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19 May 2015 Last updated at 09:09 BST
Andy Sward is now walking five thousand miles across Vancouver Island to St. Johns and has collected 31 thousand bottles and cans so far.
He travels around with his litter buggy which is made from an old pram. It's packed with food for the journey, clothes and a tent.
Andy wants to collect one million bottles and cans and hopes that he will inspire others to do the same.
Nine lieutenants and a captain at bases in the US and Britain have been implicated in the investigation.
Two nuclear launch control officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana are said to be involved in the probe.
The Air Force has since suspended the two officers' security clearances, US media report.
The investigation was reportedly initiated with two officers at Edwards Air Force Base in California, the second-largest US Air Force base.
It then "expanded, based on contact with the officers in question regarding recreational drug possession", Air Force spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Brett Ashworth told Reuters news agency.
The investigation has since grown to include officers at bases Malmstrom, Vandenberg in California, FE Warren in Wyoming and Schreiver in Colorado, as well as Royal Air Force Lakenheath in England, he added.
Malmstrom Air Force base reportedly oversees 420 nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles, while Schreiver Air Force Base is home to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization.
England's David Horsey had six birdies in his opening 12 holes to put pressure on Olesen but the Dane responded with three birdies in four holes to card a three-under 69 and win on 20 under par.
Horsey and China's Li Haotong both shot 65 to finish second on 17 under.
Masters champion Danny Willett failed to take top spot in the Race to Dubai.
The Englishman needed to finish fifth to move ahead of Open winner Henrik Stenson but was joint-68th after a disappointing final round of 75.
It was Horsey who had seemed the most likely to upset Olesen, holing five birdies to reach the turn in 29, while the Dane three-putted the ninth to card just his fourth bogey of the week.
But Olesen responded with birdies at the 12th, 14th and 15th and although he bogeyed the 16th, pars on the final two holes saw him claim victory.
He built his win on the back of course record 62 in the second round after missing the cut in eight of his 10 previous events.
He said: "The last three or four months have been poor and I didn't feel comfortable at the end, but I got over the line.
"I knew they had cut the lead to a couple of shots and it puts pressure on you. The last four holes were really difficult."
The land-based missile was fired from near Panghyon airfield, and flew for 37 minutes before landing in the Sea of Japan, said the US Pacific Command.
Japan has lodged a protest and PM Shinzo Abe said the launch "clearly shows that the threat has grown".
Pyongyang has increased the frequency of its nuclear and missile tests in recent months, raising tensions.
South Korea said Tuesday's projectile was launched at 09:40 local time (00:40 GMT) and flew about 930km (578 miles).
The missile may have landed in waters claimed by Japan as its exclusive economic zone, according to Japanese officials.
The US said it did not pose a threat to North America.
Meanwhile Pyongyang is due to make an "important announcement" later on Tuesday, reported South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
This is the 11th detected missile launch this year.
North Korea last test-launched missiles in May. It fired projectiles on two separate occasions, both towards the Sea of Japan.
While Pyongyang has appeared to have made progress, experts believe North Korea does not have the capability to accurately target a place with an intercontinental ballistic missile or miniaturise a nuclear warhead that can fit on such a missile.
The big question is: What range does this missile have - could it hit the US? One expert already thinks that it might be able to reach Alaska but not the lower states.
David Wright, a physicist with the US-based Union of Concerned Scientists, said: "If the reports are correct, that same missile could reach a maximum range of roughly 6,700km (4,160 miles) on a standard trajectory.
"That range would not be enough to reach the lower 48 states or the large islands of Hawaii, but would allow it to reach all of Alaska."
It's not just a missile that North Korea would need, but also the ability to protect a warhead from the intense heat and vibration as it re-enters the atmosphere, and it's not clear if North Korea can do that.
On the prospect of North Korea being able to strike the US, President Donald Trump tweeted in January: "It won't happen." The truth is that it might - most experts think within five years, probably less. What would President Trump do then?
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters on Tuesday: "North Korea's repeated provocations like this are absolutely unacceptable."
Mr Abe said Japan would "unite strongly" with the US and South Korea to put pressure on Pyongyang.
He added that he would call on Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin - who are meeting in Moscow - "to play a more constructive role".
US President Donald Trump also responded swiftly on Tuesday to the missile launch.
On his Twitter account he made apparent reference to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, saying: "Does this guy have anything better to do with his life?"
"Hard to believe that South Korea and Japan will put up with this much longer. Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!"
Mr Trump had earlier called Mr Kim a "pretty smart cookie".
He has also repeatedly called on Mr Xi to pressure North Korea to end its nuclear and missile programmes. Beijing is Pyongyang's closest economic ally.
The latest missile launch comes a day after Mr Trump spoke on the phone separately with Mr Xi and Mr Abe about North Korea. The leaders reaffirmed their commitment to a denuclearised Korean Peninsula.
In South Korea, recently-elected President Moon Jae-in has called for an emergency meeting of the country's security council.
Mr Moon also met with US President Donald Trump last week, with the US leader warning Pyongyang of a "determined response".
The US recently started setting up its controversial Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) system in South Korea, which is aimed at protecting against North Korean missiles.
Neighbours such as China have objected to it as they believe it undermines their security and the regional balance.
On Tuesday, Mr Xi and Mr Putin reiterated their opposition to Thaad, reported Chinese state news agency Xinhua.
It now seems rare for a week to pass without a significant celebrity death being reported - from David Bowie in the second week of January, to actor Alan Rickman a week later, to comedian Victoria Wood and Prince this week.
"Enough, 2016" and a more vulgar alternative are phrases people are uttering more and more regularly. So is this wave of celebrity deaths the new normal?
The answer is yes, according to the BBC's obituary editor Nick Serpell, who ought to know about such things.
He said that the number of significant deaths this year has been "phenomenal".
Looking at the basic statistics, there's a very clear upward trend. Nick prepares obituaries for BBC television, radio and online, that run once a notable person's death is confirmed.
The number of his obituaries used across BBC outlets in recent years has leaped considerably.
It's a jump from only five between January and late March 2012 to a staggering 24 in the same period this year - an almost five-fold increase, according to research by the BBC Radio 4's More or Less programme.
And that's before counting some of the notable deaths in April, including American singer Merle Haggard, the former drug smuggler Howard Marks and this week's two notable departures.
But might it just be that the BBC has increased its store of obituaries to such an extent it means plenty more are being used?
There are indeed more obituaries in the BBC's files - some 1,500 in total - than when Nick started 10 years ago, he says. He adds a few more every week.
But look elsewhere and the picture bears out.
Here in the UK, the Daily Telegraph maintains a gallery of famous people who have died, and updates it throughout the year. Up to this time in 2014, the number of those in the gallery was 38. By this time last year, the number of people in the gallery was 30. This year, the number is already 75.
At the beginning of every year, the (rather morbid) website deathlist.net lists 50 celebrities it believes may pass away that year. In six of the last 10 years, two or fewer of its predictions had come true by this time - this year, five names have died so far.
This all invites the question: why?
There are a few reasons, Nick Serpell says.
"People who started becoming famous in the 1960s are now entering their 70s and are starting to die," he says.
"There are also more famous people than there used to be," he says. "In my father or grandfather's generation, the only famous people really were from cinema - there was no television.
"Then, if anybody wasn't on TV, they weren't famous."
Many of those now dying belonged to the so-called baby-boom generation, born between 1946 and 1964, that saw a huge growth in population. In the US for example, the census bureau said that 76m people in 2014 belonged to the baby boomer generation - some 23% of the population.
Here in the UK, people aged 65 or older make up almost 18% of the population - a 47% increase on forty years ago.
With more babies born into the baby-boom generation, it meant more went on to eventually become famous.
Now, those famous former babies, aged between 70 and 52, are dying.
The age-bracket 65 to 69 is the one, in England and Wales for example, where death rates really start to increase - some 14.2 per 1,000 men in that age bracket died in 2014, compared with 9.4 per 1,000 in the 60 to 64 age bracket.
Among the major deaths this year, many - including Prince (57), Alan Rickman (69), David Bowie (69) and Victoria Wood (62) - were baby-boomers.
Obituary: David Bowie
Another factor that may play into the impression that more celebrities are dying is that we have heard of more celebrities than before.
"Over the past 10 years, social media has played a big part," Nick Serpell says.
Hours before Prince's death was announced, tributes were paid to the American former wrestler and porn star Chyna, who died aged 45.
But the news of her death was not confined to the US - close to 400,000 tweets using the word Chyna were sent worldwide on Thursday, and interest peaked in cities such as Lagos in Nigeria and Lima in Peru.
These days, it is far easier to hear news of whether anyone has died than at any time in the past.
The bad news? Yes, probably. "Over the next 10 years, these people will get into their 80s and it is going to continue at this level," Nick Serpell says.
"And that doesn't count the surprise deaths, when people die that shouldn't."
For the time being, the normally half-hour compilation of obituaries Nick produces for BBC News at the end of every year will be extended: this year, he says he has already been given permission to make it an hour long.
Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock, watched by his father Neil and mother Glenys, spoke during Wednesday's debate on devolution: "I was born about 30 miles to the north east of Aberavon, in Tredegar, as was my father.
"My mother is of course form another country altogether known as north Wales They have always worked tirelessly to combat injustice and their dedication to public service has inspired me throughout my life."
Stephen Kinnock said he saw himself as "a global Welshman", having lived in many exotic lands, including England. "I believe Wales is a nation with the ability to punch far above its weight and I hope that I will have an opportunity to contribute to that worthy cause."
He also raised a local cause or two: "In Aberavon we like to connect our proud history to our promising present and our ambitious future. It is in this spirit that I wish to join those calling on the Ministry of Justice for the posthumous pardon of Dic Penderyn, a miner and son of Aberavon hanged in 1831 for his part in the Merthyr Uprising."
Cardiff North Tory Craig Williams told the debate his primary ambition during the next five years was to achieve a "city deal" for Cardiff. He saw it as an opportunity to deliver what he sees as "the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation - version two".
He was also critical of the Welsh government's refusal to adopt some UK government policies: "I will be shining lights on subjects where I think devolution is failing my constituents and the people of Wales."
Gower Tory MP Byron Davies - a member of the National Assembly for Wales until recently - said the key question was the added value brought by devolution. He said he found "much discontent after 16 years of devolution in Wales" during his election campaign.
Mr Davies also had a message for his wife: "It's my wedding anniversary today and I forgot to send a card so I do hope this will make up for it."
Green MP Caroline Lucas told him that although his speech was "exceedingly good" she wasn't sure it would compensate for the lack of an anniversary card and he might want to buy one anyway.
New Labour MP Jo Stevens managed to name-check a street known to some as "chip alley" during her maiden speech in the House of Commons.
"Alongside the world's oldest record shop, Spillers, which opened in 1894," she said, "and our beautiful Victorian shopping arcades, we have a famous Caroline Street, where early and late-night city-centre revellers enjoy our special Welsh delicacy of chicken curry, arf'n'arf."
Besides the traditional maiden speech guide to her constituency, she highlighted some of her political priorities: "Throughout the election, I campaigned on the need to tackle inequality head on—wealth inequality, social inequality and tax inequality. I will continue that campaign and be a strong voice for all the people of Cardiff Central."
Ms Stevens has also made her maiden appearance in the Daily Politics studio, where she was questioned about a newspaper interview with Harriet Harman in which the acting Labour leader suggested even some Labour supporters were relieved the party didn't win.
Was Harriet Harman right? Jo Stevens: "I'm afraid I don't recognise what that Independent interview describes. It's the polar opposite to what I experienced on the doorstep as an election candidate in a key seat for Labour over two years.
You can watch Jo Stevens's maiden speech here and read it in Hansard here.
"I think what Harriet is getting at is about persuading floating voters to come over to us and maybe that argument wasn't persuasive enough - clearly in large swathes of the country where there were Tory-Labour marginals that argument didn't work."
Was Ed Miliband the problem?
"Not as far as I was concerned. I think it was because we didn't rebut the Tory argument from 2010 onwards that we messed up the economy, and if we'd done that if, we'd made an an attempt to do it better than we did, I think that would have made a difference."
One of the vigilantes tells them: "No Bulgaria - go back [to] Turkey."
The video was shot in Strandja, a mountainous area near the Turkish border, the Bulgarian BTV news website reported.
Bulgarian border police chief Antonio Angelov, quoted by BTV, said such an arrest of migrants was illegal.
Bulgaria has erected a razor-wire fence along 95km (59 miles) of its 269-km border with Turkey.
According to Mr Angelov, the three migrants shown in the video said they were Afghans. The video was the main story across Bulgarian TV on Monday.
The vigilantes - at least one of them armed with a machete - stood over the three and one was heard telling them in broken English to return to Turkey. The migrants appeared frightened and were not resisting.
Bulgaria's neighbour Greece was embroiled in a row with Macedonia on Monday over rough treatment of migrants at the Idomeni border crossing on Sunday.
Medical charity MSF said 260 people were hurt when Macedonian security forces fired tear gas as hundreds of migrants tried to cross the border. Thirty were hit by rubber bullets, including three children under 10, MSF said. Tensions were still high at the border on Monday.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras condemned the use of tear gas and rubber bullets, describing the violence as "a big disgrace for European civilisation".
But Macedonia insisted its security forces had not used rubber bullets, adding that 23 of its security forces had been wounded. Police had repeatedly asked Greek officials to secure the border, the foreign affairs ministry said.
More than 11,000 migrants have been camping at Idomeni for weeks in wretched conditions.
Greece remains the chief Balkan transit country for migrants - many of them fleeing the Syrian war - who hope to reach northern Europe.
There is concern that Greek deportations of migrants to Turkey, approved by the EU, may be violating the rights of some refugees.
Vigilantes became involved in the migrant crisis in Bulgaria earlier this year. Dinko Valev, a Bulgarian trader in spare parts for buses, became a national celebrity in February after starting to patrol the Turkish border "hunting" for migrants.
He won national praise for subduing a group of 12 Syrian men, three women and a child. Mobile phone footage showed the migrants lying on the ground, waiting for the police, while he insulted them.
Last week Bulgaria's border police gave an award to a volunteer "border patrol" which detained 23 refugees near the Turkish border, the Balkan Insight news website reported.
Mr Angelov said the vigilantes had acted "very appropriately", but he cautioned that such patrols were "very risky" and urged them to inform the police about any future patrols.
More than a million undocumented refugees and other migrants have entered the EU by boat from Turkey to Greece since January 2015, generating an unprecedented crisis for the EU's 28 member states.
But actress Emily Blunt is on the cover and models will appear in adverts.
Editor Alexandra Shulman said the difficulties she had in securing sample designer clothes for non-models for shoots made her want to explore what women wear through a "real" filter.
One campaigner welcomed the move as a "positive example of good work".
Tetraplegic journalist Melanie Reid, who writes a weekly column for the Times Magazine, Unruly Media video marketing company co-founder Sarah Wood, architectural historian Shumi Bose and ice cream entrepreneur Kitty Travers all appear in the issue.
The magazine, on sale from Thursday, explores topics including what "real" beauty is, and how successful women work a wardrobe.
Ms Shulman said of the issue's theme: "The combination of a newspaper commentariat - which is always keen to leap critically on a woman in the public eye who dresses even the slightest bit adventurously - alongside a professional culture that still encourages a conventional conformity, makes it hard for some women to dress the way they would really like to.
"Now we have a prime minister who clearly enjoys thinking about how she dresses - and is not afraid to wear jazzy shoes, bright colours and clothes that draw attention rather than deflect it - there really is no excuse."
Mental health and body image commentator Natasha Devon applauded the trend for using images of "real" women in fashion and beauty.
But she warned that if magazines still digitally altered their images, it could still put pressure on women and girls to adhere to unrealistic standards of shape and beauty, without recourse to the idea that the subjects were "professional models".
There has been long-standing criticism of the fashion industry, its designers, shops, magazines and advertising, for using models who convey an unrealistic image of the size of women.
The average UK size is a 12, with many designer sample sizes a UK 8 or below.
As part of its #NoSizeFitsAll campaign, the Women's Equality Party has called on designers to use a range of sample sizes, and the party urged Vogue's editor to back its efforts to persuade the British Fashion Council to compel designers attending London Fashion Week 2017 to do so.
The YMCA is one group involved in the Be Real Campaign for body confidence which aims to help people put health above appearance. YMCA England's CEO Denise Hatton welcomed Vogue using images that more accurately reflected how women look as a "positive example of good work".
But she said it was only a small step towards a culture that "actively and consistently" promotes diversity.
She said the campaign group of schools, people, charities, businesses and public bodies is due to launch an "image code" asking industries to reflect the UK's diversity by showing people of "all shapes and sizes, skin tones, genders, ages, ethnicities, disfigurements, abilities and disabilities".
"Only when the images we see in magazines and across the industry reflect what we truly look like will we finally be able to feel more body confident, leading to a healthier and happier nation," she said.
Marisa Bate, senior editor at website The Pool, said that while it was debatable how "real" a glossy magazine featuring luxury products could be, "the move is interesting because it shows a shift in positioning."
"Vogue is trying to stay culturally relevant and changing tack," she said, adding: "In this way, Alexandra Shulman is following the cultural agenda, not setting it, and the magazine is having to bend its boundaries to feel relevant to a younger generation that has begun to reject the 'perfect', airbrushed images that normally fill their pages."
Ms Shulman has previously criticised fashion houses for sending sample clothes too small for many models to wear.
The magazine called on designers to consider the consequences of issuing such sizes, which limited the range of women who could model the clothes, encouraging the use of extremely thin women and girls.
Alan Couper, 62, from Southampton, died at the scene on Stockbridge Road, at the entrance to the golf club in Leckford, on Wednesday.
In a statement his family called him a "loving, gorgeous husband, fantastic supportive father and grandad".
They added: "We will miss him so much. We loved him with all our hearts."
"Life will never be the same without him," the statement concluded.
The collision involved a lorry and two motorbikes, with another motorcyclist being taken to Southampton General Hospital with minor injuries.
Hampshire Constabulary said the lorry driver, a 57-year-old man from Tidworth, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving following the crash.
He was bailed pending further inquiries.
Officers have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
With 36 of the 40 election results having been declared, the Tories have won in 20 of the contests while Labour has 13 victories.
Independents, who were elected to 12 PCC posts in 2012, have just three now.
The four remaining PCC elections, all in Wales, will declare results on Sunday.
Tories won in Kent, Lincolnshire, Warwickshire, Hampshire, Norfolk and West Mercia, which had all gone to independents last time.
Voters in South Yorkshire re-elected Labour's Alan Billings, who has said he will investigate claims that a former police press officer was asked to "spin" news during the Hillsborough inquests.
Hayley Court, who was employed in 2014, said South Yorkshire Police wanted her to encourage the media to report evidence favourable to the police case.
Turnout in the PCC elections was 25.2%, a substantial rise on the 15.1% recorded in 2012, which was the lowest recorded level of participation at a peacetime non-government election in Britain.
Home Secretary Theresa May had urged voters to take part, saying PCCs "have the power to hire and fire chief constables, control the police force's multimillion pound budget, and set local priorities for policing and crime".
Mrs May has also suggested that PCCs could in future help set up free schools to support children who might otherwise fall into crime.
They may also have a role in youth justice and probation, she has said.
A recent poll for the Electoral Reform Society found that nearly nine in 10 people could not name their local PCC.
At the height of the blaze, smoke could be seen from hills on the other side of the city.
West Yorkshire Fire Service was called to Ivy Mill on Mill Lane industrial estate in West Bowling close to the city centre, just before 08:00 BST.
There were still 60 firefighters at the site in the middle of the afternoon, the fire service said.
No one is believed to be trapped inside the building and there is no threat to residents, the fire service said.
Dorothy Gardner, 48, of Killycanavan Road, had alleged Mr Wells made homophobic statements during an election hustings meeting in Downpatrick in April 2015.
Mr Wells resigned as health minister a short time afterwards.
Controversy surrounded remarks about same sex marriage attributed to him.
Ms Gardner made a formal complaint to police after the hustings which included a statement claiming she had been at the event and heard the remarks.
A police investigation later cleared Mr Wells and concluded Ms Gardner had not been present at the event.
The South Down MLA said he had been vindicated by the outcome of the case.
"My reputation and political career were destroyed by a series of totally false reports of what I said at that hustings meeting," he said.
"As a result of these I was for forced to resign as health minister and suffered months of online abuse.
"The full transcript and video of my speech and the notes of the five experienced reporters who covered the event clearly confirmed that I never made the alleged remarks."
Ms Gardner is to be sentenced on 25 August.
The HGVs blocked the southbound carriageway from 05:00 GMT on Saturday.
Fire crews said both drivers had a "lucky escape" after receiving minor injuries. No-one else was hurt.
One of the lorries overturned and landed halfway down a bank between Bicester and Thame. The road was closed until 18:00 for emergency repairs.
Incident commander for Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue, Paul Webster, said: "It was a lucky escape for the two drivers and the other road users that there were no serious injuries. The cause of the accident is being investigated by police."
The 20-year-old forward received the accolade 24 hours after it emerged that he will ask to leave to club.
But while some fans jeered, others shouted: "Stay, Raheem."
The England international is expected to tell manager Brendan Rodgers and chief executive Ian Ayre on Friday that he wants to leave Anfield this summer.
Speaking at the event, Rodgers said it had been a "difficult, trying season".
Liverpool will finish outside the top four in the Premier League and therefore miss out on a place in next season's Champions League, while Rodgers is first Reds boss to fail to win a trophy in his first three seasons since the 1950s.
He added: "A number of distractions that we couldn't have planned for have made it difficult, but the players have given everything."
Brazilian midfielder Philippe Coutinho, 22, was voted Player of the Season.
Sterling rejected a new £100,000-a-week contract in April but denied being a "money-grabber" in an exclusive interview with BBC Sport which was not authorised by his club.
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He said: "I talk about winning trophies throughout my career. That's all I talk about."
The forward told Rodgers before Liverpool's 1-1 draw with Chelsea on 10 May that he wanted to leave, but it is understood the Reds want to keep the player, whose deal ends in 2017.
Should Sterling be made available, Manchester City are the frontrunners for his signature, while a number of leading European clubs have also expressed an interest.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger refused to be drawn on whether he would make a bid.
Several former Liverpool players have criticised Sterling and his representatives.
Former Reds striker Emile Heskey said Sterling would be "denying himself the opportunity to grow and develop into a top player" if he left, and that Liverpool should "try as hard as they can" to persuade him to stay.
John Aldridge, who played for Liverpool between 1987 and 1989, said Sterling had been given "woeful advice from his agent" and that "everyone in the game" felt it would be best for his development to stay.
Former Liverpool winger John Barnes said Sterling should stay at Anfield, claiming he would not be guaranteed regular first-team football elsewhere as he has still "not achieved anything".
Williamson, 32, was due to remain with the Championship side until January but Lascelles suffered a minor hamstring injury at Crystal Palace on Saturday.
Williamson has made only two League Cup appearances for the Magpies this term and played five matches for Wolves.
Newcastle are one place off the bottom of the Premier League and have conceded eight goals in their last two games.
The Commission on Widening Access said there was an "undeniable case for change" on the issue.
But it acknowledged the move would be "divisive", with concerns that middle-class students could be displaced.
The commission was set up by the first minister last year.
It was tasked with advising the Scottish government on how best to achieve its goal of ending the big gap between the number of students from wealthy and deprived backgrounds going to university.
The commission's interim report said there had been "steady progress" on the issue over the past decade.
But it stressed that "very significant socioeconomic inequalities" remained which were "unfair, unsustainable and detrimental to Scotland", and said the country had a moral and economic duty to tackle the issue
The report said it had been suggested that admitting students from deprived backgrounds with lower grades could have a detrimental impact on the academic excellence of Scotland's universities.
But it stated: "There is increasingly strong evidence that with the right support, bright students from deprived backgrounds can enhance, rather than jeopardise, academic excellence."
The report said other opposing viewpoints included:
But it added: "Unless we are prepared to accept the notion that Scotland's talent is concentrated in its most affluent communities, it is clear that, through accident of birth, a whole section of Scottish society has nothing like an equal opportunity to maximise their talent and reap the benefits of higher education.
"We believe that this is fundamentally unfair and that the ultimate goal of widening access should be to eliminate socioeconomic inequality.
"Equality of access is not just a passport to a better life for individuals; it is also a passport to a fairer, better Scotland."
The report also said there was strong evidence that parental experience of higher education was one of the most influential factors in determining the likelihood of a child entering university.
It added: "This means that equal access is capable of transmitting the social and economic benefits of higher education between generations, breaking cycles of deprivation and contributing to a society that is healthier, wealthier and fairer.
"The evidence shows that a higher education is a passport to a better life. Graduates benefit from higher wages, significantly improved health outcomes and a higher life expectancy.
"We believe that Scotland has a moral duty to ensure that these opportunities are distributed fairly."
The commission's final report is expected to be submitted next year.
The interim report was welcomed by Education Secretary Angela Constance, who said more needed to be done to tackle inequality in education despite the progress that had been made in recent years.
A spokeswoman for Universities Scotland said: "Contextual admissions can help with this and it is one of many tools, but definitely not a silver bullet, that universities can use to help widen access.
"Universities will always look for the best and brightest applicants - our quality and excellence is very important to us and absolutely will not be compromised - but we are open-minded about what best and brightest actually means."
Currently, councils do not need to be told if a child is home educated, unless they are removed from school.
Prof Sally Holland said she was disappointed this has not been changed in the new guidance.
She renewed her calls for a compulsory register of home-schooled students but some home educators are against it.
The Welsh government said it was still "considering the potential for introducing legislation".
Prof Holland called for laws to ensure parents tell local authorities children were being educated at home following a BBC Wales investigation into the death of eight-year-old Dylan Seabridge.
A child practice review found the boy had no direct contact with agencies such as doctors, nurses and teachers from the age of 13 months.
Safeguarding experts have also called for a register, saying the current guidance was in "stark contrast" to the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child.
Meanwhile, some councils have said the current guidance is not strong enough.
Prof Holland said she found the reluctance to legislate on home education "baffling".
"I think that Wales is not protecting the rights of children in Wales until it moves forward to legislate in this area," she said.
"So, I hope that when the cabinet secretary said that she would be looking towards a number of measures - including the potential for legislation - that she will move boldly forward with that.
"I've given clear evidence to the government that non-statutory guidance is not good enough for children in Wales.
"They all have a clear right to education and a clear right to have their voice heard about that education and this non-statutory guidance doesn't take us any further along that road."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We have listened carefully to concerns about safeguarding children who are educated at home.
"As the cabinet secretary indicated in her written statement, this new guidance will form part of a package of measures she is considering, including the potential for introducing legislation."
Jayne Palmer, chief executive of New Foundations Home Education, said the new non-statutory guidance was an invasion of privacy.
She said it gave too much power to councils and a compulsory register was a bad idea.
"I think more families will go into hiding, rather than risk being identified by local education authorities and being victimised by those who don't know what they are doing," she said.
She said current laws were "more than adequate" to allow social services or education officials access to a child if concerns are raised.
The move is aimed at promoting an "African solution" to the conflict in the world's youngest state, which became independent in 2011, it said.
An inquiry has found that both government and rebel forces have committed atrocities, the AU added.
Despite the signing of a peace deal last month, conflict has continued.
The formation of the court is part of the deal President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar signed following intense diplomatic pressure from regional leaders, reports the BBC's Emmanuel Igunza from the AU headquarters in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.
Thousands have been killed in the fighting over the last 21 months and more than 2.2 million people forced from their homes.
South Sudan does not recognise the International Criminal Court (ICC), which investigates atrocities in member states or if a case is referred to it by the UN Security Council.
The AU is also extremely critical of the ICC, accusing it of failing to operate impartially - a charge it denies.
A special court, set up by Senegal with the AU's backing, is currently trying Chad's former President Hissene Habre for alleged atrocities committed during his rule.
The South Sudan court will use a mix of international and South Sudanese law.
In a statement, the AU said a commission of inquiry, formed last year under the chairmanship of Nigeria's ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, found evidence that both sides to the conflict in South Sudan had been involved in murder, torture, looting and sexual violence.
However, there was no evidence of genocide, it added.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon welcomed the setting up of the court at a high-level meeting on South Sudan held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
"Horrific crimes have been committed against civilians in this war. The social fabric of South Sudan has been shattered. To mend it, the provisions in the peace agreement related to justice, accountability and reconciliation must be implemented in full," he said.
The conflict erupted after Mr Kiir accused his sacked deputy, Mr Machar, of plotting a coup.
Mr Machar denied the allegation, but then formed a rebel army to fight the government.
The university announced plans to increase the number of student beds from about 600 to more than 2,000 as part of a new campus village.
It said it wanted to house more students in university accommodation rather than private residential properties in Brighton and Hove.
Detailed plans are yet to be submitted to the city council.
Outline planning permission was granted last year.
The new student accommodation will replace outdated 1970s buildings with a mix of town houses and flats.
If approved, work will begin on the site in January with the first phase of accommodation ready in autumn 2018.
About 2,400 new permanent jobs could be created as a result of the campus redevelopment, the university added.
The site was unavailable for more two hours from 20:00 BST in a "malicious attempt to disrupt services", GMP said.
Deputy Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said they were treating it as a "denial-of-service attack" and apologised for any inconvenience caused.
A person has claimed responsibility on Twitter for causing the website crash, a GMP spokeswoman said.
Det Ch Con Hopkins said the force's website server was not connected to other police computer systems and contained only information which was already in the public domain.
"We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible," he said.
Those carrying out a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack flood their target with large amounts of traffic in an attempt to render their website unreachable.
Gordon Highlander Alistair Urquhart said the bomb prevented a Japanese plan to massacre Allied PoWs.
He was blown off his feet by the Nagasaki bomb in 1945. That, and the Hiroshima atomic bomb killed up to 250,000 people, but are credited with hastening the end of World War Two.
Aberdeen-born Mr Urquhart, of Broughty Ferry, died in a Dundee care home.
His story began when Singapore fell to the Japanese in February 1942.
Serving with the Gordon Highlanders' Second Battalion he had arrived there just weeks earlier as the Allies strengthened the island fortress against the expected invasion.
He was among thousands taken prisoner and ended up helping to build the notorious Burma-Siam railway.
Mr Urquhart's detail was put to work in what became known as "Hellfire Pass", where men were forced to cut through solid rock using nothing more than hand tools and dynamite.
An estimated 13,000 Allied PoWs died on the railway. When it was completed, the surviving prisoners were taken back to Singapore to be put on ships to Japan.
The Americans, not knowing the cargo, torpedoed them. The ship Mr Urquhart was on sank.
For five days he drifted on the ocean in a raft, until he was picked up by a whaler.
He ended up in a labour camp 10 miles from Nagasaki where, on 9 August 1945, the second atomic bomb exploded.
He recalled: "I heard a plane, and I looked up. And it was quite clearly an American plane. No opposition.
"And it just droned over and away.
"Minutes later, I was just blown across the pathway - a big gust, which I thought was wind, hot air. But this was the bomb going off.
"There had been a directive from the Japanese Army that if the Americans put one foot on Japanese soil, the whole of the people who had been taken prisoner had to be massacred on 12 August.
"When was the bomb dropped? 9 August. Thank God. And here I am."
The Japanese surrendered nine days after the first blast, ending World War Two.
Mr Urquhart's son, Philip, said: "My father passed away peacefully with his family and friends around him on Friday.
"He only moved into the care home in February having looked after himself up to the age of 96 and he was happy there.
"He was 97 when he died so we cannot say he did not have a full life."
Gwynant Jones from Machynlleth, Powys, was attacked while out with friends at the Academy, Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, on Saturday at 23:25 GMT.
Dyfed-Powys Police are hunting the attacker who was in fancy dress.
Mr Jones said he had been offered reconstructive surgery.
The computer programmer told Welsh language TV news programme Newyddion 9 he did not know his attacker and he explained how he felt a sudden pain and realised the severity of the wound when he put his hand to his left ear to find it bleeding heavily.
Mr Jones was taken to Bronglais General Hospital in Aberystwyth but he was referred to specialists at Swansea's Morriston Hospital.
Police are appealing for witnesses.
They said the suspect, approximately 20-years-old, was wearing a fancy dress outfit of an orange poncho and a black wig.
He is believed to have been with a group of women. One was wearing a white dress, another was in a nurse's uniform and a mask and a third was wearing a black dress.
Witnesses have been asked to call Aberystwyth CID on 101.
The government had been planning to bring in the new funding scheme in England from 2017-18 - but it will now apply from 2018-19, she said.
"We must get our approach right," Ms Greening told the Commons.
Labour's shadow education secretary Angela Rayner criticised the delay as "woeful".
And Neil Carmichael, chairman of Parliament's education select committee, who raised the issue in an urgent Commons question, asked why more delay was necessary.
"When does she really expect this programme to be fulfilled?" he asked.
He pointed out that the plan had already gone out to consultation earlier this year.
The government says the new formula is needed to tackle uneven levels of funding across England, with the best funded areas getting more than £6,300 per pupil per year, while the worst-funded averaging just £4,200 - but there are concerns that while some schools will benefit, a new formula could mean some schools in areas of need facing budget cuts.
Ms Greening told MPs she did not want to rush into changes without being sure of their ramifications.
In a written parliamentary statement, she said the first stage consultations on the new national funding formulae for schools and high needs, published in March, "have been met with an overwhelmingly positive response from head teachers, teachers, governors and parents".
"There is also a strong sense in the response to the first stage of the consultation that this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for an historic change and that we must get our approach right."
She said she would publish a full response to the first stage of the schools and high needs consultations and set out proposals for the second stage in the autumn.
"We will run a full consultation, and make final decisions early in the new year," she said.
"Given the importance of consulting widely and fully with the sector and getting implementation right, the new system will apply from 2018/19."
Ms Greening said the new timescale would allow local authorities to plan ahead.
In 2017-18 no local authority would see a reduction from their 2016-17 funding, adjusted to reflect authorities' most recent spending patterns, she said.
Ms Rayner called the plans "woeful and last minute" and said only this government would impose real terms cuts on schools across the country and call them fair.
Ms Greening said no school would lose funding.
Liberal Democrat education spokesman John Pugh urged the government to protect the school budget in real terms, adding that he was concerned that the announcement did not rule more out cuts to school budgets "which are already overstretched".
"It is not acceptable for the government to balance the books on the backs of school pupils but the new formula threatens to do just that."
The Association of School and College leaders said it accepted the reasons for the delay but was "extremely disappointed that no interim support had been put in place for the lowest funded schools" for which the ongoing delay was "potentially catastrophic".
National Union of Teachers general secretary Kevin Courtney said the announcement provided no new money and ignored genuine funding problems.
Earlier, the NUT and ASCL were among five unions to issue a joint statement calling for urgent increases in school budgets.
Instead, budgets were being cut in real terms as the government had frozen per pupil funding and loaded on extra costs such as higher pension contributions, the statement added.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, carried out the abuse over a nine-year period while he was a Hull City Council registered foster carer.
He admitted 10 charges of child sex offences including sexual assault at the city's crown court last year.
Last month, he was found guilty of rape and attempted rape of a child under 13.
Sentencing him at the same court, Judge Jeremy Richardson QC described him earlier as a "thoroughly wicked man".
He told the man: "You must be punished for these truly wicked crimes."
During his nine-year stint there were five complaints made against him with the final one relating to "sexually inappropriate remarks".
The children were immediately removed from his care and he was de-registered, the local authority said.
Jon Plant, children safeguarding manager at Hull City Council, said the authority had undertaken "detailed statutory assessments, including rigorous background checks" before approving the man for foster caring.
Mr Plant also said a safeguarding review had been carried out.
"Whilst there is always learning from cases, the review did not identify any missed opportunities to safeguard children in this case.
"On the first occasion that any concern was raised about possible harm to children, immediate steps were taken to ensure their safety. From this moment, the carer in question did not foster any further children."
But in court, the judge called for an inquiry "given the gravity of this case".
In a statement, the authority said: "We await, of course, the full report from the court and will give full consideration to the judge's comments."
Det Con Rachel Walton, of Humberside Police, said the man used his "position of trust to abuse two young children in his care, as well as his own granddaughter".
"This was a horrific case - one of the worst I have had to deal with in my career and, first and foremost, my thoughts are with the man's victims and their loved ones."
GPs and health planners are waiting to hear if the Welsh government will back their calls to help areas which have recruitment problems.
But Prof John Bligh, head of Cardiff University's school of medicine, said incentives had variable results.
A health board executive director for primary care said it was not the "golden bullet answer".
Hywel Dda University Health Board recently stepped in to directly manage two GP practices after they struggled to replace retiring doctors.
Catherine Davies, from the health board, said: "It's about offering career development. We want to attract the brightest, the best, the most driven.
"While it (incentives) is a helpful tool to have, it's by no means the golden bullet answer."
Prof Bligh added: "I would much rather doctors chose to work in an area because that's where they wanted to work, as opposed to having a debt reduction scheme or some similar process."
Over the last decade, the number of GPs in Wales increased by 10% to a total of 2,006, but that population is ageing and many family doctors are finding an increasing workload oppressive.
Dr Paul Myers, of the Royal College of General Practitioners in Wales, said: "I speak to a lot of GPs in the latter part of their career who say they can't wait to finish."
The British Medical Association has estimated Wales needs to be recruiting at least 200 trainee GPs a year to replace those retiring or going part-time.
But most years the current quota of 136 training places has not been filled.
Dr Ruth Hussey, chief medical officer for Wales, accepted there were pockets of Wales where recruiting GPs was challenging.
Ministers will publish a primary care workforce plan later this month which, Dr Hussey said, will look at overcoming the challenges to building a sustainable workforce and allow consultation on "what might work".
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It's being compared to the famous blue/black dress that went viral early this year, when some people saw different colours in the same photo.
Because of the way the light falls on the stairs, there aren't many other clues in the picture to help the brain decide whether it's going up or down.
But one clue could be in the moggy's tail.
Martin's been investigating...
Watch Martin's report to find out more.
Thousands had attended the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) final rally ahead of Sunday's vote.
The cause of the blasts is not clear, and the HDP leader has called for calm.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described the blasts as a "provocation" intended to destabilise the upcoming general election.
HDP leader Selahattin Demirtas also said: "All our friends should very careful and not to give in to provocation."
The death toll was confirmed by Mehmet Mehdi Eker, a Diyarbakir MP and the country's agriculture minister.
Speaking at his own election rally in the nearby city of Gaziantep, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu promised an investigation into the explosion.
"Whatever is behind this incident... whether it was a power transformer explosion, an assassination attempt, an act of provocation - we shall investigate it and get the result as soon as possible," he said.
Energy Minister Taner Yildiz denied earlier statements that the explosion was caused by a fault in a generator at the rally site.
"It suggests there was an outside agent," he said, without providing further details.
The fortunes of the HDP as seen as key to the result of Turkey's election.
Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said at least 20 of the people who were injured in the incident have been hospitalised, according to the Associated Press news agency.
Under Turkey's electoral system a party needs to win 10% of the overall vote to enter parliament, which polls show the HDP are close to achieving.
If this does happen it may end the single party rule of President Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AK).
A couple stand out for me:
First it is worth noting just how far and fast Morrison has fallen. What it calls underlying profits was £901m two years ago. That fell to £785m last year, and it is forecast to be between £325m and £375 in the current year.
Or to put it another way, Morrison's profitability has crumbled almost two-thirds over three years.
Some of that is cyclical, the result of a squeeze on customers' living standards.
Much of it is secular, a permanent migration to cheaper rivals, and a shift in spending habits to local convenience stores and online shopping.
Only now is Morrison responding to what it sees as these permanent changes, by belatedly establishing convenience stores, forming a joint venture with Ocado in online shopping, and by what it calls a "reset" of "the profit base", in order to offer "best value, price and quality for customers".
In other words, it is reconciled to squeezing its profit margins, or to making less profit per customer, to try and fight back against the aggressive competition from Aldi and Lidl.
So, some of Morrison's woes are sui generis, a failure to make the right investments in IT and property over the past decade.
But some are relevant to all supermarkets.
Or, if Morrison is cutting profit margins in a significant way, won't its mainstream rivals Tesco, Sainsbury and Asda have to do something similar?
And another thing. Online is changing the economics of supermarkets in a fundamental way - and in a way that does not bode all that well for conventional stores.
The simple point is that the costs of selling from a store are relatively fixed, in the form of wages and rent, so additional sales from a store generate progressively bigger profits.
And the reverse is true. When sales fall in a store, profits will fall faster than those sales, because (to repeat) so many of the costs are set in stone.
So a big investment in online, of the sort that Morrison is doing, can undermine the profitability of stores in a fundamental way, by cannibalising sales.
Which would not matter if the intrinsic profitability of online was massively greater than for sales from stores.
But published results of Ocado don't exactly demonstrate that. And what's more, Morrison is sharing whatever profits it succeeds in generating online with Ocado.
All of which is to say (as if you didn't know) that there is something of a revolution going on in food retailing. And that revolution probably benefits us, shoppers, by delivering deflation in what we buy and more choice in how we buy.
But for the giant supermarket chains we traditionally regarded as fearsome and invincible, there's a threat which - if not quite existential - is pretty serious.
The Steam Packet Company said 36,500 people have so far travelled for the event, compared with 35,500 in 2016.
Last year's figures suffered a hit due to the unavailability of a fast ferry serving Northern Ireland.
Chief executive Mark Woodward said demand to travel during the TT remains "extremely high."
As well as the 36,500 passengers, the company said it had carried 14,037 motorcycles and more than 4,000 cars, vans and trailers.
Hundreds of passengers were stranded on the island this week after high winds cancelled sailings on Tuesday and Wednesday.
However, the majority were given bookings on alternative sailings within 24 hours.
The TT festival, which sees racers from all over the world reach speeds of 200mph on closed public roads, will conclude with the Senior race on Friday.
Races were cancelled on Thursday due to heavy downpours.
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The series, called Robot Wars was hugely popular in the 1990's, but is back again for a brand new series.
The aim is for teams of engineers to build battle-worthy robots, to fight against each other and other 'House Robots' in a special arena.
Ayshah went to speak to Andrew Robertson, the man in charge of the show, to find out more...
You can watch Robot Wars on Sunday at 8pm, on BBC Two.
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The Scot, 23, clocked three minutes 55.22 seconds to break the national record for the second time in five weeks and set a 2016 world-best time.
Muir beat Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon into second place, with the Kenyan running 3:56.72.
Bahrain's Ruth Jebet, who also won gold in Rio, ran 8:52.78 seconds to set a 3,000m steeplechase world record.
The Kenya-born 19-year-old smashed the previous record of 8:58.81 set by Russian Gulnara Galkina at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
"I'm so happy," said Jebet. "I've tried to beat the world record several times, but tonight we decided to push ourselves to go looking for a good time."
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Muir's performance came five weeks after she broke Dame Kelly Holmes' 12-year-old British record in the 1500m at the London Anniversary Games.
She then went on to finish seventh at the Olympic Games, but put any disappointment from Rio behind her with a stunning run in Paris, saying: "The race was amazing.
"I couldn't believe the time, especially since I didn't do one track session since Rio. I just went with the pacemaker and I knew I had to dig in and hold on during the third lap."
Britain's Lorraine Ugen was second in the women's long jump with 6.80m, Desiree Henry ran 22.46 seconds to finish second behind Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands in the 200m, and Cindy Ofili came third in the 100m hurdles in a time of 12.66secs.
British sprinters Joel Fearon (10.05secs) and Chijindu Ujah (10.15secs) finished fourth and eighth respectively in the men's 100m.
Diamond League highlights are on BBC Two at 13:00 BST on Sunday, 28 August.
More than 12,000 operational ration packs (ORPs) were thrown away between April and December - more than in the previous 12 months.
Work and Pensions Select Committee chairman Frank Field wants these surplus packs to feed the UK's homeless population.
The Ministry of Defence says it only disposes of ORPs "as a last resort".
Labour MP Mr Field submitted a written parliamentary question to defence minister Harriett Baldwin, who in response said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) threw away 12,275 ORPs between April and December.
During the whole of the 2015/16 financial year 10,798 ORPs were disposed of, and 5,004 in the year before that.
Mr Field said the issue had been repeatedly raised by food banks, because of problems associated with catering for people who cannot cook or store food.
And he said he was "staggered" by the amount of food packages the MoD throws away.
"The number is going up and they're only destroying it. I just hope someone will look into it. Let's move it from one army to the army of the homeless," he said.
"These supplies are designed for people, in a sense, to eat on the run, and people in doorways are in a similar position.
"They're ideally constructed for when people haven't got much."
Out-of-date ORPs are withdrawn from use and disposed of according to current food safety legislation, Ms Baldwin said.
An MoD spokesman added: "Our stocks of ORPs are managed to make sure they are consumed within the two-year shelf life required to meet our food quality standards.
"We only undertake disposal of ORP as a last resort and only at a point when the product can no longer be consumed.
"Due to the changing nature of exercises or deployments, there will of course be occasions when ORP has not been issued before it becomes out of date."
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Coe, a vice-president of athletics' world governing body, is bidding to succeed Lamine Diack in 2015.
The proposed reforms were outlined by Coe, 58, in London on Wednesday.
He said the plans were designed to increase the appeal of athletics "in a world that is rapidly changing".
"To many within and outside our sport, our calendar seems disjointed, lacks a narrative and the essential glue to build excitement and a loyal and passionate following," the two-time Olympic 1500m champion said.
"We need to be more innovative in how we project and present our sport to the world, both in venue and on screen, give serious consideration to an 'IAAF Street Athletics' circuit to help reach new audiences, and create a new IAAF division that has the sole purpose of focusing on youth engagement, especially via social media.
"I believe that it is essential that we open up a real debate and take a long hard look at the 'product' of athletics."
Having led the team that staged the London 2012 Games, Coe has been widely tipped to become the most powerful man in world athletics.
He has made no secret of his desire to succeed Senegalese Diack, 80, in charge of the International Association of Athletics Federations but is expected to be challenged by fellow vice-president Sergey Bubka, Ukraine's former pole vault world record holder.
The deadline for candidates to register as candidates for the presidency is May 2015. The election will take place at the IAAF Congress in Beijing in August.
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About 300 "trapped" players at 14 insolvent clubs can now take legal action to cancel their contracts over unpaid wages.
Players were previously considered assets of any club in administration.
But campaigning from the Romanian players' union, Afan, has led to the country's insolvency law being changed.
It followed protests from players, including a boycott by second division side Metalul Resita, which BBC World Service reported in February.
Speaking to BBC Sport, British footballer Rhema Obed revealed he is still owed more than £40,000 in wages from a seven-month spell with Rapid Bucharest at the start of the 2013-14 season.
"I had just arrived for a pre-season friendly, but my team-mates were on strike and said they were not going to play until they were paid," he said.
"For the first three months, I was delaying my rent and using my savings and my girlfriend's wages. That's how I got by.
"I was also having to call family back home. It was rather embarrassing, being a footballer, but it was the reality. I was getting food from a team-mate's mum."
Obed, then 22, took his case to Fifa and won the ruling in October 2014, but he was frozen out by the club having played only three games.
He is still waiting to receive any money and said world governing body Fifa is threatening to dock Rapid points if they fail to pay him the wages owed.
"Players became slaves there," added Obed, who was in the same Arsenal youth sides as Jack Wilshere, Emmanuel Frimpong and Francis Coquelin, but was released aged 18.
"I was a bit different because I was a foreigner and I didn't have to respect that law even though they wanted me to. I have a letter from the club telling me I owe them money because I left them when they forced me out.
"For the local players, it's basically modern-day slavery."
From Friday, players who have not been paid for three months can file an application with the Romanian Football Federation and will be free to leave in two to four weeks.
Afan president Emilian Hulubei, who led the campaign for a change in the law, welcomed the decision but said he feared clubs would still "try to cheat the players with bad practice".
"We will have a lot of work to do," said Hulubei. "It's good because there are a lot of teenagers trapped at clubs and now they will be able to move on.
"I just hope this change in the law will encourage the players to stay in football. Unfortunately, some were forced to give up what they love most in the their life."
A statement form global players' union FifPro said the new rules "ends years of unfair treatment in Romania".
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The University of Leicester has set up a field school in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, where flint tools were unearthed last year.
One of the first sites being examined is believed to be where a medieval park keeper lived.
Research will also be carried out at a possible prehistoric enclosure.
The 850 acre (340 ha) site is home to a deer park and is visited by half a million people annually.
It is also the location of the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey.
Project co-director, Dr Richard Thomas, from University of Leicester Archaeological Services, said: "In terms of an archaeological landscape, Bradgate Park is about as good as it gets.
"We have identified multiple sites of interest spanning the past 12,000 years.
"Archaeologically speaking, it is an untouched landscape, and will allow [those involved] to uncover the hidden history of this popular attraction."
Dr Thomas said the project would chart how people have engaged with, and altered, the landscape since the last Ice Age.
Peter Tyldesley, director of the Bradgate Park Trust, added: "We know that there is a lot of history and archaeological interest here, but we want to know more about what it is and share the story with the public."
The 29-year-old scored four goals for Mick McCarthy's side in the Championship last term.
The Jersey-born forward enjoyed two fruitful spells playing for Bournemouth either side of a three-year stint with Bristol City.
"I don't see this as a drop down, I see it as an opportunity to push on and hopefully get promoted again," he said.
Pitman added: "Coming back to the south coast is nice and this is a big club, so it's something I'm really looking forward to."
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The women have voiced heroines spanning nearly three decades of films, from The Little Mermaid (1989) to 2016's Moana.
Snow White and Cinderella were absent, but Disney claimed it was the largest gathering of its "royals" in one place.
They are resuming their roles for a new film which Disney said would "break down" the princess stereotype.
Next year's release, Wreck-It Ralph 2, will feature all the Disney princesses in a scene where they wear T-shirts - not dresses - and discuss the "challenges of being perfect".
John Lasseter, Disney and Pixar's chief creative officer, said at Sunday's Disney expo in California: "These characters are really strong... We love to think of them way beyond just the movie that was made."
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Irene Bedard, who played Pocahontas in 1995, said the princesses would be moving with the times.
She told Variety magazine: "We can say this is the story that was told - but now we have a chance to take it into our hands again and have princesses with a twist.
"For me, being a princess means really being able to know to listen to your heart and have that voice - and speak out when we all should have that chance."
Disney, which has faced questions over the impact its princesses might have on young girls' ideas of perfection, has more recently attempted to rework its on-screen heroines.
Moana featured a princess with an "average" body type, while this year's Beauty and the Beast portrayed Belle as an inventor.
The world champion, 29, set a time of 3 minutes 21.430 seconds in France on Sunday to continue an unbeaten streak in the competition going back to 2015.
Fellow Britons Tahnee Seagrave and Manon Carpenter, of Wales, were third and fifth respectively.
"I cannot believe it. It's been a mad weekend," said Wales-based Atherton.
"The track is so rough. Tahnee beat me in qualifying fair and square. I just thought 'this is it' and I've just got to out and do what I normally do.
"It's been two years of intense pressure but at the end of the day I love racing, it's such a buzz."
The Grade-I listed chapter house and infirmary at Margam Abbey in Port Talbot have undergone "extensive" repairs by Neath Port Talbot council.
The work included removing vegetation, re-pointing stonework, capping stones and repairing cracked masonry.
Council leader Ali Thomas said the project ensured the abbey would "attract visitors for years to come".
The funding was awarded by the European Regional Development Fund, WREN Heritage Fund and Cadw.
At the moment costs can vary wildly from just a few pence per call to more than £2 per minute.
From 1 July charges will be made up of an access charge - decided by your phone company - and a service charge, so callers can check before they dial.
UK Calling will affect 175 million phone numbers starting 084, 087 and 09.
Phone companies - both landline and mobile - will have to give customers their access charge for any calls made to those premium numbers. It will have to be stated clearly on bills and when a customer takes out a new phone contract.
The service charge is set by the broadcaster.
Viewers should then be able to work out the cost before they phone shows such as Strictly Come Dancing or I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! to vote, or enter a competition on a programme such as This Morning or Good Morning Britain.
Instead of hearing a message such as: "Calls cost Xp from a BT landline. Other landlines may vary and calls from mobiles may cost considerably more", viewers will be told, "Calls cost Xp plus your phone company's access charge."
Calls to freephone numbers starting 0800 and 0808 will also become free from mobile phones, in what Ofcom has said is "the biggest overhaul of phone calls in more than a decade."
UK Calling will also see the cost of calling 118 directory enquiries and any other businesses and organisations using premium services being made up of both access and service charges from 1 July.
Customers who receive paper bills from either landline or mobile phone providers will be sent leaflets explaining the changes.
Ruby Stein's ordeal began when she took a wrong turn on 21 March while driving in Colorado's Rocky Mountains.
The great-grandmother had no phone signal, and her car battery died after she continuously flashed the lights and honked the horn in hope of rescue.
She was found by hikers who stumbled upon her car lodged in the snow.
Mrs Stein was visiting her great-grandchildren in Gypsum, Colorado, when she decided to cut the trip short because of an incoming snow storm.
She set out on the 245-mile (400km) drive back home to Akron, also in the mountain state.
But on the way to the interstate, she got lost and ended up on a mud and snow-covered road in the Eagle County wilderness area.
After travelling for nearly 20 miles (32km) on a dirt road, her Nissan Sentra became stuck.
But the doughty octogenarian did not panic.
"I keep myself very calm, which surprised me," she told Denver7 News.
"Of course, if you raise five kids, you know.
"What will be, will be. You just got to accept it."
Mrs Stein said her cat, Nikki, helped keep her warm, especially at night when temperatures dropped below freezing.
She used clothes her granddaughter had given her for donation to cram in the cracks between the car doors to keep out the cold.
With the ingenuity of a born survivor, Mrs Stein used an empty tin of cat food to melt snow on top of the car dashboard and fashioned a blanket from safety pins and spare clothes.
She rationed her butterscotch-flavoured rice crispy treat, allowing herself only two bites per day, and occasionally thought about eating Nikki's food.
Just as she was down to her last crumbs, two hikers stumbled upon Mrs Stein's car trapped in the snow.
"No, everything is not OK," hiker Dan Higbee told the Denver Post he recalled Mrs Stein saying after they asked her if everything was alright.
"She had more food out for the cat than she did for herself," his partner, Katie Preston, said.
She added that Mrs Stein talked non-stop on the drive back to her home.
Mrs Stein attributes her survival skills to her upbringing in the US West.
"I've just always been a doer," she told the Post. "I'm an old farm girl from the day I was born."
The Edinburgh-based company said it had launched a consultation process with staff as part of a major restructuring.
BBC Scotland understands Aquamarine's workforce could be cut from more than 50 to less than 20.
Last month, Edinburgh-based wave power firm Pelamis went into administration.
Aquamarine Power chief executive John Malcolm said the decision to downsize the firm came after a strategic review.
He said: "This will involve retaining a core operational and management team to run the business and continue maintaining our Oyster 800 wave machine at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney.
"We have entered into a consultation process with all of our employees on how we will take forward the restructuring and redundancy programme.
"This is obviously taking place at a difficult time of year and we will be working very closely with every employee to achieve the best outcome for all."
He added: "None of this is a reflection on the extraordinary dedication and hard work of every single member of the Aquamarine Power team; rather it is a consequence of the considerable financial, regulatory and technical challenges faced by the ocean energy sector as a whole.
"In a relatively short number of years our business has significantly advanced the goal of generating electricity from waves and this has relied wholly upon the bright ideas, innovation and talent of the people who work here.
"We remain confident that Oyster technology offers the best route to a commercial near shore wave energy machine."
The Scottish government recently announced it would set up a new technology development body to encourage innovation in the wave energy industry.
It added that Wave Energy Scotland would bring the best engineering and academic minds together to work on furthering wave technology.
The self-assured Dutchman, who will take over as Manchester United manager when his side leave Brazil, has proved more than once over the past month that he is a shrewd strategist.
Initially not considered among the frontrunners to lift the trophy, the Dutch are closing in on an appearance in the final for the second successive tournament.
In the build-up to Wednesday's game against Argentina, BBC Sport lists five reasons why Van Gaal can claim to be a tactical genius.
In March, Netherlands midfielder Kevin Strootman was injured during a friendly with France in Paris. The French won 2-0, with forward Karim Benzema excelling against a suddenly exposed Dutch defence. Van Gaal decided then that he would switch to a 5-3-2 with the flexibility to transform to a 4-3-3 if the situation demanded it.
A bold move, it was interpreted in the Netherlands as a defensive break from their proud, Johan Cruyff-inspired traditions of attacking 'total football'.
The backlash was substantial. Expectations were lowered and a pre-World Cup poll showed just 5% of the Dutch public believed their side could reach the final.
"It's all about winning," said Van Gaal, still haunted by his previous spell in charge when the Netherlands failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup.
"I want to win. I'm going to pick a system that will help me win."
It was the result nobody, apart from Van Gaal, saw coming. The Netherlands' 5-1 destruction of Spain in their opening World Cup group match was a seismic moment.
For Spain, it looked like the end of their era of dominance. For Van Gaal, it was an immediate vindication of his methods. Over 90 pulsating minutes the world champions were caught time and again on the break and, ultimately, humbled.
Just four years after the Netherlands had attempted to tackle Spain's tiki-taka passing style with persistent, crude fouling in the 2010 World Cup final, Van Gaal used more subtle methods than predecessor Bert van Marwijk to stunning effect.
Striker Robin van Persie, who scored twice in the rout, was quick to praise the man who will join him at Old Trafford at the end of the tournament.
"This is definitely down to him," said the 30-year-old.
"If you see how he prepared us, and how he predicted the game would go, and you see how it went - unbelievable."
BBC pundit Clarence Seedorf, capped 87 times by the Netherlands, agrees and predicts his fellow Dutchman will take the Premier League by storm.
"Dreaming is important but no-one expected what happened against Spain," he said.
"It was a brilliant start and important for the confidence of the players because there are lots of young players in that Netherlands squad.
"Van Gaal is a top coach - he will add a lot of positive value to the Premier League. United's fans can expect a good team with a vision to always go for the win. He has a strong, explosive personality that brings some extra stuff sometimes but his track record speaks for itself."
The Netherlands' final Group B opponents Chile, with their high-energy pressing, had been too hot for Spain (and Australia) to handle.
So how would Van Gaal approach this dangerous opponent? Once again, he went for a defensive style he thought would give his side their best chance of victory. The Dutch sat deep and waited for opportunities to pick off the vibrant Chileans.
Van Gaal had noticed a potential weakness at set-pieces on the part of the South American side. It took 77 minutes, but that was finally exploited when an unmarked Leroy Fer headed home Daryl Janmaat's cross.
The Dutch coach had also noted a drop in Chile's energy levels in the last 15 minutes. Sure enough, Memphis Depay prodded home an Arjen Robben cross on the break to seal the 2-0 victory in the 90th minute.
Still, there were complaints about a perceived negative style. Van Gaal was quick to respond.
"You have to allow your squad to play according to the qualities they have," he said. "If I had tried to play 4-3-3 we would have been overrun by them."
Match of the Day pundit Alan Hansen was impressed by Van Gaal's self-confidence, but warned against complacency.
"Louis van Gaal is single-minded, not afraid to make decisions and the big decisions have come off for him," he said.
"The only problem would be complacency, That's the enemy of success but the manager will be saying the right things in the dressing room because that's ultra-important."
A goal down to Mexico in stifling heat with the last-16 match approaching the final 15 minutes, most coaches would not dream of substituting their star striker and captain.
That is exactly what Van Gaal did, replacing Van Persie with Klaas Jan Huntelaar. But it was during a drinks break a minute later that he made his most important change, telling his rejuvenated side to launch long balls at Huntelaar and Dirk Kuyt. Simple but effective, the tactic worked and Wesley Sneijder equalised with two minutes to play before Huntelaar knocked Mexico out with a penalty in the last minute.
Far from being angry with his own premature departure, Van Persie once again praised his manager.
"This trainer wants to win so he makes substitutions," he said. "It's simple."
Former England international Alan Shearer agreed. "They've changed systems to counter whoever they are playing," he said.
"Van Gaal has made some big decisions and bringing off Van Persie for Huntelaar worked."
Van Gaal claimed he sent substitute goalkeeper Tim Krul on for Jasper Cillessen before their penalty shootout win over Costa Rica because of his greater height and reach.
That may well have been the case, but the mental impact his bold decision had on the watching Costa Ricans cannot be underestimated.
Krul had kept out only two spot-kicks in his past 20 for Newcastle - which hardly makes him a penalty expert. But he equalled that tally from just five Costa Rica penalties to send the Dutch into the semis.
"It worked out - that was beautiful. I'm a bit proud of that," said Van Gaal.
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Sports psychologist Dr Tom Fawcett believes he has every right to be. The University of Salford lecturer said: "He is always one step ahead and that decision will have been pre-planned.
"Van Gaal is the ultimate strategist. Krul may be better at saving penalties than Cillessen but he will have wanted to get in Costa Rica's heads and he clearly did that. It was a very shrewd move."
Former Republic of Ireland international Kevin Kilbane was one of many stunned by the "genius" substitution.
"It was an incredible decision from Van Gaal; it was such a brave decision," he said.
"I think that shows there is unity in the squad. You rarely see it in a penalty shootout and it's a masterstroke really, a touch of genius. It would be incredible if he went to Manchester United as a World Cup-winning manager now."
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A few rows back three Nobel laureates are chatting with Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein. Ahead is North Korea.
It's definitely one of the more curious assignments I've been asked to do.
Journalists will find any way they can to get a glimpse inside the DPRK. Hence I am hanging on the coat tails of this unique delegation comprising an Israeli, a Briton, a Norwegian and a tall European prince.
They have been invited to meet students at Kim Il-Sung University to talk about medicine, economics and biology.
The academics' visit to North Korea has been organised by the Vienna-based International Peace Foundation (IPF).
Those taking part are:
Nobel laureate for economics Prof Finn Kydland from Norway, who works at the University of California in Santa Barbara
Nobel laureate for medicine Sir Richard Roberts from the UK, who is based at New England Biolabs in Ipswich, Massachusetts
Nobel laureate for chemistry Prof Aaron Ciechanover from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa
Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein, who chairs the IPF's advisory board
IPF chairman Uwe Morawetz, who has visited North Korea six times in the past two years
I am hoping for any chance to see North Korea "off script". That may be optimistic.
The last time I visited, 12 years ago, every step of my trip was tightly choreographed and minutely controlled.
Everywhere I went our minder double-act, Mr Kim and Mrs Kim, were constantly at my shoulder. We stayed in an austere glass tower on an island in the middle of the Nam River.
Early one morning I tried to sneak out to see a bit of Pyongyang street life. It was winter and there was ice on the river.
I made it to the bridge when a soldier jumped out of the bushes and ordered me to turn around.
Since that trip some things have changed in North Korea although many have not.
The Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il is dead, replaced by his corpulent and unpredictable son Kim Jong-un. Next week the first Worker's Party Congress to be held in over three decades the younger Kim will be proclaimed supreme leader - as his father and grandfather were before him.
Young Mr Kim now has a few nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, although not nuclear weapons on ballistic missiles, not yet.
Back in 2003 mobile phones were still banned for all but the top party and military elite.
I had to leave mine behind in China or risk having it confiscated. Now, I'm told, many have cell phones, and this trip I am bringing mine with me.
But there is no internet in North Korea. The country is still one of the most impoverished and isolated in the world. There is one state TV channel and one state radio station.
The three Nobel laureates I am travelling with are hoping to chip away a tiny bit at that isolation, to meet North Korean university students, to establish a dialogue.
It is a noble aim. As Churchill famously said, "Jaw jaw is always better than war war."
But many have tried to engage with North Korea. China, Russia, the US, South Korea and Japan have all been trying for decades. Now even China, North Korea's closest ally, is fed up.
Last month President Xi Jinping agreed to tighten economic sanctions against the North in response to its latest nuclear test.
If Pyongyang is trying to reach out to the world it has a very strange way of showing it.
Britain's Olympic long jump champion suffered whiplash at a Diamond League meeting in Birmingham last month.
Rutherford, 29, says there is a "one in four chance" he will not recover from his condition, called cochlear hydrops.
"I hope it won't affect my jumping," said the Englishman, who will compete at this week's European Championships.
He added: "If it wasn't Olympic year, I would quite possibly be taking some time out to get it sorted. But I like winning medals."
The Rio Olympics begin on 5 August.
Problems for individuals become worse because treatment is not available, says a report by the Children, Young People and Education committee.
The number of youngsters referred to the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) doubled between 2010 and 2014, it found.
The Welsh government said it was already tackling the issue.
But in its report on Tuesday, the committee said it had "serious concerns" about CAMHS and asked if enough money was provided for the service.
Local council cuts "will have a significant and on-going impact on wider provision", the report added.
AMs were also worried at the use of prescription medicines for younger children as the "only mechanism available to manage their conditions".
Aled Roberts, a Liberal Democrat member of the committee, said it was a "damning report".
"Children and young people in Wales suffering from mental health issues have continuously been let down by the lack of appropriate services available," he said.
"There is a clear disparity in spending with regard to mental health.
"I see no valid reason for that to be the case and this should be looked at as matter of urgency."
Committee chair Ann Jones AM said: "We believe that this is an important moment for CAMHS in Wales.
"It presents a much needed opportunity to modernise the service so that it is fit for purpose and able to meet the needs of children and young people in a modern Wales."
A Welsh government spokesman said: "We have already taken action to tackle the issues identified - with an extra £250,000 a year being invested in the CAMHS services to ensure more young people are cared for in Wales, reducing the need for costly out-of-area placements."
Health Minister Mark Drakeford previously told AMs he had ordered a "root and branch" review of CAMHS by Prof Dame Sue Bailey, past president of the Royal Society of Psychiatrists, to modernise the service.
The outgoing left-wing leader and the centre-right president-elect disagree over where the ceremony should be held.
Ms Fernandez bid farewell to a large crowd of her supporters in an emotional speech on Wednesday.
She urged people to take to the streets if they felt betrayed by the new centre-right government.
Mr Macri has now arrived at Congress following a horseback parade that passed thousands of people who were lining the streets. He will take his oath of office before legislators at noon local time (15:00 GMT).
Following his inaugural speech, he will then travel to the presidential palace where he will receive the presidential sash and baton.
Ms Fernandez had insisted that the handover should also take place in Congress, where her party holds a majority of seats.
She argued that both she and her husband and predecessor in office, Nestor Kirchner, had received the symbols of power in Congress and it had therefore become a tradition to be followed.
Mr Macri argued that according to presidential protocol, the handover should be held in the presidential palace, as it did before 2003.
Local media reported that Mr Macri's decision was probably driven not just by tradition but also by a concern that followers of Ms Fernandez could disrupt the ceremony in Congress.
Aides to Mr Macri said they feared her party could fill the gallery with her hardcore supporters.
Annoyed by Mr Macri's insistence, Ms Fernandez announced she would skip both ceremonies altogether.
Mr Macri's party in turn sought a court injunction affirming that Ms Fernandez's term ended at midnight on Wednesday to settle the matter.
As a result, power was temporarily transferred to Senate Speaker Federico Pinedo, who is acting as head of state for 12 hours until Mr Macri's inauguration.
Argentines have been mocking what many of them see as an unbecoming row over protocol.
Many posted unflattering photographs of Ms Fernandez on Twitter under the hashtag CFKverguenzaglobal (CFKglobalshame).
They also expressed surprise that the official Twitter account for the Argentine presidency, @CasaRosadaAR, had been turned into a "Twitter tribute" to Ms Fernandez and her late husband, called @CasaRosada2003-2015
Ms Fernandez and Nestor Kirchner held power in Argentina for those 12 years.
In his inaugural speech, Mr Macri is expected to call for unity and reconciliation.
The conservative politician is not only inheriting a nation divided into supporters and opponents of Ms Fernandez but also burdened with a host of economic problems, correspondents say.
The current administration has been repeatedly accused of being less than transparent about key statistics such as the real rate of inflation.
The soon-to-be president has repeatedly said he could not yet expand on the detail of his economic plans until he was able to ascertain exactly how critical the situation was.
While his middle-class supporters will be expecting a more liberal economic climate, less well-off working class Argentines will be hoping the new administration protects welfare programmes introduced by the previous government.
Mr Macri indeed promised to be a "president for all Argentines", knowing the powerful labour unions will become restless if economic reform turns out to mean cuts.
Without saying so directly, Mr Macri made it abundantly that Ms Fernandez's combative style had damaged Argentina's image abroad.
Rebuilding relations with neighbours in Latin America and allies further afield, is another job at the top of his "to do" list.
Challenges for the new president
Official figures suggest inflation is running at almost 15% but independent analysts put it much higher, at nearly 25%.
Argentina has suffered badly from a slump in commodity prices and foreign currency reserves have plummeted, making attracting external investment difficult.
The country defaulted on its debts last year for a second time in a dispute with hedge funds.
But Ms Fernandez has defended her record in an address to tens of thousands of cheering supporters outside the Casa Rosa presidential palace.
"We believe in what we have achieved so we need to have a positive attitude to ensure that these things will not be destroyed," she said.
"When you feel that those who you trusted and voted for have betrayed you, take up your flags," she added.
She is revered by some Argentines for expanding welfare benefits, nationalising some companies and introducing new civil rights such as gay marriage.
But critics say she created a culture of handouts and clogged Latin America's third-largest economy with interventionist policies.
"It does add a bit of pressure, but it's an honour and a privilege to captain Glamorgan. It is a challenge I would still like to accept," Rudolph told BBC Wales Sport.
Glamorgan finished eighth out of nine in Division Two, but reached the quarter-final of the T20 Blast.
Rudolph praised the team spirit but admits his future is not in his hands.
"If Hugh [chief executive Hugh Morris] feels I'm not the man for the job any more, then I would discuss it with him," he said.
"But those decisions will be made in the off-season."
Rudolph, who has played all formats of the game for South Africa, is promising hard work to improve on his 2016 season record of 659 Championship runs.
"It's been my toughest season, but hopefully I've got enough experience under my belt and when I go back to South Africa I will really work hard to rectify that," the 35-year old said.
With batsmen Colin Ingram and Chris Cooke scheduled to return after missing large parts of the 2016 season through injury, Rudolph believes signing an extra seam bowler will take priority for the county.
"You could pick from a group of seven to eight batters to compete for five, I think that's healthy competition," he said.
"But it would be nice if we could sign another decent seamer. We've been fortunate again that Michael Hogan, Graham Wagg and Timm van der Gugten have bowled a lot of overs without getting injured."
The 25-year-old van der Gugten, who will play for the Netherlands in January, is just relieved to have finished his first first-class season in one piece, finishing as Glamorgan's leading wicket-taker.
"It's been a bit of a shock to the season, but resting a couple of games has helped me. Hopefully I can bowl as many overs next season if not a few more," he said.
"It has's been a good learning curve and hopefully I can take it into next season."
