke Donald is the best-placed Briton at the Muirfield Village course in Ohio on five under.
Rory McIlroy is one under and drew attention for a changed putting grip.
The Northern Irishman won his first title of the year at the Irish Open less than two weeks ago but said his success at the K Club was not down to putting.
"I had 32 putts on Saturday and 31 putts on Sunday," said the world number three.
"Any other week, you're not going to be doing too well. I hit a lot of fairways and a lot of greens, and that's what made that tournament."
Focus was on McIlroy, Day and world number two Jordan Spieth going into the tournament as all three had won on their last outings.
Spieth ended on two under, while his playing partner McIlroy suffered a double-bogey on the par-three 15th to end the day seven shots off Johnson.
"I rolled it well today," said nine-time PGA Tour winner Johnson. "I've been working pretty hard on the putter, and I felt like it's finally starting to pay off."
Five pound coins have been legal tender on the island since 1981 but have been seen as collectors' items in the past.
The Treasury's Colin Campbell said they had previously been released in such small numbers, most people would "not even know of their existence".
He said the new coin will have a longer shelf-life than the £5 note.
The Treasury will present a currency order, which includes plans for a redesign of the coin, at a sitting of Tynwald on 21 February.
If the order is approved, the coin will be launched on 10 April and the Treasury will push forward with its plan to release 20,000 into circulation.
The £5 coin would be 32mm in diameter, made from an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, and feature the Triskelion, the three-legged symbol depicted on the Manx flag and coat of arms.
Mr Campbell said about 260 coins a year had previously been produced and the wider circulation was unlikely to lead to an issue with fake coins, as the island has no trouble with counterfeiting.
It will be part of a new set of coins for the island, the first complete redesign since 2004.
All seven will have the inscription QUEEN ELIZABETH II - ISLE OF MAN and the year of issue on one side and an "intrinsically Manx" image on the reverse, the Treasury said.
The images include a Manx shearwater, peregrine falcons and a Viking longboat.
Source: The Royal Mint
If the currency order is approved, production of the new coins could begin at the London-based Tower Mint on 1 April.
Earlier this week, the Treasury announced the Isle of Man would not be following the UK and would be keeping round pound coins for the foreseeable future.
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Gatland, appointed coach on Wednesday for a second time, named Wales' Sam Warburton as captain on the 2013 tour of Australia.
Gatland praised Hartley's improved discipline, saying: "He's matured, and he's done a great job with England.
"He hasn't been suspended for a while. That's a big tick against his name."
A dismal disciplinary record has chequered Hartley's career, but he has impressed since being named England captain in January.
Hartley was selected for the 2013 tour but was subsequently suspended for verbally abusing referee Wayne Barnes in the Premiership final.
"Dylan has always played on the edge and that has been one of the traits that has made him such a competitor as a player," said Gatland.
Hartley captained England to the Grand Slam in the Six Nations and a 3-0 series whitewash of Australia.
Gatland said: "It's easier to select players who are coming in from a winning environment with a lot of confidence. It's the same when you are picking captains.
"There are players you're familiar with, that you have been leading already, that has certain advantages. Have you been on previous tours? There are lots of considerations.
"Apart from obvious names, there will be quite a few others [who] come into consideration by the end of the season."
The 2017 Lions face a gruelling 10-match series, beginning only one week after domestic finals on 3 June, featuring three Tests against the All Blacks and five matches against Super Rugby teams and a clash with the Maori.
Gatland will announce his assistants in December.
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"I abused power badly," the US star told host Jonathan Ross during an on-stage interview at the London Palladium on Saturday.
"I read some of the interviews I gave now and wish I could go back and punch myself in the face," he continued.
But he added a dismal showing of a later film brought him back to Earth.
Stallone had left the set of Rocky II to attend a first-day showing of 1978 drama Paradise Alley, only to find there were just two people in the audience.
"And one of them was asleep," he sighed, admitting it had been "a humbling experience" but "a good thing" for him in the long run.
Described as An Evening with Sylvester Stallone, the West End event saw the 67-year-old entertain an audience of appreciative fans with anecdotes spanning the breadth of his four-decade career.
Billed as Stallone's "first West End debut", the 90-minute interview also saw the star of the Rambo and Expendables films show another side to his macho persona.
Bursting into song at one point, he impressed at another by reciting a short passage from Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.
The evening climaxed with him being inducted into the London Palladium Hall of Fame - an accolade previously bestowed upon Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Discussing the genesis of boxing classic Rocky, Stallone revealed he had been offered up to $300,000 - "a million dollars today" - to let the film be made with another lead.
The Italian-American said it had been a "crossroads moment" in his life, but that he knew he would have "hated" himself had he not stuck to his guns.
The uplifting tale of a lowly debt collector who gets a shot at the world heavyweight title became a box office smash, going on to win three Academy Awards.
Five sequels followed, starting with Rocky II in 1979 and culminating with 2006's Rocky Balboa - which Stallone said was "unquestionably" his favourite.
The actor may reprise his signature role in Creed, a spin-off film that would see the older Balboa train the grandson of a former adversary.
"People think it's Rocky VII but it's not," he said, adding it would be "a very interesting challenge" to revive the character in a different guise.
The actor's John Rambo character, introduced in 1982's First Blood, has enjoyed similar longevity, going on to appear in three more movies.
On Saturday, however, Stallone said the series had "maybe run its course", joking that he would only consider reviving his celebrated commando character if he could be a security guard in Las Vegas.
Moving on to his fellow action leads, Stallone expressed admiration for Expendables co-star Jason Statham, while admitting that he and Arnold Schwarzenegger had "hated each other" during the height of their action careers.
Yet he had little to say about Bruce Willis, whom he called "greedy and lazy" last year in a widely publicised Twitter rant.
There was also no mention of Stallone's actor son Sage, who was found dead last year at his Hollywood home at the age of 36.
Stallone has been in London promoting his new boxing comedy Grudge Match alongside co-star Robert De Niro.
The Palladium event followed a similar one last June, at which Al Pacino took questions about his life and career.
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The world record holder, 26, is not yet in the same shape that saw him produce arguably the finest individual athletics performance of the 2012 Games.
But just as in London, he dictated the race from the front, this time winding it up from 250 metres out rather than from the gun and burning off the men queuing up on his shoulder with a blistering last 80 metres.
Poland's European champion Adam Kszczot kicked hard to come through for silver, with Bosnia's Amel Tuka taking bronze - Rudisha's frequent nemesis Nijel Amos having crashed out in the semi-finals.
Rudisha's winning time of one minute 45.84 seconds was almost five seconds outside the time he set in winning gold in 2012, but this was less about times and more about ending a barren run that stretched back almost as far.
Injury kept him out of the World Championships in Moscow two years ago, while Amos beat him to gold at the Commonwealths last summer, but here in Beijing the Kenyan has found his best form of the season at the critical time.
Another middle-distance world record holder, Ethiopian starlet Genzebe Dibaba, ran the final 800 metres in 1:57.20 to seize her first global 1500m title, judging the race superbly as her rival Sifan Hassan left herself far too much to do in the last 150 metres.
Dibaba, whose elder sister Tirunesh is a multiple world champion, won in 4:08.09, and the 24-year-old looks good to add more medals of her own after dictating the final like a veteran.
Hassan of the Netherlands tried to close in the home straight but had given Dibaba too big a lead, and as she faded in the final strides, Kenya's Faith Kipyegon came past to pip her for silver. Britain's Laura Muir fought her way through the field on the home straight to take an excellent fifth in 4:11.48.
In a championships not short of shocks - including world pole vault record holder and Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie taking only bronze and world leader Nijel Amos failing to make the 800m final - the biggest yet came in the women's discus. Defending champion and Olympic gold medallist Sandra Perkovic could take only silver behind Cuba's Denia Caballero.
And there was another upset in the men's 400m hurdles final when Kenya's Nicholas Bett smashed his personal best by almost half a second as he came through from lane nine to take gold.
Russia's Denis Kudryavtsev set a personal best of his own for silver with Jeffery Gibson of the Bahamas setting a third national record in third, the USA's fancied Michael Tinsley clattering hurdles to fall away in the home straight and trail in last.
The Bravo Two Zero author is a literacy ambassador for The Reading Agency and has written several of the charity's Quick Read titles for young adults.
He described himself as "absolutely amazed" when he heard about the honour.
As a teenage recruit he had never read a book and says learning to read in the army changed his life.
McNab did not perhaps get the best start in life, being found in a Harrods carrier bag on the steps of a London hospital.
He was, at one point, in juvenile detention for petty crime, and had a reading age of about 11 when he joined the army.
"All the good stuff would have never happened without the good education that I got, whether I liked it or not, in the military," he told the BBC.
He said he would never have imagined receiving an honour for his literacy work and when the envelope arrived, he thought it was a bill.
He joined the infantry in 1976 and became a member of the SAS eight years later.
By the time he left in 1993 he was the British Army's most decorated serving soldier.
He has written about his experiences in the SAS in three best-selling books, one of which, Bravo Two Zero, is the highest-selling war book of all time, according to his publisher.
He began working with the charity about eight years ago, going into prisons, army bases, workplaces and schools to give talks about his experiences, both as a solider and as an author, and to encourage people to take up reading to boost their literacy and general education.
"I will go around and talk to anybody who is stupid enough to listen," he told the BBC.
"If you can get the parents into the habit of reading, there is a trickle down to the kids.
"A lot of businesses are really supportive of trying to get the reading skills of the workforce up."
He is a big supporter of the charity's Six Book Challenge which aims to get adults hooked on reading.
He believes his own experiences with the criminal justice system help him connect when talking to prisoners about boosting their literacy.
"I understand what it's like and how the system works."
To date, there are 35,000 prisoners on the charity's reading schemes, he says.
He believes better literacy can boost ex-prisoners' employment chances and reduce the risk of reoffending.
"Knowledge gives you power and opportunity," he argues.
In his talks in jails, he tells inmates: "If I can do it, you can do it. All you have to do is give it a go."
Overall, some 11% of the honours have gone to people involved in education.
They include dozens of head teachers and school governors as well as academics. There is also a British Empire medal for Effie Walker, a school crossing patrol warden in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.
She started her job at Colgrain Primary school when it opened in 1973.
The collision happened on the A40 west of the roundabout outside the town just before 20:00 GMT.
A white Toyota heading towards Whitland and a black Renault Clio hit each other. The 51-year-old Toyota driver died of their injuries at Glangwili General Hospital in Carmarthen.
Thomas Lemar's lob gave the visitors the lead before Falcao doubled the lead with a delicate chip.
Rolando's header reduced the deficit but two goals from Portugal midfielder Bernardo Silva sealed Monaco's fourth win in five league games.
Monaco are level on points with Nice but have a superior goal difference.
Nice, Ligue 1 leaders since 21 September, were earlier held to a goalless draw by bottom club Metz.
Champions Paris St-Germain are third in the table, three points behind the top two, after Julian Draxler scored on his Ligue 1 debut against Rennes on Saturday.
Monaco, who have not won Ligue 1 since 2000, are away to PSG on 29 January before entertaining Nice on 4 February.
Match ends, Marseille 1, Monaco 4.
Second Half ends, Marseille 1, Monaco 4.
Attempt blocked. Bouna Sarr (Marseille) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Andre Zambo Anguissa (Marseille) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Djibril Sidibe (Monaco).
Substitution, Monaco. Kylian Mbappe-Lottin replaces Bernardo Silva.
Substitution, Marseille. Saif-Eddine Khaoui replaces Florian Thauvin.
Attempt saved. Bafétimbi Gomis (Marseille) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Monaco. Guido Carrillo replaces Falcao.
Corner, Marseille. Conceded by Kamil Glik.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by Bouna Sarr.
Substitution, Monaco. João Moutinho replaces Valère Germain.
Foul by William Vainqueur (Marseille).
Tiemoué Bakayoko (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Valère Germain (Monaco) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Thomas Lemar.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by William Vainqueur.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by Hiroki Sakai.
Attempt blocked. Thomas Lemar (Monaco) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Tiemoué Bakayoko.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by Yohann Pelé.
Attempt saved. Valère Germain (Monaco) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Fabinho.
Corner, Marseille. Conceded by Tiemoué Bakayoko.
Attempt blocked. William Vainqueur (Marseille) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Marseille. Conceded by Djibril Sidibe.
Bafétimbi Gomis (Marseille) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jemerson (Monaco).
Maxime Lopez (Marseille) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fabinho (Monaco).
Maxime Lopez (Marseille) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Maxime Lopez (Marseille).
Fabinho (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Marseille. Conceded by Djibril Sidibe.
Offside, Marseille. Maxime Lopez tries a through ball, but Bafétimbi Gomis is caught offside.
Substitution, Marseille. Doria replaces Karim Rekik.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by Hiroki Sakai.
Foul by William Vainqueur (Marseille).
Thomas Lemar (Monaco) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Marseille. Bouna Sarr replaces Rémy Cabella.
Goal! Marseille 1, Monaco 4. Bernardo Silva (Monaco) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner.
Attempt saved. Fabinho (Monaco) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.
Offside, Marseille. Maxime Lopez tries a through ball, but Florian Thauvin is caught offside.
Jacques and Torin Lakeman, aged 19 and 20, from Port St Mary, were found in a room above a pub in Bolton after taking drugs bought on the "dark web" in 2014.
Isle of Man Skateboarding (ISB) is supporting the Jactor skate project and an official launch is taking place at Scoill Phurt le Moirrey school later.
Ray Lakeman said: "It would provide a real boost for young people."
The Jactor skate project would cost around £75,000 and the launch includes a presentation and demonstration by ISB.
Mr Lakeman, who has called for drugs that killed his sons to be legalised, said: "After the boys died we held a memorial service where the idea came around.
"We've already done some fundraising and when we asked local school children what the town needs the skate park was a very popular idea.
"It would certainly be something the boys would have loved themselves."
Jacques was an aspiring chef and Torin was in his second year of studying physics at Aberystwyth University.
ISB Founder Kristian Edwards said: "Braddan commissioners were extremely forward thinking with the skate park and subsequent concrete bowl, the first of its kind on the island.
"It is regularly used by children and adults. We have already got a great set of designs for Port St Mary.
"This will be a fantastic asset to community so please support."
Last week skateboarding was included in the MicroGaming community games for the first time with hundreds of children taking part.
Clubs have also been set up at two of the island's secondary schools in 2017.
Lt Col Benedict Tomkins, of Defence, Equipment and Support, based at Abbey Wood, near Bristol, is due to stand trial in March next year.
The 48-year-old spoke only to confirm his name, rank and unit, during the hearing at Portsmouth Naval Base.
Judge Advocate Gen Jeff Blackett told the hearing that part of the trial would be held in the USA, to enable witnesses to give evidence.
The trial is then expected to continue in Bulford, Wiltshire.
The judge adjourned proceedings for a further preliminary hearing to be held on a date to be set in the new year.
But the research from Cardiff University also suggested the corporation still faces challenges posed by devolution.
The study looked at the number of news stories devoted to the UK nations during certain periods in 2015 and '16.
It also examined the depth of the coverage and the clarity of reporting.
The original BBC Trust report, published eight years ago, concluded that the corporation needed to improve the range, clarity and precision of its network news coverage of the different UK nations.
A follow-up published in 2010 found there had been "significant improvements" but added that some news reports still did not make clear which part of the UK a story referred to.
The latest research looked at the way stories were covered on the BBC as well as on rival broadcasters.
The study found that the BBC had got better at letting audiences know which stories applied only to England or to England and Wales.
It said the BBC made clear a story only applied to certain locations in 78% of cases - which was "a big improvement in recent years and puts the BBC well ahead of other broadcasters".
But the report added: "Issues remained with the accuracy of the way stories were delineated and signalled to audiences."
The research also showed that overall since 2007 there had been an increase in the extent of BBC network news coverage of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Stories from England are still more likely to dominate national bulletins, but the level of coverage from other areas was shown to be well above that of other broadcasters.
In response, the BBC said it would continue to give high priority to reporting the news from across the UK.
It also drew attention to recent initiatives such as the appointment of a Scotland editor and the introduction of a section of the News at Six dedicated to news from the nations.
Richard Ayre, BBC Trustee and chair of the editorial standards committee said: "The Trust's monitoring of the BBC's network journalism during this time has shown some substantial improvements, but devolution rolls on apace - this year alone Parliament at Westminster has agreed to a further transfer of powers to Scotland and is debating greater powers for Wales - and this represents a growing challenge to UK-wide broadcasters.
"Next year it will be essential for the new BBC board to continue our work and ensure that UK audiences receive BBC news services that best deliver information about, and understanding between, the four home nations."
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A man has been shot dead there after he tried to seize a soldier's weapon.
The airport - the city's second largest - has been shut and flights in and out have been suspended.
In a tweet, South Wales Police said fans should "follow advice of local authorities, airport and your travel operators".
There are no direct flights from Cardiff, Manchester or Liverpool into Orly airport on Saturday.
However some flights to Paris' main airport, Charles De Gaulle, have been delayed as planes are diverted from Orly.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office issued the following advice to travellers: "There are reports of an on-going police operation at Orly Airport in Paris.
"You should exercise caution, avoid the affected area and follow the advice of the local authorities.
"There will be reinforced security controls in place at the France v Wales Six Nations rugby match.
"If you're travelling to the match, arrive early at the Stade de France and follow the advice of the local authorities."
The Stade De France has advised fans to arrive early as increased security at the gates could cause delays.
The International Development Committee (IDC) said the money would help some of Africa's "most vulnerable" people.
The cash will be split evenly between Action Aid - who are working with refugees from Burundi - and Medair, who are working in South Sudan.
Both charities will use the money to offer water, healthcare and emergency shelters.
The ongoing constitutional crisis in Burundi, where there is violent conflict between supporters of the government and opposition, has resulted in thousands of people seeking refuge in neighbouring countries.
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in July 2011 and, according to the IDC, continues to be "besieged by conflict".
IDC Chairman Phil Gawne said: "Through these donations the Isle of Man is helping to provide vital assistance to a large number of vulnerable displaced people in areas overwhelmed by conflict."
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The incident involved a 36-year-old woman and her children who were subjected to xenophobic comments.
It happened on a number 10 Lothian bus travelling on Great Junction Street in Leith at about 12:00 on 9 May.
A 41-year-old woman has been charged and reported to the procurator fiscal. She is due to appear in court at a later date.
The 30-year-old Olympic champion won the IAAF Combined Challenge in Germany with 6,733 points - 64 more than she managed in winning the world title.
Ennis-Hill built on her lead after the opening four events with a personal best of 6.63m in the long jump.
She threw 44.37m in the javelin and ran the 800m in two minutes 11.46 seconds.
That gave her victory by 257 points, with Germany's Carolin Schafer second.
It was only Ennis-Hill's second outing of the season after an Achilles injury forced her to withdraw from June's event in Gotzis.
It was her only opportunity to compete in a full heptathlon before heading to Rio to defend her title when the Olympics begin on 5 August.
World number 21 Dave Gilbert was knocked out in the quarter-finals after referee Rob Spencer failed to call a time foul on China's Xiao Guodong.
Gilbert, 35, expressed his anger over the manner of his defeat.
"We will review this," said WPBSA chairman Jason Ferguson. "Extra fail-safe is needed for the future."
This is the first year the Shoot Out has counted as ranking event.
Each match has a maximum time of 10 minutes, with players on a shot clock of 15 seconds for the first five minutes and 10 seconds for the second half of the frame.
'No way this should be a ranking event': McGill wins Shoot Out tournament
Spencer was unable to hear the clock had run out on Xiao because of the noise from the crowd.
"Current rules state players have the opportunity to intervene at the time and call the referee's attention," Ferguson added.
"You have to feel for Dave here, though, not easy at the time with the noise, distractions, time restraints etc."
Fellow players Judd Trump, Neil Robertson and Mark Williams were among those to offer their support to Gilbert, while one of his sponsors described the situation as a "debacle".
Anthony McGill won the event, beating Xiao 67-19 to make it two victories from two in career ranking finals, having won the Indian Open last May
He said: "It is a coin-toss tournament. In no way on God's earth should this be a ranking tournament."
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The 26-year-old caused a massive upset to beat the former US Open champion 3-6 7-5 6-3 6-3 and reach the third round.
It comes after a struggle at the end of 2016 following a heartbreaking defeat by Stan Wawrinka at the US Open.
"There were some tough times after the Wawrinka match," he said.
"I still think about that match on the court today. It's not easy when you had the opportunity to close out the big match and then lose.
"Yeah, I'm happy it happened. But, you know, hopefully there will be no more dark times, as you put it."
World number 51 Evans squandered a match point in the fourth set of his third-round match with two-time Grand Slam champion Wawrinka in September.
He was devastated afterwards and finished the year with three defeats from four matches - all against lower-ranked opposition.
But he is now into the third round of a Grand Slam for only the fourth time of his career - and the first time in Melbourne, where he will face Bernard Tomic.
Evans said the victory over Cilic was the "biggest" of his career, as he joined compatriot Andy Murray in the third round.
He did it wearing shirts and shorts bought from a shop after his kit deal with Nike expired in December and was not renewed.
"I just went to the store and bought a load of clothes the other day, plain clothes," he said.
"What was it, Sunday? Sunday or Saturday, yeah. $19.99 (£12), the shirts are.
"I think I bought about 18 shirts, something like that. I went back this morning to buy some more. They're not the best quality, to sweat in and wash.
"I only wore one shirt today. I'm good until Friday."
Evans will face Australian Tomic in the last 32, a man he beat in four sets in the second round of the 2013 US Open.
It was a win the Birmingham player enjoyed, after the world number 27's father suggested he was not good enough to have a practice hit with his son.
"I'm not going to bother saying anything about that again. He confronted me about that. We'll leave it at that," he said on Wednesday.
"I'd say it's a 50-50 match. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to playing him."
Mervyn Rush, 68, disappeared in 2000 while awaiting trial but was extradited from France earlier this year.
Rush, formerly of Dorking, Surrey, appeared at Norwich Crown Court where he admitted 18 charges relating to sex crimes against 12 boys in the mid-'70s.
Some of the science teacher's victims were as young as nine.
The court heard the offences took place between 1973 and 1977 at the school, which cannot be identified for legal reasons, and that Rush's oldest victims were aged 12.
He pleaded guilty to seven counts of a serious sexual offence and 11 of indecent assault.
Stephen Spence, prosecuting, said: "Mr Rush had a group of special boys and it was seen as something of a privilege to be part of that group."
The court heard the "perks" of belonging to this group were to go out for drives in Rush's sports cars and to bring him cups of tea in the morning.
The boys would visit his room in pyjamas and Rush would invite them to get into bed to keep warm before sexually assaulting them.
The court heard that one victim told police: "All this at 13 seemed very attractive to me and when I was asked by another boy if I wanted to join the group, I accepted.
"The first time I was invited to his room he produced a magazine - I think it was Mayfair - and asked what I thought.
"Most of the boys seemed used to this, but I was totally shocked."
Sentencing the father of three, Judge Stephen Holt said: "You were in a position of trust and were eventually brought to justice because of the concern that one of your victims had about what you may still be doing to children.
"One of the complainants claims they were attacked 20 times by you."
Speaking after the court case, Det Con Pete Sayer said: "Through the position he held, it would have been the most basic of expectations to protect these children.
"Instead he chose to do the complete opposite."
Rush was originally arrested in 1999, but disappeared ahead of a court appearance.
He was detained by French police in May 2012 when he visited the British Embassy in Paris to collect a passport.
Rush denied a further 24 charges with which the prosecution did not proceed.
Vieira, 39, leaves his role as head coach of Manchester City's Under-21s after signing a three-year contract with New York.
New York City are part of the City Football Group founded by Manchester City owner Sheik Mansour,
New York City's squad includes ex-Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard.
Andrea Pirlo, who helped Italy win the 2006 World Cup, also plays for them along with ex-Barcelona forward David Villa.
Vieira, a World Cup winner in 1998 with France, will take up his new role on 1 January 2016.
"I am delighted to take up the role of head coach of New York City FC," said Vieira.
"It is an exciting prospect for any coach."
New York City have just completed their inaugural season which ended in elimination from the play-offs.
They averaged gates of around 29,000 at the Yankee Stadium which including 20,000 season ticket holders.
Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that the club was considering a move to Columbia University's Baker Athletics Complex, at the northern tip of Manhattan.
Vieira won seven major honours in nine years at Arsenal between 1996-2005.
He won the Serie A title with Juventus in 2006 before helping Inter Milan to three domestic titles.
Vieira joined Manchester City in January 2010 and helped the club win the FA Cup in 2011 before announcing his retirement from playing.
Reportedly born in the UK, the 26-year-old lived with his mother a few miles away from Umpqua Community College, where he opened fire on Thursday morning, killing nine people before dying in a police shootout.
His father and stepsister were shocked by the shooting and a neighbour said his mother could be heard late on Thursday "crying her eyes out" in the family's apartment.
"All he ever did was put everyone before himself, he wanted everyone to be happy," said Carmen Nesnick, his stepsister.
But former neighbours in Oregon and California said Mercer hardly spoke and "seemed really unfriendly".
He enlisted in the Army in 2008, but he was discharged after spending less than a month in basic training, a US Army spokeswoman told the BBC.
She did not disclose why he was discharged, citing privacy rules.
Police think Mercer may have been a student at Umpqua because he was found with a receipt from the campus bookstore showing he had purchased textbooks.
Mercer is not believed to have a criminal history allowing him to legally own a large cache of weapons. He is shown posing with a rifle in a photograph posted online.
Police said he was wearing metal-plated body armour when he was killed.
It appeared that Mercer had posted information about himself on a MySpace page and an online dating profile.
His MySpace page contained pictures of masked gunmen, a picture of the front page of the Irish republican newspaper An Phoblacht carrying the headline "British Army Could Not Defeat IRA" and a photograph with the words "IRA undefeated army".
In a dating profile apparently belonging to Mercer on the Spiritual Passions website under the username Ironcross45, the non-smoking teetotaller described himself as "shy at first, but [I] warm up quickly, better in small groups".
He listed hobbies including the internet and "killing zombies", described his politics as "conservative, republican" and said he was spiritual but not religious.
Ms Nesnick said Mercer was born in the UK and moved to the US as a young boy.
Before moving to Oregon, Mercer and his mother lived for several years in a housing complex in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance.
One neighbour, David Westly, said Mercer had told him his mother went shooting at a range and added that he had seen Mercer and his mother leaving and returning to the apartment with what looked like gun cases.
A local newspaper in Torrance, the Daily Breeze, claimed that Mercer had attended a school for teenagers with behavioural problems.
The paper said its own published lists of graduating students showed Mercer attended a school called the Switzer Center, which specialises in teaching students with special needs and behavioural issues.
Twentieth Century Fox and the British Film Institute (BFI) are working to digitally re-master the film, directed by Hugh Hudson.
The film tells the true story of two runners who compete in the 1924 Paris Olympics despite religious obstacles.
It will be shown at more than 100 cinemas around the country from 13 July as part of the London 2012 Festival.
Starring Ian Charleson and Ben Cross, the film won four Oscars, including best picture, screenplay and music for Vangelis' acclaimed score.
Although the film is 31 years old, producer Lord Puttnam believes the message is still relevant.
"Chariots of Fire is about guts, determination and belief. At the heart of the film is the quest for Olympic glory, and I find it hard to imagine anything more likely to resonate throughout the country this summer," he said.
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The BFI is allocating £150,000 of its lottery funding to support the film's release across the country, widening its reach beyond the London 2012 Festival.
The festival will also feature a new film by Bafta-winning Senna director Asif Kapadia - The Odyssey - which will explore the relationship between London and the Olympic games.
It is the last of four short films commissioned especially for the festival.
Directors Mike Leigh, Lynne Ramsay and Streetdance directing duo Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini are already confirmed as part of the project.
Their tracks, Bloodstream, Love Me Like You Do and Want To Want Me are among 10 nominations to be announced ahead of the awards in Birmingham on Thursday.
Other songs in the running include Jess Glynne's Hold My Hand and Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars.
Out of the five awards at this year's event, song of the year is the only accolade voted for by the public.
The nominations are:
Other awards to be announced on the night include British Artist of the Year and BBC Live Performance of the Year as voted for by a BBC Music panel and leading music journalists.
The second annual event will be held at Birmingham's Genting Arena hosted by Chris Evans and Fearne Cotton with One Direction and Rod Stewart set to perform alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra.
The awards will be broadcast on BBC One on 10 December at 20:00 GMT.
In December, former Connacht boss Lam signed a three-year deal at Ashton Gate before seeing out the Pro12 campaign.
Now Bristol will bid for an immediate return to the Premiership in 2017-18.
"We have three big objectives: Champions Cup, our players playing for England and local boys playing for Bristol," Lam told BBC Radio Bristol.
"This place is like a field of dreams. It's a beautiful city as well. The vision was the key - inspiring the community through rugby success. I love that.
"The board asked me to come and maybe do what I did at Connacht, where we probably had the lowest budget."
Lam led the Irish provincial side to the Pro12 title in 2015-16 and then an eighth-placed finish last term.
He replaces Mark Tainton, who took over as interim head coach in November following the sacking of former director of rugby and ex-England boss Andy Robinson.
Tainton is taking on a new role as chief operations officer, overseeing the club's recruitment policy and academy.
Lam admitted his targets were ambitious, but added: "Saracens are the most successful team at the moment but I know that when I played Saracens nearly 20 years ago, they were nowhere near it.
"But they got themselves organised and had a clear vision. It's exactly the same. We need to aim for Champions Cup. We're not interested in [just] survival.
"We want to make sure we get promoted and then, when we get there, it's about winning it and going up to the Champions Cup, and being there regularly.
"We want this to be sustainable and ongoing, because then that fulfils the other two objectives - players playing for England and getting our local schools and clubs to get all those local Bristolians coming through to play for us."
Bristol were promoted back to the top tier for the first time since 2009 in 2016, but finished bottom of the table.
Speaking in March before their relegation was confirmed with two games remaining, chairman Chris Booy claimed Bristol would "walk promotion" back to the top flight.
Only the Championship winners will be promoted at the end of the new season after the previous play-off system was scrapped.
In May, owner Steve Lansdown admitted the club had "underestimated" the Premiership and stressed that lessons had been learnt.
The midfielder, 28, becomes United's third summer buy after £31m defender Victor Lindelof from Benfica and £75m striker Romelu Lukaku from Everton.
United manager Jose Mourinho described Matic as a "team player" who has "everything we want in a footballer; loyalty, consistency, ambition".
Matic said he was "delighted" to be joining at "an exciting time".
The Serbia midfielder added: "To work with Jose Mourinho once again was an opportunity I couldn't turn down.
"I have enjoyed my time at Chelsea and would like to thank the club and the fans for their support. I cannot wait to meet my new team-mates and to start training with them."
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Former Chelsea manager Mourinho spent £21m to sign Matic from Benfica for a second spell at Stamford Bridge in January 2014.
He had been valued at less than £5m when he left as a makeweight in a deal for defender David Luiz in January 2011, two years after he first joined the Blues in a £1.5m move from Slovakian club MFK Kosice.
Matic scored once in 35 Premier League appearances during Chelsea's title-winning 2016-17 season, also striking spectacularly in their FA Cup semi-final victory over Tottenham in April.
His exit had been expected after the Blues signed France international Tiemoue Bakayoko, 22, from French champions Monaco in a reported £40m deal earlier in July.
Italian champions Juventus were also understood to be keen on Matic.
In 2015, Matic was named in the PFA's Premier League team of the year, along with five other players from Chelsea's title-winning team.
According to Opta, he averaged nearly four tackles, made more than two interceptions and won eight duels - a 50-50 contest - per 90 minutes over the 2014-15 campaign.
However, last season Matic won only 278 duels, at an average of 4.77.
Last season, while Chelsea team-mate N'Golo Kante made an average of 3.64 tackles per 90 minutes - the fourth highest in the Premier League behind Liverpool's Jordan Henderson, Leicester's Wilfred Ndidi and Idrissa Gueye of Everton - Matic managed only 1.7.
The deal for Matic brings United's summer spending to £146m.
Almost £900m has been spent by Premier League sides so far in the summer transfer window, which closes on 31 August, and accountancy firm Deloitte predicts top-flight clubs will surpass the record £1.165bn they spent last summer.
Manchester City took their spending beyond the £200m mark by signing Monaco left-back Benjamin Mendy on Monday, while Chelsea have also spent more than £100m.
Noureddine Bouterfa said there would be an informal gathering of Opec members on the sidelines of an energy conference in Algiers on Wednesday.
"We will not come out of the meeting empty-handed," the minister added.
The fall in prices has been causing problems for poorer members of Opec.
Oil prices collapsed from peaks of more than $100 a barrel in mid-2014 to near 13-year lows below $30 in January. The price on Friday was $44.48 a barrel.
Analysts remain gloomy about the chances of an agreement.
Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets UK, said: "Given that Opec has failed to agree much of anything in the last 12 months, it seems unlikely that it will start now."
Opec's 14 members, which produce about a third of the world's oil, have so far failed to agree a deal to cut output that would prop up prices.
But the state of the oil market was "more critical" than when Opec last met three months ago, Mr Bouterfa said.
Crucially, Saudi Arabia, the largest Opec member and which has resisted production curbs, may now be more willing to cut output, he added.
Saudi Arabia pumped a record 10.69 million barrels a day in August compared with 10.2 million in January, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Although Wednesday's meeting is an informal gathering, Mr Bouterfa did not rule out it becoming a formal event.
He said: "Either we reach an agreement, which would be good, or we reach an understanding on the elements of an agreement, and that would also be good.
"Every state in the organisation agrees on the need to stabilise prices, it just remains for us to find a format that pleases everyone. The best solution would be a (production) freeze."
Opec members are losing between $300m and $500m a day, Mr Bouterfa said. "No (oil) company will be able to withstand it if prices remain under $50 a barrel," he added.
In a note following the Westland affair, press secretary Bernard Ingham urged her to take action to show the government "knows what it is doing".
He warned that so far it appeared to be "at the mercy of events".
Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine quit in January 1986 in a row over the future of Westland helicopter firm.
The battle for control of the company was one of the most divisive political rows of Mrs Thatcher's second term in office.
In his message to the PM in the months that followed, Mr Ingham said: "You need to be seen to be imposing your will on things."
His comments were echoed by the then chief whip, John Wakeham, who said ministers were behaving "as a string of one-man, single-issue pressure groups, without regard to collective responsibility."
He added: "This merely serves to give backbenchers and the media the impression that, far from being a united, purposeful government, we are a bunch of undisciplined politicians in unco-ordinated competition with each other."
Mr Ingham also criticised the approach taken to dealing with the media by Mrs Thatcher's ally, the then party chairman Norman Tebbit.
"In my experience, the media, and not least the BBC's Today programme, welcome advice, put in a constructive way, about where they have got their facts wrong," he wrote.
"This is quite different from moaning subjectively about programmes.
"I am afraid Mr Tebbit has acquired a reputation with some broadcasters as simply a moaner. This does no good."
In another note, after the 1985 Autumn Statement, Mr Ingham invoked one of Mrs Thatcher's most famous phrases as he noted that the "appalling press" he had expected had not materialised.
"The opposition is in a state of frustration/sulk/defeat because it does not know where to turn," he wrote.
"This is not a question of whether you are right or wrong. Most people haven't a clue either way. But their gut feeling is that they don't believe you are for turning, after six years."
He added: "So far, so good. We can't count on it lasting. But remember you are not for turning, have not turned and will not turn.
"That's the Maggie they know."
The borough council currently empties black bins every week, which is also the case in neighbouring Bournemouth.
The approval of a system for collections every other week aims to save the authority £633,000 a year.
It is also hoped it will encourage more recycling. The changes are due to be implemented in autumn 2016.
The authority said it needed to make savings of between £18m and £20m over the next four years.
Kasabian Newton-Smith, eight, from Sheffield, was diagnosed with cancer as a toddler and has two brain tumours.
Football teams, players and individuals have been asked to tweet with #1LastSmile4Kasabian.
In a video message, the England captain said he and his team-mates were very proud of the bravery shown by Kasabian.
Manchester United forward Rooney said: "I just want to say a massive thank you for your support and I've kept my shirt from [Friday] night's game against Scotland - so will send it down to you.
"I hope you enjoy it, and hopefully it makes you smile."
Kasabian has seen one Manchester United game at Old Trafford and "absolutely loved it", his family said.
The campaign, organised by Grassroots Football, appealed to the entire footballing world to join together and send "Kasabian 1 last smile".
People are being encouraged to wear a football strip, hold one finger in the air and smile for a photograph.
Billy Sharp, who plays for Sheffield United, tweeted a picture using #1LastSmile4Kasabian featuring Rooney and Adam Lallana, who scored for England in the win over Scotland.
Alan Shearer also took to Twitter to post a message of support.
Kasabian had "desperately" wanted to follow in his big brother's footsteps and play football and he had three games for Southey Wolves under-10s, his father Simon Newton-Smith said.
Watching him play football "was a dream", he said.
Kasabian has been diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma and has had 111 radiation treatments.
His brain tumours are inoperable, but he has been treated for five other tumours in six years.
He is now confined to bed at home and his family celebrated his ninth birthday, which is in December, early.
Kasabian, who has six brothers and sisters, has previously taken part in fundraising efforts for Sheffield Children's Hospital and cancer charities.
Excluding petrol, sales rose 0.2% in March, against a 0.6% rise in February, which has been revised down from an initial estimated of 0.7%,
For the first three months of 2015, sales rose 0.9%, down from 2.2% in the first quarter of 2014.
The figures show consumers are still cautious about spending, analysts said.
Keith Richardson, managing director for retail at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, said: "Even with continued falls in fuel and food prices, consumers are responding to this current period of uncertainty by being just as careful about their own spending as they have been for the past few years.
"Despite the fact that Mother's Day fell in March and Easter fell early in April, this wasn't enough to bring forward any boost in spending into March, doing nothing to allay fears that while consumers may have a little more money in their pockets, they are spending it on leisure treats like eating out and going on holiday, rather than on High Street goods," he said.
UK economic growth figures for the first three months of 2015 are due to be published next week. Economists said the retail data could herald slower growth.
Alan Clarke, at Scotiabank, said: "The monthly data all point towards sluggish Q1 GDP next Tuesday, not the sort of reading that the coalition government will be hoping for."
But Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Global Insight, said that although the retail data was "disappointing", wage growth and low inflation should bolster consumer spending over the coming months.
"Despite March's weaker-than-expected performance, the prospects for retail sales and consumer spending look bright, as purchasing power has strengthened and should continue to do so," Mr Archer said.
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About 50 people took part in the march through Queen Street, which was organised by Bring Back Our Girls Cymru-Wales.
Militant Islamist group Boko Haram claims responsibility for taking the girls from their boarding school in April.
The Nigerian Welsh Association also plans a march on Thursday.
Sunday's rally hoped to "gather support and pressurise governments into action".
The girls were seized from their school at night in Chibok on 14 April.
Boko Haram has said the girls should not have been in school and should get married instead. It has threatened to sell the students.
The group, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language, began its insurgency in Borno state in 2009.
The kidnappings have been condemned around the world.
A social media campaign, Bring Back Our Girls, has been launched in the UK, while on Saturday, US First Lady Michelle Obama said she and president Barack Obama were "outraged and heartbroken" by the kidnappings.
Experts from the US and UK, including military advisers, negotiators and counsellors, arrived in Nigeria on Friday to help find the girls.
On Thursday, the Nigerian Welsh Association plans to march from the centre of Cardiff to the Senedd building.
Spokesman Kolawole Ponnle said the kidnappings were a "chilling situation".
He added: "What we want to do here is not just keep quiet, because Nigerians are married into the Welsh community and we have children growing up in Wales, and trying to have an identity as well back home."
He said he wanted the protest to be "heard around the world".
Neysun Rouhani and his wife live in the UK. He's a concert pianist and piano teacher who travels to the US often, both for work and to visit family.
But once changes to the US visa waiver programme are implemented in 2016, he will be required to apply for a visa with an in-person interview at the US embassy in London.
"It makes my life more difficult. Right now I'm not sure the trip we have planned since five months ago will happen or not in January," he says.
The US Congress has passed a measure as part of a budget bill that will no longer allow citizens of 38 countries - including the UK - who have either travelled to Iraq, Syria, Iran or Sudan in the past five years or are dual nationals of these states, to travel to the US without a visa.
The president signed the bill into law on Friday.
Rouhani, a dual citizen of the UK and Iran, will be affected. As a British citizen he could be eligible for a 10-year, multiple-entry visas for business and tourism - but not to perform. That, as before, requires a separate permit.
The move has angered European diplomats.
"If you're a terrorist, you don't have a great big Syria stamp in your passport - you have Turkey, for example. It's not going to catch the people who don't travel legitimately, it's going to target the people who do travel legitimately," an EU official told the BBC.
All European Union ambassadors of member states recently published an editorial arguing against the changes - an unprecedented occasion to see a unanimous agreement among all the representatives of the union, the official said.
The new legislation comes on the heels of the terrorist attacks in Paris last month that sparked fears of a similar act being carried out on American soil. This prompted lawmakers to take a look at tightening the borders, igniting national debate about refugees.
"If a terrorist has been to Iraq and Syria and wants to get to the US, they will likely go through Europe. That's the problem," said one congressional aide to the BBC. "Europe doesn't have a threat of foreign fighters coming from our country."
The legislation gained even more support after December 2, when a radicalised married couple - Tafsheen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook - killed 14 and wounded 22 in San Bernardino, California.
Farook was a US citizen raised by Pakistani immigrant parents. He travelled to Saudi Arabia to meet his future wife, Malik, who grew up in Pakistan, in 2013. She was granted a K1 fiancee visa by the US Embassy in Pakistan after clearing a background check.
Though neither of the killers was a dual citizen, the attack led to renewed fears about the visa process. Modifications to the visa waiver bill in the House were added at the last minute to include not just people who had travelled to Iraq and Syria but also dual citizens and people who had visited countries that are US-designated state sponsors of terrorism - including Sudan and Iran.
Iranians living in the US say they are outraged that Iran is included on the list of barred countries, but countries where the San Bernardino attackers were born or travelled to are not.
"If the intent truly is to protect America from Isis and not target Iran and the nuclear deal, then why is Iran included but travel to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan is not? This makes no sense," says Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council, who has been leading the effort on Capitol Hill to fight this change.
Should the EU invoke reciprocity when their policy is reviewed in the spring, this could mean the same requirements for Iranian-Americans hoping to visit their families abroad.
Critics say the new rule will keep families apart.
"This legislation was ill conceived and targets ordinary people," says Navid Sadoughi, one of the members a Facebook group meant to spread awareness and rally against the bill. The page gained 70,000 members in its first three days.
A swath of this Iranian diaspora includes people who have citizenship to Iran but have not returned since the Islamic Revolution. Many say the process of actually renouncing citizenship and giving up a passport is quite complicated.
It is unclear how the new visa waiver programme changes will be implemented, a process which is led by the US Department of Homeland Security.
"We'll look at how the administration is going to implement this. There's always a bit of leeway, room for common sense," says one EU official.
But for those with dual passports, the message is discouraging. Amirali Pour Deihimi, an Australian architect who works on sustainable design, says the rule could keep him from attending conferences and seminars in the US.
"With global warming, we need to bring the world together, not separate it," he says.
He's visited the US in the past, but says he can't see making the effort in the future.
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Darren Rodgers from Ballymena, County Antrim, fell from a height onto a rocky beach just hours after watching Northern Ireland's opening game.
BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson reports from Nice.
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American Dustin Johnson shot an eight-under-par 64 to end the opening round of the Memorial Tournament two shots ahead of world number one Jason Day.
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Tributes have been paid to the Northern Ireland football supporter who died in an accident in France overnight.
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Charging for prescriptions was scrapped in Northern Ireland in 2010.
In February, Mr Hamilton's predecessor, Jim Wells, proposed its reintroduction to pay for a new specialist drugs fund.
However, Mr Hamilton said that "given the lack of consensus", such a move was unlikely "certainly in my time as minister."
Mr Hamilton told the assembly that the lack of charging for prescriptions would have financial consequences "in terms of paying for some of those very expensive new drugs and treatments that are out there".
Mr Wells had proposed bringing back prescription charges for a fund to pay for medicines that are either too expensive or too specific to be licensed for current use.
The Department of Health hoped to raise between £5m and £10m through some form of prescription charging.
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Prescription charges are unlikely to be reintroduced in Northern Ireland in the short term, Stormont Health Minister Simon Hamilton has said.
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Bottles were thrown at the crowd and security staff during the Varsity rugby event between the universities of Brighton and Sussex.
According to the University of Sussex students' union a small number of spectators were injured.
In a statement the Vice-Chancellors of both universities described the events as "shocking and disgraceful".
It added that any students identified as taking part would "face serious consequences under our codes of discipline."
Sussex Police said it was called to a report of a large fight, and that there were reports of bottles being thrown and a number of people being injured.
A statement on the University of Sussex students' union website said "misogynistic, homophobic and racist language" was used at the event.
As a result of the violence the men's rugby match was cancelled and students' union shops were temporarily closed.
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Amtrak's Train 89 was heading from New York City to Savannah in Georgia when it struck a mechanical digger - known in the US as a backhoe - that was on the track at Chester.
Some 341 passengers and seven crew members were on board.
All Amtrak services between New York and Philadelphia have been suspended.
An Amtrak statement said the impact with the backhoe had derailed the lead engine of the Palmetto train in Chester, 15 miles (24km) from Philadelphia.
The two people killed are believed to have been construction workers who were unable to get off the track in time.
The statement said local emergency responders were at the scene and an investigation was ongoing.
Chester fire department commissioner Travis Thomas provided the figures on casualties.
Amtrak released an emergency hotline number - 800 532 9101.
In May last year, seven carriages of an Amtrak train derailed on the Philadelphia-New York line, killing seven people and injuring more than 200.
And about 20 people were injured when an Amtrak train derailed 20 miles west of Dodge City, Kansas, last month.
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The competition currently features the 12 English Premiership clubs and the four Welsh regions.
But changes to rugby's calendar post-2019 would offer English rugby bosses the chance to invite Currie Cup teams into the developmental tournament.
The prospective competition would run during the international windows in November and February/March.
The Currie Cup is the second tier of professional rugby in South Africa.
Currently, club tournaments are split into hemispheres but BBC Sport understands there is now a more open-minded approach to arranging them by time-zones.
The year-round South African Standard Time is two hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and one hour ahead of British Summer Time.
In April, it was announced that two of South Africa's six teams are to be cut from Super Rugby as the competition is streamlined from 18 teams to 15.
However, the head of Premiership Rugby says there is a lot of growth to come in the English club game.
"There are four big things for us: attendance growth, audience growth, the appeal of our brand, and then making sure we have it all financially sustainable," chief executive Mark McCafferty told BBC 5 live.
Meanwhile, McCafferty insists player welfare is the league's priority, despite the strong opposition from players to the proposed 10-month domestic season.
"The players were fully involved [in the discussions], there was engagement. The important thing now is we work through the detail," McCafferty said.
"Players will have slightly different pre-seasons, that will be the answer.
"For the vast majority of players it will be very good, there will be the opportunity for mid-season breaks, which they have been calling for."
Despite the unrest, McCafferty insists his organisation has led the way when it comes to player welfare.
"I don't think there is a league in the world that has invested as much time or resource in player welfare as we have," he added.
"Whether that is player development, or concussion, we have led the world."
They were made famous by actress Jean Alexander, who played the battleaxe between 1964 and 1987.
She kept hold of the items, which were among a number of personal possessions sold off earlier, after quitting Weatherfield's cobbles.
Film producer Trevor Beattie bought them and said he may use them in a film called Hilda Ogden: The Movie.
Mr Beattie, from Birmingham, said: "It is a really important piece of popular culture.
"It is like Charlie Chaplin's moustache or Muhammad Ali's boxing gloves."
"I'm hoping to open an exhibition of cultural icons and we may be making Hilda Ogden: The Movie so we'll see."
He tweeted: "I just bought Hilda Ogden's headscarf, pinny and rollers. As you do."
Auctioneer Mike Litherland said the "iconic" outfit was "part of media history". "She wore them in nearly every episode," he added.
Alexander's nieces Sonia Hearld and Valerie Thewlis organised the sale after their aunt died last year.
The pinny and curlers were found inside a wardrobe.
Alexander's childhood teddy bear Ambrose, which she received on her fourth birthday, was sold for £260 despite missing an eye.
The auction took place at the Royal Clifton Hotel in Southport.
As well as portraying the downtrodden cleaning lady, Alexander had roles in Last of the Summer Wine and Z Cars.
18 April 2017 Last updated at 10:17 BST
Mays, who played Danny Waldron in 2016's third series, told BBC Radio 5 live's Afternoon Edition he was very pleased with his Bafta TV nomination for the role, adding it was great to be "acknowledged".
The actor said Jed Mercurio's writing on the police drama was the "best" he had ever worked with.
Mr Vaughan, 54, said it had been an "honour and privilege" to have served with the force since starting in 1984.
In 1997 he became the divisional commander for his home town of Merthyr Tydfil, took a senior job at Wiltshire Police in 2003 but returned in 2007.
He is due to retire at the end of the year.
In 2013, Mr Vaughan was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in the New Years' Honours.
He chairs the Welsh Joint Emergency Service Group (JESG) which is a made up of senior military and emergency service leaders responsible for civil protection.
His successor is expected to be announced in September before assuming the role from January.
"I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of our officers and staff for all their hard work, dedication and support," he said.
It is her first announcement in her new role as "state counsellor", a position similar to prime minister.
She is barred from the presidency but leads the National League for Democracy party which has a huge majority in both houses of parliament.
The move could affect up to 500 prisoners in jail or awaiting trial.
Ms Suu Kyi was once a political prisoner herself, and said the releases were a government priority.
Hundreds have already been freed in recent years as part of the political reform process that ended Myanmar's long period of military rule.
But others have also been arrested, often for holding unauthorised demonstrations.
A government statement did not name who would be freed but there are an estimated 100 political prisoners still in jail and about 400 others, including some students, awaiting trial.
The BBC's Myanmar correspondent, Jonah Fisher, says it is unclear who will qualify as a political prisoner under the announcement, and whether it will apply to Myanmar's many ethnic insurgencies.
US President Barack Obama contacted Ms Suu Kyi and Myanmar's new President, Htin Kyaw, by telephone on Wednesday.
He praised her "determined efforts, over the course of many years and at great personal cost, to achieve a peaceful transfer of power and advance national reconciliation," the White House said.
Also this week Ms Suu Kyi met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in her capacity as Myanmar's foreign minister.
Deniz Yucel, who works for Die Welt, was detained almost two weeks ago and has since been held in police custody.
He had earlier reported on leaked emails that allegedly highlight the influence wielded by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's son-in-law.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called the move "disappointing".
"We will continue to insist on a fair and legal treatment of Deniz Yucel and hope that he will soon regain his freedom," she said.
Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said Mr Yucel's arrest showed in "glaring light" the differences between Germany and Turkey on matters of freedom of the press and freedom of opinion.
Die Welt says Mr Yucel, 43, is the first journalist with German nationality to be held in pre-trial detention since Mr Erdogan's AKP party took power in 2002.
Several other journalists have also been detained in connection with the emails, purportedly obtained by left-wing hackers from the private account of Berat Albayrak, who is the country's energy minister.
Pre-trial detention in Turkey can last up to five years, Die Welt says.
Many Turkish writers and journalists have been arrested in a widespread crackdown that followed a failed July coup against Mr Erdogan.
More than 100,000 people have also been sacked or suspended from Turkey's police, military, civil service and private sector since the failed coup and tens of thousands arrested.
The Turkish government says the measures are necessary given the security threats it faces but critics say Mr Erdogan is using the purges to stifle dissent.
The Rutland Osprey Project said its oldest bird, known as 03(97), was "nothing short of amazing" after returning from West Africa on Tuesday.
Kayleigh Brookes, of the project, said it was concerned about his ability to survive the journey.
The 18-year-old is now starting his 15th season at Rutland Water.
Staff at the nature reserve had to provide fish for him following the injury which meant he could not fly or fish for himself.
Source: The Rutland Osprey Project
His wing appeared improved when it was time to migrate, but staff still feared he would struggle and worried he may never return.
But on Tuesday, one day different from the previous year, he arrived back at the reservoir and immediately went fishing.
Ms Brookes said: "We all harboured concerns about his strength and his ability to survive the arduous 3,000-mile journey to his wintering grounds.
"Well, clearly he surpassed our expectations and granted all our wishes."
Last year, five of the six pairs who returned to breed at Rutland Water did so successfully, but it is hoped they could see even more birds return this year.
Juvenile birds do not leave their winter homes for at least two years after they first make the journey south.
The message threatening to shoot the party's former deputy leader Anas Sarwar was left on the machine of his Glasgow office between 8 and 10 April.
Scottish Labour said the matter had been reported to police.
Police Scotland said it had no comment to make at this time. Mr Sarwar is standing to hold his seat for Glasgow Central.
The threat was condemned by Scottish Labour's current deputy leader, Kezia Dugdale, who said it had "no place in our society" but that it would not deter Mr Sarwar.
The musician was found dead at his home in Groton, Massachusetts, on Tuesday.
Local police, who had been called to the property to check on his welfare, attributed his death to natural causes.
Founded in 1967, The J Geils Band released 11 studio albums, among them the US chart-topping Freeze-Frame, before breaking up in 1985.
Centrefold, their biggest hit, topped the US charts for six weeks in 1982 and reached number three in the UK.
The song is known for its catchy intro and its chorus: "My blood runs cold/My memory has just been sold/My angel is the centrefold/Angel is the centrefold."
The band reunited in recent years for occasional appearances, including one at the Boston Strong concert that took place in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013.
In later life, Geils released a series of jazz albums while indulging his passion for restoring and racing cars.
Peter Wolf, the band's lead singer, said he was "thinking of all the times we kicked it high and rocked down the house" in a tribute on Twitter.
Musician Nils Lofgren also paid tribute, saying he and his former band Grin had "learned so much" while opening for Geils's band in the early 1970s.
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The Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) will address proposals impacting more than 500 plants and animals.
But elephants are likely to top the bill with countries bitterly divided over the best way to protect the ponderous pachyderms.
The meeting lasts until 5 October.
Billed as the largest gathering in the 43-year history of the convention, the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP) will see more than 2,500 delegates from more than 180 countries come together in Johannesburg.
While there are proposals affecting lions, sharks, rhinos, pangolins and dozens of other species, the main focus will be on elephants.
There have been growing international concerns about the surge in poaching for ivory that has seen elephant numbers plummet by 30% in the past seven years.
And while Cites Secretariat has argued that there has been a slowdown in the trend, some new figures released at the meeting cast doubt on this view.
The Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS) is the world's most comprehensive database on the illicit trade in elephant products. It is managed by Traffic, the wildlife monitoring network, on behalf of Cites.
Speaking to BBC News, Dr Richard Thomas from Traffic said that new information presented at this meeting suggested that what appeared to be a downturn in illegal ivory activities in 2014 might have been a false dawn.
"The indications were that the 2014 figure, it looked like there was a drop, now the 2015 data has been put in there for ivory it is certainly at the level it was in 2012/13 and that's very disheartening," he said.
"We don't know what it means in terms of poaching but it's likely to be a fairly simple equation, with high levels of ivory meaning high levels of poaching."
At this meeting there are a number of proposals reflecting very different approaches to the elephant problem.
Namibia and Zimbabwe are seeking to liberalise the restrictions that see them prevented from selling ivory, even though the elephants in their countries are categorised as Appendix II, a lower level of protection that normally allows countries to trade in a species or its parts.
However, a counter proposal from a number of other African countries seeks to raise all African elephants to Appendix I to ensure there is no legal loophole for any ivory trade.
Several conservation groups are backing this tougher stand.
"There is no greater protection for imperilled species from detrimental trade than an Appendix I listing," said Iris Ho from Humane Society International.
"A continued split-listing of the African elephant is akin to a declaration by Cites to open the ivory trade for business. The conservation legacy of Cites is at stake, and so is the survival of the African elephant."
Many have also taken issue with the Cites Secretariat, who have advised countries meeting here to reject the up-listing of all African elephants to Appendix I, arguing that it might provoke some nations to opt out of Cites altogether and resume an unsupervised trade.
"The secretariat has over-stepped its powers in trying to influence policy before a proposal has even been discussed," said Robert Hepworth, a former chair of the Cites Standing Committee and now an adviser to the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation.
There are other underlying factors that bring an added urgency to the discussions here on elephants.
Back in 2007 similar divisions on the issue of elephants ultimately forced a compromise at Cites, where a one-off sale of ivory was allowed in 2008 and all other proposals for sales were off limits until 2017.
"One of the parts of that deal in 2007 was that there would be a process devised, a mechanism would be established, to sell ivory and that hasn't happened," said Dr Thomas.
"The countries that signed up to it in the belief that they would be able to trade in the future, they don't want to see that part of the deal fall through."
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Twenty-nine people, including a woman pregnant with twins, were killed in the Real IRA attack in 1998.
On Tuesday, the prosecution of 45-year-old County Armagh man Seamus Daly for the bombing collapsed.
Deputy Chief Constable Drew Harris said there were currently no new lines of inquiry in the investigation.
"Police profoundly regret that we have, to date, been unable to secure a conviction for the Omagh bombing and that individuals and families in Omagh and beyond who deserve justice have yet to secure it," he said.
"As we have said before, what is needed is for those people who know who did this to come forward and tell us what they know.
"Police need people to make statements and give evidence. Without this assistance, any prosecution is highly unlikely but police will not give up."
The Public Prosecution Service decided there was no reasonable prospect of conviction in the Daly case. He was released from Maghaberry Prison on Wednesday.
The prosecution case was withdrawn after a key witness gave inconsistent evidence and contradicted his previous testimony.
The Omagh bomb was the biggest single atrocity in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
It happened just four months after the Good Friday Agreement was signed.
Hooker Ford, 33, set a new mark of 110 caps in Saturday's 27-22 defeat by Fiji - a match in which the forward scored his fifth international try.
Paterson, who played on the wing, at full-back and fly-half for Scotland, played with Ford at international level and at Edinburgh.
"It's an incredible achievement," said Paterson, 39.
"It's great for Ross to achieve that in a position that is confrontational, physical, hard work on the body - as every position is on the rugby field, but sometimes more so up front at the coalface, as they say. It's brilliant.
"I was lucky enough to play alongside him for a long time and take a lot of pleasure in his performances, so, I'm absolutely delighted that he's going to go on to do more.
"I think of some of his recent performances and they are some of his best - the two tries against Italy in Singapore, the game against Georgia in November, I thought he was outstanding - his ball carrying, he was dynamic.
"The second last game of the season for Edinburgh last season where Edinburgh played the Dragons at Myreside, it was an incredible finish. Edinburgh scored two tries in the final two or three minutes to win the game.
"He came off the bench, made a massive impact with two crucial tackles; turnovers, was carrying the ball, brought drive and determination - he transformed that game.
"The longer you're in the game, the harder it gets. More's expected of you, you have to deliver and that's why it's so impressive that Ross has reached these achievements, and there's more to come."
Fraser Brown replaced Ford in Suva and also crossed for Gregor Townsend's side.
And Paterson believes the increased competition at Edinburgh, who also have Stuart McInally, Neil Cochrane and George Turner available at hooker, has been good for Ford.
"It's driven him on to continually set the standards and be an outstanding player, which I think he'll be for at least a couple of years to come," Paterson said.
With 809 points, Paterson remains the highest points scorer for his country.
"The nice part is that you set yourself goals and if you achieve them, then you can be proud of these goals and I was delighted to reach the milestone of being Scotland's top points scorer but that'll be beaten at some point," he added.
"It may not be Fordie but somebody will beat it.
"If part of what I've managed to achieve in my career is set a target for somebody else to break then we'll all be happy because it'll mean Scotland are performing well."
Sameena Imam, 34, was last seen in Coventry on Christmas Eve.
A West Midlands Police spokesman said the body has yet to be formally identified but Ms Imam's family has been informed.
Searches were conducted this week on the allotment off Groby Road, Leicester, and the body was found on Friday.
A post-mortem examination will take place on Saturday to establish the cause of death.
Roger Cooper, 40, of Coventry, and David Cooper, 38, of Leicester, appeared via videolink at Birmingham Crown Court on Tuesday charged with her murder.
They have been remanded in custody with a provisional trial date set for the end of June.
Ms Imam was last seen outside wholesaler Costco in Coventry at about 16:00 GMT on 24 December.
She was visiting the store as part of her job as a regional marketing manager for Costco.
He was sent to the stand in his side's 2-0 defeat by Wycombe on 10 December.
The ban starts immediately, meaning Sheridan will have to watch Tuesday's FA Cup second-round replay with Peterborough from the stands.
The former Chesterfield and Oldham boss admitted on Monday that his job was under threat after six successive League Two defeats.
Notts are 20th in the table, just one point above the relegation zone having lost 11 of their 21 league matches.
After abandoning plans for a new ground at the University of West of England last week, Al-Qadi says Rovers will now look to redevelop their current ground.
The League One club previously hoped to build a new 21,000-capacity venue.
"If we study the Mem properly, we could regenerate and eventually provide the fans with something they have dreamt of," Al-Qadi told BBC Points West.
"If you look at it's size (of the land at the Memorial Stadium), it's kind of ideal. Our size is exactly the same as Everton's stadium. It's a beautiful piece of land, in the heart-bed of Rovers fans."
In 2011, Rovers had reached a deal with the University and Sainsbury's to build a new stadium, with further plans including the supermarket building a store on the site of the the club's Memorial Stadium in Horfield.
However, the supermarket chain pulled out following delays and petitions by campaigners for and against the plans, before Rovers lost a subsequent high-court battle in 2015.
Jordanian Football Association member Al-Qadi's family purchased the club in February 2016, shortly before the club won promotion to the third tier of English football.
Mr Trump, a New York businessman who is unpopular with many in his own party, is almost certain to be the nominee.
Earlier, Mr Cruz called Mr Trump a "liar" who was unfit to be president.
In the Democratic battle, Bernie Sanders is projected to beat Hillary Clinton in Indiana.
He trails Mrs Clinton in the all-important delegate count but after this victory he said the contest was still alive.
"Clinton campaign thinks this campaign is over. They're wrong," he said.
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Mr Cruz's advisers had targeted Indiana as the Texas senator's best hope of halting Mr Trump's march to the nomination.
"We gave it everything we've got, but the voters chose another path," he told supporters in Indiana.
Turn out the lights, the party's over. Ted Cruz and the #NeverTrump movement threw everything they had at Donald Trump in Indiana, and it wasn't enough. It wasn't even close to enough.
They outspent him by more than a million dollars. Mr Cruz practically took up residence in the state for the past two weeks. He named Carly Fiorina as his running mate. Nothing worked.
If there was a defining moment of the Indiana campaign, it was Mr Cruz's fruitless attempt to reason with a group of pro-Trump supporters on Sunday.
Every argument he advanced was rebuffed. Every bit of evidence of Trump malfeasance was denied. Mr Cruz was shouting in the wind.
In the coming days there will be a great reckoning, as the party comes to terms with the prospect of Mr Trump as their standard bearer in the autumn. Some will make peace. Some will despair. Others will say "I'm with her" and reluctantly move to Hillary Clinton's side.
It will be an unprecedented spectacle in modern US political history.
The verbal attacks between him and Mr Trump had reached a new level of intensity on Tuesday.
Mr Cruz attacked the billionaire businessman as "totally amoral", "a pathological liar" and "a serial philanderer".
Mr Trump responded by calling Ted Cruz is a "desperate candidate trying to save his failing campaign".
But hours later, after Mr Cruz announced he was quitting the race, Mr Trump praised him as a "tough, smart competitor".
It is looking increasingly likely that Mr Trump will face Mrs Clinton in the autumn in the battle to succeed President Barack Obama, who will be leaving the White House after two terms.
But Republicans have expressed reservations about Mr Trump's outspoken remarks, which have offended women and Hispanics.
There are also concerns about some of his policies on immigration and national security, like building a wall on the southern US border paid for by Mexico, a ban on Muslims coming to the US and the killing of the families of terrorists.
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The off-spinners were reported after the second day of the second Test in Mumbai, which India won by an innings.
They can continue bowling but must undergo independent analysis within 21 days.
Both have previously been suspended from bowling in international cricket for illegal actions.
However, they were allowed to resume bowling after undergoing remedial work and further testing.
Batting all-rounder Samuels, 32, was banned from bowling in February 2008 because his arm extended more than the permitted 15 degrees for off-breaks and quicker deliveries.
Although the Jamaican continued to play as a batsman, he did not resume bowling in international cricket until September 2011, having served an unrelated two-year suspension from cricket between May 2008 and May 2010 for passing information to a bookmaker.
Shillingford, 30, from Dominica, was reported after his international debut in November 2010 and banned a month later when his average elbow extension was found to be 17 degrees. He was cleared to return in June 2011.
The pair were reported in Mumbai by English on-field umpires Richard Kettleborough and Nigel Llong, TV umpire Vineet Kulkarni and match referee Andy Pycroft.
Their report, handed to the West Indies team manager, refer specifically to Samuels's quicker deliveries and Shillingford's doosras.
Sacha Parkin phoned the NSPCC and gave them his details before describing violent acts he said he wanted to commit.
Parkin later told police he was "struggling to control" his thoughts and wanted support.
The 45-year-old was also banned from contacting children under 17.
Depute fiscal Eilidh Robertson told Dundee Sheriff Court that the operator called police, who attended Parkin's home in Auchterarder, Perthshire, the following day.
Miss Robertson said: "The operator was alarmed during the call due to the sexualised and graphic descriptions given by the accused.
"He said he lived beside a nine-year-old boy and that he found him attractive.
"He added that he watched violent porn including rape.
"When police went to his house he explained he dreams of raping and killing children.
"He said he was struggling to control his urges and that it was 'only a matter of time'."
Parkin, a prisoner at HMP Perth, admitted behaving in a threatening and abusive manner on 4 and 5 November last year.
James Baxter, defending, said: "I'm at pains to point out that this should be considered a cry for help.
"He was aware that these were not healthy thoughts and he wanted support.
"He said he knew they were wrong and wanted these thoughts to go away."
Sheriff Alistair Carmichael imposed a community payback order with three years supervision and psychological treatment.
He also ordered Parkin to undertake a sex offender's group work programme and imposed conduct requirements banning him from public parks and swimming pools and not to approach or contact children aged under 17.
Mr Modi was heavily invested in the state elections, addressing as many as 26 rallies in the eastern state.
But a regional alliance of socialist leaders - Laloo Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar - has triumphed in the end after a gruelling and high-pitched election campaign.
The alliance took 178 seats out of 243. The BJP won 58.
The key election made headlines in the Indian media and has been analysed extensively by commentators.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes in The Indian Express that the results are an indication that Mr Modi's "sense of entitlement that his persona is enough to claim the voter's allegiance has been broken".
"The election is also a wake-up call for Mr Modi. He seems to have now become a prisoner of his own mythology, where the gap between his own sense of destiny and his achievement is growing by the day," he adds.
BJP president Amit Shah has also come under criticism for his statement that people in Pakistan will burst crackers to celebrate the BJP's defeat.
"In India of 2015 there is no vote for beating up anybody, and that Pakistan and terrorism may be issues of great passion and partisanship on warrior news channels and Twitter but not in the world of real public opinion," writes Shekhar Gupta in the Business Standard.
Others have also highlighted how the BJP's stress on cow and beef consumption appears to have backfired.
"When the prime minister talks about the advancement of people, his party talks about the protection of the cow," writes Vir Sanghvi in the Hindustan Times.
Most commentators hope that Mr Modi will take a cue from the results and control his party members from giving "flammable statements".
"The atmosphere has now turned so ugly that many of those who supported Mr Modi because they believed he would lead a triumphant India into the 21C now wonder why he does not speak out against those who are dragging India back to the Middle Ages," adds Mr Sanghvi.
The Hindu advises Mr Modi to reconsider his strategy and focus on governance.
"The setback in Bihar should lead to some serious introspection by the BJP's top leaders, including Mr Modi and his cabinet colleagues... Indeed, the Hindutva agenda is in direct conflict with the economic agenda. Sooner or later, the core will have to yield to the pressures from the crust," it adds.
The Times of India echoes similar sentiments.
"BJP must refocus on fulfilling its 2014 promises. It has spent too much of its political capital trying to win power in states... It must refrain from divisive politics, lower the communal temperature and start doing the heavy lifting on development," the paper says.
Murphy, an alleged former IRA "chief of staff", was found guilty of tax evasion last week at the Republic of Ireland's non-jury Special Criminal Court.
Sinn Féin has called for the abolition of non-jury courts and praised Murphy's support for the peace process.
But Mr Robinson said a jury would have been "more susceptible to pressures".
Justice ministers in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have also defended the use of non-jury courts which are often used to prevent potential jury intimidation in paramilitary-related cases.
The issue was brought to the fore on Sunday, when Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said: "All citizens have the right to be judged by a jury of their peers."
"It is extraordinary a case involving a failure to complete tax returns is heard before a non-jury court," Mr Adams added.
But speaking to the Dublin-based radio station, Newstalk, Mr Robinson said that he believed it was "an altogether appropriate type of hearing" for the Murphy trial.
"The idea that you could have had a jury trial in such a case, of course, is just sheer madness," the first minister said.
Mr Robinson also told the Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ, that he did not believe the outcome of the trial would have been any different if a jury had been used.
But he added: "I think a jury would have been much more susceptible to pressures."
Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, of Sinn Féin, told Newstalk: "Tom Murphy, over the course of the last number of years, last number of decades, has been absolutely invaluable to building support for the peace process in south Armagh.
"So I think the work that was done by Tom Murphy in that area was good work and that makes him, in my opinion, a good republican."
Mr McGuinness told RTÉ that a "very unhelpful narrative" had developed over the case and claimed it was motivated by people who wanted to "undermine" Sinn Féin ahead of next year's elections.
Murphy, 66, lives on a farm in Hackballscross, County Louth, that straddles the border with Northern Ireland.
He had denied nine tax offences but will be sentenced in February.
The new contract beginning on Wednesday involves the creation of 24 new jobs at the Scottish airline.
These posts include pilots and engineers based in Inverness and Aberdeen and ground handling staff in Orkney and Shetland.
The contract continues Loganair's existing mail service linking Inverness with Stornoway on Lewis and Benbecula.
The deal maintains its flights between Inverness and a Royal Mail hub in the East Midlands.
The contract also involves new responsibilities for linking Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Inverness
The hosts took only three wickets on the second day of the third Test at Edgbaston as Pakistan reached 257-3, trailing by 40.
All-rounder Stokes is missing the final two matches of the series with a calf injury sustained in the second Test.
"They can't move in the same direction or at the same speed," Vaughan told BBC Test Match Special.
"England miss Ben Stokes hugely - he's an in-your-face player.
"On a day like this it's been crying out for someone to do something different - and he does that."
Azhar Ali made 139 and Sami Aslam - playing his third Test - 82 for Pakistan, sharing a stand of 181 to give the tourists the upper hand, with the series level at 1-1.
James Anderson removed Mohammad Hafeez in the first over of the day and Chris Woakes had Azhar caught at first slip with the final ball of the last over.
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However, James Vince's run-out of Aslam was England's only other success in the 90 overs bowled in conditions which offered the seamers less assistance than on the first day.
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott said captain Alastair Cook "doesn't have any real feel for the game - he just bowls them by numbers".
He told TMS: "Which England bowlers looked as if they might get wickets?
"Stuart Broad and Anderson are usually the best two bowlers, but sometimes you get on surfaces where other bowlers bowl better.
"Broad tried hard but he didn't make it go out - he didn't do anything except make the ball go in.
"Woakes looked a better wicket-taking bowler than Broad when he bowled from the commentary box end."
Anderson, who had Azhar dropped on 38 by Joe Root at second slip, was twice warned by the umpires for running on to the pitch during his follow-through.
The seamer, whose frustrations were visible, said: "The situation of trying to help your team get wickets... the distraction of running on to the wicket doesn't help.
"I had a bad half an hour; I got frustrated. It was unacceptable. I apologised to both umpires for my behaviour. If they want to take any more action it's up to them."
Azhar scored his first century outside Asia, hitting 15 fours and a six in his 293-ball innings, and celebrated by performing press-ups next to the pitch, as the Pakistan team did after winning the first Test at Lord's.
On falling to the last ball of the day, he said: "It was very frustrating.
"Being only two down as a team would have been good psychologically. Unfortunately it didn't happen. But it's always nice to score runs away from home."
Boycott added: "It's a credit to the discipline and patience Pakistan have shown.
"That's not normally the Pakistan way, but they have shown strength of character to change their game and grind England down."
The 39-year-old Warwickshire all-rounder intends to finish his career in September - at the end of his 20th summer in first-class cricket.
Maddy was with Leicestershire, his native county, for 13 years, during which time he played three Tests and eight one-day internationals.
He signed for the Bears in 2007, taking over as skipper within a month of his debut.
After relinquishing the captaincy at the end of the 2008 campaign, during which time he was recalled by England to play in the World Twenty20, he has carried on playing under Ian Westwood and Jim Troughton.
But he has so far been limited only to YB40 games this season, having made just one County Championship appearance.
"I realise that it's the right time for me to bow out and give more opportunities for many of Warwickshire's promising youngsters to come through and help build on the success of recent seasons," said Maddy.
"I've enjoyed a fantastic career, which I never thought would be possible when I signed my first professional contract with Leicestershire in 1991."
After making his professional debut in a Sunday League match for Leicestershire against Derbyshire in 1994, Maddy has since gone on to play 282 first-class games, as well as 361 List A and 87 Twenty20 appearances, compiling a combined 39 centuries in all formats.
Christina Edkins was attacked on board the bus on Hagley Road while on her way to Leasowes High School in Halesowen.
Her head teacher Neil Shaw described her as a "bright and popular student" who was "much loved by staff and students".
A 22-year-old man was arrested nearby on suspicion of murder.
West Midlands Police said officers had spotted a man acting suspiciously who fitted the description of the suspect and was arrested after a short chase.
Det Supt Richard Baker said the teenager's family were "distressed and distraught".
Police officers stood guard at the family's home near Birmingham city centre for much of the day, while specialist officers sought to comfort relatives.
Counsellors were also being brought in to support pupils and staff at Leasowes High School. The BBC's James Bovill said some were in tears as they left the school.
Mr Shaw said: "We are deeply saddened to hear this tragic news and our thoughts and hearts go out to her family and everyone who knew her."
Police said they would be checking Christina's profiles on social media websites as part of the investigation, but there was nothing to suggest she was being targeted.
Christina is understood to have boarded the bus minutes before the attack, which happened at about 07:40 GMT on Thursday.
The driver raised the alarm and attempts were made to revive the teenager, but she died at the scene.
Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the stabbing. They added that there was nothing at this stage to suggest the attacker and Christina were known to each other.
The 22-year-old suspect was arrested near the Morrisons supermarket at Five Ways at about 12:30 GMT, following a city-wide manhunt.
Another man who was earlier detained in the city centre by police has since been released.
Det Supt Baker said officers were now analysing hours of CCTV footage, including some from on the bus.
He said he believed there were some passengers on board at the time of the attack who had not yet come forward.
Officers patrolled buses and schools across the city on Thursday afternoon to help reassure people.
Detectives said the murder investigation was still in its "very early stages" and they did not want to speculate on the motive.
The bus was earlier removed from the scene and the road reopened.
A spokesman from National Express West Midlands said: "We can confirm that a tragic incident took place on a number 9 service this morning.
"Our thoughts and condolences are with the family of the person involved and we will offer all possible support to the police in their investigation into the matter."
Anyone with information can call police on 0800 096 0095.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) declared Kenya "non-compliant" on 12 May after it missed two deadlines to show it is tackling cheating.
If Kenya remains in violation of Wada, the International Olympic Committee could ban its athletes from the Games.
But Kenya's government said it "should have representation" at Rio 2016.
Were the country to be absent from the Games, it would mean some of the world's top athletes missing out on potential medal chances.
They include David Rudisha, who would be denied the chance to defend the 800m title he won at the London 2012 Games.
The country topped the medal table at the 2015 World Athletics Championships in Beijing with seven gold medals.
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After discussions at Wada's headquarters in Montreal, the organisation's director-general David Howman said he was confident Kenya could make the necessary changes to become compliant "very quickly".
"If the laws are amended as agreed today, I have no doubt Wada's compliance review committee would recommend the foundation board revokes Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya's non-compliance status," he added.
Kenya introduced new criminal laws as part of an anti-doping bill in April, creating a national testing authority and making doping an offence punishable by imprisonment.
That was widely expected to satisfy Wada, which had demanded changes after 40 Kenyan athletes failed drugs tests in a period since 2011.
David Were, chair of the Kenya parliament sports and welfare committee, told the BBC at the time he was "shocked" when Wada - which placed Kenya on a "watch-list" in February - instead downgraded it to "non-compliant".
A statement from the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya said Wada "commended Kenya for acting in good faith and demonstrating strong commitment by developing its anti-doping law; and, acknowledged that more than 80% of the law was in fact compliant with the code".
Some people have an innate ability to manipulate their vocal frequency to give their voice a richer quality, the US-based researchers said.
Such people can then apply additional vocal techniques to take advantage of this.
The researchers also found that political leaders with lower voices were perceived as more dominant and attractive.
Conversely, those who spoke with higher frequencies were viewed as submissive and benevolent. These findings are in line with previous research.
Controlling vocal frequency is an innate ability dependent on the size of a person's larynx.
A large larynx and long vocal fold result in a lower voice vibration. In a similar way, the same musical note will sound different played on a cello and a violin.
Leaders have the ability to manipulate their voices in order to be recognised as dominant figures, said Rosario Signorello at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), who led the research.
"The internal characteristics of a dynamic or charming leader are always perceived through voice. Leaders use a charismatic voice to arouse an emotional state in their listeners," he told the BBC.
The common feature of a charismatic leader is their ability to manipulate their vocal quality in order to convey different types of charisma. In political speeches this can help persuade audiences, he said.
Speakers perceived as charismatic add inflection, harshness or other characteristics to align with their audience's expectation.
"This function is learned, dependent on the languages that we speak and filtered by the culture one belongs to," said Dr Signorello.
In the research, Dr Signorello changed the frequency of male politicians' voices from Italy, France, Portugal and Brazil, including Luigi de Magistris, Francois Hollande and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
More than 250 participants in his research were then asked to rate the voices with 67 adjectives such as dishonest, scary, dynamic, attractive, convincing and fair.
The perception of a speaker was also based upon cultural preferences and the language spoken.
For example, French participants preferred a politician with a medium vocal pitch, perceiving him as prudent, calm, trustworthy and fair. Italian participants preferred a lower pitch, viewed as authoritarian, determined and menacing.
But changing one's voice to become more charismatic is not simple. Aside from one important aspect of it being innate, Dr Signorello said it also depended what type of charisma a person was seeking to portray.
"Lowering the vocal pitch, or fundamental frequency, can help to convey dominance but also sexiness. And adding a harsh voice can help [you] to be perceived as a threat or as sexy.
"A male with a low, deep voice would be perceived as dominant by other males but maybe as sexy by females. In contrast a higher vocal pitch can convey submission (male speaker, male listeners) or sexiness (female speaker, male listeners).
"So there is no general recipe for being charismatic but in every culture there are ways to manipulate your voice to convey different types of charisma."
The research from UCLA's Bureau of Glottal Affairs was presented at the 168th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
Jan Schnupp, co-director of Oxford University's auditory neuroscience group said the work was interesting and fun. "Intuitively the research makes a lot of sense to me. Normally, larger people have larger, heavier vocal folds which vibrate more slowly, and therefore produce a lower fundamental frequency.
"So we associate deep voices with an impressively large physique. However, how fast your vocal folds vibrate also depends on how much muscle tension you apply in your larynx. Often muscle tone increases, and hence voice pitch rises simply when people get excited."
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The report is understood to criticise the school for a policy of teaching boys and girls separately and segregating them at mealtimes.
Reporting restrictions mean neither the name nor the location of the school can be revealed.
The school has the backing of its local education authority in its attempt to stop publication of the report.
The school's interim board is disputing the report's findings and is applying for a judicial review to have it quashed.
On Tuesday, Mr Justice Jay, sitting in London, was told the school - which is in England - admitted pupils of both sexes between the ages of four and 16.
He heard how, from Year 5 (age 10 and 11), girls and boys were completely segregated for lessons, break and lunchtimes, as well as for school clubs and trips.
Barristers representing the school claimed documents suggested Ofsted inspectors had decided that segregation of pupils was unlawful, before visiting the school.
They outlined what they described as "pre-determined bias" against the school by inspectors.
Under cross-examination, the lead Ofsted inspector said some pupils had expressed unease about girls and boys being taught separately.
One girl told him it was "dumb" and another said it did not prepare her for life in Britain.
The school cannot be identified because a judge at an earlier hearing said identifying it could "generate a media storm and tensions and fears for parents and the local community".
Ofsted has told the BBC there have been four attempts this year for injunction or judicial review against one of their reports.
Of these, two were turned down. In one case, an injunction failed and the report was published, but the school is still seeking retrospectively to overturn the findings via a judicial review.
The fourth attempt comes from the school currently at the High Court.
If the judge rules that the inspection report cannot be published, the case could make it easier for other schools to block critical reports by inspectors.
TV pundit Williams claimed that Payne made "really poor decisions" and kicked too much in Sunday's 44-10 World Cup Pool D win over Romania at Wembley.
Cave, 28, said that he would have been "pretty annoyed" by such criticism.
"It can be frustrating when guys are just throwing out opinions which aren't based on facts," said Cave on Tuesday.
"Suddenly that becomes everyone else's opinion - the guys who've had a couple of beers and watched the game.
"Then after a week it's the perception of half the nation and it's just completely false.
"At the end of the day it can be frustrating at times but Jared will do the right thing, he'll keep his head down, he'll keep working hard and he'll keep playing well for Ireland."
Cave was Payne's centre partner in Sunday's game at Wembley after the the New Zealand native lined up in midfield alongside Luke Fitzgerald in Ireland's opening World Cup win over Canada.
"I actually thought the Canada game was potentially Jared's best game in green."
Cave was surprised by former Ulster coach Williams's complaints about Payne's kicking in Sunday's game at Wembley.
Williams's criticism of Payne, 29, followed comments from ex-All Blacks star Justin Marshall last week which described the Kiwi native as a "makeshift centre".
Prior to his move to centre by Ireland coach Joe Schmidt, Payne played the majority of his rugby at full-back.
"It's just opinion at the end of the day, it's not really based on fact," added Cave.
"I heard about him apparently kicking the ball away too much but I think he kicked the ball twice and both times it was penalty advantage, and both times we went back for the penalty.
"I really enjoyed playing alongside him when I was named at 12 and he was named at 13 beside me, I knew I'd feel very comfortable in there."
Williams made his comments about Payne in his pundit's role for Irish channel TV3.
In a tweet on Tuesday, former Ireland flanker Stephen Ferris vehemently disagreed with Williams's comments on the Ireland midfield.
The 23-year-old New Zealander has been playing at flanker following injuries to Calum Clark and Tom Wood.
"He has always had natural ability but that is not good enough at this level," Mallinder told BBC Radio Northampton.
"You have got to be a smart rugby player as well and I think that is what he has improved."
Mallinder added: "You also need physicality and Harrison played like a wild man in the first couple of years and got himself injured but he has worked hard on his physique and his tactics."
When Harrison was questioned about his recent improvement on the field he jokingly put it down to "just eating my greens!"
However, Harrison said 26-year-old Clark, who made his England debut against France in August, was offering offering advice to help with his game.
"Clark has been sitting down with me after every game and going through and telling me what I should be doing," Harrison added. "I have essentially been learning off the best."
The rail union RMT said it was balloting its 523 members over the proposed imposition of security contractors on trains.
The union said the company's move was made without agreement. The ballot closes on 2 February.
London Midland said it was "very disappointed" the RMT was threatening action.
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A spokesman for London Midland said the security contractors are there to "provide extra eyes and ears" in support of the conductor.
"It is to look out for things like fare evaders, smoking on trains and feet on seats."
He added the staff would not be on every train and stressed the role is to "offer support" to the senior conductor.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "The imposition of external contractors who have no additional skills or powers of authority to remove unruly passengers or fare dodgers is something we are totally opposed to."
London Midland said the proposed changes were in reaction to feedback from front-line staff and passengers.
A spokesman for the train operator said: "The security contractors are in addition to the senior conductors and have different duties.
"This is about safety. As we have told the RMT many times, we have no intention of removing conductors from our trains."
The RMT said it had been "left with no option but to ballot" after London Midland management failed to respond to its questions and proposals.
Witnesses have been describing the scenes of terror and panic as the tragedy unfolded, and the moment the police managed to stop and kill the driver of the truck.
Nader El Shafei told the BBC he looked the attacker in the face for about a minute before witnessing the final gun battle.
"We thought at the beginning it was just an accident," he said, "but then I saw him pulling out his gun and trying to shoot a group of policemen who were coming running towards him.
"I saw him for about one minute - face to-face - but he was not looking at me. He was looking out of the window, appearing very nervous.
"I kept yelling at him, waving with my hand, trying to tell him that there were a lot of dead people underneath his truck. But he did not give any attention to anyone outside the truck.
"Police killed him straight away - they didn't wait to negotiate - they just opened fire on him."
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German journalist Richard Gutjahr witnessed the start of the attack and described seeing a motorcyclist pursue the truck and try to gain entrance to its cabin. But the biker fell off and was run over by its wheels.
"I stood on the balcony on the Promenade des Anglais, and saw people celebrating there [when] suddenly a truck drove through the crowd," Mr Gutjahr, 42, told the AFP news agency.
"Surprisingly, [the truck driver] drove very slowly and was chased by a motorcyclist.
"The motorcyclist attempted to overtake the truck and even tried to open the driver's door, but he fell and ended up under the wheels of the truck."
Simon Coates, a British lawyer on holiday in Nice, was cycling along the promenade with his wife back to their apartment after the fireworks when the lorry sped past them into the crowds. In the chaos he was separated from his wife.
"I turned round and followed the path the lorry took checking the people killed to see if she was one of them," he told the BBC.
"I had to check every body and they were so disfigured the only reliable way I could check was to look for her bike and her shoes as most people were not recognisable."
"People were disembowelled, stripped naked of their clothes, mothers sprawled on the floor next to their dead children; one person was wrapped up like a Swiss roll with his arms and legs sticking out from his body which was folded back on itself," he said.
"When I caught up with the lorry it was stationary and an armed policeman was pointing a gun at the passenger side; others were taking cover and getting people away as they suspected a bomb.
"I retraced my steps and thank God I found my wife unharmed at home."
US Citizen Julie Holland, on holiday in Nice with her two daughters, told The Guardian that she saw the truck driving at full speed through the crowds on the promenade.
"We heard screams, and people started running into the restaurant," she said. "We hid in the kitchen, behind a stove.
"As soon as the gunfire stopped we went through the back door to a hotel down the street. A policeman eventually escorted us back to our hotel at around 3am. There were bodies everywhere. My daughters saw bodies. Lots of them."
Pouya from Toronto in Canada told the BBC that people were enjoying the carnival atmosphere on the promenade created by a firework display and a jazz band when he heard "lots of screams" and people running in different directions.
"I didn't know what was going on, it felt surreal and I didn't move but thought it must be some kind of practical joke.
"Then I saw the truck coming straight at me swerving all over the place. It was perhaps 50 yards away. After that there was no conscious thought, my body took over, time slowed down and I ran and thank God I got out of the way.
"I jumped into a doorway and a very nice Frenchman let me and about 15 other people into his apartment. We stayed in there for a while and then when it was safe we left. There were lots of panicked people, dead bodies were in the street and there were police everywhere."
Nice resident Ak told the BBC that he and his wife were walking near the Palais de la Mediterranee hotel about 10 minutes after the firework display when he spotted the speeding truck coming towards them.
"We literally had one or two seconds to get away and I just managed to push me and my wife on the pavement," he said.
"We looked back and there was carnage, absolute carnage, and went back to try and help the people on the floor and then we heard the gunshots so we of course decided to run for cover."
Imad Dafaaoui, a Moroccan university student, told ABC News of his close brush with death.
"I saw a huge truck, crushing over people," he said. "Some people were trying to get out the way. Some people were in shock. I started to run away. I was in shock.
"I couldn't even think. I was running. There was a bench in front of me, so I had to jump over it, so I jumped over it and fell over on a woman.
"That's when the truck was coming toward me. I just closed my eyes. It was so close. I was just waiting to die. The truck was really close to me. [It] crashed [into] the bench. It was 20cms away from me.
"I'm really glad that I'm alive."
Paddy Mullan, from Northern Ireland, told the BBC that he had "never seen" such fear.
He said the truck "came out nowhere" and started "ploughing" into the crowd.
"This lorry just mounted the kerb, across the street from us and the next thing, all you could hear was banging and shouting and screaming," he said.
"There was a lot of confusion, misdirection, because we didn't know what exactly was happening, why it was happening."
Mr Mullan said he and his girlfriend "bailed out" of the restaurant through a side exit in order to get to a safer position, going through barriers into an apartment complex behind the building.
"We were pushing all the buzzers to try and get into the apartment blocks," he said. "Eventually we got in."
Kayla Repan, a visitor from the US, was among the hundreds who had gathered to watch the celebrations and fireworks. "The whole city was running," she told Associated Press. "I got extremely frightened and ran away from the promenade. It was chaos."
Damien Allemand, a journalist with the local newspaper Nice Matin, was at the waterfront after the fireworks had finished.
"A fraction of a second later, an enormous white truck came along at a crazy speed, turning the wheel to mow down the maximum number of people," he said.
"I saw bodies flying like bowling pins along its route. Heard noises, cries that I will never forget."
British tourist Kevin Harris was in a hotel overlooking the scene of the tragedy.
"I heard a lot of screaming and shouting," he said. "I came out onto my terrace and in front of me I could see lots of what appeared to be bodies lying on the road just outside of where I'm sitting now actually."
London-based Lawyer Harjit Sarang and her children were among those caught up in the terror. She tweeted:
Another witness, Tarubi Wahid Mosta, posted a video on Facebook which showed photos of an abandoned doll and pushchair. He said that he had come home with a victim's Yorkshire terrier.
"I almost stepped on a corpse, it was horrible. It looked like a battlefield," he said, while describing the sense of helplessness surrounding the carnage.
"I live 200 metres from the promenade and it took nearly one and a half hours to get back to my flat because all the roads have been closed down," BBC producer Roy Calley said as news of the attack unfolded.
"The police have completely taken over the city, the promenade has now been closed down. Everybody was physically pushed away from the site and told to get back in no uncertain terms by the police.
"It had been a normal evening and we were just walking around," Joel Fenster told the BBC. "Suddenly people started running, there were screams and police sirens and policemen shouting at us to evacuate.
"It was terrifying, especially because we didn't know what was going on. At the time we only had heard some kind of gunshots and we assumed that there were people running around with guns.
As well as cutting down on cyberbullying, there are fears young people do not know they could be breaking the law by sending sexual images.
It comes as Safer Internet Day is highlighting online safety.
A new survey found 30% of 11-16-year-olds experienced unkind online behaviour in the last year.
And 75% of youngsters blocked someone.
The ResearchBods study also looked at how much time young people were spending online, with 55% saying they interacted with their closest friends several times an hour.
Police have started warning teenagers of the legal aspects of what they text - and aim to have visited all schools by the end of the year with the "Think Before You Click" message.
One of those going into schools is PC Richard Norris, of South Wales Police.
He said sharing explicit material can be an offence in itself, even if you are not the originator.
"One click can have a massive impact," he said.
"The knock on effect it has with jobs, career, the embarrassment or even to the extent of someone hurting themselves over it. We want to reduce and stop this."
The NSPCC has a Share Aware campaign aimed at parents of eight to 12 year olds.
The children's charity says its own survey in 2013 found 40% of teenagers had created a sexual image or video.
Meanwhile, pupils, teachers and parents are meeting politicians at the Senedd to push for online safety to be taught in schools.
The Welsh government has also organised e-safety awareness raising activities in schools across Wales
First Minister Carwyn Jones said: "While we actively encourage young people to embrace the internet's huge potential, it's vitally important they are equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to do it safely and responsibly."
"The research we did recently, which is in my book, found that kids aged 9-12 and then 13-17 don't quite understand where they cross the line from jokes and flirty fun when sexting or distributing intimate images to where they are actually breaking the law.
"It's everybody's responsibility. If it involves classmates there's an obligation to the school but it's important that parents are involved.
"We need to start looking at the bigger picture and to look at rape culture, to look more deeply at the roots of cyber bullying and sexting.
"Research has always focused on children's behaviour online but we need to look at the systemic forms of misogyny, homophobia and discrimination - these are the forms that sexting and cyberbullying are rooted in and adults are the worst models of this.
"Until we address what adults are doing we really can't blame the kids for copying us."
ABC News reported that DNA, found on food near the campsite, is linked to the two escapees.
A pair of prison-issue underpants was also found in the cabin, according to the New York Times.
The two escapees, Richard Matt, 49, and David Sweat, 35, disappeared 17 days ago on 6 June.
The discovery has shifted the search to an area 20 miles (32km) west of the site of the prison break.
They escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, through tunnels, using power tools to escape from their cells.
"We have recovered specific items from cabins and forwarded them to labs and got conclusive information, but we will not confirm what it found," said New York State Police Major Charles Guess at a news conference on Monday.
Police had been searching heavily on a rural area close to the Pennsylvania state line on Monday in Friendship, 300 miles (480km) south of the prison.
On Saturday police responded to a sighting of two men walking along a railway in the area. That sighting is still unconfirmed.
"No lead is too small for us to investigate," Mr Guess said.
Prison employee Joyce Mitchell has been arrested for possibly helping them escape and giving the pair the tools.
Ms Mitchell was planning on meeting the duo with a getaway car, but changed her mind.
Matt was sentenced to 25 years to life for kidnapping and dismembering his former employer in 1997. Sweat was serving life without parole for killing a sheriff's deputy in 2002.
Pakistan-born Khuram Butt, 27, and Rachid Redouane, 30, both from Barking were the other two attackers.
Two more victims have been been named - Australian nurse Kirsty Boden, 28, and French national Alexandre Pigeard, 27, died in Saturday night's attack.
They were among seven people killed - 48 were also injured - before the three attackers were shot dead by police.
Zaghba, Butt and Redouane drove a hired van into pedestrians on London Bridge at 21:58 BST before stabbing people in the area around Borough Market.
Armed officers killed all three within eight minutes of receiving a 999 call.
The Metropolitan Police said Butt had been subject to an investigation in 2015, but there had been no suggestion this attack was being planned.
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The so-called Islamic State (IS) group has said its "fighters" carried out the attack.
An Italian police source has confirmed to the BBC that Zaghba, who lived in east London, had been placed on a watch list, which is shared with many countries including the UK.
In March 2016, Italian officers stopped Zaghba at Bologna airport and found IS-related materials on his mobile phone. He was then stopped from continuing his journey to Istanbul.
Redouane was a chef who also used the name Rachid Elkhdar and police said he claimed to be Moroccan-Libyan. He married a British woman in Dublin in 2012 and lived in Rathmines in the Irish capital.
Butt featured in a Channel 4 documentary last year about Islamist extremists with links to the jailed preacher Anjem Choudary called The Jihadis Next Door.
The married father-of-two, who worked for London Underground as a trainee customer services assistant for nearly six months last year, could be seen in the programme arguing with police officers in the street, after displaying a flag used by IS in a London park.
Two people in Barking, east London, had also raised concerns about Butt, BBC home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani said.
Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Mark Rowley said an investigation into Butt began in 2015, but "there was no intelligence to suggest that this attack was being planned and the investigation had been prioritised accordingly".
At any one time there are about 500 active counter-terrorism investigations concerning 3,000 people of interest.
So far four of those killed in the attack have been named.
Ms Boden worked as a senior staff nurse at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London. Her family have described her in a statement as an "outgoing, kind and generous person".
"We are so proud of Kirsty's brave actions which demonstrate how selfless, caring and heroic she was, not only on that night, but throughout all of her life," they added.
The hospital said that Ms Boden was "an outstanding nurse and a hugely valued member of the staff team in Theatres Recovery, described by her colleagues as 'one in a million' who always went the extra mile for the patients in her care".
Canadian national Chrissy Archibald, 30, was the first victim to be named. Her family said she had died in her fiancé's arms after being struck by the attackers' speeding van.
The family of 32-year-old James McMullan, from Hackney, east London, say they believe he also died.
Mr McMullan's sister said he was believed to be among those who died, after his bank card was found on a body at the scene.
A French national was also killed in the attack, according to foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, which the BBC understands to be Mr Pigeard.
Manager of the Boro Bistro, Vincent Le Berre told the Brittany news outlet Le Telegramme how his colleague was attacked in a bar near Borough Market.
"I managed to escape him, but my friend Alexandre did not have that chance," he said. "He was hit in the neck with a knife."
The Met have set up a casualty bureau on 0800 096 1233 and 020 7158 0197 for people concerned about friends or relatives.
Frank Field warned students receiving their A-level results against pursuing "any old degree" and said vocational training could lead to better jobs.
He called for a rethink of careers advice given to 16 and 17-year-olds to avoid students being "sold a pup".
The government said universities "deliver extraordinary returns" for students.
Mr Field, a free-thinking former minister, who graduated from Hull university with a degree in economics, is chairman of the influential Commons Work and Pensions Committee.
In his article for the Times Educational Supplement, he wrote: "As we reflect on this year's A-level results, many sixth formers all over the country are mis-sold a graduate career, when the right advice, in terms of pay and happiness, is to take an apprenticeship.
"There is already a growing unease among young graduates who feel they have been ripped off."
He added: "This mis-selling scandal is so strongly embedded that it is countering any appetite across the country for alternative routes into jobs that pay decent wages and offer healthy prospects for progression."
Mr Field argued that apprenticeships could provide a better route into work for some school-leavers and they could earn more than some graduates.
"A large number of students have been sold a pup," he alleged.
His comments follow recent criticism of the cost of degrees from Labour peer and former government adviser Lord Adonis, and Theresa May's former chief of staff Nick Timothy.
Mr Timothy has argued that successive governments had assumed that an increase in university graduates would boost economic growth, when technical qualifications were more likely to boost productivity.
However, an organisation which aims to help low-paid 16 to 30-year-old women out of poverty, criticised the way apprenticeships were offered to women.
"It's right that apprenticeships should be taken more seriously as an alternative to university degrees," said Carole Easton, chief executive of the Young Women's Trust.
"They have the potential to be a great route out of poverty and into fantastic careers. At present, however, gender stereotypes and a lack of support shut women out.
"While men are encouraged into industries like engineering and construction, women are expected to go into beauty, administration and care - where they are often paid less, given less training and are less likely to get a job at the end of their apprenticeship."
Speaking to the BBC as A-level results came out on Thursday, Universities Minister Jo Johnson said: "Universities continue to deliver extraordinary returns for people who go.
"On average, if you're a woman, you're likely to have higher lifetime earnings than women who don't go."
An association representing school heads rejected Mr Field's criticism of careers advice for teenagers.
"Schools work incredibly hard to prepare young people for whatever route they want to pursue," said Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders.
However, he added: "Apprenticeships may be a more attractive option than university for many young people, particularly given the cost of university.
"So the more information we can give students about the range of options available, the better."
In April the government introduced a levy on employers to boost funding for workplace apprenticeships.
Labour has proposed allowing people to retrain for free at any point during their working lives.
Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said: "Labour's national education service would provide free lifelong learning through further education colleges as well as abolishing university fees, so that everyone could benefit from different forms of education throughout their lives."
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The band's ninth album fended off competition from Skepta, who debuts at number two with Konnichiwa.
A Moon Shaped Pool, Radiohead's first album in five years, sold 50,000 copies in the past week, despite only being released on Sunday.
Beyonce's Lemonade slides to number three, while last week's number one - Views By Drake - drops to number four.
Soul singer Gregory Porter completes the top five, with his new album Take Me To The Alley.
Other new entries in the top 20 include Jean Michel Jarre's Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise - which takes eighth place.
James Blake's surprise release The Colour in Anything is new at number 13, while Andy Biersack - lead singer of the Black Veil Brides - lands at 16 with The Shadow Side, a solo project released under the name Andy Black.
Adele's 25 slips out of the Top 10 for the first time since its release in November, going in at number 12 this week.
Notable climbers include Elle King's Love Stuff, which soars 73 places to number 33 after her performance at Sunday's Bafta TV Awards.
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Drake's One Dance remains number one for the fifth week, while Rihanna and Calvin Harris spend a second week at number two with This Is What You Came For.
One Dance also passed the 600,000 sales mark this week, certifying it platinum.
Both Sia and Mike Posner side one place, to number four and five respectively.
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Scores of trucks carrying supplies are stranded on the India-Nepal border, amid protests in south Nepal over the country's newly adopted constitution.
India has been critical of Nepal's new constitution.
But it denies enforcing a blockade, saying goods are being held up due to security reasons.
The move comes after a former Maoist splinter party started a campaign against Indian movies and TV channels in Nepal.
The president of the Nepal Cable Television Association told BBC Nepali the "black-out will be indefinite".
Sudhir Parajuli said they decided to shut down the broadcast of the Indian channels as "India has been intruding in the national sovereignty of Nepal," the PTI agency said.
A Kathmandu movie theatre stopped showing Indian movies two days ago, an employee said.
Indian television channels are popular among viewers in Kathmandu and other cities in Nepal.
However there has been growing anger at what is being seen as Indian attempts to wilfully obstruct the supply of essential goods into Nepal and interference with the internal affairs of a sovereign nation.
India expressed concern over the new constitution after its adoption spurred protests by minority ethnic groups in the south of Nepal. At least 40 people have been killed in the violence.
Demonstrators in the region have since blocked two of the main border crossings from India, shutting off vital supply lines.
With several hundred trucks stuck at the frontier, supplies including sugar, salt and cooking gas cylinders are being affected.
Nepal is heavily dependent on supplies from neighbouring India.
Indian envoy Ranjit Rae was called in by the Acting Nepalese Foreign Minister Khaga Raj last week and the issue of "obstruction" in the supply of essential goods coming in from the Indian side was raised with him, the PTI news agency reported.
However it said Mr Rae had clarified that there was no obstruction from the Indian side on the movement of goods and the problem was due to unrest, protests and demonstrations on the Nepalese side.
Explosives expert Lorna Philp told the Old Bailey the device was intended to explode and project metal fragments into those nearby.
Student Damon Smith, 20, denies making or possessing an explosive substance with intent to endanger life.
He is accused of leaving a homemade improvised explosive device (IED) on a Jubilee Line train in October.
The jury heard the defendant told police the device was only supposed to produce smoke and said he left it on the train as a prank.
Pictures of the device were shown to jurors who were told it was made using materials including sparklers, a fairy light and a wall clock.
Ms Philp said that - in her opinion - it was "an improvised explosive device designed to explode and produce fragmentation that could cause injuries to persons and damage to property within close proximity".
It was not intended to produce smoke, she told jurors.
The presence of ball bearings indicated that "an attempt has been made" to increase the damage caused by the IED by producing "additional fragmentation to cause injuries to persons nearby," Ms Philp said.
She said an ignition section of the device was "viable" and believed it "had functioned" due to charring residue, but had failed to ignite the attached explosive substance.
Ms Philp said the device itself "could have functioned" had some elements of the design been different.
On Wednesday, the Old Bailey heard Mr Smith has Asperger's syndrome, or Autism Spectrum Disorder, and has a keen interest in guns and other weapons that may have been a function of the condition.
The trial continues.
The Scottish and UK governments are working on a "fiscal framework" - to ensure any new powers for Scotland do not impact negatively on funding.
John Swinney has said any deal reached by the 14 February deadline would be opened up for Holyrood to examine.
Meanwhile, the Scottish Secretary has said he believes a deal is in reach.
The Scotland Bill, currently making its way through Westminster, will set out major new tax and welfare powers for Holyrood.
But The Smith Commission, on transferring power to Scotland, said the final agreement should not put Scotland at a disadvantage.
Further discussions will take place in Edinburgh on Monday, involving Chief Secretary to the Treasury Greg Hands and Mr Swinney.
And Mr Swinney has indicated the Scottish government will publish key papers on the fiscal framework before the end of the parliamentary term.
He said: "Once this process has run its course, Scotland's Parliament and people have a right to see all the key documents.
"That's why I can give a commitment that I will publish these documents in time for Scottish parliamentary scrutiny and before the Scottish Parliament dissolves."
The Scottish finance secretary said he wanted to see a framework that is fair to Scottish and to UK taxpayers.
And Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell said there had been significant movement from the UK Government in an attempt to find agreement.
He added: "Ministers at Holyrood will be shielded from a significant amount of risk - while still keeping all the money they take in income tax from Scottish taxpayers.
"And we will review the framework after a few years to make absolutely sure it is delivering for Scotland and the rest of the UK."
The 23-year-old was in Norwich on Wednesday for talks, but his agent confirmed in a Dutch paper that Dijks would not be moving to Carrow Road.
Dijks began his career with Ajax, but had a spell with Willem II before rejoining them in July 2015.
He has made 15 appearances for Ajax this season in the Dutch Eredivisie and Europa League.
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Speaking at the launch of the party's manifesto, in Belfast, Mr Ford said they would return enough MLAs to qualify for a ministerial seat.
But he said they won't take on the role of justice minister without a commitment to reform.
The Alliance manifesto makes five main commitments:
The party also backs the introduction of what it calls "fair" water charges, claiming that to avoid them would mean deeper cuts to public services.
Mr Ford said: "I believe we will certainly win the numbers we need, which will be something like eleven, to guarantee that will be in the D'Hondt lucky dip (to qualify for a ministry)."
The party's deputy leader, Naomi Long, said they would build on a clear vision of an "inclusive, fair, progressive society, where everyone is treated with respect and with dignity".
She added: "We share the frustration of many in Northern Ireland at the pace of change.
"The assembly has, of course, delivered much and we have been at the forefront of delivering that change.
"However, it would be fair to say that for many their perception of the assembly is something that is much poorer than we would like to see, one that is typified by deadlock , by delay and by division."
Notts dominated the first half, but Green came off the bench and struck home the opener with his first touch.
The visitors seemed set to earn a point through a deflected Alex Rodman shot.
But Green netted with a penalty after Mal Benning was deemed to have been fouled by Matt Tootle and Henderson ran through and fired in a third.
Green had scored twice in the corresponding fixture last season which the Stags won 5-0.
But a repeat result, or individual goalscoring feat, seemed highly unlikely as Notts seized control before the interval.
The Magpies could have been 3-0 up at the break, Jonathan Forte shooting against the post and wasting a one-on-one chance, and Jon Stead having a shot cleared off the line.
But Green's introduction sparked a much-improved display by the hosts and, although Rodman cancelled out Green's scrappy opener, the striker kept his cool with his spot-kick for his second and Henderson's first goal for the club sealed all three points.
Match ends, Mansfield Town 3, Notts County 1.
Second Half ends, Mansfield Town 3, Notts County 1.
Darius Henderson (Mansfield Town) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Mansfield Town 3, Notts County 1. Darius Henderson (Mansfield Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Chris Clements.
Oscar Gobern (Mansfield Town) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Darius Henderson (Mansfield Town).
Louis Laing (Notts County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Vadaine Oliver (Notts County).
Foul by Mitch Rose (Mansfield Town).
Aaron Collins (Notts County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal! Mansfield Town 2, Notts County 1. Matt Green (Mansfield Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Penalty Mansfield Town. Malvind Benning draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Matt Tootle (Notts County) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Darius Henderson (Mansfield Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Mitch Rose (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jonathan Forte (Notts County).
Substitution, Mansfield Town. Darius Henderson replaces Pat Hoban.
Attempt missed. Vadaine Oliver (Notts County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Goal! Mansfield Town 1, Notts County 1. Alex Rodman (Notts County) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Carl Dickinson with a cross following a set piece situation.
Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town).
Jonathan Forte (Notts County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town).
Vadaine Oliver (Notts County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Louis Laing.
Matt Green (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Carl Dickinson (Notts County).
Attempt missed. Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high following a corner.
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Louis Laing.
Vadaine Oliver (Notts County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Vadaine Oliver (Notts County).
Substitution, Notts County. Jordan Richards replaces Haydn Hollis.
Substitution, Notts County. Vadaine Oliver replaces Jon Stead.
Substitution, Notts County. Aaron Collins replaces Stanley Aborah.
Chris Clements (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stanley Aborah (Notts County).
Foul by Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town).
Jon Stead (Notts County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Labour's Mark Bradshaw received an email at 00:30 BST saying there was "no longer a place for you on my cabinet".
He said Mr Ferguson wanted to "get rid" of him because he is in the running to be Labour's mayoral candidate.
The mayor, who stands for re-election as an independent next year, said Mr Bradshaw was "playing party politics".
The row between the two continued on Twitter.
The Bristol Port Company bought the port from the council in 1991 and agreed a 150-year lease on the understanding it could buy the freehold at a later date.
But the council has agreed to sell it, despite opposition from councillors who had asked Mr Ferguson to reconsider his decision at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
The mayor told the BBC that Mr Bradshaw had "turned up at the last minute" with a prepared statement on the port sale explaining why he had "changed his mind".
He accused Mr Bradshaw of having "started to use the cabinet and his position as a political stage for his own ambition".
But Mr Bradshaw said he had been "raising questions right from the start" about the sale of the freehold.
These included where much of the £10m raised will be spent and "uncertainty" about whether the Henbury Loop - a rail line used for freight which campaigners hope will open for passenger use - could co-exist with an expanded port.
The Bedminster councillor said: "I think it's politically motivated. I think the mayor's been looking for a reason to get rid of me because I'm a potential challenger next year."
Mr Bradshaw's responsibilities for transport and regeneration will be taken on by fellow assistant mayor, Liberal Democrat councillor Simon Cook.
Mr Bradshaw and Marvin Rees - who lost out to Mr Ferguson in the 2012 mayoral election - are on Labour's shortlist to run for mayor next year.
Mr Paisley was buried in County Down, following a private funeral service at his family home in east Belfast.
As a mark of respect, assembly business was suspended as MLAs remembered the former first minister and DUP leader.
Mr Paisley, who stepped down from politics in 2008, died on Friday, aged 88.
His successor as first minister and DUP leader, Peter Robinson, told MLAs: "Ian Paisley was a remarkable man, whose long career in public life has left an indelible mark upon all of us who knew him.
"Like so many, I was drawn towards politics by the clarity, the certainty, the strength and the conviction of his message."
The first minister said Mr Paisley had "taken his place in the chronicles of Ulster history, alongside the greats of unionism".
Mr Robinson added that since his death, politics seemed "a little less colourful and exciting".
"Ulster will never see the like of him again, he was an exceptional human being," he said.
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness told the assembly that sharing power with Mr Paisley during his first year in office was an "incredible experience" and one of the "most memorable" of his life.
The Sinn Féin MLA said that as a teenager, he remembered being "in fear" of Mr Paisley, because of his "huge stature, his booming voice, his politics that we didn't share or like".
However, he said that after they went into government together they "genuinely grew to like each other and in doing so, we confounded the world".
Mr McGuinness said: "From the word go, for some reason, we hit it off. Not alone did we develop a positive and constructive working relationship, we actually became friends."
He added that both he and the Northern Ireland peace process had "lost a great friend" as a result of Mr Paisley's death.
After the tributes, MLAs signed a book of condolence in Stormont's Great Hall - members of the public have also been invited to do so.
A book of condolence opened at Belfast City Hall on Monday, where the union flag was flown at half-mast.
A spokeswoman for Belfast City Council said the flag had been displayed under the College of Arms policy.
The policy states the flag should fly at half-mast to mark the the funerals of first ministers and ex-first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
All DUP constituency offices closed on Monday, as a mark of respect to the party's founder and former leader.
Several books of condolence for Mr Paisley were opened in towns and cities in Northern Ireland on Saturday.
Mr Paisley moved from a political "never man" to Northern Ireland's first minister.
He ended up leading a power-sharing executive at Stormont - although he had supported the strike to bring one down 30 years earlier.
Mr Paisley was a founder of the Free Presbyterian Church in 1951 after a split with the Presbyterian Church - he resigned as as moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church in 2008.
In 2011, he told the congregation at Martyrs Memorial Free Presbyterian Church in south Belfast that he was stepping down from ministry.
The 21-year-old centre-back has attracted interest from Oxford United, but on Saturday opted against joining the League One club.
Thistle boss Alan Archibald told BBC Scotland that Lindsay is eager to advance his career.
"Liam trained this morning and he'll probably go down and speak to Barnsley in the coming days," Archibald said.
"I spoke to Liam this morning just about overall interest from a few teams. At that time there wasn't a fee agreed so it was a different conversation, but he's an honest, great lad who just wants to do the best he can in his career. It's about him progressing."
Lindsay, who scored seven goals in 42 Thistle appearances last season, has spoken of his frustration at having never represented Scotland at any age group level.
But Archibald is hopeful he could catch the eye of Scotland manager Gordon Strachan if he continues to develop as a player.
"He is getting better all the time," Archibald added. "It's a position we are struggling for as a nation at this time but he has got to do it consistently and continually at the highest level he can and if he moves hopefully that will help him as well.
"But his time will come. Gordon has got one of the hardest jobs in football - I'm not going to tell him how to do his job. When the time is right, hopefully Gordon will pick him."
South Wales Police said a body has been recovered from the River Neath at Glynneath near the A465.
Emergency services were called to the scene at about 12:30 GMT after reports that a person was in the river.
An investigation is under way, police added.
And he believes he is a better player now than the one that scored four times in 48 games for St Johnstone.
"St Johnstone was a while ago, about four year ago," said the 27-year-old, who has signed until the end of the season after leaving Crewe Alexandra.
"And I am a slightly different player now - a bit more experienced."
Striker Haber, who joined Crewe from Stevenage in 2014, scored 10 times in 50 appearances last season as the Railwaymen were relegated from England's League One.
He had already earned the first of his 26 caps for Canada before joining St Johnstone in 2010 after leaving West Bromwich Albion.
"That was my first real taste of first-team football for a prolonged period of time in the UK," said Haber, who has also found the net three times for his country.
"I was still learning the game, so I definitely feel a lot different now."
Dundee manager Paul Hartley lost his two top scorers this summer, when Kane Hemmings and Greg Stewart were sold to Oxford United and Birmingham City respectively.
Faissal El Bakhtaoui arrived with a goalscoring reputation after helping Dunfermline Athletic win League One last season, while Yordi Teijsse had been prolific with Quick Boys in Netherlands' fourth tier.
However, Hartley has earmarked the striking department as a problem as his side have gone nine games without a victory - and lost their last five - with El Bakhtaoui also sidelined through injury for the next three weeks.
The manager is looking for Haber, who impressed on a week's trial after being released by Crewe, to make a difference.
"He will add height and strength and he is someone who stays in the box," said Hartley.
"The majority of his goals have come from inside the box, so hopefully that gives us a different dimension."
Haber scored for Canada in a 4-0 victory over Mauritania earlier this month.
"He has played two games for Canada recently, so his fitness looks okay," added Hartley ahead of Wednesday's visit to Dens Park by second-bottom Partick Thistle.
But Roger Lewis said that buying the airport in 2013 was "absolutely" the right decision by Welsh ministers.
In January, the Conservatives accused them of wasting tens of millions of pounds by purchasing it for around double an initial valuation of £20-30m.
Mr Lewis said "one will never know" if the price was correct.
Giving evidence to the assembly's public accounts committee on Tuesday, he said: "Could one have paid less for it? Perhaps.
"Could one have paid more for it? Perhaps. One will never know.
"Because what's in the mind of the seller - and you need a willing seller as well as a willing buyer - one will never know."
Mr Lewis added: "The headline for me, was this the right decision for Wales? Absolutely, absolutely.
"Can we enhance the value of the enterprise going forward? Yes."
Debra Barber, the airport's managing director, said the site was becoming "worn down" under its Spanish owners Abertis, and the idea of closing it had been raised at board meetings.
Ms Barber, who worked for Abertis as operations director, said the airport had submitted a £3m programme for "critical infrastructure" that needed to be replaced.
"We actually got about a fifth of what we required, which just about enabled us to do the stuff that we were required to do by regulation," she said.
Mr Lewis told the committee: "Was it heading towards a tipping point where it could have headed for closure? The answer is yes."
Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies has accused Labour of a "stunning failure to safeguard taxpayers' money" in paying £52m for the airport.
A Welsh government spokesman said reporting of the £20m-£30m valuation had been "entirely selective and misleading" and accountants KPMG had "modelled a range of scenarios during the due diligence process".
The Frenchman had been vying with Leigh Griffiths for a starting place, but his Old Firm treble helped set him apart.
"It was a big moment in my Celtic career, my first hat-trick as a professional footballer and my first league goals for Celtic," Dembele said.
"It was a good day to remember, but it's gone now and we have another [Old Firm] game on Sunday."
Dembele has now scored 32 goals in all competitions for top-flight leaders Celtic - including 17 in the league - and he received the Premiership player of the month award for February after scoring six goals in three league games.
The 20-year-old believes he has improved as a player since joining last summer from Fulham to work with Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers, who describes the striker as a "big game player".
"I love the atmosphere of big games, so I'm ready for that," Dembele said.
"I've developed a lot. Since the first time I came here, I've learned a lot. It's been a good season for me so far, and the Celtic team.
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"I'm young, so I try to learn from everywhere, and every aspect of the game is important. It's all about opportunities. I tried to take mine when the gaffer gave me a chance to play. Since then. I've tried to give 100% in training, and on the pitch."
Dembele has four under-21 caps, as well as four goals, and a French television station named him the France Under-21 player of the year in 2016, ahead of the likes of Manchester United forward Anthony Martial and Borussia Dortmund midfielder Ousmane Dembele.
The striker believes he is now on the verge of a full international call-up, with France naming their squad next week for the World Cup qualifying tie later this month against Luxembourg.
"I would say I'm not far from [the full French squad], I just try to keep working and it will come when it comes," Dembele added.
"I don't think about it. There's a game on Sunday and the French list is coming out next week and we'll see after that.
"People in France know what I'm capable of, so it's not just about this game, it's about what I've done through the season."
The UK-based household goods maker said it saw "no merit, either financial or strategic" in Kraft's offer, worth about $143bn (£115bn).
But Kraft, which makes Heinz ketchup, indicated it would continue working on a deal, sending shares in Unilever surging more than 13%.
The deal would be one of the biggest in corporate history.
It would combine Unilever's dozens of household names, including Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Dove soap, and Hellmann's mayonnaise, with Kraft's own wide range, such as Philadelphia cheese and Heinz baked beans.
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Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever, which has 7,500 employees in the UK, said the offer from Kraft "fundamentally undervalued" the company.
"Unilever does not see the basis for any further discussions," it added.
Kraft, which is part-owned by US billionaire Warren Buffett, said it had made "a comprehensive proposal" and looked "forward to working to reach agreement on the terms of a transaction".
The US food company attracted political scrutiny when it bought Cadbury in 2010, although it later spun the UK chocolate maker off into another company.
A takeover of Unilever could raise concerns about job cuts and would likely be examined by competition regulators, analysts said.
With so many brands, the firms would be in a stronger position to raise prices, said Neil Wilson, an analyst at London broker ETX Capital.
"The combined entity would have a huge brand footprint and be able to flex bargain muscles even more with supermarkets," Mr Wilson said.
Takeovers are like those strange mating rituals you see on Planet Earth narrated by David Attenborough.
Kraft Heinz has approached Unilever about getting together and making an even bigger business with a huge family of brands.
Unilever has spurned the offer and is looking aloof, saying not only the proposal was too cheap but also that it "sees no merit, either financial or strategic....Unilever does not see the basis for any further discussions".
Quite a slap in the face you might think but faint heart ne'er won fair hand. If Kraft Heinz offered a lot more money it might look a bit more attractive to Unilever.
Although whether the competition and takeover authorities would bless the union is another matter.
It would create a behemoth that could dominate many consumer sectors from food to soap and might stifle competition; many societies have rules against that kind of relationship.
"It could come up against a number of hurdles as it would create a giant in the sector. EU regulators in particular could be against it," Mr Wilson said.
Unilever clashed with UK supermarket Tesco in October over its attempts to raise prices to compensate for the steep drop in the value of the pound.
The consumer goods giant has over a dozen sites across the UK, including three major plants in Liverpool, Norwich and Gloucester.
A UK government spokesman said: "This is clearly an important potential deal for a major company in the UK and its workforce. We continue to monitor the situation closely."
If the deal went through, it would be the second biggest ever, behind Vodafone's $183bn takeover of Germany's Mannesmann in 2000, according to Dealogic.
Kraft's offer was at an 18% premium to Unilever's closing share price on Thursday, Unilever said.
The 13% rise in Unilever shares after the companies' announcements suggested investors were not fully convinced the deal would happen. Kraft shares rose 11% on Wall Street.
Still, analysts said Kraft was likely to return with another offer for Unilever, which reported net profit of 5.5bn euros (£4.7bn) last year.
"With Kraft Heinz saying it'll be coming back to the table, it looks like the initial offer was just to test the water," said Nicholas Hyett, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
Mr Buffett's investment fund Berkshire Hathaway and Brazilian private equity firm 3G are major investors in Kraft.
Kraft merged with Heinz in 2015 to create one of America's biggest food companies.
In 2010, Kraft bought Cadbury for £11.5bn, but it no longer owns the UK chocolate maker after spinning it off in a company called Mondelez.
He was speaking after he collected an honorary doctorate at the University of Glasgow.
Earlier Mr Cook visited an Apple store in Glasgow, where staff gave him a tartan scarf and a drawing.
His comments on the presidential decree targeting seven predominantly Muslim countries came in a Q&A session at the university.
Responding to questions from students and staff, Mr Cook said: "I wrote this letter, you probably read about it unless you're living underground, about the most recent executive order that was issued in the US.
"We have employees that secured a work visa, they brought family to the US, but happened to be outside the US when the executive order was issued and all of a sudden their families were affected.
"They couldn't get back in. That's a crisis. You can imagine the stress.
"If we stand and say nothing it's as if we're agreeing, that we become a part of it. It's important to speak out."
Mr Cook has taken a strong stance on user privacy and other issues which have at times brought him into conflict with the US authorities.
Since taking the helm of the company, Mr Cook has led the introduction of new products such as the iPhone 7, iPad Pro and Apple Watch.
He is also leading a company-wide effort to use 100% renewable energy at all Apple facilities.
In 2015, the 56-year-old became an honorary patron of Trinity College Dublin's Philosophical Society and gave a talk to students.
The embroidered picture presented by the Apple store staff shows Mr Cook waving and the words: "Welcome Tim."
It also features saltire flags and the Loch Ness monster.
He said: "That's great. I recall looking for the Loch Ness monster in 1984.
"Everything is right but the colour of the hair."
They also spoke to members of the emergency services who attended the Bataclan in 2015 and Nice last year.
The royal couple's official two-day visit to the French capital began on Friday.
They visited the Musee d'Orsay and will later watch the Six Nations rugby match between France and Wales.
Prince William and Catherine also attended a "Les Voisins [neighbours] in Action" event at the Trocadero square, highlighting the ties between young people in France and the UK.
In Nice last July, eighty-six people died after a lorry ploughed into a crowd, while 90 people were killed by gunmen at the Bataclan music venue in Paris in November 2015. Another 40 people died in attacks elsewhere in the city on the same night.
As the duke and duchess toured the historic Les Invalides hospital, where they also met war veterans, reports came in of an attack at Orly Airport in Paris.
Speaking at the start of the official visit on Friday, the prince said the UK's relationship with France will continue despite the vote to leave the EU,
He said the friendship and co-operation between the two nations "would not change".
The royal couple's trip began at the Elysee Palace, where they met French President Francois Hollande
In the evening they attended a dinner hosted by the UK's ambassador to France, Edward Llewellyn.
It is Prince William first official visit to the city where his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash in 1997.
The trip comes also comes after the duke faced questions over his work ethic for missing a Commonwealth celebration to take a skiing holiday with friends. It led to criticism from some newspapers after a video emerged of him dancing and in a DJ booth during the trip.
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The couple have travelled without their children, three-year-old George and one-year-old Charlotte.
Kensington Palace said the trip was at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said: "Royal visits play a very important role in the United Kingdom's bilateral diplomacy.
"Whilst every royal visit is unique, each visit is designed to support foreign policy objectives and promote closer ties across a range of areas, for example cultural, economic or political, between the UK and the host country."
Caixinha told McInnes not to come into his office following the Dons' midweek 2-1 victory at Ibrox, after the Portuguese felt slighted at Pittodrie.
However, Caxinha says the situation has been resolved between both managers.
"With a fantastic glass of Portuguese wine, everything stays clear, that's what matters," he said.
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The Rangers boss had said McInnes did not join him for a post-match drink when the teams met at Pittodrie last month.
McInnes, however, insists the Portuguese was "mistaken", adding "every manager is welcome in my office".
Speaking on Friday, Caixinha indicated that the issue between the pair had been resolved and that their relationship was respectful.
"We had a very good glass of fantastic Portuguese wine," he said. "One glass of wine clarifies everything. It's done and everything stays in my office. What's private is private."
Aberdeen's victory at Ibrox was their first at the stadium since 1991, with Graeme Shinnie and Ryan Christie scoring before Martyn Waghorn's reply for the hosts.
McInnes was, on Friday, reluctant to discuss the situation with Caixinha.
"I don't want to comment any further other than really a couple of things have been said that disappoints me," he said. "I think it's a wee bit of a sideshow.
"But other than that I just want to focus on the performance and result of the team, which were excellent."
When asked whether he had had a glass of wine with his Rangers counterpart, McInnes said: "Like I say, I will just concentrate on the result."
He was speaking to MSPs after a deal was reached on the fiscal framework underlying increased devolution.
Mr Mundell said there was "no impediment" to the early transfer of powers subject to the passing of the Scotland Bill.
He is expected to give more details of the fiscal agreement to MPs later.
The Scottish Secretary told Holyrood's devolution committee he expected control over income tax to pass to MSPs by April 2017, in time for the next budget of the new Scottish Parliament.
The time-scale for the transfer of new powers over welfare remains to be agreed by the two governments through the joint ministerial group on welfare, he said.
But he added: "My envisaged timetable is that, subject obviously to parliament bringing forward its legislative consent motion and the Bill proceeding to Royal Assent ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections, a number of the powers will be in place almost immediately after the Scottish Parliament elections.
"One of the other tax powers for example, Air Passenger Duty, can be transferred at the point that the Scottish government has its model ready for that transfer.
"If the arrangements are available shortly after the Scottish Parliament election we would be able to transfer them.
"In relation to the wider powers and the wider tax, we place no impediment in relation to the transfer of those powers."
His comments followed a last-minute agreement on the fiscal framework - the detailed financial arrangements underlying the transfer of more powers from Westminster to Holyrood.
The talks, which began in March 2015, had stalled over different interpretations of a key line of the Smith Commission agreement, which said there should be "no detriment" to either the UK or Scottish budgets as a result of the changes.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the deal, reached after 10 rounds of negotiations, meant "not a single penny of detriment to the Scottish government's budget" for six years, followed by a review of future arrangements.
Chancellor George Osborne said the agreements were "fair to Scotland and fair to taxpayers in the rest of the UK".
Lord Smith of Kelvin, who chaired the cross-party Smith Commission set up after the "No" vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, said the deal on new powers for Holyrood could now be "delivered in full".
He said: "The next term of Scottish parliamentarians will be debating and taking decisions over large parts of Scotland's tax and welfare policy. I believe this will be transformational for our parliament.
"There should be no doubt that this was a highly complex package of measures to agree. It is difficult to imagine a bigger test of inter-governmental relationships and while it was obviously a very tough negotiation, what matters is that an agreement was reached.
"This provides an excellent basis for constructive engagement between the governments long into the future.
"When the Smith Agreement was passed to the prime minister and first minister, both gave their word that they would deliver it into law - they have met that promise in full."
About 20 pupils were affected at Flash Ley Community Primary School and Nursery in Stafford on Friday.
The county council said the school would be shut until "all issues have been addressed". Arrangements are in place for children to go elsewhere.
Long-lasting health problems were unlikely following the "strong odour," the council said.
Formaldehyde is a toxic compound often used as a disinfectant and for embalming.
It can irritate the skin and cause breathing and digestive problems.
Ben Adams, council cabinet member for education and skills, said: "Symptoms of sore eyes, sore throats, runny noses, tightness of the chest, nausea and vomiting could be related to exposure to formaldehyde in the air, but for some children there could be other causes."
The council said testing revealed "high levels of formaldehyde, a common substance that is used extensively in buildings, internal furnishings and household products".
It said it was working closely with Public Health England and the Health and Safety Executive to investigate the cause of the incident, which was believed to be linked to work carried out on floors during the summer.
Public Health England said it was "satisfied that children and staff are not at risk of ongoing exposure".
Arrangements to educate children at the nearby Chetwynd Centre, Tillington Manor and Stafford Manor High were put in place, the council said.
Head teacher Simon Barker said offering alternative school provision was to allow for "more tests to be conducted within the school and to ensure all the issues have been addressed".
A helpline has been set up for parents.
Responses from 120 universities across the UK revealed that total academic appeals and complaints were 10% higher in 2012-13 than in 2010-11.
Universities Minister David Willetts welcomed the finding.
He said it showed that students were demanding more for the £9,000-per-year fee.
The BBC sent Freedom of Information requests to 142 universities across the UK, asking how many complaints and appeals they had received since 2010. A total of 120 responded. The results showed universities were upholding more student complaints than ever before.
The amount paid out in compensation had also risen. The total paid since 2010 was more than £2m.
Mr Willetts said it appeared that since tuition fees rose to £9,000, students were more likely to hold their universities to account when things went wrong.
"If there are more complaints because students are more aware of what they should expect of funding and are more demanding, then I think that's a good thing," said Mr Willetts.
"When there's a fee of £9,000, the university is obliged to show what they're doing and provide a decent service."
The independent adjudicator for higher education, Rob Behrens, deals with university complaints which cannot be resolved internally.
He said he had also seen a rise in the smaller number of complaints which come to his office each year. In 2012, he received 2,000 complaints.
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"In the last five years, we've seen a continual year-on-year increase in the numbers of complaints, often to the tune of between 20% and 25%. Very recently that has tailed off, which is encouraging," says Mr Behrens.
"I think the decision to raise the fees has had an impact on student thinking. Students do see themselves more as consumers than they used to. They want the best possible degree they can get."
A large proportion of the total appeals and complaints relate to cases where students appeal against their grades. But in other cases, students complain because they are unhappy with the content or structure of their courses.
The largest number of appeals and complaints in one full year was at Anglia Ruskin University, where the total in 2012-13 was 992.
Among those who have complained about the university recently were a group of law students, who have just completed a three-year law degree at the university's Chelmsford campus.
Several of them signed up to take a Legal Practice Course in order to become trainee solicitors. But after they paid a deposit, they were told the course would not run at Chelmsford next year and they would have to travel 45 miles to Cambridge.
They will have two days' face-to-face teaching and will have to watch the remaining lectures online rather than attending them live.
One of the students, Rachel, said: "I was in complete shock, it was just we'd always been led to believe we could just carry on and there was never any doubt, there was never any warning that this could happen.
"I don't think it's fair - we have to pay the same in tuition fees when we're receiving less for our money."
The university has rejected the students' complaint, and they are considering whether to take it further. Anglia Ruskin did not comment on the case but told the BBC it allowed larger numbers of students to appeal than some universities.
"If anything, our process has been overly generous. With a student population of more than 31,000, our numbers are not particularly surprising," said a spokesman.
The new Competition and Markets Authority is investigating whether universities are fulfilling their responsibilities under consumer protection legislation, following a report by its predecessor body, the Office of Fair Trading.
The team leader responsible for the work, Carmen Suarez, said: "We found some evidence of practices that may actually breach the consumer protection legislation. Examples include geography students that needed to complete a field trip in order to be able to graduate and were not told the cost in advance."
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Approximately 1.1 million sport utility vehicles (SUVs) sold in North America are being recalled because they could suffer a loss of power steering.
An additional 200,000 Taurus sedans built between 2010 and 2014 could be prone to a corrosion issue.
The recent spate of similar incidents could mean carmakers will soon break the record for most recalls in a year.
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Most of those recalls have come in the wake of a safety scandal at Ford rival General Motors (GM).
GM is accused of failing to report safety defects in some of its cars that could cause the engine to suddenly switch off.
The fault has been linked to at least 13 deaths, although US regulators believe that figure could grow.
In the wake of the disclosures, both carmakers and US regulators have stepped up efforts to recall vehicles once defects are discovered.
They were launched on a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana after a day's delay due to unfavourable winds at the Sinnamary spaceport.
The satellites' deployment marks the first phase in O3b's construction of a novel telecommunications network.
It plans to put a constellation in the sky to handle voice and data traffic for mobile phone, internet and other service providers.
O3b is targeting parts of the world that currently have poor fibre-optic infrastructure.
With support from blue chip companies such as Google, it believes its network can change the broadband experience for millions of people by providing an alternative "fibre in the sky" to backhaul traffic.
"When you pull out your mobile phone and type google.com on it, it sends a signal from your phone to a tower nearby. From that tower it has to reach Google's servers. That's the backhaul part. And most of the world does not have access to backhaul," explained O3b founder Greg Wyler.
"In most of the world, you could put up a tower somewhere and reach it from your cell phone, but then you couldn't reach the server in California to get the information. That's where we come in."
The Soyuz carrying the four satellites lifted clear of the Sinnamary launch gantry at 16:27 local time (19:27 GMT). It took more than two hours and several burns from the rocket's Fregat upper-stage to get the spacecraft into their correct 8,000km-high orbit.
Confirmation of separation from the Fregat and a successful mission came shortly before 22:00 GMT.
The altitude is a critical part of the O3b design.
By flying in this "medium-Earth orbit", the satellites will be a quarter of the distance from Earth than is the case with traditional geostationary (GEO) telecommunications spacecraft, which sit some 36,000km above the planet.
This should reduce substantially the delay, or latency, of the signal as the voice or data traffic is routed via space.
For standard satellites, the latency can be 600 milliseconds or more. O3b is promising its customers a round-trip transmission time of a little more than 100 milliseconds.
The satellites will operate in the high-frequency Ka-band and have the capability to deliver 10 beams, at 1.2Gbps per beam, to each of O3b's seven operational regions. These are spread around the equator and reach latitudes of about 45 degrees North and South.
The company expects to start services at the end of the year, once it gets eight spacecraft in orbit, but the intention is to put up perhaps as many as 20 eventually.
"The architecture is very scalable," CEO Steve Collar told BBC News. "We can keep launching satellites into that same arc and building the capacity we can deliver to our customers - and driving down the cost, importantly.
"With all telecommunications, customers want more and more data for the same amount of money, and we have to continually drive those cost benefits into our network."
The first place to benefit from the new system will be the Cook Islands in the Pacific. It has no connection to the global fibre-optic network.
It has taken about six years to put the O3b project together. Key backers include not only Google but SES, one of the big players in the traditional satellite communications business.
O3b was born from Mr Wyler's frustration with the difficulty of connecting a modern teleco in Rwanda to the global fibre-optic network, and the constraints that placed on performance.
O3b actually stands for "other three billion" - the number of people whose poor communications experience is expected to improve over the coming decade. O3b sees itself as an important agent of that change.
The Jersey, Channel Islands-based outfit has raised more than $1bn to build its space and ground infrastructure.
O3b's largest debt facility, over $0.5bn, is provided by HSBC, ING, CA-CIB and Dexia, and is underwritten by the French export credit agency, Coface. The agency has been extremely active in supporting the new space constellations involving Thales Alenia Space (TAS), one of Europe's major satellite manufacturers.
TAS has all but finished the second batch of four spacecraft for O3b, and has started work on units 9-12 which it hopes to deliver early next year.
"We also have responsibility for LEOP (Launch and early orbit phase) activities," Philippe Nabet, the TAS programme manager on the O3b project, told BBC News prior to Tuesday's lift-off.
"We will make sure that the satellites have the correct spacing. This is done at our control centre in Cannes. We also do the in-orbit testing of the platform and its payload. We should hand the satellites over to O3b in roughly one month."
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Mr Farage had promised to quit if he failed to win a seat at the general election, but had his resignation rejected by his party.
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "I would look forward to a by-election in a Labour seat very much indeed."
He also said he had sat in a "darkened room" before deciding to continue.
Mr Farage failed to be elected in South Thanet, losing out to the Conservative candidate. He had said he would be "for the chop" if he lost out.
Speaking to the BBC at the European Parliament in Brussels, he said he had kept his word but was "persuaded to change his mind" by "overwhelming support" from UKIP's National Executive Committee.
"I resigned. I said I'd resign. I turned up to the NEC meeting with letter in hand fully intending to carry that through," he said.
"They unanimously said they didn't want me to do that, they presented me with petitions, signatures, statements from candidates saying it would be a bad thing for UKIP.
"So I left the meeting, went and sat in darkened room to think about what to do, and decided for the interest of the party I would accept their kind offer for me to stay and tear up the letter."
Mr Farage also said UKIP's "greatest potential" was among Labour voters in the Midlands and the north of England.
Its northern leader, Michelle O'Neill, said the urgency was increased by the prospect of Brexit, which would be "a disaster for the people of Ireland".
She was speaking shortly after Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was to seek a second referendum on independence.
Mrs O'Neill said this was "a matter for the Scottish people".
Referring to Irish unity, the Sinn Féin MLA said it was now "over to the people to have their say in relation to the future".
She was speaking during a break from talks at Stormont aimed at restoring the power-sharing executive.
MLAs have been attending a ceremony at Parliament Buildings to sign the roll of membership.
They were due to elect a new speaker, but this has been postponed for two weeks.
The Northern Ireland Secretary, James Brokenshire, has cancelled a planned trip to the United States this week to concentrate on the Stormont talks.
Mr Brokenshire had been due to travel to Washington on Wednesday for two days.
He was due to meet President Trump as part of St Patrick's Day celebrations.
Talks at Stormont are a "critical stage" and his focus is with them, a senior government source told the Press Association.
"He is just focused on getting the right result and getting an agreement by 27 March," said the source.
"The deadline is looming. He will have no other option by law but to call another election if there is no agreement by then."
On Thursday, Mr Brokenshire warned there could be "significant consequences" if the discussions to try to restore power sharing end in deadlock.
If Northern Ireland's parties fail to reach a deal by 27 March, voters face the prospect of going back to the polls for a second snap election within months.
The assembly election on 2 March was the second in 10 months and was called after the collapse of a coalition led by Arlene Foster's DUP and Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness.
Mr McGuinness resigned over Mrs Foster's refusal to step aside as first minister pending an inquiry into the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme, which was set up under her watch as Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment and could cost the Northern Ireland tax payer £490m.
The election saw an end to the unionist majority at Stormont, with Sinn Féin now holding just one seat fewer than the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
If no executive is formed, another election can be called, and ultimately power could return to the UK parliament at Westminster for the first time in a decade.
Horsemeat has also been found in cottage pies supplied to 47 schools in Lancashire - they have been withdrawn.
But the Food Standards Agency says that after 2,501 fresh tests no new products have been identified as containing more than 1% horsemeat.
It said the 29 positive results were on seven previously withdrawn products.
FSA chief executive Catherine Brown said she remained "confident" that the testing was the right way to address the issue.
"It is industry's responsibility to get this right - not the government's - and we consider that a comprehensive testing programme at all points of the supply chain and in all sectors is an essential step in addressing this issue.
"And as this programme of testing and publishing results continues, and as action is taken to tackle this issue in supply chains across Europe, we will reach the point where we can say with confidence that horse meat is no longer illegally entering the UK food chain."
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Compass Group, one of the biggest school food providers in the UK, says its tests have found between 5% and 30% horse DNA in burgers it sold in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
It says the burgers were supplied by Rangeland Foods in County Monaghan, which previously withdrew more than 9,000 burgers made for the UK market after some were found to contain horsemeat.
Compass said the Rangeland burgers had been supplied to 13 sites in the Irish Republic and 27 in Northern Ireland, mostly offices but including two unnamed secondary schools.
It described the situation as "totally unacceptable" and said all affected sites had been given "unreserved apologies".
And Whitbread, which owns Premier Inn, Beefeater Grill and Brewers Fayre, says it found horse DNA in two products - burgers supplied by food supplier Paragon Quality Foods and lasagne from Brakes Brothers.
Creative Foods, owned by Brakes Brothers, and which caters for schools and hospitals in the UK, had used frozen beef mince for lasagne from Hampshire-based supplier Pinnacle Foods, some of which has now been found to contain horse DNA.
Creative says it has now stopped using Pinnacle Foods as a supplier, and Brakes is also recalling one of its own-brand lasagne products as a precaution.
Pinnacle's managing director Graham Reed said this development was "a complete surprise and shock to us".
He added: "We are devastated by the news, and working very hard to trace back where the offending material may have come from.
"We have never ever knowingly had equine material on our premises or indeed ever dealt in horsemeat. We will be working very closely with FSA and customers alike to get to the bottom of it."
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson told the BBC he expected the food industry to have completed their horsemeat tests by the end of next week.
He said it was for the industry to "get out there and reassure the public".
Asked about the retailers' response to the crisis, he said that was "for the food businesses themselves to decide, they are responsible for the quality and integrity of what they present to the public", before adding that it was not for him to "micro-manage" food businesses.
But Labour's Mary Creagh said the public would be "shocked and dismayed that horsemeat has now been found in schools and hospitals" and called for the prime minister to order the FSA to speed up its testing.
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A group of 11 food suppliers, including Tesco and Asda, issued a letter on Friday stating they shared shoppers' "anger and outrage" and rejecting government criticism they "remained silent" over the crisis.
The letter was signed by chief executive of Tesco, Philip Clarke, Asda Stores boss, Andy Clarke, the chief executive of J Sainsbury, Justin King, and Dalton Philips, chief executive of Wm Morrison Supermarkets, among others. Several also released the results of their tests.
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Iceland said that all of its own brand beef products have been found to be free from horsemeat.
The Co-Operative Group said 59 of its 102 own-brand minced beef products have been tested so far, with all found to be clear of horsemeat. And Morrisons says 68 test results on its products have not found horsemeat, with more results still to come.
Tesco says tests on 149 of its products are clear, and Sainsbury's say their tests show no horse adulteration. Waitrose says it has conducted about 40 tests, none of which showed the presence of horsemeat.
Last month, Irish food inspectors said they had found horsemeat in beefburgers made by firms in the Irish Republic and the UK, and sold by a number of UK supermarket chains, including Tesco, Iceland, Aldi and Lidl.
Since then, a growing number of UK retailers have recalled processed beef products found to contain horse DNA.
Some shops have already recalled products found to be adulterated, including Asda, which withdrew a beef Bolognese sauce on Thursday - the first fresh beef product to be involved.
Aldi, Tesco and Findus have also withdrawn some beef-based ready meals.
They have studied a world known as GJ 1132b, which is 1.4-times the size of our planet and lies 39 light years away.
Their observations suggest that the "super-Earth" is cloaked in a thick layer of gasses that are either water or methane or a mixture of both.
The study is published in the Astronomical Journal.
Discovering an atmosphere, and characterising it, is an important step forward in the hunt for life beyond our Solar System.
But it is highly unlikely that this world is habitable: it has a surface temperature of 370C.
Dr John Southworth, the lead researcher from Keele University, said: "To my knowledge the hottest temperature that life has been able to survive on Earth is 120C and that's far cooler than this planet."
Chemical signatures
The discovery of planet GJ 1132b was first announced in 2015. It lies in the Vela constellation in the southern hemisphere.
While it is a similar size to Earth, the star it orbits is much smaller, cooler and dimmer than our Sun.
Using a telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, the researchers were able to study the planet by watching how it blocked some of the light of its host star as it passed in front of it.
"It makes the star look a little bit fainter - and it's actually a very good way of finding transiting planets - it's how this one was found," said Dr Southworth.
But different molecules in a planet's atmosphere - if it has one - absorb light in different ways, allowing scientists to look for their chemical signatures when the world transits its star.
The observations of planet GJ 1132b suggest that it has a thick atmosphere containing either steam and/or methane.
"One possibility is that it is a 'water world' with an atmosphere of hot steam," said Dr Southworth.
The researchers say while it is unlikely that any life-forms could survive on this world, the discovery of an atmosphere is encouraging in the hunt for extraterrestrial life.
Dr Southworth said: "What we have shown is that planets around low mass stars can have atmospheres and because there are so many of those in the Universe, it makes it that much more likely that one might have life."
Commenting on the research Marek Kukula, the public astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, said: "This is a nice proof of concept.
"If the technology can detect an atmosphere today, then it bodes well for being able to detect and study the atmospheres of even more Earth-like planets in the not-too-distant future."
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The director of the Virgen de Asunción shelter has also been charged.
The three suspects were sacked by President Jimmy Morales after the deadly fire on 8 March.
Months before the tragedy, prosecutors had recommended the shelter be closed over allegations of abuse.
Former social welfare minister Carlos Rodas, his deputy, Anahi Keller, and the ex-director of the shelter, Santos Torres, have been charged with negligent homicide, abuse of power, mistreatment of minors and failure to fulfil their duties.
Prosecutors argued the three lacked the necessary experience to run the shelter which housed as many as 700 children.
Defence lawyers will be making their case later on Wednesday.
In court, prosecutors described the events leading up to the fire.
They said that the night before dozens of girls tried to escaped from the facility, which was infamous for its overcrowding and allegations of mistreatment.
Those who managed to get away were caught by police and returned to the shelter in San José Pinula.
As a punishment, 56 of them were locked in a room measuring 6.8m by 7m (22ft by 23 ft).
"There was no bathroom nor any drinking water, they were locked up and their treatment was disgraceful," prosecutor Edwin Marroquín said.
One of the girls set a mattress alight in protest at their treatment, he said.
The fire quickly spread and within nine minutes the temperature reached 300C, Mr Marroquín said.
Seventeen girls were killed at the scene and another 24 died in hospital in the following weeks.
According to the prosecutors, fire fighters were not called in time and were originally told there was a riot, not a fire.
The tragedy caused outrage in Guatemala, especially after it emerged that there had been concerns about human rights violations in the home as early as 2013.
In November 2016, a court order was filed, calling for precautionary measures to be taken but the social welfare ministry rejected the accusations and appealed.
Their powers include seizing and crushing illegal dumpers' vehicles, says the Local Government Association.
Clearing illegally-dumped waste costs local authorities almost £50 million each year to clear up.
The LGA also wants to close a legal loophole requiring seven days' notice before raiding suspects' homes.
According to the LGA, there were 900,000 incidents of fly-tipping in 2014-15 - a 6% rise from the previous year.
The LGA's environment spokesman Martin Tett said: "Litter and fly-tipping is environmental vandalism - it's unpleasant, unnecessary and unacceptable.
"Not only does fly-tipping create an eyesore for residents; it is also a serious public health risk, creating pollution and attracting rats and other vermin.
"At a time when councils face difficult choices about services in light of reducing budgets, they are having to spend a vast amount each year on tackling litter and fly-tipping.
"This is money that would be better spent on vital services such as filling potholes and caring for the elderly."
Mr Tett welcomed powers which came into force in May allowing councils to issue £400 on-the-spot fines to people caught in the act.
"Councils also need a faster and more effective legal system which means fly-tippers are given hard-hitting fines for more serious offences," he added.
"Local authorities should also be able to recoup all prosecution costs, rather than be left out of pocket."
Councillor Peter Fleming, deputy chairman of the LGA, wants changes so councils can deal better with the "man with the van" phenomenon.
He told the BBC: "We are seeing a massive increase in commercial fly-tipping, people going door-to-door saying 'We will take this for cash in hand.' Then we are finding that stuff dumped on a commercial scale, in our countryside, down back alleys. It is a huge problem costing lots and lots of money.
"After we have gathered evidence we would like to be able to take people's vehicles that have been used for fly-tipping, particularly commercial fly-tipping, and crush those vehicles.
"At the moment we have to give notice and often then the vehicle is no longer there. We see getting rid of these vans off the roads that are used to fly-tip will serve as a deterrent to others who are plying this trade".
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At the same time, he has been meeting some of the artists that have featured on his 1xtra show, Destination Africa.
In Botswana he met DJ Gouveia, the author of the country's most popular dance track in recent months, Ambuye - meaning God - and started by asking him about his DJing career.
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Kyran Peet was targeted after the 23-year-old befriended him on Facebook and claimed he was also a teenager.
The man was welcomed into Kyran's family home in Chorley, Lancashire, before the abuse began and the teenager eventually reported him to police.
His abuser was jailed indefinitely in 2012 before the sentence was reduced to six years and three months on appeal.
Kyran, now aged 19, has waived his legal right to anonymity to talk about his experience in a bid to support other victims.
He said: "It was obviously a horrific ordeal. Being that young it was not something my brain could comprehend. It moved very quickly, and when you're young you obviously think you're older than you are.
"I had just come out as gay so I was like, I'm ready. Thinking I was more mature.
"Everyone thought we were just friends but I thought I was in love with this guy.
"But there were suspicions. [My family] found it suspicious. There were rumours going around about him."
Kyran said the "turning point" was when he found a message from the abuser's father, revealing his true age.
"I thought if he's lying about his age he must've lied about everything."
Police became involved and his abuser eventually admitted sexual activity with a child at Preston Crown Court.
Kyran said: "It wasn't just sexual abuse but psychological abuse too, because he would make me feel like I was crazy when I raised any doubts.
"But I had family and friends around me. That hurt that I'm feeling now, I want to make sure that doesn't happen to anyone else."
Kyran was supported by The Children's Society and has since become an ambassador for the charity,
He is currently trying to raise £2,800 via a charity trek through South America to "give something back".
"The abuse had a big impact on me mentally and emotionally and I was lucky I had a project worker who was there to listen to me and support me," he said.
"It affected me for a while, negatively, but when I started wondering what I wanted to do with my life, one of those things was trying to change other people's lives and trying to provide them with information.
"You don't have to let it destroy your life. You don't have to be scared or ashamed of what's happened to you. You can share your story, you can fundraise."
Lisa Young has taken on the task of conserving the iconic suit worn for his Apollo 11 Moon landing mission.
She has become an expert in conserving museum objects after graduating from Cardiff University.
A crowd-funding project has raised more than £320,000 ($500,000) for the three-year spacesuit conservation project.
Ms Young helps to protect historic items for the Smithsonian, a collection of museums in the United States.
The spacesuit will eventually go on display at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in Washington DC for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission in July 2019.
For the past two decades Ms Young has been studying the technology, engineering and materials related to the aerospace collections at the NASM.
She said: "I am honoured to be able to contribute the skills gained through conservation training at the university and am pleased that the funding was awarded to take the next steps to preserve this national icon.
"It means a lot to the museum, the public and the world and we feel really strongly that we wanted to have the spacesuit back on display for the 50th anniversary in 2019 for everyone to see."
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Beating the top seeds keeps Northern Ireland two points clear at the top of Euro 2016 qualifying Group F, ahead of Romania, whom they visit next month.
Jamie Ward's shot deflected off Loukas Vyntra to put the visitors ahead.
And, after half-time, Kyle Lafferty ran clear and fired home a low shot from the edge of the area to seal victory.
It was a sublime finish from the Norwich City striker, who has now scored in each of the opening three qualifiers against Hungary, the Faroe Islands and Greece to take his tally of international goals to 12.
Northern Ireland began brightly as they attempted to extend their 100% record and Ward's ninth-minute opener was just reward for their endeavour.
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Greece, who had garnered only one point from their opening two matches, began to enjoy more possession, but a poor final ball let them down on too many occasions.
Nikos Karelis threatened in the 33rd minute as he burst through on goal and lifted the ball over advancing goalkeeper Roy Carroll, but his effort went well wide of the post.
Just before the interval, Lafferty latched onto an incisive Chris Baird pass, ran down the left wing and powered past a defender, before unleashing a fierce shot which cannoned off the underside of the bar.
The big forward made no mistake six minutes after the break as the visitors executed a fine breakaway goal, which secured only their second ever success over Greece, the previous triumph coming in a World Cup qualifier in October 1961.
The struggling hosts, European Championship winners in 2004, carved out only one notable chance in the second half, but Panagiotis Tachtsidis saw his curling left-foot shot pushed round the post by former Olympiakos keeper Carroll.
The result leaves Greece manager Claudio Ranieri still looking for the first win of his tenure as his side struggle to find the form which reflects their world ranking of 14 and saw them reach the last 16 of the World Cup in Brazil.
Northern Ireland had lost four of their last five fixtures against Greece, but Michael O'Neill's side now head to Romania with plenty of confidence and momentum as they seek to qualify for a European Championship for the first time and for their first tournament since the 1986 World Cup finals.
Match ends, Greece 0, Northern Ireland 2.
Second Half ends, Greece 0, Northern Ireland 2.
Panagiotis Tachtsidis (Greece) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Josh Magennis (Northern Ireland).
Andreas Samaris (Greece) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Andreas Samaris (Greece).
Steven Davis (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Kostas Mitroglou (Greece) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Andreas Samaris with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Panagiotis Tachtsidis (Greece) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nikolaos Karelis.
Hand ball by Nikolaos Karelis (Greece).
Foul by Dimitrios Salpingidis (Greece).
Ryan McGivern (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Konstantinos Stafylidis (Greece) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Conor McLaughlin (Northern Ireland).
Offside, Northern Ireland. Ben Reeves tries a through ball, but Josh Magennis is caught offside.
Substitution, Northern Ireland. Ben Reeves replaces Shane Ferguson.
Foul by Panagiotis Tachtsidis (Greece).
Shane Ferguson (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Northern Ireland. Josh Magennis replaces Kyle Lafferty.
Attempt missed. Panagiotis Tachtsidis (Greece) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner from a direct free kick.
Andreas Samaris (Greece) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chris Baird (Northern Ireland).
Attempt missed. Nikolaos Karelis (Greece) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Vasilis Torosidis with a cross.
Foul by Vasilis Torosidis (Greece).
Oliver Norwood (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kostas Manolas (Greece).
Kyle Lafferty (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Greece. Dimitrios Salpingidis replaces Georgios Samaras.
Dangerous play by Sokratis (Greece).
Oliver Norwood (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Greece. Conceded by Roy Carroll.
Attempt saved. Panagiotis Tachtsidis (Greece) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Giannis Maniatis.
Panagiotis Tachtsidis (Greece) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steven Davis (Northern Ireland).
Attempt missed. Nikolaos Karelis (Greece) left footed shot from long range on the right is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Vasilis Torosidis.
Attempt missed. Panagiotis Tachtsidis (Greece) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Giannis Maniatis.
Substitution, Northern Ireland. Ryan McGivern replaces Jamie Ward.
Giannis Maniatis (Greece) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Giannis Maniatis (Greece).
Jamie Ward (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Chief executive at Newton Fund Management, the 48-year-old has made her way to the top in a notoriously male-dominated industry.
This level of seniority is still relatively rare for a woman, with the latest statistics showing that women make up just 22.8% of FTSE 100 company boards, while in the FTSE 250 index of smaller firms women make up just 17.4% of boards.
Reaching chief executive level is even more unusual, with just five female bosses in the top 100 companies.
Yet as well as being at the helm of the firm, ultimately responsible for the over £50bn worth of funds the firm manages, Mrs Morrissey is also the mother to nine, yes nine, children.
So how on earth does she do it?
"I have to ruthlessly prioritise, but I also have to be very, very controlled with my time," she says.
Mrs Morrissey also has a nanny and a husband who stays at home, but credits her seniority at work for making both a big job and a big family possible.
She says she constantly "dips in and out of work and home", and that being a chief executive has given her more freedom to juggle her responsibilities.
Mrs Morrissey is not the only high-flying female to advocate promotion as the route to being able to better balance family responsibilities and work.
Yahoo's chief executive Marissa Mayer's seniority meant that when she gave birth to her son just months after taking the helm at the tech giant she was able to build a personal nursery right next door to her office.
Similarly, Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg wrote a book advising women to "Lean In", suggesting that if women took on more responsibilities at work it would create more female leaders, leading to fairer treatment for all women.
"I want to encourage other women who might be looking and thinking, 'How can I do all of that?' to keep going until you get to that point where you do have a little bit more control," says Ms Morrissey.
While she's strongly anti-quotas (making a certain percentage of senior female staff at board level mandatory), Ms Morrissey is pushing hard to get more women into the boardroom.
In November 2010, when female directors accounted for just 12.5% of board members, she set up the 30% Club to campaign for more women on UK boards, with a target of women making up 30% of FTSE 100 directors by the end of 2015.
She's confident the campaign, which has involved persuading chairmen of the merits of having more women on the board and providing practical help to firms trying to improve their levels of diversity, is having an impact. "I do think it's helped move it from a sort of special niche area to more of a mainstream business issue," she says.
She is also chair of Opportunity Now, a campaign group that's been working on gender equality at work and aiming to increase women's success, for more than 20 years.
These campaigns, on top of an already demanding day job, are time consuming, but she says clients have been supportive and that the theme fits in with Newton's investment approach.
"We're not just passively buying a company, we're thinking a bit more laterally. It's important to me that we connect those two because those companies that get the issue of the importance of diversity are generally smart in other ways," she says.
There's already a whole host of research to support this view. Newswire Thomson Reuters found a strong link between mixed gender boards and a better performance for shareholders when it analysed boardroom diversity at 4,100 listed firms and measured their performance between 2008 and 2013.
And Swiss bank Credit Suisse, which looked at the performance of 3,000 companies around the world, concluded that those businesses with at least one woman on the board outperformed those with no women by an average of 2% a year between 2012 and 2014.
While these types of study show the importance of increasing the numbers of senior women in the workplace, the practicalities aren't as straightforward, Ms Morrissey acknowledges. She notes that research has shown that women felt role models in the media were "very unrealistic" but says she struggles with how much of her juggling to reveal.
"The question is: how honest should you be? Because if people had visions of me dragging baskets of laundry across the floor, that wouldn't probably encourage people to persevere in their careers," she admits.
But within her own firm, she makes it clear when she has other demands, saying that when a meeting in the US was planned for the same day as two of her daughters' birthdays, she said she couldn't make it.
"I just felt I had to speak up rather than agonise over it when the date came through, defined and carved in stone in the diary," she says.
And while she never thought of herself as a natural leader, she says she's realised that she enjoys it. "I've always listened to my own inner voice or inner compass. I've never really felt that I wanted or needed to belong to a group."
This of course reflects in the work she does to improve diversity.
"When I see something that's not quite right, my tendency would be to try to change it. I believe in being fair and equal. I recognise that not everybody is given every opportunity on a plate, and that's an important part of what makes me think and tick. That's an important part of who I am."
This feature is based on interviews by leadership expert Steve Tappin for the BBC's CEO Guru series, produced by Neil Koenig.
Sentinel-2a will take pictures of the planet's surface in visible and infrared light.
Its data will track everything from the growth of megacities to the variable yields of the world's most important food crops.
The satellite will ship to the Kourou spaceport in the next month.
Its launch on a Vega rocket has been scheduled for 12 June.
The spacecraft will be the mainstay in a fleet of EU Earth observers that are planned to go into operation by the decade's end.
"Sentinel-2 is the workhorse of the system," said Volker Liebig, the European Space Agency's EO director.
"It gives us the optical component. Optical imagery is the backbone for most applications in Earth observation."
Prof Liebig was speaking at the IABG consultancy in Munich where the platform has been undergoing final testing.
Sentinel-2a is essentially Europe's version of the American Landsat mission.
The US satellite series - its current flier is named Landsat-8 - pioneered the science of monitoring the planet from orbit.
It has assembled a continuous record of the world's fluctuating features that stretches back more than 40 years. In satellite terms, it is the gold standard.
Everyone will know Landsat's worth, if only through the use of mapping apps on the web and on smartphones, which all incorporate the data.
Now, the US effort is to be bolstered by the new European observer, which has been calibrated in such a way that its pictures will be an excellent match with the American ones.
But the European endeavour is far from being a "me too" project.
Its imaging instrument will be sensitive across more bands of light (13 multispectral versus eight), allowing it to discern more information about the Earth's surface; and it will "carpet map" a much wider strip of ground (290km versus 185km). Its colour images have a best resolution of 10m, versus Landsat's 30m.
Moreover, the whole Sentinel concept envisages paired operation, meaning a second satellite, Sentinel-2b, will follow its sister into orbit in 2016.
Tracing the same path but separated by 180 degrees - half the planet - the duo will come back over the same patch of land in rapid fashion. It is a powerful capability that will significantly reduce the time taken to acquire a cloud-free look at a particular location.
At the moment, it can take Landsat, on its own, months or even years to get a completely clear view of some places. Important changes at the Earth's surface can be missed as a consequence.
"With two satellites we have a re-visit over the equator every five days, and at mid latitudes - like over France and the UK - it is every three days," said Esa's Sentinel-2 project manager Francois Spoto.
"This is an extremely frequent re-visit time compared with any sensor currently in orbit. And in our spectral bands, we also have one that allows us to remove light clouds like cirrus."
Another good parallel with the American cousin is the data policy. It will be open and free to all users.
When the first spacecraft in the new European series was launched last year - a radar satellite called Sentinel-1a - the demand for its more specialised imagery was immense.
The interest in Sentinel-2 data is expected to be just as keen, if not more so. And it will be available in large volumes. Roughly 600GB per day of raw data will be downlinked, using a high-speed laser link if required.
Once processed into the various useable data products, this translates into about 1.7TB - the equivalent of perhaps a few hundred DVD movies.
Heinz Sontag is a project manager with Airbus Defence and Space, which assembled the new satellite: "What Sentinel-2 offers that other optical imagers up there cannot is the continuous ability to image all the surfaces and provide a continuous flow of data, whereas previous missions were only able to take isolated images here and there and you had to mosaic them back together to get a complete picture."
Four further Sentinel missions - to monitor the oceans and the composition of the atmosphere - should be in orbit by 2020.
European nations have so far committed 7.5bn euros (£5.5bn; $8.5bn) to the constellation and its wider operation, with more promised in the future.
The intention is that every Sentinel satellite is replaced at the demise of its mission, ensuring there is continuity of information deep into this century.
"In the past, we've had data for only four or five years in the case of some one-off satellites," explained Markus Probeck, whose GAF company in Munich will be developing applications from Sentinel-2 images.
"This is a programme that is sure to be there for the very long term. This allows users to move to remote sensing-based services because there is the security of knowing that the data will be sustained and available."
The EU's Copernicus programme will launch a range of satellite sensors this decade to monitor the state of Planet Earth
The 26-year-old has joined the Saints on a four-and-a-half-year contract after passing a medical.
Austin scored 18 Premier League goals as QPR were relegated last season, and was rewarded with an England call-up.
"He was our target for January. The number of goals he's scored in the Premier League is amazing," said Saints manager Ronald Koeman.
"We are looking forward to having him in the squad, and having more competition. That will be good."
Southampton striker Shane Long has been linked with a move to Liverpool, but Koeman said "nobody is for sale in January".
"At the end of the season, you don't know, but not now," he added. "We like to make the squad stronger. That means Charlie in, nobody out."
Former Burnley player Austin, whose contract at Loftus Road was due to expire in the summer, has scored 10 goals in 16 appearances this season.
But he has not featured for Rangers, who are 17th in the Championship, since mid-December because of injury.
QPR director of football Les Ferdinand said the decision to sell Austin was "made in the best financial interests of the club" as he could leave on a free transfer at the end of the season.
Austin, who has scored 130 goals since joining Swindon Town in 2009, will join up with his new team-mates next week.
He joins a side 10th in the Premier League after Saturday's 3-0 defeat of West Brom.
"As soon as Southampton showed an interest that was the one club I wanted to go to," said Austin, who was linked with a move to Newcastle last summer.
Southampton chairman Ralph Krueger told BBC Radio 5 live the signing demonstrated "the love we have for maintaining an English spine in the team".
He added: "He has been tracked by us for years now. He's a young player, and we think he still has a huge learning curve and he's still hungry to play for England."
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However, Beijing has not commented and it remains unclear whether they would be allowed to enter.
Protesters have occupied key areas of Hong Kong for more than six weeks, demanding electoral reform.
This week, the chief secretary called on protesters to leave the sites and court rulings paved the way for the authorities to move in to clear them.
The secretary general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students Alex Chow told reporters on Thursday night that he planned to travel to Beijing on Saturday, along with two other student leaders.
He said the trip "symbolises that Hongkongers are not afraid of Beijing's manipulation", in remarks reported by the South China Morning Post.
But he admitted he was not sure whether they would be stopped. He added that they would cancel the trip if police cleared protest sites in Admiralty and Mong Kok before they left.
On Tuesday, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam said there was "no need" for student leaders to go to Beijing if they were only going to repeat their demands.
She added that the authorities were "making plans for actions that need to be taken", and urged protesters to "voluntarily and peacefully leave... as soon as possible".
Hong Kong's High Court has granted extended injunctions allowing for the clearance of barricades at the Admiralty and Mong Kok sites, the Post reported.
Both Hong Kong and Beijing have called the street occupations illegal.
The Hong Kong protests drew tens of thousands to the streets at their peak.
A few hundred people remain at three key protest sites in organised "tent cities", complete with infrastructure such as food stalls, toilets and study areas.
Demonstrators are protesting against a decision by Beijing to screen candidates for the 2017 chief executive election, and are calling for the public's right to directly nominate candidates.
Figures released in the summer by police chiefs suggested a year-on-year rise in hate crimes.
Ms Brown said the increase in reporting crime did not "necessarily" mean more crime was being committed.
Labour AM Rhianon Passmore called the remarks "insensitive" and claimed UKIP did not take the offences seriously.
In a debate in the Senedd on Tuesday Ms Brown, who represents North Wales, said any increase in reported crimes was "not necessarily an indication that more of those crimes are actually being committed".
She added: "Increases in reported crime are therefore more a testament to the effectiveness of the publicity machine surrounding hate crime than evidence that our society is become more intolerant."
Ms Passmore, who represents Islwyn, said: "The evidence clearly shows that very many people do not report hate crimes and these insensitive and ill-chosen remarks from UKIP will do nothing to address this, nor the incidents of intolerance that victims face on a daily basis.
"UKIP's attempts to dismiss this shows that they do not take these offences seriously."
In July then-Prime Minister David Cameron described crimes committed in the wake of June's EU referendum "despicable".
Hate crimes are offences where a victim is targeted because of criteria including their race, religion, sexual orientation or disability.
About 300 coins were unearthed during a dig in Navenby in 2013, along with the remains of several Roman buildings.
It is thought the coins were dropped by people stopping off to eat while travelling between London and York.
Project leader Ian Cox, of Navenby Archaeology Group, suggested it may have been a "Happy Charioteer".
He said due to the coins being of such low value it was likely people had discarded them while visiting the Roman equivalent of a fast-food outlet on the site.
"It wasn't a hoard, or anything like that - these were scattered about.
"It was as if people had dropped them while eating and drinking and couldn't be bothered to pick them up."
Evidence of food preparation was also found, including bones from cattle, sheep and goats.
Mr Cox said there was a lack of personal artefacts, which supported the theory the site had been used as a sort of Roman service station.
Excavations had also unearthed evidence the site was previously used as a quarry.
A full report into the dig is now being prepared, with the group hoping to excavate other parts of the village in the future.
Mr Cox said they were keen to see what happened in Navenby after the Romans left.
The coins, along with other items from the dig, will be kept at the Lincolnshire Archives.
Leslie Garven was driving a group of friends on a day trip to Crieff in September 2012 when she pulled out onto the main road without giving way.
Two women aged 78 and 83 died following the crash near Tibbermore.
Sentence was deferred at Perth Sheriff Court, and Garven was banned from driving in the meantime.
Garven, of Perth, had picked up four friends and was driving to Crieff on the Windyedge to Tibbermore road when she pulled out at the junction of the Huntingtower to Madderty road.
She admitted failing to give way and driving into the path of another motorist, a 24-year-old woman who had three toddlers in her car. The court was told that Garven should have seen the other vehicle.
The passengers in the back of Garven's car were seriously injured, and Rhoda Lawton, 78, was pronounced dead at the scene. Richmal Southwood, 83, was placed in a coma at Ninewells Hospital but also died a few days later.
A third passenger suffered injuries including a broken pelvis and collapsed lung and needed to have part of her thumb amputated.
Crash investigators found that the other driver had been travelling within the speed limit at 48mph, but was unable to avoid Garven as she pulled out in front of her at 13mph.
However, the court also heard that the families of the deceased women had accepted the incident was a "tragic accident", with one arguing that Garven had "self-punished" and "suffered enough".
Garven admitted driving carelessly and causing the deaths of her two friends on 28 September, 2012.
Sentence was deferred for reports.
Serial producer Dana Chivvis has confirmed to Newsbeat that the new podcast Undisclosed is not from them.
It's coming from Adnan's friend Rabia Chaudry and two lawyers, Susan Simpson and Colin Miller.
Rabia tweeted this week: "On 13 April here is where you'll find our new podcast Undisclosed, picking up where #Serial left off."
It included a link to the Undisclosed Podcast website, which says: "In the wake of Serial, much new evidence and information has been discovered and uncovered thanks to the investigations of attorneys Susan Simpson, Colin Miller, and the Adnan Syed Legal Trust.
"Undisclosed will examine and explore the case in greater detail, from an investigatory perspective instead of a narrative one."
The hit Serial podcast investigated the case of Adnan Syed, who was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend in 2000 when he was 17 in Baltimore, Maryland.
In February, he won the right to appeal.
A second series of Serial is expected to begin later this year, but it will focus on a different story.
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The 30-year-old came through the south-west London club's academy and has made 248 appearances for Quins since his debut in 2005, scoring 79 tries.
Brown first featured for England in 2007 and has won a total of 43 caps.
"I feel fit and strong. Over the coming years I will be playing at my peak," he told the club website.
Harlequins have not disclosed the length of Brown's new deal but say he will have been at the club for "well over 15 years" by the time it expires, having joined their academy set-up in 2002.
Brown won the Amlin Challenge Cup with Quins in 2011 and the Premiership title in 2012 - and hopes to bring further silverware to the Twickenham Stoop.
"With the experience I have gained by playing international rugby it will give me every opportunity to achieve the personal goals I have set for myself - to win trophies for Quins, continue to play for England and hopefully be part of the 2017 British and Irish Lions tour," he said.
Harlequins director of rugby Conor O'Shea described Brown as "the epitome" of what the club stands for.
"I have watched him become one of the great full-backs of world rugby," said the Irishman.
"He maintains the highest of standards off the pitch and will play at the highest level for many years. We are all delighted he wants to commit to his only club for what will be, in all likelihood, the remainder of his career."
Brown played in all of England's matches at the 2015 World Cup, which they exited at the pool stage, but said this week that the "trust has gone" from the squad following leaks from the dressing room.
Coates played 13 times for the Black Cats on loan last season, helping them stay in the Premier League.
The 24-year-old Uruguay international, who has been playing at the Copa America, is Dick Advocaat's first signing as Sunderland head coach.
Coates made just 17 starts in his four years at Liverpool, who have already completed six summer signings.
Advocaat's predecessor Gus Poyet brought Coates to Wearside in September and he returned from injury to play a key role in the club's successful fight against relegation.
He is set to return for pre-season training next week after being given extra time off following his international exertions.
Sunderland owner Ellis Short has made funds available for Advocaat to strengthen his squad.
Sporting director Lee Congerton said: "Sebastian was an important part of the team under Dick last season, and we're delighted that he has joined us on a permanent basis.
"He has Premier League experience and after spending last season on loan with us, he will be able to settle into the team very quickly."