One redeeming factor for Glamorgan supporters has been the emergence of young talent, with Aneurin Donald, Nick Selman, Kiran Carlson and Owen Morgan all hitting centuries, while teenage seamer Lukas Carey claimed 13 wickets in three matches to top the Championship bowling averages.
"At the start of the season I wasn't sure where my cricket was heading," admitted Morgan.
"But with nine first-class games, I'm in a better place going into this winter.
"I'll be still working hard on the bowling, keep the batting up alongside that and hopefully become a genuine all-rounder."
In 2015, the European Commission said it would investigate whether Google "abused its dominant position" and "hindered the development" of rivals.
Google argued Android was a "flexible" platform that had "expanded competition" rather than hurting it.
The European Commission told the BBC it would carefully consider Google's response before making a decision.
The Android operating system is open source, with a majority of the code available for device manufacturers to take, modify and use for free.
Companies are free to take the code and develop it into their own operating system - shopping giant Amazon has done so with its Fire OS.
However, manufacturers must negotiate with Google if they wish to add Google Mobile Services (GMS), which include the popular Google Play app store, Chrome web browser and Google Search app.
The European Commission is investigating whether Google:
Google faces a fine and could be required to change its practices if it is found guilty.
The search giant has not denied offering phone-makers incentives to exclusively pre-install Google apps, or that it offers Search, Chrome and the Play app store as a bundle.
But it argued:
"We do offer manufacturers a suite of apps so that when you buy a new phone, you can access a familiar set of basic services," the company said in a blog.
"Android's competitors - including Apple's iPhone and Microsoft's Windows phone - not only do the same, but they allow much less choice in the apps that come with their phones."
In April, Ms Vestager indicated that she believed Google had broken antitrust rules.
"Based on our investigation thus far, we believe that Google's behaviour denies consumers a wider choice of mobile apps and services and stands in the way of innovation by other players," she said.
FairSearch Europe - one of the organisations to have complained about Google's behaviour - said the company's response was "disingenuous".
"The European Commission's case against Google is vital for consumers, because four out of five smartphones sold today run on Android," it said in a statement.
The European Commission did not indicate how long it would take to reach a decision.
In February, Badminton was among seven Olympic sports to lose funding despite Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis winning doubles bronze at Rio 2016.
"We are working through an unprecedented financial situation as a consequence of the recent funding decisions," Badminton England performance director Jon Austin said.
The Sudirman Cup starts on 21 May.
The event in Gold Coast, Australia, is seen as an unofficial test event for English players ahead of next year's Commonwealth Games to be held in the same city.
England finished ninth in the last edition of the World Mixed Team Championships, which take place every two years.
"We have had to consider the investments we make very carefully," Austin added.
"The pressures we are facing right now, both through the people resource and financial investment needed, means we are regrettably not in a position to commit to the Sudirman Cup this year."
Badminton England received around £5.5m between London 2012 and 2016 and was left "staggered" when it had its funding pulled, despite beating a Rio Games performance target set by elite sport funding body UK Sport.
Yn ystod ei hymweliad mae prif weinidog y DU yn cyfarfod prif weinidog Cymru, Carwyn Jones, yn ogystal â chynrychiolwyr o nifer o fusnesau a sectorau.
Byddai Bargen Ddinesig Bae Abertawe yn hybu technoleg ddigidol a gwelliannau mewn meysydd fel gofal iechyd ac ynni.
Bwriad y cytundeb yw creu miloedd o swyddi a denu £2bn yn rhagor o fuddsoddiad dros 15 mlynedd.
Daw ymweliad Theresa May â Chymru ar yr un diwrnod a chyhoeddi dyddiad pan fydd Llywodraeth y DU yn gweithredu Erthygl 50 - sef teclyn cyfreithiol o fewn Cytundeb Lisbon 2009 sy'n galluogi i wledydd adael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd.
Bydd Erthygl 50 yn cael ei gweithredu ar 29 Mawrth.
Bydd y prosiectau ar draws ardaloedd Abertawe, Sir Gâr, Castell-nedd Port Talbot a Sir Benfro yn cynnwys:
Bydd £241m o arian y cynllun yn dod gan lywodraethau Cymru a'r DU, £360m gan gyrff cyhoeddus eraill - cynghorau, addysg uwch a'r Undeb Ewropeaidd - a £673m gan gwmnïau preifat.
Dywedodd Mrs May: "Mae'r cytundeb yn esiampl wych o beth all gael ei gyflawni pan mae Llywodraeth y DU, Llywodraeth Cymru ac awdurdodau lleol yn gweithio gyda'i gilydd i sicrhau bargen sydd o fudd i'r ddinas a Chymru gyfan."
Fe ddywedodd Mr Jones y byddai'r fargen ddinesig yn "sicrhau swyddi a thwf economaidd i bob cwr o'r de-orllewin".
"Mae hyn yn dangos ymarferoldeb bargeinion dinesig ar gyfer gwahanol rannau o Gymru, ac rydyn ni am weld hyn yn digwydd yn y gogledd hefyd," meddai.
"Rydyn ni'n croesawu ymrwymiad Llywodraeth y Deyrnas Unedig yn y gyllideb ddiweddar i Fargen Dwf Gogledd Cymru, ac fe fyddwn yn symud ymlaen gyda'r trafodaethau ar y cynigion."
Dywedodd AC Plaid Cymru, Dr Dai Lloyd, ei fod yn croesawu'r fargen fel "cyfle unigryw i ddatblygu cyfleon economaidd yn yr ardal."
Ond ychwanegodd mai "un prosiect o nifer sydd angen eu delifro" yw'r fargen.
"Mae angen i Lywodraeth y DU gymryd camau 'mlaen o ran delifro Morlyn Llanw Bae Abertawe, a thrydaneiddio'r rheilffordd i Abertawe - rhannau allweddol yn jig-sô newid tirlun economaidd de orllewin Cymru."
Mae disgwyl i'r trafodaethau rhwng Mrs May a Mr Jones ganolbwyntio ar sut all pob rhan o'r DU, gan gynnwys Cymru, geisio gwneud y mwyaf o'r cyfleoedd fydd yn codi yn sgil Brexit.
"Mae gan brifysgolion Cymru eisoes enw ardderchog yn rhyngwladol, gan ddenu myfyrwyr o dramor ac arwain mewn prosiectau ymchwil yma a thu hwnt," meddai Mrs May.
"Rydw i hefyd am i Gymru fod ar flaen y gad o ran gwyddoniaeth ac arloesi - fel sy'n cael ei ddangos gyda'r fargen ddinesig nodedig i Abertawe heddiw."
The box tree caterpillar - the larva of a moth - is native to Asia and feeds on box plants, commonly used in formal gardens for hedges and shrubbery.
First found in the UK in 2011, it was initially limited to London but is now spreading across south-east England.
It is the first time in nearly a decade that slugs and snails are not top of the society's most-unwanted list.
Invasive bug 'could spread in UK'
The list is based on the enquiries about pests received by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) entomology team (insect experts) in 2015, of which the box tree caterpillar accounted for 433 (17%).
Slugs and snails were second in the list (122 enquiries) of the top 10 pests, followed by:
Box tree caterpillars (Diaphania perspectalis) feed within webbing and can completely defoliate box (Buxus) plants.
The moths lay overlapping sheets of pale yellow eggs on the underside of box leaves. Once hatched, the larvae begin chomping their way through their host plant.
Reaching around 4cm long, they spin webs around leaves and twigs to conceal and protect themselves.
The RHS says gardeners can physically remove the caterpillars by hand or use a biological control or insecticide.
While the adult moth was first reported in the UK in 2008, caterpillars were not found in private gardens until 2011. By the end of 2014 the moth had become established in parts of London and surrounding counties.
Experts believe the moth originated in China and either flew across the English Channel or stowed away in containers of imported plants.
However, the caterpillar has nothing to do with the disease known as box blight, caused by a fungus that attacks plants, leaving them with bare patches and dieback - a condition where it dies from the tip of its leaves backwards.
Last year was a bad year for box plants, as box blight was one of the most commonly reported garden diseases, the RHS said.
Box blight poses a serious risk to UK horticultural heritage as box plants provide the structure of many historic formal gardens, according to experts.
The experts said high temperatures and rainfall in the spring led to a spike in enquiries about box blight as the weather created perfect conditions for the disease.
And the warmest, wettest December on record meant there was an unexpected rise in enquiries about the disease when it would normally be suppressed by cold conditions.
Jim Tinney tells KTRK-TV that he was trying to do the right thing when he intervened as thieves stole valuables.
"In the Army, they train you to do things like that", he said, describing how he thrust an extension pole at the shoplifters' feet as they fled.
A Home Depot spokesman says his actions were "a very serious safety risk".
The incident happened about two weeks ago, when Mr Tinney says he saw three men flee the store as they carried expensive tools.
Despite his attempts, the men got away, and Mr Tinney was fired from his job after he acknowledged that he violated the company's policy which only permits trained security personnel to confront shoplifters.
"I think they could have written me up, reprimanded me. But terminate me? That's pretty strong," Mr Tinney told KTRK-TV.
"I'm 70 years old. I need to work. I needed that job. I enjoyed working with customers figuring out what they wanted to do. It's fun."
Home Depot spokesman Stephen Holmes said the policy is in place for safety reasons.
"We've had deaths and serious injury over the years, and no amount of merchandise is more important than the safety of our associates and customers," he said in a statement to local media.
"Last week, we had an associate bitten. We've had stabbings, another associate with serious brain damage, and it goes on from there.
"In fact, in just the past 24 hours we've had two shoplifters pull guns at two different stores at both ends of the country. So you can see, it's a very serious safety risk to everyone, even when it doesn't appear to be."
The RSPCA Centre at West Hatch took in 15 seals at the end of November and more have arrived in the last few days.
Centre worker Jo Schmit said: "The mark now is around 30 but we expecting to take more in from the Welsh coast."
The influx follows the closure of a seal rehab centre in Milford Haven last year. All the orphans rescued this year are grey seals.
The seals are given names based on a theme - this year the centre turned to Bond as as the inspiration.
Various animal rescue charities are informed of the whereabouts of the seals by members of the public who spot them washed up on the shores.
British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) then monitors the creatures for 24 to 48 hours to check they are orphans and are not just there while the adult seals hunt for food.
Once they are identified as orphans, charities including the RSPCA, BDMLR and North Devon Animal Ambulance transport them in kennels to West Hatch.
"We have Stamper, and Vargas, Mallory and Blofeld who is one of our longer-staying residents," Ms Schmit said.
"He's been living with us for a while and he has been living up to his reputation."
She added: "Every seal is a complete individual, some will learn very very soon, even from white coat stage they might start shredding fish up.
"With Goldfinger, he's been here quite a while... we have to try to weigh up whether he's being lazy or whether he doesn't get it."
On arrival, the seals are checked for wounds and given a course of antibiotics if needed.
They are also monitored to ensure they gain weight and are warm enough.
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The 33-year-old world champion made three century breaks and six further half-centuries to win 10-7 and claim the title for the second time in York.
But his gritty style of play has often been questioned by viewers and pundits, who claim he is too slow and boring.
"With the criticism I get, it inspires me even more," he told BBC Sport.
"It makes me want to try harder."
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Selby became only the sixth player to win both the World and UK titles in the same year, and only the sixth player to twice complete the Triple Crown - which also includes the Masters.
The Leicester man has now won 10 ranking titles, taking him into joint-eighth position alongside Jimmy White.
Having gone 6-2 ahead in the first session, which included two frames lasting over half an hour, he responded to O'Sullivan's onslaught in the evening session by reeling off back-to-back centuries to triumph.
"I understand not everyone out there is going to play as naturally as Ronnie, he is a one-off," said Selby.
"You see people who are naturally talented and others have to work hard. I hold my hands up to know I have to work at it but I would rather it be that way."
Asked if his victory was sweet as it came against O'Sullivan, Selby replied: "To beat Ronnie is great. In my eyes, if he plays in every tournament then he is still the best player and the one to beat. To play him in a major final and to win is a great feeling."
O'Sullivan admitted after his final-frame win over Marco Fu in the semi-finals that he would be the underdog against Selby.
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'The Rocket' has now been beaten by Selby in the finals of all three Triple Crown events, and called him 'The Torturer' in his autobiography in reference to his style of play.
O'Sullivan, 41 on Monday, said: "It seems like when someone plays me it is a cup final for them, like Stephen Hendry in his day. Whoever he played, it was a big match.
"As long as I continue to play, whoever I play, it will be big. People like playing someone who has won so many tournaments. It is like Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic in tennis. They stand out from everyone else."
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The Help-to-Buy Mortgage Guarantee scheme is likely to have helped more than 100,000 individuals or couples buy a home.
The Council of Mortgage Lenders said it had worked "exceptionally well", making mortgages more available when it started in October 2013.
However Shelter has argued that the scheme helped to push up house prices.
Under the programme, borrowers were able to get a mortgage with just a 5% deposit. If those borrowers were unable to make payments, the government promised to compensate the lender.
But around 30 banks or building societies now offer similar high loan-to-value loans, so the Bank of England declared in September that the scheme is no longer necessary.
The Help-to-Buy Equity Loan scheme - which is only available on new-build homes - will remain on offer until 2020, in England alone.
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So far the Mortgage Guarantee scheme has cost the taxpayer a relatively small amount of money.
Up to 30 September, only two home-owners had defaulted on their mortgages, meaning that the Treasury has had to pay out just £17,411 to compensate mortgage lenders.
In the long run it has set aside a potential £12bn to pay out in compensation.
With interest rates at record lows, default rates have also been minimal.
However when interest rates eventually rise, more borrowers are likely to default on mortgage payments, so the Treasury may have to pay out more.
The guarantee on such mortgages - and thus taxpayers' liability - lasts for seven years after they are taken out.
As a result the Treasury won't know the final cost of the scheme until June 2024.
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Aya Parker died in the early hours of Sunday morning despite the efforts of police and paramedics at a property in Britton Gardens in Kingswood, Bristol.
Lee Parker, 33, of Britton Gardens, appeared before Bristol Magistrates' Court on Thursday to face the murder charge.
He was remanded in custody to appear before the court again on Friday.
Mr Parker was charged on Wednesday.
At the short hearing, no details about the case were given and he was not asked to enter a plea.
Chair of the bench Louise Perkins told Mr Parker that his case would now be dealt with by the crown court.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said it was too risky, and claims of up to 6,000 jobs were "overstated".
Michael Carrick said none of the government's reasons for rejecting the racetrack were raised during 28 meetings with civil servants.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said the matter had been handled "by the book".
The developers of Circuit of Wales wanted a guarantee to underwrite the cost of the £433m motor racing track and leisure scheme in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent. But Welsh Government said there was a risk ministers would end up with taking on £373m in debt.
The scheme received £9m in public money from the Welsh Government before ministers decided on Tuesday not to offer further support.
Instead, Mr Skates set out plans to invest £100m in a new business park close to the site of the proposed circuit which it believes could attract 1,500 jobs.
Mr Carrick said of the Welsh Government: "They have not shared their concerns with us. After 28 meetings [in the last year], none of these points were communicated to us."
He claimed that without the construction of a racetrack with testing facilities, the government would struggle to attract companies to Blaenau Gwent.
"They have picked these job figures on the back of a fag packet. It is nonsense," he said of the business park idea.
"We have had seven years of due diligence and evidence. If they think companies are simply going to come without any other reason then they are wrong.
"The question on the automotive park is what diligence has the government done?
"What feasibilities studies have they undertaken before committing £100m?"
Mr Carrick said no final decision had been made about whether to continue to pursue the project without government support.
He said a number of senior members of the team at the Heads of the Valleys Development Company were due to lose their houses in the wake of the decision, and more than £50m committed to the project by dozens of companies had been put at risk.
Meanwhile First Minister Carwyn Jones has defended the Welsh Government's handling of the Circuit of Wales project.
"I wanted to see it work," he told BBC TV's The Wales Report programme.
"What I wanted to do was to give every single opportunity for the Circuit of Wales to come up with scheme that would work as far as the taxpayer was concerned.
"If we are going to be accused of anything, then perhaps it's being too open to giving them that opportunity but I wanted that opportunity to be there and unfortunately it didn't work out."
The Welsh Labour leader claimed the government had handled Circuit of Wales "by the book" and had "properly protected the tax-payer".
"The circuit itself would have provided only around 100 full-time jobs," he said.
"The thousands of jobs would have been created in the technology park which we are now going ahead with."
"We are confident that we can create most of the jobs that the circuit would have created in any event."
Ian Price, director of business organisation CBI Wales, said he supported the "very, very difficult decision" and denied suggestions that it would damage Wales' reputation as a place to do business.
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Court records for that period show 7,143 mothers were involved in repeat care cases - affecting 22,790 children.
Researchers found children were taken away from their parents by local authorities in more than 90% of cases.
The research was carried out by the Universities of Brunel and Manchester and funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
This is the first time such data has been produced.
It backs up what judges have observed in their own courts for many years - that many mothers are stuck in a destructive cycle of pregnancies and care proceedings.
The courts remove a young child or baby from a mother, owing to abuse or neglect, only to see the same mother return to court a year or two later, with a new baby, and unable to care for that one either. Most misuse drink or drugs - or both.
Nicholas Crichton recently retired after many years as a judge in the family court.
He said: "The work of the family courts for years has been removing the second, the third, the fourth child from the same mother. Not infrequently the sixth, the seventh, the eight.
"In one case I've removed the 14th and I know two judges that have removed the 15th child from the same mother."
According to the research, half the women involved are 24 or below at the time of the first care application, with the youngest being 14. Their babies are often removed quickly, at birth or soon afterwards.
Dr Karen Broadhurst of the University of Manchester, lead author of the research, told the BBC that "in approximately 42% of cases, infants were subject to care proceedings within a month of their birth, which is an important finding".
"We know that in 70% of cases infants were subject to proceedings within the first year of their life, which obviously leaves the mother with very little time to turn her life around."
She also said the gaps between care proceedings were short for these mothers.
"We think there is an average of 17 months between the first time a mum appears in court with an infant and the second time she appears in court with another infant.
"It suggests to us there's a very short interval between pregnancies, which gives mums very little time to engage in their own rehab."
Dr Broadhurst argued that the research demonstrates the need for family courts to change their approach, to help these women change their behaviour.
"We also need to get better at ensuring those young parents can access the treatment that's recommended within the family court."
One pioneering new approach is that of the Strengthening Families Project, funded by Salford Council.
A community midwife, Wendy Warrington, and a specialist social worker, Elly Siddall, run workshops for pregnant women who risk losing their new baby, because they or their partner have already had at least one child taken into care.
Their approach is direct and hard-hitting. One Thursday afternoon, in a health centre in Eccles, Ms Warrington told a group of mothers-to-be about the side effects of drinking during pregnancy.
"They're born early, there's an increased risk of stillbirth," she said, pulling up graphic images on her whiteboard. "There's definitely abnormal brain development. Risk of loss of limbs, fingers, toes."
The women were visibly shocked. More disturbing images followed, of babies damaged by drug-taking mothers. One woman broke down in tears, worried she had already hurt her child through drinking.
The project has been running for two-and-a-half years and early results are promising. More mothers are succeeding in keeping their babies at home. For Salford Council, that is money saved - foster care is expensive. For the mothers who keep their babies, it is a new chance.
One young woman, in her early 20s, whose two eldest children had been adopted as babies, said: "It was just a mess. I had two children taken into care, though not of my own fault, through my past partner, my oldest little girl's dad. He battered her when she was three-and-a-half months old."
She became pregnant again - and the new baby was taken away from the hospital very soon after birth by Salford Children's Services. She was devastated, suffered from postnatal depression, and missed her two babies.
Like many women in this situation, she wanted to have another child as soon as possible. For her third pregnancy, however, she came to the Strengthening Families project.
She found it supportive and honest, saying: "They will tell you straight and that is what people need."
Ms Warrington and Ms Siddall also provide informal support to the mothers in the project, regularly calling them, sometimes visiting at home, to make sure they're looking after themselves and their unborn child. The team help write reports for the Family Court.
This project has been going for two-and-a-half years, whereas the pioneering Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) set up by Mr Crichton in central London has been running since 2008.
Last month the Nuffield Foundation found FDAC had helped 35% of mothers become reunited with their children, compared with 19% in the ordinary family courts.
The FDAC has its own team of experts, doctors, therapists and expert social workers from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and the children's charity Coram.
Most parents in care cases have problems with drugs or alcohol. The FDAC's team helps them kick their addictions and, like the Strengthening Families Project, teaches them how to be better parents.
It is funded by London local authorities who, like Salford, recognised the benefits to their budgets of keeping children out of care, even though the cost of this court is higher than that of the ordinary family court.
One other FDAC has been opened in Gloucester, another is planned, but so far expansion has been slow.
This spring the president of the family court, Sir James Munby, praised the court and said: "FDAC is - it must be - a vital component in the new family court." He has said there should be an FDAC in every family court in England.
Nicholas Crichton believes the new research underlines the need for the expansion of projects which help parents break the destructive cycle.
"The emotional cost to those families, and to their children, is immense but the financial cost to the taxpayer is immense as well and we really have to find a different way of dealing with these cases."
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The first evening meeting takes place at Ysgol Dyffryn Ogwen in Bethesda on Monday, with informal drop-ins starting on Tuesday at Y Felinheli.
The council's Gwynedd Challenge consultation has been launched amid concerns it faces tough decisions due to budget cuts.
Councillors will decide which services to protect and which to cut in 2016.
One unpopular idea is to close public access on Barmouth bridge to save £30,000 a year, which would mean walkers and cyclists facing a 16-mile (26 km) diversion.
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The midfielder cracked home a sweetly-hit volley from 25 yards.
Livi responded with a thunderous Nicky Cadden free-kick, expertly tipped over by East Fife goalie Ryan Goodfellow.
Jamie Insall headed just wide for the visitors, while Dale Carrick hit the crossbar for Livi late on, while East Fife cleared off the line at the death.
Second Half ends, Livingston 0, East Fife 1.
Attempt missed. Liam Buchanan (Livingston) header from very close range is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Dale Carrick (Livingston) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt blocked. Dale Carrick (Livingston) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Dale Carrick (Livingston) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Attempt blocked. Liam Buchanan (Livingston) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Dale Carrick (Livingston) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Declan Gallagher (Livingston).
Chris Duggan (East Fife) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alan Lithgow (Livingston).
Chris Kane (East Fife) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Scott Robinson (East Fife) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Shaun Byrne (Livingston) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Scott Robinson (East Fife).
Substitution, Livingston. Dale Carrick replaces Nicky Cadden.
Substitution, East Fife. Chris Duggan replaces Jamie Insall.
Attempt saved. Mark Lamont (East Fife) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Nicky Cadden (Livingston) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, East Fife. Mark Lamont replaces Ross Brown.
Attempt saved. Scott Pittman (Livingston) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Livingston. Conceded by James Penrice.
Liam Buchanan (Livingston) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jason Kerr (East Fife).
Attempt blocked. Shaun Byrne (Livingston) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Josh Mullin (Livingston) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James Penrice (East Fife).
Corner, Livingston. Conceded by Jonathan Page.
Substitution, Livingston. Josh Mullin replaces Raffaele De Vita.
Attempt missed. Jamie Insall (East Fife) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Foul by Nicky Cadden (Livingston).
Kevin Smith (East Fife) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Raffaele De Vita (Livingston) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt blocked. Kevin Smith (East Fife) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Raffaele De Vita (Livingston).
Ross Brown (East Fife) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Jason Kerr (East Fife) header from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Raffaele De Vita (Livingston).
Ross Brown (East Fife) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, East Fife. Conceded by Craig Halkett.
Craig Halkett (Livingston) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jacobs, from Yorkshire, competed in the Ryder Cup in 1955, before captaining the side twice, most notably in 1979 when European players competed for the first time.
But it was in his coaching career and role in establishing the European Tour that he will be best remembered for.
He served as the Tour's tournament director-general from 1971 to 1975.
"John's legacy to golf is well-documented," said Dr Kyle Phillpots, the PGA's executive director.
"In addition to his accomplishments as a player, coach and administrator, he is the person who made the European Tour happen and he is widely acknowledged as the father of modern golf coaching."
Iain Carter, BBC golf correspondent
John Jacobs was one of professional golf's most influential figures, having enjoyed a successful but relatively modest playing career.
He played in the 1955 Ryder Cup and won a handful of tournaments, but was renowned for being a visionary coach and administrator. The Yorkshireman was the founding father of the European Tour, using his coaching contacts to attract players and take the game to the continent.
He became tournament director general and paved the way for Ken Schofield to take over the running of the Tour. Jacobs twice captained European Ryder Cup teams in 1979 and 1981.
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A community and arts use for part of the building was a stipulation of any agreement and Penarth-based TS Developments signed a lease on Friday.
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Currently, people in England and Wales can challenge punishments given for the most serious terror offences under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.
But under the changes - which come into effect on 8 August - sentences for 19 other crimes will be open to challenge.
Calls for the extension came after hate preacher Anjem Choudary was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison.
His crime - inviting support for so-called Islamic State - was not previously covered by the scheme.
New crimes that can be reviewed under the ULS scheme include supporting proscribed organisations, encouraging terrorism, sharing terrorist propaganda, or not disclosing information about a terrorist attack.
The new scheme will not be applied retrospectively.
The Ministry of Justice said only a small portion of the 80,000 Crown Court cases heard each year were reviewed.
Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC said: "The ULS scheme allows victims of crime, their families and the public to request a sentence review if they feel it's too low.
"Widening the scheme to include terrorism offences will allow us to challenge more sentences and is a welcome first step to extending it even further."
Justice minister Dominic Raab said the legislation was "making sure those who radicalise young people, and those who wilfully and culpably turn a blind eye to terrorist activity feel the full force of the law".
The ULS scheme was recently used to increase the prison sentence for a man who killed his ex-girlfriend in a "violent and protracted way" from eight years to 12-and-a-half years.
Rhys Hobbs, 46, of Tonna in Neath, killed Andrea Lewis, 51, in her home in Fairyland Road, on 30 January 2016. She was found with 43 injuries including to her skull and torso.
Gouffran, 31, made over 140 appearances for the Magpies, scoring 19 goals, after arriving from Bordeaux in 2013.
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The Irishman, who is 48 on Tuesday, oversaw a 16½-11½ win over the United States at Gleneagles in September.
While US skipper Tom Watson faced criticism, McGinley was praised for his organisation and management.
He will join up again with Ryder Cup player Rory McIlroy as Ireland golf team leader at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
"I'm very, very honoured," said McGinley, before paying tribute to the Gleneagles crowd.
"I need to thank the people of Scotland. Your support was huge. I had 12 great players, 12 great personalities and a great backroom team and vice captains," the four-time winner of the Ryder Cup added.
"My plan as coach was to allow the vice-captains to follow each game. I had a plan and was getting the information fed in and was plotting the next move.
"We never had one hand on the cup. A lot of thought went in to the order. I did not think of myself as a cheerleader. I was managing the situation as best as possible," said the Irishman.
Just after Europe retained the Ryder Cup, McIlroy said: "I think I speak on behalf of all the 12 players and say he couldn't have done anything else. He was fantastic."
Lee Westwood, playing in his ninth Ryder Cup this year, said McGinley had laid down the blueprint for future European Ryder Cup captains, while Spaniard Sergio Garcia, a veteran of seven Ryder Cups, suggested he had modernised the role.
Speaking with BBC Radio 5 live afterwards, McGinley also paid tribute to the input of former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson:
"Alex Ferguson was great. I met him infrequently over 10 years and then met him in Manchester a year ago over some lunch with wine. He paid!
"We went to a nice place where he goes and spent a large number of hours. The reason why I chose him is because he went through many of the dynamics with Man United.
"They were a great team to watch and we had the same dynamics. That brings a lot of expectation. There are all things we've dealt with."
Workers were "shocked and devastated" as it was confirmed Murco in Milford Haven would be converted to a storage and distribution facility.
The sale to the Swiss-based Klesch Group was called off on Tuesday night after certain conditions were not met.
David Cameron was asked about the closure in Prime Minister's Questions.
Mr Cameron said in response to a question about the Klesch Group from Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP Tom Greatrex: "It's very disappointing what has happened at Milford Haven and we will continue to work with the company concerned and try to find employment opportunities for all those who work there."
Welsh Secretary and local MP Stephen Crabb called the news a "hammer blow for the local economy".
The collapse comes after months of work behind the scenes which saw close co-operation between the Welsh and UK governments.
In addition to its own workforce, the refinery is understood to support a further 4,200 jobs in the area.
Murco's American owners Murphy Oil said it had no choice in the decision.
The refinery, which employs 400 people, will now enter a shut-down period and will be decommissioned while the company looks for a new buyer.
According to the Unite union, the refinery also employs a further 200 contract workers.
The collapse of the deal to see the Milford Haven Murco refinery represents another blow to a once-thriving oil industry in west Wales.
The Suez crisis of the 1950s led to the development of the deep-water harbour in Milford to allow big tankers moving crude oil to dock.
Between 1960 and 1973 four American companies - Esso, Texaco, Gulf and Amoco - had opened refineries there, and BP had set up a terminal to serve its refinery at Llandarcy in Swansea.
So where did it all go wrong?
Allan Card, regional officer for the Unite union, said it was an "incredibly difficult moment" for workers at the plant.
"It's bitterly disappointing to have come so far, after so much hard work and to get to the 11th hour for it to fail," said Mr Card.
"Over the weekend we were picking up messages that there was some sort of glitch but I was under the impression that it wasn't serious enough to stop the signing by the end of the week."
A woman whose daughter works at the site said the news was devastating.
"She's worked here for seven years. She's got a little boy, she doesn't know what she's going to do now," the woman told BBC News.
"She doesn't know if her job is safe - they're not telling them anything."
The wife of another worker said they had received the news via email on Tuesday night, adding: "We're shocked and devastated to be honest."
Patricia Calderon, contract process manager at the site, said: "We're running a water treatment plant, but that's now not happening.
"I'm lucky, I can go into other places and in my case that's fine, but it is disappointing for the other workers.
"They're waiting to hear what's happening officially from Murco."
A sub-contractor from Narberth arriving at the site said the deal falling through would be a major blow to families.
"It's very sad. You're going to have lots of young families without work," he said.
"It's going to have a big impact on the community. They won't find jobs like this on these wages in this area. It'll mean travelling now."
The sale to the Swiss group was agreed in the summer, and was supposed to be signed off last Friday, but that date was extended into this week.
Klesch Group founder Gary Klesch told BBC Wales in July "thousands of jobs" would be secure at the Milford Haven site in the deal the company had agreed with Murphy Oil.
However the group has declined to comment following Tuesday's announcement.
Mr Crabb, MP for Pembrokeshire which covers Milford Haven, said the deal had all looked to be on track until late last week when it "started to unwind" over the weekend.
"There was a fog of confusion over the weekend over why the deal wasn't happening," said Mr Crabb. "The problem wasn't on the government's side, the problem wasn't on the seller's side. The problem was the buyer wasn't finally in a position to do the deal.
"That suggests that there were perhaps problems with the financing at the last minute."
Mr Crabb added: "The loss of those jobs will leave a very big hole in the economic activity of west Wales and it will take a number of years for the local economy to recover.
"It does feel very much like it's reached the end point. We're very, very disappointed."
Bryan Kelly, vice-president of UK operations for Murco, said despite every effort on the company's part, they had "been denied the desired outcome.
He told BBC Wales on Wednesday: "We're all disappointed and frustrated that despite four years of our best efforts to find a buyer for the refinery who would continue to operate it as such, we have been unable to do so.
Mr Kelly said the refinery would now be turned into a storage and distribution site, and added: "We know that's difficult news for our employees."
He said because the negotiations were commercially sensitive he could not go into details of what had happened, but explained: "There were a number of conditions that both parties agreed had to be met and unfortunately those conditions were not met."
He said macroeconomic conditions in the refinery business in Europe as a whole had been a factor in the outcome, and believed that after speaking to dozens of potential buyers in the past few years they had now exhausted the possibility of selling the refinery as a going concern.
Mr Kelly confirmed only around 50 to 60 jobs would be retained to operate the storage and distribution terminal.
It has been a story of great hope followed by bitter blow. Twice it has looked like the Murco oil refinery would be saved, only for the deal to collapse close to completion.
The Klesch Group has just entered into a major deal to buy large parts of Tata Steel's operations in the UK and Europe, though that does not include Tata's Welsh facilities.
Perhaps then the sale of the refinery at Milford Haven was squeezed off the agenda as the bigger takeover became the priority for Klesch.
It is a devastating blow to the workers at the site and also to the local community.
It is estimated the refinery contributes £30m a year to the economy in Pembrokeshire and supports a further 4,200 jobs in the area.
Murco says there are no other buyers for the refinery so it will now begin the decommissioning process.
Murco's owners visited the site on Wednesday morning and sent a message to the workforce expressing "disappointment and frustration".
They said in a statement: "You, our employees, continue to be our number one priority, and we remain committed to doing all we can to ensure you are supported through this very difficult time."
Mr Kelly announced workers would receive a "generous" redundancy package of at least 30 weeks' pay.
"I have spoken to some workers today and they share our feeling of frustration and disappointment."
Pembrokeshire council has already been in touch with the Welsh government to reconvene the Murco task force, originally been set up to help Murphy Oil find a buyer for the site.
Its leader Jamie Adams said the group would meet next week.
"There was always a plan B," he said, adding they had always feared this day would come while hoping it would not.
He promised they would do everything possible to "soften the blow".
Mr Adams said around one-sixth of Wales' exports came from the refinery, meaning the closure had wider significance beyond the south west of the county.
Councillor Huw George, cabinet member for environmental and regulatory services, told BBC Wales the news was a terrible blow for the area.
He said: "We are a major employer in the energy division of the UK. However we must try to open our eyes and see what else is available.
"We will have to move forward quickly to create those pathways so the employees of Murco can move quickly on to new employment."
The crowding turned into a crush and 96 people died, with hundreds more being injured.
It was the biggest tragedy in British sporting history.
The question of how the accident happened and who was to blame has been a controversial one.
Now there's been a formal investigation, called an inquest, to come to a decision on how the victims died.
Here's Newsround's guide to the Hillsborough disaster.
More than 24,000 Liverpool fans travelled to Sheffield for the 1989 FA Cup semi-final match against Nottingham Forest.
As they waited for kick-off, a large crowd built up outside Hillsborough stadium. When a gate was opened, thousands of fans went into an already busy part of the ground and many of them got caught up in a crush.
Ninety six people died and hundreds more were injured.
All of the people who died were Liverpool fans who had travelled to Sheffield to support their team. Most of the victims were from Liverpool and Greater Merseyside. Others came from different parts of England.
38 of the victims were children or teenagers. The youngest was ten year old Jon-Paul Gilhooley.
He was cousin of footballer Steven Gerrard, who went on to become the captain of Liverpool FC.
Families of the people who died have campaigned for many years to find out what happened on the day of the disaster.
After it happened, there was a big investigation into what had gone wrong.
This original investigation, called an inquest, came to the decision that the deaths had been an accident and that no-one was to blame.
Many were angry and thought that the disaster hadn't been properly investigated.
People were also upset when some police and newspapers said that the fans themselves were to blame.
In 2012, a High Court decided that the conclusions made by the investigators were not satisfactory, and that another inquest was needed.
An inquest is an investigation into when, where and how a person died.
A group of people called a jury are given information about what happened. This information comes from lots of different places, like accounts from people who were there, police reports and details of the lay-out of the stadium.
The jury then have to consider all of the information that they've been given and come to an agreement on what happened and why.
The inquest has decided that the 96 people who died at Hillsborough were unlawfully killed. This means that their deaths were not an accident, but that the police, ambulance service and other organisations had made mistakes that led to the disaster.
They said that the Liverpool fans were not to blame for the dangerous crowding that led to the accident at the stadium.
The inquest also said that the way the stands at the stadium were designed contributed to the disaster.
After the disaster, changes were made to football stadiums to make them safer, and to stop an accident like this from ever happening again.
Traditionally, stadiums used to be made up of fenced-in terraces where fans would stand to support their teams.
Now, all stadiums have to be all-seater. That makes it much easier to manage the crowds and make sure everyone has enough room.
There also have to be a certain number of stewards working in each area of the stadium to look after people.
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After the Paris attacks in 2015, England fans sang La Marseillaise at the game against France at Wembley.
Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron attended the match in Paris after holding talks.
The Oasis track Don't Look Back In Anger was played by the Republican Guard at the Stade de France.
Fans held up red and white placards to recreate the Flag of St George, and a minute's silence was held with players from both sides lining up together.
The British national anthem was played second - the anthem of the home team is normally second in international fixtures.
England manager Gareth Southgate said: "We are very grateful to the French for offering this tribute to England as a country.
"It's nice that the history between us doesn't come between us at those moments."
Similar tributes took place when England played France at Wembley in November 2015 just days after the terror attacks in Paris.
Discussions between Mrs May and Mr Macron were expected to centre on counter-terrorism.
Eight people were killed and 48 injured when three attackers drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge then stabbed people in Borough Market on 3 June.
The attackers were shot dead by police.
Twenty-two people were killed and 116 injured by a suicide bomber at an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena on 22 May.
In the 17,000 word document, written a year after the war, she laments the loss of "our bravest and best".
The document also highlights concerns about media coverage of the conflict.
It is among a selection of private papers given to the nation by the ex-PM's estate in lieu of inheritance tax.
Other material released include her personal account of the Fontainebleau Summit of European leaders in 1984, when she secured the UK's budget rebate, the final draft of her remarks when she entered Downing Street for the first time in 1979 and the text of her "lady's not for turning speech" at the 1980 Conservative Party conference.
The donation of the papers to the Churchill Archives Centre, which already holds the bulk of the former Conservative leader's personal and political files, has settled an inheritance tax bill in excess of £1m that was owed by her estate.
Lady Thatcher, who died in 2013, was Britain's long-serving post-war prime minister, serving between 1979 and 1990.
The 1982 Falklands conflict, in which a British taskforce recaptured a group of British overseas territories in the South Atlantic after their invasion by Argentine troops, was a defining moment in Margaret Thatcher's premiership.
The 128-page memoir, written at Chequers over the 1983 Easter holiday, is a candid and, at times, highly personal account of the political and diplomatic manoeuvrings in the run-up to the conflict and the conduct of the military campaign itself.
The account of the war, which she described as a "miracle wrought by ordinary men and women with extraordinary qualities", reveals:
Among the most striking passages in the memoir are the former prime minister's reactions to military successes and setbacks during the hostilities, which cost the lives of 255 British servicemen and 655 Argentineans.
Reacting to the attack on HMS Glamorgan, 14 of whose personnel were killed when it was struck by an Exocet missile, she wrote:
"It is impossible to describe the depth of feeling at these times. It is quite unlike anything else I have ever experienced."
It is impossible to describe the depth of feeling at these times. It is quite unlike anything else I have ever experienced. In fights for liberty - we lose our bravest and best..."
"In fights for liberty - we lose our bravest and best. How unjust and heart-breaking. Now we know the sacrifices that previous generations made for us. And at No 10 one was protected and safe - one felt so guilty at the comfort."
Reflecting on the "bitter battle" for Darwin and Goose Green, the most fiercely fought infantry engagement of the war, she praises the personal sacrifice of Lieutenant Colonel Herbert 'H' Jones, who was awarded a Victoria Cross posthumously after leading the attack on Argentine positions.
"At one point it seemed impossible to break through. At that time 'H' made his famous courageous advance. His (Victoria Cross) life was lost but his bravery was the turning point in the battle."
While recognising the contribution made by other ministers, including the "splendid" defence secretary John Nott and deputy prime minister Willie Whitelaw, the prime minister lays bare the differences between her and Mr Pym, who became foreign secretary after his predecessor Lord Carrington's post-invasion resignation.
She notes that she had to overcome his "objections" on a number of occasions, over the establishment of an maritime exclusion zone around the islands and over her belief that any diplomatic solution that rewarded aggression and did not respect the wishes of the islanders for self-determination should be rejected out of hand.
Their differences came to a head after Mr Pym recommended the UK sign up to a US-brokered agreement to avert war which she described as "complete sell-out" and which would lead to a "complete takeover" of the islands by the Argentines.
Mr Pym, she suggested, agreed with the US government which was "sceptical about our capacity to achieve a satisfactory military solution and thought international support would evaporate quickly after the first shot had been fired".
Many of the public (including me) did not like the attitude particularly of the BBC and I was very worried about it. They were sometimes reporting as if they were neutral..."
Mrs Thatcher suggested she would have had to have resign if the war committee sided with Mr Pym rather than her.
"I repeated to Francis that we could not accept them. They were a total retreat from our fundamental position. He said he thought we should accept them. We were at loggerheads.
"A former defence secretary and present foreign secretary of Britain recommending peace at that price," she added. "Had it gone through the (war) committee I could not have stayed."
In the memoir, Lady Thatcher elaborates on her "trouble" with the reporting of the war by the British media, particularly the well-documented battles between the government and broadcasters over the content and tone of their coverage.
"Many of the public, including me, did not like the attitude particularly of the BBC and I was very worried about it. They were sometimes reporting as if they were neutral between Britain and Argentina.
"At other times we felt strongly that they were assisting the enemy by open discussions with experts on the next likely steps in the campaign. This applied to ITV as much as to BBC.
"This of course was the first conflict we had fought without censorship. The media and the government took totally different views. My concern was always the safety of our forces. Theirs was news."
However, she complimented the work of one of the BBC's most senior correspondents, Brian Hanrahan, whose description of a sortie by Royal Navy harrier jets from HMS Hermes was among the most famous of the war.
"The Argentineans were in a position to send photographs to the outside world - we weren't," she wrote.
"They claimed many of our planes were shot down but Brian Hanrahan in a famous broadcast put the record straight when he said 'I counted them all out, and I counted them all back'. What a relief - there was some damage but not a lot."
Traces of campylobacter were found in six samples of unpasteurised milk sold at Low Sizergh Barn Farm in Kendal earlier this month.
Now a further 50 possible cases are being investigated by Public Health England (PHE) and the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
Sales of milk from a vending machine at the farm have been suspended.
Campylobacter is the most common cause of food poisoning and can lead to severe diarrhoea and vomiting.
Farm owner Richard Park said he was co-operating with the investigation and had been "shocked" to discover his milk could be contaminated.
The 50 fresh cases were the result of an online questionnaire which people who had recently visited the farm were asked to complete.
Those affected range in age from a one-year-old to 86.
The FSA said the farm would not be allowed to sell any more raw milk until three consecutive tests showed no further traces of the bacteria.
Mr Park said: "For months I have been testing the milk and getting the right procedures in place.
"But campylobacter wasn't one of the bacteria we were asked to test for so it came as rather a shock when I got the phone call.
"If things go reasonably smoothly, I would say that within a month we'll be back up and running and selling it again."
The farm, which began offering unpasteurised milk from its vending machine in March, sold about 70 litres a day.
In August the farm won a National Trust fine farm produce award for its unpasteurised milk.
Survivors told of horrific conditions. Three men separately said people were stabbed, hanged or thrown overboard.
The 700 rescued migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh are being processed by the Indonesian authorities.
Thousands of migrants are estimated to be adrift in South East Asian waters, denied permission to land.
The BBC's Martin Patience, who spoke to some of the survivors in the Indonesian port of Langsa, cautions that their accounts cannot be verified.
However, three migrants made similar statements in separate conversations.
If true, the claims will add to the growing international pressure on Asian countries to find a solution to this crisis, our correspondent says.
The migrants had wanted to land in Malaysia but say they were driven away by the Malaysian navy.
The boat had reportedly been at sea for two months and had been recently deserted by its crew when it was rescued by Indonesian fishermen on Friday.
The survivors are now being sheltered in warehouses on the shore in Langsa. Many are suffering from malnutrition and dehydration.
On Saturday, the Myanmar government said it was not responsible for the migrant boat crisis and said it might not attend a forthcoming summit on the issue.
As international concern over the migrants grew, Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman held talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Sunday to try to find a solution to the crisis.
Rohingya Muslims have been fleeing Buddhist-majority Myanmar - also known as Burma - because they are not recognised as citizens and face persecution.
Many of the Bangladeshis at sea are thought to be economic migrants.
Early on Sunday there were reported to be at least five people-smuggling boats, carrying up to 1,000 migrants, moored just off the northern coast of Myanmar.
Because Thailand and Malaysia are stopping the boats landing, the smugglers are now reluctant to make the journey but are refusing to release those on board unless ransoms are paid, says the BBC's Jonah Fisher in Myanmar's main city, Yangon (Rangoon).
Town, already guaranteed a Championship play-off spot, lost 2-0 after making 10 changes against struggling Blues.
Tony Mowbray, whose Blackburn side were also battling against relegation, later questioned Huddersfield's line-up.
But after the Terriers gave their observations, it was decided that no disciplinary action would be taken.
The defeat left Mowbray's Rovers in the Championship's bottom three and their relegation - by virtue of goal difference - was confirmed on the final day of the campaign as Blues stayed up.
Meanwhile, Huddersfield won their play-off semi-final against Sheffield Wednesday on penalties to set up a play-off final against Reading on 29 May.
An EFL statement read: "The EFL board accepts that clubs' primary obligation will always be to themselves, however, there is a significant concern that by adopting this approach it could have a detrimental effect on the competiveness and reputation of the league competition.
"Having considered all matters, there is no doubt in the board's mind that Huddersfield Town could have fielded a 'stronger' team, but in the absence of a full and detailed definition of what constitutes 'full strength', there was sufficient scope for the club to make a significant number of changes to its starting line-up."
Huddersfield's challenge to the 'full strength' definition has prompted the EFL to review this prior to its annual general meeting in June.
The statement read: "The board has requested the EFL executive to consider amendments to ensure that the actions of any individual club cannot be seen to negatively impact the credibility and public perception of the competition.
"Proposed revisions will be discussed with all 72 member clubs at the EFL AGM in June."
Emma-Lee Wray, from Carnlough, an A-level student at Ballymena Academy, has been a cadet for five years.
She will be walking by the Queen's side on Thursday at the official birthday party in Windsor Castle.
Emma-Lee is representing Northern Ireland and will be joined by cadets from other UK regions.
Speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Emma-Lee said she had been selected after participating in a Duke of Edinburgh residential.
"There were cadets from England, Scotland and Wales, and we did some adventure training.
"The officials said they saw me excel, but it was so close to April Fool's Day that I thought they were joking!
"I'm still in shock."
Emma-Lee has not yet been given a full list of details about her role during the celebrations, but she believes it will be a "wonderful day".
A special ceremonial style uniform has been custom-made for Emma-Lee to wear during the event.
Debbie-Lee Wray, Emma-Lee's mum, said she is "extremely proud" of her daughter's achievements.
The unprecedented and explosive outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease is causing fear in the affected regions.
While the effects are generally mild, the greatest concern is about a strongly suspected link with brain defects in babies.
There have been no travel bans, but what advice is there for people visiting the regions?
The Pan American Health Organization is publishing updates on the affected countries.
But the virus is expected to spread throughout North, Central and South America, except Canada and Chile, and people should check for the latest advice before travelling.
Only pregnant women have been advised to reconsider their plans to visit countries affected by Zika.
It is thought that within the female body the virus can travel across the placenta and affect the health of an unborn baby.
There has been a surge in microcephaly - in which the baby's brain does not develop properly - in Brazil.
The UK's National Travel Health Network and Centre says pregnant women should reconsider their travel plans, and that any traveller should seek advice from a health professional before departing.
And it adds that pregnant women who have to travel should take "scrupulous" measures to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes.
The US Centers for Disease Control says women trying to get pregnant should "talk to your doctor about your plans to become pregnant and the risk of Zika virus infection [and] strictly follow steps to prevent mosquito bites during your trip."
Zika outbreak: What you need to know
The CDC says Zika lingers in the blood for approximately a week.
And: "The virus will not cause infections in a baby that is conceived after the virus is cleared from the blood.
"There is currently no evidence that Zika virus infection poses a risk of birth defects in future pregnancies."
Zika is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito which is most active during the day.
People are advised to:
Zika outbreak: The mosquito menace
It is thought the virus can persist in semen for two weeks after a man recovers from an infection.
Public Health England is taking a safety-first approach after two suspected cases of sexual transmission.
The organisation says the risk of spreading the virus through sex is "very low".
But it recommends using condoms if you have a pregnant partner or one who might become pregnant.
This should be done for 28 days after coming home if you have no symptoms, and for six months if Zika symptoms do develop.
The US Centers of Disease Control advises either giving up sex or using condoms for the duration of a pregnancy.
Most infections do not result in symptoms, but they may include:
If you have symptoms such as fever, a rash, joint pain or red eyes, which develop either on holiday or when you return, then you should speak to a doctor.
The US Centers for Disease Control says:
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Twelve firms, including Cuadrilla and Ineos, have been given the exclusive right to explore for oil and gas, including fracking.
The exploration sites include areas in the Midlands and the North East.
However, whether exploration can actually go ahead is subject to local planning consent.
The announcement comes after Energy Secretary Amber Rudd said last week that planning decisions on fracking would be speeded up.
The blocks of land, which are typically 100 sq-km, include areas near Lincoln, Nottingham, Sheffield and Preston.
A second group of 132 further blocks could be granted following a consultation.
UK Energy Minister Lord Bourne said: "Keeping the lights on and powering the economy is not negotiable, and these industries will play a key part in providing secure and reliable energy to UK homes and businesses for decades to come."
But Greenpeace campaigner Daisy Sands said that the award of the licences was "the starting gun to the fight for the future of our countryside".
"Hundreds of battles will spring up to defend our rural landscapes from the pollution, noise and drilling rigs that come with fracking."
In an interview with BBC business editor Kamal Ahmed, Cuadrilla chief executive Francis Egan said public fears about fracking were "understandable", but unfounded.
"People have not actually seen much happen on the ground, so what they are reacting to is a lot of stories, and understandable fears... There is always uncertainty when you are hearing about something but you can't actually see it," he said.
Last week, the government announced plans to fast-track fracking applications, saying it could take over the power to decide if councils repeatedly take longer than the 16-week statutory timeframe.
Environmentalists argue this undermines the government's pledge to give the power to decide on fracking to local people.
The announcement came after Lancashire County Council refused permission for Cuadrilla to frack at two sites. The company is appealing against the decision.
The process of fracking - where water, chemicals and sand are blasted at shale rocks to release the gas trapped within - has proved deeply unpopular among many members of the public. They are concerned about earth tremors, water contamination and disruption to rural communities.
The industry insists that many of these fears are overblown, and that fracking can be carried out safely under the right regulations.
Environmentalists also argue that gas is a fossil fuel that emits CO2 and contributes to global warming. Investment, they say, should instead be made in renewable, cleaner energies such as wind and solar.
However, the government is keen to press ahead with fracking to reduce reliance on imported energy. It looks to the example of the US, where abundant shale gas has seen gas prices fall dramatically.
But questions remain whether fracking in the UK, with a very different geology and property rights, and where there has been relatively little investment in research and development, will be possible on a commercial scale.
Major Peake became the first British astronaut to live on the ISS, when he spent six months on-board carrying out experiments last year.
Speaking at London's Science Museum on Thursday morning, he announced he will be taking on a second European Space Agency (ESA) mission in the future.
The timing is yet to be decided, but his second space mission would likely happen in the period 2019-2024.
Major Peake was at the Science Museum for the opening of the display of the space capsule that carried him to and from the International Space Station last year.
He said the Russian capsule is an important part of UK space history and hopes it will inspire future astronauts.
The Soyuz TMA-19M has been repaired since its landing, but is still slightly scorched from re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
Late on Friday, it used one of its refurbished Falcon 9 vehicles to put up a Bulgarian satellite from Florida.
Then on Sunday, SpaceX lofted another 10 spacecraft for telecommunications company Iridium. This time, the rocket flew out of California.
Both missions saw the Falcon first-stages come back to Earth under control to drone ships that had been positioned out on the ocean.
It means SpaceX has now had 13 landing successes for those missions it has sought to recover the booster. That said, Friday's first-stage had a particularly hard landing, and looked bent over on the live video feed.
"Rocket is extra toasty and hit the deck hard (used almost all of the emergency crush core), but otherwise good," quipped SpaceX chief executive, Elon Musk, on Twitter.
His firm does not expect to recover every booster, because the flight profile required on many satellite launches will lead to re-entry speeds that are simply too fast to curtail with the available propellant.
Friday's mission was launched from the US East Coast, from the Kennedy Space Center's famous Apollo and shuttle pad, 39A.
The "second-hand" Falcon 9 lifted off at 15:10 local time (1910 GMT).
Its passenger, BulgariaSat-1, was dropped off in orbit, some 30 minutes later.
The spacecraft will be used to beam TV into homes in Bulgaria and Serbia.
The Falcon booster was last flown in January, to launch 10 satellites for the Iridium sat-phone and data-relay company. And it was another Iridium launch that topped out the weekend's activities.
This second mission, on a brand new Falcon, occurred on the West Coast, from the Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Iridium is in the midst of replacing its global network of satellites. Another 10 went up on this latest flight.
SpaceX has another six launches on the books for Iridium, whose existing network of more than 60 spacecraft is now well past its design life.
Sunday's lift-off occurred at 13:25 local time (20:25 GMT). The returning booster on this occasion sported new titanium grid fins to help steer the vehicle back to its waiting drone ship.
The titanium ought to be more robust than the previous aluminium type, said Mr Musk, removing the requirement for repair or replacement. This should speed the turnaround of future boosters for re-use.
"New titanium grid fins worked even better than expected. Should be capable of an indefinite number of flights with no service," the CEO tweeted.
Iridium's business is mobile communications, providing connections to anyone who is not near a fixed line. These customers include the military, oil and gas platforms, ships and broadcasters.
Increasingly, it also includes remote machinery reporting in its status to a central server. This machine-to-machine service has a big future, especially as more and more devices are linked together in the coming, so-called "internet of things".
The new Iridium satellites also host payloads for two tracking companies. One of is Aireon, which aims to offer a service that reports the positions of aircraft by sensing their ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) transmissions. This would be useful in following planes that are beyond radar coverage, but could also help airlines plan more efficient routing.
The other hosted payload is for exactEarth, which does something very similar with ships. Large vessels transmit an Automatic Identification System message that can be sensed from orbit.
Again, shipping companies can use the tracking service to keep tabs on vessels and to plot the best available course to a port.
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The Highland Hospice was gifted half a million shares - a 19% holding worth hundreds of thousands of pounds - by an anonymous donor earlier this year.
The hospice does not want to be involved in the running of the team.
It needs to raise funds for a £7.5m redevelopment of its Inverness centre.
The donation made the Highland Hospice the second biggest shareholder in ICTFC.
It is the latest action from the local authority to tackle the problem.
The council has also produced a video with Hawick High School, run a poster campaign and appointed two enforcement officers on a 12-month trial basis.
Councillor David Paterson said the message would be spray-painted at known dog fouling blackspots.
"The stencils use chalk-based paint which means they are temporary," he said.
"We are taking the issue of dog fouling seriously, as can be seen with this and our various other educational activities related to the responsible dog ownership strategy.
"For those not willing to listen, there is now the real threat of an £80 fine through the appointment of enforcement officers as part of the year-long pilot."
He said he had met the officers who were "highly trained and committed to working with the council".
"They will only issue fixed penalty notices to those who do not observe the law," he added.
The spacecraft, which uses radar to estimate the thickness of marine floes, has observed a deep reduction in the volume of ice during autumn months.
For the years 2010-2012, this is down a third compared with data for 2003-2008.
For winter months, the fall in volume is not so great - down 9% over the same period.
A lot of thicker ice appears to have been lost from a region to the north of Greenland, the Canadian archipelago, and to a lesser extent the northeast of Svalbard.
Watch the dramatic retreat of some of the world's largest glaciers
We have become accustomed to the big retreats in sea-ice area that occur in summer. Last year saw the smallest extent yet measured in the satellite era.
But the latest Cryosat report gives an indication of the status of the floes during the months when the seasonal re-freeze occurs with the advance of colder temperatures.
"We've only been in orbit with Cryosat for two complete winters, and so it is not possible at the moment to discern any long term trends," explained mission scientist Dr Katharine Giles, from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) at University College London, UK.
"But as the mission moves forward we will get more and more information and that will help us describe better the patterns that are emerging."
Cryosat was launched by the European Space Agency (Esa) in early 2010.
It is what is known as an altimetry mission, using advanced radar to measure the difference in height between the top of the marine ice and the top of the water in the cracks, or leads, that separate the floes.
From this number, scientists can, with a relatively simple calculation, work out the thickness of the ice.
Multiplying by the area gives an overall volume, and it is the volume that is likely to provide the most reliable assessment of the changes now underway in the Arctic.
The data gathered so far by Cryosat were compared with information compiled by the US space agency's (Nasa) Icesat spacecraft in the mid-2000s.
For autumn (October/November), the analysis found the Icesat years from 2003 to 2008 to have recorded an average volume of 11,900 cubic km.
But from 2010 to 2012, this average had dropped to 7,600 cu km - a decline of 4,300 cu km - as observed by Cryosat.
For winter (February/March), the 2003 to 2008 period saw an average of 16,300 cu km, dropping to 14,800 cu km between 2010 and 2012 - a difference of 1,500 cu km.
The smaller relative decline in winter volume highlights an interesting "negative feedback".
"Thin ice grows more quickly than thick ice in the winter. Ice acts as an insulator - the thinner the ice, the more heat can be lost to the atmosphere and the faster the water beneath the ice can freeze," Dr Giles told BBC News.
"But even with an increased ice growth during the winter, we can see from the Cryosat data that it's still not fully compensating for the deep summer melt."
Cryosat's altimetry observations agree well with independent measures of sea-ice thickness derived from aircraft surveys and under-ice moorings.
They also look very similar to the simulations coming out of Piomas (Pan-Arctic Ice-Ocean Modelling and Assimilation System), an influential computer model that has been used to estimate Arctic sea-ice volume and which has been the basis for several predictions about when summer sea ice might disappear completely.
"The decline predicted by Piomas is slightly less in the autumn and slightly more in winter, but broadly speaking there's good agreement," said Dr Giles.
A paper describing the latest Cryosat results has been published online in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Its lead author was UCL's Seymour Laxon, the renowned polar scientist who tragically died following an accident on New Year's Day.
Prof Laxon solved the problem of separating ice from water in the satellite altimeter signal.
This has allowed scientists to retrieve information about the Arctic Ocean region's gravity field, its surface circulation, and the thickness of its sea-ice cover.
More recently, his techniques have begun to reveal how the changing ice cover might affect the interaction between the Arctic Ocean and the atmosphere.
"Seymour's work provided evidence with which to propose and eventually launch the Cryosat mission, which is now - as his last paper describes - providing the first observations of the annual cycle of sea-ice growth and decay throughout the Arctic Ocean," Dr Giles said.
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Britain's world number two beat top-ranked Novak Djokovic in Sunday's Italian Open final, having lost to the Serb in last week's Madrid Open final.
Maclagan said: "This (Italian Open) was his first win over Novak on clay, so he has a deep reservoir of confidence.
"The other players will look at him as a challenger and that counts as well."
The French Open begins on 22 May and Murray reached the semi-finals last year, when the Scot was beaten by Djokovic over five sets.
Maclagan was speaking to BBC Radio 5 live.
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The long-standing hopes that Pyongyang might eventually be induced to give up its nuclear weapons programme have proved illusory.
South Korea is accordingly reassessing its security needs and it is clear that an expanded missile defence system is going to be a key part of its response to the North's more aggressive behaviour.
Even before the latest threats from Kim Jong-un, the US and South Koreans had begun urgent consultations to explore the feasibility of deploying a system known as Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) to the Korean Peninsula at the earliest possible date.
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Missile defences in the region
It is not yet clear if the missiles would be sold to the South Koreans. It is possible an interim arrangement might see some US batteries deployed to give an initial capability.
South Korea already operates a variant of the US Patriot anti-missile system and further Patriot batteries are deployed in South Korea by US forces based there. But these are intended to hit incoming missiles at relatively low altitudes.
Thaad is a much more capable and longer-range system. It destroys incoming missiles at a much higher altitude, beyond the Earth's atmosphere.
This makes it especially useful in countering missiles that might carry a nuclear warhead. (It should be noted in passing that there is no evidence yet to suggest that North Korea has sufficiently miniaturised a nuclear weapon to enable it to be mounted on a ballistic missile).
The Thaad interceptor is produced by the US company Lockheed Martin. It is an extremely fast missile with a maximum speed of 2,800 metres per second (10,080km/h). It is capable of making interceptions at an altitude of 150km i.e. beyond the atmosphere.
The Thaad system is made up of six truck-mounted launchers carrying some 50 interceptor missiles, and a fire control and communications unit, all linked to a powerful X-band radar system - manufactured by Raytheon - capable of detecting targets at very long range.
1. The enemy launches a missile
2. The Thaad radar system detects the launch, which is relayed to command and control
3. Thaad command and control instructs the launch of an interceptor missile
4. The interceptor missile is fired at the enemy projectile
5. The enemy projectile is destroyed in the terminal phase of flight
The launcher trucks can hold up to eight interceptor missiles.
Any significant enhancement of South Korea's missile defences is going to be controversial. Inevitably it will inflame tensions with the North. But the plans have already fallen foul of the main regional security actor - China.
Beijing is concerned by the spread of sophisticated anti-missile defences, worrying - in the same way as Moscow - that as these systems become more commonplace they will inevitably affect the capabilities of its own nuclear deterrent.
It also has concerns about the X-band radar system, which has sufficient range to penetrate into China itself.
The debate is a little like that between Russia and Nato regarding missile defences in Europe.
Nato says these are to defend against a very specific threat - that from a potential Iranian long-range missile. Similarly Thaad is, as its name implies, an area defence system - in other words if it were based in South Korea it would only be capable of shooting down Chinese missiles if they were targeting South Korea.
But this does not cut much ice in either Moscow or Beijing. The Chinese in particular may see the deployment of US Thaad missiles to South Korea as the start of a regional defence system intended to contain China.
There are echoes of the Cold War here where anti-missile systems were largely banned by international treaty in an effort to avoid their potentially destabilising effects. That agreement - the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty - was abandoned by the Americans who saw it as a constraint on the sorts of limited defence systems required to counter the proliferation of missile technology.
But the upshot of the spread of missile defences, like any other battle between offence and defence, is that China may ultimately look to upgrade its nuclear capabilities to counter any potential defensive systems.
That could have an impact for India too, who may be concerned about its deterrent capabilities. The ripples from North Korea's threats against the South could spread very widely.
A blowout at the well on Tuesday morning forced the evacuation of 44 workers from the platform.
US Coast Guard and federal safety officials are still trying to assess the potential hazards.
The area was hit by the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded in 2010, leaking millions of gallons of oil.
Eleven oil rig workers were killed in what was the worst US offshore disaster.
The latest blowout was not of that magnitude, officials told the Associated Press news agency.
On Wednesday morning the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said the fire was damaging the rig structure.
"As the rig fire continues, the beams supporting the derrick and rig floor have folded and have collapsed over the rig structure," the agency said in a statement.
But after an aerial tour of the rig, no gas sheen was visible on the water surface.
One Coast Guard cutter, Pompano, is near the scene and another, Cypress, is travelling to the area.
In addition, "a third vessel equipped with fire-fighting capability and improved monitoring system is enroute," the BSEE added.
The portable drilling rig - which operates in shallow waters of 154ft (47m) - is owned by Hercules, a contractor for the exploration and production company Walter Oil & Gas Corporation.
The BSEE said the fire broke out while workers were completing construction of a "sidetrack well". The purpose of the sidetrack well was not immediately clear, but industry analysts say they are sometimes used if there is a problem with the main well.
The BSEE said it was investigating the cause of the fire, along with the Coast Guard.
Industry experts are at the scene to try to work out how to bring the well fire under control.
The diaries, made available online from the National Archives on Friday, cover the period when evidence emerged of the treachery within the British establishment in the form of the men - who would become known as the Cambridge Spies - who had spied for the Soviet Union.
Liddell provides a day-by-day account of the unfolding drama, while the diaries' matter-of-fact writing style barely conceals how personal the betrayal was for the MI5 man who was close friends with some of the key protagonists and who struggled to believe what they had done.
"It was an age of treachery," explains Stephen Twigge of the National Archives. "His whole world was falling apart around him and it is all there in the diaries."
In early 1951, Liddell notes that evidence has come in suggesting Foreign Office man Donald Maclean may be a Communist spy.
The investigation begins with "watchers" put onto him.
On 18 May there is reference to a meeting planning his interrogation. But just as the net is closing in - he vanishes.
The watchers failed to pick up Maclean since his departure for the country on Friday and we now learn from the Foreign Office that he was given a day's leave on Saturday. He has not apparently been seen since...
(NAME REDACTED) telephoned me at about 11am asking whether I had heard about Guy Burgess. I said that I knew he had been sent home by the Foreign Office on account of three motoring offences for speeding, which had caused the embassy embarrassment.
(NAME REDACTED) then said that he was not referring to that but to Guy Burgess' mysterious disappearance. He had not been since Friday...
The two had gone to Moscow together, although MI5 has no idea as a frantic search is detailed.
The departure of Burgess comes out of the blue and is a shock, particularly for Liddell.
The Foreign Office man had been a friend of Liddell's for many years and the two had regularly visited the musical hall together, according to Andrew Lownie, author of Stalin's Englishman - an upcoming biography of Burgess.
"That is one of the tragedies of this story," Mr Lownie told the BBC.
"Liddell was a very devoted public servant. He must have felt a great sense of personal betrayal."
The diaries show Liddell dealing with the fallout from Burgess' various debauched adventures in previous years, but he struggled to comprehend that his friend could be allied to Maclean and that the two might have voluntarily gone to Russia.
The question emerges - how did the two learn about the investigation into Maclean?
Perhaps the man in whose house Burgess was living in Washington might have an idea? It might be worth talking to that man - Kim Philby, MI6 station chief in Washington - Liddell notes in the diary.
Dick had a long interview with Kim Philby who had arrived from Washington at 2.30 today.
Personally I think it not unlikely that the papers relating to Maclean might have been on Kim's desk and that Burgess strolled into the room while Kim was not there.
The truth was much worse.
Soon other pieces of the jigsaw are put together and the possibility that Philby is another Communist spy takes hold within MI5.
On 4 August, there is a scare when they learn he is going yachting and fear he will flee.
The Americans are also convinced he has gone bad and say they do not want him back in Washington - concern over what the Americans think is a recurring theme.
The problem is a lack of evidence. By December, the prime minister is making clear he wants Philby interrogated.
The diaries include feedback from Philby's first interrogation in which the interviewer comes away convinced of his guilt but unable to prove anything.
But it was not just Philby.
One of the first people Liddell contacts on the day he learns of Burgess and Maclean's disappearance is his friend, the former MI5 officer Anthony Blunt.
The diaries are full of accounts of "lunch with Anthony" or "dinner with Anthony".
Blunt is called on for advice, since he knew Burgess and Maclean at Cambridge.
What Liddell does not know is that the young student, Burgess, had recruited the older Blunt into the spy ring.
"I feel certain that Anthony was never a conscious collaborator with Burgess in any activities that he may have conducted," Liddell writes in the diary.
Blunt has now become the King's surveyor of pictures. At one point the diary recounts the King's private secretary, Tommy Lascelles, coming to see Liddell about Blunt for reassurance.
I told Lascelles that I had known Anthony Blunt for about ten years... I was convinced that he had never been a Communist in the full political sense, even during his days at Cambridge.
Tommy said that he was very glad to hear this, since it was quite possible that the story might get round to the Royal Family; he would then be able to say that he had already heard it and looked into it and was satisfied that there was nothing in in it.
He told me that Blunt had on one occasion intimated to the Queen that he was an atheist - Tommy thinks he may well have said an agnostic - and that the Queen had been a little shaken by his remarks.
He was certain that if he now went up and told her that Anthony was a communist, her immediate reaction would be "I always told you so".
The diaries also show that MI5 was on to John Cairncross as the fifth man of the Cambridge Spy ring by 1952.
"He was extremely perturbed when confronted with the document in his own handwriting which had been found among the papers of Burgess," Liddell writes.
MI5 watchers see him throwing away a recent copy of the Communist Review into a park paper bin.
The diaries show MI5 had successfully identified the spies but lacked the evidence to do much about it.
Philby's name would leak as "the third man" in 1955 but he would deny it until he fled, in 1963, to Moscow.
Blunt confessed to MI5 in 1964 but the public only learnt of what he had done in 1979, around the same time as they learnt of Cairncross.
And what of Liddell himself? The diaries include his account of an interview for the top job at MI5.
He missed out on it. Partly, it is thought, because of suspicions created by his friendships.
The diaries show he was certainly no traitor - just an MI5 man trying to do his best but suffering under the weight of some dangerous friendships in treacherous times.
The town in Alabama is important in American history for several reasons: the university founded by Booker T Washington is there, so was the all-black air force squadron and it was the site of an awful medical experiment on black men.
So we thought it was worth a stop on our holiday through the Deep South.
There, bang in the centre of this town with a 95% black population was a memorial to the Confederate war dead, the men who fought to keep black people as property.
It is the crux of a current debate. What is an affront to some is, for others, a mere matter of pride in their past. Or so they say. The trouble is the past is not neutral territory.
For decades, rows have erupted every once in a while over Confederate symbols.
Most potent is the Confederate flag.
Now, after the Charleston killings, by a man who celebrated that flag and denigrated the Stars and Stripes, it could be a big issue in the 2016 US presidential elections.
To some, the Civil War battle flag of the breakaway Southern states is as tainted as the swastika and allowing it to fly over the State House in South Carolina, where one-third of the population is black, is akin to hoisting the Hakenkreuz in Jerusalem.
As I wrote last autumn, to others, it is as innocent as the St George cross - occasionally waved by racists but not their exclusive property.
This could be the Republican Party's Clause Four moment - a deliberate rejection of the past - akin to the UK's Labour Party, in 1995, dropping its commitment to the state ownership of industry.
The shunning of the Confederate battle flag might be as potent a symbol as the flag itself.
The Republican Governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley - whose parents, incidentally, are originally from India - has changed her mind and now says it should go, as a "deeply offensive symbol of a brutally offensive past".
Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate in 2012, tweeted last weekend: "Take down the #ConfederateFlag at the SC Capitol. To many, it is a symbol of racial hatred. Remove it now to honor #Charleston victims."
He ignited a debate.
The Republican frontrunner for 2016, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, said: "In Florida, we acted, moving the flag from the state grounds to a museum, where it belonged."
Rick Perry has tweeted removing the flag would be an act of "healing and unity".
But fellow Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker, who is thought likely to run, have suggested it is up to South Carolina.
This is really important because it plays into the Republican Party's big, long-term, political problem.
Despite recent successes, its vote is predominantly white, rural, and elderly.
The growing force in US politics is the Hispanic vote - that minority has become the largest single ethnic group in California and soon will be in Texas too.