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Presenting the Budget, the chancellor said consumers should be able to benefit from the recent slide in oil prices.
Fuel duty has been held at 57.95p per litre since the March 2011 Budget, when it was cut by a penny.
Mr Osborne also froze duty on beer, cider and spirits, but raised taxes on tobacco products.
Fuel duty remains the biggest component of the price of diesel and petrol. Motorists also pay 20% value added tax on those fuels.
As of 14 March, the average price of petrol in the UK was 102.72p a litre and the price of diesel was 102.91p, according to the RAC Foundation.
The duty was last increased in January 2011 from 58.19p to 58.95p a litre.
In the July 2015 summer Budget, Mr Osborne scrapped a planned fuel duty increase for 1 September.
A barrel of Brent crude oil changed hands for $39.52 a barrel on Wednesday, up from prices of below $28 in January, but way below a peak of $115 a barrel in June 2014.
While beer, cider and spirits' duty will stay unchanged, the duty rates on most wine and higher-strength sparkling cider will increase at the same rate as the Retail Prices Index (RPI) from 21 March. RPI currently stands at 1.3%.
Duty rates on most tobacco products, such as cigarettes, will increase by 2% above RPI. Duty on hand-rolling tobacco will increase to 5% above RPI. These changes will come into effect from 6pm on Wednesday.
The England captain apologised over "inappropriate" pictures of him at a wedding at the England team hotel during the international break.
Rooney said his treatment showed "a lack of respect".
"It feels as if the media are trying to write my obituary and I won't let that happen," he added.
Speaking after he came off the bench for Manchester United in their draw with Arsenal at Old Trafford on Saturday, the 31-year-old claimed: "What's been going on is disgraceful.
"I love playing for my country and I am proud of my achievements to date - but I have not finished yet."
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The Sun published images on Monday which it said showed Rooney drunk at a party late on Saturday night - a day after England's World Cup qualifying win over Scotland.
England players are to be banned by the Football Association from having nights out while on international duty.
The FA is looking into claims several players were out until late on the same night Saturday night - less than three days before they drew 2-2 with Spain in a friendly.
Speaking on Match of the Day, former England striker Ian Wright said: "I'm a big fan of Wayne's and he's been getting this for the past three or four years. It has been building and building.
"I'm pleased he's coming out with something like this. It is like he is fighting back. Fight back Wayne."
Ex-England captain Alan Shearer added: "All he has ever been is committed and available. If he was given the night off and he chose to stay in the hotel and have a few drinks then I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
"If he was told to go to bed by the manager and chose not to then he has undermined the manager and has to face the consequences."
Stoke midfielder and Scotland international Charlie Adam said on MOTD 2 Extra: "I totally agree with Rooney, he is spot on. He is the captain of his country and been one of the top players for a number of years. OK, he has had a drink, so what?
"He has been in the hotel and tried to do the right thing because he is a professional. England staff were there too.
"We have all been there on an international. We would meet up on a Sunday and we would have a one or two drinks before bed because we have all been playing at the weekend. It would never happen in the week. They have had a game, it is finished, they got back to the hotel and had a couple of drinks. What is wrong with that?"
Both have undergone operations, with Lewington, 24, having required knee ligament reconstruction surgery.
The winger is expected to be out of action for the majority of the season.
Brophy Clews, 19, had to go off with a foot injury after just 34 minutes of England under-20's World Rugby Championship game against Italy.
The fly-half will miss the first part of the season, but has set his sights on returning before Christmas.
Lewington, who scored five Premiership tries for The Exiles last season, was injured during England Saxons' 32-24 first Test victory against South Africa A.
"I'm really disappointed with the outcome of the injury," he said.
"But, I'm fully focussed on making a full recovery and contributing to London Irish later on in the season as we look to make an immediate return to the Premiership."
Ewers found the top corner with a powerful 77th-minute shot after a fine pull-back by substitute Ellie Brazil.
But the hosts had goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger to thank for keeping them level.
She made superb first-half saves from Kim Little, Danielle Carter and Danielle van de Donk.
Katie McCabe and Jordan Nobbs were both off target in the second period as Arsenal continued to have the better of things before Ewers struck.
The draw for the semi-finals will take place live on BBC Radio 5 Live at 14:45 BST on Monday, 27 March.
Flanker Sam Jones broke his leg while winger Anthony Watson broke his jaw.
Premiership Rugby, the body representing English top-flight clubs, said the format was "not anticipated".
"Premiership Rugby believes England should not be doing full training sessions straight after a Premiership weekend," a statement read.
"We would not expect full training sessions to occur during the two remaining two-day England camps planned this season."
Releasing England players for the camps is part of the new £225m agreement between the Rugby Football Union and the Premiership clubs, with the union insisting that the national team's training is "fully in line with the agreement".
"As we approach the autumn series, game training has to take place," said an RFU spokeswoman. "This has always been part of the plan and is fully in line with the agreement."
Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall said the timing of the camp was "flabbergasting" and "madness", with the double winners facing Toulon in the Champions Cup a week on Saturday.
McCall said lock George Kruis has not trained since returning to the club as he continues to recover from a back injury, while Harlequins' Joe Marler and Mike Brown have also not trained since the camp.
"From our club's point of view we thought that Premiership Rugby could have fought harder as to where these camps are situated in the calendar," said McCall.
"I understand England's needs, but it seems madness. Everyone goes on about player welfare yet our international players have had a tough Monday and Tuesday and we are playing on Sunday."
Harlequins director of rugby John Kingston told BBC Radio 5 live that Brown and Marler returned on Thursday carrying niggles, although he expects them to play this weekend, and added he had no issues with the intensity of training at the international get together.
Wasps flanker Jones, 24, suffered his broken leg while grappling with lock Maro Itoje during a session based around judo skills.
However, two-time Olympic judo medallist Kate Howey, one of the coaches used by England, expects head coach Jones to continue using the sport in training.
"Eddie is looking for every bit of advantage within the game," Howey told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I think it will carry on because there is a massive crossover in what we do and what players do on the pitch."
Howey, who won Olympic bronze in 1992 and silver eight years later, added that Jones was injured in what appeared to be an "innocuous" incident and that he "fell awkwardly".
England begin their autumn internationals at Twickenham on 12 November against South Africa, with Tests against Fiji, Argentina and Australia to follow, while Jones will name his squad on 26 October.
During Prime Minister's Questions, Labour's Jeremy Corbyn cited opposition to the "top down reorganisation" from teachers, parents and some Tory MPs.
He said good schools should not be distracted by "arbitrary changes".
Sources said the government was likely to guarantee no small rural schools would close as a result of the shakeup.
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg has been told ministers are having lots of conversations with Conservative MPs to tackle their concerns - but are not intending to back down on the policy.
Academies, which started under the Labour government, are funded directly by central government and are independent of local authority control.
In March's Budget, the government announced the move to force all of England's state schools that have not yet converted to academies to do so.
Some Conservative MPs have questioned the wisdom of forcing all schools to make the switch, which has has been outlined in a white paper, in particular the impact on small rural schools if academy chains are not willing to take them over.
Conservative backbencher Andrew Percy said it was "a very hard sell" to tell good or outstanding schools they must change their governance arrangements.
"The government needs to do a lot more before it's convinced myself and a lot of backbenchers that forcing academisation is necessary," he added.
The enforced change has also been opposed by teaching unions and the Local Government Association - which said the government had highlighted improvements in the primary sector, where 85% of schools are council-maintained.
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has said critics of the proposal have raised "important issues".
Mr Corbyn asked the PM to explain "why good school leaders should focus their time and resources not on educating children but on arbitrary changes imposed from above".
Mr Cameron said schools that were performing well had "nothing to fear" from being converted to academies.
The reform had been "hugely effective" he said, adding: "We have seen massive improvements in our schools because of academies and we say let's get on with it, finish the job and give all our children a great opportunity."
Schools Minister Nick Gibb told BBC News the plan for all schools to become academies by 2022 was about "spreading best practice".
Mr Gibb said this was a "voluntary process" but added that as more schools convert it would not be viable to have two systems of governance "operating in parallel".
Meanwhile, the Department for Education's accounts were criticised by a financial watchdog.
National Audit Office head Amyas Morse said the department had failed to properly account for spending by academies, saying there was not enough accurate information for Parliament to account for the public money.
The NAO said there was a level of "misstatement and uncertainty" which meant the truth and fairness of the accounts, which have just been published, could not be verified.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve also appealed to "all willing French patriots" to sign up as reservists, to help protect the country's borders.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a lorry along the seafront through crowds before police shot him dead.
So-called Islamic State claimed one of its followers carried out the attack.
A news agency linked to the group, Amaq Agency, said: "He did the attack in response to calls to target the citizens of the coalition that is fighting the Islamic State."
Five people believed to be linked to Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, including his estranged wife, are in police custody, the Paris prosecutor's office said.
France, which on Saturday began three days of mourning, already has 120,000 police and military deployed around the country. Its 12,000 reservists are made up of 9,000 military police officers and a further 3,000 regular police officers.
"I want to call on all French patriots who wish to do so, to join this operational reserve," Mr Cazeneuve said.
Some 30,000 people were on the Promenade des Anglais at the time of the attack on Thursday night.
Of the 84 who died, 10 were children. A total of 303 people had been taken into hospital following the attacks, the French health department confirmed on Saturday. Of those, 121 remain in hospital, 30 of whom are children, and 26 people are still in intensive care - including five children.
Residents of Nice and foreign tourists were killed. As well as France, the dead included nationals of Algeria, Germany, Tunisia, Switzerland, the US, Ukraine, Armenia, Russia, Morocco, Madagascar and Poland.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that "we know now that the killer was radicalised very quickly".
"The claim on Saturday morning by Islamic State and the fast radicalisation of the killer confirms the Islamist nature of this attack," he told Le Journal du Dimanche.
Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, drove the lorry 2km (1.2 miles) along the promenade, at times zigzagging to target people, prosecutors said.
President Francois Hollande met defence and security chiefs and cabinet ministers on Saturday and called for national unity.
He said: "We are in a time when, and we have seen it, there is a temptation to divide the country. Faced with these temptations, faced with this risk, we must recall the unity and cohesion of this country."
Mr Hollande has moved to extend a state of emergency by three months.
It has been in place across France since the attacks carried out by militants from so-called Islamic State in Paris on 13 November that left 130 people dead.
Mr Hollande had proposed lifting the state of emergency on 26 July, but reversed his decision after the Nice attack.
Meanwhile, France's National Front leader Marine Le Pen has called for national service to be brought back and a national guard to be created to protect France in the wake of Nice attacks.
Speaking in Nanterre, on the outskirts of Paris, she said the budget for the armed forces should be increased. She also called on Mr Cazeneuve to resign and said that France had the means to defend itself, but that its leaders were too weak.
Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was known to the police as a petty criminal, but was "totally unknown to intelligence services... and was never flagged for signs of radicalisation," prosecutor Francois Molins said.
A neighbour of Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, who used to live in a high-rise block of flats on Boulevard Henri Sappia with his family, said he did not believe the 31-year-old was involved with IS.
Samiq, who did not want to give his surname, told the Press Association news agency: "I never saw him going to the Mosque. He was not a Muslim. During Ramadan I saw him smoking."
Speaking in Nice, the president of the Regional Council for the Muslim Faith, Boubakar Bekri, said mosques in the area had responded to the attack.
"In all mosques in the region of Alpes-Maritimes, there has been a common prayer calling for vigilance and patience, because these very bad events affect us; and there has been a call for blood donation," he said.
Ysgol Dyffryn Cledlyn in Drefach, between Lampeter in Llandysul, will merge Llanwnnen, Llanwenog and Cwrtnewydd primary schools.
There is room for 150 pupils, with about 100 moving there in September and staff from the existing three schools have been appointed to the new posts.
It is funded by the 21st Century schools programme and Ceredigion council.
They said multiple nationalities were among the injured - some critically.
The fire broke out at a site used to house workers for the oil giant Saudi Aramco in the eastern city of Khobar. The cause is unknown.
Some people were reportedly trapped on rooftops as helicopters battled to control the blaze.
Like many companies in Saudi Arabia, Aramco uses large numbers of migrant workers.
Saudi's civil defence ministry tweeted: "Cars and furniture caught fire in the basement of one of the towers, heavy smoke billowed, obstructing rescue and firefighting operations."
Aramco says it has begun an investigation into the cause.
The forward struck after some smart work from a free-kick to give Gary Johnson's side just their third victory of the season in League Two.
Grimsby made a bright start as Omar Bogle and Dominic Vose went close to giving the hosts the lead inside the first five minutes.
But it was Cheltenham who took the lead as a well-worked free-kick was played to James Dayton on the edge of the box and he laid the ball on to Waters to slot home.
Bogle had a glorious opportunity to bring the hosts level in the second half as the ball fell to him just a few yards away from goal but, not for the first time, he found Robins goalkeeper Russell Griffiths in his way just as he got his shot away.
But Cheltenham held on to their lead well as they frustrated their hosts, and claimed a third win in a row against their former National League rivals.
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Match ends, Grimsby Town 0, Cheltenham Town 1.
Second Half ends, Grimsby Town 0, Cheltenham Town 1.
Foul by Aaron Downes (Cheltenham Town).
Josh Gowling (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Robert Dickie (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Kayden Jackson (Grimsby Town).
Foul by Kayden Jackson (Grimsby Town).
Robert Dickie (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Zak Mills.
Attempt missed. Kayden Jackson (Grimsby Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Danny Andrew (Grimsby Town) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Jack Munns (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Tom Bolarinwa (Grimsby Town).
Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Josh Gowling (Grimsby Town).
Danny Parslow (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Omar Bogle (Grimsby Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Brandon Comley (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town).
Corner, Grimsby Town. Conceded by Danny Parslow.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Shaun Tuton replaces Dominic Vose.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Brandon Comley replaces Luke Summerfield.
James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dominic Vose (Grimsby Town).
Attempt saved. Omar Bogle (Grimsby Town) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Amari Morgan-Smith replaces Harry Pell.
Danny Andrew (Grimsby Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jack Barthram (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Andrew (Grimsby Town).
Attempt blocked. Danny Andrew (Grimsby Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town).
Craig Disley (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jack Barthram (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Dominic Vose (Grimsby Town).
Corner, Grimsby Town. Conceded by Danny Parslow.
Attempt missed. Robert Dickie (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Collins (Grimsby Town).
BBC Radio 4 has commissioned a pilot of Where's The F In News, created and presented by Have I Got News For You series producer Jo Bunting.
The station said it would be "an energetic and intelligent female-anchored show" with a "predominantly female panel".
The gender balance on panel shows has been a contentious issue.
In 2014, the BBC's director of TV pledged to have at least one woman on every such show in response to criticisms that they were too male-heavy.
Bunting said: "Apparently if a woman speaks in a meeting for 50% of the time a man speaks, he genuinely thinks she's spoken the exact same amount as he has.
"When I read that, I thought, how can I really annoy that man? So I've created a show featuring a shedload of intelligent and funny women."
The Where's The F In News panel will "use the events, trends and talking points that they think should be top of the news agenda as a starting point for a number of fresh and funny challenges", the BBC said.
The show is one of a raft of new comedy commissions announced by Radio 4 for 2018 and 2019.
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It currently pays for drugs the NHS has decided are unaffordable, but the health service says the fund is "no longer sustainable".
A consultation document proposes giving patients drugs "with genuine promise" while they are being assessed.
The NHS would then decide whether they should be funded.
Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said: "Over the next five years we're likely to see many new cancer drugs coming on to the worldwide market, some of which will be major therapeutic breakthroughs and some of which will turn out to offer little extra patient benefit but at enormous cost.
"The new Cancer Drugs Fund offers a route for sorting out the wheat from the chaff, so that patients in England get faster access to the genuinely most promising new treatments."
At present, the Cancer Drugs Fund can choose to pay for innovative drugs which the health watchdog, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), has rejected for widespread use on the NHS.
But under the plans NICE would make all the decisions.
When a drug comes on to the market, NICE will give it the go-ahead for the whole NHS, reject it entirely or put it on the CDF while more data is collected.
A drug can be on the fund for up to two years before NICE must make a final decision to accept or reject the therapy.
The fund, which was established in 2011 and covers England, has seen its costs rise to £340m in 2015-16 from an initial budget of £200m a year.
Prof Paul Workman, chief executive of The Institute of Cancer Research, said it made sense for the Cancer Drugs Fund to pay for new drugs only after a provisional green light from NICE.
This would avoid duplicating the process for deciding whether drugs should be made available on the NHS, he said.
He added: "There are also promising signs of a desire to address the bottleneck we have in cancer drugs being approved for use on the NHS.
"The proposals could speed up the drug evaluation system - which is good news for everyone - and would increase the number of drugs which would be available for consideration under end-of-life criteria."
He also said he welcomed the move to allow new patients access to promising treatments while further evidence on them was collected.
In the past decade only one new drug has been approved by NICE for the treatment of ovarian cancer.
Annwen Jones, chief executive of Target Ovarian Cancer, said: "Any new appraisal system must maintain access to those drugs already available and find ways to improve access to the few new drugs that are being developed for ovarian cancer."
She said it was important that the new CDF represented and addressed patient needs.
The document defines the majority Hindu nation as a secular republic divided into seven federal provinces.
Although Delhi was one of the major backers of the process over the past decade, it believes the new constitution is not broad-based and is concerned that it could spur violence which could spill over into its own territory.
India's reaction in the past few days to events in Nepal has been quite remarkable.
On Friday, just a couple of days before the constitution was formally adopted (but after it had been passed by the Constituent Assembly) India's top diplomat was sent to Kathmandu at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar held discussions with Nepal's president and prime minister and leaders of all the major political parties including those who had opposed the constitution in its current form.
He is believed to have pressed the Nepalese government to delay the adoption of the constitution and hold discussions with political groups opposed to it.
Reports in the Indian media say that India's ambassador in Kathmandu spoke to Prime Minister Sushil Koirala hours before Sunday's constitution ceremony to express Delhi's disappointment at the process going through.
And hours after the constitution was formally adopted, the Indian foreign ministry put out a terse statement only "noting" that it had taken place.
"We are concerned that the situation in several parts of the country bordering India continues to be violent," the statement said.
"We urge that issues on which there are differences should be resolved through dialogue in an atmosphere free from violence and intimidation, and institutionalised in a manner that would enable broad-based ownership and acceptance," it added.
It's hardly a ringing endorsement.
India's concern has been with the violent reaction to the constitution in the low-lying southern plains, adjoining India, the Terai.
Communities living in the Terai, especially the Madeshis and the Tharu ethnic minorities, have expressed concern that the proposed boundaries of the new provinces could lead to their political marginalisation.
The two groups make up nearly 40% of Nepal's population and the Madeshis share close ethnic ties with people in India.
India's strong reaction, some believe, stems from the fact that it was assured by Nepalese leaders that these concerns would be taken on board.
"But that did not happen," says Prof SD Muni, a strategic analyst who closely follows events in Nepal.
"India's concern is genuine because whatever happens in the Terai will spill over into India. So the violence is really worrying."
India shares a 1,751km (1,088-mile) open border with Nepal through which people pass freely but which has often concerned the country's security agencies because of its use by smugglers, human traffickers and terror suspects.
Next month, elections are due to take place in the politically crucial state of Bihar which adjoins Nepal.
The state is one of India's most lawless and there is concern that political instability across the border could have an impact on the elections.
But India is also aware of the sensitivities involved in its relations with Nepal because of which it finds itself in a difficult situation.
Many people in Nepal have long accused India of interfering in the country's affairs, something that Prof Muni concedes is not always unfounded.
"There was no point in sending [the foreign secretary] after the constitution had already been passed. It can be construed as interference," he says.
But he also believes that Nepal plays India to its advantage.
"They ask for India's help when they need it. But if they don't like what we do, they describe it as interference."
And then there is China, India's regional bugbear.
In recent years, China has been ramping up its involvement in Nepal mainly through economic engagement much to India's discomfort in what it considers its backyard.
It is also wary of China's links with Nepal's Communists, never mind that most of its leadership has either been schooled in India or has spent many years in exile in this country.
And Beijing's reaction to Nepal's new constitution is noticeably warmer than India's was.
"As a friendly neighbour, Chinese side notes with pleasure that Nepal's Constituent Assembly has endorsed the new constitution," its foreign ministry spokesperson said.
There are some in India, though, who believe that the country should not be too critical of Nepal.
"The concerns of the Madhesis most certainly can be addressed through an amendment process in the coming months and years," an Indian Member of Parliament, DP Tripathi, told The Hindu newspaper.
"Nepal has adopted a constitution and like all other constitutions of the world, this too will mature and evolve," he said.
The tragedies have hit seemingly everywhere, from popular Sydney beaches to remote inland waterholes and backyard swimming pools.
Three toddlers and a 14-year-old boy were among the victims. The others were all men.
The number of deaths - labelled "unprecedented" by authorities - has shocked NSW. Not even the state's roads, which claimed 248 more lives than drownings in 2015, have been as deadly since Christmas.
Surf Life Saving NSW fears more tragedies are to come.
"We could be looking at a bit of a horror toll for this December-January period," said spokeswoman Donna Wishart.
NSW Emergency Services Minister David Elliott said although the state's "heart has broken" over the deaths, people must take responsibility for their own safety.
"If you don't know that your pool fence is childproof, fix it. If you don't know that a river has been running a current underneath it, don't go into it. If you don't know that a surf is safe, don't enter the surf," he told a press conference on Tuesday.
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Two more deaths initially attributed to drowning were later found to have been caused by medical conditions.
Mr Elliott said the government had already allocated A$11m (£6.5m; $7.9m) towards improving water safety - including A$6m for designated "black spots".
"If there was a silver bullet, we would do it. But this is not something that can be easily fixed by changing the law," he said.
He said there was "no real consistency" among the deaths, except that a high proportion were male.
Ms Wishart, from Surf Life Saving NSW, said recent warm weather had contributed to the rise in deaths, with more people turning to water to cool off.
She said the frequency of beach tragedies was similar to last year, but more deaths were occurring in inland waterways and pools.
"That's definitely where the spike has been," Ms Wishart told the BBC.
"They're actually sometimes even more dangerous than the beach and the surf. You just don't know what's under the water. There's fast-moving currents. There's generally no water safety services there, no lifeguards on patrol."
At least two of the victims were reported not to be strong swimmers. Ms Wishart said recent migrants and visitors from overseas were over-represented in the tragedies.
"They're definitely getting into trouble on a regular basis," she said.
Justin Scarr, from the Royal Life Saving Society, said he was "deeply concerned" about the deaths of two international students, Sujan Adhikari and Sujan Sharma, in separate incidents.
"These people have come from countries where the drowning rate is 10, 15, 20 times higher than Australia," Mr Scarr told Australia's public broadcaster ABC.
"We've really got to do a better job of getting water safety messages, education skills and messages to people so that they can enjoy our waterways and not get themselves in trouble."
A report last week found that 40% of the 770 people who drowned in Australia's inland waterways in the past decade had alcohol in their system, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Nearly 83% of those victims were male, noted the research, which will be published in the Accident Analysis and Prevention journal.
Mr Scarr told the ABC men were more likely than women to swim after drinking alcohol and engage in "risk-taking behaviour".
"Any sort of water activity with alcohol is really heading for disaster," he said.
The tragedies have prompted calls for new safety measures, including mandatory school swimming lessons and even random breath tests for swimmers.
Royal Life Saving NSW said about half of children were leaving primary school without sufficient swimming skills - well up on a decade ago.
Leisa Hart, the YMCA chief for NSW, called on the government to offer rebates on swimming lessons, which were often expensive.
"We simply can't waste any more time debating whether this issue deserves a piece of the government funding pie," she wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday.
Ambulance NSW Inspector John Brotherhood said parents needed to keep a constant eye on children around water.
"In almost every case I've attended, it's been the same story, the pool gates haven't been fixed; the parents have been distracted or the kids have wandered out and got into trouble," he said.
"Nobody intends for these tragedies to happen, but paramedics sadly see time and again they do."
Reporting by the BBC's Jay Savage
The change means that many older posts will now be added to results when people search for news or information.
The move is being seen as part of Facebook's attempts to keep people on the site rather than go elsewhere to keep up to date with events.
It said options were available for people that did not want their older posts to be more widely accessible.
Tom Stocky, Facebook's head of search, said in a blog post that many people already turned to Facebook when trying to find out how friends and family were reacting to world events. About 1.5 billion searches are carried out on Facebook every day, he said.
The changes that Facebook has introduced will mean members of the social network will now also see posts by strangers alongside those from news organisations and people closest to them.
"Search results are organised to help you cut through the noise and quickly understand what the world is saying about a topic in the moment," said Mr Stocky.
The post also detailed what Facebook users can do to limit who sees the older posts they shared.
Currently the expanded search results are only available to Facebook members in the US.
The move puts Facebook into direct competition with Twitter which recently introduced a similar system called Moments, said Caitlin McGarry on PC World.
"Facebook has a much wider audience than Twitter," said Ms McGarry. "so Facebook's potential reach for its search tools is exponentially larger."
The militarised Airbus A330 jet was revamped at a cost of about £10m.
The government has said the move will save about £775,000 a year as it is cheaper than chartering flights.
David Cameron, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon will fly in the Airbus to the Nato summit in Warsaw on Friday.
The conversion was announced at the end of 2015 as part of the strategic defence and security review.
It has involved 58 business seats being fitted, with the Ministry of Defence saying this will "allow it to transport sizeable business delegations".
It will also be available for official overseas visits for members of the Royal Family.
The PM's flights, using either Royal Squadron planes or long-haul charter, cost on average £6,700 per flying hour, a source said, and the RAF aircraft will cost £2,000.
The Voyager, which will be based at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, will be available for what the MoD said was its "primary operational role" of air-to-air refuelling when not in use by ministers or royals.
Air Marshal Sean Reynolds, deputy commander capability, said: "The reconfigured Voyager flying on its maiden VIP flight on Friday will proudly represent the UK and the RAF across the globe for many years to come."
The Voyager, a converted Airbus A330-200 airliner, is almost 60m (197ft) long and has a 60m wingspan.
When he was prime minister, Gordon Brown cancelled plans drawn up by his predecessor Tony Blair to buy two private jets, which had been nicknamed "Blair Force One" in reference to the aircraft used to fly the US president, Air Force One.
Some kits contain 300 times the legal limit of hydrogen peroxide, the Local Government Association said.
This would be like "brushing with bleach" and could cause blistering, burns and other damage, the LGA added.
The government said it was helping make people aware of dangers, but would not say whether it planned bigger fines.
Only dental professionals can legally perform teeth whitening at business premises, but the LGA said a "worrying number" of unqualified staff were offering the treatment.
In one area, Warwickshire, the LGA said the county council seized more than 15,000 "dangerous"' teeth whitening products between May 2015 and February 2016.
It said some of the kits contained more than 33% hydrogen peroxide - far above the legal limits of 0.1% for public use, or 6% for professionals.
The Department of Health said the application of products of over 6% by people who had not undergone professional training posed significant risks to teeth and gums.
The General Dental Council had successfully prosecuted several non-qualified practitioners for the illegal practice of dentistry," the department added.
"Illegal DIY teeth whitening kits may promise fast results and a brighter smile but those containing dangerous levels of hydrogen peroxide are the equivalent of brushing with bleach and can put oral health at risk," said the LGA's Simon Blackburn.
Last year 32 people were prosecuted, but the British Dental Association said recent fines had been "derisory" and tougher sanctions were needed.
It said teeth whitening was safe when carried out by trained dental professionals.
A spokesman for the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills said the department supported the LGA's making more consumers aware of the dangers.
"We urge people to only use qualified professionals when undergoing this procedure. If the results promised by home whitening kits seem too good to be true, they probably are," the spokesman said.
A government scheme offering 30 hours of childcare a week to working parents of three and four-year-olds is to be piloted in York next month.
But the Pre-school Learning Alliance said providers may refuse to offer the care because it could cost them money.
The government said it was set to spend a record amount on childcare.
Some families who use only free care may be unable to dictate when they want their children to attend a nursery or to secure places for more than one term at a time.
The scheme, which is also being trialled in another seven areas in September, was a key promise in the Conservative general election manifesto.
Fifteen hours of taxpayer-funded childcare for all three and four-year-olds has been available since 2010 and some two-year-olds are also eligible for free care.
But providers in York say the new policy is underfunded and they stand to lose tens of thousands of pounds.
Nurseries cannot charge for the free care promised by the government, but they can ask parents to pay towards the cost of food and special activities.
Ken McArthur, who runs a nursery in York, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I'm introducing a charge, which is something that was never there beforehand.
"I'm now going to introduce a funded hours charge, which includes the meals which we've been providing, in a lot of cases totally for free."
He said parents of babies and very young children were already paying higher rates to subsidise an existing scheme offering 15 hours of childcare.
Parents who pay at his nursery can secure a place for their child until he or she reaches school age, but those who seek only free care will have to apply for a place three times a year, he said, and would not be able to dictate their hours.
Vanessa Warn, who runs two nurseries in York, said she asked parents to make contributions of £5 a day.
She said: "Our parents have been overwhelmingly supportive because again it comes down to parental choice."
Earlier this year childcare providers threatened to pull out of the York pilot scheme until they were promised more money, but nurseries say they are still set to lose out.
Ms Warn told Today that she expected the policy to cost her £70,000 to provide next year.
The other pilot areas are Wigan, Staffordshire, Swindon, Portsmouth, Northumberland, York, Newham and Hertfordshire, but York is the only one in which the policy will be tested across the whole council.
It is scheduled to be rolled out across the rest of England in 2017.
The Pre-School Learning Alliance, a charity which specialises in early years education, warned some nurseries could opt out of the scheme.
Its chief executive, Neil Leitch, said: "As the Department for Education itself has acknowledged, if childcare providers find that they'll be financially worse off by delivering the 30 hours, many will simply opt out of the scheme."
But a Department for Education spokeswoman said plans to rewrite rules on how funding was distributed had received widespread support from the childcare industry.
She said: "We are doubling our free childcare offer for working parents to make it easier for them to get on and balance work with their family lives."
The spokeswoman added that the Department for Education would be spending a record £6bn on childcare by 2020.
The Conservatives promised an extra 15 hours of free care for working parents in its general election manifesto.
Parents will be eligible for the extra 15 hours if they earn at least £115 a week.
The policy only applies in England.
In Scotland three and four-years-olds and some two-year-olds are eligible for 16 hours of care a week.
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Billy Waters' first-half goal was enough to give Cheltenham a hard-fought 1-0 win at Grimsby.
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The BBC is to launch a topical radio panel show where the host and most of the guests are women.
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Patients could get innovative cancer drugs more quickly under plans to overhaul England's controversial Cancer Drugs Fund.
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Nepal's adoption of a new federal constitution has led to a souring of ties with its giant neighbour India.
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Facebook has indexed almost two trillion posts put on the site by its members to make it easier to find them.
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An RAF Voyager aircraft that has been refitted for the PM, senior ministers and members of the Royal Family to use is making its maiden flight this week.
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"Rogue" beauticians who offer teeth whitening and people who sell illegal kits should face tougher penalties, councils in England and Wales say.
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Parents in England who claim extra free childcare from September will be asked to pay charges to help tackle a funding shortfall, nurseries have warned.
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The quadcopter carrying 3kg (6.6lb) of methamphetamine was found in pieces in a supermarket car park near San Ysidro.
Mexican police said the drone had probably crashed because the drugs onboard had been too heavy for it.
They added that drones were increasingly being used to ferry illicit items across the border with the US.
In a statement, the Tijuana police said the drugs had been divided into six packets crudely taped to the body of the drone.
After receiving an anonymous call about the crashed craft, Tijuana police recovered the drone and are now examining it to see if they can trace who set it flying and where it began its journey.
The statement said the drone was a prototype that could be given GPS co-ordinates and would then travel to that location autonomously. No pilot was needed to guide it.
The Tijuana police said drones were just one of the many innovative ways drug-smugglers were using to ferry illicit substances across the border. Other methods included catapults, tunnels and ultra-light aircraft.
Last year, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) said drones were becoming so popular as a method of drug transport that some gangs were manufacturing their own.
Engineers were hired to make the devices for the drug cartels so they could carry more weight than those that were commercially available, it said.
The drones were making more than 150 trips a year, suggested figures from the DEA.
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The UK - by far the most capable European military player, along with France - has always been a brake on such an idea, fearing unnecessary duplication with Nato.
The UK went along with EU plans up to a point. A British army light mechanised infantry unit (2nd Battalion the Yorkshire regiment) currently forms the core of one of the EU's 1,500-strong battle groups: a rapid-reaction force capable of being deployed to a crisis zone at short notice.
In fact over recent years the UK has also stepped up defence co-operation with France - a natural partner, given the scale of their military ambitions.
Indeed, defence was the sector in which the UK was perhaps the strongest EU player, in part to compensate for Britain's absence from other core issues of European business - the common currency, the project for ever greater political union and so on.
But Britain's view was that EU defence co-operation should only go so far. Nothing should be done to reduce the primacy of Nato and money should not be wasted on duplicating things that the transatlantic alliance was already doing.
This - broadly speaking - is the US view too.
What matters in Washington is European defence spending and capability. The willingness (or as he would see it unwillingness) of America's European partners to pay more for defence is a key element in the Republican candidate Donald Trump's critique of Nato.
But now, with the UK in the departure lounge for EU exit, a number of European leaders are reviving the idea of a stronger EU defence identity - summed up in the phrase, "a European army".
This has long been the ambition of the most ardent eurocrats. Back in March 2015, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker declared that a common European army was needed to address the problem that the EU, as an international player, was not "taken entirely seriously" in the world - not least in Moscow.
The Brexit vote has opened the floodgates to the idea. The prime ministers of Hungary and the Czech Republic have urged the EU to build its own army. Only this week, German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, who was visiting Lithuania, declared that "it's time to move forward to a European defence union which is basically a 'Schengen of defence'."
This reference to "Schengen", the EU's open borders agreement, prompted one defence expert I know to comment wryly that it was pretty rich to talk about a "Schengen of defence" when Schengen had effectively allowed thousands of refugees to "invade" EU territory.
But an EU army is back on the agenda and it is unlikely to go away.
Nato fears fast-moving Russian troops
Is the West losing its edge on defence?
The UK's Brexit vote was a blow to the EU's sense of itself.
The EU has already been battered by its failures to deal adequately with a series of crises: from the Greek bailout to the wave of refugees heading for Europe's shores. It is perhaps understandable that the EU's advocates are looking to bolster its standing by moving ahead in other areas.
But it is crucial to realise that there is more politics here than strategic thought. What exactly does "a European army" mean? Sending soldiers into harm's way is perhaps the ultimate sovereign decision a government can take.
Countries enter into alliances like Nato (or indeed the EU itself) because pooling resources provides greater capability and thus security.
But there is no Nato army as such, just national forces integrated into a common command structure. They only become Nato forces in the event of a conflict.
Sections of the British press that hyperventilate whenever the idea of an EU army comes up miss this essential point: that the term "EU army" is largely meaningless.
But more European defence there will be. There is already a patchwork of defence arrangements - some bilateral, some multilateral, some in the EU and many involving Nato as a whole.
If this leads to more defence and better defence it is probably a good thing. If it leads to political posturing and duplication then the sceptics may be right - and the only person who may be happy is Russian President Vladimir Putin, watching it all from the Kremlin.
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Frequent showers reduced the game to 11 overs a side and Ireland posted 96-5 with crucial knocks from Stuart Poynter (35) and William Porterfield (30).
George Dockrell and Max Sorensen each took three wickets as PNG fell short of their target on 89-9 in Townsville.
The final game in the series takes place in Townsville on Tuesday.
Ireland eased to a five-wicket victory in Saturday's opener but it was a much closer affair 24 hours later.
Ireland overcame the first-ball dismissal of Andrew Balbirnie with Porterfield and Poynter, scoring a flurry of boundaries in the opening powerplay.
Porterfield, in his 100th game as captain, scored 30 off just 15 balls while Poynter cleared the ropes twice in his 35 from 24 balls.
However, the Irish added just 26 runs in the last four overs as Papua New Guinea debutant Pipi Raho claimed 3-11.
Asad Vala (25) gave the Pacific Islanders a rapid start, but his dismissal saw the hosts implode.
They lost seven wickets for just 22 runs with Dockrell (3-18), Sorensen (3-24), and Andy McBrine (2-7) doing the damage.
A late flourish from Norman Vanua, with two sixes in an undefeated 26, came too late as Ireland held on to clinch an unassailable lead in the series.
"It's great to be 2-0 up in the series with two solid performances," said Porterfield.
"To be asked to bat first in potentially tricky conditions with the rain around I thought the lads did really well.
"The bowlers then, as they have done all trip, backed that up with another great display to win the game."
The motion was opposed by six Conservatives, one Liberal Democrat, and 23 Labour MPs, with Rushanara Ali abstaining by voting for and against. She resigned from the opposition front bench in order to abstain.
The 24-year-old left-back was a free agent, having left the Seagulls earlier this summer following a three-year stint at the Amex Stadium.
Chicksen only made two appearances for Brighton last season, in between loan spells at Leyton Orient and Gillingham.
He becomes Charlton's 11th signing of the transfer window.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The letters are intended to confirm the accuracy of HMRC's records for the 2.6 million taxpayers who live in Scotland and who will pay the new rate.
Recipients will not need to take any action if the address details HMRC holds for them are correct.
The Scottish Rate of Income Tax comes into effect on 6 April next year.
It will be paid by UK taxpayers who live in Scotland, regardless of where they work, with the rate to be announced by the Scottish government in its draft budget on 16 December.
Those paying the new rate will see their tax code prefixed by an 'S' and their income tax will continue to be collected from pay and pensions in the same way as it is now.
The new system was a recommendation of the Calman Commission and has been devolved under the Scotland Act 2012 along with powers over stamp duty and landfill tax
It will see the UK income tax rate being reduced by 10p in the pound across all bands in Scotland, with the Scottish Parliament then setting its own rate, which could be lower, higher or exactly the same as the rest of the UK.
The first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has already hinted that her government is likely to keep the Scottish rate at the same level as the rest of the UK as any tax rises or cuts would need to be applied across all tax bands.
The Scottish Parliament is to receive greater powers over income tax under the new Scotland Bill proposals which are still going through the UK Parliament and which are expected to come into force in 2018.
The Scotland Bill will hand Holyrood control over income tax rates and bands, which would give the Scottish government greater flexibility to introduce a higher rate of income tax for high earners if it wished to do so.
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The Briton had not set a time when he came into the pits with the rear of his car in flames and will start from the back for the second race in succession.
Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg took pole and, barring problems, will extend his 14-point title lead on Sunday.
It is the sixth straight race in which Hamilton has hit trouble in qualifying.
Sebastian Vettel took second place after a much-improved performance in the Red Bull, with Williams' Valtteri Bottas in third.
"The engine just died," said Hamilton. "I thought I'm right next to the pit entry, so I'll roll back and at least get them to fix it. And then I looked in my mirrors and it was on fire."
At last weekend's German Grand Prix, Hamilton fought up from 20th on the grid to finish third behind Rosberg and Bottas following a brake failure in qualifying.
But overtaking is much more difficult at the tight and twisty Hungaroring than it is at Hockenheim, so Hamilton faces a long afternoon trying to make up ground.
He will start from the pit lane rather than the grid because Mercedes need to build up a new chassis and fit a new engine to it.
Rosberg, by contrast, can expect another comfortable race as long as he converts his pole position into a lead at the first corner.
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Mercedes said Hamilton had suffered a fuel leak.
"I would prefer to be out there battling with Lewis and that would give me the maximum adrenaline rush," said Rosberg of his team-mate's misfortune.
It is the sixth successive race in which Hamilton has suffered problems in qualifying of one kind or another and he has not started from pole position since the Spanish Grand Prix in early May.
In Monaco, he failed to get in his final lap when Rosberg went off the track ahead of him, causing yellow caution flags to be waved and in Canada and Austria, Hamilton made mistakes on his qualifying runs.
At Silverstone, he misjudged a drying track and was knocked down from first to sixth by other drivers when he failed to do a final lap, although he did go on to win the race.
Hamilton had been keen to reverse his qualifying form and take pole and a victory at a track on which he has won four times in seven races and go into the four-week summer break having cut his deficit to Rosberg.
After Hungary, there are eight races and a maximum of 225 points available, following the controversial decision to award double points at the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi.
But such is Mercedes' dominance that closing the gap on Rosberg will not be easy for Hamilton as if both cars finish they tend to be first and second, between which there is only seven points.
There was a dramatic beginning to the final top 10 shoot-out when rain started to fall just before the start of the session.
All the drivers went out on slick dry-weather tyres. Rosberg was first out and was caught out by the amount of water on the track and ran wide at the first corner but managed to rejoin the track.
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McLaren's Kevin Magnussen, in the car right behind him, was not so lucky. The Dane locked up and smashed into the tyre barrier, forcing officials to stop the session for 10 minutes while repairs were made to the safety facilities.
When the session resumed, the leading positions changed consistently as the drivers swapped fastest times on slick tyres on the drying lap.
Rosberg ended up 0.486secs quicker than Vettel, who was 0.15secs ahead of Bottas.
Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo starts fourth ahead of Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, Williams's Felipe Massa and the second McLaren of Jenson Button.
Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne was eighth ahead of Force India's Nico Hulkenberg, with the unfortunate Magnussen 10th, although the Dane will start from the pit lane following a chassis and gearbox change.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was the victim of a terrible misjudgement by his team.
They decided to not go out for a second run in the first part of qualifying with either car.
But while Alonso progressed comfortably, Raikkonen was 0.7secs slower than his team-mate and he was pipped in the final seconds by the Ferrari-engined Marussia of Jules Bianchi. Raikkonen will start 17th.
Full Qualifying results
Hungarian Grand Prix coverage details
Mr Tsang, who led Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012, had faced three charges of misconduct and bribery.
He was cleared of a second count of misconduct and the jury failed to reach a verdict on a third charge of accepting an advantage.
Mr Tsang is the most senior Hong Kong official to face a corruption trial.
The case has worried a territory that prides itself on its relatively clean reputation.
The charges, which each carried a maximum of seven years in prison, related to events which took place near the end of his term between 2010 and 2012.
Prosecutors accused Mr Tsang of engaging in a number of conflicts of interest without declaring them, including renting a luxury flat in mainland China from the shareholder of a broadcast company, Wave Media, whose license applications he approved.
They alleged the flat was redecorated for free for him and that he later nominated the interior designer for an honour.
The jury, which deliberated for two days, found him guilty of misconduct over his failure to disclose the lease of the flat, but dismissed the charge related to the designer.
It did not reach a verdict on whether he accepted a bribe in the form of the refurbishment. Sentencing will take place on Monday, AFP reported.
Mr Tsang, 72, has previously insisted his conscience is clear.
A career civil servant, he rose through the ranks to become Hong Kong's second chief executive, following Tung Chee-hwa.
His deputy, former Chief Secretary Rafael Hui, was jailed for accepting bribes from a property tycoon in 2014.
Just days after being treated to a veritable treasure trove of strange presidential assertions and non sequiturs in a previously unreleased Wall Street Journal interview, the public has been offered a blast from the (recent) past in leaked records of Mr Trump's phone conversations with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
The conversations took place on the same day in January, in the US president's first week in office, during a marathon session of phone calls to world leaders. It gives an inside view into how Mr Trump talks when he doesn't think the public is listening (hint: it's not much different from his public performances).
Here are some highlights.
TRUMP: "Well, Canada is no problem - do not worry about Canada, do not even think about them. That is a separate thing and they are fine and we have had a very fair relationship with Canada. It has been much more balanced and much more fair. So we do not have to worry about Canada, we do not even think about them."
AZ: This could be an example of the Trump administration's seeming preference for bilateral trade negotiations, rather than multi-party agreements like Nafta. While the president professed to have "no problem" with Canada, since his conversation with Mr Pena Nieto, Mr Trump has been quite critical of his northern neighbour, blasting the nation's policies on dairy and soft lumber exports.
TRUMP: "I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den."
AZ: Donald Trump lost New Hampshire in the general election, but he won its Republican primary last February, which cemented his status as the front-runner for the party's nomination. While he was campaigning there he acknowledged the state's opioid addiction epidemic, but never in such derogatory terms.
TRUMP: "You have some pretty tough hombres in Mexico that you may need help with, and we are willing to help you with that big-league. But they have to be knocked out and you have not done a good job of knocking them out."
AZ: The "tough hombre" line had leaked - and been roundly derided as insensitive - shortly after the president had his conversation with Mr Nieto. Now it can be viewed in context, which doesn't do much to help the president appear diplomatic.
TRUMP: "If you are going to say that Mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then I do not want to meet with you guys anymore because I cannot live with that," he said. "You cannot say that to the press".
AZ: One of Mr Trump's key campaign promises runs up against a cold hard reality critics had pointed out from the very beginning. Mexico just isn't going to pay for the border wall. The president seems to recognise his predicament and the public relations fiasco that could result. His solution? Trying to convince Mr Pena Nieto to stop talking about it to the press.
TRUMP: "It is you and I against the world, Enrique, do not forget."
AZ: Well, this is a strange sentiment given that Mexico - and undocumented Mexican immigrants - were a regular punching bag for Mr Trump for much of his presidential campaign. Mr Pena Nieto's flattery throughout the conversation seems to have softened the president's attitude, at least for the moment.
TRUMP: "Your words are so beautiful. Those are beautiful words and I do not think I can speak that beautifully, okay? It would be great to put those words at the end of the statement."
AZ: During the campaign, Mr Trump once boasted: "I know the best words." Perhaps the president is acknowledging that, in Mr Pena Nieto, he's finally met his match.
TRUMP: "This [refugee resettlement deal] is going to kill me. I am the world's greatest person that does not want to let people into the country."
AZ: Mr Trump apparently walked into his phone call with Mr Turnbull with no clear understanding of the details of the refugee resettlement agreement, aside from what "somebody" told him the day before.
TRUMP: "I guarantee you they [refugees] are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people."
AZ: The refugees in question were being detained, not imprisoned - a key difference. And, as Mr Turnbull points out, the US did not agree to admit all 1,250 individuals, but rather to screen them and then admit only those who would pose no threat to the "milk people".
TRUMP: "That is why they lost the election, because of stupid deals like this. You have brokered many a stupid deal in business and I respect you, but I guarantee that you broke many a stupid deal. This is a stupid deal."
AZ: One seldom has to wait for long for Mr Trump to bring up the 2016 presidential election, whether it's in a phone call with a foreign leader, a White House event for a championship sports team or a speech to a Boy Scout jubilee. That - and the art of successful deal-making - are the president's two favourite topics of discussion. Mr Turnbull gets a two-for-one special.
TRUMP: "What is the thing with boats? Why do you discriminate against boats?"
AZ: One of the things Mr Trump doesn't seem to understand is why Australia will not grant asylum to anyone who arrives on its soil by seagoing vessel. As Mr Turnbull tries to explain, the reason is to discourage human traffickers and make the dangerous water voyage less appealing to refugees. It has nothing to do with the country of origin of the refugees or the perceived risk associated with granting them residency.
TRUMP: "I have had it. I have been making these calls all day and this is the most unpleasant call all day. Putin was a pleasant call. This is ridiculous."
AZ: There were news reports after the conversation that Mr Trump's interactions with Mr Turnbull were less than cordial. The president and the White House denied it, but the transcript tells a different story. The line about Vladimir Putin is just the icing on the cake.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) report was released in July 2014 "with many words left out", a council spokesman said.
Following a unanimous vote, the council will write to Defra, asking for the report to be published in full "in the interests of transparency".
Defra said that was not possible.
A spokeswoman for the department said while the redacted draft paper was online, the full report was "an internal document" which would not be published.
Councillor Marcus Johnstone, who proposed the motion to ask for the Shale Gas Rural Economy Impacts report to be published in full, said it could be "a valuable source of information, but it was heavily redacted".
"Many people have concerns about the potential development of a shale gas industry, including the availability of relevant information about how the industry might affect the community they live in.
"The council will now formally ask the government to release the report in full, in the interests of transparency."
Fellow councillor Gina Dowding, who seconded the motion, said "a large amount of information has been left out of the published version and it appears that the omissions include some significant details".
The council is due to decide whether to grant energy firm Cuadrilla planning permission to frack at two sites in Lancashire in April.
Council planners recommended refusal in January, prompting Cuadrilla's successful request for a deferral until 30 April.
Fracking - or hydraulic fracturing - is a technique in which water and chemicals are pumped into shale rock at high pressure to extract gas.
Taylor took an indefinite break from cricket in May 2016 to help deal with anxiety problems.
The 28-year-old returned to England action for a one-day international against Ireland in Dubai in April.
"She'll have learned a lot about herself and faced up to a lot of battles," Robinson told BBC Sussex.
"She feels confident enough to put herself forward for selection. We've got a bit of time to go yet for her to keep doing what we call a graduated return and that's what she's done.
"She's managed to conquer most of her battles at the moment, so the medical team are confident enough, she's confident enough and she's ready to go."
Taylor has played in 101 one-day internationals for England, averaging 39.76 with the bat.
"Sarah's mental wellbeing and mental health is the most important thing, and that's the same for any cricketer," Robinson continued.
"What I do know with Sarah, and with you with me or with any of us, is if you're physically fit and mentally fit you can do a lot in our jobs and in our lives so we have to protect that side of Sarah.
"If she keeps ticking the right boxes and doing the right things to keep her mental health going and her physical fitness going, she's got every chance of having a really successful World Cup."
The group, which included nine Britons, were detained on 10 July during a tour of ancient China and accused of watching banned terrorist videos.
The tourists said that the incident was a misunderstanding, and that they were watching a documentary about Genghis Khan.
The BBC's Carrie Gracie reports from Ordos.
The Belfast Telegraph and the The Irish News reported on Wednesday that the book had received funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI).
The book was written by the graphic novelist Gerry Hunt and published by O'Brien Press in Dublin.
Bobby Sands was one of ten hunger strikers who died in the Maze Prison in 1981. Unionists described the book as "republican propaganda".
The Arts Council has been criticised for funding the publication of the illustrated book called "Bobby Sands, Freedom Fighter".
The council is funded by Stormont's culture and arts department.
The BBC understands that the fact that Bobby Sands would be the subject of the book would have been made known to ACNI in O'Brien's application for a grant, but not the title or content of the book.
The UK National Lottery also part-funded the publication.
In a statement, the Arts Council said it had received a "strong application" from O'Brien Press, which is described as one of Ireland's largest publishers, and said it had "satisfied all of our criteria".
The Ulster Unionist MP Tom Elliott said he believed the book glorified terrorism.
"What does concern me is that the Arts Council have given money to this book that is really a glorification of Bobby Sands' life as a terrorist," he said.
Danny Morrison is the secretary of the Bobby Sands Trust and one of the characters featured in the graphic novel.
"Bobby Sands spent a third of his life in jail," he said.
"He was 27 years of age when he died after 66 days on hunger strike. He was the MP for Fermanagh-South Tyrone. He was a poet and a writer.
"Bobby Sands is a role model because he's an Irish patriot."
The hunger strike began in the prison as a protest by republican prisoners over their right to be treated as 'special category' political prisoners rather than criminals.
During his time on hunger strike Bobby Sands stood for election as an MP for Fermanagh-South Tyrone and was elected. He died less than a month later on 5 May 1981.
The BBC One comedy reached 9.69 million viewers, up from a live Christmas Day audience of 7.61 million.
Call the Midwife was the second most popular show, attracting 9.4 million.
Viewing figures were generally down on last year, with nearly two million fewer people watching the number one rated show than last year.
Irish-based sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys, starring Brendan O'Carroll, also topped the Christmas Day ratings last year, but the number of viewers dropped from the 11.5 million it attracted then.
The Queen's Christmas Message, the most watched programme live, fell to 7th position with a total of 8.04 million viewers.
BBC One had six of the top 10 most watched programmes while ITV had four - the channels shared the Queen's Christmas Broadcast at 15:00 GMT, which was also aired on Sky News and Sky One.
The Queen used her broadcast to highlight the importance of reconciliation between people, speaking of the impact of the Scottish independence referendum, and recalling the moment German and British soldiers put down their weapons and met on Christmas Day in 1914.
Strictly Come Dancing's Christmas special, which saw gymnast Louis Smith scoop the champion title for a second time, attracted 8.98 million viewers, putting it in third position.
Sitcom Miranda, which drew to a close on 1 January in a two-part special, was in fourth position with 8.65 million viewers and an audience share of 30.6%.
BBC drama Doctor Who was in 6th position with 8.28 million viewers, a decline on the 11.1 million viewers last year, when former Doctor Matt Smith was seen regenerating into Peter Capaldi.
ITV's highest rating Christmas Day show was for Coronation Street with 6.65 million viewers tuning in. ITV's figures do not include ITV+1.
Rea, 29, saw off the challenge of his Kawasaki team-mate Tom Sykes, pulling away in the latter stages for the 10th double win of his career in the series.
The Northern Irishman finished 2.96 seconds ahead of Sykes, who also had to settle for second in Saturday's opener.
Davide Giugliano was third on Sunday, but Chaz Davies crashed out on lap two.
"I'm so happy to have made it a double win here. I learned some things from the race that I didn't see on Saturday and I was able to apply that at the end of the race," said Rea.
Rea began the eighth round of the championship by taking victory in a thrilling race one by just 0.09 seconds on Saturday.
Dutchman Michael van der Mark finished third, before being taken out by Welshman Davies in race two.
After winning five of this season's opening eight races, Rea had been without a victory in six starts, before returning to winning ways at the Italian circuit.
His successes made it 16 podiums from as many starts for the Northern Irishman this season.
The Isle of Man-based rider secured his maiden win in the global series at Misano in 2009 and has gone on to add a further 35 triumphs since then.
Huddersfield's Sykes has won four times this season and took victory in both races at the previous round at Donington Park.
The next round of the series will be staged at Laguna Seca in the United States on 9 and 10 July.
That will be followed by 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 volume of sales grew by 0.3% compared with June, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
However, the figure for June's retail sales growth was revised down from 0.6% to 0.3%.
The latest data shows that the volume of food sales rose by 1.5% in July, having fallen by 1.1% in June.
The ONS said all other sectors saw a fall in volume sales apart from household goods.
Ole Black, ONS senior statistician, said that overall it was a "relatively subdued picture" in retail sales".
"Strong food sales have been responsible for the growth of 0.3% in July compared with June, as all other main sectors have shown a decrease. Whilst the overall growth is the same as in June, trends in growth in different sectors are proving quite volatile," he said.
However, Ruth Gregory, UK economist at Capital Economics, said the July figures were "fairly encouraging given the recent intensification of the squeeze on consumers' real incomes and suggest that talk of a sharp consumer slowdown has been overdone".
She said there had been few signs of a sharp slowdown in spending growth away from the high street.
"What's more, with annual retail sales values growth remaining at a still strong 4.1% in July, this suggests that consumers haven't been tightening their belts as a result of Brexit uncertainty," she said.
Ben Brettell, senior economist at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the figures showed the UK consumer was "extraordinarily resilient".
"Spending has defied expectations of a slowdown since the Brexit referendum, and currently seems to be holding up despite weak wage growth and above-target inflation," he added.
"This could bode well for economic growth - the UK economy is heavily reliant on the consumer, and economists had expected falling real incomes to eventually translate into weak retail sales."
However, the continuing difficulties for retailers was underlined on Thursday when Kingfisher reported a 1.9% fall in like-for-like sales for the three months to 31 July.
The group's operations include DIY chain B&Q, whose sales fell 4.7%.
PwC economic advisor, Andrew Sentance said the underlying picture on the High Street remained one of "subdued growth".
"Consumers may also be becoming more cautious about spending because of the political uncertainty following the General Election and surrounding the Brexit process.
"However, the main factor squeezing consumers is the weakness of the pound against other major currencies which is pushing up import prices and fuelling inflation," he added.
"UK consumers are watching and waiting - for inflation to subside and for the post-Brexit to become clearer. Until there is some relief on these two key issues, subdued growth of retail sales looks set to continue through this year and into 2018."
Prof Sir Mark Walport will be responsible for all public research spending in Britain next year.
In an exclusive interview with BBC News, Prof Walport said that he wants to be a "powerful voice for science" in dealing with government.
In the first interview in his new role, he sets out his vision for the new research agency he heads.
Currently, UK research is funded by nine separate organisations. Each body specialises in specific fields, such as environmental research, the physical science and the biosciences.
The system has contributed to Britain leading the world in many areas of research.
The government is replacing it with the United Kingdom Research and Innovation agency (UKRI), which will oversee and co-ordinate the work of the research organisations when it formally takes control on 1 April 2018.
But as its new chief executive, Prof Walport - currently the government's chief scientist - is already working to ensure that the new agency hits the ground running.
Critics of the reform fear that the "super research council" will direct research centrally and be driven by economic priorities and the whims of ministers - rather than support the best curiosity-driven research as the current system allows and encourages.
Prof Walport told me that these fears were "completely wrong".
"We are going to continue to support the brightest minds to tackle the problems as they see them," he told BBC News.
"Our job quite simply is to help the scientific community tackle the whole range of fundamental questions. It simply wouldn't be to anyone at the top of UKRI to pose the questions."
Prof Walport said the individual councils will stay and have a high degree of autonomy. And he pledged to appoint "the strongest people" to lead them.
So if the research councils are going to be left to get on with what they already do so well, why add an extra layer of bureaucracy?
Quite simply, it was because the Treasury was sceptical of what it saw as an uncoordinated research funding system with no strategic oversight or coordinated planning.
The creation of UKRI has already been a success in this respect. Reassured by the restructuring, the Prime Minister announced an extra £4.7bn for research spread over four years. In 2020, Prof Walport will have a total of £8bn to spend.
But he will be under pressure to deliver, so the investment from the Treasury continues.
He tells me his aim is to make the UK funding system "the best in the world", one fit for purpose in the 21st Century.
"By bringing it all together under the umbrella of UKRI we can have a powerful voice for research and innovation at a time when we really need that voice with the global challenges the world faces," he said.
"It's about having a strong voice representing those (research) communities that have so much to offer to society in terms of solving societal problems."
A key role for UKRI will be to get researchers out of their silos and encourage scientists from different fields to work together. Another is to help deliver the government's industrial strategy which aims to focus efforts on areas of scientific and technological strength for the benefit of the economy.
And one of the main challenges Prof Walport will face is the impact of Brexit. British universities employ about 30,000 scientists from EU countries and in collaboration with small businesses, receive £850m in research grants each year from the European Union.
Prof Walport says that he takes heart from the fact that the Prime Minster has on several occasions said that she appreciates the importance of UK science.
"There is no doubt about the vitality of our future research and innovation infrastructure depends on having the most skilled people from wherever they come," he told BBC News.
"I think that that is a message that is well recognised by government. Our job is to provide the support and the leadership and the mechanisms to enable us to remain at the forefront which we will do by remaining very global in our outlook.
"We have to have the confidence that there will be a solution that recognises that research and innovation are international activities."
Prof Walport was also keen to stress that the new agency includes the Arts and Humanities Research Council whose ideas he hopes the other research councils will draw on.
The acronym "Stem" is used to describe activities in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics. Prof Walport said: "The Industrial Revolution was driven by the steam engine. And I think that this industrial revolution is driven by "Steam" as well by which I mean science, technology, engineering arts and mathematics.
"And if you think what it is that makes modern technology usable is the sort of design element. So if you put all that together, then the opportunity [exists] to strengthen what's already a very strong research and innovation mechanism in the UK. That means getting the synergies and making the whole greater than the sum of the parts."
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It protects the A174 route between Whitby and Sandsend in North Yorkshire.
Worn-out defences have been replaced along a 0.6 mile (1km) stretch of the road, a popular tourist route, where it runs close to the shoreline.
Several landslips had led to costly repairs over the years and road closures, North Yorkshire County Council said.
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Darren Stephenson-Bennett, from Newton Aycliffe, crashed on a roundabout at the junction of the A68 and A1(M) near Darlington, County Durham.
The 28-year-old was last seen at a party on Saturday 27 August and was found dead by police seven days later after a phone call from the public.
He was confirmed dead at the scene but police say they are not sure when the crash happened.
It is thought Mr Stephenson-Bennett failed to negotiate the roundabout and went through a chevron board before hitting some trees, police said.
Insp Ed Turner said: "It's inevitable those questions will be asked of the police as to why we haven't found him before this time.
"There was a comprehensive missing from home investigation undertaken by Durham Constabulary. We didn't locate him.
"He went missing on the Saturday and wasn't reported missing until the Tuesday so we had a bit of catch up to play with."
In a statement, Mr Stephenson-Bennett's family said: "Darren was a much-loved husband, father, son and brother who was devoted to his family and his daughters.
"Darren was a popular person who would do anything for anybody.
"He was well-liked by all who knew him, extremely laid back and easy going, and no-one had a bad word to say about him."
The 23-year-old Slovakia-born former Chelsea trainee made the announcement on his Facebook page.
"After thinking about my future I chose not to accept the terms offered from Walsall for a simple reason," he said. "We did not agree on the new deal so it was best to move on."
Lalkovic was in his second spell at the Banks's Stadium.
He first arrived from Chelsea on a six-month loan in the summer of 2013, before returning last summer.
All 14 of his goals in 126 appearances in English football have come with Walsall.
He had a loan spell in his Chelsea days with Doncaster Rovers and was then signed by Barnsley on a short-term deal in January 2015, prior to returning to Bescot.
The Condor Liberation struck the quayside at St Peter Port, in windy conditions, on Saturday afternoon.
In a statement, the company said the vessel suffered "minor damage above the waterline" and as a result, would be out of action for a couple of days.
No-one was injured but some passengers remain on Guernsey as alternative travel arrangements are made for them.
While Condor Liberation under goes repairs in Poole, Dorset, the Commodore Clipper will provide passenger services between the UK and the Channel Islands.
Sunday's sailings had already been cancelled due to forecast bad weather.
Condor Liberation completed its maiden voyage to Jersey on Friday.
The 102m (335ft) long vessel was built by Austal shipbuilders in Australia and can carry up to 880 passengers and 245 vehicles.
It is now the only fast ferry operating between Guernsey, Jersey and the UK.
Following its purchase, the firm sold the smaller Vitesse and Express ferries to Greek company Seajets, with Vitesse already delivered and Express due to follow once Condor Ferries is happy with the new ferry in service.
The Liberation is supposed to be able to operate in bigger waves than the smaller ferries, but is not yet licensed to do so.
The bigger ferry cannot operate to Weymouth so sailings to the UK port ended on Monday.
The accident took place at a power plant in Fengcheng where a cooling tower was under construction.
There were a number of people still trapped at the scene, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
Jiangxi province's fire services said 32 fire trucks and 212 soldiers had been deployed.
A total of 68 people were at the construction site at the time of the accident.
Photos posted by Chinese media showed iron pipes and concrete slabs lying on the ground inside the large cooling tower.
According to Jiangxi Daily, two 168m-high cooling towers were being built at the site as part of a project to add two 1,000-megawatt coal-fired power units to the power plant.
The project will cost 7.67bn yuan ($1.11bn; £0.89bn) .
Fatal accidents are common at industrial sites in China and there have been growing demands for more stringent safety standards.
He told BBC News NI that direct rule was a not "a good option".
Mr Corbyn added that he was surprised that a number of unionist politicians had raised the prospect of its introduction.
"I don't know quite why they'd say that unless that is something that they actually want," he said.
Martin McGuinness resigned on Monday in protest against the handling of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
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.
Sinn Féin have made it clear they will not renominate and have called for an election to be held.
In his first interview about the crisis at Stormont, Mr Corbyn said he understood why Martin McGuinness resigned and that the Sinn Féin politician "obviously felt he had no alternative, otherwise he would not have done so".
The Labour leader also said that if DUP leader Arlene Foster had stepped aside as first minister because of the RHI controversy it "would have avoided the crisis".
Asked if the British and Irish governments should establish joint authority in the absence of devolution, the Labour leader said: "Joint authority would operate only for an interim period, but I am not sure that is really necessary.
"Surely we get through the election period as quickly as we can, if we have to go into the election period in order to ensure there is administrative government in Northern Ireland."
He added: "It is not a good situation. I am not presenting it as anything other than difficult."
He also said he hoped a last-minute deal could stop the executive collapsing and elections being called.
"I hope there can be talks even in this immediate period to try to restore the operation of government in Northern Ireland."
Mr Corbyn said having a power-sharing administration in Belfast was crucial at this time because of the Brexit negotiations but he ruled out delaying the triggering of Article 50 if there was no executive in Northern Ireland.
"I think it is quite difficult to delay it now because parliament has actually voted that it should be triggered by the end of March."
He also confirmed it was "extremely unlikely" that there would be official Labour candidates if an election is called.
Labour Party activists in Northern Ireland have fought a long-running campaign to persuade the party's ruling executive committee to stand candidates.
In an interview last September, Mr Corbyn said the party was considering the issue.
When asked why the party had delayed its decision on Northern Ireland candidates, he said: "Four months ago we were just coming towards the end of the leadership campaign of the Labour Party. The national executive of the party will no doubt be discussing this matter.
"It has not be discussed since then."
The Labour leader is also concerned about the political make up of Stormont following a fresh poll.
He said the reduction from 108 to 90 seats could lead to the assembly being "less diverse in its political representation".
Alexander Hilton, 24, encouraged Robert Forbes to drink the wine containing methanol before a ball in Fife.
Mr Forbes needed kidney dialysis after the incident in March 2011 and was left temporarily blind.
Hilton admitted assaulting him to his severe injury, permanent impairment and to the danger of his life.
Passing sentence at the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Burns told Hilton: "This was a wicked and deceitful act and it could have had fatal consequences."
The judge said Mr Forbes "has been left with the agonising prospect of going blind in the future".
He is Ghassan Hitto, a Damascus-born IT expert who spent decades in the US. He was elected at a meeting of coalition leaders in Istanbul in Turkey.
Mr Hitto's first task will be to form a government to oversee services in areas captured from government forces.
Meanwhile, the US and France denounced a Syrian airstrike on the Lebanese border as a "violation of sovereignty".
Reports from Lebanon say Syrian aircraft fired four rockets at the border between the two countries, near the Lebanese town of Arsal on Monday.
There were no casualties from the raid. Lebanese officials had earlier said it was not clear whether the rockets had landed inside Lebanese territory.
The US described the attack as a "significant escalation" of the conflict. France said the raid constituted "a new and serious violation of Lebanon's sovereignty".
In Monday's vote in Istanbul, Mr Hitto won with 35 out of 48 votes, in what coalition leaders described as a "transparent, democratic" election.
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But some senior coalition leaders are reported to have withdrawn from the vote in protest over Mr Hitto's lack of military experience.
Last November, the 50-year-old moved from Texas to Turkey to help co-ordinate aid to rebel-held areas.
Earlier, the commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army said his group would work "under the umbrella" of any new government.
"Any institutions not following this government would be considered to be acting illegitimately and would be prosecuted," Gen Selim Idriss Idriss told AFP news agency.
Large swathes of northern Syria have been seized by rebels in recent months.
They are currently administered by a patchwork of local councils and armed groups who have been running some institutions, such as courts and prisons.
But reports say basic supplies such as electricity and water are limited.
Also on Monday, the US said it would not stand in the way of other countries arming Syrian rebels.
Last week France and the UK said they supported lifting the EU arms embargo on Syria to allow weapons to reach anti-government forces, citing guarantees from rebels that arms would not fall into the wrong hands.
However, other EU countries have expressed scepticism over any such move. The embargo is expected to be discussed at a meeting of EU foreign ministers later this week and a vote is due in May.
US Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters on Monday: "The United States does not stand in the way of other countries that made a decision to provide arms, whether it's France, or Britain or others."
But top US military commander Gen Martin Dempsey warned against acting too quickly.
"I don't think at this point I can see a military option that would create an understandable outcome. And until I do, it would be my advice to proceed cautiously," he told the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank.
Last week saw the second anniversary of the Syrian uprising against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, which initially began as a wave of peaceful protests but which is now often described as a civil war.
An estimated 70,000 people have been killed and more than one million people have fled Syria since the uprising began.
Pauline Cafferkey, 40, was admitted to Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital after being taken from her home in South Lanarkshire at 09:30.
She is undergoing routine monitoring by the Infectious Diseases Team and remains in a stable condition.
Ms Cafferkey contracted Ebola while working as part of a UK team in Sierra Leone in 2014.
A spokeswoman for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said: "Ms Cafferkey was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital under routine monitoring by the Infectious Diseases Team.
"She is undergoing further investigations and her condition remains stable."
Paramedics arrived at the nurse's flat in Halfway, Cambuslang, on Thursday morning.
Residents told the BBC that an ambulance, escorted by police cars left the flats on Lightburn Road, at about 09:30.
Police confirmed that officers had "assisted in the transfer of a patient" on Thursday morning.
Following news that Ms Cafferkey had been admitted to hospital, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: "Sending my very best wishes to Pauline Cafferkey. She has already suffered way too much - & all for trying to help others. Thoughts with her."
Ms Cafferkey contracted Ebola while working as part of a UK team at the Kerry Town Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone.
She spent almost a month in isolation at the Royal Free hospital in London at the beginning of 2015 after the virus was detected when she arrived back in the UK.
Ms Cafferkey was later discharged after apparently making a full recovery, and in March 2015 returned to work as a public health nurse at Blantyre Health Centre in South Lanarkshire.
But it was later discovered that the virus was still present in her body, and she was readmitted to the same London hospital in October 2015.
She again recovered, before being treated at the Royal Free for a third time in February of this year due to a further complication related to her initial Ebola infection.
More recently, the nurse faced a number of misconduct charges by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
These were for allegedly allowing a wrong temperature to be recorded during the screening process at Heathrow on her arrival back in the UK from Sierra Leone in 2014.
The NMC's conduct and competence panel dismissed all charges at a hearing in Edinburgh last month after being told that Ms Cafferkey's judgement had been impaired by illness.
Two girls, aged 15 and 16, and two boys, aged 15 and 17, allegedly attempted to murder Gordon Friel in Forbes Place, Paisley, on 24 September.
A 13-year-old boy also faces a charge in connection with the attack.
Lawyers for the five - who cannot be named for legal reasons - pled not guilty on their behalf at the High Court in Glasgow.
The attempted murder charge against the four, aged between 15 and 17, includes claims Mr Friel was repeatedly punched, kicked and stamped upon.
Prosecutors further allege he had his head struck off a wall knocking him unconscious.
The 13 year-old is then said to have spat on Mr Friel as he lay on the ground.
The four charged with the murder bid, face a separate accusation of racially aggravated harassment towards Yao Yao and Yan Zhou in Paisley on the same day.
The 17-year-old boy is then accused of damaging property in the street.
The group - along with the 13 year-old - are also alleged to have acted in a threatening and abusive manner.
Judge Lord Burns set a trial due to start in June. The case could last up to 10 days.
Officer cadet Kidane Cousland, who grew up on a housing estate in Tottenham, says had he not signed up as a 16-year-old he would be dead or in prison.
Now 24, he served in Afghanistan in 2011 with 29 Commando, Royal Artillery.
He is among only a handful of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) cadets to be awarded the "sword of honour" for coming top of his intake.
Known as Danny to his Army colleagues, Officer Cadet Cousland will be presented with the accolade during Friday's graduation passing out ceremony at the military academy in Surrey.
It has been nine years since the last black officer cadet, Charlie Mulira, who is currently serving with the Irish Guards, received the award.
Officer cadet Cousland left school at 15 without being able to read but he has excelled in the academic challenges at Sandhurst, where he was among the May 2015 intake.
He did better than Oxbridge graduates in his war studies essay and hopes to complete a Bachelor's degree in the subject before doing a Master's.
"I went to school, I was completely disconnected, I didn't get on, I didn't do very well, I wasn't motivated... I was in a bad way really," he said.
"But something I always wanted to do since I was a child was join the Army."
He was brought up by a single mother who initially refused to sign his application form because of her perception of the Army as a "predominantly white organisation" and no place for her mixed-race son.
However, Officer Cadet Cousland said: "I either did that or my anger issues and frustration would actually see me move in a different direction, and probably end up killing me or I'd be in prison."
He came top of both the Army selection board when he applied and his Commando course, aged 18. He served as a bombardier in Afghanistan and was later recommended for officer training.
The Ministry of Defence says about 2.5% of Army officers and 4% of all recruits are currently from BAME backgrounds. It says it is on track to meet a target of 10% of all recruits being from BAME backgrounds.
But the Army insists officer cadet Cousland's award is not about tokenism. He beat 200 fellow recruits to the sword of honour.
Officer Cadet Cousland does not believe the Army is racist as an institution but admitted he had experienced some problems from individuals.
"As I learned from when I was a kid, my response to racism is just to prove them wrong by being the best I can be, every day," he said.
Ethel Irene Ditcher was killed when she was struck on Leigh Road, Leigh, at about 11:45 GMT on Wednesday.
Police said a man was seen to steal her purse before leaving. Officers are still trying to locate him.
Her family said they hoped "their conscience gets the better of them and they hand themselves into the police".
The man is described as white, about 6ft (1.8m) tall, between 30 and 40, and of medium build with a brown beard.
In a statement, her nephew and niece said: "We cannot believe that someone has done this to our auntie. We are absolutely disgusted by this person's actions."
Det Sgt Neil Lawless, from Greater Manchester Police, called it "one of the most disgusting crimes" he had ever investigated.
The Metropolitan Police said it was looking into "allegations of drug-related offences involving a member of the House of Lords".
It said a search warrant was executed at 18:00 BST at a central London address and no arrests had been made.
Lord Sewel is to be granted a "leave of absence" from the House of Lords.
He has already quit as deputy speaker and chairman of the Lords privileges and conduct committee.
Lords officials referred the matter to the police.
The Met said the warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act was granted by Westminster Magistrates' Court.
Police with sniffer dogs and a battering ram were seen at a building in central London.
News of the criminal investigation came after Lord Sewel said he would not attend the Lords until the outcome of any investigation into his conduct, after which he would review his "long-term position".
During that time, he will not be able to claim any expenses or allowances.
There have been calls for him to be expelled or to quit the Lords.
BBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins said requesting a leave of absence was "not a resignation, not a throwing in of the towel. It's an acceptance that it may not be possible for him to return to the red benches until the investigation is complete".
Lord Sewel was appointed as a Labour peer in 1996 but has sat as a non-affiliated (independent) peer since taking up his standards role.
The original footage, released by the Sun on Sunday, appeared to show Lord Sewel snorting powder from a woman's breasts with a £5 note.
The Sun then published further photographs of the peer in Monday's newspaper, along with details of new footage in which he is said to make disparaging remarks about a number of other politicians.
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As the House of Lords is currently in recess, the leave of absence will take effect from 7 September, when peers return.
Under the rules, he will have to give three months' notice before returning.
"I wish to take leave of absence from the House as soon as it can be arranged," Lord Sewel said in a letter to the Lords authorities.
"I also wish to make clear that in doing so I have no intention of returning to the House in any way until the current investigations have been completed, when in the light of their outcome I will review my long-term position.
"I believe this is compatible with due process."
Baroness D'Souza, the speaker of the House of Lords, has written to Lords Standards Commissioner Paul Kernaghan asking for an investigation.
He is expected to decide in the next 48 hours whether to look into the allegations.
Lib Dem president Baroness Sal Brinton said Lord Sewel should "resign immediately", while former Commons Speaker Baroness Boothroyd said he should "take a quiet way out of the back door of the House of Lords".
The company was put up for auction earlier this month and attracted interest from global food companies including Danone and chip giant McCain.
Quorn, a meat substitute made from fungus, is produced in North Yorkshire.
The company expects to increase the number of people employed at its sites.
Quorn is sold on its own for use in recipes at home or in ready meals and products that mimic items such as burgers and sausages.
It is available in 15 countries.
Quorn's chief executive, Kevin Brennan, said the deal would help the business grow: "We have an ambition to be the world leader in meat alternatives, ultimately creating a $1bn business. Monde Nissin... provides the capability to expand the brand into Asia."
Quorn Foods has around 620 employees on three UK sites and internationally: Stokesley in North Yorkshire, Billingham on Teesside and Methwold in Norfolk, as well as Frankfurt in Germany, and Chicago in the US.
Now, Prince George has fulfilled this royal rite of passage on the Queen's official birthday.
Here are some pictures of other first appearances for royal youngsters on the famous balcony.
Princess Elizabeth was just 14 months old when she appeared for the first time on the palace balcony in June 1927.
She appeared with her parents, then known as the Duke and Duchess of York, and her grandparents, George V and Queen Mary, following Trooping the Colour.
In 1937, when her father was crowned King George VI, Princess Elizabeth and her younger sister Princess Margaret took to the balcony to wave at the crowds with their parents.
The Duke of Cambridge - Prince William - made his debut on the balcony for Trooping the Colour when he was about to turn two in 1984.
His son, Prince George, wore the same outfit his father wore more than 20 years previous.
In 1985, Prince Harry made his first appearance at the Queen's Birthday parade when he was only nine months old.
Harry was carried by his parents while William, now nearly three, stood much taller above the edge of the balcony.
When Harry was three, he was photographed sticking his tongue out as he was carried by his mother after the 1988 parade.
Some youngsters have found the noise of the crowds and the flypast too much to bear.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's bridesmaid Grace van Cutsem put her hands over her ears and frowned during her balcony appearance on the royal wedding day in 2011.
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Social media users slammed the decision to get rid of the food, equivalent to 1,500 regular sized bowls.
The Plaza Merdeka in Kuching cited safety reasons for the move.
But it said the wastage was an "unfortunate oversight and misjudgement".
It took 15 cooks and 18 hours to prepare the dish.
100kg laksa paste
225kg rice noodles
90kg prawns
1,008 eggs
90kg bean sprouts
80kg chicken
Cheah Kheng Mun, the shopping centre's general manager, told reporters they could not "simply give away" the laksa because they had been advised to maintain the soup gravy at a certain temperature.
He also revealed that the giant bowl of laksa had started to give off an odour.
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After being flooded with angry comments on its Facebook page, the shopping mall issued an apology.
"We are very grateful to the public for pointing out the issue of food wastage. We would not try to justify ourselves in this respect. We apologize for the oversight and misjudgement," it said.
The angry comments included Justin Lim, who wrote: "To the organiser who throws away a few hundred kilos of meat, prawns, veg and over a thousand eggs, please google "famine" first and then after that live in shame for the rest if your life."
Shar Izat Kasumajaya said: "All that the organisers thought of was acquiring the record. There are hundreds of thousands of people living under the poverty line. To throw away the equivalent of 1,500 bowls of food is just wrong. It's shameful. It's foul."
But some other users, such as Patricia Kim, hoped the apology would put an "end to the saga".
Celebrity chef Datuk Redzuawan Ismail, better known as Chef Wan, took part in the event.
Originally from the Sarawak state on the Borneo Island, the eponymous dish is a spicy rice noodle soup.
Official figures show that 15,000 tonnes of food is discarded in Malaysia every day, even though 3,000 tonnes of it is still good for consumption.
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One mother said she feared being reported to social services daily because people confuse her son's symptoms with neglect.
Autism can affect how a person interacts and communicates.
The Welsh Local Government Association said councils were reforming services to ensure people were supported.
An Integrated Autism Service being rolled out in Wales aims to raise awareness and improve support.
But solicitor Julie Burton from Bangor said parents were often blamed for what is perceived to be their child's bad behaviour if they appear to "melt down" when they experience a sensory overload.
"I've lost count over the years of the number of parents that have been told it's their fault in some way or another, that they're not adequately parenting the child," she said.
"They're told all they need to do is adopt particular strategies from parenting classes and all their problems will be solved.
"But it's missing the point - you can be the world's best parent, but if you've got a child presenting with really difficult behaviours, no amount of amazing parenting, or parenting courses is actually going to address the root cause."
Anna Reynolds, from Conwy county, suspects all three of her children are on the autistic spectrum though only one has been diagnosed - he now attends a special school.
"There are things he finds very difficult - like bathing, having his hair brushed and changing his clothes," she said.
So quite often his clothes are grubby his hair is tangled, his hands are dirty, but he is healthy, he's happy and we are trying to educate him."
But an unconventional appearance, she said, meant she had a daily fear of being reported to social services.
"If you step out into your front garden someone can see you, and if you raise your voice in the house someone can hear you.
"You feel there are eyes everywhere and everything that happens they will interpret through their own filter, they won't try to understand it from your point of view, they don't necessarily know about the autism, so living in that sort of situation there's a daily fear of that happening."
Geraint Hopkins, deputy spokesman for the WLGA on social services, said: "Attitudes are changing but I think we'd accept they're not changing quick enough.
"That's why the Integrated Austim Service is so important, and why local authorities have to play a key role in helping change those attitudes, promoting understanding and indeed reforming our own services to ensure we're catering for people with all these different challenging needs."
The 31-year-old lock was hurt hitting a ruck, and was replaced in the 51st minute by Luke Charteris.
Jones will miss club side Ospreys' match with Stade Francais in a European Challenge Cup quarter-final on 2 April.
Jones has been tipped as a candidate to lead the British and Irish Lions on their tour of New Zealand this summer.
The WRU revealed the extend of the injury in a short statement.
"Alun Wyn suffered a shoulder injury in the France v Wales RBS Six Nations match at the weekend and, following scans and orthopaedic consultation, he will undergo an initial six week period of rehabilitation," they said.
Jones captained the Lions in the final Test of their 2-1 series win over Australia in 2013.
Lions coach Warren Gatland names his squad for the New Zealand tour on 19 April and Jones is unlikely to feature before.
The Welsh region travel to Treviso in the Pro12 on Saturday, 25 March without their captain.
However, Lloyd Ashley is set to return from after overcoming concussion and Jones' fellow Wales lock Bradley Davies is expected to return following a knee injury in April.
Backs coach Gruff Rees said: "Bradley's just working through the final part of his procedures. I think mid-April might be a fair shout for us and he could really add to our squad."
Ospreys can also call on uncapped Wales Six Nations squad member Rory Thornton at lock.
The bank is asking shareholders for €7.5bn (£6bn), about 10% of its capital value.
Shares in the bank were temporarily suspended on the Madrid stock market pending the announcement.
Santander comfortably passed a recent bank stress test, but there was speculation about its capital strength and whether it might float its UK arm.
There was also speculation on Thursday that the cash-call might herald a big acquisition. Shares in Italy's Monte Paschi bank jumped 8% on the news.
Monte Paschi, the world's oldest bank with roots dating back to 1472, is looking for a buyer after a poor showing in the stress tests.
Mrs Botin, who took over from her father Emilio Botin in September following his death after nearly three decades at the helm, has said the bank faces tougher competition and stricter regulations.
Two months after taking the helm, Mrs Botin, former head of the UK division, replaced the chief executive Javier Marin with Jose Antonio Alvarez, the finance director.
She has also made other senior board changes in a bid to stamp her mark on the bank.
Santander also said on Thursday that it was cutting the dividend, another move that will strengthen the balance sheet.
Despite Spain's economic and property crash, Santander was one of the few major banks to keep its dividend unchanged with the financial crisis.
Although the cash-call was a surprise, analysts said strengthening the balance was the right thing to do given that the eurozone economy is under pressure.
But Yohan Salleron, an equity manager at France's Mandarine Gestion, told Reuters: "We met Santander one month ago and they didn't say they needed a capital increase. We need to understand why they need (it)."
The H5N8 strain has been confirmed among 10,000 breeding pheasants at Hy-Fly Game Hatcheries Limited in Preesall.
A number of the birds have died and the remaining are set to be culled.
Raymond Holden said he had been breeding birds for 54 years and is worried the outbreak "could wipe everything out".
"It would mean we would have no revenue all this year," he said.
"Some of our breeding stock are virtually priceless - we're the only people in the country with them."
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has introduced a 1.8 mile (3km) protection zone and 6 mile (10km) surveillance zone around the infected area to limit the risk of the disease spreading.
Mr Holden said Defra representatives were due to visit the farm later after the UK's Chief Veterinary Officer confirmed the outbreak on Tuesday.
Public Health England (PHE) said the risk to humans was "very low". The Food Standards Agency has said bird flu does not pose a food safety risk for UK consumers.
There have been a number of outbreaks of the virus, including one at a farm in Louth, Lincolnshire in December.
Earlier that month, poultry keepers were told to keep their birds inside for 30 days to protect them from a highly-infectious strain of avian flu in Europe.
The H5N8 bird flu strain has been found in poultry and wild birds in 14 countries, including Germany and France.
Campaigners lay across roads blocking access to AWE Burghfield on Wednesday in a protest against replacing Trident.
Two women, aged 18 and 62, and a 25-year-old man, all from Reading, along with a 32-year-old woman from Cromer in Norfolk have been charged with wilful obstruction of a highway.
They were released on bail to attend Reading Magistrates' Court on 27 June.
The two teams drew 0-0 in the Netherlands three weeks ago but Atletico have since won four La Liga games in a row.
"We've found a regularity and a more stable way of playing," said Simeone.
"What's important is that the goals come from different parts of the field."
Atletico, second in La Liga, eight points behind leaders Barcelona with nine games remaining, start as favourites to advance to the quarter-finals for the third successive season.
They will be without defender Stefan Savic (thigh) and midfielder Tiago Mendes (leg) is out.
Dutch champions PSV will be without Uruguay Under-20 forward Gaston Pereiro, who is suspended.
Phillip Cocu's side, held to a 1-1 home draw by Heerenveen on Saturday, have a one-point lead at the top of their domestic table.
PC Gordon Semple, from Greenhithe, Kent, was last seen on 1 April in the London Bridge area of London.
He had a work meeting at the Shard's Shangri-La hotel and left at about 12:30 BST. He was seen on CCTV in Great Guilford Street at 15:00 BST.
His partner reported him missing later that night. His niece Kerry Nicholas said the family was "very worried".
She told BBC News: "This is completely out of character for him.
"He is just a very outgoing, sociable guy. Very happy-go-lucky.
"He wasn't on any medication or anything and we have no reason to suspect he would just disappear without telling anyone.
"Nothing like this has ever happened to him before."
A missing page has been set up on Facebook.
The family said he enjoyed travelling to Thailand, but was not aware he had been planning any trips abroad.
PC Semple is described as white, 5ft 10ins (1.7m) tall, of a large build with a shaved head. He was last seen wearing brown shoes, dark trousers and a lilac shirt.
The 59-year-old is originally from Inverness and works with the Met Police anti-social behaviour unit in Westminster.
He has no children but still has family in Scotland.
Det Ch Insp Cliff Lyons said the force was keeping an open mind as to the circumstances of PC Semple's disappearance.
The case was being treated as a high-risk missing person's inquiry, but because of concerns for his welfare the homicide unit was taking the lead, the Met said.
Anyone with information can call the Met anonymously or contact Crimestoppers.
Lego Worlds is available now, at £11.99, via the Steam gaming platform. Its final release, featuring classic and modern playsets and popular mini-figures, is expected in 2016.
Features will be added in response to feedback from players of the game.
Lego already sells Minecraft playsets so gamers can physically build their virtual creations. And Lego Worlds will invite fans to do the same in reverse.
Tom Stone, managing director of TT Games, which will release Lego Worlds, said it "embodies the physical, Lego brick-building fun that consumers have enjoyed for decades, on a digital platform that delivers an entirely new type of experience with the beloved bricks".
"From the brick-by-brick editor, to discovering an expansive range of items, characters and creatures to populate your worlds - the creative possibilities are endless," he added.
Daniel Goldberg, who has written a book about the growth of Minecraft, said he "was surprised that it has taken them so long".
"Minecraft is exactly what Lego should have done 10 years ago," he said.
"I'm sure it will be a massive success for them."
Markus Persson, the Swedish video games developer who came up with Minecraft, has made no secret of his enthusiasm for Lego, and the admiration appears to be mutual.
Speaking last year, David Gram, Lego's marketing director, said: "Minecraft is digital Lego. We only wish we had invented it."
Mr Goldberg thinks Mr Persson, known as Notch, will be "flattered" by the game.
"Lego was his favourite toy as a child and was the main inspiration behind Minecraft, so it is nice to see things coming full circle," he said.
"I don't think that there will be any animosity. Games developers in general tend to be flattered when someone copies an existing game."
Lego is marketed at children but also for a hardcore of adult enthusiasts.
Minecraft, which was bought by Microsoft last year, has also managed to appeal to both adults and children.
"The audience for Minecraft, has proved itself to be quite big, so I'm sure there will be room for both games," said Mr Goldberg.
It tied for the most nominations with black comedy The Lobster and period drama Brooklyn, with all three contenders for the best film award.
Its veteran stars Sir Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling also received nods for best actor and best actress.
The awards, relaunched after a three-year break, will take place at London's Television Centre on 7 February.
High-Rise, starring Tom Hiddleston and based on JG Ballard's dystopian novel, completed the line-up in the best film category.
45 Years, based on a short story by David Constantine, shows the lives of married couple Kate and Geoff as they prepare for their 45th wedding anniversary.
But their stability is threatened when a letter arrives about Geoff's ex-fiancee, whose body has been discovered decades after her death.
It also up for best British film at the Bafta film awards.
London Evening Standard editor Sarah Sands said: "The talent in this year's shortlist is exceptional and we are pleased to be shining a light on Britain's outstanding creativity by celebrating the British Film Industry at the Evening Standard's British Film Awards."
Saoirse Ronan has been shortlisted for the best actress award for Brooklyn, based on Colm Toibin's novel, with writer Nick Hornby in the running for best screenplay.
Olivia Colman and Colin Farrell, who appear together in The Lobster, are on the shortlist for the award for comedy in a film or performance.
Emma Thompson is also up for the award in that category for The Legend of Barney Thomson, with the film Bill, directed by Richard Bracewell and written by Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond, completing the shortlist.
Idris Elba has been shortlisted for best actor for playing an African warlord in Netflix film Beasts of No Nation, competing with Michael Fassbender who has been nominated for his roles in Steve Jobs and Macbeth.
Dame Maggie Smith, star of Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van, has been shortlisted for best actress alongside Emily Blunt, for crime drama Sicario.
Amy, about the life of late singer Amy Winehouse, has been shortlisted for best documentary alongside My Nazi Legacy and Palio.
A new award for blockbuster of the year will be voted for by members of the public, with the top 10 UK box office hits of 2015 in contention: Avengers: Age of Ultron; Fifty Shades of Grey; Furious 7; Inside Out; Jurassic World; Home; Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2; Minions; Spectre and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
The Evening Standard British Film Awards were launched in 1973 and last took place in 2013.
Anthony Baker, 53, from Devon, was breath-tested after harbour staff noticed he "smelled of alcohol" as they helped dock the 40,000-tonne vessel Shansi north of Auckland on Friday.
He admitted breaching New Zealand's maritime law in court on Monday.
He was fined 3,000 New Zealand dollars (US$2,222; £1,692).
More on the drunk captain and other Devon and Cornwall news.
A spokesperson for Maritime New Zealand said he was arrested after local pilots on the north island were "concerned the master smelled of alcohol" at the time of the docking at Marsden Point.
Whangarei District Court heard Anthony Baker was not on duty when the 656 foot (200-metre) multi-purpose cargo carrier, Shansi was due to berth, but was called to the bridge because of problems getting the engine under way and lifting anchor.
The court was told he had been suspended by his employer.
Police said his reading was 1,345 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath - the New Zealand limit is 250.
Neil Rowarth, the regional manager for New Zealand's maritime authority, said the conviction and fine sent "a strong warning" to seafarers that they will be prosecuted if they exceed the alcohol limit.
"Alcohol impairs judgment and increases the risk of accidents. Where we find seafarers over the limit, we will take action," he said.
The three clubs, occupying third to fifth place in the Premier League, are separated by three points going into Sunday's final round of games.
But their goal difference, and goals scored, are similar enough to raise the prospect of two teams finishing joint third or fourth with identical records - necessitating a one-off play-off match.
However, bookmakers are clearly not convinced. Of three possible scenarios where a play-off would be required, the one with shortest odds is around 595-1.
The top three teams qualify directly for the Champions League group stage, with the fourth-placed side entering at the preceding play-off round, while the fifth-placed side will enter the Europa League.
Premier League rules state: "If at the end of the season either the league champions or the clubs to be relegated or the question of qualification for other competitions cannot be determined because two or more clubs are equal on points, goal difference and goals scored, the clubs concerned shall play off one or more deciding league matches on neutral grounds, the format, venue and timing of which shall be determined by the board."
Last season, there was a chance that Liverpool and West Ham could have finished with identical records with a Europa League place at stake.
So, how could it all happen?
This would require a high-scoring draw for City at Watford, while Liverpool give relegated Middlesbrough a thumping at Anfield.
For instance, a 3-3 draw for City and a 3-0 win for Liverpool would produce this scenario, with the teams tied for third place (and that Champions League group stage place):
The sides would also be locked together with identical records if City drew 4-4 and Liverpool won 4-1, and so on.
However, Arsenal cannot affect this scenario - even by winning, they could finish no higher than fifth.
By contrast, a heavy defeat for City raises the spectre of finishing level on points with Arsenal.
If City were to lose 4-0 at Vicarage Road, and Arsenal to sneak home 1-0 against Everton, the sides would finish like this:
The same permutation would be reached if City lost 5-1 and Arsenal won 2-1 - you get the picture.
What makes this scenario even more complicated is that it could produce a third/fourth place play-off if Liverpool fail to beat Middlesbrough - or a fourth/fifth place play-off if the Reds win at Anfield.
The final scenario would leave Liverpool and Arsenal fighting for fourth place on the most perilous of knife-edges since they battled for the title on the final day of the 1988-89 season.
If Arsenal draw 1-1 with Everton and Liverpool lose 2-0 to Middlesbrough, this is how they would finish tied for fourth:
Other combinations of results which would leave the sides level would be a 2-2 Arsenal draw coupled with a 3-1 Liverpool defeat, or a 3-3 Arsenal draw if goal-shy Boro win 4-2 at Anfield, and so on.
The good news for Manchester City fans is that under this third scenario, they would finish third, whatever their result at Watford, and clinch that cherished Champions League group stage place.
The devoted "sneakerheads" spent £150 on each pair of Adidas Yeezy Boost trainers but some were expected to re-sell them for up to £500.
The camp was set up outside Nottingham's 18Montrose shop, the only one to release them without a raffle.
The shop said it sold out of its 90 pairs in just more than an hour.
The fans brought tents, chairs and sleeping bags for the four-day wait.
Ben Rutter, 17, who had travelled from Manchester with friends to get his place in the queue, said: "We've been out here for a day or something. It's been all right - I've got a high body temperature."
Up to 200 shoppers were queuing outside the shop on Saturday morning for a chance to purchase the mainly black footwear.
One sneaker fan, Ammo, 19, from London said: "I come from London and it is quite hectic there when it comes to releases like this so we have to leave London to get a chance to get them in-store.
"Otherwise we have to sign up to a raffle for a chance to get one."
Zaheed, from Birmingham, said: "I think there are only about 19,000 pairs released worldwide so obviously everybody is going to try to come and pick up their first pair."
Two of the Palestinians attacked police officers with guns and knives while the third stabbed the policewoman, police say.
The three were identified by police as two men aged 18 or 19 and another man, all from the West Bank.
The Old City had been crowded with tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers.
They were attending Friday prayers at al-Aqsa Mosque.
During the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Israeli restrictions have been eased for Palestinians from the West Bank to travel to Jerusalem.
Police said there was "no indication" of a link between the suspects and a terror group.
At least three other people were injured in the attacks, two of them Palestinian bystanders who were hit by gunfire, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports.
A gun used by one of the attackers reportedly jammed.
The dead policewoman was named as Hadas Malka, 23.
Forty-two Israelis have been killed in knife, gun and car-ramming attacks by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs since October 2015.
In late 2015 and 2016, such attacks happened with near-daily frequency but the rate has declined in recent months.
More than 240 Palestinians - most of them attackers, Israel says - have also been killed in that period. Others have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops.
Accounts differed as to the names and places of residence of the three attackers.
Israel says Palestinian incitement has fuelled the attacks. The Palestinian leadership has blamed frustration rooted in decades of Israeli occupation.
The military later deployed fighter jets to put an end to the assault on the camp on the outskirts of Bama town.
Families of soldiers inside the barracks and Bama residents say women and children are among the dead.
This is the second serious attack on the military this month in a region which is under emergency law.
For several years, militants from the Boko Haram group have been fighting an insurgency in the mainly Muslim area to impose strict Islamic law in northern Nigeria.
It is not the first time that Bama, which is about 40km (25 miles) south-east of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, has been attacked.
In May, Boko Haram fighters raided the town's barracks, police station and government buildings, killing more than 50 people and freeing 105 prisoners.
A week later the government declared a state of emergency in Borno and two neighbouring states, Adamawa and Yobe.
A Bama resident told the BBC Hausa service that the attack began at about 03:00 local time (02:00 GMT) on Friday and gunfire and explosions were heard.
The aerial bombardment began at about 06:00 and the fighting died down about an hour later, he said.
Several residents told the AFP news agency that the insurgents had swarmed the barracks in a convoy of 4x4 trucks, armed with assault rifles, explosives and rocket-propelled-grenades.
The BBC's Will Ross in Nigeria says that despite claims of success by Nigerian officials, it is clear that the Islamist fighters still pose a considerable threat to the stability of the country.
Earlier this month, Boko Haram launched co-ordinated attacks on Maiduguri's air base and other military barracks that left buildings as well as aircraft destroyed.
The UN said this week that more than 1,200 people had been killed in Islamist-related violence in north-east since the state of emergency was declared.
A survey of 15,046 UK students found they have just 10 minutes extra with university lecturers despite the rise - for the majority - in fees since 2012.
The findings are revealed by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
The government said students, "quite rightly", had higher expectations.
Higher tuition fees in England mean undergraduates currently in the first or second year of university study are paying up to £9,000 a year.
The Hepi and HEA research found today's students in England were more likely to say their course was poor value compared to 2012 - before the fee hike.
One third of current first- and second-year students (33%) said they were receiving poor or very poor value for money, compared with 18% in 2012.
And just 36% of these students thought their course represented good value for money, compared with 52% in 2012.
But the study found students in Scotland were more likely to say their course was worth the money, with 70% of those at Scottish universities rating their course as good or very value.
However, Scottish students pay no tuition fees, if they study at a university in Scotland.
The Hepi/HEA report says regional differences in perceptions of value for money are "not unexpected given that Scottish and other EU-domiciled students from outside the UK, who constitute the vast majority of students at Scottish institutions, effectively pay no fees".
When asked what their top three priorities would be for institutional expenditure, 48% of UK students polled said "reducing fee levels", followed by having more teaching hours and reducing the size of teaching groups (both 35%).
The survey also found 31% said they would definitely or maybe have chosen another course if they were to have their time again.
The survey found that in the first and second years of their degree, undergraduates have an average of 14.2 hours of "contact" time - for example time spent in lectures and seminars, and spend another 14.3 hours on average in private study.
This is much less than the 40 hours a week of study suggested in the Quality Assurance Agency's (QAA) guidelines, the report said.
The findings show students do not attend about 9% of lectures and seminars laid on by their university, with the most common reasons for absence being that undergraduates did not find the lectures very useful and that the notes were available online.
Universities minister David Willetts said: "Young people are more serious about their education than ever before. Universities need to raise their game [...] I don't think universities are worse, but students have higher expectations, quite rightly."
Mr Willetts said institutions would now have to do "far better" than simply offering lectures with 500 students sitting in a room taking notes from slides on a screen.
He added: "The days where the academic experience is simply sitting in rows with 500 other people taking notes from slides on a screen that you can access online on your laptop, universities now have to do far better than that."
Nick Hillman, director of Hepi, said: "The data suggest growing differences across the UK. Students in Scotland generally think they are getting good value for money.
"Meanwhile, students in England are paying much more but receiving only a little more. In England, one in three students say they are getting poor value for money - nearly twice as high as before the £9,000 fees were introduced.
"In this election year, students should press all the political parties to say what they will do to encourage universities to offer world-class teaching alongside their world-class research."
Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of Universities UK, said: "The increase in fees in England and the shift away from public funding to higher graduate contributions means that students are clearly demanding more from their courses.
"The important thing is ensuring that students have enough information about their courses and that the experience matches their expectations.
"Due to the quality of its degrees, the UK has one the strongest and most highly respected higher education systems in the world."
Sonia Sodha, head of public services policy at the consumer magazine Which?, said: "A key problem is a lack of information that makes it difficult for students to make a fully informed choice. We want better data to be included in the key information set such as the amount and type of scheduled teaching."
Evelin Banev's daughter Lara was being driven to school when the kidnappers pulled up in a vehicle, and shot the driver before seizing her, police say.
The driver is expected to survive the attack. Police said they were hunting the abductors.
Banev, also known as Brendo, is currently in an Italian jail awaiting trial on charges of drug trafficking.
The 49-year-old was sentenced by a court in Sofia last month to seven-and-a-half years in jail after being found guilty of heading an organised crime gang and money laundering.
He is accused by Italy of trafficking cocaine from Latin America to Europe between 2004 and 2007, smuggling some 40 tonnes of cocaine into Italy alone each year.
Kalin Mihov, a former head of Bulgaria's anti-drug police department, said it was possible Lara was kidnapped in order to warn Banev to stay silent during the forthcoming trial, the AP reports.
The masked men were in a stolen BMW X5 car when they opened fire early on Tuesday morning in the Sofia suburb of Boyana, Bulgarian media report.
"All roads into and out of Sofia have been blocked," the city's police said in a statement. "All operational and search measures are being taken to establish the location of the child."
This is thought to be the first high-profile abduction of a child in the eastern Balkan country.
Twenty-five people were arrested in 2009 over the kidnapping of some 16 wealthy Bulgarians for ransom. Four of the suspects were given prison sentences last year.
Bulgaria remains one of the poorest countries in the EU, and corruption and organised crime is rife.
Germany said on Sunday it would veto any attempt to allow Bulgaria and its neighbour Romania to enter the passport-free Schengen zone when EU ministers discuss the issue later this week.
The spoof accounts posted controversial comments while fans waited for hours to enter Boomtown Fair near Winchester.
In one message, @BoomtownFairr tweeted: "Please stop moaning about the queues at Boomtown, it could be worse, at least it's not raining. Thank you."
Organisers said they were trying to get the accounts shut down.
Some Twitter users were offended by the messages.
Rachel Hall replied: "Whoever is handling your social media should be sacked. This is not the way to speak to your very very unhappy customers!"
Samantha M tweeted: "You're tweets are quite frankly disgusting. no food, we are cold & we don't know where we will spend the night. Just sort it out!!!!"
The four-day music and arts event at Matterley Bowl is in its third day, with acts including The Specials and Cypress Hill performing.
Organisers said Thursday's queuing problems were caused by wet weather and increased security measures.
Revellers reported fights, fainting and sunburn as they waited up to 10 hours to enter the site.
Boomtown had been using its official Twitter account to pass on important safety information and updates.
A spokeswoman said: "We are aware of the fake accounts and have notified Twitter to try to get them removed.
"We have been monitoring the comments as closely as possible to inform our customers of the official Boomtown account to follow and correct the information being posted to direct people back to our official social accounts.
"For anyone wanting to be kept up to date on the official messaging from Boomtown please follow our Twitter account @boomtownfair or Facebook page @boomtownofficial."
But, while reigning champion Stuart Bingham and co have been resting up, the hopefuls have not been so lucky.
After eight days and three gruelling qualifying rounds, the first-round draw is now complete and the top 16 know who they face at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.
BBC Sport looks at a few of the 16 qualifiers for the sport's showpiece event, including a couple of former champions and familiar faces, a possible fairytale winner and two rank outsiders.
Ding Junhui was no doubt the draw that all the top 16 would have liked to sidestep.
The former world number one, an 11-time ranking event winner, slipped down to 17 in the world after a miserable season and subsequently just missed out on an automatic spot.
But his considerable talents were evident as he breezed through qualifying, clinching his place with a 10-2 thumping of former World Championship finalist Nigel Bond.
Martin Gould awaits in the first round and the Chinese superstar will not be short of confidence.
"It doesn't matter who I play," said 29-year-old Ding, who became the only player other than Stephen Hendry to win five world ranking titles in a single season in 2013-14. "They don't want to play me.
"I feel good now having won three matches. I am scoring heavily. This has been good preparation and I'm ready for the first round."
Birmingham-born Mitchell Mann is the only debutant in this year's tournament.
World number 74 Mann was once on the books of his hometown football club, but he had to give up high-impact sport because he was diagnosed with Perthes disease - a hip condition which has meant numerous operations.
Football's loss was snooker's gain and the 24-year-old had to show all his resilience and spirit to come through at Sheffield's Ponds Forge.
A 10-7 victory over Kishan Hirani in the first round was followed by 10-9 wins in rounds two and three, with world number 23 Matthew Selt and the unpredictable talents of world number 52 Dechawat Poomjaeng both succumbing.
Thankfully for Mann he will get some time to recuperate as his Crucible debut against Northern Ireland's Mark Allen does not get under way until Tuesday.
"I am buzzing inside," he said after ensuring at least £13,250 - the biggest pay cheque of his career - by beating Poomjaeng and reaching the first round proper.
"I have been working on the mental side and that really helped me keep my composure.
"I played junior Pot Black there but I have never been live to watch. I will probably watch a few games when I am up there and really make the most of it."
Two-time runner-up Ali Carter is one of the sports's best-loved and most-respected players, having twice overcome cancer and still been able to maintain his place among the world's best despite a constant battle with Crohn's disease.
Carter will be making his 14th consecutive Crucible appearance and his pedigree and experience means he is fully justified in claiming that no-one would fancy drawing him.
That honour falls to current champion and fellow Essex man Bingham.
"To be back, considering the battles I have been through, means the world to me," said 36-year-old Carter.
Kyren Wilson has had a breakthrough season, winning his first ranking event and storming up the rankings to world number 19.
The 24-year-old secured his place by beating two-time runner-up Matthew Stevens 10-6 in the third round of qualifying and will play Joe Perry.
"I am learning to deal with the pressure more and more - much better than I used to," the Kettering man told BBC Sport.
"I have had a very solid season. All of a sudden I am getting to tournaments and people are saying 'he could win this'. I am getting to the latter stages of tournaments and holding my own against the top boys.
"I think I was a little boy when I was there two years ago. I am getting married in June, I have a one-year-old son and they have turned me into a man."
Former world champions Graeme Dott and Peter Ebdon are both in the mix once again.
Ebdon takes on Marco Fu on what will be his 23rd visit to the Crucible, while Dott faces another former champion in world number 13 Mark Williams.
"I am just so happy to get through," said Dott. "There will be easier games than me. My season will end at the Crucible, which is where it should end.
"It hurts so much when you are not there. Last time I was not there it was devastating."
Ebdon echoed Dott's words after showing his trademark grit and determination to come back from 9-3 down in the second qualifying round against Gerard Greene.
"This has turned around a very disappointing season for me," he said. "It means so much. I missed out the last two years and that was soul-destroying because it's the zenith of our sport."
Alan McManus, a two-time semi-finalist who first appeared at the World Championship in 1991, faces good friend and fellow Scot Stephen Maguire in the opening round.
"After 20 times at the Crucible it's still a buzz although, it doesn't mean as much as it used to," he said. "I'll turn up and give it a go."
The draw no qualifier wanted was five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan. "Anyone who says otherwise is kidding themselves," the Rocket's first-round opponent Dave Gilbert told BBC Sport.
"When I picked myself up off the floor after about five minutes, I started laughing and then began looking forward to it.
"No-one will give me a chance but I played really well in the qualifiers."
But his run to the final of the International Championship in China last September showed his talent and has given the Tamworth professional greater belief.
"If I can settle, I will give him a good game," added the world number 22.
Robbie Williams, who plays Ricky Walden, and Sam Baird, who faces Michael White, will not be expected to go deep in the tournament but both feel they have points to prove.
Merseysider Williams, 29, was a 10-9 winner over Nottingham's Anthony Hamilton in the final qualifying round and will make his third Crucible appearance.
"On my debut I was battered by Neil Robertson, then last year I had a chance to beat Stuart Bingham but let the occasion get to me," said the world number 57.
Baird, from Tiverton, Devon, was brushed aside by Bingham in 2013 and the world number 59 is desperate to show what he can do on his first return.
He said: "I won't be intimidated by the venue this time, having been there before, and hopefully I will show what I can do this time."
Full draw (qualifiers second)
Stuart Bingham v Ali Carter
Stephen Maguire v Alan McManus
Ricky Walden v Robbie Williams
John Higgins v Ryan Day
Judd Trump v Liang Wenbo
Martin Gould v Ding Junhui
Mark Williams v Graeme Dott
Neil Robertson v Michael Holt
Shaun Murphy v Anthony McGill
Marco Fu v Peter Ebdon
Barry Hawkins v Zhang Anda
Ronnie O'Sullivan v David Gilbert
Mark Allen v Mitchell Mann
Joe Perry v Kyren Wilson
Michael White v Sam Baird
Mark Selby v Robert Milkins
The Victorian Society has criticised an "almost total lack of detailed information" in the £40m proposals and urged Cardiff council to reject them.
Developer Signature Living has already started recruiting for 100 jobs and hopes to start work soon.
It said it had a "credible plan" and called the society's response "incredibly disappointing".
The disused Grade II*-listed building in Cardiff Bay dates to 1883 and is where ship owners and coal traders once met.
The world's first recorded £1m deal was struck there in 1904.
It has been used as a music and events venue in recent years, but closed in 2013.
Plans to convert it into a 200-bedroom hotel were unveiled in April.
An application for a change of use is due to go before the council's planning committee next week, and the developer said it would host weddings and conferences if given planning permission.
The full detailed plans will be decided upon at a future date, while discussions are ongoing between the developers, Cadw and planning officials.
But the Victorian Society's senior conservation adviser James Hughes said it was "simply not credible to suggest, as the submitted drawings do, that no alterations or structural interventions are to be made to the fabric of the Coal Exchange".
In a formal objection, he also questioned the lack of detail about heating, lighting, en-suites and lifts.
"No details are provided as to how the highly significant historic fabric and various spaces are to be altered or adapted, if indeed they are to be.
"How will the windows, the floors or the fine timber panelling - to name just a few - be treated and what will be the impact on the exceptional significance of the listed building?"
He described the lack of detail available to scrutinise the proposals for what is one of the most significant buildings in the country as "simply unacceptable."
Mr Hughes told BBC Wales the society first met with the council two years ago when the building was said to be in danger of collapse but there was no survey or conservation plan available - and none had been produced since.
He said it was incumbent on the developer to provide one, as well as details of how it intended to save "one of the most important buildings in Cardiff and Wales".
Campaign group Save the Coal Exchange has also said it could not fully support the plan until it had seen details about preserving the building.
A Signature Living spokesman said: "It is incredibly disappointing that the Victorian Society would rather see the Coal Exchange rot and not be saved.
"Signature Living has a credible plan to save the historic building and put it back into use.
"The concerns raised by the society do not reflect the plans Signature Living have for the building - we have already started recruiting staff and intend to move forward with the project.
"I'm sure when we have finished the Victorian Society will agree that we have not only saved a historic building but preserved it for years to come."
The 37-year-old celebrity was arrested last month and charged on Tuesday in relation to the messages she is said to have sent to James Placido.
Essex Police said she was accused of two counts of harassment without violence.
Ms Marsh, from Great Dunmow in Essex, is due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on 9 November.
Her agent KTS Talent Management said "she looks forward to going to court".
For decades there has been a consensus that globalisation brought more jobs, higher wages and lower prices - not just for richer countries but also for developing and poorer nations.
But there is now a growing movement of anger as people see jobs being taken by machines, old industries disappearing and waves of migration disturbing the established order.
Global trade flows are falling and trade deals are being ripped up.
The new US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs of up to 45% on Chinese goods, accusing the country of economically "raping" the US.
One of China's fiercest critics, Peter Navarro, has been appointed as a top trade advisor.
An executive order pulling out of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) aimed at deepening economic ties between the US and Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Peru, was one of Mr Trump's first acts on moving into the White House.
The future of free trade is looking very gloomy.
But what's behind the anger that threatens decades of relative global consensus on globalisation?
The sense of grievance in the US is clear: the manufacturing sector in the country has seen six million jobs disappear between 1999 and 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Studies have shown that the decline in the US has been mirrored by gains in China.
But Chinese imports only explain 44% of the decline in employment in manufacturing in the US between 1990 and 2007, according to a report by the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn.
Part of the decline has been down to the outsourcing of jobs to other countries but automation and more efficient processes have also taken their toll.
"All countries end up with losers from technological development - whether it is telephone operators or bank tellers," says Gary Hufbauer, a trade expert from the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
"The problem in the US is that we don't do much to help those people who lose out through social security support or job retraining," says Mr Hufbauer.
The anger that flows from this has found a home in the protectionist rhetoric of politicians like Mr Trump.
"There has been no growth in household income during the last decade in Europe, the US and Japan. People are not happy and if you have to blame someone, it is easy to blame foreigners,"' says Mr Hufbauer.
The rise of political opposition to globalisation has coincided with - and contributed to - a period of declining world trade growth since the financial crisis of 2008.
Between 1986 and 2008 world trade grew at an average of 6.5%, according to the World Trade Organization.
Between 2012 and 2015 that rate has slowed to an average of 3.2% and is predicted to expand by just 1.7% in 2016.
That slowdown would make it the longest period of relative trade stagnation since the Second World War.
Since the financial crisis the slowing of the Chinese economy and political and economic stagnation in the eurozone have contributed to this flat-lining of world trade.
At the same time, in an attempt to insulate companies and industries at home, politicians have turned to tariffs and restrictions on imports from other countries.
"Governments worldwide have almost doubled their resort to trade distortions in the last two years," says Prof Simon Evenett, a trade expert at St Gallen University.
"The recent surge in 'beggar-thy-neighbour' activity predates Trump and Brexit, suggesting that populist pressures are likely to exacerbate protectionism," he says.
The flat lining of economic growth has increased pressure on politicians.
"Governments across the world are enacting protectionist policies often masquerading as 'industrial policy," according to Prof Evenett.
He says this often involves offering government subsidies to local companies, introducing import barriers and new '"local" standards for products from abroad.
Yet while protectionism may seem appealing to politicians assailed by angry workers, they often only end up raising prices for consumers.
For example, there was an outcry in 2012 when cheap Chinese tyres flooded into the US market, putting the viability of the domestic producers in question.
President Obama responded with punitive tariffs to get China "to play by the rules".
The protectionist measures were well received in the US, but a study by the Peterson Institute established that the tariffs meant US consumers paid $1.1bn more for their tyres in 2011.
Each job that was saved effectively cost $900,000 with very little of that reaching the pockets of the workers.
With the economic and social benefits of free trade coming increasingly under attack, proponents of globalisation have tried to launch a counterattack.
For example, The World Bank recently published a study of developing countries showing that average incomes for people living in the bottom 40% increased between 2008 and 2013, despite the impact of the financial crisis.
"There is a realisation in rich countries and among rich elites that there are problems with globalisation," says Branko Milanovic, an economist whose work on income inequality has driven much of the debate.
"They realise that for their own political self-preservation they have to tackle them."
But the solutions are not obvious, nor easy to implement.
"Most of the benefits of globalisation have been enjoyed by a relatively small group within each country.
"The question is not whether there are benefits to globalisation - there clearly are. But the question is about who is enjoying those benefits," says Andrew Lang from the London School of Economics.
Part of the anger might dissipate if economic growth was to stop its stubborn flat-lining trajectory, lifting incomes around the world.
"To help solve these problems you need to get the world economy revved up. Governments need to commit to fiscal stimulus to get their economies going again," says Gary Hufbauer.
Branko Milanovic points to the success of previous politicians in turning round seemingly intractably weak economies.
"It's not impossible for politicians to address these issues.
"Thatcher and Reagan managed to effect change in relatively short periods of time - a presidential term of four years should be enough to start making a difference," he says.
But Prof Evenett is pessimistic: "I expect the global plateau in world trade to continue in 2017 and that is before Donald Trump enacts any of the protectionist measures he has threatened."
His opponents want to end his term in office early via a recall referendum.
The court ruled on Monday that they must now secure signatures from 20% of voters in each of the 24 states, rather than 20% of the overall electorate.
Venezuela is facing severe economic problems and although Mr Maduro's popularity has plunged, he has control over key bodies such as the court.
The key dates for the opposition campaign are 26 to 28 October.
On those days it must collect and electronically verify enough signatures to trigger the recall referendum.
It had faced a tough task already trying to reach a sum of around four million voters.
Now it must meet a 20% threshold in each state, including rural areas where support for the left-wing government is stronger.
The court said on Monday: "The failure to collect that percentage in any of the states or the capital district would nullify the validity of a presidential recall referendum."
Another key date is 10 January. If the recall referendum happens after then and Mr Maduro loses the vote, which opinion polls suggest would be the case, he would be replaced by his handpicked vice-president.
Mr Maduro has used institutions like courts to try to neutralise the control the opposition has over the National Assembly.
Mr Maduro was elected in April 2013. His term runs until 2019.
The oil-dependent country has seen three years of deep recession, with inflation expected to top 700% this year.
There are huge shortages of food and medicines, and looting is widespread.
The suspects are leaders of Taksim Solidarity, an umbrella group at the forefront of the demonstrations.
They were accused of setting up a criminal group and violating public order and faced up to 30 years in jail.
Activist Mucella Yapici told AFP: "All of us were acquitted. It was an absurd case."
Human rights campaigners had demanded the charges be dropped, with Amnesty International calling it a "politically motivated show trial".
The protests began over plans to redevelop Istanbul's Gezi Park in May 2013, but turned into mass anti-government rallies after a heavy-handed police crackdown.
Mr Erdogan, who was prime minister at the time, said the demonstrations were the work of "riff-raff".
Hundreds of others are still being prosecuted across Turkey for alleged crimes related to the protests.
The Ulster champions trailed 1-6 to 0-6 at half-time with Robert Finnerty netting for the young Tribesmen.
Desmond Conneely added a second Galway goal to put them six points ahead while Enda McCormick's late goal was not enough for Donegal as they fell short.
Meanwhile, Mayo are through to the All-Ireland senior final thanks to a 2-13 to 0-14 win over Tipperary.
Jason Doherty and Conor O'Shea scored the decisive goals as Mayo made the final for the third time in five years.
Mayo led 1-10 to 0-7 at the break and edged clear again after Tipperary cut the gap to two points.
The Connacht men will meet the winners of next weekend's semi-final between Dublin and Kerry on 18 September.
It was a deserved win for Galway in the minor semi-final with the impressive Finnerty adding five points to his goal.
Galway go on to play holders Kerry or Kildare with the second semi-final next Sunday.
The officers were members of a gang suppression unit and were shot by unknown gunmen at a traffic stop on Thursday evening.
The officer killed was later named as Jonathan DeGuzman. The second officer is expected to survive.
The shooting follows earlier attacks on police this month in the US cities of Dallas and Baton Rouge.
The officer who died was a 16-year veteran and the father of two young children.
The wounded officer was named as Wade Irwin.
An injured suspect was found on Friday in a ravine and has been taken to hospital. Later, police surrounded a home where another suspect was believed to be holed up.
San Diego's mayor, Kevin Faulconer, said: "Violence against the men and women who wear the badge is violence against us all. I ask all San Diegans and all people across our nation to join together in support of our officers who courageously protect our communities. We need them and they need us."
Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee whose campaign includes a vow to "make America safe again" tweeted about the incident, saying: "It is only getting worse. People want LAW AND ORDER!"
America and the psychology of fear
The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) claimed the current rates system was hampering Scottish economic growth.
It said the latest rise was worth an extra £150m in tax revenues, bringing the total business rates take in Scotland to £2.8bn.
But the Scottish government said figures quoted by SRC were incorrect.
The rates increase in Scotland from 1 April has been capped at 2%, in line with England and Wales.
The Scottish government's decision to match the English poundage rates for 2015-16 was announced to the Scottish Parliament in December by the deputy first minister.
But SRC said the 2% increase was coming at a time when inflation has fallen to zero.
It claimed the rise would hit retailers particularly hard, as they contributed about a quarter of the amount paid annually by Scottish firms.
SRC argued that since 2009, business rate revenues "derived from retail" had increased by more than 30%, while there were about 1,800 fewer shops.
The consortium recently outlined its arguments for reform, claiming that the overall rates burden was "too onerous" and that the current system was out of line with other taxes.
It also argued that the "current panoply of reliefs is inefficient and unclear".
SRC director David Lonsdale said: "The current system of business rates is not fit for purpose and acts as a drag on Scottish economic growth.
"It acts as a disincentive to invest and as this recent tax hike demonstrates it fails to flex with economic circumstances and only ever rises.
"This has manifestly been to the disadvantage of businesses and town centres right across Scotland."
He added: "The UK government has launched a fundamental review of business rates in England and we would encourage the Scottish government to do the same.
"After all, the Scottish government's recently announced review of the council tax proves that reform of local government finance is not impossible.
"A fundamental reform of business rates is urgently required in order that we can have a system that better supports economic growth and job creation."
A spokeswoman for the Scottish government said: "The revenue figures quoted today by the SRC are incorrect.
"Scotland's business rates increase was capped again this year, mirroring the English rate, with most of the revenue uplift due to other factors such as new properties.
"We work closely with the SRC and major retailers, and in recent discussions have requested evidence regarding the sector's business rates, which we await.
"Small and medium retailers in Scotland already receive the best deal in the UK, with over 96,000 properties estimated to benefit this year from the Small Business Bonus Scheme, and the prospect of rates relief up to £4,800 in 2015-16."
She added: "Unlike previous administrations, this government has never set a higher rates poundage than in England.
"An estimated 64% of retail premises in Scotland pay zero or reduced rates, and our 2015-16 rates relief package estimated at £618m will help Scotland retain the most competitive business tax environment in the UK.
"The UK government's consultation on the other hand offers little new thinking or prospect of reform.
"The Scottish government will monitor that debate, but more importantly we will build on our 20-point plan to deliver improvement actions following our own review, reflecting feedback from businesses and maintaining a competitive edge for ratepayers."
James Warnock, 56, strangled 17-year-old Yiannoulla Yianni in an attack described as "cruel, brutal and without mercy" at her north London home.
Recorder of London Nicholas Hilliard QC told the Old Bailey Ms Yianni had endured a "terrifying ordeal" at knifepoint.
The jury took two hours to convict Warnock, a divorced father of two.
How a killer was brought to justice after 34 years
Ms Yianni, who was known as Lucy, was from a Greek Cypriot family from Hampstead. Warnock lived just half a mile away from their house.
He managed to evade justice for 34 years, despite still living in the local community, and was only caught by a chance DNA match.
When the roofer was caught sharing indecent pictures of children on the internet last year he gave a routine DNA sample. It matched a profile retrieved from a semen stain at the 1982 crime scene. The match was one in a billion.
At the time of Ms Yianni's murder, DNA testing had not been invented and the sample that helped convict Warnock was only fully recovered from a bed sheet in 2003.
Sentencing Warnock, Judge Hilliard said: "It is impossible to understand how one human being could do such things to another.
"In the process you visited misery beyond measure on those to whom Yiannoulla was, and is, so dear and which will never leave them."
Following the verdict, the Yianni family described how Lucy's murder had left them "saturated by grief" although they always believed her killer would be caught.
Her brother Rick said: "Thankfully the long arm of the law has reached out from the past to bring this evil being to justice."
Substitute Moussa Sissoko was given only a yellow card for a high, late tackle on Stephen Ward, before putting Rose through on goal in the next move, as the full-back smashed home at the near post.
"It was a blind challenge, a high challenge and simply a red card," said Burnley boss Sean Dyche.
Spurs were punished for a sloppy start as they failed to clear the ball, allowing Ashley Barnes to poke in the opener.
Prior to the goal, Dele Alli had struck the post from close range, before the midfielder restored parity by converting Kyle Walker's low cross.
Relive Tottenham's win over Burnley
Burnley will rightly feel aggrieved as they were hanging on for an away point, with Spurs struggling to break their defence down in the second half until Sissoko's intervention.
Dyche added: "I don't want go on about the referee but Sissoko has to go off and he sets up the second goal - obviously I am very disappointed about that."
As referee Kevin Friend saw the incident and took action, no retrospective disciplinary case can be brought against the Frenchman by the Football Association.
Despite falling behind, Mauricio Pochettino's side dominated a match in which they had 30 shots at goal, forcing Burnley goalkeeper Tom Heaton into seven saves.
The England international stopped well from Harry Kane and Victor Wanyama, and dived full stretch to his left to keep out Christian Eriksen's drive.
Tottenham continued to pressurise their opponents down the flanks, and it was the home side's two full-backs who proved to be the difference.
Walker got forward to provide the assist for Alli's equaliser, while Rose - who put in more crosses than any other player on the pitch - found himself in the opposition area for the second goal.
Rose told BBC Sport: "The gaffer does not like us both being high up the pitch at the same time but we changed that today. The manager got his tactics spot on."
Victory leaves Spurs in fifth place in the table, but only one point behind rivals Arsenal, who lost 2-1 at Manchester City.
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The Clarets got off to a good start and scored their first away goal of the season from open play courtesy of Barnes' opportunistic strike after haphazard Tottenham defending.
But the loss means they have picked up just one point from eight games on their travels this term.
More worryingly for Dyche's side will be their inability to create chances, with striker Andre Gray's effort straight at Hugo Lloris their only other shot on target.
The Lancashire side are just three points above the relegation zone and have important home games coming up against Middlesbrough and Sunderland.
England full-back Walker's tireless running saw him make 76 sprints at a top speed of 33.33 km/h - better than any other team-mate. His 87 touches on the ball and five key passes was more than any other player on the pitch, while also contributing three tackles.
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Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: "In the Premier League it is very hard to win games. Today we knew Burnley are a team that fights a lot, run a lot and every ball they are ready to challenge.
"The team played in a very good way and we fully deserved the victory. I am pleased for that. It was a very difficult game."
Burnley boss Sean Dyche: "It is very cruel. We were very good today. A lot has been made of our away form but first half we were excellent and in the second we were at least decent against a top side."
Tottenham travel to face Southampton on 28 December (kick-off 19:45 GMT), while Burnley host Middlesbrough on Boxing Day (15:00 GMT).
Match ends, Tottenham Hotspur 2, Burnley 1.
Second Half ends, Tottenham Hotspur 2, Burnley 1.
Matthew Lowton (Burnley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matthew Lowton (Burnley).
Offside, Burnley. Michael Kightly tries a through ball, but Andre Gray is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Son Heung-Min.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Matthew Lowton.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Matthew Lowton.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Tom Heaton.
Attempt saved. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ben Davies.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Eric Dier.
Substitution, Burnley. Steven Defour replaces Dean Marney.
Substitution, Burnley. Michael Kightly replaces George Boyd.
Attempt missed. Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Harry Kane.
Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jeff Hendrick (Burnley).
Substitution, Burnley. Sam Vokes replaces Ashley Barnes.
Attempt missed. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Kyle Walker with a cross.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Ben Davies replaces Danny Rose because of an injury.
Delay in match Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko following a fast break.
Foul by Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur).
Ashley Barnes (Burnley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Scott Arfield (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high following a set piece situation.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Son Heung-Min replaces Dele Alli.
Foul by Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur).
Matthew Lowton (Burnley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, Burnley 1. Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko.
Moussa Sissoko (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Moussa Sissoko (Tottenham Hotspur).
Stephen Ward (Burnley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ben Mee (Burnley).
Attempt blocked. Scott Arfield (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur).
Jeff Hendrick (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Danny Rose.
Belgium bossed the first half as Nacer Chadli was denied by Wayne Hennessey and Nicolas Lombaerts hit a post.
But Wales defended stoically and had chances of their own after the interval as Gareth Bale shot narrowly wide.
The point briefly kept Wales top of Group B, before Israel took their place with a 3-0 win over Bosnia-Hercegovina.
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Having made their best start to a campaign since winning their first four qualifiers for Euro 2004, Wales entered this match with renewed hope.
Despite the raised expectations, however, Chris Coleman's men were undoubtedly the underdogs against a Belgian side fourth in the Fifa world rankings.
Welsh hopes rested on Bale, and it was no surprise that it was the world's most expensive player who had the visitors' first shot on target.
The Real Madrid forward unleashed a swerving free-kick from 25 yards, but it was palmed away by Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.
The Chelsea man's opposite number, Wayne Hennessey, was also called into action early on and made an excellent low save to deny Tottenham's Nacer Chadli.
With another Chelsea player, Eden Hazard, a constant threat as he drifted infield from the left, Belgium began to dictate and put their opponents under pressure.
From Kevin de Bruyne's in-swinging corner, defender Lombaerts struck a post with a powerful shot and, from the rebound, Divock Origi could only slide the ball wide.
For all of Belgium's Hazard-inspired domination, Wales held firm to keep the home side at bay in the first half.
Coleman's side were close to taking the lead against the run of play 12 minutes after the restart, as Bale skipped past Belgium's static defenders before flashing a shot narrowly wide of the far post.
Having brought Fulham's fast young winger George Williams on for David Cotterill at half-time, Wales posed more of a counter-attacking threat as the match wore on.
Although Belgium continued to control possession for long periods, they seemed wary of the visitors' threat and were careful not to commit too many players forward.
The Red Devils' apparent trepidation made for a tense atmosphere, and the sense of anxiety increased when Hal Robson-Kanu had a shot saved by Courtois.
Dries Mertens then required lengthy treatment after being knocked out following a collision with teenager Williams and the six minutes of injury time that followed were nervous for the Welsh.
A header by Aston Villa's Christian Benteke was cleared off the line as Belgium poured forward in the closing moments, but Wales remained resolute to claim a potentially priceless point.
The report by UNRWA, the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees, warns that the education of thousands of children has been disrupted.
More than 300 UN schools were attacked or shut down.
In Syria, more than half of the UNWRA schools are no longer in use.
Some are destroyed, some cut off by fighting, others are shelters for displaced families.
Most schools have been looted and more than 400 teachers have fled Syria.
Source: UNWRA (the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East)
UNWRA head Pierre Kraehenbuehl called on all warring parties to respect the civilian character of schools, and to spare the lives of children, teachers, and aid workers.
The report emphasises how schools can provide stability and hope for children but this disruption has been having a profound impact.
The document, which also looks at damage to schools in Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinian territories, will be presented on Monday at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul where education will be a special focus.
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Donegal minors missed out on a place in the All-Ireland final after a 2-12 to 1-11 defeat by Galway at Croke Park.
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Scottish retailers have called for a "fundamental review" of business rates, ahead of a 2% rise which is due to come into effect on Wednesday.
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Danny Rose scored the winner as Tottenham came from behind to beat Burnley in controversial circumstances in the Premier League.
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Wales dug in for a gutsy goalless draw in Belgium to maintain their unbeaten start to their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign.
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Nearly half the schools run by the UN in the Middle East have been attacked, damaged or rendered inoperable in the past five years, according to a new report obtained by the BBC.
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Council leaders gather in Swansea next Thursday for the Welsh local government association annual conference.
The expectation is that by then they'll have a new proposed council map to chew over, published by the Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews.
Labour council leaders met Carwyn Jones and Leighton Andrews to discuss potential changes on Wednesday.
I'm told it wasn't acrimonious, but difficult nevertheless. Or, in the jargon, there was a full and frank exchange of views.
Senior Labour sources within local government used it to make a last-ditch plea to the ministers to row back from plans to put together a map.
Some have a new-found confidence after the general election. Their argument is that this will cause huge controversy among grassroots Labour ranks at a time when the party can ill-afford to lose that support.
As one source told me: "He (Carwyn Jones) needs the foot soldiers now. It's expensive having leaflets delivered by independent agencies. They have got to think about it."
A number have essentially called on the first minister to fudge it ahead of the next assembly elections.
Or as one put it to me, he should set out a maximum and a minimum number of councils in future, after working out what savings are needed, and use that as the basis for a manifesto commitment.
That would then give Labour the flexibility to consult with the local authorities and other parties after the election.
The council leaders know they're running out of time. Once a new map is produced, it can't be undone.
A Welsh government source has indicated they're not for turning.
It would be difficult to see how they could, after so much rhetoric supporting the need to change.
And this will be the debate. The Welsh government knows that most people probably agree with its view that 22 councils is too many, but the job of going about changing that is easier said than done when ministers don't have a majority at the assembly.
The other difficulty they have is insisting on change when a new Conservative government means that the cuts will continue for longer.
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We are approaching what could be a critical week for the future of councils in Wales.
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The fees involved are paid by shops and businesses to banks, every time a consumer uses his or her card.
Retailers say customers could ultimately benefit from lower prices in the shops.
But banks argue that consumers will instead end up paying higher charges to use debit and credit cards.
The EU proposals involve a potential cap on what are called "interchange" fees.
They will be considered by the European Commission on 24 July, but could take years to implement.
Shops and businesses pay different interchange rates to the banks, depending on the size of the retailer, and whether the customer has used a debit card or a credit card.
On average, debit card transactions cost the retailer 9p each, or around 0.2% of the bill.
Credit card transactions typically cost much more, at around 0.9%.
Under the plans to be considered by the EU, debit card interchange fees might be capped at 0.2%, and credit card fees at 0.3%.
In other words, many debit card fees would not be affected by the changes, but charges for credit cards would, on average, be reduced by two-thirds.
In the first instance, these caps would only be applied to cross-border transactions, such as a UK resident making a purchase elsewhere in the EU.
But the caps could later be applied within each of the member states.
Shops and businesses would be the first to benefit from such changes, as they would have to make much smaller payments to banks when a customer uses a credit card.
They have welcomed the idea.
"It's hugely significant, and massively positive," said Richard Braham, head of payments at the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
"There's definitely more that can be done, on a domestic level, to reduce the exorbitantly high fees," he told the BBC.
The BRC argues that if retailers pay lower fees, they can pass those savings on to customers.
But the banks argue that the present fees accurately reflect the costs of processing the transactions involved.
And they say they stand to lose about £1.2bn worth of revenue from credit card interchange fees every year.
If the plans are approved, they warn that consumers will end up paying more for the cards themselves.
For debit cards, they say consumers might have to pay an extra £11 a year.
Credit cards, they say, could cost an extra £25 a year.
"Ultimately, consumers will end up having to pay more," said Richard Koch, the head of policy at the UK Cards Association.
40% of people with credit cards do not pay any interest charges, so banks say they need to recover their costs somehow.
And they say there is no evidence that fee caps would reduce prices in the shops.
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Kerber, 28, won 6-3 4-6 6-4 in New York to add the US Open to her victory at the Australian Open in January.
Pliskova's semi-final win over Serena Williams had already ensured the German will top the new rankings on Monday.
"All my dreams came true today and I'm just trying to enjoy the moment," said Kerber.
"It's incredible. I'm standing here with a second Grand Slam trophy and it means so much to me."
Kerber was appearing in her third Grand Slam final of 2016, and the German played with the authority of a world number one in waiting.
Pliskova, 24, went into the final with a WTA Tour-leading 447 aces this year and on an 11-match winning streak that included victory over Kerber in last month's Cincinnati final.
The Czech had never been past the third round of a major before this tournament and made 17 unforced errors in the first set, but fought back with 17 winners in the second before powering 3-1 ahead in the decider.
It looked as though Kerber's athleticism and defensive skills would not be enough, but she levelled at 3-3 and then roared as a blistering forehand winner helped her move ahead once again.
At 4-4 in the final set it came down to a test of nerve, and Kerber's was rock solid as she held impressively before Pliskova fell 0-40 behind and blazed a forehand wide on match point.
"It's always tough to play against her," said Kerber. "I was trying to stay in the moment, be aggressive, I was just trying to enjoy the final. It's an amazing stadium.
"It means a lot to me. When I was a kid, I was always dreaming to be the number one player in the world and to win Grand Slams, and today's the day."
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Pliskova said: "I found out I can play my best tennis on the big stages. She proved she's the world number one. I knew it was going to be difficult, but I found myself some power in the second set."
Kerber is the first German to win the US Open since Steffi Graf in 1996 and her ascent to the top of the rankings is the result of a spectacular year.
She began 2016 ranked 10th in the world after failing to get past the third round of any of the Grand Slams in 2015, but Saturday saw her claim a Tour-best 54th win of 2016.
Kerber won her first major titles in Australia and the US, as well as reaching the Wimbledon final, where she lost to Williams, and the Olympic final, where she lost to Monica Puig.
The German began the season with a shock win over Williams in Melbourne, which was only possible after she had saved a match point against Japan's Misaki Doi in the first round.
The car manufacturer announced last year it will make a new luxury car at St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan.
Ministers refused to say how much public money the company would get, prompting an objection by a businessman under the Freedom of Information Act.
Ms Denham has given ministers 35 days to send the information to him.
In February 2016, Tom Gallard asked the government to "please provide details of the financial support agreed with Aston Martin to create 750 jobs at St Athan".
The government refused, saying disclosure could "prejudice" commercial interests.
During the process of Mr Gallard's appeal against that decision, the government argued that publishing the information would affect its ability to "achieve value for money" when negotiating with other companies.
Mr Gallard argued there was a public interest in knowing how "large amounts of taxpayers' money is spent so that citizens and taxpayers can decide if it was a good deal or not".
Ms Denham pointed out that the government had publicised financial support given to various companies in the past.
She also said that the process of applying for financial support from the Welsh Government was comprehensive and, therefore, the amount another company could get was unlikely to be affected by disclosure of the aid to Aston Martin.
The government also argued that disclosure of the information would be likely to "prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs", an opinion put forward by First Minister Carwyn Jones.
The commissioner decided this was not a reasonable view.
The Welsh Government has the right to appeal.
A spokesman said: "We note the Information Commissioner's decision and we are considering our next steps."
The other hostages may have been killed in a raid by Libya's security forces on Thursday, the Italian foreign ministry said.
The four were abducted last year near a compound owned by Italian oil group Eni in the western Mellitah area.
Libya descended into chaos since the 2011 Nato-led military campaign that overthrew Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Two rival governments are vying for legitimacy and territory in Libya and the so-called Islamic State (IS) has gained a foothold in some parts of the country.
The two workers were freed in Sabratha, around 70km (43 miles) west of the capital, Tripoli, the head of Sabratha Military Council, Taher el-Gharaballi, told the BBC.
The workers are employed by Bonatti, a company that provides services to the oil, gas and energy sector.
Italy closed its embassy in Libya in February, calling on Italians to leave because of the security risks.
The Sabratha local brigade has been fighting since last week, when militants briefly overran the city centre and killed about a dozen brigade fighters.
Last month, a US air strike targeted an IS camp on the outskirts of the city, killing about 40 people, including two Serbian nationals who had been held hostage since November.
Sabratha is one of several Libyan cities where IS militants have established a presence in Libya.
Nine foreign oil workers were kidnapped by IS in March.
Before Trump came along, Alex Jones was the great white hope for an army of disillusioned Americans.
The radio presenter's rasping delivery may be hard on the ears but for his fans it's food for the soul.
On the fringes of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this summer Mr Jones was mobbed like a pop star after barking that he had given his enemies a "giant red, white and blue middle finger."
It was typical of the rhetoric from a man who came to prominence as a propagator of conspiracies, most controversially suggesting that the United States government was complicit in the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City on 11 September 2001.
These days the star of infowars.com is a brash and boisterous defender of Mr Trump, and his advocacy has helped to deliver to the Republican candidate a group of supporters identified as the alternative right or, more commonly, the alt-right.
This relatively new political movement is popular predominantly with young people. It is amorphous and difficult to define but on the whole its adherents tend to reject both left-wing ideology and mainstream conservatism.
Liberty, free speech and the right to offend are its touchstones. Opponents call it racist, misogynist and anti-Semitic.
"You can define it very, very broadly," says one of its key figures, Milo Yiannopoulos, who argues that it includes "classical liberals, disaffected leftists" and "ordinary conservatives" along with perhaps its most important element, a "youthful contingent that has suddenly become interested in politics again."
"Donald Trump has re-energised those people," he says.
During the US primary season some of the alt-right's supporters were fans of Hillary Clinton's democratic socialist opponent Bernie Sanders but, in an election which has roiled the United States like never before, Mr Trump now appears to have a claim on their loyalty.
The movement itself is a 21st Century phenomenon, characterised by the use of humour; online chatrooms; and the production and dissemination of cartoons or other images and ideas which take on a life of their own, becoming, in the parlance of the times, memes.
Because the alt-right manifests itself primarily online, estimating its strength is difficult.
It is also imbued with contradiction. Its adherents insist that they champion free speech but they tend to bristle at the slightest criticism and are frequently accused of behaving like "trolls" by descending, virtually, on critics and observers with sexually explicit insults and vicious threats- often anti-Semitic - apparently in an attempt to silence through intimidation.
"We're mischievous", they say when challenged. "So what?"
Mr Yiannopoulos is a case in point. One of the most charismatic and popular figures within the alt-right, the British journalist who works for the conservative website Breitbart News was banned from Twitter in July.
In a statement at the time, the social media company said "no one deserves to be subjected to targeted abuse online, and our rules prohibit inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others".
The man himself insists the right to offend is central to the freedoms for which the United States stands.
"We talk about free speech in very abstract, loose terms in Europe. Nobody really cares about it that much because we don't really have it. In America they do care about it."
The first amendment to the US constitution, which guarantees the right to free speech is, he argues, "the fundamental underpinning of American civilisation" and "it is under pretty grave threat".
The threat, he says, comes from "the progressive Left, feminism, Black Lives Matter," along with "the 'safe space' and 'trigger warning' culture" on college campuses and a media which attempts to narrow and constrain opinions, particularly of those on the right.
A Twitter ban has not silenced Mr Yiannopoulos who has spent the final stages of the campaign for the White House on a tour of American universities, some of which have gone to considerable, and arguably counter-productive, efforts to stop him from addressing their students.
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At a recent rally at the University of California, Irvine, some but by no means all of the students who packed in to a lecture theatre to hear him speak - mixing jokes about Hillary Clinton with attacks on Islam, globalisation and feminism - identified themselves as being part of the alt-right.
Several talked of feeling demonised as young, white men. The movement, they seemed to suggest, offered them a refuge for an identity under attack in a multi-cultural world where women were calling the shots.
Jason Garshfield, seated near the front, had draped the United Kingdom's flag around his shoulders.
"It's in honour of Nigel Farage and Brexit," he explained, "that's something that's very inspiring to us as Americans, that Britain could stand up to a group of unelected bureaucrats and we hope to do the same thing here."
The establishment of the Democratic and Republican parties, he said, had proven itself to be out of sync with the will of millions of Americans.
"They're losing power," he said, "and now we're starting to see a backlash across the western world… it's happening all over Europe."
There were similar sentiments among protestors at a recent demonstration outside CNN's bureau in Los Angeles, some of whom said they too identified with the alt-right.
"The only people that still believe CNN are the mindless sheep that are being poisoned by the food and the pharmaceuticals in this country. We've woken up! We see the truth," said Margaret Schofield, in between hollering through a megaphone at passing traffic on Sunset Boulevard about the merits of Mr Trump.
These themes - hatred and distrust of the old media giants and a belief that the establishment is using extreme and nefarious measures to keep the populace compliant - are common on alt-right message boards such as 4chan and 8chan, the latter of which has been removed from Google's search results and proclaims on its home page: "Welcome to the Darkest Reaches of the Internet".
On these sites, one image pops up a lot. It is a cartoon frog, Pepe, a character from the comic book Boy's Club who has been appropriated by the alt-right.
"It's really bad news," Pepe's creator Matt Furie told the BBC. "He's hanging out with the wrong crowd."
Jewish civil rights organisation The Anti Defamation League (ADL) is particularly concerned about the anti-Semitism on display on these message boards. In one notorious image, Pepe's original catchphrase "Feels Good Man" was changed to "Kill Jews Man". In others he wears a Nazi uniform.
Such images have prompted the ADL to designate Pepe as a hate symbol alongside the swastika and the burning cross, to the shock of Mr Furie.
"That was really surreal for me… the worst case scenario," says the cartoonist, who was subjected to online abuse and nasty emails after speaking out about the alt-right. Still, he is dismissive of the movement.
"They're what I would call trolls - and trolls on the internet don't have any objective except to just mess with people," he says.
Mr Furie says the best course of action is to ignore them - but he can't say the same for Mr Trump, whom he accuses of whipping up hatred among the alt-right.
"I think he's dangerous and I hope that he's not elected because I'm very scared of nuclear war," he says.
The Republican presidential candidate's rhetoric and his embrace of an anti-globalisation, anti-immigrant, nationalist agenda "has certainly resonated with the alt-right," says Joanna Mendelson of the Anti Defamation League.
She calls the alt-right a "virulently anti-Semitic" and "white supremacist" network advocating "intolerance and racism".
"There is an animosity, a racism, an upheaval that has grown and developed within this last year... and the alt-right is capitalising on that anger."
"They feel that white identity and white privilege is at risk," says Ms Mendelson.
Mr Yiannopoulos rejects the notion that he, personally, is a white nationalist.
"All my boyfriends are black," he tells the BBC. "I don't give a toss about skin colour."
He does care though, he says, about the "terrifying" and "regressive" social attitudes of Muslims in the West.
So what of the future for the alt-right, especially if Hillary Clinton becomes the next US president?
"We're constantly told by the media that this will die with Trump," says Mr Yiannopoulos. "Couldn't be less true," he adds quickly.
"With Hillary Clinton in the White House they're going to be hugely energised. They're going to be angry. They're going to be louder than ever and they're going to start winning converts from her side," he says.
Ms Mendelson of the ADL uses strikingly similar language for her prognosis about the alt-right if Mr Trump loses.
"They still have revolutionised their base," she says. "There's momentum. There's anger. The alt-right is just going to capitalise on this. The revolution has already begun according to them."
And Mr Yiannopoulos insists that the alt-right is here to stay, irrespective of the election result.
"There is no way," he says, "that this movement, this huge nationalist, populist uprising against the nannies, against the globalists, against all of the massed ranks of the global elites, there's no way it's going anywhere."
Stuart Kettlewell guided the under-20 side to the championship ahead of Hamilton Accies and Celtic, who had won six of the previous seven titles.
The 32-year-old former County player described the achievement as "special".
But he added: "At the start of the season I'm tasked with improving the players first and foremost."
Kettlewell continued: "The challenge for us now is 'can these guys go and play 10-15 first-team games a season, can we then get them up to being regulars and key players?'"
In recent weeks Reghan Tumilty and Dylan Dykes have made the transition to Jim McIntyre's first team and Kettlewell is sure others will follow.
"I can genuinely say every player in that 15-man squad has improved," he said.
"You're judged on how many players you can progress into your first team. We would obviously like that to be more but what we've achieved this year gives them as good a grounding as possible to try to achieve that."
County have been criticised for not bringing through more talent from their youth academy.
But chairman Roy MacGregor says while the club's focus on attaining and retaining Premiership status may have detracted from their development plans, they are back on track under Kettlewell and head of youth Stevie Ferguson.
"I had a vision for developing youngsters and an academy and we've had a few through (most notably Gary Mackay-Steven and Don Cowie) but I think after eight or 10 years of running the academy system, we seem to now have a formula," MacGregor said.
"It's a culmination of a lot of hard graft and belief that even from a centre of small population, if you go about it the right way and you've got good standards and good people, you can develop football players.
"It's very much the model that was in Iceland and has developed that into a successful football nation."
MacGregor is encouraged by the proposals made by the SFA's performance director Malky Mackay for improvements to the elite development programme.
Regardless of future changes, one of Mackay's predecessors, Mark Wotte, stresses the primary aim of the Development League is not "winning it but to prepare 16-21-year-old players for their first team debut".
"It's great for Ross County but all that matters is how many of their players will progress to the first team and maybe further up the ladder," Wotte told BBC Scotland.
"Winning the league is a 'nice to have' not a 'must have'. Academy graduates playing first team is a 'must have' like (Kieran) Tierney, (Liam) Henderson, (Callum) McGregor and (James) Forrest at Celtic.
"Also it is easier to produce players for the level of Ross County than for Celtic without disrespecting the level of Ross County.
"In fairness, Celtic have much more money for recruitment and their academy than Ross County so it is still an amazing achievement, but you have to put it in perspective with what kind of age-group players they participated throughout the season."
Netflix said its content, such as series House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, will be available to anyone with international payment cards.
On 15 January, the US announced new rules that ease long-running sanctions against Cuba.
A trade embargo has been in place since 1962.
US credit card firms MasterCard and American Express have both said they will launch operations in Cuba soon.
Last month, Netflix said its international expansion was proceeding ahead of schedule.
The company said it plans to expand to 200 countries in the next two years, and to earn "material profits" from its operations overseas by 2017.
"We are delighted to finally be able to offer Netflix to the people of Cuba, connecting them with stories they will love from all over the world," said Netflix co-founder and chief executive Reed Hastings in a statement.
"Cuba has great filmmakers and a robust arts culture and one day we hope to be able to bring their work to our global audience of over 57 million members."
On Saturday, Pietersen removed his threat to retire but the England and Wales Cricket Board wanted confirmation he had not texted Proteas players.
"This has not been forthcoming despite timelines being set," said England cricket managing director Hugh Morris.
In a statement, Pietersen said: "To say I am gutted is an understatement."
Pietersen's omission comes at the end of a turbulent week which began with him hinting that he could retire after the third Test, before renewing his commitment to the England team in a video released via YouTube on Saturday.
However, the ECB wanted assurances that reports claiming he had sent texts criticising captain Andrew Strauss and team director Andy Flower to South Africa pair Dale Steyn and AB de Villiers were untrue.
The announcement of the squad for the third Test, which England must win to avoid being replaced by South Africa at the top of the Test rankings, was delayed by five hours and, when it came, Pietersen's was left out at the expense of Yorkshire's Jonny Bairstow.
Morris added: "In the best interest of the team, he will miss the Lord's Test.
"During the past week we have held several discussions with Kevin Pietersen and his advisors.
"This shows how disenfranchised Pietersen is within the set-up and how aggrieved the ECB is over his comments about team spirit and even more so about reports he sent text messages to South Africa players during the Headingley Test."
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"Following a constructive meeting it was agreed that a number of actions needed to be completed to re-engage Kevin within the England dressing room.
"A fundamental item was to confirm publicly that no derogatory texts had been sent by Kevin to the South African team.
"We provided an additional six hours this morning to provide every opportunity for agreement to be reached but regrettably this has not been possible."
Pietersen's statment, released after the squad announcement, said: "Naturally, I am hugely disappointed that the ECB have decided not to select me. To say I am gutted is an understatement.
"I had an emotional time at Headingley and the video I released was my way to bring closure to the issues I had at that time. I stand by every word I said in the video.
"The fact is: I love England and I love cricket. This entire episode has been demoralising for me and my family. However, none of this constitutes the end of my career as an international cricketer.
"I wish the team - and Andrew Strauss [in his 100th Test] in particular - every success next week."
South Africa, who lead the three-Test series 1-0, drew with Derbyshire in what proved to be their final tour match before the final Test.
England squad for third Test: Andrew Strauss (Middlesex, capt), James Anderson (Lancashire), Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Tim Bresnan (Yorkshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Alastair Cook (Essex), Steven Finn (Middlesex), Graham Onions (Durham), Matt Prior (Sussex, wk), Graeme Swann (Nottinghamshire), James Taylor (Nottinghamshire), Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire).
The migrants, who had set sail from Libya, were picked up by EU naval vessels on Thursday, a coastguard spokesman told AFP news agency.
Last month the EU pledged to beef up maritime patrols and fight trafficking.
The UN estimates that 60,000 people have already tried to cross the Mediterranean in the past five months, and that about 1,800 people have died.
The death toll represents a 30-fold increase on the same period in 2014, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
The rise has been attributed to chaos in Libya - the staging post for most crossings - as well as milder weather.
Many migrants are trying to escape conflict or poverty in countries such as Syria, Eritrea, Nigeria and Somalia.
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Curfew was imposed after an upsurge of violence since 9 July.
The protests were sparked by the killing of a popular militant leader Burhan Wani.
More than 60 people, mostly young men, have been since killed in clashes between protesters and security forces and thousands more have been injured.
This is the worst violence seen in the region for years.
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Police said the 51-day-old curfew has been lifted from most parts of the valley, except in Pulwama district and some parts of Srinagar, on Monday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that "those inciting violence" in Kashmir "will be held accountable one day".
He said "if any life is lost in Kashmir it is our loss, a loss of our people and our country".
The killing of Wani, 22, sparked days of deadly violence in the valley.
India considered Wani a terrorist, but for many locals he represented the spirit and political aspirations of a new Kashmiri generation, correspondents say.
Indian officials have said he was instrumental in persuading local boys to take up arms.
The state government has said it will investigate reports of excessive police violence towards unarmed protesters.
The last bout of serious violence in the region was in the summer of 2010, when more than 100 people died in anti-India protests, which broke out after police shot dead a teenager.
Disputed Kashmir is claimed in its entirety by both India and Pakistan and has been a flashpoint for more than 60 years, sparking two wars between the countries.
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.
BBC News can reveal that at least one 999 patient died during the period that the computers were down.
A major investigation is being carried out to determine the cause of the problems and the full clinical impact.
LAS director of operations Paul Woodrow said: "We're very sorry to anyone who experienced delays."
The Care Quality Commission said it would inspect the trust next month.
The computer-aided dispatch system, which logs emergencies and allocates ambulances, failed just after midnight.
"We went from running a service to running a shambles," an ambulance crew member told the BBC.
"People couldn't get ambulances. People couldn't get help. They were waiting and waiting and waiting."
For five hours, call-takers had to process every incident with pen and paper, and control room staff were limited to using radios to track and assign response units.
The crew member, who was on duty overnight and wants to remain anonymous, said: "The voice of the control staff was becoming more desperate.
"They were starting to worry because the calls were backing up.
"Road staff were getting frustrated because we couldn't respond to jobs.
"They didn't have a clue where we were or where we were going."
The problems happened on what is usually the busiest night of the year for the service, with hundreds of 999 calls every hour.
"The people of London were failed on New Year's Eve," the employee said. "They couldn't get hold of us if they needed to."
Asked if people died as a result of the computer system failure, he said: "Without a shadow of a doubt.
"If you'd had a cardiac arrest, we aim to get to you within eight minutes. It wouldn't have happened. You would have died.
"Patients with strokes would have lost the use of their arms, their legs, their speech, their swallow and possibly their life.
"If you were in a major incident or car accident, one hour is our aim for a trauma patient for definitive care - that wouldn't have happened."
Staff at the London Ambulance Service are trained to cope in the event of technical problems.
A triage system of responding to emergencies is still maintained in that situation.
In response to the whistleblower's allegation that the London Ambulance Service back-up system failed, director of operations Paul Woodrow said: "We're very sorry to anyone who experienced delays during those issues on New Year's Day.
"We're obviously taking that matter very seriously, and to that end we've launched a full and comprehensive external investigation into identifying the root causes of the technical issues that we suffered.
"As part of that, we have identified one patient who sadly died.
"We want to look at that more closely to see whether the computer issues were potentially a contributory factor to that."
In 2015 the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust became the first of its kind in England to be placed into special measures.
A spokesperson for the Care Quality Commission told the BBC: "We were not directly informed of the recent control room problems at the trust.
"However, we are aware of the incident and subsequent concerns raised about the potential impact on patient safety.
"We are following this up directly with the trust and we have a scheduled inspection planned for early next month."
Police have not yet been able to retake control of the prison in the town of Escuintla, about 60km (37 miles) south of the capital, Guatemala City.
Officials said they would wait for reinforcements before entering the jail as the security forces were currently outnumbered four-to-one by the rioters.
The jail is notorious for overcrowding and violence.
More than 3,000 prisoners are held at the jail, which was built to house just 600.
About 2,300 inmates are currently engaged in a stand-off with 500 members of the security forces, Deputy Interior Minister Elmer Sosa said.
The minister confirmed that some of the inmates had guns.
Mr Sosa said that there were conflicting theories as to what had triggered the violence.
He said there were reports that convicted gang members had clashed with inmates without any gang affiliation after visiting hours on Sunday.
Local media are reporting that the inmates may be holding a number of visitors hostage.
But Mr Sosa said another possibility was that inmates had turned violent after guards had foiled an attempted prison break.
Earlier this year, guards scuppered another escape attempt when they discovered a tunnel underneath the prison.
The exact number of people injured in Sunday's fight is not yet known, emergency workers at the scene said.
Members of violent street gangs make up the bulk of Guatemala's prison population and deadly gang warfare inside prison walls is not uncommon.
Severe overcrowding makes it hard for guards to control the prisoners - who are often heavily armed with home-made weapons as well as firearms smuggled into the jail.
Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, charged with "sedition" along with student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, received six months' bail from a Delhi court.
They were arrested after a rally against the execution of a Kashmiri separatist who was convicted over the 2001 Indian parliament attack.
The arrests sparked massive protests across India.
Many accused the government of cracking down on dissent.
The government defended the arrests, saying the students from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) supported the Kashmiri separatist movement and the break-up of India.
All the students deny the allegations against them.
Mr Kumar was freed on bail earlier in March, and returned to JNU soon after, where he made a fiery speech that went viral.
Critics have condemned the charges against the students as an assault on freedom of expression, but government ministers have refused to back down, vowing to punish what they describe as "anti-national elements".
The 9 February rally that prompted the arrests was to mark the third anniversary of the 2013 hanging of Mohammed Afzal Guru.
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Guru was one of those convicted of plotting the 2001 parliament attack - charges he always denied.
The attack, which left 14 people dead, was blamed on Pakistan-based militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir.
India's sedition law dates back to 1870, introduced by the British to hit back at anti-colonial movements.
Some of the country's leading independence leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi, were tried under the infamous law.
The sedition law has rarely been upheld by India's courts. But anyone charged under the law cannot apply for bail immediately and so can be instantly imprisoned.
"The question of how much criticism a government can tolerate is indicative of the self-confidence of a democracy," writes Lawrence Liang in an article for The Wire.
"On that count, India presents a mixed picture where, on the one hand, we regularly see the use of sedition laws to curtail political criticism even as we find legal precedents that provide a wide ambit to political expression."
Davide Nicola made the deal in April, when Crotone looked certain to go down.
But they won six of their final nine matches of the season to avoid the drop by two points, after having won just three games from their previous 29.
The 44-year-old arrived in his home town of Vigone near Turin on Sunday - nine days after leaving Crotone.
"Am I tired? I still do not feel any particular pain," he said.
"It's been a beautiful journey, a fairytale. From tomorrow maybe I will feel a bit tired, but what matters most to me is that my goal has been achieved."
Three years ago, Nicola's 14-year-old son Alessandro was killed after being knocked off his bike by a bus in Vigone.
"I kept the promise and, with the help of many people, we have also attracted the attention of many people to the question of safety on the roads," he added.
"Here in Turin I was greeted with great enthusiasm, I am very excited."
Nicola made the deal with his players after a 2-1 win at Chievo - Crotone's first victory away from home in Serie A.
Crotone took just 14 points from their first 29 games but won six of their last nine matches to finish on 34 points, two points above the relegation zone.
Even with their remarkable late run, the side began the final day of the season in the bottom three, but a 3-1 win over Lazio and Empoli's defeat by Palermo saw them survive in their maiden top-flight campaign.
Mr Coulson, 44, was questioned in Glasgow as part of an investigation into evidence at the perjury trial of former MSP Tommy Sheridan in 2010.
He was detained at his south London home on Wednesday by Strathclyde Police and formally arrested that evening.
The ex-News of the World editor was a Downing Street employee at the time he was a witness at Glasgow's High Court.
Mr Coulson was detained at his south London home at 06:30 BST on Wednesday. He arrived at Govan police station shortly before 15:30 BST and was held for about six hours before being released.
A Crown Office spokesman said there was no legal obligation for Coulson to stay in Scotland, and he was free to return to his home in London.
The spokesman said no date had been set for any court appearance.
A decision will now be taken by Scotland's prosecution service, the procurator fiscal, about whether Mr Coulson should face a trial.
Earlier, a police spokeswoman said: "Officers from Strathclyde Police's Operation Rubicon team detained a 44-year-old man in London this morning under section 14 of the Criminal Procedure Scotland Act 1995 on suspicion of committing perjury before the High Court in Glasgow."
By Norman SmithChief political correspondent, BBC News Channel
Throughout the twists and turns of the hacking scandal, the constant aim of Downing Street has been to insulate the prime minister from the swirl of allegations that have engulfed some of his friends and political colleagues.
That task has become all the harder with the decision by Strathclyde Police to charge Andy Coulson with perjury.
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Mr Coulson gave evidence at the trial of former Scottish Socialist MSP Tommy Sheridan in 2010.
Sheridan was awarded ??200,000 in damages from the News of the World in 2006 after it printed allegations that he had committed adultery and visited a swingers' club.
After the court action, the former MSP and his wife Gail were charged with perjury.
She was acquitted during the subsequent trial but Sheridan was convicted in December 2010. He has since been freed after serving just over a year of a three-year sentence.
Mr Coulson was called to give evidence at Sheridan's trial over two days as he was editor of the News of the World between 2003 and 2007.
During heated exchanges with Sheridan, who represented himself at the trial, Mr Coulson denied being involved in, or aware of, any illegal activities, including phone hacking.
Mr Coulson resigned from the post of Mr Cameron's director of communications in January 2011, saying coverage of the News of the World phone hacking scandal had "made it difficult to give the 110% needed in this role".
In July 2011, he was arrested by Metropolitan Police investigating the News of the World hacking scandal and later released on bail.
BBC chief political correspondent Norman Smith said: "Unlike the arrest of Mr Coulson last year by the London Metropolitan Police - which centred on claims about hacking during his time as editor of the News of the World - this arrest relates to a period when Mr Coulson was working as David Cameron's director of communications."
Dominic Elliott, 23, died after drinking household drain cleaner at the artist's home in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, in March.
A two-day inquest in Hull heard he drank the liquid after "partying" with his partner John Fitzherbert, 48.
Humberside Police confirmed it was investigating possible drugs offences.
After the verdict, a police spokesman said a 48-year-old man and a 23-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of drugs offences and remained on bail as inquiries continued.
He said no one had been charged.
Mr Fitzherbert was Mr Hockney's partner for 20 years and still lives at the artist's home and runs his domestic affairs.
The court was told Mr Elliott drank the acid, which caused serious damage to his mouth and throat before perforating his stomach, after taking cocaine and ecstasy. He had also consumed alcohol and cannabis before drinking the liquid, the inquest heard.
Bradford-born artist Mr Hockney was in bed asleep at the time and was "completely unaware" of what had happened, the inquest heard.
The coroner, Professor Paul Marks said there was "not a shred of evidence Dominic intended to take his own life".
He said there were no suspicious circumstances or any "third party" involvement in the death.
The coroner said he recorded a verdict of misadventure on the basis that Mr Elliott took the substances he did in the expectation that there was a risk involved.
Hull Coroners Court heard Mr Elliott died in the early hours of 17 March after Mr Fitzherbert took him to hospital in Scarborough.
The coroner said it was one of the "enigmas" of the case that Mr Elliott appeared not to be showing any signs of pain despite a pathologist saying the ingestion of the acid would have caused extreme agony.
He said it was possible the drugs Mr Elliott had taken lessened the pain.
By the time he arrived at Scarborough Hospital he was completely unresponsive.
Det Sgt Thomas Napier, who compiled the file on the death for Humberside Police, told the coroner: "It does remain a mystery - for an intelligent young man to drink such a noxious substance."
Mr Hockney's chief assistant, Jean Pierre Goncalves De Lima, told the inquest he received a phone call from Mr Fitzherbert after Mr Elliott's death, asking him to clear his room of "any evidence of drug use".
Mr Goncalves De Lima said he did clear Mr Fitzherbert's room but later told police what he had done.
Asked why, he said Mr Hockney had suffered a mini-stroke last year and he was worried about the effect of this kind of "exposure" on his boss's health.
He also said Mr Hockney was 99% deaf without his hearing aids.
Mr Goncalves De Lima said he was aware of some drug use in the house but added that Mr Hockney was not aware of this.
The coroner said he believed Mr Hockney, who shares his house with three other men including Mr Fitzherbert, was unaware some of the occupants of his home were abusing illegal drugs.
The court was told that Mr Elliott suffered bouts of depression and was deeply affected by the death of his twin sister at birth and his father, when he was 11.
Mr Fitzherbert went missing two days after Mr Elliott's death, but was later found at a Bridlington beauty spot and taken to hospital. He later booked himself into the Priory Hospital in London, the inquest heard.
The International Committee of the Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontieres expressed concern about the damage caused by the bombing of key airports.
The disruption of infrastructure, they said, was having alarming consequences.
Meanwhile, rebels have shelled the Saudi border area of Najran. Unverified reports said two Saudi civilians died.
Saudi Arabian Airlines, the national carrier, suspended flights to Najran and the region's schools were closed.
The attack comes four days after Saudi Arabia repelled a major assault by Houthis on border posts in Najran. Three Saudi troops and "dozens" of rebels were killed in the clash, Saudi officials said.
In Yemen, the Saudi-led coalition has said it is considering temporary halts in its air strikes to allow for aid deliveries.
Air strikes and fighting on the ground in Yemen have left more than 646 civilians dead, since 26 March, according to the UN.
The ICRC and MSF said they were extremely concerned about the severe damage caused by recent coalition attacks on airports in the capital, Sanaa, and the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah.
The air strikes had obstructed delivery of much-needed humanitarian assistance and the movement of humanitarian personnel, they warned.
"Yemen depends almost completely on imports of food and medication, especially for the treatment of chronic diseases", said Cedric Schweizer, who heads a team of 250 ICRC staff in Yemen.
"The harsh restrictions on importations imposed by the coalition for the past six weeks, added to the extreme fuel shortages, have made the daily lives of Yemenis unbearable, and their suffering immense," he added.
The disruption of the key logistic infrastructure, including airports, sea ports, bridges and roads was having alarming consequences on the civilian population, and the humanitarian situation had now become catastrophic, the ICRC and MSF warned.
Checkpoints by the different armed factions had also obstructed the delivery of urgent medical supplies to hospitals and had prevented patients and the wounded reaching them, they added.
The UN high commissioner for human rights has meanwhile said the coalition must stop the intentional targeting of civilians not taking part directly in hostilities.
In one incident on 1 May, at least 17 civilians were killed, including four children and nine women, in a strike that allegedly targeted the home of a Houthi leader in Sanaa, spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said in a statement on Tuesday.
The 10-nation coalition, which was joined by Senegal on Monday, has said it is seeking to defend the government of Yemen's President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
He fled the country at the end of March after rebel forces and allied army units loyal to ousted former president Ali Abdullah Saleh attacked the southern port city of Aden.
Mr Hadi had taken refuge there the previous month after the Houthis consolidated their control of Sanaa and placed him and members of the cabinet under house arrest.
On Sunday, it was reported that Yemenis believed to have received training and weapons from the coalition had arrived by sea in Aden to assist Southern militiamen who have been battling rebel fighters and allied security forces there.
The charges arose after an employment tribunal ruled striker Mark McCammon had been unfairly dismissed by the League One club.
A tribunal found McCammon's sacking was an act of racial victimisation.
Scally said he was "shocked, stunned and angered" and confirmed he and the club would appeal against the decision.
McCammon, now 36, was sacked by the Gills in January 2011 and alleged he and other black players at the Kent club were treated differently from white players.
An employment tribunal found in favour of McCammon and awarded him £68,000 in damages in August 2012, and upheld that decision a year later following an appeal by the Gills.
The FA charged Gillingham and Scally with bringing the game into disrepute last September, and a regulatory commission considered the charge at a two-day hearing in April.
Along with the fines, Scally has been ordered to attend an education programme.
Scally said the level of the fines handed out by the FA were "manifestly excessive, totally disproportionate and completely unjust".
"We have been given no reasoned explanation for the severity of the fines," he said in a statement on the club website.
"The club and I will be appealing against this decision and, if necessary, we will take the matter beyond the FA."
The train operator hit out as talks to avoid a series of strikes over plans for more driver-only trains broke down.
The RMT union had accused ScotRail of refusing to resume talks until 11:00 on Monday, hours before the strikes begin.
But ScotRail said the RMT had been running a campaign of "disinformation that doesn't bear any scrutiny".
Managing director Phil Verster said: "The RMT have been saying that the strike is about driver-only trains. It is not.
"There would still be a second person scheduled to be on services following the introduction of the faster, longer, greener trains from late next year.
"The RMT have said that services that have the train door opened and closed by the driver are unsafe. In fact, 59% of people who travel by train in Scotland do so on a service that safely operates in this manner.
"This has been the case - with the full agreement of the trades unions - for 30 years."
Following the 11:00 meeting, a spokesman for conciliation service Acas confirmed the talks had been "adjourned with no date set to resume".
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said ScotRail had "no intention of engaging in serious talks".
He added: "This morning, they set up a series of a serious of ludicrous preconditions that they know cannot be met by the union and, as a consequence, yet again they effectively sabotaged the process.
"The action remains firmly on."
But Mr Verster said the RMT were being "disingenuous" with claims that ScotRail were trying to have driver-only trains.
He said: "This strike is totally needless. The RMT have refused point-blank to talk to us about how we modernise and improve Scotland's railway.
"Instead, they have hidden behind a national policy that says that nothing must ever change.
"Tens of thousands of our customers will be disrupted and hundreds of our own people will be hit financially as a result of their intransigence.
"The public will be astonished to hear that this is a strike only about who opens and closes doors on trains, nothing more."
RMT members will stage a series of walkouts in the coming weeks, starting with a 24-hour strike on Tuesday.
ScotRail has published a list of the services which will be affected by the action.
The union announced the dates of a series of six planned strikes after saying a majority of its members had voted for strike action in a ballot with a 75% turnout.
RMT Scotland organiser Mike Hogg said: "The dispute is not about more money - the dispute is about ensuring that Scotland's trains run safely.
"We have had a whole host of instances over the last 18 months where people have been involved in accidents as a result of driver-only trains and what we're saying is enough is enough."
But Mr Verster accused the RMT of building their strike campaign on "misinformation".
He told BBC Scotland: "I very clearly wrote to Mick Cash on Friday, talked to him on Saturday, sent him an email saying we are available today, we're available on Sunday, we're available on Monday and we want to talk without preconditions and without a strike threat hanging over us.
"On Wednesday when we met with the RMT for talks it was preceded on the Tuesday evening with them declaring seven days of strike action as well as refusing to talk about any improvements. This is just not good enough.
"We have guaranteed that there will be no job losses, no redundancies, guaranteed pay, guaranteed terms and conditions so with these guarantees we only want to improve the railway."
Passengers at Heathrow, Gatwick and London City airports had to be checked in manually and faced long queues and delays.
BA said the fault was resolved at about 09:00 BST and its computerised system was now operating normally.
It comes after a power cut led to hundreds of flights being cancelled over the May bank holiday weekend.
A spokesman for BA said: "We are sorry for the temporary check-in problems which caused some delays for our customers first thing this morning.
"This issue is now resolved and our staff are working flat out to help customers get away on their holidays."
The problems in May resulted in an IT failure and the cancellation of more than 670 flights from Heathrow and Gatwick. BA later said it was caused by an engineer who disconnected a power supply.
Meanwhile, passengers flying from EU airports have been warned they may face long queues over new security checks brought in after recent terror attacks.
Jacob Stockdale and James Ryan scored on their debuts in New Jersey.
Ireland, with 11 players on Lions duty, also scored through Keith Earls (2), Niall Scannell, Kieran Marmion, Jack Conan, Luke McGrath and Simon Zebo.
Nick Civetta scored the US try as they trailed 29-7 at the break and the hosts added second-half tries by John Quill and Ryan Matyas.
Ireland now head to Japan for two Tests which are likely to be tougher assignments than they faced at the Red Bull Arena.