Some Republicans worry the harsh tone of their debate over illegal immigration from Central and South America has poisoned their image with people whose family come from that part of the world.
I have long thought it would be a pivotal moment when - or if - a Republican candidate found the right language - and politics - to challenge this perception.
But the fury about the Confederate flag provides them with another opportunity to, as Americans put it, "reach out" beyond their core vote.
Only 6% of black Americans voted Republican in 2012.
You could just assume it is not surprising that a conservative party does not appeal to a group statistically less well off than other Americans.
But that is very far from the truth, and alien to the party's origins.
The US parties have only recently moulded themselves into the left-right divide familiar to the UK.
The Republican party, the party of Abraham Lincoln, the victor of the Civil War, the Grand Old Party, was the party that campaigned against slavery, and fought a war that liberated black Americans.
Their decision to shed that heritage was strategic and deliberate.
American politics underwent a stunning convulsion, an earthquake in the wake of the tsunami of civil rights.
The Democrats under Lyndon Johnson in the mid-1960s abandoned their traditional and uncomfortable split between northern liberals and trade unionists on the one hand and highly conservative Southern racial supremacists on the other.
The Dixiecrats had ruled the South like a one-party state, and with about as much toleration of black dissent as any dictatorship.
The Republicans deliberately pursued what was known as "the Southern strategy" to pick up disgruntled white voters in the South with a harder racial politics.
Morally questionable, it was strategically stunningly successful.
The South is now overwhelmingly Republican - but this now feels like winning a race by speeding down a cul-de-sac.
This is, of course, is not only about one party's fortunes but also a deep wound that still divides a nation.
The trouble is many white Americans believe that the scars are fading, while many black Americans feel the injury is turning septic.
The problem is a different view of history.
To some, slavery was a very long time ago, civil rights battles were won a generation ago and equality is the law and the norm.
As I've heard people put it: "They should get over it."
This complacent view ignores what actually happened after the Civil War.
Reconstruction, as the period is known, saw hundreds of black politicians elected and black Americans appointed as lawmen, and the growth of black businesses.
These modest baby steps towards equality were smashed.
The Ku Klux Klan was set up deliberately to destroy this progress.
It is no accident that "uppity" is the adjective attached to the familiar insulting description of black people - the violent politics of the time was about keeping a people down, destroying aspirations, keeping them from rising to the economic and political levels of even the poorest whites.
And the Confederate flag was their flag.
It was made part of Mississippi's state flag only in 1894 - some 30 years after the Civil War, but a couple of years after Congress made it easier to disenfranchise black people.
Georgia got rid of the Confederate flag from its state flag in 2001. But it was not there as some deep historical hangover - it was put there only in 1956, as the arguments about civil rights raged.
The Confederate flag can be seen as a symbol of the tattered dignity of a proud people who lost a war.
But undeniably it has also been the rallying banner of an active and successful resistance to racial equality, a celebration of the renaissance of white power, a symbol that the struggle did not end in 1865.
The most subtle observer of the South, novelist William Faulkner, wrote: "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
But it might be less present if Republicans adopt a new strategy for a New South.
I'm pretty pleased with my sixth-place finish in Whistler last week at the opening World Cup event. It's a difficult track that hasn't been on circuit that much over the last few years and it can always catch you out if you start to get a little complacent with things.
I was most happy that I put down two consistent runs - as I mentioned last time, consistency is one of the hardest elements of skeleton so to put down two runs within six hundredths of a second of each other was really positive.
A couple of days ago, the decision was made by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) to move the World Championships away from Sochi, Russia.
At this point it's still undecided where they are going to be moved to and that puts things up in the air a little bit for this time in the season, because normally by this point you know exactly where you're going and what the track is going to be so you can start planning for it.
I'm hoping now that regardless of where the World Championships is that it's going to be a really good competition.
Although I love sliding, I can't wait to get back home for Christmas. We fly back the day after the race on Sunday and we will have been away for five weeks.
We get in on the 19th and we leave again before New Year for the second half of the season. I don't get long at home but I'm really looking forward to it. Christmas is a really important time to chill out and stop being a skeleton athlete (around training of course!) and try and see friends and family.
Because I live and train in Bath at our national training centre, I'm not close to where most of my family live so it's good to get round and see everyone.
I always love coming to North America to slide. The people here are really friendly and the venues are great, and I particularly love the fact that Lake Placid has got so much Olympic history, having hosted two Winter Olympic Games in 1932 and 1980.
I'd love to win a medal here because I feel like I connect with the track.
This course is very different from Whistler. It's older, twistier with lots of unique features, and although the top speed isn't as high, the corners come at you very quickly so you really have to be on top of things to get a good track time here.
The weather is set to get very cold over the next couple of days, with lows of around -25C. When it's that cold, it's debatable whether going outside for your 'warm up' is really worth it!
One of the most unique things about Lake Placid is the fact that the current ice track and the old, disused one sit side-by-side on the hill.
The old track has legendary status as one of the toughest tracks ever, and just by looking at the dramatic profiles of the corners you can see why.
The coaches talk about sliding it in terms of survival rather than enjoyment which just about says it all. I love the fact that the two tracks side-by-side really show the evolution of the sport. Whenever the going gets tough here, I always say to myself that at least I'm not sliding the old track!
Rebeka Nazmin, 31, and Mohammed Miah, 37, of Poplar, east London, deny murdering their 13-week-old son Rifat.
He was taken to hospital on 4 July 2016 with 47 broken bones and a fatal brain injury.
Ms Nazmin told the child to shake the baby or put water on him to rouse him and if that failed, to call an ambulance, Old Bailey jurors were told.
Rifat had been in the corner of his parents' bedroom, when the child noticed the baby was "red and hot".
Initially Rifat had been "doing something, then he lies there doing nothing. He didn't even wake up," the child told police.
Under cross-examination the child admitted shaking Rifat the day before his death but said Mr Miah was to blame for the fatality.
Mr Miah hit Rifat and the child with a mobile phone lead, the young witness said.
Both parents have blamed the child for Rifat's injuries.
The child, who has autism and a history of hitting other children, had become "charming" and "delightful" at primary school since receiving specialist educational help, the court heard.
The child cuddled and sometimes carried Rifat when he cried and was "good and caring" towards Rifat because Ms Nazmin had asked the child to be careful when looking after her son, the child said.
Ms Nazmin allegedly told police that her husband had a problem with Rifat's deformed hand and had abused him because of it.
Both parents have been charged with causing or allowing Rifat to suffer serious physical harm between 31 March and 6 July 2016.
Mr Miah is also accused of cruelty towards two other children, who cannot be identified, on 4 July 2016.
The trial continues.
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Cook's team stood a chance of returning to number one in the Test rankings with victory but lost on the fourth day.
"For a batter, our currency is runs - and as a top order, we haven't consistently been doing it," Cook said.
"We played at a disappointing level as a side and we weren't good enough in all three areas of the game."
England went into the final home Test of the summer needing to avoid defeat to hold trophies against all nine Test opponents for the first time.
"We're still the same side who beat Australia and won away in South Africa, so it's not all doom and gloom, but we're a work in progress," Cook added. "We had the opportunity to beat Pakistan and it's frustrating."
Three dropped catches by Cook's team on day two allowed Pakistan to add a further 120 as the tourists eventually compiled 542, veteran Younus Khan making 218.
The skipper also put down a chance on day three, and he said of the fielding blemishes: "The catching is a concern: when we've won games we've caught our catches; when we've lost we've dropped our catches.
"We've definitely dropped in standard this series.
"You expect to win your home series, but Pakistan showed their class - we knew Younus was going to get us eventually as you don't average 50 in more than 100 Tests if you're not a class player."
England passed 400 only twice in the series and were bowled out for under 300 on four occasions.
Cook and star batsman Joe Root finished with 935 runs between them at an average of 66.78 but the other members of the top five - Alex Hales, James Vince and Gary Ballance - could only muster a combined 498 at an average of 22.63.
Asked what had disappointed him about the series, England coach Trevor Bayliss said: "It is the same as for the last six to 12 months - we rely very heavily on Cook and Root to score runs.
"Jonny Bairstow has done extremely well and Moeen Ali has made some runs but we need two or three other guys to stand up in the batting order."
Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq, who scored a century at Lord's and half-centuries at Old Trafford and Edgbaston, was named man of the series for his team.
"The win was special, keeping in mind it was Independence Day," Misbah told BBC Test Match Special.
"It was something special to draw the series here after being 2-1 down, losing the second Test badly and losing the third. But the way the team fought back, I'm a really happy captain."
Pakistan have two one-day internationals against Ireland followed by five ODIs and a Twenty20 against England, before another away tour - of New Zealand and Australia starting in November.
"In Asia, this team's unbeatable as our spinners come into it more and our batters are better," Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur said.
"It's the games away from home which will determine how far this team can go. We've got a tough itinerary now."
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A high tide helped the animals get back into deeper water.
Earlier, volunteers also managed to refloat around 100 of the more than 400 pilot whales which had beached on Thursday.
The stranding has been one of the worst ever seen in New Zealand and lots of volunteers turned up to help.
It is not clear why the pilot whales got stranded but experts say that when one becomes beached, it will send out distress signals which attracts other members of their pod, who then also get stranded.
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More than 200 pilot whales, stranded on a beach in New Zealand, have refloated themselves and returned to sea.
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This weekend Warren Gatland's squad kick off their tour of New Zealand, home of the World Cup holders. It will be their first visit since 2005, in what should be a mouth-watering series of clashes.
Each Lions tour generates millions of pounds in turnover, with revenues pouring in from major sponsorship deals, tourism and other events such as high-profile gala dinners. It is estimated that the Lions turn over about $50m (£39m) in each four-year cycle between tours.
Meanwhile, some 35,000 fans are expected to make the journey from around the world, with close to half buying packages from the in-house travel operator, Lions Rugby Travel.
This commercial power of the tour, which takes in 10 games - including three Test matches against the All Blacks - means it will generate significant revenues for the development of the sport in the UK and Ireland.
"The value of the Lions is actually so much greater than what you might see on a tour. It is the fusion of the professional and amateur eras, it embodies all the good qualities of the game," Charlie McEwen, British and Irish Lions chief operating officer, tells me.
"And that means that supporting and growing the presence of rugby union is a very important part of what we do. The Lions is a subsidiary of the four home rugby unions and any profits are distributed back to the home unions, with the ultimate aim of growing the game."
As part of that mission, at the end of March the Lions also unveiled its own separate grassroots programme. It will see some of the money they raise go directly into a standalone Lions-directed programme.
"With the support of the home unions we will be running programmes for existing youth players to keep them in the game," says Mr McEwen.
"It will be using the inspiration of the Lions brand to keep them playing at an age - late teens and early twenties - where there is a high drop-off rate."
The Lions' financial machine that generates those funds for developing the game is largely sponsor-driven.
In total there are 11 major commercial backers - from shirt sponsors Standard Life to brewery Doom Bar, the official beer of the Lions. Some three-quarters of the Lions income is from sponsorship, a much bigger proportion than that enjoyed by England's RFU or any of the other home unions.
"We hold sponsors and partners very dear," says Mr McEwen. "We look to find brands that reflect our values and everything we stand for.
"We try to ensure we deliver against what they need, but also to make sure they don't compromise our values, or ability to perform on the field. If we are not competitive on the field then the whole concept of the Lions is brought into question."
As well as Standard Life, which replaced HSBC as shirt sponsors, other big name backers include Land Rover, Qantas, Gillette, EY, and Canterbury.
In a changing sporting and leisure landscape, he insists that the Lions are not an anachronism but are as relevant now as they were when they first set out across the globe in the late 19th Century.
In 2014 the Lions itself underwent an internal "strategic brand review", conducted with players from the 1950s to the present day, and also including coaches, broadcasters, commercial partners and consumer experts.
Mr McEwen said that it was realised that if the players did not still have the desire to be selected for the Lions ahead of their sporting peers, then the brand was no longer relevant.
He said that after a thorough analysis that drive among players to be selected was still there.
And he says that from a rugby follower's perspective, the Lions are also still hugely important.
"We are far and away the second most desirable proposition in rugby for fans, after attending a World Cup match," says Mr McEwen.
"We have a big fan base, who hold us dear, and that extends to people in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. Everyone wants the Lions to stick around."
This year's Lions tour will be the last to feature 10 games, with future tours reduced to eight matches, in what is an increasingly crowded rugby union international calendar.
Meanwhile, for this year's host nation, it is hoped the visit of the star-studded Lions squad will provide such a buzz of excitement it will help New Zealand Rugby (NZR) towards balancing its books, after reporting a loss of NZ$7.5m (£4m) for 2016.
A Lions tour is a financial bonanza for the host country. NZR had matchday revenues of NZ$9.2m in 2004, and NZ$11.2m in 2006, but in the Lions tour year of 2005 revenues were NZ$33.9m.
NZR has not specified how much the tour will generate, but expects demand to exceed that of the Lions' last visit in 2005, when travelling fans contributed tens of millions towards the wider New Zealand economy.
"We only tour New Zealand every 12 years, and that breeds value," says Mr McEwen.
"Lions tours are right up there as a live sporting proposition. People get excited about the rugby and football world cups, and this is also something that people want to be part of - whether in the stadium or on TV - at the top echelon of sport.
"The great thing about the Lions is the great amount of interest in them.
"The ultimate purpose for the team is winning - but our focus as a business is growing the game."
A first defeat under Zinedine Zidane leaves Real nine points off leaders Barcelona, and four below Atletico.
Real were missing Gareth Bale and Marcelo through injury, while Karim Benzema was replaced at half-time.
"I don't want to disrespect anyone, but when the best players aren't available it's harder to win," Ronaldo said.
"I like to play with Karim, with Bale, with Marcelo.
"I'm not saying the others like Lucas Vazquez, Jese and Mateo Kovacic are not good players - they are very good players - but it's not the same."
Afterwards he sought to clarify his quotes, telling Marca: "When I say that, I am talking about my fitness level, not my level as a player. I am no better than any of my team-mates".
Antoine Griezmann scored the only goal of the derby as Atletico became the first team to win in three consecutive La Liga trips to the Bernabeu.
Ronaldo used an expletive to describe how he feels the media describe him and added "but I don't listen to what the press say. The statistics and numbers don't lie".
Zidane had been unbeaten in his first eight La Liga games, although they have dropped from two points behind Barca to nine.
Atletico played in the Champions League away to PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday, drawing 0-0, while Real had not played since last weekend.
Zidane said: "We were not as ready for the game as we thought we were. All I can say is that it's not just about our fitness.
"The players are not unfit, it's a question of everything. We didn't play the game we had prepared.
"They played on Wednesday and had less time to recover, and look at the game they played. So it is a mental question. We lacked a bit of everything.
"I told the players that we have to keep on going, I can't be happy with this performance and neither are they, but we can't give up. I have a clear idea of what went wrong today."
Callum Greenwood was playing in a relative's garden in Elswick Road in the West End of the city on Thursday.
He was reported missing at about 18:45 BST and found in the water a few minutes later. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Northumbria Police said there was no third party involvement and a report was being prepared for the coroner.
Neighbour Melissa Hill said it was "pretty awful" to see all the police activity outside the house.
She said: "It's beyond words, you can't imagine how the family are feeling, it's such a tragic awful thing."
Avni Metra, 53, formerly of Borehamwood in Hertfordshire, has been living as a fugitive in the UK for 18 years.
He was convicted in Albania in his absence of two murders and possession of firearms dating back to the 1990s and is entitled to a retrial.
He told Westminster magistrates he would not get a fair trial in Albania.
Speaking through an interpreter, Metra told the court he fled the country because "a police friend told me 'leave the country otherwise you are going to be killed - either it'll be by the government or someone else".
Metra entered the UK in the late 1990s, claiming to be a Kosovan asylum seeker named Abdul Mekra.
His identity was revealed through a Daily Mail investigation. He claimed in court he changed his identity on arrival in the UK because an interpreter told him Abdul "sounded more Kosovan".
The father of four is fighting his extradition on human rights grounds, claiming his right to a family life in the UK. His legal team also told the court he would not be able to seek legal aid in Albania for his retrial.
Hannah Hinton, for the Albanian government, told the court Metra had not provided evidence of corruption in Albania, he had "no substantial contact" with his children, adding that he faced charges of "the most grave kind" in Albania.
The court heard Metra was estranged from his family after he was convicted of assaulting his wife in 2011 and a family court ruled he could only have limited contact with his children.
Metra, who remains in custody, will learn if he is to be extradited on 19 August.
The charging sheets relate to allegations that five US soldiers were involved in the murders of civilians in January, February and May of this year.
A further seven servicemen are accused of a conspiracy to cover up the crimes.
Lawyers for some of the accused have denied the accusations, while the army has yet to begin a review of the cases.
'Appropriate engagements'
In charge sheets obtained from the US Army, Staff Sgt Calvin Gibbs, Cpl Jeremy Morlock, Pte First Class Andrew Holmes, Specialist Michael Wagnon and Specialist Adam Winfield are accused of murdering male Afghan civilians with grenades and firearms.
Other soldiers were accused of stabbing an Afghan corpse, taking or possessing photographs of casualties and beating other men in an effort to keep them from talking to investigators.
The soldiers were attached to the Army's Fifth Stryker brigade, which deployed to Afghanistan last year and has seen heavy fighting around Kandahar. They were based in Washington state.
Army spokeswoman Major Kathleen Turner told the BBC the cases were in a preliminary phase of investigation and military prosecutors had yet to decide whether to move ahead with proceedings.
The BBC's Kevin Connolly in Washington says the legal process is likely to be long and complex.
Among other charges, military prosecutors say Staff Sgt Gibbs possessed finger bones, leg bones and a tooth taken from Afghan corpses, and showed fingers to another soldier and threatened to kill him if he reported drug use to commanding officers.
Staff Sgt Gibbs' lawyer Phillip Stackhouse told the Associated Press news agency his client said the shootings were "appropriate engagements", and he denied any conspiracy to murder Afghans.
The case against the men is built largely around statements by Cpl Morlock, US media report.
But Cpl Morlock's lawyer told the Seattle Times his client's statements were made while he was suffering from concussion, was under the influence of prescription drugs, and was being evacuated.
The single currency took a 24-hour slide against the dollar starting at lunchtime on Thursday after the president of the European Central Bank said that it would pump €60bn a month into the region's economy.
The pound reached a seven-year high against the euro of €1.34.
However, the action could prove a mixed blessing for the UK.
Against the US dollar the euro hit an 11-year low of $1.1115 before recovering some ground.
The weakening euro raises the prospect of cheaper foreign holidays for Britons, but a tougher climate for the UK's exporters.
Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, called the ECB's action a "welcome step" and "absolutely necessary to preserve the prospects of medium-term prosperity in Europe".
But not everyone agrees.
One sceptic of the plan is Roger Bootle, executive chairman of Capital Economics. "By and large for Britain it is a net negative," he said.
"Only if it succeeds in reviving the European economy is it an overall good."
In the meantime, Mr Bootle thinks it will make life tougher for British business.
"The pound going up against the euro means it's going to be even more of a struggle for British firms exporting to Europe and European firms that export to the UK will be even more effective," he said.
"Of course it brings cheaper holidays, but if it's people going on holiday who have lost their jobs because of the rise in the exchange rate, they won't be going on holiday abroad much longer."
The euro has been steadily falling in value for several months in anticipation of the ECB's measures.
The currency has lost about 9% of its value against sterling over the last year.
The 1.1 trillion euro stimulus plan was launched to tackle lacklustre growth and the spectre of deflation in the 19 nation currency zone. By making more euros available, it reduces their value in the market.
An increased supply of euros should make borrowing cheaper and encourage businesses and consumers to spend more.
Share markets responded positively with indexes in London, Frankfurt, Milan, Madrid and Paris all rising on Friday following gains on Thursday. Shares in Athens leapt more than 5%.
Jeremy Stretch, head of foreign exchange strategy at CIBC, took a more optimistic view, believing that by boosting the eurozone economy the ECB's measures were likely to "float all boats", including Britain's.
"They should be quite pleased with the way the plan is working," he said of the euro's slide.
Mr Stretch added: "Clearly, as the euro-sterling rate comes down, it will make it more difficult in terms of export markets. But the other side of the coin is that if the actions of the ECB make the European growth story a little firmer, that is a better scenario."
"Competitive issues are tough but in the end demand is more important."
He did not believe that the euro had much further to fall as markets had largely priced in Thursday's move - unless the ECB was forced to increase the amount of money it was printing.
Bridget Roswell, senior advisor at Volterra Consulting, said if the ECB had not acted it, the euro might have ended up even weaker in the long run.
"If there were no European quantitative easing, the eurozone would see slower growth," she said. "There'd be a risk of deflation and general misery, which can be catching. You might then have seen a collapse of the euro."
The Duke of Wellington, with his army made up of British troops and Dutch, Belgian and German soldiers.
And Napoleon with his French Imperial Guard.
It was a showdown between two of history's military giants.
They were the same age, incredible leaders and had a string of victories behind them.
Napoleon versus Europe
Napoleon had been trying to create a European empire under his rule since 1804.
In 1805, the British defeated him at the Battle of Trafalgar.
But that didn't stop Napoleon - he went on to invade countries across Europe before being forced to give up his power.
He returned to Paris in March 1815, prompting Britain, Russia, Austria and an historic state called Prussia, to declare war.
In June of that year, Napoleon invaded Belgium, hoping to take over the capital Brussels.
The Duke of Wellington and his army was waiting and Napoleon sent troops to fight him.
At the same time he led an attack against General Blucher's Prussian troops.
Wellington's army wasn't defeated but Blucher retreated.
The scene was set for a final battle.
Before the battle, Wellington stayed in Waterloo while Napoleon was three miles south. Their men slept outside as rain fell throughout the night.
With the Prussians and Wellington's armies separated, Napoleon was confident he could defeat the British and make his way to Brussels.
Wellington and his troops blocked the road to Brussels in order to stop Napoleon's men heading towards the capital.
Wellington knew he was outnumbered - approximately 68,000 Allied troops versus Napoleon's 72,000 - so he positioned his men behind a ridge and three farms that were heavily defended.
The steep hills, fields of high corn and a well-placed group of troops on the farms meant Wellington had a good viewpoint and lots of cover to protect his army.
From here he could try to hold the ground until the Prussians troops, which had retreated in the previous battle, arrived to help him.
Because of heavy rain that had fallen through the night Napoleon decided to delay his first major attack until the ground had dried out.
Napoleon's first move was to launch an attack on Hougoumont farm.
Napoleon began the battle firing his cannons.
Led by his brother 5,000 troops headed to the farm, outnumbering the 1,500 British soldiers that were there.
The attacks at Hougoumont lasted all day.
At 12.30pm, they broke open the gates but the British quickly closed them again, trapping 40 French soldiers inside. They killed all but one - an 11-year-old drummer boy.
With a big chunk of Wellington's army defending Hougoumont, Napoleon took the opportunity to attack more of his troops.
He sent 18,000 soldiers along the road to Brussels to capture the farm of Papelpotte and the surrounding area.
It looked like victory was now within Napoleon's grasp. If he took the other farm, La Haye Sainte, he could attack the remaining British troops at close range.
But at around 1pm, looking through his telescope, Napoleon saw something on the horizon and sent a troop of horsemen to investigate.
It was the Prussians, who had come to help Wellington and his troops, but they were still far away.
With Napoleon's men advancing towards the British Wellington had to do something - he sent the British horse guards to charge at the French.
Napoleon's line had been weakened but Wellington's army was also damaged - he couldn't afford to launch another attack without extra help.
At the same time Napoleon's cavalry came face to face with the Prussians, who had come to help out Wellington.
They met near Plancenoit, a village 5 miles east of the battlefield.
It didn't take long for the Prussians to defeat them and take over the high ground north-east of the village.
This led to Napoleon sending more troops over to try and win back the high land - meaning the French army was split up.
Wellington could hear the cannon fire in the distance - he knew the Prussians were doing what they could to help him.
Napoleon's men were now fighting on both the west and east sides of the battlefield.
He ordered one of his men, Marshal Ney to attack the area where Wellington had the most troops.
For the next two hours, wave after wave of heavily armoured French soldiers on horseback charged at them.
In response, Wellington's soldiers changed formation into squares.
They managed to held off the 4,000-strong French attack but their new formation made them an easy target to Napoleon's heavy gun fire.
After hours under attack, Wellington finally lost the area where his strongest army had been fighting.
It was a crushing blow. Napoleon was now able to bring the French gunmen forward and attack the rest of his troops.
All Wellington could do was fight back as much as possible and wait for the Prussian's to help them.
Wellington's men waited in the long grass behind the ridge as the French Imperial Guard headed towards them,
When they reached the ridge, Wellington gave the order to stand and fire.
At the same time the Prussian's started to arrive.
The joined forces and attacked the French.
Wellington had a chance to kill Napoleon but ordered his men to hold fire. The Emperor was shielded by his men as they fled.
The Battle of Waterloo was over. Wellington had won.
The battlefield was covered with tens of thousands of bodies. Many were dead, others badly wounded and left to die.
As punishment, Napoleon was sent to the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, where he died in 1821.
Wellington was a hero: he secured a peace deal with France and became prime minister in 1828.
For now, there was peace in Europe.
The Islamic Revolutionary Courts in Iran are a legacy of the 1979 revolution, created in the chaos of the turmoil at the time to deliver summary justice to opponents of the Islamic revolution.
According to the UK and Hague-based Iran Tribunal campaign group, in the first decade after the revolution more than 16,000 people were sent to their deaths by these courts.
They remain in force today - 36 years after the revolution despite protestations from critics that their existence is no longer justified.
Islamic Revolutionary Courts are used mainly (but not exclusively) to deal with high-profile political cases. Observers say they are less regulated than ordinary courts, and tend to be more hardline and unpredictable in terms of the judgements they pass.
Human rights organisations have described Iran as one of the world's biggest prison for journalists.
Because of his dual Iranian-US citizenship, Mr Rezaian is of particular interest to the hardliners in Iran. They are opposed to President Hassan Rouhani's relatively moderate policies of opening up to the outside world.
Mr Rezaian may have fallen victim to moves by hardliners to undermine the ongoing talks with foreign powers over Iran's nuclear programme.
The trial is being held behind closed doors on the orders of the judge, presumably under the pretext that the case involves national security, although this has not been made clear.
"I think the only reason you could possibly imagine that the trial would be closed would be to prevent people from seeing the lack of evidence," Mr Rezaian's brother, Ali, who lives in the US, told reporters. "It's unlike the Iranian court system, Iranian government, to keep things private when they can go out and use propaganda up against people."
Even Mr Rezaian's mother, who has travelled from the US to Tehran for the trial, is not allowed to attend.
In all types of Iranian courts the judge also acts as the prosecutor and is cast by the system as a just figure above human error or bias. There are no juries in Islamic Revolutionary Courts - trial by peers only exists in some special courts, such as press courts which hear cases involving the media.
The judge presiding over Mr Rezaian's case, Abolghassem Salavati, is notorious for passing swift and harsh verdicts against opposition figures.
He is the man who presided over the televised show trials in the aftermath of the controversial 2009 elections which saw hundreds of activists, journalists, lawyers and politicians jailed for supporting reformist candidates.
Many of those on trial made televised confessions - widely believed to be forced - that they were bent on overthrowing the Islamic regime at the behest, or at least incitement, of foreign powers.
Mr Rezaian has been denied a lawyer of his own choosing, in spite of repeated attempts by his family to get the courts to agree.
It is only recently that a court-appointed lawyer has been allowed to see him - and then only for about 90 minutes.
At times the Islamic Revolutionary Courts have refused to allow lawyers with a track record in defending political prisoners to even enter the courtroom.
Today some lawyers are in jail for defending opposition figures.
The charges against Mr Rezaian include espionage and propaganda against the government. His appointed lawyer, Leila Ahsan, was informed of the accusations in April - nearly nine months after her client was arrested.
"According to the indictment, he is also facing the charges of collecting confidential information, collaborating with hostile governments, spreading propaganda against the Islamic republic and writing a letter to the US president," she told Tasnim, a hardline Iranian news agency.
No evidence has been presented to Mr Rezaian or his court-appointed lawyer. The date of the trial was only disclosed to him last week. His family have denied the charges, saying he was simply a journalist doing what was expected from him: reporting for his newspaper.
Mr Rezaian's employer, the Washington Post, has tried to send one of its editors to witness the trial. But unsurprisingly, the Iranian authorities have denied the request.
Addressing his first cabinet meeting since Sunday's victory, Mr Tsipras said he would negotiate with creditors over the €240bn (£179bn; $270bn) bailout.
"We won't get into a mutually destructive clash but we will not continue a policy of subjection," said the left-wing Syriza party leader.
Greek bank stocks lost more than a quarter of their value on Wednesday as prices fell for a third day.
Piraeus Bank lost nearly 29%, Alpha Bank 26%, and National Bank and Eurobank around 25%, AFP reported.
Germany's vice-chancellor said it was unfair of Greece to expect other states to pick up its bills.
"I cannot imagine a haircut [debt reduction]," Sigmar Gabriel said.
As Mr Tsipras made his debut cabinet speech, Greek government bond yields rose to their highest since the 2012 debt restructuring, amid investor concern that the anti-austerity coalition was gearing up for a clash with international creditors.
The Athens Stock Exchange fell by 8% in response to Mr Tsipras's remarks, and as it emerged that his government was putting on hold major privatisation projects, including the port of Piraeus and the main power company, the Public Power Corporation of Greece.
Greece has endured tough budget cuts in return for its 2010 bailout, negotiated with the "troika" - the EU, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Central Bank (ECB).
Its economy has shrunk drastically since the 2008 global financial crisis, and high unemployment has thrown many Greeks into poverty.
Alexis Tsipras sought to strike a balance - defiant about negotiating debt relief from the eurozone, while reassuring his European partners. Across the eurozone, governments oppose a debt write-off for Greece.
The Netherlands has added its voice to that of Germany and France in insisting that Greece stick to its previous commitments. The Dutch finance minister, who heads Eurozone group of ministers, will be in Athens later this week for discussions.
Both sides will try to stick to their positions and it may come down to which will blink first.
Mr Tsipras's speech is, perhaps, an olive branch extended from Athens after hardline pre-election rhetoric, but there is no sign that the new government will back down on its opposition to austerity.
Five things Syriza wants to change
Tsipras faces great expectations
Vowing to defend Greek dignity, Mr Tsipras said a renegotiation of the Greek debts would aim for a "viable, fair, mutually beneficial solution". He did not give any details.
Mr Tsipras promised "realistic proposals" for an economic recovery and vowed to fight corruption and tax evasion. His recovery plan, he said, was aimed at preventing deficits in the future.
The new coalition government - with the right-wing but equally anti-austerity Greek Independents - was sworn into office on Tuesday.
Its chief economics spokesman, Euclid Tsakalotos, has argued that it is unrealistic to expect Greece to repay its huge debt in full.
The current bailout programme of loans to Greece ends on 28 February. There are still 1.8bn euros of loans that could be disbursed to Greece if it meets the conditions imposed by the troika.
Economists estimate that Greece needs to raise about 4.3bn euros in the first quarter of 2015 to help pay its way, with Athens possibly having to ask the IMF and eurozone countries.
Mr Gabriel, who is also economy minister and leads the junior partner in Angela Merkel's coalition government, said: "Our aim must be to keep Greece in the eurozone but solidarity and fairness work both ways."
"Citizens of other euro states have a right to see that the deals linked to their acts of solidarity are upheld," he said.
"Every country in Europe has its own history and cannot separate itself from this through new elections."
He urged the Greek government to talk to its partners before going ahead with decisions such as halting the privatisation of the port of Piraeus.
"Things that Greece itself won't do cannot be shunted on to the taxpayers and employers in neighbouring states," the German Social Democrat leader said.
Greek 10-year bond yields climbed above 10%, reflecting fears that investors may not get their money back.
The yield of a bond is inverse to its price: as the price goes down, the yield grows.
The undefeated fighters will meet in London on 10 September.
Brook, 30, who is moving up two weight divisions, is unbeaten in 36 fights while Kazakh Golovkin, 34, has won all 35 of his professional bouts.
"The greats have gone on, like Sugar Ray Leonard, to win titles in the heavier divisions," said Brook.
"To be a great fighter, you have to do great things. For me, a welterweight, to step up against one of the most feared fighters in the world, I'll have to do everything right. If I don't, I'll come up short.
"We're going to put the hard work in in training. We will go through hell in that training camp but that's what you have to do to reach greatness.
"When it was floated, I jumped at the chance. I'm doing it for the fans."
American Leonard won titles at five weight divisions in the 1980s - welterweight, light middleweight, middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight.
Golovkin has never boxed in Britain before but has beaten two British fighters in world title defences - Matt Macklin was knocked out in three rounds in 2013 and Martin Murray lasted 11 rounds in 2015.
Speaking at a news conference in New York, he said he thinks Brook will give him his most difficult fight to date.
"It's the biggest day for me," he said. "He's (Brook) very strong. It's the biggest test for me."
The Criminal Bar Association said the unprecedented action came with anger at "boiling point".
Lawyers argue the cuts could see their fees fall by up to 30% and reduce the representation available to defendants.
The Ministry of Justice said efficiencies were necessary to ensure legal aid remained "sustainable".
Justice minister Shailesh Vara said: "We are living in difficult economic times and lawyers are not immune from the economic climate."
Legal aid costs taxpayers about £2bn every year - half goes on criminal defence and the rest on civil cases. Government proposals, being phased in from April, to cut that by £220m include cutting fees in complex, high-cost cases by 30%, and in other crown court work by up to 18%.
By Clive ColemanLegal affairs correspondent, BBC News
So strongly ingrained is the idea of "fat cat" lawyers in people's minds, that it's never going to be easy for lawyers complaining about pay rates to gain the sympathy of the public.
But this dispute is about more than just pay. When the state brings all of its powers to bear in prosecuting someone for a crime, it is critical that the defendant whose liberty, reputation and future is at stake, has access to good quality legal advice and representation.
Lawyers claim the latest proposed cuts represent the state reducing defence funding for those whom it prosecutes. Barristers and solicitors believe that the proposed rates are so low that talented lawyers will leave criminal defence work. They fear aspiring lawyers, saddled with student loans, will choose to practice in other areas.
The government remains confident that the proposed new rates will attract good quality lawyers.
The Treasury Counsel, an elite group of barristers appointed by the attorney general to prosecute the most serious crimes, the Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, and the Law Society, which represents solicitors in England and Wales, have all criticised the plans.
The Criminal Bar Association said there was a mass "non-attendance" at courts on Monday in cities including London, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Newcastle, Winchester, Bristol and Cardiff. The main focus of the protest is at Southwark Crown Court, in London.
Lawyers said they were "not prepared to work at hourly rates lower than the national minimum wage".
The association said legal aid cuts had caused a recent complex fraud trial to be put in jeopardy because 17 sets of chambers had declined to accept the case for four of the eight defendants.
Association chairman Nigel Lithman QC said: "A line has to be drawn in the sand before it's too late. The cuts pose the most serious threat to the British legal system in more than 400 years.
"The government says it is tough on crime, but is stripping the criminal justice system of anyone able to adequately prosecute serious criminals or defend those falsely accused.
"We merely seek a pay freeze. What could be more reasonable than that? I have offered to engage with the lord chancellor as to how to make savings across the system."
The Criminal Bar Association said the action would not jeopardise trials, but warned that if the pay dispute was not resolved, trials due to start after April, including those for murder and rape, could be put at risk.
At the Old Bailey, a jury was sent out to consider its verdict in a terrorism trial in front of an empty court, because of the protest. Among those missing from their usual places in the empty well of the court were the two prosecution barristers as well as the defence barristers and solicitors for the two defendants.
Judge Gerald Gordon told the jury in court 16 of the Old Bailey: "You can see the rather lonely position I am in."
A Ministry of Justice spokeswoman said: "At around £2bn a year we have one of the most expensive legal aid systems in the world, and it would remain very generous even after reform.
"Latest figures show more than 1,200 barristers judged to be working full time on taxpayer-funded criminal work received £100,000 each in fee income last year, with six barristers receiving more than £500,000 each.
"We entirely agree lawyers should be paid fairly for their work, and believe our proposals do just that.
"We also agree legal aid is a vital part of our justice system; that's why we have to find efficiencies to ensure it remains sustainable and available to those most in need of a lawyer."
Lawyers dispute the figures on fee income.
The shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said the "unprecedented action" showed relations between the legal profession and David Cameron's government "have collapsed as a result of policies which could restrict access to our courts to only those who can afford it".
The Pope's opposition to nuclear weapons and role in a deal between the US and Cuba boosted his chances, said Norwegian state broadcaster NRK.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has been tipped for her stance on the refugee crisis unfolding in Europe.
But the prize committee's decision is notoriously hard to predict.
In depth: History of the Nobel Peace Prize
Other contenders for the award include:
Among the more high profile names being linked with the £700,000 ($1.1m; €950,000) prize are:
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Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded 1901-2014
16 women have been awarded the prize, including Malala Yousafzai
17 Malala's age, making her the youngest ever laureate
62 average age of laureates when they were awarded the prize
3 laureates were under arrest at the time of the award: Carl von Ossietzky, Aung San Suu Kyi & Liu Xiaobo
Around 273 individuals and organisations have been nominated for the prize by past winners, political leaders and other dignitaries.
Last year's award was won by Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education activist and Kailash Satyarth, an Indian child rights campaigner.
Previous Nobel peace prize laureates include anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, US President Barack Obama, the Dalai Lama and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
In 2012 the prize was awarded to the European Union in recognition of its contribution to peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.
Michael Fallon told the BBC that a decision to scrap the nuclear missile system could jeopardise millions of pounds of investment in Scotland.
Scottish Labour accused the defence secretary of "aggresive politics".
MPs are expected to vote this year on whether to back government plans to renew the UK's four Trident submarines.
Labour is currently reviewing its support for the Clyde-based weapons.
Renewal is opposed by the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, while Scottish Labour voted to scrap the deterrent at its party conference last November.
Labour's only surviving Scottish MP, Ian Murray, has previously insisted that the party could have different policies on renewing Trident north and south of the border.
Mr Fallon is set to announce an extra £640m investment in Trident-related programmes ahead of the Scottish Conservative Party conference which starts on Friday.
The defence secretary said a lot of that investment would be in Scotland, creating "highly-skilled jobs".
The UK's Trident nuclear missile system is based at Faslane naval base on the Clyde.
Mr Fallon told BBC Scotland: "The GMB union understand that the Trident programme is going ahead. We are renewing these boats now, we're spending money on them and we're creating the skilled jobs in the Trident programme.
"Now the only threat to that is Labour. It is Labour that would jeopardise that programme, that would jeopardise those jobs by cancelling the deterrent and I hope they never get into power to do it."
Scottish Labour said Mr Fallon had "built a reputation on this kind of aggressive politics, as can be seen from his criticisms of Sadiq Khan, Labour's candidate for London Mayor".
A party spokesman added: "Now he wants to bring those tactics to Scotland which only goes to prove that the Tories have learnt nothing and it will do nothing for their electoral chances in May as can be seen from their falling poll numbers."
On reports there is to be an extra £640m investment for Trident, the SNP's defence spokesperson Brendan O'Hara said the UK government was adamant to "dump the nuclear arsenal on the Clyde for the next 50 years despite opposition from the Scottish government".
He added: "Michael Fallon needs to come clean and tell MPs and the people of Scotland how much money has already been spent and how much more he wants to spend before MPs get a chance to vote on renewal.
"The UK government are pushing ahead, spending hundreds of millions more of taxpayers money on preparing for these obscene and redundant weapons.
"Trident is an immoral obscene and redundant weapons system - the SNP will vote against nuclear weapons at every opportunity."
Since 1969, according to government documents, a British submarine carrying nuclear weapons has always been on patrol, gliding silently beneath the waves, somewhere in the world's oceans.
The logic is to deter a nuclear attack on the UK because, even if the nation's conventional defence capabilities were destroyed, the silent submarine would still be able to launch a catastrophic retaliatory strike on the aggressor, a concept known as mutually assured destruction.
The submarines carry up to 8 Trident missiles; each can be fitted with a number of warheads.
Read more about the history of the UK's nuclear weapons system
Emmanuel Macron, 39, has promised to "work for everyone" and sees his programme as straddling both left and right.
First he has to choose a prime minister and candidates to fight legislative elections in June for the party, now rebranded as La République en marche (Republic on the move).
But once his government takes shape, what does he intend to change and how will he achieve the national renewal he has promised?
Overhauling France's economy is vital to the Macron plan. Without significant advances, he will struggle to convince Germany of another big idea, for eurozone reform.
Mr Macron's big challenges are:
His twin aims are to boost investment and set up a "new growth model" that is both good for social mobility and the environment.
Some have described his plan to mix targeted public spending with fiscal discipline as a Nordic model.
In the next five years he wants to make budget savings of €60bn (£51bn; $65bn), so that France sticks to the EU's government deficit limit of 3% of GDP (total output). Public servants would be cut in number by 120,000 - through natural wastage, possibly to soften opposition from France's powerful unions.
He would simultaneously reinvest €50bn and create a separate €10bn fund for renewing industry.
France's retirement age will remain at 62, but sweeping reforms are planned to the generous state pension schemes, to bring them into line with private schemes.
Macronomy: What are Emmanuel Macron's economic plans?
France: The economic challenge
Mr Macron would not scrap France's famed 35-hour work week: the 35 hours is now a threshold triggering overtime payment.
Instead, he would try to introduce further flexibility around a basic legal framework of labour rights and rules, allowing firms to negotiate deals with their staff on hours and pay. Extra hours worked would be free of social security deductions.
He has promised to help businesses by cutting corporation tax from 33% to 25%. But failing businesses would not be propped up, and the focus would be on training those made redundant.
He wants to bring unemployment down to 7% by 2022 and extend unemployment benefits to groups not currently entitled, such as self-employed entrepreneurs and farmers.
People's purchasing power would be boosted by a cut in social security contributions, worth about €500 annually for someone on a monthly net salary of €2,200.
Mr Macron is an unabashed Europhile and he walked on stage to give his first public speech as president-elect to Beethoven's Ode to Joy, the anthem of the European Union. His election was warmly welcomed in both Brussels and Berlin.
Yet he has said candidly that reform is needed in Brussels as well as Paris if the pressing problems facing France are to be addressed. And this may set him on a collision course with Germany, because France and Germany have starkly different conceptions of its future.
Put bluntly, while Germany favours a broad, expansionist union, France prefers a deeper, more integrated bloc.
Mr Macron would give the eurozone a separate budget, finance minister and parliament of MEPs from the 19 countries that use the euro.
He also wants more shared responsibility within the eurozone and believes Germany's big trade surplus has to be rebalanced. Both plans could cost Germany dear.
In Brexit negotiations, Mr Macron will be keen that the UK has "no undue advantages" over the rest of Europe. He will demand that EU single market rules apply fully to all trade partners.
He is also an open proponent of free trade deals like Ceta - the EU-Canada deal and he has spoken publicly of his desire to lure French expats home from the UK.
Will Macron be good or bad for Brexit?
Mr Macron would create a 5,000-strong force of EU border guards, make fluency in French the main qualification for obtaining French nationality and give all religious leaders comprehensive training in France's secular values.
He wants refugees entitled to protection will be welcomed, and asylum claims to be settled within six months. But failed asylum seekers would be returned to their home countries immediately.
Mr Macron supports multilateral institutions such as the UN Security Council, but also supports the promotion of the French language and Francophone institutions as "an essential vector of our influence and a weapon against the spread of radicalism".
He is a critic of Russian policy and backs EU sanctions put in place after the Ukraine crisis.
On Syria, he thinks President Bashar al-Assad should answer for his crimes before an international tribunal. On foreign aid, he would like to increase spending in Africa (raising overseas aid to the European target of 0.7% of gross national income) but wants to help countries stand on their own two feet in defence terms.
Amid an ongoing state of emergency in France following a string of attacks over the past two years, Mr Macron says he will reform police workloads and procedures, recruit 10,000 new police officers and expand prisons to house an extra 15,000 inmates.
He would create an EU defence fund to promote joint military projects and set up a permanent European headquarters.
He has also pledged to raise spending on defence to the Nato benchmark of 2% of GDP by 2025 and review military bases in Africa.
In his manifesto, education is listed as top priority.
In areas of special need - notably poor suburbs (banlieues) - he would limit class sizes in primary schools to 12 pupils per teacher.
He would ban children's use of mobile phones at school, and introduce a "Cultural Pass" for 18-year-olds worth €500 to spend on cultural pursuits such as the cinema, theatre, and books.
Mr Macron opposes MPs working as consultants or employing family members. He would cut the total number of parliamentary deputies and senators by about a third.
Mr Macron calls for half of food provided in school and work canteens to be organic or locally produced. He would promote France as a world leader in developing green technologies and wants to renovate one million poorly insulated homes.
There are also dozens of other-worldly 3D-printed structures, some of which seem to resemble buildings.
This much you might expect at the annual Bartlett School of Architecture degree show.
But held aloft above them in a corner, is a monitor playing a haunting film - an animated journey through a labyrinth - with a dramatic voiceover.
Why is an architect making a film like this?
It turns out that architecture students, who can spend five-figure sums on their seven-year training courses, are using their newly-learned digital animation and design skills to break into the world of film.
The film's creator, Angelika Vasileiou, explains the appeal of animation.
"I've never been so close to designing a space, realising how it feels, before I started making films," she says.
She looks exhausted as the show comes to a close. Her mind is on what to do after graduation.
"There are many possibilities for architects to work in film," she says. "It's exciting, we have the skills. A lot of students are considering film."
Ms Vasileiou is a product of Unit 24 at The Bartlett.
The unit, explains tutor Penelope Haralambidou, explores the relationship between architecture and film.
"Ever since architects began to draw digitally, a crossover with film has been a natural progression," she says.
On the one hand, this is practical. Architecture firms need to make animation films to dazzle prospective clients. And of course they use 3D software to originate designs and make plans for engineers and builders to follow for construction.
But Unit 24 encourages students to go beyond this.
In many ways the unit's output resembles that of a film school, at times more David Lynch than Sir Norman Foster.
The films encourage imaginative thinking and project management skills, says Bartlett tutor Simon Kennedy. And they also teach students the fundamental principles of design, he emphasises.
Most students arrive with no animation skills, but within two years are up to speed. They use animation modelling software like 3ds Max, Maya and After Effects.
The same software is also used in the visual effects (VFX) industry for film.
"Architects tend to have a vivid imagination and a strong visual sensibility," says Mr Kennedy.
"But this is tempered by their capacity for analysis and problem solving. These characteristics are directly applicable when first designing digital animations, and then executing them effectively."
Alumni of the school have already capitalised on this skills crossover. A group who graduated in 2011 has formed Factory Fifteen, an animation house. Recent projects include animations for Film4 and a visualisation of the Al Rayyan football stadium, made for the press launch of the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
There is also ScanLab, which specialises in recreating dramatic 3D environments. Their work includes the D-Day landings for PBS in the United States and classical Rome for the BBC.
But is it really that easy to build a film career from architectural foundations?
One man thinks so. Ben West is creative director at Framestore in Los Angeles.
Framestore is a London-based VFX company employing more than 1,000 people that has won Oscars for films such as Gravity.
After graduating in architecture in Sydney in the late 1990s, Mr West combined regular architecture work with a sideline in his true passion - film and animation.
This passion culminated in the award-winning short film Fugu & Tako - a buddy movie with a twist. Two Japanese salarymen's lives are transformed forever, when one of them eats a live puffer fish in a sushi bar, with surreal VFX-laden consequences.
"The reality, apart from a few extremely talented individuals, is that architecture has become very utilitarian in its focus," says Mr West.
"I aspired to more creative pursuits and my talents were better suited to film making, so I have no regrets."
With Framestore he has directed effects on Beyonce videos and Super Bowl half time shows.
Mastering the software was the easy part for an architect, says Mr West.
"Good architecture strives to relate to the human condition and tell a story, so, too, do good filmmakers.
The mantra at architecture school was always 'form follows function', now it's more about the picture serving the story."
So why are architects moving into film?
"Undoubtedly this is because both professions make use of similar software products," says Adrian Dobson, an executive director at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
"During the recent recession turnover for UK architectural practices overall fell by more than a third and it was a difficult time for younger architects seeking to establish their careers in architecture, so flexibility in how they applied their skills was a must.
"It is probably more ad hoc than a trend, but it is a reasonably well-trodden path."
From the employer's point of view, architects "understand the structure of real-world built environments," says Amy Smith, Framestore's head of recruitment.
"They also bring a knowledge of the history of architecture and how certain features reflect the time or culture of buildings.
"All of these things bring a sense of believability to a computer-generated environment that allows an audience to engage with the story."
But others have found the transition into film animation more difficult.
Han Han Xue, a new recruit to Framestore in Montreal, graduated in architecture in 2014 from McGill University. He taught himself animation online.
"I would produce things which would baffle teachers, but are elementary in the film world," he says.
But he admits that "the skills required are much, much higher than what a highly competent architect would be able to offer."
And he doesn't rule out returning to architecture and using his enhanced film animation skills to create amazing buildings, he says.
Digital, it seems, has helped build a two-way street between architecture and film.
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In a new report, it says IS had "the intent... to destroy the Yazidi as a group."
Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled villages in northern Iraq amid IS advances last summer. Many were killed or captured and enslaved.
Yazidis follow an ancient faith that jihadists regard as devil worship.
The report, commissioned by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, was based on more than 100 interviews with survivors of attacks in Iraq between June 2014 and February this year.
Among the atrocities it says were perpetrated against the Yazidi community by IS (also known as ISIL), were:
The reports adds: "In some instances, villages were entirely emptied of their Yazidi population."
A statement by the OHCHR says: "One witness described how two ISIL members sat laughing as two teenage girls were raped in the next room.
"A pregnant woman, repeatedly raped by an ISIL 'doctor' over a period of two-and-a-half months, said he deliberately sat on her stomach.
"He told her: 'This baby should die because it is an infidel; I can make a Muslim baby'. "
The plight of the Yazidi population was brought to international attention when IS captured the town of Sinjar in August 2014.
Thousands of residents, mainly Yazidis, were forced to flee.
Many were trapped on nearby Mount Sinjar, which was surrounded by IS fighters.
Airstrikes led by the Unites States, and an offensive led by Kurdish peshmerga forces, helped break the stranglehold on Mount Sinjar.
Who, What, Why: Who are the Yazidis?
Iraq: The minorities of Nineveh
As well as looking into offences against the Yazidi community, investigators reported on crimes against other ethnic groups.
The report says 600 male prisoners - mainly Shia Muslims - were driven to a ravine in June 2014 and shot. It says some survived because bodies fell on top of them. Islamic State considers Shia Muslims as heretics.
On 12 June 2014, the report adds, between 1,500 and 1,700 cadets from the Speicher army base, near Tikrit, were killed after surrendering to IS fighters.
Iraqi government reports into both massacres have not yet been made public.
The report also warns of offences being committed by Iraqi security forces and affiliated militia.
It says they "carried out extrajudicial killings, torture, abductions and forcibly displaced a large number of people, often with impunity." It adds that they "may have committed war crimes".
Iraq's government has not yet responded to the report.
Iraq is not currently a member of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. If any crimes there were to be investigated by the ICC, Iraq would have to become a member.
Any offences defined as international crimes by the ICC would also have to be criminalised under Iraq's domestic laws.
The report urges Iraq to join the ICC, and also calls on the UN Security Council to refer the case to The Hague.
MP Clive Betts has suggested the change as a "pragmatic" way of making different factions in the party "work together", denying it is an attempt to "hobble" Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.
Appointments have been the leader's responsibility since 2011 when the elections system was scrapped.
Labour's ruling National Executive Committee must approve any changes.
A spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn has suggested any debate about changing the rules should consider whether MPs, conference or the party membership decides.
A secret ballot of MPs will be held on Tuesday after the issue was discussed earlier at a meeting of the parliamentary Labour party. If MPs vote for the change, the NEC may refer it to party conference to decide later this month.
Labour is currently in the middle of a leadership contest, with Owen Smith challenging Mr Corbyn's position. The outcome will be announced on 24 September.
Ed Miliband ended elections for Labour's front bench in 2011, a method of selecting the leader's top team in opposition which had been in place for several decades.
Mr Corbyn, who opposed Mr Miliband's decision at the time, chose his own top team after his election as Labour leader last year but more than half of them resigned in protest at his leadership in the wake of June's EU referendum.
In a subsequent confidence vote, only 40 MPs supported Mr Corbyn's continued leadership while 172 said they could not back him.
Mr Corbyn's spokesman said he supported "democratisation and reform of the party rules and structures".
He added: "How the shadow cabinet is made up is one part of the debate, including whether part of it should be elected by MPs, by members or by conference."
BBC political correspondent Glenn Campbell said Mr Smith was thought to be supportive of the idea but had yet to publicly come down on one side or another.
Al Garrod wanted to recreate the Norman flute in time to play at the 1 April reopening of Lincoln Castle, where its original fragments were found.
A £22m revamp of the castle includes a new vault to house the Magna Carta.
Mr Garrod said he was sent entire goose wings, which he had to boil down, as well as being offered help from professional bone carvers.
Mr Garrod, of the City of Lincoln Waites, said he decided to make a replica after he was contacted about the find.
The bone he required was an ulna - the largest in the bird's wing.
The musician said he initially tried farmers and gamekeepers but began his appeal after being told it was the wrong time of year for goose bones.
He said he had quite a few responses and one man sent him three whole goose wings, which he had to "butcher, separate and boil for hours."
"It pleased my wife immensely to have goose wings boiling in the kitchen," he said.
Mr Garrod said he also had a good response from people able to make the flutes and was now eagerly awaiting their arrival in the post.
He said his original plan to play one as part of the Magna Carta celebrations depended on what it sounded like.
"Some people say they were never musical instruments and were a lure to entice an animal for hunters to kill."
"I might end up making the sound of a goose in distress," he said.
One of the flutes will go alongside the original fragments, which date back to about 1200, as part of an exhibition.
The seals were the medieval equivalent of modern-day signatures and credit cards, and the imprint team is hoping they will provide insights into British society at that time.
The research will use material from cathedrals, the National Library of Wales and Westminster Abbey.
The study is due to take three years.
Dr Elizabeth New from Aberystwyth University said: "Seals were not just the preserve of kings and great nobles. Men and women from all levels of society also set their seals on documents.
"Medieval seals contained a variety of images and words, providing strong statements of identity and very valuable sources of information about people, culture and society.
"The images can tell us what things actually looked like, and provide glimpses of humour, piety and family pride. They also enabled otherwise illiterate men and women the means to 'write' their name."
He was making a pitch to win back Labour voters from UKIP in his first big speech as shadow home secretary.
He said it was "not true" that free movement had benefited everybody as Labour had claimed in the past.
UKIP said it was a "welcome recognition of the blindingly obvious" but if Mr Burnham wanted to do something about it he should campaign to leave the EU.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who beat Mr Burnham to the Labour leadership by a wide margin, has meanwhile stressed the positive contribution EU migrants had made to the UK.
"People that have migrated to this country over many years have made an enormous contribution to our society, helped our economic growth, helped our health service and helped our social services and our education services, so don't look upon immigration as necessarily a problem, it's often a very great opportunity," Mr Corbyn told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
He said Mr Burnham had made the point during the leadership campaign that the government needed to be "far more focused" on the lack of doctors' surgeries or school places and housing difficulties in certain areas.
But Mr Burnham said in his speech that Labour had not "faced up" to some of the impacts of EU migration and consequently appeared "out of touch".
"To win back the voters we lost to UKIP, I want to reframe the debate about immigration and the way Labour approaches it," he told delegates in Brighton.
"For too long, we have argued that free movement across Europe benefits everyone and affects all areas equally. That's just not true.
"In places, a free market in labour benefits private companies more than people and communities. Labour hasn't faced up to that and that's why we look out of touch."
He said David Cameron's renegotiation of Britain's relationship with the EU, ahead of a planned in/out referendum, provided an opportunity to protect workers.
"The truth is that free movement on the current rules is widening inequality. It has built the economic power of the big cities and that is good. But it has made life harder for people in our poorest communities, where wages have been undercut and job security lost.
"The coming referendum presents a chance to change that. Let's seize it as an opportunity to put Labour back on the front foot and back in touch.
"Let's put forward a new vision for a social Europe. A Europe that puts people before profits and multinationals; a floor beneath all workers. The Tories and UKIP want to take those protections away.
"Let's have the strength to take on their scapegoating rhetoric which won't pay anybody's bills, feed anybody's kids or protect anybody's job.
"We welcome people here to work, as we always have. But let's make it work for everyone with new EU rules to stop undercutting, protecting the going rate for skilled workers."
UKIP employment spokeswoman, MEP Jane Collins, said Mr Burnham's words were "the desperate attempts of a man who has ignored the plight of the working classes due to mass immigration for years".
In Syria alone, the Great Mosque and the Citadel in Aleppo, the castle of every child's imagination at Crac des Chevaliers, and the ancient city of Bosra have been damaged or destroyed.
Arguably Syria's most impressive and arresting site, the sprawling ruins at Palmyra (Tadmur to Syrians), is now under Islamic State control and many fear the worst.
Having visited Palmyra and these other sites while studying Arabic at Damascus University back in 2007, I am far from alone in feeling that something truly terrible is happening.
That these symbols from a bygone era might be destroyed by modern-day barbarian forces when they have survived for hundreds or even thousands of years seems somehow deeply offensive and wrong.
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Nevertheless, while I feel an acute sadness at the loss of these sites, I understand those who may feel a certain sense of unease at the outpouring of grief and anguish over their desecration.
From this perspective, Palmyra is, after all, a collection of stone; albeit stone exquisitely carved and impressively presented, imbued with huge historical import.
And compared to the staggering loss of life and widespread humanitarian disaster afflicting the Syrian people, bemoaning the loss of a historic tourist site seems crass.
But there are cogent arguments, of course, suggesting that sites like Palmyra are far more significant than that.
Important cultural sites are often pointed to as focal points that can be used to (re)unify a people.
Sites can act as potent symbols of a united past that may cross ethnic, tribal, linguistic, or cultural lines. In essence, their importance can be seen and used as a low common denominator to promote reconciliation in a post-conflict environment.
Most famously, the reconstruction of the old bridge in Mostar in Bosnia-Hercegovina acted as a focal point of wider metaphorical bridge-building between Serbs, Bosniaks (Muslims) and Croats after the civil war in the 1990s when the bridge was demolished.
In Syria, too, there have already been tentative attempts towards this kind of a goal, with meetings between regime and opposition officials nominally in charge of antiquities.
Similarly, the sheer barbarism of IS, exemplified in its brutality against people and against shared cultural monuments, could be a foil to coax more unity among the dispersed opposition groups and factions.
Moreover, these kinds of sites are the heritage and birthright not just of this generation of Syrians so adversely affected by the conflict, but of all Syrians henceforth.
As such, focusing on the protection of sites of great historical concern is just, it can be argued, given that the ultimate goal is to preserve and protect the essential character of a people for hundreds of years to come.
Some may find it distasteful that many seem to be increasingly inured to the human toll in Syria, while interest is piqued by attacks on historical sites.
Doubtless, they might prefer that some of the yardage given over to glossy pictures of Palmyra in its glory days be given over to reporting of the day-to-day devastation faced and experienced by ordinary people.
On the same theme, one can hope and advocate for better, longer, more in-depth pieces or more funding for foreign reporters.
A righteous lament this may be, but it is an ineffectual one. The numbing reality is that if these were the types of stories that were demanded, more news services would answer the call.
It must also be remembered that there are rarely mutually exclusive choices here.
The words written and arguments elucidated over the importance of saving cultural heritage sites are also a part of wider discussions and pressure to cobble together anything approaching a meaningful plan to intervene or otherwise halt the worst excesses of the violence in Syria.
The takeover of Palmyra has generated a unique media storm, flinging the Syrian conflict back to wider consciousness. If that can be harnessed in the uphill struggle to galvanise a plan going forward, then no-one will complain.
Whatever the intellectual or moral merits of focusing on such examples of historical desecration, the fact remains that, for me - and I doubt I'm alone - there remains a unique sadness in the loss of such sites.
The abstract and horrifying numbers of deaths that the conflict has produced are not undermined or further ignored, as it were, by the focus on the fate of the likes of Palmyra.
The loss of Syria's cultural heritage represents the loss of far more than some tourist attractions, but the loss of connection between multiple generations.
As with all things, politics is but the art of the possible. So leveraging the fate of these magnificent and important monuments in the wider hope of incrementally building a pressure to bear on the powers that be is a just and vital thing.
The US State Department urged leaders throughout the region to redouble efforts to lower tensions.
Iranian protesters angry over the execution stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran, setting fire to the building.
Sheikh Nimr was one of 47 people executed for terrorism offences.
He was a vocal supporter of mass protests in the Saudi-Arabia's Shia-majority Eastern Province in 2011.
In a statement, US state spokesman John Kirby appealed to Saudi Arabia's government to respect and protect human rights, and to ensure fair and transparent judicial proceedings.
Mr Kirby also urged the Saudi government to permit peaceful expression of dissent and, along with other leaders in the region, to redouble efforts to reduce regional tensions.
Sheikh Nimr's execution sparked anger and protests in Shia communities across the region, with protests in Saudi's Eastern Province as well as in Iran, Bahrain and several other countries.
In Tehran angry Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy late on Saturday, smashing furniture and starting fires before they were dispersed by Iranian police.
Eyewitnesses described seeing members of a paramilitary volunteer group throwing petrol bombs at the building.
Earlier, the diplomatic reaction from Shia-led Iran, the main regional rival to Sunni-led Saudi Arabia, had been fierce.
The foreign ministry in Tehran said the Sunni kingdom would pay a high price for its action, and it summoned the Saudi charge d'affaires in Tehran in protest.
For its part, Saudi Arabia complained to the Iranian envoy in Riyadh about what it called "blatant interference" in its internal affairs.
As the main Shia power in the region, Iran takes huge interest in the affairs of Shia minorities in the Middle East, making it inevitable that the two countries would clash over Sheikh Nimr's treatment.
But one of the principal concerns of the Saudis is what they see as the growing influence of Iran in places like Syria, Iraq and elsewhere.
Sheikh Nimr was a prominent, outspoken cleric who articulated the feelings of those in Saudi Arabia's Shia minority who feel marginalised and discriminated against, the BBC Middle East analyst Alan Johnston reports.
He was among 47 people put to death on Saturday after being convicted of terrorism offences.
At least one protest march was held in Qatif, in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, defying a ban on public protests.
Protesters shouted the slogans "The people want the fall of the regime", and "Down with the al-Saud family", reminiscent of the 2011 protests in the wake of the Arab Spring.
Sheikh Nimr's arrest in 2012, during which he was shot, triggered days of protests in Eastern Province in which three people were killed.
Saturday's executions were carried out simultaneously in 12 locations across Saudi Arabia. Of the 47 executed, one was a Chadian national while another was Egyptian. The rest were Saudis.
The international rights group Amnesty International said the 47 executions demonstrated the Saudi authorities' "utter disregard for human rights and life" and called Sheikh Nimr's trial "political and grossly unfair".
Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr: Figurehead Shia cleric
Sheikh Nimr's family said he had been found guilty, among other charges, of seeking "foreign meddling" in the kingdom but his supporters say he advocated only peaceful demonstrations and eschewed all violent opposition to the government.
Saudi authorities deny discriminating against Shia Muslims and blame Iran for stirring up discontent.
Saudi Arabia carried out more than 150 executions last year, the highest figure recorded by human rights groups for 20 years.
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200 years ago on 18 June, 1815, two men faced off in a muddy field in Waterloo, Belgium.
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Pope Francis and Angela Merkel are among the favourites to receive the Nobel Peace Prize when it is announced in Norway on Friday morning.
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The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) abandoned plans for Wednesday night's rally in its native stronghold of Larkana town following what party leaders called "security threats" from militants.
The PPP is one of three parties recently named by a spokesman of the Pakistani Taliban as "legitimate" targets for militant attacks during the elections, due in May.
The other two parties on the hit list are the Karachi-based MQM, and the Pashtun nationalist ANP party which has its main base in the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and also enjoys sizeable support in Karachi.
All three are professedly secular, and were partners in the government that completed its five-year term last month.
Similar Taliban threats forced former military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf, also known for his secular leanings, to cancel a welcome rally on 24 March, the day he returned to the country after a four-year long self-imposed exile.
These threats follow huge election rallies already held by former cricketer Imran Khan's PTI, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's PML-N and Maulana Fazlur Rahman's JUI-F.
Parties like Jamaat-e-Islami and the political wings of some of the jihadi and sectarian groups also have an open field for campaigning.
All these parties are either overtly religious, or are run by right-wing liberals with religious leanings.
The question is, can the secularists defy the militant threat and assert themselves to ensure a level playing field in the vote?
An answer would depend on how serious the militant threat really is, and whether the country's intelligence-cum-security apparatus has the competence or the will to deal with it.
Thus far, the militants have repeatedly demonstrated their ability to attack the secular parties, while the security forces have failed to clear them out of their known sanctuaries in the north-west.
The ANP party, which led the outgoing administration in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has been the worst hit.
In October 2008, the party's chief, Asfandyar Wali, narrowly escaped a suicide bomb attack near his residence in Charsadda. Since then, the party's top leaders have limited their movements and have avoided public exposure.
A recent report by BBC Urdu said that more than 700 ANP activists have been killed by snipers or suicide bombers during the last four years, including a top party leader, Bashir Bilour.
In recent weeks, low-intensity bombs have gone off at several local ANP election meetings, reducing its ability to conduct an open campaign.
The PPP's losses at the grassroots level are minimal, but it did suffer a major shock in 2007 when its charismatic leader and former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated in a gun and bomb attack.
The then government, which was headed by Gen Musharraf, blamed the attack on the Pakistani Taliban on the basis of some communication intercepts and half a dozen arrests.
In June 2011, Ms Bhutto's husband and by then the president of Pakistan, Asif Zardari, was stopped from visiting his ailing father in an Islamabad hospital after the intelligence agencies uncovered what they claimed to be an assassination plot involving several Taliban suicide bombers.
As for the MQM, it has its main base in Karachi, and is reported to have a strong militant wing of its own, a claim it denies. But in recent months its activists have been targeted by the Taliban, including a provincial lawmaker, Manzar Imam.
Whether or not these parties will hit the campaign trail in a big way just as their right-wing competitors have done will become clear over the coming days and weeks.
They will be desperate to do so. Their leaders, especially those of the PPP and ANP, have been out of touch with the voters for nearly four years due to restricted movement.
Their inability to openly access the voters now may make it difficult for them not only to stem some of the unpopularity they may have earned during their incumbency, but also to prevent their more loyal vote-bank being eroded.
For many, the situation is becoming more like the 2002 elections, when the military regime of Gen Musharraf forced the main political leaders into exile, creating conditions for religious forces and conservatives to sweep the election.
Often those with the largest vote, the secular political forces have in the past had their wings clipped repeatedly by a powerful military establishment which finds an Islamic image of the state more suited to its security needs.
Now that job is being done by the Taliban.
The 52-year-old takes over after this week's sacking of Gary Locke.
Hughes told Rovers' website: "I feel this is a good fit for me at this stage of my career.
"And though the task ahead will be a challenging one in a very competitive league, I'm confident I can make a telling, positive impact."
Hughes, who left Caley Thistle last summer, takes over with Rovers sitting third bottom of the Scottish Championship after a run of 14 matches without a win.
"This role appealed to me straight away not just because of my knowledge of the club itself but also because of a very enthusiastic approach from Rovers to my agent, Raymond Sparkes," he said.
Rovers chief executive Eric Drysdale explained how the Kirkcaldy club were able to make such a swift appointment.
"It's only 48 hours since I first contacted John's agent, Raymond Sparkes, and it's been a whirlwind day or two pulling this deal together," he said.
"It's fair to say we are excited to have been able to attract someone of John's experience and calibre - a man who was voted PFA Scotland and SFWA Manager of the Year in 2015 following significant successes as boss of Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
"Although this agreement extends only until the end of this season, we're confident John's particular brand of management will bring a freshness to Stark's Park and excite our fans.
"Most importantly, the team has been a bit lacking in confidence of late and if there is any manager in Scottish football better equipped than Yogi to do something about that then I've no idea who that person is."
Hughes, a player with Berwick Rangers, Swansea City, Falkirk, Celtic, Hibernian and Ayr United, won promotion to the top flight during his six-year spell as Falkirk boss.
He went on to manage Hibs, Livingston, Hartlepool United and Caley Thistle, leading the Highland side to their first Scottish Cup triumph in 2015.
His first game in charge of Rovers will be at home to former club Hibs on 18 February.
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It happened on Main Street in Clady, as Storm Desmond continued to cause disruption in some areas.
Sean McCarry of the Community Rescue Service said: "The water level had risen fairly fast and he was unable to get away from his home in time.
"We managed to get a mechanical digger down the street through the flood waters and get him out."
Mr McCarry said the rescue operation, launched at about 18:15 GMT on Saturday, was a team effort between themselves, Foyle Search and Rescue and the Environment Service.
He said that after the man's ordeal, "he was relieved and happy to get away safely".
The man did not require further medical treatment.
Volunteers for the charity also managed to free a person who was trapped in their car near Strabane, County Tyrone.
Gerard Foley, who lives in Clady, said on Sunday that the village was badly affected by flooding.
"There are houses on the hill, and the rest is just water - Clady is a complete river," he said.
"You couldn't even pinpoint where the river is."
Flooding was reported on a number of roads in counties Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh and Londonderry.
On Sunday, the Gortnagarn Road, at Mountjoy near Omagh, is closed at the bridge due to flooding.
Road users have being warned about the risk of surface water flooding, as well as the risk of fallen trees or branches and other debris.
In Larne, County Antrim, Dunluce Street was closed due to damage to a building and concerns for its stability.
In the Republic of Ireland, thousands of homes were left without electricity and flooding affected many areas, particularly along the west coast.
Flights into and out of Irish airports have been affected by the weather, with some cancelled and others diverted.
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Selby, 33, had trailed 10-4 but claimed nine out of 10 frames to lead 13-11.
Higgins had a mini revival helped by a contentious refereeing decision, but Selby kept his composure to win.
The world number one is only the fourth player after Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan to claim back-to-back titles in the modern era.
The Englishman picks up a record £375,000 in prize money, retains the top ranking spot for the 116th consecutive week and gains revenge for the defeat by Higgins in the 2007 final.
No player had come back to win from a greater deficit than six frames in a World Championship final since Dennis Taylor trailed Steve Davis by 8-0 and 9-1 in their 1985 classic.
"I can't believe it, I am still pinching myself now," said Selby. "From 10-4 to get to 10-7 yesterday, I was over the moon as I had nothing left. He outplayed me yesterday. Today I came back fresh and was a lot better.
"When I was 10-4 down I was missing everything and had nothing left. I said 'pull something together'. If you lose, you want to at least go down fighting.