The Irish went into the game having won all eight of their meetings with the US and that 100% record was never threatened.
Earls grabbed an early try for a 5-0 lead and the 29-year-old Munster man then turned provider for young Ulster prospect Stockdale to score on his debut.
Winger Earls got his second try after an exchange of passes with Tiernan O'Halloran to put the Irish into a commanding 17-0 lead.
But the Eagles hit back with second row Civetta scoring after charging down fly-half Joey Carbery's kick.
Ireland, fielding a youthful side and with four debutants on the bench, added two tries before the interval.
After turning down a shot at the posts, Quinn Roux claimed from the line-out and the Irish forced their way over with Niall Scannell getting the score.
Scrum-half Marmion touched down after being fed by Earls who had been stopped just short of the line.
A sixth try followed soon after the restart, Ireland's strong scrum leading to Conan's touchdown.
But the US responded with a couple of tries, the first similar to Civetta's first-half score.
This time Carbery's kick was blocked by number eight John Quill and former Connacht fly-half AJ McGinty again converted.
Centre Ryan Matyas scored the hosts' third on the right after a decent spell of home pressure.
Twenty-year-old lock James Ryan got Ireland's seventh try, just a minute after coming on for his international debut.
Again Earls set it up, breaking through to pass inside for a grateful Ryan to finish things off.
Replacement Rory Scannell hit the upright with the conversion attempt but was successful in adding the extras when substitute scrum-half McGrath evaded a tired-looking US defence for a try on his third appearance for Joe Schmidt's men.
Zebo, another replacement rounded off the scoring in the left corner after Stockdale had played back Rory Scannell's high kick.
Ireland: Tiernan O'Halloran; Keith Earls, Garry Ringrose, Luke Marshall, Jacob Stockdale; Joey Carbery, Kieran Marmion; Cian Healy, Niall Scannell, John Ryan, Quinn Roux, Devin Toner, Rhys Ruddock (capt), Josh van der Flier, Jack Conan.
Replacements: Dave Heffernan, Dave Kilcoyne, Andrew Porter, James Ryan, Dan Leavy, Luke McGrath, Rory Scannell, Simon Zebo.
Asked if Moeen could partner Alastair Cook in the United Arab Emirates, Bayliss said, "Possibly, yes.
"Moeen is the type of guy who could bat in a few positions in that top seven."
Spinner Moeen mainly batted at eight in the Ashes and has never been higher than number six in England's order.
England face Misbah-ul-Haq's side in three Tests in October and November on pitches that traditionally favour spin.
Bayliss said England would look to change the balance of the side by including another spin option to back up Moeen.
"In the UAE the possibility of playing two spinners will be at the forefront of everyone's thinking, so obviously we'd have to change the team to get a second spinner in," he said.
With incumbent opener Adam Lyth having struggled in the Ashes, averaging just 12.77, there has been speculation that Moeen could move up the order.
"Adam hasn't scored as many runs as he would like," said Bayliss. "It's a big step-up [from county cricket].
"There are a few positions in the team that we can be stronger and [opening batsman] will definitely be a discussion point."
Cook has already had six different partners at the top of the order since previous captain Andrew Strauss retired in 2012: Nick Compton, Joe Root, Michael Carberry, Sam Robson, Jonathan Trott and Lyth.
Brent crude futures rose 3% to $113.27 per barrel, while US crude gained more than 2% to $106.71, the highest reading for both since September.
Insurgents have taken over two Iraqi cities, prompting the US to say it was considering "all options" to help Iraq.
Iraq is the second-largest oil producer in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) group.
"If this conflict knocked out Iraq as an exporter, that would have significant impact on prices," said Christopher Bellew, a trader at Jefferies Bache.
The developments have also hurt global stock markets. Shares in the US fell on Thursday and major stock indexes in Asia were also down in early trade on Friday.
Sunni Islamist insurgents have taken control of the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Tikrit.
Led by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), the insurgents are believed to be planning to push further south to the capital, Baghdad, and regions dominated by Iraq's Shia Muslim majority.
Jeremy Bowen, BBC Middle East editor, says the success of ISIS can only make the turmoil in the Middle East worse.
He explains that ISIS is an ultra extremist Sunni Muslim group and its success will deepen the sectarian conflict between Sunnis and Shias that is already the most dangerous fault line in the Middle East.
Middle East is one of the biggest oil producing areas in the world and there are fears that if this conflict escalates further, it may hurt global oil supplies.
On Thursday, US President Barack Obama said his government was looking at "all options", including military action, to help Iraq fight Islamist militants.
"It's a bit of a crisis mode here," said Timothy Ghriskey, chief investment officer at Solaris Asset Management LLC.
"Geopolitical concerns have definitely taken over. It's a very fluid situation and things are happening very fast, it seems."
"People are being killed every day, bodies are found on the streets... Leaders are spending time killing people", he said.
On Saturday, nine people were shot dead in a bar in the capital Bujumbura.
People began fleeing Bujumbura and other parts of Burundi before a government deadline on Saturday to hand in illegal firearms.
President Pierre Nkurunziza warned that those who refused to obey the order would be "dealt with as enemies of the nation".
A cycle of violence began in April with protests against Mr Nkurunziza's controversial decision to stand for a third term.
He argued that his first term as president did not count towards the constitutional two-term limit as he was chosen by lawmakers.
In July Mr Nkurunziza was duly re-elected to a third term with 70% of the vote.
About 200 people have been killed since April.
10.4m population
50 years - life expectancy for a man
2nd poorest country in the world
85% are Hutu, 14% Tutsi
300,000 died in civil war
"It is sad that the African continent has a disease, to an extent that I will be blamed for meddling in another country, that I should be diplomatic about it or I deal with it politically. But that can't be, I am being frank and open," President Kagame said.
"Leaders are spending time killing people. Bodies of dead people are scattered everywhere. Refugees are wandering everywhere - women and children - and you want to call this politics? What kind of politics is this?"
Mr Kagame was speaking on Friday - but his comments were not broadcast until the following day.
Burundi's authorities have so far not publicly reacted.
However, in the past, Burundi has accused Rwanda of training rebels seeking to destabilise the country, something Rwanda denies.
Presidents Nkurunziza and Kagame were once on good terms but fell out in 2012.
On Saturday night, gunmen shot at least nine people dead in a bar in Bujumbura.
Eyewitnesses later said they saw seven bodies lying on the floor. Two others managed to flee but later died in hospital.
Burundi's security services have been carrying out house-to-house searches in neighbourhoods of Bujumbura seen as opposition strongholds,
Earlier this week, the UN condemned the "inflammatory rhetoric" by officials in Burundi.
And the Brussels-based International Crisis Group said the language was "chillingly similar" to that used in Rwanda before the genocide of 1994.
Uganda is leading regional efforts to broker peace talks and the UN Security Council is expected to discuss the violence at a meeting on Monday.
Police said keys to the marked car were taken during a burglary at Camelford Police Station in Cornwall in the early hours of on Friday.
The vehicle was later spotted heading east on the M4.
A 23-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman from Camelford have been charged in connection with the incident.
Officers said they used a stinger device to bring the car to a stop near the junction 7 Slough exit.
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Former Scotland captain Redpath, who won 60 caps, is leaving the sport for a business position.
The 45-year-old took over at Headingley in March 2015 and led them to the play-offs last season.
Carnegie are currently second in the Championship table, eight points behind leaders London Irish.
Redpath told the club website: "I would like to thank everyone involved in Yorkshire Carnegie; the owners, board of directors, the staff, players and supporters.
"This new challenge has been a massive decision for me to make after 29 years on from starting my career in the Melrose first team."
Stephanie Roche was given acres of space to put the visitors ahead after good work from Beth Mead.
The goal was a wake-up call for Chelsea as captain Katie Chapman headed in Karen Carney's free-kick to level.
Waves of attacks followed and Fran Kirby nodded in what proved to be the winner as Sunderland's defence cracked.
The home side should have won by more, Eniola Aluko forcing several excellent saves from Rachael Laws, but the points end Chelsea's two-game losing run while Sunderland stay second-bottom.
Chelsea skipper Katie Chapman: "We were disappointed to go a goal behind because we wanted a fast start and really wanted that first goal.
"But we did respond and we managed to get a goal back quite quickly and I think that gave us the momentum from there and we played really well.
"We are a resilient side and got it back on track and have done it a few times this season where we've come back from behind."
Sunderland striker Stephanie Roche: "We always knew we would have to defend deep and not let them get behind us and in the end we were chasing the ball for 90 minutes, which is very hard.
"I thought we held good lines and tried not to let them get behind us and then we got the goal and that gave us a little boost, but the sucker punch was they got the goal back straight away.
"We just need to regroup now and get ourselves going for the second half of the season."
Match ends, Chelsea Ladies 2, Sunderland Ladies 1.
Second Half ends, Chelsea Ladies 2, Sunderland Ladies 1.
Attempt missed. Bethany England (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Corner, Chelsea Ladies. Conceded by Steph Bannon.
Attempt missed. Drew Spence (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Eniola Aluko with a cross.
Corner, Chelsea Ladies. Conceded by Rachael Laws.
Attempt saved. Francesca Kirby (Chelsea Ladies) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Karen Carney.
Ana Borges (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Beth Mead (Sunderland Ladies).
Attempt blocked. Katie Chapman (Chelsea Ladies) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Karen Carney with a cross.
Corner, Chelsea Ladies. Conceded by Hayley Sharp.
Attempt blocked. Drew Spence (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Bethany England.
Attempt saved. Katie Chapman (Chelsea Ladies) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Karen Carney with a cross.
Krystle Johnston (Sunderland Ladies) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ana Borges (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Krystle Johnston (Sunderland Ladies).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Chelsea Ladies. Bethany England replaces Gemma Davison.
Delay in match Rachel Furness (Sunderland Ladies) because of an injury.
Corner, Sunderland Ladies. Conceded by Katie Chapman.
Attempt blocked. Rachel Furness (Sunderland Ladies) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies).
Beth Mead (Sunderland Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Chelsea Ladies. Conceded by Victoria Williams.
Attempt blocked. Gemma Davison (Chelsea Ladies) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Eniola Aluko.
Rachel Furness (Sunderland Ladies) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ana Borges (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rachel Furness (Sunderland Ladies).
Attempt missed. Karen Carney (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Eniola Aluko.
Corner, Chelsea Ladies. Conceded by Rachael Laws.
Attempt saved. Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Francesca Kirby.
Substitution, Chelsea Ladies. Drew Spence replaces Ji So-Yun.
Attempt missed. Karen Carney (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Eniola Aluko.
Corner, Chelsea Ladies. Conceded by Rachael Laws.
Attempt saved. Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Ji So-Yun.
Substitution, Sunderland Ladies. Rachel Furness replaces Kelly McDougall.
Attempt missed. Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Gemma Davison.
Attempt missed. Ji So-Yun (Chelsea Ladies) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Francesca Kirby.
Offside, Chelsea Ladies. Francesca Kirby tries a through ball, but Hannah Blundell is caught offside.
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The bird is prized by hunters in the Middle East, who consider the bird's meat an aphrodisiac.
The Houbara, which is about the size of a chicken, once flourished on the Arabian peninsula but now faces a high risk of extinction.
The government had asked the court to review the ban, saying it harmed relations with Arab states.
The International Union of the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimates the global population of Houbara bustards at between 50,000 and 100,000 and includes it on its red list of threatened species.
Hunting of the birds is banned in Pakistan but the government has routinely issued special permits for Middle Eastern dignitaries, allowing them to hunt under certain conditions.
Last year, the supreme court ordered a total ban on hunting the birds, saying the government should enforce international conventions on conservation.
The government challenged the ban, arguing that wealthy hunters from Gulf states brought investment to under-developed areas in the hunting fields, and that the ban would affect Pakistan's relations with Middle Eastern countries.
The supreme court verdict, which it says will allow sustainable hunting of the bird, will come as a big relief to many officials and business owners, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan reports from Islamabad.
Middle Eastern countries are a major source of sovereign investment in Pakistan and they employ the bulk of Pakistan's overseas manpower, our correspondent adds.
Prior to last year's ban, the foreign ministry had issued permits which allowed foreign dignitaries to hunt in a designated area for up to 10 days and kill up to 100 bustards.
However, the IUCN says hunting parties often "vastly exceed" the quota of Houbara bustard they are allowed to kill. In 2014, it emerged that one Saudi prince had killed 2,100 bustards during a three-week hunting trip, sparking outrage.
Each year, several thousand Houbara bustards traverse a 2,000km (1,200 mile) migratory route from Central Asia to the southern deserts of Pakistan and Iran, and return with the onset of summer.
A new waste permit introduced on 1 July only allows those living in Reading, Wokingham and Bracknell to use waste centres in Reading and Bracknell.
Up to 10,847 visits were recorded in Reading during the first week of change - with 900 vehicles turned away.
In Bracknell, 272 vehicles were refused entry out of 12,343 visits.
Changes to visitor access were made after West Berkshire Council withdrew £97,000 from its funding for waste disposal in the towns in March.
The authority decided the costs to cover the 75,000 visits to the tip each year, made by people crossing the border into Reading, were "too high".
This led to the establishment of Re3 - the recycling company which provides waste services to Bracknell, Wokingham and Reading councils - to bar West Berkshire residents from using the tips from July.
Reading Borough Council's lead councillor for neighbourhoods, Liz Terry said: "We have been encouraged by the numbers of residents using the permits when visiting the Bracknell and Reading recycling centres.
"We understand the frustration sometimes experienced by those we have had to turn away, but we will always allow access to re3 area residents on receipt of a permit or valid ID, and visitors from other local authority areas can still use their own council's facilities to dispose of their household waste."
The man ended up in the water when a car and van collided near Swarkestone in Derbyshire on Wednesday afternoon.
The car plunged into the canal and its driver, described by police as an elderly woman, was pulled to safety by passers-by along with the pedestrian.
Police have not released any further details about the man's injuries but say he is critically ill.
The car driver was treated in hospital for minor injuries and has since been discharged. The van driver was unhurt.
Jane MacArthur, who lives nearby and witnessed the aftermath, said: "There were people running around on mobile phones, calling emergency services.
"There was a car in the canal and a gentleman just dove in and rescued the lady."
No arrests have been made. Police have appealed for witnesses.
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Vaughan Gething told BBC Wales that the NHS will have to confront "difficult challenges" within the first part of the assembly term.
Mr Gething said there were "big gains" to be made in quality, and that service change was not just about money.
An extra £240m was announced for the NHS in the Welsh budget last month.
Total Welsh Government spending is to rise by 2.7% to £14.95bn in 2017/18.
Ministers have faced opposition in previous years over proposals to change some NHS services - such as over the moving of maternity care from Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest to Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen.
On Wednesday, Mr Gething told The Wales Report on BBC One: "Local politicians often get dragged in to try to stand up for a service model that doesn't really deliver the sort of efficiency and quality that all of our citizens should be entitled to expect.
"That level of innovation and reform has to be delivered otherwise we don't get to the point we can make those really difficult choices, if we ever have to, about money driving different choices in health care.
"But we're not there yet."
When asked if "difficult, tough choices" would have to be made soon, Mr Gething said: "I'd prefer it to happen within this term."
He said he had been "really clear" with the health service about his expectations that "some of those difficult challenges are confronted and dealt within the first part of this term".
"That requires a conversation within and between clinicians and a conversation with the public about why services will change," he said.
"Because there's a really big gain to be made there, its not just about money. There's really big gains there in quality, outcomes and patient experience."
He said part of the challenge is "how we understand, in a hospital setting, does every hospital need to do what it does at the moment?"
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Mr Gething warned that discussions would have to be had over the "limits of the health service" if there was no change in position from the UK government on public finances.
"If we don't see a broader investment... then we could end up in a position where we have to have an incredibly difficult conversation about the limits of the health service and money being the driver, not simply about how we make best use of money", he said.
The Wales Report, BBC One Wales, 22:40 GMT, Wednesday 9 November
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That was the 20-year-old Victor Wanyama, from Nairobi in Kenya via Beerschot in Belgium, and the reaction to his arrival then pretty much mirrors the reaction now that Eboue has arrived from Krasnodar in Russia via Abidjan in Ivory Coast.
In the vacuum, there's a furious search for information about his back story, just as there was with Wanyama; a frantic retweeting of morsels of video, a mad hunt for players and managers who know anything about him and the life he leads.
We know the outline of Eboue's tale, but that's about it. He's only 19, has already nailed down a position as a central midfielder in what is currently Russia's fourth best team, has started six out of six Europa League ties this season, assisting in two goals, and has been picked in training squads for his country.
He hasn't yet been capped - and he won't be playing in the African Cup of Nations this month - but he's closing in on international recognition. Some say he's at his best as a defensive midfielder, others say that he is, or will be, good enough to play at a very high level as a holding midfielder or an attacking midfielder or a combination of both.
In November, he sat on the bench while the Ivory Coast played Paul Pogba's France in a friendly in Lens. For such a young player in such a new and exacting environment there is just one guarantee about his move to Glasgow - his pedigree is enough to quicken the pulse of any Celtic fan. A teenager with his kind of CV will have them dreaming of what might be in Europe in the coming seasons.
Eboue is a Champions League signing, a player tasked with the job of bringing more energy and physicality to the holding midfield role. That lack of intensity was glaringly obvious against Borussia Monchengladbach in Glasgow. The memory of it may have played on a loop in Brendan Rodgers' head these past few months.
More than any other, the one person who'll be looking over his shoulder at Eboue is Nir Bitton, who has slipped off the radar a little at Parkhead.
Bitton played in that Monchengladbach game and played again in the League Cup semi-final victory over Rangers at Hampden. He was taken off after an hour against Rangers and has only started once since then.
On his day, Bitton is still capable of excellence, but you wonder where he fits in now. Rodgers has Scott Brown, Callum McGregor and Eboue, if he lives up to his new manager's expectations, as his main midfield buffers. Bitton is behind them, seemingly drifting in importance.
There were times in Rodgers' recent career when supporters used to block their eyes when he was linked with a player, fearing another mishap in the market. Not any more, of course, but in the post-Luis Suarez era at Liverpool there were many headline failures.
Rodgers was mocked by many for his transfer activity, but it was a little overblown. His eye for a cheap and hugely effective player at Swansea was razor sharp and for all the duds recruited at Anfield there was serious quality brought in, too.
And it's still there.
Rodgers bought Philippe Coutinho for £8.5m. He's worth multiples of that now. He brought in James Milner for nothing and Milner has been exceptional. Adam Lallana, Daniel Sturridge, Nathaniel Clyne, Divock Origi, Roberto Firmino - all important players for Jurgen Klopp in Liverpool's assault on the Premiership title and all bought by Rodgers.
In the business of Eboue, Celtic fans will hang their hat on Rodgers' judgement - and it's understandable. Moussa Dembele's capture for £500,000 was a coup, nothing less. Scott Sinclair cost a lot more, but he's been reborn in Glasgow.
Rodgers' short time at Celtic Park has revealed an ability not just to find new players who make a difference in the first team - rather than clogging up the bench - and also to galvanise players that have been around a while. Brown is an example of that. James Forrest, to an extent, is, too. The ultimate illustration is Stuart Armstrong, who has gone from nervy cameos under Ronny Deila to dominant displays under Rodgers.
It's interesting, too, that Celtic, though bringing in Dembele and Sinclair and now Eboue, is maintaining, or increasing, its Scottishness.
The most highly-charged domestic fixture is the Old Firm game. Five Scots started in the most recent contest against Rangers (Craig Gordon, Brown, Armstrong, Forrest, McGregor and it would have been six had Kieran Tierney been fit), an increase on the four Scots that began the League Cup semi-final last April.
Five Scots in the starting line-up against their Ibrox rivals? It's only the second time it's happened since the spring of 2009. Rodgers might be spending some money on foreigners, but he's not diluting the impact of the homegrowns.
The combination is working nicely. Eboue now enters a happy and progressive set-up and in Dembele he can see the possibilities. Rodgers is about to give him a chance to make his mark. The rest is up to him.
MOTD2 pundit Danny Murphy expands on his TV analysis of how 10-man Manchester United almost rescued an unlikely derby draw against Manchester City, despite having Chris Smalling sent off before half-time.
City had been on top when it was 11 against 11 and, from their point of view, it was good to see that they maintained that level of pressure when Chris Smalling was sent off in the 39th minute.
Manuel Pellegrini's players could have been frustrated by the fact they were not awarded the penalties they should have been given with the score at 0-0.
Instead of feeling hard done by, they kept pressing forward.
They got their reward when Sergio Aguero put them ahead with a brilliant finish, but the momentum of the game turned with that goal, which came with just under half an hour to go.
The first part of what changed is fairly obvious: once United had fallen behind and knew they had nothing to lose, they attacked with greater numbers and greater intensity in search of an equaliser.
What you might not expect, especially with them playing against 10 men, is for City to do what they did next - which was to drop deeper and deeper rather than continue pushing forward in search of the second goal that it appeared they needed to be sure of victory.
Having been in the same position myself, I would suggest City's recent poor form might have had something to do with their caution, and the fact it was such a big game.
But knowing they had an extra man would have been irrelevant.
City just wanted to protect their lead even if, by doing so, they created some problems for themselves by allowing United a foothold in the match.
I always think that when you are a man up in games the hardest thing is maintaining the same intensity in terms of pressing for the ball.
When your team has an extra man, you automatically assume that you will have more possession, even though you still need to win it in the first place.
But it is easy for players to get in the mindset that they don't have to work as hard when it is 11 vs 10 as when it is 11 v 11.
What usually happens is that the team with 10 men starts working harder than they were, so you need to do the same.
It only takes one or two players to trigger that response and get everyone else chasing the ball again instead of just sitting back, but even then, by doing that, you think you are taking a risk.
By pressing high up the pitch, you are stopping attacks at their source but you are worried about the space you are leaving behind. It is hard to change that mentality, as City found out.
Even when they did have the ball, there were other reasons why they did not just bomb forward.
If they had committed more men up the pitch in search of a second goal and got caught on the counter then everybody, including their manager, would be asking what on earth they were doing - why not just keep the ball, keep their shape and make sure United can't score?
It is a balancing act but City probably just erred on the side of caution too much in the latter part of the game and gave United confidence.
As the game drew on, they got a bit panicky with their clearances and, instead of playing the ball out from the back, they went long early. Their nerves gave United more belief.
Another way City went wrong was with their substitutions.
Pellegrini brought on Edin Dzeko and Samir Nasri with 20 minutes left when he really needed an extra man in midfield to try to get some control back.
He did eventually make the correct change, and Fernandinho did well when he came on. But if he had been brought on 15 minutes earlier, it might have stemmed the momentum that United were building.
United also made the right change at the wrong time, because young James Wilson made a big difference when he replaced Robin van Persie up front eight minutes from time.
When you play one up front with 10 men, your striker has to be able to give you a get-out when you are under pressure, whether that is by running the channels or holding the ball up.
With Van Persie up front, they did not have that. He showed one bit of class in the game, with a nice turn in the corner and a shot that Joe Hart saved, but otherwise it was a difficult day for him.
He was isolated and did not have the athleticism to run the channels effectively, or the pace to out-run Vincent Kompany or even Martin Demichelis.
I was surprised Marouane Fellaini did not get put up there to have some battles with City's centre-halves but instead Louis van Gaal went for Wilson's pace, which stretched City and forced them even further back - maybe he should have made the change sooner.
United still had some defending to do of course, but the longer they hung in there with the score at 1-0, the more they would have believed they could still get something from the game.
That did not happen, but they can still take some encouragement, and not just from the grit and determination they showed.
Daley Blind was superb in United's midfield and showed a really calm head.
Another attribute you need when you are playing with 10 men is someone who is not worried about playing under pressure and Blind did that brilliantly at Etihad Stadium.
He did a great defensive job but rather than just whacking the ball out and clearing their lines until the next attack, he was trying to get them playing and taking a risk to try to build something for United to come forward.
The positives were all in the result for City. This is the start of a big week for them, and they will need a better performance to be sure of the victory they need against CSKA Moscow in the Champions League on Wednesday.
Just like in Russia a fortnight ago, they kept the ball poorly in the last 20 minutes against United and almost paid for it again.
I still think that is psychological, rather than down to any lack of ability. They were desperate for a win and now they have seen this game out, I would expect them to push on.
For that to happen, though, they need to keep Sergio Aguero fit.
He is the best striker in the Premier League and watching him against United made me think he could be the difference between them staying close to Chelsea at the top of the table, or not.
Aguero gives City amazing quality in the final third, which we saw all game.
For his goal, there was his movement away from Paddy McNair to find space and then a brilliant finish to what was a difficult chance on his weaker foot.
He should have had two penalties because of his quick feet and skill and, with his movement and energy, he was a focal point for everything City did and a constant threat.
Aguero has the ability to turn matches no matter how many players teams put behind the ball.
He was frustrated to come off, but Pellegrini was right to be thinking of the part he has to play in future games, starting with Moscow on Wednesday.
Danny Murphy was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Henson, 33, joined the Championship club in 2015 from Bath and is among five players to sign new deals.
The Wales international joins Chris Brooker in signing for another year. Ross McMillan, Jack Tovey and Jack Wallace have agreed two-year contracts
"As a senior member of the squad, Gavin has shown his dedicated professionalism since joining," director of rugby Andy Robinson told the club website.
"His displays on the field show he is still a Premiership performer."
Henson made his name at Swansea and then Ospreys, winning 33 caps for his country and the Grand Slam in 2005 and 2008.
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In a match delayed from Monday, the world number four beat Mannarino - who is ranked 51st in the world - 6-2 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 in two hours and 13 minutes.
The Serb appeared unhappy with the condition of Centre Court and also received treatment on his right shoulder during the match.
The 30-year-old will face Czech 11th seed Tomas Berdych in the last eight.
When asked about his shoulder, Djokovic told BBC Sport: "We'll see. It has something which has been dragging back and forth for a while, but I am still managing to play."
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The match was due to be played on Monday on Court One but was postponed following Rafa Nadal and Gilles Muller's four hour and 48 minute tie.
The decision to postpone the match until Tuesday, rather than play it on Centre Court after Roger Federer's victory on Monday over Grigor Dmitrov, was questioned by some, including Djokovic's wife Jelena.
There were early concerns over Mannarino's fitness, as the Frenchman looked to be struggling from the effects of playing two five-set matches on his way to the last 16.
He clutched at his hip as Djokovic broke in his first service game, and although he grew sufficiently into the match to save two set points, he was unable to prevent Djokovic taking the first set in 37 minutes.
A double fault from Djokovic and some loose play allowed the Frenchman to break in the second set and eventually force a tie-break, but the 12-time Grand Slam champion came through the extra points with ease.
However, there were some concerns for Djokovic, who twice requested attention from the doctor before calling a medical time-out in the final set.
He looked increasingly uncomfortable with his shoulder, flexing it after he double-faulted on match point, before eventually serving out the match to remain unbeaten on grass this year.
"I mentioned there is a hole in the middle of the court to the umpire and he asked me to show him, which I did at the end. He was not too pleased," Djokovic added.
"The courts are not that great this year, many players feel the same. I am sure the groundsmen are the best in the world, but grass is the most complex surface to maintain."
Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, of Enfield, called himself Comrade Bala and brainwashed his cult into thinking he had god-like powers.
Over 30 years he also raped two of his followers, Southwark Crown Court heard.
His daughter Katy Morgan-Davies said the situation was "horrible, so dehumanising and degrading".
Ms Morgan-Davies, 33, who has waived her right to anonymity, said: "I felt like a caged bird with clipped wings."
Balakrishnan was convicted of offences including child cruelty, false imprisonment and assault.
The court heard he established the Workers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought in the 1970s in south London and convinced his followers into thinking he could read their minds.
He warned them a supernatural force called Jackie would cause natural disasters if he was ever disobeyed.
Branding him a "narcissist and a psychopath", his daughter said: "The people he looked up to were people like Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein - you couldn't criticise them either in the house.
"They were his gods and his heroes. These were the sort of people he wanted to emulate."
During the trial she told the court she was beaten and banned from singing nursery rhymes, going to school or making friends.
And she said her father was using the sect as a "pilot unit" to learn how to control people before taking over the world.
She said: "I used to think 'God, if the whole world is going to be like this, what way out is there? How am I going to live? I cannot live in this.
"So I used to think that the best way would be to die."
Told she was a "waif", it was only when she was a teenager that she learned a follower of Balakrishnan, Sian Davies, then known as Comrade Sian, was her mother.
Ms Davies fell from a window at the cult's base on Christmas Eve in 1996 and died several months later in hospital
Ms Morgan-Davies said that night she heard screaming and shouting and saw her mother lying in a pool of blood below the bathroom window pleading with Balakrishnan to "kill me".
She said in the subsequent years she would dream of her mother and wake up crying.
Sentencing Balakrishnan, the judge said: "You decided to treat her as a project, not a person.
"You claimed to do it for her to protect her from the outside world, but you created a cruel environment."
Ms Morgan-Davies managed to escape the cult in 2013 after memorising the number for an anti-slavery charity she saw on the news.
She has since moved to Leeds and started an education and said: "I've been a non-person all my life and now is my chance to be myself."
During sentencing the judge recommended that £500 be given to the charity Palm Cove Society, which helped Balakrishnan's daughter escape.
It follows calls from Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens in response to the sexual assaults near the city centre.
The city's taxi association has rejected claims some drivers have previously refused short-distance fares.
A 40-year-old man remains in police custody and a man, 22, has been bailed.
In a joint statement, South Wales Police, Cardiff University, University of South Wales and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama said additional safety measures had been put in place following the attacks.
They said two additional buses staffed by police officers and police student volunteers had been provided as well as three buses which will will run into the night to provide students with safe transport back to their accommodation.
South Wales Police said it was continuing its high visibility patrols throughout the city centre and surrounding areas.
Meanwhile, Cardiff University and the college's students' union have been actively promoting their 'Safe Taxi Scheme' following the first of the three attacks carried out in the early hours of Sunday morning against a 20-year-old, close to the university's main building in the civic centre.
Another 20-year-old was attacked in Cathays Terrace on Tuesday and at about 04:30 BST on Thursday, a 19-year-old was targeted in Gorsedd Gardens.
"Our security team has been visiting student residences to discuss personal safety, while the Students' Union safe taxi scheme is now being extended to staff as well as students," explained the university's pro vice-chancellor, Prof Patricia Price.
"The scheme allows you to be safely picked up by Dragon Taxis anywhere in Cardiff and taken home even if you don't have cash at the time, provided you have your student or staff card."
Students who use the scheme can then reimburse the taxi fare through the students' union over the following days.
But Cardiff Central MP, Ms Stevens said she had written to local taxi firms after concerns were raised.
"A number of constituents have advised me that this is an issue for women travelling home from the city centre," she said.
Mathab Khan, the chair of the Cardiff Hackney Cabs Association, rejected the claim.
"That's not true at all," he insisted.
"Our advice to our drivers is to be as helpful as you possibly can, especially when it comes to lone female students, we say 'Please take them, they are vulnerable'."
Mr Khan said the only time a cab driver would refuse a fare was if the passenger was unfit to travel, due to excessive drink.
"99.9% of the taxi drivers in Cardiff are very helpful," he said.
A march is being held on Friday evening by Reclaim the Night, a group which campaigns against rape and all forms of male violence against women.
Students in Cardiff have been urged to stay in pairs on nights out, stay in well-lit areas, ensure someone knows where they are going, and to "be sensible".
Cardiff city council, which is responsible for licensing taxi drivers, said it was ready to act if fares are turned down.
A spokesperson for the council told BBC Wales: "What you need to do if you are overcharged or refused to be carried is to note the time, date, the driver's number and taxi number - all information that is on public display on the taxi - and then we can take action.
"It is a condition of their licence that they cannot refuse a fare."
Noone, 29, has made 170 appearances for the Bluebirds since joining from Brighton for £1m in 2012 but has recently struggled for a place.
Other clubs have already shown interest in the player, whose contract expires in 2018.
"Agents are talking to people etc but nothing has come up which has whetted our appetite," Warnock said.
"I think we're in a rush with that really, I think people like Craig Noone at the end of August is when others might have a look.
"I think he needs a move and I think he'll do well for the team he goes to, but I'm not in a rush. He doesn't cause me any problems, he's a good lad."
Noone scored twice for the club's under-23 side in their 5-1 win away at Hereford on Wednesday .
Cardiff slipped to their first pre-season defeat of the summer against Shrewsbury on Tuesday evening, a 2-1 reverse which Warnock said did not concern him.
Afterwards he reaffirmed that striker Kenneth Zohore is not for sale.
Earlier in the month Warnock claimed the Denmark international would not leave the club this summer "unless I have a heart attack and another manager takes over".
He added: "I expect 20 goals from Kenneth this season."
Cardiff's next friendly match is against Livingstone Athletic on Friday, 28 July.
You look at your phone but the number is not in your contact list. So is it important enough to run out of the room with your phone held half-up in signal to the others that this is a call too important to miss?
Truecaller may be able to help with that.
"If you download Truecaller you will never have to worry about saving contacts to your phone book, everything will be in the cloud." says Alan Mamedi, chief executive and co-founder of Truecaller.
He recalls his own phonecall-in-a-meeting dilemma as being his motivation to help create the app, which he believes could be on every smartphone across the globe.
"If you receive a call from a number you don't have we'll show that information, if there is a sales call coming in we will warn you about that.
"Or if you just want to make an outbound call in a much better way; by knowing if your friend is available or your friend is on a phone call then you can use Truecaller."
Truecaller uses a database of more than two billion phone numbers to tell you who is phoning you.
On certain smartphone operating systems it will show that person's name, where they are from, and in many cases even display their picture.
It then uses crowd-sourced information to recognise nuisance calls and prevent them ever taking a second more of your time.
"In the UK or US every sixth call would be a spam caller," says Nami Zarringhalam, co-founder of Truecaller.
"People in general get more spam calls than they receive calls from family members. So this is a big issue we're pinpointing and providing a solution for."
Alan Mamedi, goes on to explain how the data is collected: "If you receive a call from a number and we can't detect it, then you, as a user, can actually add that information.
"But we also partner with different data providers to fill in the empty gaps".
However according to Nishanth Sastry, senior lecturer in the centre for telecommunications research at King's College, London, it's this aspect of the company that is open to scrutiny.
If a phone user shares the names and numbers in their contacts book with an app, that then relays those details to the world, it's not that phone user's information to share, he says.
"It's not their own information they are sharing, it is their friends' information they are sharing.
"And they are sharing this information with people that they don't know. That's a privacy issue for friends - who have never seen the terms and conditions of Truecaller."
Alan Mamedi, doesn't believe this to be an issue: "We made it super easy for anyone to un-list their number on our website, we don't require any verification or such.
"This has been the case since day one. It's part of our philosophy that it should be super simple to just un-list your number.
"You just go on our website and then it's gone forever."
Now Alan, Nami and their team occupy a series of plush offices. It's a long way from where they first began back in 2009.
"We were sitting in my one room apartment, which was basically just my kitchen and bedroom in the same room," says Nami.
"We started to build Truecaller with servers that we had bought, building an application for our own mobile phones."
They then decided to release it and within the first week say they had 10,000 new users.
"We decided to start a company and so resigned from our full-time jobs," says Alan. "Since then we've grown really, really fast.
"We have 200 million users globally. Just last year we went from 100 million users to 200 million. We've definitely seen an exponential growth globally, especially in the emerging markets."
Truecaller, he says, also has a few, less obvious uses.
"One of the cases we've seen in India is women who before they jump in a cab actually verify the cab driver who is calling them.
"We with some confidence can say, hey this is a cab driver who's calling you. Or even say if you have friends in common with this cab driver - and that adds a safety layer which we never thought about in the past."
Despite adding 63 new users a minute on average since its creation in 2009, Alan has even bigger ambitions.
"The number one app that people are using everyday is your phone app and no one has innovated in that space.
"Truecaller is changing that. It's making your phone experience more trusted and safer, but also more delightful.
"Our aim is to make a great product that everyone will adopt and have it on every single smartphone across the globe."
Barack Obama's social media strategy in 2012 was hailed a success and Hilary Clinton announced her bid for the US presidency amid online fanfare.
But how effectively is Welsh politics harnessing digital power?
Expert Paul Shepherd described social media campaigning by the major Welsh political parties as "primitive".
"It's active, engaging in places, but there is so much more that could be done by analysing social media data and reacting to the wealth of information held within," said Mr Shepherd, chief executive of social media agency, Coup Media.
He said it reflected most of the digital campaigning across the UK, adding: "It's disappointing because the tools and skill sets are now available to really drill down into what people think and react accordingly."
Plaid Cymru has garnered 16,400 Twitter followers and 15,244 "likes" on Facebook - the most received by any Welsh party.
Mr Shepherd, whose company has offices in Newport and London, said the party had partly taken "the humorous route".
One of its promotional videos, which has been viewed more than 6,000 times, begins with a young man confessing to his parents he has a personal secret.
"There is something I need to tell you," he says, adding after a strained pause: "I'm voting Plaid".
Figures uncovered earlier this year showed the Conservatives were spending £100,000 a month on Facebook across the UK.
Mr Shepherd said the Welsh Conservatives had been tactically "good" at breaking down video content by topic, such as those on the NHS and the Budget.
However, he said the execution was "poor".
The party has 1,598 Twitter followers and more than 5,500 Facebook "likes".
Welsh Labour's Twitter account, which has 6,350 followers, was "extremely active" with a large number of responses to its posts, including celebrity endorsements from the likes of Eddie Izzard, Mr Shepherd observed.
Its Facebook page has 1,482 "likes".
However, a Labour advert starring The Hobbit actor, Martin Freeman, had an "unexpectedly" low amount of views on the Welsh Labour YouTube channel.
Welsh Liberal Democrats has 4,064 Twitter followers and more than 2,000 Facebook "likes".
The party's promotional video on YouTube depicts leader, Kirsty Williams, addressing the camera, intercut with supporters giving positive comments from their doorsteps.
Mr Shepherd said the party's Twitter feed was not as active as others but its Facebook page had a better mix of "pushing policy and attacking other parties".
The Green party's Twitter account, which has 2,787 followers, is a "lot less confrontational" than its rivals and more focused on itself, he added.
But its engagement was slightly lower, "with re-tweets and 'Favourites' not as high as some of the other parties".
Mr Shepherd noted that the UK Independence Party's twitter account, which has under 600 followers, used "a lot" of re-tweets.
He said this suggested the party was "curating rather than creating content", which could signify "a lack of confidence in policy or just lazy Twitter strategy".
Mr Shepherd urged the parties to pay more attention to the way the public interacted with their online content.
"It's all a huge source of intelligence that, when treated correctly, can give you the insights that will give the edge over the competition," he added.
"It also shows the electorate that you're doing the most important thing - listening."
Elizabeth Linder, politics and government specialist of Facebook UK, said last month social media would be "absolutely at the heart" of political campaigning across the UK.
His son-in-law, William Mollett, confirmed the news in a statement to the BBC.
The Trumptonshire Trilogy - Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley - were shown weekly by the corporation from 1966 for 20 years.
The programmes were later repeated by Channel 4 and then Nickelodeon Junior.
Camberwick Green, which was made using stop-motion animation, was the first children's show to be aired in colour on the BBC in 1966.
Murray was born in London on 3 May 1921 - the youngest of four children.
He attended Emanuel School, where he studied Classics - but later gave up Latin and Greek, after which he spent most of his time in the art and drama departments.
Mr Mollett told the BBC that Murray enjoyed going to the Victoria Palace Theatre with his father as a child to see variety shows - and particularly liked the marionettes.
Murray was nine years old when his father died in 1930.
After leaving school, he started working as a journalist and joined the Territorial Army. In 1939 he was enlisted in the London Scottish Regiment.
Having been commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals, Murray took part in the Normandy landings as a platoon commander, landing on Gold Beach.
After the war, he worked as an actor in repertory theatre, and appeared in Shakespeare plays and Peter Pan - where he met his wife, ballet dancer Enid Martin.
In the 1950s, Murray established a puppet company touring theatres in the UK, when he was scouted by BBC producer Freda Lingstrom.
He went on to produce several successful marionette shows for children's television including Hans Christian Anderson's The Nightingale and 33 episodes of The Rubovia Legends.
His first television credit was in 1954 as a puppeteer on Bengo - a children's programme about the adventures of a boxer puppy.
Murray had the opportunity to become the BBC's head of children's programmes, but chose instead to form his own production company - where he created the Trumptonshire trilogy.
Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley were created using stop motion animation and actual 3D scaled down models.
The characters were eight inches tall, with heads made out of ping-pong balls and clothes out of foam latex.
There were 39 short episodes across the trilogy - all of which were first broadcast on BBC One, airing before the midday news.
The programmes were digitally restored and re-released in 2011, after the original footage was found in the family's attic and in the BBC archives.
In recent years he lived with his family near Stamford and is survived by his daughters Emma and Rose and his four grandchildren.
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The People's Supreme Court ruled a Chinese sportswear company must stop using the characters for Jordan's name, read as Qiaodan in Chinese.
Qiaodan Sports registered the name more than a decade ago but Jordan's lawyers said it built its business around his Chinese name without his permission.
Jordan has welcomed the decision which overturns previous rulings against him.
"I am happy that the Supreme People's Court has recognized the right to protect my name through its ruling in the trademark cases," he said in a statement sent to the BBC.
"Chinese consumers deserve to know that Qiaodan Sports and its products have no connection to me."
"Nothing is more important than protecting your own name, and today's decision shows the importance of that principle."
The basketball star first started legal action against Qiaodan Sports in 2012.
His team argued that Qiaodan's trademarks had damaged his legal rights to use his name and asked the court to invalidate more than 60 trademarks used by the company.
The court agreed Qiaodan Sports had violated trademark law and its registration of the name should be revoked.
But his win is only a partial victory.
While the company cannot use Jordan's Chinese name, the court upheld a ruling allowing it to use the Romanized version of Qiaodan, pronounced "Chee-ow-dahn."
A Shanghai court is yet to hear a separate naming rights case.
"War is always more costly than peace," he said in an interview with the BBC.
Mr Santos and Farc leader Timoleon Jimenez, known as Timochenko, will sign a historic peace deal later on Monday.
But it will take a long time for Colombian society to recover from more than five decades of conflict, he said.
The Farc will be relaunched as a political party as part of the deal, which is due to be put to Colombian voters in a popular vote on 2 October.
"We could have grown between 2% and 3% more per year for the past 23 years," Mr Santos told the BBC's Lyse Doucet, adding that the conflict had also had a profound impact on Colombian society.
"We have even lost our compassion, which is the ability to feel some kind of pain for others.
"A country at war for 50 years is a country that has destroyed many of its values," said President Santos.
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Colombia's peace deal makes history in many ways, most of all for ending the last of the Cold War conflicts. But it also breaks new ground in trying to balance the desire for peace with the demands of justice which bedevil all peace talks.
There's no amnesty, unlike all previous peace accords in the region. The Farc, as well as Colombia's security forces, have accepted special tribunals and a truth and reconciliation process.
Many of the victims of the Farc's brutality have been brought into the process. If polls are to be believed, a majority will vote to accept this deal. But I kept meeting people in Bogota and Cartagena who said they would vote no.
Fifty years of war also means decades of hatred and mistrust. Many doubt that the Farc will give up all its lucrative criminal activities. Will this deal also make history in being a peace deal which doesn't fall apart?
The peace agreement was sealed last month after nearly four years of talks, which were held in the Cuban capital, Havana.
A bilateral ceasefire came into force five days later, effectively ending the conflict.
Senior members of the Farc (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) voted unanimously to ratify the deal on the last day of their conference on Friday.
The 52-year conflict has led to the deaths of an estimated 260,000 people with more than six million people internally displaced.
"The signature of the deal is simply the end of the conflict. Then the hard work starts: reconstructing our country," President Santos said.
The Farc now has 180 days to disarm and move its estimated 7,500 fighters into disarmament zones set up by the UN.
An amnesty will be granted for "political crimes" but this does not cover massacres, torture or rape.
The Farc has already agreed to stop drug production in areas under its control and the government has pledged to help farmers earn a living without growing illicit crops.
The Farc will become a political party, allocated 10 seats in the 268-member Congress.
Once the deal is signed EU sanctions against the group are expected to be suspended, the bloc's ambassador in Bogota said. They could be permanently removed from the EU's list of terror organisations after six months have elapsed, according to EU officials.
Both sides have pledged to provide land, loans and basic services to impoverished rural areas.
Mr Santos says the deal with the Farc was fair and that it made those who committed war crimes accountable.
Mr Santos and Farc leader Timoleon Jimenez will sign the historic peace deal at a ceremony in the port city of Cartagena on Monday evening.
The document will be signed using a Baligrafo - a bullet turned into a pen - as a symbol of a peaceful future.
Some 2,500 attendees are expected, among them UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, US Secretary of State John Kerry and several Latin American leaders including Cuba's Raul Castro.
Victims of the conflict will also be present.
Mr Santos said he was "very, very confident" that most Colombians would vote in favour of the deal.
"The latest polls say that between 65% and 70% of the people approve of the peace process," he said
But he warned that if the agreement was rejected in the popular vote, the conflict would start again.
"We will go back six years and continue the war with the Farc. That's plan B," he said.
Colombia's second largest rebel group, the ELN (National Liberation Army), announced on Sunday a unilateral ceasefire until the referendum.
ELN leaders have publicly expressed their wish to engage in their own peace process with the Colombian government.
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 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: Definitive ceasefire
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Eliza Wasni, 16, appeared in court on Wednesday, the day after Grant Nelson was found in a pool of his own blood outside an apartment building.
The Uber driver was attacked minutes after he had picked Ms Wasni up from a Walmart store, prosecutors said.
He managed to escape, but died later in hospital after undergoing surgery.
Ms Wasni, who has been charged as an adult, tried to flee in his blood-covered car but crashed, and continued on foot, wearing just her bra and leggings.
She was found hiding near an air-conditioning unit, still clinging to the machete and knife - which she only dropped after being Tasered.
Ms Wasni had called for an Uber to pick her up from the store in Skokie, north of Chicago, at about 03:00 local time (08:00 GMT), despite not being old enough to use the service.
She was also accused of stealing the weapons from the store.
Assistant state attorney Michelle Cunningham told reporters Mr Nelson, 34, had been able to give a description of his attackers to police after they found him "laying in the grass, bleeding from multiple deep stab and hacking wounds to his arms, side, head and chest".
Judge Michael Hood called the crime "extremely violent", according to the Chicago Tribune, and ordered Ms Wasni to be held without bail.
According to a Reuters report, Blackberry's management is considering taking the company private, which means buying out existing shareholders.
Going private would allow the company to reorganise its business without the pressure of shareholder scrutiny.
Blackberry has been losing money after failing to keep up with its rivals.
Last month the company's chief executive said that Blackberry was on the right and track, but needed more time to fix its problems.
If Blackberry decided to go private it would have to find partners who could raise the billions of dollars need to buy out existing shareholders.
That could prove difficult as the company has been struggling.
In its most recent quarter, Blackberry lost $84m (£54m) and expects to lose more money in the three months to the end of August.
Blackberry launched two all-new smartphones this year, the touchscreen Z10 device, followed by the Q10, with a mini keyboard favoured by many Blackberry users.
But some analysts have been disappointed by the sales of Blackberry's new phones.
Blackberry's managers will have noted the experience of computer maker Dell.
Founder Michael Dell is trying to buy out shareholders to help reorganise the firm.
But the plan resulted in a painful struggle with some shareholders accusing him and his partners of undervaluing their shares.
Let's start with the biggie - is there a Brexit effect that is frightening workers off from the British economy?
Anecdotally, many of us who report on this field have picked up these stories. I spoke to a lot of Eastern European workers around the time of the general election who were rather nervous but somewhat resigned to Brexit. But not many of them suggested to me they were going to get on the first budget flight back home.
But today's data gives us a really good glimpse into the thousands of individual decisions that ordinary people make about their future.
Net migration - that's the difference between the number of immigrants coming in for a year or more and the number of people who emigrate - has fallen substantially since the referendum. In March 2016, weeks out from the vote, it stood at almost 330,000.
Today it is 81,000 down at 246,000 people - the lowest it has been for three years.
The estimates from the Office for National Statistics show that two-thirds of this fall in net migration is accounted for by changes in EU migration, and particularly by citizens of Eastern and Central Europe.
In the year to the end of March, fewer EU nationals arrived to live in the UK than in the previous 12 months - and there was an acceleration in the numbers leaving.
81,000
decrease in net migration
246,000
net migration to the UK, lowest figure for three years
Net EU migration fell by 51,000
'EU8' emigration rose by 17,000
When you look at the figures for the 10 nations of Eastern and Central Europe, we can see that 62,000 of their citizens said "do widzenia" ("goodbye") to the UK while 26,000 fewer of them arrived.
When you drill down further, net migration from the A8 nations (Poland and others which joined the EU in 2004) has dropped very sharply. In the year to March 2016, 39,000 more of these citizens arrived than left. In the year to March 2017, that had crashed to just 7,000.
Interestingly, notes Prof Jonathan Portes of King's College London, these figures show, for the first time, a stabilising of arrivals from the eight Eastern European nations - and that suggests they no longer regard the UK as as attractive as it once was.
"Net migration from the A8 countries, which joined the EU in 2004, is now statistically insignificant for the first time since then," he says.
"Moreover, figures for National Insurance registrations, which measure new arrivals registering to work, also fell, with the number of EU nationals registering in April to June falling more than 12% on the same period a year earlier.
"These statistics confirm that Brexit is having a significant impact on migration flows, even before we have left the EU or any changes are made to law or policy."
For its part, the ONS is cautioning that it's too early to say this is a long-term trend. So are there other factors beyond a suspected Brexit effect?
Since the Brexit referendum, the falls in the pound on currency markets mean that money made in the UK buys less back home.
This is really important for workers who are sending cash back to their families - and a decisive factor in decisions to move all around the world.
Last June, the pound bought almost 6 Polish zlotys. Today, it buys only 4.6 zlotys.
What's more, when people choose to move to another country, they're not just looking at the circumstances there, but, fairly obviously, at the conditions at home.
And there is no doubt that for some EU workers, coming to the UK isn't the slam-dunk deal it once was.
The Polish economy, for example, has one of the strongest growth rates in the EU and its government is lobbying workers to stay at home, rather than take their skills elsewhere.
Whatever the precise factors, the government will want to present all this as a victory for its strategy and progress towards its net migration target.
And while campaigners for falls will be buoyed by the statistics - some are urging caution.
"This is a step forward but it is largely good fortune," says Lord Green, chairman of Migrationwatch UK.
"It is mainly due to a reduction in the huge net inflow of East Europeans from 100,000 to 50,000. This should not obscure the fact that migration remains at an unacceptable level of a quarter of a million a year with massive implications for the scale and nature of our society."
That's a pointer to the scale of the challenge ministers still face, if they are determined to stick to their target. Net migration from the rest of the world still stands at 180,000 people a year - and that is the one part of policy that the UK can currently completely control.
The August figures have also revealed some fascinating truths about migration, and people's intentions, that until now have been subjected to myth, fears and an awful lot of speculation - do people leave the UK when they should?
Well, we don't really know - or at least we didn't until now. The ONS uses a large rolling survey at ports to estimate immigration and emigration - but it's only as good as a survey can be - it has limitations.
Now, we have "exit checks" data - figures derived from the scans of passports and so on as people leave the UK at our ports.
And the figures from the Home Office show, for the first time, that the vast majority of visitors to the UK who require a visa leave the UK when they should.
Some 1.34 million visas granted to non-EEA nationals expired in 2016-17. Of those people who had not already secured a legal reason to stay on, 96.3% departed in time. A further 0.4% left after their visa expired. It's not quite clear what happened to the remaining 3.3%.
So, of all those visas, around 40,000 overstayed.
And what's even more interesting are the figures around students. International students have been a hot topic in the migration debate with some claiming that they habitually overstay their visas. Some of the predictions for student over-stayers have been enormous.
The exit check data shows the rate of compliance - those who play by the rules - was 97.4%. And that suggests that assumptions about mass overstaying are either simply wrong or, alternatively, a thing of the past after a crackdown on bogus colleges.
Their study showed 90% of growth in higher education places for disadvantaged students came from colleges, not universities.
The Sutton Trust said its findings showed a "shocking access gap".
The Scottish government said university access for students from poorer areas was up by 29% since it came to power.
In England, those from the poorest neighbourhoods are 2.4 times less likely to attend university than people in the richest areas.
Those in Northern Ireland and Wales are three times less likely to do so.
The Sutton Trust is now calling for the urgent appointment of a new independent commissioner for fair access to tackle the problem.
Trust chairman Sir Peter Lampl said: "Scotland faces a shocking access gap and it is vital that the government appoints a strong independent commissioner without delay.
"There is good practice in Scottish universities on access, but we need a really strong push if talent is not to be wasted."
Analysts found, over the past decade, Scots were more likely than their English counterparts to enter higher education.
But they are less likely to go straight to university, and half who go via college repeat at least one year.
In 2013-14, 55% of Scots entered higher education by the age of 30, 34.1% straight from school and 20.9% going to college first.
In England, 46.6% entered higher education, with just 6% starting at colleges and other non-university providers.
It was, said Alex Salmond, as he unveiled a stone monument at Heriot-Watt University, his administration's "biggest achievement".
The abolition of tuition fees certainly set Scotland on a different path, and the monument has locked the SNP into its flagship policy.
There's no doubt it has saved hundreds of thousands of students from repaying debts out of their graduate salaries.
But, as a detailed analysis published today shows, there is little evidence it has propelled many more working class Scottish students into university.
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Prof Sheila Riddell, who led the study, said it highlighted the "over-reliance on the Scottish college sector to increase participation rates overall" and the failure of Scottish university places to keep up with increasing demand.
She said: "Despite free tuition, the Scottish university sector has much work to do in order to realise the goal of fair access."
Education Secretary John Swinney told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: "What's happened over the last nine years is that there has been a 29% increase in people from the most deprived areas in Scotland going into higher education.
"The report does talk, of course, about the gap in participation from young people from the most and least deprived areas accessing higher education, but it also makes the point that the gap in Scotland has closed more quickly than it has in other parts of the United Kingdom.
"I would be the first to acknowledge that there is more that we have to do to improve access to higher education in Scotland and that is exactly what the government is committed to do, but we have made important progress in the last nine years."
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A Scottish government spokesman said some of the findings in the report were "based on misconceptions that do not accurately reflect the position" north of the border.
He said the report failed to take account of the fact that a significant proportion of higher education in Scotland takes place in colleges.
"When participation in college is factored in, the Scottish higher education participation rate is significantly higher than in England," he added.
Scottish Conservative education spokeswoman Liz Smith said the "limited progress" in Scotland partly reflected lower bursaries.
She said: "These are matters for the SNP to address urgently, most especially in light of its policy to force universities to take 20% of their intake from disadvantaged communities by 2030, and because of recent reports which shine a light on the dangers of Scottish universities lagging behind in the finance that needs to underpin cutting edge research and innovation."
Scottish Labour education spokesman Iain Gray said the report "shows definitively that Scotland lags behind the rest of the UK when it comes to university access for students from poorer families".
He added: "The SNP record on colleges - 152,000 fewer college students, poor student support and botched mergers which staff say has done nothing to improve teaching - is letting down many of the poorest students who can get into higher education."
Susan Stewart, the director of the Open University in Scotland, said discussions about access to higher education should not be limited to school-leavers.
"Part-time study is ideal for people who have families or other caring responsibilities, who are in work but on lower incomes, or who have a disability, and means that they don't miss on the benefits that higher education has to offer. We can't widen access with a narrow focus," she said.
EIS general secretary Larry Flanagan said: "Scotland has a strong education system at school, college and university level but it is a sad truth that the greatest barriers to young people maximising their educational potential continue to be poverty and low family income.
"Whilst a significant amount of access to higher education is provided by colleges, which is a positive, Scottish universities need to do more to widen access to young people of all backgrounds."
The plan for the state-owned giant would be one of Japan's largest public share sales in more than 30 years.
The share sale is aimed at boosting Japan's economy and stock markets.
The country's economy shrank in the second quarter of the year - a setback for the government's reform policy.
"We are hopeful it will lead to a virtuous economic cycle," a senior government official said.
Chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga said the share offering would encourage a shift of savings out of bank deposits and into the stock market.
Earlier this month, Japan said its economy contracted by 0.3% in the three months to June, compared with original calculations of a 0.4% contraction.
The revision beat market expectations, which were for a contraction of 0.5%, but analysts said it had not eased concerns about the state of the economy.
Lagging exports and sluggish consumer spending were the biggest contributors to the drop in growth. Consumer spending makes up some 60% of Japan's economy.
About 80% of the shares in Japan Post Holdings would go to domestic investors, reports said.
Japan Post is headed up by Toru Takahashi, employs some 195,000 people, and has 24,000 post offices.
It also controls the country's largest bank, Japan Post Bank, and Japan Post Insurance, the biggest insurer.
In February, the Japanese giant announced a $5.1bn offer for Australia's Toll Holdings, the largest transport and logistics company in the Asia-Pacific region.
The deal, which went through for $4.6bn in May, has helped Japan Post become a leading global logistics player.
The Japan Post triple market debut, including its bank and insurance arms, is expected to occur in early November.
Anton Levin, from Dagenham, was stabbed at a house in St Anns Road, Southend on 19 November 2014.
Abdulfatah Suleiman, 28, was arrested in Norway and extradited back to the UK where he was convicted by a jury at Chelmsford Crown Court.
Three others were convicted for their parts in Mr Levin's death in June.
Danielle Russell, 27, from Southend, and two teenage boys were found guilty of manslaughter, conspiracy to commit GBH on another man and conspiracy to commit robbery.
Russell was jailed for 11 years, and the teenagers, who can't be named for legal reasons, to ten years, four months with a five-year extended licence.
Investigating officer Det Con Jo Cane said Suleiman had "stabbed Anton Levin and then fled the country".
A warrant was issued for his arrest and on 19 June he was arrested in Norway and extradited back to the UK.
"While the other defendants had been found guilty of manslaughter the person who actually stabbed Anton had evaded capture," Det Con Cane said. "Now his trial has been completed. the verdict cannot bring Anton back, but gives closure enabling the family to grieve for their losses knowing that he will be jailed alongside the others also found guilty."
Suleiman is due to be sentenced in March.
Greek side Olympiakos have dismissed former Portugal coach Paulo Bento, despite leading the Superleague by seven points.
Bento's sacking after seven months in the job, came after Olympiakos' third straight league defeat on Sunday opened the door for second-placed Panionios, who have a game in hand.
The 47-year-old was Olympiakos' second manager this season. Victor Sanchez was sacked in August after two games and less than two months in charge, following the club's exit from the Champions League in the third qualifying round.
Bento, who led his country at the 2014 World Cup, lost four out of 23 league matches.
But winning the league is what is expected at Olympiakos - they have been champions in all but two seasons since 2000.
Bento leaves a team still in the hunt for three trophies. They have a last-16 tie against Turkish side Besiktas in the Europa League and are also in the Greek Cup semi-finals.
The opening party for the Dandy Diner created a big buzz on social media.
The Dandy Diary blog on Facebook said "police closed us down" - and added an expletive. The bloggers are regarded as male fashion trendsetters.
Police said about 300 people thronged the new diner and hundreds more were waiting outside on Saturday night.
Germany's Der Tagesspiegel daily says restaurant openings like that organised by the Dandy Diner entrepreneurs - Jakob Haupt and David Roth - "have rarely drawn such a big crowd" in Berlin.
The crowd spilled a long way down Karl Marx Strasse, in Berlin's Neukoelln district.
The crash happened just before 10:00 BST close to junction 13 for Stroud.
Five adults and one child were injured, a South West Ambulance Service spokesman said. All of them were said to have minor injuries.
Police said seatbelts on the coach may have helped reduce the number of casualties.
The injured child was taken to Bristol Children's Hospital, the adults to Southmead Hospital.
The coach driver had a suspected back injury.
The Confederation of Passenger Transport said it had been told three of the six people taken to hospital had been discharged.
The M5 fully reopened at about 15.30 BST, five and a half hours after the coach overturned.
Ch Insp Yan Georgiou from Gloucestershire Police said collision experts were investigating the circumstances.
"What's remarkable is the number of casualties and a really important safety message is starting to emerge.
"The passengers were wearing seat belts, without them this could have been a very different picture," he said.
The coach was operated by Stourbridge-based Prospect Coaches and was taking the group to Weston-super-Mare.
The Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT), which represents operators of UK buses, said it understood it was one of four coaches making the same journey.
Passengers were collected from a children's centre in West Bromwich at 08:30 BST.
A spokesperson from the charity Action for Children, which chartered the coach, said: "I can confirm that a road accident involving children and staff from an Action for Children service in Sandwell has taken place in Stroud.
"Until the full facts are known I cannot comment further."
No other vehicles were involved in the crash.
It is not their first face off but is likely to be by far the most closely contested.
But to what extent will voters pay attention to the religion of the candidates?
"If the Christian leader does not have what it takes to provide good leadership I will not vote for him merely because he is a Christian," says Arome Okwori at his home in Jos where the Christmas decorations still twinkle.
"However, I will make a choice between that Christian leader and a Muslim leader who may not guarantee freedom of religion… so to that extent I may lean to the Christian leader but that is not how it should be," the father of two young children adds.
He says he knows many other Christians who fear that Mr Buhari has a hard-line Islamist agenda and wants stricter implementation of Sharia - Islamic law is already in place across the north.
"Gen Buhari believes in the secular nature of Nigeria," says Lai Mohammed, a spokesman for his All Progressive Congress (APC) party.
"He is not a religious bigot. He is not a fundamentalist. That is mischievous talk."
There are Nigerians, and by no means only Muslims, who say President Jonathan is too close to some of the hugely popular "super pastors" who have grown rich from their Pentecostal churches.
Nigerians are notoriously religious and the voting patterns will once again no doubt look very different in the predominantly Muslim north compared to some areas in the south where more Christians live.
"You can never divorce the religious sentiment from a typical Nigerian," says Khadijah Hawaja Gambo, a white veil framing her face.
"But the way things are going people are beginning to downplay the role of religion in deciding who you vote. I hear people talking a lot about credibility," she says.
The Muslim mother of six adds that she wants a leader who can end the insecurity in Nigeria and "take the country back to where it used to be with people co-existing peacefully, not the kind of Nigeria we are seeing today".
Jos is in a way a microcosm of the whole nation, straddling the north and south.
It is religiously mixed and in some ways divided along those lines.
There are parts of the city where the influence of Islam is visible and audible - with calls to prayer from the mosques as veiled school children head home.
Other areas are dotted with signs for "The Blessed Hair Salon" and churches of all shapes and sizes whilst you will see fewer hijabs and more jeans on the streets.
The danger comes when religion is mixed with politics. It is worth remembering 800 people died in northern Nigeria during clashes after Mr Buhari's loss in the 2011 election.
"Religion by its very nature and content appeals not so much to reason. It's a heart matter and carries with it huge emotions," says Archbishop Benjamin Kwashi, who has played a key role diffusing religious tension in Jos.
"When religions like Christianity and Islam have a huge following of hungry not very educated people on both sides then politicians will explore the areas of religion to get them on their sides. That's a very dangerous and bad thing to do. It's not fair and it's not right," the Anglican archbishop of Jos says.
The whole of Plateau state has tasted the combustible consequences when politicians focus on faith.
Deadly clashes have erupted since 2001 and have been rooted in disputes over access to land, power and jobs between the so-called "indigenes" who happen to be mostly Christian and "settlers" who are largely Muslim.
Religion is not the primary trigger but politicians have used it for their own gain.
"There was never a time in the history of Plateau or anywhere in Nigeria where a Christian stopped a bus to find out if the driver was a Muslim before boarding or saying you want to know whether the maker of the cloth in a market is a Muslim or Christian," says security analyst Abdullahi Bawa, who feels some politicians are better off if they do not have to campaign on real issues.
"It is their own kind of local divide and rule. By the time they discover people will unanimously stand together for the good of all, the politicians will go and use the sentiment of tribe, region or religion."
"Once the people are divided the politicians will have a good ride while the greater majority will be wallowing in depravation," says Mr Bawa, who is also executive research associate of Network For Justice.
He says people have now come to understand the game the politicians play and this is why there is now more peace on the Plateau.
As some voters look at the religion of the candidates as they try to make up their minds, they may come across politicians of any faith who are willing to thank them in advance for their vote with a gift.
"Money and religion in politics, they go together," Archbishop Kwashi says.
"When you find unscrupulous politicians who are just desperate for an office - not for what they will do for people they just want the office for what they can get for themselves - to retain the office at all costs they will use anything.
"They will use money and the religious sentiments to do that."
It is the desperation of the politicians and their parties which raises the stakes and tension.
There will be plenty of prayers for peace in Nigeria's mosques and churches.
But it will largely be up to the politicians to reduce the tension and ensure there is harmony across the religious divide of this diverse nation.
Many voters dream of a day when the electorate is better educated and can see beyond the tricks of the candidates.
"I am hoping we will get to a stage where these differences that politicians easily manipulate that are not relevant to the quality of leadership will become less and less important," says Mr Okwori, the Chrisian lawyer in Jos.
"Then we can look at people on the strength of their policies and the quality they can provide.
"If you are well informed you know about issues that are much more important than 'my man (from my own religion) is there.'"
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Thomas had broken away earlier on the final lap, and had enough time in hand to change the wheel and resume his victory charge with a 20-second lead.
The 28-year-old then powered clear once more to win in pouring rain in Glasgow.
New Zealand's Jack Bauer edged out Scott Thwaites of England on the line to claim the silver medal.
Thomas becomes the first man from Wales to win a Commonwealth Games cycling gold medal, although Louise Jones and Nicole Cooke won golds in 1990 and 2002 respectively.
The Isle of Man's Peter Kennaugh led from the start but was reeled in with just under 50km of the 168km race to go.
Thomas, who won bronze in the time trial earlier in the Games, just four days after completing this year's Tour de France for Team Sky, described his victory as "unbelievable".
"I never expected it," Thomas told BBC Sport.
"Coming off the Tour de France, I was tired at the end of that. I thought it would be a massive challenge to get a result here but the motivation was there.
"I was buzzing to compete for Team Wales. I just got stuck in and it couldn't have got any better. Carrying the flag tonight [in the closing ceremony] will be a massive honour - that is just as good as winning a race and that means a lot to me and my family."
Many of the 140 starters dropped out before the end of the 12 laps of the 14km circuit around the centre of Glasgow.
Kennaugh, 25, hit the front immediately and at one stage led by nearly two minutes, but the Manxman eventually faded to end hopes of the Isle of Man's first Commonwealth Games gold since Mark Cavendish - absent from Glasgow because of the shoulder injury he sustained in the Tour de France - won the scratch race at Melbourne in 2006.
Thomas, Thwaites and Bauer picked up the gauntlet and went clear of the rest of the field until the Welshman made his decisive break while going up the climb on Montrose Street, eventually winning by one minute 21 seconds.
Grant, 21, has yet to make a first-team appearance for the Toffees, but scored four goals in 22 games on loan at Doncaster in League One last season.
He follows the signing of Tottenham winger Grant Ward on Monday.
"He gives us a bit of balance. He's more of a left-side of midfield player than a flying winger," Ipswich boss Mick McCarthy told BBC Radio Suffolk.
"He's very talented, has a wonderful left foot and impressed everybody with his free-kicks and corners in training."
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Brooks played scientist Dr Rudy Wells in the 1970s TV series, as well as roles in The Bionic Woman and Dallas.
Jon Landau, a film producer and friend of Brooks, said he died of natural causes in Los Angeles.
"Marty was the eternal optimist. He only looked at the good things in life," said Landau, the producer of Titanic and Avatar.
Brooks' other credits included The Philco Television Playhouse in the 1950s, Combat! in the 1960s and Knots Landing in the 1990s.
He also played Dr Arthur Bradshaw on the ABC daytime serial General Hospital.
Landau said Brooks was proud of his stage work that included An Enemy of the People and I Am a Camera.
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Mr Meshaal has headed Hamas, the group that governs the Gaza Strip, since the assassination of its founder in 2004.
Correspondents said there had been speculation he would be forced aside by the militant movement's powerful leaders in the Gaza Strip.
Mr Meshaal himself had indicated last year that he would not be seeking a new term.
However, a Hamas official said the party's governing Shura council re-elected him for another four years at a meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo late on Monday.
Khaled Meshaal became Hamas's political leader when its founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was assassinated by Israel in 2004.
Born near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, Mr Meshaal has spent decades in exile and visited Gaza for the first time in December.
He agreed a delicate truce with Israel in November and has also sought to heal a rift with rival Palestinian group Fatah, led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Hamas is officially regarded as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the EU and the US.
The Federal Reserve is expected to announce the start the gradual rate rise process at 19:00 GMT.
In London, the FTSE 100 climbed steadily in early trading, while Asian markets finished with big gains.
A US rate rise would have global repercussions, and could adversely affect emerging economies, experts say.
The US Federal Reserve is expected to raise its benchmark overnight interest rate from near zero, encouraged by a strengthening US labour market.
Analysts have been speculating for months as to when the first rise might be, with global stockmarkets rising and falling as Fed rate meetings come and go.
Low interest rates have generally been helpful for stock market investors, but Fed officials have indicated the likely decision in advance, removing some of the uncertainty that investors dislike.
In London, the FTSE 100 climbed steadily in morning trading, gaining 0.8%. Paris and Frankfurt markets were up by a similar amount.
Many Asian markets closed significantly higher - Japan's Nikkei 225 gained 2.6%, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng rebounded, rising 2%.
Markets have already priced in a US rate rise, but investors will also be looking at the Fed's announcement to gauge the likely path of future rate rises, analysts said.
"The overriding expectation is for a 25 basis point hike (which is more or less priced in already) while the real market-moving aspect will undoubtedly be the Fed's language for its indications as to the future pace of tightening," analysts at Accendo Markets said in a note.
The prospect of gradual rises could bring some stability to markets, but if the Fed were to raise rates more quickly, markets may take fright, analysts said.
The World Bank warned in September that a US rate rise could increase the risks to emerging economies caused by disruptions to capital flows.
With the US offering better returns, investors may decide to move money out of emerging economies.
Foreign governments could also have to pay more for debt issued in US dollars
In the UK, the Bank of England is expected to follow the Fed's path, but not until at least the second quarter of 2016. The consensus has, however, slipped many times in recent months.
Any shock increases in borrowing costs in the UK could affect households with a high debt-to-income ratio, the IMF warned last week.
Thames Valley Police said a man was seen approaching a woman on the Iron Bridge, Aylesbury, and after talking to her, sexually assaulted her.
The victim, a woman described as white, in her early 20s, and wearing a patterned dress and jacket, broke away from the offender and ran off.
A man, 21, from Aylesbury was later held on suspicion of sexual assault.
He was released on police bail until 13 February.
Pc Cat Cameron said: "Although we are investigating the incident as a sexual assault we are keeping an open mind until we have spoken to the victim.
"The offence was witnessed and the police were called to the scene however the victim had already left the area."
Anyone with information is asked to contact Thames Valley Police.
The internet giant said it would open the 310,000-sq-ft Dunstable site in the autumn.
Central Bedfordshire councillor Nigel Young said it was an "important milestone" in the area's regeneration.
The centre, at Prologis Park in Boscombe Road, will be the company's ninth in the UK, and the second in the East of England.
Councillor Young said the new centre would benefit from local transport improvements which form part of the Conservative-led authority's wider regeneration efforts.
Amazon's UK operations director John Tagawa said the firm looked forward to the new site playing an "integral role" in the business.
"Over the last two years, we have added well in excess of 2,000 new employees to our UK workforce and we are delighted to be able to create a further 500 permanent jobs at our new Dunstable centre."
But it was unheard of before 1993, when Rob Newman and then comedy partner David Baddiel became the first comics to sell out Wembley Arena.
With Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, they formed The Mary Whitehouse Experience in the 1990s, before getting their own show, Newman and Baddiel in Pieces.
It was such a success the pair went on tour - but by then the cracks were showing.
They later admitted that for part of the tour, the only time they spoke to each other was to deliver lines.
Baddiel said in an interview: "It was incredibly acrimonious. I remember people saying at the time that it was a publicity stunt, but it really wasn't. We weren't speaking at times, except on stage... It's interesting in terms of fame, in that it's quite toxic, and it certainly was in that relationship."
Newman - now a writer as much as a comedian - was "affected by fame" and became a "difficult person to work with", he said at the time. Baddiel went on to further fame on Fantasy Football with Frank Skinner, while Newman pretty much retreated from the limelight.
So imagine fans' delight when Newman got back in touch with his former partner earlier this year.
In a slightly clunky tweet, he requested free tickets to Baddiel's show about his father's dementia (inspiring one reply of "See that freeloader? That's you, that is", in a nod to their catchphrase).
He said the show was "heart-warming" and "very, very funny". It was the first time they'd been in the same room since 1993 - though Baddiel said they'd bumped into each other a few times "in various parks and streets".
And now, they've been publicly reunited at the Harper Collins summer party - leading to many fans (and some fellow celebs) pinning their hopes on them getting back together.
Others said they hoped it meant they were getting back together for a one-off series - but Baddiel has previously vowed they would never work together again.
While that might dash the hopes of comedy fans, at least they're on speaking terms.
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James Hilton, 25, of Aberdeen, was trying to catch up with a friend who was travelling in another car on the A920 Dufftown to Huntly road in 2015.
Patrick Pirie, 81, of Dufftown, was in a car involved in the resulting crash. He died in hospital from his injuries.
Hilton was jailed four years and two months.
Great-grandfather Mr Pirie was travelling home from a farmers' mart in nearby Huntly when the collision happened.
Judge Lord Woolman told the High Court in Edinburgh: "This is a tragic case for everyone involved. Mr Pirie was a retired farmer aged 81. He was married with four grown children.
"Your crime casts a terrible shadow over them. The harm caused by an offence that causes a person's death is immeasurable.
"My duty is to discourage others from such irresponsible conduct. I must also mark the gravity of what happened."
He also banned him from driving for nine years and until he passes a fresh test.
Defence counsel Tony Lenehan said Hilton had shown "genuine remorse".
Hilton had one previous conviction, a speeding offence from 2011.
Ashley Mote, 79, denied 11 charges relating to fraudulent claims to pay people he said were "whistleblowers".
The offences included obtaining a money transfer by deception, fraud, acquiring criminal property and false accounting.
Mote, from Binsted, Hampshire, sat as an independent MEP for South East England from 2004-2009 after being expelled from UKIP for benefit fraud.
He was found guilty of four counts of obtaining a money transfer by deception, three of false accounting, two of fraud, and one each of acquiring criminal property, concealing criminal property and theft.
The offences took place between November 2004 and July 2010.
Mote was released on conditional bail. However, Mr Justice Stuart Smith at Southwark Crown Court said there was a "very strong likelihood" a custodial sentence would follow.
The jury heard how Mote submitted numerous false expenses claims for payment for work that organisations had allegedly carried out on his behalf.
Mote claimed the money was to pay whistleblowers in cash through third parties. He also said he had been "targeted for being an anti-EU MEP."
During his time an MEP he also made £250,000 legitimate expenses claims.
No date has been set for the sentencing.
Radiohead, Kasabian and Biffy Clyro were the headliners at this year's three-day non-camping event held at Glasgow Green at the weekend.
Organisers took to social media on Tuesday evening to announce that the festival will be held from 6-8 July next year.
A post on Twitter and Facebook said: "Repeat transmission."
T in the Park, which is also organised by DF concerts, took a break this year following difficulties at the new site in Strathallan.
The promoters have yet to announce if it will be back in 2018.
A statement on the TRNSMT website said: "After an incredible first year at Glasgow Green, we are excited to announce that TRNSMT Festival will return to Glasgow Green on 6-8 July 2018.
"Stay tuned for more information."
About 120,000 music fans descended on Glasgow Green for the inaugural festival, with other acts taking to the stages including the Kooks, Belle and Sebastian, London Grammar and Twin Atlantic.
Organiser Geoff Ellis told the BBC: "It went better than we could have expected for the first year.
He described the event as "a dream come true".
The award, which is Sweden's highest music honour, is presented annually to both a pop act and classical performer.
It is given in recognition of "exceptional achievements in the creation and advancement of music".
The pair will collect their one million kronor (£91,000) prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a Stockholm ceremony on 28 August.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Music praised Simon for his "consummate skill, innovative arrangements and provocative lyrics".
"Nobody else is more deserving of the epithet of 'world-class songwriter'," it said.
"For five decades, Paul Simon has built bridges not only over troubled waters but over entire oceans by (re)joining the world's continents with his music. Paul Simon has compiled a library of songs which will remain open to future generations."
The academy also lauded Ma as "the leading cellist of our time" who had "united people from every continent".
"Yo-Yo Ma has dedicated his virtuosity and his heart to journeys of musical exploration and discovery around the world," it said.
"[He] is living proof that music is communication, passion and the ability to share experience."
The prize was founded by Stig Anderson, the manager of Swedish pop group ABBA, in 1989.
Previous recipients include Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, Ravi Shankar, Bob Dylan and Ennio Morricone.
Last year's winners were Patti Smith and US string group Kronos Quartet.
So when the 17-year-old tweeted what the cover of her single for the Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part One looked like, we were, well, slightly disappointed.
We'll have to wait almost a week to find out what Yellow Flicker Beat will sound like.
Earlier this month, the singer gave us a taste of some of the lyrics.
In August it was announced that Lorde had been chosen to handpick all the songs for the film's soundtrack.
She said: "I think the soundtrack is definitely going to surprise people."
The film's director Francis Lawrence said: "I sat down with Lorde on the set of Mockingjay this spring and I was immediately struck by how she so innately understood what we, as both fans and filmmakers, were trying to accomplish with the film."
Yellow Flicker Beat is out on 29 September and Mockingjay Part One will be released on 21 November.
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They claimed the homes would be a blot on the landscape in the village where John Constable lived and worked.
Mr Justice Mitting, at the High Court, ruled in favour of East Bergholt Parish Council's claim that Babergh Council was wrong to approve the development.
Babergh said it would "consider the judgment of the High Court carefully before making any further comment".
Parish council chairman Paul Ireland said: "The victory is not one we would celebrate because public money has been wasted.
"Babergh did not listen to concerns of local people."
East Bergholt council not against more housing, especially affordable homes, and has been talking to a developer on a project for a not-for-profit project, he said.
"Residents have spent £35,000 on a 140,000-word plan document which embraces localism, a government policy we support," Mr Ireland said.
Babergh planners are now to consider the consequences of the High Court's decision, "or the future consideration of this planning application," a spokesman said.
David Bowman, of Royds Withy King, who acted for the parish council, said: "The judge decided that Babergh District Council had made a number of material legal errors, including misrepresenting to local councillors what local housing needs means in the context of the local plan".
A separate decision to permit a 144-home development and another application for 75 homes could also be affected by the High Court decision, campaigners now believe.
The Suffolk village is within walking distance of Flatford Mill and the Dedham Vale, which provided the inspiration for several of Constable's most famous paintings, including The Haywain.
The measure allows authorities to make arrests without warrants and search people's homes. It needs to be approved by parliament before it is implemented.
So-called Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the blasts in Tanta and Alexandria on Palm Sunday.
The group has targeted Copts in Egypt recently and warns of more attacks.
Mr Sisi made a defiant speech at the presidential palace after a meeting of the national defence council to discuss the explosions.
He warned that the war against the jihadists would be "long and painful", and said that the state of emergency would come into force after all "legal and constitution steps" were taken. The majority in parliament backs Mr Sisi.
The president had earlier ordered the deployment of the military across the country to protect "vital and important infrastructure".
The attacks coincided with one of the holiest days in the Christian calendar, marking the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem.
IS said that two suicide bombers carried out the blasts. One targeted St George's Coptic church in the northern city of Tanta, where 27 people were killed, the health ministry said.
Hours later, police stopped the bomber from entering the St Mark's Coptic church in Alexandria, also in the north. He detonated his explosives outside, leaving 17 dead, including several police officers.
"Crusaders and their apostate allies should know the bill between us and them is very big and they will pay it with rivers of blood from their children, god willing. Wait for us, for we will wait for you," the jihadist group said in a statement quoted by Reuters news agency.
The blasts came weeks before an expected visit by Pope Francis intended to show support for the country's Christians, who make up about 10% of Egypt's population and have long complained of being vulnerable and marginalised.
This sense of precariousness has only increased in recent years, with the rise of violent jihadism in parts of Egypt, the BBC's Arab affairs editor Sebastian Usher says.
The community's trust in the state's ability and willingness to protect them will now be even more deeply shaken after the attacks, our correspondent adds.
The move by Mr Sisi is likely to raise concerns among human rights activists, observers say. The president, a former army chief, has been criticised by local and international groups for severe restrictions on civil and political rights in Egypt.
Human Rights Watch says tens of thousands of people have been arrested in a crackdown on dissent, and that security forces have committed flagrant abuses, including torture, enforced disappearances and likely extrajudicial executions.
The Coptic Orthodox Church is the main Christian Church in Egypt. While most Copts live in Egypt, the Church has about a million members outside the country.
Copts believe that their Church dates back to around 50 AD, when the Apostle Mark is said to have visited Egypt. Mark is regarded as the first Pope of Alexandria - the head of their church.
This makes it one of the earliest Christian groups outside the Holy Land.
The Church separated from other Christian denominations at the Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) in a dispute over the human and divine nature of Jesus Christ.
The early Church suffered persecution under the Roman Empire, and there were intermittent persecutions after Egypt became a Muslim country. Many believe that continues to this day.
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The victim, aged in his 40s, died in hospital after the assault close to McDonald's in Warrington Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, on Wednesday night.
Three boys - the others aged 16 and 17 - were arrested over the weekend.
They remain in custody, along with another boy, 16, arrested on Saturday, Greater Manchester Police said.
The force said the victim had not yet been formally identified, and the force is continuing to appeal for witnesses.
Det Insp Kevin O'Regan said: "This has been quite a fast moving investigation and we have now made three further arrests.
"Our investigation continues and I would urge anybody with information to please contact police."
Scientists say experts should be on alert in case the virus - H10N8 - could cause a pandemic.
How bad is it?
So far there have been two people in China infected and one of them has died.
As yet, there is no evidence that the virus can be transmitted from person to person. This means the risk of rapid spread is still low.
But we could see more human cases of H10N8, particularly among people who have close contact to poultry carrying the infection.
And experts are concerned that the virus could evolve or mutate to become more infectious.
Where has it come from?
Researchers believe the first human case - a 73-year-old woman from China who died nine days after falling ill with the infection - was probably caught from a live poultry market. The woman had visited the site a few days before getting sick.
Tests on samples from the market have been inconclusive, but scientists say birds are the likely source.
What is bird flu?
There are many different strains of bird flu. All are a type of influenza virus. Usually they don't infect humans, but sometimes they can mutate and gain this ability. Recently, there have been human cases of other bird flu strains -H7N9 and H5N1.
How is it spread?
Bird flu is spread through direct contact with infected birds (dead or alive), an infected bird's droppings, or secretions from their eyes or respiratory tract.
Bird flu is not transmitted through cooked food.
There have been few reports of bird flu passing from person to person.
Should I worry?
Not yet. No human cases have been detected outside of China and there have only been two cases so far within the country. The woman who died had other medical conditions that may have made her frail and susceptible to the infection.
The risk of this virus spreading from the patient to nursing staff and other contacts also seems low.
But that does not mean we should be complacent, say experts.
Dr Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome Trust says we should always be worried when a virus jump from birds to people as it is unlikely that we will have prior immunity to protect us. Also, H10N8 looks like a candidate for potentially turning nasty.
What now?
Disease experts will continue to monitor the situation in China and elsewhere. These first cases were detected thanks to good surveillance. Indeed, it is highly unlikely this event would even have been noticed or reported just a few years ago.
There are still major questions that need answering. We do not fully understand what causes flu viruses to cross into humans, cause disease and become transmissible.
Is it safe to visit China?
The World Health Organization has not put in place any travel restrictions.
Should I have a flu jab?
Perhaps, but not to protect you against bird flu. The seasonal flu jab does not protect against avian flu. Seasonal or winter flu is a highly infectious and very common viral illness that is spread readily between people by coughs and sneezes.
"You either support North Korea or you support us," she said, suggesting some countries were failing to adhere to UN-imposed sanctions.
Her comments came ahead of an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.
The council on Monday unanimously condemned North Korea's latest missile test and warned of new sanctions.
North Korea said the missile it had tested on Sunday was a "newly developed ballistic rocket" capable of carrying a large nuclear warhead.
It flew some 700km (435 miles), reaching an altitude of 2,000km and landing in the sea west of Japan. South Korea was unable to verify the claims.
Speaking before a closed-door Security Council meeting on Tuesday, Mrs Haley warned countries giving their backing to North Korea to stop or face the consequences.
"If you are a country that is supplying or supporting North Korea, we will call you out on it. We will make sure that everyone knows who you are and we will target those sanctions towards you as well," she told reporters, flanked by the UN ambassadors to Japan and South Korea.
Washington, she said, would consider talks with Pyongyang only if the country halted all nuclear and ballistic missile tests.
She confirmed that the US and China - North Korea's only ally in the region - were working together on a new Security Council resolution targeting North Korea.
"Sanctions is something that we are looking at and we are going to continue to see where that takes us."
In a statement on Monday, the 15-member council demanded that Pyongyang conduct no further ballistic missile tests.
The Council has imposed six sets of sanctions against the North since 2006.
North Korea is known to be developing both nuclear weapons - it has conducted five nuclear tests - and the missiles capable of delivering those weapons to their target. Both are in defiance of UN sanctions.
But it remains unclear whether it has the ability to make the weapons small enough to be mounted on a rocket, and it has never tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) which could reach, for example, the US.
ICBM's are considered to have a range of about 6,000km, but analysts believe the missile tested on Sunday would have travelled about 4,000km if it had been fired at a standard trajectory rather than upwards.
The minority Labour government struck a deal worth around £100m with Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Liberal Democrats to get the budget passed.
The Conservatives accused the other opposition parties of propping up a "failing Labour government".
Finance Minister Jane Hutt told AMs it was not possible to "shield" all services from UK government cuts.
She said: "Our final budget has been shaped by the Welsh government's priorities for Wales, which has been set in the context of the most difficult financial times since devolution - the total Welsh budget in 2015-16 will be 10% lower in real terms than in 2010-11.
"Despite these challenges, we are determined to promote and progress policies which boost growth and jobs, protect our health service and invest in our children and young people, and this is reflected in our spending plans."
The NHS in Wales will receive an extra £570m over three years but money for local government will fall by 5.81%.
Labour has 30 of the 60 seats in the assembly so did not have a majority in order to win the budget vote.
However the plans were certain to pass following a deal reached in October.
Some £50m will be spent on a fund to treat more patients in the community rather than in hospitals - a key Plaid Cymru demand - while the Lib Dems secured £35m to increase the value of the pupil deprivation grant paid to schools which have pupils eligible for free school meals.
Earlier Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats had defended the decision to sign a deal with Labour.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said she was "confident we've made the right decision", and said it did not follow there would be a further deal to cover the following year's budget.
Finlay Macleod of the Fishermen's Mission said all four reported missing had made it to their life raft.
But two of them tried to swim for the shore, which was in sight.
One of the four was found safe, while another is still missing.
Two of the four men on the raft were later found to have died, whilst another is still missing.
Mr Macleod told the BBC: "Two of them decided to swim to the shore, which they could see.
"And during that swimming, one of them drifted away from the other and he was lost."
He added: "The other one made it to the shore, and after clinging to the rocks for some considerable time he was rescued by the boat from the RNLI."
The boat, the Louisa, is understood to have taken on water in the early hours of yesterday morning, forcing the crew to abandon ship.
The leader of Western Isles Council, Angus Campbell, said the entire community was grieving.
He said: "I think it's an absolutely tragic story, the loss of these fishermen. The communities right from the Butt (of Lewis) to Barra will be thinking of the families of these poor people.
"I know our thoughts and condolences will go out to the families. And I think everybody in the Western Isles will be mourning over this weekend. "
The police have confirmed that the search for the missing crew member has continued on Sunday.
RNLI and coastguard volunteers have been assisted by the Police Scotland helicopter.
Ch Insp Alastair Garrow said: "All of the partners are determined to do everything they can to help the family and the community deal with this tragedy.
"Police Scotland have an enquiry team working alongside other agencies and the known circumstances will be reported to the Procurator Fiscal. There will be further investigations necessary to fully establish what has happened."
The 29-year-old, from Birmingham, served with the Royal Logistic Corps.
He died in a blast in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province and is survived by his partner and parents.
Lt Col David Southall of the Royal Engineers told the MoD website: "Staff Sergeant Brett Linley was a man of courage and composure."
On 17 July, Staff Sgt Linley and his team were working in Nahr-e Saraj to clear improvised explosive devices from a major route when a bomb exploded, killing him.
Staff Sgt Linley enlisted into the Royal Logistic Corps in March 2001 and qualified as an ammunition technician in September 2002.
He completed three tours of duty in Northern Ireland, and was also deployed to the Falkland Islands and Canada.
Lt Col Southall, who is commanding officer of the Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Task Force, said: "His loss has shaken us all.
"He qualified earlier this year as a High Threat IED Operator, motivated by a simple desire to save life and play his part in Afghanistan.
"I will remember his calm, considered manner and, as one of life's grafters, his professionalism was meticulous; 'If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right' he'd tell his boys, both in training and on task."
Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox said: "Despite the very real danger that he faced every day, Staff Sergeant Brett Linley carried out his role with courage, professionalism and composure.
"It's clear from the tributes to him that he was a selfless soldier who, without question, would do whatever was needed to protect those around him.
"It was while trying to keep his colleagues and the local Afghan people safe from IEDs that he was tragically killed. His sacrifice will not be forgotten and I offer my sincere condolences to his friends and family."
Under the plans, a senior police officer would have to authorise police bail for longer than 28 days and a magistrate for more than three months.
There is currently no time limit and no need for police to seek approval to get bail extended before charge.
The plan to reform the law on police bail would have to be taken forward in the next Parliament, Mrs May said.
She said it was "simply not acceptable" that pre-charge bail could last "months or years".
The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) said the bail system needed to be "efficient and proportionate".
Earlier this month, broadcaster Paul Gambaccini backed a limit on the use of police bail.
He told MPs how officers and prosecutors "sat" on him for 12 months before telling him he would not be charged in relation to an allegation of historical sex abuse.
It had previously been proposed that police would have to gain approval from a court for a bail extension after 28 days.
But the Home Office said under the new plans extensions could be approved by a superintendent at 28 days, although this would only be allowed up to a total of three months in exceptional circumstances.
Mrs May said alongside the measures would be a "new presumption" to release without bail at all, which she said would drive down the "inappropriate use" of pre-charge bail and ensure that suspects were released under bail conditions "only where it is necessary or proportionate".
Other plans for the production of guidance and the collection of data on the use of police bail did not need legislation and could be progressed straight away, she said.
An Acpo spokesman said: "Pre-charge bail is an essential tool in securing justice. The police have been clear that we want and need a bail system that is efficient and proportionate, both for victims and those suspected of committing crimes.
"Each and every investigation follows a different path. Less than 2% of arrests result in a person being on bail for more than six months. However, in an increasingly globalised and digitised world some cases are complex... and cannot be rushed."
Hard on the heels of the Tories promising to increase NHS funding by £8bn a year in real or inflation-adjusted terms, without announcing spending cuts or tax increases to pay for it, Labour is characterising itself as the party that won't make any unfunded spending increases.
So the first page of its election manifesto, which will be published on Monday, is devoted exclusively to its claimed fiscal toughness, and says "every policy in this manifesto will be paid for without requiring any additional borrowing".
The manifesto unveils what Labour calls a "Budget Responsibility Lock", promising to "cut the deficit every year" - with all Labour budgets to be verified as deficit-reducing by the Office of Budget Responsibility.
The manifesto also pledges that "any government led by Ed Miliband will not compromise" on these fiscal rules - which is supposed to be an answer to the Conservatives' criticism that a minority Labour government would be forced to spend and borrow recklessly to secure the support of the SNP.
The Tories will claim that Labour claims of future prudence lack credibility, given that the deficit ballooned to an unsustainable 10% of national income on its watch, after the financial crash of 2008.
And it will also point out that its own fiscal plans would begin to get the national debt down earlier and faster than Labour's.
That said, Labour will say that the Tories may talk a hairshirt approach to the public finances, but they are also promising £8bn of NHS spending increases and £8bn of tax cuts - for a rise in the 40% tax threshold and in the tax-free allowance - without saying how they would finance this largesse.
The wettest summer - defined as June, July and August - since national records began was in 1912.
Figures up until 29 August show that 366.8 mm of rain fell across the UK this summer, compared with 384.4 mm rainfall in 1912.
The April to June period was also the wettest recorded in the UK.
The figures are provisional as there are still two days remaining in August, but the BBC Weather Centre said the rainfall was not expected to exceed the total amount in 1912. Records began in 1910.
BBC weather presenter Laura Tobin said this summer had been so wet because a jet stream - a fast moving band of air high in atmosphere - from America, which should be sitting across Scotland and the north of England, was much further south this year.
"It meant June was the wettest on record - most places had over one-and-a-half times more rain than they should have.
"July was also one of the wettest months ever, with some areas like Dorset breaking records. August has been about average," she said.
She said September was expected to be a typical September, and no heatwave was expected in the next 10 days.
In April, seven water companies across southern and eastern England brought in hosepipe bans after two unusually dry winters left some groundwater supplies and rivers as low as in the drought year of 1976.
But the restrictions were followed by record rainfall across the UK in April, and more rain in May and June led to flooding in some areas. The hosepipe bans were lifted in June and July.
The Environment Agency issued more than 1,000 river flood alerts and warnings between 1 June and 15 July, the most issued in a summer since 2007.
August 2012 looks set to be the driest and sunniest of the three summer months across the UK, with 105.5 mm of rain to 29 August, and 140 hours of sunshine up to 28 August.
The mean temperature for August was 15.7 °C - in a month that also saw the hottest day of the year so far, reaching 32.4 °C at Cavendish, Suffolk, on 18 August.
Summer 2012 is also likely to be one of the dullest summers on record, with just 399 hours of sunshine up to 28 August.
It is the dullest summer since 1980, when the UK saw only 396 hours of sunshine.
The animal, believed to be an American Bulldog, was shot dead after officers were unable to bring it under control, Northumbria Police said.
It happened at about 17:00 BST on Saturday in a garden on Millbrook in Felling, Gateshead.
Ch Insp Dave Gould said it was an "horrific attack by a dog that was highly agitated and a danger to other people".
"Officers at the scene spent more than an hour attempting to bring the dog safely under control but, unfortunately, despite best efforts, it continued to remain highly agitated and posed a real danger," he said.
"We did not want to have to destroy the animal but our main concern has to be public safety - we already had one young girl who had been seriously injured and we had to do what we could to prevent anyone else from coming to harm."
Shooting the dog was a "last resort" after other options had been considered, he said.
The teenager has been treated in hospital for serious, but not life-threatening, arm injuries.
American Bulldogs are not banned in the UK, although they are in some other countries.
The north-east monsoon should have left the Thai island of Koh Samui more than a month ago, but the start of 2017 there has been greeted by a week of unremitting tropical storms.
Supposedly the high season, Mr Supit's hotel is dripping with umbrellas and soaking towels. The rains have prevented many staff from getting to work, made his international guests miserable and washed away his organic garden.
He breaks his wai - the traditional palms together gesture of greeting - throwing his arms apart with a shrug and a shake of his head. "What more can I do?" he asks.
"We are going to cross the sea in front of us," he jokes as he attempts to drive down Main Street, floodwater sloshing up to the gunwales of his Ford.
"This is very strange weather. We had similar storms five years ago, but that was in March. I have never known a new year like this. We are thinking this must be the result of climate change."
Like the scooters abandoned beside the flooded roads, many of the resorts dotted around Samui's coast have spluttered to a stop. A few plucky guests have filmed themselves laughing on lilos bobbing down the street, beers in hand, but Thai tourism is an industry that floats on sunshine and there has been virtually none of that for a week.
The local TV news is reporting that hundreds of families on the holiday island have been left homeless, bridges are down and many roads are impassable beneath brown, malodorous floodwater. Elsewhere in the province, the unexpected deluge has killed at least 18 people.
A mile from his hotel, Mr Supit stops his car to look at a rockfall that has crashed across the ring road, red boulders brought down by the heavy rains. "We need to be focusing on green again," he murmurs.
Mr Supit recalls the environmental initiative launched with much fanfare by hoteliers and tour companies on Koh Samui in the late 90s after a landmark speech from the late king.
Thailand is still in mourning for King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died last October after 70 years on the throne. Black and white shrines to his memory are everywhere, reverence for the monarch akin to worship of a deity, his utterances regarded almost as sacred texts.
In 1997, after massive currency speculation led to the total collapse of the Thai economy, mass unemployment and food shortages, King Bhumibol addressed the nation. He appealed for what he called a "sufficiency economy", a philosophy of moderation, balance and caution that, he argued, would help Thailand cope with the socio-economic, cultural and environmental challenges of globalisation.
Some translated the speech as a decree to introduce a sustainable tourism policy - a change long overdue in a country that had witnessed almost unconstrained development for decades. Deforestation, the destruction of natural habitats and a brazen prostitution industry were among the ugly faces of the tourism goldrush.
Officials cautioned that without the kind of restraint implicit in the king's crisis speech, many of the unspoiled natural environments that attracted travellers would be destroyed. Thailand's famous white beaches would be lost to the sea, one minister warned. Vibrant marine habitats and dense tropical jungles would be obliterated.
A number of private hoteliers joined the Green Leaf Foundation, committing them to make their resorts carbon neutral. There are eco-friendly tour companies offering trips to the beautiful Angthong National Marine Park. On Koh Samui, a government-backed initiative called Seven Greens was introduced, promoting sustainable practices and philosophy.
Recently, the Ministry of Tourism has urged holiday businesses to focus on attracting "quality" visitors - sophisticated and environmentally aware travellers who will value Thailand's natural and cultural treasures. The days of low-cost mass tourism are supposed to be numbered.
But political rhetoric has not always matched reality. The tourist strips are still overflowing with sex bars, cheap beer and greasy burgers. Among Koh Samui's top attractions are monkey shows that animal welfare groups blame for wiping out half of Thailand's white-handed gibbon population.
This is not a country that finds it easy to embrace the sacrifices of a green revolution: government figures suggest the average Thai uses an astonishing eight plastic bags a day. In the last two decades around 60 environmental activists have been killed in Thailand while campaigning against powerful logging companies and industrial polluters. Some question just how serious the military-backed government is in pursuing green policies.
In his flooded organic garden, Mr Supit reflects on the 40 years since he landed his first tourist job as a pot washer in a Bangkok kitchen.
"In the early days, people spent more money than now," he tells me as we assess the damage wreaked by the unwelcome storms.
In 1960, only 81,000 tourists visited Thailand, mostly high-rollers and adventurers from Europe and the Far East, people prepared to pay for something exotic. "Today many more come, but they don't spend - particularly the Chinese," Mr Supit laments.
A record 33 million tourists visited Thailand in 2016, more than eight million of them from China, pushing revenues up 18% in a single year. But Mr Supit is not alone in worrying that the country is overstretching itself.
"I am very much concerned," he confides. "We have to lift up the quality and we must focus on green again. At the moment I don't think my guests are prepared to pay more for that."
His two-acre organic garden is an act of defiance: beds of traditional Thai basil and morning glory, lemongrass and lime trees are fed with homemade fertiliser, brewed on the plot from pineapple, molasses and water. When available, the Fairhouse Villa hotel chef makes full use of the fresh fruit, vegetables and spices. Sadly, his kitchen will not benefit for a while, with many of the garden's tender plants washed into the sea by the unseasonal storms.
"It is tough work," Mr Supit says, surveying the damage. "But we will keep planting. We will get there."
He smiles and looks ruefully at the darkening sky.
With the rains still falling, Thailand needs more people like Mr Supit.
The leaders were 2-0 up in the opening 10 minutes, Franck Ribery's first time shot breaking the deadlock.
Robert Lewandowski doubled the lead from a free-kick before Raphael Guerreiro reduced the deficit.
Arjen Robben made it 3-1 before Lewandowski's penalty sealed a convincing victory.
Bayern are 10 points clear at the top of the table with six games remaining.
Carlo Ancelotti's side look unstoppable as they close in on a record 27th German title and still have a European and domestic treble in their sights.
They entertain Ancelotti's former club Real Madrid in he Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday (19:45 BST), while they face Borussia Dortmund again in the semi-final of the German Cup on 26 April.
Fourth-placed Dortmund, who are 18 points behind Bayern, were second best throughout as Bayern turned on the style in front of their own fans.
The hosts never looked back once Ribery opened the scoring from 16 yards after Philipp Lahm's cross.
Lewandowski's sublime free-kick added to Dortmund's problems before Guerreiro's thunderbolt into the top corner made it 2-1.
Former Chelsea winger Robben cut in from the wing to make it 3-1 and Lewandowski completed the scoring from the spot after he had been brought down by keeper Roman Burki.
Match ends, FC Bayern München 4, Borussia Dortmund 1.
Second Half ends, FC Bayern München 4, Borussia Dortmund 1.
Offside, FC Bayern München. Xabi Alonso tries a through ball, but Joshua Kimmich is caught offside.
Foul by Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München).
Marcel Schmelzer (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Offside, FC Bayern München. Arturo Vidal tries a through ball, but David Alaba is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Mikel Merino (Borussia Dortmund) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Emre Mor with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by Sven Ulreich.
Attempt saved. Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Mikel Merino.
Foul by Douglas Costa (FC Bayern München).
Matthias Ginter (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Marcel Schmelzer.
Attempt blocked. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Arturo Vidal.
Attempt missed. Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Matthias Ginter.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Mats Hummels replaces Javi Martínez.
Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Sokratis (Borussia Dortmund).
Attempt missed. Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Arjen Robben.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Douglas Costa replaces Franck Ribéry.
Foul by Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München).
Sokratis (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Joshua Kimmich replaces Robert Lewandowski.
Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Emre Mor (Borussia Dortmund).
Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Mikel Merino replaces Raphael Guerreiro.
Goal! FC Bayern München 4, Borussia Dortmund 1. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Roman Bürki (Borussia Dortmund) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty FC Bayern München. Robert Lewandowski draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Roman Bürki (Borussia Dortmund) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt blocked. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sebastian Rode.
Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sebastian Rode (Borussia Dortmund).
Attempt missed. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Thiago Alcántara.
Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München).
Matthias Ginter (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Emre Mor replaces Ousmane Dembélé.
Foul by Jérôme Boateng (FC Bayern München).
Changing term dates was meant to help staff, reduce stress levels and allow families to book cheaper holidays.
Sue Wilson, executive head of Tall Oaks Academy Trust in Gainsborough, said the schools in its group had not reported any significant improvement though.
The local authority said coordinating term dates between schools was vital.
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Mrs Wilson said the changes had given rise to a number of problems, including a small increase in absences at the three schools in the group - White's Wood Academy, Mercer's Wood Academy and Castle Wood Academy.
"Parents found it really difficult if they had children in other schools to get the family together all at the same time," she said.
Parents still took their children out of school when their other children were on holiday, she added.
Other issues included problems with securing supplies of free milk and fruit during the period when other schools were closed.
It also meant that new joiners from other schools had a much reduced summer holiday when joining the academy schools after the summer.
Mrs Wilson said the vast majority of parents had wanted to return to traditional local authority term dates.
However, Gavin Booth, who is in charge of education strategy at Lincolnshire County Council, said the idea of a shorter summer break was not without merit.
He said: "I don't think it is definitely doomed to failure but for families in particularly the coordination between schools is a crucial factor.
He said every child needed to be in school for 190 days per year, and it was worth trying different models to see what worked best.
He worked for Richmond Coaches Ltd in Lisburn, County Antrim, and was originally from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
The coach was carrying children from a school in Essex when it hit a motorway bridge and overturned. The company said Mr Chance was not driving at the time.
His co-driver Stephen Cardwell, also from Northern Ireland, is in hospital but has not been critically injured.
Mr Chance was in his mid-50s, as is Mr Cardwell.
The bus overturned on the A18 (E40) at Middelkerke, West Flanders at 09:45 local time (08:45 BST).
Eyewitnesses said it crashed into a motorway bridge pillar.
Two schoolboys who were hospitalised are expected to return to Essex on Monday.
Several pupils travelled back to the UK late on Sunday night on a coach arranged by the school.
The directors of the coach company are travelling to Belgium to see Mr Cardwell and to help authorities investigate the crash.
Mr Caldwell could return home later this week.
In a statement, Brendan McKenna, the director of Richmond Coaches, said: "Our thoughts and prayers are with all the families that have been affected by this tragic accident."
Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson said Mr Chance was a popular and hard-working man.
"I would have known some of the Chance family in Lisburn, and although I didn't known Geordie myself he was a very popular figure by all accounts, a hard-working family man," he said.
"For his wife Lynn and the family to receive this news yesterday morning I can only imagine is absolutely devastating."
Lisburn councillor Patrick Catney, who knows the family of the company owners, said: "This is so sad, it's so tragic.
"This company is very long-established and has a great safety record - they only operate top-of-the-line luxury coaches."
It is the second time that the Mica Day Centre, in the Beechmount area, has been disrupted in the past year.
Last summer, it had to close temporarily for safety reasons after a large bonfire was built nearby.
Kate O'Halloran, the mother of one of the people who use the centre, said something needed to be done.
"The centre needs to be protected. It's vital for the people who use it," she said.
"The least we can ask for is that the people using the centre - and the staff - should feel safe."
The centre is attended by about 40 people with learning difficulties.
There has been a rise in anti-social behaviour in the area in recent weeks.
Police say fire damage to the gates at the weekend cost approximately £2,000 to £3,000.
Inspector Alan Swann said: "I would appeal to anyone who may have noticed any suspicious activity in the area to contact police on the non-emergency number 101.
"Or, if someone would prefer to provide information without giving their details, they can contact the independent charity Crimestoppers and speak to them anonymously on 0800 555 111."
A spokesperson for Belfast Health and Social Care Trust said: "While there was some disruption, Mica continued with the usual day care provision.
"It would appear that the gates were out of commission on Monday. They were repaired by lunchtime yesterday."
Exonian Ladies player Lily Partridge, 22, collapsed at the side of the pitch after getting hurt during a tackle in December at North Tawton, Devon, and died in hospital days later.
About 200 people watched the game against Newton Abbot Ladies in Topsham.
A charity auction followed, with items donated by Coldplay, and Shaldon Zoo where Ms Partridge worked.
Coldplay's lead singer Chris Martin, who knows the family, donated signed merchandise including a guitar.
Katie Lunnon, team captain, said: "It's about remembering what a special person Lily was and how much fun and excitement she bought into our lives.
"It's not a day to be sad.
"We're part of a rugby family and we've all pulled together and everyone has been there for each other."
The club said Ms Partridge had suffered "a couple" of concussions previously, but had taken the recommended time out from playing and had consulted a doctor.
Ms Partridge, who was a part-time teacher and also worked as a keeper at the zoo, had played for Exonian Ladies for about 18 months. She was also the club's social secretary.
Her parents Jeff and Liz paid tribute at the time, saying she was "the glue that stuck everyone together and was a brilliant star in their lives".
It was revealed at her funeral at Exeter Cathedral that Ms Partridge saved the lives of at least four people as she was an organ donor.
The money raised from the auction will be donated to the Devon Air Ambulance, Exeter Intensive Care Unit and Shaldon Zoo.
The notes, sent to ex-Buckingham Palace steward Cyril Dickman, also describe how a young Prince William "swamped" his new baby brother with "an endless supply of hugs and kisses".
The handwritten correspondence is to be sold at auction later.
Photos, Christmas cards and cake from the Queen's wedding will also go under the hammer.
The letters form part of about 40 lots from Mr Dickman's former estate, which is due to be sold.
The lots are each expected to fetch £80-£900.
Cheffins, a Cambridgeshire auction house, said the letters formed part of "a unique collection of Royal memorabilia".
In one letter - on headed Kensington Palace paper - dated 20 September 1984, Diana thanked Mr Dickman for "such a lovely card" following the birth of Prince Harry.
She wrote: "William adores his little brother and spends the entire time swamping Harry with an endless supply of hugs and kisses, hardly letting the parents near!"
"The reaction to one tiny person's birth has totally overwhelmed us and I can hardly breathe for the mass of flowers that are arriving here!"
In another, dated 17 October, 1992, she says how both young princes "are well and enjoying boarding school a lot, although Harry is constantly in trouble!".
The letters are expected to sell for between £300 and £900.
The items are being sold by the family of the late Mr Dickman, who was head palace steward for more than 50 years.
Described by Cheffins as "a favourite of every member of the Royal Family", he received handwritten notes from other senior royals dating back more than 30 years.
The auction also includes letters from the Queen, written on Windsor Castle headed paper.
In one, she thanks Mr Dickman for his "thoughts and sympathy", following the death of the Queen Mother.
Unopened boxed wedding cake from the Queen's marriage to Prince Philip in 1947 is also expected to sell for £200-£300.
Several Christmas cards from the Queen, as well as from Princess Diana and the Prince of Wales, are also due to be auctioned.
The mathematical model offered "an initial idea" of what a particular level of surveillance could achieve.
The work comes at a time when the number of invasive pathogens, including those affecting crops, is on the rise as a result of global trade and travel.
The findings appear in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
"Surveillance efforts have been getting increasing attention because early detection is crucial in order to control these epidemics," explained co-author Stephen Parnell from the University of Salford, UK.
"If you want to have a chance of controlling them or getting rid of them then you really have to catch them at a very early stage."
One example of an invasive pathogen threatening an important food crop is the arrival of a virulent bacterium in southern Italy.
A report by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in January observed that the pathogen, Xylella fastidiosa, was responsible for a "rapid decline" in affected olive plantations.
"Major consequences", such as reduced yields and costly control measures, would be the outcome if it spread to other olive-producing regions in the EU, it added.
In July, France reported an outbreak on the Mediterranean island of Corisca. The European Commission described the pathogen as one of the biggest threats to plants around the globe.
Detection probability
Dr Parnell told BBC News: "Surveillance is a very expensive process so if you are doing surveillance following an invasive epidemic then you want to know what the probability is of detecting the epidemic at a low prevalence.
"This was an epidemic modelling approach where we could - given the amount of surveillance that was being done, and information about how quickly an epidemic spreads once it invades - we were able to tell you at what incidence you would be likely to detect it.
"If you have that information then the idea is that you could adjust your surveillance effort if you need to detect it at an earlier stage."
He added that there was currently very little information about how well detection efforts were likely to perform in terms of finding invasive pathogens.
"This model is giving just a little more evidence to support and help inform how much surveillance needs to be done for certain disease threats," Dr Parnell said.
"The benefit of this approach is that it is very simple. The only information you need about the epidemic is an estimate of what we call 'epidemic growth rate', that is once the epidemic invades, how quickly does it increase over time?"
Fire fighting
Although maintaining an ongoing monitoring network was costly, the consequences of killer diseases becoming established in an area could have a landscape-changing impact.
"An analogy I often use is of a fire," explained Dr Parnell.
"If there was a fire in a house, you would want to catch it as soon as it lit the tip of a curtain rather than when it has lit up an entire room.
"It is a similar situation with an epidemic, you have to catch it at a very early stage because a lot of the control methods we use, for example with tree health problems, are felling of large stands of forest.
"The area you would need to fell can quickly escalate so it is really, really important to catch it at an early stage."
The Daggers are currently 11 points from safety with only five games of the campaign remaining.
"I knew when I came back there was a rebuilding job to do," the 65-year-old told BBC Radio London.
"It is my club and it is important to me that I try and do that. I am under no illusions."
Still returned for his third spell in charge of the east London side on 31 December, when the Daggers were 23rd in the table and in the relegation zone on goal difference.
He won his first game in charge against Exeter, but has only tasted victory twice more since then in 16 attempts in the league.
Following Tuesday's defeat at Luton, Dagenham could be relegated if they lose at Leyton Orient on Saturday, ending their nine-season stay in the Football League.
"I'll give it one more year and try and get them back to the type of performances and results that I think we can get," Still added.
"What is important is I get this club back to discovering young, hungry, ambitious players who want to forge a career and push this club on.
"The main reason I came back was because we had lost that."
Still has been promoted three times from the top tier of non-league football; with Maidstone United in 1989, Dagenham in 2007 and Luton in 2014.
He insists he is "not even looking at" the possibility of a fourth such promotion, but is keen to continue his personal approach to management.
"I have a way of doing things and it is never going to change," he said.
"Someone said to me the other day that I have had 13 promotions. Why would I change what I do?
"Sometimes things takes longer than you hope, but I have done it all my life."
Daniel Childs had exchanged numbers with the teenager at a charity event while working as an officer with Nottinghamshire Police.
Childs, 30, was convicted of two counts of sexual activity with a child under 16 in July.
Passing sentence, Judge Simon Hammond, said Childs had "taken advantage" of an "impressionable" under-age girl.
The trial at Leicester Crown Court heard Childs encouraged his victim, now in her 20s, to "skive off" school and meet him while he was off duty.
During the same trial Childs, of Kilton Hill in Worksop, Nottinghamshire was cleared of allegations of sexual activity with other girls and misconduct in a public office over a seven-year period.
The married officer was suspended from duty in 2013 when he was arrested.
Temporary Det Supt Paul Murphy, from the force's professional standards directorate, said: "Cases of this nature are rare and risk damaging the trust and confidence of our communities.
"The public deserve high standards from the police, while Child's failed to display any standard of decent behaviour in his conduct."
Childs has now been placed on the sex offenders' register for life.
The 16-year-old's sisters have also been ordered to surrender passports to the tipstaff, an officer of the court.
Judge Mr Justice Hayden made the ruling after hearing the girl may have been "intimately involved" in details of one of the girls who made the journey.
Four girls from Bethnal Green Academy in east London have travelled to Syria.
The first girl to travel went in December, while Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum left the UK together in February, the judge in the case was told.
An order was passed to protect the identity of the 16-year-old - described by Mr Justice Hayden as "impressive and intelligent" - until she is 18, to allow her to complete her education and finish her childhood in peace.
The court heard she was one of the first to be made a ward of court after evidence was submitted by social services and the police counter-terrorism unit "concerning vulnerable children who might have been subjected to radical influences".
Mr Justice Hayden acknowledged the "intrusion" posed to the lives of her sisters by having to surrender their passports, but said: "Where that is a measure taken to secure the safety of their sister, it seems to me to be one relatively minor consequence.
"We are seeking to protect from a risk of very great magnitude, for we know that those who travel to ISIS to participate in jihad risk their own lives."
A lawyer representing two of the girls who travelled to Syria in February revealed last month they had got married, though it was not clear whether the men they married are IS fighters.
John Nuttall and Amanda Korody were found guilty of planting pressure cooker bombs at the British Columbia legislature on Canada Day in 2013.
A judge said police manipulated the couple into carrying out the attack.
The pair did not have the mental capacity plan the attack on their own, the judge added.
"The world has enough terrorists. We do not need the police to create more out of marginalized people," British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Catherine Bruce wrote in her ruling.
Nuttall and Korody, two Canadian-born citizens, were convicted in 2015 on three terrorism-related charges, including conspiracy to commit murder and possessing explosive devices for a terrorist group.
The couple faced life in prison.
However, their convictions were not registered after defence lawyers argued that police had entrapped the couple.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the country's national police, undertook a months-long, undercover sting operation that ended in the couple's arrest.
But Judge Bruce said the police made an "enormous effort" to assist the couple in carrying out the attack.
"The defendants were the foot soldiers but the undercover officer was the leader of the group," the judge said.
It was taken by Davide Lopresti in Italy and beat entries from more than 54 countries.
Dan Bolt, from Devon, won British Underwater Photographer of the Year with Catshark Supernova. This award is open to all British residents and nationals.
Pier Mane, from South Africa, won Up and Coming Underwater Photographer of the Year with Three Pillars, taken in the Bahamas.
Marty Engels Dunmore, from Suffolk, won Most Promising British Underwater Photographer with Fired Up, taken on the Kittiwake wreck in Grand Cayman.
Mike Korostelev won the International Wide Angle category with a shot from Kuril Lake, Kamchatka, Russia. "I constructed a cage to keep me safe as I captured the fishing behaviour of the bear," he said.
Richard Carey won the International Behaviour category with a shot of a turtle eating a jellyfish taken on an early morning dive in the Similan Islands.
Paul Colley, who won the British Compacts category, said: "Whilst trying to photograph trout, during a year-long river project, with a homemade pole-cam, a raft of Mallard ducks muscled in to steal food intended to entice trout to the camera."
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King's College has acquired "the last great collection of Rupert Brooke manuscripts still in private hands".
The John Schroder Collection was bought for £500,000, mostly funded by a National Heritage Memorial Fund award.
They reveal he was "more interesting and difficult" than "the heroic image portrayed at the time of his death".
The poet, who was a student and Fellow at King's, died of septicaemia on his way to Gallipoli, on 23 April 1915.
The Schroder Collection includes 170 documents by Brooke, hundreds of letters from people connected with him and eyewitness reports of his death and burial on the Greek island of Skyros.
King's College Fellow Librarian, Peter Jones, said: "A much more complicated and rounded picture emerges when you can look at the manuscripts already at King's, alongside the Schroder Collection.
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After his death, his friend Eddie Marsh published 1914 and Other Poems and it became "a huge literary event", selling 160,000 copies.
In 1918, he published a memoir of Brooke which sold more than 100,000 copies.
Mr Jones said: "Some of Rupert Brooke's family and closest friends... thought the picture that emerged from this heroic story was not true to the man.
"He had a major breakdown in 1912 and had disastrous relationships with the women who loved him."
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But for Konstantin Goldentsvayg, until recently the Berlin correspondent for Gazprom-Media's NTV, the compromises of conscience involved in broadcasting things like this have proved too much.
Goldentsvayg was sacked last week after giving an interview to German TV in which he suggested that President Vladimir Putin had felt "insulted" at being excluded from the G7. He also referred to the president's "well-known cynicism" and accused him of wanting to prolong the instability in Ukraine.
It was an assessment wildly at variance with his own report on the G7 summit, which he had dismissed as an "expensive talking-shop".
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted other heads of leading industrialised nations in Bavaria last week.
As Goldentsvayg later explained on Facebook, he had in fact already decided to leave NTV after working for the channel for 12 years. The interview with German TV merely hastened his departure and made it more sensational.
Writing on Facebook, he also apologised for the part he had played in the "general propaganda madness".
A few days later, Goldentsvayg gave an interview to liberal website Meduza, in which he described in detail the pressures he was subject to as a reporter on one of Russia's three main TV channels.
A couple of years ago, he said, he had tried to keep propaganda in his reports to a minimum by concentrating on non-political stories, usually with a cultural slant.
But as the Ukraine crisis developed that became virtually impossible. He was bombarded with instructions on what stories he should cover and how he should cover them - President Putin is the victim of a "dirty campaign", Chancellor Merkel is an "American puppet" and so on.
Some of these messages appeared to come right from the Kremlin, he said.
At the same time, more and more of his reports were altered to keep them on-message.
"Gradually, I learnt to compromise with myself," he told Meduza, describing how he soon found himself self-censoring his reports because he knew they would be cut or revised in any case.
But, eventually, enough was enough. "It's simply that you were trained for one trade - journalism - and you find yourself at times doing something completely different. And you realise that the longer you do this rubbish, the harder it will be to get out of this rut," he said.
According to Goldentsvayg, he is by no means alone in facing this dilemma. Yes, he said, there are people at NTV who sincerely believe that fascists have seized power in Ukraine and that Russia "saved Crimea from destruction". But there are also a "large number of thoughtful and sound people still at the channel", he told Meduza.
Goldentsvayg's exit from NTV has not been as dramatic as Liz Wahl's on-air resignation from the Kremlin's English-language channel RT last year. But it is the first time that a frontline journalist on one of Russia's main channels has broken ranks since the start of the Ukraine crisis.
It is an act that has won him both praise and criticism. His critics include Kremlin loyalists, but also those who think it took him far too long to get out.
Meanwhile, his future and that of his young family are uncertain.
Before the scandal over his TV interview, Goldentsvayg had hoped to get a job at another channel, perhaps on a non-political show.
This now looks unlikely.
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The Orchard Centre, in Didcot, was evacuated following a report of a suspicious item at Sainsbury's.
The area remained cordoned off until lunchtime on Monday whilst police investigated the item.
Police confirmed it was "not a danger to the public" and a 35-year-old man, from Didcot, was arrested on suspicion of making a bomb hoax.
Insp Adrian Lewis, of Thames Valley Police, said: "I would like to thank the community for their patience while officers secured the immediate area."
In a tweet, the force said the item was "made safe" before investigators confirmed it was not dangerous.
Mayor of Didcot, Councillor Jackie Billington said: "All credit to our emergency services who put the cordon in place immediately."
Insp Lewis said: "I'd like to reassure people the incident is not being linked to recent terrorism events in Manchester."
He added people should continue to report anything suspicious: "Information from the public is always very important - you are also our eyes and ears."
Police said the 35-year-old man, who was arrested, has been released under investigation and enquires continue.
He made the remarks during a debate on the use of the union flag on Northern Ireland driving licences.
Mr Flanagan said that he fully accepted the ruling of the Speaker.
He had been punished by Mr McLaughlin for challenging the authority of the chair.
It was stated that Mr Flanagan would not be called to speak in the assembly until further notice after being found to have made "provocative" comments.
He was found to have challenged the authority of deputy speaker Roy Beggs.
Mr Flanagan, an MLA for Fermanagh/South Tyrone, complained about the way the debate was being chaired after he was interrupted by unionists.
Mr McLaughlin said his party colleague had been provocative.
He said the punishment could be lifted by an apology to the House.
Mr Shkreli's lawyer informed the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, that he would invoke his right against self-incrimination.
The former hedge fund manager hit the headlines when his company raised the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000%.
He also faces separate criminal charges that he defrauded investors.
The committee sent a letter to Mr Shkreli requesting he testify about his former company Turing Pharmaceuticals' decision to raise the price of the drug Daraprim.
In a statement, Congressman Elijah Cummings, a member of the committee said: "If he [Mr Shkreli] plans on trying to use his own intentional inaction as some kind of bogus excuse for not showing up at Tuesday's hearing, people will see right through such a juvenile tactic."
On Wednesday, Mr Shkreli posted a picture of the subpoena letter on his Twitter account and wrote, "Found this letter. Looks important."
In December, Mr Shkreli was arrested in New York on charges he defrauded investors at a drug company he previously ran, Retrophin, and a hedge fund, MSMB Capital Management, where he was a fund manager.
He has denied the charges and was released on bail pending the trail.
The FBI allege Mr Shkreli "engaged in multiple schemes to ensnare investors through a web of lies and deceit".
The US Securities and Exchange Commission separately charged him with defrauding investors to hide poor investment choices.
Neither of those cases are connected to Daraprim's price increase or Turing Pharmaceuticals.
Mr Shkreli stepped down as Turing's head after his December arrest.
BBC News went to the town, famous for Ronnie Barker and Italian food, to find out why people living there are more willing to give money to people in need than anywhere else.
Martin Sharp, who has been a full-time volunteer since retirement, agrees that people in Bedford are willing to help others more than people in other towns.
"It's a very generous place, we do tend to look after each other and we're always there for each other's backs, particularly with those less fortunate.
"I don't support much financially, but I support with time. I do whatever I can working with the homeless, providing them with food, clothes etc.
"I don't do it for medals, but I do go home and think, 'Yes, I'm satisfied with that'".
Tuncay Aykac came over from Turkey 10 years ago to live in Bedford and runs a supermarket selling food from across Eastern Europe.
"I am surprised, but now people are seeing around the world fighting and not getting along with each other I suppose when they see it on the TV and the news they like to help each other more.
"I am a little surprised with Bedford, but they're kind, nice people around here.
"You can see people from all around the world here and they're getting on. They're nice to each other and help each other. People understand different cultures and nationalities and religions and they respect each other."
Sources: Bedford Borough Council, BBC
Helen Mudd, who works at the Tourist Information office, has lived in the area since 1978.
"I've not used that particular website [JustGiving], but I know quite a lot of people and we give quite a bit to charity, so maybe it's not so surprising.
"It's quite a high ethnic mix in Bedford, many religions have quite a strong sense of giving to other causes. There's quite a large Sikh population.
"I work in the tourist information centre and people who go in there generally seem to find it quite a welcoming place."
Miss Johnson, who declined to be photographed or give her full name, told BBC News she was raised in Bedford and came back to the town five years ago to raise her children.
"There's a lot of charity shops here, a lot of organisations that do a lot of positive things for people around the world. Even in churches there's a lot of things like missions across the world.
"It's quite a surprise to me to be honest [being rated most generous] because I would never have known it if I didn't see it on the news, but it's a positive thing for Bedford.
"I know a lot of people in the community and they've got really big hearts. For example, I've worked with the African Caribbean forum and they're always trying to do things to support the community and help people less fortunate than themselves.
"Growing up it wasn't like this in Bedford. My mum had the first black family in our area and it was more of an English white town, but as the years have progressed you've had more ethnicities come in - for example, Italians, Polish people, Asians.
"I think because you've got so many diverse communities in Bedford that's why it has become this way, because they have seen the need for it to be like this."
Amanda Rochester helps run the Keech Hospice charity shop to raise money for terminally ill adults and children in the local area.
"I would say people are definitely generous, we do get a lot of donations from the public, not just for the charity shop but cash donations as well. We are very, very privileged.
"Even with the climate as it is, people still want to help. I think because we're local as well, people are looking to give local rather than national."
An inquest into the death of Matthew Symonds, 34, heard he had been staying at Booth House in Swindon.
But he had been turned away at 03:00 BST on 30 July. The hostel stops admitting people at 23:00.
He was last seen on CCTV at 03:51 and his remains were found at 10:46 on 1 August at the Biffa plant in Avonmouth.
The jury at Salisbury Coroner's Court heard Mr Symonds had been a drug user who had taken heroin that day. He had just been released from prison and was staying at the Salvation Army hostel.
A support worker said he had been told to return at 08:00 on 1 August and he left with no trouble.
The industrial waste bin, which he is believed to have climbed into, was picked up at 05:47 by driver Ian Coward.
Mr Coward said he had opened it and could see "nothing out of the ordinary", just a plasma TV box.
He said he would have seen someone standing up in the back of the lorry as there was a camera inside and it was fair to assume that anyone caught by the blade would have been lying down.
The bin was taken to a recycling plant in Swindon for storage, where Mr Symonds is believed to have lain among piles of paper and cardboard until the morning of 1 August.
He was loaded into a lorry before being taken to the Biffa depot and put onto a conveyor. An hour later, Mr Symonds' remains were discovered.
Biffa safety manager Timothy Standring said about 100 people had been found in bins their staff emptied 13 million times in the last year.
In a statement, Susan Symonds described her grandson as "well mannered" but said he had taken the "wrong path in life".
The inquest continues.
The special event is also known as the Lunar New Year which begins on the second new moon at the start of the year and ends on a full moon fifteen days later.
The event is marked all over the world in lots of different ways.
People visit their families and friends, have special meals and a lot of fireworks go off because it's thought that the noise and lights will ward off evil spirits for the year ahead.
The new year is always named after one of twelve animals and 2016 is the year of the monkey.
The 24-year-old, who joined the club in October, suffered the injury in Monday's defeat by Wigan Warriors.
The former Bradford Bulls and London Broncos man had scored four tries in seven appearances this year.
James Webster's side are currently 11th in Super League after winning just one of their opening nine matches this season.
The centre will provide training facilities for Dundee FC as well as a training and competition venue for other regional sport squads.
Plans for the regional performance centre for sport have been lodged with Dundee City Council.
Sports including badminton, basketball, netball, rugby and volleyball will be provided for in the new building.
Athletics, golf and track cycling will be part of the wider campus, which could begin construction next year.
Dundee FC managing director John Nelms told the club's website: "It's something that we've been working on for quite a long time.
"It will allow us to expand our offerings into the community and put our roots even deeper into Dundee."
Sportscotland, who are partners in the project with Dundee City Council, highlighted the need for a regional sports centre in Tayside and Fife in 2003.
A council spokesman said: "The bodies have been working together to develop the scope of the facility based on the various sports' strategic needs, affordability and sustainability as well as discussions with local sports clubs and the desire to have a level of community use.
"It is expected that planning permission will be considered in the next few months."
Groups can and do change their formation or name from time to time, and political parties can switch their affinities.
Being part of a political group gives parties access to funding to cover staff and administrative costs, as well as a greater chance of getting their MEPs elected as chairs of the Parliament's committees.
It will also give a party's MEPs more speaking time during debates, as the number and length of contributions during debates is determined by group size.
Seven groups were initially formed following the 2014 European Parliament elections - this increased to eight in June 2015, with the creation of the Europe of Nations and Freedom bloc of anti-EU nationalist parties.
According to the Parliament's rules, each group must have at least 25 MEPs from a minimum of seven member states.
There are also a number of MEPs who do not belong to any group, known as non-attached members (or the "non-inscrits" in EU jargon).
This is the biggest group in the European Parliament, containing some of the EU's longest-established political parties.
This used to be the home of the UK Conservatives before they left to set up a more Eurosceptic group in 2009.
It is broadly centre-right, and enthusiastic about deeper EU integration.
Along with the Socialist group, the EPP it has traditionally been one of the two powerhouses of the Parliament, providing most of its presidents and vice-presidents.
Eight out of the Parliament's 20 permanent standing committees are currently chaired by MEPs from the group.
Around half of the European Commission are also members of the wider EPP party, including Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
German Christian Democrats make up the biggest delegation in the group - Manfred Weber, from the CSU's Bavarian sister party, is the group's leader.
Formerly known simply as the Socialist group, the group is the home of Labour party MEPs from the UK.
It is the main centre-left group in the Parliament, and for many years was the biggest group in Brussels, although that crown has since been taken by the EPP.
Along with the EPP, it tends to get the lion's share of top jobs in the Parliament.
Current Parliament President Martin Schulz is a member, and stood unsuccessfully as the group's proposed candidate for Commission President in 2014.
The chair of the group is the Italian MEP Gianni Pittella.
One of the big winners of the 2014 elections, the group rose to third place, despite a drop in support for one of its biggest components, the UK Conservatives.
The origin of this group can be found in David Cameron's desire for the Conservatives to leave the federalist EPP and set up a new right-of-centre Eurosceptic group at the time of the 2009 elections.
Alongside the Conservatives, the biggest delegation is Poland's Law and Justice Party, and the group also contains - among others - the Ulster Unionists and Alternative for Germany party.
Broadly centre-right and Eurosceptic, it contains a mixture of groups that are more socially conservative and those that promote economic liberalism.
British Conservative MEP Syed Kamall is the group's leader.
The main centrist group in the Parliament, ALDE saw its overall numbers take a hit at the 2014 elections, mainly due to the sharp fall in support for its two biggest components, the UK Liberal Democrats and the German Free Democrats.
One of the most Euro-enthusiastic groups in the Parliament, it has often held the balance of power in key votes and has been courted by both the Socialists and the EPP when majorities are sought.
Analysis from the Votewatch Europe website has shown that the group won more plenary votes in the first year of the current Parliament term than any other.
Former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt is the group's leader.
As its name suggests, this is the group that can be found on the far left of the political spectrum, containing members from a number of Communist and traditional Socialist parties.
Among the UK's 73 MEPs, the only one to sit in this group is Sinn Fein's Martina Anderson.
It is broadly Eurosceptic, but from an anti-austerity or anti-capitalist point of view, rather than specifically on issues of national sovereignty.
The group's full name represents the fact that it has traditionally contained left-wing environmentalist groups from Scandinavia.
It is chaired by the German MEP Gabriele Zimmer.
As its name suggests, this group is an alliance of two parties - the European Greens and the European Free Alliance, which primarily represents parties focused on regional or national interests such as the SNP, Plaid Cymru, and Catalan parties.
The group generally takes a left of centre position on most issues, and - as the name would suggest - is the home of the UK's three Green Party MEPs.
It is co-chaired by Rebecca Harms from Germany and Philippe Lamberts from Belgium.
The EFDD contains MEPs who disagree with the idea of European integration from a broadly - but not exclusively - right-wing perspective.
The UK provides the largest number of MEPs in this group, containing as it does the 22 MEPs from the UK Independence Party, with the 17 MEPs from Italy's Five Star Movement in second place.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage is co-president of the group, along with the Five Star Movement's David Borrelli.
The formation of the anti-EU ENF group was announced in June 2015, reportedly after over a year of on-off negotiations between previously non-attached members.
The bulk of the group's MEPs come from the French Front National (FN), whose leader, Marine le Pen, is also the group's head.
The far-right FN had previously struggled to find members from enough countries to form a group.
The bloc also includes Italy's Northern League and MEPs from the Dutch Freedom Party.
It also includes ex-UKIP MEP Janice Atkinson, who was expelled from the party earlier in the year over an expenses scandal.
Generally speaking, this cohort is made up of MEPs who have not been able to find enough allies to form a group of their own, or who have been rejected by other parties.
However, it also contains MEPs who feel they do not fit into any of the other groups, such as the Democratic Unionst Party's sole MEP.
In the main, the ranks of the non-attached are made up of nationalist MEPs, such as the three that come from Hungary's Jobbik party.
There are also two MEPs from the Front National who are not part of the ENF group: Bruno Gollnisch and FN founder Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Mr Le Pen was suspended from the party the month before the group formed, over his comments that the Holocaust was "a detail of history".
Being unattached means that members have much less access to speaking time in the chamber, as well as fewer administrative and secretarial resources.
Numbers correct as of 20 October 2015
Alex Rodman and Matt Tootle both drew saves from Iron keeper Luke Daniels as they started the stronger of the sides.
Van Veen missed from six yards out in the second half, but made amends by poking in the opener from close range in the first period of extra time.
The Dutchman sealed the win soon after, firing in from the edge of the box.
Match ends, Scunthorpe United 2, Notts County 0.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Scunthorpe United 2, Notts County 0.
Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Graham Burke (Notts County).
Attempt blocked. Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Richard Duffy.
Corner, Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Richard Duffy.
Attempt saved. Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Scunthorpe United 2, Notts County 0. Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Hakeeb Adelakun.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Sam Mantom replaces Duane Holmes.
Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Vadaine Oliver (Notts County).
Jamie Ness (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adam Campbell (Notts County).
Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wesley Atkinson (Notts County).
Attempt missed. Adam Campbell (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a set piece situation.
Foul by Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United).
Haydn Hollis (Notts County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Second Half Extra Time begins Scunthorpe United 1, Notts County 0.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Hakeeb Adelakun replaces Luke Williams.
First Half Extra Time ends, Scunthorpe United 1, Notts County 0.
Attempt missed. Adam Campbell (Notts County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Murray Wallace.
Goal! Scunthorpe United 1, Notts County 0. Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner following a set piece situation.
Luke Williams (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Graham Burke (Notts County).
Corner, Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Matt Tootle.
Attempt blocked. Luke Williams (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Murray Wallace (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matt Tootle (Notts County).
Foul by Jordan Clarke (Scunthorpe United).
Vadaine Oliver (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Graham Burke (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Duane Holmes (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
First Half Extra Time begins Scunthorpe United 0, Notts County 0.
Second Half ends, Scunthorpe United 0, Notts County 0.
Corner, Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Wesley Atkinson.
Foul by Luke Williams (Scunthorpe United).
Studies showed firing beams of light into the brains of mice led to the animals moving further and faster than those without the therapy.
The research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, could help explain how the brain recovers and lead to new treatments.
The Stroke Association said the findings were interesting.
Strokes can affect memory, movement and the ability to communicate.
Brain cells die when their supply of oxygen and sugars is cut off by a blood clot.
Stroke care is focused on rapid treatment to minimise the damage, but some recovery is possible in the following months as the brain rewires itself.
The team at Stanford University School of Medicine investigated whether brain stimulation aided recovery in animal experiments.
They used a technique called optogenetics to stimulate just the neurons in the motor cortex - the part of the brain responsible for voluntary movements - following a stroke.
After seven days of stimulation, mice were able to walk further down a rotating rod than mice which had not had brain stimulation. After 10 days they were also moving faster.
The researchers believe the stimulation is affecting how the wiring of the brain changes after a stroke.
They detected higher levels of chemicals linked to the formation of new connections between brain cells.
Lead researcher Prof Gary Steinberg said it was a struggle to give people drugs to protect brain cells in time as the "time window is very short".
However he told the BBC that aiding recovery could be easier: "The advantage of treating during the recovery period is it's longer, potentially it could be years, so it has huge potential.
"I predict that the kind of study we're doing will help to push stimulation as a therapy for stroke and you can image how import that would be for the millions of stroke patients with disability."
Optogenetics uses an optic fibre to send light into the brain, which specifically activates cells that are genetically engineered to respond to the light.
It allows precision stimulation of parts of the brain in experiments.
The team at Stanford argue using optogenetics will allow them to uncover exactly what changes in the brain as it recovers from stroke,
Prof Steinberg said: "We're also looking to see if optogenetically stimulating other brain regions after a stroke might be equally or more effective.
"The goal is to identify the precise circuits that would be most amenable to interventions in the human brain, post-stroke, so that we can take this approach into clinical trials."
However, optogenetics cannot be used in people yet.
It would require genetic modification of the target cells, but Prof Steinberg argues "it may not be too far in the future that you're doing refined and elegant stimulation" with optogenetics.
Dr Shamim Quadir, from the Stroke Association charity, said: "This is a very interesting study using light to stimulate specific brain cells of genetically altered mice in the early days after a stroke.
"Using this optogenetic technique could be helpful in improving our understanding of the mechanisms driving stroke recovery, however it is too early to tell exactly how this research might be developed for the treatment of human stroke patients."
The animal welfare charity was alerted by a member of the public to the hawk, named Evis by staff, on 3 April.
Harris hawks are often used in falconry as they are one of the easiest birds of prey to train.
Scottish SPCA centre manager Colin Seddon said the bird was a slightly underweight when brought in but was now "doing well."
He said, "Evis is doing well in our care, but we would like to reunite him with his owner as soon as possible.
"When he was reported to us it was said he was harassing nearby ducks.
"However, he did have tassels on and was relatively easy to catch, which leads us to believe he is tame."
O'Mullan was appointed successor to Kevin Ryan in early November.
Ryan quit after a disastrous 2015 when the Saffrons were relegated to Division Two of the Hurling League and also demoted to the Christy Ring Cup.
However, O'Mullan's side failed to challenge for promotion in the current League with dismal defeats by Westmeath and Carlow ending their hopes.
O'Mullan guided his native Loughgiel to the All-Ireland Club title in 2012 and was the obvious candidate within the county to succeed Waterford man Ryan.
The new manager appointed Cork hurling stalwart Justin McCarthy as his assistant and the duo spoke of their high hopes of turning Antrim's hurling fortunes around.
However, the Saffrons ended their Division Two A campaign with an ignominious defeat in London two weeks ago and the county board announced on Friday that O'Mullan had stepped down for "personal reasons".
"At a meeting earlier today in the offices of Antrim GAA the current senior hurling manager, PJ O'Mullan, has decided to step down from his post due to personal circumstances," read the county board statement.
"PJ would like to thank the back room team and the county board for their support and assistance during his time in charge.
"The county board would like to thank PJ and his back room team for their efforts and wish PJ the best of luck for the future."
The statement added that the board would "consider its options regarding the management of the team for the upcoming Christy Ring campaign".
"I don't think anyone who has never had it can understand how much it affects you mentally," she told the Kaye Adams programme on BBC Radio Scotland.
Judith stopped going out because she did not want to be seen in public and she had trouble sleeping because of the pain it caused.
Colleagues at work asked if she had chicken pox because of the red spots all over her body.
It got so bad she started to take a prescription drug with side effects such as the risk of migraines, chronic fatigue and in some cases depression.
Judith, now 25, says: "I woke up one morning and I had bumps all over my chin and my forehead, then it just kept getting worse and worse - no amount of make-up would cover them.
"Eventually they developed into big cystic spots that would be really painful and take ages to go away.
"Going through puberty I had a few spots but it was nothing like this experience."
At first she thought it was an allergic reaction to something such as a make-up or face wash.
She says: "It escalated so that it was all over my cheeks, my forehead, my back, my shoulders and my chest. It was quite brutal."
Judith, from Glasgow, went to the doctors and got antibiotics and topical treatments but "nothing worked".
"It just got worse so I stopped going out, stopped going to the gym because I did not want anyone to see me without my make-up," she says.
Judith says she changed her diet and tried different skin cleansers but her dermatologist told her acne was related to genetics.
She says: "My brothers had acne when they were teenagers but nothing like I got."
Prof John Hawk, a specialist in dermatology, told BBC Radio Scotland it was the "tendency" to develop acne and not the severity that could be tracked through families.
He said it was difficult to say why the acne would come on so quickly for Judith in her 20s.
Prof Hawk says: "Obviously Judith had minor trouble before when she was a teenager so she had a tendency for it and the tendency is genetic. That's the basic problem. It has nothing to do with diet or washing your face enough.
"It's a genetic problem in which the pores get blocked by the production of too much oil.
"If they get blocked badly enough the oil-producing glands beneath surface swell up and fill with bacteria which love the stuff that is in the glands.
"Then the glands burst like a balloon and cause a major problem under the skin."
Prof Hawk says: "Acne is incredibly psychologically damaging for anyone who has it even mildly and it is treatable in 99% of cases, although it does take several months."
Judith says her dermatologist offered her the drug isotretinoin (often known by the brand name Roaccutane) in July last year.
She waited until November to decide to take it because of its stated side effects.
She says of taking the drug: "I had migraines for the first two months, tiredness for the first three, nosebleeds, dry eyes and dry lips that no amount of lip salve will solve.
"I also developed eczema on my hands.
"But apart from that I don't feel like I've had too bad a ride with it."
Judith says the tiredness was extreme.
She says she would have to sleep for two hours after work before she could get up for her dinner. She would sleep for 10 or 11 hours a day.
"All the side effects totally outweighed the way I was feeling with my acne," Judith says.
"I hated myself and hated being around other girls who had perfect skin."
Prof Hawk says he has treated thousands of people with isotretinoin and it is not renowned for causing migraines and chronic fatigue.
He says: "It definitely causes a number of things such as dryness of the skin and it definitely causes deformed babies if you get pregnant while taking it but normally it would not do anything more.
"It can occasionally cause slight liver irritation and it can push the cholesterol up but not enough to matter."
He says: "High doses can cause problems but I usually give low doses which tend to work pretty well."
Prof Hawk says that whereas Judith was on a dose of 60mg he might only have prescribed 20mg or 30mg for someone of her weight.
The drug was licensed in the UK in 1983 for the most severe forms of acne which have failed to respond to other treatments.
It must be prescribed by, or under supervision of, a consultant dermatologist.
Some campaigners have questioned whether it is overused.
Manufacturer Roche said 17 million people worldwide had used Roaccutane - a brand name for isotretinoin - and no causal link has been established between the medication and either depression or suicide.
Prof Hawk says: "Depression is something which has been renowned to have been caused by it since it was first introduced in about 1980 but people that have it are usually depressed because they have got acne and quite a few are teenagers and they get depressed because of social circumstances.
"The evidence is strong that it does not cause depression because equal percentages of people get depressed on it as off it. Lower doses would probably not cause as much annoyance.
"This drug has an aura of dreadfulness around it but that it is completely unjustified."
Prof Hawk says: "For mild acne - black heads and white heads - you can use topical things such as benzoyl peroxide which over two or three months tends to settle things.
"If you have red spots which are annoying but not big cysts then antibiotics - anti tetracycline or minocycline - work very well in most people over about three months.
"Isotretinoin is for more severe acne."
Judith has been on the acne drug for four months and has at least two months to go.
She says: "I'm much more confident. I go to the gym without my make-up.
"It's made a phenomenal amount of difference. It's completely changed my life."
But the shadow work and pensions secretary said there was no vacancy at the top and Jeremy Corbyn would take Labour into the next general election.
The Pontypridd MP's comments came in an interview for the New Statesman.
Cardiff Central Labour MP Jo Stevens told BBC Wales she would like to see him in the post in the future.
Mr Smith told the magazine: "I don't think there's any vacancy right now.
"But I think any politician who comes into this to want to try and change the world for the better, starting with their own patch and working outwards, I think they're either in the wrong game or fibbing if they don't say, 'if you had the opportunity to be in charge and put in place your vision for a better Britain would you take it?'
"Of course, it would be an incredible honour and privilege to be able to do that."
But Mr Smith reiterated support for his leader: "He won a stonking great majority. Jeremy is going to be taking us into the election in 2020. End of."
Quizzed about the comments on Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme, Jo Stevens said Mr Smith was not "out on manoeuvres" and putting himself forward to replace Mr Corbyn.
"Owen is someone who doesn't dodge questions. He was asked the question and he answered it honestly - and all credit to him for doing that," she said.
Ms Stevens was herself promoted to the Labour front bench this week, following resignations over shadow cabinet sackings during the Labour reshuffle.
She said her colleague was a "straight talking man", adding: "He doesn't think there is going to be a leadership vacancy."
Ms Stevens said: "Would I see him as a future leader? I think he is a very, very talented politician and I'd like to see him leader of the Labour Party in the future."
NCU Twenty/20 - Section B
Carrickfergus v CIYMS
Carrickfergus 174-6 J Holmes 64 no, P Botha 29, M McGillivray 3-23
CIYMS 175-5 J Matchett 43, C Dougherty 42
CIYMS won by five wickets
In Section B North Down have to defeat Waringstown on Saturday to have any chance of qualifying for the semi-finals.
Waringstown have 14 points from four games, CIYMS 12 from five, North Down six from four and Carrickfergus two from five. The final fixtures are next Friday evening.
Muckamore have already clinched Section A and second place is between CSNI and Instonians.
Under the new format the finalists of the NCU Twenty/20 and the Faughan Valley finalists will contest the semi-finals of the Ulster Cup.
Faughan Valley Cup - Twenty/20 semi-finals
Bready v Ardmore
Ardmore 95 D Curry 18, Irish 3-14
Bready 98-2 D Rankin 59 no
Bready won by eight wickets
Coleraine v Donemana
Due to a lengthy injury list Donemana were unable to fulfil the fixture.
According to a Sunday Times investigation, Mark Bonar - a London-based private doctor - charges sports stars thousands of pounds for drug programmes.
The newspaper says it has secretly filmed the medic claiming that he has prescribed performance-enhancing drugs such as EPO, steroids and human growth hormone to 150 elite sports professionals from the UK and abroad over the past six years, including:
There is no suggestion that any Premier League clubs were aware of any alleged wrongdoing and the Sunday Times says it has no independent evidence Bonar treated the players.
Bonar has told the Sunday Times he treated the athletes for medical reasons and not to enhance their performance. There is no suggestion the substances were illegal.
Athletes contacted by the newspaper either denied Bonar had treated them or declined to comment.
The government investigation stems from claims made by a whistleblower athlete who was banned for breaching anti-doping rules in 2014.
According to the newspaper, the sportsman - who wishes to remain anonymous - approached Ukad with evidence that indicated Bonar had allegedly prescribed him performance-enhancing drugs.
Ukad says it did begin an investigation into Bonar but found that he was outside of its jurisdiction as he was not governed by a sport, and decided not to pass the case to the General Medical Council (GMC) or to contact him.
The Sunday Times - in collaboration with an aspiring athlete - then secretly recorded Bonar allegedly prescribing a series of prohibited drugs to the runner. It is claimed that Bonar then went on to talk about the other sportspeople he says he treated.
Bonar does not currently hold a licence and is unable to practise medicine in the UK, according to the GMC.
He is also facing a misconduct tribunal later this month. It is unrelated to allegations of doping.
Ukad told the BBC it would conduct an independent review into the case.
"I am shocked and deeply concerned by these allegations," Culture, Media and Sport Secretary John Whittingdale said in a statement.
"I have asked for there to be an urgent independent investigation into what action was taken when these allegations were first received and what more needs to be done to ensure that British sport remains clean.
"There is no room for complacency in the fight against doping and the government is already looking at whether existing legislation in this area goes far enough. If it becomes clear that stronger criminal sanctions are needed then we will not hesitate to act."
In response to the Sunday Times article, Ukad chief executive Nicole Sapstead said the organisation was "deeply concerned and shocked by the allegations".
Ukad's statement also said it had:
World Anti-Doping Agency president Craig Reedie told the BBC it was "pretty dreadful news" and backed calls for an inquiry, but added: "It is best to wait for Ukad to do their own investigation, then we have full knowledge of the facts to work with.
"My own guess is if they had sufficient evidence then they would have acted."
Ukad, which receives around £7m funding each year, has been widely praised for its work in the fight against cheating in sport.
It has been helping Russia's anti-doping agency run testing programmes after Russia was banned from all athletics competitions following accusations of widespread doping. And it was recently appointed as the secretariat for an IOC taskforce that will oversee testing procedures at the Olympics.
Last year a study commissioned by Uefa suggested 7.7% of players in a sample of 879 had high testosterone levels, although European football's governing body said the figures "didn't present evidence of potential doping".
Earlier this year Sapstead told the BBC that football was "at risk" of doping problems.
"When you're looking at a sport like football that commands the sort of salaries that the players can command, its fanbase, its ticket sales, its broadcasting rights - if that isn't a risk then I don't know what is, notwithstanding the physical demands of the sport itself," she said.
"Add that into a nice big mix and you've got everything pointing to a doping issue."
In response, the Football Association said Sapstead's comments were "speculative" and "unhelpful", adding that they had no "evidential basis".
A recent BBC Sport investigation learned that only eight drugs tests were conducted in Scottish football over a nine-month period between April and December 2015. There were 1,583 tests in English football over the same period.
Former Partick Thistle player Jordan McMillan is the only British footballer currently banned by Ukad, for taking cocaine.
The 67-year-old was taken to hospital in the early hours of Wednesday morning after a concert in Antalya.
The band's manager, Simon Porter, said: "Whilst his condition is serious, he has already demanded his customary cup of tea with two sugars and a sweetener."
Status Quo had been playing a gig at the Expo 2016 festival.
Porter added: "No further comment will be made at this stage until the completion of the next round of tests and assessments to be made over the next few days."
The guitarist has had a number of health scares in recent years - including a throat cancer scare in 2005 and a heart attack in 2011.
Status Quo cancelled a series of gigs in 2014 after Parfitt was told to rest by doctors, following surgery to correct a problem with his previous quadruple heart bypass, which he underwent in 1997.
Parfitt had been due to perform at the Rock On Windermere charity show on Saturday to raise funds for the Cumbria Flood Appeal, but has now pulled out.
The rest of the band will still appear, with Freddie Edwards, the son of bassist John "Rhino" Edwards, stepping in for Parfitt.
British band Status Quo have had more than 60 chart hits in the UK, including Rockin' All Over the World, Whatever You Want and In the Army Now. In 1991, they received a Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.
Parfitt and Francis Rossi remain the best known names in a constantly evolving line-up, which currently includes Edwards, Andy Bown and Leon Cave.
Critics of the law say it could be used to discriminate against gays and lesbians.
Governor Mike Pence said he wanted state lawmakers to add language to the law that clarifies its intentions, by the end of the week.
"This is a clarification, but it's also a fix," he said.
He stressed that the controversy was the result of a "perception problem" not lawmakers' desire to discriminate.
Under the law, the state can only infringe on a person's religious beliefs when it has a compelling interest, but it must do so in the least intrusive way possible. It defines "person" to included religious institutions, businesses and associations.
The governor, who signed the bill into law last week, went on the attack after a number of famous names, corporations and sporting institutions warned that business owners now had a licence to discriminate against gays and lesbians.
Mr Pence said he "was proud to sign" the bill, but that he believes "it would be appropriate to make it clear that this law does not give businesses a right to deny services to anyone".
"I don't support discrimination against gays or lesbians or anyone else. I abhor discrimination," he said.
"I could have handled it better," said Governor Pence after what he admitted had been a "tough week".
But with the humility came the insistence, time and again, that the backlash he had faced was because the media had misrepresented him and the law.
He insists that he did the right thing in signing the Religious Freedoms Act.
Those we have been speaking to on the streets of Indianapolis appeared to feel very differently, invariably saying they did not see the need for the bill and that they were embarrassed by the negative attention it had brought to the state and the damage it had done to Indiana's reputation.
Gay rights groups are calling on Indiana lawmakers to update their civil rights laws to specifically include protections for gay and transgender people.
Mr Pence said he doesn't support the extra protections and insisted that they are a separate issue.
"Fair-minded people across his state are demanding that those protections get on his agenda, immediately," Chad Griffin, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, said.
Critics believe it provides a way for opponents of gay marriage, which became legal in Indiana last year, to continue their opposition by other means.
A chorus of criticism has been growing for nearly a week, and the backlash has made allies of Hillary Clinton and Miley Cyrus, and Angie's List and Apple.
In recent days the governors of Connecticut, Washington state, and New York have banned state-funded travel to Indiana and other states that simultaneously have RFRA measures and no balancing law to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination.
"When it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck," Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy told MSNBC's Morning Joe programme explaining his decision. "They knew what they were doing and what they were doing was deciding that they were going to make it legal to refuse to serve gay men and women."
On Tuesday, the Indianapolis Star ran a full, front page editorial calling on state leaders to enact protections for gays and transgendered people.
Many businesses across the state have posted placards and stickers saying they serve everyone, and the official tourism site for Indianapolis - the state's capital - features a rainbow graphic and a "LGBT guide to Indy".
Over the weekend, Mr Pence repeatedly refused to answer direct questions about how the law might be used against gay people in a nationally televised interview.
Referring to that interview Mr Pence said on Tuesday, "I could have handled that better this weekend."
Despite the national outcry, Arkansas is set enact a similar measure as early as Tuesday. Unlike leaders in Indiana, Arkansas lawmakers said they will not modify their bill.
The latest allegations were made by a former Petrobras executive, Sergio Machado, who has been giving plea bargain evidence to prosecutors.
He said Mr Temer, among others, had asked him for illegal campaign contributions for a political ally.
Mr Temer has denied doing so. Reuters quoted his office as saying he had always observed campaign finance laws.
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Mr Machado, who is himself accused of corruption, said Mr Temer had requested a donation of about $440,000 (£309,000) for his PMDB party candidate's campaign in the mayoral elections in Sao Paulo in 2012.
The allegations against interim President Temer are being treated with some caution in the Brazilian press.
Many outlets are focusing on the scale of accusations by whistleblower Sergio Machado, and not on President Temer himself.
The headline of right-leaning news outlet G1 (Globo) reads: "Sergio Machado says he handed over bribes to more than 20 politicians."
Mr Temer's name is not mentioned until the fifth paragraph.
Centre-right daily Correio Braziliense highlights the fact that eight political parties are implicated, but that Mr Temer's PMDB party "leads the ranking in bribery".
Centre-left news portal Carta Capital is one of the few outlets to focus on the interim president's alleged involvement.
They quote Mr Machado's claim that Mr Temer was aware that campaign contributions were "illicit".
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Mr Machado said the contribution was made by a construction company and masked as an official campaign donation.
The money originated from a kickback scheme involving contracts handed out by Petrobras, he added.
He said that at the time he had made it clear to Mr Temer that the funds requested would come from "illicit resources".
According to the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper, Mr Temer has denied asking for illegal contributions to his party's electoral campaigns and has said he never found himself in an "inappropriate place" with Mr Machado.
Mr Temer took office a month ago after his party played a leading part in getting President Dilma Rousseff suspended to face an impeachment trial.
Since then he has lost two cabinet members over an alleged corruption cover-up related to the Petrobras scandal.
The centre-back joined the league champions in 2012, for £36m, on a five-year deal but it is understood he has extended his stay until 2018.
Barcelona were hoping to sign the 28-year-old Brazilian but his wage demands proved a sticking point before they were told to halt their pursuit by PSG.
The La Liga champions have said that signing a centre-back is a priority.
Veteran Carles Puyol, 35, suffered knee problems last season and had surgery in March, while fellow defenders Gerard Pique, Adriano Correia and Javier Mascherano were either injured or suspended during the campaign.
Barcelona had been linked with another Brazil centre-back, Chelsea's David Luiz, but in June denied they were interested in signing the 26-year-old, while Tito Vilanova was in charge.
But reports in Spain on Monday suggest that the Catalan giants - now managed by Argentine Gerardo Martino - are keen to recruit the player.
Bayern Munich were also linked with Luiz on Monday, but the European and German champions told BBC Sport they have enough central defenders at the club.
Luiz joined Chelsea from Benfica during the January transfer window of 2011 for about £21.3m and signed a new five-year contract last year.
Souttar was stretchered off during Sunday's 4-0 defeat by Celtic.
Hearts head coach Ian Cathro said: "Right now it is a worry. It is a concern surrounding his Achilles."
He confirmed interest in Anorthosis Famagusta's Goncalves and Greek international Tziolis, who has left PAOK Salonica in his homeland.
"It has already been spoken about, probably from the other end, in the case of Goncalves, and Tziolis is now a free agent," said Cathro.
"We are working on both of those things. It is possible, but there is still a little bit of work to be done."
The 31-year-old Tziolis, who has played for Panathinaikos, Werder Bremen and Monaco, has been capped 62 times for his country but left PAOK after failing to make an appearance this season for the Greek Superleague club.
Goncalves had a loan spell in 2013 with St Mirren from Portuguese club Rio Ave, where Cathro was assistant.
The 25-year-old is presently with Anorthosis Famagusta and has made 21 appearances for the Cypriot First Division club this season after leaving his native Portugal.
"We need to bring people," said Cathro. "As it stands, we are short and we need to bring more players, guys who bring different qualities, guys who bring us more strength and competition and options."
Sunday's injury to Souttar could force a rethink of his signing plans ahead of Tuesday's January deadline.
"There was a challenge and then he landed awkwardly," said the head coach. "There is a bit of concern just now, it is an Achilles issue.
"We don't know the extent of it. But, as you saw, it didn't look nice.
"It will be in the next few hours and tomorrow morning before we know exactly what it is."
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Cathro has already made six signings during January, with on-loan Stoke City winger Moha Choulay making his debut against Celtic from the bench and former Stirling Albion striker Dylan Bikey an unused substitute.
Hearts have only won twice in eight games since Cathro took charge, but he insisted he saw signs of promise despite the scoreline against the Premiership leaders.
"We should feel strong about some of the things we've done today, there's a lot of positives and I think the game was very close to swinging the other way," said Cathro, who thought his side paid for a second-half miss by Malaury Martin when Celtic were 1-0 ahead.
The European Space Agency has released a photo of the lost Philae probe, which successfully landed on a moving comet in 2014 as part of the Rosetta mission.
Scientists lost contact with it earlier this year, so the team are very happy to be able to see that it is still there.
This was because the probe had a pretty bumpy landing.
It bounced on impact with the comet, and ended up being stuck in a shaded part of the comet.
This meant that its solar powered batteries couldn't charge from the sun properly.
The Philae lander was found using the super-powered OSIRIS camera, which snapped the photo on its orbit around the comet.
The Rosetta space mission comes to an end in a month's time, so the scientists are very happy they were able to find it before the end of the mission.
"This remarkable discovery comes at the end of a long, painstaking search," says Patrick Martin, one of the ESA's scientists. "We were beginning to think that Philae would remain lost forever. It is incredible we have captured this at the final hour."
It would seem to be a bit of a challenge.
The New York billionaire said he doesn't know if he's ever asked God for forgiveness and referred to a communion wafer as "my little cracker" during a religious-affiliated presidential forum in Iowa. He won't cite a favourite Bible verse. He's been married three times. He was once avowedly pro-choice on abortion. And when an interviewer recently asked him about God, he spent more time talking about an oceanfront real-estate deal.
It's a far cry from the more detailed profession of faith made by competing candidates like retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former Arkansas Governor (and Southern Baptist minister) Mike Huckabee and Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
Even former Florida Governor Jeb Bush - a no-show at Friday's event - speaks openly of his adult conversion to Roman Catholicism.
And yet there was Donald Trump, childhood Bible in hand, making a play for the support of right-wing religious activists at the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit in Washington DC on Friday.
"I brought my Bible," he said, noting it was from the First Presbyterian Church in New York City and pointing to an inscription on the inside cover. "This was written by my mother, with my name, with my address, with everything."
It took him a while to get back to religion in his speech - he first felt obliged to take swipes at departing House Speaker John Boehner (for which he was cheered) and fellow candidate Marco Rubio (for which he was booed), but he eventually tried to speak his audience's language.
"I believe in God," he told the crowd of over a thousand. "I believe in the Bible. I'm a Christian."
He followed it up by taking a firm stand in favour of Christmas.
"I love Christmas. You go to stores now, you don't see the word 'Christmas'," he said. "Remember the expression 'Merry Christmas'? You don't see it anymore. You're going to see it if I get elected, I can tell you right now."
And that was mostly it - the sum total of his appeal to his audience's evangelism in his nearly 30 minute address.
Many in the crowd weren't buying it.
"Only God knows his true relationship with God, but as the Bible says, 'you will know them by their fruit'," says Pam Orebaugh of Liberty Lake, Washington. "He's not a bad person, but he's definitely not one championing and being very verbal about being a Christian, religious freedom, being pro-life."
"Where was he 10 years ago?" she asks.
Damon Boyle of Eldersburg, Maryland, calls Mr Trump "very entertaining", but it would take more than that to win his support.
"He's an excellent businessman. He's an excellent executive," he says. "But in terms of a Christian, what has the man done?"
These sentiments were backed up by a straw poll of Values Voter Summit attendees released on Saturday, which put Mr Trump in fifth place with 5% - well behind Mr Cruz, who garnered 35%.
Mr Trump likes to boast that national opinion polls show him with strong backing from religious voters. A recent Fox News Survey had the New Yorker in first place among white evangelicals with 29%.
A Gallup poll from mid-September, however, found evidence of weakness in Mr Trump's support. He had a net favourability rating of 22% among "highly religious" voters, putting him 12th- well behind Mr Carson (56%), Mr Huckabee (49%) and Mr Rubio (49%).
"No sign here of any special appeal on the part of Trump to highly religious Republicans," writes Gallup's Frank Newport.
So does Donald Trump have a God problem?
White evangelicals made up 57% of the electorate in Republican Iowa Caucuses in 2012 and were essential to the former Senator Rick Santorum's surprise victory there. They're also a key voting bloc in the eight Southern states that are joining together to hold their primaries on 1 March 2016.
For a while, it appeared that Mr Trump was going to give the Values Voter Summit a pass, prompting Family Research Council President Tony Perkins to question his commitment to religious voters.
"I think that is going to send a message to evangelicals and values voters that he wants their support, but he is not really interested in having a conversation with them," Mr Perkins told the Christian Post.
When Mr Trump changed his plans, Mr Perkins changed his tune.
"It is part of beginning a conversation if he wants to build a relationship with evangelicals," Mr Perkins said in a Washington Times interview, adding that a fifth-place showing in the straw poll "is actually pretty good".
Mr Trump may not be a natural fit for this Republican constituency, but it appears he's not going to cede these voters to another candidate without a fight.
Candidates in (and out of) the Republican presidential field
The Robins, who are 22nd in the Championship, sacked manager Steve Cotterill last Thursday.
John Pemberton and Wade Elliott have been put in interim charge, and oversaw Saturday's win over Middlesbrough.
"I like to work with a management team and a head coach is part of that management team," said Ashton.
"It is about the person, the person is key and the way they work is key," he told BBC Points West.
"It has to be a very good communicator who understands the modern game. They have to be a good natural leader, somebody who can take the club forward, playing in the right way."
While Ashton refused to rule 51-year-old Pemberton out of taking the job on a permanent basis, he did confirm that Oxford's Michael Appleton will not be approached.
"We have said to John, give us a problem and go and win some football matches," he said. "I am not ruling anything out at this stage. Bristol City is a very attractive club and it is a big, big city."
Bristol City host West Bromwich Albion in their FA Cup third-round replay on Tuesday, having shared a 2-2 draw at the Hawthorns 10 days ago.
Nineteen-year-old goalkeeper Max O'Leary is set to make his full debut in the absence of injured number one Frank Fielding.
"He has been around us a long time in the squad," said Pemberton. "He has a great temperament, we have full confidence in him and I am looking forward to seeing how he copes."
Mane is enjoying an impressive season with the Reds and Rush has spoken of the player's importance to the team.
"He will be missed because he has been fantastic up to now this season, not only for his goals but also for his assists," Rush told BBC Sport.
"The sign of a good team is how well a player is being replaced. We missed Coutinho but we are still winning.
"We'll be getting Daniel Sturridge to replace Mane but we can't wait to get him back because he is a valuable member of the squad" added the Liverpool legend.
55-year-old Rush also commented on Joel Matip's decision not to play for Cameroon at the Nations Cup.
"It is difficult to say, I think he has his reason to do that. This is an individual thing and I think it is great from Liverpool's point of view," Rush explained.
"The African Nation Cup is a great thing and he just wants to show, maybe, that he is desperate to do well for Liverpool Football Club."
Rush, who is still Liverpool's all-time leading scorer with a record 346 goals in 660 appearances, has been representing the club on a visit to Mauritius in his role as an ambassador.
He says he has seen at first hand how popular both the Premier League and Liverpool are in Africa.
"You go on a small island, and then you realise that they are more fanatical there - like in Mauritius. It is amazing.
"We need to look at Africa, at the Islands - they love football and Liverpool - and we try to give them something back" the former Wales international added.
He harbours ambitions for Liverpool to finish in the top four this season and win a trophy.
"I would be most happy with that, but I can be sure that Manchester United will not win the league this year. I tip Chelsea."
The department's documentaries have included Planet Earth II and Blue Planet - both narrated by Sir David.
The 91-year-old will join the unit's head Julian Hector.
They will discuss some of the most ground-breaking moments throughout its 60 years of programme making.
Sir David said: "I'm delighted to be at the Edinburgh TV Festival to recall the history of what was the first Natural History Unit to be set up in the world and to celebrate some of its milestones."
Mr Hector said: "I grew up with The Living World presented by Peter France on Radio 4 and was studying zoology at university by the time Sir David's Life On Earth was first broadcast in 1979 on BBC 1.
"The NHU has been part of my life ever since, and I look forward to sharing with the TV Festival all of the astonishing work that goes on behind the scenes to make these incredible series."
Sir David has been breaking ground in nature documentaries since the 1970s when one of his first televised expeditions, A Blank On The Map, saw him trek through the central New Guinea highlands to meet a group of tribespeople never before seen by Europeans.
Most recently, he lent his charismatic voice to the second series of Planet Earth, which won a Bafta earlier this year for best specialist factual programme.
His appearance at the festival will mark a special moment for visiting fans, not least the event's own director Lisa Campbell.
"It's long been an ambition of mine to welcome Sir David to the festival and I have no doubt that this will be a remarkable and historic session," she said.
The Edinburgh International Television Festival runs from August 23-25.
Opponents rounded on shadow home secretary Diane Abbott on Tuesday, accusing her of failing to explain her party's policy.
But Wayne David said Welsh party colleagues have "more of an ear to the ground than perhaps Diane".
Labour's manifesto would give Welsh ministers a bigger role in policing, he told BBC Wales.
It is something First Minister Carwyn Jones's Welsh Government has called for.
The Conservatives have ruled out the devolution of policing, while Plaid Cymru accused Labour of not fighting hard enough in Westminster to make it happen.
Mr David was responding to a BBC Radio Wales interview by Ms Abbott on Tuesday when she said "we don't think it's right at this time to devolve policing, but this is something there's constant discussion about inside the Labour Party".
She later said: "We will make our position clear on this in the coming weeks."
Mr David said Labour's 2015 manifesto was very clear "that we favoured, at that time, an all-Wales plan drawn up by Welsh ministers".
"That will certainly be in the manifesto, but is likely to be embellished upon and the final details are being worked on as we speak.
"The Labour Party is firmly committed to extending devolution."
"It is still being discussed," he added.
"Because we are in Wales we have got a little bit more of an ear to the ground than perhaps Diane.
"But nevertheless I can tell you that the Labour Party is firmly committed to strong policing, to neighbourhood policing and devolved policing as well."
However he denied Ms Abbott had got her facts wrong.
She was also criticised for failing to explain how Labour would fund plans to employ 10,000 more officers, 853 of them in Wales.
For the Conservatives, Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said: "The reality is that crime doesn't stop at administrative borders, it doesn't stop at the Welsh border.
"We want a strong police force properly funded by a strong leader delivering a strong economy that can pay for those essential public services."
Plaid candidate Liz Saville Roberts said: "If the Labour party were serious about supporting our police forces and keeping Wales safe, they wouldn't have voted with the Tories to keep Welsh policing in Westminster's hands. "
UKIP's leader in the assembly, Neil Hamilton, said the party did not have a policy on it, but he was personally "very favourable to devolving further powers... because I think we need to make the government in Cardiff more responsible for the things that are done in Wales".
Former Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Lord German - whose party has backed devolving policing - said: "The shadow home secretary couldn't even give an answer on whether policing should be devolved to Wales."
Ronaldo's 33rd-minute goal was followed by strikes from Manchester City-bound Bernardo Silva, Andre Silva and Nani.
Mexico also progressed to the semi-finals as they knocked hosts Russia out of the tournament with a 2-1 victory.
Portugal ensured top spot in Group A as New Zealand finished bottom after a third straight defeat.
However, defender Pepe will miss Portugal's semi-final after picking up his second yellow card of the tournament.
And there will be fitness concerns over Bernardo Silva, who was substituted at half-time because of an ankle injury.
In the other group, Chile and Germany will both progress to the last four if they avoid defeat on Sunday.
Chile face Australia and Germany play Cameroon on Sunday to determine the final standings in Group B.
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The BBC understands it wants to help other women who are told their baby has a life-limiting condition, including what options may be available.
It is the first time that the Department of Health has publicly addressed FFA in Northern Ireland.
It is understood the information will be contained in a leaflet.
Northern Ireland's chief medical officer, Dr Michael McBride, has asked the director of nursing Mary Hinds to lead the group.
A number of meetings have already taken place where women have described the availability of information including access to a termination and bereavement counselling.
This is a significant, albeit quiet, move on the part of the Northern Ireland Health and Social Care service to tackle an issue which has become controversial in Northern Ireland.
A fatal foetal abnormality diagnosis means medics believe an unborn child will die either in the womb or shortly after birth.
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At first it isn't easy to find AmazonFresh, presumably it's not very prominent on the site because it is only on offer in parts of London. But eventually it's likely to be extended nationwide, assuming it catches on here.
Jess is a fan of buying groceries online and has been using Ocado until now. She is perfectly satisfied with the service she gets, but still, she's not ruling out trying something new. And once she finds the right page, Jess is quite impressed.
"The layout is really good, actually much easier than Ocado's. The pictures of the products are bigger."
The offer is broad: the basics of course, but also the latest fashionable foodie products: coconut water, chocolate-covered goji berries, fresh quinoa and wheatberry salad. And if you order in the morning you can take delivery in time to put the dinner on that same evening, something none of the supermarkets are offering.
"If I scroll down I can see fruit and veg and meat," she says.
"I'm looking at bacon and the prices are good, £1.78 for 250g, about normal." But the brand, Yeoman and Tiller, isn't one she's heard of.
"That doesn't bother me as long as the price is good and it's a good weight," she says. And she can find the kids' meals that she usually buys for her three-year-old son Finnley, though she says elsewhere they're often on offer; here they aren't.
But it would be a bit of a hassle to learn a whole new system, she says. "I'm so used to Ocado, it takes me five minutes."
These are the things she wants when it comes to online shopping: delivery in hourly slots, that arrive on time; not too many substitutions if a product isn't available. And the products should have a good shelf life. So Amazon will have to meet those standards to have a hope of winning her over.