"To have three world titles is unbelievable and to be one of only four players to defend it is something I could only dream of."
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Selby was 47-0 up in the 31st frame, and leading 16-14 on frames, when he potted a red before attempting to roll up to the black ball. It was unclear whether the balls touched and referee Jan Verhaas called a foul.
Selby questioned the decision and score marker Brendan Moore checked the incident on a TV, initially saying the cueball had hit.
The decision was reversed but Moore looked at it from another angle and said he was not sure.
Verhaas then said, "If you are not sure, I will stick to the original decision" and the foul stood.
John Parrott said on BBC TV: "I don't think it touched, it did not quite get there and the referee got it right," while Steve Davis added: "From one angle, I think it touched but from another I don't think it did."
Higgins took the frame and went just one behind at 16-15, but Selby took the last two he required.
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Leicester player Selby was out-of-sorts during Sunday's play at the Crucible, missing straightforward opportunities in the reds to hand his opponent the initiative.
But the 33-year-old, who was named 'The Torturer' by Ronnie O'Sullivan for his gritty victory in 2014 from 10-5 behind, showed similar uncompromising characteristics with a ruthless display.
The third session was the turning point, a slow, turgid affair when he won six out of the seven frames to hold the advantage by two frames.
In the final session, the pre-match favourite made breaks of 71, 70 and a 131 clearance following the contentious call in the 31st frame.
Selby also matches the record of five ranking titles in a season, previously achieved by Hendry in 1990/91 and Ding Junhui in 2013/14, and now has 12 in total.
A dreadful collapse for Higgins means he missed out on moving into second place on his own in the list of most ranking titles won and remains one behind O'Sullivan's five world victories.
Having come through a comfortable semi-final against Barry Hawkins, he was initially at ease against Selby, stroking in a 141 break which equalled O'Sullivan's effort in 2012 as the best break recorded in a World Championship final.
I'm proud of myself but he was too good on the day
But the 41-year-old lost his way on the final day, and late breaks of 88 and 111 were not enough, as he was left frustrated by his rival's dogged performance.
The four-time champion has now lost two finals, but his run moves him up to second in the world rankings behind his opponent.
"Mark is granite, just granite," said Higgins. "In the second session I had my chances, I missed a pink into the middle and I could have gone 9-3 ahead.
"That was a big, big frame. Mark cleared up under extreme pressure. He is a fantastic champion.
"It has been an unbelievable tournament, I gave everything. I came up short to a great champion. I'm proud of myself but he was too good on the day."
Six-time world champion Steve Davis on BBC Two
When we look at the quality of players that are potential winners here, to think there is a dominant character forcing his way through is amazing.
Selby is an exceptional player and exceptional match player. It is going to take some young player coming through who takes every part of his game and becomes stronger to knock him off his perch.
We're close to the ceiling of performance now.
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Zohore, 23, has scored 13 goals this season having joined from Belgian club KV Kortrijk in the summer of 2016.
"I've spoken to him a few times in the last few weeks," said Bluebirds manager Neil Warnock.
Cardiff are also discussing a new contract for winger Kadeem Harris, whose current deal expires at the end of the campaign.
"I think it's in his [Harris'] best interests to stay and play for someone who will give him an opportunity," said Warnock.
"We've had discussions, quite healthy ones. "I think he's improved under me, and become more of a regular.
"The opportunity is there for him to try and establish himself.
"He's had a few years of him not being able to command a position. The opportunity is there for him to decide."
Harris joined Cardiff from Wycombe as an 18-year-old in 2012 and initially found it difficult to establish himself in the first team.
Now 23, he has enjoyed a breakthrough season, making 37 appearances in all competitions - the most he has made in any single campaign throughout his career.
Warnock is also hopeful that fellow winger Junior Hoilett will extend his stay having signed on a free transfer in October.
The Canadian's contract expires at the end of the season too, but Warnock says he has "no worries" about the former Queens Park Rangers player staying at Cardiff City Stadium.
Warnock was less certain when asked about the future of midfielder Peter Whittingham, another player whose contract expires at the end of the season.
As one of the club's top earners, Whittingham has previously been asked to take a pay cut if he is to extend his record as the Bluebirds' current longest-serving player.
"Nothing's changed. I've not spoken to Peter or his advisors for three or four weeks," said Warnock.
"We decided to get games out of the way and have a little bit more time, when we won't be training for a few weeks other than just ticking over.
"Not just Peter, I'll speak to a quite a number of players the week after the season ends."
The situation also remains unchanged with centre-back Bruno Ecuele Manga, who Warnock has previously said is doubtful of staying at Cardiff and has even said he has a replacement lined-up for.
The Gabon international is another of the highest earners at the club and his contract is also up at the end of this season.
"Nothing has changed. I'm actually seeing his agent this afternoon (Thursday)... so I'll know more about him later on," said Warnock.
"I only want to talk to him to know if there's an opportunity [of him staying]. I know Bruno is happy here, it depends if there are offers from abroad."
Stephen Ramsay, 59, from Nottingham, admitted breaking a 60mph (97km/h) speed limit on the B4501.
He was banned from driving for 28 days and fined £500 at Flintshire Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
Motoring magazine Evo has promoted the A5, A543 and the B4501, dubbed the Evo-Triangle, to thrill-seeking drivers.
In June, a man admitted causing a couple's death by dangerous driving on the A543 and was jailed for eight years.
Ramsay told the court he had never heard the name Evo-Triangle until the policeman who booked him wrote it down. He said he looked it up online later.
Prosecutor Brian Robinson told the court: "Riders and drivers are converging from all over the UK to use these roads as racetracks as part of the so-called Evo Triangle."
The Slovakian scored six times in 42 games while on loan at The Banks's Stadium in 2013-14 before agreeing a move to Oakwell in January this year.
"I'm really pleased to have Milan back on board," Saddlers boss Dean Smith told the club website.
"There's a lot of potential in him and now that he's our player, we can commit to getting the best out of him."
Lalkovic, who did not force his way into the first team at Stamford Bridge, has had loan spells with Doncaster and in the top flights in the Netherlands and Portugal.
He played 17 times for the Tykes last term and has been allowed to end his contract early after initially signing an 18-month deal.
Lalkovic is the League One Saddlers' third new signing of the summer following the arrivals of goalkeeper Neil Etheridge and defender Jason Demetriou.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Defending champions Cleveland scored a finals record 86 first-half points as they won 137-116, with the Warriors now leading the best-of-seven series 3-1.
Golden State were bidding for a perfect run of 16 wins from 16 in the play-offs - a feat never achieved before.
But Kyrie Irving and LeBron James shone as the Cavs forced a fifth game.
Irving scored 40 points while James added 31 to end Golden State's remarkable run of consecutive post-season victories. But the Warriors can still seal the championship at home on Monday (Tuesday, 02:00 BST).
"It was do-or-die. The job is still far from over," Irving said. "We're still in a hole. But this is a good start."
James added: "We have championship DNA as well. We showed that. We were in attack mode."
The Cavaliers won last year's series - also against Golden State - after trailing 3-1, and are now trying to become the first NBA team to recover from a 3-0 deficit.
The Markit/CIPS services purchasing managers' index (PMI) stood at 52.6, down from August's 52.9, but above the 50 level which indicates expansion.
On Monday, the manufacturing sector recorded its best PMI for two years.
Markit said the latest findings cast doubt on the need for more stimulus action from the Bank of England.
The surveys, which are calculated by speaking to purchasing professionals and business decision-makers across a range of companies, are seen as an early indication of how the economy is performing, since they are released before official GDP data.
"The survey results suggest that the economy has regained modest growth momentum since the EU referendum, with especially strong growth appearing in manufacturing," said Markit's chief business economist Chris Williamson.
"The risk of recession in the second half of 2016 has therefore all but evaporated, and the solid PMI readings for September will cast doubt on the need for any further stimulus from the Bank of England in coming months."
July's survey had shown a steep drop in business activity in the immediate wake of the referendum, but that started to recover in August. In addition, September's survey indicated that new business in services rose at the fastest pace since February and that the rate of job creation had picked up.
However, Mr Williamson pointed out that the pace of expansion had cooled since the beginning of the year, "reflecting widespread concern about the potential future impact of Brexit".
Official growth figures for the second quarter were revised up to 0.7% last week, by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), from an initial reading of 0.6%.
Pantheon Economics agreed that the Bank of England would probably refrain from cutting rates in November but predicted growth would continue to slow in the coming months, "as firms hold back from hiring and investment due to 'hard' Brexit risk and households' real incomes are squeezed by rising inflation".
The PMI survey showed that services firms reported the fastest rate of input price inflation since February 2013 in September, with providers subsequently raising their charges at the fastest rate since January 2014.
The services industry - which includes everything from financial advice to retailers - accounts for about three-quarters of the UK economy.
The 20-year-old has signed a deal to run until 2018 after coming through the Warriors youth system.
Hampshire, who can also play at stand-off or hooker, scored twice in his 15 outings during the 2015 season.
"Firstly I am delighted to sign a contract extension with Wigan," he told the club website.
"Kris Radlinski and Ian Lenagan have assured me that I have a big future with Wigan and I appreciate the club's support at this stage.
"I am excited in joining Castleford on loan - being in a new environment at a club that is aiming high will no doubt be good."
Joe McNerney put the hosts ahead before Chris Maguire equalised with his first league goal for the U's.
Callum O'Dowda's neat finish and Liam Sercombe's looped effort put Oxford in the driving seat.
The visitors secured the win as Maguire smashed home a penalty after he was brought down by Simon Walton before George Waring fired home a fifth.
The result leaves Oxford in second place, four points clear of fourth-placed Bristol Rovers with just five games remaining, whilst Crawley sit comfortably in 17th.
Crawley Town manager Mark Yates told BBC Surrey:
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"It's a frustrating game really. I thought we were great first-half and but for a mistake that Sonny Bradley's been unlucky that he tried to keep the ball in and we got punished for it.
"But the second half was not good enough. We talk about goals changing games and once the second one went in, I think you saw a little bit of negativity creeping in and we didn't deal with situations.
"I think we have Jack Rose to thank it wasn't a couple more. That's the most frustrating we can go from being so good to being so thick."
He was the man, as shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, credited by many for the tough detail of the austerity plan laid before voters in the run up to the 2010 election.
George Osborne was the architect, Mr Hammond the foreman, ensuring there was a plan that might actually have a chance of working, public sector cut by public sector cut.
Now Mr Hammond is the man in charge of the public finances - his dream government job and, a relatively rare occurrence for the resident of Number 11, said authoritatively to be the high water mark of his ambitions.
Whatever his relations with the Prime Minister, and they are better than often reported, the fact that he doesn't want to move his sofas next door is a useful salve to any scratchiness between Downing Street's most important neighbours.
Today sees the publication of the Institute for Fiscal Studies' (IFS) annual Green Budget, its analysis of Mr Hammond's room for manoeuvre as he prepares for the real Budget, on 8 March.
There is one clear message.
If you thought the era of cuts is over, think again.
Day-to-day spending, officially known rather more prosaically as the Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit (which excludes investment spending), is set to fall by 4% over the next three years.
The IFS says that a "particularly sharp cut" has been loaded onto the last year of the parliament, 2019-20, never a particularly comfortable time for a government to be squeezing the public sector pips even more aggressively.
Alongside that, the IFS says the overall tax burden is set to rise as a proportion of national income to the highest level since 1986.
That is not a function of actual tax rises - taxes for many millions of people have fallen as income tax thresholds have risen - but a function of a relatively high tax take throughout an era of pretty stagnant growth.
Will Mr Hammond change course on 8 March, and further loosen the government's austerity strictures as he did in the Autumn Statement last year - pushing the deficit reduction target into the conveniently indistinct long grass of "during the next parliament"?
The government has, after all, promised an economy that works for all.
I am told not - and that Mr Hammond is approaching his first Budget as a "steady-as-she-goes affair" with no major yanks on the national rudder, particularly given the economy's robust performance since the Brexit referendum.
It has been pointed out to me that, just ahead of the triggering of Article 50 - the official mechanism for leaving the European Union - the last thing Britain needs is a reset of fiscal policy.
In 2010, the Conservatives were elected as the party that would bring public income and public expenditure into balance.
Mr Hammond still cleaves to that view. "He is a Conservative," as one official close to him says.
George Osborne's economic approach is alive and well.
Yes, there are criticisms by some economists that there is no need to run a country like a household budget where pennies in and pennies out matter - governments are able to borrow at very cheap rates on the international markets and put that money to economically valuable use.
Yes, there are criticisms that debt costs as a percentage of national income are low by historic standards and so the room for manoeuvre is rather greater than the national debt headline figures suggest.
But those close to Mr Hammond argue that, OK, borrowing may be cheap now but servicing Britain's £1.7 trillion debt is still expensive, costing around £34bn a year, or 4.6% of all government spending.
Cut out the deficit and start dealing with the debt and those costs can be brought down.
Certainly, since the referendum, the cost of government debt has increased as rising inflation risk pushes up yields - the interest rate on government bonds issued to investors.
Mr Hammond is briefing the Cabinet for the first time this week on the broad parameters of next month's Budget.
He will talk about Britain's historic productivity problem and how to solve it, he will talk about skills, he will talk about research and development support and he will talk about infrastructure spending.
Supporting the private economy is his priority, not reversing public sector cuts.
Mr Hammond will also say that the new world of work - the gig economy - is affecting the way the Treasury has to approach complicated issues such as tax receipts as the number of self-employed - who tend to pay a lower proportion of their income to the state - grows.
A lot of it will be rhetoric at this stage.
For Mr Hammond wants to keep his powder dry.
Dry for the bigger fiscal event of the year, the autumn Budget (as we should now call it) in November or December.
As he said last year, he only wants one major tax and spend "moment" a year.
And it's not going to be next month.
The 500kg (1,100lb) device was found on the seabed in Portsmouth Harbour by a barge carrying out dredging works.
The Gunwharf Quays retail complex said it had been ordered to evacuate the area by 23:30 BST so the German device can be safely dealt with.
The Royal Navy said the bomb would be towed out to sea overnight and blown up during daylight hours early on Friday.
Cala visited the club last week about a possible deal but chairman Peter McGuigan says it will not take place.
Cala had previously showed interest in buying Portsmouth in 2012.
The Shrimps have faced financial problems since Diego Lemos took over the club in September and they are currently under a transfer embargo.
We were asked if there were any photographs of a windmill that once towered over Penkhull and Hartshill in Stoke-on-Trent.
You wanted to know why there were circular holes high up in the walls of hay lofts.
And you wondered about the history of the Alexandra colliery in Coventry. Here are some of the answers.
Local historian Richard Talbot said the windmill stood on Kirkland Lane. It dates roughly from 1780 and was built for farmers for milling.
However, by 1891 the mill had been demolished and Mr Talbot does not believe anyone took a picture while it was standing.
A semi-detached house now stands where the windmill once was.
An archaeological dig was carried out before building work started and found some remains of the windmill including the foundations "but nothing significant"," Mr Talbot says.
You can find out more about the Penkhull Windmill here and if you have a photograph of it use the form at the bottom of this page to get in touch.
Blists Hill Victorian museum in Ironbridge has examples of these holes in the side of barns.
The Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust told us it was so that loosely bundled bales of hay could be thrown, from a pitch fork, into the loft.
In the past, bales were not rectangular and tidy like they are today, so they were less likely to catch on a round hole than a square one.
The trust also said that some barns have smaller holes near the eaves to attract owls, in the hope they would control mouse-numbers - and they were known as "owl holes".
The Alexandra Colliery was one of three in the area operated by Wyken Collieries Ltd, which started work at the Warwickshire Coalfield from 1862.
The Alexandra and Wyken Collieries were the first to open. When the Wyken was worked out by 1881 miners moved to the Alexandra until it too became exhausted by 1919.
The third, and last, Craven Colliery, closed in 1927. The history of some of the surrounding railway lines can be found on this site.
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Fifty firefighters tackled the height of the blaze at Bowlshaw Lane, near Shelf, Halifax, as police advised motorists to seek alternative routes.
Supt Owen West said fuel tanks on vehicles inside the premises exploded and advised people to stay inside for safety.
Diesel, LPG and acetylene is on the site, West Yorkshire Fire Service said.
Major blaze at Morrisons supermarket depot in Yorkshire
The A644 Brighouse Road closed both ways between A647 and A6036 and there were diversions for traffic in the area.
Supt West said the fire was at a garage containing scrap vehicles, there had been no reported injuries and the "smoke plume looked more serious than it is".
It can now be taken off the list of countries where the disease is endemic, if the World Health Organization (WHO) confirms the results.
Nigeria had struggled to contain polio since some northern states imposed a ban on vaccinations in 2003.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries to record cases in 2015.
Global health experts are hoping polio can become only the second human infectious disease to be eradicated, after smallpox.
Nigeria will still have to wait a further two years without a recorded case to be certified as polio free.
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Polio can only be prevented by vaccination as there is no cure.
The 2003 immunisation ban in some northern states followed allegations by some state governors and religious leaders in the mainly Muslim north that vaccines were contaminated by Western powers to spread sterility and HIV among Muslims.
Independent tests ordered by the Nigerian government in 2004 declared that the vaccines were safe.
But there was still some hostility in a few areas to vaccination drives, with violent attacks against health workers.
The last attack was in 2013 when nine polio vaccinators were shot dead at health centres in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.
We are in Monaco, with the Tour de France imminent. Not to gawp at the prominent bones in his arms and wrists, although you can't miss them, and not to make small-talk, although he is as polite as a maitre d' and will thank you for coming before you've had a chance to thank him for being there.
As he prepares to take aim at his fourth yellow jersey in five years, we have instead come to talk about where those first titles were won and where the next might again be decided: the high mountains, the summit finishes, the places where the road points towards the heavens and the riders slip into their own personal hell.
Mountains bring the biggest crowds and the greatest dramas, the decisive time differences and the killer moves. Mountains bring pain, and suffering, and broken characters and mangled dreams.
This is the secret world of climbing, and nothing about it is easy.
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Hundreds of miles under their wheels, a hundred more on that day alone. When the peloton approaches the crescendo to a mountain stage, it first fractures and then blows apart.
"There is a tension in the air," says Froome. "You know this is a day when you will be crawling back to the team bus when the stage finishes.
"At the bottom of the decisive climb, the jostling for position is like a bunch sprint in itself. You're going full gas. You know that if you back off the wheel in front even a few feet, that's enough for someone to cut in and take your place. Everyone is on the limit.
"You get people who are up there for no apparent reason, who want to ride halfway up your lead-out train. And you have to fight them off. You have to get them out of there, because they're the guys who are going to take you back with them. "
The spectators have been up there for hours, for days in advance. There are motorhomes squeezed onto any flat ground, empty wine bottles and cans of beer in the verges, men stripped to the waist running up and down the road. You hope the vast crowds will continue to part miraculously in front of you like the Red Sea. You hope.
"If you're going up l'Alpe D'Huez and it's 10 people deep on either side, it's just a wall of noise," says Froome. "You can't hear anything.
"There are people lighting fireworks, people lighting flares right next to us, and you just block it all out for everything that is happening on the bike.
"You can smell the beer, you can smell the barbecues. Up on the mountain, especially in the afternoon, you get really close to people, and you can smell the alcohol. It's a heavy smell.
"It does get scary. But when you have someone shouting at you, 'Dig in, dig in!' - it's an amazing feeling. You're hurting, struggling to hold the pace, and you're thinking, bloody hell, he's right - I just need to get through this little bit…"
The broad bunch of riders thins out and separates. The team-mates of the big stars go to the front to protect and assist their star men. Heart-rates climb and legs start to burn.
"The pain creeps up on you. When you're excited at the bottom, everything feels fresh. You're able to respond to small accelerations. You can close the gap to the wheel in front. As you climb, the freshness goes.
"Slowly one muscle group will turn to cement. It's in overdrive. Other muscles try to compensate, and then they start shutting down. Muscle by muscle it gets worse as the pain sets in. You start feeling it in the back, in the shoulders.
"It's different to the pain of a bunch sprint, which is short and explosive. You don't have time to think about the pain. In a time-trial it's just you out there on the road. No-one to talk to, just your body and its feelings.
"Your body is saying, this hurts, that hurts, slow down - and you just have to go faster. I've always loved that feeling of my body being on the limit. Feeling empty, having no more to give but still pushing your body. I enjoy that, in a sick way."
This is not just about strength. This is not just about your power output, or how many frivolous grams of bodyweight you managed to drop in the last few weeks before racing. There are games within games, sub-plots that could yet decide the greater story arc.
"When you're still 10km out from the summit, you don't want to be the guy on the front doing all the pulling. You almost need to play a game: 'I can only do 30 seconds on the front here, then it's up to you guys.'
"And you're pretending. Because you know that in the final two kilometres you're going to have to give everything you have.
"You will bluff. You will hang a few metres off the next wheel, try to get that guy to think, 'Maybe he's not having a good day today, now's the time to push…' And then they will go too deep, thinking they can drop you.
"I've been fooled sometimes. It's a constant game between you and your rivals, where you are at, how you can play on each other's insecurities."
Some are better poker players than others. Some can read their opponents even while keeping their own intentions tucked away.
"Alberto Contador - if you can catch it - he has a little grimace he gives, that almost looks like a smile, but it's a grimace, when he's on the limit. Only for a split second.
"He only does it for an instant, like he's taking a breath, and you can see it - ah, he's there, right on his threshold.
"My tell is that I drop my head. But I ride with my head dropped most of the time. My own team-mates, my own wife can't tell if I'm on a good day or bad day."
Away goes a final group - team-mates, super-domestiques all spent and spat out the back. Now it is down to the big boys, the general classification contenders, out there alone on the steep, sun-baked tarmac, all together, all trying to break the others apart.
"It's a really strange place to be. You're all suffering. There's no-one who is easy on those climbs.
"But it depends on the degree of suffering, and how much everyone is prepared to suffer. If you're suffering but you can see someone else suffering more, you'll probably go on and push it even harder. Which just sounds mental, but you know that's going to be the difference between being in front and being behind at the end of the day.
"That's what it comes down to. You want to twist the knife. If you can see someone battling, and they're a threat to your position, you're going to twist that knife as much as you can.
"You can see it. It's like a switch that has been flicked. When someone pops that switch, when you can see that in their head it's a case of this is too much, I cannot carry on at this speed - it's a switch that you flick, and you can see it.
"In effect you've broken their character. It's primeval. It's rewarding. And it's a great feeling when you can inflict that on someone else, and a horrible feeling when someone's doing it to you."
Four kilometres to go. So much riding done, so many critical pedal strokes still to come. Everything hurts. Nothing comes easy. Why not stop? Why not ease up, just for a few beautiful seconds?
"There are times you do doubt yourself. You think you're on a good day, and then someone just accelerates that little bit too fast out of a corner, and you think, oof, he's looking fresher than I feel. And you doubt yourself.
"So much of the time it's a game of confidence, it's a game of how much you believe in what you are able to do, compared to the guy next to you. And always trying to judge that balance between who can go faster, and therefore should I be upping the pace, should I be hanging off trying to get them to slow down?
"There are a lot of things that go through your mind in those moments. You think about your rivals, how much you've anticipated this moment, how you've visualised how it's going to pan out.
"You think about your loved ones. I think about my family. I'm laying it all on the line for them."
Helicopters overhead, cameramen on motorbikes in front of you, team car behind. Thousands screaming at you roadside, millions more watching on television. And yet you are alone. You, your heart, your legs, your lungs.
"There is no hiding when you get up into those high mountains. If you haven't done the work, it's really going to show.
"You can't hide in the bunch, you can't rely on your team-mates to protect you and shield you. It's man against man, and if you haven't got it, you haven't got it.
"I love it. I love that excitement, I love the anticipation. It's a lot of hard work and sacrifice that goes into being ready for a big mountain stage in the Tour, and when it all comes together, there's no better feeling.
"That's what brings me back every year to the Tour, and makes it my number one priority - just how rewarding it is to have that feeling. Of being able to inflict that upon your rivals."
Under the flame rouge. A glance back past your own armpit at the road behind you. No-one. Working it hard to the finish line, zipping up a jersey sodden with sweat, raising one weary arm for the cameras.
"There's already a release of really good positive feelings and energy once you manage to drop your rivals," says Froome. "That for me is one of the best, best feelings ever.
"And then when you get close to the finish line and the suffering can finally end, and you can finally switch off and let the body recover, it's just a huge feeling of release and relaxation from the effort you've just buried yourself to do.
"Only when you get back to the hotel, and you lie down about nine or 10 o'clock, that's the first time you switch off from everything, when you start feeling the compound effect of three weeks' racing, when you feel how tough the Tour is.
"I've had days when you finish off with your massage or physio, and normally you have to go down a couple of flights of stairs and out the front of the hotel to the kitchen truck for dinner. And some days you think, I could just go to bed now. I can't be bothered even walking to get food.
"The bad days are the ones you have your shower sitting down. For me that's a measure of just how hard the day has been.
"Sometimes you get in the shower, and you literally feel as if you don't have the energy to stand there. So for me I sit down on the floor and start soaping myself there. It feels like I'm giving myself a break. That's how gone you are."
Glen Scobbie left pistol emojis underneath a video posted by the Edinburgh East MP three months after the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.
Mr Sheppard was "concerned" about the post and reported the matter to police.
Scobbie, 26, of Falkirk was fined £280 after admitting posting the emojis and a threatening remark.
Michael Maguire, prosecuting, told Falkirk Sheriff Court the video had been shared by a friend of Scobbie's, and Scobbie had posted "shoot the bastert".
Mr Maguire said: "This text was followed by two emoticon images of a handgun.
"The post was public and available for other Facebook users to view."
Mr Maguire told the court that when police asked Scobbie if he knew Tommy Sheppard, he replied: "It was a Tommy Sheridan post, I thought".
Representing himself in court, Scobbie said: "It was meant to be a joke between me and my pal. I didn't think anybody else would see it.
"I lost my job as a binman with Falkirk Council because of it."
Scobbie told Sheriff Derek Livingston that police had mentioned Mrs Cox's murder, but he claimed he was unaware of it at the time of the offence.
Sheriff Livingston told Scobbie: "It sounds actually from what the prosecutor said that your political knowledge is such that you confused Tommy Sheridan and Tommy Sheppard.
"But politicians are entitled to go about their daily work without being subjected to this sort of nonsense.
"I accept it was more stupidity than anything intended, but it clearly did cause alarm."
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The 35-year-old has 113 caps, one behind Leonard, who retired in 2004.
The game at Twickenham Stoop (19:30 GMT) is the first in a series, with New Zealand, Canada and Ireland to follow.
"When I got my first cap, I never imagined I would go on to get so many," Worcester player Clark told BBC Sport.
Clark, who was appointed MBE for services to rugby in 2015, is also two behind Scotland women's world-record holder Donna Kennedy.
"Getting my 100th cap was special and I imagine it will feel like that," said Clark. "I just want to get through the warm-up and make sure I am in one piece."
Clark said she aspired to be a stalwart of the team like Leonard had been, adding: "I've looked up to him for a long time."
England will be without key centre Emily Scarratt for the game after the 26-year-old Lichfield player was ruled out with concussion, while Bristol's Amber Reed will miss the series with an ankle injury.
Clark, who made her debut in 2003, has seen the women's game develop over the past few years, helped by England winning the 2014 World Cup.
"Each year the level of fitness improves, training sessions and the demands on your body are harder," she said.
"Thanks to the help of the physios and the strength and conditioning team, I think I am in better shape than probably 10 years ago. The body has hardened and the injuries are healed and the mind is raring."
England team: Danielle Waterman, Kay Wilson, Claire Allan, Rachael Burford, Fiona Pocock, Katy Mclean, Natasha Hunt, Vickii Cornborough, Amy Cokayne, Laura Keates, Tamara Taylor, Emily Braund, Alex Matthews, Marlie Packer, Sarah Hunter (c). Replacements: Vicky Fleetwood, Rochelle Clark, Sarah Bern, Harriet Millar-Mills, Izzy Noel-Smith, La Toya Mason, Emily Scott, Ceri Large.
A plaque with victims' names has been unveiled in the gardens of Parliament House in Canberra.
The Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed on 17 July 2014.
The West believes there is evidence the plane was hit by a Russian-supplied missile fired by pro-Russian rebels.
Russia denies this, blaming Ukrainian government forces for the disaster in the eastern Donetsk region.
MH17: What do we know?
Sunflower mementoes for the families
Australian lawmakers interrupted their mid-year holidays to take part in the national memorial service in the capital.
A plaque with the names of the victims was set in soil brought back from the Ukraine by an Australian police officer.
Speaking at the memorial, held inside the Great Hall of Parliament House, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Australians owed it to the dead to bring the guilty to justice.
"Their passing leaves a void that can never be filled and a pain that still throbs," he said.
Mr Abbott said he was humbled by the way the families and friends of the people killed on the flight had coped.
"In the worst of times you have displayed the strength of giants and the grace of angels," he said.
Opposition leader Bill Shorten also addressed Friday's ceremony.
Those who attended the service pinned sprigs of Australia's national floral emblem, wattle, on a large wreath.
After the memorial, Mr Abbott met victims' families and friends.
A memorial service is also being held in the Ukrainian village of Grabove, close to where the plane came down, and in the Netherlands, where most of the passengers were from.
In the Dutch city of Nieuwegein, the names of all the victims will be read aloud by their family members.
In Malaysia, a memorial service was held in Kuala Lumpur on 11 July - because the anniversary of the disaster comes at the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Each victim was named and then honoured with a moment of silence.
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected calls by the UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Malaysia and Ukraine to establish a UN tribunal to prosecute suspects.
The Kremlin said in a statement that Mr Putin had "explained Russia's position regarding the premature and counter-productive initiatives of several countries, including The Netherlands, on the establishment of an international tribunal".
It also criticised what it said was politicised media coverage of the disaster.
A final report on the cause of the crash is due to be released in October by the Dutch Safety Board. The Netherlands is leading the criminal investigation and is being assisted by Belgium, Australia and Ukraine.
The Malaysia Airlines' passenger list showed flight MH17 was carrying 193 Dutch nationals (including one with dual US nationality), 43 Malaysians (including 15 crew), 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians and 10 Britons (including one with dual South African citizenship).
Yes, it is now almost a quarter of a century since the longest-serving premier of the 20th Century was unceremoniously booted out of office.
And even after all that time, her shadow still hovers over British political life: as a lodestar in the mythology of the Tory right; and as a hate figure for many on the left.
But what if she had not exited the political stage in November 1990? It is one of the interesting "what ifs" of modern British history. For there was nothing inevitable about her departure.
I have been re-examining the final days of Mrs Thatcher's government for a Radio 4 documentary to be broadcast on Sunday at 13.30 GMT.
Along with my colleague Rob Shepherd, we have spoken to many of the key figures in that final drama including Michael Heseltine, Ken Baker, John Wakeham, Ken Clarke, Chris Patten and John Whittingdale.
We have looked at the familiar issues that led to Mrs Thatcher's resignation including the unpopularity of the poll tax, the divisions over Europe, the resignation of Geoffrey Howe, and the self-inflicted mistakes during her leadership campaign.
But in doing so, we have teased out several key moments when events could have taken quite a different tack, especially after the first ballot when Mrs Thatcher won more votes than Michael Heseltine but not enough to win outright.
One of Mrs Thatcher's key supporters, John - now Lord - Wakeham, reveals for the first time that it was he who told her to meet the cabinet one-on-one, something which allowed them to tell her the truth - that they did not think she could win the second ballot.
"I said to her 'the first thing you want to do is consult the cabinet' and she said 'I am very happy to do that' and I said 'but no, one-on-one'.
"My worry was that they were saying things to me which I was worried they didn't have the guts to say to her and I felt that they ought to say to her. She ought to know where she stood.
"I did that out of loyalty to her, not in order to get rid of her, but in order that she could make a decision as what to do. I made her know what the situation was and she then decided what she wanted to do."
Many of Mrs Thatcher's supporters believe that this was bad advice and that if she had been given the chance to rally the support of her cabinet collectively, she could have survived.
But instead she gave ministers the opportunity to tell her that she was losing support without facing the peer pressure of more loyal colleagues.
If she had fought on, the then-Chancellor John Major and Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd would not have thrown their hats into the ring and she would have gone head-to-head with Michael Heseltine once again.
Culture Secretary John Whittingdale, who was then Mrs Thatcher's political secretary, says the leader believed she could have won the second ballot but it would have come at too high a cost.
"[What] she said to me, and I think it was a large part of her thinking for not standing, was that if she had won, it would have been so damaging for the party that it would probably have made it impossible for us to win the election."
Michael, now Lord, Heseltine reveals that after losing the first ballot, it never crossed his mind that he could stand aside - but he now admits he should have considered the option.
"There was another speech I never made and never thought about at the time. It was a year or so later that someone pointed out the option of saying 'I am not interested in winning on a technicality, I accept the verdict'. It did not occur to us to think of it. We should have done but didn't.
"It would have meant that I would have created a position in the party beyond peradventure which sooner or later someone would have had to recognise. I always believed I would be back. I never thought my political career was over, but I would not have created quite such animosity in the party."
Lord Heseltine says that if Mrs Thatcher had decided to fight on, he might have beaten her: "It is possible I would have won, but not certain. But I do know that when I heard that she was not going on, I knew there was no chance of me winning."
Ken Clarke reveals that Mrs Thatcher tried to win his support by promising to stand down as prime minister before the election. But during their one-on-one conversation, she insisted she could not go yet.
"She said there were things she had to do. There was no one else. She would go, she assured me. She was going to step down before the next election, but first of all she had to see us through this war against Iraq in Kuwait, and she had to get the economy back on its feet again."
Lord Wakeham reveals the decisive role that Margaret's husband, Denis Thatcher, played in persuading his wife to resign.
"I knew perfectly well that Denis wanted her to resign. He was very keen on her resigning at the time. He said 'you've done enough, old girl. You've done your share. For God's sake, don't go on any longer'."
The-then party chairman, Ken, now Lord, Baker (pictured above) reveals the complacency of Mrs Thatcher's campaign chief, her parliamentary private secretary Peter Morrison.
"I went to see Peter Morrison one day and he was fast asleep in his chair. He was quite confident they were going to win. I said it was not my feeling at all. You are going to have to get out and persuade people. It was absurdly over-complacent."
10 Days That Toppled Thatcher can be heard on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday 1 November at 13.30 GMT.
War veteran Sam King MBE settled in south London having arrived on the Empire Windrush in 1948 and became Southwark's first black mayor.
His son, the Reverend Michael King, said his father was a "pioneer" who had been "a servant of the people".
Around 500 mourners attended the service for Mr King, who died in June.
Mr King arrived in Britain after volunteering for the Royal Air Force in 1944, and soon became a prominent campaigner for the West Indies community.
His son said his father helped organise London's first West Indies carnival "to exhibit ourselves as West Indians in a positive light".
Michael King said his father was "very pleased" the carnival had developed into the Notting Hill Carnival.
Sam King set up the Windrush Foundation with his friend Arthur Torrington in 1996 to celebrate the arrival of people from the Caribbean to Britain following World War Two.
Mr Torrington said Mr King believed "the ship was no different from the Mayflower" which transported English separatists to America in 1620.
"He was the one who really kept alive the importance of the Windrush", he said.
Speaking in an interview with BBC Newsnight, he said strong criticism of Israel is legitimate, but to argue there should be no Israel "that's where anti-Zionism becomes anti-Semitism".
Oz's books have been published in more than 40 languages.
He is regarded as a liberal and is firmly in favour of a two-state solution for Israel.
In recent months, the Labour Party in the UK has been embroiled in a row over anti-Semitism, and whether the party has a problem on the issue.
Oz told Newsnight's Kirsty Wark: "I can tell you exactly where I draw the line. If people call Israel nasty, I to some degree agree. If people call Israel the devil incarnated, I think they are obsessed - they are mad. But this is still legitimate."
"But if they carry on saying that therefore there should be no Israel, that's where anti-Zionism becomes anti-Semitism, because none of them ever said after Hitler that Germany should cease to exist, or after Stalin that there should be no Russia."
"Saying that Israel should cease to exist, or should not have come into being, this is crossing the line."
Amos Oz has won numerous awards for his books and has also commented widely on political issues. His latest novel, Judas, is a love story set in Jerusalem in 1959-60.
In February 2015, hundreds of UK artists signed a letter announcing they would take part in a cultural boycott of Israel. They said they would not accept professional invitations to Israel, or take any funding from organisations linked to the government.
Other prominent artists - including writer JK Rowling and historian Simon Schama - later criticised the move as "divisive and discriminatory".
Oz told Newsnight he believes cultural boycotts of Israel are counter-productive.
"I think boycott is hurting the wrong people. The idea that all Israelis are villains is a childish idea. Israel is the most deeply divided, argumentative society. You'll never find two Israelis that agree with one another - it's hard to find even one who agrees with himself or herself."
"Boycott is the wrong way because it hardens the Israeli resistance, and it deepens the Israeli paranoia that the whole world is against us."
"Boycott was very effective in the case of South Africa. But you have to be very stupid to think the prescription - the medicine that worked very well against cholera -will also kill the plague.
"This is a kind of laziness - mental laziness. South Africa was bad. The Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories is bad, in a totally different way. You need a different prescription."
Amos Oz was speaking to BBC Newsnight's Kirsty Wark. Watch the full interview on Newsnight at 22:30 on BBC Two, or catch up afterwards on iPlayer
The 34-year-old ran clear and calmly slotted in with nine minutes to go to settle the encounter.
Extra time was needed after Chris Tierney's late leveller for New England had cancelled out Gyasi Zardes's goal.
The win ensured that all-time leading MLS scorer Landon Donovan ended his career with six championship titles.
The 32-year-old did not get a goal that would have added to his record total of 144 in the MLS, but the victory was an apt way to cap his impressive career, which has seen him play in three World Cups and score a national best 57 international goals in 157 games.
Keane has proven himself an equally valuable asset at the StubHub Center in recent seasons.
The Republic of Ireland forward, who scored 20 goals in 33 games as LA Galaxy claimed the Western Conference title to reach Sunday's final, was a typically lively presence, twice forcing good saves from New England keeper Bobby Shuttleworth in normal time.
When his big chance came in extra time he did not spurn it as he showed alertness to latch on to a chipped ball forward and coolness to slot his shot past Shuttleworth and into the corner of the net.
It was a goal that earned the former Tottenham striker his third MLS title in four seasons.
For New England Revolution it was another cruel MLS Final defeat at the hands of the Galaxy, who beat them courtesy of extra-time goals in both 2002 and 2005.
This is the fifth time they have finished as runners-up, and they will reflect on how it could have been very different.
After Tierney had nipped in to slot in a late leveller and cancel out Zardes' close-range finish earlier in the second half, they came within inches of what surely would have been a winner. Teal Bunbury's speculative shot from the right side of the box floated over Galaxy keeper Jaime Penedo but came back off the crossbar.
The full-time whistle gave LA the chance to rally and ultimately provided the platform for Keane's winner.
Pte James, from Llangollen in Denbighshire, was one of four recruits to die from bullet wounds at the army base between 1995 and 2002.
Pte Helen Miller said she had been pressured by a senior officer 20 years ago to say her friend was happy.
She said all leave had been cancelled at the Surrey base after her death.
She said she had been told by an unnamed sergeant major at the time to "behave myself, to stop being hysterical. I was told a couple of times 'you wont go to the funeral if you carry on'.
"I think they were trying to keep us quiet. It was damage limitation." she said.
John Beggs, representing Surrey Police, asked Pte Miller about a statement she had made in 2002 in which she said she always thought Pte James had killed herself.
Pte Miller told the inquest: "Now, whether I believe it, I have no idea about what happened to her on that day."
Giving evidence from abroad via video link, she said: "I find it very strange that she would open up to me and then out of nowhere, kill herself, without talking about it and without getting upset."
On Thursday, the hearing was told Pte James had been in relationships with two male recruits at the barracks.
"She had found herself in a situation where she didn't want to finish with one of them", WO1 Sarah Ditchfield said.
Peter Mant, representing Pte James's family, asked Pte Miller if relationship problems could have caused her friend to take her own life.
She said: "No. Everyone had boyfriend trouble".
It was not something that was causing her "great upset", but was more "indecisiveness", she told the hearing.
Pte Miller said: "I think it was a struggle for her at Deepcut."
She told the inquest recruits had talked about the death of Pte Sean Benton from Hastings who was found with five gunshot wounds in June 1995.
They discussed how they would kill themselves, if they were to do it.
Pte Miller said: "It was the general consensus to shoot yourself [in the head] would be the easiest way to do it.
"Cheryl was part of that conversation. It was a conversation many were having, not Cheryl alone."
An initial inquest into Pte James's death in 1995 recorded an open verdict but that was overturned by the High Court, which ordered the new hearing.
The inquest continues.
Who were the Deepcut four? Background to the deaths and timeline of events
South African franchises the Cheetahs and Southern Kings have joined the enlarged Celtic and Italian league.
And Pro14 boss Martin Anayi says discussions will continue regarding further expansion.
"We are still looking outwards. We won't sit still," Anayi told BBC Radio 5 live.
"We had set out when I first came in that we were looking to expand rather than contract. We needed to do that to be competitive with the English league and the French league.
"South Africa is a huge market for us. The Cheetahs and Kings can add massively to our tournament.
"So let's get that right, do that well, and then look forward again."
As well as looking across the Atlantic, Anayi also has revealed interest in the Pro14 growing into other parts of Europe, for example Germany and Georgia.
"We have to look at all opportunities," the chief executive said.
"We set up the tournament structure to expand further at the right stage, and I think that's the right thing to do."
For years the Pro12 had struggled to match the financial might of European rivals the English Premiership and French Top 14, but Anayi feels the increase in broadcast revenue - as a result of the expansion into South Africa - is "game-changing".
"It gives us a long-term strategic plan, and a market in South Africa with 55 million homes, in a genuine rugby market," he added.
"It's confidential in terms of the actual figure. We can't really match the English and French for one domestic TV deal, so let's do it differently. This is the first phase.
"So it just made a lot of sense. Can we grow further? Yes, we will grow further. Can we deliver more money back to our clubs? Yes, but at the same time our costs are increasing because we need to elevate our standards.
"The revenue that's generated from the expansion goes a long way to that."
The Port Elizabeth-based Southern Kings have only retained 15 players from their Super Rugby squad for the upcoming Pro14 season, and Anayi admits it may take time for them to settle.
However he is confident both outfits will add value to the league, on and off the pitch.
"I would say we would need to give them [the Kings] a year or two to kick into gear," Anayi said.
"The Cheetahs are Currie Cup champions and have fantastic depth. They have a few injury problems at the moment at fly-half, but once they come back they have three or four genuine contenders at 10 for international honours.
"The phrase 'hotbed' is used a lot, but it really does apply to both the Free State and Eastern Cape, for different reasons, and that is what excites us.
"A little bit of latitude for them to get it right, and they will come good."
Meanwhile, operating in a Europe-based competition is hugely beneficial for the welfare of South African players, says Cheetahs captain Niell Jordaan.
"It means you are going to be fresher each week, there isn't going to be any jet-lag, and you can put on the best show week in and week out," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
And it could lead to more South African teams featuring in the northern hemisphere, according to other leading figures at the Blomefontein franchise.
"We've had a fantastic response from our support base and sponsors and players. Everyone is very excited," said coach Rory Duncan.
"It's always difficult to talk on behalf on the other franchise, but I am pretty sure they are all watching to see how the first year or two goes.
"I think it could be a possibility for more teams from South Africa playing [in Europe] in the future."
Despite his players starting the season off the back of a Super Rugby season and in the midst of the domestic Currie Cup competition, Duncan believes his side have the potential to be a force in the Pro14.
"I'm confident we do have a squad that is going to compete very strongly in this competition," he said.
What does the Pro14 expansion mean for rugby union? Hear the discussion on BBC Radio 5 live's season preview show, Tuesday 29 August at 19:30 BST. The programme will also be available as a podcast.
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In her report, Ms Broderick recommended increasing the number of women in the military and setting up a unit to probe sexual misconduct.
The review found evidence of harassment and abuse, but also said many had experienced no discrimination.
The assessment followed a series of sex scandals in the defence force.
"Our overarching finding is that, despite progress over the last two decades, I am not confident that, in all the varied workplaces that comprise the ADF [Australian Defence Force] today, women can and will flourish," Ms Broderick said.
She highlighted "ambivalence" about the importance of increasing the numbers of female service personnel and "a lack of understanding about the cultural and structural impediments to female representation".
The review found that the recruitment of women for the defence force had only increased by 1% over the last 10 years.
"The use of targets is required, both to improve recruitment and to broaden occupational opportunities available to women, including in combat roles," the report said.
The ADF needed to make greater efforts - such as looking at flexible working policies - to help both men and women combine work with raising a family.
The report also said women were "significantly underrepresented in leadership positions" and that despite resistance to quotas, "targeted interventions" were needed if this was to change.
Ms Broderick also recommended that a unit dedicated to investigating sexual misconduct be established, allowing confidential complaints to be lodged.
The review found that while most people saw the defence force as a safe working environment, some women had experienced "sexual harassment, sex discrimination and sexual abuse".
"We found that members frequently did not report these incidents ... because they feared that ... their career would be jeopardised, that they would not be believed or they would be subjected to a sometimes unresponsive chain of command investigation," she said.
Defence Minister Stephen Smith said the Australian government accepted all the proposals in principle.
He has asked the Chief of the Defence Force and the Secretary of the Department of Defence to ''determine the best way forward in formally adopting and implementing the... recommendations'', said a statement.
Health watchdog Monitor has begun an investigation amid concerns about Warrington Hospital's finances.
Chief executive Mel Pickup has written to staff to explain the need to "find new ways to reduce our operating costs".
Auditors KPMG have also been brought in to help manage the hospital's budget.
Ms Pickup's letter, which has been seen by BBC News, refers to an "unprecedented affordability gap forecast for the national healthcare system" following rising costs.
It explains that even if "realistic savings" are made, the hospital expects to be operating at a deficit of £15m for the 2015-16 financial year.
The hospital, which has an A&E unit serving the wider area, has now "declared itself in a turnaround position", Ms Pickup said.
Her letter says managers will be speaking to staff about the situation over the coming weeks, but urges them to immediately begin "thinking about our personal commitment to bring about improvement".
The projected shortfall is also expected to be felt at the smaller Halton Hospital and the Cheshire and Merseyside Treatment Centre, which are also managed by Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The trust said in a statement: "We have been very open and honest about our financial position with our staff and the public after what has been a challenging year.
"Business at the hospitals continues very much as usual but we do face a challenge that we need to meet.
"We are continuing to provide the very best care to our patients, recruiting to key posts and vacancies to reduce our temporary staffing costs and transforming the way some of our services work."
He said the UK government took "very, very seriously" the need to end their anxiety and uncertainty.
Mr Davis again signalled that he was not willing to compromise over the role of the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
But European Parliament Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt insisted the ECJ "must play its full role".
The European Court of Justice has emerged as the central stumbling block in reaching a deal on the rights of EU nationals.
EU sources last week described the conflict over the court as "a fundamental issue, a fundamental difference between the two sides on this".
However, Mr Davis, in Prague for talks with the Czech foreign minister LubomÃr Zaorálek, said the British government intended to introduce legislation to establish the rights of EU nationals, which would be enforced by British courts.
"We intend this should be put in an act of parliament enforced by the British courts - and I don't think anybody has ever argued that the British courts are anything other than trustworthy in terms of defending the rights of individuals," he said.
"And most importantly, this would be backed up by a treaty - so that the treaty itself is enforceable as well. That's the way we're going to do it."
Mr Davis said giving EU nationals in the UK the right to appeal to the European Court of Justice would be the same as allowing the US Supreme Court a role in Britain.
But in a statement after the second round of negotiations between the UK and EU, Mr Verhofstadt and the European Parliament Brexit Steering Group, said it would "remain vigilant" and "continue to push for full rights for EU citizens in the UK as well as UK citizens in the EU".
Mr Verhofstadt added that the European Parliament want the withdrawal agreement - or the terms of Britain's divorce from the EU - "to be directly enforceable and to include a mechanism in which the European Court of Justice can play its full role".
At the end of the press conference in Prague, Mr Davis stressed that under the UK proposals, Czech nationals would receive "the same rights as British citizens", such as residence rights, economic, employment, pension, health and welfare rights.
"Essentially, all of the rights other than the right to vote for the national government," he said.
But Mr Zaorálek said he had told Mr Davis the Czech Republic had decided to open a general consulate in Manchester to give the 45,000 Czech citizens living in the UK a place "to get their documents in order" in preparation for Brexit.
Matthew Taylor, former head of the Labour Policy Unit, will look at job security, pay and workers' rights.
In the Daily Telegraph, Chancellor Philip Hammond defended plans to put workers on boards and impose greater pay restraint for senior executives.
The measures were "something that responsible businesses will recognise can be positive for them", he said.
He warned that big businesses were "angering their consumers" over excessive pay for bosses and poor workers' rights.
Speaking ahead of the Conservative Party conference on Sunday, Mrs May said: "The UK has one of the strongest labour markets in the world - with record numbers of people in work and an unemployment rate almost half the EU average.
"That's a proud record, but if we are to build a country that works for everyone - not just the privileged few - we need to be certain that employment regulation and practices are keeping pace with the changing world of work."
Mr Taylor has been tasked with looking at whether regulations need to change in order to keep pace with what Downing Street says is a growing number of people registered as self employed, on zero hours contracts or in temporary work.
The review will look at security, pay and rights and it will also examine whether there are ways to increase opportunities for carers, people with disabilities and the elderly.
Mr Taylor, chief executive of the RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), said it was "very encouraging" that he had been asked to chair the independent review.
"New forms of employment have many advantages for workers and consumers but there are challenges and risks," he said.
"We need to approach this issue with an open mind, recognising that within our flexible system of employment the same type of contract can have a diverse range of impacts on the people who use them.
"That the prime minister has chosen to prioritise the interests of the growing army of people working in new ways sends an important message."
He said the review team will travel across the UK to hear how people's experience of work affects their daily lives.
Seamus Nevin, head of employment and skills policy at the Institute of Directors, said: "It is important that the government works to ensure our employment regulations and definitions are flexible so that we protect workers and give them access to training and development, while still enabling innovation and enterprise to prosper."
The answer was left as a mystery in the theatrical release of Ridley Scott's 1982 film - with even Scott and Ford arguing about it - and with a sequel due to be released in October, fans are hoping the issue will finally be resolved.
Ford and fellow cast members including Ryan Gosling introduced a second trailer and new clips from the movie at Comic-Con on Saturday, which connect the sequel to the original film.
Moderator Chris Hardwicke couldn't help but ask Ford if Blade Runner 2049 would address the lingering questions about Deckard's identity - human or replicant?
After a long pause, the star responded: "It doesn't matter what I think."
So that clears that up then.
However he did say he returned for the sequel because: "We had a really good script based on a really good idea. It deepened the understanding of my character… It had great depth."
Set 30 years after the events of the first film, the sequel sees Gosling play Blade Runner Officer K, who discovers a dark secret which leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard.
The Comic-Con panel was introduced by a hologram of Jared Leto, who stars as the villain in the movie but wasn't able to be in San Diego in person.
Gosling admitted making a Blade Runner sequel was surreal and it still hadn't quite sunk in yet that he was making it.
"I just remember when I was a kid it was one of the first films that I'd seen where it wasn't clear how I was supposed to feel when it was over," he said. "There's a moral ambiguity to it that's quite a haunting experience."
Director Denis Villeneuve said he took on the job because he "didn't want anyone else to [muck] it up", as the original film was his inspiration to become a film-maker.
However he thanked Ridley Scott for leaving him to get on with making the film he wanted.
The final fan question in the Q&A was put to Harrison Ford - was it his goal to reboot every single one of his franchises, having turned his hand to Indiana Jones, Star Wars and now Blade Runner?
"You bet your ass it is!" he replied.
We can only hope for a Working Girl sequel next.
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The fire began on Friday afternoon on one of the lower storeys and spread to higher floors, where a number of people were trapped for nearly two hours.
Firefighters eventually controlled the blaze in the building.
Some 25 people have been taken to hospitals in the capital, San Salvador, to be treated for smoke inhalation and burn injuries. Some are seriously hurt.
One woman is confirmed dead while another woman was resuscitated in hospital after initially being reported dead.
At least 50 people were evacuated from the building, according to emergency services spokesman Carlos Fuentes.
Video footage showed one person falling from the top of the building - it is not clear if they survived.
Others fell or jumped from the fifth and sixth floors but survived, Mr Fuentes said.
It took firefighters more than an hour to control the blaze.
The fire may have been caused by an electric fault in the building's air conditioning system, local media reported.
Brainwaves were interpreted by a computer, which then controlled the electrical stimulation of his leg muscles.
The US study, in the Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation, showed he was able to walk just under four metres with support.
Experts said maintaining balance was an issue that needed to be addressed.
A spinal cord injury prevents the flow of messages from the brain. However, the brain is still able to create messages and the legs are still capable of receiving them.
The researchers at the University of California, Irvine, used a brain-computer interface to bypass the damage in a man who had been paralysed for five years.
An electroencephalogram (EEG) cap read the activity of the man's brain and his initial training was to control a virtual person or avatar in a computer game.
Electrodes were then placed on leg muscles and the patient began training to move his own legs.
When he thinks of walking then the muscles are simulated to alternately move the right and left legs until he stops thinking about walking.
One of the researchers, Dr An Do, said: "We showed that you can restore intuitive, brain-controlled walking after a complete spinal cord injury.
"This non-invasive system for leg muscle stimulation is a promising method and is an advance of our current brain-controlled systems that use virtual reality or a robotic exoskeleton."
Dr Mark Bacon, from the charity Spinal Research, told the BBC: "This is an interesting early-stage study.
"What makes this interesting is the move out of the virtual realm by activating lower-limb muscles in a walking pattern.
"In that regard they have been successful. However, independent over-ground walking is still some way off, not least because the issue of maintaining balance hasn't yet been addressed."
All six places in the section voted for by constituency parties went to members of a pro-Corbyn group, giving the Labour leader a majority on the ruling body.
A spokesman for Mr Corbyn's leadership campaign said it showed "a desire for real and genuine change in our party".
Prominent Labour supporter Eddie Izzard missed out on getting a place.
Meanwhile, in an interview with the Guardian, Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has said Labour is facing infiltration from "Trotsky entryists" who are "twisting young arms" in to supporting Mr Corbyn.
The NEC consists of the Labour leader, deputy leader, frontbenchers, trade union representatives, constituency party representatives, councillors and members of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
It is the body that governs the Labour Party, but its relationship with the leadership has been under strain in recent months.
The NEC's Procedures Committee is to appeal against a High Court ruling giving recent members a vote in its leadership contest between Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith - a decision which has been attacked by shadow chancellor John McDonnell and other allies of Mr Corbyn.
On Monday, six NEC seats were up for grabs for representatives from constituency Labour parties - all of which were won by members of the Grassroots Alliance, which is backed by Momentum, Mr Corbyn's network of supporters.
Ann Black, chair of the Oxford East Labour Party, topped the ballot, with 100,999 votes, amid a high turnout.
Ms Black, Christine Shawcroft, Claudia Webbe, Darren Williams, Rhea Wolfson and Peter Willsman will take up their places on the NEC in October.
Blairite group Progress and Labour First, which represents "moderate" Labour members, failed to get their candidates elected in the constituency section but Labour First got two of its candidates elected in the local government section.
It is being seen as a boost for the Labour leader, who is fighting a challenge from former shadow work and pensions secretary Mr Smith for the leadership. But these NEC elections have no bearing on the leadership contest itself.
A spokesman for the Jeremy for Labour campaign said: "This result clearly shows that there is a desire for real and genuine change in our party under the continued leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, but we are not going to take anything for granted and we will be campaigning for every vote in the leadership contest."
Momentum, the Corbyn-supporting grassroots campaign group, also welcomed the results, tweeting: "Well done to the 6 left-wing candidates elected on to Labour's NEC! Thank you to everyone who voted for them."
Eddie Izzard, who failed to get a seat on the committee despite receiving 71,000 votes, said he was "obviously disappointed" not to be elected to the NEC but added that: "I'm in this for the long haul. I will carry on being an activist!"
Ellie Reeves - sister of former Labour shadow cabinet member Rachel Reeves - lost her seat after 10 years on the NEC, coming seventh in the ballot with 72,514 votes.
She told the BBC Radio 4's World at One that having the support of Mr Corbyn and Momentum "seemed to have been a pre-requisite for getting on".
She said she was worried that "the voices of some members aren't going to get heard" now and said her defeat showed there had been a "shift in membership".
"I've always had broad support and I think the make up of our membership has changed significantly in the past few months," she told the programme.
But Rhea Wolfson, one of the six new members to be appointed to the NEC, said they were not a "homogenous group".
Asked whether Labour MPs could face mandatory reselection, she told the World at One it is "a conversation that we're going to have to have".
There was a "disconnect" between the Parliamentary party, Labour members and unions, she said, and added: "We have to have a much more healthier conversation around reselection if not mandatory reselection."
Shadow home secretary Andy Burnham - who has just won Labour's nomination to run for Manchester mayor - said talk of mandatory reselection was "unhelpful".
"To pull the rug from under our MPs or other elected representatives I don't think is helpful at this time - it fuels a climate of distrust," he said.
Meanwhile, Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has said Labour should scrap its "one member one vote" system for electing a leader, and reinstate the electoral college system - which gave equal weight to the votes of MPs, trade unionists and party members - abolished by Mr Corbyn's predecessor as leader, Ed Miliband.
He also wants MPs - not the party leader - to choose who to sit in the shadow cabinet, saying it would help to "reshape and rebuild" the Parliamentary party.
In a further signs of the deepening rift in the party, Mr Watson revealed that he now has little contact or communication with Mr Corbyn, bar the "odd text" - mainly about "family stuff".
The 22-year-old joined the Prenton Park side on a one-month loan deal in October.
The Ivorian scored twice in four appearances for the League Two strugglers, with both goals coming in the 2-2 draw with AFC Wimbledon.
The Spireites, who face Barnsley on Saturday, have failed to win any of their last seven league games.
Celeste Smith was last seen in Plymouth on Tuesday afternoon, but she was not reported missing until she failed to meet up with friends two days later.
Friends said the teenager, who lives in Saltash, Cornwall, had recently discovered she was pregnant.
Police are treating the search as a "high priority".
Miss Smith was last seen at 18:00 GMT on 31 January in the Ebrington area of Plymouth.
People from her hometown, Saltash, have organised a search of the area, handing out flyers to passers by.
Kirsty Howden, who helped set up the search party, described Miss Smith as "a young bubbly and intelligent individual" who was normally in constant contact with her friends on social media.
No-one has heard from the teenager since her disappearance.
Mrs Howden, who has known Miss Smith since she was at primary school, said she had gone missing before, but "for there to be a complete lack of communication is very unusual", adding that the teenager's mother, Julie Smith, was "beside herself".
Devon and Cornwall Police said officers were treating the teenager's disappearance as a "high priority" because family and friends were "very worried about her".
The Minister for Development Co-operation, Ulla Tornaes, said Copenhagen would contribute 91m kroner (£11m; $14m) for the programme.
She said unwanted pregnancies had "enormous" human and social costs in the world's poorest nations.
But she added that limiting Africa's population growth was also important.
Speaking at a conference in London on Tuesday, Ms Tornaes said 225 million women in the world's poorest countries do not currently have access to family planning.
"Unwanted pregnancies have enormous human costs in developing countries - from very young women who must give up their basic education, maternal mortality."
The minister said this "also has large social costs, where many countries' development step is limited by high population growth".
She then referred specifically to Africa, saying that curtailing the continent's population growth by increasing access to contraception and family planning was an important foreign and security policy priority for the Danish government.
"If the population growth in Africa continues as now, the African population will double from 1.2 billion people to 2.5 billion people by 2050," Ms Tornaes said.
"Part of the solution to reducing migratory pressures on Europe is to reduce the very high population growth in many African countries."
Denmark, like a number of other EU nations, has in recent years been under pressure to deal with a rising number of asylum seekers and immigrants arriving in Europe.
However, asylum applications dropped dramatically in the country in 2016, compared with 2015.
The government said October that 5,500 applications were received until 30 October, compared with 21,000 in 2015.
In January 2016, the Danish parliament backed a controversial proposal to confiscate asylum seekers' valuables to pay for their upkeep - a move criticised by the UN.
Mr Trump said that while radical groups beheaded people in the Middle East "we're not playing on an even field".
But Mr Trump also said he would consult Defence Secretary James Mattis and CIA director Mike Pompeo and "if they don't want to do it that's fine".
They have both indicated opposition to reintroducing the interrogation method, widely considered a form of torture.
US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, questioned on the waterboarding remarks at a news conference on Thursday, reiterated that torture was illegal.
Former CIA director Leon Panetta told the BBC it would be a "serious mistake to take a backward step" on torture.
It is an interrogation process that causes the subject to experience the sensation of drowning.
The subject is strapped to an angled board facing down and a cloth is placed over their mouth. Water is poured over the face, creating the feeling that the lungs are filling with water.
Speaking to ABC News, Mr Trump said he wanted to "keep our country safe".
"When they're shooting, when they're chopping off the heads of our people and other people, when they're chopping off the heads of people because they happen to be a Christian in the Middle East, when Isis (IS) is doing things that nobody has ever heard of since Medieval times, would I feel strongly about waterboarding?" he asked.
"I have spoken with people at the highest level of intelligence and I asked them the question 'Does it work? Does torture work?' and the answer was 'Yes, absolutely'.
In his election campaign, Mr Trump had said he might order troops to carry out waterboarding "and tougher" methods on terrorism suspects, although the next day he said he would not order the military to break international law.
The CIA began using waterboarding, among other interrogation processes, after the attacks on New York and Washington in 2001.
Al-Qaeda figures Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were waterboarded dozens of times under CIA detention.
A Senate committee concluded the technique did not provide critical intelligence, but some ex-CIA officials insisted it had provided actionable information.
The technique is illegal. President Barack Obama banned torture as an interrogation technique in 2009.
And late last year, an anti-torture amendment became law. It writes into the Army Field Manual that there can be no "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment".
Mr Trump can rewrite the manual but the law's stipulation that there can be "no use or threat of force" cannot be waived by executive order.
Paul Ryan, speaking to reporters alongside Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, emphasised the Republican position, saying that "torture is illegal and we agree with it not being legal".
If Mr Trump relies on his security team, then probably not.
The president said on ABC: "I will rely on Pompeo and Mattis and my group and if they don't want to do it that's fine. If they do want to do then I will work toward that end.
"I want to do everything within the bounds of what you're allowed to do legally but do I feel it works? Absolutely I feel it works."
When Mr Trump was sounding out Mr Mattis for defence secretary he asked him about its use.
Mr Trump told the New York Times: "[Mr Mattis] said - I was surprised - he said, 'I've never found it to be useful.' He said, 'I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers and I do better with that than I do with torture'."
Mr Pompeo has been a bit more ambivalent. He has defended the use of harsh techniques but during his confirmation hearing said he would "absolutely not" reinstate those methods.
He was more equivocal in written responses, saying that if intelligence gathering was being impeded he would look into whether changing the laws was necessary.
Mr Panetta was more forthright, telling the 100 Days programme on BBC World News: "The reality is we really don't need to use enhanced interrogation in order to get the information that is required."
"I think it could be damaging in terms of our image to the rest of the world."
A draft document has come into the hands of US media that suggests other actions, although Trump administration spokesman Sean Spicer said it was not a White House document.
The draft order would scrap Mr Obama's move to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
It also calls for a review into whether the "black sites" programme should be reintroduced.
Black sites were locations overseas where the CIA carried out interrogation techniques like waterboarding post 9/11. They were closed by Mr Obama.
The Obama directive giving the Red Cross timely access to all detainees could also be revoked.
Work on the Victorian Tropical Ravine began in late 2014.
Now it has been stripped back to its bones, without its glass roof and extensive heating system.
Most plants have been removed, but some, which have been there for more than a century, were left in situ.
As concrete is poured and beams are sandblasted, the plants have been protected by specially constructed plastic tents.
Inside are the sort of heaters you might use in a particularly cold room in your house.
The budget for the work is £4m, most of which is coming from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
That money will pay for the restoration of Victorian features like the waterfall, as well as new glazing and the more modern addition of a lift to bring visitors to the ground floor.
For many years, it has not been safe for visitors to walk among the plants. Instead, they have been restricted to an upper gallery walkway.
That will no longer be the case once the work is completed.
Rose Crozier from Belfast City Council says the redevelopment work is about both tourism and education.
"From and educational perspective, we are already engaging with schools to try and shape what that experience will be," she says.
"From a tourism perspective, it is unique in its offer, going back to that Victorian era when plant collections were treasured and people went out to see what tropical and sub-tropical plants there were in the world and actually brought them back to Belfast."
About £20,000 has also been contributed by Friends of Botanic Gardens.
Most of this money will go towards educational displays according to the group's chairman, Frank Caddy.
"It's turned out as a much, much bigger project than we first envisaged," said Mr Caddy.
"It's not just a roof that is going on. One of things we're very pleased about is the educational side of the ravine.
"The ravine has always been the poor relation to the Palm House, but it has a lot more opportunity to show the public what the plants and the horticulture of the world is all about."
The work on the Tropical Ravine was to be completed by early next year, but the estimated completion date is now late 2017.
When it re-opens, it will be the perfect place to experience more tropical climes on even the coldest or stormiest winter day.
The NW Counter Terrorism Unit used civil powers under the Terrorism Act to confiscate cash found hidden in luggage or under clothing.
Most was seized from passengers flying from Manchester to Turkey, said police.
Officers believe it would have then been taken over the border into Syria.
Greater Manchester Police said the cash was confiscated between April 2013 and April this year.
The force said 90% of the money was discovered at Manchester Airport with the rest at other north-west sea and air ports.
Figures for the rest of the country were not available.
Det Ch Supt Tony Mole of Greater Manchester Police said officers were able to target funding for terror groups including Islamic State militants even when there was not enough evidence to press criminal charges.
He said: "Terrorists need money to fight.
"At the Turkish border with Syria there are shops where you can buy guns, boots, rations and if you are going out there to fight you need money and you want equipment."
"We take that cash away from people, not only stopping them from buying weapons and funding terror organisations which are a threat to the UK and an international threat but we also disrupt that person."
Police can hold the cash for up to 48 hours and if the passenger is unable to give a satisfactory explanation a court can order the money to be confiscated.
Roald Dahl's books have been the bedrock of countless childhoods.
More than 200 million copies have been sold worldwide and translated into 59 languages.
The author's infamous characters, Willy Wonka, Miss Trunchbull and the Twits amongst them, will be affectionately remembered by children and adults alike across Wales.
Schools across the country are marking Roald Dahl Day by dressing up as their favourite villains and heroes, with an Enormous Crocodile bench to be unveiled in Cardiff Bay.
Though well known for his Norwegian and English connections, 2016 has seen a concerted effort to highlight the influence of Wales on the writer's colourful imagination.
Dahl spent nine years in Cardiff as a child; a period masterfully illustrated in his autobiography, Boy.
Back in 2009, a blue plaque was placed on a sweet shop, now a Chinese takeaway in Llandaff's High Street which was owned by Mrs Pratchett, a woman who was said to have influenced several of his characters.
On Monday, additional blue plaques were unveiled around the village to mark more of his childhood haunts.
ROALD DAHL'S CARDIFF CONNECTIONS
Those early years of Welsh influence might have had a more lasting effect on the author than initially appreciated.
Last month, a collection of essays was published under the title Wales of the Unexpected, considering the influence of Wales on the imagination of the famous writer.
One of the contributors was Dr Tomos Owen, a lecturer at the School of English Literature at Bangor University.
He said that, while the significance of Dahl's early period here in Wales "is a question for debate", nonetheless, it was part of his development and "it's worth thinking about Wales as one of the many lenses through which we can view his work."
He added it is possible to see the "fingerprints of Wales" in Dahl's literature.
Donald Sturrock, Dahl's biographer, said he "was proud of being born in Cardiff" and "Wales and the hinterland of Cardiff had a big impact on him."
"When he actually was kicked out of Wales and sent to a boarding school in Bristol, I think it's very touching that he says he lined up his bed so that he would be facing home, facing where his house in Wales was across the Bristol Channel.
"In those very deep ways, I think Wales was enormously important to him. It was where he came from."
Celebrations will continue this weekend in Cardiff, with the capital being transported into the "City of the Unexpected".
Organisers remain tight-lipped about the detailed arrangements, but they say it will be the biggest arts event ever to happen on the streets of Cardiff, with 6,000 performers taking part.
Twenty six years after his death, the magic and wonder of Roald Dahl's creations continue, particularly in his city and country of birth.
The 53-year-old, son of the late Worcestershire and England legend Basil D'Oliveira, played for the county between 1982 and 1995.
During his career he scored more than 9,000 first-class runs, with a career-best single innings of 237.
He also discovered many of the county's current first-team squad, which includes his son Brett.
The club said the players were informed of the news of his death shortly before the start of Sunday's County Championship match with Glamorgan.
In a statement, the club said: "Worcestershire are sad to report that academy director Damian D'Oliveira passed away in the early hours of this morning.
"D'Oliveira has bravely been battling cancer for the past two-and-a-half years."
Mr D'Oliveira's father, who was fondly known as Dolly, was born in South Africa and moved to the UK in the 1960s because of the lack of opportunities for non-white players.
He went on to play for England but his selection for the 1968 tour of South Africa led to a political storm, the cancellation of the tour and sporting isolation for his former country.
In 2011, Mr D'Oliveira told the BBC the reaction to his father's death had been "absolutely overwhelming".
"He was a man of very few words who did his talking on the field," he said.
Mr Sisi, who has declared three days of national mourning, named Shafik Mahmoud Mohamed Mostafa, 22, as the attacker.
The bombing on Sunday killed 24 people, many of them women and children.
Mr Sisi said that three men and a woman had been arrested in connection with the attack.
Dozens more were injured in the blast in a chapel adjoining St Mark's cathedral during a Sunday service, which Mr Sisi said caused "pain to all Egyptians".
He used his address to urge the government to amend the country's terrorism laws, which he said were "restricting the judicial system" in its battle to prevent such attacks in Egypt.
Mourners earlier packed the Virgin Mary and St Athanasius Church for a service led by the spiritual head of Egypt's Orthodox Christians, Pope Tawadros II.
However, hundreds of mourners were angry at being denied entry, the Reuters news agency reports, with a number of youths detained.
Inside the church, banners bearing the names of the dead were hung on the walls. Pope Tawadros II prayed over the victims' coffins and called them martyrs.
After the service, the victims' coffins were taken by ambulance to Nasr City for the state funeral.
The Christian minority in Egypt has often been targeted by Islamist militants. There has so far not been any claim for responsibility for the attack.
Egypt has seen a wave of attacks by militants since 2013 when the military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi, an elected leader who hailed from the Muslim Brotherhood, and launched a crackdown against Islamists.