Most of all, though, it depends on price.
Amazon has issued a press release, showing the cost of a basket of goods. The Grocer magazine has calculated the cost of those goods including bread, cheese and Ferrero Rocher at the big supermarkets and while Amazon's basket totals £58.93, the other big four supermarkets come out with an average of £63.26 for the same products.
It's true that while a pack of four toilet rolls is cheaper on Amazon, and that only Asda matches them on 300g of broccoli, fresh raspberries and strawberries are a better bargain at Tesco.
And if you are fussy about knowing where your food is from, the meat and ready meals on AmazonFresh are made by a company called Foddr, a trademark that was registered last year and doesn't seem to have much of an online presence.
Then there are the delivery fees. In the US, Amazon charges customers $299 (£206) a year to belong to the food delivery service.
But maybe the company realises that would be hard to lure in British shoppers with a high initial fee, since here you can already have your shopping delivered by Tesco for as little as £1 on a weekday if you plan ahead, or for free from Sainsburys if you spend enough and stick to the least popular timeslots.
Here AmazonFresh is charging £6.99 per month for unlimited deliveries (with a £40 minimum spend for each). But first you have to be a member of Amazon Prime, which is £79 a year but brings a bundle of other services including films and music and free delivery of other orders.
So would Jess give it a go? At that price she says probably not. "I think that's quite expensive."
"If you've paid the £79 I think the delivery should be free or lower."
She'd only try it "if a lot of people said it was brilliant, brilliant, brilliant".
Source: food and grocery researchers, IGD
Apart from the obvious challenge of luring customers, it won't necessarily be plain sailing for Amazon. The logistics of providing a seven-day-a-week fresh food delivery service are considerably more complicated than Amazon's original business.
"There's no question that selling food is the biggest challenge Amazon has ever faced," says veteran retail analyst Richard Hyman.
"Books and DVDs are physically relatively simple to handle, they have a lengthy shelf life.
"If you don't sell a book in a few months, it's still in the same condition that it was. If you don't sell a salad or a cucumber, very, very quickly it's going to represent as a loss in your profit and loss account. Selling fruit and veg is very challenging and many have failed in the attempt."
But he still thinks for the big four supermarkets the arrival of Amazon is a "nightmare scenario".
"Only a fool would bet against them eventually cracking it."
Play was called off 30 minutes before the start of the two-day game in Chittagong, set to begin at 05:00 BST.
Heavy rain this week saturated the outfield at the MA Aziz Stadium, meaning the England players took part in net practice instead.
There are also doubts over whether there will be any play on Saturday.
England play a second two-day match against the same opposition starting on Sunday before the two-Test series gets under way on 20 October in Chittagong.
The warm-up games represent a chance for 19-year-old Haseeb Hameed and Ben Duckett, 21, to claim a place as captain Alastair Cook's opening partner in the Tests.
She currently leads the party in the London Assembly, where she speaks for the Lib Dems on transport, policing and education.
Party members selected her after another shortlisted hopeful, Duwayne Brooks, withdrew from the race.
Ms Pidgeon says she wants to tackle the barriers that make London "a city that serves the few, not the many".
Last week, Sadiq Khan was selected as the Labour candidate. Sian Berry will represent the Greens.
The Conservatives and UKIP have yet to choose their candidates.
A typical budget washing machine is weighted by 25kg of concrete to stop it moving while on a spin cycle.
The new invention is a sealable plastic container that is filled with water - but only once the machine is in place.
The team at Nottingham Trent University says the change makes machines easier - and cheaper - to transport.
By replacing the concrete with empty containers, the weight of the machine is cut by a third.
If the change became standard, it would cut the weight of trucks carrying the machines which would in turn cut emissions.
The research suggests that with around 3.5 million washing machines sold annually in the UK, the new device could save around 44,625 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year.
The idea was devised by product design company Tochi Tech Ltd, which works with the university to find innovative solutions to manufacturing common appliances.
It was tested by an undergraduate on a project, Dylan Knight, 22.
He told BBC News: "Everyone thinks the idea must have been thought of before. No one can really believe it. But I promise you it definitely works."
Mr Knight said the average cheaper washing machine has two concrete blocks - one under the drum at the front and one on top.
For the test, he replaced the one on top with a water-filled container as proof of concept.
As concrete is denser than water, the containers need to be bigger than the blocks, to make up the weight difference.
The firm is in discussions with manufacturers, who will want to ensure there is no downside to this ingenious re-think of a familiar product - and maybe to ask why no-one thought of it before.
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Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan informed Justice Minister Alan Shatter of his decision to resign on Tuesday.
Two officers had raised concerns about flaws in the penalty points system.
Mr Callinan told a parliamentary committee the claims were "disgusting", but he was urged to withdraw his remarks after an independent report recommended major reform of the system.
By Shane HarrisonBBC NI Dublin correspondent
The resignation of a garda commissioner is a relatively rare event, but in this case it was almost inevitable.
A stout defender of his force who put a strong emphasis on discipline, Martin Callinan's refusal to withdraw comments that the behaviour of whistleblowers was "disgusting" sealed his fate, even though he believed if he were to apologise he would be dancing to someone else's political tune.
The resignation damages the Irish government and exposes rifts, both within the Fine Gael party and with its coalition partner, Labour.
The pressure will now be on Justice Minister Alan Shatter, who also appeared to take a hard line on the whistleblowers controversy, to go some way towards meeting public concerns on the penalty points issue.
The whistleblowers - Sgt Maurice McCabe and now-retired John Wilson - had claimed that senior police officers had inappropriately wiped the penalty points from the driving licences of often well-connected offenders.
The pair made their allegations to the Public Accounts Committee of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
When Mr Callinan appeared before the committee, he described the actions of the two whistleblowers as "disgusting".
Since then, a report by the independent Garda Inspectorate found that there were consistent and widespread breaches of policy by those charged with administering the penalty points system.
The inspectorate also found Sgt McCabe's information was "credible".
Last week, Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar said that if he could choose one word to describe the two officers' actions it would be "distinguished", and added that the garda commissioner "was not above criticism".
In the Dáil (parliament) on Tuesday, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin and Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams both pressed Taoiseach Prime Minister Enda Kenny to ask the justice minister, Mr Shatter, to resign as well.
Mr Kenny said he would not be doing so.
He accused Mr Adams of only being interested in "getting another head on the plate" and said Mr Shatter would continue to reform the justice system.
"He will bring our system into the modern era, so everyone in the country can have confidence in it," Mr Kenny said.
In his resignation statement, Mr Callinan said he had taken the decision to retire from his post in "the best interests of An Garda Síochána (Irish police) and my family".
By Andy MartinBBC Ireland Correspondent
From the moment the head of police in the Republic of Ireland, Martin Callinan, stood down, it seemed there was more to his resignation.
After all, his offending comment, branding the actions of two whistleblowers within his force "disgusting", was made three months ago.
It had created tension with the ruling Fine Gael party, putting the Irish justice and transport ministers at loggerheads. But the fact that Mr Callinan had stubbornly refused to retract the comments suggested that he was going nowhere.
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"Having joined An Garda Síochána in May of 1973, it has been a great honour and privilege to have spent nearly 41 years as a member of this tremendous organisation, serving the people of Ireland," he added.
Mr Callinan, who was appointed Garda Commissioner in 2010, said the last four years had seen "major changes" within the police force, some of which had "not always been easy".
However, he said the changes had "resulted in a reduction in crime throughout the country".
He sent his "best wishes and wholehearted support" to his successor and all other members of the police force.
Cabinet ministers are discussing the issue on Tuesday.
Padraig Mac Lochlainn, Sinn Féin justice spokesman and chairman of the Public Service Oversight Committee, said Mr Callinan had made the right decision.
"From the moment that the allegations from the two Garda whistleblowers, Maurice McCabe and John Wilson, emerged about widespread malpractice of the penalty points issue the Garda Commissioner sought to downplay and even dismiss the allegations," he said.
"Worse, he repeatedly sought to discredit the credibility of the two whistleblowers which culminated in the outrageous 'disgusting' comment at the Public Accounts Committee."
Mr Mac Lochlainn said recent separate reports in the penalty points controversy by both the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Garda Inspectorate vindicated the core allegations of the whistleblowers.
One of the two officers, Mr Wilson, told Irish state broadcaster RTÉ that while Mr Callinan had served his country during his long career, "his position had become untenable and his decision to resign was the correct one".
Mr Callinan was due to retire in August 2013 but Justice Minister Alan Shatter tweaked a ban on officers serving past the age of 60 to allow the police chief serve for two more years.
The order came at a time when hard-hitting cutbacks and reforms had to be inflicted on the service under the Republic of Ireland's economic rescue package.
However, the financial woes, including the closure of 100 police stations, appeared to be the least of his worries, as he was forced to battle several high-profile fall-outs about alleged police wrongdoing.
Last year, the long-running High Court judge-led Smithwick inquiry said the Garda remained a force where "loyalty is prized over honesty" as it concluded officers colluded in the murders of two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers in 1989.
Last May the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) accused the service of withholding vital evidence from its inquiry into allegations that elite officers colluded with a convicted drug trafficker.
The independent watchdog set up to investigate police wrong-doing claims a specialist unit within the service turned a blind eye to drug dealer Kieran Boylan's activities in exchange for information on other dealers.
The row laid bare mounting tensions between police and the watchdog.
Claims by GSOC earlier this year that its headquarters in central Dublin had been bugged by government-level technology has led to another inquiry, headed by a retired High Court judge.
A dossier of alleged police wrongdoing gathered by the whistleblowers is being investigated in a government-appointed inquiry by a senior lawyer.
In a statement, the Association of Garda Chief Superintendents paid tribute to the outgoing commissioner.
"In the course of a long and distinguished career in An Garda Síochána, Commissioner Callinan served the people of Ireland with commitment and dedication at all times." it said.
The Deputy Garda Commissioner, Noirín O'Sullivan, has been tipped as a possible successor for Mr Callinan.
If successful, the Dubliner would become the 20th commissioner and the first woman to hold the top job in Irish policing since the foundation of the state.
Gynaecologist Dr Anthony Madu, 46, secretly carried out locum work at hospitals while firstly suspended and later on paid sick leave from Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.
He was found guilty of six counts of fraud in 2014 but was spared jail on condition he paid back the money.
But Swansea magistrates heard he had not done so.
Nigerian-born Madu, of Woolwich, London, continued to work for other health boards while on paid leave, including in Manchester, Yorkshire, and the Midlands.
The cost to the four hospitals he defrauded was said to be £240,000 and his 2014 trial at Newport Crown Court heard he had transferred £95,000 to a Nigerian bank account.
Speaking at the time, prosecutor Christian Jowett said Madu, a specialist registrar, had not told his employers about his additional work, or his two locum agencies about being on sick leave, which he was legally obliged to do.
"He continued to work and receive payment from both Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and his work in England," he added.
Madu was suspended and put on extended leave by the health board in 2009 over allegations about his conduct towards other staff and claims he had falsified his training record.
From January 2010, he submitted sick notes on three different occasions, saying he could not work because of stress.
But the doctor, who earned close to £100,000 a year, went on to do locum work worth about £69,000 with three NHS trusts in England while still earning more than £29,000 from his employers in Wales.
In June 2016 Madu was ordered to pay £73,000 back to the NHS within six months, an order which he appealed.
After he failed to repay it he was jailed for two years.
It hit the island of Shikoku late on Thursday, bringing torrential rain and winds of up to 185 km/h (115mph).
Kyodo news agency reported at least two deaths while broadcaster NHK said at least 31 were injured.
Nangka has since weakened and been downgraded to a tropical storm, but officials have warned of continued strong winds and storms in the area.
As of Friday morning, the Japan Meterological Agency warned of high waves, gales and thunderstorms in many parts of the main island of Honshu, as the storm headed north.
It is currently moving slowly at 15km/h with a maximum sustained wind speed of 90km/h, according to the agency.
The Ulster champions were blitzed by the Cats, who fired in eight goals in a massive 52-points winning margin.
The Oak Leafers never got going, and there was no way back after they were caught cold in the opening 10 minutes, when they conceded three goals.
It was 5-12 to 0-4 at the break and Kilkenny cruised to victory with Shane Walsh hitting 2-7.
Derry will reflect on their visit to Semple Stadium, the spiritual home of hurling, with painful memories following a difficult afternoon.
John Donnelly fired in the opening goal after less than two minutes, and a mix-up in the Oak Leaf defence allowed Walsh to get in and net the second with Richie Leahy adding a third less than minute later.
Cormac O'Doherty and Corey Reilly did land Derry points from distance, but they were soon putting out fires again at the back.
Early in the second quarter, the Cats got a fourth goal, blasted ferociously home by Billy Ryan, who added a second four minutes later to put the game out of sight with just 20 minutes played.
They reached the break 23 points clear - it could have been worse had Derry goalkeeper Francis McEldowney not pulled off splendid saves from Blanchfield, Richie Leahy and How Lawlor.
O'Doherty relieved the pressure with a couple of well taken Derry scores, but their opponents went through for a sixth goal, smashed home by Walsh for his second.
The bench contributed 2-9, including goals from John Walsh and Eoin Kenny, and a four points haul for Alan Murphy, as the Cats went at it unrelenting right to the finish.
Kilkenny: D Brennan; M Cody, C Delaney, N McMahon (0-1); D Mullen (0-1), J Cleere, T Walsh; L Scanlon (1-1), H Lawlor (0-1); R Leahy (1-1), J Donnelly (1-7), S Morrissey (0-1); S Walsh (2-7, 0-5f), L Blanchfield (0-6), B Ryan (2-0).
Subs: J Walsh (1-3) for Ryan (21), A Nolan for Cleere (22), A Murphy (0-4, 1f) for Leahy (h-t), E Kenny (1-1) for Morrissey (h-t), R Bergin (0-1) for T Walsh (47)
Derry: F McEldowney; S Higgins, P Turner, R McCartney; E McGill, C Steele (0-1), S McGuigan; C McAllister, C Kelly; T Magee, O McKeever, C Reilly (0-1); D Cartin (0-1, f), C O'Doherty (0-3), G Farren.
Subs: B Laverty (0-1) for Magee (h-t), P Burke for Higgins (h-t), C McCrystal for McEldowney (37), S McKeever for Turner (42), S Quinn for McGuigan (52)
Referee: J O'Brien (Laois).
Brighton benefited, but had a little help from shot-shy Fulham along the way, while those other Magpies - the ones from Nottingham - also had a case of deja vu over one of Cambridge's goals.
There was also some questionable musical talent on show as BBC Sport looks at five things you might have missed from the first full Football League programme of 2017.
A free shot at goal from 12 yards? Nervy though it may be, you'd have to fancy your chances more often than not.
Well, not if you play for Fulham, who missed their fifth spot-kick out of six this season in the painful 2-1 home defeat against fellow promotion-hopefuls Brighton & Hove Albion.
This time it was Stefan Johansen who was the culprit, although that's not doing justice to a fine save by Seagulls keeper David Stockdale.
But a penalty miss is a miss and Johansen follows Tom Cairney and Sone Aluko - who both failed to score against QPR - and Chris Martin, who was culpable against Rotherham, while Cauley Woodrow also failed from the spot in the EFL Cup against Bristol City.
Martin may well have been the man for the occasion, as a 50-50 strike is pretty good for the Cottagers, but the on-loan striker is not playing at the moment while his future is resolved.
It's been a pretty woeful festive period, and season, for the world's oldest Football League club.
And while an impending takeover could brighten the outlook at Notts County, the new year has begun very much in the way the last one ended - with a defeat. A ninth consecutive league defeat in fact, which equalled an unwanted club record.
Cambridge United, who are managed by former Magpies boss Shaun Derry, were the opposition. Derry, one of 21 men to have been been in charge of the Magpies since May 2004, masterminded a 4-0 win against his old club.
To make matters worse, the U's opening goal came when goalkeeper Adam Collin's clearance rebounded off striker Luke Berry and into the net - the third time Notts County have conceded a "rebound" goal in four games against the same opposition since November 2015.
But while results, performances and seemingly luck have been dreadful, the prospective new owner Alan Hardy provides hope that the Meadow Lane mess will finally be sorted. And also that the famous old club will not be starting next season as a non-league club for the first time in their history.
It's fair to say that Newcastle will be glad to see the back of Blackburn and Mulgrew this season.
The Scotland international has only scored twice for Owen Coyle's men since joining from Celtic in the summer but his goals have brought his side six points - with his second knocking the Magpies off the top of the table.
Despite their victories over Rafael Benitez's men, the Ewood Park side remain in the Championship relegation zone and fans from the BRFC Action Group protested against the club's owners Venky's, with a pre-planned march before the game and sit-in afterwards.
When Colchester United signed former Wolves centre-back George Elokobi, they thought they knew what to expect from the powerful defender.
The 30-year-old has made nearly 200 English Football League appearances during spells with seven clubs and it was hoped he would help get the defence singing from the same hymn sheet.
Since returning from a loan spell with Braintree earlier this season, the Cameroonian has been calling the tunes on the pitch as well as off it.
Following his side's 2-0 win over Cheltenham Town, their sixth in seven matches, he revealed his musical talent, with supporters treated to Elokobi banging out a tune on the South Stand drum - something that is becoming a bit of a regular feature for the on-song U's.
That goalscoring feeling is good whatever the timing, but Millwall forward Aiden O'Brien's strike against AFC Wimbledon was a little bit special for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, it was a 25-yard cracker.
And it was also the first EFL goal of 2017. File that under obscure quiz questions. It might come in handy in around 11 months.
O'Brien's fifth-minute effort in the lunchtime kick-off helped the Lions earn a point in a 2-2 draw, but it could help you clinch third place and a share of £10 in the Dog & Duck's football year quiz.
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The 38-year-old initially chose to quit at the end of last season, before reversing his decision last November.
"There comes a point where family becomes more important," Prince said in a statement on the the club website.
Prince, Lancashire's leading run scorer this season, was crucial in helping the Red Rose county to promotion to Division One.
"I wanted to come back and get the side back up to Division One and that's been achieved," added Prince, who played for Lancashire in six of the last seven seasons.
"Not only that, but we've won the T20 Blast which was a bonus. The whole squad have been excellent and I've absolutely loved my time at Lancashire."
Notably this season, Prince hit 261 against Glamorgan in a 501-run third-wicket stand with ex-Proteas team-mate Alviro Petersen, the third highest for a third wicket partnership in first-class cricket history.
Prince also made 119 international appearances for South Africa - playing in 66 Tests, 119 one-day internationals and one Twenty20 international - after making his debut against Australia in February 2002.
He had a spell with Nottinghamshire in 2008 and three separate stints with Lancashire as their overseas player in 2009, 2010 and 2012.
Having played his last Test in December 2011, he returned to Old Trafford as a non-overseas player under the Kolpak ruling in 2013.
Last year 33cm (13in) lines appeared by disabled bays in Humberstone Road, Chesterton, Cambridge.
Now a set separating residents' bays and pay and display parking have appeared in neighbouring Hamilton Road measuring just 28cm (11in).
The council said it was "a genuine attempt to be helpful to motorists".
"Although we have seen people try and squeeze cars into unusual places such as pedestrian crossings, we don't expect anyone to try and park on these lines," a county council spokesman said.
"This is a genuine attempt to be helpful to motorists by signalling with other signs the divide between pay and display parking and residents' parking on this street."
The lines were intended to "help drivers park in the right bays and avoid a fine for parking in the wrong one", he added.
One resident described the lines as "ridiculous" but admitted she was concerned she might get a ticket if she parked on them.
Another described the lines as "cute" and said they were "probably helpful... but should be bigger as you can hardly see them".
Speaking to the BBC while visiting Vietnam, Mr Carter said the US could ensure "peace and prosperity", the only way "everyone gets to rise and win".
He spoke amid new tensions over multi-nation claims in the South China Sea.
The US has accused China of creating land that could be used as airstrips in the Spratly Islands. Beijing denies it is asserting itself militarily.
Mr Carter said the US was not looking to militarise the situation, but that "nothing" would stop its operations.
Earlier this month, China criticised Washington after a US spy plane flew over areas near the Spratly Islands.
"Nothing will stop US military operations at all," said Mr Carter. "We will fly, we will sail, we will operate here in the Pacific as we always have."
He added: "We're not looking to militarise the situation or escalate the situation.
"We will continue to do what we have done for seven decades since World War Two ended - by being the pivotal military power in the region, which we are and will continue to be."
The US says China has added 2,000 acres in five areas of the Spratly Islands, and recently installed - then removed - artillery on the Spratlys.
Other issues covered in Mr Carter's BBC interview include:
Last week, China said it would focus on projecting its military presence beyond its borders at sea.
The defence planning document urges the Chinese navy to shift its focus to "open seas protection", rather than "offshore waters defence" alone.
In recent years, China has focused on building up its navy. It has launched an aircraft carrier and invested heavily in submarines and other warships.
On Sunday, China rebuffed some of Mr Carter's criticism on China's land reclamation projects, which he had described as "out of step" with international rules.
The Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese armed forces, Adm Sun Jianguo, said that China's rights and interests there were "indisputable" but that it was exercising them "with enormous restraint".
He said China's island-building was about helping the region and improving the living conditions of personnel stationed there.
"There is no reason for people to play up this issue in the South China Sea," he added.
Tensions rise over China's 'Great Wall of Sand'
The 9ft (3m) deep, 22ft (7m) long hole was caused by heavy rain washing away a drain running under part of Traigh Golf Course, near Mallaig.
The club is now having to find money to help it pay the estimated £16,000 cost of the repairs needed.
The sinkhole has been fenced off and the nine-hole course remains open to members.
Traigh, between Arisaig and Mallaig, is known as one of Scotland's most picturesque courses because of its views to Skye and the Small Isles.
The club's insurance will cover some of the cost of the repairs, but it still expects to have to raise thousands of pounds.
About 200 tonnes of sand will be needed to fill the hole near the seventh green.
The Ibrox side have lost four, and drawn one, of the Old Firm games this season, but Caixinha has not written off his side's chances in their final league meeting.
"The previous games belong to the past," Caixinha said. "The present and the future will be on Saturday.
"If I don't believe we could do these things, I would resign and go home."
Caixinha's first game in charge against Celtic came in last Sunday's Scottish Cup semi-final, which Rangers lost 2-0. The Portuguese admits there is a gulf between the two teams, but insists that he is working to close that.
Brendan Rodgers' side will travel to Ibrox unbeaten domestically this season, and with captain Scott Brown able to play after his appeal against the red card shown for his tackle on Ross County's Liam Boyce two weeks ago was upheld.
"I'm assessing the gulf between the clubs and I'm working on a daily basis. It exists and I cannot deny it," Caixinha said. "But we want to reduce it and we are going to do it.
"It is not a question of time, though. It is a question of work, belief and commitment.
"If there was not confidence in the squad I would not be here.
"On Sunday, we didn't have the passion in order to be committed enough to let the game flow. The breakdown in communication is what we analysed after the match and everything was clear.
"Am I confident that will be cleared up for Saturday? I'm always confident.
"After the game, the players were the same as all the Rangers supporters - sad.
"We have had our setback but we have another match. We need to improve and put passion on the pitch in order to defend the colours of this club."
Caixinha also insisted that there is no disharmony in his squad over the pre-season schedule.
Rangers play their final game of the season away to St Johnstone on 21 May and if they finish, as expected, in the top four they will play their first Europa League qualifier on 29 June.
That leaves five-and-a-half weeks for the players to be granted time off and for the manager to prepare them for his first full campaign in charge.
"Not at all," said Caixinha when asked if the players had expressed any misgivings about the pre-season schedule. "They are hard workers. They are professionals.
"It's not me who set up the plan, it's the date of the first competition, which is June 29.
"It's totally important we have the right amount of time to prepare in order to be ready for that first match.
"It's my job [to make sure we are prepared]. According to the time I have, I need to organise things in that direction. That [time] is what we have, that's what we need to organise."
Hyundai already has an electric model on the market, but its range lags behind its competitors' models.
Along with its affiliate Kia, Hyundai is planning 31 eco-friendly models by 2020.
The latest move comes amid increasing competition in the market for ecologically-friendly cars.
Hyundai's environmentally-conscious new additions will include three plug-in hybrid vehicles, eight battery-powered cars and two fuel-cell vehicles.
The company also has plans to develop its first dedicated facility for pure electric vehicles, which will allow it to produce a variety of cars with longer driving ranges.
Its current electric model, the Ioniq, has a range of 280km, less than GM's Bolt or Tesla's Model 3, which both have ranges in excess of 350km.
Automotive analyst Robin Zhu from Bernstein Research says Hyundai's new model would be competitive when it comes out after 2021, even though its high-end competitor Tesla will probably exceed its expected range by then.
"For econo-boxes that go from A to B, you need to be competitive, but as long as they offer the right product for the right value, the onus is not on Hyundai to do something groundbreaking," he said.
Hyundai's latest push into the electric market comes amid growing global competition for electric cars.
In addition to electric-only manufacturers such as Tesla and Faraday Future, major US, Japanese and European carmakers are now offering electric options.
According to the International Energy Agency, new registrations of electric cars hit a record in 2016, with more than 750,000 sales.
While electric cars have the highest market share in Norway, far more are sold in China.
China accounted for more than 40% of the electric cars sold last year, more than double the amount sold in the United States.
The consultancy McKinsey said Chinese manufacturers produced 43% of the 873,000 electric vehicles built worldwide in 2016.
Robin Zhu said the Chinese market is partly driven by generous government subsidies, and it's unlikely that Chinese manufacturers will continue to dominate over the long-term.
"Right now, VW's market share is almost 0%. But it's not going to be 0% when they pull up their socks and do it," he said.
An empty CrossCountry passenger train came off the tracks at Eastleigh and blocked lines through the station.
It was eventually cleared and moved to a nearby depot. Services are returning to normal with small residual delays.
South West Trains had feared cancellations and delays would continue until 18:00 BST.
The operator said fewer services were able to run while the derailed train was recovered.
CrossCountry said its train, which had not yet entered service, was involved in a "minor low-speed derailment" that caused issues with signalling arrangements in the area.
It was eventually put back on the tracks and taken to a nearby depot. An investigation has been started .
The retired Classics teacher had just been demobbed from the Army after serving in World War Two when the first Edinburgh Festival took place in 1947.
He told BBC Scotland: "It was a double delight.
"I was four years in the army, I'd been more or less starved of live music, and I had the good luck to be demobbed during the first festival."
The idea of a cultural celebration to provide a new "platform for the flowering of the human spirit" came from Rudolph Bing, an Austrian Jew who had fled the Nazis.
Bing, who was the general manager of the Glyndebourne Opera, had sought Oxford and Cambridge as his first choices but it was Edinburgh that rose to the challenge of hosting the best of European culture while still recovering from a devastating war and the austerity that continued.
The first Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama featured The Glyndebourne Opera which presented The Marriage of Figaro and Macbeth as well as Margot Fonteyn dancing in Sleeping Beauty with the Sadler's Wells Ballet and a 33-year-old Alec Guinness in an Old Vic production of Richard II.
For Mr Dewar, it was the reuniting of conductor Bruno Walter with the Vienna Philharmonic that was the most amazing example of the festival's healing mission.
He says: "Above all I remember Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. That was outstanding for several reasons.
"Firstly, it was Bruno Walter's first meeting with the Vienna Philharmonic since 1938."
Walter was a German by birth but he was also Jewish.
He conducted in Berlin before Hitler came to power but left for Vienna in 1933.
Walter was then forced to flee Vienna in 1938 at the time of Anschluss, when Germany annexed Austria, and he ended up in the US.
Edinburgh was the first time he had been reunited with his old orchestra.
Mr Dewar, aged 21 at the time, says the concert was also remarkable because they played Mahler and Bruckner "who were more or less frowned upon and hardly ever performed in this country".
He says Bruckner was described by one critic as a "symphonic boa constrictor", showing the contempt British critics had for him at the time.
Mr Dewar, who is now 91, has had a lifelong love of classical music.
During the first festival he took the train from his home in Inverkeithing in Fife and tried to attend as many concerts as he could.
He says he went to the performances on his own and was transported by the music but did not register the emotional feelings of others in the audience at the resumption of normal life after the war.
"I did not feel that myself," he says.
"I don't get very emotional myself ever and I was so taken up by the music myself."
The first festival was a huge success and Mr Dewar, who later taught Latin at the Royal High School in Edinburgh and was a rugby coach, made a point of returning year after year to indulge his love of music.
He says: "I've seen virtually every top orchestra in Europe and the US and the top conductors, pianists, violinists, singers, you name it."
However, one disappointment was not getting to see legendary opera singer Maria Callas in 1957.
He says he had tickets to see one of her later performances but she was unwell and had to be replaced.
Nowadays, Mr Dewar books his tickets well in advance and often manages to get his "own" favourite seat in the Usher Hall.
Having struggled for many years to afford the best seats for concerts, he decided when he retired that he would "treat" himself.
He used to go to 25 performances in each festival but has cut it back to about 15 in recent years.
"I don't have the stamina or the money," he says.
While the international festival has given him many years of pleasure, its rowdy and larger sibling The Fringe has never interested him.
Mr Dewar says: "At the very first festival a handful of people came to chance their arm.
"Now of course there are thousands.
"I wish the festival and the Fringe would separate and run at different times. The place is too crowded."
The MP for Barking, Margaret Hodge, will examine whether value for money has been achieved from the taxpayers' £60m contribution to the bridge.
Ms Hodge, a former chair of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, will also look at whether transparency standards have been met by public bodies.
Mr Khan has said no more taxpayer money should be spent on the bridge.
The mayor said: "I'm clear that since the beginning of the project there hasn't been the necessary standard of transparency and openness around the Garden Bridge.
"Nearly £40m of public money has already been spent and Londoners deserve more information about the decisions that have been made."
Mrs Hodge said she did not have a view on whether the Garden Bridge was "a fantastic idea or a waste of money".
But James Hatts, editor of local news website SE1, believes the mayor's review is overdue.
He said the Garden Bridge Trust had "already burned through £30-40m of public funds" and "there are huge question marks" over the business plan.
"They are relying on corporate events, souvenirs, credit card readers as you walk onto the bridge so that you can give a donation," he said.
"It's really difficult to see that they are going to get £3.5m year on year. Ultimately, the way Boris Johnson and local authorities structured the planning permission and associated agreements for the bridge means there's a chance the public purse will end up meeting ongoing costs."
This could be the beginning of the end for the Garden Bridge. It was meant to be a haven on the Thames and while many in the establishment loved it and thought it would be well received, slowly but surely dissent has grown.
Protesters objected to the location of the bridge as it would affect protected views of St Paul's from South Bank and would require the destruction of numerous established trees on the river banks. They also thought taxpayers money could be better spent elsewhere.
Now it seems like this is a slow death by a thousand reviews.
The review by the Garden Bridge Trust, a third investigation of the scheme, could make it harder for the trust to raise all the private money needed for the scheme. So far not all of it has been raised.
The mayor hasn't killed off the bridge just yet but there are those who think he effectively has done in announcing this review.
Lib Dem London Assembly member Caroline Pidgeon called on Mr Khan to state he will not underwrite the maintenance of the Garden Bridge.
"His current stance of providing a permanent taxpayer bailout to pay for the maintenance of the bridge while claiming to never provide any further public funding for the project is utter nonsense and indefensible."
Campaigners also pointed out that by ordering the review at a cost of £25,000 the mayor was already spending taxpayers' money on the Garden Bridge.
The Garden Bridge aims to link Temple with the Southbank.
Peter Nielsen, 32, from Tranent, East Lothian, fell in the Aladdin's Buttress area on Friday.
He was airlifted to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, where he died as a result of his injuries.
Police Scotland said Mr Nielsen was an experienced climber who was in the Cairngorms with an organised climbing group.
The Trump Turnberry golf resort in Ayrshire, which the US presidential hopeful bought for an undisclosed sum in 2014, made a loss of almost £8.4m.
In the previous year, the resort lost £3.6m.
Mr Trump's other Scottish course - Menie in Aberdeenshire - lost nearly £1.1m.
The American has said he would invest £200m in Turnberry, having bought the resort from Dubai-based Leisurecorp.
In June, Mr Trump attended the official reopening of the Open venue following a major revamp.
The accounts for his company Golf Recreation Scotland Ltd, which runs Turnberry, said "significant capital expenditure" had taken place in 2015, with "fixed asset additions" amounting to £17.5m, most of which related to renovations of the hotel and golf course.
The company added that the Trump Organisation remained "fully committed to reviving the resort, including the transformation of the iconic Turnberry Lighthouse into golf's most impressive halfway house".
Director Eric Trump, who is Donald Trump's son, wrote in the 2015 accounts: "Upon completion of the construction project, it is expected that revenue will increase as the property is re-established an an industry-leading resort.
"The directors believe that the resort will return to profitability in the short to medium term."
Mr Trump opened his Menie course in July 2012 after a lengthy battle with local people and environmentalists.
The course, which is owned by Trump International Golf Club Scotland, lost just under £1.1m in 2015.
In its accounts, the company said overall revenues increased year-on-year by 7.4% "in spite of the economic downturn experienced in the north east of Scotland due to the collapse of the oil prices with a hundred thousand redundancies in the oil and gas industry affecting every sector in the region".
In June, several local residents raised Mexican flags next to the course ahead of a visit to Scotland by Mr Trump.
They said they wanted to "show solidarity" with the people of Mexico.
The move came after Mr Trump outlined plans to build a wall along the US-Mexico border to stop illegal immigrants.
The ride-hailing firm had previously won the right to challenge Transport for London (TfL) in court over the assessments.
Uber had argued the tests could put a third of its drivers out of business.
"TfL are entitled to require private hire drivers to demonstrate English language compliance," said judge John Mitting when he rejected Uber's claim.
She was hit by a black Range Rover Evoke on Gartocher Road, in Sandyhills, at about 14:00 on Thursday.
The woman is being treated at Glasgow Royal Infirmary where her condition is described as serious but stable.
Sgt Nicola Taylor said that a number of people came to the woman's assistance but officers still needed to speak to anyone who witnessed the crash.
Holyrood's health committee has been gathering views about priorities for the 2018/19 budget.
A submission from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh urged a population-based approach, including "removal" of "redundant facilities".
And unions warned of an "urgent" gap between available resources and demand.
MSPs have been gathering views from health professionals and groups about future budgets. The call for submissions closes on Wednesday.
They have heard widespread concerns about a growing gulf between demand on services and available funding, with Unison Scotland telling the committee that "the NHS in Scotland isn't getting the resources it needs".
The submission from the British Medical Association Scotland warned that the "gap between NHS resources and growing demand is increasing at a greater and greater pace".
They said that this was "not an abstract problem for future years, but an urgent reality that is causing services across Scotland to deteriorate".
The Royal College of Physicians echoed this, saying that NHS Scotland had "much to do" over the effective and efficient use of resources.
Their submission said: "With limited national wealth, decision-makers and influencers must realise that the removal of redundant, although cherished facilities, practices and remedies is essential. There is ample evidence about the right, and most valuable, interventions to prioritise.
"This involves choice, and taking a population approach in proportion to need. The media's focus on exceptions and deficits, and the most vocal advocacy, must have a counter-weight in evidence-informed decision-making, taking judgement on comparative value."
The group hit out at "inappropriate" investment decisions, saying that evidence was sometimes not being used in a "robust" decision-making process.
They said: "There is a background of the media, public and political expectation that the care services will cope whatever the inputs - 'more doctors, more nurses, more ambulances and more helicopters'. This is persistently misleading, and leads to inappropriate investment decisions and failure to take courageous decisions to set and stick with priorities.
"We have low expectations that the current review of indicators and targets will help us to enter a new era of rational priority setting and decision making."
The BMA Scotland submission also issued a warning about priorities, saying: "When insufficient resources are available to the NHS, performance against targets inevitably becomes more difficult.
"It is important that the response to such deterioration in performance when it occurs is not simply to increase the pressure on overstretched staff to meet targets.
"Such pressure risks skewing clinical decision making, rather than decisions about patient care always being made in response to clinical priority."
Unison Scotland's submission meanwhile noted that "whatever the merits of the political arguments over NHS services, it is simply the case that funding is not keeping pace with the demands placed on NHS Scotland."
They said it was "important to emphasise that there is a lot of positive and innovative practice going on", the union said real-terms increases to the health budget were "not keeping up with growing demand".
They added: "It is hardly surprising that NHS Scotland struggles to meet national performance targets - the NHS is underfunded, not overspending, and staff are under great pressure to bridge the gap."
Unison said that "radical reform" would be "desirable", but said it would be "very difficult to deliver in practice".
Responding, a Scottish government spokeswoman said: "People are now living longer lives, which means our health and care services must change to aid increasingly more people living with multiple, complex conditions.
"Our ambitions for the NHS are founded on the twin approach of investment and reform.
"We are increasing the NHS revenue budget by £2bn by the end of this parliament, by which point more than half of frontline spending will be in community health services.
"This year alone we are investing £128m to help support delivery of service reform."
Charles O'Neill and William Lauchlan are serving life terms in different prisons for killing Allison McGarrigle.
They claimed a lack of contact breached their human rights and each sought £35,000 in damages for hurt feelings.
A judge said the couple's rights had not been breached as their relationship was based on abusing children.
O'Neill, 51, is detained in Edinburgh's Saughton prison and 37-year-old Lauchlan is held in Glenochil jail in Clackmannanshire.
Their repeated requests to be allowed to see each other through inter-prison visits and maintain contact via letters and telephone calls, have been declined by prison authorities.
They brought a judicial review stating that Scottish ministers had failed to provide them with "suitable and sufficient contact" with each other.
They argued that the Scottish government failed to respect their rights under Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), which provides protection for private and family life.
They also claimed they had been discriminated against on the basis of their sexual orientation.
They said they were in "a long-standing intimate and sexual relationship" before being imprisoned after their trial in 2010.
Both sought damages of £35,000, claiming they were entitled to an award for "hurt feelings" among other things.
In his judgement, Lord Stewart said he had decided that the Scottish Prison Service had not acted unlawfully towards the murderers and had not discriminated against them and that they were not entitled to damages.
Lord Stewart said the case was not about conjugal visits which are not permitted in British jails.
The judge said: "It is a dangerous thing, I accept, to pass judgement on the value of someone else's family life. Sometimes it has to be done."
"In this case I feel justified in saying that the life Charles O'Neill and William Lauchlan have had together when at liberty since 1993, to the extent evidenced to me, is so negative that it cannot be 'family life' as that concept should be understood.
"Their relationship and relations between each other do not engage, do not attract the support of, do not merit the protection of the 'family life' provisions of Article 8 ECHR."
O'Neill was sentenced to at least 30 years in prison, while accomplice Lachlan was sentenced to a minimum of 26 years after they were found guilty of murdering 39-year-old Mrs McGarrigle in Largs, Ayrshire, in 1997.
Her body, which they disposed of at sea, was not found.
They were also sentenced for sex abuse offences following two trials.
The team worked in three communities, Cenotillo, Hoctun and Tunkas, all not far from Merida, the state capital of Yucatan. Over the past two decades, residents have seen a significant number of the population cross the border to the US, many never to return.
The group was led by volunteer organisation Ubelong's co-founder Raul Roman and former New York Times photojournalist Lonnie Schlein, and comprises portraits of those affected by the migration. These images are on show at the Cervantes Institute in New York.
Anacleto spoke about a woman who was buried the day before the photograph was taken. He said: "She was 72. Fifteen years ago her five sons left for the United States. They could not be here. They will never come back."
Juan Casanova at his home in Hoctun shows his American and Mexican passports. He said: "There is no other place like the US. They open the gates when you need a chance."
Raimundo recently returned to his hometown after spending a few years in the US as an undocumented immigrant.
"People have good houses here because they have relatives in the US. We are thankful that our parents sacrificed so much as immigrants to give us a better life, but we felt abandoned growing up here. I returned home to be a true father figure for my child."
Clara and Wendy are the mother and the wife of Steve, a Hoctun native who migrated to the United States 12 years ago. They said: "We are two women waiting for the same man. We pray every day that he comes back soon."
Martha and Faustino's children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren live in the United States.
Martha said: "We are happy that almost our entire family has a better life in the United States, but we're also sad that our culture and way of life are slowly disappearing from the future of our family."
Celia, 44, and Karime, 26, have parallel lives. Both married husbands who left for the United States shortly afterwards.
Karime summarises a common feeling among women in her hometown: "When our husbands leave we all have hopes that they will return soon. But almost nobody comes back home. My husband left in search of the American dream, and on the way he lost his family and I lost mine."
Miguel returned to Tunkas after spending 10 years in California.
He said: "They gave me a job the first day I arrived in the United States. I sent money to my wife every fortnight. She bought land and began to build our house. One day she told me that the work is finished. She said: 'Whenever you are ready to return, you will be coming to your own home.'"
Sonia is seen here with her four-month-old granddaughter. Her husband left for the United States 17 years ago and has not returned. She said: "When people cross the border, they change, but often for the worse."
Jose Rodolfo, 70, lives in both the United States and in his small town in Mexico. "I became an American citizen. My American dream is to eat well, to wear better clothes, and be comfortable. There is no misery in America."
Mexico: Immigration Through a Lens, the Human Side of Mexican Migration to the United States is on show at Cervantes Institute in New York from 6 - 24 October 2015.
His parents will accept a degree in aeronautical science on his behalf on 13 May.
The university said it wants to honour the 17-year-old's ambition to become a pilot before he died in 2012.
His death prompted nationwide protests and a fierce debate about race relations in the US.
The unarmed black teenager was walking home from a shop in Sanford, Florida, when he got into an altercation with George Zimmerman, a neighbourhood watch volunteer.
Mr Zimmerman, the son of a white father and Hispanic mother, argued he acted in self-defence and with justifiable use of deadly force.
A jury acquitted Mr Zimmerman of second-degree murder in 2013.
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Following the verdict, protests erupted in cities across the US including Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington and Atlanta.
The case was instrumental in launching the national Black Live Matter social movement.
Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, the teenager's parents will accept the degree in Miami Gardens, where Ms Fulton went to school.
Roslyn Clark, the university's president, said in a Facebook post the school was honouring Mr Martin for "his long dream and the steps he took during his young life toward becoming a pilot".
"Sybrina, our alum, epitomises strength and dignity as she uplifts other victims of violence while effecting change for a more equal and just society," she added.
Ms Fulton said she was "grateful" for her son's honorary degree.
"In 1997 I graduated from FMU with a Bachelors degree in English with a minor in Mass Communications. It's now 20 years later & now my son #TrayvonMartin will receive his Bachelors in Aviation, something he loved," she said in a Facebook post.
Emily Price, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, studied maths and physics and was due to do a Masters degree in Aberystwyth.
She was taken ill after being elected to the town's central ward.
Her family said they plan to establish a memorial at Aberystwyth University.
"She fell in love with Aberystwyth and planned to make her life there," her mother Natasha Price said.
"Emily was special to us as a family and it is comforting to know that she was also loved by so many others.
"Emily was a gentle girl who always had a smile on her face and never said no to helping others. We will miss her terribly, a light has gone out of our lives.
"There are no words that seem to describe Emily, she was quite simply just Em."
Ms Price's family said she enjoyed being president of the physics society at Aberystwyth University and went into local schools to educate children about science.
She loved politics, Sherlock, the Big Bang Theory and Harry Potter.
Ms Price's funeral will take place at Cambridge crematorium on 2 June.
Her family said anyone who loved her was welcome to attend.
The council held a minute's silence at its meeting on Monday, where Ms Price was due to make her declaration to become a councillor.
Marcus Kelman, 44, from Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, was caught with the Class A drug in a van in Renfield Street, Renfrew, on 9 November 2015.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that police officers became suspicious as Kelman had double parked outside a house connected with drug dealing.
Judge Lady Scott noted this was his third drugs offence conviction.
The court heard that after becoming suspicious police followed Kelman before stopping his van.
The officers found £450 in cash and a box with brown powder inside which they suspected was heroin but Kelman claimed was chocolate protein.
When Kelman was arrested he stated he was "going down for this" as this was his "third strike".
Kelman later claimed he had agreed to act as a courier as he owned money.
It emerged that Kelman was jailed for drugs offences for four years in 2008 in the High Court in Glasgow and for two years in 2012 at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
It also emerged that in May 2005, a civil action brought by the Crown resulted in the confiscation of the Kelman's two Glasgow flats, £40,000 from his bank account and a £4,000 diamond encrusted watch.
That action was taken despite Kelman's not guilty plea to drug dealing charges being accepted at the High Court in Glasgow in May 2004.
Arsene Wenger's side knew nothing other than victory would do after defeat by Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia in their opening game - and with two meetings with group favourites Bayern Munich still to come.
Instead it was a dreadful night for Arsenal, who must now become the first team since Galatasaray in 2012-13 to lose their first two group games and still reach the knockout stage.
The Gunners' display was summed up by the wretched first-half own goal conceded by David Ospina - preferred to Petr Cech in goal - when he dropped Kostas Fortounis's corner into his own net after Theo Walcott equalised Felipe Pardo's deflected shot.
Alexis Sanchez gave Arsenal hope with a 65th-minute header only for Alfred Finnbogason to restore Olympiakos's lead within a minute.
When Arsene Wenger persuaded Chelsea to sell them goalkeeper Petr Cech, the theory behind his arrival was that the 33-year-old's experience, wisdom and acquaintance with success would make the difference in the big games.
So what sense did it make for Wenger to leave Cech on the bench and select his deputy Ospina for a game where Arsenal simply could not risk any mistakes or the concession of cheap goals?
Forget talk about any slight injury to Cech. He was fit enough to take his place on the bench so surely fit enough to start a game of this significance.
Fate was tempted - and could not resist as the hapless Colombian dropped a harmless corner from Fortounis into his own net just before half-time after Walcott had brought Arsenal back into it with an equaliser.
Wenger's decision was laced with high-risk - and in the context of Arsenal's hopes of making progress in the Champions League a risk not worth taking, as well as a serious error of judgement.
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Arsenal's defensive naivety was best encapsulated by the manner they went out to a very average Monaco side in the last 16 of last season's Champions League.
The Gunners pulled a goal back to make the score 2-1 in injury time in the first leg - then promptly rushed forward like lemmings in search of an equaliser, only to concede the decisive third goal that effectively put them out.
The question now is will they ever learn? Will they ever cure the defensive frailty and general vulnerability that leaves them exposed at this level?
Arsenal were victims of a deflection and a crass goalkeeping error for Olympiakos's first two goals - but the soft underbelly was on show again for the third, so easily unpicked as Finnbogason steered in the winner.
They simply did not show the maturity or composure to settle themselves. And if they cannot do that by now you have to wonder when they ever will.
Amid a night of unrelenting gloom, the only shafts of light for Arsenal and their supporters were Walcott and Sanchez.
The Englishman continued his development as a striker with another goal, his second in successive Champions League games after scoring his 12th in 13 Premier League matches at Leicester City on Saturday.
Sanchez scored a hat-trick at Leicester and he was lively throughout, heading the second equaliser only to see Olympiakos score their third almost immediately.
In reality, this is to clutch at straws because this was a desperate Arsenal display elsewhere.
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger: "It is still possible of course to qualify but it is difficult to swallow losing a game like that. We lost it on a lack of defensive concentration and bad luck. They had four shots on goal and we conceded three goals.
"The turning point at 2-2 is we give them a goal again straight away. If it stays 2-2 for five minutes we win the game.
"A goalkeeper can make a mistake - that doesn't explain that we lose the game. It happened to Petr Cech already this season [against West Ham]."
Arsenal face the visit of Premier League leaders Manchester United on Sunday. In the Champions League their next two matches are against Bayern Munich.
Match ends, Arsenal 2, Olympiakos 3.
Second Half ends, Arsenal 2, Olympiakos 3.
Attempt missed. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey.
Joel Campbell (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Leandro Salino (Olympiakos).
Joel Campbell (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alfred Finnbogason (Olympiakos).
Attempt missed. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kieran Gibbs.
Attempt saved. Per Mertesacker (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mesut Özil with a cross.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Leandro Salino.
Attempt blocked. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Roberto.
Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Felipe Pardo (Olympiakos).
Substitution, Olympiakos. Praxitelis Vouros replaces Konstantinos Fortounis.
Substitution, Arsenal. Joel Campbell replaces Héctor Bellerín.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Dimitrios Siovas.
Attempt blocked. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kieran Gibbs with a cross.
Offside, Arsenal. Aaron Ramsey tries a through ball, but Mesut Özil is caught offside.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Dimitrios Siovas.
Attempt blocked. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Pajtim Kasami (Olympiakos).
Attempt missed. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Mesut Özil (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dimitrios Siovas (Olympiakos).
Foul by Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal).
Omar Elabdellaoui (Olympiakos) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Mesut Özil (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mesut Özil (Arsenal).
Hernâni (Olympiakos) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Mesut Özil (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Konstantinos Fortounis (Olympiakos) is shown the yellow card.
Esteban Cambiasso (Olympiakos) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Esteban Cambiasso (Olympiakos).
Alfred Finnbogason (Olympiakos) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Santiago Cazorla (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alfred Finnbogason (Olympiakos).
Offside, Arsenal. Alexis Sánchez tries a through ball, but Mesut Özil is caught offside.
As the period of mourning began, reports emerged of troop movements in Pyongyang and other major cities as different factions of the military and the ruling party rushed to consolidate their positions.
That Kim Jong-il would succeed his father was not in doubt, but the level of his control over secretive state institutions was a complete unknown.
Negotiations with the US to dismantle North Korea's nuclear weapons' programme had broken down the previous year, and the US administration was preparing for the possibility of the collapse of the regime and - in a worst-case scenario - war.
Amid all this, the BBC was allowed in, with the invitation itself proving to be evidence of the tensions under the surface.
In the week that we were chaperoned around, open arguments broke out between minders - often in front of us.
Our first stop was a huge Pyongyang art gallery where artists were working round the clock on portraits of Kim Jong-il. Stacked up under high ceilings, they showed North Korea's new leader taking command in an array of places - farms, factories and on warships.
But one minder told me under his breath: "He is only the Dear Leader. It'll be years before they are shown."
Our next visit was to a badge-making factory where new red lapel badges of the "Dear Leader" were tumbling out of a machine. One minder explained the factory was working overtime to meet the huge demand of the people. Another insisted they would be held back until it was "safe" to be seen wearing one.
The badges were apparently related to the ruling party and therefore might not have been viewed with sympathy in places where the party and the military were at odds.
In a long interview with a senior party official, we were told that this was an opportunity for North Korea to open up for reform. I later heard that he had lost his particular power battle. He had been executed for corruption.
Our minders were young men, mostly educated in China, Russia, even Malta, and we never knew exactly which institutions commanded their loyalty.
Over evening drinks they would crack hilarious jokes.
One night, the conversation turned to America and the 1969 moon landing. Despite their differences, our highly intelligent guides became deadly serious, insisting that this historic event had never happened because North Korea would be the first country to send a man to the moon.
While Kim Il-sung held absolute sway over his country, under Kim Jong-il it slid deeper into poverty and further towards military confrontation.
In 2006 and 2009, it carried out nuclear tests. In March 2010, it sank a South Korean patrol boat. And in November 2010 it shelled an island near the disputed border.
Tributes and mourning over the next few days may well follow the public pattern seen in 1994.
One similarity is the delay - under the traditions of Confucian mourning - between the death of Kim Jong-il on Saturday and the announcement more than a day later. The regime kept the secret so well that the South Korean President, Lee Myung-bak, only knew about it from the television news.
Rivalry may run high underneath, but in a crisis, North Korea's secretive and ruthless leaders have a track record of sticking together.
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While many patients with acute and chronic problems get treatment within weeks, some areas have current waiting times of up to 50 months.
The British Medical Association in Wales called the delays "unacceptable".
Welsh Labour, who have run the NHS in Wales since 1999, said mental health spending went up £3m last year.
The longest delay was within Aneurin Bevan University Health Board area, where patients can wait for up to 50 months to see a clinical psychologist.
A board spokeswoman put this down to "long-term sickness issues" and said it was "currently seeking to appoint more staff".
British Medical Association in Wales spokeswoman Charlotte Jones said: "It's unacceptable. It's not right for the patients of Wales. We need to see more investment - we need to see a true commitment to resolving this once and for all.
"We continue to highlight it as a problem in general practice, but secondary services are also overwhelmed with demand.
"We are talking a lot more money, but it's worthwhile."
Mental health charity Gofal said it was frustrated that despite investment, waiting times were still too long in many areas.
It wants more counselling provision and better data monitoring.
In England, treatment and waiting times data is collected quarterly from mental health service providers but most Welsh health boards initially said this information was not available.
The Liberal Democrats said it was time mental health was treated "as seriously as physical health".
A spokesman added: "We would introduce a core set of mental health data, and would work with mental health experts to introduce new waiting time standards for mental health, including for access to psychological therapies."
A UKIP spokesman said their party would increase health care spending with £100m saved "elsewhere from the Welsh budget" and would implement an 18-day referral target for cognitive behavioural therapy.
Plaid Cymru said it would increase funding by 2% - or £68m - a year until 2020/21, and the current poor standards of data meant "increased investment in our mental health won't be as effective as patients deserve".
A spokesman for the Conservatives said the party would create a new 28-day target for access to talking therapies, and increase spending on mental health.
But Labour maintained it had made significant improvements to mental health care in Wales, including the introduction last October of a 28 day-treatment target for 80% of mental health patients.
"The majority of treatment following emergency and urgent referrals will start immediately following assessment," a spokesman said.
"The National Psychological Therapies Management Committee action plan includes a target time for treatment in secondary care of 26 weeks - the same as for treatment for physical conditions."
"The overt sexualisation of women on TV is an issue for me. I find that really hateful," she told Radio Times.
The actress added: "If you do show that on screen, then at least give a nod to it being really inappropriate and cruel; that it is not humane."
Norris, 49, is to appear in the Cold Feet reunion series later this year.
The actress described herself as a "feminist", saying there was still progress to be made in the depiction of women on TV, but that it was not an issue you could protect children from.
"Although we've moved forward in some areas, I think we've regressed in a lot of others," she said.
Speaking about her son and daughter, she added: "I think you can help educate them to deal with it, so I just keep talking to both my children."
She also revealed she did not initially think the Cold Feet reunion was a good idea, and when she was asked if she liked the prospect of going back to the show, she said; "I didn't, to be honest.
"It was really good, of its time, and I didn't want to undo anything positive that we had created back then.
"But I was persuaded it would be interesting to see how they have been dealing with things."
ITV's hugely successful show, which was originally broadcast from 1997 - 2003, followed the ups and downs of three 30-something couples, and made household names of the cast.
It was not initially well received by critics but became a firm favourite with viewers, with more than 10 million people tuning into the final episode in the UK.
More than 1,500 patients aged between 10 and 19 were treated at Welsh hospitals between 2013 and 2014.
Last year, almost four times as many girls as boys were admitted for self-harm treatment in Wales.
Mental health charities are calling for more to be done in schools to teach emotional resilience to prevent self-harm.
The Welsh government is due to publish an action plan on self-harming in June - its second in six years.
Dr Ann John, from Swansea University, who is leading the plan, says an important part of the strategy involves reducing the stigma associated with self-harm.
"The first strategic objective is about raising awareness. It's about training those people who are priority care providers who first come into contact with people suffering with these issues."
The plan also recommends developing the school counselling service to include pupils in Year 6 at primary schools and combating bullying.
More than 1,200 girls, compared with about 300 boys, were admitted to Welsh hospitals for self-harming last year.
Psychologists say the reasons for this gender gap are complex.
Some suggest boys do not seek help as easily and they are therefore absent from the figures, while others argue girls find it harder to express anger and are thus more prone to self-harm.
A recent education review recommended that health and well-being be put at the centre of the Welsh curriculum.
Katie Dalton, from mental health charity Gofal, said she would like to see this idea taken seriously.
"Pupils need to know that there are support systems out there and that it is alright to feel unwell with their emotions and mental health and its OK to talk to people," she added.
Experts agree the reasons for the rise in self harm are complex.
A Welsh government spokeswoman said: "National Institute for Health and Care Excellence quality standards, which changed in June 2013, recommend that all children under 16 are assessed differently following self-harm.
"It is not possible to be certain whether the increase in admissions identifies a real increase in the behaviour of children and young people or reflects a change in clinical practice and more decisions being made to admit children for detailed assessments.
"We expect all children to receive safe services to meet their clinical and emotional needs following any episode of self-harm."
She said: "There was a lot of things going on at home, school, bullying, lots of different pressures from all different areas. It was like the last resort, but it became addictive and secretive."
Hollie said she is now on the road to recovery thanks to the Amber Project, a specialist self-harm support group in Cardiff.
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A goal from Oleg Kuzmin and Aleksandr Kokorin's penalty saw Russia take second spot in Group G behind Austria.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Erkan Zengin scored for Sweden in a 2-0 victory over Moldova, but that was only enough for third place in the group.
Erik Hamren's side will find out on Sunday who they will play in a two-legged play-off next month.
Match ends, Russia 2, Montenegro 0.
Second Half ends, Russia 2, Montenegro 0.
Attempt missed. Denis Cheryshev (Russia) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Igor Denisov.
Dmitri Kombarov (Russia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Marusic (Montenegro).
Foul by Igor Denisov (Russia).
Adam Marusic (Montenegro) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Russia. Denis Cheryshev replaces Alan Dzagoev.
Substitution, Montenegro. Vladimir Boljevic replaces Nikola Vukcevic.
Substitution, Russia. Fedor Smolov replaces Artem Dzyuba.
Igor Denisov (Russia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Fatos Beqiraj (Montenegro).
Attempt blocked. Roman Shirokov (Russia) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Alexander Kokorin (Russia) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Roman Shirokov.
Attempt missed. Pavel Mamaev (Russia) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Alexander Kokorin.
Pavel Mamaev (Russia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mladen Kascelan (Montenegro).
Attempt missed. Igor Denisov (Russia) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Artem Dzyuba.
Pavel Mamaev (Russia) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Esteban Saveljich (Montenegro).
Substitution, Russia. Pavel Mamaev replaces Oleg Shatov.
Substitution, Montenegro. Adam Marusic replaces Vladimir Rodic.
Offside, Montenegro. Milan Mijatovic tries a through ball, but Stefan Mugosa is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Roman Shirokov (Russia) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Artem Dzyuba.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Marko Simic (Montenegro) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Esteban Saveljich (Montenegro) header from the left side of the six yard box misses to the right. Assisted by Fatos Beqiraj with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, Montenegro. Conceded by Sergei Ignashevitch.
Foul by Artem Dzyuba (Russia).
Esteban Saveljich (Montenegro) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Roman Shirokov (Russia) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Alexander Kokorin with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Fatos Beqiraj (Montenegro) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Vladimir Rodic.
Corner, Russia. Conceded by Sasa Balic.
Alexander Kokorin (Russia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sasa Balic (Montenegro).
Offside, Montenegro. Nikola Vukcevic tries a through ball, but Fatos Beqiraj is caught offside.
Foul by Igor Denisov (Russia).
Fatos Beqiraj (Montenegro) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Artem Dzyuba (Russia).
Stefan Savic (Montenegro) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
He said the left-wing MP would "have to prove" he can win elections by moving the party away from the centre ground.
Winning elections was "absolutely crucial", said the Welsh Labour leader, who has yet to publicly back any of the party's four leadership candidates.
Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall are also standing along with Mr Corbyn.
The Islington North MP - who was admitted to the contest at the last minute by Labour MPs who wanted to "broaden debate" - has turned the contest on its head by topping two early opinion polls and winning the support of a majority of local Labour parties across Britain.
But some senior figures, including Shadow Chancellor Chris Leslie, have said Labour would face a struggle to return to power if Mr Corbyn prevailed.
Carwyn Jones - Labour's most senior elected politician - said it "would seem unusual" for the party to elect the "serial rebel".
Addressing Mr Corbyn's left-wing agenda, Mr Jones said: "You have to be true to your values but you also have to win elections.
"There's no point being wonderfully true to your values if you can't put those values into effect by being actually able to govern.
"That's what my objective will be in May and the [assembly] election that will be fought in May will be an election wholly under the guidance and control of Welsh Labour."
Ballot papers for the leadership election will be sent out on 14 August, with the result announced on 12 September.
In London, the benchmark FTSE 100 index closed down 108.12 points, or 1.4%, at 7,389.94.
The falls were echoed in other European markets, with Germany's Dax index down 1.2% and France's Cac 40 falling 0.73%.
The price of gold hit a two-month high of $1284.87 an ounce as investors moved away from shares.
"Risk assets remain out of favour, as the threat of a conflict with North Korea pushes traders towards havens," said Joshua Mahony, market analyst at IG.
The FTSE 100 was also affected by a number of major companies going ex-dividend.
BT Group, Anglo American and Lloyds Banking Group were all among the biggest fallers as their shares began trading without the right to the latest shareholder payout.
But soft drink bottler Coca-Cola HBC jumped 9% after it said first-half sales had been boosted by hot weather.
Revenues in the first six months of the year rose 5.6% to 3.21bn euros (£2.9bn), helped by June's hot weather, and operating profits jumped nearly 21% to 266.4m euros.
In the FTSE 250, shares in Cineworld rose 3% after the cinema chain reported surging sales and profits.
Blockbusters such as Beauty And The Beast, Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 and The Fate Of The Furious helped the company to report a 17.8% rise in half-year revenues to £420.2m, with pre-tax profit jumping 57.5% to £48.2m.
Shares in sofa retailer DFS fell 8.4% after it warned its full-year earnings would be at the lower end of its £82m-£87m forecast.
It said second-half revenues had slid 4% after "significant declines in store footfall and customer orders" from April to June.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.17% against the dollar to $1.2981 and fell 0.1% against the euro to 1.1051 euros.
Arriva Trains Wales said it was due to "essential line improvement works" at the station.
The work by Network Rail will only affect customers who want to travel to and from Swansea station itself.
All services between west Wales and Cardiff will be diverted around the station and will "run as usual".
Replacement buses will run between both Port Talbot and Llanelli to the city, Arriva Trains Wales added.
Matt McClure had a great chance to put the Shots ahead in the opening seconds from a Jim Kellermann cross, but his effort was blocked.
The two sides continued to push for the opener in the first half, and Mark Smith pulled off a smart save from Mandron's strike.
The Spitfires then broke on the stroke of half-time to go in one up. Scott Wilson released Joe Partington, who squared for Mandron to tap in.
In the second half, Kellermann had an effort ruled out for the hosts when he turned in Anthony Straker's cross from close range, but he was offside.
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Match ends, Aldershot Town 0, Eastleigh 1.
Second Half ends, Aldershot Town 0, Eastleigh 1.
Joe Partington (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Eastleigh. James Constable replaces Scott Wilson.
Jai Reason (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Idris Kanu replaces Jim Kellerman.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Josh Wakefield replaces Iffy Allen.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Alefe Santos replaces Ross Stearn.
Bondz N'Gala (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Charlie Walker replaces Matt McClure.
Second Half begins Aldershot Town 0, Eastleigh 1.
First Half ends, Aldershot Town 0, Eastleigh 1.
Goal! Aldershot Town 0, Eastleigh 1. Mikael Mandron (Eastleigh).
Scott Brown (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
But he's by no means alone in ending up asleep in an unexpected spot.
Sleeping in strange places is something of a national sport in China, as demonstrated by this lorry driver, pictured next to a busy road in the city of Ningbo in 40C (104F) heat.
Bernd Hagemann, who took these pictures and is the author of Sleeping Chinese, puts the nation's habit of sleeping in unconventional places down to long working hours and cramped living conditions.
But he also thinks it is socially more acceptable to sleep in public in China than some other countries.
"Sleeping has - according to Chinese people - a very high rank in the list of values," he adds.
Dozing in odd places is not unique to China of course, as demonstrated by this labourer in Jakarta, Indonesia, pictured lying on a pile of rice sacks.
Michael Oko, a specialist in sleep apnoea at the Sleeping Disorders Centre, says there is no cheating the "sleep deficit". "Power naps help," he says "but they are just a temporary fix. You need sleep hygiene with a regular routine and to get between six to eight hours sleep a day. Below that, you are not going to be well."
In the case of the Alaska Airlines baggage handler, Mr Oko says an investigation would most likely look at his recent shift patterns and whether he has any underlying sleep problems such as snoring or breath-holding.
He says men, people over 50 and those with a body mass index of more than 35 are most likely to have sleep disorders.
"Micro sleeps" when someone sleeps for moments while doing something like driving, are the most dangerous types of naps, says Mr Oko. These Indian rickshaw pullers and taxi motorcyclists in Nigeria are luckily not at the wheel.
In California, the competitive world of hog contests has provided for some unusual pillows.
In space, you can slumber pretty much anywhere, as long as you don't float around and bump into things.
According to Guinness World Records, Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov was the first person to sleep in space.
On board the Vostok 2 in 1961 he found his arms floating in front of him, but once he secured them with a belt he claimed to have "slept like a baby".
John McGahan, 71, and Philip Noel Thomson, 64, denied the charges.
The charges relate to statements taken during an investigation into the murder of Lt Steven Kirby, of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, in February 1979.
Four teenagers were charged with the murder. They became known as the 'Derry Four' after they skipped bail.
Gerry McGowan, Michael Toner, Stephen Crumlish and Gerard Kelly went to the Republic of Ireland.
The four men have always protested their innocence and almost 20 years later, all charges against them were dropped.
Their treatment by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was investigated by the Police Ombudsman and in 2012 the matter was referred to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).
The retired detectives, whose addresses were given as PSNI headquarters, Knock Road, Belfast, were released on continuing bail.
The judge said their trial was expected to start later this year and could last up to three weeks.
The broadcaster has won the rights to show all 350 fixtures each season from 2015 after talks with European governing body Uefa.
A BT spokesman said it had "shaken up the UK TV market" and would make some matches, including finals, free to air.
The news is a major blow to Sky and ITV, which currently share the rights.
While BT said it was the first time a single UK broadcaster had won the exclusive live rights to all matches from the two tournaments, Sky said the deal was "far in excess" of its own valuation.
"I am thrilled that BT Sport will be the only place where fans can enjoy all the live action from the Champions League and Europa League," said BT chief executive Gavin Patterson.
ITV has been the free-to-air broadcaster of the Champions Leage since it launched in 1992.
"We were not prepared to pay over the odds in the latest live rights round," read an ITV statement.
"Viewers will be able to continue to watch both competitions free on ITV through to 2015 and we remain the home of live England football."
The new contract, priced at £299m a season, is worth more than double the current arrangement, which could mean significantly more money for clubs in the two European competitions.
Each of the 32 teams in the group phase of the Champions League currently receive a participation payment of around £7m and £396,000 for every match played in the group stages. The winners get more than £30m in total.
As part of the deal, BT has said it will show at least one match involving each participating British team for free every season.
"We are new to the market. The key for us is growing our broadband business. We are available on all platforms. If customers do not want to be BT broadband customers, they can pay for the service as well," Patterson told BBC News.
"This is a staggering statement of intent from BT, changing the landscape of sports broadcasting and sending shock waves throughout British football.
"Having already secured 38 Premier League games a season, BT has now taken its offering to a whole new level by going all out to land exclusive live rights to the most coveted tournament in club football.
"BT must now hope these prized rights will significantly increase its subscribers and encourage more customers to buy broadband, phone and television services from them.
"Uefa and the clubs will be delighted at the increase in television revenue, but both viewers and sponsors will be concerned that, for the first time since it began, live Champions League games will not be shown on terrestrial TV.
"BT has agreed to show some games free to air, but this will be of little comfort to many fans. The deal represents arguably the biggest defeat Sky has suffered since it began sports broadcasting, and is further proof that its latest rival presents a much sterner challenge than predecessors Setanta or ESPN ever did.
"It is also grave news for ITV which had already lost the FA Cup rights and must now hope it can cling on to the Champions League and Europa League highlights."
John Petter, boss of the company's consumer division, added: "Today, to get the whole competition, you typically have to pay Sky £40 or so a month. The pricing is not being announced today, but I can say that this will be far more affordable than currently."
However, Sky indicated its rival had paid much more than it was prepared to offer.
"We bid with a clear view of what the rights are worth to us. It seems BT chose to pay far in excess of our valuation," read a statement from Sky.
"There are many ways in which we can invest in our service for customers. We take a disciplined approach and there is always a level at which we will choose to focus on something else. If we thought it was worth more, we'd have paid more.
"Nothing changes until 2015 and we look forward to 18 more months of live Champions League on Sky Sports. We will now re-deploy resources and continue to bring customers the best choice of TV across our offering."
BT launched its UK sports channels on 1 August 2013 in a challenge to the dominance of sports coverage on Sky.
BT has already spent £738m over three years for the rights to show 38 live Premier League matches for the 2012-13 season, while Sky paid £2.3bn for 116 matches a season.
Other events in the BT portfolio include the rights to Premiership Rugby and motorsports such as Moto GP and Nascar, as well as taking over ESPN's UK sports channels.
Only last week, it said more than two million people had subscribed to its television sports channels since August and reported six month pre-tax profits of £948 million.
For its part, Sky announced in October that record numbers had tuned into the start of the football season - with an average audience of 1.55m compared with 1.29m last year.
BBC News business correspondent Joe Lynam said: "Sky has achieved well over 10 million paying subscribers in the UK. The backbone of that success is well-presented live football coverage.
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"While Sky has seen off challenges from ITV Digital, ESPN and Setanta, BT is posing the most formidable challenge.
"BT is already in almost every UK home with a telephone line and is also the largest broadband provider in the market. It isn't charging anything to show live Premier League football for existing broadband customers but will be charging for some Champion League games from 2015, although no pricing structure has been published.
"Their aim of becoming the home of live football coverage in Britain takes a giant step forward with this announcement and might even have an impact on Sky shares when trading restarts on Monday."
The former Llanfyllin Union Workhouse in Powys, known locally as Y Dolydd, opened in 1839, and could house up to 250 men, women and children.
A grant of £39,900 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has helped create displays on poverty in Victorian times.
The building is the only one of its kind in Wales that people can visit.
The new centre, to be opened by author, historian and TV presenter Trevor Fishlock on Saturday, is in a wing of the workhouse which was restored after the lottery funding was awarded to the Llanfyllin Dolydd Building Preservation Trust.
Richard Bellamy, head of HLF Wales, said: "The history centre tells an important story and reflects on a key period in Welsh life and this project is essential to help people understand how people lived during the Victorian age and how attitudes have changed over time."
The residents of Y Dolydd, or inmates, as they were then known, came from a vast catchment area, covering 24 parishes.
For those whose situation was such that they had no alternative but the workhouse, their entry into that life often began with a long arduous walk to get there.
And when they did, the conditions were very basic.
Their meals, eaten in silence in a vast dining room, were taken in silence, and mostly consisted of gruel or porridge, with meat only given once a week.
They were also put to work: the men looked after pigs, or broke stones for road building; the women cleaned, made clothes and picked oakham from old rope for ship building.
But for the many children at the workhouse, there was at least schooling.
Martin Davies, an archivist for the preservation trust, said workhouses provided the first state education.
"On many occasions the number of children outnumbered the number of adults," he said.
"But, of course, the workhouse provided a school. There was a school master and the job of a school master was a lot different from today - if you were a school master, you looked after the children 24/7, day and night, that was your job... but it was free education."
The building, the only one of its kind which is preserved in Wales, was built in the classic workhouse style in the shape of a cross.
This meant women, men, boy and girls could all be segregated, each having their own accommodation and outdoor courtyards.
But what about Wales' closest equivalent, St Dwynwen's Day (Dydd Santes Dwynwen), which celebrates the eponymous Welsh patron saint of lovers each 25 January?
The event is "little known" elsewhere but "exposure grows each year" and it enjoys "great popularity throughout Wales", according to Visit Wales.
So, how big is the commercial opportunity for Welsh companies to cash in?
"It's not a big money-spinner at the moment but there's not much publicity for it," said Meinir Ffransis, of website CadwynGifts.com, which is based in Pencader, Carmarthenshire.
"Not many people know about it. It's nothing comparable to Valentine's, although it's inherently Welsh - it's a tradition that belongs to us."
Who was Dwynwen, patron saint of lovers?
She is believed to have been the daughter of King Brychan Brycheiniog, originally from Brecon.
After a thwarted romance with her suitor, Maelon Dyfodrull, she prayed to God to be let out of her love and turned him into ice.
Myth then says she was granted three wishes by an angel; she chose to be free of Maelon, to never marry and to help other true lovers.
She later founded a convent on Llanddwyn, off the west coast of Anglesey, where a church was named in her honour after she died in about AD465.
Also located on the island is Dwynwen's well where, according to folklore, a sacred fish swims, predicting the future fortunes and relationships of couples with its movements.
It is said that, if the water boils while visitors are present, love and good luck will follow.
To mark St Dwynwen's, Cadwyn offers traditional love spoons, which have been given as courting gifts in Wales since the 17th Century.
But the online store sells "many more" for Valentine's Day.
Ms Ffransis said the giving of gifts and cards for St Dwynwen's Day tends to be more popular in areas where Welsh is widely spoken.
"It could be marketed much more widely but it's also quite close to Valentine's as well. It was in the tradition historically," she added.
And while you need to be well-prepared or sharp-elbowed to secure yourself a restaurant table on 14 February, a canny Welsh romancer can still plump for a Dwynwen's dinner when competition is less intense.
Wine bar, cafe and shop, Gwin Dylanwad Wine, in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, offered sweethearts a special glass of fizz, meringues and a red rose over the weekend to to mark Santes Dwynwen.
Owner Dylan Rowlands said: "We are trying to push it. Not so many people know about it - we are trying to change that."
The shop also sells paper hearts on which people can write a message for their beloved to be displayed in the window - with all the money going to charity. About 120 love notes have so far been penned.
"That doesn't sound like much but in a little town with less than 3,000 people it's not bad," Mr Rowlands said.
Caernarfon-based Adra Home offers gifts and cards. Its founding director Angharad Gwyn said she has noticed a rise in popularity of St Dwynwen's-themed items.
"It's somehow more obvious every year," Ms Gwyn said.
"I don't know if it's because we are all more involved in social media, we are more likely to see and share these things."
Ms Gwyn said it tended to be Welsh speakers who engaged with St Dwynwen's day.
"Actually the legend has nothing to do with the language, it's to do with Wales as a country but not necessarily exclusively for Welsh speakers but I think that's been the trend in the past."
She added: "People still mistake the fact the St Dwynwen's Day is a separate day, some buy those cards thinking it says 'Happy Valentine's Day' in Welsh, but I am seeing more and more suppliers designing and producing them.
"Years ago it would have been making cards that simply say 'I love you' in Welsh rather than specifically referencing the day."
And while the market does not appear to be big enough to attract interest from the larger card manufacturers and distributors, smaller retailers and craft producers are on-hand to meet demand.
In previous years, the former Welsh Language Board has printed thousands of St Dwynwen's cards in a bid to up its profile, with Visit Wales also offering free cards and love spoons for download on its website.
"It's just a matter of getting people to know about it. It's from a standing start, really," Mr Rowlands said.
"With Valentine's it was not so many years ago people started buying all the cards. We have got to get the word out."
Labour councillor Willie Young, who was the council's finance convener, denied any wrongdoing.
The council admitted a "serious failing" after repairs worth £200,000 were ordered without proper approval.
Mr Young said he was disappointed, and that he believed coverage of the incident impacted the result.
It involved cycle path and wall repairs.
He said: "I wasn't helped by the 'wallgate'. You've got to accept you can lose. That's politics for you."
Elected in Bridge of Don were Brett Hunt (Conservative), Alison Alphonse (SNP), John Reynolds (independent) and Sandy Stuart (SNP).
Work at the cycle path, involving a boundary wall on Wellington Brae in the Ferryhill area, has been suspended while an investigation takes place.
The project was to be fully funded by cycling charity Sustrans, which awarded just over £21,000 for preliminary work, with the full funding to be paid when the work was completed.
Glasgow Sheriff Court was told that 58-year-old Harry Clarke passed out at the wheel of a bus on 7 April 2010.
It has now heard a DVLA assessment form from 2011 noted he had no history of blackouts within the past five years.
One of Mr Clarke's managers agreed that if he did pass out in 2010 then the DVLA statement was a lie.
The court previously heard that Mr Clarke was unconscious at the wheel as the Glasgow City Council bin lorry went out of control on Queen Street on 22 December 2014, killing six pedestrians and injuring 15 others.
The fatal accident inquiry (FAI) has also heard from First Bus inspector John Stewart who told the court that Mr Clarke, in his previous employment as a bus driver, had blacked out while unwell at a bus stop in 2010.
On Wednesday, the sixth day of the FAI, which is being overseen by Sheriff John Beckett QC, the court heard evidence from Douglas Gellan, an area manager with Glasgow City Council's land and environmental services department.
He was questioned by Dorothy Bain QC, who is acting for the bereaved Morton family.
Mr Gellan agreed that a medical assessment was important in the recruitment of a bin lorry driver as anyone unfit would be a risk to the public.
The witness confirmed that medical assessment was outsourced to private firms and he agreed with Ms Bain that an employee found to have lied in medical questionnaires would face "serious disciplinary consequences".
The inquiry was shown a Bupa medical questionnaire filled in by Mr Clarke in December 2010, in which he claimed to have been off work for seven days of sickness in the previous two years.
The hearing was then shown an attendance record from his employment with First Bus when he was a driver in 2010, that detailed a three-and-a-half week period of sickness in April that year. It also showed a one-week period of sickness in March of the same year.
During the inquiry it was heard that before working as a bin lorry driver with Glasgow City Council, Mr Clarke was taken on as a driver taking special needs children to school and then a gritter.
The inquiry was also shown a HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) sick pay declaration from Mr Clarke where it says he had last worked on 7 April 2010 and the reason for his sickness was "Vasovagal", which Ms Bain explained meant "faint".
Mr Gellan said he would have wanted to know about this.
He also said that if forms had been misleadingly filled in, the council would investigate but it would rely on individuals to tell the truth in the first place.
The inquiry heard that Mr Clarke had to renew his HGV licence every five years after turning 45.
He had a DVLA (the government's Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency) assessment with a Doctor Willox on 6 December 2011.
Ms Bain produced the assessment form from that day which claimed Mr Clarke had no history of blackouts within the past five years.
The QC noted that as it stands, it is a "hypothetical assertion" that Mr Clarke had in fact "blacked out" in 2010. This was based on the report of bus inspector Mr Stewart.
Ms Bain asked Mr Gellan that if we accepted that Mr Clarke had blacked out in 2010, was his statement on the DVLA form a lie?
Mr Gellan agreed that it was a lie.
Ms Bain said police had later asked Dr Willox what she would have said if she had been told about the alleged 2010 blackout.
The QC said Dr Willox told police she would have disclosed the alleged 2010 incident to the DVLA and the council, asked for Mr Clarke's medical records and declared him "temporarily unfit for duty".
Ms Bain then asked Mr Gellan if he knew if Mr Clarke had been investigated in 1994 for becoming dizzy behind the wheel of an HGV. The witness replied: "No."
She then asked him if he knew anything about another incident concerning Mr Clarke in 2003. The witness said he did not.
The court was then shown a letter to a doctor at People Asset Management - a firm contracted by Glasgow City Council to carry out medical assessments.
The letter notes that Mr Clarke underwent "extensive investigation" at hospital, including brain scans, after the bin lorry crash.
It states that the most likely diagnosis for Mr Clarke was neurocardiogenic syncope (also known as vasovagal syncope) and notes there was "no specific treatment".
The court heard that the letter noted Mr Clarke had "accepted that he would not return to work as a lorry driver".
Ms Bain asked Mr Gellan if this condition had been diagnosed in 2010, would the council have employed Mr Clarke as a driver? The witness replied: "No."
The QC then asked the witness if the people killed in the bin lorry crash "would still be here today" if that had been the case? Mr Gellan replied: "Yes."
Ms Bain concluded her cross-examination by stating: "If he'd (Mr Clarke) told the truth, in forms in 2010 and 2011, we wouldn't be here today."
The inquiry is examining the lorry, its route and driver Harry Clarke's health.
Erin McQuade, 18, her grandparents Jack Sweeney, 68, and his 69-year-old wife Lorraine, all from Dumbarton, died in the incident in the city's Queen Street and George Square.
Stephenie Tait, 29, and Jacqueline Morton, 51, both from Glasgow, and Gillian Ewing, 52, from Edinburgh, were also killed when the truck mounted the pavement before crashing into the side of the Millennium Hotel.
A further 15 people were injured.
The Crown Office has already concluded that there will be no criminal prosecution over the crash, with senior lawyers deeming it a "tragic accident".
The three were released on Friday, less than a week after they were seized in the north-eastern Catatumbo region.
In March, the ELN and the government announced they would start formal peace talks in May.
But the talks have been delayed because the ELN has not met the government's demand to stop kidnapping people.
On Sunday, the central command of the rebel group broadcast a message on its radio station saying it regretted the kidnapping of Salud Hernandez Mora, Diego D'Pablos and Carlos Melo.
Ms Hernandez Mora, a veteran journalist who holds both Spanish and Colombian citizenship, was taken on 21 May in the village of El Tarra.
El Tarra is located in the Catatumbo region, a dangerous area where the ELN, as well as a smaller rebel group and a number of criminal gangs are active.
Mr D'Pablos and Mr Melo travelled to El Tarra to report on Ms Mora Hernandez's disappearance and were seized two days later.
The ELN said the journalists had acted "imprudently" when they entered the area.
The rebel command said that as soon as it found out the three were in the hands of one of its units "we ordered them to set them free immediately in a way which would not put their lives at risk".
The command also said that the kidnappings had not been planned.
They came just two months after the ELN and the government announced they would hold formal peace talks in neighbouring Ecuador in May.
Following the release of the three journalists, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos wrote on Twitter (in Spanish) that "we will not start negotiations until the ELN swears off kidnappings and frees all those it holds".
The ELN is the smaller of Colombia's two main rebel groups and considered by analysts to be more difficult to negotiate with, not least because of its refusal to stop kidnapping.
The larger one, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), has been engaged in peace talks with the government since 2013 and the two sides hope to sign a final agreement within months.
The bans were imposed on some French resorts as a measure to protect public order, but one French court has already suspended one, saying it "breached fundamental freedoms".
Many of the most shared cartoons protest not only the ban but the challenges and criticism women across the world face over their choice of clothing.
An anonymous French artist drew a woman half clothed and half topless with notations showing the type of comments women can face. The original drawing was shared almost 10,000 times before another artist translated it into English.
Artist Khalid Cherradi said his work showed how the clash between eastern and western values tends to focus on how women dress.
Illustrator Nawak said the ban amounted to "hypocrisy on the beach". Two police officers are shown asking a nun dressed in a habit: "We are looking for ostentatious religious symbols - have you seen a burkini or a Muslim woman wearing a head scarf?" His cartoon was shared more than 12,000 times on Facebook but was also criticised by those who support the ban.
Another artist Maarten Wolterink, labelled this picture: "We're here to help you."
Artist Khalid Albaih tweeted this image, asking "Laws - to cover or uncover?"
The ban has ignited discussion across the world. Artist Amy Clancy in the UK added her views with the simple phrase "C'est ridicule!"
The mayor does not have the authority to do that so he is seeking government legislation for a pedicab ban.
He also wants to reduce the number of minicabs, a move that the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association has welcomed.
It estimates there were 13,000 new private hire drivers in London in 2014 partly owing to the rise in popularity of cheaper car booking apps like Uber.
Mr Johnson has been making the argument to ban pedicabs since December 2012 because they "jam up the capital's roads and consistently fail to ensure the safety of their passengers".
On any night in the West End you can't miss the bells of Rickshaws (or Pedicabs as they are officially known) plying for trade.
While some tourists and the odd refreshed businessman seem to enjoy them, the authorities have wanted to get rid of them for a long time. While there are responsible operators, there is also a cowboy element where there are fears over safety and concerns over the amount they charge.
In 2002, I sat in court as the black cabbies tried and failed to get them banned. Pedicabs operate using a loophole in the metropolitan public carriage act 1869 and are classed as stage carriages not Hackney cabs and so can ply for hire. If the mayor wants them banned he will need to redo that legislation. That will take time and will probably involve legal challenges.
Ross Muir, 36, claimed the girl had pretended to be older when they made contact through social media.
He picked her up in Wester Hailes and drove around before returning there and attacking her.
Muir had earlier denied raping the girl on 10 or 11 October in 2015 but was found guilty. He was placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
Muir, from Musselburgh in East Lothian, was convicted at the High Court in Edinburgh in March. Sentence had been deferred.
A judge told Ross Muir that his behaviour was "predatory" and added: "There is no doubt you knew the girl was under age."
Lord Boyd of Duncansby said first offender Muir continued to deny the offence and as a consequence showed no remorse.
The former Inland Revenue and Scottish Widows employee appeared to have been taking legal high drugs but the judge said he did not know whether that had anything to do with his offending.
Lord Boyd said Muir had told his earlier trial an "absurd" story to explain the presence of forensic evidence.
Muir subjected the girl to a painful assault. The girl, now aged 13, had to relive her ordeal at the court after he denied raping her.
He was convicted of phoning her and inducing her to meet him in October 2015 and get into his car before kissing her, exposing himself, getting her to perform a sex act on him, pushing her from the front of the vehicle to the back seat and raping her.
DNA matching Muir was found on samples taken from the girl's body and clothing.
Det Ch Insp Martin MacLean, of Police Scotland, said: "This was a significant and serious case where an older man used social media to pretend to be someone he was not and lure his victim out of the safety of her home.
"He made out he was the same age as his victim to take advantage of her youth and innocence and subject her to a harrowing ordeal, the effects of which are likely to be borne by her for the rest of her life.
"I would once again like to commend her courage in coming forward and in giving evidence against Muir which helped to secure his conviction."
It also asked the company behind it to "pause" action on a wider stretch held sacred by a Native American tribe.
The government order came shortly after a district judge denied a request to halt construction on the pipeline.
The Dakota Access Pipeline is opposed by over 200 Native American groups who fear its impact on waterways.
The $3.7bn (£2.8bn) project will pass through four states, close to lands that are sacred to members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
But only minutes earlier, US District Judge James Boasberg ruled that a decision to fast-track the pipeline project was not illegal.
The federal government then in effect overruled the judge, calling on the Texas-based company to voluntarily halt construction temporarily within 20 miles of Lake Oahe, which is considered sacred to the regional native tribes.
"This case has highlighted the need for a serious discussion on whether there should be nationwide reform with respect to considering tribes' views on these types of infrastructure projects," a joint statement by the departments of Justice, Army and the Interior said.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe called the Obama administration's intervention "stunning".
"Our hearts are full, this an historic day for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and for tribes across the nation," tribal chairman Dave Archambault II said. "Our voices have been heard."
Dakota Access, which is building the pipeline, declined to comment.
When fully connected to existing lines, the 1,770km (1,100-mile) Dakota Access pipeline would be the first to carry crude oil from the Bakken shale, a vast oil formation in North Dakota, Montana and parts of Canada, directly to oil refineries on the US Gulf Coast.
Environmental and local activists believe that the transporting of up to 570,000 barrels of crude oil a day will endanger local waterways.
But proponents of the pipeline believe it to be a safer method of transporting oil than the current methods - rail and road.
A coalition of oil and business interests said the government's move could threaten the jobs of thousands of workers.
"Should the Administration ultimately stop this construction, it would set a horrific precedent," the Midwest Alliance for Infrastructure Now said in a statement.
Over the Labor Day holiday weekend, violence briefly flared between private security forces and protesters who had come from across the United States and Canada.
Six people were bitten by dogs, and 30 were pepper-sprayed, according to a tribal spokesman.
The incident happened at about 17:40 on Sunday at a new play park in Livingston, West Lothian.
Police and firefighters were called to the site after reports that items in the council-funded play area had been set on fire.
Extensive damage was caused to the site and officers are appealing for witnesses to find those responsible.
Sgt Iain Wells said: "This wanton act of vandalism has caused several thousand pounds' worth of damage and has put the play park out of use.
"We are confident we will identify the suspects. However, I am appealing to anyone who has any information regarding this offence to come forward."
George Paul, executive councillor for services for the community at West Lothian Council, said: "It is absolutely sickening to hear that this brand-new playground which has yet to be fully completed has been vandalised.
"Once again a very small number of mindless people have ruined an excellent facility for local children.
"It is absolutely vital that the person or people responsible for this completely unacceptable action are caught. I would urge anyone who has information to report it to the police as a matter of urgency."
Yes that's right, the base metal element lead, Pb, or more exactly the lead-based chemical compound Pb(CH2CH3)4 added to petrol to make car engines run more smoothly.
Research in America shows a strong correlation between the build up of lead in the environment and - some 20 years later - levels of violent crime.
Crucially the correlation persists even when the figures are adjusted for confounding factors like social deprivation and drug use, but what's really remarkable is that they even seem to reflect the speed at which lead additives in petrol were phased out.
In states and cities where additives were banned outright the subsequent drop off in violent crime was equally dramatic, but where lead was phased out over time criminality tailed off less abruptly.
Of course correlation is not causality, but speaking on the Today programme this morning Alastair Hay, a professor of environmental toxicology at Leeds University, described the research as compelling.
"I'm very impressed with the studies that have been done. The authors have been very cautious and careful to exclude other factors associated with criminality, and the thing that stands out is this rise and fall in lead levels and a subsequent rise and fall in crime.
"It's very convincing."
There's plausibility here too. We've known for some time that lead is a potent neuro-toxin that can cause significant damage to a number of organs in the body, including the central nervous system, and can lead to behavioural problems in children. After all that's why it was banned in both paint and petrol in the first place.
So perhaps we shouldn't be so surprised to find it plays a significant role in violent crime.
David Hill, from Essex County Council, has been appointed in the role, and will report to the education secretary every three months.
If it does not improve within a year, the entire department will be taken over by another authority or trust.
Director Michael Rosen agreed the situation was "embarrassing" but performance had been improving.
The department was rated inadequate in 2013 and "widespread weaknesses" were found earlier this year.
In its last inspection, Ofsted said leadership, management and governance still needed improving and the pace of change was too slow.
A report in October said the council had lost contact with 190 children who had been in care, 26 of whom were aged 16 and 17 and could still be at risk.
It also found 16 out of 1,052 "in care" children did not even have their own allocated social worker.
Just seven out of 35 children who could be reunited with their parents had been returned home.
In once case, it took four months to hold a meeting about a five-year-old in care.
Source: Essex County Council
Mr Rosen said "children were being let down right across the system in 2013".
"The inspection we have just had shown that we have made a lot of improvement, in terms of health and protection, and we now have an effective system of school support.
"What remains to be improved is the service for looked-after children.
"It's great that the government wishes to put this extra pressure on us and I think staff will react in exactly the right way, which is 'come on, let's get the job finished'."
The £130m York Street Interchange scheme would create an underpass and a new bridge, to ease congestion where the Westlink, M2 and M3 meet.
Work is due to begin late next year and is expected to be completed by the end of 2020.
Transport Minister Michelle McIlveen said the scheme would cut travel times and improve road safety.
"There is no doubt that a scheme of this scale would represent a significant investment in the local economy," she said.
"By removing the traffic bottleneck, the new interchange will improve journey time reliability and road safety for motorists, including freight transport, and support the competitiveness of the Port of Belfast with improved links to the strategic road network.
"While the budget statement of December 2015 did not include the York Street Interchange scheme in the list of flagship projects, my department remains fully committed to this high profile major road improvement scheme."
Eight civilians, including two children, were killed after Pakistani artillery hit two areas on Tuesday, Indian officials said.
Pakistan said Indian gunfire killed six civilians on its side on Monday.
Tensions have flared over the long-running dispute since an Indian army base was attacked in September.
Shelling across the de-facto border in recent days has created a "tragic humanitarian crisis", the chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir says.
Mehbooba Mufti called on both sides to calm the perilously hostile situation on the Line of Control (LoC), which has seen intense exchanges of fire between the two armies.
Indian army sources told the Press Trust of India that two Pakistani soldiers were also killed on Tuesday.
An Indian soldier and civilian were killed a day earlier, reports say. Six people were killed in Nakyal and Tatta Pani sectors on the Pakistani side on Friday and Saturday, the government in Islamabad says.
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Both India and Pakistan have accused each other of violating a 2003 ceasefire agreement.
"It appears as if a full-blown war is going on between India and Pakistan," Mohammad Saeed, a resident of Mohra village in Pakistan's Nakyal sector, told Reuters news agency.
Hundreds of civilians in villages on both sides of the LoC have been evacuated in recent weeks, according to authorities on the Indian side.
Pakistan's foreign ministry summoned India's deputy high commissioner in Islamabad to protest at the six civilian deaths on Monday.
It pressed India to "stop targeting villages and civilians" and condemned "unprovoked ceasefire violations".
The territorial dispute between India and Pakistan over Muslim-majority Kashmir has been running for decades.
Both nuclear-armed states claim the territory in its entirety but control only parts of it. Two of the three wars fought between the two sides since independence have been over Kashmir.
After the 18 September army base attack on the Indian-administered side, the Indian military said it had carried out "surgical strikes" against suspected militants along the LoC.
Pakistan called the strikes an "illusion" and denied Indian claims it was behind the militant attack.
A subsequent BBC investigation found that while India did not airdrop commandos to hit militant camps or conduct ground assaults deep into Pakistani-administered territory, troops did cross the LoC a significant distance to hit border posts and then pulled back.
A 39-year-old from Manchester faces charges of sexual touching without consent and trespassing with the intention of committing a sexual offence.
The alleged incident happened at Cathays Terrace on 22 September and was the second of three over five days but none of them are linked.
The man has been remanded in custody.
He will appear via video link before Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court on 5 January.
He's only been playing tennis for two years and this week he's going to be part of Great Britain's squad in one of the sport's biggest tournaments - the World Team Cup.
If you've ever watched Andy Murray in the Davis Cup before, then the World Team Cup is like that only it's for wheelchair tennis players.
The British team are in three out of the four events this year.
Alex will be competing for the juniors with two other players, Ruairi Logan and George Davies.
Here's everything you need to know about him.
He'll be playing in the same squad as some of the players he's looked up to for years now, like current Wimbledon champion and Paralympic gold and silver medallist Gordon Reid.
Alex said: "It feels really weird because last year I was getting their autographs.
"They've shown me what is possible and I want to follow in their footsteps to keep Team GB at the top of wheelchair tennis."
And the winner is...
Yes it's British number one, Gordon Reid - Alex says it's because he's hoping Gordon can give him some tips.
Just like Gordon, who has his "Alice band army" - a group of supporters who attend his matches and chant and sing songs courtside - Alex has his fan club sorted too.
So should Gordon's Alice band army be worried that's there a new set of supporters in town?
Alex said: "Everyone... has really supported me with my tennis, but I don't think Gordon needs to worry yet."
One of his many favourites is Super Mario, he even thinks some of his famous World Team Cup team mates remind him of some of the characters.
He thinks Gordon would make a good Mario because "he's the main guy".
And he'd compare Gordon's Paralympics GB doubles partner and Rio double silver medallist Alfie Hewett to Luigi as "he's close on his heels".
But what about Britain's Andy Lapthorne, who not only has six Grand Slam titles and three Paralympic medals but was also part of the first wheelchair tennis match to played on a centre court at a Grand Slam?
Well Alex thinks he most definitely is Toad because "he does lots for the team but doesn't always get the recognition for it".
Alex is thinking big and wants to be part of Paralympics GB team in Tokyo 2020.
And he's got his eyes set on that Wimbledon title and Paralympic gold medal.
A new analysis of data shows the plane is probably in the southern end of the Indian Ocean search zone, where the operation will now be focused.
MH370 was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board.
Deputy PM Warren Truss said officials were "optimistic" it would be found.
But he said the search operation was likely to end by June 2016.
Meanwhile, Assistant Minister for Defence Darren Chester told reporters: "We have a high level of confidence that we are searching in the right area."
The Australian-led search has been combing a 120,000 sq km area of seabed about 2,000km off the coast of Perth, using underwater drones and sonar equipment deployed from specialist ships.
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The Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC), which is in charge of the search, says more than 75,000 sq km have been searched so far with no trace seen of the plane.
Part of an aircraft wing, known as a flaperon, was found on Reunion Island in July, roughly 4,000km from the search zone.
Although tests in France confirmed it had come from MH370, officials said it had been carried there by the ocean currents so did not affect their search plans.
In its technical report issued on Thursday, the Australian Defence Science and Technology Group said a "comprehensive analysis of the available data" showed that as previously thought, MH370 had almost certainly gone down in the southern stretch of the existing search area.
The JACC said the report "affirms the focus of search efforts to date", and that it was now focusing on a shortened but slightly widened section of ocean.
At a press conference in Canberra, Mr Truss said he remained "hopeful, indeed optimistic, that we will still locate the aircraft" and that the report gave "real encouragement".
The entire operation is expected to cost approximately A$180m ($131m; £88m).
Announcing the birth on her Twitter account, she said: "Our beautiful baby boy Reggie Ennis-Hill was born yesterday. We couldn't be happier."
Ennis-Hill, 28, from Sheffield, plans to defend her Olympic title at the 2016 Rio Games.
The athlete, who married Andy Hill in May 2013, was the poster-girl of London 2012.
Ennis-Hill revealed in January she was pregnant with her first child, ruling her out of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, which start on Wednesday.
She said at the time she was "100% set on returning to full-time athletics" after the birth.
Fellow athletes, including 21-year-old Katarina Johnson-Thompson, who is the favourite for the heptathlon title at Hampden Park in Ennis-Hill's absence, were quick to post tributes on Twitter.
Johnson-Thompson, from Liverpool, has spoken of her excitement at going head-to-head with Ennis-Hill when her rival returns to the sport.
Olympic swimming stars Rebecca Adlington and Keri-anne Payne also tweeted their congratulations on the birth, as did UK Sport and Scottish Athletics.
Double Olympic gold medallist Adlington also complimented her fellow athlete on the choice of the new baby's name.
Ennis-Hill's last heptathlon was at the Olympic Stadium two summers ago. She missed last year's World Championships with an Achilles injury.
The leader of the Hobos, Gregory "Bowlegs" Chester and alleged hitman Paris Poe were among those found guilty of racketeering conspiracy.
Prosecutors alleged the conspiracy involved nine murders in a decade punctuated by ruthless violence.
The verdict comes amid continuing concern at Chicago's murder rate.
Officials say 762 people were killed in Chicago last year, far more than any other US city, with much of the violence attributed to gangs.
Among the most vicious killings was that of government informant Keith Daniels, who was shot dead in front of his step-children and fiancee three years ago.
The court heard how Poe, wearing a mask and dress in black, shot Daniels more than dozen times outside his apartment.
Poe was also alleged to have robbed NBA player Bobby Simmons at gunpoint outside a nightclub, making off with a $200,000 (£162,000) diamond and gold necklace.
Prosecutors described how the gang gloried in extreme violence on Chicago's South Side, including the use of a hot iron to torture robbery victims.
All six will be sentenced later this year and face possible life sentences.
Samsonite said it would pay $26.74 per share in an all-cash transaction in a move designed to give it access to the premium end of the luggage market.
The deal is expected to bring cost savings in sourcing, logistics, sales and marketing, as well as distribution and product development.
The new company will list in Hong Kong.
Luxembourg-based Samsonite is already listed in Hong Kong, while US firm Tumi is currently traded in New York.
"It will meaningfully expand our presence in the highly attractive premium segment of the global business bags, travel luggage and accessories market," Samsonite chief executive Ramesh Tainwala said in a statement.
Samsonite's global net sales for the first six months of 2015 were $1,2bn.
Premium rival Tumi has about 2,000 distribution points across 75 countries, and the firm saw net sales increased by 4% year-on-year in 2015 to $548m. North America accounted for 68% of those sales.
Pending regulatory and shareholder approvals, the deal is expected to be closed in the second half of 2016.
Alan Mendoza, executive director of think tank the Henry Jackson Society
"The UK is already engaged in air strikes against IS in neighbouring Iraq. But some of the major IS command and control points are located within Syria. For us to take an arbitrary approach when IS itself does not take account of this border when pursuing its nefarious activities means that our campaign against it cannot be as effective as it would be with full freedom of manoeuvre.
Strategically, we need to end IS's control of its territory in both Iraq and Syria in order to drive it back into the shadows from where it emerged. We cannot do that by only air striking in Iraq.
Equally, we have important allies who are engaged in Syria against IS. We face the same threat from IS as they do - as seen with tragic such consequences in Paris - and for us to stand aside while they carry the full burden of responsibility in fighting it would be morally shameful.
Operationally, UK strikes are likely to be limited in impact, as we would simply be one component of a larger strike force. However, collectively, the strike force will have the capability to degrade and destroy IS units and infrastructure and weaken its ability to control its territory. As this is a prerequisite for beating IS, we will therefore be making an important contribution."
Peter Ford, former UK ambassador to Syria
"The added value of UK air strikes in Syria will be piddling - IS leaders have mostly moved to Mosul or are hiding among the civilian population - and because British people will die and be maimed as a direct result.
Labour MPs planning to vote for bombing should pause to consider the effect on their careers of exposing themselves to recrimination from the families of the soon-to-be bereaved after we see carnage on our streets.
The government are being economical with the truth about already being targeted by IS: they don't say the seven thwarted attacks were actually "by" IS but "linked to" or "inspired by". Weasel words.
If the government was sure of its legal case, why is it unwilling to seek an unambiguous UN Security Council resolution? Because it knows it would not pass.
Bombing in Syria - where a complex multi-sided conflict is going on - is different from bombing in Iraq, where we are supporting an elected government. Also because actions have consequences and the inevitable blowback on our streets will be severe."
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The Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of only three acute trusts in England to receive the highest rating over the past year.
It runs St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, Worthing Hospital and Southlands Hospital in Shoreham-by-Sea.
Chief executive Marianne Griffiths said it was an "acknowledgement of the exceptional service" provided by staff.
CQC inspectors praised the trust for its "outstanding care and treatment to the community it served".
They said "many examples of very good practice across all areas" had been seen during four inspections in December.
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The former Liverpool striker converted a 32nd-minute penalty after Alassane Plea was brought down.
Julian Tavares equalised from the spot for the visitors before half-time, but Balotelli turned in Arnaud Souquet's cross soon after the interval.
Dijon had captain Cedric Varrault sent off late on.
Lyon climbed to fourth with victory at Stade Louis II, going ahead through Rachid Ghezzal's goal before Monaco defender Benjamin Mendy was sent off for kicking out at Corentin Tolisso.
Anthony Lacazatte then saw a weak penalty for the visitors saved by keeper Danijel Subasic, but they went 2-0 up when Ghezzal set up Mathieu Valbuena.
Tiemoue Bakayoko pulled a goal back for the 10 men with a deflected shot, but Lacazette sealed Lyon's victory with three minutes left with a turn and volley after Subasic had palmed out a corner.
Match ends, Nice 2, Dijon 1.
Second Half ends, Nice 2, Dijon 1.
Yoan Cardinale (Nice) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yohann Riviere (Dijon).
Mario Balotelli (Nice) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Yohann Riviere (Dijon).
Foul by Vincent Koziello (Nice).
Jeremie Bela (Dijon) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Malang Sarr (Nice) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yohann Riviere (Dijon).
Foul by Mario Balotelli (Nice).
Vincent Rüfli (Dijon) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Dijon. Yohann Riviere replaces Frederic Sammaritano.
Cedric Varrault (Dijon) is shown the red card.
Mario Balotelli (Nice) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cedric Varrault (Dijon).
Foul by Remi Walter (Nice).
Yunis Abdelhamid (Dijon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Alassane Pléa (Nice) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Remi Walter.
Foul by Malang Sarr (Nice).
Jeremie Bela (Dijon) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Johan Gastien (Dijon) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Mario Balotelli (Nice) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Johan Gastien (Dijon).
Substitution, Dijon. Jeremie Bela replaces Ádám Lang.
Attempt missed. Vincent Rüfli (Dijon) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Frederic Sammaritano.
Foul by Remi Walter (Nice).
Mehdi Abeid (Dijon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Nice. Vincent Koziello replaces Jean Michael Seri.
Attempt missed. Frederic Sammaritano (Dijon) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Vincent Rüfli.
Corner, Dijon. Conceded by Maxime Le Marchand.
Substitution, Dijon. Frederic Sammaritano replaces Pierre Lees-Melou.
Attempt missed. Cedric Varrault (Dijon) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Mehdi Abeid with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Maxime Le Marchand (Nice).
Lois Diony (Dijon) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Alassane Pléa (Nice) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Vincent Rüfli (Dijon).
Foul by Mario Balotelli (Nice).
Mehdi Abeid (Dijon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Mario Balotelli (Nice) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Wylan Cyprien.
Private Harry Vasey, who was part of the 1st Airborne Battalion, The Border Regiment, was killed during Operation Market Garden in Oosterbeek in 1944.
Now his identity has been confirmed, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) want to trace his family so his grave can be rededicated in the Netherlands.
The MoD said plans were also in place to change his headstone.
Born in Durham in May 1916 to Harry Vasey and Annie Young, he enlisted in April 1940 when he lived in Bowburn, County Durham.
An MoD spokesman said: "Unfortunately that is about all we know about Private Vasey and his family and that's where the trail goes cold.
"We are hoping that there are some of his family still living in that area."
Since WW2, a section of the Royal Netherlands Army has been working to identify the graves of unknown soldiers killed in battle.
The exhumation reports were scrutinised for clues to the identities of these men and the research was presented to the MoD.
Mr Vasey is one of six Border Regiment soldiers, including Lance Corporal Raymond Halliday, to be indentified.
The aim of Operation Market Garden was to take strategic bridges near Arnhem, but the Allies underestimated the number of German troops lying in wait and it failed.
More than 1,400 Allied troops died and more than 6,000 were captured by German forces.
It is hoped Mr Vasey's surviving relatives can attend the service at Oosterbeek Cemetery on 14 September in honour of his sacrifice and bravery, the MoD said.
There was an "apparent deterioration" in his health following his failure to attend the last two cabinet meetings, the group said.
Mr Buhari took about seven weeks of medical leave in January, and flew to the UK for treatment.
When he returned home in March, he said he had never been so ill in his life.
Mr Buhari has not disclosed his illness, but hinted that he had had a blood transfusion.
Information Minister Lai Mohammed told the BBC that the president's health was "a personal matter".
Nigerians have been kept aware of his condition, he added.
'Take a rest'
The 13-member group included some of the Nigeria's most influential civil society figures, including lawyer Femi Falana, political analyst Jibrin Ibrahim, and Transparency International Nigeria head Anwal Musa Rafsanjani.
In their statement, they said the president had not been seen in public for the last week, and his absence from the cabinet meetings, as well as the weekly Friday Muslim prayers, "has fuelled further speculation and rumours" about his medical condition.
The 13 said they felt "compelled" to ask Mr Buhari "to heed the advice of his personal physicians by taking a rest to attend to his health without any further delay".
Mr Buhari's personal assistant Bashir Ahmed said the president had met Justice Minister Abubakar Malami and other officials at the presidential villa on Tuesday as part of his official duties.
Last week, presidential spokesman Garba Shehu said Mr Buhari was "taking things slowly, as he fully recovers from the long period of treatment" in the UK.
Buhari's unhealthy start to 2017
19 January: Leaves for UK on "medical vacation"
5 February: Asks parliament to extend medical leave
10 March: Returns home but does not resume work immediately
26 April: Misses second cabinet meeting and is "working from home"
28 April: Misses Friday prayers
More than 4,000 pipers and drummers from across the UK, as well as Canada, Denmark and Ireland, are to compete in the championships on Saturday 20 May.
It is hoped the free event, which includes a food market and a children's entertainment zone, will help Paisley's bid to be UK City of Culture 2021.
Thousands of spectators are expected at the event in St James Playing Field.
Paisley 2021 Bid Director Jean Cameron said: "Events like this are important for the UK City of Culture 2021 bid as it shows Paisley has the infrastructure and know-how to host large-scale events.
Ian Embelton, of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, said: "We are pleased to be back in Paisley for another year and delighted to have another huge turnout from bands.
The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) plans to move out of the 19th Century Inverness Castle to the new building by the summer of 2018.
Work on the site next to Burnett Road Police Station could start this year.
The castle in Inverness city centre is to be transformed into a visitor attraction.
It could accommodate a museum and an art gallery.
SCTS said the Inverness Justice Centre would accommodate courts and tribunals and also provide support services for witnesses, victims, accused and those convicted in courts.
The Scottish government is backing the project and the plans to turn Inverness Castle into a tourist site.
Sheriff Principal Derek Pyle described the proposed new justice centre as an important development for SCTS.
He said: "We have an exciting opportunity to create a pioneering, state-of-the-art justice centre, which will house justice partners and third sector organisations in the same building.
"It will deliver a range of services for offenders, providing the environment for problem solving approaches to help reduce re-offending, and offer specialist facilities, support and advice for victims and witnesses of domestic abuse, sexual violence and child abuse."
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said: "I am delighted that the development of the new Inverness Justice Centre, made possible with funding from the Scottish government, has taken a step forward today.
"We are now closer to delivering a facility which is accessible and modern, supporting the delivery of justice in the north of Scotland."
The sandstone Inverness Castle was built in 1836 to plans drawn by architect William Burn.
It was constructed on a mound overlooking the city and the River Ness. In 1848, a building known as the North Block was added and served as a prison.
But a castle had occupied the site from possibly as far back as the 11th Century.
Over the centuries, the fortification fell under the control of the forces of Edward I, Robert the Bruce and James I, II and IV.
In 1562, it was attacked and damaged by soldiers loyal to Mary, Queen of Scots, before it was almost destroyed by Royalist troops in the 1600s.
Bonnie Prince Charlie's forces blew the castle up in 1746 to prevent it from falling into the hands of government troops.
It was said that a French sergeant, who had brought his poodle with him to Scotland, set off the explosives.
The soldier was caught in the blast, and his body was blown across to the opposite side of the River Ness.
His dog was also hurled over the river by the explosion. It survived, though it lost its tail.
Tourism Minister and co-chairman of the Inverness Castle Working Group, Fergus Ewing said relocation of court services from Inverness Castle offered an opportunity to develop a "world-class tourism attraction".
"Tourism is not just a key part of the local economy but a key driver of growth across Scotland and I am very keen that the castle finds a new life that benefits the Highlands and Scotland as a whole," he said.
Eric McQueen, SCTS chief executive, said "hard work" would go into the final design of the new centre.
Inverness Provost Helen Carmichael said both projects should be welcomed.
She added: "This heralds the start of a really bright future for the city."
Experts told BBC News that the assertions made by former Chancellor Nigel Lawson on Radio 4's Today programme were simply untrue.
Lord Lawson had claimed that global temperatures had "slightly declined" over the past 10 years.
However, scientists working in the field said the records showed the complete opposite to be the case.
BBC Radio 4's Today programme defended its decision to interview Lord Lawson on Thursday morning in a segment on climate change. The BBC argued that it had a duty to inform listeners about all sides of a debate.
During the interview, Lord Lawson said that "official figures" showed that "during this past 10 years, if anything... average world temperature has slightly declined".
But speaking in a follow-up discussion on Friday morning, Dr Peter Stott from the UK Met Office said the former Chancellor had got the facts wrong.
"We know that 2016 was the warmest on record, over a degree warmer than late 19th Century levels, so this claim that we heard from Nigel Lawson that there's been cooling is simply not true," he told the BBC.
His view was echoed by Prof Richard Betts from the University of Exeter.
"The official figures do not show that the global mean temperature 'has slightly declined'. In fact, they show the opposite - global mean temperature has increased during the past 10 years," he said in a statement.
"The last three years were warmer than the previous seven, and indeed were the warmest on record, and this year is also shaping up to be nearly as warm (probably not quite as warm as last year since the influence of the El Nino has passed, but still a very warm year)."
On Thursday, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its 2016 State of the Climate report, stating that the year was the warmest in 137 years of record keeping.
All over the planet, the peer reviewed study found strong evidence of ongoing warming linked to human activities. Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit new highs, as did global sea levels, while at both poles the extent of sea-ice hit new lows.
Lord Lawson, who was energy secretary in Margaret Thatcher's government before becoming chancellor, now chairs the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a think-tank that describes itself as "open-minded on the contested science of global warming".
He was taking part in a segment following an interview with former US Vice President Al Gore, who was promoting the sequel to his hit documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which made the case for tackling climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil.
On the programme, Mr Gore made the economic case for renewable energy and said that "climate-related extreme weather events have grown far more numerous and far more destructive" in the 10 years since the first film.
It was suggested to the former Democratic presidential contender that he was going further than the scientific consensus but he said researchers around the world were "virtually unanimous on this and have been for decades", adding that "record downpours" in the UK were a result of climate change.
Lord Lawson was asked why he thought Mr Gore was, in his words, "talking complete nonsense".
The former cabinet minister said that "all the experts say there hasn't been" an increase in extreme weather events, citing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
But speaking on Friday morning, Dr Stott said Lord Lawson was wrong about the IPCC as well.
The panel had clearly indicated that there had been an increase in extreme events and that these increases were linked to human use of fossil fuels.
"If you take the global picture, the IPCC said very clearly that it is very likely that human influence has contributed to observed global-scale changes in the frequency and intensity of daily temperature extremes," he told the Today programme.
"If you take the global picture and look at the global fingerprint - yes, you can attribute that."
Many scientists took to Twitter to express their dismay at the airing of what they say were false claims.
Physicist and BBC presenter Professor Brian Cox said it was "irresponsible and highly misleading to give the impression that there is a meaningful debate about the science".
Fellow physicist and broadcaster Jim al-Khalili tweeted: "For @BBCr4today to bring on Lord Lawson 'in the name of balance' on climate change is both ignorant and irresponsible. Shame on you."
He added: "There should be NO debate anymore about climate change. We (the world minus Trump/Lawson et al) have moved on."
In a statement, the BBC said: "The BBC's role is to hear different views so listeners are informed about all sides of debate and we are required to ensure controversial subjects are treated with due impartiality."
The men have all been taken by HM Coastguard helicopter to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary.
There was no information on their condition.
Bobby Thomson, 64, George Crosbie, 73, and 74-year-old Jeffrey Stewart had failed to return from a walk in the hills at Durisdeer on Tuesday.
Police and Moffat Mountain Rescue Teams carried out searches overnight in the area north of Thornhill in Dumfries and Galloway.
Driving rain and very high winds had hampered the search.
The men, who are said to be regular visitors to the Lowther Hills area of the Southern Uplands, left home at 08:30 on Tuesday for a trek and had been due to return at 15:30.
Police said the men were "experienced hillwalkers familiar with the area".
A post on the mountain rescue team's Facebook page said it had been called out by police at 19:00, with the search continuing until 02:00.
The post also described weather conditions in the area as "very wet and windy with very little visibility".
The Galloway and Tweed Valley Rescue teams have joined the search along with a coastguard rescue helicopter from Prestwick.
24 February 2014 Last updated at 18:07 GMT
It's been demolished to make way for a new 65,000-seat state-of-the art stadium for the Minnesota Vikings.
The Metrodome was voted the worst stadium in America in 2012.
Check out the moment it was reduced to rubble!
A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week.
The annual Carthage international music festival was under way in Tunisia with this performance featuring groups from Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria on Monday.
Meanwhile, Ivory Coast has been playing host to the Francophone Games, which focus on culture and art - as well as sport. Here Debe Blaise of Burkina Faso (right) takes on Niger's Garba Mourtala in the men's wrestling 66kg quarter-final on Thursday 28 July.
Tuesday saw the opening ceremony for China's first overseas military base - in Djibouti. Chinese authorities have dismissed concerns about China's expanding military prowess, arguing that the base will be used for defensive purposes. It will support ships travelling near the Horn of Africa, as well as peacekeeping and humanitarian operations.
Still on a military theme, here is an Angolan T-72 tank in action near Moscow at the weekend... but it is not flexing muscle for real, just competing in the Tank Biathlon contest - part of the International Army Games 2017
On a lighter note, Egyptian military police soldiers are pictured here taking a selfie before the beginning of the football match on Sunday between ES Tunis and Al Hilal during the Arab Club championship in Alexandria.
In Guinea, thousands of opposition activists took to the streets of the capital, Conakry, on Wednesday to press for local elections to be held after a gap of 12 years.
And next week's election is very much at the forefront of attention in Kenya. People are already heading from the capital to rural homelands - to vote and in some cases to be away from the city, fearing there may be violence in the aftermath.
A closing ceremony on Sunday marked the completion of the Francophone Games in Ivory Coast, which drew some 3,000 participants.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the test proved that the entire US was within striking range, state media reported.
The launch came three weeks after North Korea's first ICBM test.
US President Donald Trump called it "only the latest reckless and dangerous action by the North Korean regime".
China also condemned the missile test but urged "all parties concerned" to exercise restraint "and avoid intensifying tensions".
Confirming the launch, the North said the ICBM flew for just over 47 minutes and reached an altitude of 3,724km (2,300 miles).
It said the launch had "successfully tested re-entry capabilities" of the missile.
"The leader said proudly the test also confirmed all the US mainland is within our striking range," the Korean Central News Agency said.
The statement said that the rocket was a Hwasong-14, the same model North Korea tested on 3 July.
Melissa Hanham, Senior Research Associate in the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
North Korea's latest ICBM test went farther and higher than their previous 3 July test, meaning that they may be able to strike even deeper into the heartland of the United States than initially assessed.
Within minutes of the launch, South Korean, Japanese and US officials reported data about the location, range, apogee, and flight time of the missile. While full analysis has not been finalised yet, several points stand out.
First, the data available indicates that the missile may have a range of approximately 10,400km. Since this missile is road-mobile, a launch from the north-eastern city of Rason would put New York City in range of the ICBM.
Second, the US reported that North Korea launched the ICBM from Mupyong-ni, North Korea. This location was different from many press accounts leading up to the launch which predicted a Kusong launch. The missile launched at 23:11 local time, an unusual time for North Korea's tests as well. It is possible that North Korea is already experimenting with deploying the missile under the cover of night or setting up multiple launch sites to confuse observers.
Reports on Friday said the missile had come down in the sea off northern Japan.
In response, the US and South Korean military conducted a live-firing exercise using surface-to-surface missiles, a US defence official said.
The missiles were fired into the "territorial waters of South Korea along the east coast," a US military statement said.
South Korean Defence Minister Song Young-moo said the country would prepare independent measures to curb the North Korea threat, speeding up the deployment of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system (Thaad) provided by the US.
The North has repeatedly tested missiles in breach of UN resolutions.
The Pentagon said the latest missile was launched at 23:41 (15:41 GMT) from an arms plant in Jagang province in the north of the country.
It is unusual for North Korea to launch a missile at night - the significance is as yet unclear. No missiles had been fired from Jagang province before, indicating a previously-unknown launch site is operational.
ICBMs can reach altitudes well outside the earth's atmosphere. Using sharp trajectories with high altitudes allows North Korea to avoid firing over neighbouring countries.
The US, Japan and South Korea roundly condemned the latest action by Pyongyang.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the threat to his country's security was "grave and real" while Pentagon spokesman Capt Jeff Davis said the US was prepared to defend itself "and our allies from any attack or provocation".
South Korea's President Moon Jae-in convened an emergency security meeting for the middle of the night.
Despite the ongoing tests, experts believe the North does not yet have the capability to miniaturise a nuclear warhead, fit it on to a long-range missile, and ensure it is protected until delivery to the target.
They say many of North Korea's missiles cannot accurately hit targets.
Others, however, believe that at the rate it is going, Pyongyang may overcome these challenges and develop a nuclear weapon within five to 10 years that could strike the US.
The inspection, led by the Care Inspectorate and Education Scotland, examined children's services provided by the Moray Community Planning Partnership between August and October.
Out of nine key indicators of performance, five were rated as adequate and four as weak.
Inspectors found children at immediate risk of harm were being protected.
However, those experiencing neglectful parenting were exposed to risk for too long before decisive action was taken.
The main areas of weakness related to management and in some cases how services worked together.
The Moray Community Planning Partnership said hard work was being done since the inspection and it was confident of being on the right track.
23 June 2014 Last updated at 17:24 BST
The 12-year-old was shot and injured, and the other caught unharmed. Two other stabbing attempts were thwarted in and near the city, police said.
The pair are among the youngest alleged assailants in more than a month of near-daily stabbings of Israelis by Palestinians.
Ten Israelis and dozens of Palestinians have been killed in the recent unrest.
Many of the Palestinian fatalities were attackers, shot by their victims or security forces.
The surge in violence began in September when tensions at a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem revered by Jews and Muslims boiled over amid rumours that Israel planned to relax long-standing rules to strengthen Jewish rights at the complex. Israel has repeatedly denied such claims.
Israeli police said the 12- and 13-year-old boys stabbed and moderately wounded the guard on a light rail train in the settlement of Pisgat Zeev.
The guard shot the younger boy, and the 13-year-old was held by passengers until police arrived and arrested the suspects.
Shortly afterwards, a 37-year-old Palestinian was shot dead after trying to stab two guards outside the Damascus Gate entrance to Jerusalem's walled Old City, according to police.
In the nearby suburb of Abu Dis, another Palestinian was shot dead after trying to stab security forces at a checkpoint, police said.
The Welsh government pays up to £5,190 a year towards fees for any UK course.
Baroness Morgan told BBC Wales' Pawb a'i Farn programme it would "make sense" to change the current system.
Education Minister Huw Lewis has suggested Labour will continue the fee policy if it wins the election in May, but hinted grants may be means-tested.
Tuition fee subsidies have been controversial due to their cost - more than £200m a year - amid claims that too much of the money ends up going to universities in England.
Baroness Morgan, a former Labour Euro-MP, said: "If we're paying people to study in England, I want to see a system where, if the student doesn't come back to Wales to work for around three years, then they'd have to pay the grant or the money back.
"This is something I'm going to try to push into the Labour manifesto; I don't know how it'll go, but I think it would make sense."
Tory AM Suzy Davies, who also appeared on the programme, said the Welsh government had a responsibility to "support any student to reach their potential, and not to prevent any student from going to the university of their choice in the UK".
Plaid Cymru's Adam Price said the current system was "not sustainable", but said he believed support should be available where courses were not available in Wales.
Liberal Democrat Cadan ap Tomos said: "We have to accept there's a world beyond Wales; I don't believe we should hold young people back and force them to stay in Wales."
There are no plans for him to meet personally with Pope Francis.
"I'm so excited and proud to be here with other people who are trying to create a moral economy," he told supporters outside the Vatican.
The visit comes just four days before a crucial state primary contest in his native New York.
On Thursday night, the Vermont senator and his rival Hillary Clinton clashed on Wall Street banks, gun controls and the minimum wage in a punchy debate.
Afterwards he flew to Rome, where supporters were gathered at the Vatican wearing T-shirts saying: "Rome feels the Bern."
Mr Sanders said inequality, injustice and pollution are causing "devastating" problems.
And he admires the pope for his views on income inequality and greed.
Some political commentators have wondered why he would travel to Rome so close to the New York primary.
"It's a real misstep," New York Times columnist Charles Blow said on CNN. "He's basically going to be saying the same thing there that he's been saying here."
Mr Sanders' campaign manager Jeff Weaver defended the trip at a rally.
"Hillary Clinton has been out of the state on a number of occasions for high-dollar fundraisers," he said. "We think this is a more important reason to leave the campaign trail for the day."
Mr Sanders defended the trip to reporters and supporters outside of the Vatican.
"I know that it's taking me away from the campaign trail for a day but when I received this information it was so moving to me that it was something that I could just simply not refuse to attend," he said.
"Our youth are no longer satisfied with corrupt and broken politics and an economy of stark inequality and injustice," Mr Sanders said outside of the Vatican.
Youth want a "return to fairness" and assurance that everyone has access to health care, nutrition and education.
Mrs Clinton, who represented the state in US Senate for two terms, holds a commanding lead in New York, according to recent polls.
Mr Sanders plans on releasing his tax returns soon, he said at the debate, and that his wife Jane is in charge of taxes.
"We'll get our tax returns out. We've been busy; you might have noticed," he said.
Passenger Luke Fletcher, 19, died when the car left the B2177 near Southwick, Hampshire in January 2016.
Zax Ross-Harris, 22, and Danny Ross-Barringer, 25, were jailed for eight and six years for causing death by dangerous driving and aiding and abetting respectively.
The court heard they had been driving at up to 100mph in bad weather.
Portsmouth Crown Court heard both drivers only had provisional licences. Ross-Harris, from Paulsgrove, had been driving the Nissan Almera in an "idiotic" manner on Portsdown Hill on 23 January.
Performing arts student Mr Fletcher, who was in the back seat, suffered an "unsurvivable" head injury when it left the road and hit a tree.
Another passenger, Sonny Wedge, suffered severe injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Andrew Houston, prosecuting, said Mr Wedge and Mr Fletcher had begged Ross-Harris to stop driving and pull over before the crash.
He said Ross-Harris "cowardly" ran away and denied being in the vehicle when questioned by police.
He later admitted causing death by dangerous driving and while driving unlicensed and uninsured and causing serious injury.
Mr Houston said Ross-Harris had drunk seven pints of lager earlier in the day but because he was not arrested until the day after, his alcohol level at the time of the crash was not known.
In a letter to Mr Fletcher's family, read to the court, Ross-Harris wrote: "My stupidity cost Luke's life, I know sorry will never be good enough."
He was also banned from driving for 14 years.
Ross-Barringer, also from Paulsgrove, admitted he had been "showing off" and said his cousin had been attempting to copy him.
Robert Grey, defending Ross-Barringer, said: "He is truly remorseful for what has happened."
Mr Fletcher's mother, Sarah Hiscutt said in a victim impact statement: "I wish it had been me; it has changed our lives for ever."
After sentencing she, described her son as "one of a kind".
"He was growing into a fine young man, full of life, dreams, ambition and a zest for life. He had everything to live for and wanted so much from life," she said.
Mr Fletcher had recorded a single, Heart of Stone, which was released after his death.
Two politicians with their reputations on the line, speaking under the shadow of the axe which will fall on whoever the public eventually deem is to blame for the RHI debacle.
Arlene Foster and Jonathan Bell's accounts are contradictory - contradictory about the role of special advisers, contradictory about who intimidated whom during a tempestuous meeting inside Stormont Castle and contradictory about who wanted to shut down the scheme quickly and who wanted to give it just an extra month, an extra week or an extra expensive day.
How can we work out where the truth lies?
The Public Accounts Committee, which is already conducting an inquiry into the heating scheme, looks like the most obvious immediate avenue.
But even some of its own members doubt they have the necessary powers.
In the past, Stormont committees have failed to demonstrate the forensic skills required to unravel some complexities.
Maybe a judge-led inquiry is preferable. However, that means yet more costs, on top of the costs of inspecting all the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) boilers and the costs haemorrhaging from the Stormont budget until someone finds a way to staunch the financial wound.
Whatever kind of investigation is held, the testimony of the career civil servants involved is likely to be crucial. They appear to be the nearest the public have to neutral witnesses to the skirmishes in this internal DUP war.
Moreover, whilst the Nolan interviews shone a light on dark corners of Stormont hitherto unseen, they still left us none the wiser about what motives might have been behind the failure to close down the RHI scheme.
Gathering more evidence about what lobbying was going on and who the claimants were should shed light on why on earth no one moved swiftly to plug the gaping leak in Stormont's budget.
"Cui bono?" The old Latin question about who stands to gain needs to be asked again and again.
Whilst the blame game is necessary and inevitable, no one must lose sight of the fact that Stormont is committed to paying out on this scheme for the next 20 years.
Those contracts must be re-examined in order to see if the "too good to be true" deal can be renegotiated.
If RHI claimants are generating useless heat simply to make money from a scheme which the European Commission was told would be strictly limited to "useful heat" then there has to be scope for contracts to be declared null and void.
People who bought expensive heating units in good faith shouldn't be out of pocket. But neither should they be allowed to dip their buckets into a money pit for years to come.
We have all been burned, some heads must surely roll, but Stormont needs to act swiftly to put out this impossibly expensive fire.
The US billionaire bought the Turnberry course and hotel in Ayrshire for an undisclosed sum in April.
The resort was subsequently renamed Trump Turnberry.
During his first media conference at the course, Mr Trump said the renaming was not for his "ego" but to make the course "more successful".
He has pledged to spend more than £100m on renovating the hotel that overlooks the famous course and said there will be some potential changes to it over the next few years, particularly holes nine to 11.
Mr Trump said he discussed changing the name of the resort with "important people" in Scotland and the world of golf and said he would not have changed it if he thought it would have a negative impact.
Sitting at a large bay window overlooking the famous course with a Trump-branded helicopter on the hotel lawn, he said: "I looked at the name change in the form of logos and it looks so incredible.
"One of the things that I think is good (about the Trump organisation) is we have tremendous success, our buildings are tremendously successful, so if you add it, I'm not doing it for ego, I'm doing it because it's going to make the place more successful.
"If I thought it was going to hurt Turnberry I wouldn't use the name but it's going to make this great resort much more successful than it has been and that's the primary reason I'm doing it.
"If I thought it would have a negative impact, I would not do it. I want to see incredible success for this resort beyond anything else."
He added: "I actually asked some people that are very important in Scotland, although I won't get them in trouble by saying their name, but I've spoken to very important and very powerful political people and I said 'what do you think of the idea of Trump Turnberry?'
"Everyone said that they would love it, I spoke to the higher-ups in the world of golf and one of them said it used to be called Westin Turnberry when the Japanese owned it, I think Trump Turnberry sounds much better."
Mr Trump, was joined at the press conference by his son Eric and golf course architect Martin Ebert, said the hotel is debt-free and there is no mortgage on the property.
He added: "We are going to be spending at least £100m on redoing the hotel, on building it up to the highest standards, and I'm talking world standards.
"We have a facility really that can be the finest hotel anywhere in the world, and certainly the finest hotel of its kind anywhere in the world."
Turnberry is on the rota of courses that can stage the Open Championship and Mr Trump said that was a factor is his decision to purchase the resort.
"It's a magnificent tournament, I've watched it for so many years and never missed it," he said.
"It's just an honour to be associated with the Royal and Ancient (golf's governing body) and the tournament potentially.
"It's already had four Opens and the women are coming next year, which I consider very important, and I think the greatness of this course will lead to others, it has to.
"We have now the greatest canvas in all of golf so ultimately people can't avoid it."
Turnberry is Mr Trump's second Scottish course, following on from his Aberdeenshire resort at Menie which opened in July 2012.
Plans for a second golf course, club house and hotel on the same site remain on hold amid a bitter dispute over a proposed wind farm adjacent to the resort, but
Mr Trump said the current course is a success and has been a "big boost" for Aberdeen.
Nida, 19, went missing two-and-a-half months ago after putting the bins out at her home.
Gwent Police said they were called to Newport Wetlands at West Nash Road on Thursday morning where a body had been discovered.
The body has yet to be identified and the death is being treated as unexplained.
Police said a post-mortem examination was to take place.
The teenager disappeared from her home in Pill at about 20:00 GMT on 28 December.
She was not wearing shoes and did not have her phone, money or coat with her.
By Paul HeaneyBBC News
It's almost exactly three months to the day that 19 year old Nida Naseer went missing from her home, three days after Christmas.
Just two days ago her father told BBC Wales he felt something was stopping her from getting in touch.
Despite hundreds of hours of CCTV and several reports of sightings around the country, Gwent Police say her disappearance is still a mystery.
Visitors to this secluded bird sanctuary on the banks of the River Usk have turned back from their walks along the coast this afternoon, visibly shocked at the presence of police officers, at what is a quiet and peaceful area full of dense marshland.
West Nash Road, where a body has been found, is about four miles (6.5km) by road from Linton Street, where Nida was last seen.
Natural Resources Wales, which manages the wetland, said the body appeared to have washed up on to an area of salt marsh.
It said no land had been cordoned off as that area is not accessible to the public.
Police investigating Nida's disappearance have received more than 50 calls reporting possible sightings across the UK but none had amounted to anything.
Officers said they had investigated hundreds of lines of inquiry and taken more than 100 statements.
Four Urdu and Punjabi language specialists from Greater Manchester, Thames Valley and Metropolitan police forces have also helped with the investigation.
Nida's family have made several public appeals for her to return home.
They say she was depressed before she went missing and believe she disappeared because the family's asylum-seeker status prevented her from attending university.
They had sought asylum after coming to the UK from Pakistan five years ago but their application was turned down a year ago. They have appealed.
North Wales Police was called to an address in the Bryn Heulog area at 20:30 GMT on Thursday and David Kingsbury, 35, was found dead nearby.
A 38-year-old woman from Old Colwyn is being questioned by police.
Police are appealing for motorists "who may have had active dash-cams operating in their vehicles" to come forward and help their enquiry.
Officers said they were interested in hearing from anyone who may have seen or heard a couple arguing in Bryn Heulog, Llysfaen Road or Abergele Road between 19:00 and 21:00 on 5 January.
A post mortem examination revealed Mr Kingsbury died from a single stab wound.
Insp Kelly Isaacs said: "We would like to reassure the local community that Old Colwyn is a very safe place, with instances of violence, particularly of this nature, being extremely rare."
It was confirmed as the 205th national Olympic committee at the IOC session in Monte Carlo on Tuesday.
Kosovo declared independence in 2008 from Serbia, which does not recognise it as a state.
The Serbian Olympic committee protested when Kosovo was granted provisional IOC recognition in October.
It is recognised as a country by 108 of the 193 United Nations member states and is a full member of six Olympic sports federations: table tennis, archery, judo, sailing, weightlifting and modern pentathlon.
The IOC began reviewing the Kosovo case five years ago but the request to field a team at London 2012 was rejected.
Majlinda Kelmendi was the only athlete from Kosovo to compete in London, where she represented Albania in judo.
"Congratulations Kosovo and all athletes," said Prime Minister Hashim Thaci. "Our flag will wave at the Olympic Games in Rio and will be held by Majlinda."
IOC president Thomas Bach said that Serbian Olympic Committee president Vlade Divac had not been happy with the initial IOC decision but accepted it "in the interest of the athletes" and in a gesture of sportsmanship.
However, Serbian sports minister Vanja Udovicic criticised the IOC's decision to give full membership to Kosovo, which is not a member of the United Nations.
Udovicic said: "I regret that sport has become a field for politically motivated decisions and it will be very difficult to preserve the basic principles of sport in the future after this kind of precedent."
Scottish Care said "radical action" was needed to reform home care services.
Its study found the number of people assessed as requiring free personal and nursing care had reduced after a tightening of eligibility criteria.
The Scottish government said free personal care benefits around 77,000 people in Scotland each year.
A spokeswoman said: "We are absolutely committed to delivering the policy."
Scottish Care, the representative body for the country's independent social care services, said older people who would have received support at an earlier stage for tasks like housework or cooking were now receiving much less support or none at all.
Its report "Bringing Home Care" will be launched at a conference in Glasgow on Friday.
Scottish Care's chief executive officer Dr Donald Macaskill said: "Whilst we fully support the existence of free personal and nursing care and value its role in supporting people with social care costs, what we have seen since its introduction in 2002 is a move towards less people receiving more care.
"Whilst this reflects the reality of constrained budgets, it means that many older people are being denied the support they need to enable them to live for as long as possible in their own homes."
Dr Macaskill said delaying or denying access to care was financially "counterproductive" as it would probably lead to more hospital visits.
It also had a negative impact on older people's health and wellbeing, he added.
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "The intensity of home care for older people is increasing, with more time spent on average with those in receipt of care, enabling those with the highest level of need to stay in their own home for longer.
"We have also taken action to protect and grow our social care services. In the current year there will be almost half a billion pounds of NHS investment in social care and integration.
"Through this, this government is enabling, for the first time, adult care workers in Scotland to be paid the real Living Wage of £8.45 from 1st May 2017. This will benefit up to 40,000 people."
Police said she died in a "tragic accident" on Llantwit Major beach, Vale of Glamorgan, on Thursday.
Her boyfriend Paul Biggs, 24, called her a "happy person" who "loved life".
He said Ms Le Fjord - who grew up in Salisbury, Wiltshire, but had been living in the area - was with her friend Martha Ormerod, 25, when the rock fell.
The pair had been celebrating Ms Le Fjord finishing her A-level maths exam by having a picnic.
She had been 18ft (5m) away from the cliffs when the rock hit her, Mr Biggs said.
He said: "She'd been having a lovely day.
"We've been there many times and never thought being there would be dangerous."
He said Ms Ormerod "did everything she could", including performing first aid, before the paramedics arrived.
She wrote him a letter to explain what had happened, Mr Biggs said.
South Wales Police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.
Two cars were involved in the collision on the B7078 Carlisle Road near Blackwood at about 18:15 on Friday.
Police said the 19-year-old passenger in one of the cars, a Seat Ibiza, had died at the scene.
The 25-year-old man driving the Seat was taken to Wishaw General Hospital. His condition has been described as "serious".
The other car involved, a Nissan Micra, was being driven by a 55-year-old man who is in a stable condition in hospital.
A five-year-old girl in the car was taken to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow and is in a serious condition.
Police have appealed to witnesses to get in touch.
It has also cut staff numbers by 13% in the first six months of the year.
The bank was rescued in 2013 after discovering a £1.5bn capital shortfall.
"Considering the scale of the challenge we faced a year ago we are encouraged by the progress made to ensure the stability of the bank," said chief executive Niall Booker.
After the discovery of the capital black hole, a deal was reached which saw the wider Co-op Group cede majority ownership of the bank to bondholders, including a number of US hedge funds.
Last year, before the bank rescue, it was hit by a separate scandal when its former chairman Paul Flowers was arrested in connection with a drugs supply investigation.
In April the bank confirmed it made a loss of £1.3bn for 2013.
Mr Booker reiterated that the bank did not expect to achieve a full-year profit until 2016.
But he also said the bank was now ahead of schedule in the disposal of non-core assets and had "improved governance, particularly at board level".
Chris Wheeler, a banking analyst at Mediobanca, told BBC 5 live that "there are signs of progress" but there were still "problems they have to deal with," including a drop in deposits.
Mr Wheeler also said that a reduction in money set aside for bad debts "flattered" the profit figures.
The bank also lost 28,199 current accounts in the first half of 2014, but that figure represented less than 2% of accounts.
Manuel Pellegrini's side missed out on their first Champions League final, losing 1-0 in their semi-final second leg in the Spanish capital.
Gareth Bale's cross was deflected in by Fernando, settling a tie Madrid dominated, with City uninspired.
But, though he was disappointed with their performance, BBC Radio 5 live pundit Waddle says there are still grounds for optimism for City.
"It's no disgrace at all, losing to Real Madrid, it's just the manner of the defeat," said Waddle.
"Manchester City never played at a tempo. They looked like they were a bit afraid of Madrid. The home side could have won by three or four.
"Goalkeeper Joe Hart kept City in it over the two legs and in Madrid they had nothing to lose - score the first goal and you win the tie basically - but they passed short and square.
"If you go for it and end up losing, the fans will walk away thinking: 'We had a real go.' But you can't say that about City.
"Sergio Aguero was shackled and there was nothing going forward. They were looking for creativity but found nothing."
Waddle said City reaching their first semi-final in the competition represented a "good season in the Champions League".
But he added: "The goal was to win it because they've invested heavily for that - and a club of their stature should be challenging for it.
"They have got a fantastic academy, facilities as good as any in the world, owners who are as wealthy as any in the world, and over the past few years they have won trophies. They are a force now."
City's immediate concern, before Pellegrini is replaced by Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola in the summer, is to finish in the top four in the Premier League.
City, who are fourth, lead Manchester United by four points, though the Red Devils have a game in hand.
"Over the course of their history they haven't won as many trophies as Liverpool or Manchester United but that's why they've gone out and got one of the best managers in the world," added Waddle.
"Now the most important thing is finishing in the top four this season. Pep Guardiola wants to be in the Champions League next year, not the Europa League.
"You'd expect them to be closer to Spurs and Leicester at the top of the table but there are still a few games to go and it will be interesting to see how they react after this defeat."
City host third-placed Arsenal on Sunday before finishing their season with a trip to Swansea on 15 May.
Guardiola's Bayern were edged out in the other Champions League semi-final, losing to Atletico Madrid on away goals.
"I don't think he's been tarnished in any way by his side being knocked out," said Waddle.
"Bayern were very unfortunate. They dominated and dominated but just couldn't put the ball in the net. I don't think they could have done any more than they did.
"Guardiola's teams are attractive, they want to score goals and they always play with tempo. City under Guardiola will be exciting. Everybody loves the way he plays, it's the football that everybody admires.
"He'll go in there and sign players, clear out what he needs to clear out. He'll have a big budget because everyone was after him but he'll go for the younger players, energetic players who can cover the ground and be fit.
"It won't happen overnight, but Guardiola will believe he can take the club to the next level."
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Scores were injured as fans - reportedly armed with knives - invaded the pitch after a match between top-tier clubs al-Masry and al-Ahly.
Officials fear the death toll could rise further.
It is the biggest disaster in the country's football history, said the Egyptian deputy health minister.
"This is unfortunate and deeply saddening," Hesham Sheiha told state television.
Some of the dead were security officers, the Associated Press news agency quoted a morgue official as saying.
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the head of Egypt's ruling army council, went to a airbase near Cairo to welcome back al-Ahly players who were flown back from Port Said on a military aircraft.
By Jon LeyneBBC News, Cairo
Football fans in Egypt can be violent, and certainly there is a bitter rivalry between these two teams.
The al-Ahly fans, known as Ultras, have a particular reputation for violence.
But lately they have been at the forefront of clashes with the police.
On the social media, there has been speculation - and I hasten to add there is no evidence - that the security forces may have had an interest in taking on al-Ahly supporters.
Certainly riot police did not seem to be very effective, they were standing around, but maybe there simply were not enough there.
"This will not bring Egypt down... These incidents happen anywhere in the world. We will not let those behind it go," he said, AP reports.
A statement posted on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' Facebook page announced three days of national mourning, beginning on Thursday.
The statement also promised a full investigation into the incident.
The BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo says it appears some fans had taken knives into the stadium.
Our correspondent says the lack of the usual level of security in the stadium might have contributed to the clashes.
Police in Egypt have been keeping a much lower profile since last year's popular protests that ousted President Hosni Mubarak from power.
Egyptian fans are notoriously violent, says our correspondent, particularly supporters of al-Ahly known as the Ultras.
They have been heavily implicated in confronting the police during recent political protests, our correspondent adds. There is speculation that the security forces may have had an interest in taking on al-Ahly supporters.
Wednesday's violence broke out at the end of the match, which, unusually, Port Said side al-Masry won 3-1.
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Witnesses said the atmosphere had been tense throughout the match - since an al-Ahly fan raised a banner insulting supporters of the home team.
As the match ended, their fans flooded onto the pitch attacking Ahly players and fans.
A small group of riot police tried to protect the players, but were overwhelmed.
Part of the stadium was set on fire.
Officials say most of the deaths were caused by concussions, deep cuts to the heads and suffocation from the stampede.
"This is not football. This is a war and people are dying in front of us," al-Ahly player Mohamed Abo Treika said.
Hani Seddik, who played for al-Ahly as a teenager, told the BBC: "I don't think this is about football. These trouble-makers were not football fans."
"How were they allowed to carry knives into the ground? To me, this is the actions of people who do not want the country to be stable and want to put off tourists from coming here," said Mr Seddik, who was watching the match on TV in Cairo.
One al-Ahly fan in Cairo told the BBC that a large march from al-Ahly club to the Interior Ministry is being planned for tomorrow.
"People are angry at the regime more than anything else... People are really angry, you could see the rage in their eyes," Mohammed Abdel Hamid said.
Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood - which has emerged as Egypt's biggest party in recent elections - blamed supporters of ousted President Hosni Mubarak for the violence.
"The events in Port Said are planned and are a message from the remnants of the former regime," Muslim Brotherhood lawmaker Essam al-Erian said.
He went on by saying that the army and police wanted to silence critics demanding an end to state of emergency in the country.
In Cairo, another match was halted by the referee after news of the Port Said violence. It prompted fans to set parts of the stadium on fire.
All premier-league matches have been cancelled and the newly-elected Egyptian parliament is to hold an emergency session on Thursday.
Fifa President Sepp Blatter issued a statement, expressing his shock over the incident.
"This is a black day for football. Such a catastrophic situation is unimaginable and should not happen," he said.
The Great War in Portraits will run at the central London gallery from 27 February until 15 June, 2014.
The exhibition will include two films made about the Battle of the Somme from different sides of the lines.
It will also feature portraits of Sir Winston Churchill and war poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.
Paintings and photographs of soldiers decorated for bravery will be shown alongside prisoners of war, the wounded and those shot at dawn for cowardice.
Major loans on display will include expressionist artworks by Lovis Corinth and Max Beckmann and Ludwig Kirchner's Selbstbildnis als Soldat - Self-portrait as a Soldier.
Also on show will be portraits of the generals who plotted the course of the war and a photograph of assassin Gavrilo Princip whose murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered the conflict.
Other highlights will include Jacob Epstein's The Rock Drill, one of the great early modernist works related to the war, and a rare photograph by Jules Gervais Courtellemont depicting a battle-scarred, deserted landscape.
The gallery will host a range of activities linked to the centenary including two special performances by the Portrait Choir inspired by the war.
Exhibition curator Paul Moorhouse said: "The Great War in Portraits explores a complex range of human experience.
"Evolving different roles, responsibilities and destinies, it illuminates the way war was represented through portraits of individuals - each caught up in events beyond reason or control."
"It's what everybody wants," Coleman said. "It's what the people want and we should make sure that happens."
He described Tuesday's incidents as "incredibly evil" but said the attackers should not be allowed to win.
More than 30 people were killed by the explosions at Brussels airport and a metro station in the Belgian capital.
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"I think these people would have us stay in our houses, locked up 24 hours a day if we let them have their way," Coleman told BBC Sport. "That shouldn't happen."
He said he expected Euro 2016, which starts in France on 10 June, to be "incredibly secure" and said he was confident Uefa, European football's governing body, would do its "utmost" to keep everyone safe.
But the former Fulham and Coventry City boss added: "If somebody's hell bent on walking into a crowded area and they want to blow themselves up or whatever, there's only so much security can do.
"There's always going to be a doubt in everybody's mind. You're hoping and praying that everything's going to be OK.
"We've all got to go there and try to enjoy the tournament, try to entertain everybody that's going there as best we can."
Uefa said it would continue to "monitor the level of risk for the tournament", which will feature 24 teams, playing 51 matches at 10 venues across France.
French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the attacks were a reminder of the "very high level of security" needed at Euro 2016.
France was the target of attacks last year, when 130 people were killed in Paris on 13 November.
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Suicide bombers struck near the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, followed by suicide bombings and mass shootings at cafes, restaurants and a music venue.
The attack on the Stade de France took place during France's football friendly with Germany, with radio and television teams inside the venue capturing the noise of the bombs going off outside.
Following the game, the German players slept in the stadium to ensure they remained safe before travelling home.
So-called Islamic State (IS) has said it was behind both the Paris and Brussels attacks.
Norwich City striker Dieumerci Mbokani was at Brussels airport when the explosions occurred. According to his club, he was "unharmed but shaken".
It is thought the player was there in order to fly to Kinshasa to join up with his DR Congo team-mates for an Africa Cup of Nations qualifying double-header against Angola on Saturday and next Tuesday.
Belgium defender Vincent Kompany, who plays his club football in England for Manchester City, said he was "horrified and revolted" by the attacks, tweeting that "innocent people were paying the price again".
International team-mate Christian Benteke, who plays for Liverpool, said his thoughts were with family and friends of the victims.
People in Brussels and surrounding areas have been told to avoid rail stations, airports, shopping centres, concerts and other public events following Tuesday's events.
But organisers of the Dwars Door Vlaanderen say the one-day cycling race across Flanders will proceed as scheduled on Wednesday.
A statement on the race's website read: "Dwars door Vlaanderen will take place. The organisers mourn with the victims of these terrible acts."
Britain's Scott Thwaites, who will be riding in the race for Team Bora-Argon 18, told BBC Sport that security was "a concern", given the size of the crowds and the proximity of fans to competitors.
"That is the beauty of cycling, that when you are riding around the country there are fans everywhere on the roadside creating a great atmosphere," he said. "I would not like that to change.
"Everyone is doing their best and we have to keep the show on the road."
Only Roma and Traveller children are getting poorer results, according to the study by the Community Relations Council.
However, the figures show that 76% of Catholic girls from better off backgrounds are among the highest achievers.
Girls from this background are beaten only by Chinese girls in the UK table.
The study by the Community Relations Council has compared all ethnic groups across the UK using five good GCSE grades as the measure of success.
The report found that just over half of Northern Ireland's Protestant boys who do not get free schools meals achieve five GCSEs.
Dr Paul Nolan, the academic who carried out the research, said there would be long-term consequences if action was not taken.
"They are being locked out of employment. Even if we get investment into places like east Belfast, these kids will not be able to get jobs because they won't have the qualifications," he said.
"I think we have been sleep walking into an inequality gap.
"The problem is we're creating inequalities which will later show themselves in the incidents we've seen in recent years in terms of public disorder and a community which feels it has no routes out of poverty, and out of that inequality comes anger and I'm afraid we have an unsettled political future."
BBC News visited two schools to ask the opinion of students and their teachers.
Newtownabbey Community High School in Rathcoole had poor results in the recent past but over the past three years things have turned around.
Principal John Lewis said his pupils had a lot of external pressures.
"Even getting to school is a major achievement for some of them," he said.
"Many of them have complex difficulties and challenges within school and outside. Many of them are easily influenced by other interests out of school, should it be paramilitaries or other attractions."
His students agree. Stephen Baird who is 16, said: "Protestants are taught about flags and the jubilee, whereas I think Catholic teachers want their pupils to do better."
That view is shared by many of the teenagers at the school.
Fifteen-year-old William Glass said: "I think the Catholic religion is stricter than the Protestant one and they go to church more."
His classmate Demi Hutchinson thought it was also to do with boys in general.
"Girls just tend to work harder, they're more concerned about their future whereas boys are more relaxed about that kind of stuff," he said.
All of the GCSE students interviewed were surprised about the report's findings and were unaware that some Protestant boys were falling behind.
Alan Evans, 16, said: "It's the first I've heard of it and I think more people should know about it."
Across Belfast at St Dominic's Grammar School on the Falls Road, the students were much more aware of Protestant underachievement.
A Level student Finola Bradley thought it was down to a different ethos in the Catholic community.
"Our ethos is to better yourself and I think that's why there's such a drive to do well.
"I think in the past, Catholic working class families especially, didn't really have any other opportunity, so education was the way to get out there and I think that's why education is being pushed."
St Dominic's principal Carol McCann is herself a past pupil of her school.
She said she was saddened that Protestant boys were falling behind, but pointed out that her school had its fair share of deprivation and yet the students still did well.
"We have 15% of our girls on free school meals," Ms McCann said.
"That's five times the average for a grammar school, but the students aren't aware of the difference.
"We're not focused on what they've got or what they haven't got. It's about your work ethic and what you do with your talents."
Education Minister John O'Dowd said the results should not come as a surprise.
Mr O'Dowd said: "I welcome the spotlight it is shining on educational underachievement. It is important that we engage in an informed debate about the future of our education system and I believe this report will be a welcome addition to this debate.
"The figures for young people from all disadvantaged sections of our community are simply unacceptable."
Mr O'Dowd says he's working hard to tackle the inequality.
The Treasury said RBS would instead provide £750m of initiatives to boost competition in UK business banking.
RBS had been ordered by the European Union to sell the unit by the end of 2017 to address competition concerns.
The bank failed to sell the business to Santander last year and talks with Clydesdale Bank also stalled.
RBS chief executive Ross McEwan said the new plan would deal with the state-owned bank's EU obligations "more quickly and with more certainty than undertaking a difficult and complex sale".
The EU commission still needs to approve the plan, submitted by the UK government.
The Williams & Glyn brand disappeared in 1985 after being replaced by the RBS brand, but the unit continues to be an important lender for small and medium sized businesses.
The resurrected Williams & Glyn business would have had 300 branches and about 1.8 million customers.
By Simon Gompertz, BBC personal finance correspondent
RBS's attempt to sell off Williams & Glyn has run into the ground after years of fruitless toil.
The task would have been daunting at the best of times: create a new full service bank serving businesses and retail customers, then find a willing buyer.
All to atone for the £45bn rescue during the financial crisis which, the European Commission decided, made RBS too powerful.
But in a period when banks were struggling to make profits and cutting back their own operations, the project was doomed from the start.
Williams & Glyn, an old name stuck on to a Frankenstein business, was touted around Santander, Virgin and several others. RBS toyed with the idea of selling it on the stock market.
Nothing seemed to work. Costs escalated. The deadline of the end of this year began to loom. RBS faced mounting pressures in other quarters, from fines and losses.
From the start we were told there was no Plan B. Now, of necessity, there is.
The EU ordered RBS in 2009 to dispose of Williams & Glyn as a result of its £45bn government bailout at the height of the financial crisis.
European regulators had originally demanded that the sale should be completed by 2013 to prevent RBS, the UK's largest lender to small businesses, from having too dominant a position.
Spanish bank Santander abandoned plans to buy the business from RBS in September 2016, with reports saying the two sides could not agree on a price.
The Treasury and RBS said the new plan would be faster and better at providing more choice of banking services for small businesses.
The measures include:
A Treasury spokesman said: "This new plan provides a clear blueprint to increase competition in the UK's business banking market, and would help RBS resolve one of its most significant legacy issues which has held back the sale of the taxpayers' stake."
"City want to spend millions to buy players to build a team," he said.
"They won the FA Cup but if they only want to do that, they will not be as strong as United. United work on the long term, with young talent."
Asked about criticisms of Manchester by City's Carlos Tevez and Mario Balotelli Cantona said: "I had a great time here and a great time in the city."
During the close season Tevez told an Argentine chat show he would never return to Manchester, while Balotelli has also had his problems with the north-west.
"It depends upon where they come from. If they come from Milan, maybe. Also it depends why they have come," Cantona insisted.
"The most important thing for me was to play for the best club in the world, with the best players in the world.
"I was a professional player. I didn't try to find a city to enjoy it. The greatest time you can have is on the pitch."
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City's multi-million pound squad has been further strengthened this summer by the signings of Sergio Aguero, Gael Clichy and Stefan Savic, with Arsenal midfielder Samir Nasri also targeted.
However, last season manager Roberto Martini highlighted a lack of players with first-team potential in the club's academy.
"United are still one of the best clubs in the world," Cantona said. "When a player leaves, you think the club won't win any more. But they still do.
"They have a great history and they work a lot every day so any player can be replaced."
The Frenchman, now 45, is back at Old Trafford in his capacity as director of the New York Cosmos, and will coach the team against United in a testimonial for Paul Scholes on Friday.
"I knew Paul when he was young," said Cantona. "He started here with us. He has been a great player. He could play anywhere, midfield, up front, he could score goals, make them, defend, tackle. He could do anything.
"He is a great player. I am very proud of him. But you can replace any player, especially at a club like Manchester United, with a great manager like [Sir Alex] Ferguson.
"Maybe I will die before Sir Alex. I am sure he will be on the bench forever. It is his life."
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The pair lost their way on the descent and finally made their way to an isolated farm north of the mountain.
Lomond Mountain Rescue Team, who were involved in the search, said their footwear was "inadequate" and they had no torches, ice axes or crampons.
The walkers were located at Comer Farm about 22:00 on Sunday.
They were part of a group of four adults and one child that set off earlier in the day for the summit of 974m (3,195ft) Ben Lomond via the main tourist path from Rowardennan.
Three stopped before the top because of the poor weather conditions, but two younger adults in the party continued to the top.
The three waited for a while and then returned to Rowardennan. They alerted rescuers when their friends had not arrived back by about 17:00.
Members of rescue team searched the main hill paths from Rowardennan and Comer in blustery, cold weather before the pair were found.
A helicopter was used to search the lower parts of the mountain, but could not get up to summit level because of the weather.
The rescue team said the hillwalkers turned up "very cold and wet" at Comer Farm at 21.47. It is understood they lost the main path on the descent and then spotted the farmhouse lights.
A rescue team spokesman said they were not equipped for tackling a Munro in "full winter conditions". As well as being poorly equipped, the walkers' mobile phones died because the batteries had not been fully charged before they left.
The spokesman added: "It is clear that they did not fully comprehend the dangers of winter walking.
"On their descent in the dark, they fell a number of times and were extremely fortunate to survive their experience uninjured, taking into account the snow and heavy rain on the mountain last night.
"Lomond MRT would like to remind hillwalkers that, despite the recent warm and wet weather, Scotland's mountain are experiencing full winter conditions.
"Waterproof warm clothing, a fully charged phone, food and drink, a torch and axe and crampons are basics that are essential for safe travel."
"The shame of the two big parties' manifestos is that neither sets out an honest set of choices," the deputy director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies said.
Does that mean there is no point in reading them?
Not quite.
The importance of the manifestos is that, economically, they propose quite different approaches to the next five years.
The Conservatives say they will maintain tight controls on public spending and that any new Tory government will seek to "balance the books" by 2025 - meaning the government would spend as much as it receives in tax receipts.
The party has been deliberately vague on costings ("extremely light" as the IFS describes it), not wanting to tie the hands of any new prime minister or chancellor.
The voters are being asked to take the manifesto on trust.
In sharp contrast, Labour proposes making the economy operate more "fairly" with higher levels of tax on the wealthy, higher levels of public spending and more borrowing to pay for capital investment projects.
Its costings are detailed and open to interpretation.
The IFS lays out major challenges for both parties.
It says the Conservative proposals would mean cuts in benefit payments and lower spending per pupil in education, for example.
Is that deliverable in an era of generally falling incomes for the "just about managing" and a need to improve schools?
When it comes to the NHS, the IFS says that the period after the election would be "incredibly challenging".
The institute also points out that continuing the 1% public sector pay cap would take pay levels in the public sector to their lowest level relative to the private sector in "recent decades".
And suggests that after 8 June - if they win - the Tories could announce spending plans less stringent than envisaged, as the David Cameron-led government did in 2015.
The new government could even raise some additional taxes.
When it comes to Labour, the IFS says that plans to raise £49bn in extra taxes from those earning over £80,000 and higher levels of business taxes are an "overestimate" and would make people "worse off".
It says that even on optimistic forecasts, the tax increases would raise £40bn a year in the short term and less in the long term.
That would be a £9bn annual shortfall.
The taxes are also not "victim-free", as the IFS describes it.
"When businesses pay tax, they are handing over money that would otherwise have ended up with people, and not only rich ones," Mr Emmerson said.
"Millions with pension funds are effectively shareholders [in businesses]."
The IFS accepts that Labour does not propose to raise spending to "unusually high" levels compared to other advanced Western economies such as Canada.
And that increased investment spending could have "positive long-term economic returns".
So why does the IFS say that the manifestos are less than honest?
Firstly, because it is not convinced that the Conservatives can deliver the cuts the manifesto suggests and maintain public services.
Nor is it convinced that Labour will be able to raise the amount of revenue it expects and that the extra taxes would not damage the broader economy.
But there are also two more substantial challenges.
Labour has little to say on tackling the increasing costs of our ageing population, the IFS says.
And the Tories have little to say on the possible economic impact of a rapid cut in immigration, which the government's official economic watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, suggests could reduce tax receipts by £6bn a year.
The two parties are laying out two very different approaches to the economy.
At that high level, the manifestos are important.
Even if, when it comes to the detail, voters might need to reach for a pretty hefty pinch of salt.
Customers will be able to access Deliveroo by clicking "order online" within TripAdvisor.
The scheme will connect more than 20,000 restaurants.
One e-commerce analyst said the move was a "logical step" to encourage customers to use such services.
The countries where the new feature will apply are the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
"Whether reading reviews, reserving a table through TheFork or placing a food order through Deliveroo, our goal is for TripAdvisor to serve as a one-stop-shop for diners around the world," said Bertrand Jelensperger, senior vice president, TripAdvisor Restaurants.
The strategy was probably designed to improve customers' relationships with both brands, suggested Martin Gill, an analyst at Forrester.
"Essentially it's all about connecting service providers to consumers in a more dynamic way," he told the BBC.
"TripAdvisor has been working on monetising its content for a long time - this is a logical step."
The news comes on the day of the publication of a British government report on employment practices, which focuses on the "gig economy" - in which people work on a short-term basis, including for companies such as Deliveroo and Uber.
The report recommends that workers for these firms should be classed as dependent contractors, with extra benefits.
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The 26-year-old won the 130km race by a wheel from Netherlands' Anna van der Breggen, with Megan Guarnier of the United States in third.
Olympic silver medallist Armitstead said: "It's a dream come true."
The Leeds rider won silver in last Sunday's women's time trial with her Netherlands-based Boels-Dolmans team.
British Cycling president Bob Howden said: "This is a landmark moment. Lizzie represents the best of our great sport and deserves all of the praise coming her way."
Armitstead said she would "empty the tank" in the road race as she attempted to make up for the disappointment of finishing seventh last year.
But she was unable to rely on team support in the gruelling closing stages as Lucy Garner, Hayley Simmonds, Alice Barnes, Molly Weaver and Jessie Walker struggled to stay with her.
Armitstead appeared to have lost any chance of victory when she missed a breakaway of nine riders who opened up a minute's lead on the peloton with less than 10km remaining.
But the steep climbs and cobbles in the final lap took their toll on the leaders and they were swallowed up by the chasing pack.
Armitstead made her initial burst for the line with 900m to go but she could not get away. Van der Breggen then led out the final sprint but Armitstead had enough left in her legs to snatch victory.
"I just can't be believe it," said Armitstead, who last month won the UCI World Cup series for a second successive year.
"I took the decision to lead it on and then waited for the rush to come, but it never came. It will be fantastic to wear the rainbow jersey for the next year."
Armitstead becomes only the fourth British woman to win the title, following Beryl Burton, Mandy Jones and Nicole Cooke.
Advocaat, who takes over from Sinisa Mihajlovic, has signed a two-year contact, which could be extended if Serbia reach the tournament in France.
The former Netherlands and South Korea coach, 66, takes over a team that failed to reach the 2014 World Cup.
"We have only one target, and that is to qualify," Advocaat said. "That is the only option we have."
Mihajlovic left his post as Serbia boss in November 2013 to take over at Sampdoria, leaving Ljubinko Drulovic in caretaker charge.
Advocaat guided Netherlands to the 1994 World Cup and Euro 2004, South Korea to the 2006 World Cup, Russia to Euro 2012 and has also coached the United Arab Emirates and Belgium.
He was in the running to become South Africa boss earlier this month.
On the task ahead at Serbia, Advocaat said: "I have seen around 10 games, especially the last games, but I saw already what I need to know about the team.
"They have very talented players, but are still not qualifying for the tournament and that is what we have to try to change."
The former PSV Eindhoven, Rangers and Zenit St Petersburg manager has won domestic league titles in Netherlands, Scotland and Russia.
Tommy Castles, president of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), said poverty eradication should be a "prime objective" of governments.
Education Secretary Angela Constance said last month that poverty "should not be used as an excuse for failure".
Ms Constance said the EIS was right to highlight the "challenge" of inequity.
Mr Castles will step down as president of the EIS at its AGM in Perth, with Mr Castles saying the event was taking place "as the storm clouds gather once again over the future direction of education policy".
He also used his platform as the outgoing president of Scotland's largest teaching union to say the primary curriculum should be "decluttered", teachers' workloads needed to be addressed, and council cuts should not cause provision for pupils with additional support needs to suffer.
He said: "Pulling the levers in education and blaming teachers will not solve the deep endemic problems caused by poverty. Education cannot solve the problems on its own.
"We must not lose sight that the prime objective in a wealthy country like ours should be to eradicate poverty."
Mr Castles added: "Education must be seen within the wider context of the whole of society. We can't fix the social and economic impact of poverty on children. Pulling a lever won't work."
Responding to a drop in reading and writing skills recorded in the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy (SSLN) last month, Ms Constance said: "While the Scottish government is committed to doing all that it can to eradicate poverty and that poverty can be a barrier to attainment, it should not be used as an excuse for failure."
Mr Castles also urged ministers to "declutter" the curriculum in primary schools, adding: "Accelerate the moves to reduce bureaucracy. Give teachers time to teach and let us get on with what we are trained to do, educate children."
With teachers' workload "still a major issue", he said the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) reforms were "still one of our main drivers" for this in primary schools.
In secondary schools, the new National 4 and 5 Qualifications, which replaced Standard Grades from last year, is the main cause of concern over workloads.
Last year's exam process was a "nightmare for all involved", including pupils, parents and teachers, he said, adding that while changes had been made some "issues have not been resolved, and that is both in terms of workload and concerns over attitudes being formed by, and about, pupils to some of those assessments".
The EIS president also used his speech to criticise the "unnecessary austerity" imposed by the Conservatives in government, saying this had done "so much harm to our communities, to our standard of life and has inflicted savage cuts to all areas of the public sector with consequences for the quality of the education we can provide".
With council budgets across the country being squeezed, he said the EIS must ensure that provision for pupils with additional support needs does not suffer.
College budgets should be restored, he told the AGM, saying the further education sector had faced cuts of 20% since 2010 "which has seen courses and teaching posts lost".
Responding to Mr Castles' comments, Ms Constance said she shared his concern about the impact of austerity measures on efforts to close the attainment gap for children from Scotland's most deprived communities.
She added: "We are all swimming against an unforgiving tide of funding cuts, so it is important we work together on this common goal.
"We need an education system that is fair and which provides excellence to every child, irrespective of their background or circumstances.
"As parents, teachers, schools, local and central government, we all have a role in this."
Yet in the Arctic, the proximity of Russia and the US is becoming hard to ignore.
On Monday, President Obama flew to Anchorage in Alaska, to address GLACIER. The acronym stands for Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience.
The focus was on climate change. Evon Peter, from the Gwich'in nation, was in the audience.
"In my short lifetime of four decades, I've seen the tundra drying up, an increase in the number of forest fires, lakes drying up," he told The World This Weekend on BBC Radio 4.
"Furthermore, the permafrost is melting and the earth is literally falling from beneath our feet and homes are falling into the ocean and falling into rivers."
The title of the conference was optimistic, and, to some observers, unrealistic.
"Important as climate change is, I'm not sure for the Arctic it is really the theme to discuss," says Professor Pavel Baev of the Peace Research Institute in Oslo.
In one sense, though, climate change is the catalyst for everything else that is happening in the Arctic.
Melting ice makes the waters navigable - it also opens up the potential for exploiting minerals under the sea.
Mr Peter told me a '"frontier mentality" coupled with distrust between nations could lead to uncontrolled development.
At the beginning of August, Russia renewed its claim for ownership of one million square kilometres of the Arctic shelf; a claim which a few years back saw Moscow make the rather theatrical gesture of planting its flag on the sea bed.
Although other Arctic nations, such as Denmark and Canada, will challenge this through the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the US cannot because President Obama has failed to persuade Congress to sign up.
Negotiated in the 1970s, and adopted in 1982. The US has yet to sign up.
Designed to establish a comprehensive set of rules governing the oceans.
Calls for technology and wealth transfers from developed to undeveloped nations.
Requires signatories to adopt regulations and laws to control pollution of the marine environment.
Also establishes specific jurisdictional limits on the ocean area that countries may claim, including a 12-mile territorial sea limit and a 200-mile exclusive economic zone limit.
Full text of the treaty
There is something else, though, to worry the neighbours; what Professor Baev calls "an arms race with your own shadow".
President Putin has been building up his country's presence in the region, even though others have not.
"Militarisation is really the main priority in Russian policy," said Professor Baev.
"Certainly the Arctic neighbours are very concerned about this effort. Russia year by year is increasing its military profile in the Arctic."
Just before the conference opened, I put that to Marc Toner, from the US State Department.
"We've seen Russia station some of its military assets in the Arctic. It's something we need to look at," he said.
However, he said some of the equipment could be used for search and rescue, for example, and that events like GLACIER provided the opportunity to discuss with the Russians what they are doing.
Yet it was noticeable that of the eight countries with territory in the Arctic who attended GLACIER, Russia didn't send a government minister, though its ambassador to the US was there.
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An announcement from the White House, suggests that the Obama administration is well aware of the potential for trouble in the Arctic.
It plans to speed up the acquisition of a new ice breaker, and ask Congress to authorise more.
Russia, though, has 41 such ships. No wonder Admiral Paul Zukunft, commandant of the US Coastguard, has complained that his country "really isn't even in the game".
Last year, Russia annexed Crimea. There were protests and sanctions but few expect the territory to return to Ukraine.
How much easier to simply abrogate a section of the sea bed, especially if what you see as a legitimate claim is rejected and you have the muscle your neighbours lack.
In his first broadcast interview, to the Victoria Derbyshire programme, Babar Ahmad, 41, said he had "not knowingly" supported Osama Bin Laden.
Ahmad was jailed in the US in 2014 after fighting a record eight-year campaign against extradition.
He condemned so-called Islamic State as "alien" to his heritage and beliefs.
In 2014, the former IT support worker pleaded guilty in the US to two counts of providing material support to terrorism.
Two articles on pro-jihadist Azzam Publications website had urged Muslims to send money and equipment to the Taliban.
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Watch Victoria Derbyshire's interview with Babar Ahmad in full on 14 March from 09:15 GMT on BBC Two and the BBC News channel or online.
US judge Janet Hall said Ahmad had shown genuine remorse for setting up the websites, but she added: "You can't walk away from the fact that what you were doing was enabling Osama Bin Laden to be protected in Afghanistan."
Ahmad said he had "not knowingly" supported Bin Laden as at the time he did not really know what the al-Qaeda leader "was all about".
He explained: "But technically, yes, that's what was happening at that time, that the Taliban due to their failure to hand over Bin Laden and it wasn't known at the time - and I didn't know at the time - that 9/11 is being planned and what Bin Laden is really up to.
"I did it in good faith but, in hindsight, I regret doing that and it was naive of me to do that, because it was a complicated situation. And whatever was going on then, I didn't have to advocate support for them."
British authorities never charged Ahmad, but he admitted he was a terrorist "in the eyes of US law".
He said: "At the time I pleaded guilty, I'd been in prison for nine-and-a-half years without trial. I'd been in solitary confinement for just over a year. The prosecutors offered me a deal. They said, 'Hey, plead guilty and you'll be back in England within a year.' So I said, 'Where do I sign?'
"Any person in their right mind would just sign the dotted line, that's exactly what I did. I don't regret pleading guilty, I want to make it clear. I'm not taking that back - it was the best decision of my life, and I'm proud I made that decision."
But he insisted he would have acted differently had he been tried in the UK, which is what he had campaigned for. "I would have gone to trial because, at most, I was facing a sentence of about two years, of which I would do half if I were found guilty."
Ahmad's July 2014 sentence of just over 12 years took into account the 10 years he had spent in jail in the UK prior to extradition - so he was freed in June 2015.
On the rise of the so-called Islamic State group, Ahmad said: "From what I've heard, getting people, getting journalists and cutting their heads off on TV, I don't recognise this. This is alien to me. Jihad is something to be an Islamic history and heritage and beliefs. It's a noble act that's meant to protect and defend innocent people from acts of terror.
"And when terror and misery is brought to people under the label of jihad, it's not jihad, it's God knows what it is but no god tolerates terror and misery being brought to innocent people on behalf of some sort of cause."
Ahmad said he could understand why some people felt outraged about what was happening to Muslims in some parts of the world - but he urged young men attracted to militant groups to stop and think.
"Ultimately, we are responsible for our actions and it's important that before people decide to take a course of action, before you translate your outrage into action, think deeply and carefully about what you are doing. And don't allow yourselves to be a pawn," he said.