Some of Mr Morsi's supporters blamed Christians for supporting the overthrow.
Sunday's explosion happened at about 10:00 local time (08:00 GMT). Video footage carried by regional media showed the interior of a chapel adjoining St Mark's Cathedral littered with broken and scattered furniture, along with blood and clothing on the floor.
"I found bodies, many of them women, lying on the pews. It was a horrible scene," said cathedral worker Attiya Mahrous.
"There were children. What have they done to deserve this? I wish I had died with them instead of seeing these scenes,'' another witness told the Associated Press news agency.
Coptic Christians make up about 10% of Egypt's population.
St Mark's Cathedral is the headquarters of the Coptic Orthodox church, and the home of Pope Tawadros II.
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.
Paul Kenny appeared from custody at Glasgow Sheriff Court where he admitted the offence contrary to the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act.
The 28-year-old, from Girvan, South Ayrshire, made the gestures at Ibrox Stadium on 29 April after Celtic player Scott Sinclair scored a penalty early in the game.
Celtic won the match 5-1.
Kenny admitted engaging in behaviour that would be likely to incite public disorder by shouting and making "racial gestures".
He was granted bail with the condition that he cannot go to any regulated football games.
No narrative of facts was read out in the court and it was continued until a later date for background reports.
Sinclair, a Celtic forward, said the abuse he suffered at Ibrox in the weekend win over Rangers was "very shocking" and the 'first time it's happened' in his career in football.
He said it all came as "a big surprise" and that racism "shouldn't be around" in the game.
Fellow Rangers supporter David McLellan also admitted an offence under the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act.
The 23-year-old from Irvine, Ayrshire, ran on to the field, behaved in an aggressive manner and confronted Celtic player Scott Brown.
Procurator fiscal depute Ruth Ross-Davie said that six minutes into the game at the Rangers home end Celtic were awarded a penalty.
She said: "They scored the penalty, players started celebrating.
"Players were running around the home support end at which point Mr McLellan ran on to the pitch towards the Celtic player Scott Brown and confronted him on the pitch.
"His approach was aggressive and intimidating. He was held back by other players on the pitch and the referee before making his way back to the track side where he was stopped by stewards."
Defence lawyer Emma Skett described his actions as the "most idiotic of behaviour".
She added: "He immediately realised what he had done and stupidity of what he had done."
From the dock, McLellan told the court he was sorry, adding: "As soon as I done it I realised I shouldn't have done it."
Sentence was also deferred for reports and bail granted with the same football condition as Kenny.
A third Rangers fan, Steven Morrison, from Pollok, admitted singing sectarian lyrics of a song at the match.
He too will be sentenced at a later date and was granted bail with the same conditions not to go to any regulated football matches.
St James Theatre in Palace Street, Victoria, was built on the site of the former Westminster Theatre which was destroyed by a fire in 2002.
The owners hope the £7m complex will attract new audiences and help foster commercial theatre outside the West End.
Bully Boy, a play by comedienne Sandi Toksvig, launches the debut season.
Originally a chapel in 1766, the building was then altered so it could be used as a cinema in 1924 and subsequently converted into a theatre in 1931.
For many years it was owned by the Moral Re-Armament movement which used it to present shows with a moral or spiritual message.
The new complex has a 312-seat main house and a studio space capable of accommodating up to 150 people as well as apartments.
The theatre will be fitted with multi-media broadcast facilities that will be used to show performances on the venue's own BSkyB satellite channel.
The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU), which was set up in 2008 to detect any corruption, has not revealed which match it is investigating.
The TIU is already investigating a US Open first-round match between Vitalia Diatchenko and Timea Bacsinszky.
"Both are the subject of routine, confidential investigation," it said.
The TIU said it received 96 alerts from July to September, including the two alerts from Wimbledon and the US Open.
Alerts come from regulators and betting organisations, who can report matches if they notice suspicious betting patterns.
"It is important to appreciate that an alert on its own is not evidence of match-fixing," added the TIU.
It states that unusual gambling patterns can be explained by factors other than fixing, such as incorrect odds setting, player fitness, playing conditions and well-informed betting.
The star, who rose to fame in the 1990s as a hard-partying "It girl", received treatment in 2016 for a non-malignant brain tumour.
The Met Police confirmed a woman in her 40s was found dead at Palmer-Tomkinson's flat in Bramham Gardens, South Kensington, at 13:40 GMT.
Prince Charles, a close friend of the star's family, led tributes and said he was "deeply saddened" by her death.
Palmer-Tomkinson, a former Sunday Times columnist and reality TV star, was a regular on the London party scene in the 1990s and 2000s.
She made headlines for her social life, frequently appearing in the pages of society and celebrity magazines, before later appearing on reality TV.
The tabloid darling also battled a high-profile cocaine addiction, which she discussed publicly on a number of occasions.
She was diagnosed with a tumour last January after returning from a skiing trip and was also suffering from an auto immune disease that caused acute anaemia, tiredness and joint pain.
Life in pictures: Tara Palmer-Tomkinson
She had voiced fears that she might die, but hit back at critics who blamed her frail health on her well-documented troubles.
Speaking in 2016, she said: "That's always their [press] take on it... cocaine.
"That was so many years ago. But not many people can contemplate Tara's life without it".
As well as being a socialite, Palmer-Tomkinson was also a close friend of Prince Charles and attended the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011.
In a tribute, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall said their "thoughts are so much with the family".
Television host and former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan paid tribute in a tweet that read: "RIP Tara Palmer Tomkinson, 45. A fun, feisty woman who battled many demons. Very sad news."
Majesty magazine editor and royal historian Ingrid Seward told BBC News: "She did have it all, and perhaps that was part of her problem.
"She was a good-looking girl, she had a fabulous family, she was a brilliant skier, rider, and she was very artistic. She sang beautifully."
She added: "I just think there was just too much, and life gave her too many choices, and she just didn't make the right ones.
"But she was a very generous, sweet person, I mean she really was a charming, charming girl."
Later in her career Palmer-Tomkinson appeared on reality TV series I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! in 2002, as well as several other TV shows.
Her father Charles was a former Olympic skier who taught Prince Charles.
The family was skiing with the prince in the Alps in 1988 when they were hit by an avalanche that killed one member of their party, Major Hugh Lindsay, and left Palmer-Tomkinson's mother Patti with serious leg injuries.
One is said to be from Russia's North Caucasus region and the others from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Turkey believes so-called Islamic State (IS) was behind the suicide gun and bomb attack that left 44 people dead and some 240 injured.
Police detained at least 13 suspects in Istanbul and more in Izmir on Thursday.
Family, friends and colleagues of victims gathered at the airport on Thursday for a memorial service as funerals continued.
One image on Turkish media purported to show the three men together at the airport moments before the attack, wearing dark jackets and carrying holdalls. Two are wearing caps, one is smiling.
An unnamed Turkish official confirmed for Reuters news agency the dead attackers' countries of origin after Turkish media reports.
Some agencies named one of the men as Osman Vadinov, said to have crossed into Turkey from the IS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria in 2015.
Reports that he was a Chechen have been denied by an unnamed police source in the North Caucasus, Russia's Interfax news agency reports.
The organiser of the attack has been named by Turkish media as Akhmed Chatayev, a Chechen believed to have acted as an IS recruiter, who is on a US counter-terror sanctions list. His fate was not immediately clear.
IS has long recruited members from mainly Muslim parts of the former USSR, with Russian President Vladimir Putin putting the overall number at between 5,000 and 7,000 in October.
However, data published by the Soufan Group security consultants in December suggests the numbers are lower: 2,400 from Russia and 500 apiece from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Many believe that some elements within Turkey's Islamist-leaning government stomached, or even fostered, jihadist groups in Syria that tallied with their beliefs, creating an environment in which IS could grow.
For the first few years of the Syrian war, Turkey's border with Syria was somewhat porous, allowing jihadists and weapons to cross in both directions - until pressure from the US and others grew and Turkey tightened controls.
Ankara has always vehemently denied the allegations, claiming there is no proof of sinister cross-border movement and that the media and Western governments are attempting to besmirch Turkey while ignoring the fact that it has taken in almost three million Syrian refugees.
But what is clear is that as Turkey has become a more active part of the US-led coalition against Islamic State, it is considerably more vulnerable.
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Islamic State: the full story
The government has made no official statement on nationalities yet and no-one has said they carried out the attack on Tuesday evening.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Wednesday that "our thoughts on those responsible for the attack lean towards Islamic State".
Meanwhile, another Turkish official told AFP news agency: "Earlier today, the police raided 16 locations to detain 13 IS suspects, including three foreign nationals."
Turkish media said counter-terrorism police had raided several areas of Istanbul - including Pendik, Basaksehir and Sultanbeyli.
Arrests were also reported in the western coastal city of Izmir, where at least nine people were detained, accused of financing, recruiting and providing logistical support to IS.
Separately, Turkish media reported that security forces had killed two suspected IS militants on the Syrian border last Saturday. They said one had been planning an attack on the capital Ankara or the city of Adana.
Detailing the attack, Mr Yildirim said the three men had wanted to pass through the security system but on seeing the controls "took their weapons out of their suitcases and opened fire at random at the security check".
One attacker detonated his explosives downstairs in the arrivals terminal, Turkish officials said.
The second went upstairs and set off his explosives there while the third waited outside as passengers fled. He then detonated his explosives, causing the most casualties.
A Kalashnikov assault rifle, a handgun and two grenades were found on the bodies, Turkish media said.
Some 240 people were injured, dozens of whom remain in critical condition in hospital.
Dozens of anxious friends and relatives remain camped outside Istanbul's Bakirkoy hospital, waiting for news.
It is now known that of the 44 people killed, 24 were Turkish, three were Saudis and two Iraqis. In addition, China, Jordan, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Iran and Ukraine each lost one citizen, and two Palestinians were killed.
Funerals began on Wednesday, including that of Muhammed Eymen Demirci, who landed a job on the ground services crew in May after a year unemployed, texting a friend saying "I got the job bro!"
He died waiting for a bus.
Tunisian doctor Fathi Bayoudh had reportedly been in Turkey for some weeks trying to secure the release of his son, who had been detained for allegedly joining IS.
Marvan Melhim and his wife, Nisreen, both work in Saudi Arabia, and had arrived with their three-year-old daughter.
"We heard shooting from a distance," said Marvan. "The explosion went off. I found my wife bleeding and my daughter too." Nisreen died in hospital shortly afterwards.
A friend of Serkan Turk said the physical education teacher had rushed to the site of the first explosion to help the wounded, but was killed by a later blast.
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2016
28 June, Istanbul: Suicide attackers kill 43 people and injured 240 in gun and bomb attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport
13 March, Ankara: Car bomb kills 35. Claimed by Kurdish militant group TAK
17 February, Ankara: 29 killed in attack on military buses. Claimed by TAK
12 January, Istanbul: 12 Germans killed by Syrian bomber in tourist area
2015
23 December, Istanbul: Bomb kills cleaner at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport. Claimed by TAK
10 October, Ankara: More than 100 killed at peace rally outside railway station. Blamed on IS
20 July, Suruc, near Syrian border: 34 people killed in bombing in Kurdish town. IS blamed
Sixteen-year-old Amos Yee, who was detained on Sunday shortly after Mr Lee's state funeral, has been given bail set at S$20,000 (£9,800; $14,500).
The video sparked a huge backlash from grieving Singaporeans and more than 20 police reports were lodged.
Singapore has strict hate speech laws strengthened under Mr Lee's leadership.
Lee Kuan Yew was deeply respected by Singaporeans and his death last week prompted unprecedented public mourning.
He was widely seen as the architect of Singapore's prosperity, but during his 31 years as prime minister he also clamped down on opponents, imposed strict social rules and tight political control.
In the expletive-laden eight-minute video which was uploaded last Friday, Amos Yee celebrated Mr Lee's death and criticised his strict control of Singapore, calling him "a horrible person".
He said Singaporeans were scared to criticise Mr Lee and compared him disparagingly to Jesus Christ.
The video drew a visceral response from Singaporeans, who had turned up in large numbers to mourn Mr Lee last week as he lay in state.
Mr Yee subsequently took down the video, but copies have since been uploaded on YouTube.
On Tuesday, Mr Yee appeared in court to be charged on three counts: "deliberate intention of wounding the religious or racial feelings of any person", distributing obscene material and harassment.
He faces a fine and up to three years in jail if convicted.
Mr Yee - who was originally reported to be 17 - will be tried as an adult. In addition to bail, he agreed not to post any material online while the case is in progress.
Speaking outside the courtroom, his father apologised to the current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is Mr Lee's son.
Singapore's hate speech laws are intended to ensure harmony between its multi-ethnic population and prevent a recurrence of the racial violence of its early years.
In a statement Deputy Commissioner Tan Chye Hee said the police "take a stern view of acts that could threaten religious harmony in Singapore".
Amos Yee was one of several people who went online to publicly criticise Mr Lee's legacy - others include human rights activists and a prominent poet - but he is the only one to have been arrested.
A petition started by a Christian Singaporean has been launched, calling for his release.
Media rights group the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said the arrest "highlights the restrictive environment in which Singaporean journalists are forced to work".
"We call on authorities to release Amos Yee immediately and to undertake reform of Singapore's outdated laws restricting the media," said CPJ's Asia spokesman Bob Dietz.
Jo Clifford recreates biblical stories with a "different slant" in the play The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven, which will air in Belfast as part of Outburst Queer Arts Festival.
"The play imagines a transgender Jesus coming back to the world today," Ms Clifford said. "She pitches a sermon and tells a few very familiar gospel stories."
"She has a communion, shares bread and wine with the audience, which is really a gesture of solidarity in the face of death and she gives a blessing.
"So it's a very important, very intimate show."
The play is written and performed by Ms Clifford, a practising Christian.
"Obviously being a transgender woman myself it concerns me very greatly that religious people so often use Christianity as a weapon to attack us and justify the prejudices against us," she said.
"I wanted to see if we could move away from that and make people think again."
The play has been performed for a number of years and was featured most recently at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
But the play has met some controversy in the past, when 300 protesters held a candlelit protest outside a Glasgow theatre in 2009, with some claiming that the play was blasphemous.
Ms Clifford dismissed these claims.
"People did that when they didn't know anything about the play," she said. "They assumed that it would be very offensive to the church.
"As a practising Christian myself, I have no interest in attacking the church or mocking the church or make fun of the church or in anyway being blasphemous or offensive."
"I simply want to assert very strongly, as strongly as I can that Jesus of the gospels would not in anyway wish to attack or denigrate people like myself."
How have Christians and non-Christians reacted to the play after they have watched it?
"Christian people are generally very moved by it," she said. "It speaks very strongly to people whether they're Christian or whether they're not."
Ms Clifford said the message of the play was particularly important in Northern Ireland after a same-sex marriage motion failed to make it through the Stormont assembly last week.
"I think it's very important to get across the message that Jesus of the gospels would not condone or want to promote prejudice and discrimination against anybody and to try to convey a message of compassion and love and understanding of everybody," she said.
"No matter what their belief, no matter what their gender, orientation or sexuality."
The rise contrasted with a fall of 79,000 in UK unemployment, to 1.7 million, over the same period.
The Scottish jobless rate stands at 6.1%, compared with 5.4% for the whole of the UK.
Office for National Statistics (ONS) data also showed employment in Scotland falling by 6,000 to 2,610,000.
The number of people claiming Job Seeker's Allowance increased by 500 between August and September, to stand at 71,000.
Analysis by Douglas Fraser, Scotland business and economy editor
The divergent paths of the Scottish and UK jobs market are mirrored by other indicators we've had in recent days, such as the latest manufacturing export figures and the findings of a respected survey of Scottish purchasing managers.
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The UK government's Scottish Secretary David Mundell said: "The figures released today show the challenges which remain to ensure households in every part of our country benefit from a growing economy.
"There can be no doubt there is still hard work to undertake to build on the UK government's long-term economic plan which has tackled a record deficit and laid the foundations for a stronger and more stable economy."
The Scottish government said Scotland outperformed the UK as a whole on employment, youth employment and female employment.
Scottish Deputy First Minister John Swinney said that with the increase in the unemployment rate, it was important to sustain public sector investment to strengthen business confidence and deliver economic recovery.
He added: "While Scotland has now seen three years of continuous economic growth, and continues to exceed the UK in the total employment rate and in youth and female employment rates, today's figures show that there remain serious challenges to economic recovery."
Labour public services spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said: "These figures make grim reading for Scotland, and speak to an SNP government with the wrong priorities.
"The increase in unemployment in the north east confirms that the SNP government sat on their hands whilst we saw an oil jobs crisis that saw thousands of jobs lost."
She added: "We are seeing fewer jobs under this SNP government than in 2008, and the gap is growing."
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: "The SNP cannot run away from the fact that unemployment in the rest of the UK is at a seven-year low while more people in Scotland are out of work.
"While the SNP were busy plotting a second referendum, declaring war on the BBC and doing everything they can to distract from their record in government, 18,000 more Scots found themselves out of work."
Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) general secretary Grahame Smith described the latest figures as "particularly worrying".
He added: "Unemployment is now back on a clear upward trend and working age employment is lower than it was a year ago.
"Whilst it is difficult to be precise about why Scotland's labour market performance is increasingly weak relative to the rest of the UK, it is highly likely that job losses in the oil and gas sector are now having a tangible impact on the aggregate statistics."
The Silicon Valley giants had fought over whether Google used Oracle's Java programming language in its Android mobile operating system.
Two weeks ago the same jury ruled that Google infringed Oracle's copyright, but could not agree whether Google's actions constituted "fair use".
The internet search giant maintains Android was built "from scratch".
Oracle sued Google in August 2010, saying Android infringed its intellectual property rights.
Google said it does not violate Oracle's patents and that Oracle cannot copyright certain parts of Java, which is an "open-source", or publicly available, software language.
Without a finding against Google on the "fair use" issue, Oracle cannot recover the up to $1bn (£637m) in damages it was seeking.
The case focused not on using the Java programming language itself, but rather the use of 37 application programming interfaces (APIs) which help developers create software on the platform.
With internet innovation moving fast, it is common for software writers to adapt APIs that mini-programs use to "talk" to one another.
The jury concluded that Google infringed on 37 copyrighted APIs but it also agreed that Google demonstrated that it was led to believe it did not need a license for using Java.
Total UK sales were barely changed, up 0.1% compared with the same month last year, while like-for-like sales, which exclude new store space, fell 1.0%.
The bank holiday was on 31 August, but both the BRC and the Office for National Statistics judge that the month officially ended on 29 August.
It means September's figures will be boosted by back-to-school purchases.
The bank holiday applied in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Retailers report their sales on a weekly basis from Sunday to Saturday, which means that monthly figures do not necessarily cover the whole of a calendar month.
Instead, a quarter will be made up of two four-week periods and a five week period.
This is only particularly important when key shopping days such as bank holidays officially fall in different months from year to year, which makes comparisons difficult.
Clothing and footwear sales were both hit through missing the key days of back-to-school purchases, but food sales were up 0.3% in the three months to August.
"At this time of the year parents are busily shopping for back-to-school essentials like clothes, footwear and stationery and those sales will peak later this year," said BRC director general Helen Dickinson.
"Large-ticket item categories like furniture and household appliances also experienced a decline in sales, again likely affected by the bank holiday distortion."
Mao, one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century, but his legacy continues to divide opinions.
After he launched the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), millions of people were forced into manual labour and tens of thousands were executed as counter-revolutionaries.
The mainland Chinese media have mostly been playing down news of various activities that were staged in some cities over the weekend to commemorate the birth anniversary.
But over in Hong Kong, the Apple Daily says "Mao fans" staged rallies in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, as well as smaller cities further inland such as Nanchang and Taiyuan.
On Saturday, students and teachers from the Taiyuan University of Science and Technology carried portraits of Mao and shouted "Swear allegiance to Mao Zedong", "Mao Zedong is our only centre" and "the Cultural Revolution is back", the paper says.
Students also reportedly recited poetry in homage to Mao, while others danced and sang: "China has Mao Zedong, he is the people's great saviour!"
Mao impersonator Zhang Ruiqi even mimicked the late helmsman's voice to deliver a speech during the rally.
However, one local dissident suspects that the rally was staged deliberately by certain groups for political ends.
"Some of them are Mao leftists and some are the black hand of the authorities fanning the flames behind the scenes and exploiting the ignorance of young people to achieve their political goals," Deng Taiqing tells the Apple Daily.
The Apple Daily also voices dismay at the revival of Mao fever and accuses Ai Yuejin, a "leftist" professor at Tianjin's Nankai University, of "whitewashing" the Cultural Revolution.
"During the Cultural Revolution, there was a satellite space launch, a successful missile test and a nuclear submarine launch. During the Cultural Revolution, we defeated Soviet revisionism, entered the United Nations and established diplomatic relations with more than 60 countries," Prof Ai said in a lecture at the Taiyuan University of Science and Technology last week.
Prof Ai added: "Were these 60 countries fools for establishing diplomatic relations with a country in catastrophe?"
The nationalist Beijing newspaper Global Times defends Mao's mistakes and achievements, saying revolutions usually have a brutal side and that it is impossible to judge Mao's Communist revolution, and its excesses, from a "humanitarian perspective".
"The belief that Mao Zedong is already 'discredited' in Chinese society is just a naive fantasy... A number of people are engaged in activities to dig away at China's political foundations in the name of historical debate. They should be resisted by Chinese mainstream society," it says.
Meanwhile, concern over increasing volatility in mainland society is another key theme in Monday's media.
A 53-year-old courier tricycle driver set himself alight with petrol after he was stopped by police officers for alleged traffic violations in Tangshan, Hebei province, on Saturday.
The driver also tried to grab a police officer after setting himself alight. The two were later sent to a hospital with burns.
Writing on news website Red Net, commentator Qiao Zhifeng casts doubt on the local police's account that the driver had intentionally planned the self-burning to show "discontent" because he had been pulled over by traffic police many times for similar violations.
"In a normal, harmonious society, how could someone vent 'discontent' through self-immolation? Social wealth is unequal, the gap between rich and poor is widening, corruption is myriad, social justice is frequently trampled upon, and social moral standards keep sliding downwards.
"If these deep-seated problems are not resolved, 100 ill-effects will arise, and if things go on like this, it will bring a greater threat of instability to society," he warns.
Meanwhile, the Southern Metropolis Daily recounts a common tragic occurrence in China: Villagers taking their own lives to resist government land grabs.
It recalls how a villager in Zhenghe County, Fujian province, set himself alight with petrol on 14 December after he was held back by relatives from throwing himself in front of the bulldozer of a demolition crew.
And Hong Kong's Oriental Daily News notes that a woman in Jiaozuo, Henan province, committed suicide on Friday by ingesting pesticide after authorities forcibly demolished her business establishment, describing it as an "illegal construction".
"Recently, the mainland has repeatedly had cases of people risking their lives to safeguard their rights... This proves that high-pressure stability maintenance cannot bring social harmony and it will only lead to more intense resistance. Society now is like a gunpowder keg and a single spark is enough to ignite a massive fire," it says.
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People in all walks of life have been trained to spot the signs of the disease so they can help sufferers.
There are an estimated 720,000 people with dementia in England, although most have not been diagnosed. Prime Minister David Cameron called it "one of the greatest challenges of our lifetime".
Charities warned there was still an "enormous amount" to do to help carers.
The Dementia Friends plan was launched two years ago.
Since then, sessions have been taking place in business offices and town halls across the country to explain what dementia is, what it is like to have the condition and what people can do to help if they meet someone with the symptoms.
Emergency services and companies - including Marks & Spencer, Asda and Argos - have encouraged their staff to become dementia friends. Schools have also taken part.
The total number of friends was close to 899,000 at the beginning of this month, but has now reached the original target of one million.
Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society, described the friends as a "real revolution".
He added: "We are beginning to change for the better the lives of people with dementia and their carers.
"In communities across the country, they are working to eradicate the isolation, fear and despair felt by so many affected by dementia."
The government has announced that it will be spending more than £300m to tackle dementia in England over the next parliament, as part of plans which include:
Mr Cameron said: "Dementia is one of the greatest challenges of our lifetime, and I am proud that we are leading the world in fighting it."
Prof Alistair Burns, the national clinical director for dementia at NHS England, said: "We are beginning to change the way society respects and treats people with dementia.
"We can change the lives of tens of thousands of people for the better if we can continue to raise awareness, invest in the search for new treatments, and most importantly improve the lives of people with dementia and their carers."
A spokesman for the Carers Trust said the dementia friends initiative was a good thing, but that carers needed far more help.
"There is still an enormous amount to be done.
"Two-thirds of people with dementia are cared for at home by their family and friends enabling them to live at home and participate in community life.
"Carers of people with dementia face particular difficulties due to the complex, unpredictable and progressive nature of the illness, and often have poor health outcomes themselves.
"Carers need consistent information and support to enable them and the person they are caring for to remain active and well."
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David Seymour went over for Sale before Ernst Joubert's try, a penalty try and the reliable kicking of Charlie Hodgson helped establish a 30-7 lead.
Tom Brady reduced the deficit after the break, but Richard Barrington went over to secure Sarries' bonus point.
Sale were awarded a penalty try for their third five-point score late on.
Sarries are the only unbeaten side in the Premiership with Bath losing at champions Northampton, who move to second in the table.
Goode got Saracens off to the ideal start, side-stepping lock Jonathan Mills and weaving his way over the line. Hodgson added the extras and the first of three penalties to put the hosts 10-0 up.
Seymour peeled off a driving maul to dive over for Sale's response, but Hodgson teed up another two penalties before the Sharks invited more pressure on themselves by conceding possession.
England wing Ashton shifted the ball into the hands of Joubert, who forced his way over, and Hodgson's conversion crept over off the upright.
Vadim Cobilas came off the bench to instigate Sale's second-half revival, making the break which ended with a Brady score.
Sale again went close before Goode was shown a yellow card for coming in at the side, but it was Saracens to added to their lead with Barrington burrowing over after England Under-20 international Nick Tompkins made solid progress.
Sale responded with a penalty try after another impressive line-out drive.
Both sides finished a man down as Saracens lock George Kruis and Seymour were sin-binned, before Goode kicked a penalty to complete a comfortable victory.
Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall:
"That was our first home game of the season and we showed some good intensity.
"Our fundamentals were very good in the first half and put them under a lot of pressure. Our scrum was particularly good.
"We were pretty relentless and ruthless in that first half, but less so in the second half. "Give Sale some credit, they fought really hard in that second half, but overall it's a job well done."
Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond:
"We were demolished in the first half. We weren't at the races, but Saracens were.
"We rallied in the second half and should have put another couple of opportunities away and maybe got the bonus point, but we were thoroughly beaten.
"We have no qualms, it was a fair result. There aren't many positives you can take from a match when you've conceded 40 points."
Saracens: Goode; Ashton, Taylor, Barritt (capt), Strettle; Hodgson, de Kock; Gill, George, Johnston, Kruis, Botha, Wray, Burger, Joubert.
Replacements: Spurling, Barrington, Du Plessis, Hamilton, Brown, Wigglesworth, Ransom, Tompkins.
Sin Bin: Goode (61), Kruis (74).
Sale Sharks: McLean; Brady, Leota, Jennings, Arscott; Cipriani, Cusiter; de Marchi, Mamukashvili, Lewis-Roberts; Mills, Paterson; Lund, Seymour (capt), Easter.
Replacements: Neild, Harrison, Cobilas, Beaumont, Fahiki, Cliff, Ford, Forsyth.
Sin Bin: Seymour (74).
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: JP Doyle (RFU).
Spurs had two transfer deadline day bids turned down for the 22-year-old.
Peace criticised Spurs' "antics" in trying to get the player "cheaply".
Berahino tweeted that he was "sad" not to be able to say "exactly how the club has treated me" during transfer negotiations with Tottenham.
West Brom have told BBC Sport that the forward has not yet been fined for his comment on social media but will be spoken to in due course.
Spurs also had two other bids for the forward rejected in the summer, while Berahino had a transfer request rejected after the Baggies turned down the first offer.
Peace told the club's website: "We have a key player who has been very unsettled by antics which were designed to get him out of our club cheaply.
"Those tactics have continued despite my making our position clear in my first conversation with Daniel Levy on this subject in mid-August.
"I said selling Saido so late in the window was not on our agenda."
Berahino has been left out of West Brom's last two Premier League games and Capital One Cup tie with Port Vale, with manager Tony Pulis saying he was not in the right frame of mind to play.
Peace added: "Saido has been unsettled to the point where our head coach has not felt able to select him for our last three games.
"We are now left with the task of repairing the damage created by this unfortunate episode."
Alan Fisher, Tottenham On My Mind: "Spurs' failure to sign another striker or an experienced midfielder signals a deplorable lack of ambition that could stifle the development of a young squad full of potential and leaves us vulnerable to competitors.
"The right men in these two positions could make a significant difference but chairman Daniel Levy, the so-called shrewd negotiator, catastrophically misjudged a market flush with TV cash. Teams no longer have to cave in because they just don't need the money. Another window, yet another missed opportunity.
"Today's desperate Berahino or bust shambles obscures concerns that Spurs' overhaul of scouting and recruitment failed to find alternatives. The club site's pathetic attempt to solve the problem by reclassifying Heung-Min Son as a striker did not play well with frustrated and furious fans."
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The 69-year-old from Glasgow faces three charges of lewd, indecent and libidinous practices and behaviours, and three charges of indecent assault.
He appeared from custody in private at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
He made no plea and was released on bail by sheriff John McCormick.
Firms in Lancashire North and Bowland, Lancashire West, and Lancashire Pennine Moors can seek a share of the £1.63m, £1.56m, and £1.43m pots respectively.
The funds are for capital investments such as buildings and equipment.
The programme runs from 2015 to 2020 and aims to support farms and forestry as well as rural tourism, services and heritage.
Local action groups for each area will be in charge of approving projects and deciding how to allocate the money.
County Councillor Marcus Johnstone said: "Rural businesses and organisations can benefit from [money] towards capital investments, including refurbishment of buildings and capital equipment. Priority will be given to those businesses creating jobs and growth.
"The programme should be open for business shortly, subject to approval."
The council ran the programme from 2007 to 2013, delivering support to companies including Woods Farm Shop in Little Hoole.
Owner John Woods said they were struggling when they applied to the programme in 2012.
They received half the cost of building a new farm shop and now employ nine people.
Mr Woods said: "It was a long process but well worth it. I came across the scheme by accident but we wouldn't have been able to do it without the money."
Mike Damms from the East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce also welcomed the investment.
"It often comes as a surprise to people to realise just how rural Lancashire is. I'm really pleased because this matters very much and will help mobilise all of our economy."
The scheme is funded by the European Agriculture Fund for Rural Development and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
Edinburgh: Mapping the City brings together 71 maps, including the earliest known map of Edinburgh which was drafted around 1530 by exiled Scottish Lutheran theologian Alexander Allane.
The earliest detailed map of the Lothians was printed around 1610 in Amsterdam, from the pioneering survey of Scotland by Timothy Pont.
It lists many tower houses and farms whose names live on in Edinburgh today, as the city has grown to include them.
Another map contained in the collection shows the arrival of the main railways into Edinburgh in the 1840s.
The map below, from 1851, by W & AK Johnston, shows the "Joint Railway Station" that would become Waverley.
It is a fraction of its later size and includes the Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway leaving to the north through the Scotland Street tunnel.
The next map shows the distribution of tuberculosis cases recorded in 1892.
It shows marked concentrations in poorer, high-density housing in the Old Town.
Dr Robert Philip, who recorded these cases, would go on to set up the influential Edinburgh Anti-Tuberculosis Scheme.
The book also includes this snapshot of the city centre's drinking dens from 1923, produced by the temperance movement in an attempt to limit the number of licensed premises.
Chris Fleet, map curator at the National Library of Scotland, has produced the book with Daniel MacCannell.
Mr Fleet said: "Today we may think of maps as tools to get us from one place to another but they are important historical documents in themselves.
"They can show how people's lives have changed over time and how the city has been adapted around them."
He added: "Edinburgh: Mapping the City is an anthology of historic maps which have been specially selected for the particular stories they reveal.
"It provides many surprises and we hope people will find it an accessible, enjoyable, attractive and browsable history of Edinburgh as seen through maps."
The book is published by Birlinn, in association with the National Library of Scotland.
One of the more unusual entries is a Soviet army map of Edinburgh from 1983, intended for use by Soviet commanders in the event of an invasion of Scotland.
It is colour coded for different buildings - military in green, administrative in purple, industrial in black and residential in brown.
This confidential map has text in Cyrillic and includes significantly more information about Edinburgh than Ordnance Survey maps.
It would have been perfect for planning a tank invasion.
The book also contains a map used to measure the speed of sound from the firing of the One o'clock gun on Edinburgh castle in 1879.
The World Health Organization says all makeshift hospitals there are out of service, after five days of air and artillery strikes by government forces.
Other reports suggest some that hospitals are operational but people are too frightened to use them.
A White House statement called the assault on hospitals "heinous".
The Syria Civil Defence, a volunteer group also known as the White Helmets, said that 61 civilians had been killed in Saturday's air strikes on rebel-held eastern Aleppo.
The government-led assault on the area resumed on Tuesday, after a three-week moratorium.
Medics have in the past been able to bring field hospitals back into operation after strikes, but the lack of supplies is now so severe that this is becoming harder, Reuters news agency reports.
The recent bombardment has left streets deserted, with people trying to shelter in their homes.
The SOHR says the strikes have been so massive that residents are frightened to use medical facilities.
Reuters quotes the WHO's representative in Syria, Elizabeth Hoff, as saying on Saturday that NGOs based over the border in Turkey "confirmed today that all hospitals in eastern Aleppo are out of service".
On Friday the UN envoy for Syria's humanitarian adviser, Jan Egeland, said eastern Aleppo faced a "bleak moment" with supplies low and winter coming.
"My understanding is that virtually all warehouses are now empty and tens of thousands of families are running out of food," he told Reuters.
Also on Friday, a volunteer with the White Helmets Civil Defence force told agency AFP news agency that he had "never heard such intense artillery bombardments".
His team had been unable to respond to an emergency call because "the shells are falling on the street", he said.
Aleppo, once Syria's commercial and industrial hub, has been divided roughly in two since 2012, with the government controlling the west and rebels the east.
On 22 September, two weeks after encircling the east and reimposing a siege on its estimated 275,000 residents, the army launched an all-out assault to take full control of the city with the help of Iranian-backed militias and the Russian air force.
By the end of October, the strikes had killed more than 700 civilians in the east, while rocket fire had left scores dead in the west, according to the UN.
Russia says its air force is active in other parts of Syria, but not operating over Aleppo.
A statement by White House national security adviser Susan Rice condemned what she called "heinous actions".
"The Syrian regime and its allies, Russia in particular, bear responsibility for the immediate and long-term consequences these actions have caused in Syria and beyond," she said.
UK International Development Secretary Priti Patel said the assault was part of "a systematic campaign to remove even the most basic of services left in the city" that left hundreds of thousands of people without access to healthcare.
Poppi Worthington was 13 months old when she was found with serious injuries at her home in Barrow, Cumbria, in December 2012.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) previously said there was insufficient evidence to bring charges.
It now intends to review the case.
Key dates in the Poppi Worthington case.
A spokeswoman said: "On 19 September the CPS appeals and review unit received a request under the victims' right to review scheme in relation to the death of Poppi Worthington.
"The case material will be considered and the review will be completed as soon as possible."
Following Poppi's death a family judge ruled that, on the balance of probabilities, she had been sexually assaulted by her father Paul Worthington.
He was questioned on suspicion of sexual assault but never charged with any offence. He denies any wrongdoing.
In November 2015, the detective then in charge of the case admitted mistakes were made and an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission is currently under way.
Cumbria's Safeguarding Children Board published a serious case review in June which concluded that the child's family had a "complex history", and if that had been noted more support could have been offered.
A second inquest was due to be held next month after the first, in October 2014, lasted just seven minutes and concluded Poppi's cause of death was "unascertained".
Cumbria coroner David Roberts has said the new inquest will be adjourned until the CPS has concluded its review, which was expected to take about two months.
His spokeswoman Jessie Schmidt said Dickens died on Friday of cardiac arrest after suffering a stroke on Christmas Day.
His novelty songs, including May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose, earned him a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1983.
He is also credited with introducing rhinestone suits to country music.
Dickens was the oldest member of the Grand Ole Opry, a weekly music concert broadcast live on US radio from Nashville, Tennessee.
He had performed almost continuously on the show since 1948, making his last performance on 20 December last year to celebrate his 94th birthday.
Pete Fisher, vice-president of the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, said the show "did not have a better friend than Little Jimmy Dickens".
"He was a one-of-a-kind entertainer and a great soul whose spirit will live on for years to come," he added.
Despite being just just 4ft 11in (1.5m) tall, Dickens said he had never been self-conscious about his height.
"It's been very good for me. I've made fun of it, and get a laugh here and there," he said in a 2009 interview.
Country star Brad Paisley, who performed with Dickens several times, said he had an "incredible and unique place in country music history".
"It is with a heavy heart that I say goodbye to my hero and friend today. I loved you Jimmy," he tweeted.
Kaitlyn Regehr, 30, was travelling home on the 207 bus towards Acton on 6 October when a man grabbed her.
She posted an appeal on social media asking people "to help me find this awesome dude so I can buy him a pint".
The Met Police said they were investigating an allegation of sexual assault and no arrests had been made.
Ms Regehr said: "I was heading home on the 207 and a man grabbed my bum and I moved out of the way.
"Someone saw it and he called the guy out loudly enough for the whole bus to hear and said, 'do you have women in your life? That could be your mother, that could be your sister; she is someone's sister'."
Ms Regehr, a writer and documentary filmmaker, posted her story on Facebook and Instagram. It has received more than 42,000 likes and been shared more than 22,000 times.
In the post she wrote: "I thank you not just because you stood up for me, or because you made me feel safe, but because on your transit home - in this big, potentially anonymous city - you humanised assault.
"You didn't turn away. You took a stand. You said something."
Ms Regehr reported the assault to the police, but said she initially felt reluctant to share her story.
"I just spoke to them and they are looking at CCTV, and in a way - because I didn't see the attack - I said to the police I felt silly reporting it," she said.
"But the police were adamant they want to take a stand against it, especially on public transport."
Ms Regehr said she had been on the 207 bus since the assault, but she had not seen the man who helped her.
"The post is being widely shared and people in my neighbourhood are also sharing it - but I have not found the Good Samaritan yet," she said.
In a statement, the Met Police said detectives were investigating an allegation of sexual assault on a woman on a route 207 bus at about 22:50 BST on 6 October.
No arrests have been made and enquires continue, officers said.
The 20ft (6.1m) minke was spotted on a beach west of Elie at about 16:00 on Friday.
A team from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) led the operation to refloat the mammal at high tide.
An initial attempt failed when the whale re-beached itself, but a second attempt was made later in the evening.
The BDMLR believe the whale has now swum away and out of danger.
A spokeswoman for the organisation said: "One of the rescue team from last night has been out and walked the coastline where the whale was refloated from last night and there is no sign of it.
"Hopefully it managed to get out into deeper water and we won't see it again."
The whale is thought to have been in good condition and uninjured. A BDMLR team used pontoons to refloat it.
Cameras recording outside the aircraft will display pictures on the screens.
Spike Aerospace, which is designing the plane, says drag will be reduced by removing windows, which "cause significant challenges in designing and constructing an aircraft fuselage".
The S-512 supersonic jet is not expected to launch until 2018.
In a blog on its website the company said windows required additional structural support and added weight to the aircraft but these problems could be eliminated by using micro-cameras and flat displays.
It plans to surround the aircraft with cameras and display the views on the cabin screens. Passengers will be able to dim the screens or change the images.
Dr Darren Ansell, an expert in space and aerospace engineering at the University of Central Lancashire, said that the experience for passengers of being in a plane without windows could be an unusual one.
"There will be no natural light - it will all be simulated - so it will be a bit like being in a tube. And how would it work from a safety perspective? If there was an accident how would you know which way the plane was facing, and where you had landed, when the cameras have failed?" he said.
Spike Aerospace is based in Boston in the US and is made up of a team of engineers who have experience of aircraft design and building.
In December, it announced plans for the S-512, which it claimed would be the world's first supersonic business jet.
Expected to cost $80m (£48m), the jet will carry 18 passengers and the company claims it will be able to fly from New York to London in three to four hours rather than the six to seven it currently takes.
It will have a cruising speed of Mach 1.6 and a maximum speed of Mach 1.8. In comparison, a Boeing 777-300 has a cruising speed of Mach 0.8.
Other firms are racing to develop similar supersonic jets, including Aerion and Gulfstream.
A 26-year-old man from Burnley was struck by a Ford Fiesta on Trafalgar Street at 22:40 BST on Saturday.
He is being treated for leg injuries, a broken arm and swelling to the brain.
A woman from Accrington, aged 44, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of drink-driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
The changes will affect 36 million low-income families.
The announcements come ahead of a October's presidential poll, in which Ms Rousseff will seek a second term.
Her popularity has dropped in recent weeks because of high inflation and mismanagement accusations involving Brazil's state oil giant Petrobras.
The amendments to the social security programme, known as Bolsa Familia, were announced ahead of Labour Day.
"This will be an important indirect salary gain and more money in the pockets of workers," Ms Rousseff said.
Along with the increase in payments there would be a 4.5 % rise in the income bands used to tax workers, she added.
Brazil is struggling to keep inflation under the official target rate of 6.5 %.
An April opinion poll found support for Ms Rousseff had slipped from 44% in February to 37% in April, though she remains the frontrunner.
The price rise was revealed after the BBC submitted Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to local authorities that run crematoriums across the UK.
The average cost of a cremation at Roselawn crematorium, run by Belfast City Council, was £198 five years ago.
This year the price rose to £360, but is still the cheapest by some distance.
In comparison, a cremation in the London borough of Hackney will cost more than £1,000.
The average price of an adult cremation in the UK has risen by a third over the last five years and now stands at £640, according to the data.
The City of Belfast Crematorium, based at Roselawn Cemetery at Crossnacreevy, just outside the city, provides cremation services for people from all over Northern Ireland.
According to the FOI responses, Roselawn recorded the second highest price rise of all the UK crematoriums surveyed across the five year period.
The highest price hike was in Barrow-in-Furness, England, where cremation costs increased by 101% and now stand at an average of £721.
The secret station was manned by civilian volunteers who would send and receive messages for the Army.
It was discovered in 2012 at a house just outside Norwich called Pinebanks.
Complete with a fake bookcase to conceal the room and an escape tunnel, Historic England said it was a "rare example."
By June 1940, the increasing threat of German invasion and potential occupation prompted Prime Minster Churchill to set up a secret mission called GHQ Auxiliary Units, with a particular branch known as "Special Duties".
It used civilian volunteers, living in areas like the south-east of England and East Anglia seen as most under threat of invasion, to spy and report on German military activities, had the UK been invaded.
Historic England said these recruits to "Churchill's secret army" transmitted messages from hidden "Out-stations" to military-run "In stations", like the one at Pinebanks.
"So much information about the stations was either hidden or destroyed," said Historic England's Tony Calladine.
"This small but significant dugout has great potential to teach us about a relatively little known area of our 20th Century military history."
Details about their locations and construction were kept secret and very little documentation on the 32 In stations exists.
Only 12 In stations have been found so far and Historic England is asking the public for help in tracing the remaining 20.
By July 1944, 3,500 civilians had been trained and 125 civilian-run Out stations had been established, often hidden in dugouts.
Two other wireless stations are protected as ancient monuments - Hare Warren Control Station in Wiltshire and an Out station at Heiferlaw in Northumberland.
The Pinebanks station is at Thorpe St Andrews near Norwich. It is not open to the public and was gutted by a fire in 2014.
The drugs with an estimated value of £400,000 were found in a house at Farkland in October 2014.
The man has been charged with possession of class B drugs, possession with intent to supply class B drugs and cultivating cannabis.
He is due to appear at Londonderry Magistrates Court on Thursday.
The Atacama large milllimetre/submillimetre array (Alma) in Chile is the largest, most complex telescope ever built.
Alma's purpose is to study processes occurring a few hundred million years after the formation of the Universe when the first stars began to shine.
Its work should help explain why the cosmos looks the way it does today.
One of Alma's scientific operations astronomers, Dr Diego Garcia, said that the effective switching on of the giant telescope ushered in a "new golden age of astronomy".
"We are going to be able to see the beginning of the Universe, how the first galaxies were formed. We are going to learn so much more about how the Universe works," he told BBC News.
Alma consists of an array of linked giant antennas on top of the highest plateau in the Atacama desert, close to Chile's border with Bolivia.
It has been under construction since 2003. With the addition of new antennas, the telescope has been able to see progressively deeper into the cosmos and discern star formation processes in ever greater detail.
The full testing and commissioning of its 20th antenna has enabled Alma to record events that have never been seen before. It is now that the first scientific discoveries can be made.
As a taster of what is to come, the European Southern Observatory, one of the organisations that run the facility, has released the first images taken by Alma. They show - perhaps appropriately for the occasion - the collision of two galaxies known as the Antennae Galaxies.
These colossal collections of stars can be seen using optical telescopes, such as the Hubble Space Telescope. But Alma, which gathers light that is not visible to the eye, is able to pick out clouds of dense cold gas from which new stars form.
The images show concentrations of the star-forming gas at the centres of each galaxy and also in the chaotic region where they are colliding. It is here that new stars and planets will be born.
The image was taken using just 12 antennas. The sharpness and resolution of images will increase dramatically as more antennas are added. The aim is for Alma to have 66 antennas by 2013.
So what do the researchers hope to discover?
Alma observes light at millimetre and sub-millimetre wavelengths. It is at these wavelengths that astronomers can make out the swirling gas that came together in the very early Universe, more than 13 billion years ago, to form the very first stars to shine in the Universe.
Cosmologists have their theories of what happened at this time. Now, astronomers will be able to literally see for themselves whether these theories are correct.
Alma will also enable them to see the formation of planets around distant stars. One of the early projects is the study of a very young star called AU Microscopii which is just 1% the age of our own Sun.
It is thought that it has a "birth ring" of matter around it that is in the process of coalescing into planets.
Astronomers are also studying processes around another young star 400-light-years away, given the functional designation HD 142527 that may be forming up to a dozen Jupiter-sized planets.
Another intriguing project is to study the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy known as Sagittarius A. Dust prevents it from being seen by optical telescopes - but using Alma, astronomers will be able to see this mysterious object in unprecedented detail.
In addition, a Japanese team plans to use Alma to study another cosmic oddity: a dazzlingly bright galaxy called Himiko, creating the equivalent of 100 Suns each year, while around it little else is happening.
It is hoped that Alma can show the processes occurring deep inside Himiko's star-forming nebula.
But as well as being scientifically ambitious, the project is an incredible feat of engineering. The man leading the European Southern Observatory's efforts to construct the array, Pascal Martinez, described Alma as the "Pyramids of the 21st Century".
He tells me: "The sheer scale of the engineering project, its technical complexity and what this hardware will achieve in terms of our understanding is really at the cutting edge and a tribute to humanity."
Mr Martinez's job is to supervise the assembly of antennas on Alma's lower site, which is still at very high altitude - nearly 3,000m above sea level.
Each antenna is carefully put together from components shipped in from a number of high-tech companies around the globe, and then carefully transported up the plateau to the "high site" on giant 28-wheeled transport vehicles. The antennas are then placed on to their slots and connected to the rest of the array.
Alongside the European assembly site are the Japanese and North American astronomy agencies also assembling their antennas as part of their contribution to this huge international project.
Each agency, in friendly rivalry, claims that their design of antenna works best. But although the European, Japanese and North American systems each look subtley different, they do exactly the same job.
In collaboration with the Republic of Chile, each international partner has helped construct a new generation of telescope that has now begun to probe deeply into the origins of the early Universe.
Award-winning journalist Javier Valdez was shot dead on Monday, close to the offices of the newspaper he had founded in his home state, Sinaloa.
He had spent his career investigating drug cartels and had been repeatedly threatened.
He is one of several journalists who have been killed in Mexico this year.
In Mexico City on Tuesday, protesters wrote "They are killing us" and "No to silence" - a phrase used by Mr Valdez - on the road next to the iconic Monument to Independence on the main thoroughfare, Paseo de la Reforma.
Those who were there in person held images of Mr Valdez, while others stuck in their office worked below his projected image on a big screen.
Judith Calderón Gómez, the head of journalists' lobby group Casa de los Derechos de Periodistas, told those present that prosecutions had only happened in 0.03% of cases.
She called on the government to "give a real sign they are interested in guaranteeing journalism in the country".
BBC Mundo's Juan Paullier, who met Mr Valdez once, said he was "a charming, brave and respected man" and his death was "a terrible loss for Mexico's embattled journalism".
"He wanted to tell the stories and dreams of the victims," he said, and " in a country where impunity is the norm, the only certainty seems to be that cases like this won't stop".
Mexican news outlets Animal Político and Tercera Vía are going on strike on Wednesday to protest against the murder, and the ongoing risks to reporters.
Last week, Mexico appointed a new prosecutor to investigate crimes against freedom of expression - including the killing of journalists.
Mr Valdez had once said: "The government couldn't care less. They do nothing to protect you. There have been many cases and this keeps happening."
Speaking at a launch of his book last year, Mr Valdez said being a journalist "is like being on a blacklist" and that gangs "will decide what day they are going to kill you".
In March, after journalist Miroslava Breach was shot dead, Valdez was quoted as saying "No to silence" and "Let them kill us all".
Like Valdez, Breach had reported on organised crime, drug-trafficking and corruption.
Other Mexican journalists killed this year include freelancers Maximino Rodríguez and Cecilio Pineda Birto, according to the CPJ.
The CPJ says at least 40 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 1992.
During his career spanning nearly three decades, Mr Valdez wrote extensively on drug-trafficking and organised crime in Mexico, including the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel.
The cartel is believed to be responsible for an estimated 25% of all illegal drugs that enter the US via Mexico.
Its former head Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was recaptured in 2016, following two jail breaks, and was extradited to the US in January.
Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto condemned the killing, calling it an "outrageous crime", and added that his government remained committed to press freedom.
Sinaloa state attorney general Juan Jose Rios said the death was being investigated, and Valdez's family and colleagues would be protected.
More journalists are killed in Mexico every year than in any other country that does not have a continuing war. The only countries where more journalists are killed are Syria and Afghanistan, according to the group Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Four men became seriously ill on Saturday, with two still in intensive care.
A woman and two men were hospitalised on Sunday, with one man seriously ill and the other two critical.
Greater Manchester Police said the drugs are known locally as "magic" or "pink champagne" and come in crystal form.
A 26-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of supplying Class A drugs and remains in custody for questioning.
Det Insp Jim Faulkner of GMP's Oldham Borough said the increasing number of people affected is causing the force "no end of concern".
He said symptoms to watch for include rigid muscles, shallow breathing, a fast racing pulse, hyper-aggression, seizure, foaming at the mouth and unconsciousness.
"Please, if you believe that you or somebody you know has taken the drug and begins showing these symptoms then get yourselves to the hospital immediately," he added.
"We have arrested one man in connection with the supply of the drugs, however our inquiries and operational activity will be continuing."
Of the men hospitalised on Saturday, two have been released.
Nikki Sinclaire, who represented the West Midlands until 2014, denies making "significant" expenses claims she knew to be false.
But, the ex-UKIP member told Birmingham Crown Court she was told just months before of a case against MEP Tom Wise.
It would have made no sense to "fiddle" expenses so soon after, in 2009.
More on Nikki Sinclaire fraud trial
Previously, Ms Sinclaire told the court her expenses were dealt with by her staff.
The first of 10 alleged improper expenses claims against her dates to October 2009, the same month as the UKIP briefing about the allegations against Wise.
Wise, a former MEP for the East of England, was jailed the following month after admitting falsely claiming travel expenses.
Referring to Wise, Ms Sinclaire said: "Why would that be the time I would decide to start fiddling my expenses?"
Her lawyers said she would not have been signing off fake expenses for financial gain as the total she could have made was "about €3,000" (about £2,465).
Ms Sinclaire, 47, from Solihull, also accused former aide John Ison of spying on her for UKIP bosses and submitting at least one "deliberately corrupted" expenses claim on her behalf, in an attempt to undermine her.
The court heard about tensions between Ms Sinclaire and then UKIP leader Nigel Farage from Mr Ison, who admitted making secret recordings of her "for the good of the party".
He also reported her to the police in September 2010 without her knowing.
Ms Sinclaire said that on her solicitor's advice, she offered no comment at police interviews in 2012.
She denies the charges. The trial continues.
Wolfsburg beat Chelsea in the last 16 last season on their way to the final.
Manchester City Women, competing in Europe for the first time, face 2015 Russian national champions Zvezda-2005.
Scottish champions Glasgow City face Swedish debutants Eskilstuna United, while Hibernian will play German Frauen Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich.
The first legs will be played on 5-6 October, with the second legs on 12-13 October, and the seeded teams will be at home for the second leg of each tie.
Glasgow were seeded for the draw, while Chelsea, Manchester City and Hibernian were unseeded.
The 2016-17 final will be held in Cardiff, at the Cardiff City Stadium on Thursday, 1 June 2017.
Sturm Graz (AUT) v FC Zürich (SUI)
Breidablik (ISL) v Rosengård (SWE)
LSK Kvinner (NOR) v Paris Saint-Germain (FRA)
Avaldsnes (NOR) v Lyon (FRA)
Eskilstuna United (SWE) v Glasgow City (SCO)
SFK 2000 Sarajevo (BIH) v Rossiyanka (RUS)
Chelsea (ENG) v Wolfsburg (GER)
FC Twente (NED) v Sparta Praha (CZE)
Apollon (CYP) v Slavia Praha (CZE)
Athletic Club (ESP) v Fortuna Hjørring (DEN)
Minsk (BLR) v Barcelona (ESP)
Medyk Konin (POL) v Brescia (ITA)
Manchester City (ENG) v Zvezda-2005 (RUS)
BIIK-Kazygurt (KAZ) v Verona (ITA)
Hibernian (SCO) v Bayern München (GER)
St. Pölten (AUT) v Brøndby (DEN)
Colin Mackenzie, who was appointed in 2008, announced in September he would be retiring.
Adverts appeared in the national press for the £136,000-a-year post, and a micro site was launched.
An appointment is expected to be made towards the end of November.
The total sales for 25 stand at 538,000 so far, with four days of the chart week still to run.
Only two albums have sold more than 500,000 copies in a week.
Take That's Progress sold 519,000 in its debut week in 2010, and Oasis's Be Here Now, the current record holder, sold 696,000 in its first week in 1997.
Meanwhile in the US, Adele has sold a record-breaking 2.3 million copies of the album so far.
The sales figures mean the record is on course to break the record currently held by boy band NSync's 2000 album No Strings Attached, which sold 2.4 million copies in its first week of release.
Adele performed her hit single Hello on Saturday Night Live at the weekend. That track alone has sold 2.5 million copies in the four weeks since it has been on sale.
Elsewhere in the UK chart, Elvis's former number one collection If I Can Dream is back at number two on the mid-week album chart, and Justin Bieber's Purpose is at three.
Enya's first album in seven years, Dark Sky Island, is currently at number four and last week's number one, One Direction's Made in the A.M., is at five.
There are a further nine new entries heading for this week's top 40 album chart.
They include a special edition of Take That's III, Olly Murs with Never Been Better, Cilla Black's The Very Best of and Tracey Chapman's Greatest Hits.
On the singles mid-week chart, Justin Bieber and Adele are battling it out, with Bieber's Sorry ahead of Adele's Hello by 3,000 copies.
Bieber's Love Yourself remains at three and his What Do You Mean is at number five mid-week.
His three entries in the Top Five last week made him the first male artist to achieve that feat in 34 years, since John Lennon in January 1981.
Dianne Ngoza was due to be removed from the UK at 17:00 GMT after losing an immigration battle.
Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell said she had "received assurances" from immigration minister Robert Goodwill that the case had been put on hold.
She is now calling for Ms Ngoza to be freed from detention at Yarl's Wood.
Ms Ngoza left Zambia 22 years ago and has "no network of social, family or work with anyone back in Africa," and considers herself British, her campaign website says.
However, she was ordered to leave after her visa renewal was turned down.
More than 2,000 people have since signed a petition to keep her in Greater Manchester.
Campaigners say she has been involved in a range of community organisations and human rights groups, and had recently been nominated for a Spirit of Manchester 2016 award.
Ms Powell said people's "overwhelming support" had been a "great comfort" to Ms Ngoza.
"I am pleased that the minister has listened to the concerns raised about Dianne's case and I will continue to put pressure on the minister until all avenues have been exhausted," she said.
Ms Powell added that Ms Ngoza should now be released from Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal centre in Bedfordshire and given the right to appeal against her deportation from within the UK.
Meanwhile, solicitors have launched an appeal for Ms Ngoza to be able to stay under human rights legislation, but that application has not yet been heard.
Mervyn Cross, of law firm Duncan Lewis, said he was yet to receive correspondence from the Home Office confirming the latest developments.
The firm would therefore still submit an application challenging Ms Ngoza's removal, he added.
A Home Office spokesman said: "We expect people with no legal basis to remain in the UK to leave the country voluntarily, and we provide support to help people return to their home country.
"Where they refuse to do so we will seek to enforce their removal."
But Peter Robinson found himself out of his depth on Sunday - while cleaning out his koi carp fish pond.
The DUP leader took to Twitter to describe how he plunged in to the water, while removing algae from the sides of the pool.
"Half way through making my fish feel better about themselves I lost my footing and headlong fell into the pond," he tweeted.
"That was the easy part. Getting out of a pond with slippy sides is not easy, especially as the water level is beyond the level of my mouth and nose."
The First Minister said his afternoon dip provided plenty of laughs for his family.
The slip-up is also likely to raise a smile or two from his election opponents.
"My call for help went unanswered as family either chortled and convulsed or searched for insurance policies.
"The First Minister issue was almost settled," he added.
He later said that he only wanted "tweets of sympathy", not "responses about slippery slopes or expressions of concern about my fish".
The Labour leader said his party was not wedded to the idea of freedom of movement as he gave a speech in Peterborough on Tuesday.
Ms Wood said she feared he could be helping "make a case for leaving the single market".
However, Mr Corbyn told BBC News he did not think immigration was too high.
Ms Wood said: "The most important outcome for Wales from any negotiations is to be in the single market.
"By upping the ante on migration, Mr Corbyn and the Labour party risk giving Theresa May the political cover needed for a hard Brexit.
"If the speech makes rejecting the principle of freedom of movement a priority, then it will help the Tories make a case for leaving the single market, which would be disastrous for the Welsh economy.
"Labour, despite being the UK opposition, cannot be trusted to know what is best for the Welsh economy."
Tackled on the issue at First Minister's Questions on Tuesday, Carwyn Jones said he believed people would accept freedom of movement in order to work as "perfectly reasonable" if it guaranteed membership of the single market.
It follows claims that party leaders want to impose candidates from outside Wales for the assembly election.
Six general election candidates signed the petition which claims there is "no coherent plan" to fight the campaign and "no effective leadership" in Wales.
UKIP has questioned the credibility of the petition and its Wales chairman said "disgruntled members" signed it.
Many Welsh activists have raised objections to former Conservative MPs Mark Reckless and Neil Hamilton being in the running for selection, accusing the party of "parachuting" them in.
Earlier in February, Mr Gill announced that local members would decide the rankings of candidates for regional list seats, not the party's national executive committee.
However, some Welsh members remain unhappy at the way the matter has been handled, with UKIP Vale of Glamorgan councillor Kevin Mahoney quitting the party.
"It is understood by all that UKIP in Wales is operated on the basis of mutual respect and understanding," the petition states.
"In light of the extraordinary circumstances prevailing and indeed, as a last resort, to prevent further harm and disharmony within 'the party' it is necessary to censure and remove those responsible forthwith."
The petition accused Mr Gill of showing "a lack of leadership in all aspects pertaining to this matter".
It said "through his inactivity or unwillingness to resolve the prevailing circumstances, [he] has exacerbated the situation to the point where members no longer have faith in his ability to lead UKIP in Wales in any effective way".
UKIP general election candidates backing the petition were Joe Smyth (Islwyn), Darran Thomas (Brecon and Radnorshire), Ken Beswick (Torfaen), Blair Smillie (Alyn and Deeside), Nigel Williams (Delyn), and Paul Davies Cooke (Vale of Clwyd).
Mr Williams, one of the petition organisers, said it was "better late than never" to raise their concerns with the assembly election so close.
He called for a leadership election, saying UKIP Wales could choose "any one from ten great people" but Wales chairman David Rowlands said it "adds nothing to the debate".
Gethin James, a UKIP councillor and assembly election candidate for Ceredigion, told BBC Radio Cymru: "It's not a good situation, but I'm 100% behind Nathan Gill.
"People don't know how much work he's done.
"The problem is with the national executive, not with Nathan Gill."
On Tuesday, Mr Gill told BBC Wales he had no intention of standing down, saying claims that he had failed to support rank-and-file members in Wales were "nonsense".
A UKIP Wales spokesman said: "Despite efforts of one or two individuals phoning around the party membership in Wales their petty 26 person petition included someone from England, six people who were not even members and a growing number who denied even ever signing it."
Three men and a woman were hit by a car that failed to stop on Humberstone Gate on 1 November.
Wahid Rob, from Neston Road in Leicester, has been charged with four counts of attempted grievous bodily harm and dangerous driving.
He is set to appear at Leicester Magistrates' Court on 10 July.
Indications that many of the attackers were North African or Arab in appearance prompt soul-searching, with some alluding to the perception that sexual violence against women is widespread in North Africa and the Middle East.
Many express concern about the possible impact the incidents could have on Germany's perception of migrants and refugees from the regions.
On Twitter, the Arabic-language hashtags #Germany and #Cologne have been used more than 17,000 and 2,500 times.
Twitter user @Osama_Saber voices the fear that the incidents will bring "shame of historic proportions" on all Arabs living in Germany.
"I have never felt more respected than I feel here," Facebook user Israa Ragab - an Egyptian living in Germany - writes.
"Every time I watch the TV and hear them saying the suspects could be from North Africa or Arabs I feel so ashamed and disgusted."
Twitter user @LLLLoL00 is blunter: "Every time we try to improve the image of Arabs, a bunch of scumbags just destroys everything!"
Commenting on the arrest of an Iraqi and a Palestinian in relation to sexual harassment allegations on New Year's Even in Berlin, Deutsche Welle Arabic journalist Nahla Elhenawy voices the opinion that such incidents are symptomatic of wider problems relating the treatment of women in the Middle East and some Muslim-majority countries.
"The ugliness of our region is reaching Germany," she tweets.
Many social media users fret that the sexual harassment incidents could lead to a backlash in Germany and elsewhere against liberal policies towards refugees from Syria, such as those espoused by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"Will Europe regret receiving people who suffer from religious and political repression?" â€
Bosz, 53, led Ajax to last month's Europa League final, which the Dutch club lost 2-0 to Manchester United.
Tuchel left Dortmund at the end of May after two years in charge.
He led the club to victory in the German Cup last season and helped them qualify for the Champions League with a third-place finish in the Bundesliga.
Bosz replaced Frank de Boer at Ajax at the start of last season and was under contract with the Amsterdam side until 2019.
"I have mixed feelings about this move," said Ajax managing director Edwin van der Sar.
"When we brought Peter to Ajax last summer it was not the intention that the partnership would end after one year.
"We have had a great season, especially in the Europa League. As with our players, the coach also attracts the attention of clubs from Europe's top leagues."
Emergency departments saw nearly 3,000 patients a day in May - the highest level for nearly two years.
The figures show 82.5% of patients spent less than four hours in urgent care - up from 80.3% in April.
But this is still less than the Welsh Government's target of 95%.
The improvement comes as A&E departments in May were busier than April with 9,000 more patients attending over the course of the month.
A Welsh Government spokesperson said: "Emergency department attendances in May 2016 were at their highest level since July 2014, with nearly 3,000 patients seen on average every day and significant peaks in daily attendances experienced during the month.
"It's encouraging that frontline staff were broadly able to meet these pressures, with more than eight out of 10 people spending less than four hours in the department from arrival until admission or discharge.
"We know there is more work to be done by local health boards, and we expect them to work hard to improve patients' experiences and eliminate instances of lengthy delays."
Patients were also asked to help the NHS by using the most appropriate service for their need and only going to accident and emergency departments when necessary.
"He was such a brilliant writer," says Terry Jones of his old friend and fellow real ale aficionado Douglas Adams.
"Maybe that's why he hated it - he put so much effort into it."
It's an ironic observation, given that Adams became a household name when his radio series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, evolved first into a cult science fiction novel and then a hit BBC TV series.
Adams died in 2001 aged 49 following a heart attack. The movie version of Hitchhiker's Guide came out in 2005.
On Sunday, the late writer's 60th birthday is being marked with a special show at London's Hammersmith Apollo.
Comedians, writers and scientists are coming together for the event.
Contributors include Stephen Fry, Robin Ince, Jon Culshaw , Stephen Mangan and Sanjeev Bhaskar.
Terry Jones will be in conversation with Clive Anderson about Douglas's comic genius.
"I'm going to be reminiscing about how Douglas nearly killed all the Pythons when we all piled into his minivan and he drove up the wrong ramp of a motorway," laughs Jones.
Jones first met Adams around 1974 when Adams began co-writing Monty Python sketches with Graham Chapman after the departure of John Cleese.
Adams even made some appearances in the fourth series of the cult comedy show.
"You can see him loading a missile onto the back of a cart," recalls Jones. "He also appears as a surgeon looking intently into the camera."
Their friendship developed over a shared interest in real ale, which led to Jones being one of the first people to hear the radio version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in 1978.
Hitchhiker's success
"Mike Palin and I were supposed to be writing Ripping Yarns, but we got a phone call from Douglas asking to come to the BBC to listen to a tape of the show.
"We got a bit anxious, as we realised the producer Geoffrey Perkins and Douglas were looking at us the whole time for any sign of amusement.
"Then they put on the second episode and the third, at which point we said we had to leave. As we walked away from the BBC, I said: 'Well, that was quite funny, wasn't it?'"
Why did Adams' writing strike a chord with people?
"It wasn't the narrative or the characters," says Jones. "It was the ideas. He was brilliant at reversing our perceptions of things - at turning them upside down.
"There's a bit in Hitchhiker's Guide where Arthur Dent asks: 'What's so wrong about being drunk?', and Ford Prefect says: 'You ask a glass of water'."
Adams was born in Cambridge in 1952, and studied at St John's College, Cambridge before embarking on a career as a radio and TV writer and producer.
His life was changed by the success of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
More than 15 million copies of the book and its sequels have been sold throughout the world.
The story begins with bemused Earthling Arthur Dent, who wakes one morning to find his house is about to be demolished to make way for a bypass.
Before the end of the first episode he has hitched a lift on an alien spaceship as it destroys his home planet to make way for an interstellar bypass.
A UK tour of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - featuring members of the original radio and TV cast - is set to take place later in 2012.
Adams went on to write other books, including Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul and the Meaning of Liff - an alternative dictionary of nonsense words and place names.
Hangover
Adams, however, was never a punctual writer. He was was once quoted as saying: "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
In the 1990s, Adams and Jones collaborated on a project called Starship Titanic.
Says Jones: "He'd been paid an advance seven years before to write the book, and he never had - so he fobbed them off with a computer game.
"He rang me up and asked if I would like to write the book to get him out of a hole. I asked 'how long have I got?' and he answered: 'Five weeks!'
"So there I was bashing away at a typewriter like when you see writers in Hollywood films."
Asked what Douglas was like as a person, Jones offers an anecdote about being offered two tickets to a screening of Abel Gance's five-hour epic 1927 silent film Napoleon.
"My wife said she had a a hangover and couldn't possibly see a five-hour silent film, so I rang Mike Palin up and he said he had a hangover and couldn't possibly face a five-hour silent film.
"And then I rang Douglas and he said he couldn't possibly face it either - so I thought I'd just go on my own.
"And just as I was opening the front door, Douglas rang back and said: 'Well it's such an awful idea, I think I have to try it.' And that's the kind of person he was - he loved ideas, he had to test everything out."
Douglas Adams The Party takes place on Sunday 11 March at the Hammersmith Apollo, London. The event is being held in association with the Save the Rhino charity, which Adams supported.
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The 23-year-old from Ayrshire has the muscle-wasting condition Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and has been a wheelchair-user since he was nine.
But having made his Paralympic debut in London in 2012, he has gone on to win European bronze and World silver in the BC3 pairs competition.
"If I wasn't playing boccia, I wouldn't be playing another sport because, quite simply, there isn't another sport I can participate in at an elite level," he tells BBC Sport
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Protesters against the cuts, which will remove 11 subsidised routes, gathered outside East Sussex County Council's (ESCC) cabinet meeting in Lewes.
Labour opposition councillors said the Conservative cabinet ignored a 7,000-strong petition against the cuts.
The council said 91% of passengers on East Sussex buses would be unaffected.
The majority of bus services in the county are run by companies on a commercial basis, mostly along the coast and between major towns.
The cuts affect subsidised routes and Dial-a-Ride, which will be cut from seven days a week to Monday to Friday.
Other routes will be removed completely or reduced in frequency.
A total of 23 previously subsidised services will be taken on as commercial routes by bus operators.
Fare increases of up to 30% have also been approved.
A meeting of the full council earlier this month recommended rejecting the cuts but the cabinet has decided to implement them from April 2015.
Labour's transport spokesman Councillor John Hodges told the meeting alternative savings could be made by cutting out inefficiencies.
"The public said no, the full council said not. Leave our public services intact for those that depend on them," he said.
ESCC said it was protecting peak services, those used by school and college students and residents needing access to essential services.
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"We felt the proposals minimised the impact of changes on the residents of East Sussex and offered best value for money for all taxpayers."
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The Scots produced a superb second-half display to beat Wales 29-13 at Murrayfield, their first win over the Welsh in a decade.
Price feels this team now has the tools to compete with Eddie Jones' Grand Slam winners.
"We'll go down there knowing, if we play how we can play, we'll leave there with a win," the scrum-half said.
"We now look at every game as a game we can go and win.
"We've got two weeks now to prepare for the England game, so we'll prepare well."
Price stepped up with an assured display in place of injured captain Greig Laidlaw in only his third appearance - and first start - for Scotland.
The Glasgow Warriors back says it was important to play his own game rather than trying to replicate the role played by the inspirational Laidlaw.
"I don't want to try and replicate Greig. I'm not Greig," he said.
"He's an incredible game-manager, an incredible leader. That's something I still need to learn a lot about. That part of the game, I really want to work on.
"Having Finn Russell playing outside me - obviously we play together at Glasgow - helped a lot.
"Greig did an awful lot for the team. After we knew he was going to be out, everyone else stepped up and has taken on more of a leadership role, especially in those decision-making positions.