"Don't allow yourselves to be used by other people. Don't let anyone bully you, that the only way to paradise is by bringing misery upon innocent people who have done nothing to you. Make your own mind up. Be smart. Be intelligent. Do your research."
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:15 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.
An area of the pit in Ermenek, Karaman province, was flooded with water while miners were working. The miners are said to be stuck 300m (980ft) underground.
More than 20 miners had been rescued, Karaman Governor Murat Koca said.
Turkey suffered its worst mining disaster earlier this year, when a fire killed 301 workers at a mine in Soma.
A mine official told Turkish media the trapped workers' chances of survival were slim unless they had managed to reach a safety gallery.
Sahin Uyar also said the rescuers had yet to make contact with the miners.
Turkey's emergency management agency, AFAD, said a broken pipe in the mine caused the flooding, the Associated Press news agency reported.
Energy Minister Taner Yildiz and Transport Minister Lutfi Elvan are heading to the mine to oversee the operation.
The deaths at Soma in May raised questions about safety standards in Turkish mines, with hundreds of miners killed since 2000.
Anti-government protests also followed the disaster, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then prime minister, under fire for what demonstrators saw as an insensitive response to the deaths.
The deluge struck on Saturday afternoon and continued into the night, flooding major roads, state media said.
Roof collapses, lightning strikes and electrocution from downed power lines were among the causes of the deaths.
More than 500 flights were cancelled at the main airport, the Beijing News reported.
The floods also caused a backlash on the internet, with many angry at the lack of warning and the apparent inadequacy of drainage systems.
State news agency Xinhua said 460mm (18.1 in) fell in Beijing's Fangshan district, with the capital as a whole averaging 170mm.
Resident describes Beijing deluge
About 1.9m people had been affected by the downpour, and flood and economic losses had been estimated at 10bn yuan ($1.5bn, £960m), Pan Anjun, deputy chief of Beijing flood control headquarters, was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.
By Sunday evening, more than 65,000 people had to be evacuated. Beijing officials said 37 people had died, 25 of them from drowning.
Outside the capital, 17 people were reportedly missing in northwestern Shaanxi province and eight people dead in southwestern Sichuan province due to heavy rains, said another Xinhua report.
Authorities in Shaanxi's Fugu county said four bodies had been found, but it was not known if they were among the 17 missing, Xinhua said.
British student Tom Smith, who has been living in China for a year, told the BBC the storm in Beijing was like "standing under a waterfall.
"All the manholes had vanished because the water was sitting on top of them. It looked very dangerous and very difficult to find where these holes were," he said.
British businessman Ewen Wardman saw a woman narrowly escape death after being trapped by the floods in the manhole drainage system.
"I saw a woman walking across a road. All of a sudden she was swept 100 metres down the road and came to an abrupt halt, stuck in the road with water flowing over the top of her.
"Some 20-30 people had surrounded her but only a few could help," he told the BBC. "It didn't look good at first as the water continued to flow over her head, but after about five minutes they pulled her free."
Many Chinese newspapers criticised the capital's drainage system for failing to cope with the rain storm, in contrast to the centuries-old ditches around the Forbidden City that kept the national monument relatively dry.
Hundred of thousands of people also left comments on weibo platforms - China's equivalent of Twitter.
A Tencent Weibo user from Shandong asked how, as an Olympic city, Beijing's drainage system could be so vulnerable. On Sina Weibo, a user from Shaanxi urged people to learn how to swim, calling the government was "unreliable".
"Wishing you happy-ever-after in the afterlife, let's hope at least it has better drainage," sad a Sina Weibo user from Jiangsu.
Other users blamed "sub-standard" weather forecasting and warning services.
But a report in the Global Times newspaper said people in Beijing were also offering help to those affected or stranded by the rain via social media.
Rides, meals and accommodation were among the offers of assistance posted on weibo.
Clearly, the corporation couldn't commission a similar show to Bake Off, as it no longer owns the format.
But it also has millions of viewers who are now hungry for more cookery programmes.
So, in October, BBC Two announced it would air new food-based series The Big Family Cooking Showdown - and it's now been confirmed it will star former Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain.
She will co-host it with Zoe Ball, while chefs Rosemary Shrager and Giorgio Locatelli will serve as judges.
Sixteen families will invite the four stars of the show into their own kitchens to cook their favourite family recipes and will be whittled down through a series of challenges across 12 hour-long episodes.
This isn't the first BBC programme Nadiya will have appeared in since Bake Off - she's already fronted a two-part documentary and will also star in an eight-part series about British food.
After she was announced as the co-presenter of The Big Family Cooking Showdown, some have suggested the programme sounded similar to The Great British Bake Off.
But Buzzfeed's TV editor Scott Bryan said he thought that wasn't the case.
He pointed to the fact it will be broadcast on the more niche BBC Two, and not the flagship BBC One channel which The Great British Bake Off aired on.
Having said that, Bake Off originally started on BBC Two in 2010 with small viewing figures, and moved to its bigger sister-channel after it had become a ratings hit.
So if the new cookery programme is popular, it's possible it could make a similar leap a few years down the line.
Another reason it's being seen by some as a rival to Channel 4's Bake Off is because the two programmes could be broadcast around the same time of year.
The BBC confirmed the first series of The Big Family Cooking Showdown will go out in the autumn - which might also be when the new Bake Off will air.
Channel 4 have not yet confirmed an exact start date but it will definitely be some time in 2017, and it's likely that the they would want the series to be completed before the year is out.
The fact that Nadiya is so closely associated with the GBBO brand is perhaps another reason the new show being likened to Bake Off.
The comparisons may be inevitable, but one thing we can be sure of is that the BBC will ensure the new programme has a completely different format to its former ratings hit.
By David Sillito, BBC media correspondent
"Big" has replaced "Great", "Bake Off" has become "Cooking Showdown" and it's got a four-person presenting and judging team. The comparisons are easy to make.
However, the idea was germinating before Bake Off made off to Channel 4. But what began as an attempt to tap in to GBBO's homely magic of nice people trying their best now looks like a rival, albeit one without a tent or Mary Berry.
Pitching this as a copycat rival to the Great British Bake Off makes a great headline but doesn't stand up to much scrutiny.
Of course, that doesn't mean something else more like Bake Off might appear on the airwaves.
TV companies spend millions on formats but legal protection for the ideas is far from clear legally, with disputes rarely making it to court.
The one thing that would probably stop it though is the fear that after creating a "copycat" it fails to draw in the viewers. That's a headline the TV bosses would really like to avoid.
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The 900 troops were waiting to return home after completing their training because of delays over clearance for the officers who will replace them.
The hold-up was reportedly Nairobi's response to new UK travel warnings for Britons travelling to Kenya.
The Ministry of Defence said UK troops would continue to train in Kenya.
The Foreign Office has previously issued a "high threat" from terrorists advisory for parts of Kenya.
The two countries are in talks over a new Memorandum of Understanding on military co-operation between them. The current memorandum expires in April 2015.
"The delay in receipt of diplomatic clearances from the Kenyan authorities has now been resolved, and further UK training in Kenya will proceed", an MoD spokesman said.
"Troops who have completed training are returning to the UK."
Most of the soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, The Rifles have already arrived, and they all will have left Kenya by 4 July, the spokesman added.
They had been unable to return home because they would usually fly on the same charter aircraft that would carry the incoming troops.
But because of the delay in clearances, the MoD used commercial services to fly them back to the UK.
Earlier, Kenya's Standard Newspaper reported that five "senior military officers" had been expelled from the UK during the diplomatic row between the countries.
The MoD said some Kenyan Canine Regiment officers had "returned home recently during a break in training" and that their training would resume next week.
The military agreement between the two countries governs the UK's use of the Nanyuki training area, 125 miles north of Nairobi.
The MoD said it was confident of a "successful and rapid outcome" in the negotiations.
Warnings that UK nationals should avoid Kenya because of potential threats the militant Islamist group al-Shabab resulted in 400 UK tourists being evacuated from parts of the Kenyan coast in May.
Tour operators Thomson and First Choice cancelled all flights to Mombasa until October.
The 68-year-old may be more than 20 years Mr Mugabe's junior, but he is steeped in the political intrigues of Zanu-PF, the ruling party which has its roots in the war to end white-minority rule.
As the announcement was made that he was to be Mr Mugabe's deputy, he looked up, smiled and accepted a few hugs as party supporters roared and cheered with joy.
Mr Mnangagwa is considered the ultimate insider: He served time in jail before independence in 1980 and since then in government - traversing security, justice, housing cabinet posts as well as a stint as speaker of parliament.
Many are fearful of his reputation for cruelty and ruthlessness, as well as his darting eyes.
When I once asked him why he arouses such a response, he replied, with his eyes shut: "I don't know, but you have come and spent time with me, is there anything to fear?"
Unlike other party officials, he often drives himself around town without his security.
Insiders within Zimbabwe's state security service say he is "a hands-on person" - the link-man between Zanu-PF and the country's influential military and spy agencies.
In the early 1980s, he was Zimbabwe's spymaster at the time of the Gukurahundi atrocities, when the North Korean-trained Fifth army brigade killed thousands of civilians as it dealt with an alleged insurgency in the south of the country.
He has denied any role in the massacres, blaming the army.
Zanu-PF MP Joramu Gumbo, an ally of Mr Mnangagwa, admits the new party vice-president "rarely smiles" but says he is "misunderstood by many".
"If you get to understand him, you will soon discover he is a down-to-earth person.
"He is very humorous, very intelligent."
Earlier this year as justice minister, Mr Mnangagwa refused to sign the death warrants for 97 murder convicts, saying the "sentence is too harsh and must be done away with".
"That explains his softer side, partly shaped by his background during the war and experience," says Mr Gumbo.
Others see the roots of his fearsome reputation in the liberation war.
In 1963, soon after the formation of the Zanu party, he led the first group of party cadres to China for military training.
A decision had been reached to wage a military offensive to tilt the political scales against Ian Smith, then leader of Rhodesia.
On his return, Mr Mnangagwa led a group of fighters known as "the crocodile gang", which blew up some trains and also killed a white farmer. He was caught in 1965 and sentenced to death.
He escaped that penalty because of he was under 21, but his close associates say he was brutally tortured using techniques such as water boarding and being hung by his legs. The beatings he received at the time have affected the hearing in his left ear.
"He has scars of that period. He was young and brave," says a close friend of Mr Mnangagwa, who asked not to be named.
"Perhaps that explains why he is indifferent. Horrible things happened to him when he was young."
After his release from jail in the early 1970s, he completed his law studies in Zambia, and then joined Mr Mugabe, who he had met in jail, in Mozambique and Tanzania.
"That's where the bond between the two developed. He looked up to Mugabe as his father, not brother," says Mr Gumbo.
"He has been respectful and loyal since… the time they met in prison at Harare Central, where Mugabe taught him law he was doing by correspondence."
He was elected as Mr Mugabe's special assistant in 1977, becoming head of both the civil and military divisions of Zanu.
Their relationship remained close until 10 years ago when he faced the wrath of Mr Mugabe for holding an unofficial meeting with Zanu-PF provincial chairpersons to seek support to become the party vice-president - a position that was then chosen by the provinces.
The president sent him into political oblivion, stripping him of senior government and party positions.
But like a true crocodile, he lurked in the water - only raising his head above water when necessary - and striking when the opportunity arose.
This came in 2008 when he is rumoured to have masterminded Zanu-PF's political campaign, co-ordinating the party links with both army and intelligence.
After opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai won the first round of the presidential election, the military and state security organisations are accused of unleashing a campaign of violence against opposition supporters, leaving hundreds dead and forced thousands from their homes.
Mr Tsvangirai then pulled out of the second round and Mr Mugabe was re-elected.
Mr Mnangagwa has not commented on allegations he was involved in planning the violence.
An insider in the party's security department confirmed Mr Mnangagwa is the political link between the army, intelligence and Zanu-PF.
"He cuts party finance deals, organises the campaign that links both security and party. He has Mugabe's ear on everything."
This year he paired up with first lady Grace Mugabe to rid his political rival Joice Mujuru of any power in the party.
But political analyst Takura Zhangazha says as Mr Mugabe's deputy, he will have "limited room to manoeuvre" and must remember who is boss.
If he does become president, commentator Pedzisai Ruhanya believes little will change.
"In appointing Mnangagwa, Mugabe is appointing someone who mirrors his leadership style. Mnangagwa is a hardliner, and hardliners aren't known for liberal democratic practices."
Pro-democracy campaigner Lovemore Madhuku agrees: "He is a hardliner. The way he ascended to power speaks to that. Many people have been purged. That's his style; no change can come from anyone within Zanu-PF."
Yet a former intelligence officer, who operated in the internal wing of CIO under Mr Mnangagwa, thinks he is a pragmatist and will be a reformer.
"Mnangagwa understands the nuts and bolts of business, capital. He isn't a hardliner as many people say.
"Should he become president, he is going to work more with the business community; he wants money and that which is good for the country. He isn't hostile to progress."
Among Rev William Fox's finds was one of the first, almost complete dinosaur fossils - a partial skeleton of a plant-eating Hypsilophodon foxii.
Some of his fossils are being displayed at Sandown's Dinosaur Isle Museum.
A walking trail of routes in Brighstone that Fox used when making his discoveries has also been launched.
Dr Martin Munt, curator of the museum, said it was "an opportunity for island residents to learn more about our wonderful heritage".
The events have been funded by the Royal Society's Local Heroes scheme, which provides cash for exhibitions and events that reveal stories of "scientific brilliance", Isle of Wight Council said.
The authority said prior to this recognition "a barely marked grave" and an "improvised plaque" were all that remained to mark Fox's life.
Copies of the Fox walking trail map are available as free downloads from the Dinosaur Isle Museum website.
Norma Bell, 79, who had fostered more than 50 children, was found in her burning home in Westbourne Road, Hartlepool, in April.
Gareth Dack, 33, was found guilty of murder and arson at Teesside Crown Court on Wednesday.
Mrs Justice Whipple said Dack killed "a defenceless woman in cold blood".
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A jury heard Dack, of Windermere Road, Hartlepool and who denied the charges, ransacked Mrs Bell's home, stole a boxed TV and £700, and used her phone to call sex chat lines.
The father-of-four, who had borrowed £10 from his victim the weekend before, claimed he was not responsible and described Mrs Bell a "wonderful woman" in court.
But DNA matches were found inside the property.
Sentencing Dack, Mrs Justice Whipple said: "You killed Norma Bell in cold blood in her own home when she was defenceless.
"She had done nothing to deserve your violence, then you set fire to her home in a failed attempt to cover your tracks."
The three-week trial heard Dack considered the widow, who lost her husband in 2010, to be a "soft touch".
Mrs Bell's family said she had a "heart as big as a lion" and had dedicated her adult life to fostering.
She and her late husband John had three sons, raised another six children as their own, and had 12 grandchildren.
In a statement the family said: "Gareth Dack brutally murdered our mother in the place she should have been safest and then burnt out the family home, destroying everything she had for a few quid to feed his drug habit and his actions have left us all in pieces."
Senior investigating officer Ch Supt Alastair Simpson of Cleveland Police, said Dack had refused to take any responsibility for his actions.
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The boy, called Ahmed, sent a text message on a phone given to him in Calais by Devon charity worker Liz Clegg, saying he was running out of "oksijan" - meaning oxygen.
Ms Clegg was being filmed as part of a documentary.
She alerted police and Ahmed and 14 adults were found in a container at services on the M1 after arriving from the Calais migrant camp, commonly known as the Jungle.
Ahmed is now living in the UK and has been reunited with Ms Clegg.
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Teams at the women's Euros and Under-19 Championship, as well as the men's Under-21 and Under-19 Championships, will all be allowed the extra change.
Real Madrid's Alvaro Morata became the sport's first fourth substitute at the Club World Cup last year.
Uefa will also continue to trial the 'ABBA' penalty system.
It was first used at the women's European Under-17s tournament last month, when Germany beat the Czech Republic 3-2 in a semi-final shootout.
As the current system stands, teams take turns in a shootout, with the choice of who goes first decided by a coin toss.
For example, team A goes first, then team B, then team A again.
The new system is called sees team A followed by team B - before team B goes again. Team A would then get two successive penalties, a little like the tie-break in tennis, and so on until there is a winner.
A coin will still be tossed to decide who goes first.
Yes. The Football Association announced last summer that it would permit an extra substitute in the latter stages of the FA Cup, from the quarter-final on.
Manchester City were the first team to make use of it in England, as Kelechi Iheanacho replaced Raheem Sterling on 105 minutes in the semi-final defeat against Arsenal.
In Scotland, Ayr United benefited from the rule change in their Scottish Cup fifth round win over Queen's Park.
The attack on a police convoy last Friday is thought to be one of the deadliest single episodes of violence in Kasai since unrest broke out in August 2016.
Reports say up to 400 people have been killed in total.
Six policemen who spoke the local Tshiluba language were freed in Friday's incident, but the rest were killed, Kasai Assembly President Francois Kalamba said.
The Kamwina Nsapu group was believed to be behind the attack. It has been fighting DR Congo forces since its leader was killed by the security forces last year.
The attack came days after the UN Human Rights Council said 10 mass graves had been found in Kasai, with limbs sticking out of the soil at some of the sites.
At least 99 people, including 18 children, were killed between 1 January and 23 February this year, the UN body said after a visit to the area by a team of investigators.
In one attack on 10 February, government troops killed at least 40 alleged militiamen and buried them in two mass graves that its investigators had seen, the UN body added in a report.
The militia is also alleged to have committed atrocities, including killing about 30 people, among them children, following an incursion into the neighbouring Lomami region on 9 March.
In another instance, the militia allegedly "decapitated two policemen and took away their heads", the UN report said.
Followers of Kamwina Nsapu, a traditional chief whose real name was Jean-Pierre Pandi, wanted his chiefdom to be officially recognised by the authorities.
There were communal clashes after Kamwina Nsapu called for a popular uprising in June 2016 with the aim of removing all state institutions and security forces from the region.
He was killed two months later when the police raided his house.
His followers vowed to avenge his killing.
They also demanded the exhumation of the late leader's body, saying he had not been buried in accordance with traditional rites.
The conflict has since escalated, tapping into long-held grievances over marginalisation in this opposition bastion blighted by poor infrastructure.
The Kamwina Nsapu fighters - largely made up of child soldiers - have targeted state institutions, looting and burning local and national government offices.
However, the UN has condemned the army for using disproportionate force against fighters equipped with traditional weapons such as machetes, homemade rifles or even just sticks.
The violence has now spread to neighbouring provinces, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.
It is a new layer of instability in a country mired in a political crisis sparked by President Joseph Kabila's refusal to step down when his constitutional mandate expired in December.
An agreement was found between the opposition and the presidential coalition on New Year's Eve which were supposed to lead to new elections.
But talks, under the mediation of the Catholic Church, over its implementation have since stalled.
In the meantime, a graphic seven-minute video circulated in February that appeared to show soldiers shooting civilians, including women and children, dead. They were assumed to be supporters of the Kamwina Nsapu militia.
On 12 March, two UN officials - from the US and Sweden - went missing in an apparent abduction.
They were investigating the alleged killing of more than 100 members and supporters of the militia by security forces in February.
It is not yet clear who kidnapped them and there are growing concerns over their fate.
Seven soldiers have been arrested in connection with the video and charged with war crimes.
But more videos of alleged extrajudicial killings have emerged and a number of mass graves have also been discovered.
The UN says that security forces have prevented its teams from accessing the sites.
The authorities have pledged to investigate all allegations.
Deputy Prime Minister Ramazani Shadari held talks with the family of the late traditional leader and the two sides reportedly agreed to exhume the body of Kamwina Nsapu to allow a proper burial and the installation of a new chief.
A week later, about 60 militiamen surrendered to the provincial authorities.
But clashes broke out near the airport in Kananga the day after and the situation remains volatile.
Kasai is also a stronghold of DR Congo's main opposition party, the United People's Democratic Solidarity (UDPS).
There are fears that the unrest in Kasai could take on a more political aspect.
The attention last year was very much focused on the political impasse that reached its climax in December when President Kabila refused to step down at the end of his second term.
Planned elections had not been held, which sparked civil unrest in the capital Kinshasa.
The security forces crushed all demonstrations.
At the time, only a few media reported the on-going clashes in the Kasai province but the scale of the violence only emerged recently as videos started to circulate on social media.
Ex-barrister Vera Baird said being made a dame for services to women gave equality "a boost".
Newcastle Eagles player-coach Fab Flournoy has been appointed MBE for services to basketball.
Retired Northumberland chief fire officer Alex Bennett has been awarded the Queen's Fire Service medal.
He was described as being "innovative" while leading the service through £2m budget cuts in the last two years and the closure of Haydon Bridge Fire Station.
Ms Baird, a former Labour MP for Redcar who is also Northumbria's Police and Crime Commissioner, acted for miners arrested during the 1984 strike.
She also represented Emma Humphreys, whose murder conviction was reduced to manslaughter in a case about the implications of the law of provocation for battered women who kill their violent partners.
Flournoy is the most successful coach in the British Basketball League with 22 trophies, including a third clean sweep in 2015.
In a statement, the company said that it would move from New York to the UK "over time".
Avon sold most of its North American business to the private investment firm Cerberus last year, after struggling with its sales there.
Its shares rose in after-hours trading in New York.
The announcement was part of a three-year plan, first outlined in January, to turn the 130-year old company around.
"With the recent completion of the sale of the North American business, our commercial operations are now fully outside of the United States, allowing us to dramatically rethink our operating model," said Sheri McCoy, Avon's chief executive.
It said that the cost-cutting measures would cost the company $60m before tax in the current quarter.
Details were not given of where the jobs would be lost. Avon currently has 28,300 employees.
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The professional dancers are already back in rehearsals for the 15th series of the show.
Ore Oduba was voted last year's winner and and lifted the glitterball trophy with his dance partner, Joanne Clifton.
Watch to see what advice he has to give to the new Strictly stars.
The 29-year-old Barking-born England Lions opening batsman had already intimated to the Warwickshire hierarchy that he would like to return home to his native south-east.
He has already been targeted by former county Essex, as well as Hampshire.
But he has now been given permission to officially talk to other counties.
Chopra, who left Essex for Edgbaston in 2010, was appointed captain in September 2014, after leading the Bears to the T20 Blast trophy the previous month as stand-in skipper.
Having deputised for Jim Troughton, he was in charge for the 2015 season, but he was then replaced by England's Ian Bell before the start of this campaign.
In a club statement, Warwickshire said: "Discussions have taken place with Varun since he took the decision to step down as captain earlier this year.
"Whilst everyone at the club is fully aware of his capabilities as a top-order batsman, there is also a need to look at the development of the squad in order to be able to maintain a challenge on all fronts in the coming years.
"Both parties believe now is a good time for Varun to accept a fresh challenge. He is now able to talk to other counties to realise his own career ambitions. In the meantime, he remains fully committed to the club."
Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia were among the states where both triumphed. Mr Trump was defeated by Ted Cruz in Texas and Oklahoma.
Democrat Bernie Sanders won four, including his home state of Vermont.
Super Tuesday sees 11 states voting on the biggest single day ahead of the 8 November presidential election.
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Winners and losers on Super Tuesday
Results as they come in
The former secretary of state and real estate mogul entered Super Tuesday as the favourites to win the vast majority of states for their respective parties.
In her victory speech on Tuesday, Mrs Clinton appeared to already be looking towards a potential presidential race against Donald Trump, saying: "The stakes in this election have never been higher and the rhetoric we're hearing on the other side has never been lower."
Donald Trump, for his part, insisted that he was a "unifier" who could put internal fighting in the Republican party behind him to focus on a general election race against Mrs Clinton.
"Once we get all this finished, I'm going after one person - Hillary Clinton," he told reporters in Florida, where he has been campaigning ahead of the state's vote later this month.
The billionaire also insisted he had "expanded the Republican party", referring to higher turnout from a broad demographic in states that have already voted.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz called on his rivals to drop out of the race, which he says would enable him to contend Mr Trump's lead more effectively.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who was hoping to emerge as the main alternative to Mr Trump, won his first state on Tuesday in the Minnesota caucuses.
This was a man not looking to the next primary, the next bit of slog along that long and exhausting road. This was a man with an eye on the much bigger fight in November, and his presumptive opponent Hillary Clinton.
He graciously congratulated Ted Cruz over his wins in Texas and Oklahoma. No mention last night of him being the biggest liar he's ever met. And no demeaning of Marco Rubio either. Were it not for the unmistakable blond hair and the family members at his side, you might have been forgiven for thinking an impostor had entered the room.
But no it was Donald 2.0 that we had with us. The trouble, though, when you upload a new operating system is there are inevitable bugs and glitches. And the new OS takes a bit of getting used to.
And there will be many who say what brought me to the product was the original software. So can and will the new magnanimous Donald be able to keep up this new modus operandi, and will his army of fans like what they see?
This was a strikingly different Donald Trump who met reporters on Tuesday night. His tone was conciliatory. He was quietly spoken. He said he would be a unifier - of the Republican Party, of the nation. He didn't crow and he didn't claim to be the nominee, but he clearly thinks the primary race is effectively over.
Mr Trump has stunned the Republican establishment to become the party's front-runner. Despite his controversial policies on immigration, the former reality TV star has been consistently polling well above his rivals - Ted Cruz, Mr Rubio, Mr Kasich and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
Both Senators Cruz and Rubio have ramped up their anti-Trump rhetoric over the past week, in a bid to halt his commanding lead in the race. The outcome of Super Tuesday will be critical for both candidates to remain the race.
Mr Trump has faced heavy criticism this week over his failure to disavow David Duke, a leader of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan, who has endorsed the Republican candidate. The front-runner later said he had on several occasions in the past disavowed Mr Duke.
On the Democratic side, Mrs Clinton had already secured three wins in the first four early-voting states and has led significantly among blocs of black voters there.
Bernie Sanders, who describes himself as a democratic socialist, has put up an unexpectedly strong challenge against the former secretary of state after his sweeping victory in New Hampshire last month.
Alongside wins in Vermont and Oklahoma, he also was projected to win the Democratic Colorado caucuses - although this was merely a projection, as delegates do not vote until the state convention in April.
Addressing cheering supporters at his victory speech in Vermont on Tuesday, Mr Sanders aimed a jibe at the Republican front-runner saying: "We are not going to let the Donald Trumps of the world divide us."
The proportion of vote won equates to the number of delegates who will then go on to the Democratic and Republican parties' national conventions in July to officially choose the nominees for the presidency.
Super Tuesday is pivotal because it allocates nearly a quarter of the 2,472 Republican delegates and some 20% of all delegates for the Democrats.
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Follow the primaries race with the delegate tracker, provided by the Associated Press (AP)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) says that in cash terms, bonuses were just 0.1% below their record level reached in 2007-08.
In the finance and insurance sector, they were below pre-downturn levels.
However, bonuses in the rest of the economy were "considerably higher" than before the global crash.
The ONS says the industry with the biggest increase in bonuses in 2014-15 was professional, scientific and technical services - up £0.9bn on the previous year - followed by information and communication, with an increase of £0.5bn.
Bonuses in finance and insurance fell by £1.5bn, but the ONS says this may have been "partly because this industry is more prone than others to concentrate their payments into a December-to-March 'bonus season', and in 2013, a number of bonus payments were deferred from March into April".
It added: "Thus the 2013-14 figure in this sector might have been atypically high, with some employees receiving payments both in April 2013 and March 2014, twice within the same reporting period."
Overall, total bonus payments in 2014-15 were £42.4bn - up 2.7% on the previous year.
Of the total, some £13.6bn was paid in the finance and insurance industry, down 9.6% on the year, and £28.8bn in the rest of the economy, which was up 9.7%.
The ONS said: "This left payments in finance and insurance over £5bn below their 2007-08 peak of £18.7bn, but those in the rest of the economy about £5bn ahead of the pre-downturn peak of £23.8bn."
The 2.1% increase in primary numbers is equivalent to six more pupils for every school.
"Minority ethnic pupils made up 71% of the increase," says the Department for Education's school census report.
The annual figures show there are now more super-sized primary schools.
It will mean more funding demands to create extra places and pressure on places for families looking for schools.
There are now 87 primary schools with more than 800 pupils, up from 77 in 2014 and 58 in 2013.
The number of infants in classes above the limit of 30 pupils has increased again - with 100,800 pupils in these over-sized classes, an increase of 8% compared with 2014.
The number has more than doubled since 2012, when there were about 47,000 infants in classes of more than 30. In 2008, the figure was fewer than 25,000.
The figures from the annual school census show numbers rising across the state school system - up by 2.1% in primary and 0.1% in secondary - to a total of 8.4 million pupils.
This is an increase of about 200,000 children in two years.
The rising population has been a particular challenge for primary schools, which have been having to expand to absorb the increasing numbers.
But this rising population wave has now reached secondary schools.
The analysis says that the rise in primary school numbers is particularly driven by rising number of ethnic minority pupils, accounting for more than two-thirds of the increase.
In primary schools, 30.4% of pupils are from an ethnic minority, compared with 29.5% the previous year.
But there are wide regional variations. In the inner London boroughs, 81% of pupils are from ethnic minorities; while in north-east England, the figure is below 11%.
And at council level, in Newham 94% of pupils are from ethnic minorities, while in Durham the figure is below 5%.
In inner London, the biggest ethnic group in primary school are black pupils, predominantly from an African background, with Asian pupils the second biggest group.
In secondary schools, about 27% of pupils are ethnic minorities, which the report says represents an increase of about 30% in six years.
Despite the rising number of pupils there has not been a growth in the number of primary schools, which have been consistently falling since the 1980s.
Instead, primary schools have been getting bigger, with more pupils in schools with more than 800 pupils.
Primary pupil numbers had been declining until 2009, but they have been rising sharply since.
Funding this demand for extra places - forecast to be another 460,000 during the next five years - has been a continuing pressure on the schools budget.
In the general election campaign, the Conservatives committed themselves to protecting per-pupil spending, including for rising numbers.
A DfE spokesman said: "The average infant class size has remained stable at 27.4 and the number of unlawfully large infant classes has fallen - down 137 compared to 2009 - all despite a small increase in pupil numbers since last year.
"To help schools respond to rising pupils numbers, the government invested £5bn between 2011 and 2015 to support local authorities - creating almost half a million new places.
"On top of that, we have committed to invest a further £7bn on new school places over the next six years, to support the new school places needed all the way up to September 2021.
"The government has also opened over 250 free schools since 2010 and we are committed to creating at least 500 more during this parliament, creating over 400,000 new school places and ensuring even more parents have access to a good local school for their child."
Tristram Hunt, Labour's shadow education secretary, said: "The growing pressures on primary school class sizes should compel the government to rethink how it is allocating funding for schools.
"The case is clear. In the early years of primary school, children in classes capped at 30 are more likely to make better progress.
"It cannot make sense for the government to continue to prioritise money for new free schools in areas with surplus school places when we have more than 100,000 primary pupils being taught in classes of more than 30."
The Swiss 19-time Grand Slam winner was the only player who could have denied Spain's Nadal taking the top spot in the rankings from Andy Murray.
Federer was injured in Sunday's Rogers Cup final defeat by Alexander Zverev.
Briton Murray pulled out of Cincinnati last week as he continues to recover from a hip problem.
Reigning French Open champion Nadal returns to the top of the rankings for the first time since July 2014.
The 31-year-old went out of the Rogers Cup in the last 16 against wildcard Denis Shapovalov.
Federer went all the way to the final before losing to 20-year-old German Zverev in Montreal - the Swiss' first tournament since winning Wimbledon for the eighth time in July.
"I am very sorry to pull out," said the world number three. "Cincinnati has some of the best fans in the world and I am sorry I will miss them.
"Unfortunately, I tweaked my back in Montreal and I need to rest this week."
The Cincinnati Master leads up to the the US Open, the final Grand Slam of the year, which begins on 28 August.
Federer, 36, joins fellow top 10 players Murray, Kei Nishikori and Marin Cilic in withdrawing, while 2016 US Open winner Stan Wawrinka and 12-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic will miss the rest of the season.
Ali Budynkiewicz, 58, and Lisa North, 48, known as the "Gangsta Grannies", entered the water at Samphire Hoe in Dover, Kent, at lunchtime on Wednesday.
They completed the swim in a time of 31 hours and 28 minutes on two-hour rotation shifts
They said: "We swam through the night and landed in France - turned around and swam straight back."
They added: "The swim was very tough. It really is a very long way, but we swam strong and steady. We feel so chuffed."
The swimmers, from Dorset, said their support team did a great job of keeping them fuelled with rice pudding, pork pies and bananas.
They completed the swim to raise money for a women's refuge supported by Bournemouth-based charity BCHA.
During the swim the pair were stung by jellyfish and encountered pods of dolphins and seals.
The Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation (CS&PF), which authorises and supports attempts, is due to formally ratify the timings.
Kevin Murphy of the CS&PF said it was believed to be the first time a team of two had completed the double crossing.
Waseem Hussain, 27, Nadeem Hussain, 29, and father Abid Hussain, 54, all of Mary Road in Stechford, and Shahid Mahmood, 44, of Heather Road, Small Heath, were convicted of fraud.
The terms ranged from 18 to 61 months.
The case was brought after "numerous" complaints to Birmingham City Council.
Barbara Dring from the council said she believed it to be the biggest investigation into car clocking Birmingham trading standards had carried out.
"The distance dishonestly taken off the cars sold by this family is almost 10 times the distance to the moon and back.
"Not only is the mileage wrong but it is misrepresented, and as such could also have major mechanical problems that could put passengers' safety at risk".
The four were caught after trading standards officers monitored the Auto Trader car sales website, and discovered the family used several business names to sell seemingly low mileage cars.
Investigators arranged to buy a used Audi A8 advertised as having 125,000 miles on the clock - but checks revealed it had done more than 250,000 miles.
Leicester City's Danny Simpson denied strangling the mother of his child but was convicted last May.
However, the 29-year-old's lawyer complained that journalists had found where he was carrying out his community service, making it impossible.
A judge revoked the sentence and ruled he should serve a curfew instead.
Simpson's lawyer Gary Ryan asked if the millionaire footballer could instead pay a fine, arguing that a curfew would be "unfair and unjust", and would interfere with his football commitments.
But this was rejected by District Judge Alexandra Simmonds, at Manchester Magistrates Court.
She said while press intrusion was to blame for Simpson not completing the work, a fine would be "no punishment", given his financial position.
The judge said Simpson's sentence for assaulting his ex-partner Stephanie Ward was a "richly-deserved punishment".
The former Manchester United player's community sentence was revoked, and a curfew imposed.
Simpson must wear an electronic tag and stay indoors at his home in Salford between 22:00 and 06:00 for the next 21 days.
Mr Ryan said Simpson had work commitments in the next 10 days, including end of season parades and functions with the rest of his team which were not to be regarded as "a jolly for the players".
He also said Simpson was expected to fly out to Thailand with the club's owners on Tuesday, but the judge rejected any plea to defer the curfew.
The right-back, who also played for Newcastle and QPR, was arrested on 29 December after a reports of a row at a house in Worsley, Greater Manchester.
The Spanish side were banned in July 2016 from registering players for two transfer windows for breaching Fifa rules over the signing of minors.
"This ruling is unfair and causes an irreparable damage to our club," said Atletico in a statement.
In December, Real Madrid had their ban for the same offence halved on appeal.
Atletico added that the decision amounts to "comparative disadvantage and discriminatory treatment" of the club, given rivals Real will now be able to sign players in the transfer window that starts on 1 July.
Cas have reduced Atletico's fine from 900,000 Swiss Francs (£719,793) to 550,000 (£439,873).
Champions League semi-finalists Atletico said they had "full confidence" in their current squad and were determined to continue "competing at the same level next season", having finished third behind Real and Barcelona in La Liga.
Atletico forward Antoine Griezmann, 26, has been linked with a move to Manchester United this summer., but BBC Sport understands the Red Devils have now cooled their interest in the France international.
Fifa's investigation concerned players aged under 18 who played in competitions for Atletico between 2007 and 2014, and Real from 2005-2014.
The world governing body initially ruled on the case in January 2016, but both clubs were able to sign players last summer after appealing against the decision to Fifa.
The two sides then went to Cas after those appeals were rejected, with Real Madrid's suspension subsequently reduced to cover just the recent January transfer window.
Cas' decision was due to be released on Wednesday but was delayed until Thursday, which Altetico said showed a "lack of respect" to the club.
Atletico will be allowed to register new players again from 1 January 2018.
Fifa bans the transfer of under-18s to different countries unless they meet strict criteria. It brought in the rules to help protect children from exploitation and trafficking.
Following Cas' decision on Thursday, a Fifa statement said: "Cas has shown once again clear and strong support for Fifa's efforts to protect underage players."
Under-18s can only be transferred abroad if:
Napoli needed to win to keep the title race going but Roma proved too difficult an opponent to overcome.
The hosts are now within two points of second-placed Napoli, who occupy the final automatic Champions League place.
Nainggolan's 89th-minute winner was a fine, curling effort from outside the box from Mohamed Salah's lay-off.
Roma legend Francesco Totti, whose future is uncertain, was a late substitute and was involved in the build-up to the goal on his 598th Serie A appearance.
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Militia fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo have decapitated about 40 police officers in an ambush in the central province of Kasai, local officials say.
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Two grandmothers successfully completed a 42-mile English Channel swim to France and back.
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Four members of a Birmingham family have been jailed for "clocking" four million miles off vehicle odometers in what was described in court as "a professional operation".
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Radja Nainggolan scored a brilliant late goal as Roma beat Champions League rivals Napoli - handing Juventus the Serie A title in the process.
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For the BBC's Africa Beats series he has reunited with Mozambican guitarist Tiago Correia-Paulo, from his former group The Volume, to perform Signs.
He says the song was inspired by a cockroach in his kitchen, which he assumed had scuttled off into a crack in the wall.
"But then I started to think... what if this cockroach just disappeared? We always rationalise these things away."
His latest album, Rob the Church - made after a year travelling and performing around Africa and making the documentary Afrique - has a contemporary hip-hop sound, but the African influence is there in the shape of polyrhythms and Afrobeat syncopations.
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The Cambridge Bikers' Christmas Toy Run was organised by Peter Vasey, from Ely.
About 250 motorbikes made the 45-minute trip from Harlton to Addenbrooke's Hospital carrying donated toys.
"We're talking about a large number of toys and if that can bring a smile to someone, well that's great," Mr Vasey said.
It is the second time the group has organised a "Santa run", and Mr Vasey said it had been "incredibly popular".
Many of the participants brought their own toys along for the nine-mile trip, but others were donated to the group by businesses and individuals.
Mr Vasey worked closely with staff at Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust, who will help to give out the toys, to organise this year's event.
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Hundreds of motorcyclists, many wearing Santa Claus suits, took to the streets of Cambridge earlier to deliver gifts to sick children in a city hospital.
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Members of Unite and the GMB will vote in the coming weeks on whether to launch action after talks with the Offshore Contractors Association (OCA) broke down on Wednesday.
The move comes after union members voted last month to reject a new pay offer from North Sea employers.
OCA said it was "extremely disappointed" at the news.
In a statement, Unite said it would press ahead with preparations for official industrial action ballots, following the failure of talks which involved the conciliation service Acas.
Unite regional officer Tommy Campbell said: "Unite members gave a significant mandate to hold a ballot for strike action in this dispute with the OCA employers.
"Offshore workers are gearing up to campaign for a yes vote. It is time for all union members to stand up now, and fight back for better terms and conditions."
OCA chief executive Paul Atkinson said: "We are extremely disappointed that the trade unions appear unwilling to engage on the issues which are so important to their members.
"Our priority has always been to find ways of avoiding any disruption.
"We approached our meeting today as a constructive opportunity to take the next step in bringing this dispute to a resolution.
"We believe that the OCA has acted as a fair negotiator throughout this process and that our approach balances the needs of employees with the requirements of business."
He added: "Industrial action will only serve to make investment in the North Sea less attractive and jeopardise the long-term future of the industry.
"We remain firmly committed to doing all we can to find a lasting solution to this dispute."
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She was struck a number of times in the face and stomach and received hospital treatment for her injuries, according to the Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ.
A police (garda) spokesman said a man in his 30s was arrested after the attack at Dolphin House, East Essex Street, Dublin on Friday afternoon.
He was taken to Pearse Street Garda Station for questioning.
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The London 2012 gold medallist has all but qualified for Rio having already secured Team GB a -57kg place.
European Games champion Jones won the German Open on Sunday and wants to win another title in Montreux in May.
"I'm definitely going there to get the gold," said the 23-year-old.
"I wouldn't say I need a gold but I still haven't got a European gold medal.
"I'm really going there hungry for that gold medal.
"I want to be European, world and Olympic gold medallist."
Victory at the German Open came on Jones' return from a knee problem, having missed March's Dutch Open and April's President's Cup with the injury.
Jones used the event in Hamburg to improve her fitness before the European Championships in Montreux, Switzerland from 19-22 May.
"Going into my first competition this year and fighting so well, I was really happy with it," she said.
"I did a lot of strengthening and rehab [on the injury] and now it feels really strong and I feel really fit again."
Jones, from Flint, was 19 when she beat China's Yuzhuo Hou to win the women's -57kg title at the 2012 Olympics.
But she missed out on a medal at the World Taekwondo Championships in Russia in May 2015 amid controversy when the electronic scoring system froze during her quarter-final.
Now though she is hoping to defend her Olympic title in Brazil.
"London was just the best experience of my life and to only have been 19 and to win an Olympic gold medal on home soil, I don't think I can beat that moment.
"But to go to Rio and do it again and show it wasn't a fluke and to become double Olympic champion, that [would be] legendary status and that's what I really want to do."
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Olympic champion Jade Jones says she is determined to win gold at the European Taekwondo Championships in Switzerland next month as she continues her preparations for the Rio Olympics.
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Diez, ranked 108 places below the Briton at 192 in the world, won 3-6 6-1 6-2 to claim his first victory in the main draw of an ATP tournament.
Edmund, 21, was playing for the first time since winning both singles rubbers in Britain's Davis Cup win over Serbia.
Meanwhile, Naomi Broady progressed but Heather Watson went out in the women's event, which takes place in Montreal.
British number three Broady, ranked 84, defeated Puerto Rico's Monica Puig 3-6 6-4 6-2 and faces French Open champion Garbine Muguruza next.
World number 67 Watson was beaten 7-5 6-3 by 2011 US Open champion Sam Stosur.
Serena Williams, Andy Murray, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have all pulled out of the tournament, with Angelique Kerber and Novak Djokovic the top seeds.
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His performances this summer have established him as a proper Test batsman. It was a great decision to move him up to number six and you can see the confidence that has given him.
Stokes was outstanding on Saturday. He was solid in defence but still positive and played good, well-controlled shots.
He deserved a hundred and looked utterly crestfallen when he played on off the bowling of Mitchell Marsh for 87.
When England took the field later in the day, Stokes was like a dynamo. He is whole-hearted and chases and dives after everything.
The one area where he is still a work in progress is his bowling.
He often gets compared to Andrew Flintoff, and he is probably already a better batsman than England's 2005 hero but he's some way off being the bowler Flintoff was.
At the moment he's a fourth seamer who still bowls a bad ball every over, but if he can work on his consistency without losing any pace, he could become a really top all-rounder.
If Stokes looked frustrated to miss out on a hundred, then Alastair Cook looked mortified when he chopped on for 96.
When he drove at a wide-ish ball from Marsh, he must have thought he'd struck a boundary, but instead the ball caught the inside edge and Cook was gone. That shows the tiny margins there are in this game.
It was an excellent innings nonetheless, compiled using precisely the cautious-but-confident approach Cook adopts when he's at his best.
We've heard all about England's new positive style, and there were signs in Cardiff that Cook was trying to follow the trend by being more attacking, but this was the old Cook, and that's the Cook England need.
From the horrors of 30-4, England could not have done much more than reaching 312 all out.
Australia stuck to their task well, bowled mostly full lengths to attacking fields, and gradually chipped away at the England innings.
Marsh now has a real opportunity to cement his place in this team for a long time. He ran in with much more purpose than Shane Watson has been doing and looked like a bowler who wanted to take wickets.
Watson used to bowl ball after ball outside the off stump, which was occasionally effective, but his body language was poor in Cardiff and Marsh looks much more sprightly.
I wasn't at all surprised that Australia didn't enforce the follow-on. They might have thought about it if they'd blown England out in an hour and a half this morning, but the pitch is slow and flat so Michael Clarke needed to give his bowlers a rest.
England are likely to have to survive the best part of five sessions to save the game, but I see no reason why they shouldn't be able to do it.
The ball is not doing anything at all. It hasn't spun and even if it does spin it will do so very slowly and without bounce.
It's a slow, true pitch and there's no real bounce to terrify the lower order so if England play every ball very carefully they can save this match.
The safety-first approach won't come naturally to a lot of the current England players. Modern batsmen like to see scoreboard ticking along. There aren't many Geoff Boycotts out there who are happy blocking ball after ball.
But this Test is there for the saving. With a healthy dose of luck, allied to discipline and concentration, England could yet be heading to Edgbaston with a 1-0 lead.
Jonathan Agnew was speaking to BBC Sport's Sam Sheringham.
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There were 6.1 drug crimes per 1,000 population in the region during the 12 months to March.
By contrast, Gloucestershire only had a drug crime rate of 1.6 per 1,000 people.
Overall, the Merseyside Police region had the fifth highest crime rate (70.1 per 1,000) of all forces in England and Wales - an annual increase of 4.2%.
It now ranks just behind third-ranked Greater Manchester Police's region, where there were 73.8 crimes per 1,000 population.
Merseyside's Asst Ch Con Ian Pilling said: "The force is committed to tackling the serious and organised criminals who are involved in the supply of illegal drugs on Merseyside and we will be relentless in our efforts to target those involved."
He said they were "naturally disappointed" to see a slight increase in crime, partly caused by vehicle crime offences, public order and violence.
There were 97,244 crimes reported in the year to March 2015 - up from 93,348 in the preceding 12 months.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras failed to reach a deal with Greece's lenders, then a meeting of European finance ministers broke up without progress.
The Athens government faces default if it fails to make a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) IMF debt repayment by Tuesday.
As EU leaders met in Brussels, Germany's Angela Merkel warned that talks were going nowhere.
"We still haven't made the necessary progress; in some places it looks like we're even going backwards," she told reporters.
If Greece does default, it could exit the eurozone, with possible repercussions for the rest of Europe and the world economy.
Only once agreement is reached will the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) unlock the final €7.2bn tranche of bailout funds for cash-strapped Greece.
The impasse threatens to overshadow an EU summit opening on Thursday, where leaders will also discuss the European migrant crisis and UK PM David Cameron's renegotiation aims.
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After the meeting of finance ministers broke up without agreement, Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem said it was not too late for Greece to accept the proposals of its international lenders.
It was the fourth time that the finance ministers had met in a week in an attempt to prevent a Greek debt default. They will meet again on Saturday.
An EU diplomat told the BBC that the Eurogroup had to make a decision then - yes or no.
The Greek government has criticised the international creditors for rejecting its own ideas, which were initially welcomed.
IMF head Christine Lagarde said the lenders had been presented with a counter-proposal by the Greek parties "at the last hour" on Thursday and needed more time to assess it, according to Reuters.
The IMF has been particularly strong in refusing to accept Greece's proposals put forward earlier this week.
Correspondents say the Greek plan included far more tax rises and far fewer spending cuts than creditors had suggested.
Throughout the Greek crisis, the IMF has been concerned that the programme should add up. That means that specific actions should be able to achieve whatever targets are agreed for the Greek government's borrowing needs.
In the current impasse, one concern is that the Greek proposals include too much emphasis on tax rather than spending.
The IMF worry is that might aggravate the economy's weakness. For the long term the IMF's concern is that Greece should ultimately have a sustainable debt burden and has been telling the eurozone that it should be thinking about debt relief.
Like the other players in this crisis, the IMF has politics to contend with: IMF member countries (Brazil has been a notable example) who have in the past been unhappy about the organisation's financial support for Greece.
Greece's PM Tsipras held talks on Thursday morning with IMF leader Christine Lagarde and European Central Bank head Mario Draghi as well as Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, and Eurogroup leader Mr Dijsselbloem.
Technical experts met several hours earlier to continue deliberations. However, no deal was struck.
If an agreement is reached, it will have to be endorsed by Greece's parliament, with some critics at home accusing the prime minister of reneging on his party's campaign pledge to end austerity.
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Mark Hambleton, who went back to metal detecting after advice from his late father, made the find with Joe Kania, on Staffordshire Moorlands farmland.
The three necklaces and bracelet are believed to be about 2,500 years old.
Their find was declared treasure at an inquest led by coroner Ian Smith, who joked it was likely to be "worth a bob or two".
Julia Farley, of the British Museum, described the discovery, called the Leekfrith Iron Age Torcs, as a "unique find of international importance".
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Dr Farley, the museum's curator of British and European Iron Age collections, said: "It dates to around 400-250 BC and is probably the earliest Iron Age gold work ever discovered in Britain.
"The torcs were probably worn by wealthy and powerful women, perhaps people from the Continent who had married into the local community.
"Piecing together how these objects came to be carefully buried in a Staffordshire field will give us an invaluable insight into life in Iron Age Britain."
The four torcs were found separately, about 1m apart, buried near the surface in Leekfrith last December.
The location is almost 50 miles away from where the £3m Anglo Saxon Staffordshire Hoard was discovered by a metal detector enthusiast in 2009.
The inquest heard the torcs' gold content was at least 80%, with each piece weighing between 230g (8oz) and 31g (1oz), prompting Mr Smith to say: "Even as scrap, that's still worth a bob or two."
A formal valuation will now take place at the British Museum.
To be declared treasure, an item must be more than 300 years old, or have a precious metal content greater than 10%.
"This must rank as one of the most exciting treasure finds I have ever dealt with - not quite in the same league as the Staffordshire Hoard, but nevertheless exciting," Mr Smith said.
Mr Hambleton said he was just about to give up for the day when his friend said he thought he had found something.
"He pulled this big torc out of his pocket, and dangled it in front of me," he said.
"When I'd got some air back into my lungs, my head had cleared and my legs had stopped wobbling, I said 'do you realise what you've found there?"'
He said the pair were "speechless".
He said he kept the gold next to his bed that night "to make sure it was safe" before handing it to experts the following day.
The jewellery was handed to the Portable Antiquities Scheme, which is administered by Birmingham Museums, but will be displayed at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke for the next three weeks.
The friends said they would share any proceeds with landowner Stuart Heath.
Now confirmed as treasure, the haul is the property of the Crown. The Treasure Valuation Committee will offer a value to the finders, landowner and any museum wanting to acquire it.
Once all parties agree, the museum has to raise the money to pay them.
The injury-hit Premiership strugglers have signed 26-year-old Braid on a contract until the end of the season.
The versatile back, who can also play at centre or in the back three, won the most recent of his 21 caps in last weekend's 21-16 defeat in Romania.
He is due to join Worcester following Canada's match with Samoa on Friday.
Head coach Carl Hogg said: "With the recent injuries to Ryan Lamb and Tom Heathcote, we're delighted Connor is able to come in and bolster the side in the number 10 position.
"He has plenty of experience in goal-kicking while his versatility across the backline will also be of great benefit."
Warriors, who played adaptable youngster Jamie Shillcock at 10 for the first time in the Premiership in Friday's 18-17 home defeat by Northampton, have a lengthy injury list.
Skipper GJ van Velze has been missing since the second game of the season following a concussion injury, while Francois Hougaard has been ruled out for three months after shoulder surgery.
They began the month with a 15 first-team players sidelined following injuries, which prompted moves for Australian scrum-half Michael Dowsett and full-back Auguy Slowik.
Former Glasgow Warriors, London Scottish and Doncaster Knights goal-kicker Braid has also represented his country on the World Sevens circuit.
Livingston delivered the latest blow with a 1-0 win thanks to former Rangers defender Craig Halkett's headed goal against the Championship champions.
"We all have to look at ourselves, because that was not Rangers," said Warburton.
"We have 24 days to get it right, which we will do."
Since their Scottish Cup semi-final win over Glasgow neighbours Celtic, Rangers have lost to Hibernian, who they will face in the final on 21 May, drawn at home to relegated Alloa Athletic and now suffered a defeat by second-bottom Livi.
Warburton's side conclude their league campaign with a trip to Paisley to face St Mirren on Sunday and the manager dismissed the suggestion that it would be difficult to regain momentum ahead of their trip to Hampden Park.
"After the Celtic game against Hibernian, you can say it was the draining nature of the game at Hampden, but that was not really us," he said.
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"But, no excuses. We started brightly, but for the vast majority of the game we were way below.
"I am not going to sit here and defend that. We didn't deserve to get anything out of the game."
Warburton, on the shortlist for PFA Scotland's manager of the year, did not think Rangers were feeling the pressure of completing a trophy treble - having also won the Petrofac Training Cup.
"Pressure is fighting relegation, fighting for your contract, you might get a pay-cut as a player, pressure is going out of business," he said.
"That is not pressure. Everyone is tired, we all have had long seasons, do you feel more tired when winning the league or more tired when fighting relegation?"
First, let's spend a minute thinking about what could have been.
"If I'd been born in America, I would've run," says Arnold Schwarzenegger, in an interview with AdWeek. "Because now? This was a very good time to get in the race."
Sadly, because the actor-turned-politician was born in Austria, we'll never know who would have won in a (primary) battle between Schwarzenegger and Donald Trump.
Judging by his comments earlier this month, he would have put up more of a fight than the other Republican candidates.
Anyway, back in the real world, Donald Trump continued his offensive on Monday against the women who have accused him of sexual assault.
Talking about the allegations at a rally in Florida, he said: "One said, 'He grabbed me on the arm.' And she's a porn star," before adding: "Oh, I'm sure she's never been grabbed before."
He was referring to Jessica Drake, a 42-year-old adult film star who says the Republican nominee grabbed her and kissed her without permission 10 years ago.
Mr Trump denies the claims and has vowed to sue the accusers after the election. We've got a round-up of the accusations and Mr Trump's response to each here.
It's not all plain sailing for Hillary Clinton though, with her links to the FBI coming under scrutiny again.
On Monday, it was revealed that a political committee for Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe gave nearly $500,000 to help fund an election campaign of Dr Jill McCabe, the wife of an FBI official.
That's awkward for Mrs Clinton because Mr McAuliffe is a long-term friend of both her and Bill, and the FBI official later helped oversee the investigation into Mrs Clinton's email use.
Like many of the scandals that have been linked to the Democratic nominee, it's confusing and unclear how, if at all, she was involved - but it's news she could do without.
One group of voters that Donald Trump has found it difficult to woo is millennials, with one USA Today poll earlier this month giving Hillary Clinton a 48% lead over the Republican. The BBC's Franz Strasser has been out to speak to young Trump supporters in North Carolina to find out why they're standing behind the businessman. You can watch his full report above - it includes this great quote: "The slime will only get slimier."
On what led to Mr Trump's candidacy, Katty Kay has come up with 10 reasons why The Donald ended up as the Republican candidate, including the financial crash, Uber and the LGBT movement. You can read her full piece here: Driverless cars and other reasons we have Trump.
And Aleem Maqbool has been to Virginia to see if the allegations of sexual misconduct surrounding Donald Trump have stifled support among America's Christian evangelical churches, traditionally a reliable source of Republican votes. Watch the video below to find out.
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Donald Trump remains in Florida, holding a rally in Sanford then another at the Tallahassee Car Museum in the evening. Mike Pence, his running mate, is in Ohio.
Hillary Clinton is also in Florida, holding two rallies during the day before attending a fundraising event in Miami in the evening. Her running mate Tim Kaine is also attending fundraising events, but in Connecticut and New York.
Mrs Clinton's army of surrogates are also out on the road, with her husband Bill campaigning in North Carolina and her daughter Chelsea in Wisconsin. Vice President Joe Biden is taking the Democratic nominee's case to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Senator Elizabeth Warren is in North Carolina.
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"They love heat, they love a lot of water, a lot of feed, they like being dry, they don't like being rained on all summer, especially when they're flowering," says John Laird who grows pumpkins at Cairnie Fruit Farm just outside Cupar in Fife.
This year they've grown roughly 2,500 pumpkins which is not bad given the weather.
"This year's been a real challenge," he continues "if it wasn't for our tunnels that we grow them in, I don't think we would have had a crop at all."
He says he began growing pumpkins in 2000 because of his American wife who had gown up with them as a Halloween staple. They now run a pumpkin festival. So does he have any nostalgia for the humble turnip?
"It is a little sad," he agrees.
"I think it was a cruel twist that our parents made us carve a turnip back then. It took a long time."
The pumpkin he argues is so much easier and allows more creativity in the carving.
"So roll on the times, and I think it's nice to move on and do something different."
On the opposite side of the country in Greenock, the Galoshans Festival is underway. It brings international and home-grown artists to the town, as well as a programme of community events.
The word has its roots in the galoshan plays performed in parts of Scotland at this time of year, when the boundary between the everyday world and the supernatural one was supposed to be thin.
"When I was a child I would go out in galoshans," remembers Inverclyde Council's education and community convener Councillor Terry Loughran.
"Guising in my version would be when I go out and knock on a door to put on my performance, so the galoshans would be me putting on my disguise which makes it easier for me to connect with the spooky world on the other side."
He admits that there has been some dilution of the use of the word as children get more from films, but he argues there is still a strong tradition supported by parents in the town.
He continues: "It's nice in a sense to be bilingual, to embrace other people's cultures, but also to treasure, to think what's good about the culture that we have within our own community and within the broader Scotland and sitting in the middle of that at this time of year we have going out in galoshans - getting dressed up for Halloween."
The roots of Halloween are thought to be in one of four ancient Celtic feast days, marking the coming of winter.
"Tradition is a funny thing, it's not a static thing," says Dr Lizanne Henderson of Glasgow University.
As a child she went back and forth between Canada and Scotland and so saw Halloween traditions from both sides of the Atlantic.
"You should never think of a tradition as something that's sort of written in stone that it never changes and Halloween is no exception," she says.
"There's a carnival aspect to Halloween that is why it's so appealing.
"It's a time when people can do things that are out of the ordinary, they can behave in ways that they wouldn't ordinarily behave and that's part of its appeal."
The pair argued during Argyle's 2-0 win at Field Mill on Saturday.
"He failed last year, he's got a huge budget this year and that was a big result for them," Evans told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"When somebody tells you in the tunnel they're the best manager outside the Premier League, it's hard to pallet."
But Adams told BBC Radio Devon: "I don't think that's quite right, but Steve's one of these guys that talks a lot.
"We're not best pals after the game - it's 90 minutes of football and we want to beat each other, we're both Scottish, but you've got to get on with it.
"We've had words and that's the way it is, but what he's said is untrue."
Evans, who was appointed as Stags boss in November, also said Mansfield's performance was their best since he joined the club.
"It's the best they've probably played here in five years - I'm not being funny, it was the quality of the football," he said.
"Plymouth are a good team, a very good team, and we made them look like a bad team, a poor team.
"Their manager will say something different, he'll talk character and all that stuff but he can say what he likes."
But Mr Nesbitt said he would not tell UUP voters to follow his lead and transfer to the SDLP.
The UUP and SDLP were both opposition parties in the last Northern Ireland Assembly.
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said he would not be drawn on who he would vote for after his party's candidates.
Under Northern Ireland's single transferable vote system, voters rank candidates in order of preference.
Mr Nesbitt said that he was telling voters to "vote Ulster Unionist and then vote for any candidate that you trust will deliver for your community for your constituency and for this country".
However, he added that he would be "standing square" behind the notion of potentially going into government with the SDLP by transferring his second preference vote to the party.
"I think I understand Ulster Unionist voters and they don't like being told what to do," he said
"They don't, on some occasions, even like vote management where it's a situation where we want you to vote for this Ulster Unionist candidate first and this Ulster Unionist candidate second, because we have a vote management plan in operation.
"It's quite difficult."
He added that his party was offering a party that was "willingly going into partnership with a party of nationalism because it's the right thing to do and the only way to make Northern Ireland work".
However, Mr Eastwood said he would transfer to the Ulster Unionist Party, but would be using his top preferences for the SDLP.
"I'll be voting for myself number one and I will be voting for Mark H Durkan number two," he told Sunday Politics.
"I haven't decided what I'll do next but I'll go right down the ticket.
"I will absolutely transfer to an Ulster Unionist candidate. But, I'm pretty sure we're going to get two SDLP candidates in Foyle and the number three I don't think will come into it. But that's just my personal situation."
When pressed on the issue of the parties working together despite their different views, Mr Eastwood replied: "We're all different and we have different perspectives and ideas.
"I want to see a United Ireland and Mike Nesbitt doesn't.
"That doesn't stop us working together. The system means we actually have to work together, so you can either vote for people who can work together or you vote for parties who have proven time and time again that they can't, and even when they do they don't deliver."
You can watch the interviews with Mike Nesbitt and Colum Eastwood on the latest episode of Sunday Politics on iPlayer.
Police were called to reports of a man being attacked in a flat in Houston Street, Renfrew, at 19:20 on Wednesday.
Emergency services attended and the man was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley.
Police said the man may have been targeted by two men who were known to him. They have appealed for witnesses.
The suspects are described as white, with one being over 6ft tall and thin.
The other man is described as being of average height and build.
The men may have been in the company of a woman, also white and aged between 25 and 30 years old.
Det Insp Alexander Nelson said: "We are gathering CCTV images to review in the hope that it provides us with further details on the suspects.
"I am appealing to people in the local area to think about whether they saw or heard something - did you see the two men, did you see the woman?
"Any small piece of information could prove vital in helping us locate the people responsible for this attack. Whilst we don't know the motive for the attack we do not believe it to be random."
An online editorial by German tabloid Bild accuses EU leaders of planning to "spend billions to support and even accelerate Turkey's path towards becoming an authoritarian religious state based on violence, just to ensure that the regime there takes the refugees off our hands".
In France, a commentary in the L'Alsace daily says that while Europe seems "condemned" to work with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it should remember that his takeover of the newspaper violates the "most sacred rules of democracy".
The EU must not "lose its dignity", it says, but Berlin's Tageszeitung says it believes this will happen.
"Building Fortress Europe is clearly more important than Europe's fundamental values," writer Eric Bonse says.
He goes on to accuse Chancellor Angela Merkel of betraying previous promises not to allow the widespread closure of borders to migrants, although reports on Monday suggested she is actually among those resisting the current EU plan to shut down the Balkans route for refugees.
Die Welt, among others, quotes her as saying: "We cannot accept that anything is closed."
An article in Berlin's Tagesspiegel says Turkey looks set to demand a heavy price for its co-operation, in the form of a lot of money, rapid action on visa-free travel, and progress on the country's stalled EU integration.
"This would not be a problem if the Erdogan regime did not frequently prove itself to be incompatible with Western ideas about human rights and freedoms in terms of its understanding of democracy and its rather medieval view of women," it argues.
It adds that the seizure of Zaman in particular is a "smack in the face" for Ms Merkel.
But an editorial in Austria's Kurier says Europe has no choice but to be pragmatic.
"We need Turkey," the paper's editor-in-chief writes, although he adds that "we should not be stopped from criticising Turkey's offensive disregard for freedom of the press and human rights".
In Spain's El Pais, Belgian journalist Beatrice Delvaux says Europe faces a fundamental ethical choice of who to follow: the German chancellor and her liberal refugee policy or the hard line advocated by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
She compares it to the choice posed by the fascist persecutions of the 1930s.
"In Europe today, you cannot be both Merkel and Orban," she writes. "It is one or the other, you have to choose."
"What Europe do we want?" she asks.
"One that thinks and acts collectively, or one that thinks primarily in terms of particular interests, even at the risk of blowing up the European construct?"
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In his letter, Mr Ashley said he was keen to save the BHS brand as well as a number of jobs with the retailer.
The company is being wound down after administrators failed to find a buyer for the collapsed business.
"We can confirm that we have a continued interest in BHS," said a Sports Direct spokesman.
"We have written to the administrator seeking to re-open a dialogue about saving a number of jobs and stores along with the BHS name."
The administrator, Duff & Phelps, confirmed it had received the letter but made no further comment.
The BBC's Joe Lynam said he understood the firm would respond on Monday, by urging Mr Ashley to make a formal bid for the stores and/or the brand name.
In a hearing before MPs last week, Mr Ashley confirmed that he had "100%" wanted to buy the High Street retailer.
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Separately, the former owner of BHS, Dominic Chappell said that just before BHS went into administration he had arranged a rescue deal backed by the billionaire owner of the sports retailer, but that it had been blocked by Sir Philip Green, from whom Mr Chappell bought BHS for £1 last year.
Mr Chappell said that on learning of this deal, "Philip went absolutely crazy, screaming and shouting down the phone that he didn't want to get involved with Mike Ashley".
However, Sir Philip has denied knowing about the deal and a spokesman has said he "was unaware of any bid interest by Mike Ashley".
Sir Philip has been asked to give evidence before a committee of MPs on Wednesday. They are investigating the collapse of BHS and whether it could have been prevented.
However, the retail billionaire and former BHS owner has been embroiled in a spat with Frank Field, chairman of the inquiry, claiming that he is "biased" and should resign from the committee.
He has written a letter saying he was "not prepared to participate" with the work and pensions committee hearing, unless Mr Field stands down.
Mr Ashley, who built up Sports Direct to be the UK's largest sports retailer with more than 400 stores, is due to submit written evidence to the BHS inquiry later this month.
Coincidentally he was also testifying before MPs last week about the working practices in his company.
BHS, which consisted of 163 stores, ran out of money last month, jeopardising 11,000 jobs and leaving a huge hole in its pension fund.
The two-year pay deal, which is well above inflation, will rise to 2.75% next year.
The UK's inflation rate stood at 0.3% in May, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index.
However, the unions said the deal, which covers the largest number of workers in the industry, is increasingly "unfit for purpose".
Unions GMB, Ucatt and Unite reached the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) agreement, which kicks in on 25 July, with a range of builder federations.
Brian Rye, acting general secretary of Ucatt, said: "This deal ensures that workers will enjoy above inflation increase for the next two years.
"However, employers need to understand that the CIJC agreement does not meet the needs of the workforce and unless it is radically reformed it will soon cease to be relevant to the industry."
The London Living Wage, rates of pay and the impact on supply chains are issues that still need to be resolved, the unions said.
GMB rejected a deal in March that would have spread a 3.5% pay increase over two years.
Despite fraud and error in tax credit payments falling from 8.1% of total spend in 2010-11 to 4.4% in 2013-4, the Public Accounts Committee said £4.6bn was still overpaid to claimants.
Labour MP Meg Hillier said "too much money had gone where it shouldn't".
But the government said levels of overpayment were at record lows.
The last government raised the maximum penalty for benefit fraud from £2,500 to £5,000.
While fraud and error has been reduced, the cross-party committee said HMRC, which is responsible for paying tax credits and the Department for Work and Pensions, which pays out other benefits including pensions, did not know how this had been achieved or how much further it could go.
The MPs, who scrutinise spending by central government, said preliminary figures for 2014-5 suggested fraud and error accounted for 1.9% of total welfare spending by DWP, above the department's 1.7% target for the year but down from 2.1% in 2010-11.
As well as £4.5bn in overpayments in 2013-14, £1.5bn was under-paid.
Ms Hillier, who chairs the committee, said "far too much taxpayers' money has gone where it shouldn't and too little where it should".
"Legitimate claimants have missed out on vital support running into thousands of million of pounds. At the same time, overpayments cost every UK household about £200 a year," she said.
She told BBC Radio 5 Live it "beggars belief" that the DWP had cut its planned spending on preventative initiatives from £192m in 2010 to £27m now.
The committee also expressed "surprise" that the gross figure for fraud and error was expected to rise from £4.6bn in 2014-14 to £5.8bn in 2020-21.
The cross-party committee said the roll out of Universal Credit, a single monthly payment consolidating six existing benefits, created scope for considerable fraud savings but projections of a £500m annual yields were disappointing.
It called on government departments to set "firm targets" for minimising fraud and error.
The DWP said there had been significant strides made to reduce fraud and error in the benefit system, which was now at its lowest level in a decade.
Reforms to the benefit system, including the introduction of Universal Credit, would better guard against fraudsters and were expected to save the public purse a further £3.2bn a year, a spokeswoman said.
"We will continue to tirelessly pursue and recover payments from the minority who do try to abuse the system," she said.
The cumulative impact that the transfer of powers was having on the "integrity" of the union had not been considered, the Lords Constitution Committee said.
Further granting of powers, it said, should be subject to an assessment of their effect on the UK's cohesion.
The SNP said the peers were "trundling out all the same old arguments".
The UK government has insisted the union is stronger as a result of the new settlement for Scotland, the proposed strengthening of the National Assembly for Wales and the Stormont Parliament in Northern Ireland and the Northern Powerhouse plan to empower Greater Manchester and other City regions by giving them responsibilities for health care, transport and planning.
But the cross-party committee has expressed reservations about the pace of devolution and the thinking behind it, arguing it has been "ad hoc and reactive" with too little thought given to the preservation and enhancement of the union.
Lord Lang, the Conservative peer and former Scottish secretary who heads the committee, said the union was "being taken for granted" and any further devolution must be governed by a new set of "constitutional principles" that safeguarded its integrity.
Under an agreement brokered in the aftermath of the No vote in the 2014 independence referendum, Holyrood is assuming substantial new powers over tax, including air passenger duty, borrowing and welfare as well as the right to legislate in a ream of new areas.
But the peers warned against Scotland taking any further steps towards "full fiscal autonomy", saying this would break the union apart. They also said the UK Parliament should scrutinise much more closely any future proposal for a second independence referendum.
While welcoming the more modest pace of devolution in England, the peers said the case for greater self-government for England remained "unresolved" and had clearly not been satisfied by either regional devolution deals or changes to voting procedures in the House of Commons giving MPs from English constituents a veto over legislation affecting England only.
The committee's main recommendations are:
"Since 1999, devolution has been largely demand-led and piecemeal," Lord Lang said. "The committee saw no evidence of strategic thinking about its cumulative impact on the union as a whole.
"The government does not seem to recognise the pressures being placed on the United Kingdom by the ad hoc, reactive manner in which devolution has taken place, and continues to take place. It's now time to focus more on the union."
Successive UK governments, he added, had "failed to adapt" to devolution and the sheer number of policy areas which were no longer the preserve of Whitehall, a state of affairs which required much closer collaboration if UK-wide policies were to be implemented properly.
As such, the devolved administrations must be regarded as "established components" of the UK's unwritten constitution.
"Instead of the 'devolve and forget' attitude of the past, the UK government should be engaging with the devolved administrations across the whole breadth of government policy," he said.
"Not interfering, but co-operating and actively managing the cross-border and UK-wide implications of differing policy and service delivery choices. Shared and overlapping policy areas need to be handled sensibly, with each administration conscious of the interests of the others."
The committee is made up of pro-Unionist Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem peers as well crossbenchers. The SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Northern Irish political parties are not represented.
The SNP said the report was "irrelevant" and questioned the right of unelected peers to pass judgement on Scotland's governing arrangements.
"This report indicates a spectacular failure of the committee to grasp devolution, and its recommendations would break the vow and promises made to the people of Scotland during the referendum campaign," said SNP MP Pete Wishart.
"The House of Lords seem to be confused that in the Fiscal Framework - agreed between the Scottish and UK Governments - it is crystal clear that the Barnett formula will remain."
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Derby County's latest loan signing Patrick Bamford certainly made a fine first impression with Rams fans last Saturday, scoring the winner against Brighton in only his second substitute appearance.
But it seems the 20-year-old Chelsea striker is just as adept at stylish exits.
Bamford's three goals in five games during December while on loan with MK Dons led to him winning the Football League's Young Player of the Month award.
Around 600 players go on loan to Football League clubs every season. Between 40% and 50% of these are players registered with Premier League clubs.
There are currently 169 players on loan at Football League clubs. There are 57 in the Championship, 60 in League One and 52 in League Two.
A total of 99 players (out of the 169) are aged 21 or under and 77 have been loaned out by Premier League clubs.
It is thought that around 250 players aged 21 or under will have made their debuts in the Football League by the end of the season. So far, 125 players have made their debuts.
Statistics correct as of Wednesday, 22 January
And, before he set off on the next stage of his development by joining former England manager Steve McClaren at the iPro Stadium, he managed a parting gift of goal number 21 in a total of 44 games with the Dons to keep their FA Cup hopes alive.
The wandering Blues star could hardly have done any better while with the League One promotion hopefuls.
However, not everything has quite gone to plan. His second week and first training session after joining Chelsea from Nottingham Forest with the Stamford Bridge superstars saw him make a lasting first impression by falling on his backside.
"I was a little bit nervous and as we were warming up it was quite frosty and I slipped over. It was the first thing I did, so I was even more nervous," Bamford told BBC Sport.
Bamford, who joined the Londoners from Forest for a fee of around £1.5m in January 2012, barely had time to unpack before linking up with the Dons.
But he wouldn't change a thing. He is in no doubt the loan system has worked a treat for him and is a huge benefit to young players.
"It's is about getting experience and developing. The best way to do that is to go out on loan to play first-team football," Bamford said.
"It's a lot more physical playing with men and I have had to develop a fair bit physically - and mentally - but you can only do that by getting involved in it and experiencing it first hand.
Even though it is a team game and you are always striving to do your best for the team, to get personal awards is really nice.
"The training is good but there is only so much you can learn and you then have to implement it in a game.
"You can develop a lot playing with Fernando Torres, Samuel Eto'o, Frank Lampard, Oscar, and the others, but you still need to be playing games. As a young guy that is the most important.
"It's all about development so I am ready to play in Chelsea's first team - that's the main aim."
And, on the road to the Chelsea first team, Bamford's season so far could not have gone much better.
His three goals in December helped the Dons to four wins from five games, and the strike in the 3-3 FA Cup draw with Wigan was his 17th in 30 appearances this term.
Bamford has not played a first-team game for Chelsea yet, but believes his loan moves give him the best chance of making the breakthrough at his parent club.
It was tough to tell Dons boss Karl Robinson he was leaving, he says - but Chelsea wanted him to be tested at Championship level.
"Sometimes you have to take the opportunity when it comes because it might not come again," the Grantham-born forward said. "That's what my thoughts were when I went to Chelsea.
"I felt I had to be loyal to Karl and the club and I was a bit reluctant to leave but I knew for my own career and development I had to push on. He didn't really want me to go but obviously he accepted it. He wished me all the best and I am still in touch with him now."
Joining Derby - and linking up with McClaren who he had briefly worked with Bamford at Nottingham Forest - was a simple decision in some respects, even though his family are all Forest fans and the two clubs are fierce rivals.
"I saw how Derby were playing and that was a big plus for me," Bamford added.
"You could see they were on the up and the style of football they were playing.
Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire but grew up in Nottinghamshire and joined Nottingham Forest's academy at the age of eight.
Bamford played just 12 minutes of first-team football before joining Chelsea for around £1.5m in January 2012.
Made his debut for the England Under-18s side in November 2010 and had previously represented the Republic of Ireland at U-18 level.
Has yet to play for Chelsea's first team but has scored 21 goals in a total of 44 appearances during two loan spells with MK Dons. He scored 17 goals in 30 games for the League One side in the first half of this season, including three goals in five games in December.
Bamford joined Derby County on loan in January on a deal until the end of the season. He has appeared as a substitute twice so far, scoring in the 1-0 victory over Brighton on Saturday.
"Chelsea were big fans and knew how Steve worked. Michael Emenalo [Chelsea sporting director] knew Steve from his time at FC Twente and said he was a great coach and I would develop and come on leaps and bounds.
"It was a big factor that I had briefly worked with him before and knew what he was about.
"Because I was going to be stepping up to the Championship there was no other place to go really and, although I had choices, it was Steve I wanted to work with.
"There was the playing style, working with Steve again - and the fact it was quite close to home was a bonus as well."
Head coach McClaren is a big admirer of the loan system. As well as Bamford, McClaren has brought in Simon Dawkins from Tottenham, Andre Wisdom from Liverpool and Manchester United's Michael Keane.
"I certainly say, even without my Derby County hat on, that it is the way forward for top clubs to give their players the opportunity to play," McClaren explained. "And we believe we are one of those clubs that can provide a good development education.
"It's vital because the realities of getting a result every week, and the pressure of that and playing in the league when it does matter, is a lot different than the development league.
"We just felt that for what we needed and what we wanted, there were young players out there and we would rather go with younger players than experienced ones.
"Sometimes the finance also helps but we have gone for the younger talented market that needs to be developed. We believe it is something that is beneficial for us, and the other clubs as well.
There are 10 players on loan from Premier League clubs to Football League clubs that were included in the last round of England 'age-group' sides.
Chuba Akpom [Arsenal-Brentford] - U-19s.
Christopher Long [Everton-MK Dons], John Lundstram [Everton-Yeovil], Luke Garbutt [Everton-Colchester], Conor Coady [Liverpool-Sheff Utd], Alex Pritchard [Tottenham-Swindon] - U-20s.
Nat Chalobah [Chelsea-Middlesbrough], Patrick Bamford [Chelsea-MK Dons], Jack Robinson [Liverpool-Blackpool], Michael Keane [Man Utd-Derby] - U-21s
Of the 25 players included in the last England squad (Germany and Chile matches), 15 had spent time on loan at a Football League club whilst registered at a Premier League club.
"We wanted the top kids. I watched Chelsea's development team - the 17 and 18-year-olds - and they have some fantastic players, playing the kind of football we want to play here.
"That is a key thing, young players are developing in to that whole approach to football and we can provide that.
"We try to reassure but you can't always say the players will play. It's up to the players to perform. But we try to pick the ones that will make a difference to our team and we let the club know they are in good hands and we will be part of their development."
McClaren has little doubt Bamford has all the talent he needs to be a success
"Seventeen goals in 30 games [for MK Dons this season] speaks for itself," McClaren said. "If he can replicate that at Derby it will be fantastic. If he just brings his goals we will be highly delighted. But he brings quality, and he has a great attitude, too."
And though the Championship is the current focus after proving himself in League One, Bamford is still thinking ahead to England's top tier.
"Hopefully I can go back at the start of next season and do a pre-season tour, do well and catch the eye of Jose Mourinho," he said.
"But I would imagine I would be out on loan for another season - maybe in the Premier League with Derby."
That is the claim of US scientists who analysed the energy spectrum of X-rays gathered by Nasa's Chandra satellite.
They found more X-ray photons with a particular energy than would be expected if they were produced only by familiar processes.
Those photons could in fact have been generated by the decay of dark matter particles, say the researchers.
This is not the first time that scientists have seen extra photons with an energy of about 3,500 electronvolts (3.5 keV) in the spectra recorded by X-ray satellites.
But previously, according to Kevork Abazajian, a cosmologist at the University of California, Irvine, it was not clear whether the bump, or "line", created by the photons in the otherwise smooth spectrum was merely an instrumental artefact.
"This result is very exciting," said Dr Abazajian, who was not involved in the research. "It makes it more likely that the line is due to dark matter."
Scientists reckon that dark matter makes up more than 80% of all the mass in the Universe. As its name suggests, it gives off no light, but reveals its presence through the gravitational tug it exerts on stars within galaxies.
However, we still have little idea about what dark matter actually is.
For years, physicists have been trying to detect particles of dark matter directly by intercepting them using instruments on Earth. But, so far, those experiments have drawn a blank.
Meanwhile, astrophysicists have been scouring the sky for the photons generated when dark matter particles either annihilate with one another or decay.
So-called weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are believed by some researchers to be responsible for unusual emissions of gamma rays seen coming from the centre of the Milky Way. Others, however, think more mundane sources such as pulsars are probably the cause.
The latest research, which targets relatively light particles of dark matter, has been carried out by Nico Cappelluti of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Connecticut, US, and colleagues.
Cappelluti's co-worker Esra Bulbul of the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was the first scientist to spot an anomalous line at 3.5 keV, when looking at the X-ray spectra of large numbers of galaxy clusters in 2014.
Since then, other groups have seen a line with the same energy in spectra from a variety of other objects, including the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies.
As they describe in a paper posted to the Arxiv preprint server, Cappelluti and colleagues studied the X-rays arriving at the Chandra observatory from two regions of the Milky Way far from the galactic centre.
Like other galaxies, the Milky Way is thought to be enveloped in a bubble of dark matter.
The researchers found that the strength of their 3.5 keV signal was consistent with data from another Nasa X-ray satellite, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuStar).
Given no obvious sources of interference within the satellite itself, the researchers concluded that the signal is unlikely to be caused by instrumental noise.
To then establish whether dark matter could be the culprit, they compared Chandra's spectra to those of X-rays from the centre of the Milky Way that had been detected by the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite.
As expected, they found the signal in the latter to be stronger, given that dark matter should be densest where there are more stars - in the galactic centre.
The researchers also ruled out a couple of alternative astrophysical sources for the signal: photons emitted either when very large black holes suck in material from their surroundings or when ions of sulphur take electrons from hydrogen in the centre of galaxy clusters.
"We found that our result is consistent with previous results if you assume the cause to be dark matter," said Dr Bulbul.
The researchers are not yet ready to claim discovery of dark matter because, they say, it is still possible that their result is a statistical fluke - that Chandra just happened to snare more X-rays with an energy of 3.5 keV than it did others.
But they are heartened by the fact that four different satellites have now seen the same signal.
"As we collect more and more X-ray data, the evidence for the 3.5 keV line is growing and growing," said Dr Cappelluti.
Others, however, urge caution. Dan Hooper, a particle theorist at Fermilab near Chicago, points out that a number of other studies have failed to see the line, including one by a group analysing data from the Japanese space agency's (Jaxa) ill-fated Hitomi X-ray satellite.
Hitomi malfunctioned just over a month after launch in February last year, but managed to collect enough data to disprove a previously claimed sighting of the 3.5 keV line in the Perseus galaxy cluster.
"The new paper claims a modest detection," said Dr Hooper, "but it doesn't sway me very strongly at this point."
Christoph Weniger, a theoretical astroparticle physicist at the University of Amsterdam, is a little more upbeat, arguing that the new research "adds yet another piece to the 3.5 keV puzzle".
He said that the signal might be due to a hypothetical particle known as the sterile neutrino, which would decay into an X-ray photon and a normal neutrino. But he stressed the need for more data to "confirm or reject the dark matter hypothesis".
Such data might come from a replacement for Hitomi. According to Robert Petre of Nasa, funding for an "X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission" is currently being discussed by the Japanese government.
Work on the new mission could start as soon as April, he says, with lift-off then potentially taking place in 2021.
Fertiliser tree systems (FTS) also help boost food security and play a role in "climate proofing" the region's arable land, the paper adds.
Researchers from the World Agroforestry Centre say poor soil fertility is one of the main obstacles to improving food production in Africa.
The results appear in the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability.
"In Africa, it is generally agreed that poor soil management - along with poor water management - is most greatly affecting yields," explained co-author Frank Place, head of the centre's Impact Assessment team.
He said that despite chemical fertilisers having been on the market for more than half a century, farmers appeared reluctant or unable to buy them.
"Therefore, there have been a lot of attempts to bring in other types of nutrients from other systems - such as livestock and plants" he told BBC News.
"We have been working quite a lot on what is broadly referred to as 'fertiliser tree systems'."
Although it has been known for centuries that certain plants, such as legumes, "fix" nitrogen in the soil and boost food crop yields, Dr Place said that the centre's researchers had been looking to develop a more active management approach such as FTS.
"Some farms, for example in Zambia, where the farms are larger, it is possible to rest arable land and allow it to lie fallow," he observed.
"But in places such as much of Malawi, where population densities are higher, they cannot afford to fallow their land; so we came up with alternative management systems where they could intercrop the trees with the (maize)."
While the technique is not new, Dr Place said that some of the nitrogen-fixing species used by farmers were probably not the most effective.
For example, farmers in East Africa had been using Cajanus cajan (also known as pigeon pea).
"A lot of the nitrogen was being stored in the trees' seeds; so there was an effort to use other trees that put a greater volume in the soil, such as Gliricidia sepium (one of its common name is mother of cocoa)," he said.
"A really nice thing about G. sepium is that we have been coppicing some of those trees for 20 years and they still continue to grow back vigorously."
(Source: World Agroforestry Centre)
However, he acknowledged that there were a number of challenges that had to be addressed in order to maximise yields.
For example, some systems suggested planting rows of trees between rows of crops with mixed results.
"We realised that there were a few management problems with that sort of system - what tended to happen was that there was too much competition between the crops and the trees," Dr Place explained.
"We developed a new management system where the trees were cut very low to the ground at the time you are planting the crop so then there was no light competition.
"The trees go into a dormant state when you cut them like this, so the root system is not competing straight away for the nutrients, so the maize is free to become established.
"The trees only really start to come out out of the dormant phase when the maize is already tall."
Another challenge was to provide enough seeds in order to have mass-scale planting. He said that balancing the provision of high-quality seeds with large local engagement was another hurdle that had to be overcome.
But the rewards in improved yields were noticeable, he added.
"Some of the studies have shown that in TFS across Africa as a whole, yields are doubling or more in two-thirds of cases."
Where the systems were not delivering such good results, Dr Place said that scientists were looking to refine current practices and modify them to suit the local conditions.
'Climate proofing'
As well as helping to boost yields, the use of trees in agriculture has other benefits - such as helping to "climate proof" agriculture land.
One example, Dr Place said, was the use of Faidherbia albida (common names include winter thorn and apple-ring acacia) in West African arable landscapes.
"It has a deep penetrating tap root, and it can secure a good water supply even in dry years," he explained.
"Generally speaking, tree roots do go much deeper than crop roots, so it is recycling nutrients and water from deeper reaches.
"There are also studies showing that these roots act as conduits and bring up water to surface root systems (such as those belonging to crops)."
The editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, Professor Jules Pretty from the University of Essex, UK, said the study illustrated that there was a growing movement of agricultural innovations across Africa that were increasing yields and at the same time improving the environment.
"Trees and shrubs in agricultural systems seem to break some of the rules of agriculture - in this case, farmers are using shrubs to create a diverse rotation pattern rather than year-on-year maize," he told BBC News.
"The trees fix nitrogen and improve the soil; the leaves can be fed to livestock; the crops then benefit greatly in subsequent years."
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Piggott, 81, was made an OBE in 1975 but stripped of the honour after being sent to prison for tax evasion in 1987.
Dettori was speaking to BBC Sport on the 60th anniversary of Piggott riding Crepello to victory in the first of the rider's five 2,000 Guineas triumphs.
"He should be recognised for the sport. He's done tremendous," he said.
Piggott was champion jockey 11 times between 1960 and 1982 and clocked up 4,493 winners in Britain during his career.
Three-time champion Dettori said: "I think perhaps the young generation they don't [appreciate Piggott enough]. They haven't lived through it.
"You have to go back and look at the archives, the books and everything that has been written about him and the records. It puts him way beyond anybody else and I think for many, many years.
"In flat racing obviously Sir Gordon [Richards] achieved greatness. And he [Piggott] deserves a knighthood. He's been through thick and thin. I'm proud to know him."
Bob Smith, 73, looked after the Rams' Baseball Ground from 1964-84.
Although the pitch was known for being wet and muddy, Mr Smith said it was all part of Clough's plan.
Mr Smith, who said he and Clough grew "quite close", has been given the award by the Institute of Groundsmanship.
"He could trust me," said Mr Smith.
"He even asked me to take Frank Wignall's transfer paperwork to Lilleshall and I'd have thought that it's highly unusual to have had a groundsman taking that paperwork to the FA."
Clough's unique style also ensured his groundsman got whatever he wanted to look after the Baseball Ground.
"On one occasion, I'd ordered a spiker," recalls Mr Smith.
"I said 'boss the spiker's come' and he said 'oh dear, put it behind the stand as I haven't asked the board if we can have it yet'."
Mr Smith needed all the help he could get with what was widely considered to be one of the worst pitches in the country.
Having any water fall on it would, in Mr Smith's words, be like putting "water in a saucer of flour and it becoming gooey" because of the way it was rotavated.
But Clough grew to like the Baseball Ground having a wet pitch because he felt it suited his side's style of play.
"Every big game we would flood the pitch and no one got why it was just wet for first team games and dry for the reserves.
"What went off behind closed doors got Derby County where they were.
"Brian Clough even offered me a Championship medal because he said I'd done as much to get that Championship as Roy McFarland and Kevin Hector.
"I said give it to one of the lads and I do regret that."
Mr Smith even appeared on Match of the Day in 1977 when he had to re-paint the penalty spot against Manchester City.
Saracens' Lauren Cattell and flanker Harriet Millar-Mills of Lichfield crossed for England during a first half in which Scotland defended vigorously.
England eased clear after the break as Millar-Mills powered through from 25 metres out for a 20-0 lead.
A driving maul set up Sarah Hunter's try and Lucy Demaine added the fifth.
For England and head coach Scott Bemand the target is to improve dramatically on last season's fourth-place finish in the competition.
Failure to emerge from Broadwood without maximum points against a team seeking its first Six Nations win since 2010 would have been a major surprise.
But Scotland, now coached by former international lock Shade Munro, were fierce in the tackle in the opening quarter and almost made it to the half-hour mark before conceding.
With Scotland exposed, England launched a counter-attack through Amy Cokayne, who fed Cattell on the right to cross the line.
England missed the conversion and Scotland were fortunate not to drop further behind when Bristol's Amber Reed screwed a penalty wide from 25m.
Though Scotland seldom threatened the visitors' defensive line, their bite in the tackle and willingness to scrap made it a decent contest at this point.
But in 33 minutes the impressive Millar-Mills barrelled over the line, and number 10 Reed made sure of the conversion.
Thereafter Scotland had their best attacking spell in the match, with Lisa Martin's eye-catching dummy and run through a gap in the white shirts offering hope to the home fans.
Soon after the restart Scotland hooker Lana Skeldon pulled a straightforward penalty wide of the posts and with it drifted her team's best chance of getting on the scoresheet.
As Scotland's defence tired, Millar-Mills breezed through to score her second try and Hunter made the most of England's power in the driving maul for the fourth try. Both conversions were missed.
Scotland number eight Jade Konkel burst through to within five metres of the try line before being brought down to the artificial surface and the subsequent loose passing characterised the hosts' lack of composure in attack.
England's final score came from Demaine's charge-down of a Martin clearance, and Cattell converted.
Next for England is another away match, to face Italy a week on Saturday, while Scotland play Wales at The Gnoll the following day.
Scotland: Chloe Rollie, Megan Gaffney, Hannah Smith, Lisa Thomson, Rhona Lloyd, Lisa Martin, Sarah Law; Jade Konkel, Karen Dunbar, Jemma Forsyth, Deborah McCormack, Emma Wassell, Lindsey Smith, Lana Skeldon, Tracy Balmer.
Replacements: Sarah Quick, Debbie Falconer, Heather Lockhart, Fiona Sim, Anna Stodter, Jennifer Maxwell, Lauren Harris, Eilidh Sinclair.
England: Katie Mason, Ruth Laybourn, Lauren Cattell, Ceri Large, Lotte Clapp, Amber Reed, La Toya Mason; Sarah Hunter, Izzy Noel-Smith, Harriet Millar-Mills, Emily Braund, Abbie Scott, Vickii Cornborough, Amy Cokayne, Rochelle Clark.
Replacements: Heather Kerr, Emma Croker, Bee Dawson, Courtney Gill, Poppy Cleall, Bianca Blackburn, Lucy Demaine, Leanne Riley.
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The men were interrogated by the Army in 1971. They allege this was torture.
Their lawyers claim Theresa Villiers has withheld information on briefings given to government ministers before the men were interrogated.
A lawyer representing the government said it believed it has disclosed all relevant documents.
The men want to know what ministers were told in advance about their interrogation. They have said they were subjected to prolonged torture, and that their treatment was sanctioned by the government.
They say they were hooded, forced to listen to constant loud static noise, deprived of sleep, food and water, forced to stand in a stress position, and beaten if they fell.
The group are taking legal action to challenge the failure of the police, Secretary of State Theresa Villiers, and the justice minister to investigate their allegations.
Lawyers acting for the group have accused Ms Villiers of withholding documents needed for their legal challenge.
At a court hearing in Belfast on Wednesday, a lawyer representing the secretary of state said the government believes it has disclosed all of the documents relevant to the case.
But a solicitor acting for the men disagreed.
Darragh Mackin said information provided by Ms Villiers made it clear that some documents about briefings ministers were given before the interrogations took place had not been disclosed to their legal team.
"The applicants in this case view this material as extremely relevant," he told the court.
Speaking to the BBC afterwards, Mr Mackin said it was essential for the men to know precisely what government ministers knew before they were arrested and interrogated.
"The one issue that is not clear at present is what the content of the briefings were, and therefore it's important to determine what actually was authorised, what they actually knew when they did authorise the techniques," he said.
"Because it's clear that what they did authorise was torture."
The judge, Mr Justice Maguire, urged both sides to try to resolve the dispute, and warned that he would adjudicate if they could not do so.
The legal team representing the group of men have been given two weeks to write to the secretary of state setting out what material they say has not been disclosed, and why it is relevant to their case.
If they are not happy with her response, they will go back to court to seek an order instructing the secretary of state to hand the material over.
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It is that sense of a London elite, out of touch with the real world, that has encouraged politicians of all stripes to talk of the importance of localism.
David Cameron came to power promising to give local councils much more power. "Over the last century Britain has become one of the most centralised countries in the developed world," he said. "I am convinced that if we have more local discretion - more decisions made and money spent at the local level - we'll get better outcomes."
But in the spring of 2011, something counter-intuitive happened. For the first time probably in living memory, central government was bigger than local government. The number of people in the UK employed by Whitehall overtook the number employed by the town hall.
Back in 1963, the earliest year for which I have found figures, local councils employed about two million people, 200,000 more than Whitehall. Ten years later, and the local authority workforce was close to three million and almost 900,000 greater than central government.
Today, though, the situation has almost completely reversed, with half a million more people on the national payroll than the local one. Indeed, the number employed by local authorities has fallen more than half a million since the last election.
In many towns and cities, the council was once the biggest employer by far. Nowadays, that's much less likely to be true and may be changing the relationship between local people and the local authority. Councils have become more of a service commissioner than the heartbeat of the local economy.
The reasons for this change are varied. Contracting services out to private providers explains some of the fall in council staff numbers. The jobs are still there, for the most part, but the people are no longer employed by the state.
Some services are no longer offered by local authorities and are either provided by volunteers or have disappeared altogether.
One significant effect has been local-authority-maintained schools converting to academy status. In the past year, 53,000 teachers and other school staff switched from the local government headcount to central government control. The creation of English sixth form college corporations also saw 20,000 "council staff" reclassified as private sector workers.
On the other hand, the reclassification of English FE colleges has seen 176,000 workers move from central government to the private sector - so explaining the widening gap between central and local government headcounts must go beyond education.
One big factor is the expansion of the health service. The number of NHS workers - the majority of whom are employed centrally - has gone up from 1.2 million in 1999 to over 1.5 million now. But we've also seen the privatisation of the Royal Mail and the "re-privatisation" of Lloyds Banking Group taking central government workers into the private sector.
Does this matter? On the day councils reflect on the impact of further reductions in the grant they receive from central government, perhaps we might also reflect on the changing nature of local authorities.
The prime minister is a critic of "big government" and yet the number of people employed by Whitehall has rarely been higher than it is today - 2.9 million people. In 1963 it was nearer 1.8 million.
The justice secretary told MSPs that Strathclyde, Tayside and Northern had officers who were routinely armed.
He said Police Scotland had adopted the approach across the country since its launch in April last year.
Lib Dem justice spokeswoman Alison MacInnes said Holyrood should have been told of the routine arming of police.
A political row over specially trained officers routinely carrying side arms started earlier this month when Independent Highlands and Islands MSP, John Finnie, raised concerns.
Mr Finnie said there had been a change of policy from firearms officers having to retrieve their weapons from locked safes in armed response vehicles with permission from a senior officer.
He said there had been occasions when firearms officers had supported unarmed police on routine duties, such as dispersing late night crowds from outside pubs and clubs.
Mr MacAskill told the Scottish Parliament that Police Scotland took a decision to follow an example previously set by Strathclyde, Tayside and Northern Constabulary.
He said it was necessary for trained firearms officers to be readily available to respond quickly to "urgent and unexpected threats".
Mr MacAskill said Police Scotland has 275 firearms officers - 1.6% of Police Scotland's personnel - and they were deployed on a shift pattern basis.
He added: "Consequently, only a small number will actually be deployed across our communities at any one time."
The justice secretary also said that the police authority and police investigation and review commissioner could review the deployment of firearms officers.
Ms MacInnes said the routine arming of officers represented a "substantial change of direction" and parliament should have been informed.
Police Scotland's Assistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins told BBC Scotland: "They are police officers first and foremost and it's only right that they contribute to the policing plan in addressing the greatest concerns of the community.
"The fact that they are carrying firearms and a Taser, to this point, there has been no negative public reaction to it."
With Sri Lanka resuming on day four at 130-4, chasing a theoretical 507 to win, paceman Rabada took 6-55 as the tourists were dismissed for 224.
Sri Lanka lost their final six wickets for 80 runs with Vernon Philander (3-48) claiming the match-winning wicket.
The win gives the hosts an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
After centuries from Dean Elgar (129) and Quinton de Kock (101) had helped the Proteas amass 392 in their first innings, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 110 on day two.
South Africa then declared at 224-7 before tea on day three at Newlands, leaving themselves more than seven sessions to bowl Sri Lanka out.
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The tourists had reached 144-4 in their second innings but when 21-year-old Rabada removed wicketkeeper Dinesh Chandimal (30) and captain Angelo Mathews (49), victory soon followed.
It is South Africa's third straight Test series win since losing their number one ranking at the start of 2016.
However, it was the final appearance for pace bowler Kyle Abbott, who is turning his back on international cricket to join English county side Hampshire on a long-term deal as a Kolpak player, as is batsman Rilee Rossouw who was in the Test squad but not the final XI.
They follow several other Proteas players who have signed for county sides under the Kolpak ruling, which allows players from countries with associate trade agreements with the European Union to feature as non-overseas players.
The third and final Test starts on 12 January in Johannesburg.
The decision could "jeopardize the functioning of the judiciary and law enforcement in BiH [Bosnia-Herzegovina]", the EU warned.
The Bosnian Serb move follows raids by officers investigating war crimes.
Most Bosnian Serbs live in one of two entities set up by the Dayton agreement that ended the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.
Tensions have been rising for several months after lawmakers in the Bosnian Serb Republic, or Republika Srpska, voted to hold a referendum on the authority of Bosnia's national court in their entity.
Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik, who proposed the referendum, said the country's prosecutors had been more lenient towards "the few Bosniaks" charged with war crimes compared with Serbs.
On Thursday Bosnian Serb Interior Minister Dragan Lukac decried raids by state investigators looking for Bosnian Serb suspects in the town of Novi Grad as "inappropriate and provocative".
Supporting the move to suspend law-enforcement co-operation, Mr Dodik said the operation constituted an attack "that could even have provoked armed conflict".
But in a statement, the EU called on authorities in Bosnia-Herzegovina to "maintain mutual co-operation and dialogue".
It underlined "the need to respect the rule of law throughout the whole territory of the country".
Bosnia became an independent state after the war, but half its population - around two million people - had been displaced, and its infrastructure and economy was left in tatters.
Its political set-up is complicated, with the two regions having their own governments, parliament, police and other bodies - linked to a central Bosnian government and rotating presidency.
The country has been encouraged to seek membership of the European Union to strengthen its stability, but it has been unable to escape high levels of corruption, unemployment and political divisions that have put off foreign investors.
The list includes chefs, taxi drivers and office workers, although Prof Nadim Haboubi claims unemployment is more likely to make you fat than any job.
He said more resources were needed to tackle all causes of obesity in Wales.
The Welsh government said it had introduced a number of initiatives to help people make healthier choices.
Prof Haboubi, who runs the clinic in Blaenau Gwent, said he compiled the list based on his clinical experience.
"Where I work in the valleys area, unemployment is a problem and that's where obesity is more prevalent," he said.
"There isn't one cause, it's a combination of a sedentary life and general availability of healthy food.
"If you look into bizarre eating patterns, particularly for those working shifts, their sleep pattern is erratic and their eating pattern becomes unusual. Therefore, the centres in the brain which control metabolism start not to function in an optimal way.
"If you're looking at other occupations such as lorry drivers or office workers, it's very much because people are sedentary.
"Also, a long distance lorry driver will eat whatever there is in a cafe or shop then carry on driving.
"I know from some of my patients that one of the incentives or attractions of a job in takeaway delivery is your food is going to be free, but the type of food provided is not usually low fat."
James Howse, from Aberbargoed, was 29 when he was referred to the clinic, weighing 31 stone.
With a career in the events catering industry, he is used to being surrounded by deep fried food and works unusual and irregular shift patterns.
Mr Howse said he began putting on weight three years ago after a motorbike accident left him in bed for six months, but his job did not help with losing weight.
Constantly on the go all day, he said he would have a big breakfast, then not eat until late at night when the event was over.
That meal would be whatever was left over, but always "something and chips".
"When I realised this was a problem, I started snacking throughout the day on healthy stuff," Mr Howse said.
"I take food with me now, like prepared fruit, which has worked.
"Dr Haboubi was very good at motivating me and made me think. Seeing the psychologist was also a big thing because you've got to get your head right before you do anything.
"I'm eating a lot better and I'm a lot more focused on where I want to be in life."
Dr Haboubi said it was not necessary to change jobs to live a healthier lifestyle.
"None of these is a cause of obesity on its own. None of them are untreatable or uncontrollable," he said.
"You just have to modify your lifestyle towards healthier living and ensure that if you're required to be sitting all the time at work, when you finish you don't continue to sit and rest."
He said: "Some factories and companies that work with computers, they're doing it from a standing position rather than sitting.
"Sometimes healthy food is either not available or it's more costly if it is available. These things need to be subsidised by the employer."
Dr Haboubi stressed it was not a person's work alone that could contribute to weight gain.
Other factors, he said, were the cost of going to a leisure centre, the price of healthier food, poor public transport and the individual's attitude.
Top 10 obesogenic jobs:
Shift workers(especially night shift)
Chefs
Taxi drivers
Long distance lorry drivers
Takeaway delivery personnel
Office workers, such as secretaries and those in IT
Staff working in nursing or care homes
Supermarket employees
Business executives
The unemployed
"It needs to be tackled aggressively by co-ordinating all sectors, health professionals, the media, the supermarket industry, politicians," he said.
"We really need someone to coordinate all these powers and resources.
"We have a fantastic All Wales Obesity Pathway, it's a beautiful flowchart but they produced this fantastic document six years ago and not implemented it or provided any resources for it."
A Welsh government spokesman said: "Health boards are responsible for implementing the All-Wales Obesity Pathway together with local authorities and other partners - we regularly report on progress.
"No one single action alone will address obesity, which is why we have also introduced a number of initiatives to support the public in Wales to make healthier choices.
"These include the Active Travel Act, campaigns and programmes to support healthy diets and promote physical activity and schemes to encourage healthy practices in settings such as schools and workplaces."
Return to the Welsh Weight Clinic will be on BBC One Wales, on 5 October at 22:35 BST, as part of the Live Longer Wales season.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 closed down 1.8% at 18,883.42.
The index fell 3% in earlier trade as the yen gained against the dollar.
A stronger yen makes Japan's exports more expensive to buy overseas and hurts exporters when they repatriate their earnings.
Meanwhile, a better-than-expected business sentiment survey from the Bank of Japan failed to boost investor sentiment.
The closely watched Tankan index showed sentiment at major companies was unchanged at +12 for the fourth quarter.
Capital Economics' Marcel Thieliant said the index had been expected to weaken.
"Business conditions for non-manufacturing firms were unchanged [and] remained the strongest they have been since the early 1990s," he said.
Elsewhere, Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 2% at 4,928.60 as energy-related stocks dragged on the market.
"The key factor affecting the market at the moment is the continuing oversupply of oil," said Gary Huxtable of Atlantic Pacific Securities. "It is dragging energy stocks down."
Hong Kong's Hang Seng was down as much as 2.5% in early trade, but recovered some ground in the afternoon to close down 0.7% at 21,309.85.
Hong Kong-listed shares in Fosun International, the parent company of Shanghai-based Fosun Group, fell by nearly 10% on Monday. Trading in the firm's shares had been halted on Friday amid reports that its chairman, Guo Guangchang, was missing.
Reports later on Friday said Mr Guo, a high-profile Chinese tycoon, had been detained by police and was assisting authorities with an investigation. Mr Guo appeared at his company's annual meeting in Shanghai on Monday.
The Shanghai Composite was the one bright spot in the region, closing up 2.5% at 3,520.67 as investors cheered positive economic data out of Beijing over the weekend.
South Korea's Kospi index closed down 1.07% at 1,927.82.
Gareth Willington died after his boat, Harvester, sank off St David's Head on 28 April and a pre-inquest hearing will be held in October.
Mr Willington's son Daniel, who was also on the boat, is still missing but the search has now been called off.
Five lifeboats, a helicopter and fishing boats helped in the search.
German newspaper Bild claims Guardiola was angry with Bayern's medical team after Tuesday's Champions League semi-final exit to Atletico Madrid.
The Spaniard is alleged to have accused his physiotherapists of taking too long to get his players fit after injury.
"Whoever has spoken has done it to hit me," said Guardiola.
The former Barcelona boss is leaving Bayern in the summer to take over at Manchester City.
Bayern will win a third successive Bundesliga title under the 45-year-old if they win at Ingolstadt on Saturday.
When asked at his news conference on Friday, Guardiola did not deny a row had happened.
"Usually what happens inside the dressing room remains inside the dressing room," he said.
"But I'm not here next season anyway so it's not my problem, but Bayern's.
"It's happened plenty of times over these past three years.
"It's normal for me to talk to my players and staff and give them my opinion, but there are people here who are talking because they want to hurt me.
"Maybe this person will still be here next season and clearly they haven't realised that they are not damaging me, but the club and the team."
Guardiola won the Champions League twice with Barcelona - in 2009 and 2011.
"I've done my best here," he said of his time at Bayern. "But if you say that I had to win the Champions League, then I have failed.
"Go ahead and write that I have failed."
The project, funded by Eastbourne Borough Council, will see the Devonshire Park venue redeveloped over the next three years.
A show court will be built along with new practice courts, changing rooms and medical and media facilities.
It was also announced that Eastbourne will stage the Aegon International tournament for at least 10 more years.
The grasscourt tournament regularly attracts the elite of the women's game, with past winners including Justine Henin, Kim Clijsters, Monica Seles and Martin Navratilova.
Teenager Belinda Bencic lifted the trophy last year with a 6-4 4-6 6-0 victory over Agnieszka Radwanska in the final.
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Starting next year, the site will co-host the long-standing Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Premier event with a men's World Tour 250 tournament in the same week.
"We are thrilled by Eastbourne Borough Council's substantial investment into Devonshire Park to keep this iconic venue as one of the very best in the country," said LTA chief executive Michael Downey.
"We are also delighted to enter into a brand-new 10-year hosting agreement with the site, ensuring that world class women's and men's tennis will be here until at least until 2026, guaranteeing our loyal fans the best possible entertainment experience."
It says air pollution from burning coal in the area north of the Huai River, with a population of some 500m people, was 55% higher than in the south.
The region also had higher rates of heart and lung disease as a result of the policy in force up to 1980.
The study was conducted by researchers from China, the US and Israel.
They studied pollution and deaths in 90 cities in the north and south between 1981 and 2000.
They specifically looked at the increase in a type of pollution called total suspended particulates (TSPs) found in soot and smoke.
The researchers then analysed mortality statistics in 1991-2000 and found evidence of shorter life expectancy in the previously "free coal" areas.
"Life expectancies are about 5.5. years lower in the north owing to an increased incidence of cardio-respiratory mortality," said the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"The analysis suggests that the Huai River policy, which had the laudable goal of providing indoor heat, had disastrous consequences for health."
The scientists argued that their findings may help other emerging economies - such as Brazil or India - to find better ways to combine a drive for economic growth and public health protection.
The report's findings will increase pressure on the Chinese authorities to do more to tackle pollution, the BBC's Martin Patience in Beijing reports.
Earlier this year, the government faced a public outcry after air pollution soared past levels considered hazardous by the World Health Organization, our correspondent says.
World number two Murray, who beat Novak Djokovic to win the Italian Open in his last match, lost the first two sets to the 37-year-old Czech qualifier.
The Briton won the third set and was ahead 4-2 in the fourth when the duo were called off at 20:22 BST.
Stepanek leads 6-3 6-3 0-6 2-4, with the match resuming at 11:30 on Tuesday.
Murray was on the back foot from the start of the match, which began after 18:00 following a lengthy rain delay.
The 29-year-old lost his serve in third game of the first set and was broken again in the ninth as Stepanek, the oldest player in the draw, drew upon his vast experience.
The second seed broke to love to start the second set but then immediately lost his own serve.
Stepanek, ranked 127 in the world, then broke again at 4-3 to carve out a two-set lead.
Murray, though, showed his resolve and raced through the third set in just 18 minutes as former world number eight Stepanek began to lose his way in the fading light.
Stepanek, a Wimbledon quarter-finalist in 2006, seemed to be stalling for time and received a warning after taking a toilet break and then changing his shirt.
It did not disrupt Murray's rhythm and the Scot extended his run of games to nine before the Czech held his serve.
The British number one was next to serve and seemed well placed to force a decider when play was called off for the evening.
Murray is bidding to join fellow Britons Kyle Edmund and Heather Watson in the second round, while compatriots Johanna Konta, Laura Robson and Aljaz Bedene are due to start their campaigns on Tuesday.
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller:
"Lacking timing - and looking a shadow of the player who had produced such dominant tennis in Rome two weeks ago - Murray found himself two sets down to Stepanek in no time at all.
"The 37-year-old Stepanek, with three qualifying wins under his belt, adapted to the slow conditions superbly, and only by winning 10 of the last 12 games of the night did Murray drag himself back into the match.
"Murray will have to start so much better on the resumption, as Stepanek is likely to pose a serious threat after a good night's sleep and with nothing to lose."
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Coastguard rescue teams were called to just north of Chimney Hole, near Filey, just after 19:00 BST on Thursday.
It is thought the girl, understood to be Leah Price, lost her footing on cliffs near the Blue Dolphin holiday park.
She was airlifted to Hull Royal Infirmary where she is in a "critical but stable condition", police said.
A spokesman for the holiday park said they believed the family were from Nottingham.
"We are continuing to offer assistance to Leah's family and friends through this difficult and painful time," he added.
Coastguard rescue teams from Filey, Scarborough, Burniston, and Bridlington attended along with the inshore lifeboat from Filey.
The coastguard said the rescue was the first carried out using the new Rescue 912 helicopter.
In 2005, a six-year-old girl escaped with just "bumps and bruises" when she plunged 150ft (46m) from the same area.
Terri Ellwood, a 16-year-old-girl, fell to her death near the same caravan site in 2003.
A total of £170,000 in cash and a stun gun were seized during searches at various locations in Armagh on Wednesday.
Those detained were three men aged 31, 38 and 58, and a 56-year-old woman.
The operation began when officers "forcibly stopped" a van on the Killylea Road at about 15:00 BST.
A 38-year-old man, who was driving the van, was arrested at the scene after officers found £10,000 inside the vehicle.
During a follow-up search of a house on Salters Grange Road police seized a Mercedes S63 AMG, a BMW X5 and documents.
At about 16:30 BST, a 31-year-old man was arrested at a filling station on Cathedral Road in the city.
Officers then went to an address in Callan Crescent, where they found about £160,000 hidden in the living room.
They also found the stun gun and four "extremely high-end designer watches" at the property.
The woman and the 58-year-old man, who were in the property at the time, were arrested.
A police spokesman said officers believed the cash and jewellery were the "proceeds of major drugs criminality".
"We believe this operation has struck a major blow to the activities of an organised gang involved in serious drugs criminality in Northern Ireland," he said.
All four are still being questioned on suspicion of drug and money laundering offences.
Franky Mills, 19, shot beloved family pet Bomber in the neck with an air rifle last March, before going on to attack six more.
One, Ruby, had to be put down, another needed his leg amputated, and two had eyes removed.
Mills admitted seven counts of criminal damage and seven firearms charges.
He was sentenced at Guildford Crown Court, and was ordered to serve 12 months in a youth offenders' institute, and 12 months on licence.
In a statement read out in court, Ruby's owner said: "My son was very attached to her and she would always sleep on his bed. He took the news really badly and started struggling at school and would become very tearful and quiet.
"The person who shot our cat has changed our family forever and this is something I will never forgive or forget."
Sgt Paul Eden said: "Mills' behaviour is deeply concerning and completely unacceptable and his actions have caused a great deal of distress to a number of families."
Mills was also fined £100. His air weapons and ammunition were confiscated, and a restraining order was placed on his preventing him buying more for five years.
The witness who came forward and helped the police catch Mills will be awarded a £2,000 award from animal rights charity, PETA.
Andrew Coulter, 35, told a jury at the High Court in Glasgow the alleged confession never happened.
He was giving evidence at the trial of his uncle Ronnie Coulter, who denies murdering Surjit Singh Chhokar in 1998.
Ronnie Coulter, 48, is on trial for a second time after being acquitted of the murder in 1999.
He has lodged a special defence blaming his nephew Andrew Coulter and David Montgomery, who is known by his nickname Chez.
Mr Chhokar died in Overtown, North Lanarkshire, on 4 November 1998.
Andrew Coulter was giving evidence for a third day in the trial of his uncle, who is from Wishaw.
Defence QC Donald Findlay said: "After Ronnie was acquitted of murdering Chhokar, at some time the two of you were out of prison you had a conversation about the events involving Mr Chhokar. Do you remember a conversation?"
Andrew Coulter replied: "I never spoke to Ronnie when I got out of prison."
Mr Findlay went on: "You had a conversation about what happened that night. It was a short conversation. You weren't speaking and Ronnie said: 'Was it Chez?' and you said: 'No.'
"And he said: 'Was it you?' and you said: 'Yes.'"
Andrew Coulter responded: "No that's lies. That never happened."
Mr Finlay told Andrew Coulter that he was a liar and had murdered Chhokar, but the witness replied: "I didn't. You're doing your best for your client and I respect that.
"If you're believing everything he says then he's taking you for a mug, just like he's taken everyone else for a mug all these years."
The jury has already heard Andrew Coulter was convicted of killing Patrick Kelly in 1999 by stabbing him in the leg, and had been sentenced to six years' detention.
David Montgomery, 39, from Motherwell, previously told the jury that he drove Andrew and Ronnie Coulter to Mr Chhokar's home in Garrion Street, Overtown, on the day he died.
He said a meeting had been arranged between Andrew Coulter and 32-year-old Mr Chhokar over a stolen Giro cheque.
Ronnie Coulter denies all the charges against him. The trial before judge Lord Matthews continues.
The incident involving the driver of a black Nissan Micra happened shortly before 08:00 GMT on the A525 Ruthin Road near the Brookhouse Mill, Denbigh, on Monday.
The road was closed for several hours following the crash but has now reopened.
No other people or vehicles were involved.
North Wales Police said investigations were continuing and urged anyone with information to contact them on 101.
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Ond mae nifer y myfyrwyr wnaeth sefyll arholiadau Safon Uwch eleni wedi gostwng o'i gymharu â llynedd.
Mae nifer y Cymry sydd wedi gwneud cais i fynd i'r brifysgol, a'r nifer sydd wedi gwneud cais i brifysgolion Cymru, hefyd wedi gostwng.
Mathemateg oedd y pwnc ble cafodd y canran uchaf o ddisgyblion radd A neu A*, gyda 41.9% yn llwyddo i gyrraedd y safon a 63.3% yn llwyddo gyda Mathemateg Bellach.
Ymhlith y pynciau eraill ble wnaeth dros chwarter y myfyrwyr sicrhau'r graddau uchaf oedd Almaeneg, Cemeg, Economeg, Ffiseg, Ffrangeg, Bioleg, Cymraeg Iaith Gyntaf, a Chelf a Dylunio.
Fe wnaeth bechgyn wneud yn well na merched wrth gael graddau A ac A* (25.1% i 24.9%), ond ymysg graddau A* i E fe wnaeth merched barhau i wneud yn well (98.2% i 97%).
Dywedodd y Cyd-gyngor Cymwysterau (JCQ) fod y gwahaniaethau mawr o ran dewis pynciau yn golygu ei bod hi ond yn bosib cymharu canlyniadau merched a bechgyn o fewn yr un pwnc.
Ar Lefel AS, gwelwyd cynnydd yn nifer y disgyblion lwyddodd i gael gradd A, gyda'r canran yn codi o 18% y llynedd i 19.1% eleni.
Roedd y canran gafodd radd A-E hefyd wedi codi o 88.3% i 88.9%.
Wrth longyfarch myfyrywr ar eu canlyniadau dywedodd yr Ysgrifennydd Addysg, Kirsty Williams eu bod yn dangos "cynnydd calonogol yn y nifer sy'n ennill y graddau uchaf, a chanlyniadau gwell ar draws Mathemateg, Bioleg, Cemeg a Ffiseg".
Ychwanegodd ei bod am "adeiladu" ar y canlyniadau, a bod y llywodraeth "wedi ymrwymo i sicrhau bod ein system addysg yn darparu'r sgiliau a'r wybodaeth sydd eu hangen ar ddisgyblion yn y byd modern".
Eleni oedd y flwyddyn gyntaf ers newidiadau i drefn rhai o'r pynciau Safon Uwch, a bellach dim ond unwaith y bydd myfyrwyr yng Nghymru yn gallu ailsefyll unedau UG.
Ond mae prif weithredwr Cymwysterau Cymru yn dweud ei fod yn hyderus fod "safonau'n cael eu diogelu".
"Mae'r ffordd y mae ffiniau gradd wedi'u gosod ar gyfer arholiadau Safon Uwch newydd yr haf hwn yn sicrhau bod myfyrwyr yn cael eu trin yn deg," meddai Philip Blaker.
"Ni roddwyd mantais nac anfantais iddynt oherwydd y ffaith mai nhw oedd y myfyrwyr cyntaf i sefyll y cymwysterau hyn."
But the new creature, named Gualicho shinyae, was not closely related to T.rex, suggesting the unusual limbs evolved independently.
The 90 million-year-old animal from northern Patagonia measured about 7.6m long and would have weighed about a tonne - about the same as a polar bear.
Details of the work by an international team appear in the journal Plos One.
Like Tyrannosaurus rex, the new Gualicho shinyae is a theropod, one of the two-legged, bird-like dinosaurs - but it's on a different branch of the family tree.
"Gualicho is kind of a mosaic dinosaur, it has features that you normally see in different kinds of theropods," said co-author Peter Makovicky, from The Field Museum in Chicago, US.
The position of Gualicho on the theropod tree suggests it evolved its small forelimbs independently from other carnivorous dinosaurs which shared the trait - rather than it arising from a common ancestor.
"It's really unusual—it's different from the other carnivorous dinosaurs found in the same rock formation, and it doesn't fit neatly into any category," said Dr Makovicky.
Despite its relatively large size, the dinosaur's forelimbs were the size of a human child's, and like T. rex, it had just two digits (thumb and forefinger).
The dinosaur was uncovered towards the end of the expedition in northern Patagonia.
The dig was beset with bad luck, including a car crash in which a truck carrying the team rolled over (but in which no one was badly hurt).
He said keeping web browsing data was not for spying on the public but to see "for example, whether a suspect has downloaded a terrorist manual".
The government is due to publish new laws on UK security agencies' powers to obtain information on suspects.
Meanwhile, ministers have ruled out plans to restrict or ban companies from encrypting data.
However, under the new legislation security services will retain the capacity to intercept the content of communications after obtaining a warrant.
The Investigatory Powers Bill has been dubbed by some a "snoopers' charter" and privacy campaigners have vowed to fight any attempt to force companies to keep users' data.
Sir David, who was previously director of GCHQ - Britain's communications surveillance centre - said the new legislation did not need to grant "significant new powers".
But he added: "The one area is the question of, should the internet companies be compelled to retain communications data or metadata, including the web history? I think it is necessary."
The emergence of encryption has been identified as a major headache for law enforcement bodies, with suggestions that it risks leaving them locked out of some areas of cyberspace.
There has been major growth in the use of encrypted apps which encode messages in a way that makes it harder for a third party to intercept the content.
The minister for internet safety and security, Baroness Shields, had said she recognised the "essential role" that strong encryption played in protecting people's details.
But she added the government still wanted tech companies to be able to unscramble "targeted" data and hand it over when required.
That puts the government at odds with apps such as Apple's iMessage and WhatsApp as the service providers have no way to decrypt the messages users send.
Instead, a technique called end-to-end encryption employed by the apps means that only the sender and recipient can see what was posted.
Her Majesty wore blue at the State Opening of Parliament but by the time she arrived at the races, she had changed into yellow.
William Hill spokesman Rupert Adams said his betting firm had taken just 13 bets on yellow.
The Queen wore green on Monday, when she attended the opening of the event.
Mr Adams said: "After seeing the Queen wear a blue hat for her speech in Parliament, many punters expected her to remain in her clothing for Royal Ascot.
"However, they were left disappointed when she was seen in her procession in a yellow hat, the second favourite in our betting."
The Queen had to attend the second day of the racing event on Wednesday without the Duke of Edinburgh who was admitted to hospital on Tuesday evening.
Its ruling body voted in favour of a proposal by leader Mike Nesbitt for the party to withdraw from government.
He had made the recommendation after police in Northern Ireland said members of the Provisional IRA were involved in murdering ex-IRA man Kevin McGuigan Sr.
Mr Nesbitt said Danny Kennedy, the UUP's only executive minister, will now resign, and he described the executive as a "busted flush".
The party's leader Mike Nesbitt said Mr Kennedy would tender his resignation on Tuesday.
Mr McGuigan Sr's murder earlier this month has raised questions about the status of the political institutions in Northern Ireland.
Chief Constable George Hamilton said an infrastructure still exists at a senior level of the Provisional IRA.
But he added there was no evidence that Mr McGuigan Sr's murder was sanctioned by that hierarchy.
Sinn Féin said the Provisional IRA had "gone away" after ordering an end to its armed conflict in 2005.
Mr Nesbitt said Sinn Féin had "no credibility and we have no trust and without trust we have nothing".
The UUP's executive, which has over 100 members, met at a hotel in east Belfast to discuss Mr Nesbitt's recommendation for the party to pull out of government.
It voted unanimously to support the move.
Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said Mr Nesbitt was "trying to spook the DUP into pulling the institutions down".
"I think [he] is setting leadership aside here for narrow party political reasons, even though he argues that it's quite the opposite," Mr Kelly said.
"What unionism needs to realise if it is pulling down these institutions is that they're not just punishing the nationalist vote, they are also punishing the voters who vote for unionists."
The DUP said earlier this week it believed that if anyone was excluded from government in Northern Ireland it should be Sinn Féin, "not unionists".
The SDLP and the Alliance Party both said ahead of the meeting that a decision by the UUP to leave the executive would be "premature".
Rodgers, 43, has been without a club after he was sacked by Liverpool in October 2015.
He was linked with a return to Swansea following Monk's departure in December.
"I spoke to Huw Jenkins, the chairman, and people I know well but I made it clear, I was pretty open," Rodgers told beIN sports.
"Swansea is a wonderful club, and there were also a couple of other Premier League clubs I could have gone back to, but I was open and up front.
"I wasn't going to be available to come into a club before the summer."
Swansea put coach Alan Curtis in temporary charge after Monk's exit, with Italian Francesco Guidolin subsequently appointed head coach.
Rodgers was appointed Swansea manager in July 2010 and guided the Welsh club to promotion to the Premier League in 2011.
The Northern Irishman left the Liberty Stadium to succeed Kenny Dalglish at Liverpool in May 2012 but was sacked after three and a half years in charge in October 2015.
The former Watford and Reading manager said he wanted to take a break before making a return to management.
"I have had five opportunities since I left Liverpool to get back into work, all at clubs I really respect," Rodgers added.
"But I just felt I wanted to take some time out. It is very intense when you are in the game."
In London the FTSE 100 closed under 6,000 points as investors dumped commodities shares.
The blue-chip index ended the day 2.2% lower, down 135 points at 5,952.7.
On Wall Street the S&P 500 fell almost 2%, with the Dow Jones down 1.8% and the Nasdaq 2.2% lower.
Tim Courtney, chief investment officer of Exencial Wealth Advisors, said: "We're stockpiling commodities and demand is not picking up. It's kind of a depressing market."
The International Energy Agency said the oil glut would worsen in 2016 as demand slowed and the Opec cartel showed no signs of cutting production.
Oil prices fell further, with Brent slipping below $38 a barrel for the first time in seven years to close 4.5% lower at $37.93.
US crude ended 3.1% lower at $35.62.
Analysts said the forecast for warm weather in the US was also dampening demand.
Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities in New York, said: "About 10% of the S&P 500 is energy and commodity related, and it is a barometer for global economy. When you see such a plunge, it worries investors."
He added: "Until the oil market finds a support level, the market will remain unsettled."
The CBOE volatility index, known as Wall Street's "fear gauge", was up 19.5% at 23.1 - its highest level since early October.
Anglo-African financial services company Old Mutual slumped another 10.6% after dropping sharply on Thursday.
Jasper Lawler, an analyst at CMC Markets, said Old Mutual was abandoned by investors because of its business in South Africa.
"The worry... is that new finance minister David van Rooyen may have been put in to ramp up spending for political purposes against the best interests of the economy," he said.
The rand weakened further to a new record low on Friday, down more than 3%.
Mondi, a packaging and paper company with a South African division, slipped 3.1%, while the FTSE 250-listed asset manager Investec fell 10.8% after a similar fall on Thursday.
In London, shares in miners and oil companies including BHP Billiton, BG Group, Royal Dutch Shell, Glencore and Rio Tinto fell between 4% and 5.3%.
Anglo American was hit by a target price cut from Goldman Sachs and sank a further 8%.
Investors were also awaiting the Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates on Wednesday.
"If the Fed does not move next week, it is basically saying that the recovery is not strong enough," said Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives for Charles Schwab in Austin, Texas.
"It will definitely be a negative factor for the market."
The now-former officers' trial collapsed in 2011.
The eight cleared are suing South Wales Police for misfeasance in public office and false imprisonment.
Chris Coutts, now retired, told the High Court in Cardiff he had not been "determined" to see them prosecuted.
Graham Mouncher, Thomas Page, Richard Powell, John Seaford, Michael Daniels, Peter Greenwood, Paul Jennings and Paul Stephen are suing South Wales Police.
They claim the force's officers "conducted the investigation with a mindset of guilt towards them" from the start.
Mr Coutts told the court on Monday he took on the job of investigating the claims in July 2003.
Counsel for the claimants, Anthony Metzer QC, suggested his role was to right a "miscarriage of justice" allegedly perpetrated by the men.
"I never saw my role as an avenging angel," he replied. "I saw my role as having been given this task to carry out a professional investigation - that's what I sought to do.
"And to carry it out in the context of the back story and to do it without fear or favour."
Mr Metzer asked Mr Coutts: "You had it in your mind from the outset that you wanted these officers prosecuted, did you not?"
"No I did not," Mr Coutts replied.
"I was not determined. There was no rush to judgement. Over two months, I spent a period of time setting out the lines of inquiry and looking at the material."
Mr Coutts also denied using the book Fitted In by Satish Sekar, a campaigning journalist, as a "progenitor or bible from which to act thereafter".
He said the book was simply among the material which helped set out the areas that had to be considered, adding: "It was not my job to adopt any person's view of the case."
When asked why Mr Sekar was kept up to date with the investigation, Mr Coutts said: "He was a key stakeholder".
"Why does a campaigning journalist have an interest in the case?" Mr Metzer asked, pointing to a 69-page log recording police contact with Mr Sekar.
"He had been designated as such by a chief officer and I had been instructed to carry on in the same way," Mr Coutts replied.
He denied there was a "total lack of open-mindedness" from the outset of the investigation.
The case continues.
Millwall, who won May's League One play-off final, went ahead courtesy of Saville's first goal for the Lions.
But just past the hour mark, Portuguese winger Morais levelled the scores from a free-kick just outside the box.
The result meant that both Millwall and League One runners-up Bolton still await their first Championship wins.
Lions goalscorer Saville, who made his loan move from Wolves to the London club permanent over the summer, converted a neat one-two with Steve Morison for the opener.
Morison could have doubled the home side's lead, but his improvised hook-shot was cleared off the line by Mark Beevers.
Bolton rescued a point when Morais' free-kick from 20 yards proved too good for Millwall keeper Jordan Archer.
Millwall manager Neil Harris:
"I thought we were the better team. I thought we had the most chances, got our noses in front.
"I'm disappointed not to win the game. That's two games in a row where I think we've been the better team in this division and we've only got one point from it.
"However, saying that, I'm really pleased for my players that we get our first point on the board."
Bolton manager Phil Parkinson:
"I'm delighted with our own performance on the day.
"Millwall's a tough place to come, especially their first (home) game back in the Championship. We always knew it was going to be difficult.
"With the key players we lost to injury last week, I thought we stood strong as a team and apart from one slack moment to give them the goal I thought some of our defending and players putting their bodies on the line was top class."
Match ends, Millwall 1, Bolton Wanderers 1.
Second Half ends, Millwall 1, Bolton Wanderers 1.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Mark Howard.
Attempt saved. Shaun Williams (Millwall) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Jem Karacan (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jem Karacan (Bolton Wanderers).
Foul by James Meredith (Millwall).
Aaron Wilbraham (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Conor McLaughlin (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Wilbraham (Bolton Wanderers).
Offside, Millwall. James Meredith tries a through ball, but Shaun Hutchinson is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Jed Wallace (Millwall) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Andrew Taylor (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Tom Elliott (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Andrew Taylor (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt blocked. Steve Morison (Millwall) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jed Wallace with a cross.
Conor McLaughlin (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Conor McLaughlin (Millwall).
Jem Karacan (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Aaron Wilbraham replaces Gary Madine.
Substitution, Millwall. Tom Elliott replaces Lee Gregory.
Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Jed Wallace (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by George Saville (Millwall).
Josh Cullen (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Millwall. Fred Onyedinma replaces Shane Ferguson.
Offside, Millwall. Lee Gregory tries a through ball, but Jed Wallace is caught offside.
Lee Gregory (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Josh Cullen (Bolton Wanderers).
Foul by Steve Morison (Millwall).
Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Shaun Williams (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Armstrong (Bolton Wanderers).
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Adam Armstrong replaces Adam Le Fondre.
Shaun Hutchinson (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Shaun Hutchinson (Millwall).
Jem Karacan (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Shaun Hutchinson (Millwall) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Shaun Williams with a cross.
Swindon Borough Council needs to save £1.5m from its libraries budget by 2020.
Four 'core' libraries will remain open and the council said it would look to extend opening hours and encourage volunteer-led library services.
Shirley Burnham, from Save Swindon's Libraries, said they want "the town consulted properly".
"We hope for a rethink...a well costed and well thought out alternative," she said.
Under the proposals, Central, West, Highworth and North libraries will remain open.
The council has also approved a one-off grant of £500k to invest in self-service technology and develop volunteer led library service.
Cllr Mary Martin, cabinet member for communities, said: "With an increasing amount of our budget being spent on vulnerable people in our community we cannot go on as we are.
"The core network proposed in the library strategy will ensure 85 % of households will live less than two miles from a library and that figure will increase further as we are intent on working with the community to develop ways of enhancing the library provision."
There will be an eight-week consultation on the proposals.
If the plans go ahead, library funding will be reduced from June 2017.
Kelly Webster, 36, and Lauren Thornton, 10, were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes from a DIY generator on board his boat on Windermere.
Matthew Eteson, who modified the system to make it quieter, denied two charges of manslaughter by gross negligence.
The 42-year-old will be sentenced at Preston Crown Court on 13 November.
Miss Webster and Lauren, both from Leyland in Lancashire, were found dead in their sleeping quarters on board the second-hand Bayliner 285 motor cruiser Arniston in April 2013.
The trial was told that Eteson, of Hale in Manchester, had constructed a copper pipe which had "fallen apart" when the temperature at the soldered elbow got too high.
The BHA says 30% of jockeys who attend licensing courses never ride a winner, despite money being spent on training.
From 1 April, apprentice or conditional jockeys applying to attend a course must undergo a pre-licence assessment.
Training places for apprentices will fall to 24 from 48, while conditional places will drop to 16 from 40.
The move follows a three-year review.
"The changes ensure our jockeys will have access to significantly enhanced technical, personal and professional training," said BHA chief executive Nick Rust.
"A more efficient and extensive assessment process can help aspiring jockeys who have a genuine chance of success to receive the first-class levels of support and guidance they require."
The BHA strategy involved input from the Professional Jockeys' Association, National Trainers' Federation and Jockeys' Employment and Training Scheme.
Businessman Richard Colton left the cars to the charity in his will in what could become the most generous gift the RNLI has ever received.
Described as "a shy and private man", he was said to be nervous of the sea.
He hoped to raise enough money to fund a new lifeboat to be named after him and his late wife Caroline.
Although there is no official valuation on the cars, two similar vehicles recently sold for a total of £8m.
The red 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB was one of just 10 supplied to the UK. It has been described by experts as "one of the most beautiful cars in the world" as well as one of the most valuable.
The other car, a 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4, was widely regarded as the best grand tourer of its time, with the Hollywood actor Steve McQueen owning one.
Mr Colton, from Stanwick, Northamptonshire, died in March aged 82.
He restored both cars and had driven them across Europe.
Guy Rose, legacy manager at the RNLI, said the charity was "deeply grateful and humbled" by the donation.
"Six out of every 10 lifeboat launches are only made possible because of gifts left to us in wills, so they are vital to saving lives at sea.
"Mr Colton's generosity will be felt most by our volunteer crews and the people whose lives they save," he said.
The cars will be auctioned by H&H Classics at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridge.
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The Swiss-Indian duo, who were also victorious at Wimbledon, beat Yaroslava Shvedova and Casey Dellacqua 6-3 6-3.
"It has been a great year for us," Mirza said. "To back up [Wimbledon], we feel like we're a really solid team."
Hingis, 34, also won the US Open mixed doubles title alongside Leander Paes, and has now claimed five Major doubles titles in total in 2015.
"From the start, we hit it off," she said of her partnership with Mirza. "Our games work well together."
Hingis - a former world number one singles player who came out of retirement for a second time in 2013 - has now won a total of 14 Grand Slam doubles titles in her career, while 28-year-old Mirza has five.
In order to cut costs it will shut another 57 branches in 2015, following the closure of 72 sites last year.
"There is still much to do to transform the organisation into a sustainable business," said the bank's chief executive, Niall Booker.
The bank said Mr Booker had agreed a new contract to lead the business until December 2016.
Mr Booker took over in 2013 following the emergence of a £1.5bn capital shortfall at the bank.
In 2013, the Co-operative Bank uncovered huge losses and narrowly avoided collapse. Its former chairman Paul Flowers was fined for possessing illegal drugs.
The bank was rescued by a group of investors, mainly hedge funds, who now own the majority of the bank's shares.
Mr Booker, a former HSBC executive, was appointed to turnaround the bank's fortunes.
His contract would have come to an end in June, but has now been extended and his remuneration more closely linked to the bank's performance.
Co-operative Bank chairman Dennis Holt said: "The Co-operative Bank's survival was in doubt when Niall joined the Bank in June 2013 and the progress we have made from that crisis point is in no small part due to his leadership through the turmoil.
"This announcement gives us a new level of certainty and the opportunity to address issues of succession in due course."
The bank's annual results show losses in 2014 were less than half what they were the previous year.
In 2013, the Co-operative Bank made an initial loss of £1.3bn, a figure that was reduced to £632.8m after its debts were restructured.
The bank said its strategy remained unchanged, focusing on reducing the bank's exposure to risk, making it more resilient and reinvesting in the Co-operative Bank brand.
The closure of a further 57 bank branches will contribute to lower direct retail costs. The bank has also seen a 4% drop in its total number of current accounts.
Mr Booker said: "We have always been clear that the journey to reshape the business would take time but I am confident that our approach to banking is as relevant in today's world as it ever was, and that we remain the bank of choice for anyone who shares the values and ethics which lie at the heart of our business."
Although the Co-operative Group now owns only a minority stake, the bank says it still adheres to the values of the co-operative movement.
The bank says its revised plan is designed to ensure it can withstand a severe economic stress by 2019. It was the only bank to fail the stress tests imposed by the Bank of England in December 2014.
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Nacer Chadli curled in a fine shot from 20 yards to open the scoring before Eric Dier netted a deflected drive.
Chadli then headed a second and while Ben Davies scored an own-goal, Tom Carroll was able to fire in a fourth.
Colchester - bottom of League One - lost both centre-backs to a clash of heads early in the game, but saw Marvin Sordell hit the post late on.
Tottenham, who are now unbeaten in 10 away games in all competitions, are into the fifth round for the first time since 2012 and were utterly dominant against a side without a league win in 109 days.
Erik Lamela and Chadli also hit the woodwork in a display which could - and should - have yielded more goals.
Relive the game as it happened
It is 25 years since Tottenham last won the FA Cup, with Paul Gascoigne and Gary Lineker key men in their 1991 win over Nottingham Forest.
Mauricio Pochettino's current vintage may be fighting for a place in next season's Champions League - or even a title win - and remain in the Europa League, but look well placed to end that generation-long wait this year.
They showed that they have the squad to fight on three fronts as they made seven changes at the Colchester Community Stadium and still fielded nine full internationals.
With the transfer window closing on Monday perhaps the only spot in their squad which looks light is up front - with no out-and-out replacement for captain-for-the-day Harry Kane.
Fulham youngster Moussa Dembele looks like joining the club in the summer and teaming up with his namesake, but do Tottenham need an extra attacker now?
Spurs had 15 attempts on goal in a dominant first-half showing - and 27 in total - but lacked a ruthless streak.
Lamela was particularly wasteful, and Christian Eriksen did not make the most of a rare chance in his preferred central position behind Kane.
Colchester came into the game with the unwanted record of having the worst defensive record in the Football League, having conceded 65 goals in League One this season.
They then had the misfortune of losing both centre-backs to injury in the opening minutes of the game as Tom Eastman and Alex Wynter collided while chasing a ball over the top.
There was a long stoppage of four minutes and 34 seconds before Wynter left the pitch on a stretcher. The hosts were down to 10 men until the 12th minute as Eastman had stitches added to his head injury but despite returning and making two crucial blocks, he too was replaced in the 21st minute.
Wynter was taken to hospital but "was able to talk to medical staff and his family during the course of the afternoon", the club said in a statement.
United must now turn their attentions to the daunting task of staying in the third tier - they are seven points adrift of safety with 18 games remaining.
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: "The win means a lot. We showed respect for our opponent, we knew all about Colchester because the competition is magic and we needed to be very focused. In the first 12-15 minutes we created a lot of chances but it was difficult to score. Maybe we invited them to believe a little but always the game was under control and it was a fair result."
Colchester manager Kevin Keen: "It was a good performance. I'm proud of the players, especially after the start we had, playing with 10 men for however many minutes it was. I can't say the result wasn't fair. Tottenham thoroughly deserved it but I've got nothing but admiration for the way my players had a go. There were a couple of nearly moments, but you've got to make those count."
Tottenham's superb away run comes under scrutiny at Norwich on Tuesday night after the closure of the transfer window, while Kevin Keen's Colchester side travel to Southend next Saturday.
Match ends, Colchester United 1, Tottenham Hotspur 4.
Second Half ends, Colchester United 1, Tottenham Hotspur 4.
Josh Onomah (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matthew Briggs (Colchester United).
Attempt missed. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right misses to the left. Assisted by Mousa Dembélé.
Goal! Colchester United 1, Tottenham Hotspur 4. Tom Carroll (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Nacer Chadli with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Nabil Bentaleb (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nacer Chadli.
Attempt missed. Josh Onomah (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kieran Trippier with a cross.
Own Goal by Ben Davies, Tottenham Hotspur. Colchester United 1, Tottenham Hotspur 3.
Gavin Massey (Colchester United) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the left side of the box. Assisted by George Moncur.
Goal! Colchester United 0, Tottenham Hotspur 3. Nacer Chadli (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kieran Trippier with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Tom Carroll (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Josh Onomah.
Foul by Josh Onomah (Tottenham Hotspur).
Matthew Briggs (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Kieran Trippier.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Josh Onomah replaces Christian Eriksen.
Marvin Sordell (Colchester United) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the left side of the box. Assisted by Gavin Massey with a through ball.
Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by George Moncur (Colchester United).
Attempt missed. Richard Brindley (Colchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Owen Garvan (Colchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Gavin Massey.
Attempt blocked. Gavin Massey (Colchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kane Vincent-Young.
Attempt saved. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.
Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matthew Briggs (Colchester United).
Nacer Chadli (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Frankie Kent (Colchester United).
Attempt blocked. Owen Garvan (Colchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by George Moncur.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Son Heung-Min replaces Harry Kane.
Foul by Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur).
Matthew Briggs (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Colchester United 0, Tottenham Hotspur 2. Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Nabil Bentaleb.
Foul by Nacer Chadli (Tottenham Hotspur).
Matthew Briggs (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Nabil Bentaleb.
Substitution, Colchester United. Marvin Sordell replaces Darren Ambrose.
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Nacer Chadli tries a through ball, but Harry Kane is caught offside.
Nacer Chadli (Tottenham Hotspur) hits the bar with a left footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Harry Kane.
Offside, Colchester United. Frankie Kent tries a through ball, but George Moncur is caught offside.
Foul by Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur).
The free-spending French club paid a record breaking 222m euro (£200m) fee to sign the Brazilian.
That figure was the 25-year-old's release clause.
But in a summer that's already got tongues wagging over eye-watering transfer deals, how is the football world reacting to the most staggering of the lot?
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These were your comments reacting to the Neymar story, the day before the move was completed. The £198m was the sterling conversion at the time.
First, the good...
BlueIsTheColour: Neymar is a snip at £198m, Manchester United paid £89m for Paul Pogba who is worse than Carlton Palmer.
The bad...
Two Chevrons Apart: Nice to see Financial Fair Play rules working. And to think we thought clubs wouldn't take it seriously... Huh, how silly do we look now?
Sup: What a circus. What a joke. What a disgusting amount of money. Probably spent with money they don't even have, but on the premise at some point in time it'll be paid back. PSG are as plastic as Real.
AJH: And we all laughed at the Premier League's transfers! This is just insane. Neymar is good, but I wouldn't even consider buying Messi or Ronaldo for that kind of money, let alone Neymar.
I presume even the toothless FFP brigade will be watching this like a hawk - if PSG don't sell at least 5/6 players to finance this then surely, surely they'll be paying a price of some sort?!
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The ugly...
Freedom2014: RIP football, you have been on life support for years but today your heart finally gave in.
The causes were many but Spain/England/France/Germany/Italy take the most blame in carving up the Champions League for themselves and turning the once great European Cup in a boring predictable procession.
The fact that clubs like Ajax, Benfica, Anderlecht are now also rans says it all
Unification: Just an offensive sum of money.
Just one request from me for the supporters of PL clubs - you contribute to this madness. Just once this season, seek out your local club (preferably non-league) and support them on Non-League Day or for a fixture they're not likely to get many in through the gate for.
You will appreciate it. It's real unlike the world that Neymar and co live in.
Will: Sickening. The game has sold its soul to the devil.
£200million for a player, £500,000pw salary. How can that ever be justified from a financial perspective, let alone a moral one.
It's totally unsustainable and wrong especially while fans are held to ransom by pay TV!
Just imagine what that coin could do for grass roots or for helping disadvantaged fans get a ticket.
As James from Oxford points out, at approximately 68kg in mass, and costing 222m euros, for Neymar to be "worth his weight in....", he would have to be made of plutonium, which costs $4,000 a gram.
Or, if you're talking chocolate, that's 14,256 tonnes of Freddo bars...
Neymar moved to Barcelona from Brazilian club Santos in 2013 for £48.6m, and signed a new five-year deal with the 24-time Spanish champions in 2016.
The Brazilian has scored 105 goals for Barcelona, helping them to two league titles, three Copas del Rey and a Champions League crown.
But his transfer to PSG smashed all previous world record fees out of the water, topping Paul Pogba's move from Juventus to Manchester United last summer by more than £100m.
In fact, it is the first time the transfer record has more than doubled - though Johan Cruyff (Ajax to Barcelona for £922,000 in 1973) and Diego Maradona (Boca Juniors to Barcelona for £3m in 1982) came close.
This is also the first time a French club have broken the world transfer record and the first time a French side has been involved in a world-record deal since Marseille sold forward Jean-Pierre Papin to AC Milan for £10m in 1992.
Neymar's move to the French capital will alter the face of the European transfer market, in which English clubs have far outspent their continental rivals.
About £910m has been spent by English clubs in the summer transfer window so far and, according to accountancy firm Deloitte, a new Premier League spending record will be set by 31 August.
That is considerably more than the amount spent in Europe's other four top leagues - Italian Serie A (£530m), German Bundesliga (£390m), Spanish La Liga (£280m) and French Ligue 1 (£260m) - before Neymar's transfer was completed.
France's top flight is now catapulted up to third in the spending ranks behind Serie A at £460m - although that's just a little more than half the English clubs' spending this summer.
Deals such as striker Romelu Lukaku's initial £75m move from Everton to Manchester United and Manchester City's willingness to spend big on defenders such as Benjamin Mendy (£52m) and Kyle Walker (£45m) have transformed the market - although you can get four-and-a-bit Walkers for a Neymar these days.
So what do the pundits say?
Brazilian journalist Fernando Duarte: "This is simply the biggest ever deal in football history.
"We're talking about a player who has the potential to be one of the best in the world. He has the marketing potential, he's a natural, unlike Lionel Messi for example who always looks awkward on camera.
"This is very important for any football club, especially a club like Paris St-Germain, who need a lot of promotion for Qatar. Why should Brad Pitt get $20m for a movie and a football player, who is not going to be playing in his 40s like many sporting stars, shouldn't?
"One year before the World Cup, he's going to a club where everything will be resting on his shoulders. If PSG win the Champions League, it will be Neymar's plaudits. If PSG fail, it will be Neymar's fault."
Spanish football writer Andy West: "From Barcelona's point of view, this summer was supposed to be about three things: extending Messi's contract (finally achieved last month), strengthening the midfield (ironically, PSG's Marco Verratti was the chief target), and easing in new manager Ernesto Valverde.
"The prospect of Neymar leaving was never considered as a real possibility, and even when the initial reports of PSG's interest first surfaced they were dismissed as the usual silly season inconsequential rumours.
"With the player himself remaining silent, it took a long time for anyone in Barcelona to actually believe that Neymar might go."
BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent Richard Conway: "Having secured the World Cup in 2022, Doha sees PSG as one of the ways through which the state can achieve its ambitions.
"Uefa's Financial Fair Play regulations have certainly tempered PSG's elaborate spending in recent seasons, and Neymar's arrival would represent a serious challenge to the club in this respect - but there's confidence within PSG's boardroom that it will not be a significant issue.
"Ultimately this deal will not be judged in the governmental salons of Doha nor on a spreadsheet. Instead, success must be delivered through PSG capturing arguably the club game's greatest trophy, the Champions League."
Neymar is one third of Barcelona's 'MSN' strikeforce, which also includes Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez.
In the past three seasons, they have scored 250 goals between them in 299 appearances.
But they do more than just score...
Armagh native Lennon is expected to be ratified by the Red hands committee, a year after stepping down from the post.
He had a successful spell with Tyrone in 2014 and 2015, guiding them to a first ever Nicky Rackard Cup title and securing successive league promotions.
Since his departure, two managers and an interim manager have taken the reins.
Antrim man Dominic Kearns stepped down after just a few weeks in the job early last year, with Waterford man and former Antrim manager Kevin Ryan appointed at short notice.
He too stepped away before the end of the season, but said he had achieved his objectives in helping Tyrone retain their NHL Division 3A and Nicky Rackard Cup status.
Following Ryan's departure, long-serving player and assistant manager John Devlin took over on a temporary basis.
Lennon previously managed his native Armagh from 2006 to 2008 and was in charge of the Monaghan team that reached the NHL Division 3A final in 2012.
He has also managed the Armagh Under-21 footballers, and played hurling at all levels for Armagh and his club Derrynoose.
Nimoy wore the blue uniform while playing Mr Spock in the second season of the sci-fi series in 1967 and 68.
The costume is being put up for sale by an unnamed British fan, just months after Nimoy died at the age of 83.
It will be included in an auction of television and film memorabilia in London in September.
Other items up for sale will include a model starship used in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine (above) and a stormtrooper Helmet from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (below right). Both have been valued at £40,000-£60,000.
A costume (above left) worn by Superman actor Christopher Reeve for an underwater scene in the original 1978 film is expected to fetch £25,000-£30,000.
Also on offer is the The Witch King's Dagger from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (above left), which is priced at £25,000-£30,000.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's jacket from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (above centre) is valued at £4,000-£6,000, while a set of claws worn by Hugh Jackman while playing Wolverine in X2: X-Men United is expected to fetch the same price.
The items will be among 450 lots to be auctioned by The Prop Store and Odeon at the BFI Imax on 23 September.
Sharapova tested positive for the drug which the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) added to their list of banned substances on 1 January.
Head wants Wada to scientifically prove why the drug should be banned.
The company believes the drug should not be prohibited but instead come with a dosage limit.
Russia's Sharapova tested positive at the Australian Open in January.
The five-time Grand Slam champion, 28, will be suspended from 12 March and could face a four-year ban.
She has already lost the backing of key sponsors, but Head, who plan to extend their contract with Sharapova, said she made an "honest mistake".
Britain's Andy Murray, who is also sponsored by Head, said the manufacturer had taken a "strange stance".
A statement from Head said: "We question Wada's decision to add meldonium to its banned substances list in the manner it did; we believe the correct action by Wada would have been to impose a dosage limitation only.
"In the circumstances we would encourage Wada to release scientific studies which validates their claim that meldonium should be a banned substance."
Meldonium, also known as mildronate, was developed to treat diabetes and various heart-related diseases.
Sharapova has taken the drug since 2006, after frequent bouts of flu, abnormal electrocardiogram results and some indicators of diabetes.
Meldonium's inventor Ivars Calvins told BBC Radio 5 live that athletes could die if they are denied access to the drug.
Ganteaume scored 112 in his one and only Test, against England in 1948.
He also played football for Trinidad, and was the second-oldest former Test cricketer - behind South African Lindsay Tuckett, 97 - when he died.
West Indies Cricket Board chairman Dave Cameron described him as "one of the patriots of our great game".
Ganteaume's only Test innings came in a drawn match in Port of Spain, his home town.
Despite scoring a century, he was not selected again because of the strength of the West Indies batting and suggestions the slow pace of his innings had cost his team the chance of victory.
He continued to play first-class cricket until 1963, averaging a more modest 34.81.
Australian Bradman averaged 99.94 from 52 Tests.
The cloth has been developed by Heriot Watt University's School of Textiles and Design in Edinburgh and Galashiels.
The "smart fabric" has been developed for Johnnie Walker Black Label and Harris Tweed Hebrides.
The scent called Aqua Alba has been designed to replicate aromas released from a glass of whisky, known as the nose of the liquid.
According to Johnnie Walker, the cloth smells of "rich malt, golden vanilla, red fruit and dark chocolate tones".
The tweed used was woven at Harris Tweed Hebrides' mill in Shawbost on Lewis and has the colours of the ingredients of Johnnie Walker Black Label.
Brian Wilson, the company's chairman, said the scent was a "subtle aroma" that reflected the "key notes of the nose of the liquid".
Donald Mackay, who heads the finishing department at the mill, said: "I have worked with aromas in the past but they were only meant to withstand one dry clean.
"The process we have devised for Johnnie Walker means that this scent is layered into the fabric throughout the finishing process and is permanently imbued in the tweed."
Jim McVee, business development manager at the School of Textiles and Design, added: "Smart textiles are a fast-developing sector that offers enormous potential.
"Our brief was to assist Harris Tweed Hebrides with the development of a tweed for Johnnie Walker that incorporates a micro-encapsulated fragrance.
"Fabric technologists in Galashiels developed the prototypes which will enable Harris Tweed Hebrides to offer products using this technology in future."
The first of a range of products by Milan-based designer Angelos Bratis will be unveiled in Berlin later, before being marketed in Germany, Greece and Belgium.
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Lord Mancroft made the remark as peers debated the fox hunting ban.
The government has shelved its pledge for a free vote on whether to repeal the ban for at least two years.
Labour's Baroness Jones said Theresa May's support during the election campaign for hunting had proved "massively unpopular on the doorstep".
Tony Blair's Labour government introduced the Hunting Act, which bans the use of dogs to hunt foxes and wild mammals in England and Wales, in 2004.
During questions in the Lords, Baroness Jones called for a guarantee that any attempt by the Council of Hunting Associations to reintroduce the "cruel, inhumane and ineffective" practice would be rebuffed.
But Lord Mancroft, the association's chairman, said she was showing "absolutely no interest in the welfare of the quarry species who were supposedly the object of this Act".
He said the numbers of foxes and hares had both declined since the hunting ban.
He added: "I am happy to declare my interest as chairman of the Council of Hunting Associations and chairman of the Master of Foxhounds Association which... are the only two organisations clearly which have any interest in the welfare of the animals concerned."
Before the general election, a leaked email from Lord Mancroft said Mrs May's poll lead was "the chance we have been waiting for" to overturn the ban.
But the Tories ended up losing their Commons majority and the government has said it will not bring forward a vote in this Parliamentary session.
Government spokeswoman Baroness Vere acknowledged the strength of feeling on both sides of the debate.
She said she had watched her first hunt earlier this year and had been "amazed" at the diversity of people there, "from all walks of life".
Labour peer Baroness Mallalieu, president of the Countryside Alliance, was critical of the current legal methods of controlling foxes, which included snaring and night shooting.
She called on the government to come up with "a method which is stable, which is acceptable on both sides of the argument and which puts animal welfare at the forefront, which I don't believe this Act does".
Baroness Vere said said no methods of control were "without difficulty".
She added: "The entire framework of wildlife legislation will be looked at once we leave the EU and are able once again to take control of those laws."
Officers in Rhondda tweeted a photograph of the vehicle with the caption "the owner of this vehicle was a little optimistic thinking this would fit on the bus".
The car had been left on the pavement underneath the shelter.
Police have used the photograph to urge drivers to park responsibly.
The stars of the silver screen walk the red carpet as they make their way into the Dolby Theatre for the 89th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
"Huruma" is a Swahili word meaning mercy.
It is also the name of the district of the city that has attracted world attention following the building collapse that killed 51 people.
Judging by the sad events of Huruma, and many other previous tragedies, it is safe to say that the majority of Kenyans live by the mercy of God.
The collapse of the building is a reflection of a society that is collapsing bit by bit, day by day.
The rule of law in Kenya has all but collapsed under the weight of impunity.
Furthermore, many do not trust the very people whose job it is to enforce the law - the police.
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, a watchdog body established by the constitution, has said the police have been responsible for torture, killings and summary executions.
While action has been taken against some individual officers accused of taking the law into their own hands, not all have faced justice.
Impunity also means you can put up an unsafe building in an unsafe area and stuff it with desperate families.
And then sleep soundly, knowing that although something really nasty could happen to your tenants, there is nothing bad that can happen to you.
Joseph Warungu:
"The one institution in Kenya that has stood the test of time and is unlikely to collapse any day soon is corruption"
Five reasons why buildings collapse
In Kenya money speaks loudly, and it can silence anyone or anything.
More than 30 buildings have collapsed in the last 10 years in different parts of Kenya, killing and injuring people.
An audit of the safety of buildings in Nairobi, conducted last year by the National Construction Authority, showed that only 42% of the buildings were found to be safe to live in.
The education system too has been teetering on the edge of collapse.
In March, the national examinations board was dissolved, following widespread cheating in national exams, which resulted in the cancellation of 5,000 results.
Some of this cheating is inspired and funded by the parents themselves, a sign of another institution - morality - in danger of collapse.
Morality stands little chance once discipline in Kenya buckles.
It is the indiscipline and impunity that gives people the confidence to drive dangerously in the wrong lane as police watch helplessly.
We have also witnessed examples of the collapse of clear leadership in key public institutions with negative consequences.
During the 2013 terror attack on the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi, in which 67 people were killed and 200 others injured, the rescue operation was hampered by rivalry between the police, who initially responded to the attack, and the military, who eventually took over the operation.
It was a case of inflated egos, lack of co-ordination and confusion over who really was in charge.
Sometimes it is never quite clear who is in charge in Kenya.
The president himself has in the past found himself in an embarrassing position after pronouncing on one thing, or issuing a particular directive, only to be contradicted or overruled by another institution.
And this month we witnessed the collapse of yet another Kenyan virtue - hospitality.
The authorities have lost patience with the hundreds of thousands of refugees, mainly from Somalia who have been sheltering in Kenya.
If the government has its way on the matter, the refugees will need to find a new home either back in Somalia or in a different country.
But the one institution in Kenya that has stood the test of time and is unlikely to collapse any day soon is corruption.
In almost every tragedy in Kenya, money will have changed hands.
A study conducted in 2014 said some buildings collapse because contractors steal cement and use less steel.
Architects and engineers are also blamed for failing to verify the quality of the work or properly supervise construction.
And then you have the Nairobi City building inspectors who are overstretched.
As a result, the institution of corruption is always hanging about in the shadows and it never takes a day off.
The police were quick to take action following the collapse of the building in Huruma and arrested the owners, but they did not target the whole chain of people involved in the construction industry.
This though is Kenya where we love painkillers to deal with the symptoms instead of treating the causes of the illness.
And because of this, our lives will continue to be at the mercy of God.
Until we reinforce our social, political, economic and governance structures to prevent the collapse of the Kenyan soul, the Huruma building collapse will repeat itself.
And our response will be to reach out for the predictable pill to kill the pain.
Hopefully one day those entrusted with public positions will move the nation from huruma (mercy) to another Swahili word, huduma (service).
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"If they give me a chance to jump on the footplate, I would," 91-year-old Harry Robinson says as he looks forward to a long-awaited reunion.
He used to drive Metropolitan Locomotive 1, an 1898 steam engine and last drove it in 1960 on the Chesham branch of the Metropolitan Line.
Mr Robinson, from Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, one of the last drivers of a steam train, will get to see the engine again on 13 January when the first Tube journey of 1863 is recreated. But this time he will be a passenger.
He retired from the Underground in 1984 but wants to at least be in the driver's cab on the anniversary journey.
It is a trip that his parents and grandfather would both be jealous of as they too devoted their working life to the Underground.
"I suppose it's in my blood," he adds wistfully as we were chatting .
Mr Robinson's grandfather, Harry Brockland, worked for the then Metropolitan Railway as a ticket collector in Kilburn, north-west London. But he never got to meet him as he died before Mr Robinson's birth.
Edward Joseph Robinson, his father, was a ticket collector at Liverpool Street, Farringdon and Baker Street for 46 years and his mother, Mary, worked at Kilburn station as a porteress during World War I when the network first recruited women.
His parents never discussed work at home and he had never planned to work on the Tube but on 14 February 1940 he found himself at the offices of the Metropolitan Railway.
"I joined as an engine cleaner and I passed as a fireman [to tend fire in the engine]. Then I was a spare driver and then I became a driver (on engineering trains)."
"Steam engine was more manual work, harder work, with shovelling coal in the fire, and then when you got on the electric all you more or less had to do was move handles and press buttons."
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Mr Robinson's early years of service during World War II is something he wants to forget.
"(I saw) terrible things I can't throw out of my mind now," he says.
"There was bad bomb damage at Sloane Square and there were people killed there and you could see the dead bodies.
"I didn't actually see it happen but we were working on clearing all the rubble.
"Everybody got on with what they could... we never gave up.
"There would be long hours, blackouts during night time and you had to be careful lighting the fires and when you open the fire doors, you had special blackout curtains on the engines to stop the light from reflecting out."
When he retired after 44 years with the Tube he felt like "something had gone out of my life", he added.
Nevertheless his love affair with steam trains continues and he travels around England with other rail enthusiasts to go on heritage train journeys and wears the watch given to his father on his retirement.
And the family connection with the railways has continued, as his grandson works for Network Rail.
It is a similar story for Shauni O'Neill.
The 19-year-old from Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, understands why working on the Tube was not just a job for Mr Robinson.
The youngest woman Tube driver also likes to "keep it in the family".
Her father, Phelim, 38, is a manager at Wembley Park station, her 17-year-old brother Phelim is a trainee at the maintenance firm Tube Lines and her godfather is a driver on the Jubilee Line.
Shauni said she and her five younger siblings used to love visiting their father at work.
"I would always get really excited when I would go to see my dad at work.
"Also my dad would always let me make announcements.
"I was like a bubbly young child so when I made the announcement the customers on the platforms would laugh and you could see them on the CCTV.
"That's probably my favourite memory and who knew that about 10 years later I would be doing it myself."
She joined the Underground two years ago after her father told her about an apprenticeship scheme, and her colleagues became her "second family".
And the family's passion for London Underground does not stop there.
"My little sister said that maybe she can be the occupational health doctor for LU because she is adamant that she wants to be a doctor," she said.
And her nine-year-old brother has also made up his mind. "He wants to join the clan and become a manager somewhere."
It was only relatively recently - in 1978 - that Hannah Dadds became the first woman to qualify as a Tube driver.
Thinking of Ms Dadds, Shauni said she felt the weight of history on her shoulders becoming the youngest woman driver three decades later.
The new Metropolitan Line trains are "a dream" to drive compared to the steam engines that Harry Robinson drove on the route, but the first time was nevertheless nerve-wracking.
"I had every single manual and every single handbook in my bag just in case I needed to refer to them," she said.
"I had about 12 hours sleep beforehand to absolutely make sure that I was fine.
"It was a surreal experience but I was really proud once I had finished my first shift."
The teenager is hoping to get a ticket on the train which will recreate the 1863 Paddington to Farringdon Tube journey.
"If not, I'd like to be the driver that pulls in alongside the steam train to show how the old has come to the new," she added.
The Hammers took a deserved lead just before half-time when Cheikhou Kouyate collected a Robert Snodgrass pass and scored with a stunning low 25-yard strike.
Swansea substitute Luciano Narsingh came closest to an equaliser for the visitors but his powerful strike went just over.
The result leaves Swansea in the bottom three of the Premier League with only six games left to secure their top-flight survival.
For West Ham though, they move up to 14th and now have an eight-point cushion between themselves and 18th-placed Swansea.
The pre-game stats made unpleasant reading for West Ham, as they had lost five Premier League games in a row, gone seven games without a win and had won only once in nine to be dragged into a relegation battle.
Manager Slaven Bilic had called for his side to stay together and was rewarded with a battling performance and a solid defensive effort that nullified a lacklustre Swansea side.
Kouyate's strike was a rare moment of quality in the game and came after captain Mark Noble, making his 400th appearance for the club, played forward to Snodgrass, who set up the Senegal midfielder.
As the Swans defence backed off, Kouyate was given the space to drill home a beautiful strike, the lead deserved after Swans goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski had earlier denied Michail Antonio, Andre Ayew and Robert Snodgrass.
With West Ham defending well, especially through last-ditch blocks from James Collins and Sam Byram, the Hammers held on for a win, which Noble described as "their biggest for a number of years".
The only negative for the Hammers was a hamstring injury to Antonio, who had looked lively leading the line before he pulled up as he sprinted down the left wing during the first half.
While West Ham move up to 36 points, Swansea, on 28 points, face a huge fight on their hands if they are going to extend their six-year run of top-flight football for another year.
The Swans, who conceded three late goals in a 3-1 home defeat against Tottenham on Wednesday, will need to play much better than they did at the London Stadium, where there only had one effort on target.
With the normally effective Gylfi Sigurdsson having a quiet match, the Swans best work came from Jordan Ayew but he could not do enough to force his side level.
Second-half substitute Fernando Llorente, the club's top goalscorer this season, had missed two games because of an ankle injury but was off the pace and did not look like scoring.
Manager Paul Clement could also be without Jack Cork for a while. The midfielder limped off with an ankle injury after he landed badly in challenging for a header.
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West Ham manager Slaven Bilic speaking to BBC Sport: "It is a huge win and I congratulate the boys. The spirit, team-work. We were solid and dangerous. We deserved to win.
"It was much-needed. There was big pressure, not on me, but the players. The crowd recognised that and were behind us.
"It was a great goal. We started well and after half an hour they slowed us down. We had chances before the goal, but in every game you need a spark of extra quality.
"It's my job, but there's a bigger picture about the club. We are the ones to blame for being in this position. I was celebrating for the players, because they have been with me and they deserve it. Now we need four more points as soon as possible.
"We were out of the relegation battle six games ago and we are out of it again. We don't want to be in it again."
West Ham captain Mark Noble: "That's our biggest win in a few years. The run we've had, we haven't been good enough but we haven't had the rub of the green either.
"I thought we played well under pressure. Swansea were only a few points behind us. It was so important and it's a fantastic win for the club.
"One more win should see us safe. This should release the pressure, the lads should be happier. We haven't been good enough for a couple of months, but this should release the pressure.
"It was not pretty but the only thing that matters was the three points. There's no point in us playing like Real Madrid and losing 2-0."
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Swansea manager Paul Clement speaking to BBC Sport: "It's a very poor result for us. We didn't deserve anything more than what we got. In the first half we were full of anxiety and fear. It affected out ability to do the basics.
"We made changes in the second half to be more positive, but we lost our identity and shape. It was a scrappy, poor game of football. Both teams are struggling. It's a big result for them and they won't care about how they performed. It's not a good afternoon for us.
"In the second half we gave it more. We were less anxious, but in terms of shape and technical quality, we were not at the level required.
"We got the ball up there a little bit more after Fernando Llorente came on. We had a couple of half-chances, but we didn't create enough clear-cut chances.
"The only positive we can take is that not much has changed around us. Hull lost at Manchester City. It's still tight with a lot of football to be played."
Both sides are next in Premier League action on Saturday, 15 April. Swansea play at Watford, while West Ham are away at Sunderland (both 15:00 BST). The Hammers will be without club captain Noble as he will be suspended for two matches after he picked up his 10th booking of the season for a foul on Leroy Fer.
Match ends, West Ham United 1, Swansea City 0.
Second Half ends, West Ham United 1, Swansea City 0.
Darren Randolph (West Ham United) is shown the yellow card.
Offside, West Ham United. Arthur Masuaku tries a through ball, but Edimilson Fernandes is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Jonathan Calleri (West Ham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Manuel Lanzini with a cross.
Martin Olsson (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Calleri (West Ham United).
Jefferson Montero (Swansea City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sam Byram (West Ham United).
Substitution, West Ham United. Edimilson Fernandes replaces André Ayew.
Luciano Narsingh (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Arthur Masuaku (West Ham United).
Attempt saved. André Ayew (West Ham United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jonathan Calleri with a cross.
Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Lukasz Fabianski.
Attempt saved. André Ayew (West Ham United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
André Ayew (West Ham United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt missed. Luciano Narsingh (Swansea City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Leroy Fer with a through ball.
Corner, Swansea City. Conceded by Arthur Masuaku.
Attempt missed. Manuel Lanzini (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Federico Fernández (Swansea City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Federico Fernández (Swansea City).
André Ayew (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luciano Narsingh (Swansea City).
Arthur Masuaku (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Manuel Lanzini (West Ham United) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is blocked.
Foul by Leroy Fer (Swansea City).
Mark Noble (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Federico Fernández.
Attempt blocked. Jonathan Calleri (West Ham United) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Sofiane Feghouli with a cross.
Substitution, West Ham United. Sofiane Feghouli replaces Robert Snodgrass.
Dangerous play by Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City).
Mark Noble (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Mark Noble (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Manuel Lanzini.
Foul by Jordan Ayew (Swansea City).
Manuel Lanzini (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Luciano Narsingh (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Arthur Masuaku (West Ham United).
Offside, West Ham United. Manuel Lanzini tries a through ball, but Jonathan Calleri is caught offside.
Substitution, Swansea City. Jefferson Montero replaces Jack Cork because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
William Thomas (WT) Cosgrave served as the first President of the Executive Council - effectively the first Irish prime minister - from 1922 to 1932.
He led the fledgling state through its first tumultuous years after the Irish War of Independence with Britain.
His headstone has been smashed at Goldenbridge Cemetery in Inchicore.
Significant damaged was also caused to the 12 other headstones, which date back to Victorian and pre-Victorian times.
It is not the first time Cosgrave's burial plot has been targeted - his grave was also vandalised in 2014.
The Dubliner came to power during the Irish Civil War, a bitter conflict between those who supported the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty and the creation of a Free State, and those who wanted a new republic, completely independent from Britain.
Cosgrave fought for independence in the 1916 Easter Rising rebellion, but he later supported the treaty and fiercely defended the new Free State.
Under his leadership, 77 republican prisoners were executed during the Civil War - many more than the 16 rebels formally executed by the British after the 1916 rebellion.
Cosgrave's legacy has divided opinion, with some viewing him as ruthless and others as a strong leader and a principal architect of Irish independence.
He died in 1965 was buried at Goldenbridge Cemetery after a state funeral.
His son, Liam Cosgrave, who also served as prime minister (taoiseach) from 1973 to 1977, visited the grave to see the damage for himself and a family statement said the incident was "regrettable" for all those affected.
The cemetery is maintained by the Glasnevin Trust.
The chairman of the charity, John Green, said the 2014 attack had coincided with the publication of a biography of Cosgrave which seemed "too much of a coincidence " but he added that the motive for the latest incident was unclear.
He said the charity did not have any evidence to suggest that the damage caused to the Cosgrave plot was politically motivated, despite the centenary of the Easter Rising later this month.
A grave belonging to a child who was killed during the Easter Rising was also targeted in the attack and Mr Green said the trust was viewing it as vandalism.
The chairman said the graveyard has been the focus of serious anti-social behaviour in recent years, and has been used by drug addicts and dealers to hide drugs.
He said there was local opposition to plans to make the cemetery more accessible to the public, with proposed tours and a new entrance.
Mr Green said the trust would be asking the government to assist with the repairs because of the national importance of the Cosgrave plot.
A police spokesman described the attack as "criminal damage" which was reported to officers on Monday 14 March.
"No arrests have been made to date and investigations are ongoing," he added.
The initial allocation of 25,000 has been increased to 29,058 for the games against Poland, Ukraine and Germany.
An extra 816 tickets are available for the game against Poland on 12 June.
An additional 1,726 fans will be able to attend the Ukraine game on 16 June with the total for the Germany game on 21 June jumping from 8,000 to 9,516.
The Irish Football Association received over 50,000 ticket applications for Northern Ireland's matches at the tournament.
Supporters will find out by the end of February whether their applications have been successful, with priority to be given to those who attended games during qualification.
The smallest increase in tickets being made available is for the opening fixture against Poland in Nice, with the allocation rising from 6,000 to 6,816.
On Tuesday the Republic of Ireland were given more than 6,500 more tickets for Euro 2016 after talks between the Football Association of Ireland and Uefa.
Republic fans now have a total ticket allocation of 32,502 for their games against Sweden, Italy and Belgium.
About 50 others are in hospital and at least 20 are in a critical condition following the tubectomy operations.
Health camps are staged throughout India to control its huge population.
More people live in the country than in the US, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan and Bangladesh combined.
The 2011 census shows that the country's population is now 1.21 billion, which means that India is on course to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2030.
The tubectomies were carried out on Saturday in Pendari village in Bilaspur district.
Chhattisgarh health officials quoted by the Hindustan Times denied any responsibility for the deaths, but some suggested that medics were under pressure from the authorities to perform too much sterilisation surgery in too little time.