"I didn't feel under that much pressure. I just wanted to go out there and put in a good performance."
Russell kicked 19 points in a man-of-the-match display and echoed Price's belief that the Scots have a chance of a first win at Twickenham in his lifetime.
"I don't remember it - I wasn't even born," said the 24-year-old stand-off of the 1983 triumph.
"We ran them close a couple of years ago and last year. They are playing well and have a lot of confidence and momentum, so it will be a tough game.
"But, if we get our preparation right, we will see what happens.
"We have the belief. It is 10 years since we beat Wales, so this is a different team to ones in the past.
"We won't get arrogant and say we are going to win as it will be a tough game. We will have belief in ourselves because, if we don't do that, we will not win.
"We'll go down there and give it our best crack. We're looking forward to the challenge."
It was a rare display of vulnerability by the driven politician who is considered by many Kenyans to be hot-tempered, arrogant and ruthlessly ambitious.
When Mr Ruto was indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in December 2010 for crimes against humanity, many people thought it was the beginning of the end of his political career. The politician was charged with murder, deportation or forcible transfer of population, and persecution - all to do with the deadly violence that followed the 2007 elections.
The accusations mainly relate to attacks on Mr Kenyatta's Kikuyu community, especially in the ethnic Kalenjin heartland in the Rift Valley.
The Kikuyus largely backed then President Mwai Kibaki, a member of their community, during the election.
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The two ethnic groups have a history of rivalry, which intensified after the Kikuyus settled in the Rift Valley after independence in 1963.
Mr Ruto's trial starts on 10 September 2013.
But the self-styled "hustler" - who once sold chicken by a railway line - cunningly used the ICC issue to power his way into the grand hallways of Kenya's State House.
A deeply religious Christian, Ruto he described the 2013 election victory on a joint ticket with Mr Kenyatta as a "miracle".
"Our victory today in all manner of definition is a miracle. Ladies and gentlemen this afternoon I am lost for words," said the normally eloquent politician.
His alliance with Mr Kenyatta was viewed by many as a union of convenience between two men whose backgrounds couldn't be more different.
Unlike Mr Kenyatta, the son of a former president whose name and heritage opened doors for him from birth, Mr Ruto rose from a humble, poor background to become a political kingmaker.
An ethnic Kalenjin, he was born on 21 December 1966 in Sugoi village in the western region of the Rift Valley. His home region is prone to ethnic violence and was one of the focal points of the fighting - mainly between the Kalenjin and Mr Kenyatta's Kikuyu community - in 2007.
He was educated at local schools before studying botany and zoology at the University of Nairobi. His high school colleagues remember him as a "soft spoken and shy student who kept a low profile".
According to his mother, Sara Cheruiyot, he "was never rebellious" and was always "obedient, honest and punctual. He also kept to himself and rarely picked quarrels or a fight with his mates" and "always carried a book to read in the grazing fields".
While at university, he was chairman of the Christian Union choir.
He met his political mentor, former President Daniel arap Moi, through his involvement in church activities. Like Mr Ruto, Mr Moi is an ethnic Kalenjin, teetotaller and fervent churchgoer.
Mr Ruto helped found a lobby group, the Youth for Kanu 92 (YK92), which Mr Moi's Kenya African National Union (Kanu) used to retain power in 1992.
The group's main campaign tactic was dishing out money - reportedly billions of shillings - a move later blamed for Kenya's economic turmoil of the early 1990s. Mr Ruto reportedly made his fortune during this period.
He was elected MP in 1997 and soon became one of the most powerful politicians within the ruling party, which was on the defensive.
With Kanu facing defeat in 2002, Mr Moi appointed Mr Ruto deputy interior minister before promoting him to full minister. By then all the senior officials had quit the ruling party after the president hand-picked Uhuru Kenyatta as his successor.
Though Kanu lost the election, Mr Ruto retained his parliamentary seat and was elected the party's secretary-general in 2005. In 2006, he announced his intention to vie for the presidency in the 2007 election.
He began to work closely with Raila Odinga, a former minister and political foe of Mr Moi.
A shrewd politician and powerful orator, Mr Ruto lamented that Kenya had been ruled by a "wealthy elite" that was "detached from the everyday suffering of ordinary people". He used a popular Kalenjin vernacular radio station, Kass FM, as a platform to articulate his agenda.
He ditched Kanu for Mr Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM).
Mr Ruto lost in the ODM presidential primaries to Mr Odinga, but mobilised millions of voters in the extensive Rift Valley region for Mr Odinga. Opinion polls indicated the ODM leader would win the 2007 election and it was expected Mr Ruto would become vice-president.
Mr Ruto was one of Mr Odinga's vocal defenders as disputes erupted over the tallying of the presidential vote.
Mr Ruto's heartland exploded in deadly ethnic violence after the electoral authorities declared President Mwai Kibaki the winner. The violence lasted until February 2008 when Mr Odinga and Mr Kibaki agreed to form a coalition government.
Mr Ruto was appointed agriculture minister.
As part of the coalition agreement, a local tribunal was formed to investigate the violence. Both President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga lobbied the parliament in vain for local trials of the perpetrators. Mr Ruto, who had then fallen out with the prime minister, sanctioned trials at the ICC.
The mediator, Kofi Annan, handed over to the ICC a sealed envelope containing a list of suspects.
Mr Ruto told Kenya's Sunday Nation newspaper in 2009 that Mr Annan "should hand over the envelope… so that proper investigations can start."
In December 2010, Mr Ruto, Mr Kenyatta and four others were indicted by the ICC. The court later dropped cases against three of the accused, but retained those against Mr Kenyatta, Mr Ruto and Joshua arap Sang, a journalist from Kass FM radio who was accused of inciting and helping coordinate attacks against the Kikuyu community.
Mr Ruto vehemently denies involvement, telling a local TV station that "Deep inside my being I know those charges are fiction".
In November 2012, he teamed up with Mr Kenyatta to form the Jubilee Alliance.
Through the alliance, the duo shrewdly used their ICC indictments to their advantage - painting the cases as a Western assault on Kenya's sovereignty. Their strategy worked, and the two now face the daunting challenge of governing the country while defending themselves at The Hague.
Mr Ruto's eloquence and ready smile have endeared him to his supporters but his political career has been dogged by corruption allegations.
In February 2009, he survived a censure motion in parliament over a scandal on the irregular sale of maize by his ministry. He was suspended from cabinet in October 2010 over the fraudulent sale of public land. He was later acquitted. In June 2013, the High Court ordered him to surrender a 100-acre farm and compensate a farmer who had accused him of grabbing the land during the 2007 violence.
The deputy president insists he is clean, and says his immense wealth has been painstakingly acquired through hard work.
"I sold chicken at [a] railway crossing near my home as a child. I built my father a house using my university boom [allowance]. I paid fees for my siblings. God has been kind to me and through hard work and determination, I have something," he told Kenyan daily The Star.
William Ruto must now use this resilience to face his most formidable challenge to date - escaping conviction by the ICC.
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Stirling-based Ramoyle Developments is behind the project at the former Burgh Yard in Galashiels.
It is hoped a planning application for the proposals can now be submitted before the end of this year.
Council leader David Parker said he was delighted the development had now come a "step closer" on the site which used to host a petrol station and garages.
"Since the opening of the Borders Railway, there has been increased activity and investment in the Scottish Borders and recent positive tourism figures underline the potential that the railway can bring to our region," he said.
"Over the next five years I expect further positive announcements and increased investment Borders-wide.
"In recent weeks, there have been positive job announcements in the private sector, with new distilleries on the horizon in Jedburgh and Hawick.
"Subject to planning permission, I look forward to this development enhancing facilities in Galashiels for visitors and the local community."
Jim Turnbull, managing director of Ramoyle Developments, described it as a "significant opportunity" at a "very exciting time" for the town and region as a whole.
"It adds to our currently-expanding development programme and we look forward to the early completion of the mixed use project which we are sure will add materially to what is on offer in the town," he said.
Bill White, the vice-chairman of community group Energise Galashiels, said it was an "exciting milestone" for the town.
"During recent months we have seen a number of projects coming to fruition, such as the Great Tapestry of Scotland, the development of a town centre Business Improvement District (BID) for Galashiels and announcements on a number of new employment and retail opportunities in the pipeline," he said.
"Galashiels is a town full of potential.
"We are delighted that the message is getting out and that the future looks very bright."
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said it seemed they were trying to join "terror" groups in the Middle East.
They were stopped at Sydney International airport earlier this month.
It is a crime in Australia to fight for or assist militants on either side of the conflicts in the Middle East.
Mr Abbott said on Thursday the incidents proved "the continuing allure" of overseas "terror" groups.
The seven men, all believed to be connected to each other, tried to leave the country in two groups at separate times, said Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.
Speaking at a press conference, Mr Dutton said the first group of five men, in their 20s and 30s, were "offloaded" from a flight last week, interviewed and then searched by authorities.
Large amounts of cash were found in their luggage.
The next day, the same five men were again intercepted at the airport as they were trying to leave the country.
Mr Dutton said that in a separate incident, two men believed to be connected to the other five were intercepted at Sydney airport and searched and interviewed.
They also tried to depart again the next day.
The minister would not say if their passports had been confiscated or where the men were now.
He also would not confirm if any of the men were dual nationals or if they had been charged with any crime.
The government has drafted a bill that would strip dual nationals of their Australian citizenship if they engaged in terrorism.
Australia is on high alert for attacks by radicalised Muslims, including those returning home from fighting in the Middle East.
In December last year, the country specifically banned travel to Syria's Raqqa province, which is held by the so-called Islamic State group (IS).
It means anyone entering the area could face up to 10 years in prison unless they have a legitimate reason, including family visits, journalism or aid work.
Tesche, 29, spent two months on loan at Birmingham at the end of the 2014-15 campaign, scoring twice in 12 matches.
The German, who joined Forest on a free transfer in 2014, made 25 appearances for the Reds last season, having broken his foot in August.
He was previously on German Bundesliga club Hamburg's books for five years.
A statement from Birmingham City said: "Blues had previously attempted to bring Tesche back at the start of last season, but were unable to do so after a change in management at his previous club, Nottingham Forest."
Birmingham finished the 2015-16 season in 10th place, 11 points off the play-off places, while Forest finished 16th, 15 points above the relegation zone.
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Since 1998, there has been an unexplained "standstill" in the heating of the Earth's atmosphere.
Writing in Nature Geoscience, the researchers say this will reduce predicted warming in the coming decades.
But long-term, the expected temperature rises will not alter significantly.
The slowdown in the expected rate of global warming has been studied for several years now. Earlier this year, the UK Met Office lowered their five-year temperature forecast.
But this new paper gives the clearest picture yet of how any slowdown is likely to affect temperatures in both the short-term and long-term.
An international team of researchers looked at how the last decade would impact long-term, equilibrium climate sensitivity and the shorter term climate response.
Climate sensitivity looks to see what would happen if we doubled concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere and let the Earth's oceans and ice sheets respond to it over several thousand years.
Transient climate response is much shorter term calculation again based on a doubling of CO2.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported in 2007 that the short-term temperature rise would most likely be 1-3C (1.8-5.4F).
But in this new analysis, by only including the temperatures from the last decade, the projected range would be 0.9-2.0C.
"The hottest of the models in the medium-term, they are actually looking less likely or inconsistent with the data from the last decade alone," said Dr Alexander Otto from the University of Oxford.
"The most extreme projections are looking less likely than before."
The authors calculate that over the coming decades global average temperatures will warm about 20% more slowly than expected.
But when it comes to the longer term picture, the authors say their work is consistent with previous estimates. The IPCC said that climate sensitivity was in the range of 2.0-4.5C.
This latest research, including the decade of stalled temperature rises, produces a range of 0.9-5.0C.
"It is a bigger range of uncertainty," said Dr Otto.
"But it still includes the old range. We would all like climate sensitivity to be lower but it isn't."
The researchers say the difference between the lower short-term estimate and the more consistent long-term picture can be explained by the fact that the heat from the last decade has been absorbed into and is being stored by the world's oceans.
Not everyone agrees with this perspective.
Prof Steven Sherwood, from the University of New South Wales, says the conclusion about the oceans needs to be taken with a grain of salt for now.
"There is other research out there pointing out that this storage may be part of a natural cycle that will eventually reverse, either due to El Nino or the so-called Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, and therefore may not imply what the authors are suggesting," he said.
The authors say there are ongoing uncertainties surrounding the role of aerosols in the atmosphere and around the issue of clouds.
"We would expect a single decade to jump around a bit but the overall trend is independent of it, and people should be exactly as concerned as before about what climate change is doing," said Dr Otto.
Is there any succour in these findings for climate sceptics who say the slowdown over the past 14 years means the global warming is not real?
"None. No comfort whatsoever," he said.
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The broad-based MSCI Asia Pacific Index rose 0.5%, which brought its gains this week to more than 3%.
In Tokyo, the benchmark Nikkei 225 closed 0.68% higher, while the Topix gained 0.69%.
South Korea's Kospi rose 0.9% and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 added 0.25%.
In China, the Shanghai Composite closed 0.1% higher.
Hong Kong and Thailand's stock markets are closed for holidays.
Gold, considered a safe haven investment in times of uncertainty, headed for its fifth week of gains, with bullion for immediate delivery trading at $1,322 an ounce.
Japan released a slew of data on Friday that highlights the government is still struggling to turn the economy around.
Consumer prices excluding fresh food, which is the Bank of Japan's main measure, fell for a third straight month by 0.4% in May.
Household spending also fell, by 1.1% in May from a year earlier.
The Tankan survey for large manufacturers held at 6, versus forecasts for 4. The positive number shows there are more optimists than pessimists.
However, analysts said the Tankan result came in before the results of the Brexit vote last week so doesn't reflect the impact it may have on business confidence.
The measure compares prices in the three months to the end of January with the previous quarter.
According to the Halifax prices in January alone increased by 2%, compared with December - the largest January rise for six years.
And when measured on an annual basis, house price inflation increased to 8.5% - up from 7.8% in December.
For the last few months, house prices had been on a moderating trend.
"This bounce-back in house price growth in January coincides with reports of the first rise in mortgage approvals for six months in December," said Martin Ellis, the Halifax's chief housing economist.
Last week the Bank of England reported that mortgage approvals rose slightly between November and December.
However, some analysts have cast doubt on the figures.
"The 2.0% jump in house prices reported by the Halifax is hard to explain, and looks markedly at odds with other latest data and survey evidence," said Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist with IHS Global Insight.
The Nationwide Building Society reported that prices in January rose by just 0.3% compared with December.
However, the Halifax said there was a good explanation for the unexpected rise in prices.
It pointed to further declines in mortgage rates, as well as the reform of stamp duty, which came in in December.
Under those changes, most people pay less duty when they buy a house or flat than they used to.
The Halifax's Mr Ellis said the fact that wages are now increasing faster than inflation was another factor in boosting prices.
However, he said that prices at this time of year tended to be very variable.
"The monthly figures in January can be particularly volatile due to the lower volumes of activity at this time of year, and there have been unusually large rises on occasion in the past, such as in 2007 (2.3%) and 2009 (2.4%)," he said.
The Halifax said that the average UK house price was now £193,130.
They will join BBC regulars Gary Lineker, Gabby Logan and Alan Shearer for 26 live matches.
Every game broadcast on TV and Radio 5 live will be simulcast on the BBC Sport website and app.
And in-game highlights will let you watch the goals from BBC games as they happen on desktop, tablet and mobile.
Former England midfielder Frank Lampard and ex-Germany striker Jurgen Klinsmann will also make multi-platform contributions across the four-week tournament, which starts on 10 June and is being hosted by France.
Gianluca Vialli, Jens Lehmann, Robbie Savage and Neil Lennon are among the other former international players lined up to share their expertise.
The BBC Sport website will feature a 'Euro 96 Rewind' too, with full match video and text coverage.
Readers will be able to personalise their Euro 2016 digital service, use the Euro 2016 Predictor and Team Selector tools, and enjoy a Euro 2016 catch-up video, available to download via BBC iPlayer.
In the BBC Sport app, you can set up alerts for any Euro 2016 team - helping you stay across the scores wherever you happen to be.
Lineker and Dan Walker will take social media users behind the scenes of the Match of the Day studio in the heart of Paris with Facebook Live, while ex-England midfielder Jermaine Jenas will front the BBC Sport Snapchat account.
On Radio 5 live, Mark Chapman and Kelly Cates will head up match coverage alongside Caroline Barker and Walker.
There will also be three special TV documentaries aired before the tournament.
Director of BBC Sport Barbara Slater said: "As excitement builds towards one of the most anticipated sporting events of 2016, we are delighted to bring audiences closer to the heart of the action than ever before with unparalleled coverage across TV, radio and enhanced personalised options across our digital services available 24/7.
"This summer's Championship will bring the nation together to witness unmissable sporting moments, captivating audiences of all ages on football's biggest stage."
Have you added the new Top Story alerts in the BBC Sport app? Simply head to the menu in the app - and don't forget you can also add score alerts your football team and more.
Laura Davies, 21, was attacked near the Essex Horse and Pony Protection Society base in Basildon where she lived and worked.
Her ex-boyfriend, Jordan Taylor, 22, of Basildon, denies murder.
Chelmsford Crown Court was told the attack was so forceful that the knife used was left badly bent.
Prosecutor Peter Gair said: "We say her life was taken by this man during a sustained and brutal attack with a knife. She suffered 80 knife wounds to her body.
"That attack was as a direct result of her telling the defendant that their relationship was over.
"Whether it was motivated by jealousy or anger of a mixture of both and other emotions, he exacted a terrible revenge on her which caused her to die at the scene."
On the night of her death, Miss Davies had cooked a meal for them both at the flat they shared at the sanctuary, the jury heard.
Mr Gair added she had decided earlier that day to end the relationship but to let Mr Taylor continue to live at the flat as she did not want to make him homeless.
Police later found plates of uneaten food on the kitchen table, suggesting events had escalated quickly.
The prosecution told jurors that Taylor initially attacked her in the flat.
She fled outside in her pyjamas but he chased after her and killed her in an area known as the Wishing Well before dragging her body to some nearby bushes, Mr Gair added.
Pathologist Benjamin Swift said a post-mortem examination found she had suffered at least 80 stab wounds. There were also signs she had been struck all over her body.
"She suffered defensive wounds, suggesting she had been fighting for her life," Mr Gair said.
Witness Bruce Sequin arrived at the sanctuary to see a man holding a knife standing over a woman's body and making downward stabbing motions.
He raised the alarm and when police arrived they found Taylor covered in blood.
Officers rushed to help Miss Davies and she gasped 'help" before losing the strength to speak, Mr Gair said.
In the months before the killing, friends had become concerned about the couple's relationship, the court heard.
Mr Gair said: "You will hear evidence that he would take umbrage at her working with other young men and displayed a controlling nature, telling her for example what she could and could not wear."
The trial continues.
NHS Improvement said services at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, including shorter waiting times and an increase in the number of staff, had "significantly improved".
The trust was previously investigated for breaching the NHS's four-hour waiting target for A&E services.
The watchdog said it still had concerns about the trust's finances.
The trust was found in breach of its licence to provide healthcare services in December 2014, following concerns raised by the Care Quality Commission.
Graham Sims, trust board chair, said staff should "be proud of the work they have done" and the board would "remain focussed on high quality care and delivering on financial promises".
The Royal Berkshire NHS Trust runs hospitals in Reading, Bracknell, Windsor and Henley.
Reports of pinched pooches in the South Wales Police force area rose from 16 in 2012 to 68 in 2014.
Gwent Police and Dyfed-Powys Police also reported an increase while North Wales Police saw cases halve in the same time.
Animal welfare charity Blue Cross wants to see tougher sentences for pet thieves.
Cases reported to Gwent Police rose from 10 in 2012 to 13 in 2014; by the end of November, there were 13 reports for 2015.
South Wales Police have had 57 thefts reported so far this year.
Dyfed-Powys Police's dog thefts rose from nine to 11 and there have been 17 in 2015.
North Wales Police saw thefts drop from 31 to 16, with 15 reported so far in 2015.
Pam Burne-Jones from Blue Cross said across the UK there had been a 40% increase in pet thefts.
She added: "I love to go up to people and talk to them about their dogs, but sadly you do have to be aware that it could be someone who's trying to target your pet."
Julie Evans from Briton Ferry, Neath Port Talbot, lost her beagle-cross Hansum while walking him last year.
She said: "Everyone searched for him, but when I found he'd last been seen in the estate I knew someone had taken him - he'd been stolen.
"My biggest fear is that Hansum is in a cage somewhere being used for breeding."
The 23-year-old, who was not named, was not previously known to investigators.
He is the first person to be charged in connection with the shooting on the iconic Champs Elysees.
Police shot dead the gunman, Karim Cheurfi, 39, who also wounded two other police officers and a German tourist.
A note was found beside his body praising the Islamic State (IS) group.
The suspect, who was arrested in the Paris region, has been charged with criminal terrorist conspiracy and using a weapon linked to terrorism, the sources said. His DNA was reportedly found on the butt of the Kalashnikov used in the attack.
He is being held in custody and is said to have told investigators he did not know Cheurfi.
Cheurfi drove up to a parked police bus in Champs Elysees and opened fire at the driver's window, killing the officer inside. He then went around the bus and fired on two other police officers.
IS announced soon after that one of its "fighters" had carried out the attack but it named him as "Abu Yousif al-Belgiki [the Belgian]". Cheurfi was from Paris's eastern suburbs.
Prosecutors say Cheurfi had spoken about wanting to kill police but had no apparent link to Islamist radicalism.
Seven cars were set on fire in the Hightown area of the town on Saturday, prompting a police investigation.
North Wales Police said the arrested man was from Wrexham.
Det Ch Insp Neil Harrison said the investigation was ongoing.
The National Coal Board Club and the old general hospital building are among those seen at risk.
Organisers of Wednesday's meeting say the hope it will galvanise the town into drawing up an action plan.
The town was the home of Aneurin Bevan, who created the National Health Service in 1948.
The summit has been called by the town council with representatives from the Welsh heritage agency Cadw, the Aneurin Bevan Health Board and Blaenau Gwent council due to attend.
Town council leader Malcolm Cross said: "Far from sitting back and waiting for our town to crumble we have set up this summit... to save our history and our heritage.
"We now need to work together to find solutions for all our buildings at risk.
"We need experts to survey and record them in case they get lost.
"We need to protect those that are of value and we need to secure funding to conserve those in use."
He said there was particular concern about the condition of a number of buildings in an area known as The Circle.
They include the National Coal Board (NCB) Club which was originally built as the town hall.
It was there a victorious Aneurin Bevan was returned as local MP in front of a rapturous crowd.
The stone facade of the listed building recently crumbled off and emergency repairs were carried out by the council, but the club is in receivership and the building's future uncertain.
Two other pubs in The Circle have been closed and need repairs. The building that housed Tredegar Medical Aid Society is no longer in use.
There are also concerns over the general hospital building that closed after the new Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan opened in Ebbw Vale last year.
Mr Cross said there were good news stories, with Blaenau Gwent council undertaking a £5.6m refurbishment of Bedwellty House and Park in the town.
The former ironmaster's residence is scheduled to reopen this year and will house the town's register office and become a heritage centre.
But he said it was important those interested in preserving the town attended the meeting.
It takes place at Tredegar Rugby club on Wednesday at 1900 GMT.
Merseyside Police were called to reports of a collision between a Hyundai car and a scrambler bike at the junction of Belle Vale Road and Lee Vale Road at 19:10 BST on Thursday.
The rider was taken to Aintree University Hospital but was pronounced dead a short time later.
The Hyundai driver was uninjured and assisted with inquiries, police said.
Officers are appealing for witnesses. Belle Vale Road was closed between Beresford Road and Halewood Road for several hours following the crash.
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Staff said they had no idea the female meerkat was pregnant until they found the baby in the pen.
The sanctuary is the middle of moving premises to a new site in County Durham, and the new family will now be the last to move.
Ellen Higginbottom's body was found at Orrell Water Park, Wigan early on Saturday - a Wigan man, 47, and a man, 51, from Preston are being questioned.
Post-mortem tests found Ellen, who was reported missing on Friday, died due to "multiple wounds to the neck".
Louise Tipping - principal at Winstanley College, where she studied - said: "Ellen was absolutely wonderful."
She added: "Her contribution to our college was fantastic."
Ms Tipping said she had received many emails over the weekend from students asking how the college would pay tribute to the girl who was a student ambassador at the college.
She added: "Ellen was much loved. She was one of those people who lit up the room. She was a lovely, lovely girl."
Ellen was reported missing after failing to return from college.
Friends said she was last seen in the Orrell Water Park area.
Police found her body at about 02:30 BST on Saturday during a search.
A 47-year-old man from Billinge, Wigan was arrested followed by a second man who was arrested at an address in Preston.
Police said his address was being searched and there was a large police presence in the area.
Det Supt Howard Millington from Greater Manchester Police said: "It is unimaginable what Ellen's family and friends must be going through right now and my thoughts continue to be with them throughout all of this.
He added: "Whilst we have now made two arrests, our investigation continues as we piece together the puzzle to find out what exactly happened to Ellen on Friday and give her family the answers they deserve."
Floral tributes for the popular Wigan student have been laid at the scene.
Out of 724 test purchases carried out by London Trading Standards, 96 retailers sold knives and blades to the volunteers.
It is illegal to sell knives to anyone under the age of 18.
As a result, 19 traders have been prosecuted while others received warnings and compliance advice.
London Trading Standards spokesman Steve Playle said: "Whilst it is commendable that 87% of shops refused to sell, it is concerning that children as young as 13 were actually sold knives."
The tests were carried out as part of the Metropolitan Police's Operation Sceptre initiative, aimed at reducing knife crime.
Ch Insp of the Met's Trident Central Gangs Command, Gary Anderson, said although the force had "reduced the volume of gang-related knife crime" through education programmes and "targeted work on boroughs", more needed to be done.
"We remain committed to working in partnership with Trading Standards to prevent knives from reaching dangerous hands and to reduce the number of families devastated by knife crime in London," he said.
The government said more work needed to be done and that it would continue to work with other agencies to keep children and communities safe.
Minister for Vulnerability, Safeguarding and Countering Extremism Sarah Newton said: "Selling knives to children is illegal and I am delighted that London Trading Standards are taking action to enforce this and have found that the vast majority of retailers are complying with the law.
"Knife crime can have devastating consequences and this government is acting against it, including banning the sale of so-called 'zombie-knives', supporting Operation Sceptre and expanding our work with retailers to stop the underage sale of knives."
Police used an "incapacitant" spray known as Captor PAVA to arrest Alan Hay during a disturbance in Dalbeattie.
He appeared at Dumfries Sheriff Court on Tuesday but died in hospital before he was transferred to prison.
The Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) will investigate what happened after his arrest.
A spokesman for the PIRC said: "The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has instructed the Police Investigations & Review Commissioner to undertake an investigation into police contact with Alan Hay.
"The investigation will focus on the discharge of PAVA, and the period while the man was in police custody before being transferred on 2 August 2016 into the custody of the Scottish Prison Service following his appearance at court.
"The man fell ill later that day and was taken to hospital for treatment but died shortly after. A report on the commissioner's findings will be submitted to the COPFS in due course."
PAVA spray is more potent than CS gas but it is claimed to be safer for users and bystanders.
It primarily affects the eyes, causing closure and severe pain.
It is deemed to be a firearm, which means there is an automatic referral to PIRC each time it is deployed.
The commissioner is currently investigating a separate incident in Edinburgh in April 2016, in which PAVA spray was used on a 22-year-old man.
Police Scotland have been using PAVA since 2014 when it was made available for the Commonwealth Games.
Ayeeshia Jane Smith's stepfather had reportedly threatened to torch the family home three weeks beforehand.
A text to arrange a home visit was sent an hour before Ayeeshia died at a flat in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire.
Her mother, Kathryn Smith, 23, and her partner Matthew Rigby, 22, both from Nottingham, deny murder.
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Ayeeshia died on 1 May 2014 when her heart was ruptured by a forceful blow consistent with a stamp, Birmingham Crown Court was told.
In the early hours of 4 April, Ms Smith, formerly of Swadlincote, Derbyshire, called 999 to report Mr Rigby had threatened to burn the flat down.
Five days later, Stephen Crean, the senior Derbyshire County Council social worker responsible for Ayeeshia's case, met with his then manager, Alison O'Connor, to discuss options to place the girl in local authority care.
It was concluded the "happy, smiley little girl" would stay with her mother while they investigated further.
But they decided Smith should be asked to sign an agreement to stop seeing Mr Rigby.
Mr Crean told the jury: "The agreement was asking her to not let Mr Rigby in the flat because the concern was, according to the police, there was a threat to set fire to the flat, so the agreement was to not have any contact."
The next day, Mr Crean made an unannounced visit at 11:30 GMT when he found Ms Smith's front door ajar.
When he raised the subject of the non-contact agreement she got angry and started shouting and later texted him refusing to sign it, he said.
Ayeeshia appeared "completely calm" despite her mother's highly agitated state, said Mr Crean, who has taken early retirement.
In the month leading up to Ayeeshia's death, Mr Crean carried out five planned and unannounced home visits.
On 30 April, a multi-agency risk assessment meeting involving police and social services took place in Tamworth, Staffordshire, to discuss Ayeeshia's welfare.
It was decided to arrange for a domestic abuse support worker to visit Ms Smith, according to Mr Crean.
He sent a text to her that afternoon saying: "Hi Kat, I would like to visit you and AJ tomorrow at 10am, is that ok?"
Just over an hour later, Ayeeshia had collapsed at her flat with fatal injuries.
Ms Smith, of Sandfield Road, Nottingham and Mr Rigby, of Sloan Drive, Nottingham, also deny causing or allowing the death of a child and cruelty.
The trial continues.
Yorkshire Cancer Research is behind the investment which will visit communities in Leeds using mobile screening vans.
The charity said it hoped the programme would identify almost 300 cases over two years.
Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer in Yorkshire, with about 4,500 people diagnosed each year.
The trial, which is due to start in 2018, will focus on smokers and ex-smokers aged 55-80.
130
cases diagnosed compared to the England average of 78
93
deaths compared to the England average of 61
Project leader Dr Matthew Callister, Consultant in Respiratory Medicine at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "If lung cancer screening was introduced across Yorkshire, hundreds of lives could be saved every year."
The charity said more than half of lung cancer patients in Yorkshire are diagnosed when their cancer is very advanced, which can limit treatment options and reduce the chance of survival.
It added the average cost of treating a patient with lung cancer ranges from £7,952 if diagnosed at Stage 1 to £13,078 if diagnosed at Stage 4.
Kathryn Scott, interim chief executive of the charity, said: "This is a unique opportunity to bring the very latest technology in lung cancer diagnosis to Yorkshire so it can be used for the people who need it most."
The charity is investing a further £1.8m in four other projects:
The 33-year-old, who captained Germany to their 2014 World Cup victory, announced his decision after Bayern's German Cup last-16 win over Wolfsburg.
It was the defender's 501st game for the Bundesliga leaders.
"I can continue with my leadership style, giving my best every day, in every training, until the end of the season. I can keep doing it this season but not beyond," he said.
It means he will leave the German champions a year before his contract expires.
"I've been considering it for more than the past year," he added.
"You have to keep testing yourself, you have to keep asking yourself 'how is it', day by day, week by week on the training pitch, what's the feeling you have."
The Bayern youth product made his senior debut in 2002 and has won seven Bundesliga titles with the club, as well as the Champions League.
He retired from international football after Germany's triumph in Brazil in 2014.
Cardiff were 1-0 down at half-time, but triumphed 2-1 to rise out of the Championship relegation zone.
Their vibrant second-half display was unrecognisable from a limp first-half, which prompted Warnock's anger.
"My message was: 'Stop feeling sorry for yourselves, they're there to be beaten'," said Warnock.
He added: "We felt a bit sorry for ourselves with the goal, which was a goalkeeping error.
"It took us 10 or 15 minutes after that, we could have lost the game.
"I was pleased with basically every aspect [of the team] in the second half."
Cardiff's win saw them climb up to 19th place in the Championship table, three points above the relegation zone.
They did so without centre-back Sol Bamba, who was suspended after an extraordinary fit of rage during Saturday's 1-1 draw at Ipswich which saw him clash with opposition players, the fourth official and Warnock.
Bruno Ecuele Manga deputised for Bamba against Wolves to make his first start under Warnock.
The Gabon international did so with a flourish, producing a near faultless display to be named man of the match.
Warnock had previously said Ecuele Manga might be sold during the January transfer window.
But the former Crystal Palace and Sheffield United manager has not ruled out a future for the centre-back at Cardiff.
"It all depends on the finances. Bruno's never been left out of my thoughts, even in training he's been very good," Warnock added.
"He's listened to what I want in a centre-half, he's seen what I ask of Sol [Bamba] and I thought he was just like Sol tonight.
"It was like watching two of them."
Pte Cheryl James, 18, from Llangollen, Denbighshire, was found with a bullet wound to her head in Surrey in 1995.
At a pre-inquest review at Woking Coroner's Court, her father said he was "disappointed" with the MoD.
Pte James was one of four soldiers who died at the barracks between 1995 and 2002 amid claims of bullying and abuse.
Ptes Sean Benton, James Collinson and Geoff Gray also died from gunshot wounds.
A fresh inquest into the death of Pte James is due to start on 1 February and is expected to last seven weeks.
It was ordered after High Court judges quashed an open verdict recorded in December 1995.
In the summer, her body was exhumed and a fresh post-mortem examination was carried out.
Metallic fragments were recovered which were analysed by a ballistics expert but a report has yet to be finalised.
In a statement read to the court , Des James, said he found it both surprising and disappointing that documents had not yet been disclosed.
Nicholas Moss, representing the MoD, said thousands of files were being searched, which meant a lot of time was taken up deciding which documents were and were not relevant for the inquest.
He promised all of the relevant documents would be delivered by 11 January.
The coroner, Judge Brian Barker, said he did not see that things could have been done differently.
The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services said £20.8bn was expected to be spent on care this year, a cash rise of 5% since last year.
It follows a £1bn cash injection announced in the Budget which ministers said would relieve the pressures.
But ADASS said £824m of savings were still having to be made.
The group, which represents social care directors, said rising demand meant cuts were inevitable given the current funding levels.
The warning comes after ADASS surveyed 151 council care chiefs about their plans for 2017-18.
The polling suggested councils would spend £14.2bn of their own money, rising to £20.8bn when the £1bn cash injection - money from the NHS for care projects and the fees users are asked to contribute - are taken into account.
ADASS said care chiefs could make some of the savings through improved efficiency, but added those using services - whether in their own homes or in care homes - should still expect those services to be rationed even more.
Over 1m people rely on council care services, two-thirds of them older people.
ADASS said the cuts could mean people being denied help, given shorter visits or fewer options for support.
The council chiefs also predicted user charges would also rise in places.
Care providers - the companies that run care homes and home care services - were also told to expect their fees to be squeezed.
Nearly three-quarters of directors of adult social services said they were pessimistic about the future of the system.
It comes after years of cuts - since 2010 over £6bn of savings have had to be made.
ADASS president Margaret Wilcox said the system remained on a "cliff edge".
"The need for a long-term solution has never been more urgent or vital," she added.
The verdict comes as doubts remain about the government's intentions for social care.
During the election campaign, the Conservative party indicated it wanted to raise more through charges by always taking into account the value of people's homes when working out what they should contribute towards their care.
The policy proved controversial though, being dubbed a dementia tax.
Ministers have subsequently distanced themselves from it and promised a fresh consultation on reform.
In the meantime, an extra £2bn is being invested in social care - £1bn this year and another £1bn spread over the following two.
On top of this, councils have been given permission to increase council tax to pay for care.
Nearly all are doing that this year with seven in 10 councils raising it by the maximum of 3%.
A Department of Health spokesman said ministers were aware changes were needed to "put social care on a more secure financial footing" and that was why a green paper would be set out in the near future.
Mark Atkinson, of disability charity Scope, said cuts to services had a terrible impact on the vulnerable as it meant they "do not receive the care they need to do the basics in life such as getting washed, dressed and leaving the house".
And Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals, also predicted the difficulties in the social care sector would have a knock-on impact on the NHS, which relies on care services to get the frail out of hospital.
He predicted it would be a "very difficult" winter.
And Councillor Izzi Seccombe, of the Local Government Association, predicted the situation could get worse. The LGA, which represents councils, has forecast a budget shortfall of £2.3bn opening up by 2020 unless the system is reformed.
"Adult social care is at a tipping point, and unless urgent action is taken we will continue to see more and more of the consequences of underfunding that we have seen in recent years, particularly care providers either handing back contracts to councils or ceasing trading altogether."
Police said about 1,500 took part in the march and rally in the centre of Glasgow.
Another event was being held in Aberdeen.
More than 300 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the wider Israeli operation on 8 July, according to officials in Gaza.
One Israeli soldier and two Israeli civilians have been killed.
Labour MP Anas Sarwar, who attended the rally, said: "The people of Glasgow are standing shoulder to shoulder with the people of Palestine."
He said there was a "real injustice" happening there that the world could not ignore.
"And all those who believe in peace, believe in justice, believe in fairness and equality must now find their voice," he added.
The protesters later marched to the BBC Scotland headquarters at Pacific Quay.
Ofcom said they had received "a handful" of complaints about the act, which saw Mr Starr swallow a lightbulb among other items.
Some viewers were concerned that it would encourage children to try dangerous behaviour.
An Ofcom spokesman said they were investigating the complaints.
Mr Starr - also known as The Regurgitator - appeared on Monday night's Britain's Got Talent semi-final but failed to win a place in this weekend's final.
He was seen appearing to swallow and then bring up a succession of objects, including coins, a lightbulb, a mobile phone and an engagement ring belonging to judge Amanda Holden.
He swallowed the ring along with a padlock and key, and the ring re-emerged entwined within the lock.
ITV1 broadcast a warning before the act was shown, urging people not to try the stunts at home.
The Dons began life in the Combined Counties League and won five promotions in nine years to reach the Football League in 2011.
Having reached the League Two play-off final, the supporter-owned club are now one victory away from promotion to League One.
"It could only be likened, in my eyes, to raising a child," striker Lyle Taylor, 26, told BBC Sport.
"You spend years and a lot of money bringing that child up and for that child to then achieve something successful, you are happy as a parent.
"There are not many clubs in professional football that are younger than me. To be part of it is something special."
The Dons were formed after an independent Football Association-appointed commission gave permission to the old Wimbledon FC, then playing at Selhurst Park, to move to Milton Keynes.
The controversial decision, which eventually allowed the ailing Dons to be rebranded as Milton Keynes Dons, left fans of Wimbledon needing to start again.
They had two aims; to get back to the Football League and return to their spiritual home of Merton, which Wimbledon FC were forced to leave in 1991.
After holding open trials on Wimbledon Common back in 2002, AFC Wimbledon attracted 2,449 fans to their opening league game.
On Monday, more than 20,000 Dons fans are expected at Wembley to watch the south-west London club face Plymouth Argyle.
"It is one of the times you step back and look at the scenery," Dons chief executive Erik Samuelson told BBC Radio London. "It is extraordinary to think what this journey has been.
"One of the strange things is that out of such an appallingly bad decision, made in such a chicken-hearted way, something terrific has come out of it."
Each player AFC Wimbledon recruit is versed in the history of the club, and the struggle the fans have gone through to re-establish their position in the English football's pyramid.
"It is the fans' club, not ours," former player and first-team coach Simon Bassey said.
"We try to explain it to the players. We have got a great set of lads this year and the connection between the crowd and the players is great."
The current squad have a close bond with the supporters, evident in a pitch invasion following the completion of their play-off semi-final victory at Accrington which the players gleefully took part in.
"This club wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the passion and determination of the fans - and a certain core of individuals," centre-back Paul Robinson, 34, added.
"You have to recognise the importance of the fans and what it has taken to get here.
"We are the privileged ones as we get to wear the shirt and perform for them. To achieve something with this club would be awesome."
With their Conference play-off final in 2011 being held at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, Monday's play-off final against Plymouth will be AFC Wimbledon's first competitive game at Wembley.
For many of the club's supporters, the trip to the national stadium will bring back great memories - not from an 8-1 friendly victory over Corinthian Casuals in 2008 but the original Wimbledon FC's 1988 FA Cup final win over Liverpool.
"Wimbledon and Wembley has a lovely ring to it and we know why," Dons boss Neal Ardley said.
However, Ardley does not believe this match is the biggest match in the club's 12-year history - citing promotion to the Football League in 2011 and preserving their League Two status with victory against Fleetwood on the final day in 2013.
"But it is the biggest occasion in the club's history," the 43-year-old said.
"It is a most unique club and a wonderful feeling for me and this group of players to take these fans to Wembley; fans who 14 years ago were dealt the biggest kick you could possibly imagine and rolled their sleeves up and said 'no, it's not happening'."
Promotion would put AFC Wimbledon in the same division as MK Dons, who were relegated from the Championship in April.
AFC have previously played MK Dons three times, all at Stadium MK; in the FA Cup, the League Cup and the Johnstone's Paint Trophy, but they could meet on a level playing field for the first time in the league.
"I always dreamt of the day we climb above them," said Ivor Heller, who was one of AFC Wimbledon's founder members and is now the club's commercial director.
"That is something that I think will be justice. They will never get what we have got because they didn't do it right in the first place."
After their first meeting in December 2012, MK Dons boss Karl Robinson spoke of wanting a "healthy rivalry" between the two clubs, but it is not reciprocated from south-west London.
"I can't ignore it. It has a certain fascination for the media but it is no incentive," Samuelson added.
"Really, they shouldn't be part of Monday. This is about us, what we have done, the ethos of us and the new stadium we are hoping to build.
"They don't deserve any part of this."
A masterpiece of record production and dominated by a haunting saxophone, it told the story of everyone who feels stuck in a rut with no prospect of improvement.
"He's got this dream of buying some land, He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands." The words reflected Rafferty's own musical career and the temptation of the demon drink to which he succumbed.
Gerald Rafferty was born in Paisley on 16 April 1947, the son of a Scottish mother and an Irish father, who taught his young son to holler out Irish rebel songs.
He began his musical career as a busker, playing to the passers-by on London Underground, where the inspiration for his most famous hit was born.
Back home in Scotland the comedian Billy Connolly had formed a duo called The Humblebums, which played in pubs and clubs around Glasgow.
Rafferty had begun writing his own songs and asked Connolly if The Humblebums would be interested in playing them at their gigs. Instead, he was asked to join the band.
The Humblebums enjoyed some success with Rafferty on board, touring the UK and releasing two albums.
However, Rafferty fell out with Connolly when the latter's jokes and stories began to take up more and more time at the band's concerts, and he quit in 1970.
Two years later, he recorded his first solo album, the well received but under-performing Can I Have My Money Back, before getting together with an old school friend, Joe Egan, to form the band Stealers Wheel.
Their eponymous debut album was well received by critics and the record buying public, and generated the hit single Stuck in the Middle with You.
The song reappeared for a new generation in 1992 when director Quentin Tarantino included it on the soundtrack of his film Reservoir Dogs.
Constant personnel changes and what seemed to be a never ending series of legal wranglings stifled any more success for Stealers Wheel, and Rafferty and Egan ended their partnership in 1975.
It was 1978 before he was in a position to record a second solo album but he did it with style. City to City became a huge hit while the single Baker Street entered at No 3 in the UK Top Ten.
Coming as it did at the height of disco fever, it became a staple of every music radio station and is still widely played, 30 years after its release.
Rafferty was reputed to have earned £80,000 per annum from the royalties on Baker Street alone but money was never a motivation for him.
He turned down requests to travel to the US and promote the album and his reluctance to make live appearances dampened record sales.
His follow up album, Night Owl, with contributions from Richard Thompson, was again well received but failed to emulate the success of City to City.
It was to be the high point of Rafferty's career. His next two albums, Snakes and Ladders and Sleepwalking failed to make any impact.
His career was not helped by the decision of United Artists to sell their recording division to EMI. Rafferty's inability to reproduce the success of Baker Street meant he failed to make an impact on his new label.
Rafferty all but disappeared by the mid 1980s, although he did surface to co-produce the Proclaimers hit, Letter From America.
By now the only stories appearing about him in the press reflected his continuing battle against the bottle.
Newspaper reports said he had trashed a London hotel while on a drinking binge and had subsequently checked into hospital with liver problems.
In 2009 he released Life Goes On, a collection of songs that had previously been available as downloads on his website.
The 17-year-old won vault by nearly a full mark then claimed the bars title after her older sister Becky fell.
Claudia Fragapane marked her return to competition after Strictly Come Dancing with a silver in the floor.
She scored 13.050 but was beaten to the title by 15-year-old first-year senior Maisie Methuen, who managed 13.425.
Among the men's Masters golds were Courtney Tulloch (rings), James Hall (parallel bars) and Joe Fraser (high bar).
"I came in really prepared so to win the all-around as well as vault and bars is amazing," Ellie Downie told BBC Sport.
Fragapane, who finished fourth in last year's Strictly, received the biggest cheers of the day from the crowd.
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"It's great to be back in gymnastics," the 19-year-old admitted.
"The Strictly experience has made me more confident and it's taught me to chill a little bit more and enjoy gymnastics more."
Methuen added: "It's amazing. I never expected to win the gold. I just wanted to beat what I did yesterday so I'm really happy."
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The four-year-old died on Tuesday, a day after emergency services were called to Old Park Wood holiday park in Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria.
His name has not been released, but he was from South Gloucestershire.
Cumbria Police said there were no suspicious circumstances and the file had been passed to the coroner.
The force said in a statement: "Police can confirm that the four-year-old boy who died following an incident on Monday at Old Park Wood Caravan Park died as result of drowning."
Moore's victory on the 5-4 favourite saw him surpass the modern-day record of eight winners in a single meeting, set by Pat Eddery in 1989 and Lester Piggott (1965, 1975).
The 31-year-old could yet break the all-time record of 12 winners set by Fred Archer in 1878.
Moore had earlier come second on Found, to Ervedya, in the Coronation Stakes.
It looked unlikely Moore was going to break the record on Friday as he came into the home turn of the two-mile Queen's Vase contest.
But the three-year-old Aloft, trained by Aidan O'Brien, finished well to beat Tommy Doc and Future Empire by half a length.
Moore said: "It was a very messy race. I got into a bad position and I had to pick my way through.
"He's a fair horse this fellow. He's open to all sorts of improvement, it's his first run of the year and you wouldn't know where he could end up.
"I'm very lucky, I get to ride the best horses and that makes a big difference, " the three-time champion jockey added. The record is not something you think about, we'll think about rides tomorrow then worry about this."
Moore, who had equalled the post-war record on Friday, has six races to try and beat the all-time record on the festival's final day on Saturday.
"Ryan Moore often gives the impression that he can't quite work out what all the fuss is about, but beating records held by racing greats like Piggott and Eddery is outstanding.
Saying anyone is the best at anything in the world is a huge statement, but the manner in which he's totally dominating Royal Ascot, one of the great, global Flat racing championships, is simply astonishing.
"What makes him? Dedication obviously; not for Moore any Royal Ascot parties but instead a trip to the evening fixture at Newmarket. Tactical cunning and physical strength are part of it too, plus a cool head and, of course, he's often on the fabulously talented Coolmore-owned horses.
"All these things come together to make him the most potent riding force in world racing at the moment, and, judged by these results, only getting better and better."
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Pope Francis wants to influence the debate on the environment ahead of a UN summit on climate change later this year - more evidence of a pontiff determined to act as a catalyst for change, and a powerful diplomatic player on the world stage, shown in the Vatican's work in bringing Cuba and the US together.
Already, though, the leaked document has received a frosty response from sceptical conservatives/Republicans in the US - including two Roman Catholic presidential candidates.
One, Jeb Bush, said he didn't get his economic policy from his bishops, cardinals or pope - so why his policy on the environment?
Rick Santorum also questioned whether the Pope was credible on the issue of climate science.
However, while climate change sceptics in the US have already been critical, even before the document's release, many environmentalists have welcomed the Pope's plan to make a stand on the issue.
It is also likely to please many Catholic liberals, who say it should spur many in the wealthiest lands to do more to help the poorest.
"This will be fundamental," says Neil Thorns, director of advocacy at Cafod (the official overseas development and relief agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.)
"The Pope has always sided with the poor. We all know in the rich world that we have caused this environmental problem.
"He is encouraging us all to do a number of things: to look at our lifestyles, the way we live our life.
"The Pope is also encouraging businesses to look at how they operate, and say to themselves, 'Are we operating for the common good or just for profit?'"
So what does the Pope say on climate change, in his long-awaited document?
It is named Laudato Si or praise be to you, from the Canticle of the Creatures by St Francis, the patron saint of animals and the environment, whose name Jorge Bergoglio took when he became Pope.
His namesake's care of every creature - and regard for even the birds as his brothers and sisters - features as an example to follow in this encyclical "on the care of the common home".
Using sometimes dramatic language about the Earth, the Pope writes that: "We have come to see ourselves as her lords and masters, entitled to plunder her at will.
"The violence present in our hearts, wounded by sin, is also reflected in the symptoms of sickness evident in the soil, in the water, in the air and in all forms of life."
The questions the Pope puts at the heart of the document are: "What kind of world do we want to leave to those who come after us, to children who are now growing up?" and the moral and existential question: "What is the purpose of our life in this world? What is the goal of our work and all our efforts? What need does the earth have of us?"
Pope Francis believes that unless mankind struggles with the deeper issues, human concern for ecology will not produce any significant results.
His encyclical backs scientists who say global warming is mostly man-made, and says that developed countries have a particular responsibility to stop creating the damage to the Earth and its climate that will hurt the poor the most.
It was a theme he enlarged on at his weekly general audience.
"This home of ours is being ruined and that damages everyone, especially the poor," he said.
"Mine is an appeal for responsibility... I ask everyone to receive this document with an open spirit."
The letter comes in a week when Italy has become all too aware of the many migrants coming by boat from Africa, to seek a new life in Europe, a trend that some say is only likely to be exacerbated as the Earth warms.
The Pope, however, thinks that it is not too late for mankind to change its ways: "Humanity still has the ability to work together in building our common home.
"Human beings, while capable of the worst, are also capable of rising above themselves, choosing again what is good, and making a new start."
The encyclical is divided into six chapters, starting with a review of the current situation based on scientific findings, followed by a look at Judeo-Christian tradition, with the root of the problems analysed as being due to excessive "human self-centeredness".
Pope Francis is keen to initiate a dialogue at every level of social, economic and political life, one that works on all levels: from the educational, to the spiritual, political and theological.
The intimate relationship between the poor and the fragility of the planet
The conviction that everything in the world is connected
The critique of new paradigms and forms of power derived from technology
The call to seek other ways of understanding the economy and progress
The value proper to each creature
The human meaning of ecology
The need for forthright and honest debate
The serious responsibility of international and local policies
The throwaway culture and the proposal of a new lifestyle
The Pope also states that "access to safe drinkable water is a basic and universal human right", and that the plants and animal species that are disappearing have a value in and of themselves.
And on the economy, he makes clear his distaste for consumerism and waste, saying that "by itself the market cannot guarantee integral human development and social inclusion".
Above all, he makes clear that humans have become too self-centred, "focused exclusively on themselves and on their own power".
This results in a "use and throw away" logic that justifies waste, environmental or human.
It is typical of this Pope that he should choose as his first major teaching not abstract theology, but an attempt to change something so fundamental to the future of all humanity and what he sees as all God's creation.
Whether he can help move the Earth's political and business leaders to act more quickly or persuade them to ask voters to change their first-world lifestyles is another matter.
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Unusually for Papal teaching, this encyclical is not just addressed to Roman Catholics but to everyone on Earth: calling on all humans to help save the planet that the Pope says we are in danger of destroying.
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Sir Howard Davies told the BBC the bank feared a plummeting pound would make a looming multi-billion dollar US fine more costly.
Sterling fell from $1.50 to a 31-year low against the dollar on the Brexit vote and is now worth $1.29.
RBS is awaiting a fine for its role in the 2007 US housing market collapse.
Sir Howard told the Today programme the bank, which is 73%-owned by the taxpayer, had acted to protect itself in the event the dollar strengthened against the pound.
"I can't tell you for how much, but yes we did notice that, and we bought some protection," he said.
Like several big banks, including Barclays and Deustche Bank, RBS is in talks with US authorities to settle a long-running investigation into its sale of investment bonds based on sub-prime mortgages in the US.
Analysts have speculated that the size of the eventual fine that could be imposed on RBS may be as much as £9bn.
The 10% fall in the exchange rate between sterling and the dollar since the referendum vote means RBS could have saved itself £900m.
RBS shares have also plunged sharply since the vote, falling from north of 260p to about 160p.
Sir Howard said the fall in the bank's share price was the result of the bank's direct exposure to the British economy.
"The market thinks there is going to be a slowdown in the UK economy, and if you are a big domestic bank you can't hide from what's going on," he said.
Sir Howard would not be drawn on whether the government's planned sale of shares in RBS was now on hold but he said it was a "realistic" conclusion to think it would be delayed.
The government had said it wanted to sell part of its stake before the next election.
Last week, RBS's chief executive, Ross McEwan, said a two-year delay was likely.
Sir Howard was one of the bank bosses who yesterday met the Chancellor, George Osborne, to discuss the Brexit vote fallout.
The RBS chairman said the bank was ready and willing to lend.
"Last time (the 2008 crisis and recession) the situation was that demand for credit, but so was supply, because the banks had to build up their reserves. That is not the case this time round. We are not capital-constrained and we are able to lend."
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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) acted to protect itself against a plunge in sterling after the European referendum vote, its chairman has said.
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A statement from the Yazidi Progress Party said 300 captives were killed on Friday in the Tal Afar district near the city.
Iraqi Vice-President Osama al-Nujaifi described the reported deaths as "horrific and barbaric".
Thousands of members of the religious minority group were captured last year.
It is not clear how they were killed, or why this has happened now, says the BBC World Service Middle East editor Alan Johnston.
Many are reported to have been held in Mosul, the main stronghold of IS after the militants swept through large areas of northern and western Iraq, and eastern Syria in 2014.
Yazidis, whose religion includes elements of several faiths, are considered infidels by IS.
Thousands fled to the Kurdish-controlled region of northern Iraq after IS captured the Yazidi-populated Sinjar district in Nineveh province.
Hundreds of men were killed, while some Yazidi women were held and used as sex slaves.
In other developments on Saturday:
The Yazidi Progress Party's statement, quoted by the Kurdish Shafaq News website, condemned the latest incident as a "heinous crime" and called on Iraqi forces to free those still held by IS.
In January, IS released some 200 mainly elderly Yazidis into the hands of Kurdish officials near the city of Kirkuk.
Many of them, held in Mosul, had disabilities or were wounded, though no reason was given by IS for their release.
In recent months, IS has been pushed back from some of the areas it captured, though many Yazidi villages are thought to remain under the militants' control.
In December, Kurdish Peshmerga forces drove back IS militants in north-western Iraq, relieving a long siege of Sinjar mountain where thousands of Yazidis had sought refuge.
The Iraqi government, with forces backed by Iran, also declared it had taken back control of the city of Tikrit in April.
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Several hundred Yazidi captives have been killed in Iraq by Islamic State (IS) militants west of Mosul, Yazidi and Iraqi officials say.
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Police were called to Newmarket Street at about 03:15 and found the 34-year-old victim.
The man was initially treated at the Forth Valley Royal Hospital before being transferred to the Western General in Edinburgh for treatment to a head injury.
Police are looking for a man who made off in a silver taxi shortly after the incident.
The suspect is described as white, 5ft 6ins tall, of stocky build, with a shaven head. He was wearing a bright red short-sleeved t-shirt.
Det Insp Jim Thomson of Falkirk CID said: "We're continuing to conduct inquiries in the area and want to thank the local community and businesses for their patience at this time.
"We'd urge anyone who may have witnessed this incident, or who recognises the man's description, to get in touch as soon as possible."
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A man has been seriously injured in an attack at a taxi rank in Falkirk.
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It happened outside the Tanz tanning salon on St John's Road in the Corstorphine area at about 12:35.
Police said the boy was involved in a collision with a black cab which stopped at the scene.
He suffered leg injuries and was taken to the city's Royal Infirmary. His injuries were not thought to be "life-threatening".
The road was closed in both directions between Corstorphine Bank Drive and the roundabout at Drumbrae South but has since been reopened.
Insp Davie Ferguson said: "The investigation to establish the full circumstances surrounding this collision is continuing and it is anticipated the road may remain closed for some time.
"Those planning to travel via St John's Road should look to seek alternative routes for the time being and we will provide further updates when the road re-opens.
"As part of our ongoing inquiries we are keen to hear from any motorists or members of the public who witnessed this incident and I would urge them to contact police immediately should they have any information."
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A 13-year-old boy has been taken to hospital after being knocked down by a taxi in Edinburgh.
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Cycle courier Andrew Boxer argued he was entitled to one week of holiday pay based on his work for Excel.
The tribunal said his claim was "well-founded" and that the firm "unlawfully failed to pay the claimant".
The ruling adds more legal weight to claims that some firms in the so-called gig economy are engaged in "bogus self-employment".
Mr Boxer launched his claim for £321.16 after he took a week's holiday in March last year for which he was not paid.
He had started working for Excel in September 2013. He signed contracts which referred to him as a "contractor" and "sub-contractor". But the tribunal concluded that his contract did not reflect the reality of his working situation.
He argued that while at the firm, he was a "worker" as defined by the Employment Rights Act. Under the act, workers are entitled to basic rights including holiday pay and the national minimum wage. His claim was backed by the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB).
The tribunal heard that Mr Boxer worked approximately nine hours a day for five days a week. He had no opportunity to negotiate his pay rate or to provide someone else to do work on his behalf.
According to the ruling, Mr Boxer was asked by the judge if had ever queried any of the clauses in his contract. He said: "I had no choice, it would not have made any difference, they would have laughed at me if I had challenged a particular clause."
Excel did not produce witness evidence or attend the tribunal hearing. The firm initially offered to pay the claim for holiday pay "without acceptance of the validity of the claimant's claim". That was rejected by Mr Boxer.
IWGB General Secretary Dr Jason Moyer-Lee said the tribunal's judgement was "yet further evidence of what we have known to be true all along: courier companies are unlawfully depriving their workers of rights.
"As the tribunal dominoes continue to fall we would recommend that courier companies which are not yet subject to litigation by the IWGB urgently get their act together."
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In January, an employment tribunal found that a courier with CitySprint should also be classed as a worker rather than self-employed and that she should be entitled to basic rights including holiday and the National Living Wage.
The taxi-hailing firm Uber lost a similar case last year and has launched an appeal.
The former adviser to Tony Blair, Matthew Taylor, has been asked by the government to review modern working practices.
That has raised the prospect of whether the self-employed could be given more rights in return for paying higher National Insurance contributions.
Last week, amid a public outcry, Chancellor Philip Hammond was forced to scrap plans to raise National Insurance contributions for self-employed people, which he had outlined in the recent Budget.
He had previously cited evidence that the growth of self-employment could undermine the tax base by between £3.5bn and £5bn a year by 2020.
Critics say many firms in the gig economy should also contribute more, as they often pay lower levels of National Insurance and no pension contributions.
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The game - Pakistan Army Retribution - was released by a government digital agency in the central Punjab province.
Players could act as soldiers shooting the attackers in the school. The agency later admitted it was "in poor taste".
More than 150 people, mostly pupils, were killed in the attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar.
The game was released on Google Play several weeks ago - around the second anniversary of the attack.
However, it became a focus of public attention after Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reviewed the game, declaring that it "failed on every front".
Many online users joined in the criticism, saying the video was exploiting the tragedy.
They described the game as "distasteful" and "insensitive".
The Punjab IT board, which commissioned the game, later said it had withdrawn the video from distribution.
"Thank you for highlighting this mistake," agency head Umar Saif wrote in a tweet.
On 16 December 2014, seven Taliban attackers wearing bomb vests cut through a wire fence to gain entry to the Army Public School.
They went from class to class, killing 152 people - 133 of them children - and injuring more than 120.
All seven gunmen were later killed.
The Taliban said the attack - the group's deadliest in Pakistan - was in response to a government offensive in North Waziristan and the nearby Khyber area that began earlier that year.
The school killings were condemned across the world.
Peshawar - close to the Afghan border - has seen some of the worst of the violence during the Taliban insurgency in recent years.
The Odeon-owned cinema on Westover Road in Bournemouth has been sold and is due to be redeveloped into flats.
ABC - Associated British Cinemas - began in 1928, with the brand name gradually disappearing following its takeover by Odeon in 2000.
The last screening is Back to the Future, being shown in aid of Dorset Mind.
ABC was one of the biggest names during the post-war heyday of British cinema-going.
The Westover Road building first opened its doors as a 2,515-seat cinema in June 1937, showing the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical Shall We Dance.
The cinema divided into three screens in the 1970s but its 634-seat main auditorium remains one of the largest in the UK.
Film enthusiast Adrian Cox, from Barton-on-Sea, who tours cinemas across the country, said the ABC in Bournemouth was his favourite.
He said: "It's an event to watch a movie there. It has perfect sight-lines. A very tall person in front of you is never in the way because of the steep banking."
Mr Cox, who hired the cinema for a private screening of the once-banned Monty Python film Life of Brian, said modern cinemas tended to be smaller, less well decorated and "like little boxes".
The other Odeon cinema on Westover Road is also earmarked for closure ahead of the opening of the new BH2 leisure complex, planned for Bournemouth Square.
Cinema general manager Spencer Clark said: "It was one of the flagship cinemas for ABC and it's a fond farewell for what is a great venue."
It is the first time the procedure has been performed in Europe.
The technique, originally developed in India, offers patients the chance of a much faster recovery after the operation.
Normally a kidney transplant would involve serious open surgery and a sizeable incision to perform the transplant.
The team at the Royal Liverpool used keyhole surgery to implant the donor kidney through an incision of just 6cm (2in).
A smaller incision is a lot less invasive for the patient and heals more quickly.
The technique was developed by Prof Pranjal Modi at the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre in Ahmedabad.
He said: "It is tremendously beneficial to the patient. I talk one-to-one to all the patients and they are so happy.
"Their outcomes are so good that I am encouraged to do it further and further."
Brian Blanchfield, a company director, had spent years living with a failing kidney before his sister Pam donated one of hers.
He was up and about just four days after the operation.
He told the BBC: "I'm feeling good.
"They said I'd be the first one to do it, and the interesting thing was they asked me where I wanted the kidney to go.
"So they went through my appendix scar, as there was already a cut line there."
Sanjay Mehra, a consultant transplant surgeon at the Royal Liverpool, who assisted with the operation, believes there are significant benefits.
"[In the past] the scar has been around 20-25cm for the renal transplant patients," she said.
"But here the scar is around 6cm, so there is a huge difference in the size of the scar, which has a cosmetic benefit.
"But also in the long scar there is muscle cutting, which can give problems in the long term."
Elaine Davies, director of research operations for Kidney Research UK, says about 6,000 people - roughly 90% of the total organ waiting list - are waiting for a kidney.
But fewer than 3,000 transplants are carried out each year.
She said: "As this new technique results in the creation of a smaller wound, it limits surgical complications and improves recovery time, which will ultimately be better for the patient.
"Keyhole surgery for the retrieval of kidneys has already made a big difference to donors.
"As long as this technique for transplanting a kidney is proven to be as safe and as effective as the current technique, we welcome this development."
This is not a technique that will be used in every kidney transplant.
It is most suitable for those patients who are very overweight, where major abdominal surgery carries greater risk.
But it shows how keyhole surgery is now providing new options for surgeons in even the most complicated operations.
Two soldiers and a driver died in the attack on a vehicle carrying election materials in a remote coca-growing region, the military said.
The election frontrunner is Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, who cracked down on the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas.
However she is not expected to win a clear majority.
Polls opened at 08:00 local time (13:00 GMT). Opinion polls indicate that Ms Fujimori will not obtain the 50% of votes needed to avoid a second run-off round.
Her closest challengers are centrist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and left-winger Veronika Mendoza.
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Keiko Fujimori has marketed herself as being tough on crime and is supported by some Peruvians who credit her father with defeating the rebels.
Mr Fujimori is currently serving 25 years in prison for ordering death squads to massacre civilians during his attempts to end the insurgency.
The Shining Path rebel group was largely dismantled in the 1990s after a decade-long conflict that killed about 69,000 people.
However, rebels estimated to number in the hundreds still control areas of jungle in a coca-growing region of the country and the Peruvian authorities say they have joined forces with drug gangs.
Peru is one of the biggest coca leaf and cocaine producers in the world, according to the US authorities.
Bannsiders boss Oran Kearney was named January manager of the month following his side's impressive run of form.
"The top six has always been our target and incentive this season and we want to keep this run going," said Kearney.
"There is still a lot of work to do but we are moving in the right direction."
Coleraine lie fourth in the table with six sets of fixtures remaining until the league splits into the top six and bottom six for the remainder of the campaign.
"There were plenty of people in pre-season prepared to write us off and say the top six wouldn't be a possibility for us, especially since we lost Howard Beverland and Ruairi Harkin from the squad.
"We haven't secured it yet and there is still a lot to do but all parts of the team are functioning well and we have a serious foundation to build on," added Kearney.
Seventh-placed Dungannon harbour top-six ambitions of their own and are unbeaten in their two previous encounters with Coleraine this season, winning 4-0 at Stangmore Park and playing out a 2-2 draw at Ballycastle Road.
The Swifts could have defender Chris Hegarty back after a hamstring strain, while striker Andy Mitchell should be available sooner than expected, though he will not be fit for Saturday's game.
Crusaders are seven points clear at the top of the table as they prepare to entertain Ballymena United, whom they beat 6-0 at Seaview on the opening day of the season, the Sky Blues turning the tables with a 2-1 home win over the champions in October.
Linfield aim to build on their midweek County Antrim Shield success as they travel to Carrick Rangers, who will be boosted by a 4-0 Premiership success over Ards last week.
Ards now lie nine points above Carrick as they bid to avoid a relegation play-off and Colin Nixon's side take on former boss Niall Currie's Portadown outfit at Shamrock Park on Saturday.
"I had five wonderful years at Ards so I'm looking forward to seeing some familiar faces. I've no doubt it will be a difficult game," said Currie.
Keith O'Hara, Garry Breen, Mark Carson and Sean Mackle are all in line for possible returns for the Ports.
Glentoran have a full squad to choose from for their match against Glenavon at the Oval, with the exception of long-term absentees Willie Garrett and David Scullion.
Glenavon have defender Simon Kelly and midfielder Andy Kilmartin both struggling with groin problems.
Ballinamallard beat Glentoran 1-0 in their last league outing and will hope for a similar outcome when they play third-placed Cliftonville at Ferney Park.
The powerful and often disturbing paintings will feature in an exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery next month.
The pictures depict horrific scenes from 6 August 1945, when the first atomic bomb was dropped from a US aircraft during World War Two.
The images were created after a request by Japanese broadcaster NHK in the 1970s and later toured the country.
Twelve paintings and drawings by the so-called 'hibakusha', which translates as bomb-exposed people, will be included in The Sensory War 1914-2014 exhibition in Manchester.
They have been selected from more than 2,000 that were sent to NHK in 1974 and which were subsequently exhibited at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and around the country.
Between 60,000 and 80,000 people were killed instantly when the bomb was dropped in 1945. Many more died of the long-term effects of radiation sickness and the final death toll was calculated at 135,000.
The Sensory War exhibition explores "how artists have communicated the impact of war on the body, mind, environment and human senses" since World War One, according to the gallery.
The exhibition runs from 11 October to 22 February 2015.
The 41-year-old woman, from Pyle, and the 52-year-old man, from Porthcawl, were arrested on Sunday.
South Wales Police is treating the death at Monks Close as suspicious and has appealed for anyone with information to call 101.
Officers were called to the scene shortly after 06:00 GMT.
But the Turkish Lira, which initially fell by nearly 5%, recovered some of its lost ground and rose by 1.4% on Monday.
Over the weekend the government moved to calm fears and said it had consulted the central bank and the treasury and decided on "all necessary measures".
The central bank said it would provide unlimited liquidity to banks.
At about 1600 BST the lira was trading at 2.97.31 against the dollar, having ended the week at 3.01.57 per dollar, close to the record low set last September.
After a fairly quiet start to trading on Monday, shares on the Istanbul National-100 stock exchange slid by nearly 9% at one point, before clawing back some ground.
Salman Ahmed, chief global strategist at Swiss investment manager Lombard Odier, said the "swift resolution of the problem" had largely helped to cushion the shock to financial markets.
However, there are fears events could further damage Turkey's tourism industry, which is crucial to the economy.
Shares in tourism-related companies were worst hit on the Istanbul National-100 stock exchange. Airport operator TAV saw its shares fall by 17.34% and Turkish Airlines was down by 12.58%.
In May, visitor numbers were 35% lower than the same time last year, following some high profile security incidents.
"Given the sharp rise in political instability and Turkey's extremely vulnerable external profile, which is likely to worsen as tourism gets hit further, we think Turkish assets are likely to remain under pressure," said Mr Ahmed.
He pointed out that Turkey was already considered as vulnerable among emerging economies. The World Bank has forecast that Turkey's economy will grow by 3.5% this year, compared with 4.5% last year, which is low compared with other emerging nations.
The wide current account deficit is a particular problem. In 2015 it stood at more than $32bn (£24bn), or about 4.5% of GDP, and this is set to deteriorate because of the predicted decline in tourism and the blow to investor confidence.
Bulent Gultekin is Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, but in the 1990s he was governor of Turkey's central bank.
In an interview for the BBC he was asked about the consequences of the coup attempt.
He said that in the short term people would be "looking and considering their investment strategies and waiting to see how things will turn out".
"In the long run, inability to invest for long-term projects - education in particular, research and development, and to build human capital up further to become another [South] Korea - is going to be a tougher thing to do," he added.
Turkish government bond yields rose on Monday - an indication that the government is having to pay investors more to lend it money.
Until the coup attempt, the Istanbul National 100 stock index had risen by almost 15% since the beginning of the year.
There were chaotic scenes as the judge said he was referring the trial to another court.
Mr Mubarak was convicted last June of conspiring to kill protesters during the 2011 revolt that ended his rule.
He was sentenced to life but a retrial was ordered in January after he appealed against the sentence.
About 850 people were killed in the 2011 crackdown.
Judge Mustafa Hassan Abdullah announced his decision at the start of the retrial at a police academy on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital.
The judge said he was referring the case to the Cairo appeals court as he felt "unease" in reviewing the case.
That court is then expected to appoint a new panel to hear the retrial.
But there was shouting in the courtroom, with relatives of protesters killed in the 2011 uprising chanting: "The people demand the execution of Mubarak!"
Also, prosecution lawyers complained that the transfer could delay the case for months and make it less likely that the former president would be convicted and sentenced.
"Egypt cannot close the door on the former regime until there is justice for the martyrs of our revolution," said Mohamed Rashwan, quoted by Reuters news agency.
Mr Mubarak, 84, is in poor health and currently being held in a military hospital in Cairo.
On Saturday, he was flown by helicopter to the courthouse at a police academy on the outskirts of Cairo.
State TV showed him being wheeled into the building on a stretcher, wearing a white outfit. Wearing dark glasses and with an intravenous cannula on his hand, he later waved to the courtroom from inside a cage.
His first trial, at which he also appeared on a stretcher, lasted 10 months.
Two sons of the former leader, former interior minister Habib al-Adly and six aides will also be re-tried, facing the same charges as before.
Mubarak-era officials in the dock
Al-Adly was sentenced to life last year for contributing to the killing of protesters, and for five and 12 years for corruption charges.
Mr Mubarak's sons, Gamal and Alaa, will be retried on corruption charges for which they were acquitted in June, because of the expiry of a statute of limitations.
The former president was also found not guilty of corruption.
Businessman Hussein Salem, a close associated of Mubarak, is being retried in his absence - he went to Spain after being cleared of fraud in his first trial.
The 18-day uprising in 2011 ended Mubarak's 29-year rule of Egypt.
Families of protesters who died in the crackdown were disappointed that the former president was not convicted of ordering the killings.
There was also been anger among some that he has not faced trial for abuses allegedly committed earlier in his rule.
But the BBC's Alem Maqbool says news of the retrial has been overshadowed by the political instability and insecurity which followed the revolution.
As the retrial was about to begin, one man in Cairo who gave his name as Ahmed said the retrial was no longer the pressing issue for Egypt.
"What we care about now is how to make the country develop better," he told the Associated Press news agency.
"Mubarak no longer has any influence on our economy. The most important thing we should do now is to help industries recover."
Another man, Ashraf, told AP that if the trial was being seen as unimportant "it's because they are now in a very bad situation economically. The most important thing right now for Egyptians is how they can work and live".
Deaths during the uprising were largely blamed on the police at the time, but last week a report was leaked which implicated the army in serious human rights abuses at the time, including the killing and torture of protesters.
The leaked chapter, reportedly presented to President Mohammed Morsi late last year, contains testimony relating to civilians detained at military checkpoints who were never seen again and reports that the army delivered unidentified bodies to coroners.
Egypt's Defence Minister Abdel Fatah al-Sissi denied the accusations, calling them a betrayal.
The Bluebirds playing budget has been scaled back since their solitary season in the Premier League in 2013/14.
But Warnock is confident he can challenge at the top of the Championship with financial backing.
"It's a matter of talking to Vincent and trying to encourage him to give it another go really," he said.
In stating his ambitions for the Bluebirds, 68-year old Warnock dropped his biggest hint yet that he wants to continue in the post beyond the end of the season.
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"We all want to have a go at promotion from this division really and certainly in my circumstances and at my age I'm no different anyone else," he told BBC Wales Sport.
"It's just great to be able to see him face to face, talk to the main man really and tell him what your plans.
"I'm very enthusiastic about the club, I think it's made to measure for me. I hope that we can have a really good conversation about the future."
The Malaysian businessman, who became owner of Cardiff in May 2010, will not be at the Bluebirds Servernside derby against Bristol City on Saturday as the team try to pull away from the bottom three in the Championship.
And Warnock doesn't see the meeting as a chance for him to charm Tan into giving him a big transfer budget.
"I think it's an opportunity for the club as well not just me," he added.
"The club's got an opportunity to stabilise and look to future and look to be positive about what could possibly happen next year rather than doom and gloom.
"The opportunity is there, the staff is almost in place and the playing side doesn't need an awful lot to do with it.
"It's just a matter of pruning it and the getting that little bit of help to get that one player up front that you need when you get injuries.
"You need a couple of choices."
Warnock has ruled out spending big money in the January transfer window having already had a bid rejected for Aberdeen winger Johnny Hayes.
But he would like support for Kenneth Zohore who has now established himself as the club's first choice forward.
"I don't think we're going to be able to spend money on a top class striker in this window," he said.
"We'll have to go with what we've got and try and get a loan player in.
"I've made an offer for a couple of players as you know and that sort of money is what I'm looking at for this window."
Warnock has though performed a U-turn on the future of defender Bruno Ecuele Manga who he would now like to stay once he returns from international duty with Gabon at the African Cup of Nations.
"I think an MLS club made an enquiry for him but the way I feel at the moment, I'm quite happy to keep him," Warnock confirmed.
"If I can do business elsewhere to cover the ins and outs then I'm quite happy to have Bruno back until the end of the season and try and talk him into another contract."
The county topped National Geographic Traveller magazine's "Cool List" of must-see "culture capitals, hipster hotspots and wild escapes".
It was celebrated for its "weather-nibbled coast spotted with sea stacks, Blue Flag beaches and offshore islands".
Ireland's Tourism body Fáilte Ireland said it was delighted by the county's global accolade.
The magazine, which described the county as "a land that feels undiscovered", said there was an "array of reasons to visit", and gave a nod to the expected impact of last summer's filming of Star Wars: Episode VIII on the Inishowen peninsula.
National Geographic said: "From surfing beaches in Magheroarty and Ballyhiernan Bay to Horn Head - a driving, walking or cycling loop that squeezes the 1,600-mile Wild Atlantic Way into a 4.5-mile nutshell."
Pat Riddell, editor of National Geographic Traveller, said: "Travel piques our curiosity and it's that curiosity that informs our annual Cool List - what's happening in the world, what's interesting and, most importantly, what's in it for you?
"We aim to answer these questions, and more, with our list of 17 must-visit destinations for 2017.
"From Ireland's forgotten county to the high temple of US hipsterism, from South America's hottest foodie city to Germany's art scene, we've selected the world's best places to see and be seen in the coming year".
He said the magazines's writers and editors compile a long list before whittling it down to the final cut.
"We considered many destinations for our Cool List 2017, but we felt Donegal was in a real sweet spot - off-radar and hard-to-access, but on the cusp of a breakthrough.
"On the one hand, you have big pushes like the Wild Atlantic Way and the recent visit of Star Wars; on the other you only have to drive a few miles to have a beach or a road completely to yourself.
"It's a warm-hearted place, but wilderness always feels just a stone's throw away. And it is wilderness... world-class wilderness.
"We think it's due a big year."
Fáilte Ireland's Director for the Wild Atlantic Way, Orla Carroll said: "We know Donegal is cool and now we're delighted that the rest of the world is hearing the same."
"The Wild Atlantic Way goes from strength to strength and it is starting to pick up a large amount of global recommendations."
The Chilean capital of Santiago come second on the list followed by Helsinki.
National Geographic's other "cool destinations" include Greenland, Iran and Sudan. The
Police shut the A4069 because of the fires at All Waste Services Ltd at the Old Sawmills, Llangadog, while the council's Llangadog recycling centre was also closed.
Motorists were diverted and bus Service 280-281 was unable to access the village.
Mr Firtash, one of Ukraine's richest men, is wanted by US authorities on suspicion of corruption and forming a criminal organisation.
The 48-year-old was regarded one of the main backers of the ousted Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych.
Austrian police said the arrest was not related to current political events in Ukraine.
"A national arrest order was issued for the businessman on the basis of several years of investigation by the US FBI and an arrest warrant," a police statement said.
He was arrested in an area of Vienna where one of his businesses was registered, Austrian media say.
Mr Firtash is founder and chairman of Group DF, whose website describes it as an international group of companies operating across Europe and Asia in energy and banking.
He also has many interests in petrochemicals and media.
Mr Firtash was a powerful voice in Ukraine's economic policy circles under former President Yanukovych, who was ousted by pro-European protesters last month.
Much of the anger behind the protests was fuelled by perceptions of corruption, and the alleged close links between the government and oligarchs.
Mr Firtash is not named on an initial EU list of Ukrainians suspected of misusing state funds and violating human rights, and whose assets are to be frozen as a result of the crisis over the Russian takeover of Ukraine's Crimea region.
The tycoon had been in dispute with Australian Sean Truman, who registered the domain name last year.
The National Arbitration Forum (NAF), a US-based adjudication body, ruled that Mr Truman had registered and used richardbranson.xxx "in bad faith".
The .xxx domain was introduced as a home for pornography and other adult-orientated web sites in 2011.
"We worry about the misuse of Sir Richard's name and he is pleased that we now have it under our ownership," said Nick Fox, a spokesman for the founder of the Virgin business empire.
Icann, the body which has overall responsibility for domain names, had ordered the transfer of the richardbranson.xxx domain name to Virgin, Mr Fox added.
Trademark owners were given the opportunity to block the registration of .xxx domain names last year before they were made available for general public registration.
Mr Fox said that Virgin was in the process of doing this when Mr Truman registered it, four days after general availability.
In Mr Truman's argument to the NAF, he contended that he had registered the domain name as a "souvenir" because of his admiration of Sir Richard.
He argued that Sir Richard has a history of using the "sex sells" principle in his business activities, using "Virgin" as a generic brand name.
The NAFruledthat Mr Truman should have recognized that his registration and control of richardbranson.xxx "would serve to vex or embarrass" Sir Richard.
Thomas Frederiksen, chief operating officer at UK web hosting company One.com, warned that the .xxx domain could cause serious problems for businesses.
"If someone has registered your company's name, or in this case the name of your CEO, it can permanently damage your brand," he said.
"This is a unique case as not all company CEOs will be able to argue that their name is protected under intellectual property law."
The work by think tank dpart found lowering the voting age could increase youngster's engagement with politics.
It also found schools had more influence than parents in giving confidence in understanding politics.
Those aged 16 and 17 were able to vote in the referendum on 18 September, the first UK ballot to include them.
Researchers at dpart gathered evidence from two surveys of under 18s - one conducted in April and May 2013, and then a second conducted one year later.
More than 1,000 young people responded to each survey.
They found under 18s were at least as interested in politics as adults.
Only 7% had never talked about the referendum with anyone.
Young people were less likely than adults to align themselves with political parties, but the proportion who said they did not feel an affinity to one dropped in the year before the vote, from 57% to 51%.
Parents had a strong influence in encouraging young people to vote, but had less impact on how they voted, researchers found.
Over 40% of under 18s said they intended to vote differently than their parents.
Schools played a more significant role than parents in enhancing young people's political understanding, but only when pupils actively discussed the referendum in class, researchers found.
The study said: "Lowering the voting age to 16 in combination with a detailed rethinking of the role schools play in political education may therefore be a positive development worth exploring beyond this referendum.
"Crucially, we need to be confident to make the classroom a place where politics can be discussed, rather than assuming that young people will be inappropriately ideologised in an easy way."
Dr Jan Eichhorn, from Edinburgh University's school of social and political science and the author of the study, said: "Fears of under 18s being inappropriately ideologised stem from an underestimation of young people's capabilities.
"We found these fears to be unfounded. Their engagement with politics is complex and they appreciate school as a space to do this.
"To have a lasting, positive impact, we need to trust schools and teachers to discuss politics actively in the classroom.
"There are positive effects on young people's political understanding and confidence that parental influence cannot achieve but school can."
Only four players have played more than his 477 Premier League appearances for a single club - Liverpool pair Steven Gerrard (504) and Jamie Carragher (508), and Manchester United pair Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes, with 632 and 499 respectively.
So with Terry's departure the landscape of the Premier League and Chelsea will undergo a significant shift next season.
It clearly was to John Terry as he admitted it was "not going to be a fairytale ending". Instead, at a time not of his choosing and with the ruthless decision-making that has become a trademark for Chelsea's hierarchy, he is on the way out in May.
Terry has made it clear he wanted to stay on but this move has come from the top of club, most likely in the shape of owner Roman Abramovich and director Marina Granovskaia, the Russian's closest adviser and negotiator-in-chief.
Chelsea may simply be working on the basis of brutal realism. Terry was 35 in December and has heavy mileage on a clock that has been running since 28 October 1998, when he made his debut as a late substitute in League Cup tie against Aston Villa.
There will be a new manager at the Blues in the summer and the removal of the last of the longstanding old guard in west London leaves the decks clear without the presence of a player and personality who has been a huge influence on and off the field.
Where there may be surprise is that Terry's form, like Chelsea's, has been revived since the sacking of Jose Mourinho in December. In the 1-0 win at Arsenal in January, Terry was the defensive rock of old, despite having been informed before that game that his career at Stamford Bridge would be over in months.
In the final reckoning, Chelsea clearly believe that given his advanced years he is only going to decline from here on - a verdict he might dispute in typically combative fashion - and that a lucrative contract can be best spent on someone else.
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The banner hanging from Stamford Bridge's Matthew Harding Stand says it all about his relationship with Chelsea's fans: "JT. Captain, Leader, Legend."
Terry, quite simply, has been the towering figure in the most successful period in the club's history. He has always been a divisive character outside Stamford Bridge but inside he is loved by fans who regard him as a shining symbol of the club's glory years.
When Abramovich arrived in July 2003 and the trophies flowed following Mourinho's appointment in 2004, Terry fearlessly led from the front as the manager's voice on the pitch. He is one of the most significant figures ever to have represented Chelsea.
And yet there is a thread running through his Chelsea career that means there will also always be a darker reflection on his time at Stamford Bridge.
The image of Terry's tears after the Champions League final loss on penalties to Manchester United in Moscow in 2008 will be an enduring one, brought on by his slip as he went to take what would have been the winning spot-kick, hitting the post instead.
The Champions League was a narrative running through his career, with two semi-final defeats by Liverpool in 2005 and 2007 and another agonising injury-time last-four exit to Barcelona in 2009 - then the most ironic twist of all in 2012.
Chelsea, under caretaker manager Roberto di Matteo, finally claimed the holy grail with victory on penalties against Bayern Munich in the Germans' own Allianz Arena. All with Terry on the sidelines.
He had been sent off in the semi-final second leg in Barcelona and for all his posing in the team pictures, swiftly changing out of his suit into his kit as Didier Drogba's final penalty went in, he actually had his nose pressed up against the window as an outsider on Chelsea's greatest night.
And when the Europa League was won against Benfica in Amsterdam a year later Terry, whose relationship with another interim manager Rafael Benitez was fragile, was out through injury.
In September 2012 he was banned for four games and fined £220,000 after a Football Association regulatory commission found him guilty of racially abusing then Queen's Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand during a game at Loftus Road on 23 October 2011.
These will be gaps on his CV and moments of controversy - but when Chelsea's story is written he will be remembered as the most successful captain they have ever had.
Terry has been a member of a fraying Chelsea defence this season. In the 18 Premier League games he has played they have conceded 26 goals, compared with 13 in the same number last season. He has made 68 clearances this season compared with 101 in the same spell last term.
The signs have been there that Terry, magnificent as the title was won last season, was starting to suffer a decline in his powers.
And yet he will still be missed as someone who often dragged Chelsea to success by force of his own personality, a character supporters could identify with as one of their own, his programme notes often ending with the rallying call "Come On The Chels!"
Even as recently as 16 January, it was the marauding Terry who grabbed a 98th-minute equaliser to earn a 3-3 draw against Everton at Stamford Bridge.
He has not just been the driving force at the back, his record of 40 goals makes him the highest-scoring defender in Premier League history.
Even if he is approaching the end of his career at the top, his giant personality, winning mentality and determination to put himself on the line in every game means he will leave a huge hole in Chelsea's team.
As with former Liverpool captain Gerrard, a contemporary of Terry's with England and who twice almost became a Blues team-mate, it will be hard to picture his side without him leading it out.
Terry's departure really will be the end of a glittering era for Chelsea. He is the last of the big beasts to leave one of the most powerful dressing rooms of modern Premier League times - one which has occasionally been accused of wielding player power when managers such as Andre Villas-Boas and even Mourinho have been sacked.
The experienced backbone of Chelsea's greatest successes as four Premier League titles, five FA Cups, the Champions League, Europa League and three League Cups were won - including a domestic double under Carlo Ancelotti in 2010 - is now gone.
Goalkeeper Petr Cech left for Arsenal last summer while Didier Drogba's Indian summer ended after his second stint at Chelsea with a move to Montreal Impact in Major League Soccer. Frank Lampard joined Manchester City before going to New York City FC while Ashley Cole left for Roma before joining LA Galaxy.
Terry leaving breaks the last, and strongest, link in that chain of power.
Terry has already made it clear, unlike his great friend and team-mate Lampard, that he is aligned with Gerrard in not wishing to play for another English club once he has gone.
He does, however, plan to carry on and he may be tempted to follow the same lucrative path as Gerrard and Lampard. Terry will not be short of offers and he could join either of those at LA Galaxy, where former club and country team-mate Cole has also arrived, or New York City FC.
His former England team-mate David Beckham is in the process of building his Miami Beckham United franchise to join the MLS. New clubs are always keen to make a statement signing - could Terry join Beckham?
And what about China? The Chinese Super League is big, rich business as proved by the £25m deal that took Ramires from Chelsea to Jiangsu Suning during this transfer window.
Terry wants to play on away from England. He is unlikely to be short of offers.
That's a lot, but in many ways it's expected. War leaves its mark. The country has taken in so many refugees it's overwhelmed.
The Jordanian government admits it's unable to support everyone. Put simply, in order to comprehensively support refugees who need more than the very basic level of care, they need more money.
Before we made this film, Our World: Displaced & Disabled, I couldn't quite understand how you escape when you have a disability and, if you manage to, what happens if you require essential rehabilitation or ongoing treatment in order to maintain what little independence you have?
Prosthetic legs are not cheap. Physiotherapy is a luxury for many. Medicines are expensive. Wheelchairs break and cost money to repair.
For me to make this documentary in a more challenging environment for someone with a physical disability, I had a producer who planned the entire trip, making sure there was a van that I could get in and a wonderful driver who parked in easy spots - a strong man who lifted my scooter and me in and out the van several times a day.
Even with access to a ramp and wheelchair, there were still places and people I couldn't get to.
The people I met don't have this kind of support but that makes them tougher, more resilient. Many know their strengths and they want to show the world that they are capable of doing anything, despite their situation.
Together with Handicap International, one of the main charities working on the ground, we visited Jordan's two Syrian refugee camps - Zaatari and Azraq.
Zaatari is only a few miles from the Syrian border; it is a city in the middle of a desert, packed with close to 80,000 refugees.
At one of the charity's fixed meeting points in Zaatari, I remember thinking I'd not seen that many amputees in one place.
These are the people having to deal with the ramifications of war but, at the meeting point, they are able to receive vital support from highly trained and dedicated staff.
I met men who had lost limbs, walking "the bars" - something most people with a physical disability have had to do at one time or another - which support you while you take a few tentative steps. It's great exercise.
Mohammed, who has cerebral palsy, was playing games to improve his stability. Ragda was doing her arm exercises to keep strong - she's got a wheelchair to push, provided by the charity, something she didn't have back home in Syria.
There's also crucial psychological support, something I imagine most people forced from their homes and loved ones could do with.
Zaatari was the first refugee camp I'd visited, and I'd built up this picture in my head, pieced together from various news reports and online articles.
There's no getting away from it; life as a refugee is tough, too tough for many to comprehend. The basics we take for granted are not freely available here and, when you have a disability, it can make life almost impossible.
But what I wasn't as prepared for was the spirit and strength of the people existing in the camp - their life in limbo.
When you have a disability, you don't want people to feel sorry for you; you just want to get on with things.
That was certainly the case with many of the disabled Syrians we met. They know their situation is dire, but they still laugh, they had fun with us over lunch, they enjoy a cigarette and a few jokes. I have never been asked if I'm on Facebook quite as much.
But not all Syrian refugees live in the camps. Around 80% of all the refugees in Jordan live in and around the main cities, like Abd al-Aseem and his brother, who live in Jordan's capital, Amman.
Abd had a stroke. For months he couldn't walk, he couldn't move. He needs expensive medication the family just can't afford.
They owe money and, although he is slowly improving thanks to the dedication of his family and support from a charity, he still needs to be carried from the third floor in order to leave his apartment.
A big problem for disabled refugees is the price of apartments like Abd's. The higher the floor, the cheaper the rent.
Abd is still unable to speak but his brother told me he was a kind, generous man who ran his family business and had time for everyone who needed him.
He had previously had a nice life and could provide for his wife and kids. Now, his situation is bleak; life has dealt him a rubbish hand. The family can't dream of returning to Syria, they just have to get through each day.
But, for one young man, all he wants is to go back home. I met the charismatic Moead at a hospital for reconstructive surgery, run by the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, in Amman.
He lost one of his legs in an explosion in Syria. We got on straight away. He liked my mobility scooter, I told him it would make him lazy, and for the rest of the time we spent together he called me "lazy girl". I was calling this flirting, but I think that's a stretch.
I met so many incredible people whilst making Our World: Displaced & Disabled, all very different but with one thing in common - a total reliance on charity to get by, and that's scary.
We all like to think we're in control of our own lives, but the people I met are not.
Our World: Disabled & Displaced will air on BBC World News at the following times:
Friday 27 May at 23:30 GMT
Saturday 28 May at 11:30 GMT
Sunday 29 May at 04:30 and 17:30 GMT
Friday 3 June at 09:30 GMT
This is one of the conclusions of a two-year study of the Brazilian Amazon, which revealed that even protected forest is degraded by human activity.
This activity includes selective logging and forest fragmentation, which increase the likelihood of wildfires.
The findings are published in the journal Nature.
"Rainforests don't normally burn," said lead researcher Prof Jos Barlow, from the Lancaster Environment Centre. "But human activities are making them much more flammable."
While the Brazilian Amazon is protected from large-scale deforestation, this new study suggests that more effort is needed to safeguard what the scientists called the "hyper-diversity of tropical forests".
This team set out to measure the effects that humans have on the rainforest - no easy feat in a dense landscape of 5.5 million sq km.
They selected 400 plots, on a gradient of forest cover - ranging from pristine to deforested areas.
It took two years to gather data from these sites across the Eastern Amazon - painstakingly measuring population densities of trees, birds and insects.
Crucially, this study examined areas of forest that are protected by the Forest Code - the central policy designed to control deforestation, and requiring landowners in the Amazon to maintain up to 80% forest cover.
"If you can imagine a landscape with 80% forest cover, I think most environmentalists would say that's a very good scenario and you've maintained most of your core habitat there," Prof Barlow told the BBC.
"But what we found was those landscapes only really have 50% of their potential value, because of disturbance in the remaining forest."
Disturbance, he explained, could include selective logging, hunting - "anything that humans do to the forests".
Selective logging, for example, can leave the forest fragmented or punch holes in the canopy, drying out the vegetation below. This, combined with the effects of climate change, is leaving the Amazon much more likely to catch fire.
Another member of the team, Dr Alexander Lees from Cornell University, said that many bird species unique to the Amazon were suffering the most from these effects. These endemic species, he said, "cannot survive in disturbed forests".
"We need to keep focusing on reducing deforestation," said Prof Barlow, "but we need to think about forest disturbance - how we can monitor it, how we can reduce it, and how we can maintain pristine forest in large blocks as well."
"Immediate action is required to combat forest disturbance in tropical nations," said Silvio Ferraz from the University of Sao Paulo, who was also involved in the study. "This is particularly important in Brazil, which holds up to 40% of the world's remaining tropical forests".
Prof Barlow added: "If we're interested in conserving the life that lives with us on this planet today, then we need to conserve these systems."
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New Zealand woman Warriena Wright fell to her death from Gable Tostee's balcony on Queensland's Gold Coast in 2014.
Last month, Mr Tostee was found not guilty of murder or manslaughter.
Australia's 60 Minutes programme paid him A$150,000 (£90,000, $115,000) for Sunday's interview, local media said.
Mr Tostee and Ms Wright had met through the dating app Tinder. Their night of drinking and consensual sex deteriorated into a drunken physical altercation that ended when he locked her on his balcony. The New Zealand tourist fell 14 floors to her death less than 30 seconds later.
The exclusive interview focused on Mr Tostee's recollection of the events and a 199-minute audio recording he made secretly on the night.
The same smartphone recording that was used in court to argue his guilt was also used to prove his innocence.
The audio reveals Mr Tostee saying: "You're lucky I haven't chucked you off my [expletive] balcony, you goddamn psycho little [expletive]."
The 30-year-old carpet layer revealed that he often recorded his nights out "just in case" something happened.
"I used to go out quite a lot drinking, I don't have the best memory when I drink," Mr Tostee said.
"It's better off having something and not needing it than needing it and not having it."
During the interview, Mr Tostee was quizzed about why he chose to lock Ms Wright on the balcony rather than eject her from his apartment.
"(The altercation) was a lot, lot closer to the balcony door, and it was wide open, and it was the logical option at the time," he said.
He also explained why he called a lawyer, rather than an ambulance or the police, immediately after Ms Wright fell.
"Nobody is trained for a situation like this. It's like being hit by lightning. There is no right or wrong way to proceed from there," he said.
"What had happened had happened, and there's nothing an ambulance could do to change that."
The reporter asked Mr Tostee if he could understand why some observers found him cold and heartless.
Mr Tostee replied: "When you put it that way, when that's all you say about a person, with no insight or explanation, you know, the media can make people think what the media wants people to think."
Mr Tostee's reported six-figure payment generated controversy in Australia before the interview.
As it aired on Sunday, social media users expressed anger at Mr Tostee's apparent lack of emotion over Ms Wright's death.
"Gable Tostee interview as bizarre as Donald Trump winning US election. Never heard of recording a night out 'just in case,'" said Cathy Anderson.
TV presenter Richard Haynes said: "Tostee is the style of bloke every dad hopes their daughter never ever, ever meets."
"Been a fan of #60minutes since I was a little girl but last night's disgusting Gable Tostee paid interview was the last straw!" tweeted Myra Rivadelo.
But others, such as David Blaney, said they found the interview compelling.
"I would say I'm surprised about the scathing #GableTostee tweets, but then again, this is Twitter, so I'm not surprised," he wrote.
Lawyers for Akhtar Iqbal and Mohammed Shoaib wrote to Mr Vaz, accusing police of being "complicit in radicalising" the three sisters.
It is claimed they were encouraged to contact their brother - thought to be fighting with extremists in Syria.
West Yorkshire Police said it rejected the suggestion officers were complicit.
Khadija, Sugra and Zohra Dawood and their children, aged between three and 15, went missing on 9 June. An Islamic State (IS) smuggler has since told the BBC they have reached Syria.
Mr Vaz told the Mail on Sunday the lawyers' claims were "concerning". He later issued a statement confirming he would meet Mr Iqbal, Sugra Dawood's husband, and Mohammed Shoaib, husband of Khadija Dawood.
He told the BBC: "There is always a problem, which we identified in the last parliament, where the families left behind feel they need to be informed and kept updated on what's going on. The difficulty for the authorities of course is they are ongoing investigations.
"But it is important to listen to what they have to say, which I will do, and then decide what further action needs to be taken."
In the letter to the Labour MP for Leicester East, solicitors representing the two fathers said police had shown a "reckless disregard" for the consequences,
They said the home secretary and the foreign secretary will also be receiving letters complaining about the police.
The Home Office said it had received the letter and would respond in "due course".
"Our priority is to dissuade people from travelling to areas of conflict and the Prevent strategy is working to identify and support individuals at risk of radicalisation," the Home Office said in a statement.
The 19-year-old centre-back, who has captained the Championship club's development squad, has made one first-team appearance for the Tractor Boys.
He came off the bench as Ipswich lost 2-1 to Portsmouth in their third-round FA Cup replay last month.
Robinson, who will be with the Cards until 28 March, could make his debut against Grimsby on Tuesday.
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The 24-year-old former Doncaster and Notts County loanee comes in while Evan Horwood remains sidelined with tendonitis.
Cobblers manager Chris Wilder told BBC Radio Northampton: "We've been light in that area and he'll go straight into the team (against Burton).
"You don't sign for a club like Villa unless you've got something about you."
Stevens made four appearances on loan for League One side Notts County before breaking his toe in September 2013. He then moved on to Doncaster two months later, clocking up a further 13 appearances in the Championship.
Prior to those spells, the Irishman made his full debut for Villa against Manchester United and has since gone on to feature nine times for the Premier League club.
Despite the injury to Northampton's top scorer Marc Richards, Wilder says he was not tempted to bring in another striker.
"We have Emile Sinclair coming back on Monday and he really feels he has a point to prove," said Wilder.
"He got himself going when he scored against Shrewsbury and he was showing signs at Bournemouth. That was disappointing we lost him.
"He knows it's a big period for him. He's got to hit the ground running."
The service, run by Marie Stopes, will operate in the centre of Belfast from 18 October.
It says it will provide terminations within Northern Ireland's current legal framework - abortions are not illegal but are very strictly controlled.
An anti-abortion group has called for the clinic to be shut down, but Abortion Rights welcomed its opening.
Northern Ireland, unlike the rest of the UK, is not covered by an Abortion Act.
Abortions can be carried out only to preserve the life of the mother or if continuing the pregnancy would have other serious, permanent physical or mental health effects.
There is strict assessment regarding any impact on mental well-being and the woman must consult with two clinicians.
I travelled to Scotland to terminate my first and so far only pregnancy in 2006. I was 26. My pregnancy was terminated at 11 weeks.
I am still angry that despite living in the UK, I did not have the same access to a termination as women in Scotland, Wales or England.
An already upsetting and difficult situation was made so much harder, so much more traumatic, by having to make travel arrangements and lie to friends and colleagues about my "trip to Scotland".
I find it immensely sad that the issue of abortion is still too taboo for many women to feel able to speak up about their experiences.
I wonder how many other women in Northern Ireland feel similarly today but are staying silent?
Anonymous, County Londonderry
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The Marie Stopes clinic says it will carry out medical, not surgical, procedures only up to nine weeks gestation and only within the existing legal framework.
It says that the health professionals in the clinic will be from Northern Ireland and that they will make the assessments, although the views of the woman's own GP will be taken into consideration.
The clinic's services will also be available to women from the Republic of Ireland, if they meet the legal criteria in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland Health Minister Edwin Poots said: "I note that Marie Stopes International state very clearly that they will work within the law.
"An operation in Northern Ireland for the termination of a pregnancy may not result in criminal liability when it is necessary to preserve the life of the woman or there is a risk of real and serious adverse effect on her physical or mental health, which is either long term or permanent.
"This condition applies no less strongly before nine weeks than longer into the pregnancy."
Only 1% of abortions in England and Wales are carried out because the child might be born with a serious disability.
The former Progressive Unionist Party leader, Dawn Purvis, who is the centre's programme director, said the Belfast clinic would be "providing early medical abortion within the law as it exists in Northern Ireland".
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Unlike the rest of the UK, Northern Ireland does not have an Abortion Act. Instead an 1861 law makes it a criminal offence to procure a miscarriage.
In 1945 an exception was added that abortion could be permitted to preserve the life of the mother.
Despite the fact that between 30 and 40 medical terminations are carried out by the NHS in Northern Ireland every year, the exact circumstances in which is it is allowed remain vague.
Revised official guidelines initially drafted in in 2010 have still not been completed and published.
Sections on counselling and conscientious objection were withdrawn for rewriting. The Family Planning Association has been granted leave to seek a judicial review of the Department of Health's decision not to publish information on terminations.
Ms Purvis said the clinic would also provide advice and treatment for sexually transmitted disease and reproductive health, but it was prepared for any possible controversy.
"Our clients' needs are of paramount importance to us and how they access our services in a safe and secure route," she said.
"We will be focusing on this and will obviously carry out a risk assessment of our needs and our security and we'll have to revise those as time goes on.
"But we would hope that any client who comes to us can do so and access those services freely, safely and can come to a centre that will be supportive and non-judgemental."
Ms Purvis said the regulatory body, the RQIA, had been informed of and consulted on plans for the centre.
But Bernie Smyth, of the anti-abortion group Precious Life, told the BBC members wanted the centre shut before its scheduled opening.
However, the clinic has been hailed as "groundbreaking" by Darinka Aleksic, of the Abortion Rights group, who said women in Northern Ireland were "treated like second-class citizens when it comes to abortion".
"Having to travel [to the rest of the UK] or further abroad to access safe, legal abortion exacts a huge financial and emotional cost," she said.
"Over 50,000 women have had to make this journey over the past 40 years and it is an injustice that must not be allowed to continue.
"The opening of this centre will not solve all these problems and the fight for Northern Irish women to have the same rights as women in England, Scotland and Wales has a long way to go. But this is a real step forward."
MLA Jim Allister said he believed that Marie Stopes was attempting to extend the availability of abortion.
Mr Allister agreed the group was pro-choice, "except for the unborn child, who has no choice, in their view, and who should be put to death, because that's what abortion is".
A Department of Health spokesperson said it would be a "matter for the RQIA" to determine if the clinic needed to be "registered for regulation and inspection by RQIA".
"The department would encourage anyone who has concerns or is seeking advice or treatment regarding any of these areas to contact their GP, local family planning clinic or genito urinary medicine clinic," the spokesperson said.
In August, Mr Poots told the Stormont Assembly that between 2006 and this year 262 pregnancy terminations had taken place.
The strict rules on abortion in Northern Ireland do not prevent women from travelling to the rest of the UK for the procedure.
A 24-week limit for abortion applies in England, Wales and Scotland, where abortions are allowed under certain conditions, including that continuing with the pregnancy would involve a greater risk to the physical or mental health of the woman, or her existing children, than having a termination. The permission of two doctors - or one in an emergency - is also needed.
Abortions after 24 weeks are allowed in Britain but only in extreme circumstances - if there is grave risk to the life of the woman, evidence of severe foetal abnormality, or risk of grave physical and mental injury to the woman.
Figures for 2011, show that just over 1,000 women travelled to England and Wales for terminations.
No figures are available for the Northern Ireland women who availed of so called "back-street abortions" or who procured abortion-inducing medication online.
"Ang moh" (local term for a Caucasian), chilli crab (our national dish) and "sotong" (another local term referring to a squid, but also used to describe ignorance) were just a handful of the words chosen for this year's update.
But what the heck is a "Chinese helicopter"?
"A Singaporean whose schooling was conducted in Mandarin Chinese and who has limited knowledge of English," the OED's official definition reads.
But like me, many of my fellow countrymen have been baffled by the appearance of the word.
"This is the first time I've come across the term," said Joseph Lim, 29, on Facebook.
"If there was no definition provided, I would have thought it was a sexual term."
Other Singaporeans, like Twitter user Chew Yiheng agreed. "Is that word even Singlish? I feel suaku", he said, referring to the local term for a country bumpkin, someone not well-informed.
An informal variety of English spoken in Singapore, incorporating elements of Chinese and Malay.
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Dr Danica Salazar, a consultant editor with the Oxford English Dictionary said the inclusion of these new words shows that "people do not need to speak English like Americans or the British in order for their English to be correct".
"These words have become part of the English language and they show something about the culture of Hong Kong and Singapore," she told BBC News.
"English is such a global language and this should be celebrated."
But Belmont Lay, the founding editor at local news portal Mothership, said the Oxford Dictionary was "having a go at Singaporeans".
"Chinese Helicopter reflects Singapore's Anglophone bias. I think it's great that the term was included but....why are they legitimising our creole English?"
The inclusion of "Chinese helicopter" was also being discussed on local radio on Friday.
Teacher David Tan said he knew where the term came from: it's actually an in-joke from Singapore's military service tradition.
"We are not talking about importing Chinese-type of tomahawk helicopter here," he said in a comment in response to a post on our BBC News Facebook page.
"The term 'Chinese Helicopter' was coined due to a mispronunciation of the word 'educated'," he explained.
"During the early days, Singaporean men who were educated in Chinese schools had difficulty understanding English instructions in the army. Hence when a man would say 'educated', [it sounded like "helicated"] and became helicopter."
There are other terms in the Singlish vocabulary which carry knowing mispronunciations, used to mock others.
Take for example, the usage of the word "powerful".
A Singaporean would swap it for the word "powderful" in a verbal battle.
When someone uses bad English, a normal speaker would reply sarcastically: "Wow, your English is so powerful".
But a true Singlish speaker would retaliate: "Wah, your England very powderful ah?"
So there you have it, win already lah!
EC regulation 883/2004 falls into that category.
In bland terms, it sets out the laws that protect social security rights when people move within the European Union.
In practice, it allows EU nationals living in the UK to claim child benefit and have it paid in their home nation, to the fury of many Britons.
Similar rights apply for Britons living in EU countries.
The principle is probably more infuriating to some than the cost, because in reality the numbers taking advantage of the law are comparatively quite small.
According to data from Revenue & Customs published in March, in August 2016 there were 7,400,000 families in receipt of child benefit in the UK, which meant that nearly 13 million children (12,880,000) were getting the benefit.
Of that total, almost 21,000 families are classed as being either "foreign or not known", looking after almost 33,000 children.
That means that 0.3% of families, and 0.26% of all children who receive child benefit are not UK based.
And the numbers are falling.
Those figures from August 2016 represent a 20% decrease in the number of families claiming child benefit, and a 19% reduction in the children receiving the payment.
Not all of that category are EU nationals, of course.
For that data, we need to go a bit further back.
According to a paper published by the House of Commons Library in July 2014, there were just over 34,000 children of EU nationals receiving child benefit but living abroad in December 2013.
Families receive £20.70 a week for the first or only child and then £13.70 for each subsequent child.
Going back to the analysis published in March, the total paid to the almost 33,000 foreign national children would work out at approximately £33.5m for 2016.
Migration Watch, which pushes for lower immigration to the UK, did a similar calculation in 2013 (when the number of children was higher but the benefit rates were lower) and found the cost then to be £36.6m.
To put that figure in context, child benefit in total cost the Exchequer about £11.3bn in 2015-16.
Reducing the amount of child benefit that EU nationals could claim for children living outside the UK was one of David Cameron's key demands of fellow EU leaders in the run-up to last year's Brexit referendum.
He secured an agreement to reduce the weekly total they could claim, to better reflect the cost of living in each country - the British argument was that child benefit was far more generous than many foreign nationals could receive in their own country.
But, following the referendum result, that agreement has been withdrawn, and how much child benefit - if any - EU nationals can claim after Brexit will form part of the upcoming negotiations.
One final point - it's not just the British who want to see these bills reduced.
The German government, for instance - which pays far more in child support than the UK does, even to foreign nationals - is also pushing for reductions in the payments, again to better reflect the cost of living in the country in which the child lives.
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He was outlining ideas to prevent a repeat of the mass rioting which marred the G20 summit in Hamburg.
Some 20,000 police officers were deployed and nearly 500 were injured as rioters torched cars, looted shops and threw stones and petrol bombs.
Mr de Maizière drew a comparison with the restrictions on football hooligans.
The mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, apologised to residents this week for the unrest, which he blamed squarely on violent elements among the protesters.
"The responsibility for this violence does not lie with the summit or the police, it lies with those who committed this violence, the criminal mob who did not care at all about the people in our city and whose only goal was to commit violence and to destroy," he said.
More than 100,000 demonstrators are believed to have attended protests during the 7-8 July summit, many of them peaceful.
Speaking to German media, the interior minister said rioters should not be allowed to attend rallies.
Instead, they should be made to report to police and wear tags if necessary, as should "highly aggressive so-called football fans".
Mr de Maizière also called for tougher action to be taken against squatters, clearing occupied houses immediately.
Hamburg, long known for its squats, has a tradition of rioting by the far left.
Clashes also broke out at this year's May Day protest in the city, while in 2008 cars burned as extremists battled police on the streets for several hours.
It meant Hamburg police were already aware of the potential issues ahead of the G20, drafting in police from around the country.
Is thought that other leftist militants arrived in the city from across Germany and beyond.
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The annual Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize is given to the book considered to best capture the comic spirit of PG Wodehouse.
Lewycka, shortlisted for The Lubetkin Legacy, was the 2005 winner with A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
The winner will be announced ahead of the Hay Festival which begins 26 May.
Previously shortlisted authors Murray and O'Farrell are joined on this year's shortlist by debut author Hannah Rothschild and New Yorker Paul Beatty.
Hay Festival founder Peter Florence said: "There's extraordinary range here - from black satire to a lighter 'human comedy'.
"There's writing that makes you laugh out loud, and truths told that make you shriek with delight and recognition. The marvel of the shortlist is that all of these books will give you 10 hours of joyful company."
Florence is joined on the judging panel by broadcaster and author James Naughtie, Everyman's Library publisher David Campbell and comedian Sara Pascoe.
The five shortlisted novels are:
The Sellout by Paul Beatty (Oneworld)
Set in Dickens, California, a town that is literally wiped off the map. To right this wrong, the narrator starts a campaign to restore the town to glory by the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school.
Sara Pascoe: "The meaty dynamism of Beatty's language and his fiery intellect combine to take literary comedy in an exciting and hilarious new direction."
The Lubetkin Legacy by Marina Lewycka (Fig Tree, Penguin Random House)
A look at the pitfalls of North London life in the 21st century.
Jim Naughtie: "Marina Lewycka creates another upside down world in The Lubetkin Legacy. Her ear catches everything, and she never loses her love of the absurd. A warming, funny story."
The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin)
The story of two Dubliners: Claude, a banker who decides to rob his own bank and struggling novelist and crook Paul, who helps him do it.
Peter Florence: "Murray's setup is funny, the elegant zip of his sentences make you smile, his novel is an achingly topical, clever, delightful tale of folly and delusion. We loved it."
There's Only Two David Beckhams by John O'Farrell (Black Swan, Transworld)
O'Farrell imagines England reaching the final at the Qatar World Cup in 2022 and the crisis of one journalist who could undo it all by revealing a scandalous secret.
Sara Pascoe: "O'Farrell once again proves his immense comedic abilities with a book that is gag-crammed, ridiculous and fantastical."
Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild (Bloomsbury)
The heroine finds herself plunged into the London art world where skulduggery and big characters abound. The book is also longlisted for the 2016 Baileys Prize.
David Campbell: "The Improbability of Love is a wonderful satire on the art trade, preposterous billionaires, Russian oligarchs and much else, a brilliant conceit faultlessly carried off. I was very sad to finish this gloriously funny novel."
As part of the prize, the winner is presented with a Gloucestershire Old Spot pig which is named after the winning novel.
Last year's winner was Alexander McCall Smith for his novel Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party.
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Pierre Legris, 61, bludgeoned Rui Li, to death at their home in May 2014.
Winchester Crown Court heard the couple were swingers who ran a "sexual massage" service and the murder was financially motivated. Legris was given a 25-year minimum term.
Legris's racing driver son Jonathan, 27, and other wife Irene Smith, 66, were acquitted of conspiracy to murder.
Jonathan Legris, of Spring Road, Bournemouth - who was a contemporary of Lewis Hamilton during the early stages of their careers - was sentenced to two years in jail after he was found guilty of assisting an offender.
Smith, 66, was sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of assisting an offender and perverting the course of justice.
Before the start of the trial, French national Legris admitted an offence of bigamy in marrying Ms Li in 2007, despite being married to Smith since 1987.
The jury heard how Legris killed his second wife at their home in Burnham Drive, Bournemouth, as his finances were "desperate" and he wanted to cash in on her £300,000 life insurance policy.
Ms Li, 44, was last seen leaving Poole Hospital in her Porsche Boxster where she worked as a nurse, on 23 May last year.
The court heard Legris killed Ms Li at their home later that evening with forceful blows to the head, probably using a heavy implement.
He wrapped her body in a plastic sheet and stored it in the back of a transit van.
The judge, Mr Justice Dingemans said: "There was a clear intention to kill."
The body was left in the van over the bank holiday weekend while he ate Sunday lunch with his family and went to a dance show in Watford arm-in-arm with Smith.
Legris only reported his second wife missing on on 27 May at Bournemouth police station.
The same day the bigamist moved Ms Li's body into the boot of a Fiat Punto, owned by Jonathan Legris.
Jonathan drove the Punto containing his stepmother's body to Verwood Crescent in Bournemouth.
Her body was discovered on 30 May and a post-mortem examination showed she died of a significant head injury.
Legris claimed he had discovered Ms Li's body at their home and tried to hide it after he panicked.
Ms Li and Legris, who was also known as Alain Baron, ran a massage service and "on occasion provided sexual services".
Legris said in defence the killer could have been somebody the couple met through massage or swinging.
On the night of the murder, he claimed he had spent the evening watching EastEnders with Smith.
When he reported Ms Li missing four days after she had last been seen, the court heard he "showed no emotion" to police.
During the trial, Ms Li's daughter from a previous marriage, Lu Yao, said her mother had given her a will she had written.
Ms Yao told police her mother was concerned she might be pushed off a mountain during one of the regular climbing trips she took with her husband.
Smith, of St Clement's Road, was found guilty of perverting the course of justice as she provided a false alibi to Legris on the night of the murder.
The jury also found her guilty of assisting an offender by hiring a storage facility and placing her husband's clothes and French passport in it.
Jonathan Legris was found guilty of assisting an offender as he drove the Fiat containing Ms Li's body to a car park in Christchurch.
Rui Li's daughter Lu Yao said: "My mum was a wonderful person, a great teacher and the perfect mother to me.
"I have and will always love and respect her unconditionally.
"She will always be in my heart and she is missed every day.
"She worked hard all her life to provide for me, ensuring that I had the best possible upbringing."
A statement from Ms Li's colleagues at Poole Hospital said: "Rui was very conscientious, reliable and had a great attitude to her work.
"She was well respected by colleagues and patients alike, and is hugely missed as a valuable part of the family on the ward."
Det Insp Marcus Hester, of Dorset Police's major crime investigation team, said: "Pierre Legris killed Rui Li out of greed, placed her body in the boot of a van before driving to Watford to enjoy a weekend with his first wife Irene Smith.
"He lied repeatedly to the police and went to great efforts to hide her body."
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In the year to March 2015, there were 41,176 such crimes recorded, compared with 29,466 during the previous year.
Overall crime in Greater Manchester was up 10% during the same 12-month period.
Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy said: "This increase in recorded violent crime is showing some worrying trends and placing huge demand and risk on a reducing number of staff."
His force has lost more than 1,100 officers since 2010.
Greater Manchester's Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd called on Prime Minister David Cameron to "stop chipping away at the police service" and "invest in the safety of our local communities."
There were a total of 200,432 crimes recorded by Greater Manchester Police - a 10% rise, compared to 3% nationally.
Mr Lloyd said while police numbers were being cut, demands on police were increasing as they deal with more complex issues "such as child sexual exploitation and domestic abuse."
Reported sexual offences increased by 55% to 4,970 in 2014-15 while there was a 33.4 % rise in domestic violence in the region, with 19,621 recorded crimes.
Sir Peter added: "Many of these incidents are complex with vulnerable victims to be protected and dangerous offenders to be brought under control. We are bringing many more cases to court but keeping on top of this is getting more and more challenging."
On an average day, GMP deals with 532 crimes, including 51 daily victims of domestic abuse, 12 sexual assaults and 10 hate crimes.
National figures showed an increase in knife crime in England and Wales for the first time in four years.
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The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union said its 1,500 of its members would first walkout on 12 February for 24 hours.
Seven separate strikes are planned up to June over what the RMT calls "lethal changes to track access."
LU said safety was its top priority and more talks were planned next week.
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Why there could be a 48-hour Tube station staff strike this weekend
In a separate row over jobs, pay and rosters, staff working at stations are due to walk out from 21:00 GMT on 6 February for 48 hours.
But the RMT said last-minute talks over that issue had been "detailed and constructive".
Transport for London has warned some Tube stations will not open on Sunday and Monday if the strike by station staff goes ahead on Saturday.
Talking about the strike by maintenance staff, RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "From a situation where everyone knew how to access the track, we now have anarchy and uncertainty.
"Into this mix we have engineering train movements that we believe will lead to someone being killed and this union will not sit back and wait for a disaster to happen.
"These ill-conceived and lethal changes to track access must be reversed."
LU's Steve Griffiths said: "Safety is always our top priority and we have robust and comprehensive procedures in place to ensure that any staff working on the track are kept safe and are aware of any train movements.
"We have talked to our trade unions extensively about the changes we have made to track access for engineering work and will continue these discussions next week."
The maintenance workers strike dates:
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Ana Trujillo, 45, told a judge she "never wanted to kill" Alf Stefan Andersson and acted in self-defence.
But Andersson was struck at least 25 times in the neck and the face inside his Houston flat.
Trujillo had been found guilty of the murder on Tuesday. Jurors spent four hours deliberating on the sentence.
Prosecutor John Jordan asked jurors to deliver a life sentence, the maximum for the crime, saying Trujillo both violently killed Andersson and tried to ruin his reputation by claiming he had abused her.
"Send the message that in our community, when you beat a man to death for no reason, when you come into a courtroom and you slaughter his good name... that we in Texas are going to hold you accountable," Mr Jordan said.
Defence lawyers argued Trujillo had beaten him only in an attempt to get away after an hour-long fight during which she was chased, knocked into a wall and thrown over a sofa.
"I never meant to hurt him," Trujillo said before the judge confirmed the jury's decision. "It was never my intent. I loved him. I wanted to get away. I never wanted to kill him."
Her lawyers asked for a sentence of two years.
During the trial, prosecutors highlighted that Trujillo did not have any injuries after the confrontation, a claim her lawyers contested, while Andersson had defensive wounds on his hands and wrists.
The jury agreed with prosecutors on Friday, finding the crime had not been committed in the heat of sudden passion, which would have limited Trujillo's sentence to no more than 20 years.
After falling initially in morning trade, the Nikkei 225 index continued to build on Monday's gains and closed 0.1% higher at 15,323.14.
But with the yen remaining strong, Japanese exporters continued to suffer.
As investors remain on edge over the possible fallout from Brexit, they are flocking to the yen as a haven, driving the currency higher.
A rise in the yen makes Japanese goods more expensive abroad, potentially damaging the prospects of the country's crucial export sector.
On Monday, the government in Tokyo had tried to reassure businesses by promising it would take action if needed to rein in the yen.
Carmakers Toyota, Nissan and Honda - all of which have production sites in the UK - all saw their shares fall on Tuesday.
Shares in other exporters, such as Hitachi, Panasonic and Yamaha, also dropped.
Over in Hong Kong the Hang Seng index closed down 0.27% at 20,172.46, while China's benchmark Shanghai Composite closed up 0.58% to 2,912.56.
Australia's ASX/200 in Sydney fell 0.7% to close at 5,103.30.
South Korea's benchmark Kospi index was lower in morning trade but ended the day 0.5% higher at 1,936.22.
Shares in Europe, the UK and the US saw heavy losses on Monday with the uncertainty over the UK's economic future intensifying.
The UK has now lost its top AAA rating from all the three major ratings agencies.
He was fined 500,000 roubles (£6,000, $8,000) but avoided prison.
The case centred on a blog post he wrote on LiveJournal in 2015 with the headline Wipe Syria off the Face of the Earth.
Nosik was charged with inciting racial hatred after writing that he supported those who were bombing the country.
Judge Yevgeni Naydenov said: "Nosik's actions sought to incite enmity and hatred towards Syrians, a group of people based on ethnic and geographic characteristics."
Nosik wrote: "My opinion on this issue is that my statements do not contain any extremist views... I positively do not see any extremism in the fact that I will not feel sorry for the Syrian state."
The case has divided opinion in Russia, with some accusing the state of double standards while others have criticised Nosik for his controversial views.
Nosik, a former journalist, is considered by many in Russia to be an internet pioneer and was behind the development of several popular websites.
The country's extremism charge (Article 282 of the criminal code) is widely applied.
In 2015, a 23-year-old Muslim woman from Pervouralsk was convicted of extremism after saying New Year's Eve should not be marked because Santa Claus was "pagan".
The trial of Anton Nosik is a high-profile example of a recent trend in Russia that has seen increasing numbers of bloggers and social media users put in the dock for posting or simply reposting material online.
A few years ago, most cases of this sort were brought against people actually inciting violence.
These days, the defendants are often simply critics of Kremlin policy, especially in regard to Moscow's intervention in Ukraine.
Unlike Nosik, several of them have received substantial prison sentences, of up to five years.
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The Torbay-born forward is on a month's loan at Plainmoor from National League rivals Forest Green and has scored four goals in two games.
"That was my first hat-trick so I'm buzzing," Moore told BBC Radio Devon.
"I did have a good feeling, but it's a great start and hopefully I can continue this form."
The 24-year-old was part of Torquay's academy before it was disbanded in 2009, having also been a ball-boy at the club.
"I hope I can see the whole stint out and maybe more, you never know, but I'm enjoying it here, it's brilliant," he added.
"I was lacking that match sharpness, so a move to Torquay it was, but I don't think I was lacking that much."
Moore began playing football in the amateur South Devon League in Paignton before being picked up by non-league Truro City and eventually ending up at Yeovil Town.
He spent two years at Yeovil in the Championship and League One, before moving to Norway to play for Viking FK.
Moore said: "My career's taken a funny turn, maybe going out to Norway didn't help that, so in a sense I've had to rebuild myself and this is part of that.
"This is all for my career and hopefully I'll get back to those heights one day and prove that I am that Championship player and maybe better."
Emergency services were alerted at about 11:40 on Saturday.
The identity of the 44-year-old man has not been released at this stage.
The narrow rocky ridge is well-known, and a popular challenge, among hillwalkers and climbers,
The Delhi high court upheld a 2012 lower court order which had granted divorce, saying that taunting a spouse amounted to "mental cruelty".
The 35-year-old businessman weighs 100kg (220lb).
He said his wife regularly "humiliated him for being overweight and incapable of satisfying her sexual desires", Indian media reports said.
"The calling of names and hurling of abuses such as 'Hathi' [elephant], 'Mota Hathi' [fat elephant] by the appellant in respect of her husband - even if he was overweight, is bound to strike at his self-respect and self-esteem," India Today quoted Justice Vipin Sanghi as saying.
"Obviously, the respondent was sensitive to such taunts, and it is not the appellant's case that the taunts were made jokingly, or out of love and affection, and without malice," he added.
The woman had said her husband's allegations were "vague and non-specific", but the court rejected her argument.
HMT Sancta Maria plans to relocate from Uplands to a new 18-bed hospital planned for land between Fabian Way and Prince of Wales dock.
It will form part of the plot occupied by University of Wales Trinity Saint David's (UWTSD's).
Once open in 2019, the two organisations will work together to develop training and skills.
Sancta Maria is owned and operated by not-for-profit Healthcare Management Trust and provides private as well as NHS treatments.
HMT Sancta Maria's Hospital director, Stuart Hammond, said the new hospital would allow it to provide a wider range of treatments and services.
UWTSD's Vice Chancellor, Prof Medwin Hughes, said it would help drive its healthcare learning courses, especially in elderly care.
Officials said 300 properties in Ocean Village, Southampton, had been left unsafe because of the problem.
The three apartment blocks were initially evacuated on Sunday and then fully closed on Tuesday.
Firefighters said a basement had flooded, cutting the electricity in the Admirals Quay development.
The problem has affected flats in Blake Building, Moresby Tower and Hawkins Tower, leaving them without communal or emergency lighting, lifts, fire defence systems or a fresh water supply.
Management firm SDL Bigwood has said people will be allowed back home on Saturday morning "at the earliest".
In a letter to residents, it said the issue posed a "major risk" to safety in the buildings.
A spokesman said some people had been allowed to stay in their homes on Sunday night, before it "became clear on Tuesday the entire building needed to be placed in lock down".
All three buildings share the same water tank and electricity mains panel, he said.
He said SDL was currently working with insurers, who have appointed a critical management team and agreed to reimburse accommodation costs incurred by owners of the flats.
A spokesman for Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said they were called on Sunday night to an automatic fire alarm.
He said: "This was caused by flooding to an electrical system which resulted in a power cut. Once we ascertained there was no fire we handed the situation over to the housing management company."
Pauliina Aminoff, who lives on the 22nd floor, said she had friends visiting when the fire alarms went off.
She said: "We all ran out and we were waiting for three hours with no information whatsoever. Just before midnight we got back in and the emergency light was off so it was completely dark, no electricity no water.
"There needs to be someone to take responsibility, they need to inform us."
Ms Aminoff also said the management company needed better emergency signs and lights.
SDL said it complied fully with health and safety regulations.
Fellow resident Evin Huang said she was "very shocked" and it had been "very inconvenient" because management were telling them to book hotels on a day-to-day basis.
During his speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet in London, the PM tried to copy her distinctive tone - albeit admitting first, "I can't quite do the accent."
The Sydney Morning Herald called the impersonation "bizarre".
An article on the news.com.au website, called it "perhaps one of the worst Aussie accents in history".
Mr Cameron and Miss Gillard met last month when Australia hosted the Commonwealth heads of government meeting.
At that summit, Commonwealth countries voted in favour of abolishing the rules giving males priority in the order of succession to the British throne.
Recounting his experience of the trip to the audience at the banquet on Monday, Mr Cameron said: "After the meeting, I turned to the Australian prime minister and said, 'Thank you very much Julia for allowing us to have this meeting in Australia.'
"And she said - I can't quite do the accent but I'll try - 'Not a bit David, this is good news for Sheilas everywhere.'"
The impersonation seemed to go down well in the hall, with laughter and clapping, including from the PM's wife Samantha and his Justice Secretary Ken Clarke.
However, on the other side of the world the reception was more of the lead balloon variety.
Sydney's Daily Telegraph newspaper wrote: "Prime Minister Julia Gillard has taken the mickey out of her own accent, now British Prime Minister David Cameron has had a go."
Writing on news.com.au, Owen Vaughan said the impression was "worse than James Coburn's half-Cockney, half-American attempt in The Great Escape" and "worse than Meryl Streep's "Ah Ding-gow ay-t my baibee" in the film Evil Angels (released under the name A Cry in the Dark in Europe and the US).
"It's so bad it could cause a diplomatic row," he wrote.
"He was regaling his audience with an account of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth last month - and probably felt the need to liven things up, and maybe get his own back on Ms Gillard for not curtseying for the Queen.
"The audience applauded but it is likely Mr Cameron will face a very different reception the next time he meets a 'Sheila'.
"Let's hope Barack Obama avoids the same mistake when he arrives in Australia tomorrow."
However, some reader comments underneath the article were a bit kinder.
One correspondent wrote: "I fail to see what is wrong with his impersonation of Gillard's accent. On the contrary, his Aussie accent is better to listen to."
Miss Gillard, who was born in Wales, has made reference to her own strong accent on a number of occasions.
Asked by a British reporter during the recent Commonwealth summit whether being born in the UK made any difference to her opinion on whether Australia should become a republic, she replied: "I am an Australian... You don't get an accent like this from being anything else."
Mr Cameron also joked about his white tie dress during the speech, likening himself to an extra in ITV's period drama Downton Abbey, which has recently finished.
He said: "Now that our Sunday nights are empty, this is a pleasure, although I felt in my own circumstances, I rather needed Mr Bates [the valet] to help me out."
The local authority is seeking views from residents about where cuts and savings could be made.
A list of more than 100 possible savings has been put forward, including cutting back on public works to reducing the primary school week by two and a half hours.
Public suggestions will be taken before the budget is finalised in February.
Council leader Craig Martin said feedback from the public would help the authority "come to a better decision" over cuts.
He said: "These savings come at a time when the local population is increasing and demand for services is at an all time high. Attempting to reduce costs but provide the same services presents a difficult challenge.
"No decisions have been taken on savings yet and feedback from both the public and staff will be taken into account before the budget is finalised in February 2015."
More than 100 options have been put forward as part of the consultation, with residents asked to rate each one.
They include cutting the primary school week from 25 to 22.5 hours, saving £595,000; reducing the number of support for learning assistants, saving £400,000; reducing social work day services, saving £460,000; and bringing in new parking charges, raising £130,000.
Cutting subsidies to unprofitable bus routes would save £1.8m, while cutting additional funding to youth employment support could raise £500,000. A further £200,000 could be saved by closing one of the council's household waste recycling sites.
Another option would see £620,000 cut from the budget of the Falkirk Community Trust.
The projected shortfall for 2015/16 is £7.8m, with further gaps of £17.4m in 2016/17 and £15.2m in 2017/18.
The authority, which has an annual service budget of about £332m, has already saved £70m over the past eight years.
Thomas Cook reported both a jump in the number of customers and the amount they are spending.
It said the number of euro transactions it completed between the end of February and early March was up by over a third on the same time last year.
Its sales by value were up 65%.
In the past fortnight alone, Thomas Cook - which has more than 800 High Street branches - says it has sold £22.8m (€31m) worth of euros.
Fraser Millar, its head of foreign exchange, told BBC Radio 5 live: "Some customers are forward buying for holidays they have already booked, while others are buying now before they have even booked their holiday."
The Post Office has also revealed that online sales of euros are up by more than a half on this time last year and adds that in one week in late January, when the pound hit 1.34 to the euro, sales rose 363%.
Saga Travel, which specialises in the retirement market, says that between February and April, euro sales were double that seen in 2014. Asda Money says they were up by 20%.
Online currency brokers, specialising in the expat and business markets, are also reporting a similar flood of transactions.
Slough-based brokerage HiFX says it saw new client numbers rise by 64% in the first few months of the year. It says most are Britons buying properties in the eurozone or topping up foreign bank accounts.
Caxton FX says that between February and April, sales of euros rose 286% on the same period in 2014.
Market analysts say that while sterling remains weak against the dollar, in Europe the pound is benefiting both from the relative strength of the UK economy and the continuing problems in the eurozone.
The European Central Bank recently introduced negative interest rates to try to boost growth, while questions remain over the future of Greece.
The pound is also gaining ground around the world, especially against popular holiday currencies such as the Turkish lira and the Thai baht.
Andrew Brown of Post Office Money says customers are increasingly choosing their holiday destination based on where they can get the best return.
"[Sterling's] biggest gains have been against the Scandinavian and Eastern European currencies," he says.
"People seem aware of this and are picking places like Mexico and Mauritius, where they know they can get more for their money."
Post Office says its sales of the Croatian kuna in April were up 91% on the same month in 2014.
There is evidence that an uncertain general election result in the UK is affecting the way people are buying currency, according to some brokers.
Volatile trading on Friday saw sterling fall 1.3% to the dollar.
HiFx says the number of clients using so-called "forward contracts" to lock into the current market rate is up by more than a third.
These contracts allow buyers to book a large amount of foreign currency ahead of time by putting down a small deposit in advance. They are often used to fund property purchases.
Economists, however, say that despite recent nervousness, they expect the pound to continue to strengthen later in the year.
Chief economist with brokers World First, Jeremy Cook, told Radio 5 live: "I think if we see a quick and relatively painless resolution to what goes on in Greece, we may see a little bit of euro strength. In the longer term, however, I am looking to see sterling... come back up to the 1.45 level over the rest of the year."
Two men were injured, one of whom was treated in hospital, following the incident on Bell Street, near Distrikt nightclub, at about 03:00 on 29 June.
The man police want to trace is white, with brown hair, about 28 years old and of slim-to-medium build.
At the time of the incident he was wearing a black leather jacket, blue jeans and dark trainers.
Rotherham led through Lee Frecklington but goals from Robert Snodgrass, Abel Hernandez, Jake Livermore and Mohamed Diame put Hull 4-1 up by half-time.
Livermore added his second and the hosts' fifth after the break and the visitors slipped to 21st in the table.
Victory secured Hull home advantage in the second leg of their play-off semi-final against fifth-placed Derby.
Steve Bruce named arguably his strongest side, resisting the chance to rest key players, and was rewarded with a classy, bicycle kick from Hernandez - the Uruguayan's 20th league goal of the season.
Snodgrass' fine volley had cancelled out Frecklington's strike into the top corner, and the hosts netted five times between the 25th and 59th minutes.
Rotherham, who had been looking for a league double over the Tigers, dropped one place in the table as Fulham beat Bolton.
Neil Warnock's side had gone 11 games unbeaten before last Saturday's loss to Blackburn but now end the season with consecutive defeats.
Hull had been winless on the final day of their previous 11 seasons, with four draws and seven losses.
Hull manager Steve Bruce: "We're always saying it's nice to have a bit of momentum and it was good to see today. We really looked a very good side.
"It's nice to go in with a bit of impetus but they are two huge games to play in. All of my big players and the experienced ones were playing today."
Rotherham manager Neil Warnock: "We started the game well but we had that 20-minute period where we just lost the plot.
"We had to play for our pride in the second half, I didn't want to get battered by eight or nine goals."
Its poll of 30,000 people found overall happiness on 74% for Northern Rail's Lancashire to Cumbria route, but 98% on Grand Central's London-Bradford trains.
The Bradford service scored 82% in the value for money category, compared with 28% for the Stansted Express.
Industry body the Rail Delivery Group said average satisfaction remained at record highs but it was not complacent.
The National Rail Passenger Survey, published twice a year, was conducted between September and November last year; people were asked for their opinion on the journey they were taking on that day. It found overall satisfaction with rail services was 83%, down from 85% a year before.
"Although generally satisfaction has remained fairly high over the last five years, we want to see a more consistently high level of service for passengers, wherever they may be travelling to and from," said David Sidebottom, acting chief executive of Passenger Focus.
He said a key factor in the survey findings was punctuality, which had barely changed in the last five years.
Overall satisfaction in this category dropped since the previous year from 83% to 79%.
Services rated as having low satisfaction for reliability and punctuality included London Midland's West Coast service with a 60% rating and First Capital Connect's Thameslink loop on 67%.
The highest-rated routes in this category were South West Trains' Island Line on the Isle of Wight and Merseyrail's Wirral route, both on 98%, followed by Virgin's London to Liverpool service on 97%.
Passenger Focus said satisfaction with how train operators handled delays also varied too widely, with its findings revealing that only 23% of people were happy with Northern Rail's South and East Yorkshire route, compared with 69% for East Coast's route from London to Scotland.
Michael Roberts, director general of the Rail Delivery Group industry body, said: "Even though overall passenger satisfaction remains at a near record high, these latest results are a sober reminder that the industry can never be complacent on the issues that matter to passengers.
"All parts of the rail industry are stepping up efforts to reduce delays and improve how we communicate with passengers, particularly during disruption. We will continue to listen to and act on what passengers tell us is important."
Rail Minister Stephen Hammond said he shared passengers' concerns over punctuality.
He added: "We are investing more than £38bn to maintain and improve our railways, and the industry must make sure that investment translates into improvements on the ground.
"I also recognise there are areas where satisfaction is low, such as fares. That is why we have reduced the average regulated fare rise."
Anna Walker, from the Office of Rail Regulation, said: "To see satisfaction dip to 83% partly due to declining punctuality and reliability of services is disheartening, and reinforces our decision to bring in tough new punctuality targets for the railways."
The survey was published as the Citizens Advice charity said the number of people seeking advice about trains has trebled, from 14,138 in 2012 to 43,282 last year, with most inquiries being about getting compensation or making a complaint.
The winning film, I Daniel Blake, marks the 13th time that Loach, the director of more than 50 movies, has competed at the event. It's also exactly 10 years since he won the same prize for his 2006 Irish drama The Wind That Shakes The Barley, starring Cillian Murphy.
Loach uses I, Daniel Blake to expose the welfare system in the UK, and says he wants the film "to break audience's hearts, but also to make them angry".
Daniel Blake, played by stand-up comedian Dave Johns, is an older man living in Newcastle who, because of a heart attack, can no longer do his job.
However, a mobility test by the Department of Work and Pensions declares him fit for work and while he waits for his appeal, Daniel Blake can only claim Jobseekers Allowance.
His inability to take any work offered means his money is stopped, and he begins to go hungry.
Loach, a social campaigner for most of his career, believes the current criteria for claiming benefits in the UK is "a Kafka-esque, Catch 22 situation designed to frustrate and humiliate the claimant to such an extent that they drop out of the system and stop pursuing their right to ask for support if necessary".
"The state's attitude is not an accident," he claims.
"The poverty, the indignity, the humiliation people go through is consciously done.
"The state is knowingly inefficient or cruel, knowing that people will be driven to frustration, despair, hunger and possible suicide.
"Claimants are portrayed as 'scroungers' in the media but research has found that less than 1% of claims for benefits are fraudulent.
"That's certainly less than the figures for tax evasion, for example.
"But there's an attitude that suggests that if you're poor, it's your fault. If you are out of a job, it's your fault. It's done to get the numbers down and the most vulnerable in our society are suffering as a result."
Half a century ago, Ken Loach wrote the screenplay for the BBC play Cathy Come Home, which examined homelessness in Britain in 1966, and the director says his latest film "is a snapshot of how life can be lived in Britain in 2016".
"We wanted to explore the human consequences of welfare policy in terms of relationships, and who people become through these policies."
Loach and his long-time collaborator, writer Paul Laverty, spent several months visiting British cities such as Stoke, Newcastle, Liverpool and Glasgow, meeting people seeking work, or on low-paid or zero-hour contracts.
"We started in my home town of Nuneaton and met a young lad there who was sleeping on a mattress in a charity home.
"He was doing the odd bit of work on zero-hour contracts, he'd given up on benefits - he said it was too humiliating.
"He hadn't worked for a couple of weeks, and the week before he hadn't eaten for four days.
"I opened his fridge and there was nothing in it - nothing at all. And this was one of the first people we encountered."
Loach and Laverty say they also based a pivotal scene in the film, where a mother arrives at a food bank having not eaten for days, on a real anecdote from one of the centres they visited in Glasgow.
"Food banks have been praised by the state without any sense of shame at all and yet it's appalling in 2016 that people are having to make the choice between food and heating, which is common.
"After the war in 1945, we were desperately poor in Britain, but there is no way people would have been starving, their communities wouldn't have let them.
"That we now have this situation is testament to the policy of individualism that successive governments have pursued.
"It's shocking that we are apparently such a wealthy nation with such grotesque wealth at the top and such desperate poverty and fear at the very bottom."
The film has won widespread acclaim from critics, with Variety magazine calling it "one of Loach's finest films, a drama of tender devastation, a work of scalding and moving relevance".
But despite its concentration on the UK welfare system, Loach, who will be 80 next month, insists that the movie also applies to an international audience.
"There is a conscious cruelty in the way we organise our lives now which means the most vulnerable people in society, such as the disabled, are caught in this unfair situation.
"They are often unable to live with dignity, and instead suffer pain and deep despair.
"It's deeply shocking that this is happening at the heart of our world."
I, Daniel Blake will be released in the UK later this year
After losing 56-55 to Paralympic champions Germany in the semis, Britain were dominant throughout on Sunday.
Helen Freeman and Jordanna Bartlett led the scoring with 10 points apiece.
The British men face Turkey in their final at 17:15 BST as they chase a third consecutive European title.
A win over Spain on Thursday had already guaranteed the women's team a top-four finish and a place at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio.
"Friday's defeat was hard for us to take but I'm very proud of the way we have come out to win bronze," captain Sophie Carrigill told BBC Sport.
"This tournament has been a massive motivator for all of us. We have developed so much as a team and that is a real benefit for us ahead of Rio."
Stella Kambi, 17, died after going into the water at Thorpe Marshes nature reserve near Norwich to try to save Bonheur Musungay, 14, on 12 August.
An inquest, which was opened and adjourned in Norwich, heard that a number of people tried to find them without success.