State Chief Minister Raman Singh was reported by the newspaper to have suspended four senior health officials over the deaths, while a complaint to police has been filed against the surgeon who allegedly performed the operations.
Mr Singh said that initial evidence suggested that the deaths were caused by medical negligence.
"A detailed inquiry will be conducted into it keeping in view all the angles, including the quality of the medicines at the camp, standard of the surgery, post-operative measures and others," the chief minister was quoted as saying.
The state government has also said that compensation will be paid to the affected families.
Chhattisgarh Health Minister Shripad Naik could not say by when the report would be submitted, only that it would be completed "soon".
Most of those operated on in state-run sterilisation camps are women - many of them poor and often being paid to be sterilised.
Villagers say 83 women - all between the ages of 26 and 40 - were operated on in just six hours by one doctor and his assistant.
Reports say the women started complaining of pain and fever soon afterwards. A relative described the conditions at the clinic as "a desolate place" with "appalling" facilities.
Preliminary examinations showed the deaths had been caused by infection or shock as a result of blood loss, state deputy health director Amar Singh told the Press Trust of India news agency.
But health officials told BBC Hindi that the cause of the deaths would be known only after post-mortem reports were available.
Correspondents say all the women came from very poor families. Those who survived are receiving treatment in three different hospitals in the district.
Among those suspended is a doctor who won a government award last year for having conducted 50,000 sterilisations, says BBC Hindi's Alok Putul.
Botched sterilisation operations are nothing new in India.
In January 2012, three men were arrested in Bihar state for operating on 53 women in two hours. The men had carried out operations in a field and without the use of anaesthesia.
Female sterilisation works by sealing the fallopian tubes that carry eggs from the ovaries to the womb. This can be done using clips, clamps or small rings or by tying and cutting the tube - this stops the egg and sperm meeting, so pregnancy can't occur.
Eggs will still be released from the ovaries as normal, but they will be reabsorbed by the body instead.
The procedure is very effective and straightforward when carried out correctly and by a highly trained professional. But it is not without risks.
It requires an anaesthetic and there is a risk of damage to other organs during the procedure. There can be bleeding and infection too. It should also be considered permanent - it is difficult to reverse.
Authorities in India have been promoting family planning for several decades, trying to convince people to have smaller families.
Why do Indian women go to sterilisation camps?
Sterilisation camps are frequently held to carry out mass tubectomy operations for women - or vasectomies for men - and in some states, health workers receive money for each person they bring to a clinic to be sterilised.
Reports say a sum of about $20 was given to each of the women at the Bilaspur district camp.
The decision to be sterilised is voluntary, although in some cases women are put under pressure by officials. Figures show the vast majority opting for sterilisations are poor women from rural areas.
India abandoned a nationwide campaign in the 1970s after complaints that thousands of men and women had been forced into having the operations. Successive governments have failed to control India's population growth rate, which stands at 1.6% a year.
Public Health England (PHE) said it was investigating 11 confirmed cases following visits to Huntley's Country Store, Samlesbury, near Preston.
PHE advised anyone feeling unwell after attending a lambing event staged at the farm outlet between 29 March and 24 April to seek medical help.
It said the farm store no longer posed a risk to the public.
The health body said three people remained in hospital following complications from the E. coli O157 infection. A fourth person has been discharged and is recovering at home.
Source: Public Health England
PHE said all contact between animals and the public at the premises had now ceased so there was no longer any risk to the public.
PHE consultant for Cumbria and Lancashire Dr Ken Lamden said the outbreak is believed to have started before Easter.
"Investigations are still on going and all public health measures have been put in place," he said.
"The owners are co-operating fully and we are working closely with them and with colleagues across health and local authorities."
He said symptoms of E. coli O157 included bloody diarrhoea, which could be serious, or milder forms of the infection which are usually "self-limiting" and clear within seven days.
Dr Lamden said the best protection against E. coli O157 was thorough handwashing particularly after contact with animals, after going to the toilet, after handling raw meat products and before eating.
The pupils do not look twice at the camera or recording equipment; TV and radio crews are here all the time.
In the playground some of the children whisper in English.
They know they should not be speaking the language, even though the school is in the very heart of the British Isles.
About 70 pupils attend Bunscoill Ghaelgagh, the world's only Manx-speaking school.
The primary school is situated in St John's village in the Isle of Man and the children are taught all their lessons solely in Manx Gaelic.
"We weren't sure where to start," says head teacher Julie Matthews.
"We thought we'd go across to Northern Ireland, have a look and see what's there, because the Northern Irish Gaelic is similar to the Manx Gaelic.
"We went to Belfast, looked at the Cultúrlann (cultural centre), went to two or three schools there, and had a really good time, finding out what they do," she says.
Their fact-finding trip took them to schools in Ballycastle, County Antrim, and Rathlin Island off the Antrim coast.
Staff at Bunscoill Ghaelgagh are now helping to lead a revival of Manx Gaelic in the Isle of Man.
In the 1980s, just a few dozen speakers of Manx remained.
By 2009, a United Nations report incorrectly stated the language was extinct; a claim the UN has since amended.
There are now hundreds of speakers, and the number is growing.
Manx Gaelic has the full support of the island's government and can be seen on everything from street signs to buses.
Fluent speakers are still modest in number but the revival has not proven to be culturally divisive.
On the contrary, it is embraced by the vast majority of residents. This is perhaps surprising, as half the island's population was not born there.
The support for Manx Gaelic is catching the attention of influential figures in Northern Ireland, including Prof Ailbhe Ó Corráin, who is head of Irish and Celtic Studies at the University of Ulster.
"One thing that we could really learn from both Scotland and the Isle of Man is to see the Gaelic languages as something that is not political, that is not the preserve of any particular faction, political grouping, political ideology or viewpoint, or of any particular religion," he says.
Pupils of the Bunscoill have the choice to continue to learn in Manx when they progress to high school, but the available subjects and resources are limited.
This is something the education authorities are trying to develop.
"When they ran out of Manx to teach me they started teaching me Irish," says Christopher Lewin, who has spoken Manx since an early age.
"I then did a GCSE in Irish from an exam board in Belfast.
"Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic are very similar to each other, you can almost call them dialects.
"If you know Irish already, you'll find Manx strange for a while, but it's fairly easy to get into and vice versa," he says.
The island also has a series of popular pre-school groups called Mooinjer Veggey, which have a strong Gaelic ethos.
So what is the secret to the language's revival?
Every senior figure in teaching I spoke to said the same: Manx is not forced on students.
People who want to learn the language come to it organically and it is not imposed on those who have no interest in it.
The Bunscoill Ghaelgagh recently celebrated its 13th anniversary and the Manx education service is continuing to expand.
When the last native speaker, Ned Maddrell, died in the 1970s some people declared the beginning of the end for Manx Gaelic.
It seems they, like the UN, have been proved wrong.
You can see more on this story on BBC Newsline, BBC One Northern Ireland on Monday 15 September at 18:30 BST.
Lock Fraser McKenzie burst through Quins' defence to touch down and Duncan Weir added two penalties to give Edinburgh a 13-6 half-time advantage.
Edinburgh's Allan Dell extended the lead, before Quins' Joe Gray crashed over twice for a losing bonus point.
Quins and Edinburgh will both qualify with victories next weekend.
Edinburgh should go through easily as they host the pool's bottom side Timisoara Saracens on Friday - the Romanians having conceded 203 points in their first four matches.
Last season's beaten finalists Harlequins, who drop to second behind Edinburgh, travel to Stade Francais on Sunday, 22 January.
Timisoara Saracens and Stade Francais will have to rearrange their fixture in Romania after it was postponed on Saturday because of a frozen pitch.
Harlequins: Brown; Yarde, Alofa, Marchant, Walker; Swiel, Care (capt); Murphy, Buchanan, Sinckler, Merrick, Matthews, Chisholm, Ward, Clifford.
Replacements: Gray, Jones, Shields, Luamanu, Wallace, Dickson, Jackson, Hopper.
Edinburgh: Kinghorn, Hoyland, Dean, Burleigh, Brown, Weir, Kennedy, Dell, Ford, Nel, McKenzie, Toolis, Bradbury, Watson, du Preez.
Replacements: Cochrane, Cosgrove, Berghan, Carmichael, Mata, Hidalgo-Clyne, Tovey, Allen.For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.
Drinking and bathing in dirty water can be fatal but there are those who have decided now is the time to use simple solutions to change the situation.
In India, Matthew Wheeler and Priti Gupta paid a visit to the country's famous "Water Doctor", while Zoe Flood found out how entrepreneurs in East Africa are helping their communities access clean water.
Ayyappa Masagi has a simple message: "You want water? Call me!" Thousands have. And his phone rings dozens of times a day. There appears to be an endless supply of patients for the man nicknamed India's "Water Doctor".
"I faced a lot of water problems in my childhood," he says. "I used to go at 3am to fetch water from the stream. So I made an oath that when I grew up I would find a solution. So I quit my job as a mechanical engineer in 2002 to solve India's water problem."
India is enduring a catastrophic water crisis. About 330 million people are suffering water shortages after the failure of the last two monsoons. Reservoirs are dry. Farmers have committed suicide. Thousands of drought-stricken villagers have flocked to cities, desperate for water, praying for rain.
According to Mr Masagi's calculations, if just 30% of India's rainwater were captured and stored, "one year's rain would sustain the nation for three years."
To prove it, in 2014 he bought 84 acres of barren land near Chilamathur, a famously drought-prone region of Andhra Pradesh, 110km northeast of Bangalore. "The wind here was like a firewind. I told my partners, 'Within one year I will make this land a water bowl.'"
Today, a network of 25,000 sand-filled pits and four new lakes capture and store any rainwater that falls here. No drop is allowed to escape into rivers and run off to the sea. It stays on and in the land, keeping the subsoil charged with water which, when needed, is drawn from five shallow bore-wells.
The topsoil from digging out the lakes has helped level the land, which has been planted with trees and crops. Roughly 60% of the trees will form dense forest, while 40% will be fruit trees to generate income. Grains and vegetables have also been planted, and next year there will be a dairy here too. The plan is to make this a sustainable organic farm, totally self-sufficient for all its water needs.
Through his Water Literacy Foundation, Mr Masagi is training "water warriors" to spread his message. He's already written seven books and trained more than 100 interns from India and abroad, including Germany, Japan and the US.
"If you only talk, nothing will happen. You have to do something and prove it. Governments are coming forward to take up my service, replicating my model. Once the community attitude changes, our political attitudes change, we can replicate this concept throughout the world."
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Curious passers-by stop in at a tent outside Belinda Nagawa's franchise in Nansana, Kampala to sip cups of Jibu water, filtered in an advanced mini-water treatment plant installed on site.
"I was working with another franchise as a manager," says the 21-year-old. "I had to get more involved myself in order to become a franchise owner."
Galen Welsch, CEO of the organisation, explains: "The franchisees come to us and they co-invest a licensing fee.
"Then we invest in the full build-out of the franchise, which is a production room and a high-visibility retail space. As they sell water, we charge them per litre they sell and that is how we recover the capital expenditure that we invested in the franchise launch."
The business targets people who previously boiled their drinking water, by offering a cost-effective and safe alternative that is produced on location.
Various bottle sizes line the shelves of Belinda Nagawa's new shop - Jibu distributes water in reusable bottles for which customers put down a small deposit.
"Most people take water from the tap and then boil it," says Mr Welsch. "The cost of boiling when you pay for charcoal or gas or electricity is actually quite high and boiling doesn't remove any sort of contaminants in the water."
Jibu piloted its model in Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, but has since worked to launch in Kenya after the DR Congo pilot failed.
"We've gone from two franchises that were fully functional at the beginning of 2015 to 22 today, and then about 15 microfranchises and subfranchisees. These are a pipeline for new franchises," says Mr Welsch.
"Our top-performing franchises are selling more than 5,000 litres a day and generating revenues of $120,000-$140,000 (£83,000-£97,000) a year - the margin they work on is 20-30%."
Microfranchises operate as resellers or points of sale for the main franchises and also give both the entrepreneurs and Jibu the chance to test each other out.
"Someone who is interested in working with us has to first own an outlet where the model involves buying water from an existing franchise and then resell it in their community," explains Daphne Tashobya, lead controller of Jibu Uganda.
"You don't do the water filtration right away - you test yourself to see if you are really interested in the business and you also start learning a few things such as how to keep your books."
Leanne McDonald was walking from Spey Bay in Moray to the Highland Show in Edinburgh to raise awareness of a condition called Equine Grass Sickness.
She walked the horses - Candyfloss and Tinkerbell - to a height of 770m to raise the alarm by mobile phone on Sunday evening.
They were found north of Pitlochry.
The horse were tethered while Mrs McDonald was taken on foot to Pitlochry.
Braemar and Tayside mountain rescue teams were involved.
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Deaths of up to 10 cats found decapitated in Croydon and nearby are being investigated by the Met Police.
The vet, who wished to remain anonymous, told BBC News he had ruled out slaughter by another animal.
However, the RSPCA said it was keeping an open mind as to the cause pending further test results due in mid-March.
The vet said he believed a "sharp-bladed instrument" had been used.
It has been suggested the deaths may be the work of the same person - dubbed the Croydon Cat Killer or Cat Ripper by some.
Of the 16 carcasses he examined, the vet said, he had been able to link 10 of the deaths, with the most recent examination undertaken on Thursday.
Incisions had been made with a weapon "like a knife, but not a scalpel because the incisions are too long for that", he said.
In the past two cases, he revealed, raw chicken was found in the cats' stomachs, suggesting the animals had probably been lured by the killer with the offer of the meat.
"I think they are being strangled and then taken off-site to be butchered, and then the bodies are being returned and dumped, that is why there is no blood found at the scene," he said.
As the killings progressed, he said, the decapitations had vastly improved in surgical competency.
"My fear initially was the cats were being hacked to death because the cuts were really random but the incisions have become much more precise, which suggests they are being killed first."
The killer is thought to have worn gloves and protective clothing when catching the cats because DNA analysis has found no evidence of foreign material beneath their claws.
More than 40 cases of beheadings have been reported to South Norwood Animal Rescue and Liberty centre to date, with the majority dating back to the past three years.
Boudicca Rising, from the centre, said she believed the killings were the work of one "sick individual" and remains "are being displayed where people will find them".
There was an attempt to return the remains to where the killer suspected the cats lived, she said.
Dr Naomi Murphy, who works within the dangerous and severe personality disorders unit at HM Prison Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire, said this extreme form of cruelty to animals strongly suggested the work of a sadist, someone who enjoyed harming other creatures.
"Because these killings involve weapons it seems like the type of person who plans and gets pleasure from thinking about the pain they are going to inflict.
"What happens when people are sadistic, like any kind of addiction, they often have to go further and further to satisfy their addiction," she said.
On Friday the Met Police said the number of incidents linked to the investigation at this stage was in single figures. A force spokesman said officers were also aware of a similar allegation in Surrey.
The RSPCA said it was conducting tests on the cat bodies and the results could take a few weeks to come back.
It called on people to contact them if a cat was found dead in "suspicious circumstances". SNARL is coordinating efforts to retrieve cat bodies for post-mortem examinations.
Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101 or call the Crimestoppers charity anonymously.
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Mark McKenzie described himself as a "freeman on the land" and suggested people were only subject to English laws if they consent to them.
But Manchester City Council said his claims were "pseudo-legal mumbo jumbo".
The 54-year-old, of Moss Side, Manchester, has been sentenced to 40 days in prison for wilful refusal to pay council tax.
He was also sentenced to an additional 14 days for non-payment of fines, to be served consecutively.
Manchester Magistrates Court heard McKenzie had failed to make payments since October 2010, while living at a home in Parkside Road.
He was summoned to the court in 2015 over the matter, and sentenced to one night in custody for contempt of court after trying to record the proceedings.
His then failed to attend court before finally surrendering on Monday.
John Flanagan, the council's executive member for finance, said it was an "urban myth" that archaic laws mean people can avoid council tax.
"It's pseudo-legal mumbo jumbo, and this case shows that people won't get away with it," he said.
"Council tax helps fund a wide range of vital services, from roads, parks, and leisure centres to social care, and payment is not optional."
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A man who tried to use ancient laws to justify avoiding more than £7,000 in council tax payments has been jailed.
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The remains of Suleyman Shah, who died in the 13th Century, were moved to a site in Syria closer to the border.
Turkey considered the shrine sovereign territory.
Islamic State (IS) militants in the area had threatened to attack it last year.
The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which has lost control over much of northern Syria as a result of the country's civil war, condemned the incursion as "flagrant aggression".
It said that Turkey had informed its Istanbul consulate about the operation but had not waited for Syria's consent.
Suleyman Shah, who lived from about 1178 to 1236, was grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman empire, Osman I.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his government and the armed forces had carried out a "successful operation which is beyond all kinds of appreciation".
All the relics at the tomb and the Turkish soldiers who had been guarding it had been brought out "safe and sound", he said, and the existing mausoleum was destroyed.
One soldier was killed accidentally in the overnight raid, the military said.
The remains of Suleyman Shah have been moved to a hill north of the village of Esmesi close to the Turkish border, in an area under Turkish military control.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said he hoped the remains could be returned to the old burial site eventually.
The operation unfolded peacefully, beginning on Saturday at about 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT) and ending on Sunday morning, with 572 soldiers involved, Mr Davutoglu said.
A convoy of 39 tanks and 57 armoured vehicles streamed through Kobane, the city which Syrian Kurdish fighters retook last month from IS.
Selin Girit, BBC News, on Turkish border with Syria
The tomb of Suleiman Shah was the one and only Turkish enclave abroad, in accordance with a treaty signed in 1921. This was the burial site of Suleyman Shah, the grandfather of the Ottoman Empire's founder Osman I - which meant it had historical significance too.
Turkey was concerned with the rising Islamic State threat in the area. In March 2014, IS threatened to attack the site unless Turkish troops guarding the tomb were withdrawn in three days; but such an attack did not take place. If the tomb had in fact come under attack, that would have provoked serious reaction from Turkey.
In August 2012, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - then PM - had warned that an act against the tomb would be considered "an attack on our territory, as well an attack on Nato land". Last year, the Turkish parliament authorised the use of force against IS militants. Commentators in Turkish media say the fact that the tomb is now moved and soldiers are evacuated is a relief for Turkey.
Why is Suleyman Shah's tomb so important?
They travelled some 35km (20 miles) south to the tomb on the banks of the Euphrates river, where Suleyman Shah is believed to have drowned.
Soldiers raised a Turkish flag at the new grave site.
Mr Davutoglu was kept abreast of the operation at army headquarters in Ankara.
The tomb had been permanently guarded by a contingent of about 40 soldiers, who rotated periodically.
The site is part of Turkish territory, according to a treaty signed in 1921 (in French) that gave Turkey the right to station guards and fly its flag there.
When the treaty was signed the tomb and legal enclave were some 80km south of their current location but were moved after the original site was flooded by the creation of the reservoir Lake Assad in 1974.
Since driving IS out of Kobane in January, the Kurdish Popular Protection Units and rebels have taken a number of surrounding villages.
They are now said to be only 25km from Tal Abyad - the strategically important border town east of Kobane that is used by IS militants to cross into Turkey.
IS has seized larges swathes in Syria and Iraq, proclaiming a caliphate.
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Jamar Walker, who had been living in Handsworth, Birmingham, was found with knife wounds in Raglan Road, Smethwick, during the early hours of Sunday.
He had been stabbed in his upper leg, West Midlands Police said.
A 17-year-old boy was also injured but was released from hospital after being treated for a stab wound to his back.
Det Insp Warren Hines said investigations were continuing.
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"It is believed there was some sort of fracas in the street which led to one teenager tragically losing his life and another being injured," he said.
CCTV images are being looked at and forensic investigators are at the scene.
"I would urge anyone who was around the Raglan Road area at the time to please get in touch," the policeman added.
In his conference speech in Manchester, the chancellor said the Tories had created a "new centre ground" and were "the true party of labour".
He also said councils in England would be able to set and keep hold of their share of £26bn in business rates.
Former Labour minister Lord Adonis is to lead a new infrastructure body.
BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said Mr Osborne's speech went "way beyond" a conventional chancellor's address and appeared focused on the "next prize" - succeeding David Cameron as Conservative Party leader.
Among key conference developments:
Mr Osborne said while he had grown up in London, he had been "changed" by representing a constituency near Manchester and convinced of the need to increase investment in the North of England.
The Conservatives needed to understand the "reservations" of people who did not back them at the election, he said.
"So to these working people who have been completely abandoned by a party heading off to the fringes of the left, let us all here today extend our hand.
"Do you know what the supporters of the new Labour leadership now call anyone who believes in strong national defence, a market economy, and the country living within its means?
"They call them Tories. Well, it's our job to make sure they're absolutely right."
"We are the builders." We know that George Osborne is fond of appearing in a hi-vis jacket on a building site, he's fond of talking about infrastructure, he's fond of appearing to be a man of action, and making things happen.
But what he is trying to do is not just build roads and railways, but find a way to build a Conservative majority in 2020 and beyond.
The way he and David Cameron believe it can happen is by occupying as much of what they describe as the "common ground", to use their election victory to persuade millions of voters in the middle they are the sensible majority.
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Mr Osborne, who said the Conservatives were "now the party of work, the only true party of labour", also called for new ways to fund infrastructure projects.
His central proposal - which will only apply in England - involved business rates, which are charged on most non-residential properties like factories, offices and shops.
They are currently set by central government, collected by councils and then redistributed by Whitehall across the country.
Mr Osborne said this "merry-go-round" would be ended, with local authorities retaining the proceeds locally and able to cut rates.
Areas with elected mayors will have an additional power to raise money by increasing rates, he said. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own business rate systems.
The Local Government Association said the reforms were "great news".
Chairman Gary Porter said: "With greater local control, councils will have flexibility to reduce business rates for the types of shops and businesses that residents want in their high streets and neighbourhoods."
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said Labour would look at the detail of Mr Osborne's business rates proposals, but warned safeguards were needed so "poorer areas of the country do not lose out on vital revenue".
In his speech, Mr Osborne also acknowledged Labour's role in proposing a National Infrastructure Commission, saying he was "delighted" Lord Adonis, policy chief in Tony Blair's government before becoming transport secretary under Gordon Brown, had agreed to lead it.
Lord Adonis has resigned the Labour whip and will sit as a crossbencher in the Lords as he takes on his new role.
Earlier the chancellor also defended the government's changes to tax credits, after some Conservatives called for a rethink.
Critics include senior backbencher David Davis, who compared them to the poll tax, and ex minister David Willetts, who likened the changes to Labour's abolition of the 10p tax band in 2007.
Mr Osborne said a typical family on the minimum wage would be better off, with the changes offset by the new National Living Wage.
And he insisted other European leaders were not too preoccupied by the migrant crisis to consider the UK's demands for EU reform ahead of its membership referendum.
"I'm not saying it's the only thing they're thinking about, but they are thinking about it," he added.
Lord Adonis, a Social Democrat councillor and Liberal Democrat election candidate before joining Labour, said: "Without big improvements to its transport and energy systems, Britain will grind to a halt."
The infrastructure commission will initially focus on London's transport system, connections between cities in the north of England, and updating the energy network - funded by selling off land, buildings and other government assets.
It will start work immediately and will produce a report at the start of each five-year Parliament containing recommendations of projects.
Asked if the new scheme would make it harder for councils and individuals to oppose projects, Mr Osborne told BBC Breakfast there were "always going to be people who don't like new building, don't like new roads, don't like new railways near them".
"But the truth is if we hadn't built railways in the past, or motorways in the past, that would have been a disaster for this country, and it would be a disaster for this country if we stop building now," he added.
John Cridland, director-general of the CBI business lobby group, said: "Updating the UK's infrastructure is critical to sustainable growth and productivity, and we've long called for an independent body to assess our long-term needs."
The Gyfeillion Colliery footbridge in Hopkinstown, Rhondda Cynon Taff, closed in 2014 due to safety concerns.
It is the responsibility of Network Rail and the county council and both parties have confirmed they are progressing with plans to remove it.
Resident Chris Pick said he would be "outraged if it was demolished".
Known locally as Smokey Bridge, Mr Pick said it was one of the last remaining structures to remind the village of its "proud mining heritage".
"All the rest has been torn down and built upon," he said.
"The miners used this bridge to safely cross the railway and many of their grandchildren and great grandchildren live in Hopkinstown today.
"To tear down the bridge is to destroy their heritage."
Lyndon Francis grew up in Graigwen and spent his childhood playing in Hopkinstown.
"Smokey Bridge was and still is special to Hopkinstown people," he said.
"As kids we would stand on the bridge and watch the steam trains as they passed and the smoke would engulf us."
Stuart Caddy said: "Too many historical landmarks have been lost locally, and Hopkinstown is rightly proud of its mining heritage which is being completely ignored."
A Rhondda Cynon Taf council spokesman said the bridge was in a "very poor condition structurally" and a £1.5m investment would be needed to replace it.
They said there was a suitable alternative route for pedestrians nearby and "in almost three years since the bridge's closure, the council has received just one query from a resident about its status".
A spokesman added: "Having considered its low-usage when open, the significant cost to the public purse for its replacement and upkeep, and the future potential hazard it could cause to the railway line, a decision has been made for all parties to progress an extinguishment order on the route."
A Network Rail spokesman said it had to "balance the needs of those who are keen to retain various historical assets with their responsibility to provide a safe network with the best value for money to the taxpayer".
He said they were working closely with the council to consult with Cadw - the Welsh Government's historic environment service - on its plans to remove the bridge.
Residents have until 25 August to object to the extinguishment order.
Care providers warn that growing staff shortages mean vulnerable people are receiving poorer levels of care.
In a letter to the prime minister, the chairman of the UK Homecare Association says the adult social care system - which applies to those over the age of 18 - has begun to collapse.
The government says an extra £2bn is being invested in social care.
An ageing population means demand is increasing for adult social care services.
Those who provide care to people directly in their own homes, or in nursing homes, say a growing shortage of staff means people face receiving deteriorating levels of care.
"You just can't provide a consistent level of care if you have to keep recruiting new people", said Sue Gregory, who has been a care home nurse in North Yorkshire for 13 years.
"Its very simple, not many people want to do this kind of work, and this is a profession that relies on you getting to know the people you are looking after."
Data gathered by the charity Skills for Care, shows that in 2015-16 there were more than 1.3 million people employed in the adult social care sector in England.
Analysing the data, BBC News has found that:
The figures show that social care providers are struggling to retain their staff, with the industry having a staff turnover rate of 27% - nearly twice the average for other professions in the UK.
"This is not the job I'm going to be doing for the rest of my career" said 25 year old Trudi Hewitt, who works at a care home in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
"I really care about the people I look after, but I just feel that the care sector is a dead end job".
"It's upsetting and disheartening when you find out that people earn more than you do in a supermarket just for stacking shelves."
The government has recently committed to spending an extra £2bn on the social care system, and allowed local authorities to raise council tax bills in order to fund social care services.
The number of people aged over 75 is expected to double by the year 2040, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Those trying to provide social care services say without radical change, there will not be enough people to care for an ageing population.
In a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May, Mike Padgham, Chairman of the UK Homecare Association, said: "My biggest fear is that we will soon run out of capacity to provide care to those who cannot fund themselves.
"I agree wholeheartedly with Age UK's warning that the social care system will begin to collapse this year, but I would go further and say that the system has already begun to collapse."
Downing Street said it thanked Mr Padgham for his letter.
A Department of Health spokesperson said: "Social care jobs have increased at an average of 3 per cent a year since 2010, but we want to see improvements in turnover rates, with talented staff attracted to a robust sector backed by an additional £2bn over the next three years.
"Meanwhile, we're investing in the workforce of the future, with a total of 87,800 apprentices starting last year - up 37,300 compared to 2010."
Ben was 21 months old when he disappeared on the Greek island of Kos in July 1991.
South Yorkshire Police said forensic work was being carried out in Aberdeen to try to extract DNA from the items.
Det Insp Jon Cousins said the development "corroborates and strengthens" the theory Ben died in an accident near to where he disappeared.
Ben went missing while playing near a farmhouse, which was being renovated by his grandfather in Iraklis.
An extensive 21-day search of land around the building and a second site 750m away took place in October after it emerged the toddler may have been crushed to death by a digger working on the site.
About 60 items discovered during the search were brought back to the UK for analysis, some of which were sent for testing at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen.
Details of the findings have been released on the 26th anniversary of Ben's disappearance.
Professor Lorna Dawson, head of the soil forensics group, said the team of scientists had discovered the "chemical finger print" of compounds left behind "when there has been decomposition or decay".
"There's a strong indication from this chemical profile that this was present on those items as a result of blood decomposition," she said.
"It's significant in identifying that there had been a human who had bled in contact with those items.
"The biologist has to come in now and identify who left that blood on that item by extracting the DNA."
Det Insp Cousins added: "It's not evidence, it's intelligence which supports what we believe, that unfortunately and tragically Ben died as a result of an incident at that farmhouse.
"It's my belief that [the findings] corroborate and strengthen that theory."
Rule number 16, he told the students at Portsmouth Abbey in Rhode Island: "Follow your mom's advice: It's not what you say, but how you say it. The tone and tenor of your words count."
The now White House press secretary also told students that they should be true to themselves. Rule number eight, was relevant here, he said. "Trust your gut. If it does not feel right, use caution."
With that guidance in mind, Mr Spicer's bellicose press conference with the White House press corps on Saturday suggests that the new presidential spokesman will not sugar-coat his words over the next four years.
While the press secretary-journalist relationship is naturally an adversarial one, Mr Spicer has, in his first few days in the role, already cast himself as being in open conflict with much of the mainstream media, pledging to "hold the press accountable".
This, it appears, is the frontline of a strategy that White House Chief of Staff Reince Preibus described as a will to "fight back tooth and nail every day" at supposed media efforts to "delegitimise" the president.
Mr Spicer, 45, is not a new hand at managing negative press coverage.
He previously served as spokesman and chief strategist for the Republican National Committee (RNC) and has long criticised coverage of his party and Mr Trump.
He took the post of communications director at the RNC in 2011, a time when it "was deep in debt and had a badly tarnished brand", according to the Republican Party website.
He is said to have helped turn around its fortunes by boosting the social media team, leading rapid response efforts to combat attacks, setting up an in-house video and production team and expanding the use of surrogates - people who can publicly appear on behalf of candidates, defend them and boost their appeal.
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Mr Spicer has not shied away from criticising Mr Trump in the past. In July 2015, speaking on behalf of the RNC after Mr Trump questioned Republican Senator John McCain's status as a war hero, he said that there was "no place in our party or our country for comments that disparage those who have served honourably".
He also described Mr Trump's June 2015 comments about Mexican immigrants being rapists and criminals as not being "helpful to the cause".
Before joining the RNC, he worked as Assistant US Trade Representative for Media and Public Affairs in the George W. Bush administration: a role that involved promoting the kind of free trade that his boss now fiercely criticises as being unfair for the American worker.
Still, Mr Spicer was loyal to Mr Trump on the campaign trail even as the path-breaking candidate split the party and many Republican luminaries distanced themselves from him.
The broad-shouldered, compulsively gum-chewing Republican ("Two and a half packs by noon," he told the Washington Post) is a long-time member of the US Navy Reserve.
He received a Masters degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College in Newport in 2012 and is known to be fierce, and deeply competitive.
One editor who has been blasted many times by Mr Spicer told the Post that her young child recognises his voice on the phone and bursts into tears.
His wife Rebecca is the chief of communications at the National Beer Wholesalers Association and previously worked in the Bush White House after a career in television news.
As press secretary, Mr Spicer will serve as President Trump's most visible spokesman, and is expected to hold daily televised media briefings, though he has spoken of his desire to shake up the way White House media is managed.
While he has said that Mr Trump will do press conferences, he also wants to utilise technology to "have a conversation with the American people and not just limit it through the filter of the mainstream media".
He has also described White House press briefings as having become "somewhat of a spectacle". Many would use that word to describe the first under the Trump administration.
Moyes is the favourite with bookmakers to take over at Celtic after the club announced Ronny Deila would be leaving at the end of the season.
The 52-year-old is also interested in the vacancy at Aston Villa.
"I'm going to wait until summer time and make a decision then," he told Sky Sports.
"There's lots of clubs that will interest me and Celtic are a great club.
"Celtic's a brilliant football club, a great football club, with unbelievable support and fanbase."
Moyes, who started his playing career at Celtic Park, is a free agent after being sacked by Real Sociedad in November.
Another former Celtic player, Neil Lennon, became the first candidate to state his interest.
The 44-year-old, who managed Celtic for four years until 2014, is also a free agent after leaving Bolton Wanderers in March and said he would be interested in speaking to the club's board.
Republic of Ireland assistant manager Roy Keane, who had a brief spell with Celtic as a player, has refused talk about the summer vacancy specifically but has told newspapers he would like to be a manager again in his own right in the short rather than long-term.
The 44-year-old said in his autobiography that he was offered the Celtic job after Lennon left and before Deila was appointed.
Former Celtic defender Alan Stubbs is hoping to finish the season on a high after his Hibernian side reached the Scottish Cup final and remain in the hunt for promotion from the Scottish Championship.
Asked about the Celtic job, the 44-year-old said: "I don't think it's a relevant question to be honest to be asking right now.
"I am more inclined to answer the question by saying that I'm just really sorry for Ronny. He seems a really good guy. I have spoken to him on a few occasions.
"I am disappointed for him more than anything and that is all I will say on the matter because I think you have to show a bit of respect.
"I have got a lot of things to think about between now and 24 May that are going to keep my mind occupied."
Candidates also being touted by bookmakers are former Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers and Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill.
As are two more former Celtic players - Malky Mackay, who was sacked by Wigan Athletic in April, and Blackburn Rovers manager Paul Lambert.
Fees came in on 1 October for materials classed as "DIY construction waste", including soil and plasterboard.
Councillor Rob Humby, who is in charge of environmental issues, said: "It could be a legal battle."
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) said DIY waste generated by householders should be disposed of without a charge.
Hampshire County Council said the charges were needed to cover the cost of disposing the waste.
Mr Humby said: "We think it is construction waste as set out in the policy.
"It certainly could end up in a legal battle. We hope we don't get there, and come to a resolution."
The authority said it was seeking "clarity" from the DCLG on the interpretation of the policy.
It said plans to bring in reduced opening times in January had been postponed while it seeks to clarify its legal position over the charges.
The striker latched on to a long ball with two minutes remaining and rounded Wolves goalkeeper Carl Ikeme.
Ex-Wolves striker Adam le Fondre had put Wigan ahead early on, turning in Max Power's cross from close range.
Prince Oniangue equalised for the visitors before the break with a low finish from 18 yards, before substitute Grigg's cool finish won it for Wigan.
The victory for Gary Caldwell's side was their first in nine league matches, their last win coming against Blackburn on 13 August, and sends them up to 21st.
Wolves went into the match following back-to-back wins against Newcastle and Brentford, but failed to produce the same attacking threat at the DW Stadium.
Le Fondre, who spent last season on loan at Molineux, became the third ex-Wolves player to score against his old side in Championship this campaign when he converted the simplest of chances from six yards.
After Congo captain Oniangue slotted into the bottom corner, Danny Batth almost added another for the visitors early in the second half, but his header was cleared off the line.
With the game heading towards a draw, Northern Ireland forward Grigg held off a weak challenge from Batth to give the Latics their second league win of the season.
Match ends, Wigan Athletic 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1.
Second Half ends, Wigan Athletic 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1.
Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Wigan Athletic 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1. William Grigg (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jake Buxton.
Attempt saved. Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by David Perkins.
Foul by David Perkins (Wigan Athletic).
David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
David Perkins (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by George Saville (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Michael Jacobs replaces Nathan Byrne.
Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ola John.
Foul by William Grigg (Wigan Athletic).
Silvio (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Ola John replaces Prince Oniangué.
Yanic Wildschut (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matt Doherty (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Offside, Wigan Athletic. Jake Buxton tries a through ball, but Yanic Wildschut is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul Gladon.
Prince Oniangué (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Prince Oniangué (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Foul by Dan Burn (Wigan Athletic).
Paul Gladon (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Shaun MacDonald (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Gladon (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Nick Powell replaces Jordi Gómez.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. William Grigg replaces Adam Le Fondre.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. George Saville replaces João Teixeira.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Paul Gladon replaces Ivan Cavaleiro.
Attempt missed. Nathan Byrne (Wigan Athletic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Stephen Warnock with a cross.
Foul by Dan Burn (Wigan Athletic).
Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Max Power (Wigan Athletic).
Romain Saiss (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic).
Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by João Teixeira with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by David Perkins.
Romain Saiss (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card.
David Perkins (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Neilson, 36, led Hearts' training on Tuesday morning but will meet officials from the League One club later.
He is still expected to take Hearts for Wednesday's match against Rangers.
The Tynecastle club are currently fourth in the Scottish Premiership - two points off Rangers - while MK Dons are 19th in League One.
A Dons statement on Monday read: "The club respects that Hearts has an important fixture with Rangers in the Scottish Premiership on Wednesday evening.
"And, therefore, no further comment will be made until after that match."
Simultaneous statements from the clubs came hours after Neilson had held a pre-match media conference in which he stressed his desire to lead Hearts to a win that would lift them above Rangers into second place.
Hearts owner Ann Budge revealed to BBC Scotland on Saturday that Neilson had met the Edinburgh club's board last week.
Speaking ahead of Saturday's 3-0 win over Motherwell, she said the head coach had their full backing despite a run of four games without a victory but that she would be disappointed to finish outside the top three.
In light of MK Dons' interest, Hearts said: "Robbie is aware of the approach, but he remains fully focused on the immediate task at hand, which is, of course, Rangers at home on Wednesday.
"No further comment or statement will be made by the club until after this match."
Former England and Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard last week held talks with the Dons following the departure of Karl Robinson.
However, the 36-year-old said the vacancy came "a bit too soon" for him after his exit from LA Galaxy.
The Dons lost 2-1 win away to Coventry City under caretaker manager Richie Barker.
Neilson, a former right-back who won one Scotland cap, had a two-year spell in England with Leicester City after spending the first 10 years of his career at Tynecastle.
He also had time on loan to Brentford then returned to Scotland with Dundee United and Falkirk before ending his playing career as player-coach with East Fife.
Neilson returned to Hearts in 2013 as under-20s development manager and was promoted to head coach after Budge bought the club the following May and installed Craig Levein as director of football.
He led his side to the Scottish Championship title and promotion in his first season in charge, resulting in him being nominated for PFA Scotland manager of the year.
In their first season back in the top flight, Neilson's Hearts side finished third in the Premiership and presently sit fourth.
Robinson, who had been in charge for more than six years, left the Dons in October following a poor start to the season and they are presently two points above the relegation zone.
One in five music services, which support schools, expect councils will completely axe their grants and half fear cuts of up to 50%, a survey suggests.
The Federation of Music Services warned that some services which help provide subsidised lessons could collapse.
The government said all pupils should be able to learn an instrument or sing.
It has commissioned a review of music provision in schools, being carried out by Classic FM head Darren Henley, but this is not due to report until January.
However, local authorities in England which face cuts of about a third, get their funding allocations in early December.
It is clear from the federation's survey of 158 music services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, that many are already planning cuts with some preparing to axe the funding completely.
Local authorities provide just one strand of funding for school music services, with the rest coming from central government grants and parental contributions.
But the expected cuts come as schools face a huge shake-up of their budgets. A number of schemes dedicated to supporting school music face cuts or being channelled into a general schools budget for redistribution.
The Department for Education later said it had not yet taken a decision on the main £82.5m Music Standards Grant and would not do so until the Henley review had reported.
But it would not guarantee that the money would be ring-fenced within schools.
Federation of Music Services (FMS) chief executive Virginia Haworth-Galt said: "We recognise the pressure many local authorities are under but would urge them to them to hold back their plans until we know the results of the Henley Review.
"Music and our children's education are too important to be jettisoned like this particularly when we know that 91% of the public back music education in schools."
She added that the FMS would be very disappointed if the music grant went directly into schools' budgets without any ring-fencing for music education.
"This situation occurred in the early 1990s with disastrous results; music went into a steep decline as the monies were spent elsewhere in schools. This is a music lesson that should not be repeated," she added.
Conductor of the Bedforshire Youth Orchestra Michael Rose says music services in his area, Central Bedfordshire, are set to have budgets and teaching staff cut to zero.
He said as music services were non-statutory they were particularly vulnerable in the present climate of cuts.
He said: "If funding is lost in this way music lessons will become the sole preserve of the middle classes."
He added: "Instrumental teaching in the county's schools is provided by a central staff of highly qualified instrumental teachers. It has resulted in literally many thousands of children having the experience of learning an instrument."
Schools minister Nick Gibb said too many children in state schools were denied the opportunity to learn to play a musical instrument.
This was why he had launched a major review of how music is taught and enjoyed in schools to help make sure all pupils get an opportunity to learn to play an instrument and to sing.
Its recommendations would determine how future funding could be best used in the future, he added.
"Evidence tells us that learning an instrument can improve young people's numeracy and literacy skills and their behaviour.
"It is also simply unfair that the pleasure of musical discovery should be the preserve of those whose parents can afford it."
"As part of that review recommendations will be made to determine how future funding can best be used," he said.
He added that decisions on central funding for music would not be made until after the review had reported.
General secretary of the National Union of Teachers Christine Blower said the cuts to music in schools were even more shocking in light of Michael Gove's announcement that he would be holding a review into music education in schools, claiming that it was a "sad fact" that too few state school children learnt an instrument.
She added: "Music in schools makes a contribution way beyond the straightforward exercise of learning an instrument.
"Children and young people can experience coming together in a creative environment which benefits them in other aspects of their school life."
Petersen made 98, while Haseeb Hameed (89) and Luke Procter (54) also made half-centuries and visiting skipper Steven Croft is still there on 41.
After resuming on 70-1, that helped Lancashire close on 310-4, within 89 runs of avoiding the follow-on target.
Paceman Gareth Berg took two of the three wickets that fell for Hampshire.
Berg found an inswinger to take the wicket of teenage opener Hameed, whose latest half-century was his fifth in successive matches.
But, although he too missed on a third ton of the summer, his knock still took him past 1,000 first-class career runs in just his 15th appearance - and to 759 Championship runs for the season.
Petersen remains on 41 first-class centuries, 11 of which have come in the County Championship, five for Lancashire, three for Somerset, two for Glamorgan and one for Essex.
Lancs batsman Alviro Petersen told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"The pitch is deteriorating a bit. It is spinning more but it is still a good wicket and you can score runs. It could be tricky. I'm not gutted to get out of 98. I was dropped on 20 so I got 70 extra runs. The spinners are coming into it more but there is something still for the seamers.
"The best we can get out of this game is a draw. We would be happier of the two teams with that. We cannot win this game.
"I would have liked us to be closer to the top of the Championship. We will have to look in the last few games where we are. Are we going to fight to win the Championship or fight relegation?
"To win the title we need to win three games, but lose three and we are fighting relegation. We have to be on top of our game every single day."
Eddie Gilfoyle was convicted in 1993 of killing his heavily pregnant wife Paula and faking her suicide.
His lawyer told a court "fresh evidence" from Mrs Gilfoyle's diaries and papers reveal "she had previously attempted to take her own life".
Mr Gilfoyle, who is now in his 50s, was released on parole in 2010.
Mrs Gilfoyle was eight-and-a-half months pregnant when she was found hanging in the garage of the couple's home at Upton, Wirral, on 4 June 1992.
Mr Gilfoyle has always insisted he is innocent and wants the Court of Appeal to reconsider the "safety" of his conviction.
Ben Emmerson QC told two judges at the High Court in London that "fresh evidence derived from Paula Gilfoyle's personal diaries and papers revealed that she had previously attempted to take her own life".
He said: "It also revealed clear indicators that she had a propensity for morbid obsession with murder and suicide."
"This material had, and has, the capacity to provide an important counter-weight to the evidence of her positive disposition that was called at trial."
Mr Gilfoyle's case was previously referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), an independent body which investigates possible miscarriages of justice, but in 2000 three leading judges ruled that his conviction was safe.
Last year, the CCRC declined to refer his case back to the Court of Appeal for a further review.
Mr Gilfoyle is now seeking a judicial review of that decision, arguing its reasoning was "fundamentally misguided in a number of critical respects".
A decision on Mr Gilfoyle's application will be given at a future date as the judges adjourned the proceedings for submissions to be provided in writing by the CCRC.
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The 22-year-old heptathlete from Liverpool set a national indoor record with her third jump to win the event.
Johnson-Thompson broke the British high jump record last week with 1.97m and also set a hurdles personal best.
"I jumped a PB and ran a PB in the hurdles last week, so I knew I was in all right shape," she told BBC Sport.
Johnson-Thompson missed last summer's Commonwealth Games and European Championships with a foot injury.
She now heads to next month's European Indoor Championships in Prague, where she will compete in the pentathlon.
"I'm happy with it but I'm like 'right, let's move on from this,'" she added. "I'm just so happy to be in good shape, competing and healthy and happy. I'm not going to take it for granted any more."
Olympic champion Greg Rutherford set four indoor personal bests on his way to winning the men's long jump with a 2015 world leading 8.17m, one centimetre short of the national record.
The 28-year-old looks likely to stick with his plan of skipping Prague to focus on winning a first world outdoor title later in the year.
"I don't know now," he said. "It's a possibility but it's a slim one. I think probably not still. I never planned to do it and never set it as a target.
"We've done one jump session and one run-up session in the build-up to this and the rest has been weight sessions, so we'll see.
"If it was any other year then I'd consider it, but I'm so determined to win the World Championships this year and I do believe I can do that."
World number one Jenny Meadows won the 800m in a time of two minutes 01.25 seconds, while Nigel Levine won the 400m in 46.43secs ahead of compatriot Jarryd Dunn.
The 60m was won by 38-year-old Kim Collins of Saint Kitts and Nevis in 6.50 seconds ahead of Britain's Chijindu Ujah (6.55).
Their win against Wigan and then Huddersfield's draw with Derby mean Brighton have done enough to reach the top league of English football again.
But how much do you know about this football team?
The last time Brighton were in the top league of English football was back in 1983. Even though they were runners-up in the FA Cup that season they didn't do enough to avoid relegation.
The team are nicknamed the Seagulls and the bird is on the club's emblem - very fitting for a city where you'll often see seagulls at the beach.
Twenty years ago things were very different for Brighton. Things were going downhill and they had to fight to even stay in the Football League.
They managed to avoid relegation, but they had to sell their stadium to pay off their debts. This meant the team had to train at a stadium 70 miles from Brighton for two seasons!
Brighton is the second team that manager Chris has had promoted to the Premier League.
He was the boss of Newcastle United and took them up to the Premier League in 2010. But that didn't last long.
Now that Brighton are in the Premier League, how long will they stay?
Nablus Governor Akram Rajoub said Ahmed Halawa had been assaulted by Palestinian security forces at Junaid prison after shouting insults at them.
Mr Halawa was the alleged ringleader of an attack that led to the killing of two policemen in the area last week.
Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah described his death as an "irregular incident".
However, human rights activists have in the past been extremely critical of the treatment of prisoners in Palestinian jails. They say that torture is common, and committed with impunity.
BBC West Bank correspondent Yolande Knell says there has been recent unrest in Nablus where, historically, large numbers of Palestinian militants were based.
Last week, during a search for weapons, two police officers and two armed men were killed in a series of clashes in the old city.
Mr Halawa was one of those blamed for the policemen's deaths and was arrested.
He was taken to the Junaid prison, where he was severely beaten, lost consciousness and later died, Mr Rajoub told the official Wafa news agency.
"We'll examine the incident and draw lessons from it," he added.
The Islamist group Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip and is a rival of the Fatah movement that dominates the PA, condemned the "execution" of a detainee.
The two factions are preparing for local elections across the Palestinian territories in October.
In a separate development on Tuesday, the Israeli military said it had dismantled a Palestinian weapons-making and smuggling network in the West Bank.
Troops found more than 20 arms-manufacturing machines at several sites in the Bethlehem and Hebron areas overnight, it added. Two traffickers were arrested.
Canon Joanna Penberthy is due to take up the post of Bishop of St Davids in the new year.
She told BBC Wales one of her priorities would be raising awareness of gender-based violence - 80% of which she said was committed against women.
She said legislation alone "won't be enough" and everyone must play a part.
Canon Penberthy told The Wales Report: "It's hard to believe that in 2016, domestic violence is widespread and women are frightened to speak out.
"Unfortunately it's still the case that a culture that sees abuse which happens behind closed doors is somehow acceptable. The phrase 'it's only a domestic' is still too often heard."
Canon Penberthy believes the Welsh Government's Violence Against Women Act has the potential to improve matters - but it was important for everyone to play a part, especially teachers, GPs, the police, council staff and the Church in Wales.
Rachel Williams from Welsh Women's Aid said her organisation's helpline took 29,000 calls from women last year.
She said some good work had been done on tackling domestic violence but much more had to be done, adding: "We're still walking around with blinkers on and we need to take the blinkers off."
According to data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, at least 4% of men aged 16-59 also experienced domestic abuse in 2014-15.
Geoffrey Wheeler, 71, was found guilty of touching a woman's breasts at a BBC office in Milton Keynes in the 1980s.
Recorder Alexander Layton QC told Southwark Crown Court the victim was "palpably vulnerable" at the time.
Wheeler, charged under Operation Yewtree, was cleared of four other charges of historical indecent assault.
It is the sixth conviction for the Scotland Yard sex abuse inquiry - following Max Clifford, Chris Denning, Paul Gadd, who is also known as Gary Glitter, Dave Lee Travis and Rolf Harris, who faces a further trial.
Wheeler, who had denied all five counts, was sentenced to 50 hours of unpaid work, told to pay £150 to the victim and £500 towards the prosecution's costs.
Wheeler - who shares a name with former BBC Songs Of Praise presenter Geoffrey Wheeler who died in 2012 - was employed on the BBC's Open University programme.
Sentencing, Recorder Layton told him: "Your past behaviour has caught up with you."
He added: "You have shown no remorse for your behaviour."
Another crewman has died after the vessel - believed to be The Harvester - got into trouble on rocks at St David's Head on Thursday afternoon.
The rescued man was taken to hospital but was pronounced dead.
The search for the second man was scaled back on Friday with only routine patrols being carried out on the land on Saturday.
Wreckage from the boat has been found over a four mile (6.4km) area.
Five lifeboats, a coastguard helicopter using thermal image cameras and cliff teams have been involved in the search.
Speaking to BBC Radio Wales on Friday, Jim Phillips, from the RNLI in St Davids, said a member of the public on the coastal path saw the boat smashed on a rock with two people in the water at about 14:40 BST.
The vessel was about a mile (1.6km) out to sea near Abereiddi.
Mr Phillips said by the time rescuers got to the scene it had sunk and all that was left on the water's surface was debris.
Dyfed-Powys Police appealed for any witnesses to come forward.
The 18-year-old forward, who came through the club's academy, has scored four goals in 13 appearances since making his senior debut in November.
Ademola's new deal at the The Valley will run until the summer of 2020.
"I am so pleased for Ademola. He's a terrific talent who has worked hard to achieve this," Addicks head coach Jose Riga told the club website.
It is the first time in history a space probe has orbited a comet.
Rosetta will be able to provide scientists with information on the 4km-wide lump of ice and rock dust in more detail than ever seen before.
In November, Rosetta will release a small robot lander, Philae, down onto the comet's surface.
Rosetta will stay with the comet, which is called 'comet 67P', until December 2015.
The spacecraft started its journey from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, South America on 2 March 2004.
It has since travelled more than six billion kilometres, passing Earth three times and Mars once.
It has even flown past two asteroids.
Rosetta was put into deep-space hibernation for over two years as it travelled out to the orbit of Jupiter.
At this distance from the Sun, the spacecraft could not make use of its solar power panels. It was awoken in January 2014.
Mohammed Ashrafi is accused of conning 18 people in Leicester who had personal problems, illnesses or financial difficulties.
Leicester Crown Court heard he told his victims they would win a lottery draw last March.
Mr Ashrafi, who worked from a house in Babingley Drive, Leicester, denies 15 counts of fraud and one of blackmail.
James House, prosecuting, said Mr Ashrafi used "elaborate confidence tricks" and was "a vulture who preyed on people at their most vulnerable".
"They wanted to believe in him and he used that to get their money. It devastated their lives," he said.
Mr House said Mr Ashrafi advertised his services in the local media, describing himself as a devotee of Sai Baba.
He "hooked in" his victims by convincing them he could communicate directly with the Indian spiritual master, prompting them to hand over thousands of pounds, the court heard.
One victim gave him £100,000, the prosecution said.
Mr Ashrafi worked from the Leicester house between 2013 and early 2014 and told his victims they would win the lottery on 28 March last year.
But, by the time they realised they had been conned he had left the city.
The trial is expected to last a month.
Mohamed Abrini, known as the "man in the hat" is alleged to have received £3,000 from defendant Zakaria Boufassil, when he came to the UK in July 2015, Kingston Crown Court heard.
Mr Boufassil denies preparing for acts of terrorism.
A second man, Mohammed Ali Ahmed, has pleaded guilty to the same offence.
Abrini became known as "the man in the hat" following his suspected involvement in the Brussels terror attack in March this year, which killed 32 people at an airport and metro station, the jury heard.
In an interview in April, read out to the jury, Abrini told Belgian police: "On being arrested by you, neither in London, nor in Birmingham, nor in Manchester have I been on any reconnaissance trips in relation to preparatory terrorist attacks."
He added: "There's no plan to target England as a potential site for a terrorist act.
"From what I know, it's France who is declared the enemy of Islamic State.
"I think England has a more developed secret service, better observation techniques, etc... and it's therefore more difficult to attack."
The court heard how when Abrini was quizzed on whether he was hiding information to protect others of "his group" who are in England, he said: "No, not at all.
"There are no other members in England and I am hiding no-one. In my eyes too, those I met in England have nothing to do with the attacks in Paris and/or Brussels."
Abrini is in custody in Belgium and is also wanted over the Paris attacks, the court was told.
Mr Boufassil and Mr Ahmed, both from Birmingham, are charged with supplying "a quantity of sterling currency" to Abrini between 1 June 2014 and 16 April 2016 with the intention of committing or assisting another to commit acts of terrorism.
Mr Boufassil has pleaded not guilty and denies sharing the intention of his co-accused Mr Ahmed, whom the jury has heard admitted the same offence on 8 November.
The trial continues.
The UUP's Tom Elliott said there should have been arrests after about 20 people in paramilitary-style uniforms led a parade into the city cemetery.
Police have said evidence gathered will be reviewed and prosecutions pursued if offences were committed.
A spokesperson said a proportionate and appropriate policing operation is implemented for all parades.
Earlier, Ulster Unionist Mr Elliott questioned why no arrests were made: "Obviously when you look at the type of parade that it was, when you look at those clad in paramilitary-style uniforms there are questions for police.
"Were they interested in moving in at that time and making any arrests?
"It appears that they weren't and if not are they prepared to do that now?"
About 2,000 people attended the parade organised by Saoradh.
The parade started in the Bogside at Free Derry Corner and made its way into the Creggan estate where a wreath was laid at a republican memorial.
The main oration was given by Paul Duffy, a former republican prisoner, and brother of the prominent dissident Colin Duffy.
The 32-year-old Pole has had three tests with Renault in the last three months, six years after he suffered a partially severed right arm in a rally accident.
Renault F1 boss Cyril Abiteboul told BBC Sport: "Have we definitively answered the question whether he can race again? No."
Kubica's manager said he believed he had "shown he can be a serious candidate".
Alessandro Alunni Bravi said Kubica's goal was to race for Renault in 2018, adding: "Our goal was to become a potential candidate for Renault for 2018. The goal remains to come back as a race driver but it is not our decision. It's not in our power."
Kubica completed 142 laps - two grand prix distances - in temperatures in the mid-30Cs in his test in a Renault 2017 car at the Hungaroring on 2 August.
He set the fourth fastest lap on the day and was 0.157secs slower than Renault's second driver Jolyon Palmer managed in qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix four days beforehand. The Englishman was 0.8secs off the pace of team-mate Nico Hulkenberg in qualifying.
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It was his first run in a contemporary F1 car since early 2011. A matter of days after setting the fastest time for Renault in the first pre-season F1 test, Kubica crashed during a rally in northern Italy and suffered multiple injuries, from which he has faced a long rehabilitation.
Abiteboul said: "We have some indication, some confirmation he is a fantastic professional, that he is extremely talented, that he has a huge hunger for racing and to make a return to professional racing whether in F1 or somewhere else.
"But whether he can race in F1, there is more work to be done."
Abiteboul said he was not able to say whether Renault would be able to give Kubica further tests to fully answer their concerns over his ability to return as a fully fledged F1 race driver.
"We would like to," he said, adding: "We will try but there is limitation. It is going to be difficult in the timing and framework we have."
This is a reference to the fact that testing is severely restricted in F1 - the only chance to run Kubica before a post-season test in Abu Dhabi would be in a practice session at a grand prix weekend.
Abiteboul added that this may not fit in with Renault's desire to finalise their 2018 driver line-up before the end of the season.
He said: "Having said that, we have not done all of this in order to stop at the first difficulty. We knew there would be difficulty. Whether we can go further or not is still a little bit up in the air but we will see in the next two to three weeks what the future can offer to the team and Robert."
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Bravi said: "We are really thankful to Renault for the opportunity and just waiting to understand if there can be any further opportunities.
"For sure Robert's priority is to work with Renault because he feels part of this family.
"After the test, he said he was not 100% happy - that was because he missed an opportunity with ultra-soft tyres to do his optimum lap time because of a red flag and his feeling was that he made progress each time he went out on track.
"So he feels there is a lot of room for improvement. His potential to improve is bigger than the others' because he has been out for seven years.
"This is a starting point. We are not putting any pressure on Renault. He did his job. The decision is up to Renault."
Nico Hulkenberg is contracted for next season but team-mate Jolyon Palmer is expected to be dropped after a disappointing season, even though Abiteboul has said the Englishman still has a chance to convince the team to keep him.
Renault are said by sources to have Toro Rosso driver Carlos Sainz at the top of their list for 2018.
The Spaniard is under contract to Red Bull but the team have made it clear he would be available to Renault at a price. Initial negotiations have taken place but no deal has yet been struck.
Abiteboul said: "We had an interest in Sainz starting actually last year. We continue to have an interest because I think he is doing a good season.
"But he has a contractual situation which Red Bull may or may not be willing to discuss. We will see. Things have been fairly quiet over the summer shutdown and I expect the next couple of weeks are going to be very intense on that topic."
Other drivers linked to Renault next year include Force India's Sergio Perez and McLaren's Fernando Alonso.
Bravi said that if Renault decided not to pursues their interest in Kubica, he had "other opportunities", both in F1 and other categories of motorsport.
Money was being raised for Coniston and Lochaber mountain rescue teams which ran a 38-day search for the couple.
Rachel Slater, 24, and Tim Newton, 27, were caught in an avalanche on Ben Nevis on Valentine's day last year.
Pianist Robert Richmond hoped people at the Windermere concert took "a minute to remember Rachel and Tim".
The grand piano arrived by ferry and was carried on a special frame to Claife Heights, an elevated area above the lake.
Jack Metcalfe, a friend of Miss Slater, said she was "an incredible person" who was the "very definition of adventure".
Bringing a piano to the lake was "a reflection of her personality", he said.
The bodies of Mr Newton and Miss Slater, who lived in Bradford, were found on the north face of Ben Nevis on 23 March last year.
The experienced climbers had been missing since 15 February.
Michael Richmond, whose father organised the concert, said the couple had "strong feelings" about the mountain rescue operation.
"Following their deaths it just really emphasised how badly in need of support mountain rescue are for the phenomenal job that they do," he said.
Robert Richmond said although he would not normally play a grand piano outdoors the acoustics had been "absolutely perfect".
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin told MPs it was now thought what happened "was not a drone incident".
Air accident investigators said they had not ruled out a drone but had no evidence to support the suggestion.
An investigation was launched after the pilot of a BA flight from Geneva on 17 April said an object struck the plane.
At the time the Metropolitan Police said the plane was flying at about 1,700ft (580m) over the area of Richmond Park, in south west London, at the time of the incident.
Even if the Heathrow drone strike wasn't a drone at all, and we'll never know for sure, the near misses are coming at an alarming rate.
The latest statistics show that on Valentine's Day, a drone came within 20 to 150ft of an Airbus A320 near Biggin Hill in Kent. The British Airways plane was flying at 12,500 feet. Drones are not meant to go above 400ft.
The crew reported it was "six feet wide with a red flashing light". It was all over in seconds, there was no time to react and they never found the drone operator.
There were 40 drone near misses in 2015 and just nine the year before. Hence the calls for urgent action to prevent an accident.
Many pilots feel it is a matter of time before a drone hits a plane, and they simply don't know what will happen if it does.
But BBC Transport Correspondent Richard Westcott said air accident investigators had stopped their investigation because "there is nothing to look at".
Our correspondent said the item, which struck the front of the aircraft, could have been "floating debris".
"They just don't have any evidence to tell them one way or the other," he added.
The Airbus A320 was carrying 132 passengers and five crew as it approached the airport. It landed safely.
The incident had been thought to be the first drone collision with an aircraft in the UK.
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The UK Air Proximity Board - which investigates near-miss incidents in UK airspace - says there had been a number of serious near-misses at UK airports involving drones.
The head of the International Air Transport Association, Tony Tyler, earlier this year warned that drones flown by the general public were "a real and growing threat" to civilian aircraft.
The Scot, 24, fractured a bone in a collision with team-mate Conor Murray during the win over the Crusaders.
No replacement will be called up at this stage, with Leigh Halfpenny, Jared Payne, Liam Williams and Anthony Watson among the options at full-back.
"It is hugely disappointing for Stuart to have to return home early," said head coach Warren Gatland.
"Stuart has been a key member of our squad on and off the field and it is disappointing to see injury cut short his time with us in New Zealand.
"We all wish him the best with his recovery and we look forward to seeing him back in action."
Hogg, the Six Nations player of the tournament for the past two seasons, was on his second Lions tour, having been involved in Australia in 2013.
He will now return to Scotland to continue treatment.
"I'm gutted to be leaving the Tour at this stage," Hogg said.
"It is an honour to have been involved in a second British and Irish Lions tour. I have hugely enjoyed my time with the squad and I'm very excited about the potential of this group.
"I'm disappointed to be leaving in this way but wish all the squad the best in the coming weeks and will be cheering them on from home."
The Lions play the fourth match of their tour on Tuesday against the Highlanders in Dunedin (08:35 BST), with Irishman Payne starting at full-back.
Since 1927, the standard frame rate - the number of frames or images that are projected per second - has been 24 frames per second.
"24 frames is jarring to me now," Jackson told the BBC.
"It looks primitive. Change is good, it takes people some time to get used to it," he added.
"Ultimately, it's not critics who are going to decide if this (the new format) is going to be adopted or not, it's the audience."
"(There will always be) people who have a particular strong feeling that film should be unchanged and that we got it right in 1927, just like there are people who play vinyl records still, whereas most of the world has moved to CDs and we got used to that."
However viewers will only be able to watch the film being projected at the increased frame rate in a small proportion of cinemas. Most will be showing the film at the traditional rate of 24 frames per second.
The Independent said 48 frames per second was "kitsch and alienating", while the Telegraph said it gives the film "a sickly sheen of fakeness".
But others, including Wired magazine loved it, saying: "Middle-earth in 3D looks so crisp it's like stepping into the foreground of an insanely gorgeous diorama.""
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first in Jackson's series of three films adapting JRR Tolkien's classic book, opens in cinemas in the UK on Thursday and in the US on Friday.
Andy Serkis, who reprises the role of Gollum from the Lord of the Rings film, concurred with Jackson on the 48 frames per second.
"It's so immersive, I find it really magical and really engaging," he said. "It has a level of reality that it is unsurpassed... some people will find it challenging but... it's a matter of time and there won't be a discussion any more."
Despite being happy with the end result, Jackson said he did not expect The Hobbit to win any Oscars next year.
"I think they gave us our Oscars for Return of the King (the final instalment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy).
"I don't think there'll be any Oscars this time round which is fine, it actually takes the pressure off.
"It helped with Lord of the Rings that there was a weight and a gravitas to the whole story which The Hobbit doesn't have... but some of the technical categories are superb so hopefully we'll feature in those."
Meanwhile, a parody of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, was stopped from going on sale when a US District Court in California granted a temporary restraining order on Monday.
Global Asylum, a film company that makes parodies of blockbuster films such as Transmorphers, based on Transformers, was set to release Age of the Hobbits on Tuesday on DVD.
The studios making The Hobbit - Warner Bros and New Line MGM, along with producer Saul Zaentz - had asked the court to prevent the release.
The court for the central district of California granted their request, as Judge Phillip S Gutierrez said that they had satisfied the legal standard for a temporary restraining order.
The applicant has to demonstrate that there is a valid copyright infringement claim, that there would be danger to the plaintiff if the order is not granted, that the plaintiff would suffer more and that the order would advance the public interest.
Global Asylum had argued that its film was not trying to deceive viewers or use the debut of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey to boost its own profits.
30 January 2015 Last updated at 08:16 GMT
It's racked up more than seven million YouTube views in less than a week!
The video sees theatre arts teacher Scot Pankey dancing through the corridors with his students at A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School in Dallas.
Mr. Pankey said he wanted to do something fun after Christmas.
He got all six of his classes involved and they rehearsed for about two weeks.
Believe it or not - they filmed the video in one take!
It's even had approval from Bruno Mars. "I cried at the end," the singer wrote online. "Thank you to everyone involved in making this video."
Uptown Funk is currently spending a sixth week at the top of the UK singles chart.
Watch a clip from the video.
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A lack of nurses, nuclear safety engineers and airworthiness certifiers are among those highlighted in a report by the Commons Defence Committee.
Financial incentives should be offered to retain current staff, it argued.
Ministers said the restructuring of the armed forces had led to "temporary shortages" in some areas but front-line operations were being protected.
The cross-party committee said the number of "pinch-point trades" - specialist jobs where there are insufficient personnel to meet operational requirements - had risen from 19 to 26 in the Army and 11 to 15 in the Royal Navy between 2011-12 and 2012-13 - although there was only one in the RAF.
According to the Ministry of Defence's 2012-13 report, jobs where there is a 40% shortfall of staff include:
There are shortages at nearly all levels of the Intelligence Corps, from the rank of private to major, while there are also shortfalls of bomb disposal operators, dog handlers, veterinary officers, interrogators and qualified engineers.
The committee said it was particularly worried about shortages of medical specialists available to be deployed in field operations.
While it noted that there was also a general shortage of such qualified staff in the NHS, it found they were particularly hard to replace in the armed forces because of their technical experience and qualifications.
While issues of manpower and recruitment were delegated to the three services, it said the Ministry of Defence could assist by providing additional funds to retain or recruit in key personnel, such as nuclear technicians.
"The Ministry of Defence should support the services in addressing shortages in pinch point trades - key shortages which leave the armed forces vulnerable now and in the future," it said.
James Arbuthnot, the Conservative MP who chairs the committee, said he was worried "about how seriously these shortages really are taken" by officials.
Substantial cuts to the regular armed forces, which will eventually reduce total army personnel from 102,000 to about 82,000 while aiming to increase the number of reservists from 19,000 to 30,000, have proved controversial.
Earlier this week, the Army launched a £3m promotional campaign in an effort to recruit new regulars and reservists.
A poll commissioned by the Army to mark the campaign's launch suggested that 23% of serving personnel were not satisfied with their current career.
In their report, the MPs raised concerns about the number of military personnel choosing to leave voluntarily, which is above the long-term average at 4.1% for officers and 5.8% for other ranks.
They suggested that repeated tours of duty without breaks may be "exacerbating" problems with morale.
It said figures in the MoD's annual report showed the so-called "harmony guidelines" - the recommended maximum amount of time spent away from home - had been breached 5.1% of the time in the Army in 2012-3 and 3.7% in the RAF.
The figure was much lower, at 0.6%, for the Royal Navy.
The MPs said such breaches were "unsatisfactory" and the government should set out a plan to ensure they did not happen at all in future.
Labour said the shortfall in key posts was "worrying" and urged Defence Secretary Philip Hammond to act on the report's recommendations.
"They are vital roles needed to support our armed forces and keep Britain safe and secure," said shadow defence secretary Vernon Coaker.
The Ministry of Defence said it was confident that the UK had the "right personnel with the right skill sets to satisfy all strategic defence priorities".
"The armed forces are going through significant restructuring resulting in a small number of temporary shortages in some roles," a spokesman said.
"However, there are safeguards in place to ensure front-line operational capability is not affected."
Stephen Kelly said the work did not go ahead because of a lack of funds.
Keane Wallis-Bennett, 12, died at Liberton High School in April 2014.
But Mr Kelly told a fatal accident inquiry there had been no concerns over the wall and the proposal to remove it was part of a refurbishment programme.
Earlier, a teacher told the inquiry no one had reported concerns about the structure to her.
Mhairi Henderson said she had never seen anything about the fabric of the building that caused her concern.
She said she could not recall any pupil saying the modesty wall was wobbly.
The hearing in Edinburgh has previously heard of the moments after the wall collapsed and crushed Keane to death.
In a statement read to the inquiry on Tuesday, PE teacher Kerry Sweeney said she heard a bang from a girls' changing room.
She said she heard pupils shouting and saw panic on their faces. She described how she found a wall on top of Keane.
She said the pupil was lifeless, not conscious or breathing.
Both Ms Sweeney and head of PE Stuart Robertson said no-one had previously reported any problems with the modesty wall.
In her opening remarks on Monday, Sheriff Principal Mhairi Stephen said the two-week inquiry would focus on why the wall collapsed, why it collapsed when it did and the property maintenance regime at the school.
The inquiry at Edinburgh Sheriff Court continues.
Marcus Hutchins, 23, appeared in court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
A trial has now been scheduled for October.
He shot to fame after helping to stall the WannaCry ransomware cyber-attack that struck the NHS and affected many other organisations around the world in May.
Mr Hutchins was arrested by the FBI on 2 August.
The Milwaukee court has granted the cyber-security researcher permission to work and use the internet again, though he will not be allowed access to the server he used to stop WannaCry spreading.
He must surrender his passport and will be tracked in the US via GPS during his release.
Mr Hutchins faces six charges relating to the development and distribution Kronos, a well-known piece of malware that gathered financial information from infected computers.
A second defendant, who has not yet been named, was also included in the federal indictment against Mr Hutchins.
"Marcus Hutchins is a brilliant young man and a hero," said Marcia Hoffman, one of his lawyers, who was speaking outside the court after the hearing.
"He is going to vigorously defend himself against these charges and when the evidence comes to light we are confident that he will be fully vindicated."
Brian Klein, a second lawyer, added: "We are very pleased today that the court modified his terms, allowing him to return to his important work."
Mr Hutchins was arrested shortly after visiting the Black Hat and Def Con cyber-security conferences in Las Vegas.
The cyber-security researcher is from Ilfracombe, Devon and works for LA-based firm Kryptos Logic.
He was granted bail on 5 August after $30,000 (£23,000) was raised by friends and family.
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Emergency services were called to reports of a boy in difficulty in a dock near Mermaid Quay at 13:45 BST.
He was taken to the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff but his injuries are not known.
South Wales Police and Cardiff council warned about the dangers of swimming in the water.
On Friday, Insp Tony Williams, of South Wales Police, said people were putting their lives at risk by venturing in at Cardiff Bay.
"The docks are deep, but those who jump in have no idea what may be lurking beneath the surface," he said.
"They have little concept of just how cold the water can be and once they are in, they are surrounded by high, sheer walls with limited means of escape.
"Our message to youngsters is simple: 'If you want to go for a swim, then go to the swimming baths where the environment is organised and safe. And keep out of the docks.'"
Cardiff council said swimming was strictly prohibited in the area due to the "severe dangers including submerged objects, water temperature and high speed boats".
A spokeswoman said the harbour authority regularly issued warnings of the risks, which include underwater currents, uneven riverbeds and "the height of the fall or jump if tombstoning".
Her response came during questioning from Labour's Kezia Dugdale and the Lib Dem's Willie Rennie.
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson described as a "scandal" new figures showing a drop in literacy levels in Scotland's schools.
First Minister's Questions took place a week before UK voters go to the polls to choose their next MP.
The half-hour weekly question and answer session began with Ms Dugdale accusing the SNP of being obsessed with the constitution.
She called on Ms Sturgeon to repeat her assertion that last year's referendum - in which 55% of voters in Scotland rejected independence - was a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity".
Ms Dugdale said: "The promise was that the referendum was a once-in-a-lifetime event. That no matter how we voted as a nation we would get back to dealing with the really important issues.
"Like the fact that the reading levels of kids of all ages in Scotland have declined in the last two years.
"Like the fact that next to no progress has been made to close the gap between those in the poorest and wealthiest backgrounds in our schools.
"The first minister has all this power at her disposal but what is it for if it's not to transform the the lives of working-class kids?"
However, Ms Sturgeon said that if the people of Scotland wanted a referendum to be a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity", that is what it would be.
She added: "This is desperate, last-throw-of-the-dice stuff from Scottish Labour. Talk about a party in its death throes.
"The desperate scaremongering over full fiscal autonomy clearly hasn't made any impact, although actually that's not true, it has made an impact on the polls: the SNP poll rating has gone up.
"Given that it hasn't helped Scottish Labour, they're now resorting to desperate scaremongering about a referendum that nobody is proposing."
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Continuing with the referendum question, Mr Rennie challenged the first minister to rule out a vote in the next term of the Scottish Parliament.
He said: "This is the neverendum that we warned about. We saw the consequences of the whole machinery of government being focused on the referendum for the last three years.
"The NHS and the police bear witness to that problem, and in Quebec, we have seen the long period of political uncertainty and the economic consequences of that.
"That's why people are concerned about this. They are concerned on the doorsteps."
Ms Sturgeon responded by saying that the people in Scotland were in charge.
She added: "What people are saying to me on the streets and doorsteps of Scotland is not about another referendum, their concerns are about the cuts that his (Mr Rennie's) party, hand in hand with the Tories, have imposed over the past five years."
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Kezia Dugdale (Labour deputy leader) persisted, once more. Ms Sturgeon owed it to voters right now, she argued, to indicate the direction of travel with regard to a possible referendum. The First Minister insisted once more that this UK General Election was not about independence, not about a referendum, not about a mandate for a referendum.
Ms Dugdale persisted, once more. Jim Sillars, the former Deputy Leader of the SNP, had said that a referendum must be in the first line of the party's 2016 manifesto. Ms Sturgeon said the key word was "former". She was the current leader.
Undeterred, Willie Rennie of the Liberal Democrats pursued the same topic - while deliberately eschewing stagecraft. The FM could, he said, make a statement "right here" ruling out the inclusion of a referendum in next year's manifesto.
Perhaps it was his demeanour, perhaps it was because he isn't Labour, but the FM appeared to give a more detailed answer - without giving any ground.
There would have to be some change to prevailing circumstances. Otherwise there would be no proposal for a further referendum. If proposed, folk would have to endorse the party proposing it in an election. Even then, there would be a parliamentary process before such a referendum could proceed.
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Earlier, former deputy leader of the SNP Jim Sillars predicted the party would propose another independence referendum in its manifesto for re-election to Holyrood next year.
Ms Sturgeon said she had great respect for Mr Sillars but she was leader of the party and this election was not about Scottish independence.
In other exchanges Ms Davidson highlighted falling literacy levels.
She said: "On the campaign each party is rightly talking about opportunities for our young people.
"The best way to increase opportunity is through a good education.
"And yet we find yesterday that literacy skills in our schools are getting worse not better."
Ms Davidson added: "I know that the Scottish government yesterday hastily put together a press release filled with action plans and improvement frameworks for this, but does the first minister really think this is adequate to tackle what is becoming a crisis in school standards?"
Ms Sturgeon said the results were not good enough and she was determined to improve them.
The first minister will face opposition leaders in Holyrood again next week. But the Q&A session has been moved from its traditional slot at midday on Thursday, which will be polling day, to Wednesday afternoon.
Timothy Ryton, 45, originally from Folkestone, was arrested on 23 January and released on bail to an address in Essex, Kent Police said.
He has been charged with distributing indecent images, two counts of voyeurism and making and distributing indecent videos.
Mr Ryton is due to appear at Crawley Magistrates' Court on 29 March.
The officer was suspended from duty following his arrest and will be subject to internal disciplinary proceedings "in due course", a police spokesman said.
Zac Wells, 30, of Wallasey, Merseyside, suffered head injuries in the incident, which happened at about 03:45 GMT near Evo's Loft nightclub in New Brighton.
A 29-year-old man from Poulton, a 16-year-old boy from Egremont and a woman, 26, from Birkenhead, remain in custody.
Merseyside Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
The force said Mr Wells' family were being given specialist support following his death earlier on Wednesday.
Det Insp Gary Stratton said: "We are determined to find out exactly what happened.
"We are particularly keen to speak to anyone who was in Evo's Loft nightclub before the incident took place, or anyone who was outside and witnessed the incident or its immediate aftermath."
Comic race - check. "Some say... he's called the Stig." - check (word for word). Supercars speeding through exotic locations - check.
Power lap times - check (leader board is unchanged). Clarkson? "We don't talk about catering on this show."
Jokes? Not so many.
Chris Evans said he wasn't going to mess with a winning formula and he was right. Shows are normally relaunched in an attempt to revive a flagging format - but this was all about trying to hang on to the magic with different people.
The Guardian was so interested, it live blogged the show.
Their reaction? I won't spoil the surprise - you can read it for yourself. The post-show online discussion on the BBC Worldwide site also wasn't impressed.
Everyone knows the only reason there were two new faces in the Top Gear studio was because of an incident at a Yorkshire hotel in which Jeremy Clarkson gave a producer a swollen bleeding lip and a torrent of abuse.
The question is how much the success was down to the formula developed by Clarkson and producer Andy Wilman, and how much it was the personal chemistry of the team who are now creating a motoring programme for Amazon.
I think Top Gear fans can now hazard a guess.
Certain things cannot be denied. Evans was born to stand in a crowded studio exchanging larky banter. The reinvention of Top Gear in 2002 by Clarkson probably owes something to the atmosphere and irreverent energy of a show like Evans's TFI Friday.
But the running around in the studio, the shouting - there was more than a touch of eager puppy here.
The first race was classic Top Gear across the country between Evans and Matt LeBlanc in Reliant Rialtos, but the race came to an end with a breakdown after a few minutes. However, the film carried on.
Checking on Twitter reassured me that I was not the only one who was surprised when we returned later in the show to more from Blackpool. At least Blackpool's mayor was funny.
One of the things that is overlooked in Top Gear is just how much work goes in to the script. The filming, editing and post-production is obvious from even a casual viewing but the construction of the narrative of the stories, the interactions, the jokes and the resolutions were what made it stand out.
What seemed spontaneous and effortlessly funny, wasn't. If watching people driving cars was inherently entertaining then the world would be filled with internationally successful car programmes. In many ways Top Gear was a sitcom pretending to be a car programme.
Clarkson spent more than 10 years working on Top Gear car films before truly cracking it. In the late '90s Top Gear was a dead format - even the relaunched Top Gear before James May was introduced was far from the show it was to become.
This, however, isn't being allowed a long run-up time in which it can tinker and experiment.
Rugby league club Leeds Rhinos have confirmed the South Stand, first opened in 1931, is to be demolished at the end of August.
The sporting complex hosts cricket, rugby league and rugby union fixtures.
The final rugby league game with the stand in situ is to be on 18 August, the club said.
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The new South Stand plans contains both seating and standing areas.
Construction work is to begin in September and the Rhinos will play any further home play-off games this season without the South Stand, the club said.
The Main Stand that backs on to the cricket ground is to be demolished at the end of September.
The work is part of a £35m deal with a private investor to redevelop the rugby and cricket stadiums that was confirmed in April.
Work on the South Stand was originally due to begin in January but was delayed.
The rebuilding is expected to be completed by late spring 2019.
The Rhinos will play all home games at the stadium in 2018 and 2019 as construction work takes place and the club said the reduced capacity will provide enough space for all existing members.
Gary Hetherington, Leeds Rhinos chief executive, said the stand had been the "heartbeat of our club".
"It will be an emotional occasion when we play our final game in front of the existing South Stand," he added.
"We couldn't bear to leave her alone," her sister, Niamh Fitzpatrick, told RTÉ's Morning Ireland.
Dara, 45, died in hospital after she was rescued from the sea off the coast of Mayo on Tuesday.
A major air and sea rescue for her three missing colleagues continues.
Niamh, a psychologist, paid tribute to the woman she called: "my brave sister".
"Dara is all about family, I can't say 'was' yet," she said. "As a family, we are heartbroken but we have no regrets as far as Dara is concerned.
"She lived her life to the full, she loved her life."
Niamh said that Dara had wanted to be a mother and had adopted Fionn, who is three years old.
"She absolutely adores him. They say it takes a village to raise a child and he has a village around him now who will raise him on her behalf."
Describing her sister's passion for flying, she said that somebody gave Dara a half hour lesson on a helicopter and she graduated from there.
"She loved the helicopter. We had grown up on a farm, riding horses, she had soft hands and light hands.
"I remember the instructor saying to her that she didn't go after the controls the way a lot of other people did. She was gentle. She showed promise, she got sponsored.
"She was the first female commercial pilot in the country and went on to be the first female captain in the country."
Being a woman did not hold her back, she said.
"It never occurred to Dara that she couldn't do this because she was female," she said.
"She just loved it and she worked hard at it and she was excellent at it."
"She loved it as she loved the hard, awful harrowing parts of the job," she said.
"She loved it because she was about helping people, it sounds trite, but it was true."
She said her sister understood the dangers of her rescue work but was "selfless and caring" in the face of them.
"She would say: 'Of course there are risks, but we are trained, we are ready, we need to save people, we have to take those risks'."
Niamh Fitzpatrick told RTÉ that the search and rescue teams were "amazing".
"They are not just random strangers, they have flown with her, they love her, they are her friends as well as her colleagues."
She said her thoughts were with the families and friends of the other three crew members, Chief Pilot Mark Duffy and winchmen Paul Ormsby and Ciarán Smith.
Ms Fitzpatrick was the most senior pilot with CHC which runs the contract to provide search and rescue services in the Republic of Ireland.
Among the many tributes were those from her old school, Dominican College Muckross Park, Dublin, where a special assembly will be held on Thursday.
School principal Anne Marie Mee said staff and pupils heard the news of her death with "shock and deep regret".
"We are deeply grateful for their selfless service in the saving of the lives of so many. We will remember Dara and them all in prayer at morning assembly tomorrow (Thursday)," she said.
On the school's past pupils' page on Facebook, one woman who was in her year wrote that she was "a true role model".
"The class of '89 are devastated," she said.
Russia was banned from international competition after a damning report by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada).
But Vitaly Mutko argued not lifting the ban for the 2016 Rio Olympics would be "unfair and disproportionate" and that clean athletes should not be punished.
They will have been rigorously tested by Rio, he wrote in the Sunday Times.
Wada's report depicted a culture of systematic state-sponsored cheating by Russia's athletes, with even the secret services involved.
It said the All-Russia Athletics Federation (Araf), the Russian anti-doping agency (Rusada), and the Russian Athletics Federation had failed to comply with anti-doping procedures.
"We do not deny having a problem in Russia, and we are doing everything possible at state level to eradicate doping, including punishing athletes and coaches found to have violated anti-doping rules," Mutko wrote.
"But doping is a global problem, not just a Russian problem."
Mutko said by the time Rio gets under way in August, Russian athletes hoping to compete will have been through a minimum of three anti-doping controls by the sport's world governing body - the IAAF - in addition to in-competition testing.
"These are men and women who have sacrificed years of their lives striving to compete at the very highest level, who have dreamed of taking part in the Olympic Games, and who now face having their sacrifice wasted and their dreams shattered," he said.
"The reasons for the All-Russian Athletics Federation being suspended from the IAAF have been well documented.
"They are weighty. Serious mistakes have been made by the federation management, along with athletes and coaches who have broken anti-doping rules and neglected the principle of fair play, so fundamental to sport, for immediate benefits.
"Let us be clear. We are ashamed of them."
However, Mutko stopped short of admitting the doping scandal was state sponsored.
"We are very sorry that athletes who tried to deceive us, and the world, were not caught sooner. We are very sorry because Russia is committed to upholding the highest standards in sport and is opposed to anything that threatens the Olympic values," he said.
He added that measures put in place since the ban - including handing over all testing to the UK Anti-Doping Agency until Russia's own programme is restored, changing the leadership of Russian athletics and handing over alleged doping cases to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne - mean testing is now "extra transparent".
"No other country's athletes will have been placed under the spotlight to the same degree as ours will be," Mutko wrote. "Such an intense glare does not allow anywhere for cheats to hide.
"We have done everything that has been asked of us by the IAAF in order to be reinstated.
"It would be unjust to demand all these changes and measures, witness them happen, and then still punish Russia's athletes."
The region is often described as "oil-rich", but after the 2009 Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling in The Hague, most of the oil fields now fall outside Abyei's borders.
It does still produce oil, but the real issue here is more ethnic than economic.
Abyei is claimed by a southern group, the Dinka Ngok, and northern nomads, the Misseriya.
The Misseriya spend part of each year grazing their cows in the area as part of a great trek into greener pastures which takes them deep into South Sudan, which is due to formally become independent from the north in July following decades of conflict.
There are several prominent Dinka Ngok in both the Sudan People's Liberation Army, which fought for the south's independence, and in the SPLM, its political wing.
Armed groups of Misseriya were often used as a proxy army by Khartoum during the civil war.
The north fears alienating the Misseriya, who also live in the combustible neighbouring state of Southern Kordofan.
So both Khartoum and Juba have strong reasons to care about a seemingly insignificant patch of land.
Tensions in Abyei grew once a referendum scheduled for January on whether to join the north or the south did not take place.
There was no agreement on whether the nomadic Misseriya were eligible to vote.
A string of clashes followed, but this latest incident, involving direct confrontation between the northern and southern armed forces, is by far the most serious.
Following what they described as a "southern ambush" on their men on Thursday, the northern army seized control of Abyei town, the capital of a disputed border region, on Saturday.
To drive the point home about who is now in charge, President Omar al-Bashir issued a decree dissolving Abyei's joint administration, which was headed by a southerner.
The US and the UN condemned what they essentially characterised as a southern provocation followed by a northern over-reaction.
The UN Security Council made it clear these events would not affect southern independence on 9 July.
But nobody can say for sure whether it will be a peaceful divorce.
There are three main scenarios for what could happen next:
The most likely is that the north will keep control of Abyei.
They would start from a very strong position in the negotiations about the region's future, which would please the Misseriya.
However the south might be able to score some negotiating points since Abyei was taken by force.
A second possibility is that the northern troops will withdraw after some time.
The UN Security Council said a northern official, Amin Hassan Omar, made this commitment to it.
If this is the case, the northern armed forces will have shown their superiority, not least in terms of equipment, over the south.
The northern army rolled into Abyei with numerous tanks, following aerial bombardments and shelling, easily dispersing a numerically inferior opposition.
This reinforced the prevailing wisdom in Sudan that the southern armed forces do not have the technology or training to fight a conventional battle with the north.
That is perhaps a useful message for the north to hammer home, in the light of the charged negotiations taking place on Abyei, as well as on other issues like economic resources, and in particular oil.
The last possibility is a return to all-out conflict.
US Senator John Kerry, who has visited Sudan several times, describes the country as "ominously close to the precipice of war".
This could be triggered by a southern military response to the northern takeover of Abyei, or further northern moves.
But the initial southern public statements have been cautious, calling on the UN to get Khartoum out of Abyei, rather than threatening to counter-attack.
The southern army is stretched, as it has to deal with several rebellions, including in Unity State just over the border from Abyei.
The south firmly believes Khartoum is funding the rebellions, a charge the northern authorities have always denied.
Campaigner John Prendergast of the US-based Enough Project sees domestic political reasons why Khartoum might want to fight.
He says the influential former head of National Security, Nafie Ali Nafie, has won an internal struggle for control of President Bashir's National Congress Party's direction.
"Nafie is escalating in Darfur, Abyei, and throughout the south, seeking to address Khartoum's political problems with military force," he told the BBC.
"If the Security Council fails to grapple with this trend, we will see full-scale national war in Sudan by the time the south becomes an independent state on July 9th."
Influential Sudanese journalist Mahjoub Mohamed Salih goes further.
"What is now taking place [in Abyei] is by all standards a war between two countries," he wrote.
He believes the solution is to give the region a special status under President Bashir and Southern President Salva Kiir, and remove all armed elements from it other than UN peacekeepers.
The African Union mediation lead by former South African President Thabo Mbeki will undoubtedly have its own ideas on how to end the crisis too.
The US has already explicitly linked progress on Abyei to removing Sudan from the list of countries it believes sponsors terrorism.
But northern politicians believe the US has gone back on several promises to improve its relationship with Khartoum in the last few years, weakening US leverage.
Whatever happens next in Abyei and in north and South Sudan, there is no doubt the clash between the two armed forces has brought the spectre of a devastating new war considerably closer.
Journalist Mahjoub Mohamed Salih asks the question on everyone's mind.
"Shall we now sacrifice peace for which we paid so dearly for a limited piece of land in which both sides have undeniable rights?"
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union will start voting next week.
It has accused the company of trying to "bulldoze through" cost-cutting measures which would "decimate" jobs.
Virgin Trains said it was "puzzled" at the union's ballot.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "RMT is aware that Virgin management are putting out regular propaganda messages to their employees to justify the company's attempts to attack job security, terms and conditions of employment and current working practices."
Earlier another union, the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA), had also warned of industrial action.
The TSSA said the company was planning to axe up to 46 jobs at travel centres and train stations along the East Coast Main Line route.
In a statement, Virgin Trains East Coast said the changes were "aimed at making the customer experience the best it can be".
The firm added: "We are puzzled by the RMT's decision to ballot as we have ruled out compulsory redundancies.
"A strike would also cost our people pay for no reason, and we have well prepared contingency plans which mean we expect to run a full timetable with customers travelling as normal.
"We would welcome the RMT reopening discussions at any point."
The result of the RMT vote is expected by 9 August.
The A6079 on Hexham's railway bridge will close to vehicles from Monday to allow Network Rail engineers to carry out extensive improvement work.
A spokesman said although it would be "highly disruptive", it would ensure it remained in service for years to come.
Work will include repairing the steelwork and masonry on the bridge, repainting it and resurfacing the road.
Northumberland County Council said the A6079 road would be closed to vehicles from the junction with Alemouth Road to Tyne Mills roundabout. Alemouth Road and the roundabout will remain open throughout.
Pedestrian access will be maintained over the bridge.
A Network Rail spokesman said: "The nature of the road network in this area means that our diversion is a long one and we are sorry for the disruption this will cause.
"Our project team is aware of this and will complete the work as quickly as it is safe to do so."
The dinosaur sequel has now been number one for four weeks, taking an estimated $30.9m (£19.8m) between Friday and Sunday, according to early figures.
Pixar's Inside Out made $30.1m (£19.3m) in its third weekend of release.
Terminator: Genisys, the fifth film in the franchise, took $28.7m (£18.4m) over the weekend.
Channing Tatum's Magic Mike sequel made $12m (£7.7m) over the three days.
However once five-day totals are taken into account - as new entries were released on Wednesday instead of the usual Friday for the holiday weekend - box office returns appear more healthy.
Inside Out pulled in the most revenue overall with an estimated $45.3m (£29.1m) across 4,158 locations, ahead of Jurassic World's $43.8m (£28.1m) at 3,737 screens.
The Chris Pratt film currently ranks as America's fourth highest-grossing film on record, with a total $568.2m (£364.9m) in box office receipts.
Terminator: Genisys - which sees Arnold Schwarzenegger return to the franchise after sitting out 2009's Terminator Salvation - took $44.2m (£28.4m).
But it failed to match the $65.3m (£42m) five-day debut of Salvation, which opened over a Memorial Day holiday weekend.
Coincidentally, Jurassic Park also held off Schwarzenegger's Last Action Hero from the number one spot when both films were released in 1993.
Magic Mike XXL performed better in its first two days of release, helping it make $27m (£17.3m) overall. The original film opened with $39.1m (£25.1m).
Animated prequel Minions will open in North America next weekend after strong showing at the international box office - where it has made $124.2m (£79.8m).
Meanwhile, Walt Disney Studios has now reached the $3bn (£1.9bn) global box office milestone for the year - the fastest it has ever achieved the feat.
The success of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Cinderella and Inside Out helped the studio pass the mark five weeks faster than last year.
Parents often fail to apply for the meals for older pupils, says the National Association of Head Teachers.
The NAHT wants MPs to add a clause on auto-registration to a bill being debated on Monday.
Ministers said they did not believe that the proposed amendment was necessary "at this stage".
But NAHT general secretary Russell Hobby said it would ensure "more children get the support they are entitled to".
Until 2014 families had to apply for their children to have free school meals, which were open only to the most disadvantaged groups.
That year, the coalition government introduced universal free school meals for all children in reception, Year 1 and Year 2.
As all children were eligible, some low-income families stopped informing schools about their circumstances.
The knock-on effect was that once their children reached Year 3, they began to miss out, not only on free meals to which they were entitled, but on extra educational funding linked to being registered for the meals.
The Department for Education website says older children could be eligible for free school meals if their parents receive any of a range of benefits that includes:
But, according to the NAHT, some parents do not realise they need to apply for the free meals once their children reach Year 3 and the universal entitlement runs out.
Some may have poor literacy or English language skills, while others live in chaotic households and are unable to find the organisational focus to fill in the forms.
If adopted, an amendment to the Digital Economy Bill by four opposition MPs would automatically require councils to tell schools which of their pupils lived in low-income households and claimed benefits that indicated they should receive free meals.
Tony Draper, head of Water Hall Primary School in Bletchley near Milton Keynes, says registration rates for the meals there have dropped from 60% in 2014 to 28% this year.
"It's way too low for this area. This is one of the most deprived estates in the country."
Mr Draper argues that auto-registration would be a massive boost for families who are just about managing, a group the prime minister has said she wants to help.
He says some parents are too proud to admit they are on benefits.
"Auto-registration would take this issue away. It would be easy for the government to do."
The Pupil Premium, a sum of money paid to schools to enhance the education of children from disadvantaged backgrounds, also depends on pupils being registered for free school meals.
So if fewer parents apply for the meals, the school would get less Pupil Premium money and be less able to plan specialist help for children from low-income families, explained Mr Draper.
If adopted, the new clause "could deliver much-needed support and money for children and schools", said Mr Hobby.
The union says it would be an easy change and would show the government's "true commitment to social mobility".
A government spokeswoman did not comment directly on the reasons why some parents failed to register their children for free school meals but said: "The Department for Education already has a tool to enable parents to check for eligibility for free school meals, so we don't believe it's necessary for this amendment to be added to the bill at this stage."
The man, Sayed Hamid Noori, was a TV anchor for the state network Radio Television Afghanistan. He had been stabbed to death.
Police said that Mr Noori received a telephone call late on Sunday which prompted him to leave his flat.
President Hamid Karzai has told the interior minister to investigate.
So far there are no indications of who killed Mr Noori or why.
"Someone called him and asked him to come down from his apartment last night. His body was found later by police in a tree-covered area near his home," deputy Kabul police chief Khalilullah Dastyar told the AFP news agency.
Correspondents say that Afghanistan remains one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists.
At least 14 have been killed because of their work since the Taliban were ousted by US-led forces in 2001, according to media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders.
Afghan Independent Journalists' Association (AIJA) head Rahimullah Samander said the government must do more to protect Afghan and foreign journalists.
"We strongly condemn this brutal act and urge the government not to ignore it like past incidents," he told the Reuters news agency.
Not this year, however, according to rainfall figures issued by the Met Office.
They show that April 2017 in Northern Ireland is on course to be the driest April since 1980.
May, so far, has followed suit with no rain from the beginning of the month until at least the beginning of next week.
Last month, 28.6mm of rain was recorded - it was 19.2mm in the same month 37 years ago.
April 2007 comes close though - with 28.8mm of rain.
Data also shows it has been the dullest April since 1997, with just 71% of the average sunshine for the month.
Figures released by Armagh Observatory - which holds weather records dating back two centuries - back up the data.
Not only do they show that it has been the driest April in Armagh in 35 years, but it has also been the sixth driest since 1838.
The observatory measured 9.2mm of rain - that's about one sixth of the average April rainfall in Armagh.
The dullest April in 20 years was also measured at the station and the seventh dullest since sunshine records began there in 1881.
Campaign group Reclaim the Power said it hoped to stop operations at the Ffos-y-Fran site - two days before the assembly election.
About 300 protesters were joined by Green Party leader Natalie Bennett, with the majority leaving by 17:00 BST.
Miller Argent, which runs the site, said it supports 230 jobs and affordable electricity.
South Wales Police said there was "nothing to suggest a risk of disorder".
"However, we do have a visible police presence around the area and sufficient police resources on standby to manage any public safety issues," Supt Phil Ashby said.
The mine has coal reserves of 11 million tonnes.
Caerphilly council rejected Miller Argent's application for a new 478-hectare (1,180-acre) opencast mine at Nant Llesg near Rhymney in August 2015. The company is appealing against the decision.
Neil Brown, managing director of Miller Argent South Wales, said: "It's a local industry, it's Welsh jobs, people don't realise we support the steel industry and we support affordable generation."
The protesters want a moratorium on Welsh opencast mining, saying a suspension would prevent the pollution of homes and the environment.
Ellen Gibson, from Reclaim the Power, said: "Now we are joining them to resist coal company Miller Argent's attempts to override local democracy and force through a new mine next door."
Welsh Green Party leader Alice Hooker-Stroud has also joined the protest.
She said: "Fossil fuels must stay in the ground if we're to act responsibly on climate change. We don't need or want more opencast in Wales."
Early this morning, a small group entered the site and chained themselves to heavy machinery.
At 07:30 BST they were followed by four large groups of campaigners who entered the mine from different locations.
They are dressed in red as a reference to the demonstrations which took place outside the UN climate conference in Paris last year.
It is to symbolise the red lines they believe should not be crossed on the use of fossil fuels.
The protesters say they intended to occupy the mine for several hours.
Work at Ffos-y-Fran has come to a halt. There is a large police presence and a police helicopter is circulating.
Outside the main gate there is a group of 50 protesters staging what they are calling a "family friendly" demonstration.
Miller Argent, which operates the site, says it is concerned about the safety of all involved.
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From getting the Snapchat effect on your t shirt to translating sign language into speech.
The wearable tech show in London had over 6,000 people showing off new technology you can wear.
Things that may change the way we do things in the future.
Newsround has been looking at some of the new ideas that the designers have come up with.
Here are some of the top gadgets from this year's show.
Pyongyang said on Wednesday it had a plan to fire four missiles near the US territory of Guam.
US President Donald Trump warned North Korea it should be "very, very nervous" if it does anything to the US.
Mr Turnbull said Australia would fulfil its obligations under the Anzus Treaty if an attack on the US took place.
"America stands by its allies, including Australia of course, and we stand by the United States," Mr Turnbull told local radio 3AW on Friday.
"So be very, very clear on that. If there is an attack on the US, the Anzus Treaty would be invoked and Australia would come to the aid of the United States, as America would come to our aid if we were attacked."
Tensions between North Korea and the US have escalated in recent weeks after North Korea tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles in July.
Mr Turnbull described the US alliance as "the absolute bedrock of our national security".
"Now, how that manifests itself obviously will depend on the circumstances and the consultations with our allies," he said.
The prime minister said he had discussed North Korea with US Vice-President Mike Pence in an overnight phone call.
However, he would not say if the pair had spoken about the prospect of Australian assistance.
The additions are part of the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) annual revision of the basket.
The cost of music streaming services has been added as well, but sat-navs have been dropped.
The basket of goods currently contains 703 items and services, of which 13 are new this year after eight were removed.
The inflation rate currently stands at a record low of 0.3%, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index.
IN
Specialist craft beers
IN
E-cigarettes
OUT Frozen pizza - we're buying chilled ones instead
OUT White emulsion - we're decorating with more coloured paints
OUT Sat nav - people are using their smart phones to navigate
The ONS said that e-cigarettes had been added because many smokers were using them.
Sales of "craft" beers have been brought in because more money is being spent on them, along with a rise in the shelf space devoted to those beers in shops and supermarkets.
Although only around 700 items have their prices tracked each month, many are measured in several places. So 110,000 prices are collected from 20,000 shops in the UK, with another 70,000 prices measured online.
Revisions to this year's basket continue to reflect the fast-moving change in the use of technology.
For 2015, the cost of music streaming services has been included, along with subscriptions to online console computer games.
Headphones have been added too, as well as mobile phone accessories such as covers and chargers.
However, sat navs are no longer included. "Partly because many drivers now navigate using smart phones, but also because some new cars now come with sat-navs built in," the ONS said.
Recent years have seen additions to the basket of the cost of video streaming services, e-books, tablet computers and smartphones.
Out have gone DVD recorders, Freeview set-top boxes, the cost of developing colour films and mobile phone downloads.
Items in the basket may be introduced or dropped to reflect changes in how much people are spending on them, and also to reflect new categories of spending.
So the cost of protein powders for gym-goers is now being measured to reflect the wider group of sports food supplements.
The ONS said this was "a distinct and growing sector not previously covered within the class".
Other changes are made each year to improve the coverage of an existing category of goods.
That explains the introduction of headphones to improve the coverage of audio-visual equipment.
In a similar move, sweet potatoes have been added to the vegetable category.
"This is an area of the basket where there is much variability in price changes so it is beneficial to collect across as broad a range of items as possible," the ONS said.
Likewise, melons have been added to the fresh fruits whose prices are measured.
Yoghurt drinks have been dropped, partly because less is being spent on them.
But other items, such cut lilies, have been left out because they are simply a variation on other items still in the index and it has been judged that dropping them will have no effect on the accuracy of the overall basket.
The explosion, about 49 miles (80km) north-east of the capital, Baghdad, was "very strong" a provincial official told a private TV station.
Hospital sources said the death toll was expected to rise, Reuters reports.
The blast comes a day after IS said it was behind a suicide bomb attack on a security checkpoint in Baghdad.
At least 20 people were killed in Sunday's attack.
Khalis is a predominately Shia town about eight miles north of Baquba, the main city of Diyala province.
In recent months, IS has lost control of some major towns and cities it seized in Iraq in 2014 and has stepped up suicide attacks in apparent response.
The militant group follows an extreme form of Sunni Islam and often targets Shia Muslims, who it regards as apostates.
A security source told the BBC that 22 people had also been injured in the explosion on Monday morning at a checkpoint about two miles west of Khalis town centre.
A police officer at the scene said a suicide car bomber was responsible.
"We still have charred bodies inside many vehicles including a minibus packed with women and children," the captain told Reuters.
Adi al-Khadran, the representative of Diyala province, told the private al-Sumaria TV that several vehicles had been set ablaze in the blast.
The right-back, 27, has joined until the end of the season, after leaving Greek outfit PAS Giannina, Hearts confirmed.
Struna made his Slovenia debut in 2012 and has earned 25 caps for his country.
"I'm an attacking full-back and I think I'll be a good fit based on the ideas presented to me by the club and the head coach," he said.
"I like possession football and I understand that is the way Hearts want to play, so I am optimistic."
Head coach Ian Cathro has been seeking to add to his defence after Igor Rossi left Hearts to join Saudi Arabian side Al-Faisaly Harmah.
Hearts also lost Alim Ozturk to Turkish club Boluspor, while full-back Callum Paterson is out for the rest of the season with knee ligament damage and Faycal Rherras will be at the Africa Cup of Nations with Morocco.
Meanwhile, Paterson has undergone surgery on the knee injury he sustained in the 4-0 win over Kilmarnock on 27 December.
Scotland cap Paterson, 22, will be out of contract in the summer and scored 10 goals in 24 appearances this season.
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Gwent Police was called to the collision involving two cars on the A4048 at Markham near Blackwood just after 10:30 GMT on Thursday.
A male driver and female passenger were taken to Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil where she later died.
Two women travelling in the second car were taken to Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport.
Wales Air Ambulance and three ambulances also attended.
The road remains closed and diversions are in place.
St Wulfram's has installed the rink to bring a bit of early festive cheer to the Lincolnshire town.
There are also more than 100 decorated Christmas trees adorning the 14th Century building.
The rink - which is not real ice - was installed as part of the church's first Christmas tree festival.
Fr Stuart Cradduck took to his skates wearing his vicar's cassock for but recovered after falling on his first outing.
"No-one expects an ice rink inside a church," he said.
"So let's do something unexpected. Be something different and challenge people's conceptions about who we are and what we are doing.
"We're not at Christmas of course, it doesn't start until 25 December, but life is so full and bonkers for people so let's start it now or at least give people a glimpse of the joy of Christmas."
The Ivorian made 139 league appearances for Newcastle after joining them in August 2010 from Dutch side FC Twente.
The 30-year-old featured just three times for the Magpies this season.
Tiote was also part of the Ivory Coast squad that won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.
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Pre-tax profits fell to $1.82bn (£1.17bn) in the first half of the year as "adverse loan impairment trends continued to impact performance".
Revenue for the first half of 2015 was $8.5bn, down 8% from the previous year.
The UK-listed bank halved its dividend to 14.4 cents per share, and did not rule out the possibility of raising more money from investors.
As well as declining revenue, higher charges for bad loans hit its profits, the bank said.
Hit by slowing growth in emerging markets, the bank hired former JP Morgan banker Bill Winters as chief executive, replacing former chief Peter Sands in June.
Mr Winters used his first results presentation in charge to outline some of his plans for the bank. He said he would simplify Standard Chartered with a "new management team and simpler organisational structure".
The bank has already exited some businesses in Hong Kong, China and Korea, booking a gain of $219m dollars and improving its capital position.
The bank hired Mark Smith from Asia-focused rival HSBC to join as new chief risk officer.
The dividend cut will help the bank strengthen its capital base - a safety net protecting it from unexpected financial knocks.
The lender's core tier-1 measure of high-quality capital compared with assets rose to 11.5%, hitting its target six months early.
Even so, Mr Winters would not rule out raising more if needed.
"If we decide we need capital for the long-term benefit of the group, we will raise capital," he said.
Fifteen carriages of the Ajmer-Sealdah Express came off the tracks early on Wednesday. All remaining passengers have now been rescued, officials say.
It was India's third major accident on its creaking railways in recent months.
Earlier senior Kanpur police official Zaki Ahmed said two people had died but Indian Railways did not confirm this.
"There were no casualties and 53 passengers were injured in the derailment," said railway spokesperson Anil Saxena.
He said two people had been seriously injured.
Train accidents are fairly common in India, where much of the railway equipment is out of date. More than 140 people died last month when another train derailed near Kanpur.
In July a train smashed into a van full of schoolchildren at a level crossing, killing eight of them.
The cause of the latest accident is not yet known and an inquiry has been ordered.
The derailment happened when the train was crossing a bridge over a dry canal. Eyewitnesses told local TV channels that there was dense fog when the carriages derailed.
"Our coach tilted to one side. I jumped out and saw a few coaches were derailed," passenger Rizwan Chaudhary told the Associated Press.
Last year, the government announced investments of $137bn (£111bn) over five years to modernise and expand the railways.
Researchers sequenced the genome of the coelacanth: a deep-sea fish that closely resembles its ancestors, which lived at least 300 million years ago.
The study found that some of the animal's genes evolved very slowly, giving it its primitive appearance.
The work also shed light on how the fish was related to the first land-based animals.
The coelacanth has four large, fleshy fins, which some scientists believe could have been the predecessors of limbs.
It had been suggested that this fish was closely related to early tetrapods - the first creatures to drag themselves out of the ocean, giving rise to life on land.
But the study, published in the journal Nature, suggested that another fish called the lungfish, which also has four limbs, had more genes in common with land-based animals.
Slow to change
The coelacanth can reach up to 2m-long and is found lurking in caves deep beneath the waves.
It was thought to have been extinct for millions of years, until it turned up in a trawlerman's net off the coast of Africa in 1938.
Its ancient appearance has earned it the title "living fossil" - but it is so elusive, that it has been hard to study.
To find out more, an international team of researchers sequenced the coelacanth's genome, which contained nearly three billion DNA bases.
Professor Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, from the University of Uppsala in Sweden and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in the US, said: "What we can see is that while the genome as whole changes, the protein-coding genes - that make the living fish - are much more stable and much more unchanging.
"And if you think about it, this might be correlated to the fact that the coelacanth lives in a rather extreme and stable environment.
"It lives several hundred metres down in the ocean, and it may also be in an environment where it doesn't have a lot of competitors. So maybe it adapted to that environment a long time ago and it doesn't have a huge need for change."
The researchers also used the study to try and solve the long-standing question of whether the first tetrapods were more closely related to the coelacanth or the lungfish.
They compared DNA profiles of both of these fish with modern land-based animals, including mammals, birds and lizards.
"We selected 251 genes that were very similar in all these genomes so we could build this picture of how closely related these species were," Prof Lindblad-Toh explained.
"From that picture it was clear the lungfish is closer to tetrapods than the coelacanth."
Commenting on the research, John Hutchinson, professor of evolutionary biomechanics from the Royal Veterinary College, said it was an interesting study.
"The lungfish-coelacanth question has gone back and forth over the years; the lungfish answer is not new, but this is a much better, bigger dataset so it does tip the balance a bit," he said.
"They are missing some critical animals - it would be interesting to see what addition of salamander or more ray-finned fish would do to their analysis, but it might not change anything important."
This study is not the only one attempting to understand the coelacanth.
Since the fish was rediscovered in the 1930s, only a few hundred have ever been found, many of these dead caught up in trawls.
Scientists from the French organisation Andromede Oceanology are working with the Natural History Museum in Paris to attach acoustic tracking devices to the fish in order to study their behaviour and capture 3D moving images of their fins as they swim.
With 17 days until the election, much of the recent focus has been on controversies linked to his campaign.
But in a speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, he sought to highlight changes he would introduce.
Among them were restrictions on lobbyists and a renegotiation on trade and climate change deals.
Mrs Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine appeared at events on Saturday in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state in the race for the White House.
Mr Trump's advisers indicated before his speech that the measures announced would serve as the focus for the remaining two weeks of his campaign.
Among the key details he announced were:
So there you have it, Donald Trump's final pitch to the American people.
It was a mix of Republican boilerplate (Lower taxes! Less regulation!), anti-establishment populism (Axing trade deals! Extreme vetting of immigrants!) and the kind of off-message asides that have bedevilled his candidacy (I'm going to sue all my sexual harassment accusers!)
It wasn't exactly the Gettysburg Address, but it did have some lines that could have been the foundation of a compelling outsider campaign.
"I am asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics, and to embrace that great faith and optimism that has always been the central ingredient in the American character," Mr Trump said. "I am asking you to dream big."
Americans love big dreams and candidates who, in Abraham Lincoln's words, appeal to the "better angels of our nature".
With just over two weeks left before election day, however, it is probably much too late for Mr Trump to make "faith and optimism" the focus of a campaign that has often been typified by darkness and anger.
The speech was one of the most detailed by Mr Trump during his candidacy, and also touched on matters of security, economy and trade.
He said the country was facing a "fork in the road" over its future.
While some polls have shown he has eaten into Mrs Clinton's lead over the past week, after the third presidential debate, she is still leading him in a number of the key swing states.
Before his speech, Mr Trump again attacked leading media outlets and suggested they were biased against him.
He vowed to break up media conglomerates, saying he would scrap the rumoured purchase of the Time Warner company, the owner of CNN, by AT&T. However, those comments were made outside of his main speech, and it was not clear if they were being put forward as policy.
Mr Trump also said he would sue every woman who has accused him of sexual assault or inappropriate behaviour as soon as his presidential campaign was over.
Ten women have come forward to accuse him of inappropriate behaviour, in the weeks after a video emerged of him boasting of groping women and kissing them.
"Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign," he told the audience in Gettysburg.
He said the media was fabricating stories to make him "look as bad and dangerous as possible".
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Murray, 29, beat Rosol 4-6 6-3 6-2 in a heated match at the 2015 Munich Open.
British number eight Laura Robson set up a first-round match with fellow Briton Naomi Broady after a straight-sets win over Germany's Tatjana Maria in the final qualifying round.
British number two Dan Evans faces American Rajeev Ram while Kyle Edmund will play France's Richard Gasquet.
Johanna Konta, seeded a career-high 13th in the women's singles, meets American Bethanie Mattek-Sands, while Heather Watson plays Dutch qualifier Richel Hogenkamp.
Top seed and world number one Novak Djokovic begins the defence of his men's title against world number 120 Jerzy Janowicz, while Spaniard Rafael Nadal, the 2010 and 2013 champion, meets Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan.
Rosol, 31, shocked Nadal in the second round at Wimbledon in 2012.
Olympic silver medallist Juan Martin del Potro has been drawn against fellow Argentine Diego Schwartzman.
Women's world number one Serena Williams, a beaten semi-finalist last year, begins her campaign against Russian Ekaterina Makarova.
Williams is aiming for a seventh US Open crown and a record 23rd Grand Slam singles title in the Open era.
Murray, the second seed, said there is no ill feeling between him and Rosol after a dispute in Munich last year.
"I have actually got along fine with him apart from that day and he's a tough, tough opponent," said Murray.
"He's a big, strong guy, he goes for his shots and he takes a lot of risks. It's a tough opening round, for sure."
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Djokovic said he hopes to be close to full fitness for the start of the tournament, but admitted his left wrist has not healed fully.
He first felt pain in his wrist in the week before the Rio Olympics, where he lost in the opening round to Del Potro.
"I'm doing everything in my power to make sure that I'm as close to 100% as possible during the course of this tournament," said the 29-year-old.
"I'm just hoping that when the tournament starts I'll be able to get as close to the maximum of executing my backhand shot as possible."
Djokovic also said he was dealing with "private issues" when he lost to Sam Querrey in the third round at Wimbledon this year, but that those issues have now been resolved.
He added: "I am in a position, like everybody else, like all of you.
"We all have private issues and things that are more challenges than issues, more things that we have to encounter and overcome in order to evolve as a human being."
BBC Sport tennis correspondent Russell Fuller:
"Rosol is the man who beat Rafael Nadal on Wimbledon's Centre Court in 2012, and was told by Murray that "nobody likes you" after the Czech bumped into him while changing ends at an event in Munich last year.
"Murray could face Kei Nishikori in the last eight and Stan Wawrinka - or even Juan Martin del Potro - in the semi-finals, while chief rival Djokovic, still troubled by a left wrist injury, could play Marin Cilic and Rafael Nadal at the same stages.
"It would be wrong to describe Djokovic as an unknown quantity at this US Open. He is the defending champion and has a sensational record on hard courts, but he has had an emotional few months after completing the career Grand Slam at Roland Garros."
Rashid was last man out, caught at cover from a mistimed drive, to end England's stubborn resistance on day five with just 6.3 overs remaining.
Prior to that, the 27-year-old spinner had batted 242 minutes for 61.
"I am sure he is reflecting on the shot he played at the end and kicking himself," said Bayliss.
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"I thought he did sensationally well with the bat and showed his all-round qualities. He took five-for in the second innings of the first Test and now his batting in this - the potential for him going forward is very good.
"No-one is blaming him for that shot. If a few of our boys had played in a similar fashion to him throughout the match we wouldn't have been in that situation.
"There are certainly no negatives with Rash. It was a fantastic effort from him and three or four guys at the end of the innings."
Yorkshireman Rashid's 172-ball innings was the backbone of England's late innings resistance after they had stumbled to 193-7 in pursuit of 491.
He was ably assisted by Stuart Broad (30) and Mark Wood (29) but was unable to see the innings out.
The defeat leaves England needing to win the third Test in Sharjah, which starts on Sunday, to draw the series in the United Arab Emirates.
Bayliss revealed that England are likely to stick with Moeen Ali as opener in Sharjah, despite a return of 48 runs in two matches since his elevation to the top of the order.
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However, he admitted that there will be discussions over the position of wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler, who struggled with the bat in the previous series against Australia and has scored just 34 runs at an average of 8.50 in the current one.
"He's [Buttler] disappointed with the amount of runs he's scored," said Bayliss. "I don't think he's far off scoring runs.
"We know he's a class quality player and I believe he'll play a lot for England going forward. We're certainly not concerned about him long term."
There had been suggestions that England could bring in Samit Patel to form a three-strong spin attack in Sharjah, but Bayliss suggested there had been a change of mind following a strong showing from the seam attack in the first two matches.
"We thought about the possibility of playing three spinners there originally," he added. "The difficult thing is I think our pace bowling has been our strength. So if we were to drop one of those guys it might create its own problems."
Meanwhile, England batsman Joe Root has returned to the top of the Test batting rankings.
His 159 runs in his two innings in Dubai, which also took him past 3,000 runs in Tests, moved him three points above Australia's Steven Smith.
Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah took eight wickets in the second Test, which has taken him above England seamers James Anderson and Stuart Broad into second place in the bowlers' rankings behind only South Africa's Dale Steyn.
The Tory leader is in Wales as the party prepares to launch its Welsh manifesto for the general election.
Mr Cameron has made Labour's record in office in Cardiff Bay a big part of the general election campaign, with references to the NHS's performance.
"The dragon on our flag may be red, but our country will always be better off blue," he will say.
"The people of Wales already know more than most the damage Labour can do.
"Cutting health spending and taking their eye off the ball on education.
"This is the way Labour treats the nation of Nye Bevan and Dylan Thomas.
"Seriously, where is it written that Wales votes Labour?"
Mr Cameron will say that jobs and the economy are the issues that matter most to voters at the election.
And he will use the growing aerospace industry as an example of Wales's economic success over the past few years.
In the next parliament, the Conservatives are pledging to increase the tax free personal allowance to £12,500, benefitting 1.4m tax payers.
Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb said this shows a Tory government will "get things done for Wales."
There is also a commitment to make people working 30 hours on the minimum wage exempt from paying income tax.
As part of the launch, the Tories will highlight their record in Wales during the last five years of government.
This includes 52,000 new jobs and 22,400 businesses created since 2010, as well as 1.2m people getting a tax cut.
Welsh Conservatives have also said that the £8bn extra pledged to fund the NHS in England will result in more money for the Welsh government.
Mr Crabb said: "By rolling up our sleeves and facing Wales' challenges head on, our ambitious programme for the next five years will create new and better jobs for Wales."
UKIP will also launch its Welsh manifesto on Friday.
Mark Lehain was one of the pioneers of free schools. A maths teacher in Bedford, he believed a small teacher-led school could provide a better education for children in disadvantaged areas where results have been poor.
He began planning his new school in 2010 and became a prominent and public advocate of this new idea.
His was one of the very first free schools to be approved by the Department for Education in September of that year.
But that was just the first step. As with many would-be free schools, finding a site was the most difficult problem. The school was delayed for a year.
In 2011 Mark Lehain described his vision for the free school: small, friendly, a place where every teacher knew every pupil, where standards were high, where there was a longer school day. Three years later, he believes he has achieved it.
On Friday afternoon he showed me round the converted office building that is home to his free school on a busy road in the heart of Bedford.
All 400 pupils were taking part in extracurricular clubs. There are nearly 50 separate activities, run by staff. There is German, chess, and computer coding, also "nail art" and "fondant icing" - with a room of pupils learning how to make cake decorations.
There was a relaxed and friendly but also respectful air about the place. The pupils I spoke to were proud of their school, of their smart black and purple uniform, though one boy complained there were too few GCSE options, a disadvantage of a smaller school.
However in February Ofsted visited the school for the first time and decided that despite the "good" leadership the school should be graded "requires improvement" - Level 3 - because they had concerns about some elements of teaching.
Mark Lehain frankly described the verdict as "a bit of a shock" and "disappointing". He had brought in external assessors to judge the school before the Ofsted inspection and they had been more positive.
Mark Lehain told me that he had acted on Ofsted's findings and the school was already "very different" from what the inspectors had seen in February. He believes the school should be judged on its GCSE results. Bedford Free School students will sit their first set of exams next summer, 2015.
Bedford is one the 45 open free schools inspected by Ofsted, and not the only one to be disappointed. Overall analysis by the Times Educational Supplement suggests that, while a higher proportion than average were graded "outstanding", a higher proportion were also graded "inadequate".
However, this analysis relies on a relatively small sample. And Mark Lehain told me he has the full support of parents, who trust their own experience of the school rather than the Ofsted grade.
Leaving the school building, I came across a man waiting for his granddaughter, sheltering in the rain. He seemed genuinely surprised to learn about the Ofsted verdict, telling me that the school had been "amazing" for his granddaughter. She was a different girl, far more confident, he said, and the whole family was very happy with the school.
If the first set of GCSE results are disappointing, Mark Lehain has no Plan B. The experience of other free schools suggests the Department for Education may act quickly.
The Discovery School in Crawley, for instance, was closed just a few months after it failed its Ofsted inspection: schools are usually given far longer to improve. Pupils at the Crawley school had to find places at other local schools at short notice, creating difficulties for many parents.
Mark Lehain told me he was "very confident" that he would get the pupils the best GCSE grades they could. "I have to" he said. "They've all taken a gamble… the kids, the staff, the families."
With the current controversy over Ofsted, supporters of free schools argue that the only way to judge this flagship policy is by external examination results - but no brand-new free school will take GCSEs before next summer and no results will be available before the general election.
The 19-year-old has scored five goals in 26 appearances for the U's but has not featured for Michael Appleton's side this season.
Roberts had a loan spell at Chester earlier this term, scoring once in six National League outings, and has also spent time at Oxford City.
He could make his debut for the Bees against Plymouth on Tuesday.
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Supt Norman Haslett was speaking after a family from west Belfast left their home following a threat against their three teenage children.
The level of threats can vary, Supt Haslett told the Stephen Nolan Show.
Trevor Lunn, the Alliance party's justice spokesman, said the threats showed paramilitaries were still active.
"It's a very depressing statistic," he said.
"It gives the lie to any suggestion that paramilitaries organisations have gone away.
"They're still taking the law into their own hands issuing these threats.
"It's disgraceful".
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All UK sites have been given until 26 May to make sure visitors are able to give "informed consent" over cookies.
Cookies are pieces of personal data stored when users browse the web.
The Cabinet Office said the government was "working to achieve compliance at the earliest possible date".
Once the new rules take force, consent will most likely be obtained by ticking a "yes" box when visiting a site - although other approaches have been suggested.
The regulations are designed to protect user privacy when using the web.
"As in the private sector, where it is estimated that very few websites will be compliant by the 26th May, so it is true of the government estate," a Cabinet Office spokesman told the BBC.
"The majority of department websites will not be compliant with the legislation by that date."
The BBC understands that the sites, which range from those run by local councils to national departments, have been told that no action will be taken by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) over the deadline miss - provided they were "showing a commitment" to eventually make changes.
Cookies are small files that allow a website to recognise and track users. The ICO groups them into three overlapping groups:
Session cookies
Files that allow a site to link the actions of a visitor during a single browser session. These might be used by an internet bank or webmail service. They are not stored long term and are considered "less privacy intrusive" than persistent cookies.
Persistent cookies
These remain on the user's device between sessions and allow one or several sites to remember details about the visitor. They may be used by marketers to target advertising or to avoid the user having to provide a password each visit.
First and third-party cookies
A cookie is classed as being first-party if it is set by the site being visited. It might be used to study how people navigate a site.
It is classed as third-party if it is issued by a different server to that of the domain being visited. It could be used to trigger a banner advert based on the visitor's viewing habits.
"The impression I'm getting from the ICO is that even if there are complaints and you're found not to be compliant, unless it can be shown your intent was to avoid compliance, then they would work with you," said Mike MacAuley from the Local Government Association, which has hosted discussions on the issue.
The ICO did not want to comment on the issue when contacted by the BBC.
On 26 May the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) imposes an EU directive designed to protect internet users' privacy.
The law says that sites must provide "clear and comprehensive" information about the use of cookies.
In computing, cookies are small text files that help organise and store browsing information. However, cookies are increasingly being used to power targeted advertising, by gathering data about sites visited and search terms used.
It is these "tracking" cookies, which users do not often know about, which the EU hopes to clamp down on with the regulations.
The deadline had originally been set for May last year. However, the ICO - which will be enforcing the rules in the UK - decided to give firms an extra year to comply with the laws in order to avoid an "overnight" change.
At the time, communications minister Ed Vaizey said: "It will take some time for workable technical solutions to be developed, evaluated and rolled out so we have decided that a phased in approach is right."
While government websites do not carry advertising, cookies are still used to carry out various tasks, such as helping site administrators monitor levels of traffic.
"If people listen to our advice and are prepared to take steps towards compliance there shouldn't be a problem," Dave Evans, the ICO's group manager for business and industry,
told E-Consultancy last month
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"However, if businesses deliberately stop short of total compliance, then there is a risk."
Mr MacAuley said meetings had been held earlier this month between the LGA's members and the ICO to discuss how best to comply.
"I think the issue is really more about what the spirit of the regulations is intended to prevent," he said.
"They're intended to prevent any kind of malicious exploitation of cookies, or any wilful avoidance of the regulations. I think the ICO takes a very dim view of that.
"However I don't think local governments would in any way try to do either of those things."
Vinod Bange, a lawyer for Taylor Wessing who has spent time consulting companies who are cautious of the changes, said the small number of businesses who have invested in meeting the guideline deadline could be left feeling frustrated.
"There will be some companies out there wondering why they've gone to the expense, and committed a lot of resource, into trying to tackle a problem which is not going to be enforced," he said.
In the interview with E-Consultancy, the ICO's Mr Evans said there would not be a team of investigators seeking out infringing sites, but would act on complaints.
"How likely it is that complaints will flood in, we don't know," he said.
"It may be that the great British public simply isn't that concerned about cookies."
The last Ice Age ended about 11,500 years ago, and when the next one should begin has not been entirely clear.
Researchers used data on the Earth's orbit and other things to find the historical warm interglacial period that looks most like the current one.
In the journal Nature Geoscience, they write that the next Ice Age would begin within 1,500 years - but emissions have been so high that it will not.
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"At current levels of CO2, even if emissions stopped now we'd probably have a long interglacial duration determined by whatever long-term processes could kick in and bring [atmospheric] CO2 down," said Luke Skinner from Cambridge University.
Dr Skinner's group - which also included scientists from University College London, the University of Florida and Norway's Bergen University - calculates that the atmospheric concentration of CO2 would have to fall below about 240 parts per million (ppm) before the glaciation could begin.
The current level is around 390ppm.
Other research groups have shown that even if emissions were shut off instantly, concentrations would remain elevated for at least 1,000 years, with enough heat stored in the oceans potentially to cause significant melting of polar ice and sea level rise.
The root causes of the transitions from Ice Age to interglacial and back again are the subtle variations in the Earth's orbit known as the Milankovitch cycles, after the Serbian scientist Milutin Milankovic who described the effect nearly 100 years ago.
The variations include the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, the degree to which its axis is inclined, and the slow rotation of its axis.
These all take place on timescales of tens of thousands of years.
The precise way in which they change the climate of the Earth from warm interglacial to cold Ice Age and back every 100,000 years or so is not known.
On their own, they are not enough to cause the global temperature difference of about 10C between Ice Age and interglacial. The initial small changes are amplified by various factors including the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as warming begins, and absorption of the gas by the oceans as the ice re-forms.
It is also clear that each transition is different from previous ones, because the precise combination of orbital factors does not repeat exactly - though very similar conditions come around every 400,000 years.
The differences from one cycle to the next are thought to be the reason why interglacial periods are not all the same length.
Using analysis of orbital data as well as samples from rock cores drilled in the ocean floor, Dr Skinner's team identified an episode called Marine Isotope Stage 19c (or MIS19c), dating from about 780,000 years ago, as the one most closely resembling the present.
The transition to the Ice Age was signalled, they believe, by a period when cooling and warming seesawed between the northern and southern hemispheres, triggered by disruptions to the global circulation of ocean currents.
If the analogy to MIS19c holds up, this transition ought to begin within 1,500 years, the researchers say, if CO2 concentrations were at "natural" levels.
As things stand, they believe, it will not.
The broad conclusions of the team were endorsed by Lawrence Mysak, emeritus professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who has also investigated the transitions between Ice Ages and warm interglacials.
"The key thing is they're looking about 800,000 years back, and that's twice the 400,000-year cycle, so they're looking at the right period in terms of what could happen in the absence of anthropogenic forcing," he told BBC News.
He suggested that the value of 240ppm CO2 needed to trigger the next glaciation might however be too low - other studies suggested the value could be 20 or even 30ppm higher.
"But in any case, the problem is how do we get down to 240, 250, or whatever it is? Absorption by the oceans takes thousands or tens of thousands of years - so I don't think it's realistic to think that we'll see the next glaciation on the [natural] timescale," Prof Mysak explained.
Groups opposed to limiting greenhouse gas emissions are already citing the study as a reason for embracing humankind's CO2 emissions.
The UK lobby group the Global Warming Policy Foundation, for example, has flagged up a 1999 essay by astronomers Sir Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, who argued that: "The renewal of ice-age conditions would render a large fraction of the world's major food-growing areas inoperable, and so would inevitably lead to the extinction of most of the present human population.
"We must look to a sustained greenhouse effect to maintain the present advantageous world climate. This implies the ability to inject effective greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the opposite of what environmentalists are erroneously advocating."
Luke Skinner said his group had anticipated this kind of reception.
"It's an interesting philosophical discussion - 'would we better off in a warm [interglacial-type] world rather than a glaciation?' and probably we would," he said.
"But it's missing the point, because where we're going is not maintaining our currently warm climate but heating it much further, and adding CO2 to a warm climate is very different from adding it to a cold climate.
"The rate of change with CO2 is basically unprecedented, and there are huge consequences if we can't cope with that."
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He was the leader of the governing Workers' Party in the Senate, and as such a key and powerful ally of President Dilma Rousseff.
If it had not been for the unprecedented events on 25 November, Mr Amaral would now be using all of his political skills and contacts to try to stop impeachment proceedings against President Rousseff.
The Senate is due to vote next week on whether to launch an impeachment trial against the president on charges that she manipulated government accounts.
If a simple majority vote against a trial, Ms Rousseff stays in power. If a simple majority vote in favour of a trial, she is suspended for its duration and Vice-President Michel Temer takes over.
Brazilian media largely think the vote will go against the president.
Mr Amaral would have been the man in charge of cajoling and convincing senators to vote against the impeachment trial.
But his arrest on 25 November in the capital, Brasilia, changed his fate dramatically and could arguably change that of the president, too.
Not only was Mr Amaral the first sitting senator to be arrested in Brazil, the allegations against him were dramatic, too.
Before becoming a senator for the Workers' Party, Mr Amaral held a key job at state oil giant Petrobras.
Petrobras is the company at the centre of a massive corruption scandal which has led to the arrests of dozens of lawmakers and businessmen in Brazil.
Mr Amaral's arrest was triggered by a recording in which he appeared to try to buy the silence of jailed Petrobras executive Nestor Cervero by offering to help him escape from jail in Brazil to safety in Spain via Venezuela.
At first it seemed like Mr Amaral had acted alone, trying to shield himself from being incriminated by Cervero.
Mr Amaral's stint at Petrobras dated back to 2000 and 2001, a time when the opposition PSDB was in power, not the Workers' Party.
While having their Senate leader arrested was certainly damaging, the damage seemed containable for the party.
But it soon emerged that some of Mr Amaral's closest friends had been given top executive positions under the Workers' Party government and had gone on to become key figures in the multibillion dollar kickbacks scheme at Petrobras.
Not surprisingly, President Rousseff and the Workers' Party sought to distance themselves from Mr Amaral following his arrest.
In hindsight, turning their back on him may have been a costly political mistake.
Feeling isolated and betrayed, Mr Amaral signed a plea bargain deal with authorities promising to reveal everything he knew about the corruption scandal.
He has since implicated 74 people from almost all parties.
They have all denied any wrongdoing and accused the senator of lying.
While Mr Amaral's allegations have yet to be proven, the political damage his accusations have caused seems irreversible
His main targets have been President Rousseff and her predecessor in office, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
He accused Lula of leading the graft scheme at Petrobras by securing key roles for corrupt allies.
According to Mr Amaral, the corrupt executives would secure inflated contracts with construction companies, which would then pay part of their windfall to the executives and politicians who were in on the deal.
Mr Amaral also alleged that he had acted under Lula's orders when he tried to buy Cervero's silence.
And he accused President Rousseff of trying to silence him after he was arrested in November.
Both Lula and Ms Rousseff have denied the accusations and called Mr Amaral a liar.
The allegations have been hugely damaging to Ms Rousseff's political standing at a time when she is fighting impeachment over unrelated allegations.
Before Mr Amaral's revelations, support for her impeachment seemed to be waning in Congress. But the fresh allegations against her and Lula gave her critics a boost.
They gained further strength on Tuesday, when Brazil's Attorney General Rodrigo Janot asked the Supreme Court to launch an investigations into Lula and Ms Rousseff based on the allegations made by Mr Amaral.
Considering all the things Delcidio do Amaral has confessed to, it may come as a surprise he is no longer in prison.
As part of his plea deal, he not only managed to secure his release from jail but also to retain his job as a senator.
As such, he will get to vote next week on whether his former ally turned bitter enemy, President Rousseff, should face an impeachment trial.
Unless he himself is first suspended by the Senate's ethics committee, that is.
An open letter signed by head teachers across Devon says increased testing is "causing low morale in schools" and schools are "haemorrhaging" teachers.
The Department for Education (DfE) said its reforms are raising standards, and tests are in pupils' own interests.
But, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) said teaching had become a means of getting pupils through tests.
The 57 head teachers said they wanted the government to "put a stop to the chaos and resulting damage that your government is currently inflicting upon children".
The letter states: "We call into question the quality of political leadership and lack of coherent vision of the current government."
The group said there has been a huge increase in workload, cuts to funding, "poor political leadership" and a "lack of clear vision" from the government.
The letter calls on the DfE to acknowledge the "haemorrhaging of teachers and leaders from the profession due to excessive workload and changes to pay and conditions".
Andy Woolley, Regional Secretary of the NUT for the South West, said: "The tests being imposed on them get teachers to teach to the test and children to concentrate on the test."
The DfE said the tests allow teachers to see which pupils need extra help.
A DfE spokesman said the government was "looking in depth at the three biggest concerns teachers have raised - marking, planning and resources and data management".
"We are also making funding fairer, consulting on proposals for a new national funding formula so that areas with the highest need attract the most funding," he said.
Laura MacIntyre, from Barra, suffered serious injuries in the blast which killed her friend Eilidh MacLeod.
Her family said she was a strong-willed girl who would continue to battle.
Eilidh's parents had earlier confirmed she was one of 22 people to have died, saying: "Our family is devastated."
Laura's family said in a statement their "hearts and minds" had been with Eilidh's family since they heard the news.
They added: "Our daughter Laura is a funny and witty young girl who excels in everything she does.
"Laura and her friend Eilidh were so looking forward to the concert, but that night has now ended in tragedy where Eilidh has lost her life and Laura is in a critical condition.
"We want to thank everybody for their support including the emergency services for all that they have done and all they continue to do.
"We know that Laura is in the best possible place and is receiving the best care that she can."
Eilidh and Laura, pupils at Castlebay Community School, were among thousands of people who had attended a show by US singer Ariana Grande.
Eilidh's parents said: "Our family is devastated and words cannot express how we feel at losing our darling Eilidh.
"Eilidh was vivacious and full of fun. She loved all music whether it was listening to Ariana or playing the bagpipes with her pipe band.
"As a family we would like to express our thanks and gratitude for the support and kind messages we have received at this difficult time."
A minute's silence was held at 11:00 across Scotland to remember the victims of the attack.
A crowdfunding page set up to help the girls' families, originally set at £2,000, has raised more than £26,000.
The girls were accompanied on their trip to Manchester by family members. Their parents flew to the city following the attack.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament that support would be in place on Barra for anyone who needs it, and for as long as it is needed.
Ms Sturgeon said the death of Eilidh and the "horrific" injuries suffered by Laura would be felt in a way that was "much, much more intense" in the close-knit island community.
She said Scottish government officials had contacted Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Council - to see what further assistance they could offer.
The council's education director, who is an educational psychologist, is already on Barra, and will be joined later on Thursday by a further educational psychologist and an NHS clinical psychologist.
Ms Sturgeon said: "Between them they are going to be focusing on the support that the families and those who were closest to these two girls will need.
"Their aim will be to keep things as normal as possible for the school that the girls attended, but to make sure that there is the support in place for young people who are going to need it."
The first minister also pledged that support would be available "not just today, next week or next month, but for as long as it is needed".
And she expressed her "anger and disbelief" at leaks to the media in the US of sensitive intelligence about the Manchester attack investigation, which Ms Sturgeon said was "completely unacceptable and cannot be defended".
The BBC understands that police investigating the attack have stopped sharing information with the US in order to prevent further leaks.
Other party leaders also paid their respects to the victims of the attack during the subdued session of first minister's questions.
Police Scotland, which has sent extra officers to Barra, said at least 41 people from Scotland were at the Manchester Arena during the suicide attack.
Troops have been deployed at Ministry of Defence and civil nuclear sites across Scotland to free up armed officers after the UK's terror threat level was raised to critical.
But Chief Constable Phil Gormley said there was currently "no foreseeable prospect" of Police Scotland asking for soldiers to publicly patrol in Scotland, as they are doing in some areas of England.
Mr Gormley said security arrangements around upcoming events such as the Scottish Cup Final, the visit to Scotland of former US president Barack Obama, the Edinburgh Marathon and the Lisbon Lions memorial events in Glasgow had been reviewed to ensure they were "fit for purpose".
But he said he was confident the force had "sufficient firearms capability to meet all foreseeable threats and demands going forward".
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar confirmed that additional support had already been made available to staff and pupils at Castlebay Community School, where the girls were pupils.
A comhairle spokesman said; "We are continuing to closely monitor events. We are mindful of the impact on pupils and staff at the school and are providing all necessary support."
On Wednesday the head teacher at the school, Annag Maclean, said staff and pupils were "in shock, feeling numb and struggling to come to terms" with a "violent attack targeted at young people". She said all their thoughts were with Laura and Eilidh and their families.
The local authority said it was also having discussions with the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) regarding the exceptional circumstances for pupils sitting exams in the coming week.
The Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, Bishop Brian McGee, has travelled to Barra to visit the school and to offer support to Laura and Eilidh's families.
The Church of Scotland's Rev Dr Lindsay Schluter, minister for Barra and South Uist congregations, has also offered support.
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The 24-year-old claimed his first European indoor title in a time of 7.51 seconds.
France's defending champion Pascal Martinot-Lagarde took silver, with Czech Petr Svoboda in third.
"It was a scrappy race so I really had to work hard to get back after a slow start but I'm really happy," Pozzi told BBC Sport.
Pozzi, who qualified fastest for the final, trailed out of the blocks before surging back to edge out Martinot-Lagarde by 0.01secs.
"At halfway I thought 'I'm not losing this one' and just gave everything and gave a big dip on the line," he said.
"It was closer than I would've liked but I got there in the end."
In winning Great Britain's first gold medal of the championships, Pozzi also became the first Briton to win the men's 60m hurdles title since the last of Colin Jackson's three victories in 2002.
"Forget the time, he's got the title," said BBC Sport pundit Jackson, who holds the world record at the event of 7.30 seconds.
"He fought his way through and showed he is a true champion, that is the most important thing. He will be full of confidence, relieved and happy."
Germany's Cindy Roleder won gold in the women's 60m hurdles final, ahead of Alina Talay of Belarus and compatriot Pamela Dutkiewicz.
After pulling up with a hamstring injury at the London 2012 Olympics, Pozzi endured several years of chronic foot injuries, having had several operations on both feet.
He missed out on qualifying for the Rio 2016 110m hurdles final but has been in impressive form this year, running a personal best indoor time of 7.43 seconds at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix in February.
"It has been a long old road and I wasn't sure I'd ever get to the level I wanted to be at so to win with grit and determination, I'm over the moon," he said.
"This is the first championships I've come into with a good amount of work behind me and I felt really confident - to feel like I'm starting to get there means everything, it makes it worth it."
Olympic heptathlon champion and BBC Sport pundit Denise Lewis
What Andy has done there is simply sublime - it wasn't the best technical race but he showed that his mindset is so strong
He was determined, he knew exactly what he needed to do and he delivered.
Sometimes you're not always in the best condition so it's about that winning mentality and knowing what to do when it counts.
He had to be more aggressive than he would've hoped to have been because we normally see him so silky smooth over the hurdles.
That was grit, determination and wanting that medal more than anything in the world and the ripple effect it could have on the rest of the British team is massive.
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The privilege was granted in 1989 to all who worked on a computer for more than five hours a day.
However, Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, speaking on Greek TV, said the custom "belonged to another era",
The decision comes as part of the government's reform of the public sector in a bid to meet bailout terms.
Greece received two bailouts from the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) totalling about 240bn euros (£200bn; $318bn) on the condition that the government imposes cuts and implements restructuring.
The working hours saved by scrapping the computer leave would be the equivalent of an extra 5,000 employees, Mr Mitsotakis told Skai TV on Thursday.
He described it as "small, yet symbolic" step in modernising an outdated civil service. Mr Mitsotakis is the man in charge of overhauling public institutions.
Other perks that have already been scrapped include a bonus for showing up to work and passing on a dead father's pension to his unmarried daughters.
In July, the Greek parliament approved plans to reform the public sector, placing up to 25,000 public sector workers into a mobility pool by the end of the year, when they will either face redeployment or redundancy.
The Greek economy has shrunk further than any other in Europe, with an unemployment rate of 27%.
They will give young people the right to demand social networks delete any personal data they had shared prior to turning 18.
The Queen said the UK would retain its "world-class" data protection regime.
The proposed Data Protection Bill will reflect plans described in the Conservative Party manifesto ahead of the general election in June.
In a document further detailing its plans, the government said its key priorities were:
The government also said it would implement the General Data Protection Regulation - new EU data protection rules due to come into force in 2018.
It said the new UK bill would ensure the country met its obligations while a member of the EU, and would help the UK maintain its "ability to share data with other EU members states and internationally after we leave the EU".
The new bill will replace the Data Protection Act 1998.
Responding to the speech, a spokesman for the technology industry trade body techUK said: "We support the government's commitment to maintain the UK's world-class protection of people's personal data. This will include implementing the General Data Protection Regulation, the biggest transformation of data protection rules in a generation."
The announcement was also welcomed by Nick Taylor, managing director at business consultancy Accenture Strategy.
"This new data protection law is the news that many companies have been waiting for to accelerate their GDPR programme and make it a concrete part of their business," he said.
"Companies now have certainty that they will have to comply with tougher rules, and this gives them the incentive, and need to get their GDPR programme right."
A pontoon barge supporting The City of Adelaide was towed from the Scottish Maritime Museum at Irvine on Friday.
The ship has been there since it was salvaged in 1992, after sinking the previous year in Glasgow's River Clyde.
The Adelaide was built in Sunderland in 1864. Its new Australian owners are having it towed to London, where a cargo ship will take it to Adelaide.
The planned start of the journey had been delayed from last week following adverse weather conditions in Ayrshire.
The pontoon supporting The Adelaide is now being towed out into the Irish Sea.
Over the next seven to 10 days, it will travel round the tip of Cornwall and up into the River Thames.
The historic clipper will then be loaded onto a cargo ship for its final journey to Australia.
The City of Adelaide was built on the River Wear to carry people emigrating to southern Australia.
In 1893 it became a hospital ship, but in 1924 was converted into a training ship at Irvine, and renamed HMS Carrick.
In 1991 the ship sank at the Princes Dock, Glasgow, and lay on the bottom of the River Clyde for a year before being raised and taken to Irvine.
For years, it lay rotting on a slipway at the Scottish Maritime Museum, with the cost of repairs put in excess of ??10m.
A rescue campaign mounted by rival consortiums from Adelaide and Sunderland saw the Australian group win the bid for ownership.
It formally took control of the Adelaide two weeks ago.
The visitors added 143 runs before lunch as Ross Whiteley hit 45 off 36 balls, before declaring on 324-8.
Set 454 to win, Worcestershire's New Zealand paceman Matt Henry claimed 5-36 as Northants were bowled out for 142.
Joe Leach also chipped in with 2-49 to become the leading wicket-taker in either division with 38 victims.
Henry's first five-wicket haul of the season came in his final game for Worcestershire, with South African fast bowler Kyle Abbott set to replace him.
Worcestershire debutant George Rhodes, who hit an unbeaten 31 earlier in the day, also took his maiden first-class wicket when he had Ben Sanderson caught behind.
Despite Essex having a game in hand, back-to-back four-day victories for Worcestershire have seen them emerge as one of the main challengers for the single promotion spot.
Steve Rhodes' side, who now hold a 17-point advantage over third-placed Kent, travel to Chelmsford at the end of August.
Northamptonshire, who have struggled with the bat throughout the season, are still looking for their first Championship win of 2016.
Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"We are in the promotion race. I'm very proud of the guys here this week. They've got points to prove and want to play for each other. Our approach and attitude was outstanding.
"Our running between the wickets and ground fielding was testament to where some of the lads are in their careers.
"We showed great character to come back from 54-5 on the first morning. We showed we can bat all the way down and dominated the game from that first afternoon onwards.
"Matt Henry has been an outstanding member of the dressing room. He's bowled well this year and not quite got the rewards - but here he has."
West had seemed about to repeat his infamous Taylor Swift moment, when he stormed the VMAs stage in 2009.
However in a rant on E! afterwards he said he decided to smile and sit down out of consideration for his daughter.
The rapper also said he thought Beck "should've given his award to Beyonce."
"I just know that the Grammys, if they want real artists to keep coming back, they need to stop playing with us. We ain't gonna play with them no more," he told E! After Party, as he was interviewed alongside wife Kim Kardashian.
"And Beck needs to respect artistry and he should've given his award to Beyonce."
West went on to say that he and other artists were "tired" of being disrespected by the Grammys.
"Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration.
"And we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place."
West's stance echoed the 2009 VMAs, when he stormed on stage as Taylor Swift was accepting her award, to say he thought Beyonce should have won.
Beck took the stage invasion in his stride, beckoning West towards the microphone.
He later and later told Us Weekly: "I was just so excited he was coming up. He deserves to be on stage as much as anybody.
"How many great records has he put out in the last five years right?
"I still love him and think he's genius. I aspire to do what he does."
Many Grammys commentators initially thought West's brief appearance next to Beck had been a joke.
However, the rapper said it was out of consideration for his daughter, North and his wife that he had decided not to speak.
"I'm not going to do nothing to put my daughter at risk, but I am here to fight for creativity," he said.
"That's the reason why I didn't say anything tonight, but you all know what it meant when Ye [referring to himself] walked out on that stage!"
West had performed his track Only One during the ceremony, as well as appearing with Sir Paul McCartney and Rihanna for a performance of their collaboration FourFiveSeconds.
Beck won two Grammys including album of the year for Morning Phase, beating Ed Sheeran, Pharrell Williams and Sam Smith as well as Beyonce in that category.
Beck revealed to Billboard at Saturday night's pre-Grammys party that he was not expecting a trophy.
"It would be a surprise with this record, honestly. I've been in that category before, and it's usually something that's very definitive of the time."
Speaking after the show, he reiterated: "I thought she was going to win. Come on, she's Beyonce!"
In the final event, Beyonce won three awards, while Sam Smith was the evening's big winner with four. See our list of key winners and our full story for more.
Footage is then shown of an attack before the words "Guilty or Not Guilty? You Decide…" flash up on screen alongside a website address.
The verdict is overwhelmingly guilty and the man is killed by lethal injection while the camera is running.
This vigilante justice is handed out by a gang called Tuko Macho, which is Swahili for "we are watching".
It is also the name of a hugely successful fictional web series in Kenya which, with the help of social media, has attracted tens of thousands of viewers and been nominated for an award at the Toronto Film Festival.
"I really wondered what a Kenyan superhero would look like, especially a purposeful one like Batman," says Jim Chuchu, the director of Tuko Macho.
"I feel like Nairobi is such a Gotham City sometimes ‒ we have our own version of all these super-villains. They don't wear costumes but they are equally crazy and get away with much worse."
The show became an instant hit.
As the story unfolds and more criminals are kidnapped by the gang, more fictional votes are cast ‒ the creators even involve the audience by asking them to cast votes in real life.
The second case featured a hit-and-run involving a preacher ‒ a woman accused of killing someone in her car and leaving the scene.
Again it was put to the vote in the TV show, and again the verdict was guilty.
Mr Chuchu is aware of the parallels between his series and life in Kenya.
"There are so many people who are known to be in the drugs business and have been for years, but nothing ever happens," he says.
"There are people who have murdered, there are people who have stolen billions of shillings and they are just walking around the streets or running for office.
"You get the idea that court, and police and jail is some kind of performance and it only plays out on people of a certain social status ‒ if you're rich enough, if you're powerful enough all these rules don't apply to you."
For decades in Kenya there have been extra-judicial killings by police, but these appear to have increased under the umbrella of counter-terrorism.
"Many times the response of the public to these kinds of extra-judicial killings has been congratulatory," says John-Allan Namu, an investigative journalist with Africa Uncensored.
His investigation into attacks on street traders was used as one of the cases in Tuko Macho.
"It's something that has appealed to the Kenyan populace for sometime even though it is completely abhorrent and completely wrong, so that's why I think there's something to draw from in Tuko Macho."
But the problem of impunity, which emerges with a large amount of extra-judicial killings, has come to the fore recently with the death of human rights lawyer Willie Kimani.
He was killed along with a taxi driver and his client, who was in the process of making a complaint to the courts over police brutality.
Four officers have been charged with murder.
"When Willie Kimani died it hit home, for once, with a segment of the population that never really was affected by extra-judicial killings: middle class, professionals, people who really wouldn't have a reason to be a target of the police," says John-Allan Namu.
"I've seen a bit more reflection about why the police are using these means, and therefore whenever something like this happens there's more attention on it and we start to discuss it more openly."
The web-series Tuko Macho explores some of the reasons why the main protagonist decides to take vigilante action ‒ a sense of failure within the judicial system.
"People need to ask themselves would they trust the courts to deliver justice for them and if not why?" asks assistant director George Gachara.
"In the programme we are very clear about the failures of vigilantism ‒ it's a conversation."
He is also a member of The Nest, an arts collective in Nairobi, which produced the show.
"Among the questions in our heads was how does art and creative work start speaking to society, citizenship and our own identity within Nairobi, Kenya and Africa?"
During the raids on 7-8 May and 8-9 May 1941 more than 400 people were killed in the East Yorkshire port.
In all 1,200 were killed, 3,000 injured and more than 150,000 were made homeless by German raids on the city.
A service has been held at Holy Trinity Church and a book about the attacks has been launched.
The book written by a local author, mixes fact and fiction with any profits going to the Hull People's Memorial fund.
Hull suffered numerous air raids because it was a port, easy to find, and German aircraft flew over it to reach other targets such as Sheffield, Liverpool or Manchester.
Alan Bingham, of the Hull People's Memorial, said: "I think it is extremely important to remember the people who lived through the blitz and who survived.
"They have lived through the nightmares for the rest of their lives. Some of the sights they have seen must have been truly horrendous."
Source: A North-East Coast Town - T Geraghty
The Rev Canon Dr Neal Barnes, Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, said: "The city was really traumatised and we wanted to help the people to remember."
The service in the church included popular songs from WW2 to "get into the mood that helped Hull get through those dark days", he added.
Other events and exhibitions to mark the blitz are being held over the weekend.
"If the export continues the animals will be decimated," a government official has told the BBC.
China imports many donkey hides, using the gelatin in medicinal tonics, aphrodisiacs and anti-ageing creams.
In August, neighbouring Burkina Faso banned the export of donkey skins on similar grounds.
"About 80,000 donkeys have been exported so far this year compared to 27,000 last year," Atte Issa, at Niger's livestock ministry, said.
The government has also banned the slaughter of any donkeys within Niger.
The BBC's Baro Arzika in Niger's capital, Niamey, says the trade in donkeys has become so profitable that livestock sellers are abandoning other animals for the donkey trade.
A donkey now costs between $100 (£75) and $145, when it used to cost about $34.
A similar price hike in donkey skin was witnessed in Burkina Faso where the animal's hide rose from about $4 (£3) a few years ago to $50.
In both countries donkeys are commonly used to transport goods, though some communities eat their meat.
The ban was issued through a joint decree by Niger's ministries of farming, finance and internal affairs and trade.
Gelatin made from donkey skin is highly prized in China as a medicinal tonic, thought to nourish the blood, boost the immune system and act as a general pick-me-up. It is sometimes referred to as one of the "three nourishing treasures" (zi bu san bao), along with ginseng and the antlers of young deer.
The most famous donkey gelatin is produced in Dong'e County in north-eastern Shandong Province, where it is traditionally made with the local well-water.
Donkey gelatin is sometimes mixed with walnuts, goji berries and other tonic foods and sold in dark, gummy slabs that can be eaten as a snack.
Health and longevity is a Chinese national obsession, and tonic foods like this are often lavishly packaged and presented as expensive gifts.
Aside from gelatin, donkey meat is a delicacy in some Chinese regions, especially in the north of the country.
Here, the lean meat is often simmered in a richly-spiced broth, and then cooled, sliced and served with a refreshing dip of chopped garlic and vinegar. The meat has a fine, dense texture and a marvellous flavour that's a little reminiscent of beef.
In northern Hebei province, one famous snack is the lu rou huo shao, in which chopped, spiced donkey meat is mixed with fresh green chilli and stuffed into a layered pastry - its name is sometimes translated into English as a "donkey burger".
Donkey meat may also be made into soups and stews.
As the Chinese middle classes have grown richer, demand for donkey gelatin and other tonic delicacies has soared - in January the New York Times reported that a shortage of donkey gelatin had encouraged a boom in imitation products.
Williams swapped the oval ball for the round one at Donegal's Glenswilly GAA club on Thursday, in what could kindly be described as tough conditions.
His appearance was part of Irish broadcaster RTÉ's The Toughest Trade.
The TV series explores the lives of GAA athletes and how they compare to their professional counterparts across the world.
Glenswilly chairman Eddie Crawford described Williams as a "lovely lad".
"Sometimes you don't' know what to expect but he was a real sound genuine lad," Mr Crawford told the BBC.
"He bedded in well and took to it like a duck to water.
"We played him up front because he's fast and he's a very determined person."
Despite nearing his 40th birthday, Eddie Crawford said the winger certainly didn't look out of place.
"We weren't going easy on him, he was doing strength and conditioning at 6am in the morning and he did everything we did.
"Overall he was very pleased and happy, he's a country lad from outside Swansea.
"I think he was tired after a hectic week but he enjoyed the experience and said he would come back to Donegal. We made him very welcome," added Mr Crawford.
Before the encounter, Williams told RTE that he expected a physical challenge.
"I'm not coming in with any expectation that it will be easy, that's for sure," he said.
"I know that it's a physical sport and a highly skilled one, so I expect that I'm in for a hard time, and that's exciting too.
"I want the boys to make it as hard as possible for me, so I can know what I'm capable of," he said.
Although he was faced with a blizzard at St Mary's, Williams chipped in with four points to help his teammates defeat rivals Convoy.
After the match, Glenswilly GAA praised the Welsh wizard's for an impressive debut.
Shane Williams remains Wales' all time leading try scorer with 58 tries in 91 appearances before quitting international rugby in 2011.
County Donegal and Glenswilly captain Michael Murphy will now travel to France to test his skills with Top 14 rugby outfit Clermont Auvergne.
Karin Williams from Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, was injured along with five children and three adults outside Rhws Primary School in July 2013.
On Wednesday, she was presented with a Royal Humane Society bronze medal for her actions.
The driver of the car was found guilty of careless driving in May 2014.
Faye Chamberlain will then hold the More than a Game exhibition at Newport's Dragon Park.
The six-month project with the Football Association of Wales Trust, which has received funding from Arts Council of Wales, starts ahead of of the Euros.
The social documentary photographer said she wanted to show another side to Welsh football.
"The people of Wales' focus might be on Gareth Bale, Chris Coleman and the games, but I want to show a side to Welsh football that is just as important," she said.
"I'm a huge football fan so to work on this project is so exciting."
The aim of the project is to highlight the indirect impact the sport makes on people's lives.
As she travels around Wales taking photos she will also be hosting photography workshops in selected communities.
Nick Capaldi, chief executive of Arts Council of Wales, said: "Sports and the arts alike bring real benefits to individuals and make significant and positive contributions to many aspects of our lives.
"We look forward to seeing some of the stories of the devotion and passion of football supporters and participants in community groups across Wales being captured on camera."
Alongside this, Wrexham Museum have three weeks to complete their sport exhibition and are calling on members of the public for help.
To end their exhibition, the museum is looking for digital photographs of the crowds, banners and celebratory images alike.
Organiser Jonathan Gammond, who is working with author Philip Stead and founder of the Welsh Football Collection, Ceri Stennett, to illustrate the tournament.
Fans are asked to send their digital photographs to [email protected], telling them where the photograph was taken, which game it was at, when it was, who is in it and who took the photograph.
The photographs will either appear in the exhibition, used to promote the exhibition or be archived as part of the Welsh Football Collection for future displays and research.
Police and the ambulance service were called to the incident at about 18:10 on Saturday.
They found the man critically injured and he was taken to Kirkcaldy's Victoria Infirmary, where he died later.
Police said they were pursuing a "positive line of inquiry" but appealed to anyone with information about the incident to get in touch.
Ch Insp Steven Hamilton said: "Our inquiries are at an early stage but we believe this to have been an isolated incident and the wider community need not be alarmed.
"We would ask anyone who has information that can assist us to please get in touch.
"There will be high-visibility patrols in the area to provide community reassurance and members of the public are encouraged to speak to an officer."
The 19-year-old suffered the injury during Tuesday's 5-1 home loss to Charlton Athletic in League One.
The Chelsea loanee, who has made six league starts for Rovers so far this term, was taken to hospital after the game for treatment.
"A bad night got terribly worse," boss Darrell Clarke told BBC Radio Bristol.
"It looks like a fractured arm. It's very disappointing, especially with James Clarke out as well, so we have a couple of centre-halves missing."
Palomeque, 18, did not take part in the men's heats after a urine sample tested positive for testosterone.
The IOC has carried out more than 5,000 drugs tests during the Olympics and Palomeque is one of 11 athletes to be excluded from the Games as a result.
He has stated that the result was caused by him injecting himself with a homeopathic product that he believed included no banned substances.
The International Olympic Committee have wiped Palomeque from all London 2012 records.
The 2011 South American 200m champion provided the sample on his arrival in London on 26 July and was initially banned on a temporary basis.
Palomeque's coach Raul Diaz Quejada told an IOC disciplinary commission hearing that he had injected Palomeque with the homeopathic product on five occasions during July to aid his recovery from a hamstring problem.
But the IOC has said it doubts those injections were the cause of the failed test.
"Professor Christiane Ayotte, scientific expert, confirmed that, based on the composition mentioned on the packaging of the product, which does not mention testosterone as an ingredient, and due to the description of the product as homeopathic (i.e. using very diluted concentrations of its ingredients), such product is unlikely to have caused the adverse analytical finding," an IOC statement read.
The IOC have asked Columbian officials to look at the case and consider sanctions and will pass Palomeque's file to athletics governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations.
While Hong Kong's students continue their protests and stumbling negotiations with the territory's authorities, democracy activists from around the world, some of whom have helped their struggle, gather together.
The Oslo Freedom Forum is one of the biggest meetings of human rights activists in the world, and this year its rather surreal proceedings have a different tension, as activists trying to take on Beijing's actions in Hong Kong seek to hold their ground.
Activists are furious at what they see as Beijing's proposals to fix the election of Hong Kong's next chief executive.
However, far from being impromptu demonstrations, it is an open secret at this meeting in Norway that plans were hatched in Hong Kong for the demonstrations nearly two years ago.
The ideas was to use non-violent action as a "weapon of mass destruction" to challenge the Chinese government.
Organisers prepared a plan to persuade 10,000 people on to the streets, to occupy roads in central Hong Kong, back in January 2013.
They believed that China's moves to control the Hong Kong election would provide a flashpoint where civil disobedience could be effective, and planned accordingly.
Their strategies were not just to plan the timing and nature of the demonstrations, but also how they would be run.
BBC Newsnight has been told that some leading protestors received advice and materials from Western activists to help them train as many as 1,000 of those who would later be involved in the demonstrations
Yang Jianli, a Chinese academic, was part of the protests in Tiananmen Square 25 years ago.
He has been talking to the Hong Kong students on a daily basis.
He says that the students are better organised than the Tiananmen protesters ever were, with clearer, more effective structures for their action and clearer goals about what they are trying to achieve.
But he adds that responsibility for what happens next is not just down to the protesters themselves, not just down to other democracy activists like those gathered here in Oslo, but to the rest of the world.
Jamila Raqib, the executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution based near Boston, which analyses and distributes studies on non-violent struggle, says it is clear that protesters have been trained how to behave during a protest.
"How to keep ranks, how to speak to police, how to manage their own movement, how to use marshals in their movement, people who are specially trained.
"It was also how to behave when arrested - practical things like the need for food and water, movement can last longer when people are taken care of, and also how to manage a water cannon being used against you, and other types of police violence."
In a statement Occupy Central with Love and Peace (OCLP) said none of its members had attended the Oslo Freedom Forum or received "any specific training" from the organisations mentioned in this report.
OCLP said it had openly held "non-violent protest" workshops in Hong Kong but these were "wholly organized by OCLP, without any support or intervention from foreign organisations."
It also said the "inititiators" of OCLP had never been in contact with Yang Jianli, nor had OCLP been in contact with Jamila Raqib.
Protests don't always work.
Srdja Popovic, one of the student leaders involved in overthrowing Slobodan Milosevic, was another of the protest veterans in Oslo.
He has since trained activists in 40 countries, but he says the techniques of non-violent action that he advocates have led to successful and lasting change in only six or seven countries.
He argues that there is more need than ever for the methods of organisation and leadership to be shared.
He says that after the 20th Century military race, "what we are seeing now is a new world race - now it is 'can the good guys learn as well as the bad guys?'."
Mr Popovic has not had any involvement with the Hong Kong protests, but says whether in Georgia, Ukraine, Egypt or Hong Kong "you can look at these movements - and see the set of rules".
"You have to understand the rules of the non-military battlefield."
His work in Oslo, along with the writings of the American human rights activist, Gene Sharp, is in high demand.
There is something incongruous about the Oslo meeting - seeing Chinese dissidents, American computer hackers, activists from Africa, the Middle East and Russia trade information over champagne and canapés.
Like any conference, a good deal of the work is done after hours, even if it is schmoozing for democracy.
Two members of Russian opposition female punk group Pussy Riot, members of which were put in jail by President Putin, are here too.
They say they want to "make personal contacts" and meet others doing similar human rights work.
What this event shows is that struggles for democracy or human rights in the 21st Century rarely happen in isolation.
Activists, whether those on the streets of Hong Kong right now, or from other parts of the world, are sharing information and insights faster than ever before.
30 October: Correction
This article has been amended after an earlier version may have given the impression that the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests were planned by foreign activists. The amended version makes clear that the planning for the Hong Kong demonstrations was carried out in Hong Kong, with support from abroad. It includes a statement from Occupy Central with Love and Peace (OCLP), saying that none of its members had attended the Oslo Freedom Forum or received "any specific training" from the organisations mentioned in this report. The amended article also makes clear that Mr Popovic has not had any involvement with the Hong Kong protests.
The Glasgow-based financial mutual said sales rose by 33% to £33.9m in 2016.
It attributed the increase to improved sales of protection products and greater demand for investment ISAs.
Scottish Friendly said protection sales jumped by 54%, thanks to partnerships with brands such as Beagle Street, Sun Life, Smart Insurance and British Seniors Insurance Agency.
Meanwhile, investment sales rose by 15%.
Scottish Friendly's new chief executive, Jim Galbraith, said: "2016 has been another fantastic year for Scottish Friendly, demonstrating the progress that a well-run mutual can make.
"Our strong sales have largely been led by white label outsourcing to key business partners and this is likely to continue as a growth area for us.
"The My ISA platform proposition developed in 2012 for our customers and business partners has also attracted healthy sales growth and we will add to this product suite in 2017 with our own approach to the Lifetime ISA being introduced from April."
He added: "Whilst Brexit has resulted in considerable volatility it has, of late, resulted in a strong surge in the UK stock market which has been great news for investors.
"Nonetheless, there is considerable uncertainty ahead as we approach notification of Article 50 and the US adjusts to a new presidency.
"While we are cautious about the prospects for 2017, we will carry on seeking out opportunities that will benefit our members and our partners and continue offering quality products and services."
The former Burnley full-back was in the right place to tap in substitute Dele Alli's fine low cross.
Spurs were always in control against a lacklustre Watford side, but were continually denied by their former goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes.
The Hornets failed to record a shot on target and fall to 10th in the table.
Spurs were always well on top, having 26 efforts on goal, but lacked the killer touch until Alli came off the bench to continue his superb season and tee up Trippier for the winner.
Alli was left out after feeling unwell during the 3-0 win at Norwich in midweek but quickly made the difference for Mauricio Pochettino's side once more.
You would have been forgiven for thinking on Saturday morning that the Premier League title was a two-horse race, such was the focus on leaders Leicester's trip to Manchester City.
But Spurs, with just three league defeats all season and seven wins from their last nine games, have crept under the radar to move into a great position to fight for their first title since 1961.
They have not finished second since 1963 but now have a squad who look capable of pushing Leicester and Manchester City all the way.
Leicester's stunning lunchtime win meant Spurs kicked off in the knowledge that a win would put them second overnight.
And their win against the Hornets would have been secured far earlier had Gomes - who had an eventful six-year stay at White Hart Lane - not made eight saves.
Spurs may be five points behind the Foxes but with Leicester facing Arsenal next weekend, while Spurs take on City, that could soon change.
Pochettino rotated his full-backs. leaving out Danny Rose and Kyle Walker, with Ben Davies and Trippier starting instead.
And both players fully justified their selection with superb attacking displays, providing the width in a patient, but attacking display.
In the first half Davies was twice denied by Gomes' reflex saves, and Trippier - who made 10 crosses from right-back - popped up in space to grab the winner when Alli's cross with the outside of his boot picked him out at the far post.
For Watford it was largely a day to forget. A damaging run of four straight defeats was arrested at the end of January but there was no sign of a side who had held Chelsea in midweek.
Manager Quique Sanchez Flores chose to split up his 20-goal strike partnership of Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo, with Deeney tired after a gruelling run of games, but the change in system only served to leave Ighalo woefully isolated in the first half. Ighalo had the fewest touches (14) of any outfield player before Deeney came on at the break.
The captain's return made little difference though, as the Hornets ended the game without a single effort on target.
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Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino, speaking to BBC Sport: "I feel very proud of the players.
"We need to be calm. We are in a very good position in the league but the philosophy from the beginning of the season has been to go step by step. We are a very young squad so it is important to keep going and take every game and competition and be ready to compete.
"We still need to be more clinical, we created a lot of chances but need to score more."
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Watford boss Quique Sanchez Flores: "It was completely difficult. We expected a tough match. Tottenham play really quick, play intelligent balls, they have a lot of good players so it was very difficult to stop their attacks.
"Tottenham have improved since the last time we played. They have more confidence and they are one of the best teams. They have the chance to win the league.
"Playing against Chelsea and Tottenham in four days is too much. We did all the best we could but it was not enough."
Tottenham could put a gap between themselves and third-placed Manchester City with a win at the Etihad next Sunday, while Watford face a short trip to freefalling Crystal Palace.
Match ends, Tottenham Hotspur 1, Watford 0.
Second Half ends, Tottenham Hotspur 1, Watford 0.
Foul by Tom Carroll (Tottenham Hotspur).
Troy Deeney (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Watford. Nyom tries a through ball, but Troy Deeney is caught offside.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Tom Carroll replaces Christian Eriksen.
Delay in match (Tottenham Hotspur).
Attempt missed. Odion Ighalo (Watford) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Etienne Capoue with a cross.
Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nathan Aké (Watford).
Attempt saved. Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Dele Alli.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Valon Behrami.
Attempt blocked. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Watford. Conceded by Eric Dier.
Attempt blocked. Odion Ighalo (Watford) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Troy Deeney.
Attempt saved. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Son Heung-Min.
Foul by Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur).
Valon Behrami (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur).
Nyom (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Heurelho Gomes.
Attempt saved. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kieran Trippier.
Attempt missed. Kevin Wimmer (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Christian Eriksen following a corner.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Craig Cathcart.
Attempt blocked. Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Son Heung-Min replaces Erik Lamela.
Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Odion Ighalo (Watford).
Attempt blocked. Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.
Kieran Trippier (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Etienne Capoue (Watford).
Attempt missed. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.
Foul by Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur).
Craig Cathcart (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1, Watford 0. Kieran Trippier (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dele Alli with a cross.
Attempt saved. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Dele Alli.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Dele Alli replaces Nacer Chadli.
Attempt saved. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Etienne Capoue (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Bob Frost, who represents the North Deal ward on Dover District Council, posted a tweet describing an encounter with the man on Sunday.
In it, he wrote he had told him to "f**k off back to Romania".
Opposition Labour councillors said the message was offensive, but Mr Frost said he was surprised by the response.
The full message, posted from his personal account, read: "Being ex Home Office I feel qualified to offer helpful free immigration advice. Just told local Big Issue seller to f**k off back to Romania."
Other Twitter users condemned the message, which was also reported to the council and local Conservative MP, Charlie Elphicke.
Labour group leader Mike Eddy said the tweet was "disgraceful" and showed Mr Frost was "unfit to represent the town".
"It's offensive, childish and possibly a crime as an incitement to racial hatred," he said.
"It's time for Bob to stand down, unless the local Tory leader thinks this kind of behaviour is acceptable."
Councillor Paul Watkins, the Conservative leader of Dover District Council, said the tweets were "embarrassing" and needed to be investigated.
"I've suspended him on the basis there is public concern and we've had complaints," he said.
In a statement, Mr Frost said: "I am somewhat surprised that the usual suspects, having been so supportive of the principle that Charlie Hebdo can make jokes about the Prophet Mohammed, find quips about EU benefit tourism somehow beyond the pale.
"This is no more likely to incite racial hatred than jokes about Polish plumbers or the German predisposition for reserving sun loungers.
"Labour Party members really should get a life (as well as some electable policies)."
He added that the local elections had seen him increase his share of votes by 18%.
In August 2011, Mr Frost was suspended from the Conservative group after using the phrase "jungle bunnies" in reference to the London riots.
More than 97% of voters in a referendum chose to remain as five states rather than form a single region, it said.
The vote was boycotted by major rebel and opposition groups which say a united region would have more autonomy.
The referendum was part of a peace process to end 13 years of conflict that has left 300,000 people dead.
Ahead of the vote, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on war crimes charges related to Darfur, said it would be a free and fair poll.
However, the US state department warned that the referendum could not be considered credible "under current rules and conditions".
The vote was held amid ongoing insecurity and many of Sudan's 2.5 million displaced people were not registered to vote.
The electoral commission said 3.08 million people out of 3.21 million eligible voters turned out for the referendum earlier this month.
Rebels have long sought more regional powers to end what they see as Khartoum's interference in land ownership conflicts.
They believe that the government's splitting of Darfur into three states in 1994, and then into five states, led to heavier control from Khartoum and helped to trigger the conflict that broke out in 2003.
Correspondents say the Sudanese government believes a unified Darfur would give the rebels a platform to push for independence just as South Sudan did successfully in 2011.
The ICC has indicted President Bashir on counts of genocide and war crimes committed in Darfur.
Mr Bashir - who has told the BBC he will step down as president in 2020 - has dismissed the ICC as a "political tribunal".
Cardiff suffered a fourth straight Championship loss for the first time since 2007 when they were beaten at home by Leeds on Saturday.
With the Bluebirds bottom of the table, Trollope is urging patience.
"I've received good support from the owner, chairman [Mehmet Dalman] and chief executive [Ken Choo]," he said.
"They know what we're trying to build and create.
"Of course there's a need for short-term results, we don't want to be in the league position we're in because it hurts.
"Patience is key, especially in the modern game, because everyone wants short-term results, I certainly do.
"It hurts me that we're not getting them."
The defeat by Leeds was Trollope's eighth league game in charge of Cardiff, having succeeded Russell Slade at the end of last 2015-16.
Even at this early stage of the campaign, however, the future of the former Bristol Rovers boss has been the subject of scrutiny.
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"The results are nowhere near acceptable, that's my responsibility, I know that," said Trollope.
"It's my responsibility to shape it and mould it and get the best out of people.
"I'm totally aware of that, but I also believe in how we work, that this will turn."
Leeds secured victory with an assured second-half display, though their opening goal came against the run of play after Cardiff had controlled the game before the interval.
The visitors were awarded a penalty when Bluebirds defender Matt Connolly tangled with Pontus Jansson at a corner and wrestled him to the ground.
Leeds manager Garry Monk said it was a "definite penalty" but, having seen players grapple each other from set-pieces throughout the game, Trollope felt the decision from referee Graham Scott was inconsistent.
"Probably the refereeing decision changed the game, which was frustrating for us because there was a lot going on at set-pieces at both ends," he said.
"There was a warning before. Listen, I'm not saying it wasn't a penalty, but if he's giving it then he could be giving a few at either end.
"That moment changed the game and meant we had to chase it in a different manner, we left ourselves a wee-bit open."
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More than 240 people have died and at least 368 were injured, officials said.
Many people are still believed to be buried under rubble and more than 4,300 rescuers are using heavy lifting equipment and bare hands to find them.
Many of the victims were children, the health minister said, and there were warnings the toll could rise further.
Early on Thursday, Italy's civil protection authorities said a total of 247 people were now known to have died, with 190 deaths reported in Rieti province and 57 in neighbouring Ascoli Piceno province.
Rescuers said they had pulled five bodies from the ruins of the Hotel Roma in the historic town of Amatrice. Officials said about 35 people had been staying at the hotel and most had managed to get out. About 10 people were still unaccounted for, a local fire official said.
Late on Wednesday there were cheers in the village of Pescara del Tronto when a young girl was pulled alive from the rubble after being trapped for 17 hours. Almost all the houses there had collapsed, the mayor said.
The 6.2-magnitude quake hit at 03:36 (01:36 GMT) on Wednesday 100km (65 miles) north-east of Rome.
Hardest hit were the small towns and villages in the mountainous area where the regions of Umbria, Lazio and Le Marche meet.
People there spent the night outside or in tents provided by the emergency services.
Among the victims was an 18-month-old toddler, Marisol Piermarini, whose mother Martina Turco survived the deadly 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila and moved away from there after the experience, Italian news agency Ansa reported.
Ms Turco was being treated in hospital after being pulled from the rubble in the village of Arquata del Tronto, Ansa said.
The area has also been shaken by strong aftershocks, including a 4.7-magnitude tremor with its epicentre about 7km east of Norcia, according to the US Geological Survey.
The mayor of Amatrice said three-quarters of the town had been destroyed and no building was safe for habitation.
Many of those affected were on holiday in the region. Some were in Amatrice for a festival to celebrate a famous local speciality - amatriciana bacon and tomato sauce.
The country is no stranger to earthquakes: the 2009 L'Aquila tremor killed more than 300 people and in May 2012 two tremors nine days apart killed more than 20 people in the northern Emilia Romagna region.
Earthquakes are an ever-present danger for those who live along the Apennine mountain range in Italy.
Through the centuries thousands have died as a result of tremors equal to, or not much bigger than, the event that struck in the early hours of Wednesday. The modern response, thankfully, has been more robust building and better preparation.
Mediterranean seismicity is driven by the great collision between the African and Eurasian tectonic plates; but when it comes down to the specifics of this latest quake, the details are far more complicated.
The Tyrrhenian Basin, or Sea, which lies to the west of Italy, between the mainland and Sardinia/Corsica, is slowly opening up.
Scientists say this is contributing to extension, or "pull-apart", along the Apennines. This stress is compounded by movement in the east, in the Adriatic.
The result is a major fault system that runs the length of the mountain range with a series of smaller faults that fan off to the sides. The foundations of cities like Perugia and L'Aquila stand on top of it all.
Opponents are suing the city of Houston over its decision to extend benefits to same-sex spouses of city employees.
Houston officials argue that they are required to provide them under a US Supreme Court 2015 ruling that same-sex marriage is a legal right nationally.
The court had initially chosen not to hear the legal challenge.
However, under pressure from Republican state lawmakers, including Governor Greg Abbot, the all-Republican court reversed that decision in January and allowed the trial to begin.
In several amicus briefs (advisory opinions to the court), lawmakers asked the court to reject the "'ideology of the sexual revolution" that federal judges had passed into law.
Conservative lawyers argue that the 2015 decision by the US Supreme Court in Washington, Obergefell v Hodges, does not contain language specifically extending benefits to gay spouses.
"Obergefell may require states to license and recognize same-sex marriages, but that does not require states to give taxpayer subsidies to same-sex couples," lawyers challenging Houston policy wrote in a court filing.
Houston officials say they had no choice but to offer the benefits, since the law requires same-sex married couples to be extended the same rights as heterosexual married couples.
Arguments began on Wednesday at the state courthouse in Austin.
The court is expected to issue a decision by the end of June.
It was spotted by a walker on Tal y Foel, near Dwyran, at about 13:40 BST on Tuesday.
The item has now been sent for forensic examination, while the coroner will be informed.
North Wales Police said it was continuing to look into the circumstances surrounding the discovery.
A Daily Telegraph report included a film of Wright apparently accepting money in return for allegedly helping persuade Barnsley to sign players.
Speaking before the 50-year-old's dismissal, Heckingbottom told BBC Radio Sheffield: "We have do things properly.
"We have to speak about it at the right time because it's not nice for anyone."
As part of an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption in football, the newspaper claims Wright accepted £5,000 at a meeting in Leeds in August.
The Championship club initially suspended Wright "pending an internal investigation" into the allegations.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for Wright has said: "Any suggested acts contrary to criminal law or those of the Football Association and Fifa are categorically denied."
Barnsley, who were promoted to the Championship last season, play Leeds United in a Yorkshire derby on Saturday.
"We have to stay strong and focused," said head coach Heckingbottom.
"I can't talk about that. There will be time for me to speak about it later on. The club and myself can make statements later because there are still things ongoing.
"At this moment everything I am doing is focused on the players and the team just as it always is.
Heckingbottom is hoping for a swift resolution, but added: "It is out of my hands. People are dealing with it. It is a big issues and people are following the correct procedures. It ends when it ends."
The new jobs come on top of the 1,700 it said it would create in February earlier this year.
The move came as the company completed the purchase of Tata Steel's speciality steels division for £100m.
It said it was making multi-million-pound investments to secure the future of five sites across the North of England and West Midlands.
The acquisition will make Liberty one of the largest steel and engineering employers in the UK, with more than 4,500 workers.
The company said these would protect the jobs of 1,700 existing staff at three major sites at Rotherham, Stocksbridge and Brinsworth in South Yorkshire, smaller sites in Bolton, Lancashire and Wednesbury in the West Midlands and two distribution centres in China.
Speciality steels produces a range of high-value steels used in the manufacture of vehicles, aircraft, industrial machinery and equipment for the oil and gas industry.
Liberty said it would invest up to £20m in new plant and equipment in the first year alone to boost competitiveness and secure international market leadership for the business, which is being relaunched as Liberty Speciality Steels.
The business will increase output substantially at the electric arc furnaces, casting shop and bar mill in Rotherham, with bigger plans across the wider speciality business in the years ahead.
The hat, made from beaver fur, was found wedged inside the attic fireplace in a Georgian farmhouse in South Derbyshire.
Experts explained these hats were "lucky items" placed in chimney breasts as far back as the 16th Century to "ward off evil spirits".
The hat is expected to fetch between £40 and £60 in the sale next month.
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Charles Hanson, manager of Derbyshire-based Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers, said: "Often in chimneys or very old properties you do find lucky items that were placed in chimney breasts to ward off evil spirits, like dead cats or objects.
"It would have maybe been on the high street as the latest fashion in Derby, down Sadler Gate in the 1790s, and it's just a really interesting find.
"Who knows, it might only make £20, it could make £100. It is sadly very tired."
The hat would have been worn by members of the upper class, and this type of hat also became part of uniforms donned by policemen and postmen, according to the antiques expert.
It is unclear how long the top hat has been in the fireplace of the home, located just outside Repton.
The hat will be entered into Hansons' textiles auction on 22 February.
It is Brian Ervine, brother of the former PUP leader David Ervine who died more than three years ago.
Meanwhile, two PUP members have announced they are leaving the party. They said they were going on good terms, but it was not the party they joined.
Mr Ervine, a teacher, has said he wants to carry on his brother's legacy.
The party's last leader, Dawn Purvis, left the PUP because of its ties with the UVF which was believed to be behind the murder of Bobby Moffett on the Shankill Road in June.
Mr Ervine said the PUP must ensure there are no more murders like that of Mr Moffett.
He encouraged "progressive elements" to help "clean up criminality on our streets"
"One cannot profess to be a good loyalist or unionist and be a drug dealer or a parasite on their own community," he added.
Mr Ervine has defended his decision to support the retention of links with the UVF.
"I believe that the channels should still be opened and in the great scheme of things over the past 10 years there hasn't been a complete cessation, but it has eased tremendously," he said.
"That's due to progressive men in those organisations and the restraining influence of the PUP."
Dr John Kyle had been standing in as interim leader since Dawn Purvis' resignation.
For the umpteenth time, the delivery was poor. It was low, harmless and easily cleared.
In that moment, Arkadiusz Milik, Ajax's impressive young striker who bizarrely started the match on the bench, threw his hands in the air in frustration at the botched set piece. Davy Klaassen, the captain, shouted his anger. On the touchline Ajax manager Frank de Boer scowled and walked away.
There were 17 minutes to go and Celtic were comfortable in their 2-1 lead. All the while they made life difficult for themselves with skewed passing, Ajax hadn't created much and didn't look like creating. They looked a young team - average age of 21.5 - that had just about run out of ideas.
The main concern for the visitors was the sight of Emilio Izaguirre continuing to make some risky challenges despite being on a yellow card.
Ronny Deila tinkered with the idea of taking him off, but decided against it for fear of running out of substitutions late in the game when he might desperately need one.
He banked on Izaguirre keeping his head, but it didn't happen. The red card changed everything. The dynamic altered instantly, not just in numbers terms but in confidence, too.
A minute after Izaguirre walked, De Boer brought on Lasse Schone, a clever player who, like Milik, was inexplicably left out of the starting team.
Suddenly, Ajax had a swagger. Suddenly, their deliveries started finding their target. Suddenly, they were a threat.
Klaassen could have scored with 12 minutes left. Milik hit a post with 10 minutes remaining. When it came, their second equaliser was no surprise.
Celtic have a wearying habit of not just losing leads in Europe but also, more recently, losing goals from set plays. Here was another. Schone's free-kick was viciously effective but yet again nobody in that Celtic defence took charge. There was no dominant defender and no decisive goalkeeper. There was just the sight of a fourth goal in three European matches conceded from a dead ball.
It could have been worse, of course. Those closing minutes were fretful. Milik had another chance and narrowly missed. Celtic could easily have left Amsterdam with nothing. It would have been harsh but they were hanging on for dear life at the end, like a boxer waiting for the mercy of the bell.
It was a strange night, a night that might have left some in the Celtic party a little addled over what to make of it all.
There will be torment for what might have been had Izaguirre not seen red but also relief that the dismissal only cost them two points and not all three.
The bottom line is handsome enough. A point in Amsterdam is a fine start to Europa League Group A, which has become all the more cut-throat following Molde's win away at Fenerbahce. It's given Celtic something to build on in the games ahead.
The night also served as a reminder of Kris Commons' worth. Commons' story at Celtic is an odd one. You always get the sense that he's undervalued by supporters. Not by all, but by many.
Last season, he spent periods out of the team and looked like he was leaving the club. He'd virtually said his goodbyes at Hamilton when throwing his boots to the crowd.
It's fair to say that even though a new contract was agreed, Deila has not shown him a whole lot of love. Stefan Johansen has been his attacking midfielder of choice. Thursday night was the first time in nine European matches that the Celtic manager gave Commons a start.
Towards the end of August, the treasure trove of statistics and trivia that is the OptaCeltic Twitter account sent out some details about Commons that made the jaw drop a little.
The midfielder had just played his 200th game for Celtic, against Dundee United at Tannadice, and his running tally of goals and assists stood at 83 goals and 64 assists. After Amsterdam those numbers now read 83 and 66 in 203 games.
In other words, Commons has contributed either a goal or an assist in 73% of the matches he has played for Celtic. That's a stat worth thinking about - and marvelling at. For an outlay of around £300,000 Commons could legitimately be included in a conversation about the best value-for-money signings in Celtic's recent history.
At the Amsterdam ArenA he took just eight minutes to expose Deila's folly of keeping him on the bench at Pittodrie last Saturday. His footwork in setting up Nir Bitton for the opening goal was gorgeous and, later, his delivery for Mikael Lustig to score the second was dead-eye.
Commons was excellent even though he was playing out of position, on the right of midfield. Some Celtic people gripe about him being overweight. When it looked like he was leaving the club last season there wasn't a clamour among the support to keep him. And yet on nights like this he is Celtic's best player. A creator that still has much to offer even if his opportunities to show it are oddly limited.
Deila has had some bad nights in Europe in his time in charge, but this was one of the better ones. Two goals, one point and some confidence restored.
The shake-up is one of the coalition government's biggest reforms, allowing people who have saved for a pension to do what they want with their money.
It means people who are retiring no longer have to buy an annuity to provide a fixed, regular income.
The changes were announced by Chancellor George Osborne in his March 2014 Budget.
Until now those who were retiring could cash in up to 25% of their pension pot as a tax-free lump sum.
They then had two options: reinvest their pension pot - or keep their current investments - and take an income from their funds as they needed. The second option open to them was to take out an annuity, which provided a fixed, regular income in their retirement.
The changes that have now come into force mean those due to retire now can do whatever they like with 100% of their pension pot, for example invest in property, although crucially they will still only receive the first 25% tax free.
The reforms have been welcomed in principle, but pensions experts have raised concerns about how they will operate in practice.
Many pension companies have said they are not yet ready to allow people to cash in their pensions because it brings extra costs to schemes as well as risk.
More than half of workplace pension schemes are still undecided about whether to offer access to the new freedoms, and 15% say they definitely will not, according to pension consultants Xafinity.
The government has promised impartial advice sessions on the reforms.
But despite government assurances that they will be ready for "pensions freedom day", some pensions industry experts have voiced concerns.
There have also been claims that not all of the advisers needed have been recruited yet.
But Pensions Minister Steve Webb dismissed as "completely wrong" claims that two million people would immediately be looking to take advantage of the new rules.
He added there were hundreds of people specially trained to give advice - 300 at the Department for Work and Pensions and more at Citizens Advice Bureaux and the Pensions Advisory Service.
Cashing in
A 57-year-old man from a Devon village has emerged as one of the first people to cash in their pension under the government's reforms.
Michael Gunn, a retired chartered accountant, wants to spend some of it on a new roof for the church hall.
But in defiance of experts, he also wants to use the money for a transatlantic cruise.
Mr Gunn was not prepared to say how much he would be taking out of his pension pot, but he has taken care to heed warnings about tax bills.
"What I like about this is that you are totally in charge of how much tax you are exposed to - to stay within a lower tax band," he said.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "There are plenty of people to give advice… we are confident the capacity is in place".
He also dismissed concerns about pensioners running out of money early, as has happened in Australia.
He said the government's new flat rate pension would act "as a floor to fall back on."
He also argued that more people would save more money for retirement because the new pension provisions were "more attractive and more flexible".
Last week, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) warned that thousands of people withdrawing money might find themselves paying much more tax than they needed to.
Other experts have pointed out that, in any case, people taking out cash will have to pay what is called "emergency tax".
Unless individuals can show a P45 tax form, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will treat any payments as if they are a new monthly salary.
In other words, they will charge tax on the basis that the new income is repeated every month for a year.
So anyone cashing in a pension of £18,000 - assuming nothing is taken tax-free- would be charged an immediate tax bill of £6,592.
Those in that position will have to reclaim the tax using forms P50 or P53.
However HMRC has promised they will get the money back within a month.
Meanwhile, hundreds of staff from Citizens Advice - and Citizens Advice Scotland - are preparing to offer free face-to-face interviews with anyone who needs help, from Tuesday.
Those aged 55 or over can go to one of 500 offices in England and Wales, or 90 in Scotland. Those living in very remote areas of Scotland can arrange home visits.
But customers will only receive "guidance", not advice.
"What we don't do is provide any details of which companies people can go to for pensions - or which particular products," said Richard Chilton, one of those who will be conducting the interviews.
"But we provide guidance on what the options are," he said.
The police were attacked while driving from patrols back to Bungu village, 110km (70 miles) south of the main city Dar es Salaam, local media report.
Police say they pursued the bandits back to their hideout, killing four of them in a shootout.
President John Magufuli has expressed his shock at the officers' deaths.
Police described the attack as "banditry" and said that the attackers had stolen weapons.
The BBC's Sammy Awami in Dar es Salaam says attacks on police and police stations, where bandits make away with weapons, are relatively common in Tanzania.
Home Affairs Minister Mwigulu Nchemba has announced a wide-ranging investigation into the killings, local media report.
Hadzialic, 29, is minister for higher education in the centre-left government and Sweden's first Muslim minister.
She called the drink-driving incident "the greatest mistake of my life".
Hadzialic, who arrived in Sweden aged five from Bosnia-Hercegovina, drank two glasses of wine before being stopped on the bridge linking Denmark and Sweden.
She faces a possible term of up to six months in prison after police detected a blood-alcohol level of 0.2 grams per litre.
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Explaining her error, she said she had drunk one glass of sparkling wine and one of red after a night out in Copenhagen. She set off for Sweden's southern city of Malmo four hours later.
Hadzialic said she thought that would have been enough time for her body to get rid of the alcohol.
Explaining her decision to quit, the Social Democrat told reporters: "I choose to do this because I believe what I have done is that serious."
Sweden is one of several European countries which have low alcohol limits for drivers.
UK, Malta: 0.8 (Scotland 0.5)
United States: 0.8
Most European countries, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy: 0.5
Sweden, Poland, Estonia, Cyprus: 0.2
Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia - no alcohol while driving
A 0.5-limit would mean an average man can take take a small glass of beer or a large glass of wine and women to half a pint of beer or a small glass of wine
Sources: drinkingandyou.com; European Transport Safety Council
More than 300 children were admitted to hospital for teeth extraction in the city in 2012-13, while treating diet-related diseases costs £80m a year.
The Sugar Smart City initiative has the backing of TV chef Jamie Oliver.
He has asked food outlets in the city to adopt a voluntary 10p sugar levy on soft drinks with added sugar.
The food campaigner has recently launched a voluntary levy on sugary drinks in his own restaurants, with the money raised going to Sustain, a charity working in health and food education.
The money raised elsewhere in the city from the charge will be paid into the Children's Health Fund.
Statistics have shown that one in four children in Brighton and Hove are already overweight or obese by the time they leave primary school.
The city's director of public health, Tom Scanlon, said over the years sugar had been creeping into diets, often in ways that were hidden.
"We don't know where it is - it's in sauces and added to food on our behalf, as well as in a lot of those sugared drinks we drink most days," he said.
The first phase of Sugar Smart City will be a debate to explore what residents, public agencies as well as food retailers and takeaways, can do to combat the city's addiction to sugar.
The city will be asked to share views through a postcard and online survey, and via social media, focus groups and events, with the aim of it becoming the UK's first Sugar Smart City.
During February, anyone can drop off a knife in one of 11 designated "blade bins" without fear of prosecution.
Sixteen people have been killed in knife attacks in Greater Manchester in the last three years.
The blades will be used to create an angel statue in memory of those who have lost their lives to knife crime.
The sculptor, Alfie Bradley, said surrendered knives from other areas will also be used in the statue, which would show "the emotion and pain of using knives".
A former gang member from Moss Side, who was caught carrying a machete at the age of 14, now goes into schools to talk to youngsters about the dangers of gang violence.
Daryl Laycock said: "We've lost too many young lives.
"A lot of people carry knives for protection, but they pull out that knife and get it taken off them and get stabbed to death with it.
"I know over 50 people who have been murdered by violent crime and it's time to end it."
He said the campaign "can make a massive difference. Even if only one knife is handed in, that's at least one life saved".
Det Ch Insp Debbie Dooley said: "In the wrong hands, a knife is a deadly weapon.
"The knife bank will enable members of the public to surrender knives safely and anonymously and in turn remove these weapons from our streets."
The drop bins will be located at:
It comes after the body of a baby boy was found by a plumber clearing out drains in a garden in Scartho Road, Grimsby, on 11 February, 2016.
Sinead Connett, 28, of Constables Way, Hertford, is due to appear at Grimsby Magistrates' Court on 16 May.
Humberside Police said it was not releasing any further details in relation to the case at this stage.
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A post-mortem examination proved inconclusive, but police said at the time the baby "must have been placed there".
The footage tells you a lot about society at the time.
Crowds, dozens deep, lined the roads and railways to catch a glimpse of the sovereign.
Over pictures of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at Stormont, the Pathé narrator says: "Her Majesty the Queen has found overflowing expression of the undoubted loyalty and love of all her people in Northern Ireland."
1953 is the year in which the republican writer and former Sinn Féin publicity director Danny Morrison was born.
After viewing the footage, he observes that the way the royal visit was handled and reported suggested the nationalist community did not exist.
He says that the royal tour would not have meant anything to nationalists.
"They would not necessarily have resented it," he said, "but back then before the civil rights campaign, they would have accepted that was their lot."
By 1966, there had been the first rumblings of conflict - and in that year, the Queen visited Northern Ireland for the last time before the Troubles broke out.
She opened the bridge in Belfast which bears her name.
But in a sign of the coming hostilities, a young nationalist dropped a brick from a high building onto the bonnet of the royal car.
The monarch did not return to Northern Ireland until 1977 - her Silver Jubilee year.
Security was so tight that the Queen had to stay overnight at sea and take her first ever helicopter flight to get to Belfast.
Republicans staged a demonstration which they called the "Queen of Death March".
It ended in a clash with the security forces.
Two years later, the royal family lost one of their own.
Lord Mountbatten was one of four people killed by an IRA bomb on their fishing boat off the western Irish coast.
An end to the violence felt a long way off.
But in the early 1990s, amidst whispers of the moves towards the peace process, the Queen began to undertake visits to Northern Ireland again.
In 1998, there was a moment which showed the potential power in sovereign symbolism.
The Queen took part in a public event with the Irish President Mary McAleese for the first time - on a World War One battlefield in Belgium.
They opened the Island of Ireland Peace Park at Messines.
Londonderry community worker and former loyalist leader Glenn Barr was one of the people who led the project.
He says the lesson of history was very relevant.
"This is the choice," he reflects. "You can learn to solve your differences through dialogue, or you fight a civil war and fill the graveyards of Ireland north and south, and you'll have to sit down and talk at the end of it."
He remembers that the potent image which was broadcast globally helped to open the way for more of the same.
"We knew there were talks then about the possibility of Messines setting the scene for Her Majesty to visit the Republic at some point," he says.
"We were very aware that a magnetic friendship had appeared between Her Majesty and President McAleese."
That friendship continued to grow.
It culminated in 2011, when the Queen came to the Republic of Ireland for a state visit.
She stood beside the Irish President at Dublin's Garden of Remembrance - and laid a wreath in memory of the rebels who fought British rule.
Sinn Féin did not meet the monarch on that visit.
But the gestures - which also included the Queen addressing dignitaries in Irish during a banquet - helped to change republican thinking.
The following year, Martin McGuinness became the first republican leader to shake her hand, during a visit to Belfast.
The meetings which were once unthinkable became more regular.
But this week has seen more history made and healing found.
The future King made a poignant pilgrimage to the place his mentor was murdered.
And the heir to the throne met the Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams, in public and private.
Danny Morrison says that for republicans, meeting the royals who are technically at the head of the Crown Forces was a difficult step.
But he thinks that the changed royal-republican relationship is "extraordinary".
"I am an Irish republican, but I have to recognise that the British people revere their head of state. I think it represents that we're moving away from conflict, away from disagreement and difference and towards accommodation, peace and respect," he said.
Glenn Barr says "you couldn't have a more meaningful gesture than Gerry Adams meeting Prince Charles, and Martin McGuinness shaking hands with Her Majesty the Queen".
"If that's the leadership she has given to us as her people, then we should take it," he added.
The relationship between royalty and republicanism used to mirror the faultlines during the Troubles.
But now historic handshakes have come to symbolise restoration and reconciliation.
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Two "suspect devices" were also discovered at the property in Kirkton Avenue, Blantyre, on Wednesday.
A bomb disposal unit was brought in to evaluate and remove the items. Police said there was no suggestion the incident was linked to terrorism.
The man is due to appear at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Friday.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "About 9am yesterday, police responded to a report of firearms and ammunition found within a property in Kirkton Avenue, Blantyre.
"The property was searched and two suspect devices were also found.
"The Royal Navy explosive ordnance disposal unit evaluated the devices and then removed them for examination.
"Numerous items, including firearms and ammunition, were seized."
It's 350m long and for almost every 3m you walk, you go up almost a metre in height - that's steep! But it's not the only strange street or random road in the world…
This is Lombard Street in San Francisco, USA. It's officially the world's most crooked street with a total of eight tight hairpin turns along just 400m of the street. And it's downhill, so traffic can only travel one-way at a 5mph speed limit.
The narrowest street is in Reutlingen, Germany. It is called Spreuerhofstrasse and when officially measured in 2006 it was just 31cm at the narrowest point.
The record for the shortest street is held by Ebenezer Place in Caithness, Scotland. It officially got measured in 2006 with a length of just 2.05 metres. It's so small there's only one doorway on the street.
The Wapusk Trail road, at 467 miles in length, is constructed each year in Canada. It's thought to be the longest seasonal winter road in the world and is built on snow and ice each January giving road access for a few weeks to remote areas.
The Magic Roundabout in Swindon England definitely takes some beating. It has five mini-roundabouts clustered around a central roundabout.
The widest road in the world is the Monumental Axis, in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil. The six-lane boulevard was opened in April 1960 and is 250m wide.
The Pan-American Highway from Alaska in the USA to Brasilia in Brazil, South America is over 15,000 miles long and is the longest road - apart from a gap between the countries of Panama and Columbia - that you can drive along.
The USA's freeways can have loads of lanes on each side but the record breaker is along the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge which has 23 lanes east-bound through the tolls.
The skeleton was unearthed from a shallow pit at the Vindolanda Roman fort, in Northumberland, two years ago.
Dr Trudi Buck, of Durham University, was unable determine whether it was a boy or girl but named it Georgie.
It is believed the child, aged about 10 and who was tied up, died from a blow to the head and the body was concealed.
Foul play is suspected, because human burials in built-up areas were strictly forbidden in Roman times.
When the bones were first discovered, it was thought they were those of a large dog.
The pit in the barracks has been dated to the middle of the 3rd Century, when the Fourth Cohort of Gauls formed the garrison.
At that time, the dead had to be interred or cremated in cemeteries on the outskirts of towns or barracks, so the concealment of a body in this fashion would have been a criminal act.
Dr Buck, a biological anthropologist, said the discovery suggested the young victim was either a child slave or the son or daughter of a soldier serving on Hadrian's Wall - giving more weight to the theory that they took their families with them to Northumberland.
Dr Buck said: "I think this is definitely a murder or other unnatural death because of the way the body was deposited.
"This is very circumstantial, but possibly it was hit over the head with something because we have very good preservation of the body down to wrist bones that are 1cm in size, but not very much of the head.
"Maybe a harsh blow to the head caused a fractured skull."
Tests on the child's tooth enamel, carried out for a National Geographic Channel TV programme, showed Georgie grew up in the Mediterranean.
"It turns out the child is not from the local area and is not even from Britain," Dr Buck said.
"Until the child was at least seven or eight, they have been in southern Europe or even North Africa.
"This asks lots of questions about who this child was, how did they get from North Africa to northern Britain in the last two years of their life, and then get killed?"
Dr Buck said the Romans' use of child slaves was well-documented, so perhaps that explained how the youngster came to live by Hadrian's Wall.
"It is very sad and goes to show human nature does not change," she said.
"Perhaps there was an accident and the soldiers tried to hush it up. This is a child who was not given any rituals and Romans were very strict on burial in the right place.
"When I was working on it I was very much conscious this was a child and I gave it a name very quickly so I didn't have to keep calling it 'it'."
The four-week-old kitten has been named Sky after escaping unhurt in the incident near a holiday park at Rhyl.
She is being hand-reared at the charity's Bryn-Y-Maen Animal Centre at Colwyn Bay, Conwy county.
A spokesman said: "This poor kitten must have been through a terrifying ordeal."
The centre hopes to re-home the kitten once she is old enough.
The photographs of festivities during World War Two have been uncovered as part of a project to explore the arrival of the 8th American Air Force across the region. One event - the 353rd Fighter Group's party - was attended by hundreds of children and soldiers in Metfield, Suffolk on 25 December 1943.
David Cain, who is leading the three-year long, Heritage Lottery-funded project named the Eighth in the East, said: "People often talk about the special relationship between the Americans and the British. These Christmas parties are a really strong part of that."
Parties were held across the East of England during the war years, including at RAF Debach on 22 December 1944.
"We were aware that they did a lot of Christmas events for local schoolchildren and we thought it would be interesting to see if there were people who could remember the parties," said Mr Cain.
"We've had some great comments from people - saying 'that's my father' and pointing out people they recognise.
"It's been fantastic."
Some of the photographs, which emerged after the group asked for contributions via its Facebook page, showed local children at a party thrown by 379th Bomb Group at their club at RAF Kimbolton in Cambridgeshire.
About 28,000 US personnel occupied 70 airfields over the three years. The study is looking at airfields spread across Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.
The Eighth In The East project was established to collect the stories of Americans who served and local people who lived near the bases between 1942 to 1945.
Presents were handed out during an event at RAF Ridgewell, near Halstead, in Essex, in December 1944. The first planes of the newly-formed 8th AAF arrived in East Anglia in May 1942, just months after the bombing of Pearl Harbour in December 1941.
Damien Menzies, 25, from Bathgate, attacked the child at a dance show in Deans Community High School in Livingston on 10 October 2014.
Menzies was convicted of attempted murder following a trial in June 2016. He had denied harming the child.
Sentence had been deferred for reports about Menzies' character.
The High Court in Livingston heard how the incident has left the child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, unable to walk or talk.
The court heard how medics have been unable to ascertain what effect the injuries will have on the baby's future life.
They will not know until the baby's brain is fully developed.
On Tuesday, at the High Court in Edinburgh defence solicitor advocate Ian Bryce told judge Lady Scott that Menzies maintained his innocence.
The lawyer also said the violence for which Menzies was convicted of was "out of character."
However, passing sentence Lady Scott said: "Mr Menzies, you have been found guilty of the crime of attempted murder.
"The jury found that you acted in a reckless and wicked manner.
"You lost control and you you shook a child violently.
"The child's life is immeasurably reduced. However, the full extent of the child's injuries are not yet known and will not be known until the child's brain is fully developed."
Ayestaran, 53, replaced Gary Neville last March but the Spanish club have lost eight out of 12 games under his stewardship.
His final match in charge was the 2-1 defeat at Athletic Bilbao on Sunday.
Salvador Gonzalez Marco, also known as 'Voro', will take over as caretaker coach for a fourth time.
He was previously put in charge when Nuno Espirito Santo resigned in November 2015.
Ayestaran was Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez's assistant at five clubs, including Valencia and Liverpool.
The 55-year-old has signed a 20-month contact, with an option for an extension, a statement from the Guinea Football Federation said.
Fernandez will take charge of bids to qualify for the 2017 African Nations Cup and the 2018 World Cup.
His last job was as Israel boss and his other coaching posts have included two stints at Paris St Germain.
"I will be accompanied by (former players) Amara Simba and Kaba Diawara. My goal is to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations 2017," he told told beIN Sports, the Qatari-owned sport channel for which he is a consultant.
"Depending on the results, we'll see how the rest of the story unfolds.
Fernandez, who has spent the last years as a high profile radio pundit in France, takes over from compatriot Michel Dussuyer, who departed the job despite Guinea reaching the quarter-final of the Nations Cup in Equatorial Guinea in January.
Guinea begin qualification for the 2017 Nations Cup in June with a home tie against Swaziland.
But the country are still banned from hosting any international football matches because of the Ebola virus outbreak, forced to play their home games at a neutral venue.
The promoted club have also offered youngster Olly Mehew a further year.
But Sam Wedgbury, Marcus Kelly, Louis McGrory, Mohamed Chemlal and Anthony Jeffrey have all been released.
Kaiyne Woolery, Mark Ellis, Charlie Cooper, Jake Gosling, and Curtis Tilt's loan spells have ended, after Sunday's National League promotion final.
Meanwhile, veteran former Birmingham City midfielder Darren Carter left the Gloucestershire club on 3 May.
Our talk of dark times when the city smouldered seem out of place on this sunny day amid the greenery and sounds of laughter.
But the possibility of Brexit makes him think of a time when Berlin was a ruined city, his father's horrendous experience as a 15-year-old boy soldier and Germany's past.
"Being nationalistic is not a good thing. So if the value of the EU is damaged - and it is already fragile - and if Great Britain is out, the temptation is the German population will also consider 'what are the benefits? Why don't we do things on our own?'
"It gives you a very eerie feeling, how thin that layer of civilisation is. If you do things together with other countries in the EU it gives us a chance to come to a compromise. If we are not in the EU we will not look to compromise, but to win."
It is a reminder that the European Union means more emotionally to Germany, and many other members, than it ever can do to the UK.
It is ironic that if we do vote to leave the EU the internal politics of the institution and its member nations could matter more than ever before for the future of our country.
Talks have already started in Brussels about how to respond if we do vote to leave.
After initial bromides about building a stronger Europe they would wait for the UK Government to set out the terms it might want.
There might be a wait, if, as expected, the Conservative Party descends into civil war.
But the future might then hang on the reaction of the 27 remaining countries of the EU.
Leave campaigners constantly argue that because of the size of our economy the EU wouldn't raise trade barriers, and cut off their nose to spite their face.
Remain campaigners, on the other hand, warn that the rest of the EU wouldn't make it easy.
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In reality two main forces would be in play on the continent, competing with each other.
One is the instinct that it is indeed best for the European economy and European companies to have a smooth transition to an easy relationship. The other, that breaking up cannot appear pain-free when there are so many pressures on the EU.
What Berlin and Angela Merkel wants, does not always, automatically, become EU policy. But it has a powerful influence. That is why I went to Berlin.
When I meet the Christian Democrat MEP, Christian Ehler, he is wearing cuff links: one says "trust me", the other "I'm a politician" .
He can afford this wry gesture. He is not just a politician - he's also an industrialist, former MD of a multi-national biotech company.
He knows Mrs Merkel well, and has an important job in the European Union - coordinator for his party grouping on the industry committee.
He told me: "Politicians like to pretend they are in charge of everything. But it is not just a political decision."
The UK could get a good deal with minimal rules, he said, but it would have no say over the rules, and so wouldn't be integrated into the EU market: that could harm the British economy.
Alternatively, the EU could impose tough measures on the UK, but that could cause damage on all sides.
"Sorting it out would be a year-long nightmare, the economy (across the Eurozone) would go down by at least 3 to 5%."
Mr Ehler is frustrated. His boys at are at a British school, he has a flat in London and he travels there often and says that the economies are so linked via the EU that it would be difficult to disentangle.
"It is really complicated. It's an integrated economy. Take my constituency: one of the biggest employers is Rolls Royce, which is producing half of the engines for Airbus in Germany.
"Should we put the British out? Then my constituency is out."
Mr Ehler's committee has looked at what would happen to joint investments, such as this. His conclusion? It is a mess, a nightmare that "would have Putin laugh his butt off".
He reminds me that some of Germany's success is in part down to the structures the British put in place after the war, not least a system of industrial relations.
There is almost a sense of embarrassment at the way people almost seem to be flattering our awkward country.
But then there is a also widespread irritation that the British are more inclined to moan about being dominated by the EU than celebrate their leadership within it.
I hear several influential people argue that Germany needs the UK to push - against the French and others - for economic liberalisation.
Without the UK, Germany would be cast more firmly on one side of the debate, rather than as honest broker, which makes them feel more comfortable.
But this is mere detail to the fear that grips mainstream politicians all over Europe. The hard-right Front National will be fighting an election in France next year on the policy of a referendum on the EU.
Parties which question the European project are on the rise in Austria, Sweden, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Italy - just to mention the most obvious examples. Nationalistic governments in Hungary and Poland are happy to clash with Brussels.
The director of the German Marshall Fund's Europe programme Daniela Schwarzer tells me: "One motive (if the UK leaves) will be to not make others think this is an easy game - you have a referendum and you get what you want. There has to be a visible cost to leaving the European Union."
Germany - mindful of its dreadful past - has always preferred to exercise power through the EU, in concert with others. As the generations change this instinct becomes a little weaker.
The Greek crisis on one hand, and the migrant crisis on the other, has brought Germany's role into sharp focus, and underlined the fragility of the EU.
The rise of the right has been seen in Germany too. The Alternative for Germany (AFD) is only three years old but did well in regional elections.
Beatrix Von Storch, party vice chair and an MEP, tells me if the UK votes to leave it would be bad for Germany in one way - it would pick up the tab if our contributions disappeared.
But she adds: "It would be good if you leave just to show you can survive. We're told no one can live without the European Union - you cant trade, you can't travel, everything will break down and the UK will go bankrupt in a month or two.
"I think that's complete rubbish and I would like to see how it works and I think we will see it is possible to trade with EU without being part of it."
She says making life tough for Britain would be counter-productive.
"If they start to punish the UK this would strengthen all the movements that want to leave the EU, the movements we can see rising at the moment."
Artur Fischer says Brexit would inevitably lead to confusion.
At present he works two days a week in London, and pays 40% of his taxes in the UK. He doesn't know if that would continue. His board knows any deal with UK companies is currently covered by EU rules - they might not have that certainty in the future.
"Our industry would be against any trade barriers. They are against all trade barriers.
"But I'm pretty sure from a political point of view that after they left Britain would not have the benefits they currently have."
People may yearn for certainly in this debate - the reality is there can be none, because it depends on future moves and counter-moves.
If the UK does leave, the arguments I've been hearing in Berlin will rage across a continent.
It was the first time the island had ever faced a Premier League club, having entered the top-tier knockout competition for the first time.
"It was always going to be our hardest-ever game, but we put our heart and soul into it," Peacegood said.
"7-0 on paper sounds very one-sided but it was actually a very good contest."
Having beaten Sevenoaks and London Edwardians in the previous rounds, Guernsey always knew they would face an almost-impossible challenge against a club who have previously been European champions.
"I would say a few of our Guernsey players could find their way into that Reading side," Peacegood told BBC Radio Guernsey.
"We can take a lot away from the game that can make us a better side for the run on the EH Trophy and the inter-insular next year."
In his inaugural speech, he promised more subsidies for the poor and a major social house-building programme which would create millions of jobs.
But he also said he would streamline government administration costs.
Mr Moreno won April's closely contested presidential election, beating his conservative rival Guillermo Lasso.
"I am a president for all. I owe this to everyone. I respect everyone," President Moreno aid on Wednesday in the capital, Quito.
"I will work for absolutely no-one to be left behind."
Correspondents say Mr Moreno faces a tough job, as oil-rich Ecuador has suffered from the fall in global prices, and the country has mounting debts.
But the TV and film-streaming service has stressed it remains committed to providing an ad-free service.
There had been questions about the firm's plans after news site Motherboard reported that the firm was "experimenting with advertisements".
However, Netflix later made clear that the tests were limited to trails for its own original programming and would not be seen by all users.
"We are not planning to test or implement third-party advertising on the Netflix service," it said in a statement.
"For some time, we've teased Netflix originals with short trailers after a member finishes watching a show.
"Some members in a limited test now are seeing teases before a show begins. We test hundreds of potential improvements to the service every year. Many never extend beyond that."
The firm's chief executive Reed Hastings reinforced the point in a personal Facebook post, in which he wrote: "No advertising coming on to Netflix. Period."
This has helped to address a brief backlash on Twitter and other social media.
There has long been speculation that Netflix might eventually seek to introduce third-party ads.
Despite having increased its audience to more than 40 million paying subscribers, the firm reported a net profit of only $23.7m (£15.6) for the first three months of the year, which was less than half the amount for the same period in 2014.
Last month, Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of the marketing group WPP, suggested Netflix might eventually feel forced to run ads to help cover the cost of payments to rights-holders.
"Netflix will have to raise subscription prices - and we know what happened last time - or have alternative revenue generation opportunities, one of which will be advertising," the Guardian newspaper quoted him as saying.
One of the firm's internet-based British rivals, Now TV, already regularly runs trails for its own exclusives both at the start of selected shows as well as in breaks that interrupt programmes, where it also runs idents that promote its parent company Sky's brand.
However, it has also opted not to run ads for third-party products even though they appear on Sky's satellite channels.
Other pay-to-watch on-demand services also tend not to interrupt their content with ads, with the notable exception of Hulu Plus in the US.
"One of the effects of the shift to on-demand and over-the-top services is that audiences no longer move from one programme to another the same way," commented Ian Maude from the research firm Enders Analysis.
"In the on-demand world you can't promote shows and build audiences through the schedule.
"You are not tied in with Netflix in the same way you would be with a year's subscription to a pay TV package, so the company already uses algorithms to show you a selection of titles you might like at the end of a programme, and it will keep experimenting with other ways to keep you hooked."
Typhoon Nepartak had weakened to a tropical storm when it hit eastern Fujian province last week, but still killed at least 83 people.
Thousands of homes were destroyed in the provincial capital Fuzhou, said the Xinhua news agency.
The officials were from worst-hit Minqing County, where 73 died, it said.
The county's deputy party chief and acting head was fired, along with two other officials.
The typhoon also badly affected Taiwan, killing three people and forcing the evacuation of thousands more.
The south of China is experiencing severe flooding, following weeks of rain. At least 230 people have been killed and dozens remain missing.
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There were no casualties reported after the incident on Tuesday morning.
The state news agency said the fire had not affected the stands or the pitch and investigations were continuing into the cause.
The club, managed by ex-Brighton manager Gus Poyet, signed former Man City striker Carlos Tevez last year in a deal reported to be worth £40m.
Other ex-Premier League players in their squad are Demba Ba and Obafemi Martins.
The Chinese Super League season started earlier this month with Shenhua scheduled to host Changchun Yatai in their next home game on Sunday 16 April.
Prof Marcus Longley predicts tough choices and unpopular decisions in 2017 about the future shape of hospitals.
There have been long-term concerns that some specialist hospital services are spread too thinly on too many sites.
Prof Longley said smaller budgets and recruitment problems would see some services "struggle".
The director of the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care at the University of South Wales believes the problem will only get worse and said "tricky decisions" could be back in the public domain in 2017.
He said: "Fundamental issues raised, five, 10, even 15 years ago still haven't been resolved.
"We're still running something like 10 intensive care units across south Wales. Now that may be justified but it's quite difficult and expensive to sustain.
"That was flagged up as a problem several years ago and very little has changed, that issue hasn't gone away and has probably got worse."
Health officials have faced protests in recent years over decisions involving hospitals, including:
On wider issues facing the NHS, Prof Longley said the recruitment crisis had got worse, with particular issues for GPs and within specialist services.
He said there needed to be imaginative solutions to rising demand which were not just "reaching for the scalpel or the prescription pad".
Federal police searched Craig Steven Wright's properties, but said the raid was about tax, not Bitcoin.
Mr Wright was named by Wired and Gizmodo as the creator of Bitcoin.
The founder of the currency is believed to hold about a million Bitcoins, which are reportedly worth about $400m at the current exchange rate.
The raid in Sydney came hours after Wired and Gizmodo claimed Mr Wright was probably the mysterious "Satoshi Nakamoto", a pseudonym used by Bitcoin's creator.
Their investigations were based on leaked emails, documents and web archives, including what was said to be a transcript of a meeting between Wright, a 44-year-old academic, and Australian tax officials.
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Mr Wright is reported to have said: "I did my best to try and hide the fact that I've been running Bitcoin since 2009. By the end of this I think half the world is going to bloody know."
Journalists and Bitcoin enthusiasts have long tried to find out who created Bitcoin.
Last year, Newsweek claimed Satoshi Nakamoto was a 64-year-old Japanese-American living near Los Angeles.
Mr Nakamoto, whose birth name was Satoshi, sued the magazine over the disruption he suffered as a result of the story.
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Barby Dashwood-Morris admitted breaching planning law before Brighton magistrates earlier this month.
Wealden District Council leader Bob Standley said she was disqualified as a member after not attending a meeting for six months.
Ms Dashwood-Morris has not yet commented to the BBC.
Mr Standley said: "The rules are quite clear - if a member does not turn up to a meeting for six months then they're automatically disqualified."
He added: "When Barby Dashwood-Morris pleaded guilty to the charges, I would have preferred her to resign, but she didn't."
The council boss said Ms Dashwood-Morris was warned about her attendance, but said he understood she decided not to attend during the trial.
"While that was going on she decided not to engage in activities and that was the consequence. What was in her mind I can't speak for," he said.
During the court case, magistrates heard changes made to her 600-year-old Hellingly home, which included knocking down a wall and installing windows, were discovered when she tried to sell it.
At the time, she was chairman of Wealden's planning committee.
In a statement, Ms Dashwood-Morris told the court she and her former partner, Alan Proudfoot, who also admitted breaching planning law and was fined, "strongly believed" the work did not require authorisation.
A statement from Wealden District Council said: "A vacancy has arisen in the Chiddingly and East Hoathly Ward on Wealden District Council.
"This is due to the non-attendance of Barby Dashwood-Morris at any council or committee meetings over a successive six-month period which under Section 85 of the Local Government Act 1972 results in the immediate cessation of a councillor being a member of the authority."
The statement said Ms Dashwood-Morris was chairman of Planning Committee South from 2011 until 2013, when she was elected vice-chairman of the council.
He added that researchers should be "optimistic about the future".
But Mr Johnson could not offer any assurances that UK universities could continue to receive billions of pounds of EU research funds.
The minister, who was appointed to the post last year, spoke to scientists at a parliamentary event organised by the Royal Society of Biology.
"In legal terms, nothing has changed overnight," he told researchers at the meeting. "We remain in the European Research Area. (European research) funding will continue to flow during this period.
"EU students who are already here, or are applying to start courses in the autumn, will have student finance in place for the full duration of their courses."
But those involved in science funding said that Mr Johnson and officials at his department (Business Innovation and Skills) were "unprepared" for the event of a win for the Leave campaign.
A senior official who did not wish to be named said that Bis had no plan in place in the event of a Brexit.
"They are trying to gather information on what are the areas of research that depend most on European funding and what the priority areas should be. That information should have been collected weeks ago," said the official.
"That is why we are not hearing much from ministers. Civil servants are trying to keep them quiet because they don't want them saying anything that might be a hostage to fortune later.
"But that silence is just adding to this sense of weird uncertainty that no-one seems to have a vision for what should happen going forward."
The reason for that silence is that in order to continue to receive EU research funding as the UK does now, the country has to be part of or have access to the single market - and so agree to the free movement of people.
Free movement was one dimension of EU membership that voters opposed in the referendum and so it will be impossible for Jo Johnson and his fellow ministers at Bis to make a plan until this issue is resolved - possibly by his brother Boris, should he become Prime Minister.
Nicola Blackwood, chair of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee and Conservative MP for Abingdon and Oxford, said that the scientific community had to acknowledge that many people were worried by immigration, but there might be a way of squaring the circle by thinking "more creatively".
Some ideas, she said, could include taking students out of the immigration figures, having a shorter turnaround for visa applications and having a system that is more responsive to skills shortages.
"In the medium term, there will be uncertainty. The message needs to go out to scientists here and in Europe that we remain open for business," she said.
Ms Blackwood added that the Treasury had to commit itself to stepping in and making up any shortfall if EU funds were withdrawn.
Research leaders say that UK science benefits enormously from the free movement of scientists across Europe. It enables them to attract some of the best scientists in the world who are attracted by the UK's strong science base and the ease with which they and their families settle in the country. Britain also receives billions of pounds from EU research grants.
European Union money now amounts to nearly a tenth of university research funding. The president of the UK's Royal Society, Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, told fellow researchers at the meeting that EU funding had kept UK science competitive at a time when British government science funding had been declining in real terms. But he added that it was not just about the money.
"A key component of it is funding for research networks that bring together scientists from the EU and beyond," he explained.
"These networks are vital in allowing scientists in Europe to collaborate and to propose and implement large research programmes that no single nation can afford. If we are excluded from EU programmes, we will be excluded from many of the collaborations and decision-making bodies, and we will lose our ability to influence new developments and new research directions."
Those who campaigned for the UK to leave the EU, such as Lee Upcraft, who speaks for Scientists for Britain and was a UKIP parliamentary candidate for Wantage in 2015, believe that the UK can negotiate a deal to receive EU funds while still controlling migration.
"Nobody is sure what the future relationship is going to be. That's where the science community needs to sit down with government and work out how best to go forward," he said.
"We don't know if we are going down a European free trade area route which would maintain freedom of movement or choose something more restrictive. But when it comes to EU research funds - look at countries like Turkey and Israel which receive EU research funds where we don't have freedom of movement - so there is no reason negotiations for EU research funds depend on freedom of movement."
Mike Galsworthy, of the pro-Remain campaign group Scientists for EU, said: "The minister is absolutely right to remind us that our relationship on the science programme and provision for EU students remains unchanged at this stage," he said.
"However, little can be done at the moment to prevent hiring or investment disruptions that may be occurring across academia and industry, other than to monitor it all as best we can. Ultimately, our relationship with the EU science programme and EU science policy will involve complex negotiations around freedom of movement and financial contributions."
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South Asia was transformed dramatically during the war years as India became a vast garrison and supply-ground for the war against the Japanese in South-East Asia.
Yet, this part of the British Empire's history is only just emerging. By looking beyond the statistics to the stories of individual lives the Indian role in the war becomes truly meaningful.
Has the massive South Asian contribution to the World War Two been overlooked?
In some ways, it hasn't.
Everyone has heard of the Gurkhas and many people have heard something of the role of Indian soldiers at major battles like Tobruk, Monte Cassino, Kohima and Imphal.
The Fourteenth Army, a multinational force of British, Indian and African units turned the tide in Asia by recapturing Burma for the Allies. Thirty Indians won Victoria Crosses in the 1940s.
Increasingly, for both the World War One and Two, the contribution of soldiers from across the Empire-Commonwealth has been coming to light.
But what about all the other people who were caught up in the war?
Numerous other South Asian people sweated behind the scenes to secure supply lines and to support the Allies.
There were non-combatants like cooks, tailors, mechanics and washermen, such as a boot-maker to the Indian army named simply as Ghafur who died at the battle of Keren in present-day Eritrea and whose grave can still be seen there today.
What do we know about the thousands of women who mined coal for wartime in Bihar and central India, working right up until childbirth? Or the gangs of plantation labourers from southern India who travelled up into the mountains of the northeast to hack out roads towards Myanmar and China? Or the lascars (merchant seamen) such as Mubarak Ali, remembered simply as "a baker" who died in the Atlantic when the SS City of Benares was torpedoed?
There were millions of other South Asians working towards the imperial war effort and we never hear about them.
It wasn't glamorous work: "coolies" loading and unloading cargo at imperial ports or clearing land for aerodromes did not share the prestige of fighter-pilots.
But their work could be very dangerous.
Thousands of Asian labourers died building treacherous roads at high altitude, including the Ledo Road between China and India, working with basic pickaxes and falling prey to malaria and other tropical diseases.
Others died in industrial accidents - there was an incredible explosion in Bombay harbour in 1944, when a ship loaded with explosives and cotton caught alight, blew warships to smithereens and made over 80,000 homeless.
Factory workers and dockworkers also suffered from aerial bombardment - official figures suggest several thousand deaths from Japanese bombs on India's eastern coastline.
The men and women who kept the imperial war effort going in South Asia did not write diaries and memoirs.
Often for them it was just a job, a way of earning enough money to eat.
They did not see it as belonging to a heroic part of world history, worthy of inclusion in history books. The illiterate left little trace of their service. And often their work - hard and poorly paid - was tough and dangerous whether it was wartime or not.
British officers wrote hundreds of accounts of their time in South Asia but there is not a single written memoir by an Indian rock-breaker, road builder or miner.
It's not a simple story of heroism or patriotism; many of these workers were more motivated by the need for bread than by the need to defeat the Axis.
And it's not a straightforward case of imperial exploitation - many elite South Asians made quick profits in the war and transformed their own fortunes.
Experiences of the 1940s depended on caste, class, vantage point and region: a Punjabi soldier could see things very differently to a metropolitan student in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) or a factory-owner in Kolkata (Calcutta).
Often those who worked towards the war were Anglo-Indians, adivasis [tribespeople], Parsis and Christians - and their histories slipped by the wayside during the writing of post-independence nationalist myths.
The people who made up the war effort soon had their lives shaped again by the Partition of 1947 and the carving up of new countries.
This wartime history belongs to Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan as much as to India.
In the rush to write new histories of nation states after 1947, much of the history of the 1940s was locked out from official memory. Tales of the freedom struggle took precedence. And in Britain and the US, the emphasis was placed on remembering military contributions to major battles, not on the everyday lives of anonymous workers.
As one report put it at the time, this was not the "forgotten army", but the "unknown army". Perhaps now we can finally start to appreciate the fullest extent of WW2.
Yasmin Khan is an associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford. Her book, The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War will be published in July by Random House.
The East of England Energy Group (EEEG) told an oil and gas skills conference at Great Yarmouth engineers were coming from the EU and eastern Europe.
County business leaders said it was a short-term solution and companies needed to improve the industry's image.
Last week a Northamptonshire sandwich firm said it was recruiting workers in Hungary instead of Britain.
The hosts of the energy industry conference, Norfolk Chamber of Commerce, said firms had to work with schools to attract young women and men into the industry.
Caroline Williams said recruiting from abroad was a short-term answer.
There had been errors on both sides, she said, as the industry has not invested in skills and education had not funded science and maths subjects.
Simon Gray, chief executive of EEEG said: "The growing oil, gas and renewables sector is screaming out for engineers and is having to fly in recruits from across Europe."
He told the conference that the industry, schools and families needed to focus on training for the skills needed.
"Engineering is looked on as nasty, greasy and horrible but we need to work on that perception with our children for the next generation."
John Moore of international energy group Gardline said he would prefer to recruit locally as a commitment to the community where the firm is based.
But the interests of the business must come first and that has meant recruiting from abroad.
Sacha Persiyanov, a trainee electronics technician from Ukraine, said young people in Britain appeared to be "too laid back and had no sense of urgency".
"People come to Britain and expect to work hard to pursue their personal goals," he said.
The Leith-registered Bright Ray got into difficulties at about 17:15 on Monday.
The lifeboat and its volunteer crew were called out to the scene about four miles north of Eyemouth.
They were quickly on the scene and were able to escort the Bright Ray back to harbour using its emergency steering.
It follows claims that major housing schemes could dilute the Welsh-speaking character of certain communities.
Montgomeryshire Tory AM Russell George said there was a "golden opportunity to enshrine the importance of the Welsh language" in council decisions.
The Welsh government said "all practical suggestions" to bring this about would be considered.
Liberal Democrat AM William Powell and Plaid Cymru member Llyr Huws Gruffydd have also backed the call.
The Planning Bill will be debated in the assembly on Tuesday.
Mr Miliband was "highly intelligent" and a "good debater", the peer told BBC Radio 4's Week in Westminster.
There have been suggestions that David Cameron's chances of winning in May depend on squeezing the UKIP vote.
But Lord Patten said Mr Farage "is probably a balloon which is deflating".
His comments come in a week in which Mr Cameron vowed not take part in TV debates ahead of the general election unless the Green Party is also included.
At Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Mr Miliband called Mr Cameron's refusal to take part a "pathetic excuse".
Lord Patten told the BBC: "I wouldn't be worried about the Farage factor; I'd be much more worried about the platform it gives Ed Miliband."
He said he was concerned that during the election campaign the Labour leader "might come across a lot better" than the press says he is.
Mr Miliband, Mr Farage and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg have urged broadcasters to press ahead with televised debates before the 7 May poll even if Mr Cameron refuses to take part. The three leaders have also written to the prime minister saying it would be "unacceptable" for him to refuse to appear.
But at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Cameron said Mr Miliband was "chickening" out of facing the Greens and all "national parties" must be represented.
The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson said Mr Cameron was unwilling to do anything that gives Nigel Farage a boost.
He had long decided the debates at the 2010 election had sucked the life out of the campaign and given a boost to his opponents, our political editor said in a blog entry.
Under plans put forward by the BBC, Sky News, ITV and Channel 4 in October, the pre-election live TV debates would include the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and UKIP.
Mr Cameron would take on Mr Miliband head-to-head in one debate, another would feature Mr Cameron, Mr Miliband and Lib Dem leader Mr Clegg, and a third would also include UKIP's Mr Farage.
On the Week in Westminster, Lord Patten said Mr Cameron should not have taken part in televised leaders' debates before the last election, because "once you start doing them, they are very difficult to stop".
UKIP secured two by-election victories over the Conservatives - in Clacton and Rochester and Strood - last year.
Responding to Lord Patten's view of the threat from Mr Farage, a UKIP spokesman said the opinion polls suggested the party's popularity "wouldn't descend any time soon".
Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps said the TV debates could go ahead if the Greens were included.
He told the Times there was "still time for this all to be organised and I think it will".
"What people would appreciate is a common sense debate between either the two guys who could be prime minister or everybody who is standing nationally."
The Week in Westminster is on Radio 4 at 11:00 GMT
Officers were called to the woodland near Cerrigydrudion, Conwy county, at about 20:35 GMT on Saturday.
Police are investigating and the remains have been removed to be examined by a pathologist.
Forensic investigations are also taking place to find out how long the remains have been at the site.
The Tories said it was "sheer bad planning" to spend more than ??11m on a women's prison which will not be built and another which is to be closed.
Scotland's main female prison, Cornton Vale, is to be replaced by a series of units around the country.
The Scottish Prison Service said it was required to ensure decent conditions.
The Scottish Conservatives discovered through a freedom of information request that more than ??4m had been spent on renovations at Cornton Vale.
It also said a further ??7m was wasted in Inverclyde on a site earmarked for a prison - a plan which has since been scrapped.
MSP Alex Johnstone said: "Everyone accepts conditions for prisoners have to be of an acceptable standard, and from time to time money will have to be spent on renovations.
"But people will think it is sheer bad planning for the Scottish government to spend ??4m on a prison it knew was going to close within a few years.
"There must have been a more cost-effective solution that would ensure conditions were up to standard and the taxpayer got value for money.
"But if you add that to the ??7m wasted on the axed plans for a new super prison, it paints the SNP in an extremely incompetent light."
He added: "This is potentially reckless spending by the Scottish government, only for it to settle on a plan to build a brand new prison on the current Cornton Vale site."
A Scottish Prison Service spokesman said: "The SPS is required to spend money renovating its estate to ensure everyone held in prison is in decent conditions.
"The money spent in Inverclyde went on the site acquisition and ground works for the site.
"The original plan for the site was to build a replacement for Greenock Prison."
Previous justice secretary Kenny MacAskill wanted to build a new 300-inmate jail in Inverclyde.
But current justice secretary Michael Matheson dropped the plan, saying Scotland needed a new, radical approach for female offenders.
The new prison, to be built near the Cornton Vale facility, will house 80 of the most serious offenders.
There will be another five regional units to house 20 female prisoners each.
They will offer help over drugs, alcohol and domestic abuse and will allow offenders to be held close to their families.
A Scottish government spokesman said: "Investment in Cornton Vale is necessary as the prison will continue to be used for several years.
"The Scottish government is keen to transform prison services to help women break the cycle of reoffending and make a positive contribution to society, and we are engaging with partners with a view to investing in smaller regional and community-based custodial facilities, in line with the recommendations of an expert group headed by Dame Elish Angiolini QC."
Jacqueline Petrie invited Lisa Diduca into her home in October 2014 after she saw her standing in the street crying.
Diduca then attacked her, threatened her with a pair of scissors and stole items from the house in Dundee.
The 26-year-old denied a charge of assault and robbery, but was found guilty after a trial and was jailed.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard Ms Petrie spotted Diduca crying in the street in the early hours of the morning, and went to ask her what was wrong.
The 43-year-old said she invited the younger woman into her home after "she kept saying she was scared".
She said: "I was alone in the flat at the time. All of a sudden she started attacking me.
"It came out of nowhere. She started opening drawers and taking things, then she found a pair of scissors and held them to my neck. I was scared for my life."
Diduca later told police that Ms Petrie was lying, accusing her of being drunk and having a mental disorder.
Sheriff Alastair Brown jailed Diduca for three years after a jury found her guilty.
He said: "Ms Petrie saw you upset and crying and she went to help you. She did you nothing but good, she gave you shelter in her own home.
"She was in every sense a Good Samaritan to you, and you repaid her by assaulting her in her own home. In particular you took a large pair of scissors and held them to her neck and placed her in a state of terror.
"Robbing someone at the point of a weapon will always attract a serious sentence. Nothing excuses grabbing a woman in her own home, putting scissors to her neck and robbing her."
Murray, who has been involved at boardroom level for more than 25 years, has several malignant tumours in his stomach which require surgery.
He became non-executive chairman when Belgian Roland Duchatelet took over the club in 2014.
Murray previously spent time as owner and chairman of the Addicks.
"Richard has done so much for the club and I know it was difficult for him to step down after being so intrinsically involved over the last 25 years," Duchatelet said in a statement on the club website.
"He is positive about his long-term prognosis though and all of us at Charlton look forward to seeing him back at The Valley very soon."
The 14-year-old was airlifted to Hull Royal Infirmary after the crash on the A1031 in Lincolnshire on Friday evening.
Police said the boy died on Monday morning. The 33-year-old driver of the white Ford Transit was uninjured.
The crash happened near Theddlethorpe St Helen, about half a mile past Meers Bank, at about 19:30 GMT.
The van was driving towards Theddlethorpe from the Mablethorpe direction.
Lincolnshire Police has appealed for witnesses to contact them.
Although Wales missed out on a try bonus point, they top Group A and will be through if England fail to beat Australia at Twickenham on Saturday.
First-half tries from Gareth Davies and Scott Baldwin put Wales ahead but Fiji came back strongly after the break.
"Fiji threw everything at us, it was a tough game," said Wales coach Gatland.
"Our players showed a heck of a lot of courage there tonight and they dug deep, particularly with the five-day turnaround.
"We just needed to win and they hung in there... we've got a chance now."
With scrum-half Davies squirting over from close range and hooker Baldwin crashing over, Wales led 17-6 at half-time at the Millennium Stadium and looking good to add the two more tries necessary to claim a bonus point.
But the efforts of beating England five days before at Twickenham seemed to take its toll on the Wales players in the second half, as Fiji ran hard and scored a deserved try through Niki Goneva.
"That was so tough," admitted Wales captain Sam Warburton. "The first half, I was knackered.
"Our priority going into the game was to win. It was a really quick game and very tough for us but we've got three wins out of three.
"If somebody had told us that at the start of the campaign we'd bite your hand off."
Wales now have a welcome rest before facing Australia on 10 October in their final pool game, although the pressure could be off if the Wallabies beat England on Saturday to put the hosts out of the tournament.
"The boys will be at home tonight, Friday and Saturday off back with their families, and then come in on late on Sunday and travel up to London to prepare for the Australia game," Gatland added.
"Australia could do us a big favour but we'll just have to wait and see.
"It's nice to be in the position we're in, a win today gives ourselves a chance and we'll just see what happens at Twickenham."
An off-duty police officer reported seeing them aiming laser pens at jets from a hotel balcony in Torremolinos, near Malaga, on Tuesday night.
The British man is 41 and his son 15, police said (in Spanish), giving no further details about them.
Three pilots reported being dazzled.
They told the Malaga airport control tower, on Spain's south coast, that green laser beams had troubled them as they prepared for landing.
If found guilty, the two British holidaymakers could face a fine ranging from €30,001 (£27,280; $35,425) to €600,000 for endangering flight safety.
Spanish authorities have not yet confirmed any charges.
Raúl Delgado, spokesman for Malaga's air traffic controllers, said the laser beam "enters the cabin and starts bouncing off the windows, hampering the pilots' view of the instruments, causing much interference just when great concentration is needed for landing".
In the UK, the number of such incidents was 1,258 last year - more than three a day on average.
The UK government is tightening the law to tackle the many dangerous incidents, envisaging prison terms for offenders.
But the UK prime minister said there was "detail to be worked on" before a crunch summit on 18-19 February.
The deal, which includes an "emergency brake" on migrant benefits, paves the way for the UK's EU referendum to take place as early as June.
EU exit campaigners said it did not come close to what the PM had promised.
But the prime minister says it is a deal "worth fighting for" and he is launching a fresh round of diplomacy to persuade other EU leaders to sign up to it.
The draft deal was published by European Council president Donald Tusk after months of negotiations between UK and EU officials.
Mr Cameron's proposed four year ban on in-work benefits for EU migrant workers could come into force immediately if the UK votes to remain in the Union.
But it would have to be agreed by other EU nations and it would be "graduated", with more money from tax credits paid to migrants the longer they remain in the UK.
It says Mr Cameron's demand to exempt Britain from the EU principle of "ever closer union" between member states would be written into a future treaty.
There are also measures relating to protection for non-euro countries in the EU, a new way for member states to club together to block some new EU laws and on business regulations.
Migration: The prime minister got his emergency welfare brake. But it is not clear how easy it will be to pull that brake or how long it will last, writes deputy political editor James Landale.
Benefits: While the in-work benefits of EU migrants will be curbed for four years if other countries agree, they will be gradually restored the longer they stay in the UK. EU migrants will be able to send child benefit back home, but would get a lower level if the cost of living in the country where the child is is lower. Mr Cameron had wanted to block all of it.
Sovereignty: The PM has secured a clear legal statement that the UK is not committed to further political integration and that the phrase "ever closer union" cannot be used to integrate the EU further. But it is not yet clear when or how this will be incorporated into the EU treaties. He has also got new powers for national parliaments to block new EU laws but the thresholds are pretty high before those powers can be used.
Competitiveness: The PM has got some language that commits the EU to strengthen the internal market and cut red tape. But they have been promising to do that for years.
Protecting non-euro countries: There will be a new mechanism to get the eurozone to think again about decisions that could hit the City of London.
Security: The PM has got some unexpected gains, making it easier for countries to stop terror suspects coming into the country even if the threat they pose is not imminent. There will also be a crackdown to stop people using sham marriages and other loopholes to gain access to the EU. Read more: Gavin Hewitt on what PM wanted v what he got
Mr Cameron will visit Poland and Denmark on Friday, as he embarks on a whirlwind charm offensive to persuade the other 27 EU leaders to sign up to the Tusk package in Brussels on February 18-19.
If Mr Cameron can get an agreement in February, he is expected to hold a referendum in June on whether Britain should remain in the EU.
Mr Cameron has until the end of 2017 to hold a referendum. A July or September referendum remains a possibility but a repeat of last summer's migrant crisis in the Mediterranean and eastern Europe could make Mr Cameron's job of making the case for remaining in a reformed EU more difficult.
A cross-party group of MPs, led by the SNP, has warned Mr Cameron against holding the EU referendum in June, arguing it will be too close to elections in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, London and local authorities. Labour has said it will not block a June referendum.
The prime minister said "more work" needed to be done to "nail down" details but added: "We said we needed to deliver in four key areas, this document shows real progress on that front."
He said the proposals were some "something worth fighting for", and were good enough that he would back Britain joining the EU under these terms, if it was not already a member.
He said Britain could have the "best of both worlds" by giving it access to the single market and a voice around the top EU table, while retaining its status as a "proud independent country not part of a superstate".
He said ministers would be free to campaign for either side in a personal capacity, but the government would "not be taking some sort of neutral position".
"If we get this deal in February or in March or later and if the cabinet agrees to this deal the government's position will be to campaign for Britain to stay in a reformed European Union."
Asked by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg if he could guarantee the reforms would cut immigration and had not been watered down, he said: "I can say, hand on heart, I have delivered the commitments made in my manifesto." Read more from Laura Kuenssberg
Richard Tice, co-founder of Leave.Eu, accused Mr Cameron of "trying to deceive the British people by saying that there's substantial change - there is nothing except a restatement of the existing status quo".
The Vote Leave campaign said Mr Cameron had broken a key Conservative manifesto pledge to insist on a four year ban on in-work benefits, saying that the ban was now conditional.
Former defence secretary Liam Fox said the proposals did not "come close" to the changes voters had been promised.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said Mr Cameron's deal was "pathetic" and "hardly worth the wait".
President of the European Council Mr Tusk said the package was "a good basis for a compromise", adding that "there are still challenging negotiations ahead - nothing is agreed until everything is agreed".
Two of the favourites to succeed David Cameron as Conservative leader, Boris Johnson and Theresa May, have also been touted as possible figureheads for the campaign to leave the EU. Mr Johnson, the London mayor, said he had "doubts" about the red card mechanism, saying there was "much, much more that needs to be done" on European reform.
Home Secretary Mrs May also said more needed to be done, but added: "This is a basis for a deal." BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said she appeared on the verge of backing the prime minister and that her reaction would come as a blow to the Out campaign.
Mr Cameron may have to spend the next two weeks twisting arms in Europe, there may be no guarantee of a deal and everyone is agreed that nothing is agreed until everything agreed.
But the prime minister is already in campaign mode, bouncing around tiggerishly in his shirtsleeves, selling his deal almost as if it had been agreed. Read more: James says Cameron in campaigning mode
The BBC's Europe Editor Katya Adler says: "My first instinct is that this is something everyone can work with.
"Eastern and Central European countries will continue to complain about the suspension of migrant in-work benefits.
"They are likely to argue that the EU has sold its principles down the river in an attempt to keep the UK in the EU.
"However it can be argued from this text that the so-called 'emergency brake' is not discriminatory because it's available for any country to use." Read more: Katya's blog in full
Guide: All you need to know about the referendum
National parliament powers: What do the red and yellow cards plans mean?
More: BBC News EU referendum special
An opposition spokesman said President Maduro had "broken the truce" when he had labelled opposition politician Freddy Guevara a "terrorist".
Mr Guevara had incurred the anger of Mr Maduro by saying that he did not agree with an opposition coalition decision to call off a protest march.
The march was planned for 3 November.
Events in Venezuela have been moving fast since an unexpected meeting between Pope Francis and President Maduro on 24 October.
The Vatican announced it would mediate in talks aimed at defusing Venezuela's political and economic crisis.
The country is deeply divided into followers of Mr Maduro and those who blame the president for the dire state of Venezuela's economy.
Venezuela is suffering from spiralling inflation and severe shortages of basic goods which have led to some Venezuelans saying they are going hungry.
The opposition wants to remove Mr Maduro from office, which has led the president to accuse them of coup-mongering.
The two sides met face to face for the first time this year on Sunday for talks mediated by a Vatican envoy and former international leaders from Spain, the Dominican Republic and Panama.
They agreed to create four working groups and to reconvene on 11 November.
Since Sunday's meeting, both sides have taken conciliatory measures.
Following Sunday's meeting, both sides did indeed tone down their rhetoric.
On Tuesday, President Maduro praised the opposition's decision to call off the protest march.
He also called National Assembly leader Henry Ramos Allup "sensible", which contrasts with the insults he has in the past directed at him.
The president also looked relaxed during the recording of his new radio programme, Salsa Hour, during which he could be seen dancing with his wife, Cilia Flores.
However, his choice for the first song seemed a thinly-veiled message to those who want to see him gone from power: Ray Barretto's "Indestructible".
Divisions within the opposition surfaced shortly after the National Assembly meeting.
Popular Will, the party of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, said it did not agree with the opposition coalition's decision to postpone Mr Maduro's trial and to call off Thursday's protest march.
The party did not attend the Vatican-mediated talks on Sunday and is considered one of the more hard-line in the Democratic Unity coalition (MUD).
Its interim leader, Freddy Guevara, said Popular Will would not join any dialogue until Mr Lopez had been released.
President Maduro called Mr Guevara "a coward" and warned that his immunity as a member of the National Assembly would not protect him from going to jail.
He said that Popular Will was a party of "terrorists" and called on the courts "to take action" against it and Mr Guevara.
He did not say what possible charges Mr Guevara could be facing or what alleged "crimes" they had committed.
Mr Guevara said the party would not bow before President Maduro and his threats.
He was backed up by the spokesman for the MUD coalition, Jesus Torrealba, who tweeted that "by attacking Freddy Guevara and Popular Will, Maduro is attacking the negotiating table and mocks the word of @Pontifex-es", referring to the Pope's Twitter handle.
Mr Torrealba also said that Mr Maduro had "broken the truce" and accused Mr Maduro of "dynamiting the negotiating table".
It is currently not clear whether the protest march planned for 3 November may now be back on.
While the Popular Will party could hold its own protest march, it would draw smaller numbers than one organised by the opposition as a whole.
With the rival sides trading barbs again, the Vatican envoy and other mediators will have their hands full trying to ensure that the next round of talks goes ahead as planned on 11 November.
Meanwhile, international pressure is mounting for the two sides to find a solution to ease the economic crisis which is leaving Venezuelans increasingly desperate.
Selby, 31, made a break of 145 in frame seven as he won 10-2 in Beijing.
Former taxi driver Wilson, ranked 56th, had shocked defending champion Ding Junhui 6-5 in Saturday's semi-finals.
The World Championship gets under way in Sheffield on 18 April, with Selby hoping to match last year's feat when he beat Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final.
"I played well for the majority of the match," Selby told World Snooker.
"To be 8-1 up at the end of the first session probably wasn't a fair reflection on how the match had gone, as a few frames could have gone either way but I managed to pinch them.
"I'll get home tomorrow, have a few days off and then get back on the practice table to prepare for the Crucible."
Selby moved 3-0 clear in Sunday's Beijing final before Wilson briefly slowed his progress with a break of 91.
The world number one showed he was in top form when the highest break of the tournament at 145 took him 6-1 clear, and a 136 clearance made it 9-1.
Wilson had never previously been beyond the quarter-finals of a ranking event, but the 29-year-old from Wallsend gained some consolation with a break of 101 to get on the board for a second time.
Selby was not about to be knocked off course, however, and wrapped up victory with seven frames to spare to earn his second ranking title of the season.
"I'm disappointed to have played like that and lost by such a heavy score line," said Wilson, who collected his biggest career cheque of £35,000.
"I missed a lot of chances. I can still take some positives from the tournament and look forward to the World Championship."
The celebrity, known in court as PJS, successfully appealed against a court ruling lifting the ban on media in England and Wales publishing his name.
The Sun on Sunday argued it should be able to run the story as his name had already been published elsewhere.
The man had taken legal action saying that he had a right to privacy.
He has young children with YMA - as his spouse is known in court documents - and both are described as "well-known individuals in the entertainment business".
What is the future for privacy injunctions?
Why didn't the order apply in Scotland?
Legal proceedings had started earlier this year when the Sunday tabloid wanted to publish a story about the celebrity, alleging he had taken part in what the courts described as a "three-way sexual encounter".
The man sued News Group Newspapers claiming that publication of information about the alleged extra-marital activity would be a misuse of private information and a breach of confidence.
He asked the Supreme Court to consider the issue after losing his case in the Court of Appeal last month, when three appeal court judges ruled the injunction should not remain in place.
The Supreme Court has now restored the injunction by a majority of four to one. It will stand until trial or a further order.
By David Sillito, BBC media correspondent
It's a balancing act - the right to privacy versus freedom of expression.
The Sun on Sunday says the story is effectively out because it's been published in America, Canada and Scotland.
The Supreme Court disagrees saying that there would be additional "intensive coverage" if the injunction was lifted.
The four to one decision says just because the couple are well known, there is no "right to invade privacy". They are also concerned to protect the interests of the couple's children.
However, one of the four judges, Lord Toulson, disagrees with the judgment saying that while the publication of the story would involved "acute unpleasantness", the story is not going to go away "injunction or no injunction".
He adds that the children are young and could be shielded from the immediate publicity.
In the judgement, four of the five justices decided there was an "absence on present evidence" of any "genuine public interest" to justify publishing the man's identity.
They said the injunction, pending the outcome of any trial that could take place on the issue, was appropriate as it would protect PJS and his family against "further invasion of privacy".
Lord Mance said the Court of Appeal went wrong in the balancing the rights of freedom of expression against the rights of privacy when it agreed with an application to discharge the injunction brought by News Group Newspapers, publishers of the Sun on Sunday.
He said there was "no public interest (however much it may be of interest to some members of the public) in publishing kiss-and-tell stories or criticisms of private sexual conduct, simply because the persons involved are well-known".
He noted the case "will probably give rise to further, entirely legitimate debate on the value of such injunctions in the internet age".
Lord Mance added the Supreme Court had come to the conclusion it was "likely" that a permanent injunction would be granted "on a trial in the light of the present evidence", meaning it was appropriate to have an interim injunction in place.
Lawyers have said the Supreme Court decision could have a significant effect on future cases.
David Engel, media lawyer and partner at Addleshaw Goddard, said: "The Supreme Court has put clear blue water between the law of confidentiality and the law of privacy.
"That's not just a technical distinction. It has engaged with the realities of how information is published and consumed online and in social media.
"It has made the practical point that even where people may be able to find the information online, that is qualitatively different - in terms of the distress and damage caused to the victim - from having the story plastered across the front pages of the tabloids."
Kate Macmillan, partner in the media and privacy team at Collyer Bristow, said: "This case has raised quasi-constitutional issues and the outcome is likely to have far-reaching consequences.
"Those who value privacy will be pleased that that the Supreme Court has stepped in to make clear that the nature of the modern tort of privacy is to protect against intrusion and harassment, as well as to preserve secrecy when appropriate to do so."
Legal specialist Robin Shaw, who specialises in media-related litigation, said the decision could lead to a "rapid increase" in applications for injunctions.
He said the case of footballer Ryan Giggs - who was named on Twitter and then identified in Parliament as having an injunction in place over an alleged affair - was thought to have meant the end of celebrity injunctions because coverage on social media and abroad "showed the difficulty, if not impossibility, of keeping anything secret in the digital age".
"In consequence, applications to the court for privacy injunctions have virtually disappeared, but PJS's success in obtaining an injunction and maintaining it - despite the enormous attention given to it on social media and abroad - will still protect the celebrity from widespread adverse coverage in the mainstream media such as newspaper, television and radio," he said.
Former Lib Dem MP John Hemming, who used parliamentary privilege to name Giggs five years ago, said he was surprised by the ruling.
"The logical conclusion of this is that gossip about anyone with children will become a criminal offence subject to a potential penalty of two years' imprisonment," he said.
The bird was found on Talisman Sinopec's Clyde platform, about 160 miles offshore.
The pigeon, that was nicknamed Pedro by workers on board, was flown by helicopter to Aberdeen.
It was given to the Scottish SPCA's National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fishcross. It's now making a good recovery.
Animal rescue officer Kirsty McQuade said: "It was my boyfriend Kevin Mitchell who found Pedro. He crash landed on deck. Kevin caught him and took him inside.''
"Pedro appeared to be exhausted and extremely thin. I told him on what to feed Pedro and he was kept safe in a box on board.''
''It was fantastic that Pedro was able to ride in the helicopter with the crew who were coming back to the mainland and we would like to thank everyone for their assistance."
Liverpool had looked in command after Philippe Coutinho and Daniel Sturridge scored in a five-minute period.
Sadio Mane missed a penalty just after the break following Martin Skrtel's foul on Graziano Pelle, but made amends soon after with a smart finish.
Pelle's curling shot restored parity in the 83rd minute, before Mane pounced to seize all three points for his side.
Liverpool pressed forward to try to force a final twist, but a speculative penalty shout for a push on Christian Benteke was all they could muster.
Southampton remain seventh, with Liverpool two places lower and still seven points off the top four.
As the Reds departed the south coast, manager Jurgen Klopp was left to try to comprehend how they had contrived to lose from 2-0 up at half-time for the first time in the Premier League.
After Shane Long was denied an early penalty in a tussle with Dejan Lovren, the Reds took control of the first half with Coutinho's low curling effort followed in short order by Sturridge's cleverly-crafted second.
As Southampton searched for an immediate response, Liverpool exploited the space left behind with Joe Allen shooting into the shins of Fraser Forster from eight yards before seeing a goal chalked off for offside.
However, whether it was Thursday's Europa League exploits or the 10 games more they have played than Saints this season, Liverpool's slick passing and swift movement dried up markedly after the break.
When Mane's penalty - awarded after Skrtel's tug on Pelle - was pushed aside by goalkeeper Simon Mignolet early in the second half, it seemed that it was set to be the visitors' day.
But Ronald Koeman's introduction of Mane and Victor Wanyama at half-time throttled the supply to Liverpool's front men while adding a more clinical edge to his own attack.
After the electric Mane had escaped Mamadou Sakho to cut the deficit, the hosts kept believing as Liverpool kept retreating and the pressure finally told late on.
Sturridge - who played 68 minutes as his side completed a 3-1 aggregate Europa League win over Manchester United in midweek - had already been withdrawn wincing by that point, with full match fitness still some way away.
Southampton manager Ronald Koeman: "I was so happy for the players. It was a must-win game, the same as last week. We are still fighting for a European place, that is what we want.
"I'm proud of the team. We had a great spirit after half time and it was hard to manage it after 45 minutes."
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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: "The first half we played brilliant football, we have to close the game out. You have to accept in the second half they controlled the game.
"They scored three goals, we didn't, that is how football is."
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The international break means a pause to the Premier League action. Southampton travel to leaders Leicester on Sunday 3 April after it gets back under way, with Liverpool entertaining second-placed Tottenham the day before.
Match ends, Southampton 3, Liverpool 2.
Second Half ends, Southampton 3, Liverpool 2.
Attempt missed. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Sadio Mané (Southampton).
Adam Lallana (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Graziano Pellè (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Sadio Mané.
Substitution, Liverpool. Sheyi Ojo replaces Joe Allen.
Sadio Mané (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Southampton 3, Liverpool 2. Sadio Mané (Southampton) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Graziano Pellè.
Goal! Southampton 2, Liverpool 2. Graziano Pellè (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Shane Long.
Victor Wanyama (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Allen (Liverpool).
Attempt blocked. Joe Allen (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Adam Lallana.
Foul by Cuco Martina (Southampton).
Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Ward-Prowse (Southampton).
Emre Can (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James Ward-Prowse (Southampton).
Joe Allen (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Graziano Pellè (Southampton).
Martin Skrtel (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Christian Benteke (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Adam Lallana with a through ball following a fast break.
Substitution, Liverpool. Christian Benteke replaces Daniel Sturridge.
Substitution, Southampton. James Ward-Prowse replaces Oriol Romeu.
Attempt saved. Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Emre Can.
Goal! Southampton 1, Liverpool 2. Sadio Mané (Southampton) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Graziano Pellè.
Attempt missed. Oriol Romeu (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Victor Wanyama.
Steven Davis (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe Allen (Liverpool).
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Jon Flanagan.
Attempt blocked. Graziano Pellè (Southampton) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cuco Martina with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Virgil van Dijk (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Victor Wanyama.
Attempt saved. Emre Can (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Offside, Liverpool. Joe Allen tries a through ball, but Adam Lallana is caught offside.
Foul by Oriol Romeu (Southampton).
Emre Can (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Victor Wanyama.
Attempt saved. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nathaniel Clyne.
Attempt missed. Shane Long (Southampton) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Penalty saved! Sadio Mané (Southampton) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.
McConnell, 27, attacked Miss Davis at her home in Rainhill, Merseyside while she was holding their baby son, Liverpool Magistrates' Court heard.
Former Hollyoaks star Miss Davis told the trial she thought that "psychotic" McConnell was "going to kill" her after taking cocaine.
The pair began a relationship after appearing on Celebrity Big Brother.
They rowed during the hearing and at one point Judge Wendy Lloyd ordered a break in proceedings when McConnell began laughing in the dock after Miss Davis broke down in tears.
The actress said: "He's completely destroyed my life, it's been the worst 18 months."
The court heard the attack happened on 10 March after the couple went out for a meal with friends in Liverpool the night before to celebrate her birthday.
Miss Davis said McConnell went on to a local pub with two of the friends.
When he returned he was "out of it" and had been taking cocaine, the court heard.
"He said that I was fat, he said that no one was going to want to touch me again," she told the court.
She added that McConnell had grabbed her by the face while holding her son Caben-Albi. He then took her phone as she tried to call for help before pushing her and biting the inside of her arm.
Miss Davis said McConnell left but later returned and began kicking the doors in an attempt to get in.
She said: "I heard him go over the gate, it was literally like a horror film.
"I just thought, 'this is it, he's going to kill me'."
She said she let him in after fearing he would smash the glass patio doors and he followed her upstairs and threw her on to the bed.
Miss Davis said he punched her to the side of the head and pushed her against the wall after accusing her of having affairs.
Miss Davis said McConnell was "psychotic". He then left the house again but returned, this time snapping handles off the patio doors to get in.
The actress denied making a complaint to police, three days after the attack, in a bid to prevent McConnell appearing on TV show Ex On The Beach.
When asked about why she had retracted her statement in May, Miss Davis said: "That was Jeremy getting me to retract my statement, he also threatened to throw acid in my face."
She said the couple used to argue about his drug use, claiming he spent £180,000 on cocaine last year.
McConnell told the court Miss Davis attacked him after learning he had taken cocaine.
He said he pushed her away in self-defence and claimed injuries shown in photos were "self-inflicted".
James Morris, defending, said: "She is aggrieved that he actually ended their relationship some six weeks ago."
McConnell, of Swords, Dublin, pleaded guilty to criminal damage of Miss Davis's property at an earlier hearing.
He is due to be sentenced on Friday.
Dan Tan, also known as Tan Seet Eng, has been held under indefinite detention since October 2013.
But a judge ruled that detention was unlawful as he posed no public threat.
Mr Tan, who has said he is innocent, is wanted by several countries including Italy, but Singapore does not have extradition treaties with them.
He has been implicated by Interpol in fixing hundreds of sports events, mostly football matches, and is suspected of having fixed matches in Italy's Serie A and Serie B in 2011.
It has previously called the 51-year-old "the mastermind and leader of the world's most notorious match-fixing syndicate".
Read more: Trailing Dan Tan, Singapore's 'football match-fixing boss'
Singapore has a law that allows indefinite detention of suspected criminals without trial. Such detentions are reviewed every year.
The Singapore judge, Sundaresh Menon, said that while Mr Tan's alleged acts were "reprehensible and should not be condoned", there was "nothing to suggest" they harmed public safety and peace.
"The matches fixed, whether or not successfully, all took place beyond our shores," he said, adding that there was nothing to indicate he worked with overseas crime syndicates or that such activities would be based in Singapore.
Wintour, who has edited US Vogue for almost 30 years, has received a damehood and Davies has been knighted.
Comedy legend Ken Dodd has been knighted for services to entertainment and charity, at the age of 89.
Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance has also received a knighthood.
Rylance, who is honoured for services to theatre, won the best supporting actor Oscar earlier this year for Bridge of Spies. He also had a Bafta-winning role as Thomas Cromwell in the 2015 BBC Two mini-series Wolf Hall.
Dodd told the BBC he was "very proud and highly tickled" to be knighted.
"I'm very proud and I'd like to thank all the people who wished it for me because they're the ones that made it (happen), so thank you very much."
Asked if the honour was overdue, he joked: "Oh no - my library books are, but this came as a complete surprise and it's a wonderful feeling."
Ray Davies formed The Kinks with his brother Dave in Muswell Hill, north London in 1963. They influenced generations of British bands from The Jam to Blur and Oasis, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
Davies admitted he was surprised by the honour, saying: "Initially I felt a mixture of surprise, humility, joy and a bit embarrassed but after thinking about it, I accept this for my family and fans as well as everyone who has inspired me to write."
Actress Patricia Routledge has been made a dame for services to theatre and charity.
She is perhaps best known for her role as Hyacinth Bucket in the TV sitcom Keeping Up Appearances but has had a prolific career in theatre in the UK and on Broadway.
She said she was "very surprised indeed but very pleased that the Honour pertains to theatre".
Welsh opera singer Bryn Terfel has been knighted for services to music, saying it was "an immense honour to receive such an accolade".
"I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude for all the support and encouragement I have received from the great British public and further afield," he added. "I am truly humbled."
War photographer Don McCullin has been knighted for services to photography.
The 81-year-old said his knighthood brought "a lot of honour" to his family.
"This knighthood is not going to change my life - it can't. I'm too old, I'm too set in my ways.
"I have a great respect for life and people. It won't change me. I just feel inwardly warmed by it."
Percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and theatre director Sir Richard Eyre have been made Companions of Honour - a special award for service of conspicuous national importance limited to 65 people at a time.
The Times cartoonist Peter Brookes, the Almeida Theatre's artistic director Rupert Goold and retired BBC newsreader Angela Rippon are among those who have been appointed CBEs.
Double Oscar-winning costume designer Jenny Beavan has been honoured with an OBE.
She was was famously - and jokingly - referred to by Stephen Fry at the Baftas as a dressing like a "bag lady".
The 66-year-old said she felt "honoured and humbled to receive such an amazing 'award' for a job that I simply love doing - storytelling through clothes.
"Hopefully some of these stories can help to connect, bring enjoyment, or make someone feel they are not alone - and do some good in this difficult world."
Former Spice Girl turned fashion designer Victoria Beckham has been honoured with an OBE for services to the fashion industry. Her husband David Beckham was honoured with an OBE 13 years ago.
Also being awarded OBEs are artist Patrick Brill, aka Bob and Roberta Smith, and actress Naomie Harris, who plays Moneypenny opposite Daniel Craig's James Bond.
They are joined by actors Helen McCrory and Tim Pigott-Smith for their services to drama.
TV and stage actors Sharon D Clarke and Clive Rowe are among those awarded MBEs, as is 1960s pop star Marty Wilde - real name Reginald Leonard Smith.
Anna Wintour has been honoured for services to fashion. She started her journalism career as an editorial assistant in 1970, when Harper's Bazaar UK merged with Queen to become Harpers & Queen.
She moved to New York and became a junior fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar in 1975. After becoming Vogue's first creative director in 1983, she was made editor of the UK edition in 1985.
She took over the US edition in 1987 and her no-nonsense style of micro-management earned her the nickname Nuclear Wintour.
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As Britain struggles to solve its housing shortage crisis, experts have been looking at the best solutions to building new homes.
Professor Philip Oldfield and the Sustainable Tall Buildings Design Lab at the University of Nottingham have been trying to predict what new houses will look like in 2050.
A specially-commissioned animated film for BBC Inside Out shows a variety of approaches to how our homes might look in 40 years' time.
The homes of tomorrow could range from sky-high apartments in vertical villages to flat-pack, pre-fabricated housing and eco homes.
Inside Out is broadcast on BBC One on Monday, 21 September at 19:30 BST and nationwide for 30 days thereafter on the iPlayer.
The bodies of a man and a woman were found between Salhouse Broad and Wroxham Broad after a search by divers.
The boat was found on Saturday tied to a tree, close to Salhouse Little Broad, after police were called because it had not been returned as arranged.
Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.
The woman's body was found just after 14:00 BST on Sunday while the man's body was found after 16:35 BST.
Police said the girl - who was found on the boat unharmed - had been told about the deaths and was being comforted by relatives.
Post-mortem examinations are due to be carried out on Monday while formal identification of the bodies has yet to be carried out, police said.
Head of the investigation, Det Supt Pete Hornby, said officers were in the early stages of their inquiries "working to establish the sequence of events which led to this evening's tragic outcome".
"The motives surrounding the incident remain unclear but at this time we are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths," he added.
Police said they were called at 17:00 BST on Saturday by a member of the public concerned about the whereabouts of the boat and that it was found shortly afterwards.
The girl, who was found on board alone but unharmed, spent Saturday night in protective custody.
The craft was taken to Le Boat boatyard in Horning where it continues to be examined by police.
A mile-long section of the River Bure between Salhouse and Wroxham broads - closed while police searched the area - has reopened to boating traffic.
Democracy Avenue runs parallel to the main ferry port on Aegina.
The holiday destination is close to Athens and popular with foreign and Greek tourists alike.
Aegina also regularly plays host to Greece's current Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, and his Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis.
But despite the island's popularity and accessibility, its economy is suffering.
A fall in visitors from abroad, put off by the debt crisis, plus the tight restrictions on cash withdrawals affecting Greek residents, have hit Aegina's businesses hard.
Room occupancy this summer is just 15%, a spokesman for the island's hotel owners said, down from around 80% in good times.
To find out how the situation is affecting day-to-day life on Aegina we spoke to four islanders who run businesses on Democracy Avenue to find out how Greece's financial woes have affected them - and how they plan to vote.
1. Thodoris Miras, 31, bar owner
Islanders are relatively isolated and dependent on tourism, says Thodoris. The last five months of negotiations have been hard for local businesses.
The capital controls mean that people can't be paid and the business is struggling to buy products it needs.
Thodoris will be voting "Yes" as he doesn't want to gamble away his business. No one knows what would happen if it's a "No" vote, he says.
2. Nektaria Kakousi, 41, fruit seller
Nektaria says Greek people need to learn to work hard as those that do "always succeed."
She's also noticed a difference, particularly in the last two years, and says customers are always watching the bill.
She's not worried about the result of the referendum as she believes the result is "already planned".
Nektaria says Greece is the most beautiful place in the world and it will never die.
3. Kostas Miras, 83, cafe owner
Kostas Miras has owned and worked in his cafe on Democracy Avenue for more than sixty years.
The pensioner lived under the Nazi occupation of Greece but he still fears for the future. He believes neither option in the upcoming referendum is good for the country.
He believes it would be difficult to go back to the drachma.
Kostas will be voting yes as he want to stay in Europe, he says.
4. Yianna Sorou, 52, fishmonger
It's an early start for Yianna each morning at a fishmonger's at a market just off Democracy Avenue. It's a business she inherited from her grandfather.
The financial crisis has changed the island, she says, as people think twice about the expense of making the trip.
She says sales of fish have fallen as Greek people now consider it too expensive, despite it once being "the food of poor people."
She believes there is no other choice for Greece but to stay in the eurozone.
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Wales' Carlin, 26, who won 400m and 800m freestyle silver medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics, has been affected by illness and injury this year.
England's double Commonwealth silver medallist Willmott, 24, has not fully recovered from an ongoing knee injury.
The event will be held in Budapest, Hungary between 14-30 July.
"Rio was such a high for me but this year I have struggled with niggles and injury and in hindsight my body needed a break to recharge," Carlin said.
"I'm still training steadily in Bath and will be looking to build whereby come September I'll be raring to go for next season, driving towards Tokyo 2020."
British Swimming head coach Bill Furniss said: "Both swimmers are a loss to the team but we respect their decisions which we believe will have a positive impact on their long-term futures.
"Jazz had a long rest after last year's Olympics Games, which she needed to do.
"Since then she has been working hard, despite minor illness and injury, to get herself back into her best competitive shape but feels she isn't going to be able to get there in time for the World Championships."
Furniss said of Wilmottt, who won silver medals in the 200 metres butterfly and 400 metre individual medley at Glasgow 2014: "A decision has been made as she can't get herself into a competitive condition in time for the World Championships.
"Aimee will be taking a longer break this summer in order to fully recover from injury, and then work towards being in the best shape possible at the start of next season.
"I'm disappointed for Jazz and Aimee and it is a loss to the team but we will have lots of athletes fully prepared for the World Championships and we're looking forward to it."
Plymouth Hospitals Trust said routine operations including hernia repair and knee and hip replacements had been cancelled at Derriford Hospital.
The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital has increased its alert from red to black.
"Black alerts" are also in place at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust and Yeovil Hospital in Somerset.
The alert means a hospital's services are overwhelmed by demand.
Kevin Baber, chief operating officer for Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "In January we cancelled about 700 operations either on the day of surgery or in advance.
"I would expect February to be the same, so it will be over 1,000 and we're very sorry about that."
Mr Baber said: "The patients that have attended our A&E department have needed to. We have not seen large numbers of patients attending who are inappropriate attenders."
He said he "could not answer" when the trust would not be on "black alert".With a fourth South West trust on black alert, the crisis afflicting the region's health service is deepening. The Royal Devon and Exeter (RD&E) and Yeovil are foundation trusts - a status awarded only to higher performing hospitals - yet even they are struggling to cope.
The fact that so many frail older people are in hospital adds to the strain. Latest figures show, in a single week, 361 patients couldn't be discharged from the RD&E because the care they needed wasn't in place.
Sally Mountjoy, BBC South West correspondent
With a fourth South West trust on black alert, the crisis afflicting the region's health service is deepening. The Royal Devon and Exeter (RD&E) and Yeovil are foundation trusts - a status awarded only to higher performing hospitals - yet even they are struggling to cope.
The fact that so many frail older people are in hospital adds to the strain. Latest figures show, in a single week, 361 patients couldn't be discharged from the RD&E because the care they needed wasn't in place.
What is a black alert?
•The NHS uses a national internal alert system based on the colours green, amber, red and black to rank how busy a local health and social care system is
•Black alert status occurs when a hospital cannot cope with the number of people coming into the accident and emergency department because not enough people are being discharged
•It effectively means the hospital does not have enough bed capacity to cope
Matthew Beadnall, 23, has been suffering from severe abdominal pain since September 2014.
He was due to attend an appointment with a consultant at Derriford Hospital on 2 February but said it was cancelled four days before.
Mr Beadnall has another appointment on Monday but is expecting that to be cancelled.
He is on co-codamol painkillers "to keep the pain at bay" and said the last five months had been "a nightmare".
Elsewhere, the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has been on alert status since last Tuesday.
Dr Iain Chorlton, NHS Kernow governing body member, said: "Improvements continue to be seen across the health and care system and no elective operations have been cancelled today."
He said the status remained so it could continue to "focus on getting people home from hospital when they're ready to leave".
"Some of the steps we have taken to reduce pressure include increasing the number of clinicians working in and supporting the emergency department, including a GP working during peak times and more social workers in the department to help discharge people," he added.
The local authority, Cornwall Council is funding a recruitment campaign for more care workers in response to the crisis.
In Somerset, Yeovil District Hospital said it was contacting those patients whose appointments had been cancelled.
Paul Mears, chief executive, said 14 operations had been cancelled on Monday and Tuesday.
Torbay Hospital has been on red alert for the past week and Dorset County Hospital is also on red alert - one level below black.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says travel bans do not work.
Also on Friday, the WHO said 142 new cases of the disease had been reported since 19 August, as well as 77 deaths.
It said the crisis would take "several months" to combat. The current Ebola outbreak has killed at least 1,350 people - more than any other.
Meanwhile in Liberia, a boy of 16 shot during a protest about a quarantine has died.
Shakie Kamara was one of three people injured on Wednesday, when security forces fired on a crowd protesting against blockades around the West Point slum.
In other developments:
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Senegal's Health Minister Dr Awa Marie Colle Seck told the BBC the travel ban would not affect humanitarian flights, and that the WHO was "learning, like everybody [else]".
Senegal also banned flights and ships from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - the three worst-hit countries - however, Dr Seck said humanitarian flights would not be affected.
Senegal's capital, Dakar, is a regional hub for West Africa and many doctors and medical supplies arriving from Europe or the US would pass through there before going to the affected countries.
Dr Seck told the BBC that the countries surrounding those affected were a "sentinel for the world" and had a duty to stop the virus spreading further.
But WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told the BBC's Newsday programme that the borders in the region were porous, so any ban would be "impossible to enforce".
Mr Hartl said what was needed was more doctors and officials to help trace those infected with Ebola, and more mobile laboratories.
On Thursday, a Russian transport plane carrying a mobile lab and team of specialist medics such as virologists and epidemiologists flew to Guinea's capital Conakry. The lab can test more than 100 samples daily.
Senegal first closed its border with Guinea in March when the outbreak started.
It was reopened in May after the situation in Guinea seemed to have stabilised but there has been a recent increase in the number of cases in the country.
Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Kenya and South Africa have also imposed travel bans.
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On Thursday, two US doctors were discharged from hospital after being given the drug, while three Liberian medics are also recovering well.
11,314
Deaths - probable, confirmed and suspected
(Includes one in the US and six in Mali)
4,808 Liberia
3,955 Sierra Leone
2,536 Guinea
8 Nigeria
1946 - Dahomey becomes an overseas territory of France.
1958 - Dahomey becomes self-governing, within the French Community.
1960 - Dahomey gains independence and is admitted to the UN.
1960 - Elections won by the Parti Dahomeen de L'Unite. Party leader Hubert Maga becomes country's first president.
1963 - President Maga is deposed in a coup led by the army's Chief of Staff, Colonel Christophe Soglo.
1963 - Dahomey joins the IMF.
1964 - Sourou-Migan Apithy is elected president.
1965 - General Soglo forces the president to step down and a provisional government is formed. In December he assumes power.
1967 - Major Maurice Kouandete leads a coup. Lt Col Alphonse Alley replaces Gen Soglo as head of state.
1968 - The military regime nominates Dr Emile-Derlin Zinsou as president.
1969 - Lt Col Kouandete deposes President Zinsou.
Mathieu Kerekou seized power in 1972 and was the country's leader until 1991. Voters returned him to power in 1996
'Magical' leader
1970 - Presidential elections are held but abandoned. Power is ceded to a presidential council consisting of Ahomadegbe, Apithy and Maga, who received almost equal support in the abandoned poll. Maga is the first of the three to serve as president with a two-year term.
1972 - Ahomadegbe assumes the presidency from Maga for the next two-year term.
1972 - Major Mathieu Kerekou seizes power; the presidential council members are detained.
1973 - The Conseil National Revolutionnaire (CNR) is created. Representatives are taken from across the country.
1975 - November - Dahomey is renamed the People's Republic of Benin.
1975 - The Parti de la Revolution Populaire du Benin (PRPB) is established as the country's only political party.
1977 - The CNR adopts a "Loi Fondamentale", setting out new government structures.
1979 - Elections are held to the new Assemblee Nationale Revolutionnaire (ANR). The list of people's commissioners is resoundingly approved. The Comite Executif National (CEN) replaces the CNR.
1980 - ANR unanimously elects Kerekou as president. Kerekou is the sole contender.
1981 - Members of the former presidential council are released from house arrest.
1984 - ANR increases the terms of the president and people's commissioners from three to five years. The number of people's commissioners is reduced from 336 to 196.
1984 - ANR re-elects Kerekou; no other candidates contest the election.
1987 - Kerekou resigns from the military.
1988 - Two unsuccessful coup attempts.
1989 - Elections are held; a list of 206 people's commissioners is approved. Benin agrees to IMF and World Bank economic adjustment measures.
1989 - President Kerekou re-elected for a third term. Marxism-Leninism is abandoned as Benin's official ideology. Anti-government strikes and demonstrations take place.
1990 - Unrest continues. President Kerekou meets dissident leaders. Agreement on constitutional reform and multi-candidate presidential elections is reached.
1990 March - Implementation of agreed reforms begins. Benin drops "people's" from its official title and becomes the Republic of Benin.
1990 December - In a referendum, the constitutional changes are approved by a majority of voters.
1991 February - Legislative elections: No party secures an overall majority. The largest grouping is an alliance of pro-Soglo parties.
1991 March - President Kerekou is beaten by Nicephore Soglo in the first multi-candidate presidential elections. Kerekou is granted immunity from prosecution over actions taken since October 1972.
1992 - The Parti de la Renaissance du Benin is formed by Soglo's wife.
1995 - Legislative elections: Parti de la Renaissance du Benin forms the new government.
1996 - Following accusations of irregularities in presidential elections, the constitutional court announces that Kerekou has received the majority of valid votes cast.
1999 - Legislative elections: New government is formed of representatives of 10 parties.
2001 March - Presidential elections: none of 17 candidates receives an overall majority. Kerekou is declared re-elected in second round.
2002 - Benin joins the Community of Sahel-Saharan States.
2002 December - First local elections since the end of the single-party regime more than 10 years ago.
2003 March - Legislative elections: Parties supporting President Kerekou win 52 of the 83 elective seats.
2003 December - Lebanese charter plane crashes after taking off from Cotonou, killing some 140 people. French investigators subsequently find that the plane was overloaded.
2004 July - Benin, Nigeria agree to redraw their mutual border.
2005 March - US telecommunications company is fined after it admits to bribery in Benin. The company was accused of funnelling millions of dollars into President Kerekou's 2001 election campaign.
2005 July - International Court of Justice awards most of the river islands along the disputed Benin-Niger border to Niger.
2006 March - Political newcomer Yayi Boni, running as an independent, wins the run-off vote in presidential elections. The incumbent, Mathieu Kerekou, is barred from the poll under a constitutional age limit.
2006 March, April - World Bank and the African Development Bank approve debt relief for several countries including Benin, as part of measures agreed at a G8 nations summit at Gleneagles, Scotland, in 2005.
2006 May - Students protest against visit by French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy who introduced a bill making it more difficult for unskilled workers to migrate to France.
2007 April - President Yayi's coalition wins control of parliament in elections.
2007 July - President Yayi leads thousands of supporters on a march against corruption.
2008 April - Local elections held. Nation-wide, parties allied with President Yayi win a majority of local council seats, but the major cities in the south are all won by opposition parties.
2009 February - Benin announces discovery of "significant quantities" of oil offshore near Seme, a town on the Nigeria-Benin border.
2009 April - European Union bans all of Benin's air carriers from flying to the EU in a regular update of its air safety blacklist.
2010 August - Benin marks 50 years of independence.
Fifty of parliament's 83 MPs demand that President Yayi be charged over an alleged swindle in which thousands lost their life savings.
2010 October - Flooding affects much of the country. Thousands are made homeless.
2011 March - President Yayi is re-elected. His main challenger, Adrien Houngbedji, alleges widespread fraud
2011 May - President Yayi's party and its allies regain control of parliament in elections.
2011 August - London's marine insurance market adds Benin to list of areas deemed high risk due to an escalation of pirate attacks in the area.
Parliament abolishes death penalty.
2011 November - Pope Benedict visits.
2012 January - President Boni Yayi elected chairman of African Union for a year, beating Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan.
2012 October - A prominent business and several alleged accomplices are accused of attempting to assassinate President Boni Yayi by switching his medication for poison. They are later pardoned.
2013 August - President Boni Yayi names a new cabinet after sacking its predecessor. The new cabinet does not include the post of prime minister.
2014 May - West African leaders agree to increase co-ordination in the fight against Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram.
2014 September - President Boni Yayi criticises the cost of staging elections and indicates a lack of funds for an upcoming poll, prompting fresh claims he is trying to cling on to power.
2015 May - The party of President Boni Yayi wins parliamentary elections but fails to secure an absolute majority.
2015 June - President Boni Yayi appoints the French-born investment banker Lionel Zinsou as prime minister - a position that had remained vacant since August 2013. As the Benin constitution bars presidents from seeking a third term in office and Mr Zinsou's appointment came less than a year before the end of President Boni Yayi's second term, some analysts view the new prime minister as the president's chosen successor.
2016 March - Businessman Patrice Talon is elected president, defeating Mr Zinsou, the candidate backed by outgoing President Boni Yayi.
Christopher McAuley, 35, admitted being concerned in the supply of the drugs at his home in Glasgow in September 2016.
Defence advocate Sarah Livingstone said the father of two had been holding the drugs for others and he had no idea of the value or purity.
At the High Court in Glasgow, he was remanded in custody pending sentence.
Prosecutor Keith O'Mahony said: "He was employed as a sales manager for the Arnold Clark motor group, but lost his job as a result of this case."
Police with a search warrant found two white blocks of powder, later forensically confirmed to be cocaine, on top of the fridge in the kitchen.
A further block, which contained heroin, was found in a shoebox in a wardrobe in a bedroom.
The blocks of cocaine were more than 60% pure and the heroin was 28% pure.
Mr O'Mahony said "If adulterated to street level purity of 16% and sold in one gram deals the cocaine had the potential to realise approximately £320,000."
The court was told the heroin would have the potential to realise £12,840.
Ms Livingstone said McAuley had a background of depression, gambling and debt.
Mae Anna Tudor bellach yn 51 oed ac wedi ymgartrefu yn ei thref enedigol ym Mhwllheli.
Ond yn 1990, roedd hi'n gweithio fel nani yn Los Angeles ac yn chwilio am swydd newydd.
"Nesh i roi advert yn y papur: 'British nanny seeking employment' ac mi ddaru Nicole [Brown Simpson, gwraig OJ] atab yr advert," meddai Anna.
"Esh i yna am gyfweliad ac mi ddy'dodd hi: 'You've got the job, can you start tomorrow?'"
Ag hithau ond yn ei hugeiniau cynnar, roedd Anna mwyaf sydyn yn gofalu am blant y cyn-chwaraewr pêl-droed Americanaidd a'r actor enwog OJ Simpson.
Mae'n cofio OJ - neu 'The Juice' - fel dyn cwrtais a chlên, a rhywun oedd â diddordeb mawr yng Nghymru.
"Roedd OJ, ei frawd o, a'i bodyguard o yn y 'stafall ffrynt yn gwylio'r teledu.
"O'n i'n cerddad trwadd efo'r plant - 'Come here,' medda' fo. 'So you're Anna... and you're from Wales?'
"'Yes,' medda' fi, 'do you know it?' 'I've heard a lot about it,' medda' fo, 'a very beautiful country.'
"Mi ddy'dodd o wrtha'i i 'isda, felly dyma fi'n g'neud ar y soffa anfarth yma efo'r plant wrth fy nhraed o 'mlaen i.
"O'n i wedi d'eud yn y cyfweliad mod i o Gymru ac nid o Loegr felly ella mai dyna sut oedd o'n gw'bod.
"Dyma fo'n gofyn: 'Is it true you've got your own language?' 'Oh yes, very different,' medda' fi.
"Dyma fi'n d'eud rwbath wrtho fo yn Gymraeg a dyma fo'n d'eud 'oh yeah, that's totally different!'"
Y diwrnod hwnnw, drannoeth y cyfweliad, dywedodd Anna iddi synnu ar y newid yn agwedd Nicole.
"Yn y cyfweliad roedd hi'n really annwyl a neis, ond pan nesh i symud i fewn y bora wedyn, dwi erioed wedi gweld neb yn edrych mor hollol wahanol.
"Roedd hi'n Jekyll and Hyde llwyr.
"Mi ddy'dodd hi: 'Here are the kids, look after them'. Dydw i ddim yn dadbacio dim byd efo agwedd y ddynas yma, medda' fi wrthaf i fy hun."
"Oeddan nhw'i gyd yn gwylio american football ar y sgrin anfarth yma," meddai Anna, wrth gyfeirio nôl at ei amser byr yng nghwmni OJ.
"Dyma fo'n holi os o'n i'n gw'bod rwbath am american football. 'No idea sorry,' medda' fi. 'Don't be sorry, we'll explain it to you,' medda' fo.
"Oedd o jyst yn bod yn polite. Y peth nesa', dyma Nicole yn dod i fewn yn sgrechian dros bob man: 'Anna, kitchen, now!'
"'You can stop flirting with my husband,' medda' hi wrtha'i.
"Wel do'n i erioed wedi clywad y ffasiwn nonsans yn fy nydd - newydd gyfarfod y dyn o'n i!
"Roedd hi'n hollol paranoid, heb reswm i fod o gwbl.
"Oedd y plant yn 'isda wrth fy nhraed i. Pam fod hi'n meddwl 'mod i'n fflyrtio efo fo dwi ddim yn gwybod."
Drannoeth, â hithau ond yno ers diwrnod, roedd Anna wedi cyrraedd pen ei thennyn.
"O'n i ond yno am 24 awr - oedd hynna'n llawn digon. Do'n i ddim yn mynd i roi fyny efo hi.
"'Nath hi dd'eud wrth y plant bod hi'n iawn i fy ngalw i'n 'slave' - 'it's OK children, you can call her your slave, that's what's she's here as'.
"'Excuse me,' medda' fi, 'I'm nobody's slave. And I would've thought you'd have more sense than to use that word - I think it's disgusting. I'm here to help you, not to be your slave.'
"O'n i wedi penderfynu 'mod i am adael a'r peth nesa' mae hi'n troi rownd a d'eud: 'You can pack your gear and leave'. 'Honey, I haven't unpacked,' medda' fi!
"Gesh i ddim ceiniog ond pan nesh i adael nesh i ofyn iddi alw am dacsi i fi ond mi ddy'dodd hi: 'No find your own way back'.
"O'n i'n flin fwy na dim byd. O'n i'n crynu o'n i mor flin."
Mae'n cofio cael ei chysuro gan un o warchodwyr personol OJ, "mynydd o ddyn", ar y pafin tu allan i'r tŷ moethus yn ardal Brentwood, Los Angeles.
Fe alwodd am gar i ddod i'w chludo, ac mae Anna'n cofio ymateb y gyrrwr.
"'Oh not another nanny,' medda' fo. 'They average about 28 a month.'"
Ond pedair blynedd yn ddiweddarach, fe ddaeth y newyddion am lofruddiaethau erchyll Ronald Goldman a Nicole Brown Simpson.
Cafodd OJ Simpson ei gyhuddo o lofruddio ei gyn-wraig a Mr Goldman, gan sbarduno un o achosion llys enwocaf yn hanes America.
Ar ôl naw mis o achos llys, cafodd OJ Simpson ei ganfod yn ddi-euog o'r llofruddiaethau.
Roedd America wedi'i hollti'n ddwy - ond nid felly Anna.
"'Nath o ddim byd yn anghywir i fi o gwbl," meddai. "Oedd o'n real gentlemen 'de. Oedd o'n annwyl.
"Doedd 'na ddim byd yn amheus amdano fo. Dim ond am american football ac am Gymru fuo' ni'n siarad!"
Yn 2008, cafodd OJ Simpson ei ganfod yn euog o droseddau eraill a'i garcharu am 33 mlynedd.
Ond beth mae Anna - a weithiodd fel nani yn Llundain ac yn Gibraltar hefyd - yn ei feddwl rŵan wrth edrych yn ôl?
"Dwi'n teimlo'n really sori drosta fo," meddai. "Dwi'n meddwl bod ei fywyd o wedi cael ei ddifetha gan [Nicole] a dwi'n teimlo'n really gryf am y peth.
"Oedd [Nicole] yn vicious o ddynas ac mi oedd o mor annwyl.
"Oedd o wedi buildio ei hun i fyny o ddim byd o gwbl ac mae o wedi colli bob dim."
Felly, â hithau bellach yn gweithio i gwmni gwerthu tai ym Mhwllheli, fyddai Anna yn ystyried dychwelyd i fod yn nani eto rhyw ddydd?
"Na fyddwn," meddai heb oedi. "Ddim i deulu fel 'na be' bynnag."
Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom rejected an invitation to appear before AMs while junior minister George Eustice cancelled at two days' notice.
Committee chairman Mark Reckless wrote to Mr Eustice saying he was "extremely disappointed" by the cancellation.
The UK government said it was in "regular dialogue" with Welsh farmers.
The committee is currently carrying out an inquiry into the future of farming in Wales post-Brexit, and was due to take evidence from Mr Eustice on Thursday.
"Given the importance of agricultural and farming policy in Wales, it is vital that AMs and the people of Wales hear directly from Ministers in the UK Government," Mr Reckless wrote.
"Furthermore, ensuring that future agricultural policy is a success in Wales and at a UK level will depend heavily on cooperation and mutual respect between the Assembly and UK Government.
"The Committee's recent experience in trying to engage with UK ministers brings into doubt the UK Government's commitment to that spirit of cooperation and respect."
The letter goes on to say that the committee offered alternative dates and a video conference to both ministers.
Ms Leadsom, who visited south Wales earlier in February, did agree to meet Mr Reckless as the committee's chairman, but "subsequently cancelled that meeting at short notice", the letter added.
Mr Reckless now says he expects "as a matter of courtesy and respect" that Mr Eustice attend a meeting of the committee on 15 February or 8 March, "the only remaining sessions at which we can take evidence for this inquiry".
Plaid Cymru environment spokesperson Simon Thomas was critical of the UK government, saying: "Given the first hint of accountability for their decisions, Westminster ministers withdraw into their protective shells, far away from Welsh scrutiny."
John Mercer, director of farmers' union NFU Cymru - which did meet Ms Leadsom on her visit to Wales - said: "It is vital that all stakeholders and politicians work together to help achieve our common goal of delivering a thriving agricultural industry in Wales and the UK post-Brexit which can deliver for all of society."
Farmers' Union of Wales managing director Alan Davies added: "We very much hope that this is a postponed opportunity, rather than a failure to start discussions."
A spokesman for the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: "Although it has not been possible for the minister to give evidence to the committee on this occasion, we are in regular dialogue with the industry in Wales and Welsh farmers and we will be working closely with them on future agriculture policy."
Bell, back in the side after Alastair Cook was removed as captain, hit 20 fours and three sixes to help the tourists to 391-6.
Moeen Ali and James Taylor each contributed 71.
But the touring bowlers also took some punishment, with Glenn Maxwell making 137 as the Prime Minister's XI were all out for 331 in the 49th over.
England now move on to a tri-series with Australia and India, which begins on Friday, before they start their World Cup campaign against Australia on 14 February.
Bell's knock has answered any questions over who should replace Cook at the top of the order, while the continuing good form of Moeen and Taylor cements their places in the top three ahead of Alex Hales and Gary Ballance.
"It's a good start for all of us, a good win on a very good pitch against a strong XI," said Bell.
"I haven't played a lot of cricket recently, so it was good to go through the gears and enjoy myself at the end.
"We've enjoyed our week here in Canberra and we're looking forward to the tri-series and the World Cup after that."
England's bowling line-up also looks to be taking shape, with Chris Woakes's 1-46 from nine overs outperforming the expensive Chris Jordan, who took 2-60 in six overs.
With the rested James Anderson set to come back to share the new ball with Stuart Broad, whose 4-40 were the pick of the figures, only the balance of England's attack is left to be determined.
Off-spinner James Tredwell returned 2-64, but England may opt for a fourth seamer if they feel the slow bowling can be done by Moeen and Joe Root.
But, it is the performance of Bell that will satisfy new one-day captain Eoin Morgan the most, with the Warwickshire man batting all but one ball of the entire 50 overs against an attack that included Australia pace bowler Pat Cummins.
Maxwell took three fours and a six from a single Jordan over as he made a fanciful chase seem possible, before Broad returned to have him held in the gully.
The same bowler took two wickets in two balls late on, before ending the match with a skied caught and bowled.
Lynne Sandford was allowed to visit her 20-year-old son, Michael, in jail in the US for the first time on Thursday.
Mr Sandford, from Dorking in Surrey, is accused of trying to grab a police officer's gun to shoot Mr Trump at a Las Vegas rally on 18 June.
Ms Sandford said she did not "for one minute" believe he meant any harm.
"He's very remorseful and glad that nothing happened, nobody got hurt, and he just feels terrible about the whole thing and the effect that it's having on the family."
Ms Sandford said they were able to spend the whole meeting "hand-in-hand through the wire mesh".
"At the end we put our cheeks together and I was crying and he felt one of my tear drops come through the mesh, so we actually had contact after all."
Ms Sandford, who lost contact with her son after he left home to travel around America in January 2015, said: "He has actually said to me: 'It's imperative you understand, mum, I would never under normal circumstances do anything like this. You know that don't you?' and I said 'yes of course I do'.
"I know something went very wrong with his mind at that time."
She said her son needed care for a number of mental health conditions, including autism, severe OCD, anxiety, depression and previously anorexia - and had previously tried to take his own life twice.
She has argued he should serve any sentence in a psychiatric hospital in the UK.
Mr Sandford is also charged with being in the country illegally and disrupting government business.
He is due to stand trial on 3 October unless he accepts a plea bargain, his lawyer Saimo Chahal said.
He faces up to 10 years in a US prison if found guilty.
More than £32,000 has been raised on a crowdfunding page set up to help the family pay for legal fees.
The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 40.61 points to 16,413.22.
The S&P 500 closed 9.03 points lower at 1,917.79, while the Nasdaq composite fell 46.53 points to 4,487.54.
Shares in Walmart fell 3% after the company cut its 2017 sales forecast, blaming the strong dollar and the impact of previously announced store closures.
Chevron shares fell 1.8% and Valero Energy dropped 3.8% as the price of crude oil slid downwards.
Brent crude lost 1.7%, falling to $33.92 a barrel, while West Texas crude declined 0.8% to $30.42 a barrel.
Bank shares also declined on Thursday. JP Morgan fell 1.6% and Goldman Sachs fell 2.13%.
Analysts said Wall Street's fall was probably due to investors locking in some profits.
"We've had a pretty significant bounce," said Michael James, managing director of equity trading at Wedbush Securities. "Today is just a bit of profit-taking from those that have benefited from the significant move."
The donation includes fake Adidas tracksuits, Converse shoes, Ralph Lauren shirts and Rayban sunglasses.
The National Police Aid Convoy will distribute the goods, which have been collected over eight years.
Illegally branded goods cannot be distributed in the UK.
John Eden Jones, fair trading officer for Gwynedd council, said: "It is generally very difficult to obtain any form of redress against the seller of counterfeit goods.
"The trade in these illegal goods deprives Gwynedd businesses who sell the genuine article of the income needed to maintain their business.
"We are very pleased one of the world's most deprived countries will benefit from our investigations."
San Diego-based Illumina says it is to release a new sequencing machine that can deliver five genomes in a day.
The race to unlock a human's genetic blueprint for $1,000 has been underway for more than a decade.
The Archon X Prize had offered $10m to the first team that hit this target or came closest, until the contest was cancelled in August 2013.
The term was thought up as a symbolic landmark that would, in theory, light the fires of a long-anticipated revolution in personalised medicine.
Understanding how genes influence disease could lead to better treatments for patients.
The HiSeq X Ten high throughput genetic sequencing machine was announced at the annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco this week.
In his presentation at the meeting, Illumina's chief executive Jay Flatley said the HiSeq X Ten would improve on the scanning speed of its predecessor by a factor of six. This would offer the ability to sequence five whole human genomes in a single day, Bio-IT World reported.
He said the $1m sequencers (sold in a minimum of 10 units) would be able to deliver a genome for just under $1,000 (£610; 735 euros), consistent with calculations the National Human Genome Research Institute uses to estimate sequencing costs.
In his presentation, Mr Flatley said the world was "entering the supersonic age of genomics".
"For the first time, it looks like it will be possible to deliver the $1,000 genome, which is tremendously exciting," said Eric Lander, a founding director of the Broad Institute in Massachusetts - which has bought 14 units.
"The HiSeq X Ten should give us the ability to analyse complete genomic information from huge sample populations. Over the next few years, we have an opportunity to learn as much about the genetics of human disease as we have learned in the history of medicine."
On his blog, Mick Watson, a computational biologist at the University of Edinburgh, checked the maths behind Illumina's claims for the HiSeq X Ten.
"I think they might be right in claiming the $1000 genome - if you do 18,000 human genomes per year for four years on each X Ten system. That's a lot of human genomes though," he wrote.
The term "$1,000 genome" was coined in 2001 at a closed scientific meeting to discuss the future of biomedical research. A year later, it became the subject of a symposium in Boston hosted by entrepreneur and genome pioneer Dr Craig Venter.
In the last few years, the decline in the cost of genome sequencing had outpaced the famous Moore's Law, which describes how computer processors double in complexity every two years. Nevertheless, the target proved difficult to reach, even with large sums of money on offer.
Dr Venter's foundation offered $500,000 to the first team able to realise $1,000 genome sequencing.
This sum was subsequently rolled into the Archon X Prize competition which was to have awarded $10m to successful scientists. However, this contest was cancelled in August 2013 because the effort had, in the words of X Prize co-founder Peter Diamandis, been "outpaced by innovation".
"What we realised is that genome sequencing technology is plummeting in cost and increasing in speed independent of our competition," he explained in a column for the Huffington Post.
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She returned to her base in Edinburgh with an Olympic bronze medal in her baggage, but knew that to continue at the top level she would have to relocate and join the rest of Team GB's judo stars at the main training centre in Walsall.
As with the rest of Team GB's judoka, failure to relocate would result in a funding cut which would effectively end Conway's aspirations to compete on the international stage.
"We knew exactly what it was," the 30-year-old said. "We knew that if we didn't go to Walsall, we wouldn't get our funding, we wouldn't get our trips, we wouldn't be supported by British Judo - every tournament we would have to self fund.
"It kind of was an ultimatum, but it was my choice as well.
"I'd been in Edinburgh for 12 years, so Edinburgh is my home. I'm part of Judo Scotland and I have a lot of friends up here, my coaches are up here, so it was a very very hard decision to move down to Walsall, but I felt like I had to give it a go.
"It was like I didn't want to come to the end of my judo career and never know."
It was a tough decision for Conway, but she is enjoying the benefits of training alongside the rest of Team GB's elite judoka.
The move should give Conway the best possible opportunity to add to that -70kg Olympic bronze and the Commonwealth Games bronze she won in Glasgow in 2014.
And taking to the mat in a more relaxed state of mind should also help.
"When I come back competing now, I feel like a massive relief like the pressure has been lifted from my shoulders because I've achieved what I've wanted to achieve," Conway added.
"Obviously I would like to go on to Tokyo [2020 Olympics] and win the gold but it's a relief that I've got a major championship medal now because up until the Olympics I hadn't got a European or a World medal or an Olympic medal.
"There was a pressure there, but now I have that medal it's kind of me going out there and enjoying what I do, and it seems the last couple of competitions it's worked for me."
Taking that pressure-free mentality into the next Olympic Games could be significant for Conway.
She is hoping to be there in 2020, and with the Games being held in Japan, the Scot says bowing out in the birthplace of judo is a hugely appealing prospect.
"To have my last Olympics Games in Tokyo would be amazing, it would be unbelievable," Conway said. "My dad says he always wanted to save his pennies for 2020 so even if I'm not competing we're going to watch anyway.
"I'm just trying to take it year by year and focus on the here and now. Two years before the Olympics, if I feel fit and I'm still performing, and still getting results, then I'll be going for 2020."
First up, however, are the World Championships in August.
"This year it's all about getting back into competition again [following a lay-off] and a result at the World Championships would be fantastic," Conway added. "I believe I can achieve a medal there.
"Next year I'll be competing more and I'd like to get European medals and world medals over the next two years. It'll be important to be getting good results in the two years out from the Games to qualify.
"Another Olympic medal would be amazing, but to win gold in Tokyo and have it as my last Olympics - that would be a dream."
The A75 Stranraer-Gretna road was shut to traffic at Glenluce after the substance was discovered on Wednesday.
A Police Scotland spokesman said the container appeared to have fallen from the back of a vehicle. He added: "It has been safely disposed of."
One person was taken to hospital in Dumfries as a precaution.
Former France Under-21 international Amavi cost £7.7m when he joined Villa from Nice in July 2015 on a five-year deal.
The 23-year-old had looked set to move to Sevilla last month but that deal fell through.
Villa winger Leandro Bacuna is also on the verge of leaving the club, manager Steve Bruce confirmed on Wednesday.
Speaking to BBC WM 95.6 after his side's 2-1 EFL Cup win over Colchester, Bruce said: "We've agreed a fee with Marseille [for Amavi].
"There's a Championship club after Bacuna, that looks close to being over the line too."
Curacao international Bacuna, who can also play at right-back, has been with the club since 2013 and has scored eight goals in 129 appearances.
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Jacobus van Nierop, 51, took out healthy teeth and caused horrific injuries to the patients in the small town of Chateau-Chinon.
Van Nierop was banned from practising dentistry and fined €10,500 ($11,900).
Van Nierop fled to Canada when suspicions arose and strongly fought against extradition to France in 2014.
The court in the central French town of Nevers heard that patients had suffered broken jaws, recurrent abscesses and septicaemia from van Nierop's work.
Van Nierop was arrested in France in June 2013, after the number of his victims grew to 120.
However, he fled the country before his trial was due to start in December that year.
He was tracked to a small town in the Canadian province of New Brunswick and arrested under an international warrant.
The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says that van Nierop was many people's worst nightmare.
Like many parts of rural France, Chateau-Chinon is badly served for medical provision, our correspondent says, adding that locals initially seemed delighted by the hard-working and smiley dentist, a larger-than-life character who witnesses said was rarely seen without his "big 4x4, a big dog and a big cigar".
But then the horror stories began. People said they had teeth ripped out for no reason - they were given heavy anaesthetic, then left with abscesses and infected gums.
The handwritten letter was sent to Cheadle Heath custody suite in Stockport, Greater Manchester, after the woman's two-day stay last month.
She said it was "the first time I ever had respect of police" despite "many weekend bang ups".
Staff were "surprised" to receive the letter of praise, police said.
Supt Chris Hankinson, from Greater Manchester Police, said: "Our priority is to ensure [people who end up in custody] get the support they need and staff work tirelessly in incredibly difficult circumstances.
"I'm grateful this lady took the time to thank the staff and I hope her next encounter with GMP is equally as pleasant, but on the right side of the custody door."
South Wales Police were called to the River Taff near Castle Street when the alarm was raised at about 14:00 BST.
Emergency services, including South Wales Fire and Rescue Service, were involved in the search.
It was called off at about 16:00 after nothing was found.
They finished third at the Rio World Cup with 308.82 points, behind China (344.04) and Malaysia (318.90).
It is the sixth berth British Diving has attained for Rio, with five secured through results at the 2015 World Championships in Russia.
GB will aim for six further berths over the weekend.
Tom Daley and new partner Dan Goodfellow will bid to qualify for a place in the Olympic men's synchronised 10m event on Saturday.
Couch and Barrow were required to finish in the top four among nations who had not already qualified for the Rio Olympics.
China were the only country which had attained a place for Rio 2016 in attendance at the World Cup, with Canada and North Korea skipping the competition.
Couch and Barrow finished fifth at the London 2012 Olympics and won Commonwealth silver for England at Glasgow 2014.
However, with Barrow struggling with shin injuries over the past two years, British Diving performance director Alexei Evangulov broke up the pairing late last year.
Couch was partnered by rising star Lois Toulson for the National Cup in January, but they failed to impress and, with Barrow excelling individually at the event, the decision was made to restore her to the synchronised line-up.
The selectors are not expected to decide which pair will represent GB at Rio until after the British trials in June.
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Along with Tomas Francis, 24-year-old Evans has been rewarded with a starting place after his impact against Italy.
Nicky Smith and Samson Lee drop to the bench for Saturday's game against England in Cardiff.
"We had the message to go on and bring a lot of energy, and I think we did that," said Evans.
"Samson did the hard work, softened them up and I got the plaudits," added Francis, 24.
The props represent the only changes in the starting XV from the 33-7 win over Italy, provided that wing George North and fly-half Dan Biggar prove their fitness after thigh and rib injuries respectively.
"I'm delighted to start," said Evans. "We're a tight squad, and in training everyone's been buying in together, it's a really good feeling in the squad. Rather than 'subs', it's 'game-changers'.
"Undoubtedly England have been on fire, and haven't lost a game in however long [since the 2015 World Cup], so of course it's the game to win, but it's another game to win and keep us on the winning track."
While Evans helped Scarlets to beat former European champions Toulon and draw with current champions Saracens in the Champions Cup in December and January, York-born Francis has continued to take stick at his club Exeter Chiefs, after opting for the land of his grandmother.
"I get a bit, but there's a lot of banter at Exeter, if it wasn't that [playing for Wales] it would be another facet of banter and that's the way rugby clubs are," he added.
"I've got the anthem down phonetically, so I can sing it, and my family are all mad Welsh fans now, they all went out to Italy for my uncle's 50th birthday."
Francis will hope to put his 2016 Six Nations appearance against England behind him, after he was yellow-carded and subsequently banned for eight weeks for making contact with the eye area of England prop Dan Cole at a ruck.
"Very frustrated, I'm not that kind of player, and I never intended to do that," he said.
"I have had a red card since which, again, was an innocuous incident in my head [after his boot striking the head of Harlequins' scrum-half Danny Care].
"But it doesn't faze me, I want to go out and play. I think I was unlucky with my two because they were in the weeks following changes to the interpretations."
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Francis has welcomed the promotion of Exeter team-mate Jack Nowell to the England starting side, revealing that he shares Nowell's love of Lego during his spare time, as well as using the same barber.
"I do a bit of Lego when I'm in camp, a few cars. I've always done it as a kid and I wanted a hobby during the Autumn and found the Lego shop in Cardiff," Francis said.
"I've done one every week we've had a home game, I'm doing a Le Mans car this week. There's a lot of time in the [team] hotel because I'm based in Exeter, so it's good to get your mind off the game sometimes.
"I've got a wacky hairstyle too, but there's a few at Exeter, trying to make your mark, because in rugby you've got the licence to do it whereas in a normal job you couldn't get away with some of them."
De Gea missed Saturday's 1-0 win over Tottenham after manager Louis van Gaal said the 24-year-old lacked "focus" following interest from Real Madrid.
United insist they will only sell to the La Liga side for a world-record fee for a goalkeeper, or if Spain defender Sergio Ramos, 29, comes the other way.
And club officials are not expecting either to happen before 1 September.
De Gea played against Barcelona and Paris St-Germain in pre-season but watched the Premier League opener from the stands as Argentina international Sergio Romero, 28, made his debut.
He has been named in the United squad for the two-legged Champions League play-off against Belgium's Club Brugge this month. An appearance at this stage would not bar De Gea from playing for another club in the group stages and beyond.
After the Spurs game, Van Gaal said it was possible De Gea could play for United again, but added the situation would not be reviewed until the transfer window closes.
"He's our best player for the past two or three years so we cannot let him go so easily," Van Gaal said of the Spain international, who is out of contract next summer.
"We want to sell at the same level as we pay. We want to keep him of course."
De Gea has made 175 appearances for United since joining the club from Atletico Madrid in 2011 for a reported fee of £18.9m.
The most ever paid for a goalkeeper is the £32.6m Juventus spent to sign Gianluigi Buffon from Parma in 2001.
The uncertainty surrounding De Gea means a loan move to Preston for United's England Under-21 keeper Sam Johnstone is on hold.
"We're waiting on different situations and have to see how it pans out," said Johnstone, who was on the bench at the weekend.
Denmark international Anders Lindegaard is surplus to requirements at Old Trafford while De Gea's compatriot Victor Valdes has been made available for transfer after Van Gaal claimed he "refused to play" for the reserves.
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In the Democratic Republic of Congo, there has been tension between locals and the large Chinese community that lives there.
In January, during protests against the government, dozens of Chinese shops were looted.
The BBC's Maud Jullien reports from the capital, Kinshasa.
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New Zealand prop Franks is set to make his first start for the Exiles against Wasps in the London double header.
The 31-year-old played the closing 22 minutes of the 34-17 victory against Australia less than a month ago.
"I've never played anything other than a Test at Twickenham, so that's going to be exciting," he told BBC Sport.
Franks, capped 47 times by his country, made four appearances during the World Cup.
The former Wellington Hurricane admitted the atmosphere around the tournament was markedly different than in his home country four years previously.
"It felt like we were in our own little bubble," he said. "There was less pressure than in New Zealand, when the whole country was living and breathing every second of it, and it was like being inside a pressure cooker.
"We were out of the way and just went about our business for the first four to five weeks. Then from the quarter-finals onwards, it just flew past.
"The final itself was pretty unique as both sides came out and played running rugby, which made it very exciting."
Now the focus for the older of the two front-row siblings - brother Owen started the World Cup final - has shifted from lifting the Webb Ellis Cup to making an impression with Tom Coventry's London Irish in Premiership rugby.
"I felt I'd achieved all there was to in New Zealand having played over 100 Super Rugby games," said Franks.
"I'm good mates with Brad Thorn (former All Black second row) and he told me I would enjoy playing in England.
"The family were really excited about coming over here, probably more so than me at times, and they've jumped right into the culture and got involved."
And why choose London Irish as the place to make that switch?
"What stuck out for me was the club have been at a point for a while where they feel they've underachieved," he replied.
"What they've done with the training facilities and the desire they have to be one of the top teams excited me.
"When they talked to me about the move, I could easily see myself buying in to what they want to achieve."
The semi-final draw has left open the prospect of Rush's ex-club Juventus facing Gareth Bale's Real Madrid in his hometown on Saturday, 3 June.
"All the world will be watching the final and they will all know where Wales is after this," said Rush.
The trophy has been flown into Cardiff amid great excitement.
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The showpiece match could be played for the first time under a closed roof.
Rush, an ambassador for the Champions League Final, has his own wish-list for the match and it is one he believes will satisfy Welsh supporters.
Rush is a former Juventus player and he would like to see his former club come up against Real Madrid and their current Welsh superstar.
"My dream final is Juventus against Real Madrid," he said.
"We were not sure what was going to happen, but I've said this from day one, since I was an ambassador for Uefa that that would be my dream final.
"I played for Juventus and Real Madrid have got Gareth Bale and that would be a dream final for a lot of Welsh people as well.
"We saw how special the Euros were and this takes it to a different level. For Wales as a country, it's about going on to bigger and better things.
"I hope it's a great game and no matter who it is, it's going to be a great occasion."
Rush, who made 73 international appearances for Wales, admits he is surprised at the progress Welsh football has made both on and off the pitch.
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He added: "If you'd asked in in the 1990s, I would never have thought that it was going to happen, that you'd ever see a Champions League Final in Wales, but, over the last few years, things have come on in Wales , after the Euros it was fantastic.
"I think Gareth would give anything to play in the final in Wales. It would not surprise if he does play and he gets the winning goal."
Bale, 27, has established himself as a superstar on the world football stage at Madrid alongside teammate Cristiano Ronaldo.
Bale already two Champions League winners' medals, the same number of European Cup wins Rush managed with Liverpool.
And despite Rush leading the all-time scoring list for Wales with 28 goals, Bale is in second, just two behind.
Rush says he is looking forward to Bale taking his crown.
"People say to me, what would you think if Gareth Bale breaks your record? I'd be worried if it wasn't a world class player (that did it), but that's what he is," he said.
"It's Gareth Bale, he's young and he's going to get better. It's going to be something special from him because he is a special player."
But Rush, now 55, believes it is too early to decide if Bale is Wales greatest ever footballer.
"You can't say that at the moment because I think Gareth can still get better," added Rush.
"He's playing in a great side. But people do tend to forget about (another former Juve player) John Charles. He was a super player and then Ryan Giggs when he was playing too.
"But Gareth's well on his way to that though. You ask what he's achieved and what he's done when he's finished playing for his club and country and if he has done it all, then the answer then would be possibly yes."
The Spaniard, who takes over from Manuel Pellegrini, led Bayern to three Bundesliga titles and two German Cups in his three seasons in charge.
Italian boss Carlo Ancelotti will be making his home debut for Bayern in the match at the Allianz Arena.
City will face Manchester United in a friendly in Beijing five days later.
"Bayern will provide fitting opposition as our team continues its pre-season preparations and we will be able to connect with our fans in Germany," said City chief executive Ferran Soriano.
On Sunday, club chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak said Guardiola will take the Premier League club "to a new level".
Varnish, recently dropped from the GB team after missing out on the 2016 Olympics, said in the Daily Mail that British Cycling chief Shane Sutton told her to "go have a baby".
Sutton, 58, has denied any wrongdoing.
British Cycling said it wanted to give Varnish, 25, the chance to discuss her concerns in full.
"We are fully committed to the principles and active promotion of equality of opportunity," read a statement from the governing body.
"As such, we treat any such allegations with the utmost seriousness."
Australian Sutton added: "I wholeheartedly deny that I said or did anything other than act with complete professionalism in my dealings with Jess."
Varnish claimed in the Daily Mail interview that when she questioned the decision to drop her she was told that she was "too old". She also alleges that she had to listen to a "long list" of comments about her figure.
"I was told that 'with an ass like mine I couldn't change position within the team sprint'," Varnish said.
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Varnish, a world, European and Commonwealth Games medal-winner, missed out on a place in Rio after she and Katy Marchant finished fifth at last month's World Championships.
Afterwards she appeared to criticise decisions made by British Cycling, telling BBC Sport the team "had been playing catch-up for two years after decisions that were [made] above us".
Sutton said the decision not to renew her contract "was based on a projection of medal competitiveness at Olympic level".
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 23.72 points, or 0.13%, to 17,755.80.
The latest GDP figures suggested the economy grew at an annualised pace of 1.5% in the third quarter, down from 3.9% the previous quarter.
GoPro shares fell 15.2% following the release of disappointing results from the camera maker.
Shares in Allergan, which makes Botox, and Pfizer were both suspended after the companies confirmed they were in buyout talks.
The tech-focused Nasdaq index fell 21.42 points, or 0.42%, to 5,074.27.
The S&P 500 index was barely changed, down 0.94 points at 2,089.41.
Legislation reviewer David Anderson QC said poorly-drafted laws could play into the hands of terrorism recruiters.
Ministers are planning new powers to curb the activities of people whose actions fall short of terrorism.
They are likely to include banning extremist ideologues and preachers and those involved in radical groups linked to Islamist causes.
Mr Anderson's warning came shortly after the head of MI5 gave his first live interview to the BBC in which he set out the case for new powers to intercept internet communications.
The prime minister is also chairing a meeting of the government's extremism taskforce amid opposition from the National Union of Students to new duties upon universities to monitor extremism.
In his annual report on the workings of terrorism legislation, Mr Anderson, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said that while it was "right and proper" that the government should have a counter-extremism strategy, it could go wrong if forthcoming proposals were not carefully thought through.
Three of its key measures are expected to be:
Mr Anderson said he had identified 15 issues that the government had to address in Parliament if the proposed legislation was going to work - including a clear and intelligible definition of extremism, define the causal link between extremism and terrorism and how the laws could affect the police's relationship with communities.
He said: "These issues matter because they concern the scope of UK discrimination, hate speech and public order laws, the limits that the state may place of some of our most basic freedoms, the proper limits of surveillance, and the acceptability of imposing suppressive measures without the protections of the criminal law.
"If the wrong decisions are taken, the new law risks provoking a backlash in affected communities, hardening perceptions of an illiberal or Islamophobic approach, alienating those whose integration into British society is already fragile and playing into the hands of those who, by peddling a grievance agenda, seek to drive people further towards extremism and terrorism."
Mr Anderson warned that while the plan's supporters would argue that the counter-extremism powers would only be aimed at specific targets, that did not address the dangers of "overbroad laws" to inadvertently affect others.
"If it becomes a function of the state to identify which individuals are engaged in, or exposed to, a broad range of "extremist activity", it will become legitimate for the state to scrutinise (and the citizen to inform upon) the exercise of core democratic freedoms by large numbers of law-abiding people," he said.
"The benefits claimed for the new law - assuming that they can be clearly identified - will have to be weighed with the utmost care against the potential consequences, in terms of both inhibiting those freedoms and alienating those people."
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."
South Wales Police is appealing for witnesses following the crash at about 10:25 GMT on Saturday in Merthyr Dyfan Road, Barry.
The driver of a Mercedes Sprinter suffered fatal injuries.
The carriageway was closed for about four hours while police conducted initial investigations.
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The vehicles were parked on Southend Road, Grindon Lane and Gleneagles Road in the Springwell and Grindon areas of the city early on Sunday.
Damage to one car was captured on CCTV by its owner. It showed a male suspect, of medium build, wearing a "biscuit-coloured" hoodie.
Police have appealed for witnesses and mounted extra patrols in the area.
It also showed women in Wales were 40% more likely to be classified physically inactive than men.
The charity said lack of exercise significantly increased risk of coronary heart disease and early death.
The Welsh Government said it was working to increase opportunities to make physical activity part of everyone's daily routine.
Dr Mike Knapton, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation (BHF), said levels of physical inactivity in the UK remained "stubbornly high".
The charity's Physical Inactivity and Sedentary Behaviour Report showed the north west of England had the highest percentage of inactive adults - 47% - and the south east of England had the lowest - 34%.
In Wales, 42% of adults were classed as inactive.
The report defined "inactive" as not achieving the government guidelines for physical activity of 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week and strength activities on at least two days a week.
The report also showed physical inactivity was high among people who have gone on to suffer a cardiac event.
More than eight in 10 people in Wales, when referred for cardiac rehabilitation after suffering a heart attack or undergoing heart surgery, failed to meet the government's exercise recommendations, it said.
The charity released the report as it launched its MyMarathon challenge in a bid to boost the nation's physical activity.
The challenge encourages people of all fitness levels to run the 26.2 miles in their own time over a month, from as little as a mile a day.
Dr Knapton said: "Physical inactivity is one of the most significant global health crises of the moment.
"Making physical activity easier and more accessible for all is of paramount importance if we are to reduce the burden of inactivity-related ill health."
The BHF said evidence showed keeping physically active can reduce the risk of heart and circulatory disease by as much as 35% and risk of early death by as much as 30%.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We recognise the importance of being physically active and the health impact of sedentary lifestyles is a cause of concern globally, not just in Wales.
"We are working across government, and with a range of partners, to increase opportunities to make physical activity part of everyone's daily routine through a range of legislation, policy and programmes.
"We will be publishing a cross-cutting Healthy and Active strategy shortly."
The Sherlock star condemned the "slow response" to the Syrian crisis during the curtain calls of Hamlet last year.
In a GQ interview, Cumberbatch said he has "very strong opinions" about "things that matter".
But he said he normally has to "wrench myself back" because, as a well-paid actor, he is portrayed as a hypocrite.
He told the magazine: "One of the arguments was, when are you going to put a refugee in your house or your flat?
"And, you know, I do have a house, but it's empty, it's gutted, there's no electricity or water, so that wouldn't work, and I have a baby in my flat, there are no spare rooms...
"I wasn't saying, 'Yes, open the doors to everyone, yes, give them our jobs and our wives', and that whole kind of stereotype fear that nationalism has leapt on."
Cumberbatch, who has a one-year-old son with his theatre director wife Sophie Hunter, is believed to have bought a Victorian house in north London.
He said he was prompted to make his speeches after seeing the photograph of dead toddler Alan Kurdi on a Turkish beach that drew attention to the refugee crisis earlier this year.
Cumberbatch added: "It's not about privilege, it's about a child dead on a beach because he's tried to escape a war."
He continued: "I find it frustrating because I do have very strong opinions about things, and I do want to say things that matter, and that are important, and I have to wrench myself back.
"Because it's so easily framed by the right as 'Booo, who's he? He's a hypocrite, he's an actor, he's paid tonnes of money, who is he to tell us how to live our lives?'" he said.
Cumberbatch also hinted that we might have seen the last of hit BBC TV series Sherlock.
"It might be the end of an era. It feels like the end of an era, to be honest. It goes to a place where it will be pretty hard to follow on immediately.
"We never say never on the show. I'd love to revisit it, I'd love to keep revisiting it, I stand by that, but in the immediate future we all have things that we want to crack on with and we've made something very complete as it is, so I think we'll just wait and see. The idea of never playing him again is really galling."
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World number 12 Hawkins, who was runner-up in 2016, took a lengthy opening frame before fellow Englishman Selby levelled with a 76 break.
Breaks of 63 and 60 gave Hawkins a 3-1 lead at the break before world champion Selby pipped him to the fifth frame.
It was 4-3 when Selby produced a superb 101 before Hawkins hit back to take the next two frames and seal victory.
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He will play England's Joe Perry, who also produced a shock with a 6-1 win over world number six and 2011 champion Ding Junhui (China) in the last of the quarter-finals.
The world number nine had breaks of 55, 63 and then 127 in the seventh and final frame to secure the victory.
Earlier, Hawkins said his 6-1 opening-round win over former world champion and compatriot Shaun Murphy gave him extra belief going into Friday's match against Selby.
"I was quietly confident in my game, I played well against Shaun," he said.
"The last few times against Mark I've played him instead of playing the table, but today I managed to settle better and play the balls."
English defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan will face Hong Kong's Marco Fu in Saturday's other semi-final.
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The eight-time Olympic champion easily won the 150m at Melbourne's Lakeside Stadium and contested the second leg of the mixed 4x100m relay.
The Jamaican, 30, ran a time of 15.28 seconds in the 150m, slower than the world record of 14.35 he set over the distance in Manchester in 2009.
The All-Stars won the trophy ahead of Australia.
Nitro Athletics involves a mixture of traditional and modified events, including mixed-gender relays and an elimination mile, designed to provide non-stop action over a two-hour period.
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Twelve events were contested on each of the three nights, with points awarded for each placing, from 100 points to the winning team down to 40 for the sixth-place finisher.
Bolt's All-Stars - including athletes from Jamaica, the US and Kenya - competed against teams representing Australia, England, New Zealand, Japan and China.
Watch highlights of the event on Saturday, 11 February at 13:15 GMT on BBC One and Sunday, February 12 at 13:00 on BBC Two
Midfielder Mousa Dembele is fit, but Kyle Walker and Victor Wanyama are doubts with minor knocks.
Southampton manager Claude Puel has no fresh injury worries and he could pick the same team that beat Watford.
Striker Charlie Austin is edging closer to a return from a shoulder problem, but defender Virgil van Dijk remains a long-term injury absentee.
Simon Brotherton: "Last week's FA Cup thrashing of Millwall came at a heavy price for Tottenham, who now face four to six weeks without their star striker Harry Kane.
"It's his second spell on the sidelines this season and others will need to step up if they're to maintain any sort of a challenge to Chelsea at the top. Spurs have already played top-flight opposition without Kane in the team nine times in the current campaign. In those nine matches, they managed only three wins and eight goals.
"Finding the net hasn't been a problem for Southampton lately, who have won their last two away games at Sunderland and Watford, scoring four in each of them.
"They also won this fixture last season 2-1, inflicting a first defeat for Mauricio Pochettino against his former club."
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Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: "We have to find a solution until Harry [Kane] is available again. We have players who can cope with the pressure and it's a great opportunity for Sonny [Son Heung-min] and Vincent [Janssen]."
"We are not worried, we are in good condition. We hope it will be different [to the last time Kane was injured]. I think the team now is completely different, that was in September.
"It was a difficult pre-season after the Euros and we are in a completely different level. The team is now more solid. We have improved a lot since that period."
Southampton manager Claude Puel: "They [Tottenham] have a lot of wins at home, so it's a good challenge for us.
"It will be interesting to see our progress. It's difficult with one game every two weeks to keep concentration, but it's important to have a good response at Tottenham."
Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino has been making all the right noises about how his side will cope without the injured Harry Kane, but they will undoubtedly miss him.
Southampton are a strange team and very difficult to predict, but I am going to go for a scruffy Spurs win - even without Kane, they still should have enough.
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When President Trump decided to temporarily close America's borders to citizens of seven mainly Muslim nations, the response from Cairo was striking.
The Arab world's most populous nation made its silence felt. Egypt's hardline leader, and his supporters, are on the Trump train.
President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi was the first Arab leader to congratulate Mr Trump on his election victory. The bromance began at their first meeting in New York last September, when Donald Trump was still on the campaign trail.
"There was good chemistry there," Mr Trump said afterwards. "He's a fantastic guy." He praised the general-turned-president for "really taking control of Egypt" as indeed he did - in a popularly backed coup in 2013.
While the US did not call it a coup, the military's removal of Egypt's first democratically elected president - the Islamist Mohammed Morsi - caused a rupture with President Obama. Now President Sisi is looking forward to a reset in relations, and a visit to the White House - which the Obama administration denied him.
When he gets there (the visit is still being planned) human rights are unlikely to be on the agenda. Neither leader has much to say about that, but they speak the same language about tackling Islamic extremism.
President Trump has vowed to wipe "radical Islamic terrorism" from the face of the Earth. President Sisi has promised to "combat and eradicate terrorism and extremism".
He is battling a militant insurgency that originated in Northern Sinai but has bled beyond it. President Trump called him recently, promising to provide the necessary support. (Egypt is already the second biggest recipient of US military aid, receiving about $1.3bn a year)
The Egyptian leader has praised his US counterpart for showing a "deep and great understanding of the region" - which may come as a surprise to many in the Middle East.
Critics here argue that Mr Trump's immigration curbs - now suspended by a US judge - are racist and will backfire.
"I think truly he is playing into the hands of the extremist," said Khaled Dawoud, a liberal activist. "He is antagonising the majority or nearly all Muslims worldwide. That's exactly what Daesh [so-called Islamic State] and other extremist groups want to do, to push towards a confrontation, to send the message that… the two civilisations cannot exist."
The message from Barack Obama, in the early days of his presidency, was very different. At Cairo University in June 2009 he made a seminal appeal for civilisations to unite.
"I've come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world," he said, "one based on mutual interest and mutual respect. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end."
Nadine Medhat, then a 19-year-old student, was in the audience that day listening to his soaring rhetoric beneath the gilded dome of the University's Great Hall.
Ms Medhat, now a researcher, came back there to give us her views on US presidents, past and present.
"I remember very distinctly all the young people attending on the day were excited," she said. "I felt that the writing and the wording of the speech was very carefully chosen and it resonated with many who listened."
In spite of the early promise, she says President Obama left the region worse than he found it.
As for Donald Trump she told us he could not even get his wording right during his campaign.
"I thought his words were insensitive to Muslim communities worldwide," she said. Ms Medhat is troubled by his repeated threats to "take the oil" in Iraq, and by his "rash decisions" so far.
"We are all waiting to see how things will unfold, " she said. "This first week has been a bit rough, I would say, particularly for the seven banned Muslim-majority countries, also other countries in the region who are concerned for what will happen next. So we are all just bracing ourselves."
Many here are pessimistic about the Trump presidency, like Dr Tamer Mamdouh Abdo, a lecturer in engineering.
He, too, heard Barack Obama speak in person, and is urging his successor to get back to first principles.
"Look at the US constitution," he said "and stick to the American values of freedom and democracy because what you are doing is very dangerous not only to the US but to the whole world."
Should President Trump ever come to speak at Cairo University both he and Ms Medhat said they would probably stay home.
So sounded the half-groan, half-chuckle from a spectator perched high in Murrayfield's south stand.
Scotland's playmaker, with a gracious snap of his wrists collected a pass and flicked the ball onwards to where a gap in the opposition defence could be plundered.
A moment of poise and grace - if only the team-mate on his outside had read his intentions. The ball flew over the touchline and bounced meekly onto the track.
That Gregor Townsend could be so criticised on that evening 15 years ago, where he scored 33 points as the USA - then little more than part-time cannon fodder - were marmalised was telling.
In the eyes of so many, he could seldom unshackle himself from the "mercurial maverick" label.
That the Galashiels lad who left the Borders to mix it with the big boys of England, France and South Africa, winning 82 caps before returning to sign off at his cherished Netherdale, has emerged as such a prolific coaching kingpin at Glasgow Warriors might surprise those onlookers.
"It doesn't happen that way," explains Jim Telfer, the iconic sage who coached Townsend, at fly-half and centre, for Scotland during the 1990s and on the fabled British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa in 1997.
"Some of the most flamboyant players have become very conservative coaches.
"Gregor isn't conservative. He wasn't a difficult player to coach. He was very articulate - if he did something wrong, he could always talk you through why he did it.
"He will have to do that with his own players, particularly people like Finn Russell or Stuart Hogg.
"He could see things at stand-off that other players couldn't see. If he made what you might think were rash decisions, they were done for a reason. It wasn't just to be a devil or a rascal.
"He wasn't as mercurial as people think. When he went on the 1997 Lions tour, he was very controlled. Because he had very good players outside him, he used them very well.
"Probably with some of the other teams he played for, he thought he had to do a lot himself."
The way Townsend has his Warriors playing, of course, has Telfer purring, more pussycat than grizzly bear.
The all-action, offloading game appeals to the New Zealand-inspired Telfer mould of controlled but deadly high-tempo rugby, underpinned by ruthless rucking.
But after the crowning glory of the Pro12 title barely six months ago, the wily old warhorse cautions Glasgow may face their stiffest test yet this season.
"The players Gregor has at Glasgow - not just the backs, but the forwards as well - are all very positive in what they are trying to do," he says.
"But as a coach and a set of players, they will find this season more difficult than last, because the opposition know where they are coming from.
"They will have to take that next step to be able to take their game forward. But I like the way they play.
"With the half-backs they have, they can still control the game even when the weather is not very good."
Dignified, amusing and erudite before the flashbulbs and cameras, anyone who has spent even a fleeting moment in vague proximity to Townsend's matchday gantry at Scotstoun can vouch for the ferocity of his competitive drive.
His right-hand man, Matt Taylor, may pound the desk in front of him and bawl at the Warriors defensive line to, in polite terms, shape up, but Townsend too oft-cuts an animated figure.
It is he who fuels the club and the squad's constant, insatiable thirst to improve and fine-tune.
"Gregor's great ability is that he is a modern coach," reckons Telfer. "He has got a good philosophy; he is a very positive coach.
"He knows what he wants to do, and he can articulate that to the players. He seems to be very good at bringing young players through.
"He won't necessarily realise it but he will be taking ideas from every place he has been, using his experiences and that will be coming out in his coaching.
"It also helps when you are bringing in players from other countries. He can at least relate to where they come from."
With his deal due to expire in the summer, Townsend penned a contract extension on Thursday that ties him to Scotstoun for a further year.
The sighs of relief reverberating across Glasgow sit in stark contrast to the disquiet that surrounded his appointment three years ago, when many felt predecessor Sean Lineen had been unjustly moved on.
"I think it ends the speculation of the last couple of weeks that he might be going elsewhere," says Telfer.
"Coaches don't seem to last very long. If they are successful, they tend to be poached by other clubs or countries.
"It is very good news for Glasgow and Scottish rugby. I think he has done a remarkable job at Glasgow. Obviously he has something to live up to now after last year.
"The test of his coaching will be this season, when you are expected to do well, and the opposition are just as tough."
The inevitable follow-up, and perhaps the fervent hope amid Scottish supporters, is that Townsend ultimately takes charge of the national team.
"He is quite an inexperienced coach when you think about it," muses Telfer.
"He has only been a club coach for three years, having been in the Scotland set-up [as attack coach], where he was kind of sheltered, he wasn't the front man there.
"From the point of view of his development, I think it is a good thing he is staying on.
"He has to think about his family, he has two boys of early secondary school age. As a player he moved around quite a lot - his family have quite a lot on their passports.
"If he wanted to do it at a higher level, he has to test himself before he thinks about international set-ups.
"Because coaching a national side is completely different to coaching a club side. You get fewer turns at being successful, fewer games, and you have to get it right. There is a huge difference."
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Paul French, who has written on North Korean state control, told BBC World News that Hyon's execution was about the "total obliteration of someone, and of any opposition, and therefore having total control".
The idea "is to render a person a non-person... so there isn't even a corpse left to give to the family for burial," said Alexander Neill, a senior fellow with think tank II-SS.
"What underlies all this is the psychology of the identity of an individual in a regime, and once they are disloyal they are effectively a non-entity."
North Korea is not alone in conducting brutal executions.
When Argentina's last military government was in power from 1976 to 1983, it executed people by throwing them out of planes into the ocean, in a practice known as "death flights".
Other countries have a history of abusing a prisoner's corpse after execution.
In Sudan and Saudi Arabia, prisoners can be crucified as punishment but it is usually done after he or she is killed by a more conventional method such as hanging or decapitation.
Ugandan despot Idi Amin reportedly fed the bodies of dead prisoners to crocodiles.
Public humiliation
Brutally executing someone in the public eye is designed as "humiliation of the highest order", said Mr Neill.
In a similar vein, China has held mass show trials of prisoners accused of terrorism in Xinjiang.
These involved prisoners paraded in trucks in sports stadiums and physically restrained so that they are forced to bow.
These "reinforce that the collective is more important than the individual, and it's about controlling thoughts rather than behaviour," said Mr Neill.
Four died after their vehicle was reportedly fired on by pro-Russian separatists in Schastye, close to the separatist stronghold of Lugansk.
Two others were killed when their vehicle hit an anti-tank mine near the government-held port city of Mariupol.
A fragile ceasefire has been in force in eastern Ukraine since February.
There have been isolated violations of the ceasefire, which was agreed by leaders from Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France.
In the Schastye incident, the four Ukrainian government troops are said to have died when their vehicle was hit as it drove across a bridge .
Initial reports said rebels "had fired an anti-tank missile", the interior ministry said in a statement.
In the mine explosion near Mariupol, two soldiers died at the scene while a third was wounded and taken to hospital, the army said.
On Saturday, the government reported the deaths of three soldiers in a mine explosion near Donetsk, another separatist stronghold.
Some 6,000 people have been killed since fighting broke out in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian separatists and the Ukrainian government a year ago.
The Ukrainian government, Western leaders and Nato say there is clear evidence that Russia has helped the rebels with heavy weapons and soldiers. Independent experts echo that accusation.
Moscow denies it, insisting that any Russians serving with the rebels are "volunteers".
But how can authorities be sure about the precise number, or even know where to search for victims among the Nepalese population, when there are tens of thousands of undocumented refugees?
Tibetans fleeing from China have been escaping across the treacherous Himalayan border ever since 1959, when the Chinese overran Tibet. And they have been risking their lives to make the crossing ever since.
Their goal has been to find refuge in Nepal, and, if possible, travel through an open border into India. A small number have been processed and are held in a refugee centre in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu.
Only a minority of second-generation Tibetans have Nepalese citizenship. The bulk of them are living illegally.
They do not have residency rights and they do not have identity cards. They are stateless and therefore invisible.
Nepal is reluctant to talk about them for fear of upsetting its northern neighbour, one of the country's big investors.
Most ethnic Tibetans live quietly outside Kathmandu in remote villages scattered across the mountains, right up to the Chinese border.
These villages lie right in the quake-affected zone - but those that have perished cannot be identified formally because officially they do not exist.
Ethnic Tibetan villages like Bridim - north of Kathmandu and close to the border with Tibet, at around 3,000 metres above sea level - are among the poorest in this poor rural nation and have been flattened after Nepal's worst earthquake in 80 years.
The Dolma Development Fund is one of the few non-governmental organisations that cares for Tibetan tribals in Nepal. It set up a school in Dhunche, not far from Bridim, to educate 500 ethnic Tibetan children and orphans of the area.
"Bridim is practically razed to the ground," Dolma's chief finance officer Carla Teixeira Alvares Kaspar said.
"We have no idea how many people have survived. There are no rescue missions operating in such isolated areas."
She is also worried about the water supply in Bhorle, in a valley close by.
"It's a big slum. We have children there. There is just one water pipe from the mountains and if that gets disconnected they have nothing. Then disease can spread very quickly."
She spoke of "horrendous landslides" hitting Dhunche.
"There is little communication and power. For refugees, this is the last straw. It was impossible before. There is so much destruction in Kathmandu."
"With the monsoon coming in a month or two, I don't anticipate they are going to restore electricity or even communication or minimal roads to the mountains before December. Everything is going to stop in the monsoons," said Ms Kaspar.
The chairman of the Dolma Development Fund, Tim Gocher, lives in Kathmandu with his Nepalese wife, Pooja. He sent this message.
"Pooja, the boys and I are all still fine, however things are much worse than we thought [on Saturday] as information comes through.
"The Dolma charity has lost children we sponsor, the school in Dhunche is largely destroyed along with most of the small houses in the town, and most of Bridim's houses are gone. Information on casualties and damage is patchy.
"We slept in the car last night and most people are too scared to go back to their homes. There are still aftershocks and I think we're not going back in today [Sunday]. Sorry for the bad news. There's nothing good about this situation."
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Clarke became a running legend in the 1950s and 1960s, during which he set 17 world records.
In 1956, he was chosen to light the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony for the Melbourne Olympics.
He died after a short illness in hospital at the age of 78, the Gold Coast City Council said.
He won a bronze medal in the 10,000-metre event at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, but in all his years running he never won an Olympic gold.
After his athletics career, he was Gold Coast mayor from 2004 to 2012, but was unsuccessful in a bid for state politics.
He had been awarded the Order of Australia and honoured as a Member of the British Empire.
He is critically ill in hospital.
The assault, in the town of Madaripur, is the latest in a series of recent attacks on religious minorities, secular writers and academics.
Last week, Bangladesh's prime minister vowed to bring an end to the violence, and police launched an operation against Islamists.
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Ripon Charkavarti was attacked with machete knives as he opened the door at his home.
Police said they are questioning one of the three suspects caught by local people while trying to escape.
Earlier attacks have been widely attributed to Islamist extremists and are causing growing concern.
In many cases, the Islamic State group or al-Qaeda say they carried out the attacks but the government denies the group is active in the country, our correspondent in Dhaka, Waliur Rahman, says.
The Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, has said her government will do whatever it takes to stop the attacks.
"Where will the criminals hide? Each and every killer will be brought to book," she told a meeting of her governing Awami League party on Saturday.
Police launched a campaign last Friday, and have arrested thousands of people.
However, critics say many ordinary criminals were among those held.
More than 40 people, including secular bloggers, academics, gay rights activists and members of religious minorities, have been killed in attacks blamed on Islamist militants in Bangladesh since February 2013.
Last Friday, a Hindu monastery worker was hacked to death in Pabna district.
Over the past two weeks, a Hindu priest, a Christian grocer and the wife of an anti-terror police officer were all killed in attacks by suspected Islamist militants.
Mike Gapes said he chiefly wanted Mr Corbyn to "listen to and work with" MPs chairing backbench policy committees - most of whom did not vote for him.
Without their support, he suggested the Labour leader "could not succeed".
But Corbyn-supporting Labour MP Ronnie Campbell said the committees were merely "talking shops".
Mr Corbyn disagrees with his many of his MPs in key policy areas, including the renewal of Trident, the welfare cap and military action in Syria. Many of those at odds with him have now taken roles chairing internal Labour policy committees.
They include pro-Trident MP John Woodcock, former shadow chancellor Chris Leslie, who has attacked Mr Corbyn's economic policy, and former frontbenchers Tristram Hunt, Ivan Lewis, Emma Reynolds and Shabana Mahmood, all of whom quit the shadow cabinet after his election.
Mr Gapes, who last month tweeted that there was "now no collective Shadow cabinet responsibility in our Party, no clarity on economic policy and no credible leadership" will chair the party's foreign affairs committee.
The committee chairmen will have the power to stand in for shadow ministers at the despatch box, although this is rarely used, and to influence policy decisions behind the scenes.
It has been suggested that there was a concerted effort by Corbyn-sceptic MPs to gain control of one of the party's policy making mechanisms to push back at Mr Corbyn's allies, who are strongly represented in the shadow cabinet and on the National Executive Committee.
Mr Gapes, the MP for Ilford South, told the BBC's Daily Politics that they were not trying to create an alternative power base but wanted to be "part of the process" of formulating policy.
"There is no shadow, shadow cabinet," he told Daily Politics. "It is a nice headline but the reality is the parliamentary party will want to work collectively and cohesively and the backbench committees will play a big role into the input to the development of policy."
Mr Gapes, who has said there is "no clarity on economic policy or credible leadership" under Mr Corbyn, said he and like-minded colleagues would be seeking to make their influence felt on the National Policy Forum and other powerful bodies.
"Policy will be decided by the party overall but MPs are an essential part of this process...No leader can be successful if they don't take their parliamentary colleagues with them....We have to have a leadership that listens to and work with the parliamentary party."
But Mr Campbell, the MP for Blyth Valley who was among those to nominate Mr Corbyn for the party leadership, suggested the internal committees would have very little influence over the direction of the party.
"These committees are just talking shops really," he told Daily Politics. "They don't make policy. The Labour party members out there and the affiliated (groups) make policy."
MPs should not overstate their power, he claimed, suggesting they owed their loyalties to their constituents and their local members.
"They are not the Labour Party. The Labour Party is made up of its members and affiliates. They (the MPs) want to get off this sort of hook they are getting onto thinking that they are going to take over the parliamentary party and run the party. They are not running the party and never will."
Mr Corbyn has said he wants the parliamentary committees, which had a low profile under Ed Miliband, to become more influential.
The Labour leader has also vowed to open up the party's policy making process to its members, the vast majority of whom voted for him to be leader, claiming that decision making has become increasingly centralised under successive leaders.
He wants to give the party's annual conference a much greater say in determining policy.
The clubs will face one another home and away in September and early October in the West Country Challenge Cup.
The tournament mirrors the being held by Leicester, Newcastle and Sale.
The Premiership is with both Exeter and Gloucester staging matches at their home grounds.
Gloucester will play their home games at Bristol's Memorial Stadium, so not to clash with the World Cup matches they are staging.
"Each year you want to get your season off to a solid start and all that begins by having a worthwhile and meaningful set of opening fixtures," said Exeter boss Rob Baxter.
"For us, the opportunity to play the likes of Bath and Gloucester - two of our biggest rivals in the Premiership - will not only give us a good gauge of where we lie heading into the new season, but it will also provide us with four very competitive fixtures."
Defeat by Brighton ended a run of back-to-back wins that had given Wigan hope of survival and leaves them five points adrift in the relegation zone.
Barrow says he was frustrated with the Seagulls' first goal in the loss.
"That's where we are with the points," Barrow told BBC Radio Manchester.
"It's as simple as that, that's what we have to do. There's no need to give up yet."
Goalkeeper Jakob Haugaard and his defenders were criticised by Barrow in the post-match press interview, as Brighton took the lead through Glenn Murray's goal from a ball over the top.
Haugaard, who is on loan from Stoke City, has started the past three games for Wigan in the place of Matt Gilks.
"He didn't have a lot to do," Barrow continued. "The first goal has really got me, from being in no trouble at all whatsoever. it's a Sunday league goal.
"We've got to look at that and see what we can do."
Barrow also seemed to suggest the decision as to who did play in goal has not been a personal one.
"That's the case, we'll have to see," he continued.
"We need to have conversations and see where we go. The worrying thing is it didn't get any better through the game."
The world number one resumed leading by two sets to one and with the match 3-3 in the fourth after a storm had halted play on Friday evening.
Murray took the fourth set on Saturday's resumption but Djokovic came through 6-3 6-3 5-7 5-7 6-1.
The 28-year-old Serb will face Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka in the final on Sunday.
Djokovic has now won 28 matches in a row, and another victory would make him only the eighth man to complete the set of all four Grand Slam titles.
His hopes were threatened for the first time on Friday evening as Murray launched a stirring comeback, and the top seed looked in real danger when the Briton grabbed the fourth set on Saturday.
"I'm very glad that I managed to finish this match as a winner," said Djokovic.
"I was hoping I can do it before, but I don't think I have done too much wrong, even today in the fourth. He just came up with some great shots, great points."
Murray said: "Last night before we came off the crowd were really into it and it was a good atmosphere. I was obviously motivated to come out today and try to turn the match around.
"I played a loose game on my serve the first game of the [final] set with the new balls. I missed I think three balls long in that game.
"Then I think Novak relaxed a little bit after that and he hit the ball extremely accurate."
Both men had appeared nerveless as just one point went against serve in Saturday's opening four games, but it was Djokovic who faltered first at 5-5 amid some brilliant, punishing baseline rallies.
Murray's defensive skills began to draw errors and the Scot raised his fist in triumph after sealing the vital break, before closing the set out on serve.
The crowd, enjoying an unexpected bonus ahead of the women's final, rose to acclaim his effort against a player who had seemed invincible for much of the tournament.
Djokovic has been ruthless when it has counted during his unbeaten run, however, finishing off nine-time champion Rafael Nadal 6-1 in the quarter-finals, and with two love sets against Murray to his name this season.
Once again, the world number one powered away in the final stages.
A half-chance passed Murray by when he netted a regulation backhand at deuce in the opening game of the decider, and a poor service game of four errors then cost him dear.
Djokovic resumed the clinical display that had seen him through the first two sets on Friday, powering one rocket of a forehand down the line before breaking again to all but secure victory.
Murray had been on a 15-match winning run on clay coming into the match but in the closing stages could do nothing to avoid an eighth successive defeat by his rival since childhood.
Critics of the 51-year-old, who came to power after a civil war which left 300,000 dead, said he should not run again for office as that would be unconstitutional.
His supporters feel he was justified as he was elected by parliament in 2005 - not voters - a view upheld by Burundi's Constitutional Court.
And the former rebel leader takes pride in the fact that his administration has brought peace to Burundi.
It is this image that he is keen to portray - a man of the people working to rebuild the country, one of the poorest in the world.
It has been reported that diplomats arriving for official meetings with Mr Nkurunziza have been whisked away from the capital, Bujumbura, into the countryside, where they find the president digging in the fields with local farmers.
In fact his enthusiasm for planting avocado trees is so well known that many Burundians have renamed the popular green fruit "amaPeter" after him.
"The man's simplicity is remarkable, and he always draws attention, mingling with village people in the remote rural areas where he spends most of his time," his official biography on the Burundian government website says.
This has made him more popular in rural areas, but not in the capital, where most of the opposition resides.
Before the civil war, Mr Nkurunziza, who had graduated in sports education, was a teacher and assistant lecturer at the University of Burundi.
He also coached the army football team, Muzinga, as well as Union Sporting, a Burundian first division team in the 1990s.
He now has his own side, Hallelujah FC, where "he plays as a striker and scores regularly", his biography says.
The name of the team also indicates one of his other great passions: His Christian faith.
His father, a former governor who was killed in the 1972 massacre of ethnic Hutus, was Catholic and his mother Anglican.
Now a born-again Christian, the father of five never travels without his own football team and a choir, where he combines matches against local team with evangelical prayer sessions, according to the AFP news agency.
He and his wife Denise were once reported to have washed the feet of some of those among the crowd.
It is not only the people who the president believes have put their faith in him.
"Mr Nkurunziza indeed believes he is president by divine will, and he therefore organises his life and government around these values," says presidential spokesman Willy Nyamitwe.
His critics, who include about 40 opposition parties as well as human rights groups, paint a somewhat different picture of him.
They accuse him of being a dictator who refuses to give up power.
This perception grew after Mr Nkurunziza decided to run for a third term, rejecting pressure from protesters and foreign governments to step down.
Scores of people have been killed in protests since he announced his re-election bid in April, and more than 100,000 have fled to neighbouring states, raising fears that Burundi could descend into conflict again.
Mr Nkurunziza survived a coup attempt in May when former army loyalist Godefroid Niyombare led the attempt to overthrow him.
Mr Nkurunziza's forces crushed the coup bid, and the opposition says repression has intensified, making July's elections neither free nor fair.
UN human rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein has raised particular concern about Imbonerakure, a youth group allied with Mr Nkurunziza.
It is suspected of carrying out summary executions, tortures and beatings, and "could tip an already extremely tense situation over the edge," he has said.
The Hutu CNDD-FDD rebel group that Mr Nkurunziza led during the civil war - sparked by the killing of Hutu President Melchoir Ndadaye in 1993 - was responsible for several atrocities.
These included several ambushes along major roads, killing many travellers, including Tutsis.
He took up arms in a bid to end the long-standing dominance of the country by the minority Tutsi community.
Mr Nkurunziza was sentenced to death in absentia by a Burundian court in 1998 for laying land mines, but received an amnesty under the peace accord that ended the fighting.
Last year, he tried and failed to change the constitution, which limits the powers of his CNDD-FDD party by guaranteeing positions for the minority Tutsi group in all government institutions.
His critics say this stands at odds with his public stance that he wants to overcome the ethnic tensions that led to the civil war.
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The aircraft were scrambled from RAF Coningsby, in Lincolnshire, on Monday night and helped guide an Air France plane to a safe landing in Newcastle, the RAF said.
Loud bangs were heard in several parts of Yorkshire, with Paul Griffiths (@GriffoRadio) sharing a video of the event in Tadcaster.
Gen Samir Sulaiman told the BBC he hoped all of Aleppo would be in government hands within weeks.
Gen Sulaiman was speaking a day after the army seized another district, Tariq al-Bab, from the rebels opposing President Bashar al-Assad.
Swathes of east Aleppo held by rebels have been seized by government troops and militiamen in the past three weeks.
Earlier reports on Saturday had suggested as much as two-thirds of the rebel-held area had been recaptured.
Up to 250,000 people remain trapped in besieged areas of the city, the UN says.
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced. The United Nations this week said conditions in east Aleppo were now so dire that medical operations were being conducted without anaesthetics.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said Tariq al-Bab was recaptured more than four years after falling into rebel hands.
Clashes in the district left tens of fighters on both sides killed or injured, it said.
At least 300 people have been killed since the government-led offensive on east Aleppo.
Thousands of people fled Tariq al-Bab into neighbouring areas as fighting intensified.
The thunderous boom of shelling can be heard across Aleppo as Syrian warplanes and artillery pound districts to the east.
The army and its allies are advancing rapidly on the ground, Gen Sulaiman told me, and they expect to recapture 60% within days.
Rebel fighters are now regrouping and retreating south to more densely populated areas of their enclave.
UN officials here say they're bracing for another exodus of civilians. Thousands have already fled to this part of Aleppo.
Sources tell me that that Syria's ally Russia is involved in a new effort to co-ordinate with rebel forces to arrange the evacuation of the sick and wounded and allow as many as 1,000 civilian activists who are not involved in the fighting to leave.
But for all the discussions, what's clear to all is the Syrian military and its allies are determined to retake all of Aleppo within weeks.
Earlier this week, Stephen O'Brien, the UN's humanitarian affairs chief, said besieged areas of the city risked becoming "one giant graveyard".
He said some people inside opposition-controlled areas were so hungry they were reduced to scavenging.
On Thursday, Russia, that supports President Bashar al-Assad's government, indicated it was ready to discuss opening four safe corridors for humanitarian access.
Aleppo was once Syria's largest city and its commercial and industrial hub before the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in 2011.
It has been divided in roughly two for the past four years. But in the past 11 months, Syrian troops have broken the deadlock with the help of Iranian-backed militias and Russian air strikes.
In early September they reinstated a siege of the east, and launched a large-scale offensive later that month to retake full control of the city.
The Syrian Observatory says more than 300 civilians have been killed in rebel-held districts since the offensive was stepped up in mid-November.
The Met Office has issued a yellow "be aware" warning for snow, particularly on high ground, for Wrexham, Powys and Monmouthshire.
It says a mixture of rain, hail and sleet will turn into snow during the night.
Untreated roads and pavements could also be icy.
The couple, named as Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagufta Kausar, were found guilty of sending the text message to the imam of their local mosque.
Allegations of blasphemy against Islam are taken very seriously in Pakistan.
Several recent cases have prompted international concern about the application of blasphemy laws.
The imam brought a complaint against the couple last July.
The couple's lawyer told the BBC he would appeal against the sentences and said the trial had not been conducted fairly.
Pakistan has a de facto moratorium on the death penalty so it is unlikely the couple will be executed.
They come from the town of Gojra in Punjab, previously the scene of communal violence.
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In 2009 the rumoured desecration of a copy of the Koran led to a mob burning nearly 40 houses and a church in Gojra. At least eight members of Christian community died in the violence.
Since the 1990s, scores of Christians have been convicted for desecrating the Koran or blaspheming against the Prophet Mohammed.
While most of them have been sentenced to death by the lower courts, many sentences have been overturned due to lack of evidence.
Critics argue that Pakistan's blasphemy laws are frequently misused to settle personal scores and that members of minority groups are also unfairly targeted.
Muslims constitute a majority of those prosecuted, followed by the minority Ahmadi community.
In 2012 the arrest of a young Christian girl, Rimsha Masih, on blasphemy charges provoked international outrage. After being detained in a high security prison for several weeks she was eventually released and her family subsequently fled to Canada.
The mayor of the town of Bria, north-east of the capital Bangui, said bodies were lying in the streets.
The truce, signed in Rome on Monday, included an immediate ceasefire.
It was intended to bring armed groups into the political process in exchange for ending attacks.
Town Mayor Maurice Belikoussou told the Associated Press that dozens of wounded were seeking treatment at the local hospital.
Witnesses told the news agency that fighting had erupted early on Tuesday between the anti-Balaka militia and rebels from the group known as FPRC, who were once part of the Seleka movement.
Thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in the CAR since mainly Muslim Seleka rebels ousted President Francois Bozize in 2013.
The move triggered a backlash from mostly Christian militias, called the anti-Balaka.
The UN said in May that almost all the residents of Bria had fled the town.
After violence erupted last month, 38,500 people left in just three days, it said.
The peace agreement was brokered by the Sant' Egidio Catholic Community in Rome in the wake of years of sectarian violence and the deployment of a long-running UN peacekeeping mission to the country.
More than a dozen militia groups agreed to end hostilities immediately and to co-operate with a truth, justice and reconciliation commission.
But observers say armed groups have yet to show an interest in laying down their arms.
BBC West Africa correspondent Thomas Fessy says deals have been signed in the past few years but all have failed to bring the country back to peace and stability.
The girl's mother is in a serious condition in hospital, and her father is also in hospital.
Fire crews, police and an air ambulance were called to Bryn Gorwel in Carmarthen at 18:15 BST on Sunday.
The woman in her 20s was taken to Morriston Hospital, Swansea. The child died in the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
A neighbour said she ran into the street when she heard screaming.
"It was chaos - everyone was screaming," she said.
"The black smoke was horrendous and there were loads of flames. People were crying.
"A man jumped out of the window and the mother was taken out by a fireman over his shoulder.
"The young girl was taken to hospital in a police Jeep."
The woman, who did not want to be named, said the family had moved into the area around two weeks ago.
Another neighbour, Sally Thomas, said: "It's a terrible experience."
One witness said the family had been out for a walk and had returned home around 40 minutes before the fire broke out.
It took almost four hours to bring the fire under control with three crews - two from Carmarthen and one from Kidwelly - attending.
Eight firefighters wearing breathing apparatus tackled the blaze and a thermal imaging camera was used.
Dyfed-Powys Police said the family's relatives were being supported by officers.
Inquiries are continuing to find out the fire's cause.
His body was found in a house in Chobham Street on Wednesday.
A post-mortem examination is to be carried out.
East Belfast MLA Robin Newton has expressed his concern following the death.
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After France came from behind to win 2-1, O'Neill said the fact the hosts had three more days' rest after their final group game was "incredible".
The Republic were back in action four days after their 1-0 win over Italy.
"A three-day differential is genuinely too much and it took its toll on us in the second half," said O'Neill.
"It will sound like an excuse and it's not meant to be. But it is incredible. It really is incredible.
"We knew at the start of the tournament when we were looking at it that after a really tough group, if we took our place in the last 16, the chances were there was going to be a big differential between us and some of the sides that we might play in the competition.
"France, it looked as if it was geared from them to win their group, which they did. Well done to them but three days is far too much. "
Robbie Brady's early penalty gave the Republic the lead but two second-half Antoine Griezmann goals earned France victory as the hosts took control. The tiring Irish ended with 10 men following Shane Duffy's sending-off for a trip on the goalscorer.
"We got the goal and we were pretty comfortable in the first half," added O'Neill.
"We put them under pressure. We rattled them. We got the goal and it actually settled us down. I thought that we were continuing to do very well in the game.
"It's all ifs, buts and maybes, but if we had gone another six, seven, eight minutes without conceding, there would have been a lot of pressure on France and I think we could have used that to our advantage.
"The two goals that they scored came within two or three minutes of each other. If I look back, I think the goals we have conceded have been quite poor. That's my only annoyance."
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Republic captain Seamus Coleman's huge disappointment was there for all to see after the defeat.
"We felt like it was there for us today," said the Everton defender, 27.
"We took a lot of belief from the Italy game. In the first half we played well. The second half was always going to be tough. We just couldn't keep the door closed for long enough."
The Donegal man paid tribute to the team's fans who were restricted to fewer than 5,000 tickets at the Stade de Lyon.
"We only had a little corner of the ground but they were so loud and so positive. It's a special bond between the fans and players.
"We would have loved to have gone a bit further for them."
The Office for National Statistics said clothing sales were 1.6% down on April's level, the biggest fall since September 2014.
Economists had expected retail sales to be flat in May after sales in April were boosted by unusually warm weather.
By contrast, May was cooler than normal.
The suggestion is part of Project Brave - the outcome of an SFA working group tasked with improving and increasing the development of elite players.
It recommends reducing the 29 funded academies to a maximum of 16.
Mackay will consult member clubs in detail at four events this week.
Under the plans, clubs will have their academies assessed by an independent company to assess which ones meet the new criteria.
"We need to focus on the very best players in the very best academies with our limited resources we have," SFA chief executive Stewart Regan said.
"One of the recommendations from the working group was to have no more than 16 academies in Scotland defined as elite. Any club can put a bid in, and they will be independently audited against a defined set of criteria. If they are successful, they will be included in Scotland's list of elite academies."
Project Brave's recommendations:
The working group for the strategy was formed in March last year, and initiated by Mackay's predecessor, Brian McClair.
Clubs that do not meet the eligibility criteria for Club Academy Scotland status - and central funding - will still have access to funding from the SFA to enable them to continue running their academies.
"We want to make sure that we get the best support to help us manage the migration to our new academy system," Regan told the SFA website.
"We have identified an organisation from Europe, Double Pass, who work with a number of key countries, including the FAs in England, Belgium, and others in Scandinavia.
"They will be coming on board sometime in 2017 to start the auditing process to establish whether club academies meet the criteria we set out, and will be continually reviewing academies into next year to make sure they are the standard we need."
In his first major task since succeeding McClair in December, Mackay will give presentations to member clubs in the academy programme at events at St Johnstone, Kilmarnock, Oriam and Hampden Park. Club feedback will then be incorporated into the final report before Project Brave becomes operational at the start of season 2017/18.
Mr Comey told a Senate committee they were wrong to denigrate the agency and its leadership.
He was also "confused" by the "shifting explanations" for his sacking, which came as he led a probe into any links between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
President Donald Trump later said he never sought to impede the inquiry.
Mr Trump's attorney, Marc Kasowitz, said in a statement Mr Comey's testimony "finally confirmed publicly" that the president was not under investigation as part of any probe in Russian political meddling.
In the statement, Mr Trump also denied asking Mr Comey for his loyalty or to drop an investigation into fired national security adviser Michael Flynn during private meetings.
In his testimony, Mr Comey said Mr Trump had repeatedly told him he was doing a "great" job.
He also suggested he was fired to "change the way the Russia investigation was being conducted".
The former FBI boss remained largely composed throughout almost three hours of testimony but became impassioned when delivering his opening remarks.
He told the panel that the White House "chose to defame me, and more importantly the FBI" by claiming the agency was "poorly led".
"Those were lies, plain and simple. And I'm so sorry that the FBI workforce had to hear them," he continued.
"The FBI is honest. The FBI is strong. And the FBI is and always will be independent," he said in his opening remarks.
Mr Comey was leading one of several Russia investigations before Mr Trump fired him.
US intelligence agencies believe Russia interfered in the US election and they are investigating alleged links between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
But there is no known evidence of collusion and President Donald Trump has dismissed the story as "fake news".
His spokeswoman Sarah Sanders on Thursday hit back at Mr Comey, saying: "I can definitively say the president is not a liar."
For Donald Trump the good news from James Comey's testimony is that the former FBI director clearly said the president was not directly under FBI investigation at the time he was fired. The bad news was, well, everything else.
On multiple occasions, Mr Comey said he was either concerned or knew that the president or his administration was lying "plain and simple" - about the circumstances of his dismissal and about the nature of his meetings with the president.
It's clear the president woefully mishandled this, for which he has paid a high price ever since. By unceremoniously sacking him, and offering a muddle of explanations for it, he created an adversary with both the means and the motivation to respond in the most damaging way.
Mr Comey had a friend leak disturbing information about the president's actions to the media. He was given the biggest spotlight in a generation to publicly air further details. He stood before a Senate committee not just to defend himself, but also the honour of the FBI.
The White House may claim today's testimony is a technical exoneration. Politically, however, it's a staggering blow. And when it comes to the presidency, politics is everything.
During Thursday's testimony, Mr Comey emphasised that Russia's political meddling was "not a close call", adding: "There should be no fuzz on this whatsoever."
When asked by the Senate Intelligence Committee whether the president tried to stop the Russia investigation, Mr Comey said: "Not to my understanding, no."
He said he it was not for him to say whether Mr Trump's actions were an obstruction of justice.
Democratic Senator Mark Warner, the committee's vice chairman, pressed Mr Comey on why he decided to keep a record of his conversations with Mr Trump.
"I was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting" he said.
Mr Comey, who published his prepared remarks a day before the hearing, detailed one meeting with Mr Trump in which the president asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and White House aide Jared Kushner to leave the Oval Office.
"I knew something was about to happen that I needed to pay very close attention to," he said. "I remember thinking that that was a very disturbing development."
During another meeting with Mr Trump, Mr Comey said the president appealed to him to "let go" an investigation into fired national security adviser Michael Flynn and his ties to the Kremlin.
After US media reported the conversation, the president warned Mr Comey in a tweet, saying he "better hope there are no 'tapes' of our conversations".
Mr Comey told the committee he hoped there were tapes, calling on Mr Trump to release them.
"The president surely knows whether he taped me, and if he did my feelings aren't hurt. Release all the tapes, I'm good with it," he said.
The White House has refused to say whether any such tapes exist.
After Mr Trump's tweet about potential tapes, Mr Comey said he realised it was important to release his own account of the story.
He revealed that he asked a "good friend of mine" who is a professor at Columbia Law School to share contents of the memo with a reporter, in order to build pressure for a special counsel.
As a result of this episode, former FBI chief Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel to lead an independent investigation into the Trump campaign's potential ties to the Kremlin.
Mr Comey said he was "sure" Mr Mueller was also looking at whether Mr Trump obstructed justice.
Mr Trump attacked Mr Comey for leaking the documents, saying it showed that members of the US government are "actively attempting to undermine this administration".
"He's new in government, and so therefore I think he's learning as he goes," said Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. "I'm not saying it's an acceptable excuse. It's just my observation."
"If you want to convict the president of being inappropriate, putting Comey in a bad spot, being rude, crude and a bull in a china shop, you would win," Senator Lindsey Graham told the BBC.
"The American people elected a bull in a china shop to help them with their lives, not this."
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said "it's hard to overstate the impact of Jim Comey's testimony today" and that "it seems like the walls are closing in".
The BBC has learned the MoD wants to buy a replacement from US firm Boeing, which is offering a cheaper deal for a joint order with other countries.
But the decision has been delayed until 2016, with the UK firm asking to be allowed to make a new bid for the work.
The delay also risks adding to the cost of running the existing Apache fleet.
The dilemma of giving work to a British firm or buying a much cheaper option is much like the one that occurred back in 1995 when the current generation of attack helicopters was bought.
Then the government opted for a contract with Westland that involved fitting the basic American helicopter with new engines, defensive aids and communications, taking its price from around £20m each to £44m per aircraft.
Lt Gen Gary Coward, head of the Joint Helicopter Command from 2005 to 2008, told Newsnight that the earlier Westland deal "cost an awful lot of time and an awful lot of money".
Newsnight understands that Boeing's current offer to the British government is, once again, around £20m per helicopter, which presents the MoD with an opportunity almost unique in defence procurement history, to buy a new weapon for a fraction of the price of the one it is replacing.
Lt Gen Coward says "there really is no choice" now and that Boeing's offer "is the only sensible option".
Yet, although the MoD made its recommendation to No 10 in October last year, stating a preference for the Boeing option, the order has been held up following representations to Downing Street by AgustaWestland.
Newsnight has been told that the order cannot go ahead until "after the election" because of the political sensitivities of opting for an off-the-shelf buy from Boeing.
Former defence secretary Geoff Hoon, who now runs AgustaWestland's international business division, has been part of the lobbying effort.
The delays could be very expensive. American suppliers will its support of the equipment carried in the Army's current generation of WAH-64 Apaches in 2017, adding greatly to the costs of maintaining the existing fleet.
And Boeing's offer price to the UK is conditional on it joining an imminent, much larger, order for the US Army.
Even if an order were placed immediately after the election, the aircraft would not enter service before 2020. The Army fears a "capability gap" and rising costs as support for the existing plane is switched off from 2017 onwards.
The BBC understands that AgustaWestland has persuaded the government that it should be allowed to make a new bid for the business.
Many in the MoD fear that will provide an opportunity for "gold plating", increasing the value of the work to the Yeovil-based manufacturer.
Signing up for Boeing's project, called Block III Apache AH-64E - a batch of 240 machines to be supplied to the US and other armies - offers the advantage of being part of a large, and therefore cheaper, deal.
However, giving Boeing the contract would leave AgustaWestland short of work. Backers of the firm argue that even the off-the-shelf Boeing helicopter would need some modification, for example to its communications equipment, to make it interoperable with British forces.
The MoD is so keen on the Boeing option that it has already discussed with the Pentagon ways in which the Block III Apache order book might be kept open a little longer so that the UK can join and gain from the likely savings of being part of a bulk order.
The MoD said in a statement: "The assessment phase of the Attack Helicopter Capability Sustainment Programme, which will supply 50 latest-generation Apache helicopters to the UK, is ongoing.
"This phase includes establishing best value for money for the taxpayer and will conclude in March 2016, at which point a decision will be made as to the best procurement route."
However, the suggestion that the assessment will finish in March 2016 marks yet a further six-month delay to the project because Newsnight understands that the Joint Helicopter Command was determined to reach that milestone by September 2015.
Awarding the new contract offers the MoD a chance to make a landmark decision to put cost-effectiveness ahead of industrial interests. But the politics involved with the West Country helicopter-making business have never been easy, as previous defence secretaries can bear witness.
Matthew Kitchener, from Porthcawl, attacked victim Helen John-Hall on the doorstep of her Wellfield Avenue home on his 20th birthday in August 2002.
She was stabbed in the neck and strangled, and only survived because a neighbour disturbed him and he ran off.
He pleaded guilty at Cardiff Crown Court in November that year.
Kitchener, now 34, confessed to a friend who called the police.
He has been held in a series of young offenders' institutions and prisons, then at mental hospitals.
On Friday, three senior judges at London's Criminal Appeal Court said he should never have been sent to jail in the first place, following an appeal by his lawyers.
Lord Justice Flaux said Kitchener had served five years in 2007 and was being considered for a move to an open prison when mental health concerns arose.
He was assessed and "scored very highly" on a psychopathy test, resulting in him actually being moved to more secure conditions.
There, Kitchener attempted suicide and spoke of "increasingly violent thoughts and fantasies".
He was sectioned and has since been confined to various secure mental hospitals, where he is receiving treatment.
Assessment of the offender, who now uses the name Jude Armel, had resulted in a diagnosis of a "psychopathic disorder".
It was probably that disorder which caused the apparently motiveless and impulsive attack, as opposed to any "criminal motive", experts said.
Allowing his appeal, the judge, sitting with Mr Justice Blake and Mr Justice William Davis, said he was convinced Kitchener had suffered from the psychopathic disorder at the time.
He continued: "In the light of what is now known, he needs hospital treatment. His disorder was not initially identified in prison and cannot be treated there.
"Prison is counter-productive to the treatment needed, that can only be provided in a hospital setting."
The life term was replaced with a mental health order, meaning he will be detained and treated in a mental hospital until experts are convinced he is not a danger.
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British, Commonwealth and WBO European champion Walsh, 30, is unbeaten in his 21 professional fights.
The Norfolk boxer defeated Andrey Klimov on points in October to become the mandatory challenger for American Davis' belt.
Davis, 22, is also unbeaten, having won 16 of his 17 bouts by knockout.
He stopped Jose Pedraza in the seventh round in New York in January to win the title.
The fight against Walsh was confirmed on Tuesday at a press conference in London, attended by Davis' promoter, five-division world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr.
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Liam Walsh will challenge champion Gervonta Davis for the IBF super-featherweight world title on Saturday, 20 May at London's Copperbox Arena.
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Klopp, 48, missed seeing his side lose a 2-0 lead before drawing 2-2 with Sunderland at Anfield.
The German's coaching staff, including Zeljko Buvac, Peter Krawietz, Pepijn Lijnders and John Achterberg took over.
Liverpool say Klopp "or a member of the first team coaching staff" will hold a media briefing on Monday ahead of the FA Cup fourth round replay at West Ham.
You can read a full report of Liverpool's game with Sunderland here.
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The 26-year-old made his Scotland debut in 2013, playing in 23 one-day internationals and 13 T20 matches.
He featured at the 2015 World Cup and the World Twenty20 in 2016.
"Following medical advice, my long-term health is most important to me and I have to take that into account," said Machan, who has been with Sussex since the age of 10.
"Playing for Scotland brings so much joy and pride to me and the thought of not being able to do that again is a very hard pill to swallow.
"Playing in two World Cups against the very best players is undoubtedly the highlight of my career. I take away memories and friendships that will last a lifetime and for that I am very thankful."
Averaging 33 in ODIs and 40 at T20 level, Machan also took nine ODI wickets with his offspin and five in international T20s.
A career-best score of 192 came for Sussex against Somerset at Taunton in 2015, one of three centuries hit that season.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called the election several months early after the country's upper house repeatedly blocked legislation.
On Sunday the prime minister asked the Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove, to dissolve both the lower and upper houses of parliament.
The economy, education and health are likely to dominate the campaign.
"The governor-general has accepted my advice to dissolve both houses of parliament effective tomorrow morning, and call an election for both houses, a double dissolution, on 2 July," said Mr Turnbull on Sunday afternoon.
Under Australia's political system, the governor-general is the representative of the head of state, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.
In the House of Representatives all 150 seats will be contested, as well as the 76 Senate seats - the first time this has happened in an early election since 1987.
The opposition Labor Party needs to gain 21 seats in the lower house to win power, although changes to electoral boundaries mean it nominally holds three of those seats already.
Mr Turnbull, who heads a Liberal-National coalition, said the country faced a choice "to stay the course, maintain the commitment to our national economic plan for growth and jobs, or go back to Labor with its higher taxing, higher spending, debt-and-deficit agenda."
Who is Malcolm Turnbull?
The tumultuous world of Australian politics
Labor leader Bill Shorten told the Seven Network on Sunday that Mr Turnbull and his government were "seriously out of touch".
Earlier he told a teachers' union meeting that he intended to make education an election focus.
"We will put the funding on the table to make sure every teacher in Australia gets the recognition and the support to back up what they do every day," Mr Shorten said.
Polls are predicting a tight race, with the latest Galaxy poll showing the parties locked at 50% of the vote each after preferences from minor parties are counted.
Treasurer Scott Morrison last week announced the government's budget, in what was widely regarded as a de-facto election campaign launch.
The government said it would cut the company tax rate in stages over 10 years and also provided modest tax relief for workers earning over A$80,000 per year.
There were no major tax cuts or cash handouts for voters, with the government keen to emphasise its economic management record.
The opposition strongly criticised the plan to roll out tax cuts to all businesses, including major corporations, rather than just small companies.
Labor's budget reply included large funding commitments for education and health, but the government says the plans are not properly funded.
Both parties intend to crack down on multinational companies who avoid paying tax in Australia by shifting profits offshore.
What is a double dissolution election?
Australia's constitution allows for an early election to be called when the Senate twice blocks a piece of legislation that has been passed by the lower house, the House of Representatives. Although ostensibly designed to resolve political deadlocks, in practice it has largely been used opportunistically by governments who see an advantage in going to the polls early.
What are the key policy battlegrounds?
The government will position itself as the party best placed to transition Australia from the mining boom through to a new phase of economic growth. Labor, conversely, will run on a "people first" platform of health, education and nation building.
How do the leaders stack up?
Mr Turnbull is well-known to Australians through his prominent public life as a barrister and advocate for the republic, is the clear frontrunner. But he has been losing ground to Mr Shorten in the polls.
Mr Turnbull will attempt to paint Mr Shorten as a union lackey who cannot manage the economy; Mr Shorten will say Mr Turnbull is an out-of-touch protector of greedy banks leading a divided party that stands for nothing.
How many seats does Labor need to win?
Labor needs to win 21 seats to take power, a swing of 4.3%.
The working group has been established, but it is "early days and no decisions have been made", a spokesperson for the bank told the BBC.
Prime Minister David Cameron has promised a referendum on the UK's EU membership by the end of 2017.
Deutsche Bank employs 9,000 people in the UK.
It is the first of the banks to publicly state that it is formally examining the potential fallout from the referendum, according to the Financial Times, which first reported the story.
Many businesses have urged the government to bring forward the referendum to end the prolonged wait.
James Bevan, chief investment officer of CCLA Investment Management, told the BBC's Today programme that a review of the sort that Deutsche Bank was carrying out should be on the agenda of all major businesses in Europe.
"Every company that has business of a global nature, or indeed, particularly in Europe, is going to have to have at least a plan of what it will do, and any company that does not have a plan is absolutely remiss in managing its risks," he said.
On Monday, British Chambers of Commerce director general John Longworth told the BBC that an in-out referendum should "take place as soon as is practical".
Mr Longworth said that 55% of his members were in favour of a "reformed Europe", and said the "in-out debate is more nuanced than a lot of people would have us believe".
The chairman of construction equipment maker JCB also said on Monday that the UK should not fear an exit from the European Union.
"We are the fifth or sixth largest economy in the world. We could exist on our own - peacefully and sensibly," Lord Bamford told BBC Midlands Today.
Ospina dropped a corner into his own net as Arsenal lost 3-2 to Olympiakos with Petr Cech on the bench.
Tuesday's second consecutive Champions League loss leaves Wenger's side in danger of failing to reach the last 16.
"To kill a player like Ospina, I find that just sensationalism. This is a top, top quality player," Wenger said.
"If it is combined with real analysis of numbers that justify that, I will say: 'OK, they are right.' But just because one guy on the television says something, everybody says exactly the same.
"I don't agree with that. It makes me angry because I think it is unfair to the player."
Speaking at Friday's news conference before Sunday's home match with Manchester United, Wenger had already called the press "boring" after getting involved in a row with a journalist over team selection.
The peace activist and educational campaigner remained in Somalia throughout the 21-year civil war unlike many other Somali intellectuals.
He defeated former President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed in a run-off with a convincing majority of Somali MPs.
Both men hail from the Hawiye clan - one of the country's main groups based in the capital, Mogadishu. But, unlike his predecessor, clan - which influences all walks of life in Somalia - was not the driving force behind Mr Mohamud's victory.
Analysts say it is the fact that the academic had not dirtied himself with politics or clan conflicts that set him out from the rest.
Instead, he has won respect for his work in civil society and education, being one of the founders of Mogadishu's Simad university, where he was a lecturer and served as its first dean for 10 years until he resigned to enter politics.
One of his former students who graduated in 2004 told the BBC he was an easy-going tutor, not quick to anger and an impressive orator.
"He could entertain us for two hours during lectures on management, making jokes and people laugh," he told the BBC Somali service.
Born in central Hiran province in 1955, he grew up in a middle-class neighbourhood of Mogadishu and graduated from the Somali National University with a technical engineering degree in 1981.
His contemporaries say he was quiet and unassuming and went on to become a teacher before doing a post-graduate degree in Bhopal University, India.
On his return, he joined the Ministry of Education to oversee a teach-training scheme funded by Unesco.
When the central government collapsed in 1991, he joined Unicef as an education officer, travelling around south and central Somalia, which he said enabled him to see "the magnitude of the collapse in education sector".
Three years later, he established one of the first primary schools in Mogadishu since the war broke out.
He also has links with al-Islah, the Somali branch of the Muslim brotherhood which was vital in rebuilding the education system in the wake of the clan conflicts.
It set up many schools with Muslim curriculums similar to those in Sudan and Egypt but is strongly opposed to al-Shabab.
Described as a moderate Islamist, Mr Mohamud is also said to have been close to the Union of Islamist Courts (UIC).
His followers say he simply supported any activity aiming to restore peace and stability.
The UIC was a grouping of local Islamic courts, initially set up by businessmen to establish some form of order in the lawless state, which brought relative peace to the country in 2006, before Ethiopia invaded and overthrew them - frightened by the al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab militia that was gaining power in the courts.
During the 1990s, Mr Mohamud became very involved in civil society groups and people close to him say he is known for resolving clan disputes.
His first real success on this score was his participation in negotiations in 1997 that oversaw the removal of the infamous "Green Line" which divided Mogadishu into two sections controlled by rival clan warlords.
Described by some in the early 1990s as the "cancer of Mogadishu", the division made life difficult for city residents and politicians alike.
In 2001, he joined the Centre for Research and Dialogue as a researcher in post-conflict reconstruction - a body sometimes criticised as being too closely affiliated to the West - and has worked as a consultant to various UN bodies and the transitional government.
As a regular participant on the influential weekly BBC Somali service debating programme, he underlined the importance of including civil society groups in the "roadmap to peace" which eventually led to his election.
Married to two wives and with several children, some of whom live in Somalia and others abroad, his motivation seems to come from wanting to build a future for the younger generation.
Last year, he set up the Peace and Development Party (PDP), which he made clear was above clan politics.
The BBC's Daud Aweis in Mogadishu says Mr Mohamud is a man who likes to consult others.
"In the various Somali conferences I met him, he showed the attitude of being able and willing to talk to everyone," he said.
Officials say 19.1m people voted in the second UK-wide referendum in history - a higher than expected turnout of 41%.
The final result put the Yes vote at 32.1% and the No vote at 67.9%.
It comes as the Lib Dems suffered a rout in English local elections - and the SNP scored an historic victory in the Scottish Parliament poll.
Alex Salmond's party will form a majority government- humbling Labour in one of its traditional heartlands and paving the way for a referendum on Scottish independence.
Labour made significant gains in town halls in the north of England and in the Welsh assembly elections,it fell just short of an absolute majority.
Labour also held Leicester South in a Parliamentary by-election with an increased majority, although the Lib Dems hung on to second place. Sir Peter Soulsby, whose decision to stand down triggered the contest, won the contest to be Leicester mayor.
By Ross HawkinsPolitical correspondent, BBC News
A debate that was often about the complexity of electoral systems ended in the simplest of results.
The No campaign won, overwhelmingly.
The rush to attribute blame, or grab the credit for that result, begins here.
Those who favoured the Yes campaign will argue they were defeated by the Prime Minister's campaigning power, a largely hostile press and a tough opposing campaign.
Those who backed a No vote will say they won the argument for the merits of the status quo, and persuaded people the alternative vote was complex and unnecessary.
The voters, of course, needed only to mark crosses on ballot papers. They did not have to explain their reasoning.
So campaigners who devoted months of their lives to this argument will never know what difference, if any, they made to the result.
Read Ross's thoughts in full
The Conservatives managed to make significant gains too - with their Lib Dem coalition partners apparently bearing the brunt of public anger over spending cuts at English local elections.
And there was a double blow for Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg - who saw his dream of ditching Britain's first-past-the-post electoral system comprehensively dashed.
Mr Clegg said: "I wish I could say this was a photo finish but it isn't, the result is very clear. I'm a passionate supporter of political reform but when the answer is as clear as this, you have got to accept it."
"This is a bitter blow for all those people, like me, who believe in the need for political reform."
The official result of the AV referendum was declared early on Saturday morning.
According to the Electoral Commission, 6,152,607 voted Yes to the Alternative Vote, while 13,013,123 voted No.
Labour leader Ed Miliband - who also backed AV, while many of his own party did not - said he was "disappointed" but the people had "spoken clearly and it's a verdict I accept".
But David Cameron, whose Conservative Party campaigned to keep first-past-the-post, said the referendum had delivered a "resounding answer that settles the question" over electoral change and people now wanted the government to get on with governing in the national interest.
The director of the No campaign, Matthew Elliott, said he had been "astonished" at the scale of the No victory: "I personally believe that this result will settle the debate over changing our electoral system for the next generation."
Mr Clegg told the BBC the Lib Dems were facing "the brunt of the blame" for coalition spending cuts, adding that, for some voters, they were bringing out "memories of things under Thatcher".
He promised to "redouble our efforts" and "get up and dust ourselves down".
BBC political editor Nick Robinson said the order had gone out from Conservative HQ that Tories, who campaigned against their Lib Dem coalition partners over AV, should not be seen gloating.
But he said while there was no serious talk about challenging Mr Clegg's leadership, Mr Clegg was expected to put up more of a fight against his Conservative colleagues so there would be more difficult months ahead for the coalition.
The Lib Dems have lost almost half their councillors whose seats were up for grabs but the Conservatives, who already controlled more councils than all the other parties put together, have increased their number of councillors and gained control of two councils.
In Northern Ireland, The DUP and Sinn Fein are expected to remain the biggest parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly, but there has beencontroversy over the system for counting votes.
The SNP's victory in Scotland is the first time any party has achieved a majority since the 129-seat Scottish Parliament was established in 1999.
Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray said he would stand down in the autumn.
In Wales, Labour won 30 assembly seats, one short of the 31 needed to gain an overall majority.
The Conservatives made gains, but Plaid Cymru and the Lib Dems suffered losses.
Det Garda Adrian Donohoe was shot in a robbery at Lordship Credit Union, near Dundalk in County Louth in 2013.
Gardaí (Irish police) said he was being posthumously awarded the medal for his exceptional courage and bravery in giving his own life to protect others.
It will be awarded at a ceremony in County Tipperary later on Thursday.
The event will be attended by the Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) and Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald as well as Garda Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan.
A number of other officers will be awarded silver and bronze Scott Medals.
Mr Donohoe, who was married with two children, was the first member of the force to be shot dead on duty for more than a decade.
The 41-year-old victim was one of two detectives on late night escort duty at the rural credit union when the robbery took place.
Police said he was shot without warning and did not produce his weapon before he was killed.
The gang stole 4,000 euros (£3,000) in cash before escaping from the scene.
The gang that carried out the shooting is believed to have fled immediately across the border to Northern Ireland.
The suspected getaway car was found burned out in Fews Forest near Keady, County Armagh, two days later.
Police said they had received full co-operation from the PSNI and other forces.
To date, no-one has been arrested or charged over Mr Donohoe's murder.
Police said a car was stopped in Darnick Street, Glasgow, on Tuesday evening as part of an "intelligence-led operation".
Two men, aged 22 and 31, were arrested and detained in custody.
As part of the same operation, two properties in Baillieston were searched and two women were arrested.
The women, aged 22 and 23, were held on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
All four are due to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Thursday.
The female was one of three hatchlings at Bassenthwaite, in Cumbria, in April.
Lake District Osprey Project had predicted a "bleak" future for the bird as it was feared the magpies would return.
However, as the sole recipient of the food brought in by her parents, she now weighs 1.8kg (4lbs) and is said to be doing well.
Expected to migrate to Africa in August to spend the winter months, a tracker device has been fitted to the bird which will enable experts to follow its progress.
Following a public competition, she has been named Bega after the founder of the church at Bassenthwaite Lake.
Ospreys returned to the area in 2001 after an absence of more than 150 years and nearly 30 chicks have been raised at the nest in the last 15 years.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also had religious and phallic symbols drawn on his face and body with permanent marker, York Crown Court was told.
Four men have gone on trial accused of religiously aggravated assault.
All four deny the charges.
Austin Newman, opening the case for the prosecution, told the jury the boy obtained an apprenticeship at a shop fitting company in Selby, North Yorkshire, in July 2014.
During his apprenticeship, he worked across the country with the four defendants: company manager Andrew Addison, Joseph Rose, Christopher Jackson and Alex Puchir.
Mr Newman said: "He was subjected to acts of bullying, which the Crown say went beyond anything that could reasonably be described as banter or high jinx in the workplace."
Mr Newman said the boy was a practising Roman Catholic and told the jury the defendants were motivated by hostility based on his religious observance.
Mr Addison, 30, Mr Jackson, 22, and Mr Puchir, 37, are accused of tying the boy to a wooden cross and hanging him from a wall "in a way which resembled a crucifixion" leaving him suspended about a metre above the ground for 10 minutes.
On another occasion, Mr Rose, 21, is accused of using a permanent marker to draw crosses and penises across a large proportion of the boy's body and face while he was asleep.
Mr Rose is also accused of spraying deodorant towards the boy's head and lighting it while he was asleep in bed.
Mr Addison is also accused of tying the teenager to a chair and leaving him locked in a room by himself and pulling the boy off the ground by his underpants - leaving him with cuts and bruises to his buttocks.
The prosecutor said Mr Addison remained silent when interviewed by police after his arrest in May 2015.
The other three defendants accepted their involvement in the incidents but claimed they were part of general workplace "banter", the jury heard.
Mr Addison, of Selby, and Mr Rose, of Bubwith, East Yorkshire, both deny putting a person in fear of violence by harassment and religiously aggravated assault by beating.
Mr Addison also denies a charge of assault by beating.
Mr Jackson, of Barlby, North Yorkshire, and Mr Puchir, of Edinburgh, , both deny religiously aggravated assault by beating.
The trial continues.
The pensioner's Honda Jazz left the road and hit a stone wall in the town's Davies Row, near to the junction with Stirling Street.
Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident, which happened at about 14:30 on Thursday.
The man, who has not been named, died later in Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert.
Sgt Michael Montague, from Stirling's road policing unit, said: "At this time we are still trying to establish why the car left the road and we are keen to hear from any motorists who were on Davies Row at the time of the incident on Thursday afternoon."
Ian Anderson, an aviation professional from Castletown, killed 60-year-old landscape gardener Neil Roberts in December 2013.
Anderson, 46, was convicted after a jury at Douglas Court House took a day to consider its verdict.
Deemster Alistair Montgomerie deferred sentencing until 24 April.
Following the hearing, the Isle of Man Police said: "The killing of Neil Roberts was an extraordinarily violent act by an individual.
"Throughout the trial, Anderson claimed that he is a caring and compassionate man.
"Caring, compassionate people simply do not do to others as Ian Anderson did to Neil Roberts."
The force commended Mr Roberts' family for the "dignity" members had shown, especially his daughter Lorraine who was present throughout the trial.
Blackwell retained his British middleweight title on Saturday with a unanimous points decision at the end of a gruelling bout with Jack Arnfield.
And Hennessy was impressed with the performance of the Wiltshire fighter.
"He is the dark horse of the middleweight division," Hennessy told BBC Wiltshire.
"We are going after the Lonsdale belt, the European title and then a genuine world title. He can definitely win a world title and win it in style because he is the type of fighter everyone wants to see in this country - a great TV fighter."
Blackwell, who has three defeats and one draw from his 23-fight professional career, will keep his British title belt if he makes a third defence, something he says is his next target.
"I'm learning," he said.
"I want to defend it again and win it outright. One more defence and it is mine, I never thought in a million years that when I laced up a pair of gloves I would be winning a British title."
Hennessy says he would like that next defence to be against interim WBA middleweight title champion Eubank Jr, but does not hold much hope of it happening.
"The board have just mandated Chris Eubank junior so let's see if he turns up," he said.
"We'd love that fight but it needs to be said the board have already called two eliminators with Nick and Chris Eubank junior and he has pulled out of both. Who is to say he will go ahead with this mandated British title.
"We'd love him to, it would be a British super-fight, it's what everyone is in the game for. We made him a large offer to fight on this domestic route but they chose to go another way."
Co-leader Jonathan Bartley said: "These laws protect our air, water and climate and they affect everyone in the UK who values our natural world."
He wants a new Environmental Protection Act to replace EU legislation.
The government says EU environmental protection rules will be copied across into UK law to ensure continuity.
But environmental campaigners fear the government will start scrapping them after Britain's exit from the EU to cut red tape.
Mr Bartley, who co-leads the Green Party of England and Wales with MP Caroline Lucas, said: "Brexit is an unprecedented threat to the environment and puts 40 years of legislation at risk."
More than 90% of people in the UK live within 20km (12 miles) of a site protected under the EU's nature laws, according to research by conservationists.
Mr Bartley also promised to oppose cuts to local services, as he launched his party's campaign with a speech in Worcester.
"The Green Party is the only party fighting both an extreme Brexit and Tory government cuts, protecting public services locally while strengthening relationships internationally," said Mr Bartley.
The party has also responded to US missile strikes on Syria, saying they risked "exacerbating an already complex situation in the absence of any coherent strategy to contain the violence and in the longer term".
Co-leader Caroline Lucas said: "It is deeply concerning that President Trump took this action without the permission of Congress and it is now of the utmost importance that Prime Minister Theresa May calls on him to help build some kind of international consensus around what happens next."
The Scottish Green Party is due to launch its local election campaign next Tuesday in Glasgow, with a manifesto for local government.
The Greens in Scotland are looking to build on existing councillor numbers in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeenshire, Midlothian and Stirling.
They are also aiming to elect the party's first councillors in many of the remaining 27 local authorities in Scotland.
The Greens are fielding a record number of candidates at the 4 May polls, with 1,561 standing across England, Scotland and Wales.
The latest Markit/CIPS manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 50.8 last month.
A figure above 50 indicates growth, but the figure was the lowest reading since April 2013 and below 52.9 in January.
Output slowed sharply after levels of new business failed to increase from the numbers recorded in January.
Exports shrank for a second consecutive month, with orders down in mainland Europe, the US, Brazil and Russia.
"The near-stagnation of manufacturing highlights the ongoing fragility of the economic recovery at the start of the year and provides further cover for the Bank of England's increasingly dovish stance," said Rob Dobson, a senior economist at Markit.
"The breadth of the slowdown is especially worrisome. The domestic market is showing signs of weakening while export business continued to fall."
UK manufacturing has been under pressure for a number of months, hampered by a slowdown in demand from major overseas economies.
Recent figures from the Office for National Statistics indicated that the manufacturing sector dragged on UK economic growth during the final three months of 2015, with the economy dependant on the service sector and consumer spending.
The information for February's PMI survey was compiled before the recent fall in sterling against the dollar, which sent the pound to a seven-year low of $1.3876. Sterling is currently trading at close to $1.40.
A weak pound makes goods cheaper for overseas customers looking to buy British goods but it also means that imports and manufacturing materials become more expensive for UK companies.
They were attempting to get better seats at the Australia v Serbia men's basketball semi-final at the Rio Olympics without proper accreditation.
The athletes were questioned by police on Friday and released on Saturday.
Australia's chef de mission Kitty Chiller said her country's Olympians were "definitely not at fault".
Cyclists Ashlee Ankudinoff and Melissa Hoskins, rugby sevens player Ed Jenkins, archers Alec Potts and Ryan Tyack, rowers Olympia Aldersey, Fiona Albert and Lucy Stephan and hockey player Simon Orchard were the nine involved.
Fiona de Jong, chief executive of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC), said the athletes entered the arena by "mistake" and that "no-one was arrested".
The AOC is "making steps" towards paying the 10,000 reis (£2,386) fine per athlete.
"Every jurisdiction has their own local laws, and we are in Brazil so we understand that our athletes need to adhere to the Brazilian law," said de Jong, adding the athletes had been dealt with "fairly".
Chef de mission Chiller said an internal investigation was taking place, but that the process of putting a sticker on your accreditation with another venue access code on it is "traditional" at Olympic Games.
She said she was "disappointed" at the athletes' treatment, adding: "We have and will continue to provide as much support and counselling to them and their parents."
The latest incident comes after Australian swimmers Emma McKeon and Josh Palmer were issued with a curfew after staying out late drinking on Tuesday.
McKeon will now be allowed to attend the Olympic closing ceremony on Sunday after appealing successfully against the decision to ban her.
The 22-year-old returned to Stamford Bridge in the summer after three seasons out on loan at Atletico Madrid and has played in all three Premier League games so far.
He said: "My future was already sorted but it's nice to know I'm going to be here for another five years.
"Now I can concentrate on playing."
Courtois - who was in goal for Belgium during the World Cup in Brazil - joined Chelsea from Belgian side Genk in 2011.
In three years at Atletico he won La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the Europa League, as well as reaching last season's Champions League final, but had to wait until last month to make his Blues debut.
Cech, 32, had been the Blues' first-choice keeper since joining in 2004 but Mourinho decided to start the season with the younger Courtois.
Mourinho said both players are "two of the three best goalkeepers in the world".
The gathering began with the national anthem and ended with a tribute from Castro's brother Raul.
It was attended by a number of world leaders - but some countries sent lower-level officials.
Fidel Castro, who came to power in 1959, died on Friday, aged 90. His ashes will be taken to the eastern city of Santiago later on Wednesday.
Opinion on Fidel Castro, who ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost half a century, remains divided.
Supporters say he returned Cuba to the people and praise him for some of his social programmes, such as public health and education.
But critics call him a dictator, who led a government that did not tolerate opposition and dissent.
This division led to some countries. such as the US, sending lower-ranking emissaries. However, allies including left-wing Latin American leaders were among those attending the ceremony in Revolution Square, where Cubans once gathered to listen to Fidel Castro's fiery speeches.
Attendance at the commemorative event reflects this division.
On Tuesday, the crowd chanted "long live the revolution!" and "Fidel! Fidel!" as the rally got under way.
President Raul Castro closed the rally, referring to his brother Fidel as the leader of a revolution "for the humble, and by the humble".
Greece's left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was among those who addressed the crowd. The presidents of Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Panama, South Africa and Zimbabwe also attended.
In his speech, South African President Jacob Zuma praised Cuba's record on health care and education and its support for African countries.
Earlier on Tuesday, the left-wing presidents of Bolivia and Venezuela, Evo Morales and Nicolas Maduro, were among those who signed a book of condolences at the Jose Marti memorial where a photograph flanked by an honour guard has been on display since Monday.
Another admirer of Fidel Castro, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, is joining the two presidents at the commemoration.
But many Western leaders are not attending the event in person.
The White House announced that its nominee for the post of ambassador to Havana, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, and Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes would attend the commemorative event but that it was not sending an "official delegation" to Cuba.
Ben Rhodes was one of the US officials who negotiated the thaw between the US and the Cuban government announced in December 2014.
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threatened to end the detente if Cuba did not offer a "better deal".
On Wednesday Castro's ashes will be taken on a journey to Santiago, which is regarded as the Cuba's 1959 revolution.
The ashes will be placed on Sunday in the Ifigenia Cemetery in Santiago, where Cuban independence hero Jose Marti is buried.
The Swiss fourth seed came through 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 in London and will play Roger Federer in Saturday's semi-finals.
World number one Novak Djokovic will take on fifth seed Rafael Nadal in the other half of the draw.
Murray heads to Belgium next week for Great Britain's first Davis Cup final since 1978.
"I didn't find it difficult not thinking about the Davis Cup final, to be honest," said Murray.
"Obviously the only positive for me this week is I've come away from it injury-free. Now I have a couple more days to get ready for Belgium."
With the remaining semi-final place coming down to a straight contest between Murray and Wawrinka, the 17,000 fans at the O2 Arena settled in for something close to a Grand Slam quarter-final.
Over the course of one hour and 53 minutes they were treated to some great shot-making, unexpected misses, a late Wawrinka collapse and a furious racquet-smashing Murray.
The home favourite ended the match with 22 winners but 30 unforced errors, as his ATP season drew to a close with back-to-back defeats.
"My timing wasn't there certainly the last few days," said Murray.
"I made way too many errors the last two matches. Everyone obviously can make mistakes, it's just more on easy shots, cheap errors.
"That's something for the most part of this year I haven't been doing."
Any thoughts of a Davis Cup distraction appeared misguided when the Briton roared in delight after a brilliant early forehand pass on the run, and he hit back from dropping serve in game eight with a fabulous winner off a Wawrinka smash.
Murray looked well set at 4-2 up in the tie-break, but his radar then seriously malfunctioned and two errant forehands contributed as Wawrinka reeled off five straight points.
An agitated Murray spent the changeover deep in discussion with an official and proceeded to drop his opening service game of the second set.
The match only went in one direction for the next half-hour, with Wawrinka racking up the winners and Murray the errors, before it was the French Open champion's turn to look fragile at 5-2.
His first serve disappeared and Murray made one last push, trying to get the crowd involved as he cut the deficit before smashing his racquet when a chance to level slipped past.
A 15th forehand error of the night finally brought an end to Murray's challenge, and took Wawrinka through to the semis for the third year in a row.
Such was Murray's disappointment with his timing, he headed back out onto court after his media duties at 11pm to hit for a few minutes more with coach Jonas Bjorkman.
Murray's support staff and family were absent from their usual courtside position, instead watching the action from up in the stands.
In their place, arena staff members occupied two seats in an otherwise empty box.
"With my team sitting behind, I just felt like sometimes when the box is extremely close to the court, I sometimes can find that a distraction," Murray explained.
"So I thought it would be better to have them sit a bit further away from the court. That was it."
Nadal warmed up for his semi-final against Djokovic with a 6-7 (2-7) 6-3 6-4 win over fellow Spaniard David Ferrer in his final round-robin match.
The world number four spent two hours 37 minutes on court and has a short turnaround before returning to play the Serb at 14:00 GMT on Saturday.
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Ferrer had already been eliminated after two defeats at the O2 Arena.
It was the first time in 44 matches he has lost after wining the first set.
"Novak is playing almost better than impossible. He is achieving almost everything that one player can dream. I have to play to the limit of my best to have a chance," said Nadal, 29, in his on-court interview.
Nadal's meeting with Ferrer may have been a dead rubber in tournament terms but the lure of £109,000 - the prize money on offer for every victory in the round-robin stage - meant that there was at least a financial incentive.
Ferrer won a curiously low-key and inconsistent first set on a tie-break after each player had broken the other's serve on three occasions.
But Nadal, who was down at 10th in the world in August after a poor start to the year, edged the second with a solitary break before accelerating away at the end of the third.
Elliott survived a review for a catch by Rory Burns when on 46 but went on to share an unbeaten 64-run partnership with Colin de Grandhomme (39 not out).
The Bears reached 207-4 after Surrey had earlier posted 204-5 in their 20 overs, Jason Roy top-scoring on 74.
They will face Glamorgan in their last-four tie at Finals Day on 2 September.
Hampshire will take on Notts Outlaws in the second semi-final at Edgbaston.
New Zealand international Elliott, Bears captain after Ian Bell's decision to step down, was given not out by the on-field umpires when Burns was convinced he had caught him in the deep diving forward.
But, following numerous television replays, Elliott survived and went on to take his side into a home Finals Day.
Surrey's innings tailed away after Roy (74 off 38 balls) and Aaron Finch (39 off 27 balls) had shared a 98-run opening partnership in just 9.1 overs. Finch was forced to bat with a runner after he injured his right calf when getting off the mark.
Ed Pollock (24), Adam Hose (36) and Sam Hain (29) gave the Bears a platform in the run chase before Elliott and De Grandhomme came together at 143-4 and guided the 2014 winners to their third Finals Day in four years.
Surrey skipper Gareth Batty told BBC Radio London:
"We weren't good enough. We were in a position to get more runs than we did, and we didn't quite get it right with the ball.
"I thought our score was par, nothing more than that. I thought that where we were at the half-way point, we should have been looking at 220 plus.
"But we had 200 on the board and sometimes you can defend that. Tonight we couldn't and that's something we'll have to look at.
(On Elliott review) "We obviously thought it was out, I trust Rory implicitly. We saw on TV last night that something like that was given out, tonight it was given not out, I think there needs to be clarity."
Bears captain Grant Elliott told BBC WM:
"With the catch Burns claimed, they are always tough. I wasn't sure, so I left it to the umpires to make the decision.
"At the start of the season, we maybe weren't a side who could chase 200-plus but we've changed our game throughout the tournament.
"To see guys like Ed Pollock and Adam Hose bat like they did and give us such a good start was great.
"It was a good surface to bat on and Colin De Grandhomme gave me great support at the end. And now we have a fantastic opportunity with Finals Day on our home ground."
The hosts took an 18th-minute lead when Bodin's free-kick from the right was met by Peter Hartley, who sent a glancing header past Lee Burge from 12 yards.
Bodin grabbed the second in the 54th minute, making space to drive a fierce left-footed shot into the centre of the goal from Rory Gaffney's pass.
Three minutes later the Sky Blues replied when centre-back Jordan Willis took advantage of poor defending to volley home Gael Bigirimana's left-wing corner from close range.
Bodin clinched the points in the 74th minute with another sweetly struck left-footed shot, this time from 25 yards. The midfielder completed his treble from the penalty spot nine minutes later after being tripped by Turnbull.
Andy Rose headed against the crossbar for Coventry late on but they were well beaten.
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Match ends, Bristol Rovers 4, Coventry City 1.
Second Half ends, Bristol Rovers 4, Coventry City 1.
Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kyel Reid (Coventry City).
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Tom Lockyer.
Foul by Ellis Harrison (Bristol Rovers).
Kyel Reid (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Lee Brown (Bristol Rovers).
George Thomas (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Lee Mansell replaces Chris Lines.
Goal! Bristol Rovers 4, Coventry City 1. Billy Bodin (Bristol Rovers) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top right corner.
Penalty Bristol Rovers. Billy Bodin draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Jordan Turnbull (Coventry City) after a foul in the penalty area.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Peter Hartley.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Liam Lawrence replaces Cristian Montaño.
Attempt saved. Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers) header from very close range is saved in the bottom right corner.
Lewis Page (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lewis Page (Coventry City).
Attempt saved. Jordan Turnbull (Coventry City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Cristian Montaño (Bristol Rovers).
Jamie Sterry (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Coventry City. Daniel Agyei replaces Marcus Tudgay.
Goal! Bristol Rovers 3, Coventry City 1. Billy Bodin (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ellis Harrison.
Kyel Reid (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Daniel Leadbitter (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kyel Reid (Coventry City).
Attempt missed. Cristian Montaño (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Marcus Tudgay (Coventry City).
Daniel Leadbitter (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kyel Reid (Coventry City).
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Lewis Page.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Will Puddy.
Attempt saved. Lee Brown (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Ellis Harrison (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Ellis Harrison (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jamie Sterry (Coventry City).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Barry Manilow, Elvis Costello and Jamiroquai will perform at the Oslo event on 11 December - one day after the prize-giving ceremony.
AR Rahman, Florence and the Machine and Herbie Hancock are also on the bill.
This year's concert will honour jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010 prize.
The 54-year-old received an 11-year sentence last year for "inciting subversion" after drafting a charter calling for multi-party democracy and respect for human rights in China.
It is doubtful whether the prize will be handed out this year as China may not allow Mr Liu's family to attend the ceremony.
According to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, its prestigious award can only be collected by the laureate in person or by close family members.
Swedish chart-topper Robyn, US singer Colbie Caillat and soul star India.Arie will also perform at the concert, an annual event since 1994.
Will Smith, Tom Cruise and Sir Michael Caine are among those who have hosted the concert in previous years.
Natalie McKail will undertake a review of the funeral profession in Scotland during her two-year term.
She will then be expected to make recommendations on how it should be regulated and whether to introduce a licensing regime.
The role was created following the so-called "baby ashes" scandal at Scottish crematoria.
It was one of the key recommendations of Dame Elish Angiolini, who led the National Cremation Investigation into crematorium practices across Scotland.
The 400-page report made a series of findings, including that babies were cremated with unrelated adults at Aberdeen Crematorium.
The practices were "unethical and abhorrent", Dame Angiolini concluded.
She added that families involved in the investigation had been failed by both crematoria and funeral care organisations "over many decades".
The creation of an inspector of funeral directors was also recommended by an earlier report - The Infant Cremation Commission, led by Lord Bonomy.
The Scottish government said Ms McKail, who has worked in local government for more than 20 years, will take up her position in July.
Public Health Minister Aileen Campbell said: "I'm pleased that Natalie McKail has agreed to take up the post for an initial period of two years and I look forward to receiving her recommendations on how best to regulate the profession, and whether that should include licensing.
"Natalie brings a wealth of experience to the role, which places her perfectly to meet the challenges it will bring.
"The approach we're taking will ensure that any regulatory scheme reflects the diverse nature of the funeral profession in Scotland and ensures that bereaved families receive the best possible care at a time when they are potentially very vulnerable."
Ms McKail was previously the lead officer on the improvement programme for the Mortonhall crematorium in Edinburgh, which was also embroiled in the baby ashes scandal .
The Scottish government said she "successfully led and delivered improvements, as well as rebuilding trust and understanding between the council and affected parents and also the wider public".
Ms McKail said: "I am delighted to accept the ministerial appointment of Inspector of Funeral Directors, and look forward to working collaboratively with funeral directors, representative bodies and a broad range of stakeholders on behalf of the bereaved across Scotland, ensuring the highest standard of service at the most difficult time for families.
"It is my intention to listen carefully to the widest range of views, and to assess the current provision of funerals in Scotland over the next 18 months, before providing recommendations to the minister on a regulatory framework for the future."
In a joint statement, the National Association of Funeral Directors and the National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors said: "The NAFD and SAIF warmly welcome Natalie to the role of Inspector of Funeral Directors, and look forward to working closely with her, as we have done with government, to help shape the future of the profession in Scotland.
"We believe appointing an Inspector of Funeral Directors is in the public interest and believe Natalie's appointment will help keep standards high in the profession, as well as strengthen public confidence, and we look forward to forming a close working relationship and bringing her up to speed with all the issues affecting the funeral profession."
He told the BBC he was not encouraging such actions - saying there was no doubt they required courage, but questioning how effective they were.
There have been 11 cases of self-immolation so far this year.
Most have resulted in death - the latest a 35-year-old nun two weeks ago.
The BBC has obtained graphic footage of the moment she set herself alight, prompting horrified cries from onlookers. Later, Chinese security forces flooded the area.
The shocking video footage was smuggled across the border to India and shown to the BBC.
Tibetan monks and nuns are using self-immolation as the latest tactic in their struggle against 60 years of Chinese rule, says the BBC's Andrew North.
But it is a sensitive issue for the man they are dying for - the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader.
In an interview with our correspondent, he said he was not encouraging his followers to sacrifice themselves - as alleged by China.
"The question is how much effect" the self-immolations have, the Dalai Lama said.
"That's the question. There is courage - very strong courage. But how much effect?
"Courage alone is no substitute. You must utilise your wisdom."
Asked whether he feared the actions could make life worse for people in Tibet, he said: "Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.
"Nobody knows how many people killed and tortured - I mean death through torture. Nobody knows.
"But a lot of people suffer. But how much effect? The Chinese respond harder."
China has condemned the self-immolation campaign as immoral and inhuman, saying it will never succeed.
The growing number of monks and nuns prepared to set themselves on fire is a sign of increasing desperation in Tibet, our correspondent says.
They know while the West has backed the Arab Spring, with China it talks with a much quieter voice, he says.
That leaves Tibetans with few options to shine a light on their struggle.
From inside Tibet, the word is that more monks are preparing to make the ultimate sacrifice, our correspondent adds.
Known for the 1981 hit O Superman and her use of technology in her music, Ms Anderson, Lou Reed's widow, was NASA's first artist in residence.
After appearing at the Brighton Festival in 2011 and 2015 she said she was "so happy" to be appointed as guest director for this year's event.
The festival takes place between 7 and 29 May, and will also feature her work.
Ms Anderson said: "I'm so happy to be serving as guest director of Brighton Festival in its historic 50th year.
"Our theme of home and place is especially relevant with so many people in the world on the move now looking, like all of us, for a place we can belong."
Ms Anderson, who originally trained as a sculptor, is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles.
In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that used recorded magnetic tape on the bow instead of horsehair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge.
The full festival programme will be announced in February, but it has been revealed that Tim Crouch and Spymonkey - both from the city - will re-enact every onstage death from the works of William Shakespeare to mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death.
Established in 1967, the first Brighton Festival included appearances by Laurence Olivier, Anthony Hopkins and Yehudi Menuhin.
Previous guest directors include actress Vanessa Redgrave, former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen and Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Andrew Comben, chief executive of Brighton Festival, said: "Laurie Anderson has been experimenting, creating and challenging audiences all over the world for almost as long as Brighton Festival has existed - indeed, she's been a part of the festival's journey in past years."
Pete Rowswell from Langport, Somerset, was born with club foot which causes the bones in his leg to twist inwards.
The 30-year-old said he takes a "stupid" amount of pain relief just to be able to walk and the decision to have the operation was "easy".
He said he came up with the fundraising idea after one of his colleagues asked him how much a leg weighed.
"I was quite baffled. I didn't know," he said.
"He suggested we should run the competition at work 'for a bit of a laugh'.
"So we decided to raise money for the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London which is where all the research is done. Without them I wouldn't be able to walk."
The operation to amputate his left leg below the knee is due to take place on 30 November.
Mr Rowswell, who holds black belts in a number of martial arts, has set up a fundraising campaign entitled Pete's getting legless to raise money for the hospital's redevelopment appeal.
He said he had persuaded his consultant to weigh the leg after the operation.
"The person that gets closest will win a decent bottle of champagne," he added.
He spoke after more than half of the Church In Wales' governing body members voted in favour of a law passed for such ceremonies in England and Wales last year.
The secret ballot took place at Lampeter, Ceredigion.
Those who voted in favour fell short of the two-thirds needed for change.
Sixty one of 120 members present voted for such ceremonies to be allowed, while 50 voted for no change and nine to allow blessings.
The Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, said: "It would be a very brave or perhaps a very foolish Bench of Bishops who were to bring the bill before the governing body at this stage.
"Because that might just rip the church apart and lead to the acrimony that has been absent from this debate."
The governing body is made up of the Bench of Bishops - the six diocesan bishops - plus 51 clergy and 86 non-clerical representatives.
A majority vote of 66% within each of these groups is required to change church law, but this was not achieved.
The vote could still trigger a long process towards making changes, although any alteration to the constitution would require a new bill to be passed.
The Archbishop said earlier that it would be for the Bench of Bishops to decide how to take the issue forward after the result of Thursday's vote.
However, he said any alteration would require "quite a long convoluted complicated process".
Jamaica-born Gordon, 24, part of the Bears teams that won the T20 Blast in 2014 and One-Day Cup this season, has not had his contract renewed after reaching the end of his current deal.
He made only five County Championship appearances following his first-class debut in April 2013.
But he was a regular one-day player, appearing most often in T20 cricket.
He played in five T20 group games, as well as the quarter-final win away to Essex in 2014, then 13 of the 14 group games when the Bears again made the final in 2015 but, on each occasion, he was not chosen to play on Finals Day.
Often used as a death bowler, he played a further six T20 matches this season and took his tally of One-Day Cup group game appearances to 12, but not being required at Lord's.
Gordon, who first represented the Bears at under-15 level, signed for Warwickshire ahead of the 2012 season, having come through their Development of Excellence programme.
"I've thoroughly enjoyed the last five years representing my home county and playing with so many fantastic cricketers," he said.
"I'd like thank Warwickshire for giving me the opportunity to become a professional cricketer."
The first blaze was reported at about 21:10 on Tuesday at a Sunset Beach salon in Broomfield Road.
Fires were reported at two other Sunset Beach salons in Springburn Way on the following day.
Emergency services attended and the fires were extinguished. Police are treating all three as wilful.
No-one was injured in the incidents.
Meanwhile, like-for-like food sales in the quarter were down by 0.9%.
In May the firm's new boss Steve Rowe unveiled plans to revive the retailer's clothing and homeware business, with lower clothing prices and better style.
The firm said consumer confidence weakened in the run up to the June 23 European Union referendum in the UK.
But it said it was too early to quantify the implications of Brexit.
In early morning trade, shares in M&S, which have fallen 29% over the last three months, were down by 1.2% to 290.6p.
M&S also said that this year its summer sale began on 5 July, two weeks later than in 2015, a move that would reduce total sales.
The firm said the impact of moving the summer sale and running fewer promotions than last year accounted for 5% of the like-for-like sales fall.
Analysis: Emma Simpson, BBC Business Correspondent
The latest headlines from Marks are bleak. In fact they're the worst like-for-like sales in clothing and homewares for a decade. But the underlying picture is less grim, if you strip out the effects of price cuts and promotions and the clearance sale now falling into the second quarter of the year.
The wider clothing market is also having a pretty torrid time. New figures from Kantar Worldpanel showed fashion sales fell in the year to 5 June, compared with the previous year.
This is the first annual sales decline in six years. The wet weather in June hasn't helped. As if he didn't have enough to contend with, Steve Rowe now has to deal with the impact of Brexit - although he and lots of other retailers are still trying to gauge what the effects will be.
He says he's going to hold his nerve for the long term success of the business. Those nerves are likely to be tested in the months ahead.
"We continued to reduce the number of promotional events during the quarter, including just one 'cyber day' compared with six last year," the firm said, adding that it had repriced some 1,000 clothing lines since January.
Those 1,000 clothing lines have seen price cuts of around 17% since January, with some seven million items affected.
Chief executive Steve Rowe said the food business "continues to strongly outperform a deflationary market", with the 0.9% fall in like-for-like sales reflecting the timing of Easter.
He said the firm was "confident that our strategic priorities and the actions we are taking remain the right ones to deliver results for our customers and our business".
Mr Rowe also said that consumer confidence started to weaken in November, which continued through May and in the run-up to the EU referendum:
"We are operating in uncertain times and consumer confidence remains fragile," he added.
Today's first-quarter figures from M&S are worse than analysts' forecast a 5% to 8% drop for clothing sales.
M&S said its full-year guidance remains unchanged: "We continue to manage the business for the challenging market environment."
Richard Lim, chief executive of research consultancy Retail Economics, said: "M&S's clothing figures are painfully weak, and fail to stem the loss of market share to other, more-agile, multichannel competitors.
"Its tireless efforts to revive the struggling clothing business have failed to resonate with its core customer base."
Bulgarian national Denis Petkov died after an incident on East Hanningfield Road, Rettendon.
Mihal Dobrev, of East Hanningfield Road, was due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
A 21-year-old man from Chelmsford arrested over the incident, has been released on police bail until 27 July.
Three men, aged 24, 42 and 30, have been released without charge after being arrested.
A group of campaigners who want Britain to stay in the EU single market argued that Parliament must approve the UK's exit from the European Economic Area.
But the judges refused to give the green light for the challenge, saying the judicial review was "premature".
The Supreme Court ruled last month that Parliament must have its say before the government can trigger Article 50 and begin official talks on leaving the EU.
Parliament is in the process of considering legislation which would give Theresa May the authority to notify the EU of the UK's intention to leave by the end of March.
MPs overwhelmingly backed the bill on second reading on Wednesday.
The latest legal challenge was brought by supporters of a so-called "soft Brexit" - which would see the UK remain a member of the EU's internal market.
They include Peter Wilding, chairman of the pro-Europe pressure group British Influence, and lobbyist Adrian Yalland.
The government claimed the case was unarguable since the existing EEA agreement would automatically cease to exist once the UK left the EU.
Under the terms of the EEA, which first came into legal force in 1994, the EU's 28 members and three other signatories are bound to accept the free movement of people, services, goods and capital across their borders.
Dismissing the case, Lord Justice Lloyd Jones and Mr Justice Lewis said the government had not made a decision "as to the mechanism by which the EEA agreement would cease to apply within the UK".
As a result, they said it was not clear at this stage what issues, if any, would fall within the jurisdiction of the courts.
In a joint statement, Mr Wilding and Mr Yalland suggested the government had "used procedure" to thwart them.
They said they would not rule out bringing further proceedings to give all those who would be directly affected by Brexit some form of legal certainty about their rights.
"It is intolerable that those who depend upon their EEA rights to trade with the EEA, or those who are married to EEA citizens, or are EEA citizens resident in the UK, are being used as a negotiating pawn by a government who can choose to act unilaterally to clarify our legal position, but will not," they said.
"The government must stop playing poker with our rights and stop taking liberties with our freedoms."
But a government spokesman welcomed Friday's decision.
"As the prime minister has said, we will not be a member of the single market and we will be seeking a broad new partnership with the EU including a bold and ambitious free trade agreement," he said.
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the ruling was "good news".
The incident happened at Cranbrook Gardens on Friday evening.
A man in his 30s was shot in the upper body.
The Belfast Trust said he is in a stable condition in hospital.
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Varney signed for the Tractor Boys on a short-term contract in August, with his deal due to expire on 12 January.
The 34-year-old could play in Burton's FA Cup tie at Watford on Saturday.
"He's a good, experienced Championship player," Brewers boss Nigel Clough told BBC Radio Derby.
"He's had a couple of knocks and injuries and things, but I don't think he's got anything to prove in the Championship."
Burton are 21st in the Championship table, one point above the relegation zone.
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The 27-year-old victim was on the delayed 22:24 GMT train from Sheffield to Leeds on Saturday.
British Transport Police said she was targeted prior to the train departing when sitting alone by the window.
Her partner had gone to the toilet and after he left, the offender sat down next to the woman and attempted to rape her.
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Her partner returned from the toilet unaware of what had happened and physically moved the offender from his seat.
Police said the incident happened on the delayed train, which left Sheffield at 22:40 GMT from platform 1B.
Det Con Ian Grice said the victim was being supported by specially-trained officers.
He appealed for information and said: "Sexual offences of this nature on the railway network are rare, but are understandably incredibly distressing for the victim."
The man is described as white, late 20s to early 30s, with brown hair and wearing a blue Puffa jacket.
He was with another man, also white, aged late 20s to early 30s, wearing a black Puffa jacket.
The victim and her partner got off the train at Swinton, but police said it is not known where the other men alighted.
Bayelsa state police say they learned of the ransom after capturing members of the criminal gang believed responsible.
Hyundai Heavy Industries has not commented on the reports.
The BBC's Habiba Adamu, in Abuja, says it is rare for anyone to acknowledge ransoms paid to kidnappers in Nigeria.
The kidnapping of foreigners and wealthy Nigerians is common in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, and has become a lucrative trade for criminals.
Gunmen kidnapped the four South Korean and two Nigerian workers after storming a passenger boat on 17 December.
They were released days later but South Korean officials declined to say whether they had paid a ransom.
Bayelsa state police commissioner Kingsley Omire said most of the suspected kidnappers were later arrested, including the leader.
He told the police that a payment of 30m naira ($190,000) had been made, with each gang member getting 3m, Mr Omire told BBC Hausa.
The man is said to have later escaped from custody.
"The police did not know a ransom was paid before the release," the state police chief said.
He said that paying ransoms would only encourage more kidnapping and urged people to instead contact the police, saying they have freed several hostages.
The mother of Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was kidnapped in December and held for five days before being freed.
It is not clear whether a ransom was paid, or whether the motive was criminal or political.
The rare medals badge of honour, which includes four grand crosses, belonged to Lieutenant-General Rowland Hill.
The commander of the British Army fought with the Duke of Wellington in 1815 and served in the Napoleonic Wars.
Auctioneers said the historical brooch, which was discovered in its original box in Derbyshire, "honoured and recognised his many acts of bravery".
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The medals include the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order, the Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and the Sword and the Peninsular Cross.
Charles Hanson, of Hanson's Auctioneers, said the badge was one of the "richest historical" military finds he has ever come across and was "worthy of a place in a museum".
"I am delighted to see this important historical item honouring a war hero and great leader of men sell for well above its estimate of £1,000 to £2,000," he said.
Mr Hanson added that General Hill was an "extraordinary man".
"He led armies of up to 30,000 men in some of the most important battles of the 1800s in Egypt, Spain, Portugal and France," he said.
"He inevitably had brushes with death. At the Battle of Waterloo, where Hill commanded the II Corps, he was lost in the melee and feared dead but escaped unscathed."
Source: Hanson's Auctioneers
Wang Ting-yu, chairman of the defence committee in Taiwan's parliament, said Chinese spies were masquerading as academics or business people.
He claimed Beijing was trying to sow chaos within Taiwanese society.
China considers the self-ruling island territory that must be reunited with the mainland - by force if necessary.
In an interview with the BBC, Mr Wang said intelligence reports suggest China spends millions of dollars on its Taiwan operations.
He said Chinese spies tried to recruit agents within Taiwan's corridors of power.
"Some get married into Taiwan, some pretend they are scholars, some pretend they are businessmen, and they immerse themselves into our society," he said.
"They seduce and lure our military personnel and government officers into becoming their agents."
Mr Wang said he could not disclose the source of his information.
Beijing has previously denied claims that it sends spies to Taiwan.
Earlier this week, a bodyguard for the former Vice-President Annette Lu was arrested and accused of spying.
Wang Hong-ju is accused of being paid by the Chinese to recruit an intelligence officer to gather information for Beijing in exchange for a large cash payment and safe relocation to mainland China if exposed.
He is alleged to have worked for China after leaving government service in Taiwan, but the episode is likely to unnerve the Taiwanese authorities.
"The realisation that even someone who worked that close to the top of the island's government hierarchy could become a spy for the nation's biggest enemy gives one cold shivers," read an editorial in the English-language Taiwan News.
Annette Lu said the bodyguard was one of about 50 who had been assigned to protect her.
"It's important that we check the security and loyalty of those who serve the president and vice-president," she told the BBC.
Just a few days before the bodyguard's detention, a Chinese student, Zhou Hongxu, was also arrested in Taiwan for breaching national security laws.
Some media outlets were reporting that there are around 5,000 Chinese spies in Taiwan, although the government later denied that was true.
China has spied on Taiwan for years, but Wang Ting-yu said the election of Ms Tsai, from the Democratic Progressive Party, appeared to have spurred Beijing into greater action.
He said China's aim was not simply to collect information, but also to spread unrest in Taiwan.
The island's commitment to an open society was allowing Beijing to stir up trouble under the cloak of free speech, said the committee chairman. "You cannot tell who your enemy is," he said.
Several new laws to tighten security are due to be introduced this year.
Taiwan plans to ban senior government and military officials from travelling to China for three years after they retire, to prevent them from being lured into handing over secret information.
If China has increased its secret activities in Taiwan this would fit into a broader pattern of antagonism towards the island since Ms Tsai's election.
China had warm ties with the previous Taiwanese President, Ma Ying-jeou, but it has cut all contact with Ms Tsai.
It has also reverted to its previous policy of trying to isolate Taiwan in the international arena.
A Taiwanese defence review published once every four years came out this week and said China now posed an even greater military threat to the island.
The charge is expected to take affect from the end of April when a new pick-up and drop-off point will open opposite the main terminal building.
A spokeswoman said the charge was being introduced after "all possible alternatives" to ease congestion at the airport had been exhausted.
A pick-up fee has been in place at the airport since 2010.
Construction work is currently under way to create the new pick-up and drop-off zone, where the £2 charge will entitle drivers to a 10-minute stay. Blue badge holders will be exempt.
The work will also see the traffic flow on St Andrew's Drive, where the Holiday Inn Express is located, reversed. This change is due to take affect in March.
Amanda McMillan, managing director of the airport, said the investment represented one of the most significant upgrades to the road network in more than 10 years.
She added: "It has been apparent for some time that our current drop-off area, which suffers from severe congestion on a daily basis, is simply no longer fit for purpose.
"It was implemented at a time when we were carrying 6.5 million passengers, however, we have since enjoyed sustained growth and are now fast approaching the 10 million mark."
Ms McMillan acknowledged that the new arrangement would be unpopular.
She added: "We have resisted introducing a drop-off charge despite most airports of our size having similar arrangements in place for many years, however, having exhausted all possible alternatives we have now reached a point whereby a chargeable facility is the only way to address congestion, discourage non-airport traffic and encourage best use of our road network."
Drivers will still be able to drop off people at the airport's long stay car park, which is a five-minute bus ride from the terminal building, free of charge.
The 67-year-old suffered a broken collarbone when he was knocked to the ground outside his Gateshead home in January.
An online appeal set up by beautician Katie Cutler raised £330,135.
Richard Gatiss, 25, from Gateshead, had pleaded guilty to assault with intent to rob at Newcastle Crown Court.
After the sentencing, Mr Barnes said it was "just about the right length of time" and he hoped prison would give Gatiss time to reflect on what he had done.
"I hope while he's in prison he'll do some thinking and when he comes out he'll do something useful," he said.
Gatiss, from Split Crow Road, was caught after police retrieved DNA evidence from a pocket on Mr Barnes' jacket.
He had been desperate for money to buy legal highs but ran off empty-handed when Mr Barnes shouted for help, the court heard.
Judge Paul Sloan QC described Gatiss' actions as "despicable and opportunistic" and said he had picked on Mr Barnes because he was vulnerable.
Mr Barnes has lived with disabilities from birth after his mother contracted German measles when she was pregnant. He is visually impaired and stands 4ft 6in (1.21m) tall.
After the hearing, Mr Barnes, who was joined by 21-year-old Miss Cutler, said: "I'm pleased he's been sentenced and I think the sentence of four years is just about the right length.
"I hope while he's in prison he'll do some thinking and when he comes out he'll do something useful. Maybe he might decide to help people, which I think would be a good idea for him.
"It's sad that he was brought to the stage of doing something like this - not necessarily just me, it could have been anybody and they might not have got over the incident.
"But I've moved on," he said.
Holding back tears, Miss Cutler added: "It's hard for me to talk about Richard as it wasn't me who was attacked, but I just hope he gets the help that he deserves.
"I'm just glad that that some good has come from this and we can move forward."
While on remand, Gatiss was kept in segregation for his own safety.
Jamie Adams, defending, said it was "an awful case" but publicity surrounding it made it difficult to "keep a proper outlook on what the sentence should be".
On the prison bus to court Gatiss had been "the subject of some pretty awful double-standard behaviour" from other inmates, Mr Adams said.
"Life is not easy for him. He is going to be in the public glare for a long time to come and he knows that."
His father, Karl Gatiss, refused to comment on the sentence outside court but called for legal highs to be banned.
Northumbria Police said the sentencing "should send a message out to those criminals who think it is acceptable to target the vulnerable".
Following the death of six cyclists on London's roads in two weeks, Mr Boardman asked the mayor to honour a "promise" he made by looking at similar schemes in operation abroad.
He said: "The longer we delay, the more lives will be lost."
Mr Johnson told BBC London 94.9 he was not convinced by the argument.
Nine of this year's 14 cyclist fatalities and five of last year's 14 deaths involved a heavy goods vehicle.
In the centre of Paris, where there are restrictions on lorries, there were no cyclist fatalities in 2011, according to the Prefecture of Police of Paris.
Boardman, British Cycling's policy adviser, said in an open letter to the mayor: "When I rode alongside you to help you launch your vision for cycling in March this year, you made a verbal promise to look at the successful experiences of Paris and many other cities in restricting the movements of heavy vehicles during peak hours.
"London has an opportunity to emulate and surpass Paris and to lead the way for the other ambitious cycling cities across Britain.
"Let's not waste this opportunity to do something now."
The House of Commons Transport Committee is to hold an oral evidence session on cycle safety on 2 December to "stimulate debate", said chairman Louise Ellman.
Speaking to Vanessa Feltz on BBC London 94.9, the mayor of London said safety must be improved.
He said he was getting on with the programme to invest the "thick end of £1bn" to make cycling in the capital safer.
Mr Johnson said there had to be a "much bigger conversation about HGVs" and the dangers they pose when they turn left.
But he said imposing a peak-time ban risked damaging London companies and creating a "serious influx as soon as the ban is over".
He said that examples from other European cities were being studied, but that he was "by no means satisfied" the idea was the solution.
Mr Johnson said the latest person to die was in a collision with a lorry at about midday, not during the rush hour.
2010: 10 deaths, four involving HGVs
2011: 16 deaths, 12 involving HGVs
2012: 14 deaths, five involving HGVs
2013 so far: 14 deaths, nine involving HGVs
Source: TfL
He added: "We are not dismissing any suggestion."
On new safety ideas being considered at Transport for London, he said the issue of people riding bikes and walking in the street using personal electronic devices was discussed frequently.
Mr Johnson said he thought headphones were an "absolute scourge" and that he would consider banning cyclists from wearing them.
"Call me illiberal, but it makes me absolutely terrified to see them bowling along unable to hear the traffic.
"You've got to be able to hear that car behind you or about to come out of the road in front of you," he said.
Mark Ames, editor of cycling blog ibikelondon, accused the mayor of taking attention away from his "inaction".
He wrote on Twitter that the mayor was "a clever man" who had "deflected all attention on his inaction and HGV ban and made a debate about Londoners wearing headphones".
The House of Commons Transport Committee chairman Ms Ellman said the deaths of cyclists this year had raised the issue of restricting lorries, and the behaviour of drivers and cyclists.
She said: "Many of these casualties involve large vehicles, especially HGVs, and there is now debate about whether they should be banned from city centres at peak times.
"This will have consequences for businesses, which need to be assessed."
Kate Gibbs, spokeswoman for the Road Haulage Association, said: "Lorries have to get in and out of construction sites. Shops have to have goods on their shelves. Even Halfords."
She said restricting lorries from entering the city between 10:00 and 18:00, for example, "would add to the congestion that London roads are already facing".
During the Olympics, deliveries were made to shops and businesses overnight with the usual restrictions preventing noise for residents removed.
But Ms Gibbs said that was not a "workable solution".
Victory completed a big-race double for the 7-1 chance, who won the Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown in February.
He finished two and three quarter lengths ahead of Minella Rocco (18-1) in the Cheltenham showpiece, with Native River (7-2) in third.
Lizzie Kelly, the first woman for 33 years to ride in the race, was unseated from Tea for Two at the second fence.
The 3-1 favourite Djakadam hit the second-last fence when leading and ended up finishing fourth, while the much-loved Cue Card again fell three fences from home.
Harrington and Power finished the Festival in style by winning the last race, the Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Challenge Cup Handicap Chase, with Rock the World (10-1).
The seven-year-old winner was a first Cheltenham Gold Cup entry for Harrington after moving to her yard from Henry de Bromhead's earlier in the season.
Harrington, the most successful female trainer ever at the Festival, had previously enjoyed big-race success with Moscow Flyer in the 2003 and 2005 Queen Mother Champion Chases, and with 2014 Champion Hurdle winner Jezki.
"It's amazing - he has gone from running two miles at Christmas to three miles here," she told BBC Radio 5 live.
Down to the last he absolutely pinged it
"He jumped like a buck and it was his jumping that got him there.
"I never seemed to have any stayers before for this race - I can't believe it."
Harrington is the third woman to train a Gold Cup winner, following Jenny Pitman, who guided Burrough Hill Lad (1984) and Garrison Savannah (1991), and Henrietta Knight with Best Mate (2002-2004).
Power, who won the Grand National on Silver Birch in 2007, said: "It's unbelievable. Jessica Harrington is a genius.
"I was only 25 when I won the National and I'm 35 now. When you're 25 you think you can win everything, so this is very special.
"Down to the last he absolutely pinged it and then it was just a case of seeing it out. It's what every jockey dreams of and I never thought I would until we got this lad.
"I had a bad injury before Christmas and I rushed back to ride him in the Irish Gold Cup"
Minella Rocco trainer Jonjo O'Neill: "It was his first run proper of the season. He has no miles on the clock and he'll improve a ton on that. I'm thrilled, he had a great spin round and finished as strongly as anything."
Native River owner Garth Broom: "I felt we were slightly robbed of second right on the line, but finishing third in a Gold Cup with a seven-year-old is something you can't complain about.
"He wears his heart on his sleeve and we are so proud of him. We had two dreams - to have a runner in the Gold Cup and to win one, and we've achieved the first.
Djakadam jockey Ruby Walsh: "The mistake at the second-last cost me second place but I don't believe I would have done better than that."
Cue Card assistant trainer Joe Tizzard: "He has come back safe and that is the main thing we were concerned about."
Cornelius Lysaght, BBC horse racing correspondent
The 2017 Gold Cup was billed as competitive, but not necessarily the greatest staging in the race's 90-plus-year history.
You probably can't say at this stage that Sizing John is all set to be a great champion, but given time, who knows?
He's got that certain something about him - racing purists would say 'class' - he's only seven years old, technically some way short of his prime, and the time of the race was decent.
There had been doubts about the horse's stamina lasting out the demanding three and a quarter miles, but he had plenty of reserves to positively bound up the final hill.
Paul Townend rode a 356-1 double for Willie Mullins after top weight Arctic Fire (20-1) took the County Hurdle after being off the track for 13 months, while Penhill then triumphed in the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle.
Penhill's win was Mullins' first in the race and gave him a sixth win of the meeting.
Gordon Elliott matched him with his sixth win when Champagne Classic (12-1) took the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle for JJ Slevin.
However, Elliott clinched the leading trainer award thanks to his three second places compared to two from Mullins.
A delighted Elliott said: "To win the trainer award is something special. Willie is an amazing man and a gentleman. We are absolutely thrilled.
"When we get home now, we will have a party with all the staff."
Champagne Classic's owner, airline boss Michael O'Leary, was somewhat surprised by the horse's achievement.
"I think that was a miraculous event. He is probably the worst horse we own!" said O'Leary
"We buy them in numbers and you get a few duds - he is one of the duds!"
Bryony Frost triumphed on Pacha Du Polder in the Foxhunters Chase, the same horse on whom former Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist Victoria Pendleton finished fifth in last year's race,
Frost's win meant that for the first time all three races for amateur riders at the Festival were won by female jockeys.
She was also following in a family tradition - her father Jimmy rode Morley Street to victory in the 1991 Champion Hurdle, while brother Hadden won at the 2010 Festival.
The day's other race, the Triumph Hurdle, was won by the 5-2 favourite Defi Du Seuil, ridden by champion jockey Richard Johnson and trained by Philip Hobbs.
The home fans booed their side at half time as they trailed 30-0, with Lama Tasi the first of six different try scorers to go over in the first half.
Corey Thompson grabbed a Widnes try before Michael Dobson and Robert Lui added to the visitors' lead.
Australian half-back Carney then came off the bench to help set Gareth O'Brien up for Salford's ninth try.
Carney, an unused replacement in Salford's win against Castleford, made his eagerly anticipated debut after his career in the north west of England was delayed while his visa application was being processed.
Salford's fourth win from seven games this season leaves them fifth in the table, while Widnes' fifth Super League defeat this term leaves them second from bottom with the second worst defensive record in the competition.
The hosts showed their greatest resistance in the opening 14 minutes, but once Tasi went over for the opening try a torrent followed with Greg Johnson, George Griffin, Ben Murdoch-Masila, Kris Welham and Justin Carney crossing before the break.
Thompson and a late Rhys Hanbury try after the break were of little consequence in a match Salford dominated.
Salford head coach Ian Watson told BBC Radio Manchester: "It was a great start, something we spoke about. We felt we let ourselves down a bit with LWLW record and we wanted to change the mindset of that about backing games up. To get a 30-0 lead at half-time was tremendous.
"People talk about us saying we can't back up, so it's important for us to show them we can back up.
"Todd's got class, we see it in training, it's all about getting him in at the right time. When he first came on he chased the ball about. Later on his dropped into our shapes. He has some nice little touches to him."
Widnes Vikings: Hanbury; Thompson, Armstrong, Runciman, Marsh; Heremaia, Craven; Dudson, Johnstone, Buchanan, Olbison, Whitley, Houston.
Replacements: Bridge, Leuluai, J Chapelhow, T Chapelhow.
Salford Red Devils: O'Brien; Johnson, Welham, Sa'u, J Carney; Lui, Dobson; Tasi, Tomkins, Walne, Griffin, Murdoch-Masila, Flanagan.
Replacements: Kopczak, Krasniqi, Brinning, T Carney.
Referee: Chris Kendall
The goalkeeper had already stopped a Gavin Reilly spot-kick before Simon Murray's close-range opener for United.
Bell kept out penalties from Nicky Clark and Paul McMullan and Tony Andreu's drive extended the lead.
Michael Paton fired a reply before Paul Dixon's second yellow card, after which Andreu secured the 10 men's victory.
United's Frank van der Struijk was twice the culprit for the penalties, fouling Nicky Clark and then handling the ball in the box, for the second and third spot-kicks, the latter offence incurring a booking.
The win keeps United in fourth place in the Scottish Championship and leaves the Pars with only one win in their five games since promotion.
Match ends, Dunfermline Athletic 1, Dundee United 3.
Second Half ends, Dunfermline Athletic 1, Dundee United 3.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Lewis Toshney.
Goal! Dunfermline Athletic 1, Dundee United 3. Tony Andreu (Dundee United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Cameron Smith.
Foul by Andrew Geggan (Dunfermline Athletic).
William Edjenguele (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lee Ashcroft (Dunfermline Athletic).
Charlie Telfer (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rhys McCabe (Dunfermline Athletic).
Cameron Smith (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Callum Fordyce (Dunfermline Athletic).
Cameron Smith (Dundee United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Joe Cardle replaces Lewis Martin.
Attempt saved. Farid El Alagui (Dunfermline Athletic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Dundee United. Coll Donaldson replaces Nick van der Velden.
Attempt missed. Callum Fordyce (Dunfermline Athletic) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Frank van der Struijk (Dundee United).
Attempt missed. Rhys McCabe (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Farid El Alagui replaces Ryan Williamson.
Lee Ashcroft (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cameron Smith (Dundee United).
Attempt missed. Andrew Geggan (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt blocked. Michael Paton (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Lewis Martin (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Tony Andreu (Dundee United).
Substitution, Dundee United. Cameron Smith replaces Simon Murray.
Attempt missed. Simon Murray (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Lee Ashcroft (Dunfermline Athletic) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high following a corner.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Lewis Toshney.
Substitution, Dundee United. Jamie Robson replaces Tope Obadeyi.
Second yellow card to Paul Dixon (Dundee United) for a bad foul.
Michael Paton (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Paul Dixon (Dundee United).
Lewis Martin (Dunfermline Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Tope Obadeyi (Dundee United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lewis Martin (Dunfermline Athletic).
Attempt missed. Andrew Geggan (Dunfermline Athletic) header from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high following a corner.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Charlie Telfer.
Goal! Dunfermline Athletic 1, Dundee United 2. Michael Paton (Dunfermline Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Paul McMullan.
It happened on Thursday at a property in Dunluce Avenue, off the Lisburn Road.
The men, both aged 22, are also charged with aggravated burglary and stealing.
They are due to appear at Belfast Magistrates Court on Monday.
The petition's organiser James O'Malley, said the capital was "a world city" which should "remain at the heart of Europe".
Nearly 60% of people in the capital backed the Remain campaign, in stark contrast to most of the country.
The LSE's director said the vote showed how "radically different" London is.
Prof Tony Travers said London's economy and politics "look so different" to the rest of the country and it was up to the mayor to decide whether to argue for more power.
"Maybe moving more decision making to cities and councils could be a solution to the differences within the country," he said.
Following the result, Sadiq Khan said it was "crucial that London has a voice at the table during those renegotiations" with the EU.
"We will continue to look outwards and trade and engage with the entire world, including the European Union," he said.
The petition, which suggests the mayor could become "President Sadiq", has already been signed by more than 27,000 people.
Mr O'Malley said he was a "big EU fan" and was "fed up watching the results" when he set up the page on change.org.
He said he was "astonished" the petition had taken off but suggested it showed he had "clearly touched a nerve" with others who "like me want to live in an international city".
One person who commented on the page said he felt "morally, culturally and historically closer to Paris, Brussels and Rome than I do to Sunderland".
Another wrote: "We need to break free of the dead weight."
A second petition calling for London to remain part of the EU has been signed by more 7,500 people.
The Belgian midfielder limped off half an hour into Tuesday's 0-0 draw at Scunthorpe with a calf strain.
He has played in the Saddlers' past 11 games, his longest run since his second spell on loan with Walsall in 2012.
"He's been so unlucky with injuries. But you're always at your most vulnerable when you're at your best," Walsall boss Jon Whitney told BBC WM.
"He's really down. It's a kick in the teeth but I'll help him get over it.
"We haven't had a chance to bring him over, as he lives in Sheffield, and we're trying to get him scanned to know what we're dealing with.
"It's still non-weight bearing," added the former Saddlers physio. "He's still on crutches. We'll know more by Monday. He got his studs caught in the grass. But, from the pain he's in, it's not going to be a short-term injury.
Cuvelier's run of fitness has coincided with Walsall's best run of results this season - a sequence of just two defeats in 11 games, which has lifted them to 12th in League One.
The first game which the influential Cuvelier will miss is Saturday's visit of Peterborough, when Amadou Bakayoko hopes to start, after being replaced in midweek by Simeon Jackson, along with Franck Moussa and Andreas Makris.
Reece Flanagan remains out with a dislocated shoulder which, on top of a serious knee injury, is expected to keep him out for the rest of the season.
Jon Whitney was talking to BBC WM's Rob Gurney
The Carter Centre, which was set up by former President Jimmy Carter, said that represented a 83% drop from the 126 cases reported last year.
Guinea worm isn't deadly, but it is extremely painful and stops people in some of the world's poorest areas from going to work or school for months.
The former president said he wants it eradicated "next year or sooner after".
Guinea worm is particularly nasty.
It's carried by tiny water flies which sit in stagnant water. When people drink that water the Guinea worm larvae enters the body and starts maturing into a worm.
After about a year, when it's grown to around a meter long, it starts burrowing through the body and eventually causes a painful blister on the skin's surface.
It can then take a few days or weeks to fully emerge from the body, usually through the victim's leg or foot.
The Carter Centre has led the international effort against the disease, and the end game is very much in sight.
"This is a very exciting, challenging and sometimes frustrating experience for us," he said.
The former president made it his mission to wipe out the disease back in 1986.
Since then he said the number of countries reporting cases have gone from 21, to just four: Chad, Ethiopia, Mali and South Sudan.
"We hope this year we won't have any new cases, but if we do we'll just have to concentrate on those communities," said Mr Carter.
The former president said across those countries still affected there were actually only 20 villages and communities in the world which have cases of Guinea worm, although teams are still monitoring around 4,500 communities to ensure the disease doesn't come back.
"One person who goes into the water with a Guinea worm emerging can start the whole epidemic all over again," he said.
If the campaign is successful, Guinea worm will become only the second disease to ever be completely wiped out.
Smallpox was officially eradicated in 1980. Polio is also on the verge of being made extinct.
The British government has pledged another £4.5 million to efforts to finally end Guinea worm.
UK International Development Minister Nick Hurd said: "Guinea worm is a truly horrendous disease.
"The fact that we are now so close to eradicating it is one of the great public health success stories of modern times."
Mr Carter said around 88 million cases have been avoided in the last 30 years, meaning it's cost around $3 (£2) to prevent each case.
"Once we get rid of it, we'll never have to spend another dollar on the disease," he said.
One of the biggest threats to Guinea worm eradication is conflict, which stops health workers being able to go in and help affected communities.
Mr Carter said another concern is dogs becoming infected and releasing larvae into water sources, which communities can then drink from, triggering a new cluster of cases.
The 39th president of the United States said achieving the eradication of Guinea worm would be his "most gratifying experience".
While emerging viruses such as Zika and before that Ebola have been causing a lot of concern, this is a timely reminder that complex and frightening diseases, can be beaten. The world is not there yet, but it is extremely close.
Mr Carter is already setting his sights on the next debilitating disease he wants to wipe out.
It's another neglected tropical disease called river blindness, spread by the bites of infected flies that breed in rapidly flowing rivers and can cause people to lose their sight.
He says eradication is possible. Watch this space.
The EU committee said the single market and cross-border travel were vital to the territory's economy, and warned the UK government not to let Spain use trade talks to claim sovereignty.
Gibraltar voted overwhelmingly for Remain in June's referendum.
The government says it will ensure the territory's priorities are understood.
Gibraltar has been a British territory since 1713, but Spain continues to claim sovereignty over the enclave, and the government in Madrid called for joint sovereignty in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.
The vote of 95.9% in favour of staying in the EU made Gibraltar by far the strongest pro-Remain area taking part in the referendum.
Peers said 40% of its workforce crossed the border from Spain every day, and its economy was "underpinned" by the single market.
The committee said it "strongly endorses" the UK government's promise never to enter into sovereignty discussions with Spain against the will of the Gibraltarian people, and called on ministers to engage "positively and pragmatically with Spain, emphasising the mutual importance of the economic relationship between the UK and Spain".
Prime Minister Theresa May has confirmed the UK will not remain a member of the EU single market after Brexit, instead seeking a new free trade deal.
The peers said while it was unclear how withdrawal would affect the border, there were "serious potential economic implications for both Gibraltar and the surrounding area of Spain".
"Now set to leave the EU, the territory has placed its trust in the UK to secure a Brexit deal that meets Gibraltar's needs," they said.
"The committee stresses that the UK government has a moral responsibility to ensure Gibraltar's voice is heard, and its interests respected, throughout the negotiating process."
The committee also said Gibraltar should be made a priority in talks over security co-operation so its border cannot be used by criminals.
And it suggested existing rules governing the passport-free Schengen area could allow continued movement between Gibraltar and Spain.
Formal Brexit talks are set to begin once Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty has been invoked by the UK government before the end of March.
The committee added: "The UK government must remain alert to and resist any attempts by Spain to involve the sovereignty dispute in EU withdrawal and future trade negotiations, or to encroach upon Gibraltar's sovereignty through the medium of EU laws or policies when the UK is 'out of the room', after Brexit."
In the official document setting out its Brexit strategy, the UK government said a new joint ministerial council with the government of Gibraltar would help ensure its views were heard.
"We will continue to involve them fully in our work, respect their interests and engage with them as we enter negotiations, and strengthen the bonds between us as we forge a new relationship with the EU and look outward into the world," its White Paper adds.
Black pads, which formed part of the crossing, were taken from outside The Brewery Inn on High Street in Coalport, Telford, West Mercia Police said.
It is thought the theft took place between 22:00 and 23:00 BST on 12 June.
Officers want to speak to the driver of "an old Honda Civic" seen in the area at the time.
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West Mercia Police spokesman Kieren Bodill said the theft had put "lives at risk for both road users and pedestrians wishing to cross the road safely".
Fiona Hotchkiss, landlady of the pub, discovered the theft the following day.
"It was a level surface but once the black bits had gone there were these panels all over the place," she said.
Miss Hotchkiss said CCTV from the pub had captured a man taking the panels.
"We've no idea why he would want them. It's a bit bizarre," she added.
Sinn Féin has been accused of flip-flopping on whether the botched scheme should be subject to a full public inquiry or an independent investigation.
On Monday, Sinn Féin MLA Declan Kearney issued a press release and article to republican newspaper An Phoblacht calling for a "comprehensive, independent public inquiry".
Hours later, the statement was withdrawn and reissued with one change - the words "public inquiry" were replaced with "investigation".
Sinn Féin put the error down to a "typo" but, according to the News Letter, late on Tuesday night Mr Kearney re-released the initial statement from his personal email address with the words: "Please share this important information widely."
Meanwhile, Belfast City Council on Tuesday passed a motion calling for a full public inquiry.
A public inquiry could be called by Stormont under the Inquiries Act 2005.
The main reason opposition parties favour a full public inquiry is because, under law, it can compel witnesses to give evidence and documents to be released.
Also, as the name suggests, there is a presumption that hearings for a statutory inquiry will take place in public.
These types of inquiries are considered the most comprehensive and transparent available.
However, for non-statutory inquiries - such as the independent investigation proposed by Sinn Féin and the DUP - no such rules apply.
Any independent investigation will have to have its terms of reference and procedures agreed by Stormont.
That means the investigation could have no powers to compel witnesses and could be held in private, depending on what is agreed.
These types of inquiries are not uncommon. For instance, the Chilcot Report into the Iraq War was compiled on a non-statutory basis.
Since public inquires have to meet statutory conditions as outlined in the Inquiries Act, there is a belief by some that it could take too long and cost an enormous amount before answers are found.
For instance, a public inquiry into the death of Billy Wright published its findings in 2010, five years after the inquiry was announced. It cost £30.6m.
The inquiry into the death of Robert Hamill was announced in 2006 and published an interim report in 2010. Its full report has not been published because of legal proceedings. The inquiry has cost £33m to date.
DUP MP Gregory Campbell said such inquiries can last "10 to 12 years" and that the party favours a "time-bound investigation".
Likewise, Sinn Féin has said only an independent investigation with a time limit, led by a judicial figure from outside of Northern Ireland, would provide answers in a quick fashion.
"We think the public want the truth, but they also want the truth as quickly as possible," said Jim McVeigh, a Sinn Féin councillor in Belfast.
"They don't want to wait a year, or two years, like some of these public inquiries can take, so we think the best way to do this is a robust, transparent investigation that will get to the truth quickly."
That's an understatement.
Alliance Party leader Naomi Long said it was "nonsense" to suggest a public inquiry could take years while the SDLP's Patsy McGlone said the "public are wise to the Sinn Féin two-step".
TUV leader Jim Allister has insisted anything less than a full public inquiry would be a "whitewash".
Crucially, Sinn Féin say that any investigation should be on the basis that witnesses are compelled to give evidence - just like a public inquiry, but without the statutory basis.
Sinn Féin MLAs Declan Kearney, Michelle O'Neill and Conor Murphy have all said this condition must be included in the terms of reference for an investigation.
These terms of reference have to be agreed with the DUP - so whether they agree or not is unclear.
Also, it's not apparent how a non-statutory inquiry can make people give evidence in the same way as a public inquiry. A House of Commons briefing paper on non-statutory inquiries describes them as "essentially reliant on the co-operation of those involved".
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has said his party took legal advice over Christmas that "pointed to the need to address in clear terms the issue of compelling persons and papers in any investigation to make it effective".
They've already been asked and they've said no.
Naomi Long wrote to Secretary of State James Brokenshire to request they take steps to set up a full public inquiry.
But the government has said since the RHI was a Stormont matter, it was up to Stormont to investigate.
Meanwhile, the News Letter has also reported that Northern Ireland's Attorney General cannot set up an inquiry either, as suggested by Sinn Féin.
DUP and Sinn Féin have both said they are discussing terms of reference for a possible inquiry, although Sinn Féin has said nothing has yet been agreed.
Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy said proposals from the head of the civil service were "insufficient" and that the investigation should be "robust, transparent, time-framed and led by a senior judicial figure from outside the jurisdiction and with the power to compel witnesses".
It seems likely the next twists in the RHI story will centre on just how Stormont goes about investigating this £490m scandal.
However, the fallout following the failed test of the Trident nuclear deterrent is also covered by a number of newspapers.
The Scotsman reports that Theresa May is facing "calls to come clean" over the incident. It said she failed to answer direct questions about her knowledge of the test.
Nicola Sturgeon has challenged the prime minister to make a full disclosure about what she knew about the misfire, according to The National.
Under the headline "Do Ya Think I'm Tipsy", The Scottish Sun reports that Sir Rod Stewart appeared to have had a few drinks before taking part in a live TV Scottish Cup draw. He turned the draw into "comedy gold", the paper said.
The Herald reports that there have been a "catalogue of blunders" at the body which distributes £1bn to Scottish universities. It claims two universities were forced to shelve or scale back redevelopment plans as a result of the problem.
Theresa May has insisted she "won't be afraid" to tackle Donald Trump as she prepares to become the first foreign leader to visit the White House since his inauguration, according to The Times.
The Daily Record reports on a legal wrangle which has led to a murder victim lying in a mortuary for two months. It says that defence lawyers cannot find a pathologist to do a second post-mortem examination on the body of Stewart Rexter.
One in seven murders is carried out by a criminal who was spared prison in favour of community service, according to the Scottish Daily Mail.
The Lord Advocate has apologised to the family of five people who died in a Western Isles storm a decade ago for the "unacceptable" way they were treated after the tragedy, the Press and Journal reports.
The Scottish Daily Express leads with news that a move to outlaw cheap deals on junk food and fizzy drinks is to take a major step forward.
Celebrities who joined protests against Donald Trump make the front page of the Daily Star.
And The Courier reports that NHS Tayside paid more than £1,200 for an agency nurse to cover one shift.
The 38-year-old former Barcelona and Netherlands striker was named boss of the Caribbean island, where his mother is from, earlier this year.
They drew 1-1 with Cuba following a goalless first leg to progress on away goals in the North, Central America and Caribbean region.
Kluivert led his side past Montserrat in the first qualifying round.
Jamaica and Canada are potential third-round opponents for Curacao, who are ranked 144th in the world.
After that two-legged round, teams have to negotiate two group stages to qualify for Russia 2018.
In the other second qualifying round matches, St Vincent and Grenadines drew 4-4 with Guyana to progress on away goals after a 6-6 aggregate scoreline.
Antigua and Barbuda overturned a 3-1 deficit against St Lucia to progress 5-4 on aggregate.
Barbados added to their 2-0 first leg victory over Aruba by beating them 1-0 in the return tie to make it through.
Belize also eased into the next round with a 3-0 win over Dominican Republic, giving them a 5-1 aggregate score.
The Australian claimed he was bored during his straight-set defeat by Mischa Zverev at Wimbledon on 4 July.
A series of lacklustre displays has seen the 24-year-old drop from 17 in the world last year to 73.
"Tennis chose me. It's something I never fell in love with," Tomic told Australia's Channel Seven.
"Throughout my career I've given 100%. I've given also 30%. But if you balance it out, I think all my career's been around 50%.
"I haven't really tried, and still achieved all this. So it's just amazing what I've done."
Tomic has won three ATP Tour titles and has earned almost £4m in career prize money, including £35,000 for his defeat by Zverev.
However, he has not won a tour title since 2015 and has struggled for form this year, winning just nine matches overall and losing in the first rounds at the French Open and Wimbledon.
When asked what advice he would give to aspiring tennis players, Tomic said: "Don't play tennis.
"Do something you love and enjoy because it's a grind and it's a tough, tough, tough life. My position, I'm trapped. I have to do it."
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Tomic was criticised for ruling himself out of the Rio 2016 Olympics because of an "extremely busy" schedule, a year after he was dropped by Tennis Australia - for a second time - from their Davis Cup squad.
He was left out in 2015 after accusing the governing body of abandoning him following hip surgery in 2014, but has since returned to the team.
Further questions were raised about his attitude when he held his racquet by the strings when facing match point in a Madrid Open match last year.
Tomic's career has also been affected by off-court controversy.
In July 2015, he was charged with resisting arrest and trespassing by police in the United States after refusing to leave a hotel room.
His father John was sentenced to eight months in prison for assaulting his son's training partner before the 2013 Madrid Open.
The 23-year-old has been with the Robins since January 2016, having previously played for clubs including Notts County and Wolves.
He made 46 appearances in all competitions for Cheltenham in the 2016-17 season.
"He's got a lot of potential and is one of our best athletes," manager Gary Johnson told the club website.
The 28-year-old beat Lithuania's Simas Volosinas on points in Bingham on Saturday to take his record to 18 wins and just one defeat.
"It's like I'd never been gone," Wood told BBC Sport. "My shots and my timing were there.
"It'll definitely be a title fight next. I don't need to box eliminators."
Wood had already said he could challenge for a British or Commonwealth title by the end of the year.
He added: "Walking to the ring, I had a few more nerves than usual with the lay-off and everything that's happened, but after my shots started landing I just started to enjoy it again.
"We'll look around what's available, who's defending what, what titles are available and try to line something up about October time.
"I don't need to have a warm-up fight. I'm ready for a title."
The Scotstoun side take on Leicester Tigers in their opening Champions Cup Pool One match on Friday.
"It's a reality that we've never got to the quarter-finals as a club," said Townsend.
"We should have, given the rugby we've played - especially the last few seasons."
This time, the Pro12 side have been grouped with last season's runners-up Racing 92 as well as former champions of Europe; Munster and Leicester.
"We believe that we've not reached our potential and this year is another chance for us to do better," added Townsend, who will take over as Scotland head coach in the summer.
"We've shown not just in one-off games but in a few games how well we can play at that level," he said.
"It's very difficult - you're playing the best teams in Europe and the last two seasons we've won three of the six games. We need to win more than that."
Leicester, champions in 2001 and 2002, reached the semi-finals last season, losing to Racing 92.
"We're playing a famous club with an excellent reputation," said Townsend.
"They are a very well organised, physical team. That's always been in the Leicester DNA. Excellent set-piece, excellent line-out drive.
"In recent years they have certainly moved the ball more and they have signed some great attacking players. Telusa Veainu at full-back scored the try of the season last week.
"Matt Toomua was brought in to improve that attacking shape, to get a second receiver. He's played at 10 and 12 for Australia.
"We'll have our work cut out to look after these guys and we'll have to play really well to get in behind them."
Townsend rested several key squad members for last weekend's league win at Zebre, with only six players retained in the starting XV.
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Full-back Stuart Hogg is among those returning to action, having signed a new two-year deal this week.
"He's a great player and he's really developed off the field as well," explained Townsend. "He's one of our leaders. He cares a lot about the team and he loves playing.
"It's a good message to the rest of the players. We have a few that will be out of contract and discussions have already started.
"Dave Rennie [Townsend's appointed successor] is on board with the conversations we are having about who to retain and that's great."
"It's crazy," she sighs. "We opened this shop just a week ago and we had to do it without a single loan from a bank - no one will lend you money here after the bank crash."
Katla's clothes shop, Oxney, is a boutique in central Reykjavik and she's clearly proud of the beautiful, original collection she's created by blending Icelandic and French designs. But she's worried about the future of her business.
"We're buying in clothes from France and it costs us double now to get stuff into the country because the krona is so weak."
"We have to pass on that cost to the customer," she says quietly. "The government really has to do something about the situation with the krona - it's so hard for businesses."
Following the banking collapse of 2008, the value of Iceland's national currency plummeted by a half.
To stop it depreciating even further, the government imposed strict capital controls, restricting the flow of money in and out of the country. Even foreign currency for things like holidays abroad is now tightly rationed.
The move has certainly saved the national currency, but at what cost? The government, which promised the measures would only be temporary, still can't say when controls will be lifted.
"We're expecting 3.7% growth this year," insists Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson.
"All the economic indicators show we are bouncing back, slowly but surely. I honestly believe one of the lessons we have to learn from the past is that we should be happy with slow progress - we don't want to grab everything at once and have to give it all back as we had to do over the crisis year.
"We must be patient with the lifting of capital controls."
But not everyone is prepared to wait. In an internet cafe in the centre of town, computer engineering student Hilmar Jonsson is proud to pay for his surfing session with Auroracoin, the Icelandic version of the crypto currency Bitcoin.
It was launched at the beginning of this year by an unidentified person going by the name Baldur Friggjar Odinsson, with the aim of providing Icelanders with an alternative currency to the krona that is free from government and bank controls.
"At the moment, the second-hand market and things like cyber cafes are the only places that accept Auroracoin," says Hilmar. "But you know, I've managed to buy a boat with it for summer camp."
Baldur has promised that every Icelander will be given 30 Auroracoin - beginning an "air drop" or electronic distribution of the currency in March, with a second drop expected soon.
Hilmar reads out extracts from Baldur's manifesto: "Capital controls…mean the Iceland economy is slowly bleeding. The people of Iceland are being sacrificed at the altar of a flawed financial system… Auroracoin will be free from the meddling of the politicians and their cronies. The power must be taken back from the politicians and given back to the people."
Hilmar is confident that the principle behind the Auroracoin will keep the crypto currency buoyant.
"The banks lost the trust of the Icelandic people - and this means that we lost faith in the krona," he explains.
"So why not have an alternative that is not controlled by the government - it might be better than the krona. Aurorocoin hasn't got the flow the currency needs yet but I think it has the potential."
When the banks crashed, disposable income here fell by a quarter and 20,000 jobs were lost - a sizeable number in a country of only 320,000 people.
In Iceland, if you want to take the temperature of any situation, you head for the local swimming baths and hot tubs. Here, Jon, Svanna and Thor sink into the water, cowering from the wintry breeze swirling round their heads.
Svanna laughs at the notion that she is benefitting from an economic recovery.
"Recovery? We're broke! I don't buy anything except the essentials anymore and all holidays are inside Iceland - the krona doesn't travel!"
Jon agrees. "The krona sucks, ok? Give us the euro - or maybe the Canadian dollar, but the krona - it just does not work."
So should Iceland ditch its pride and call time on the national currency? That, says Mr Benediktsson, is simply out of the question.
"The krona is a viable solution for the future," he says, thumping his desk.
"Grabbing another currency to solve disciplinary problems is not a solution. I don't like the idea of importing discipline through a hard currency. I'd like to see Icelanders show discipline in running their own economy and that will benefit us greatly and stabilise the krona."
But the government does acknowledge that currency controls are hitting investment and spending power.
In a bid to encourage Icelanders to spend rather than save, it has just launched a mortgage debt relief scheme, financed largely through tax hikes on financial institutions and worth more than a billion dollars. The aim is to free up households from crippling repayment loans.
The obvious solution is to join the euro - after all, Iceland has pretty much been on a fast track scheme to join the European Union since 2009. But, following the government's and the Icelandic peoples' decision not to repay overseas investors who lost out in the banking crisis, a poisonous European diplomatic row ensued and the mood towards Brussels hardened.
Last year, the Icelandic coalition government announced it was halting EU accession talks. By default, it also renounced Iceland's claim on Euro membership.
Back in her shop in central Reykjavik, Katla stands at her cash register and raises her eyes to the heavens.
"This cannot go on," she warns. "The government has to do something about the krona - and quickly."
For more on this story, listen to the World At One on BBC Radio Four at 13:00 BST.
There were secret ballots for five positions, with Dai Lloyd of Plaid Cymru elected health committee chair.
Labour's Lynne Neagle will lead the education committee and Conservative Russell George the economy committee.
Conservative AM Nick Ramsay will chair the public accounts committee, scrutinising spending by public bodies.
AMs agreed on Tuesday which party the chairs for each committee would come from, with a Labour AM chairing six of the committees, Plaid Cymru three, the Conservatives two and UKIP one.
Only five of 13 of the assembly's committee chairs were contested. In seven other cases, only one AM was nominated and so there was no ballot.
Scrutiny of the First Minister Committee will be chaired by Ann Jones - the position comes with the job of being deputy presiding officer.
The results of the ballots were:
Those who have been appointed unopposed were:
The committees were divided among the parties based on the number of AMs they have.
R&B Distillers has proposed turning Borodale House, a derelict Victorian hotel, into a distillery and visitor centre which would open in January 2017.
The first batch of whisky could be produced by 2020.
It would be one of the tiny isle's largest employers, with 11 jobs on an island with a population of 170 people.
Victoria McRae donned a plastic crown and popped the question before surprising the prince with a kiss at a Sydney Opera House event.
He responded with a coy smile and told his admirer that he would have to think about it.
Prince Harry has spent the last month with army units in Perth and Sydney.
It is not the first marriage proposal he has received, but he has yet to accept any offers from his eager fans.
Speaking later at a function at Macquarie University in Sydney, the prince said he had had a "fantastic" time in Australia.
"I never expected that many people to turn out [at the Opera House] ... I got more than one kiss," he added.
The event was his last official engagement in the country.
Part of the prince's secondment was spent with the North-West Mobile Force (Norforce) - the mostly indigenous unit which patrols northern Australia.
"I consider myself incredibly fortunate to have worked with these guys," he told local media, referring to members of the Australian Defence Force.
Last month, he joined his father Prince Charles in Turkey for the centenary commemorations of the landing of Australian, New Zealand and other Allied troops at Gallipoli.
The Prince has said he is looking forward to a "new chapter" in his life after it was announced in March that he would be ending his 10-year UK military career in June.
He took up a staff officer role with the Army last year and has served twice in Afghanistan.
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Hawkins, ninth in Rio, was narrowly beaten into second place on Saturday by the USA's Leonard Korir in the 8k race.
Though he admitted afterwards that was "bitter-sweet", he knows the signs are growing ever more encouraging.
"Hopefully at the Worlds I can improve on what I did at the Olympics," the 24-year-old told BBC Scotland.
Hawkins finished two places better off in Edinburgh compared to the 2016 event at Holyrood Park.
"Last year I used this as an opener, to start my season off when I was training for the London Marathon," he said. "To be in a better place than I was then shows I can maybe even improve on this.
"This year the depth of the race, the standard, was a lot higher so to actually improve on my position from last year shows how much I've come on, how much of an improvement there's been."
In finishing second, he not only became the first Briton to beat Sir Mo Farah in any race in seven years, he also finished ahead of last year's winner, the American Garrett Heath.
"To be fair it's not Mo at his best because clearly he's in winter work at the moment, he's not 100%. But to beat Garrett Heath and even to be so close to Leonard Korir - he's a quality athlete," added the Scot, from Elderslie in Renfrewshire.
"I was pretty disappointed when I got pipped at the line but I'm pleased just with the way the race went. I made it hard, did what I planned to do before. It's a bit bitter-sweet but that's racing."
Like most athletes of his pedigree, everything he does just now is geared towards one clear goal.
"The World Championships in August is my main aim," he continued. "Hopefully I can go and do the New York half-marathon in March, that would be my next goal, and after that it'll be 100% on the World Championships.
"The crowd here were loud enough. I can't imagine what the crowds at the World Championships in London are going to be like. To have such a big event in your home country, in the capital, will be incredible."
Despite an off day for Farah, Hawkins paid tribute to the inspiration he has given British athletes, showing them they can compete with the world's best.
Another Scots runner aiming to do just that at London 2017 is Laura Muir, who produced another strong display to bring the British 4x1km relay team home in first place.
"I am really pleased; it was all I was hoping for," Muir, who ran her leg in around 2:52, 10 seconds faster than last year, told BBC Scotland.
"Having that role as captain, I just wanted to do well for the team, so I am glad I could do that and bring the team home."
After a three-week training stint in South Africa, next on Muir's agenda is setting another indoor record at 1000m next month, to add to the recent British indoor 5,000m and British 1500m records she already holds.
"I am hoping to run a really fast time at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix (on 18 February) and possibly get Kelly's British record over the 1K indoors (a time of 2:32.96, run in Birmingham 13 years ago)."
Beyond that, the 23-year-old confirmed the possibility of running both the 1500m and 5,000m at the World Championships.
"I am thinking about it, definitely," she added.
"I think I have shown I have got the talent for the 5K as well. We won't know until the summer when I start racing the world-class girls where I am placed, and if I should do that in London. But the timetable works, so it is an open idea."
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Bill Hawkes, 54, and 14-year-old Ciaran Hawkes were killed after their Mazda MX5 was involved in a collision with a Kia Optima on the A91 near Auchtermuchty.
Mr Hawkes and his son, who were from the Falkirk area, were travelling home from a classic car show.
Inquiries into the crash are continuing and police have asked any further witnesses to contact them.
A statement from the Hawkes family said: "Bill and Ciaran sadly died in a vehicle accident after attending a classic car show on Sunday. Their deaths are such a tragic loss.
"During their lives, both Bill and Ciaran touched so many people with their kindness, friendliness, thoughtfulness and generosity of spirit.
"They will be hugely missed by family and friends. The family is finding it extremely difficult to come to terms with this tragic sudden loss."
Planes hit Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in both the south-east and over the border in northern Iraq.
Saturday's twin bombing in Ankara killed at least 95 people, making it the deadliest such attack ever.
Security sources say they suspect the so-called Islamic State (IS) group was behind the attack.
The air force struck after the government rejected a new ceasefire announced by the PKK on Saturday.
Tensions in Turkey were already high, with a general election looming on 1 November.
The governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its overall majority in June after gains by the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), which was involved in Saturday's rally.
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PKK positions were destroyed in the Metina and Zap areas of northern Iraq in Sunday's air strikes, the Turkish military said.
On Saturday, the air force targeted the PKK in Turkey's Diyarbakir province. Forty-nine people were reported killed in the strikes, but these figures could not be verified independently.
"The PKK ceasefire means nothing for us," one senior Turkish security official told Reuters news agency. "The operations will continue without a break."
The government has furiously denied opposition suggestions it was involved in the Ankara bomb attacks itself.
HDP leader Selahattin Demirtas accused the government of failing to fully investigate earlier attacks on political rallies.
"The state which gets information about the bird that flies, and every flap of its wing, was not able to prevent a massacre in the heart of Ankara," he said.
According to the HDP, the true death toll from Saturday is at least 128.
The Turkish authorities believe two suicide bombers struck at the rally on Saturday.
Two senior security officials who spoke to Reuters said the initial signs were that IS was to blame.
"All signs indicate that the attack may have been carried out by Isil [IS]," one of the unnamed sources said. "We are completely focused on Isil."
Three days of mourning began on Sunday.
In Istanbul, hundreds of mourners at the funeral of one victim, Kubra Meltem Mollaoglu, chanted, "The killer government will be held accountable for its crimes!"
Thousands of people gathered in the centre of Ankara to remember the victims.
There was a clear sense of anger towards the government, with people blaming it for security failures, the BBC's Selin Girit reports.
In the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir, police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse people protesting about the Ankara bombing.
Outside Ankara's forensic morgue, families and friends of victims waited for the bodies of their loved ones.
"Everyone came here to defend peace," Umit, whose sister died in the attack, told the AFP news agency.
Another mourner outside the morgue, Havva, said: "Those who do not believe in brotherhood, those who don't believe in equality of the people of this country, are the ones who provoked what we saw yesterday in Ankara."
One of the victims has been identified as 70-year-old Meryem Bulut, a member of the Saturday Mothers group, who have protested about their missing sons since the 1990s.
Turkey is mourning the deaths of at least 95 people. These are just a few of those who lost their lives, clockwise from top left:
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Giant, solar-powered robots have been installed on the roads to help monitor the busy traffic in the capital city.
The robo-cops let drivers know when it is safe to go by using red and green lights on their rotating arms.
As well as this they also have a number of security cameras on them, which allow the police to keep an eye on the roads and make sure there is no trouble.
Three of the newest robots were developed by a team of women engineers, who hope their robots will be used across the rest of the country.
Full council is recommended to approve the closure of Sir Thomas Picton and Tasker Milward schools in Haverfordwest in order to establish a new school for 11-19 year-olds from September 2018.
The new school will initially use both sites of the current schools.
The plans follow five separate consultations on the future of secondary education in the town.
If approved, it means Johnston and Neyland will form part of the Milford Haven School catchment area.
The council previously wanted to create an 11-16 school, with sixth form provision moving to Pembrokeshire College.
But those plans were met with protests from pupils and parents and were scrapped in May.
The council carried out a consultation at the start of 2017 and said about 70% of respondents indicated they strongly agreed or agreed with the latest plans.
But the support was conditional on a number of factors, including:
Pembrokeshire council said the case for change was necessary in order to "improve educational standards for learners".
It also aims to address surplus places and the condition and suitability of buildings.
He was addressing his Scottish party's spring conference in Aberdeen.
Recent polls have suggested that the Liberal Democrats could lose most of their Scottish Westminster seats.
However, Mr Alexander said he was not daunted by the election because he knew "who we are fighting for, and what we are fighting for".
He told the gathering: "Our vision is optimistic. It's positive. It's full of hope. Now you might be reeling in shock that I am talking about optimism. But I am.
"And here's why - these last five hard years of repairing the economy, of having to take difficult decisions, of having to fight through the tough times, have put us in a place that is the envy of so many other countries.
"We are now within touching distance of being able to finish the job of balancing the books."
On Wednesday, Mr Alexander sat alongside Tory Chancellor George Osborne who delivered his final Budget before the country goes to the polls.
And on Thursday the chief secretary to the Treasury revealed the Liberal Democrats economic plan, contained in a yellow box.
Mr Alexander said the Budget had been agreed by the two halves of the coalition, but his party would not cut as much from public spending as the Tories, or borrow as much as Labour.
In a speech to the Scottish Liberal Democrat conference, the MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey said: "I want the plans contained in the Yellow Budget Box to shape a fairer, stronger Britain for the next five years.
"Tax cuts for working people - an income tax personal allowance of £12,500.
"Balancing the books fairly, not on the backs of the working people on low pay.
"A new tax on high value property.
"A new crackdown on tax dodgers.
"Protecting education - from cradle to college.
"No rises in the taxes that most people pay - VAT, income tax, National Insurance.
"A Liberal Democrat plan, for a stronger economy and a fairer society, that's what we will deliver in the next parliament."
He went on to criticise his coalition partners, the Conservative Party, saying that "they want to balance the books solely on the backs of the most vulnerable in our society".
On Labour, Mr Alexander insisted the party was "still so deep in denial about its role in the greatest financial crash of modern history, that they seem determined to repeat the same mistakes again".
Washiqur Rahman was attacked close to his home in Dhaka's Begunbari area, a police official told AFP news agency.
Two students at an Islamic seminary have reportedly been arrested.
Last month, Avijit Roy, a US-based writer who had criticised religious intolerance, was killed in a machete attack while he was visiting Dhaka.
His death sparked fresh concerns for freedom of speech in Bangladesh, where several secular-minded writers have been targeted by militants.
Mr Rahman was killed on a busy street in Dhaka. Two of the suspected attackers, armed with meat cleavers, were caught near the scene.
The suspects told police they had targeted Mr Rahman because of his anti-Islamic writing, a police official told the Associated Press news agency.
Mr Rahman blogged under a pen-name, Kucchit Hasher Channa, or Ugly Duckling. According to the Dhaka Tribune newspaper, he had criticised irrational religious beliefs.
Imran Sarker, the head of a network of activists and bloggers in Bangladesh, told AFP news agency that Mr Rahman was "a progressive free thinker".
Asif Mohiuddin, a Bangladeshi blogger who survived an attack in 2013, said he had often talked to Mr Rahman about "criticising fundamentalist groups".
"I liked him for his satire, his sense of humour. He was a wonderful blogger and I'm very... upset right now," he said.
Last month's attack on Mr Roy prompted massive protests from students and social activists, who accused the authorities of failing to protect critics of religious bigotry.
A man accused of threatening to kill Mr Roy on social media was arrested in that case.
Farabi Shafiur Rahman, described as a "fundamentalist blogger", was said by police to be linked to Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is banned in Bangladesh.
Mr Roy's wife was also badly injured in the attack.
Jamel Boyce, 17, was left critically ill after being stabbed in the chest and leg in Clapham, south-west London, on 14 October.
His mother Pansy said it was "impossible" to describe the pain her family was suffering.
But she hoped the image would show the devastating impact of knife crime.
Detectives said the "minor scuffle" with four males may have appeared trivial to onlookers, but the teenager collapsed soon afterwards.
Jamel, a business student, was at a McDonald's in Clapham High Street when there was a dispute with the people he was with at about 15:00 BST on 14 October.
Four hours later the teenager was attacked in a road around 200 yards from the restaurant.
Bystanders gave him first aid before the arrival of paramedics who took him to hospital.
Mrs Boyce said: "It breaks my heart to release this picture of Jamel but it shows plainly the devastating impact that carrying and using a knife can have.
"I would hate for any other mother or family to go through what we are going through right now.
"If you know what happened, and who did this to my son, please look into your conscience and speak to police."
Flynn, 28, was one of Widnes' longest-serving players, making 168 appearances for the Super League club.
However he only featured once this season and moved on loan to their league rivals Castleford in May, where he scored six tries.
Samoan-born Sa, 29, joined the Vikings from Hull FC in August 2015, playing 13 times in an injury-hit campaign.
Meanwhile, 20-year-old Widnes hooker Almer Salvilla has decided to leave the sport.
Cook gave up the captaincy in February after a record 59 Tests in charge, but opted to continue playing.
He told BBC Sport that matches such as England's third Test victory over South Africa on Monday have offered him a new perspective on playing.
"There have been moments where you question yourself and your motivation," the 32-year-old said.
"But then you get weeks like last week, and days like Monday, where you're winning and you're so involved in it."
By last week, Cook means the third Test at The Oval - a Test which saw a hat-trick, a dream debut and a mix of entertaining and gritty batting as England registered an emphatic 239-run win.
He was at the other end when his Essex team-mate Tom Westley, who has known Cook since he was 14, made his international debut in London, and it is those moments that have convinced Cook to carry on.
"Watching him go through the trials and tribulations of becoming a professional cricketer, to realise his dream, and then we come through at the other end as really good mates and seeing his whole family come down to The Oval - it makes you realise that is why you want to carry on playing," Cook said.
"To have special moments like that makes you see that that 'yes, I do want to carry on' and I am very motivated to do it. If it does end tomorrow, I'll be sad but I'll be proud of what I've achieved."
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As captain, Cook saw series victories in South Africa and India, as well as two Ashes wins on home soil, with Cook himself becoming the first Englishman to reach 10,000 Test runs in this period.
However, there were difficult times. A 5-0 series whitewash in Australia, the ongoing Kevin Pietersen saga and a perception of Cook himself as being a dour captain meant he was often under pressure.
"It's definitely different without the captaincy and I do feel less under pressure in the field," he said.
"On Monday, when South Africa were chasing - if I was captain on that Sunday night, I would definitely have had a broken sleep. I would have been worried and a lot more nervous.
"As it was, I turned up on Monday thinking 'we can win this quite easy'. But if I was captain, I would have been thinking 'what if this goes badly wrong; what if this happens, what if that happens'.
"You start to think a lot more negatively of the what ifs. As a player, you don't have that type of pressure. Maybe because, as captain, you are ultimately responsible for everything that goes on on the field and you feel it more. It's only when you win games that you feel what's changed."
When Cook first took over from Andrew Strauss in 2012, his first full series in charge saw England beat India on the sub-continent, in conditions England have historically struggled in.
Cook scored runs, breaking the record for most Test centuries for England along the way, but by the time his side had sunk in the Ashes 18 months later, Cook was no longer the golden boy.
"I think it's very hard to shake what people first think of you straightaway. When I first came into the side as captain, I was accused of being quite conservative, quite negative, and just doing what Andrew Strauss did," he continued.
"Maybe I did for the first little bit. I was new to it and as you grow into the role, you feel more comfortable doing it. You can change and hopefully I did improve as captain.
"If it's going well, it's brilliant, if it's not, you're the worst captain ever. What I can say is, we won some great series. If someone had offered me that at the start, I would have snapped your hand off. The stuff in between was just part and parcel."
Cook has avoided social media when his team-mates have embraced it, and he thinks it now puts more pressure on new players.
"I do think it builds the pressure the guys are under - not in terms of the cricket and playing, and what you're trying to achieve, but certainly in terms of the scrutiny, even since the day I started, because it is more instant.
"I made my debut in 2006 and absolutely, there was the pressure of the cricket, but there was no social media. There was no direct feedback to your phone. If you wanted to, you could avoid it.
"Now, from the moment you're out, if you're on social media, someone can be sitting at home, and if you've played a bad shot or bowled a bad spell, they can almost directly get in contact with you. Every ball is there for someone to see."
Perceptions of England, and of Cook the batsman, have changed in recent years. Despite winning the Ashes in the summer of 2013, Cook's team received a mixed reaction from fans. While appreciative of their success, some fans seemed to find it difficult to warm to individuals in the team.
"I remember sitting with Matt Prior when he was really struggling with his Achilles injury and his hand injury and he was going to take a break from the game, and we were sitting at Lord's talking about it," Cook said.
"If you'd read the things that were said five minutes before he announced the break, certainly on social media - 'we've got to get rid of Matt Prior,' all that sort of thing - and then as soon as he announced he was going to take a break, which unfortunately he never came back from, it was 'oh we're going to miss Matt Prior, what a great servant, what a great player, how are we going to replace him?' and it was an amazing thing, to see that difference.
"It shows what sport does, really. You're never as good as people say you are and you're never as bad as people say you are. You're always in the middle at some stage."
Almost half of the attacks were in the high-security jail, Maghaberry - last year inspectors said it was "unsafe and unstable" for prisoners and staff.
BBC's Nolan Show got the figures from Stormont's Department of Justice.
They show that overall, there were 317 attacks in 2013, 239 the following year, and 267 assaults last year.
The Northern Ireland Prison Service has been trying to address staff and prisoner safety concerns, following a damning report late last year.
In November 2015, Maghaberry Prison in County Antrim was labelled the most dangerous ever visited by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons.
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MLA Paul Frew, who sits on the assembly's justice committee, described the number of attacks as a "massive problem".
"It's very, very worrying that we have levels of staff that, first of all, can't control prisoners. Some of these prisoners will be very dangerous, they'll be bullies.
"They will bully other prisoners that are maybe even in for lesser crimes, so it's very important that we get a grip of this issue and we protect our prisoners and our prison staff."
The abuse is alleged to have taken place at Rhydygors School between 1976-1986, and Cartref-Y-Gelli children's home between 1986 and 1990.
Two men and two women will appear at Llanelli Magistrates' Court.
It comes after Dyfed Powys Police's investigation into the allegations, Operation Almond, concluded.
A 61-year-old man, from Carmarthenshire, has been charged with nine offences of indecent assault and three offences of attempted indecent assault in Carmarthen and Hereford and will appear before the court on 15 June.
A man, 71, from Carmarthenshire, has been summonsed to appear before the court on 20 July for an offence of rape in the north Wales area.
A 68-year-old woman, from Carmarthenshire, has been served with a summons to appear before the court for two offences of indecent assault in Carmarthen.
And a woman, 54, from Essex, has been summonsed to appear on 31 August for an offence of indecent assault.
MPs gave their unanimous backing to SNP MP Alison Thewliss, whose bill intends to prevent parents being confused by potentially misleading claims.
Ms Thewliss wants more independent testing to ensure that "what is said on the tin is actually in the tin".
She will now take her bill forward for a second reading in parliament.
SNP MP Alison Thewliss has said many of the health claims made by formula milk producers were based on the company's own research.
Her bill would also close a loophole around advertising formula milk in medical journals.
The British Specialist Nutrition Association (BSNA), which represents formula milk producers, says the content of infant formula is tightly regulated based on scientific advice from experts in the European Food Safety Authority, with the contents "clearly declared, as required by law, on the pack".
Women in the UK are advised to feed their baby exclusively on breast milk for the first six months if possible, and then a combination of breast milk and other foods.
But an international study published in January suggested breastfeeding rates in the UK were the lowest in the world.
It is currently illegal to promote breast milk substitutes intended for babies under six months old, but adverts for products intended for older babies such as follow on milk are allowed.
Ms Thewliss told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that this had resulted in formula companies switching their focus to so-called follow on formulas and toddler milks.
However, the World Health Organisation says there is no need for follow on formulas, and the NHS agrees that babies can drink first milk until they are 12 months old, after which they can drink cow's milk.
Ms Thewliss also said evidence suggested that advertising confused parents about the different ages and stages for formula, and the merits of those formulas.
And she said product research by Mintel had indicated that parents were choosing formula milk on the basis of brand alone.
"If you are formula feeding, first milk is the only food your baby needs for the first six months of life. There are different brands of infant formula but there is no real difference between them.
No one brand is recommended over another. Speak to your health visitor if you are not sure.
Other formulas are also available for babies aged six months and over, such as 'follow-on formula', 'toddler formula' and 'growing up milk'. There is no need to switch to any of these formulas - babies can drink first milks until they are one year old.
Cow's milk is not suitable for babies as their main drink until the age of one - it does not have the right mix of nutrients. It can be used in cooking from the age of six months."
Ms Thewliss, whose bill would need to win government support in order to become law, said more independent information would allow parents to make a more informed choice.
She said: "As an example, there's been a trend towards putting probiotics into formula milk and there's no evidence really to suggest that is necessary for babies at all.
"So for parents, they might read that on the packaging and might think that's an interesting thing, but they can't actually get any independent information about whether or not that is something that is of value to your baby.
"So what i would like to see is a good deal more independent verification and testing of formula to make sure first of all what is said on the tin is actually in the tin, and that the health claims that are being made are actually valid."
Ms Thewliss said formula companies were doing their own research, which she said was not peer reviewed or independently verified, and then using that research to promote their own products.
She said it was often left to charities to carry out independent research - with formula companies often reluctant to tell them what is in their products.
Ms Thewliss said it would be "very helpful" for governments to carry out own research into benefits and otherwise of formula milk.
The Glasgow Central MP said: "Parents are choosing these for the very youngest babies, and they need to have confidence that what they are giving is correct.
"Recently there was a case where there was too much protein in a formula and it had to be withdrawn from the market, but that was done after it had already been sold to parents.
"I think if you were able to independently verify that and check it that would be very useful indeed and give parents that reassurance that what they are choosing is good stuff".
It calls for military action against what Britain has termed Syria's "unacceptable" use of chemical weapons.
But Russia has said the UN must finish its investigation into the claims before discussing any resolution.
Syria has accused the West of "inventing" excuses to launch a strike.
"Western countries, starting with the United States, are inventing fake scenarios and fictitious alibis to intervene militarily in Syria," Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said on Syrian state television.
By Assaf AboudBBC News, Damascus
Syrians continue to go about their daily lives nervously, despite the intensification of media interest and statements about the possibility that Syria will face a military strike.
Some families have decided to move to safer areas in the countryside far from the cities. Some of those who live near military sites or government complexes have done similarly, following the Syrian media's recent focus on the Syrian military and governmental targets that might be hit in a potential Western military strike against Syria.
Despite this, Syrian government departments are continuing their work as usual, the shops continue to receive customers and the streets of the Syrian capital remain choked by traffic.
Some Syrians were reassured this afternoon by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem and his defiant speech about the strike which the Western nations are threatening to carry out against Syria and its government.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague told reporters the international community had a responsibility to take action against the Syrian government, even if agreement could not be reached at the UN.
The Syrian government has strongly denied that it used chemical weapons and blames opposition fighters for the attack on 21 August, which reportedly killed hundreds of people near Damascus.
A team of UN weapons inspectors is currently investigating the sites of the attack. UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon said the experts were expected to finish their investigation in four days and would need more time after that to analyse their findings.
Mr Ban appealed for the team to be given "time to do its job".
And in a phone conversation with Mr Hague, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a draft resolution should not be considered until the inspectors had reported.
Russia and China have previously vetoed resolutions critical of Syria.
In a separate development, Syria's ambassador to the UN, Bashar Jaafari, asked for the inspectors to investigate three cases of the use of chemical weapons in the last week against "dozens" of government troops in Damascus suburbs.
Britain's National Security Council "unanimously" backed action against Syria over its "unacceptable" chemical weapons use, Prime Minister David Cameron said earlier on Wednesday.
He had gathered the UK's armed forces and security chiefs with key cabinet ministers for emergency talks over possible military action, ahead of the UN Security Council meeting.
On Thursday, British MPs are set to vote on a government motion condemning the attack, but the vote will not authorise direct UK involvement in military action.
The motion says UN weapons inspectors should be allowed to report to the Security Council, after which a further vote on military action may be taken.
Britain's proposed UN resolution would condemn the "chemical weapons attack by [Syria's President] Assad", Mr Cameron added.
Mr Ban earlier called on the council's permanent members - China, Russia, France, the US and the UK - to act together.
"The body interested with maintaining international peace and security cannot be 'missing in action'," Mr Ban said.
He added: "Give peace a chance. Give diplomacy a chance. Stop fighting and... start talking."
The meeting of the five permanent members has now finished, but the UK, US and France are continuing talks. No representative of any of the five countries was prepared to comment officially after the meeting.
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Meanwhile, in a briefing to journalists, joint UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said: "It does seem clear that some kind of substance was used... that killed a lot of people" on 21 August.
But he also emphasised that any military action would need Security Council authorisation.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that US intervention would be a "disaster" for the region.
"The region is like a gunpowder store and the future cannot be predicted," Mr Khamenei said, according to Iran's Isna news agency.
Meanwhile the Israeli government has authorised a limited call-up of reserve soldiers. Officials told the BBC that although the likelihood of Israel being drawn into fighting with Syria was very low, the country nevertheless had to prepare for that scenario.
Stocks have fallen on global markets and oil prices have shot up amid growing concern about an impending attack on Syria.
The UN weapons inspectors resumed investigations after having called off work on Tuesday because of security concerns.
On Monday, the team's convoy was shot at by unidentified snipers. One of their cars came under fire as it crossed the buffer zone between government and rebel-controlled areas.
More than 100,000 people are estimated to have died since the conflict erupted in Syria in March 2011.
Abellio Greater Anglia (AGA) had stopped services on lines between Norwich and Great Yarmouth, Ipswich, Felixstowe, Cambridge and Peterborough.
Philip Sutton, editor of Rail Exclusive, said leaves lodged in brakes cause "friction" damage.
AGA said up to two damaged trains per day were having to be withdrawn.
This had led to service cancellations across the network especially between Ipswich and Cambridge.
Also, trains being taken out of service caused rolling stock shortages which caused cancellations.
Mr Sutton said: "Trains are lighter now so they don't squash the leaves as the heavier trains used to.
"If leaves get caught in the brakes they burn and cause stresses on the wheel."
Network Rail, which is responsible for ensuring tracks are clear, said it was running extra rail clearing trains.
A spokesman said: "We are doing everything we can to minimise disruption and will continue to work with Abellio."
An AGA statement added: "The problems are due to some of our diesel trains suffering wheel damage, as a result of poor rail conditions."
The company said it is working with Network Rail to "improve rail conditions to prevent further damage" and restore a normal service.
The election of Labour's Willie Penrose in Longford-Westmeath meant his party has secured speaking rights in the Dáil.
Fine Gael's Peter Burke was also elected to the constituency on Thursday.
No party won enough seats in Friday's general election to govern alone.
Fine Gael remains the largest party with 50 seats, six ahead of Fianna Fáil.
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have dominated Irish politics since the early 1930s but they have never been in a formal coalition.
At present, any new government needs the support of nearly 80 elected members (called Teachtaí Dála or TDs).
Taoiseach (prime minister) Enda Kenny has said he will talk to all parties, including Fianna Fáil, in a bid to form a new government.
The parliamentary parties of both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil will meet on Thursday to discuss the formation of a government and their positions on negotiations.
The other seats in the Dáil were taken by: Sinn Fein, 23; Labour seven and independents and smaller parties, 34.
This time has not previously been considered as work by many employers.
It means firms including those employing care workers, gas fitters and sales reps may be in breach of EU working time regulations.
BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman said it could have a "huge effect".
"Employers may have to organise work schedules to ensure workers' first and last appointments are close to their homes," he added.
Chris Tutton, from the solicitors Irwin Mitchell, told the BBC: "Thousands of employers may now potentially be in breach of working time regulation rules in the UK."
The court said its judgement was about protecting the "health and safety" of workers as set out in the European Union's working time directive.
The directive is designed to protect workers from exploitation by employers, and it lays down regulations on matters such as how long employees work, how many breaks they have, and how much holiday they are entitled to.
One of its main goals is to ensure that no employee in the EU is obliged to work more than an average of 48 hours a week.
The ruling came about because of an ongoing legal case in Spain involving a company called Tyco, which installs security systems.
The company shut its regional offices down in 2011, resulting in employees travelling varying distances before arriving at their first appointment.
The court ruling said: "The fact that the workers begin and finish the journeys at their homes stems directly from the decision of their employer to abolish the regional offices and not from the desire of the workers themselves.
"Requiring them to bear the burden of their employer's choice would be contrary to the objective of protecting the safety and health of workers pursued by the directive, which includes the necessity of guaranteeing workers a minimum rest period."
Meanwhile, employment law barrister Caspar Glyn agreed the court's decision could affect "millions of workers".
However, Mr Glyn also said there had been much speculation that this ruling could allow workers on the national minimum wage to claim more money for the time they spend getting to work.
But he said this would not be the case.
"The national minimum wage is a UK right, it is not a European right. There's no European right to a national minimum wage.
"The minimum wage regulations in the UK do not count as work travel from home or to any workplace," he said.
All those involved in trafficking migrants would be "severely punished", the government said.
The bodies of 52 children, 33 women and seven men were discovered after two trucks carrying them broke down on the way to Algeria.
Niger lies on a major migrant route between sub-Saharan Africa and Europe.
The government announced the plan to close illegal camps in northern Niger - which it referred to as "ghettos" - in a statement broadcast on television in Niger.
The migrants would be handed over to international aid agencies and the traffickers brought to justice, said the government statement.
"This tragedy is the result of criminal activities led by all types of trafficking networks," it said.
The statement said Prime Minister Brigi Rafini would visit the southern district of Kantche, where most of the dead are thought to have come from, to present to their families the "condolences of the nation wounded by this tragedy".
Niger is observing three days of mourning, with flags outside public buildings flying at half mast.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mohamed Bazoum told the BBC that about 5,000 African migrants were currently stranded in illegal camps in the northern town of Agadez alone.
Having paid large sums of money to traffickers, these migrants are waiting to cross hundreds of kilometres of desert into Libya or Algeria, says the BBC's West Africa correspondent, Thomas Fessy. Many seek a better life in Europe.
The head of the International Office for Migration in Niger, Abibatou Wane, welcomed the announcement by Niger's government, but warned that migrants could only be repatriated to their home countries on a voluntary basis.
The bodies of 87 people, thought to be migrants, were discovered in the Sahara desert in the north of Niger on Wednesday.
Another five from the same convoy had been found several days earlier by the army.
Some of the dead migrants were found only about five kilometres from a well.
Maneka Gandhi said the strategy would help monitor pregnancies and reduce abortions of female foetuses.
But activists and opposition parties say it will increase pressure on women to undergo sex-selective abortions.
Tests to determine a foetus's sex are banned in India, but many parents still have them done illegally.
A traditional preference for boys and an easy availability of antenatal sex screening has led to India having one of the most unbalanced gender ratios in the world.
In 1961, there were 976 girls for every 1,000 boys under the age of seven. According to the latest census figures released in 2011, that figure had dropped to a dismal 914.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has criticised female foeticide, warning that the gender imbalance will have serious consequences for India's development.
His predecessor Manmohan Singh described it as a "national shame" and called for a "crusade" to save India's girls.
Over the years, campaigners have said the decline was largely due to the increased availability of antenatal sex screening. In 1994, India outlawed sex-selective abortion.
That's why Mrs Gandhi's controversial statement that "every pregnant woman should be compulsorily told whether it is a boy or girl" has generated such a storm.
Amid the furore, Mrs Gandhi's ministry clarified on Tuesday that it was just "a point of view" to start a debate and that there was no formal proposal before the cabinet. But opposition parties and women's rights activists said her suggestion could prove counter-productive.
The Congress party said the minister's statement was "shocking and outlandish" and that the "government appears determined to convert 'save the girl child' campaign into 'banish the girl child' campaign".
"Lifting the ban will undo years of hard work, institutional mechanisms and legal framework that has been put in place for the last two decades to discourage female foeticide," the party said in a statement.
The head of the local Delhi government's women's commission, Swati Maliwal, also criticised the minister.
"It will increase female foeticide phenomenally. It is very dangerous and should not be done," she said.
Critics say that Mrs Gandhi's idea to "monitor right until the end" every pregnancy is impractical - especially in rural India where health services are far from adequate, and even non-existent in some areas.
Many others are thought to have been injured in the blast near a popular bar late on Saturday.
It comes three days after a double suicide blast in Maroua that killed at least 13 people.
Officials suspect that the militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram is behind the attacks.
Military sources said the latest attack took place in the Pont Vert district of Maroua.
The Cameroonian army uses the town of Maroua as the headquarters for its operations against the group, as part of a multinational force battling the militants in neighbouring parts of Nigeria.
The 23-year-old Argentina international has 16 goals for the club this season and was linked with a move away.
He joined Juve for an £23m from Palermo on a five-year deal in June 2015 and won the double in his first season.
"I've always just wanted to succeed in everything that I do and I know that Juventus is the perfect place to be if you want to win things," Dybala said.
Dybala has scored 39 goals and made 16 assists in 82 games since joining Juventus - more than any other player at the club in that time.
He has also made the third most appearances for the Turin club since his debut, only behind defender Leonardo Bonucci and goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.
Juventus have announced they will pay his old club Palermo an extra 8m euro (£6.8m) over the next four years as a result of a "performance bonus".
Dempsey, 21, won the young player of the season award in 2016-17, scoring two goals in 46 games to help the Cod Army to the League One play-offs.
The ex-Carlisle academy player joined Huddersfield in July 2015, and has left after one goal in 24 games.
"His displays for us haven't gone unnoticed," chairman Andy Pilley said.
He told the club website: "This is a huge signal of intent for Fleetwood Town to be able to sign a player of Kyle's calibre on a permanent basis."
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Mr Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States following a mass shooting in San Bernadino.
A Muslim couple, believed to have been radicalised, killed 14 people at a health centre.
The prime minister's official spokeswoman said Mr Cameron "completely disagrees with Donald Trump".
British prime ministers normally avoid commenting on contenders in the US presidential race.
Meanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said in a tweet that Mr Trump's call was "an attack on democratic values" and an "affront to common humanity".
"Let's unite against racism," he added.
Mr Trump issued a campaign statement following the San Bernardino shootings calling for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on".
His comments were criticised by other contenders for the Republican nomination, including Jeb Bush, who called the property tycoon "unhinged".
Campaigners against Mr Trump's golf course development in Scotland have submitted a petition to Parliament calling for him to be barred from the UK "for his continued, unrepentant hate speech and unacceptable behaviour".
Mr Cameron's spokeswoman declined to say whether he would be willing to meet Mr Trump or whether he could be barred from the UK, describing the questions as "hypothetical".
She added: "The prime minister has been very clear that, as we look at how we tackle extremism and this poisonous ideology, what politicians need to do is look at ways they can bring communities together and make clear that these terrorists are not representative of Islam and indeed what they are doing is a perversion of Islam."
Mr Trump caused further controversy on Tuesday when he claimed that parts of London were "so radicalised the police are afraid for their lives".
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson responded by saying the "ill-informed comments are complete and utter nonsense".
He added: "As a city where more than 300 languages are spoken, London has a proud history of tolerance and diversity and to suggest there are areas where police officers cannot go because of radicalisation is simply ridiculous.
"I would welcome the opportunity to show Mr Trump first hand some of the excellent work our police officers do every day in local neighbourhoods throughout our city. Crime has been falling steadily both in London and in New York - the only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump."
The Conservative Party candidate for London Mayor, Zac Goldsmith, described Mr Trump as "an utterly repellent figure" and "one of the most malignant figures in politics".
Sadiq Khan, Labour's candidate for Mayor of London, said: "Donald Trump doesn't have a clue about London. He is clearly ignorant about London's tolerance and diversity and also about how unified we are as a city.
"Trump can't just be dismissed as a buffoon - his comments are outrageous, divisive and dangerous - I condemn them utterly them and hope his campaign dies a death."
UKIP leader Nigel Farage told BBC News: "Mr Trump's somewhat kneejerk reaction to this, saying that all Muslims should be banned from coming into America, was, perhaps, for him, a political mistake too far."
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The British coastline is home to 38 percent of the world's population of grey seals.
Ayshah has travelled down to the south coast of England to learn more a bit more about one of our native sea mammals.
But while it's great to keep an eye out for the seals, some people have been getting too involved or accidently scaring them.
The Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust say that you should not approach, touch or encourage a seal pup back into the sea.
Rescuers have warned that some tourists have thought that seals were in trouble when they see them on their own, and tried to 'save' them by throwing them back into the sea. Instead of helping, it's actually dangerous for the pups, who can't swim yet!
If you see a pup on its own and think it might be in distress then get in touch with the British Divers Marine Life Rescue who can help.
Those killed include two children. All the victims were passengers in a minivan.
The attack took place in Sangin district in Helmand province.
It is not known who carried out the attack, but the area on Pakistan's border is a stronghold of the Taliban and al-Qaeda militants.
Helmand provincial spokesman Daud Ahmadi told the AFP news agency that the minivan "struck a Taliban-planted mine".
Correspondents say says roads are increasingly in the front line of the war in Afghanistan.
Civilian and military casualties are at levels not seen for a decade - last year more than 2,400 civilians died, with roadside bombs the biggest source of casualties.
Whelan, 28, joined Notts in 2015 and has won three international caps.
"Fern has been a steady rock at the back and fits in perfectly back line," said manager Rick Passmoor.
The Spring Series sees teams play each other once in a one-off, six-week transitional competition before the WSL's switch to a winter calendar.
For top-flight teams, the Spring Series runs over six weeks, from 23 April until Saturday, 3 June.
According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, about 1.1 million soldiers from undivided India - which includes today's India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma - were sent to fight in WWI between 1914 and 1918 in France, Belgium, Egypt and the Middle East.
Indian soldiers earned more than 9,200 gallantry awards for their bravery. About 60,000 Indian soldiers were killed in the war.
The contribution of these soldiers has been chronicled in a new book Indian Troops in Europe by Santanu Das, published by India-based Mapin Publishing. Mr Das is a teacher of English at King's College, London.
Here is a selection of pictures from the book.
Parisians surround and cheer Indian soldiers after the Bastille Day Parade. The French parade marks the fall of the Bastille prison-fortress during the revolution of 14 July 1789.
Two sisters selling flags in London to raise money for the Indian soldiers at the front.
The European military uniform and accoutrements of the two Indian soldiers contrast with the sandals they are wearing.
A soldier, unable to write, gives his thumb-impression on the pay-book. At the time, the province of Punjab, which contributed more than half the total number of combatants, had a literacy rate of only 5%. Many of the men, however, knew how to sign their names, and a handful could write in English.
One of a group of postcards shows Sikh and Gurkha soldiers demonstrating their skill with rifles, presumably for the camera.
A postcard documenting the movement of Indian soldiers.
Sir Douglas Haig, a British commander during World War One, introducing Sir Pertab Singh, a flamboyant Indian prince, to General Joffre, the French chief of staff.
A British soldier overseeing the work of two Indian clerks who are going through the mail. The translator or censor would extract passages from the soldiers' letters to be sent to the chief censor.
During the four years of war, India sent abroad around 172,815 animals, including horses, mules and ponies, camels, bullocks and dairy cattle. These included 8,970 ponies and mules, sometimes obtained from abroad but trained in India before being shipped to the war zone. Here the mules are having a "dust bath".
Sir Pertab Singh, the Regent of Jodhpur, with two Indian officers. A favourite of Queen Victoria, the 70-year-old Sir Pertab was said to have threatened to sit at the doorstep of the viceroy in protest if not allowed to serve in the war. He served in Europe in 1914-1915 and then in Haifa and Aleppo.
Convalescent Indian soldiers enjoy a performance at the Lady Hardinge Hospital in Brockenhurst. The hospital became so overcrowded that occasionally the Indian wounded had to be accommodated on mattresses on the floor. Overcrowding seems to have been a problem even when it came to entertainment.
World number 16 Wilson faces China's Ding Junhui in the first round of snooker's premier invitation event at Alexandra Palace on Sunday.
The Kettering potter, 25, told BBC Sport he "cannot wait".
"It's a great achievement to qualify and I want to try to enjoy it and treat it like just another tournament - even though it's not," he said.
"It's so hard to get there, so I just want to do myself justice."
Wilson said his form so far this season has been a bit "up and down", but his early exit from the UK Championship at the end of November did have its benefits.
"At least it meant I had a decent break in December," he joked. "I did okay at the Scottish Open before Christmas, getting to the last 16, and then I had 10 days where I didn't pick up my cue.
"I think that was good for me; I had some quality family time, it was my birthday on the 23rd and it was nice to unwind and relax."
His wife Sophie has not been well, and Wilson said he had found it tricky to focus on his snooker towards the end of 2016.
"I had a few off-table things to think about and my head just wasn't right," he said. "But Sophie is on the mend now and I can focus on the Masters. It's a bit weird having that to think about for the first time."
And his appearance alongside snooker greats Ronnie O'Sullivan, Mark Selby and Jimmy White in the England team, which beat their Irish opponents at the Irish Legends Cup last weekend, provided Wilson with a slightly more relaxed return to action.
"It's brilliant receiving some really nice compliments from great players like them," Wilson said. "And playing in an event that was a bit more laid back was great fun.
"It wasn't a bad team to be around. I got to pick their brains and play in front of a fantastic crowd. But I have to find a balance; they are threatening my living," he joked.
Facing world number six Ding on Sunday will be a completely different matter.
"I'm the youngest player there and the lowest ranked, so a very big underdog," Wilson said. "But although I am newcomer, I like to think I am capable of winning it. There's no point in thinking otherwise."
Matthew Pietrzyk has been on the donor waiting list since he was a baby having been born with a rare condition.
The kidney came from Edward Batch who heard about the Leicestershire youngster's plight following a social media campaign.
Mother Nicola said she thought he was the first UK child to have a kidney transplant arranged on social media.
Matthew, who named his new organ Eddie Junior, was diagnosed with congenital nephrotic syndrome at five weeks old.
A year later, the kidney donated by his mother had to be removed because of complications but finally, after 10 years of searching and a social media campaign, a match was found.
"We feel like we need to keep pinching ourselves," his mother said.
"The odds [of finding a match] initially were three in 10,000 and then went to 650,000 to one. Only 1% of the population had a chance of being a match. So we are just in shock. We still can't quite believe it and Matthew is just so happy."
As the odds of finding a match for Matthew grew longer the Glenfield family launched a social media campaign.
Although admitting the global campaign was unlikely to be successful, they were approached by Mr Batch - who coincidentally lived a few miles from the Pietrzyks.
After tests it was confirmed he was a match and, in July, the pair underwent surgery.
Mr Batch said: "I've got three children, if my children were ill I'd want someone to step up and help me so why wouldn't I step up and help somebody else?"
Mrs Pietrzyk said she believed her son could be the first child in the UK to receive a kidney found through social media.
"It's been a rocky couple of weeks and we've been told to expect a rocky six months. Transplant is the best possible thing for anybody waiting for a kidney. However it's not 'there you go, you're fixed, goodbye'. "It doesn't quite work that way but he's doing really well."
"He's named his kidney Eddie Junior and he wants two birthdays a year - he's completely milking it."
The agent, codenamed Robert Acott, said he spied for 18 years, mostly following Islamic and Irish terrorist suspects.
He told Newsnight MI5 pushed him out after he suffered symptoms of stress, later diagnosed as PTSD.
MI5 would not comment on the claims - but security sources said they felt his was only one side of the story.
In an interview with Newsnight, Acott says:
Acott, 46, was dismissed five years ago for misconduct after leaving an unmarked MI5 training manual in his garden shed. It was found by a member of the public and handed to police.
At the time he was sacked, Acott was suffering from panic attacks - and he has since been diagnosed as suffering from Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, brought on by the pressure of his career in the service.
Acott claims MI5 took an opportunity to get rid of him. "MI5 was my life," he says. "I would have done - within reason - anything for them."
Though former director-generals of MI5 such as Dame Stella Rimington and Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller have written about their time in the secret service, Acott's is the first account of life as a 'foot-soldier' in the dangerous and secretive world of counter-espionage.
Acott told Newsnight he was immensely proud to have been an MI5 surveillance officer - he was recruited from the Royal Navy by a senior officer.
He says he put himself in numerous dangerous situations because he believed in the work he was doing.
But he admitted the pressure began to get to him after 9/11 when MI5 found itself completely unprepared for the Islamic terrorist threat. There was only one Muslim surveillance officer he was aware of in the whole of the surveillance unit.
"(MI5) was totally understaffed. We weren't used to dealing with the way they acted. The good thing about following Irish targets is the Active Service Units would generally meet in pubs you could go into.
"The Islamists would meet round each other's houses or in mosques which you can't get away with going into. Also, they were living in mostly ethnic areas and often you would find the only white people on the street were surveillance officers."
MI5 was blindsided by the July 7 attacks in 2005 and was stretched to breaking point when it helped foil the plot to detonate explosives on transatlantic airliners a year later.
"It was horrendous. We had around eight targets mostly based in Walthamstow, a couple in High Wycombe. It was 24 hours a day. It went on for quite some time," says Acott.
"With all of Special Branch, with all of MI5, there was just not enough people. CID became involved, British Transport police became involved. That's how desperate we'd become.
"If that airline job had gone as planned it would have eclipsed 9/11. It would have been horrendous."
The full report with former MI5 agent Robert Acott is on Newsnight, on BBC Two at 10:30pm on Wednesday 15 July
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Acott was in a team following the ringleader of the group, whose codename was Lion Roar. "He was the leader, he was the boss. He was in two minds about whether to martyr his wife and child as well as himself. Just before he was arrested, he took his wife and child with him to Mothercare. It seemed unbelievable to me that he could do that at the same time as he was thinking of killing so many people."
"They were making martyrdom videos. We had cameras hidden in the flat so we could see them videoing themselves."
Acott said following new suspects on the London underground became particularly stressful.
"The jobs I was really unhappy with was what they would call 'the first look up'. If they were a terrorist you had no idea at what stage they were at. I became particularly nervous of travelling on tubes with them."
"On one occasion this chap had shaved his head, which is a ritual they they go through. He was on the tube and was stood by the doors in the middle. I was at the end of the tube keeping an eye on him. I had been separated from my team.
"My body comms didn't work very well underground. I was on my own. I looked around. People were on phones, doing crosswords, a woman with a toddler trying to keep it under control. I started having a panic attack."
Acott says he travelled all over the world for MI5, following suspects out of the UK to Europe and the Middle East on a passport with a false identity.
He also went to Ireland to provide covert help to MI5 handlers who had meetings with IRA double agents.
Acott said the trips were undeclared to the Irish government and the surveillance teams would have been stranded had they been caught by republicans - or the Garda.
The surveillance on the suspected paedophile - codenamed Operation Saturday - caused him concern, he says, because he couldn't understand why MI5 was doing it.
"It involved extremely powerful, wealthy people. It was a very need to know job... We were given the scantest of briefings on it. All of a sudden the job stopped. I did actually question why were we doing paedophiles - it wasn't in our remit.
"The trouble with the police is they move from job to job. Special Branch only do it for three or four years. Then they go onto CID or some other job. There was a strong suspicion of corruption within the police, whereas MI5 was more highly trusted."
The operation ended after a few weeks - Acott says the target was using drugs and prostitutes, but he saw no signs of child abuse.
Acott says his health began to deteriorate in 2006. He began to have nightmares and panic attacks and he was drinking to help cope with the pressure.
"I know I was in a mess at the time. But the service didn't want to deal with that. Once they realised I had health problems, I think they just wanted rid of me.
"They went through the motions. I was definitely being bullied by my team leader and my junior team leader... They sent me to see a doctor. However the doctor wasn't there to help me as far as I could see. He was there to diagnose me as an alcoholic."
Acott was dismissed for gross misconduct over the file he had left in his garden shed. He told an MI5 tribunal the document was so dull he didn't believe it had any security status, but he was sacked.
The dismissal, he says, accelerated his health problems - he tried to commit suicide on at least three occasions. His parents, who have also spoken to the BBC, said they were convinced their son was suffering from PTSD, but a psychologist used by the service disagreed.
In a letter to his parents, MI5 said: "It is important to reiterate that this Department is not responsible for his health problems, nor do his problems stem from his time working here."
However, four doctors have now diagnosed him as suffering from PTSD - including clinicians from the military veterans' charity, Combat Stress.
Acott recently attended one of the charity's residential courses.
He told Newsnight he wants MI5 to admit it made a mistake when he was sacked. He also believes he is entitled to a medical pension.
Security sources insisted that MI5 has professional teams that support the physical and mental wellbeing of staff because of "the very particular nature of the work".
Sources said staff do come forward and that support teams are proactive "during difficult periods such as at a time of particular operational intensity or following the death of a colleague".
The full report with former MI5 agent Robert Acott is on Newsnight, on BBC Two at 10:30pm on Wednesday 15 July. You can also watch on iPlayer.
Most of the 221 suspects are high-ranking military officers, accused of trying to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last July.
Ex-air force commander Akin Ozturk was the first in a long line of defendants. There were calls for death sentences, though Turkish law does not allow that.
In the crackdown, police have arrested two teachers who are on hunger strike.
Nuriye Gulmen and Semih Ozakca reported their own arrest during the night in tweets. They are among more than 100,000 public servants sacked after the botched July 2016 military coup.
"Political branch police are trying to enter the house, they are breaking the door right now," Ms Gulmen tweeted.
The pair have been on hunger strike for 75 days. Their lawyer said that, despite the police raid on Sunday, they had both vowed to "never give up".
"We want our jobs back! We have not surrendered and will not!" Ms Gulmen tweeted.
President Erdogan's purge of state institutions has meant mass dismissals in the judiciary, police, universities and schools.
The mass trial at the Sincan prison complex near Ankara is the most high-profile prosecution of alleged plotters so far.
The defendants were booed by the crowd outside the purpose-built court, designed for mass trials.
The number one suspect - the Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen - remains in the United States and denies involvement.
The charges include murdering 250 civilians during the 15 July coup attempt, after which Mr Erdogan imposed a state of emergency.
There was tight security, with snipers deployed on the prison roof on Monday.
The mother of a victim of the coup attempt briefly interrupted the proceedings as the first trial started.
"Kill the murderers of my son! Give me my son back!" Saliha Arikan cried. She was soon escorted out of the courtroom.
TV pictures showed dozens of people waving Turkish flags in front of the courthouse as the defendants arrived - some brandishing nooses as a reminder of the call to bring back capital punishment.
One placard read: "For the martyrs and veterans of July 15, we want the death penalty."
Many of President Erdogan's supporters see the death penalty as an appropriate punishment for those involved in the coup plot and with Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara accuses of masterminding it.
Turkey abolished the death penalty as part of its drive to join the European Union.
But President Erdogan has repeatedly hinted that it could be reimposed to deal with the coup plotters.
He said he would sign a decree to reintroduce it as soon as parliament votes in favour.
Mehmet Yaman, one of the angry onlookers, told Reuters news agency: "I am here to settle the score with terrorists, I am here to show that I stand by my people, my flag and my religion.
"I am here to show the terrorists that we will stand firm. I want them sentenced to death in a fair trial, I want the traitors of this country to be punished."
In a new report, Amnesty International condemns Turkey's post-coup purge of state institutions, saying many people have been sacked arbitrarily and now face great hardship.
Mr Erdogan founded the Islamist-rooted AK Party in 2001 and on Sunday he was elected AKP leader, further entrenching his dominance of Turkish politics. There was no rival candidate at the AKP congress.
Last month Turks narrowly approved constitutional changes giving the president far-reaching powers, including the right to lead a political party.
Alan Grant, Gerald Bradley and Brian Cassidy fired the goals for Derry.
Grant landed 1-4, with Bradley scoring three fine points as the Oak Leafers carved out a 1-9 to 0-6 half-time lead.
Each side scored two goals in the second half, with Derry's Bradley and Cassidy finding the net and Ryan Gaffney's scoring twice for Armagh.
It was another Croke Park disappointment for the Orchard County as they had lost finals in 2015 and 2016.
Earlier, there was a strong Ulster influence as Warwickshire lifted the Lory Meagher Cup with a 0-17 to 0-11 win over Leitrim.
Ex-Antrim player Liam Watson scored 11 points from placed balls, as Tony Joyce's charges put in a strong second-half display.
The sides were well matched in the opening half, with Leitrim leading 0-10 to 0-8 at half-time, off the strength of Padraig O'Donnell's contributions from placed balls.
Down native Kelvin Magee was also a member of the Warwickshire attack, while substitute Chrissy Convery, became the first of the Swatragh brothers to pick up a medal, with Ruairi following later in the afternoon with Derry's Rackard Cup success.
It was the Birmingham side's second title.
Addresses in Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire, Essex, Surrey and Counties Tyrone and Down were raided by police and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers.
A spokesman said computers, mobile phones and cash were seized during the raids.
The nine men and one woman have been questioned and released on bail until November.
Two men and a woman were arrested in Cambridge and a man was arrested in Runnymede, Surrey.
One man was arrested in Basildon in Essex and two men were arrested in Yorkshire - one in Bradford and one in Hull.
Three men were arrested in Northern Ireland - two at addresses in County Tyrone and the third was arrested in County Down.
HMRC officials were supported by the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Cambridgeshire Police and Surrey Police.
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