Post-mortem examinations confirmed the teenagers both drowned.
At the brief hearing, Norfolk assistant coroner Johanna Thompson said both Stella and Bonheur were in a group of adults and children at the former quarry.
She said at about 16:40 BST Bonheur was in the water when he began to get into difficulties.
Stella jumped into the water to try and help him but then got into trouble herself, the inquest heard.
Onlookers said they saw the pair disappear under the water.
Their bodies were eventually found by fire crews at about 19:40 BST.
A full inquest will be held in March next year.
Visitors to the site are greeted with a message that says "Page Not Found! It's not you. It's the internet's fault".
A group called "Lizard Squad" has taken credit for the outage, posting "PSN Login #offline #LizardSquad" as their Twitter status.
The outage is the most recent in a series of attacks on tech giant Sony.
The Japanese firm's Hollywood film studios' corporate network was hacked into last month, followed by an online leak of unreleased movies, along with confidential information such as actors' salaries.
Sony Entertainment Network has responded by tweeting that they are aware of the issues that users are having in connecting to the PlayStation network.
"Thanks for your patience as we investigate," the company tweeted at about midnight GMT.
The disruption comes just days after the gaming console celebrated its 20th anniversary last week.
Meanwhile, the outage on the PlayStation network follows one on Microsoft Xbox network, which was down for at least a day last week.
Lizard Squad also claimed it was behind the attack.
The Xbox network was hit with a DDOS, or a distributed denial of service attack, which overloaded the system, stopping users from getting online.
The hacker group had then said that its Xbox attack was just "a small dose" of what was to come over the Christmas season.
Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility for attacks that have taken high-profile targets like EA games and Destiny offline in the past.
Known as Lizard Patrol on Twitter, the anonymous collective has a Russian-based website.
Canadian culture has always been a bit of a mystery, even to Canadians.
We're not particularly fond of flag-waving, and it's rare to hear rowdy chants of "Ca-na-da! Ca-na-da!" break out at a bar unless, of course, the hockey game is on.
But over the course of the past year, Canadians have made concerts national events. They have attended playoff games in droves, cheering on their teams and jeering anyone foolish enough to doubt them. And when the Toronto Blue Jays had a hot streak, Canadians become some of the loudest supporters of America's favourite pastime, baseball.
Maybe blame it on Justin Trudeau.
The telegenic prime minister began 2016 on the heels of a selfie-filled election victory and a flashy Vogue Magazine cover. Tongues wagged - wasn't the whole thing a little too tacky, a little too American?
"Playing dress-up for the photo was silly" tweeted one particularly grumpy journalist.
But the celebrity treatment was only getting started.
Everywhere Mr Trudeau goes, he's surrounded by a throng of people, Canadians and foreigners alike, eager to take their picture with him. When he visited Washington for a state dinner, his meeting with outgoing president Barack Obama was heralded as a bromance for the ages.
While Trudeau's popularity is by no means assured at home, his rising star has caused more than a few media pundits to ponder the once-unthinkable: could Canada be cool?
"It's all very exciting, eh? But still … Canada? The land of hyper-politeness and constant apology? The home of maple syrup, poutine, the gentle sport of curling and 10% of the world's forests?" the New York Times gently scoffed earlier this year.
Fans of the Toronto Raptors certainly seem to think so. The basketball team has developed a reputation for having some of the most devoted fans in the NBA, who proudly and loudly chanted the team's slogan "We the North" throughout the team's historic playoff run.
Adding to the frenzy was the appearance of Toronto rapper Drake. As the Raptors' celebrity ambassador, he showed up one night for a surprise performance when the team took on the Indiana Pacers.
It was the apex of Raptorsmania, and for the rest of the team's playoff run, fans would randomly scream Drake's name during the game as if calling on the messiah.
But nothing quite rallies Canadian fans together more than feeling slighted.
When the Raptors were left out of a CBS Sports poll on who would win the championship, it triggered a Twitter hashtag: #WetheOther.
"Please don't hesitate to have your people call my office to get prime camera positions for the parade after the Toronto Raptors win the NBA Championship," Toronto Mayor John Tory wrote to CBS Sports. "We will mark their space as 'other.'"
That love for the underdog is partly what helped endear the band The Tragically Hip to so many Canadian fans over the years, and sparked national mourning when frontman Gord Downie announced he had terminal brain cancer this spring.
Fans openly wept, and everyone from Mr Trudeau to actor Will Arnett expressed their condolences.
When the band announced they would tour this summer to promote their latest album, they were greeted with the kind of fan frenzy usually reserved for secret Beyonce album releases.
Tickets sold out in minutes, and soon the biggest story about the Hip wasn't Downie's cancer, but whether scalpers were ruining the show for true fans.
But while Downie, with his feathered hats and reference-heavy songs like "Bobcaygeon", may seem like an odd choice for a national icon, his disregard for the trappings of American pop stardom helped cement his status as a truly Canadian legend.
"[Interviewers] always ask us about our success or lack of success in the States, which I find absurd," Downie said once. "While that is a story of the band, there are so many other stories."
Almost 12 million people tuned into the live broadcast of the tour's final concert in Kingston, Ontario. For about three hours on that summer night in August, a third of the country stopped what they were doing and listened to the band play.
It was the kind of cultural touchstone that happens only once in a generation, if that.
After the first encore, the rest of the band left the stage, leaving Downie alone with the audience as wave after wave of applause poured over him.
It was so deafening; it was almost like silence.
Mohammed and Nazimabee Golamaully, from Mitcham, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to transferring £219, knowing it may be used for terrorist purposes.
Nephew Zafirr Golamaully travelled from his home on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius to join IS.
His uncle and aunt will be sentenced on 10 November.
They did not tell Zafirr's parents and their money transfer was only discovered during a police investigation into a worldwide network of terrorism funding.
Prosecutors said that, before leaving his home in Mauritius, Zafirr had spoken to his uncle on the messaging app Whatsapp, asking for help to deceive his parents.
In March 2014 Zafirr said: "Told them I'm going to get 'nursing' training and that I won't be available for next two weeks."
Mohammed Golamaully, 48, replied: "The story of two weeks training sounds plausible prior to undertaking humanitarian aid."
Soon afterwards Zafirr was in Syria, fighting with IS, and attracting attention under the online alias Abu Hud, using social media to offer detailed instructions to others who wanted to travel to Syria.
He told his uncle: "They taught us military stances, formations and weapons."
The pair then discussed how to send money by Western Union transfer.
In another exchange Zafirr said that he might be going into battle soon in eastern Syria. His uncle reassured him that he would not say a word to his parents.
At the same time Mohammed Golamaully was having secret chats with Zafirr's sister Lubnaa, telling his niece "to revolutionise the Islamic concept amongst our close relatives".
In March 2015 Lubnaa is believed to have also travelled to Syria, texting her uncle to say Zafirr had bought her a gun.
Mohammed Golamaully warned her: "You'll need to learn how to use it now."
Later that day Nazimabee Golamaully, 45, spoke with the children's mother, Zulekha, on Whatsapp asking if she was OK.
She received the reply: "No, we are not okay… been in shock… I do not know if we have missed anything in our education of our children."
Nazimabee replied: "Not at all, instead maybe u have been blessed but u just can't see it now."
The role the married couple played was exposed by chance by detectives who were looking into a network that was funnelling payments totalling more than £100,000 in three months from around the world to IS via a middle man in Turkey.
One of the payments they discovered was from Nazimabee Golamaully's bank account. She told police it was to fund her nephew's studies in Turkey but in court she admitted it was to fund terrorism.
The boy has been charged with first-degree murder as a juvenile.
According to police, he shot neighbour McKayla Dyer on Saturday evening after she refused to let him see her puppy.
In another fatal child shooting case, authorities said on Monday that an 11-year-old boy fatally shot his brother while target shooting in Ohio.
The boys were with two adults, who had three loaded guns on a picnic table. The younger boy picked one up and it fired, killing his 12-year-old brother.
An investigation is pending but authorities said the shooting appears to have been accidental.
In Tennessee, the deceased girl's mother Latasha said that the two children went to the same school in White Pine, about 200 miles (315km) east of Nashville.
She said the family had had trouble with the boy when they first moved to the area.
"He was making fun of her, calling her names, just being mean to her. I had to go to the principal about him and he quit for a while and then all of a sudden yesterday he shot her," Ms Dyer told WATE-TV.
"She was a precious little girl. She was mommy's girl. No matter how bad of a mood you were in, she could always make you smile."
"I want her back in my arms," she said.
The Gun Violence Archive, a not-for-profit organisation that compiles data on gun violence in the US, says 559 children aged 11 or under have been killed or injured in the United States in gun violence so far this year.
Read more: US gun violence in numbers
The boy shot the girl from inside his home with his father's 12-gauge shotgun, Jefferson County Sheriff Bud McCoig said.
McKayla was taken to a nearby hospital where she later died.
Neighbour Chastity Arwood told WBIR News that she heard the shot ring out and saw McKayla lying on the grass.
"Trying to comfort her mama and her aunt and her grandma and her grandpa and her sister and her brother was the hardest thing I ever had to do," Ms Arwood said.
The boy, whose identity has not been released due to his status as a juvenile, is scheduled to appear in court again on 28 October.
The shooting took place only two days after a mass shooting at a small town college in Oregon in which nine people were killed.
Philander, who signed for Sussex in December, will now be unavailable for the Sharks in their One-Day Cup games.
The 31-year-old South Africa international is expected back for four County Championship games before his contract ends in the middle of June.
He scored 21 runs and failed to take a wicket as Sussex lost their season opener to Kent by 226 runs.
Meanwhile, Sussex have confirmed that they have brought in former Leicestershire opening batsman Angus Robson on a season-long trial.
The 25-year-old, who left the Foxes by mutual consent on 11 April, will be able to play for Sussex's second team with a view to earning a contract for next season.
There are concerns about the safety of China's teams, while athletes have been complaining on social media about the state of their accommodation, which they say is hindering their training.
Many social media users are already calling the games in Brazil "the worst Olympics ever".
They say the event wins a gold medal in bad, making London 2012, which was criticised by some, look good by comparison.
There are 416 Chinese Olympians in Rio.
State media have been voicing concerns about safety since April, when trial events were held.
At the time, Xinhua News Agency identified a "security issue" after Chinese women fencers were robbed and shooting team members found "unauthorised payments" on their credit cards.
This week, the foreign ministry warned Chinese visitors to avoid "dangerous" areas of Rio and vowed to increase protection for Chinese athletes after a hurdler fell victim to a scam.
Shi Dongpeng said on Sina Weibo that his luggage - including his laptop - had been stolen in an elaborate hoax involving a distraction in which he was apparently vomited on.
State media have used overseas-facing English language platforms to tell international readers about the conditions that Chinese athletes face.
Xinhua's @XHSports account on Twitter criticises the supposedly shoddy, and in some instances unsafe, accommodation for athletes.
It carries pictures, including an image of a table tennis player's room showing a gaping hole in the ceiling. Other posts say there is no electricity, or even water, in some rooms.
Xinhua also takes a dig at the selection of Western food at the Olympic village, saying, "For #TeamChina athletes, it seems they can not find much to their tastes".
On Sina Weibo, posts from disgruntled Chinese athletes have received thousands of comments.
Table tennis player Fan Zhendong has posted a video of teammates trying to put up a shower curtain. It has been shared more than 20,000 times.
Tens of thousands of users responded to fellow table tennis player Zhang Jike's Weibo page, asking, "Is your bathroom ready yet?", prompting him to post that he is "happy... distractions aside".
Feng Zhe, an Olympic parallel bars champion, adds that, "All the training room toilets are blocked, and so all closed," and that "female teammates have had no option but to return to the [Olympic] village".
Olympic swimmer Ning Zetao has not had anything negative to say, but tens of thousands of users have taken to his Weibo page, sarcastically warning him to "beware of toxic water".
Most posts using the #RioOlympics hashtag come from social media users criticising the apparent safety risks. Yang Jingyu says the forthcoming event has become "one big joke".
Lu Zhimin says the biggest task for the athletes this year is to "come back alive". Vivienne_Rui quips, "Our country should dispatch to Brazil the World Championship-Level disaster support group".
"Be sure to double-check the gymnastic equipment!" jokes Xiari Weifeng Xiaohan. Others joke about the uneven bars being a bit more than uneven.
"I really thought that London had the worst Olympics ever; I never expected this," says y_oyeaiyaai.
CindyFoxYeye agrees, saying, "London is finally able to regain some face."
China was notably proud about hosting the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, which were the most watched in history, attracting 4.7 billion viewers worldwide.
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Sometimes it is the case when you play a top player early in a tournament that you're a bit more focused, a bit more alert.
When you're going through the tactics for the match it's maybe a little bit more precise, because you're aware that if you get it wrong, the best players will make you pay for that.
If you play a guy you don't really know, it's difficult to get the right gameplan, so it also helps that I know Juan Martin's game very well.
We've played each other many, many times from juniors right through to the biggest matches as pros.
But he's still one of the best players in the world, and after struggling with my game and what I was trying to do for a while, rather than actually concentrating on actually trying to beat my opponent, it was great to get things right.
Working things out tactically and making adjustments during matches gives me confidence, so that's been a real positive for me over the last couple of matches.
Certain players look up to their box more than others and generally all you would like to see coming back is encouragement.
Everyone's different in how they watch - Ivan Lendl obviously doesn't say a lot, Jamie Delgado's a little bit more vocal, my physical trainer Matt Little and my physio Mark Bender are probably the most vocal in the box in terms of encouragement.
But there's nothing organised, we don't sit down and discuss what they do or hand out different roles within the box.
I guess if they were on their phones or looking completely disinterested, or cracking up and having a laugh up there, I would probably find it a bit difficult to concentrate.
In that respect, what the people in your box do could have an impact on your concentration, but from a player's perspective that time between points is all about preparing for the next one.
What happens during the three or four seconds after a point ends is generally your reaction to winning or losing that point.
You can be very pumped - "great, I've won the point" or "damn, I've lost the point and just got broken, I'm really upset".
But you then have another 15 to 20 seconds to either calm yourself down and think about the next one, or spend that time thinking about what just happened - "why did I just get broken serving for the set?"
I don't feel against Del Potro that was the case at all, and I also feel for large parts of the previous match against Martin Klizan that was a real positive for me as well.
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Last year was the first time at the French Open that we stayed in a house near to the courts, and we're doing the same again this time.
It's very relaxed, we can eat at home and watch TV, spend family time together.
We've been following all the political debates from home as well the football, like the Europa League and Champions League finals - does that count as watching French TV?
It's very different in New York, for example, because we stay in the city and it's really busy.
You'd sign up for 40 minutes getting to the courts, so there's quite a lot of time spent going to and from the tennis, which makes the days feel a bit longer.
Here, we're five minutes away and it's great. I can arrive a bit later and get back quickly to see the family.
It's not quite Wimbledon, when I get to stay in my own bed every night, but it feels a little bit more like normal home life than the other Slams.
Hopefully I can extend my stay a little longer, I'm not ready to go home quite yet.
Andy Murray was talking to BBC Sport's Piers Newbery
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A day after world football's governing body confirmed it had caused an unprecedented upheaval to the sporting calendar, many may have expected its secretary-general to be in a conciliatory mood.
Not a bit of it.
As Jerome Valcke addressed journalists at a news conference in Doha, he was as bold and brash as the opulent, gilded furnishings at the five-star Doha Ritz-Carlton Hotel where he spoke.
With the top brass of the newly constituted Local Organising Committee sitting alongside him, and Qatar 2022's squadron of British public relations operatives nervously watching on, the Frenchman came out swinging.
Refusing to apologise for the disruption a winter 2022 World Cup in Qatar would cause, and defiantly dismissing the demand by Europe's top clubs for financial compensation, Valcke bristled and baulked at the suggestion that blowing a seven-week hole in domestic league calendars warranted some major concessions.
The clubs - he said - would again receive money from the World Cup as they did in 2010 and 2014, depending on how many days their players were on international duty. And that was all they would get.
In an under-statement of epic proportions, Valcke conceded that the situation "isn't perfect", before saying critics like the Premier League should just "enjoy yourselves in a different environment without screaming and saying 'it's impossible'".
But as ever in the dubious and murky world of football politics, nothing is quite as it seems. Valcke was deliberately playing hardball, setting out Fifa's stall for the inevitable battles that lie ahead.
The European Club Association will be aiming for an especially generous agreement over the release of players for the next two World Cups, and the bargaining began in earnest on Wednesday.
But what would Richard Scudamore have thought, back in London after his briefest of stop-overs in Doha for Tuesday's meeting of the Qatar 2022 Fifa taskforce?
The Premier League supremo must have wondered why he had bothered.
The meeting - for which football executives had flown in for from all around the world on first-class flights - took all of an hour. There was no proper debate by all accounts. The recommendation of a switch to November/December was presented as a done deal.
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Scudamore, the representative of the richest clubs in the world, and fresh from negotiating the biggest TV deal in football history, is not a man used to being messed around or having his time wasted.
And now - with British football's cherished festive fixture programme in jeopardy because of Uefa's support for Fifa's idea of a World Cup Final on 23 December (which will also make it difficult for fans who attend to get home for Christmas of course), he must work out what to do.
Fifa handing out money to the big clubs for the release of players at the World Cup is all well and good. But what about the smaller clubs who do not provide many international players? What do they get in return for having their seasons fractured? For the sudden break in their cash flow?
How much less will the broadcasters pay the League, now they have to account for a two-month break in the season?
In a statement, Scudamore said he was considering what "action" to take. Litigation is a possibility. But if not, there will still be a knock-on effect for other parties caught up in this.
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The Premier League is furious with Fifa and will now want to alleviate the pressure on their disrupted calendar in 2022, as well as the season before and after the World Cup year.
The clubs will now consider various options - the scrapping of FA Cup replays, along with two-legged League Cup semi-finals.
More international friendlies are almost certain to be sacrificed, and European football's governing body Uefa could be asked to look at the format of the Champions League and Europa League to reduce the number of fixtures clubs are asked to play.
If you think clubs are reluctant to release players for friendlies and age-representative tournaments now, imagine their mood going forward.
Solutions like these may suit the richest, top clubs, emboldened by bumper TV deals, but what about clubs lower down the ladder, who desperately depend on FA Cup replays for essential income?
What about the Football Association, whose finances depend on as many international friendlies and fixtures at debt-laden Wembley as possible?
Will it really want the FA Cup's format to be meddled with in the 2022-23 season, when the 100th anniversary of the first FA Cup Final at Wembley is due to be celebrated? The ramifications of all this reach far and wide.
In short, expect the rifts and divisions that already blight football to be widened like never before, perhaps beyond repair, as the fall-out from Fifa's scandal-ridden and bungled bidding process continues.
The Premier League - and other factions in the sport - can now exploit this dispute to get what they want elsewhere.
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Many will find it hard to sympathise too much with the Premier League, awash with £5bn of TV revenue.
After all, with more and more foreign talent coming into the clubs, players disappearing in the middle of the season is hardly a new phenomenon; take the recent Africa Cup of Nations and Asian Cup for instance. Leagues elsewhere in Europe handle winter breaks just fine.
In fact, as former England international Phil Neville said on Tuesday, it may just be a blessing in disguise for the England team, who for once may not turn up for a major tournament on their last legs.
And some will accuse Scudamore of hypocrisy, complaining of a threat to the Premier League's "integrity" when a few years ago it was he who came up with the idea for a '39th game'.
Europe's top clubs of course seem more than happy to accept investment and sponsorship from the Middle East.
They are happy to go there on pre-season tours. So why then should they not be flexible in order to take the game's showpiece event to a new part of the world. A place where it can be a unifying force?
Certainly, when compared with the continuing poor treatment of many migrant workers on construction sites in Qatar, the clubs' dismay at the inconvenience of a mid-season break seems somewhat mis-placed.
For many critics, Fifa arrogance's appeared to reach new heights here in Doha.
The 'taskforce', conveniently portrayed as a democratic means of giving different parties in the game a voice, seemed like a stitch-up, with the November/December solution decided upon months ago.
They will point to Valcke's claim that "we did what we had to do" over the recent decision to suddenly award US TV giant Fox the rights to the 2026 World Cup (especially valuable as it will probably be staged in the United States), as a tacit admission that is was designed to placate the network.
Another example of an organisation making it up as it goes along. (Fox was known to be unhappy that its rights to what it thought was a summer World Cup had suddenly become a winter one.)
It does not seem to matter to Fifa that rival networks ESPN and NBC may have wanted to bid, or that more money could have been generated for the good of the sport had a proper auction been held. As ever, it seemed, Fifa was looking after itself.
The governing body has now completed football's ultimate U-turn and yet again shifted the goalposts to get itself out of a deep, dark hole.
Qatar - who were ready to host the tournament whenever - should not shoulder the blame for that, despite the allegations of corruption that have dogged it. In fact, compared to the 2018 World Cup hosts Russia - increasingly isolated as a result of the crisis in Ukraine - Qatar 2022 may turn out to be a walk in the park for Fifa. Having spent the last few days here, in the pleasant winter warmth, amid Doha's pristine avenues and resplendent skyscrapers, it is impossible not to be struck by the sheer wealth and rapid growth of this country.
Yes, it can feel soulless to Westerners. A playground of the rich. And no, it does not have a footballing culture. But this region is becoming the world's sporting hub, with more and more events taking place here. Why not football's marquee competition?
Many would have welcomed Qatar's chance to host the World Cup - had it bid for a winter tournament. But it did not.
Many would have accepted Fifa voting for Qatar had it done so for honourable reasons rather than greed. But it did not.
Many would have congratulated Qatar had its bid not been blighted by accusations of foul play. But it was.
And now, four years on from the decision that shocked the world, many elements in the sport will bear the brunt.
The team have been unable to provide records to back up the claim Wiggins was given a legal decongestant at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine in France.
MPs have criticised the team's record-keeping, while UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) is investigating the package's contents.
Team Sky say they take "full responsibility" for the failures.
"There is a fundamental difference between process failures and wrongdoing," said Team Sky principal Sir Dave Brailsford.
On Tuesday, Team Sky published a covering letter and supporting document sent by Brailsford to address the concerns of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.
At a series of hearings, the committee has sought answers relating to the package and Wiggins' use of therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs).
The original allegation made to Ukad was that the package delivered by then-British Cycling coach Simon Cope to ex-Team Sky medic Dr Richard Freeman contained triamcinolone - the corticosteroid for which Wiggins, a five-time Olympic gold medallist and the first Briton to win the Tour de France, later received three TUEs, as leaked by hackers Fancy Bears.
Team Sky said it is right the claim is being "investigated thoroughly" by Ukad but asserted that there has so far been "no evidence whatsoever to substantiate the allegation".
In the supporting document, Team Sky say Freeman had no prescription rights to purchase the decongestant Fluimucil in France and questioned some media reports over the amount of triamcinolone ordered by the team.
They also say Freeman "failed to comply with team policy" by not saving written notes to confirm Wiggins was administered Fluimucil at the time in the right place, instead storing his notes on a laptop that was reported stolen in 2014.
"Self-evidently, the events of recent months have highlighted areas where mistakes were made by Team Sky.
"Some members of staff did not comply fully with the policies and procedures that existed at that time. Regrettably, those mistakes mean that we have not been able to provide the complete set of records that we should have around the specific race relevant to Ukad's investigation. We accept full responsibility for this.
"However, many of the subsequent assumptions and assertions about the way Team Sky operates have been inaccurate or extended to implications that are simply untrue.
"Our commitment to anti-doping has been a core principle of Team Sky since its inception. Our mission is to race and win clean, and we have done so for eight years.
"To my understanding, Ukad's extensive investigation has found nothing whatsoever to support this allegation, which we believe to be false.
"Some of the comments made about Team Sky have been unreasonable and incorrect."
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Moments after the letter and document were published, Team Sky board chairman Graham McWilliam tweeted his "100%" support for Brailsford, saying the board were 100% behind the team principal and looking forward to "many more years of success."
"Pleased to see Team Sky challenging some of the inaccurate commentary of recent days," McWilliam added.
Britain's Geraint Thomas - one of a majority of Team Sky riders to back Brailsford on Monday - says it is "annoying" that Wiggins and Freeman are not answering questions about these issues instead of the current team.
"The thing is with Dave, a CEO of a company doesn't oversee everything that everyone does, you have to delegate and trust people to the head of those certain areas," Thomas told Cycling Weekly.
"Freeman and Brad don't seem to be having too much of the flak, really, it just seems to be us.
"We are the ones who have to stand here now and answer these questions, which we have nothing to do with."
The French Open, US Open and Australian Open just take the ATP rankings, but Wimbledon works it out differently to favour players who are better on grass.
The seedings are important because a highly seeded player cannot meet another highly seeded player until late in the tournament.
Wimbledon takes the points used to calculate a player's ATP ranking, doubles the points earned at grass tournaments in the past year and adds on 75% of the points earned on grass the previous year.
The ladies singles system is different in that a committee decides whether the WTA rankings need changing. No changes were made for 2017. A seeding committee was also used for the men's competition until 2002.
How much difference does it make?
If you compare the top eight seeds in the men's singles for the last five years with the players at the top of the ATP rankings one week before the tournament each year, there have only been two or three changes each year.
Over that five year period you could classify five of the changes as being "good" in that they make the seeding a better predictor of the outcomes and three of them as "bad" because they make it a worse predictor.
The highest profile example came in 2014, when Novak Djokevic was made number one seed at Wimbledon, despite being number two on the ATP rankings. Mr Djokevic won the tournament while Rafael Nadal, who was demoted to the number two slot, was knocked out in the fourth round.
On the other hand, in 2012 Tomas Berdych was promoted above David Ferrer in the seedings and was knocked out in the first round while David Ferrer reached the quarter-finals.
It also must be taken into account that changing seedings is partly a self-fulfilling policy, because a higher-seeded player is likely to get further in the tournament as a result of playing lower-ranked players.
Over the past five years, there have been four "bad" changes in the top eight seeds and three "good" changes, so the Wimbledon seeding method has been marginally worse on that measure than just using the ATP rankings, but there is not a lot in it.
To find out whether it has been a better predictor than seedings at other grand slams Reality Check compared the seedings with the outcomes for the top eight seeds in grand slams from 2012 to 2016.
The outcomes allocate a numerical value for the stage at which a player is knocked out, for example, a player knocked out in the semi-finals gets a value of three or four because he could have come either third or fourth. Similarly, someone knocked out in in the first round would get a value of 96.5.
If the seeding system was perfect then adding up the outcomes for the top eight seeds in a single year would give a total of 36 (one + two + 3.5 + 3.5 + four lots of 6.5).
In fact, the average number you get for the last five years at Wimbledon is 146.
That is considerably higher than the figures of 106 at the US Open, 93 at the French Open and 89 at the Australian Open.
First of all, it should be said that all of these numbers are pretty high. There is not a strong correlation between seeding and outcome.
Nonetheless, it is much worse an indicator at Wimbledon. It would be tempting to conclude that was because the seeding system is different, but we have already established that the changes made only make a marginal difference.
That means that Wimbledon must just have been a less predictable tournament over the past five years than the other grand slams.
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Most of the fighters are Arab, according to Qatar-based Syrian opposition website Zaman Al Wasl, which says it has obtained 1,700 files.
The files, believed to be recruitment questionnaires, appear to contain names, addresses and phone numbers of thousands of IS supporters from 50 countries.
Some of the non-Arab recruits, from Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Italy and France, are listed below:
Ahmet C - Suicide bomber
Kerim Marc B and Abdelkarim B - Currently on trial in Germany.
Farid Saal, from Bonn, and Yassin Oussaiffi, from Wolfsburg - both have appeared in IS videos.
Abu Juma Almany, from Frankfurt. Has served in the German army.
Arrived 7 July 2013.
"Wants to be a fighter."
Abu Hamza al Almany, 29, Hamburg. Formerly in sales.
Arrived 1 June 2013 via Bab al Hawa.
"Simple level of Sharia understanding. Wants to be a suicide bomber."
Abu Jihad al Hollandi, 19, of Moroccan origin.
"Wants to be a fighter"
Dutch media say Abu Jihad al Hollandi's details are very similar to those of Achraf Bouamran, from Amsterdam who travelled to Syria in December 2013. He wrote that he crossed through Turkey to the Syrian district of Azaz. He told his father he would return after a year, but before he could do that, he died. In January 2015, he was 17 years old, killed in a US air raid on the city of Raqqa.
Abu Firas, 27 - Came with his brother Mohamad and his children.
"Wants to be a fighter."
Abu Hillal Al Esbany, 23 - Mother called Fatima
Abu Omar al Isbany, 22 - Student
"Wants to be a suicide bomber."
Abu Kothar al Isbany, 24 - Blood type: A+
"Wants to be a suicide bomber."
Abu Ahmed, 30 - Born in Spain
Abu Ruwaha al Italy, 29 - Born in Morocco
"Wants to be a suicide bomber in Aleppo."
Khitab al Faransy, 26 - Tobacconist in a restaurant
Arrived 14 July 2013
"Medium knowledge of Sharia. Wants to be a suicide bomber"
The 20-year-old, who signed his first professional deal with the Seagulls in 2013, is yet to play in a senior first-team match for the Championship side.
After previous loan spells at Braintree and Dartford, he made one start in League Two for Crawley last season.
"Tom brings to us a genuine left-footed option at centre back," Cambridge boss Shaun Derry told the club website.
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Graham, 20, needs surgery after tearing the anterior cruciate and lateral collateral ligaments in his left knee when he fell awkwardly in Saturday's 3-1 home defeat by Cardiff City.
"Jordan is expected to be out for between nine and 12 months," said Wolves head coach Kenny Jackett.
"But he's young enough and good enough to come back stronger next season."
Phil Hayward, the head of Wolves' medical department, added: "He is to see a consultant towards the end of this week. It is probably too early to be talking about exact timescales.
"It was one of those almost freakish situations where he was caught slightly off balance and his knee went into a hyper-extended position and that is what did the damage."
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Straight lines make uncomplicated borders. Most probably that was the reason why most of the lines that Mark Sykes, representing the British government, and Francois Georges-Picot, from the French government, agreed upon in 1916 were straight ones.
Sykes and Picot were quintessential "empire men". Both were aristocrats, seasoned in colonial administration, and crucially believers in the notion that the people of the region would be better off under the European empires.
Both men also had intimate knowledge of the Middle East.
The key tenets of the agreement they had negotiated in relative haste amidst the turmoil of the World War One continue to influence the region to this day. But while Sykes-Picot's straight lines had proved significantly helpful to Britain and France in the first half of the twentieth century, their impact on the region's peoples was quite different.
The map that the two men drew divided the land that had been under Ottoman rule since the early 16th Century into new countries - and relegated these political entities to two spheres of influence:
The two men were not mandated to redraw the borders of the Arab countries in North Africa, but the division of influence existed there as well, with Egypt under British rule, and France controlling the Maghreb.
But there were three problems with the geo-political order that emerged from the Sykes-Picot agreement.
First, it was secret without any Arabic knowledge, and it negated the main promise that Britain had made to the Arabs in the 1910s - that if they rebelled against the Ottomans, the fall of that empire would bring them independence.
When that independence did not materialise after World War One, and as these colonial powers, in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, continued to exert immense influence over the Arab world, the thrust of Arab politics - in North Africa and in the eastern Mediterranean - gradually but decisively shifted from building liberal constitutional governance systems (as Egypt, Syria, and Iraq had witnessed in the early decades of the 20th Century) to assertive nationalism whose main objective was getting rid of the colonialists and the ruling systems that worked with them.
This was a key factor behind the rise of the militarist regimes that had come to dominate many Arab countries from the 1950s until the 2011 Arab uprisings.
The second problem lay in the tendency to draw straight lines.
Sykes-Picot intended to divide the Levant on a sectarian basis:
Geography helped.
For the period from the end of the Crusades up until the arrival of the European powers in the 19th Century, and despite the region's vibrant trading culture, the different sects effectively lived separately from each other.
But the thinking behind Sykes-Picot did not translate into practice. That meant the newly created borders did not correspond to the actual sectarian, tribal, or ethnic distinctions on the ground.
Aiming to change the outcome of WWI
These differences were buried, first under the Arabs' struggle to eject the European powers, and later by the sweeping wave of Arab nationalism.
In the period from the late 1950s to the late 1970s, and especially during the heydays of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser (from the Suez Crisis in 1956 to the end of the 1960s) Arab nationalism gave immense momentum to the idea that a united Arab world would dilute the socio-demographic differences between its populations.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Arab world's strong men - for example, Hafez Assad and Saddam Hussein in the Levant and Col Muammar Gaddafi in North Africa - suppressed the differences, often using immense brutality.
But the tensions and aspirations that these differences gave rise to neither disappeared nor were diluted. When cracks started to appear in these countries - first by the gradual disappearance of these strong men, later by several Arab republics gradually becoming hereditary fiefdoms controlled by small groups of economic interests, and most recently after the 2011 uprisings - the old frictions, frustrations, and hopes that had been concealed for decades, came to the fore.
The third problem was that the state system that was created after the World War One has exacerbated the Arabs' failure to address the crucial dilemma they have faced over the past century and half - the identity struggle between, on one hand nationalism and secularism, and on the other, Islamism (and in some cases Christianism).
The founders of the Arab liberal age - from the late 19th Century to the 1940s - created state institutions (for example a secular constitution in Tunisia in 1861 and the beginnings of a liberal democracy in Egypt in the inter-war period), and put forward a narrative that many social groups (especially in the middle classes) supported - but failed to weave the piousness, conservatism, and religious frame of reference of their societies into the ambitious social modernisation they had led.
And despite major advancements in industrialisation, the dramatic inequity between the upper middle classes and the vast majority of the populations continued. The strong men of Arab nationalism championed - with immense popular support - a different (socialist, and at times militarist) narrative, but at the expense of civil and political freedoms.
And for the past four decades, the Arab world has lacked any national project or serious attempt at confronting the contradictions in its social fabric.
That state structure was poised for explosion, and the changing demographics proved to be the trigger. Over the past four decades, the Arab world has doubled its population, to over 330 million people, two-thirds of them are under 35 years old.
This is a generation that has inherited acute socio-economic and political problems that it did not contribute to, and yet has been living its consequences - from education quality, job availability, economic prospects, to the perception of the future.
At core, the wave of Arab uprisings that commenced in 2011 is this generation's attempt at changing the consequences of the state order that began in the aftermath of World War One.
This currently unfolding transformation entails the promise of a new generation searching for a better future, and the peril of a wave of chaos that could engulf the region for several years.
The Making of the Arab World, presented by Tarek Osman, can be found on the BBC Radio 4 website
The writer is the author of Egypt on the Brink.
Up to 100 firefighters tackled the blaze at Ansell Garden Centre on Holloway Lane, Sipson, which broke out just after 16:30 GMT.
A 300m (1,000ft) cordon was put in place to prevent an explosion after crews discovered cylinders and fireworks, London Fire Brigade said.
The cause of the fire is being investigated.
Heathrow flights were not affected and no-one was injured.
Station manager Sanjay Prasad said: "A number of cylinders were in the garden centre, which is why a 300-metre hazard zone was set up as cylinders can explode when exposed to heat.
"Quick-thinking firefighters were able to drag the majority of the cylinders away from the fire which prevented a possible explosion."
The cause of the blaze is not yet known.
The garden centre is an independent, family run business just north of Heathrow Airport.
Local resident Ed Attwell, who was at the scene, said: "I've used the centre many a time. It's a family run centre and this must be devastating for them."
Rome is where a much bigger game with national repercussions is being played out, in the wake of a major corruption scandal.
The personal office of the Mayor of Rome, which has been vacant for more than six months, overlooks the ruins of the Imperial Fora - a reminder of the city's grandiose past, as the heart of a civilisation that extended over continents.
Whoever occupies it after elections will have more mundane, local problems to deal with.
Rome's next mayor will find a city mired in debt of more than €13bn (£10bn; $15bn) - twice its annual budget. Romans are frustrated by potholes, piles of rubbish and serious deficiencies in public transport and housing.
The first round is pitching five main candidates against each other to replace Ignazio Marino, the former mayor forced to quit last year after losing his party's support.
Leading the opinion polls is Virginia Raggi, a 37-year-old lawyer who is running on the populist Five Star Movement's anti-politics platform.
Her prominence in the campaign - and the widespread perception that she could indeed nail the job in a likely second round - is seen as a sign that this election could reward those who intend to make a clean break with the city's turbulent political history.
"Political parties have eaten Rome," Ms Raggi said in her closing statement during a televised debate.
"We either change everything, or everything remains as it has always been," she added in a dramatic tone, urging Romans to vote for transparency.
Ms Raggi has been criticised since her own political movement has been accused of a lack of transparency in some of the cities they govern around Italy.
But her message strikes a particular chord with many Romans - especially if you look at what is happening at a maximum security, fortified courtroom on the capital's northern outskirts.
There, since November, dozens of former city officials and business leaders have been on trial, accused of corruption and malfeasance that siphoned off millions of euros from the administration - a case known as "Mafia Capitale".
Prosecutors believe that most activities related to running the city - from the management of migrant centres to the handling of rubbish collection - were tainted by a system of influence-peddling, entrenched across all levels of the city's administration.
The revelations sent shockwaves across the political spectrum, indirectly triggered Mr Marino's resignation, and left the mayor's chair empty for the last half year.
Centre-left Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has gambled on Roberto Giachetti, a respected career politician who embodies his hopes to fend off the challenge from the Five Star Movement.
"He [Giachetti] knows the city hall machine, knows politics and the value of good administration," Mr Renzi said during a final campaign rally.
A win in Rome for Five Star, a protest movement founded by comedian Beppe Grillo, would deliver a huge blow to Mr Renzi.
The campaign has also had its share of controversial moments.
The right-wing candidate Giorgia Meloni - who in the past belonged to groups accused of defending Italy's Fascist era - was harshly criticised by her former boss, Silvio Berlusconi, for running despite being in the late stages of her first pregnancy.
"A mother cannot dedicate herself to such a terrible job," the ageing former prime minister was quoted as saying.
Then Berlusconi threw his political weight behind Alfio Marchini - a local property mogul who had until then branded himself as independent, free of party influences.
Fighting from the left-wing corner is Stefano Fassina, an economist who has put the city's housing crisis at the heart of his campaign.
It is not only Rome that is going to the polls - so are affluent Milan, traditionally left-wing Bologna, Turin and Naples, along with hundreds of smaller municipalities.
Many of those races are expected to go to a second round on 19 June.
The "rebirth" of Rome that several candidates have promised will possibly have to wait another two weeks - a minuscule delay in a city that in April turned 2,769.
But for Romans who have seen their city descend into decay, that new beginning can't come soon enough.
Karen and Jade Hales, aged 53 and 28, were found at the property in Cathedral Road, Anfield, on Monday.
Post-mortem examinations found they died from severe blunt force head injuries, police said.
Anthony Showers, 42, of Clarendon Road, Anfield, appeared before magistrates in Sefton and was remanded to appear at Liverpool Crown Court on 20 June.
Neighbours said that Jade looked after her mother as her full-time carer and was regularly seen walking her dog, Tyson, a Staffordshire bull terrier, that was also found dead.
Bland, 43, who was tied for the lead overnight, carded a one-under-par 69 in round three to go 10 under, with Sweden's Alex Noren second on 12 under.
Englishman Andrew "Beef" Johnston is in a four-way tie for fourth, while Scotland's David Drysdale is eight under after the day's best round of 64.
Defending champion Danny Willett is 10 shots behind Hend after a par 70.
Bland, searching for his first European Tour title, managed just two birdies on Saturday and had a bogey on the par-five 14th.
Englishman Lee Westwood, one of three wildcard picks for Europe's Ryder Cup team for this month's tournament, is eight shots off the pace after four birdies in a three-under-par 67.
His Europe team-mate Matt Fitzpatrick recovered from an early bogey to post a four-under 66 and go four under overall.
Injured and exhausted from clashes with thousands of government supporters, they say they are more determined than ever to hold their ground.
"We have been through hell," says Ahmed Zain. "They started throwing stones, and before dawn they were shooting at us. I swear to God we could not sleep until six in the morning and then we fell down unconscious."
"Mubarak should know we will never leave this place. After he tried to take our blood, we will never leave".
The mood has changed significantly from the carnival atmosphere earlier in the week. There are now mainly men in the square, not families.
In the grassy centre of the square, there are small rallies going on, the protesters chanting anti-Mubarak slogans.
Here, tea is served, people take a quick wash using bottles of water, and volunteers are cleaning up.
But the road leading north, past the pink neo-classical facade of the Egyptian Museum looks like a battleground.
Metal barricades have been erected and are being reinforced with sacks of stones.
The army now occupies a buffer zone close to 6 October bridge, just beyond the museum, and tries to keep back a pro-Mubarak group throwing stones. I see one soldier hit in the eye.
While the military is trying to keep order, the soldiers do not have the correct equipment or sufficient numbers on the ground.
Tanks remain parked at all the entrances to the square.
Anyone who enters needs to be checked by soldiers. They then pass through human chains of demonstrators who apologetically inspect bags and identity cards.
"There are many police officers outside the square who are wearing plain clothes, but they have knives and weapons," says Mohamed. "They are trying to come here. There are others paid by Mubarak's party."
The interior ministry's official denial that it was behind attacks on the protesters and the new prime minister's televised apology are rejected outright here.
People believe the assault was the police state fighting back using familiar dirty tactics.
Many now wear bandages on wounds they have sustained in fighting.
Makeshift clinics continue to operate at the northern edge of the square, near the museum. Volunteer doctors treat cuts, burns and broken bones.
"We have seen people by the hundreds at least. We treat whoever we find because we are all Egyptians," says Dr Murad Mohsen.
Hopes that this could remain a peaceful uprising now look unrealistic, but one woman said she was prepared to pay the cost.
"This is a revolution. I want to play a part in the revolution. We are still so proud of it and I want to be part of it. I know every revolution has a price and we will pay the price."
AfD deputy chief Alexander Gauland told a newspaper that Germans would not like to have Boateng, whose father is Ghanaian, as a neighbour.
Boateng, 27, is a defender for German champions Bayern Munich and the national team.
The remark drew immediate condemnation.
Mr Gauland later denied it reflected his own views.
The leader of the AfD, Frauke Petry, apologised for the "impression that has arisen".
The comment was carried by the Sunday newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
Under the headline "Gauland insults Boateng", the article quotes the politician as saying: "People find him good as a footballer, but they don't want to have Boateng as a neighbour."
Germany manager Oliver Bierhoff said people who made such comments "are simply discrediting themselves".
Justice Minister Heiko Maas called them "unacceptable and shabby".
Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said the comment showed "that Gauland is not just against foreigners but against the good things about Germany".
Mr Gauland said that he had "never insulted Mr Boateng", whom he did not know. He added that he had only "described some people's attitudes'' in a background conversation with the journalists.
AfD leader Frauke Petry told the Bild newspaper that her deputy could not remember making the comment, saying: "Independently of that. I apologise to Mr Boateng for the impression that has arisen."
She later tweeted: "Jerome Boateng is a super footballer who is rightly a member of the German national team. I'm looking forward to the European Championship."
The AfD was started three years ago with a Eurosceptic message and has attracted many voters who are angered by an influx of migrants and by Chancellor Angela Merkel's pro-refugee approach.
Since 2003, the film deal has meant cheaper first dates or seeing the latest blockbuster with your mates for less.
Under a new name, the same offer will be back from 7 April and it will be available on Tuesdays too.
Cinema-goers will have to be Compare the Market customers to use the deal.
The offer lasts for a year and is in partnership with Cinema First.
The deal will be available from 7 April via a code on the Meerkat Movies app.
It can be given away to friends or family as you could with Orange Wednesdays.
Chief Executive of Cinema First, Phil Clapp, told Newsbeat: "This is the biggest promotion that cinema has ever seen.
"People look for value and we are very hopeful this exciting new promotion will offer a significant incentive to people who otherwise wouldn't go to the cinema.
"Orange Wednesdays was hugely popular but this offers extra flexibility with a choice of two days rather than one."
Karen Stacey, CEO at Digital Cinema Media (DCM), said: "It's an extremely exciting time to be in cinema.
"The medium is more flexible and targeted than ever and is experiencing huge growth and innovation, with admissions expected to cross the 170m mark in 2015, the highest number in years.
"Comparethemarket has recognised the power of the big screen and their huge commitment is testament to the strength of our compatible audiences, which are early-adopting, socially connected and first in the queue when a new film is released.
"We're really looking forward to working closely together to shape the growth of the industry."
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The Northern Ireland Executive is exploring options on the future of the harbour.
It is run by publicly-appointed commissioners.
The harbour's commercial director, Joe O'Neill, told the BBC's Inside Business programme that its thriving trade was set to continue.
As well as port activities, the harbour controls a huge land bank on both sides of Belfast Lough.
Mr O'Neill said: "We run the business very much in a private sector mode today.
"We are incredibly robust in terms of our commercial approach, our commercial policies and our financial policies.
"At that trading level, I don't believe there would be a substantial difference to the business in how we perform it on a day and daily basis."
"On today's trading performance, we think the model today works very well and has worked very well," he added.
In February, it was announced that a panel would be set up to advise on the way forward.
Under legislation, the Stormont executive could get as much as £400m from a 50% split of the proceeds.
Inside Business with Wendy Austin airs on BBC Radio Ulster on Sundays at 13:30 BST
An examination of 60 cases revealed a pattern of arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances, according to a new report by the human rights group.
Politicians, journalists, academics and activists have been among those held.
The Houthis, who control the capital Sanaa, are waging a war against Yemen's government and a Saudi-led coalition.
At least 6,200 people, half of them civilians, have been killed and almost three million others have been displaced since March 2015.
The conflict has also pushed the Arab world's poorest country to the brink of famine and left 82% of the population in need of humanitarian assistance.
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Amnesty's report documented what it described as a "chilling campaign to quash dissent" in areas of Yemen under the control of the Houthis and allied security forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh since December 2014.
Those held had frequently been tortured and denied access to a lawyer or their family, with some detentions lasting for up to 18 months, it said.
Many had been kept in secret, makeshift detention centres, including private homes, and then transferred multiple times between locations, it added.
In the vast majority of cases no reason for arrests were given.
Eighteen individuals featured in the report are still being held, including 21-year-old student Abdul Ilah Saylan, who was arrested outside a Sanaa cafe last August.
Members of his family told Amnesty how members of the security forces had tortured him in front of them when they visited him in detention in February.
"The guard began to beat him. Three other guards joined in and we watched... as the four guards beat him viciously," one relative was quoted as saying.
"They dragged him back inside when he fainted and told us to go home."
Earlier this month, Houthi officials told Amnesty that people had been detained "because they gave GPS co-ordinates to the Saudi Arabia-led coalition".
The UN said in March that the coalition was responsible for twice as many civilian casualties as any other party to the conflict, virtually all as a result of air strikes.
But Amnesty said it had obtained documents showing that prosecuting authorities in Sanaa had found that the detention of dozens of those held was without legal basis and had ordered their release.
"Instead of incarcerating opponents for weeks or months on end, the Houthi armed group should release anyone who has been arbitrarily detained, implement safeguards to ensure detainees are treated humanely, and issue clear instructions that anyone under their command committing abuses will be held accountable," said Amnesty's Middle East deputy director James Lynch.
Mr Atta Mills said the UK could not impose its values on Ghana and he would never legalise homosexuality.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron said at the weekend that aid would be cut to countries which failed to respect gay rights.
Uganda also rejected the threat, with an official accusing the UK of showing a "bullying mentality".
Most Africans argue that homosexuality violates their religious and cultural beliefs.
Mr Atta Mills said Mr Cameron was entitled to his views, but he did not have the right to "direct to other sovereign nations as to what they should do".
He said Ghana's "societal norms" were different from those in the UK.
"I, as president, will never initiate or support any attempt to legalise homosexuality in Ghana," Mr Atta Mills said.
On Monday, Ugandan presidential adviser John Nagenda said Mr Cameron was showing a "bullying mentality" and Ugandans would not tolerate being treated like "children".
"If they must take their money, so be it," Mr Nagenda said.
Mr Cameron said he had raised the issue of gay rights at last week's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Australia.
Ending the bans on homosexuality was one of the recommendations of an internal report into the future relevance of the Commonwealth.
Mr Cameron's threat applies only to one type of bilateral aid known as general budget support, and would not reduce the overall amount of aid to any one country, correspondents say.
Ghana received bilateral aid from the UK of about £90m ($144m) during the last financial year, of which about £36m was as general budget support.
Mr Atta Mills' communications chief Koku Anyidoho told the BBC the government would not compromise its morals for money.
"If that aid is going to be tied to things that will destroy the moral fibre of society, do you really want that?" he told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
Mr Cameron said he had spoken with "a number of African countries" and that more pressure had been applied by UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, who deputised for him during parts of the Commonwealth summit.
Some 41 nations within the 54-member Commonwealth have laws banning homosexual acts.
Many of these laws are a legacy of British colonial rule, correspondents say.
Temperatures in the city of Lulea, in the north-east of the country, make it the perfect location for the social media giant's first non-US data centre.
It means it can use outside air for cooling its servers for up to 10 months of the year.
The facility will process data from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. It will cover 30,000 square metres.
That is the equivalent of around 11 football pitches.
The social network needs to ramp up its computing power as it continues to grow. It currently has more than 800 million users.
Up until 2009 Facebook leased space in data centres but then made the decision to design and build its own.
The new centre will be powered primarily by renewable energy and will require 70% less generator power.
It will also benefit from Lulea's electricity prices which are some of the cheapest in Europe.
Gaining a global brand like Facebook will be a big coup for the city and it hopes others will follow.
More companies are placing their data centres in Northern Europe because the climate works well for the cooling systems necessitated by racks of huge servers.
Facebook prides itself on the fact that its engineers have built its infrastructure from scratch - including the design of the servers themselves.
"Assembling the servers is like building a Lego model, the parts snap together. The servers slot in and out of their racks by flipping a couple of catches," the firm explained.
The design of the fans mean they consume far less energy than a traditional server, it added.
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Karl Jensen, 27, who was outside the jail, tied the goods to a fishing line that was pulled into a cell.
He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
The man, Hector Arboleda Albeidis Buitrago, had been working as a nurse in Madrid, the authorities said.
Colombia is seeking his extradition.
On Friday, Colombia announced it was investigating at least 150 cases of former fighters who said they were made to terminate their pregnancies.
Mr Albeidis Buitrago, known as "The Nurse," has been accused of taking part in most of those abortions.
Female rebels were compelled to have abortions so as not to undermine their fighting ability, Attorney General Eduardo Montealegre told reporters on Friday.
"We have evidence to prove that forced abortion was a policy of the Farc that was based on forcing a female fighter to abort so as not to lose her as an instrument of war," he said.
The left-wing rebels have denied this in the past, saying contraception was readily available.
One woman who left the rebel group told the BBC's Natalio Cosoy in Bogota that she had been forced to have five abortions.
Women in the organisation were expected to fight, she told our correspondent. The fighters who were allowed to have babies considered themselves lucky.
The Farc has fought a five-decade insurgency in Colombia but peace talks in Cuba have made significant progress since they were launched in November 2012.
Agreement has been reached in four broad areas during three years of talks with the Colombian government.
These include how the justice system deals with crimes committed by the rebels and government forces.
Colombian government negotiators and Farc delegates have said that they are hoping to sign a final peace agreement in March 2016.
If the deal is approved by the Colombian people in a referendum, the rebel group will give up its armed struggle and join the legal political process.
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The Farc, which was formed in 1964 with a vow to install a Marxist regime, once controlled a swathe of Colombian territory the size of Switzerland.
But the group has suffered a number of setbacks in recent years and has become increasingly involved in the drug trade.
More than 220,000 people have been killed in the conflict, the majority of them civilians.
Scottish champions Celtic will meet Israeli side Hapoel Beer Sheva while Irish champions Dundalk have been drawn against Poland's Legia Warsaw.
Celtic beat Kazakh side FC Astana in the third qualifying round, while Dundalk were 3-1 aggregate victors over Belarusian side Bate Borisov.
The two-legged play-off ties will be held on the 16/17 and 23/24 August.
New City boss Pep Guardiola has won the Champions League twice as a manager - with Barcelona in 2009 and 2011.
The Spaniard has lost in the semi-finals of the competition in each of the past four seasons, once with Barca and three times with Bayern Munich.
City are looking to compete in the group stages of the competition for the sixth successive season.
Steaua, who won the European Cup in 1986 and were runners-up in 1989, finished second to Astra Giurgiu in the Romanian top flight.
City sporting director Txiki Begiristain said: "It's going to be a difficult tie because Steaua are on the up again in Europe and have a lot of talent."
Elsewhere, 2004 winners Porto face a tough tie against Italian side Roma, and 1995 winners Ajax will play Russian side Rostov.
The winners of the ties will progress to the Champions League group stage while the losers will drop into the Europa League.
Ludogorets Razgrad (Bulgaria) v FC Viktoria Plzen (Czech Republic)
Celtic (Scotland) v Hapoel Beer-Sheva (Israel)
FC Copenhagen (Denmark) v Apoel Nicosia (Cyprus)
Dundalk (Republic of Ireland) v Legia Warsaw (Poland)
Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) v FC Salzburg (Austria)
Steaua Bucharest (Romania) v Manchester City (England)
FC Porto (Portugal) v Roma (Italy)
Ajax (Netherlands) v Rostov (Russia)
Young Boys (Switzerland) v Borussia Monchengladbach (Germany)
Villarreal (Spain) v Monaco (France)
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Constantino Banda-Acosta, 38, drove his truck through a stop sign and hit a car carrying a family of three on their way home from a trip to Disneyland.
They said they were one block from home when the collision occurred.
The six-year-old boy suffered brain trauma and is said to be in a serious condition.
The suspect fled but was arrested.
The truck hit the rear passenger door of the car on Saturday night in the San Ysidro district of San Diego, close to the US-Mexico border, said the family.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said the suspect had been "repatriated to Mexico at least 15 times since 2002, most recently in January 2017".
"[ICE] has lodged a detainer against Mr Banda seeking to take him into custody if and when he is released by local authorities to pursue additional immigration enforcement action and/or criminal prosecution," a statement quoted by local broadcaster KGTV added.
He was charged with driving under influence, hit-and-run and driving without a licence.
Another man was also arrested in connection with the crash.
The boy is being treated at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego.
His father told CBS8 broadcaster of his son: "Right now he's got a lot of swelling.
"He can't open one of his eyes, so he's kind of scared about why he can't see."
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Mr Morrison also announced education savings which will see students pay a greater share of the cost of degrees.
Infrastructure projects, health and housing affordability were also high on the government's agenda.
The main opposition Labor party accused him of using a healthcare levy increase to fund tax cuts for big business.
But Labor supported the tax on the banks.
Mr Morrison said $6.2bn ($4.6bn; £3.5) would be raised over the next four years by the new levy on the big five - ANZ Bank, Westpac, National Australia Bank, Commonwealth Bank and Macquarie.
The head of the Australian Bankers' Association called the levy "a direct attack on jobs and growth".
It was a textbook manoeuvre by Mr Morrison - disarm your opponents by grabbing some of their ideas.
The surprise tax on Australia's big banks and a thaw on healthcare rebates could all have come from a Labor manifesto.
Throw in a promise to spend big on infrastructure, and, according to one Australian commentator, Mr Morrison didn't just steal the opposition's clothing - he took the whole wardrobe.
In reality, this was more about steering to centre ground rather than swerving to the left.
It moves the government away from austerity measures it introduced in 2014, but remains tough on key issues like welfare payments.
Mr Morrison and PM Malcolm Turnbull will hope that is enough to keep their party room content, and ensure the government's slim majority remains intact.
"It is a tax that will hit Australians by hurting investment and could have unintended consequences... it will affect the entire banking system," said Anna Bligh, the former Queensland premier.
"This new tax is not a well thought-out policy response to a public interest issue, it is a political tax grab to cover a budget black hole."
The budget was the first since PM Malcolm Turnbull's government was re-elected on a tiny majority last year.
In it Mr Morrison outlined higher education reforms aimed at savings of A$3.8bn by June 2021.
But the government had already announced key aspects of the budget, including building a second Sydney airport, increasing university fees by 7.5% by 2021, and lowering the salary threshold for university debt repayments from A$55,000 to A$42,000.
In other areas, the government will provide:
A photo of Ken Farlow, 95, staring at Spitfires through the fence of Gloucestershire Airport became an internet hit in July.
The airport tweeted: "With sadness we report the passing of Ken Farlow yesterday. His story touched hearts."
Mr Farlow, who had bowel cancer, was an electrical engineer in the war and worked on Spitfires and Hurricanes.
After hearing his story airport bosses treated Mr Farlow to a flight in a two-seater training plane.
He was also invited to RAF Coningsby and the Royal International Air Tattoo.
Mr Farlow's daughter Helen Nock, who took the photo of him staring through the fence, said her father, who lived in Painswick, Gloucestershire, spent time in Syria and Palestine during the war working on the airplanes.
The world number two saved three set points in a 16-minute first-set tie-break and was leading 7-6 (11-9) 2-1 when play was stopped because of rain.
Murray, 29, outclassed 15th seed Isner after the break to seal a 7-6 (11-9) 6-4 6-3 win in two hours and 40 minutes.
The Scot faces either Japanese fifth seed Kei Nishikori or France's ninth seed Richard Gasquet in the last eight.
Murray, who needed five sets to win his first two matches in France, followed up his emphatic third-round win over Ivo Karlovic with another solid display against a big-serving opponent.
The Briton also held his own serve throughout - saving five break points, including three with aces - and finished the match with another ace to maintain his 100% record against Isner.
A key moment came in the first set tie-break when Murray saved a set point on Isner's serve by firing a backhand down the line past the advancing American.
Murray saved two more before taking the first set and never looked back as he secured his place in the last eight.
With more rain expected he will be pleased to have finished the match on Sunday to ensure he has a day off on Monday.
"It was a very important tie-break to win. I got lucky on his first set point when I guessed right on a short forehand," said Murray, who has reached the quarter-finals at 19 of the last 20 Grand Slam events he has contested.
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It warned of a risk of serious injury and advised people take precautions.
It recommends jogging to warm up and avoiding the mulled wine.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said falling over and bumping into people was part of the fun, but there were safety precautions.
The chairman of the Society of Sports Therapists, Prof Graham Smith, told the BBC: "It was not about going 'bah, humbug'. Have fun, but be careful."
He said: "While it is a fun sport it can be very dangerous and should be treated with a large degree of respect, especially as for some, it is something that is done only once or twice a year."
By contrast regular skaters learn "how to fall properly".
If you fall, he recommends tucking your arms in and rolling - rather than putting you hand out to stop the fall, which could damage the hand or be hit by another skater's blades.
He said the hazards were greater for older people.
Peter Cornall, head of leisure safety at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said: "Leisure activities should be as safe as necessary, not as safe as possible; when going ice skating this means you should expect to fall over and for others to bump into you - in fact, that is part of the fun.
"If you're going skating, wearing a pair of gloves is always a good idea, as is wearing whatever protective kit the rink operators give you and lacing up your skates properly.
He also warned people not to over-estimate their ability: "you probably won't be able to recreate what you see during the Winter Olympics," he said.
"Chronic" staff shortages are to blame for many of the poor outcomes at HMP Bristol, chief inspector of prisons Peter Clarke warned.
One in seven inmates said they had developed a drug problem while at the prison, which was far higher than at the time it was last inspected.
The prison service said robust action was being taken to tackle the problems.
The report follows an unannounced inspection of the category B prison in March.
It said the use of the new psychoactive substance known as spice was "particularly problematic", while the average positive rate from random, mandatory drug testing was "exceptionally high".
Other concerns mentioned in the report include:
Mr Clarke said there was a "history of underinvestment" in the prison.
"This had coincided with a deluge of illicit drugs, fuelling violence, debt, self-harm and physical and mental illness among prisoners," he said.
"The lack of staff and the poor physical environment on the wings had merely added to the problems."
The inspectors noted "some grounds for cautious optimism" saying relationships between staff and prisoners were reasonably good and much good work was being done to support prisoners being released.
Michael Spurr, chief executive of HM Prison and Probation Service, described the situation as unacceptable.
"Funding has been increased and more staff, including an additional 29 prison officers, are being recruited," he said.
"Work to improve safety, reduce violence and improve first-night arrangements is being prioritised."
Mark Fairhurst, acting chairman of the Prison Officers Association, said staffing levels needed doubling.
"That would enable you to carry out searching every single day, it would enable you to do wall patrols to stop the drugs getting thrown over the walls, and it would enable you to run a full regime and have prisoners engaged in purposeful, constructive activity," he said.
Alan McBain, 60, died and his 58-year-old wife was badly injured in the incident close to Dalmeny on Monday.
They were both on an unclassified road between the B800 and Standingstane Road when they were hit by a blue Mini.
Police Scotland said Mrs McBain remained in a serious condition in hospital, and appealed for witnesses to come forward.
Con Denise Humphrey said: "Our sincere condolences go to Alan's family and friends at this very sad time.
"We are still keen to speak to anyone who witnessed the collision or who has information that can assist us with our investigation.
"Anyone who hasn't so far contacted us is asked to call 101 to speak to a road policing officer."
Firefighters were called to TJ's in Clarence Place at 19:43 BST on Saturday, where the ground floor of the three-storey building was alight.
It has been derelict since the nightclub closed in 2010 after the death of owner John Sicolo.
In its heyday, TJs became legendary for hosting some of the world's biggest bands, including Primal Scream, Iron Maiden, The Stone Roses and Oasis.
Nathan Jennings, who is making a film about the venue, said he had contacted the Sicolo family after the fire and they were "devastated".
"It's been part of their lives for 40 years since it opened in 1971," he said.
"It's a sad thing to see."
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said six fire engines, a hydraulic platform and a water bowser attended the blaze, which was out by 21:19 BST.
Prosecutors say Maria de los Angeles Pineda's brothers were in a drug gang that operated in Iguala, Guerrero.
They said police handed the students over to the drug gang after clashes in September. The gang then killed them and burned their bodies.
Maria Pineda and her husband Jose Luis Abarca were arrested in November.
He has been charged with organised crime, kidnapping and murder.
The students' disappearance sparked nationwide protests and has rocked the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto.
Prosecutors said that members of the drug gang linked to Maria Pineda had confessed that her husband, the ex-mayor of Iguala, had ordered the police to crack down on the students to stop them disrupting an event she was speaking at.
However, a local news magazine said the event was over by the time the students arrived in the town.
They vanished after the police attacked their buses, leaving six people dead.
Investigators said members of the drug gang told them the police had delivered the young men to them.
They then took them to a local landfill site, killed them and burned the bodies.
Only one of the students has been positively identified from the charred remains.
The Department for Transport's support for the installation and maintenance of chargers ended in April.
Local councils, left to cover costs, tendered contracts out to private companies - and prices have gone up.
Transport Minister Baroness Kramer told You and Yours £500m was being invested over five years to provide support for electric vehicle drivers.
In the first five months of this year, nearly 2,000 electric cars were sold in the UK - more than double the sales for the same period in 2013.
One of the reasons for the increase is the perception that the running costs of an electric vehicle will be cheaper than a fossil fuel car.
There are concerns that increasing the cost of charging will choke market growth just as it begins to take off.
While electric cars are around £8,000 more expensive than a diesel or petrol one, the government offers a £5,000 grant towards the cost of the car, and will help to install a charge system at home.
Until very recently it was free to charge your car at all public power points. Now Charge Master, one of the biggest providers, asks for £7.50 for a half-hour rapid charge.
Andrew Fenwick-Green, marketing secretary of the Electric Vehicle Drivers Association, drives a Nissan Leaf. He said: "A gallon of diesel for most eco-diesels will cost you £6.30 and get you around 60 miles.
"A 30-minute rapid charge in my Nissan Leaf would give you a range of 64 miles. So we're paying an extra £1.20 more to get the same mileage. It's madness... if the rapid chargers go up to £7.50 we're going to kill the market at a stroke".
The Charge Your Car company asks for £5 for a rapid charge, and Transport for London awarded its contract to the French company Bollore, which will introduce an annual fee of £10 for unlimited charging from September.
Charge Master chief executive David Martell has asked for more support.
"Next year the amount of annual expenditure from Government on infrastructure is going to be slashed by two-thirds, which I think is a little too early.
"We need a few years' more support from the Government to allow proper businesses models to arrive for charging."
Lady Kramer said: "The whole point of this is that you charge at home. That leaves you with a cost of about 2p per mile, which is why it's attractive to the people who have been buying these cars.
"The public rapid chargers are intended for occasional use."
She added that the industry could have communicated with customers better but the shift to charging would not stymie the emerging electric vehicle market.
Chris Coleman's side appeared to be coasting as goals from David Cotterill and Hal Robson-Kanu - the latter a stylish team effort - gave them an early 2-0 lead.
But a goal from Vincent Laban and a red card for Wales midfielder Andy King set up a nervous second half.
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Had little to do but made a hash of the Cyprus goal. A stark contrast to his man-of-the-match display against Bosnia-Hercegovina.
An energetic effort which did not wane even as Wales went down to 10 men. Distribution could have been better but defending was solid.
Marshalled the defence in a mature display, ensuring the team approached the game in a calm fashion after being reduced to 10 men.
Another fine performance from the Hull defender, who made a number of timely interventions and brave challenges.
Composed defensively and a willing support runner in attack, the Swansea City left-back contributed to an industrious team performance.
An early yellow card curbed his usual tenacity and forcing him to tread tentatively compared to his forceful display against Bosnia.
A promising first-half performance with some neat touches was spoiled by his red card, which made life very difficult for his team-mates.
Excelled in a couple of positions, whether that was out wide or as a central attacker, and took his goal smartly.
Subjected to brutal treatment from Cyprus but battled on regardless and went close with a couple of efforts.
A bright first start from the young winger, running at Cypriot defenders at every opportunity. His positivity led to the corner which produced the first goal.
Had no time to make an impact after he was taken off inside two minutes with a shoulder injury.
Scored the opening goal and kept the ball well when Wales were looking to hold on to their lead in the second half.
Brought on to solidify the midfield following King's red card and did so with a combative but composed performance.
Ran out of time to make any telling contributions on his debut.
Women must have the consent of a male guardian to travel abroad, and often need permission to work or study.
Support for the first large-scale campaign on the issue grew online in response to a trending Twitter hashtag.
Activist Aziza Al-Yousef told the BBC she felt "very proud" of the campaign, but now needed a response.
In the deeply conservative Islamic kingdom, a woman must have permission from her father, brother or other male relative - in the case of a widow, sometimes her son - to obtain a passport, marry or leave the country.
Many workplaces and universities also demand a guardian's consent for female employees and students, although it is not legally required.
Renting a flat, undergoing hospital treatment or filing a legal claim often also require a male guardian's permission, and there is very little recourse for women whose guardians abuse them or severely limit their freedom.
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In July, an Arabic Twitter hashtag which translates as "Saudi women want to abolish the guardianship system" went viral after a Human Rights Watch report was published on the issue. Saudi women tweeted comments, videos and artwork calling for change. Bracelets saying "I Am My Own Guardian" appeared.
The women counted on the petition all gave their full names, though more signed anonymously. Hundreds of women - one estimate suggests as many as 2,500 - bombarded the Saudi King's office over the weekend with telegrams containing personal messages backing the campaign.
Human Rights Watch researcher Kristine Beckerle, who worked on the report, described the response as "incredible and unprecedented".
"I was flabbergasted - not only by the scale, but the creativity with which they've been doing it," she said. "They've made undeniably clear they won't stand to be treated as second-class citizens any longer, and it's high time their government listened."
However, there has been opposition from some Saudi women, with an alternative Arabic hashtag, which translates as #TheGuardianshipIsForHerNotAgainstHer, gaining some traction, and opinion articles, like this one on the Gulf News website, arguing that the system should be reformed and applied better.
Ms Yousef, who was stopped by police in 2013 for breaking the country's ban on women driving, said she did not expect any negative consequences from the petition: "I'm not worried, I'm not doing anything wrong," she said.
She and another activist took the petition to the Royal Court in person on Monday, but were advised to send it by mail.
She said a key demand is that an age between 18 and 21 be designated, above which a woman be "treated like an adult".
"In every aspect, the important issue is to treat a woman as a full citizen," she said.
She and other activists first raised the issue five years ago. "We never had a problem with campaigning, but the problem is there is no answer. But we always hope - without hope, you cannot work," she said.
There has been no official response to the petition yet.
The keys in question are designed to be kept private so they can guarantee the authenticity of a digital certificate, invoked when users connect to xboxlive.com.
Since the keys have been leaked, connections may not be secure.
It is not clear how the disclosure happened, but Microsoft has since updated its certificates.
The leak means a hacker could intercept data transmitted between a user and Microsoft's servers by impersonating the xboxlive.com domain name.
"The certificate could be used in attempts to perform man-in-the-middle attacks," said the company, in an advisory note about the problem.
"This issue affects all supported releases of Microsoft Windows.
"Microsoft is not currently aware of attacks related to this issue."
The company has recommended users install all recommended updates for Windows, which will update lists of trusted certificates on users' systems.
"The advisory that talks about it says the key was revoked after December 1st," Tod Beardsley, security research manager at security firm Rapid7 told the BBC.
"That wasn't the fix, the fix is pushing down to the certificate trust authority that says don't trust this after December 1st - but you only got that yesterday which is a week late."
But Mr Beardsley added things could easily have been worse.
"The fact that they do it at all is great. There have been cases where keys have been disclosed for months and months and nobody noticed," he said.
Josh Goldfarb, chief technology officer at security company FireEye, also advised users to install the latest updates.
"This type of disclosure can prove attractive to attackers looking to fool or trick users into giving over private or sensitive information," he said.
"Although there is potential for abuse here, the risk is relatively easy to remediate by updating the list of trusted certificates."
The 31-year-old is no relation to Bill Tupou, who signed a one-year deal with the Super League side in October.
He told BBC Radio Leeds: "It came down to a decision between staying at the Sharks and coming here. I'm really pleased to be here.
"I've always been a fan of watching Super League games because it's an exciting league."
Tupou added: "Brian Smith coached my brother at Newcastle Knights and he said how good he was and I've only heard positive things from other people too.
"I feel refreshed and I'm looking forward to a new start. I'm not coming over for a holiday, I'll be ripping in."
Maria Sadaqat, a young schoolteacher, was attacked in her home by a group of men on Sunday and died in hospital in Islamabad on Wednesday.
Her family say she had turned down a marriage proposal from the son of the owner of a school she had taught at.
Campaigners say attacks on women who refuse marriage proposals are common in Pakistan.
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif launched an immediate investigation into the killing, which will report in two days.
Maria's father has said the school owner was one of the men who attacked his daughter. Police told the BBC that the men beat her and doused her in petrol before setting her alight near the hill resort of Murree, not far from the capital.
She suffered serious burns on nearly all of her body. Local media report that she had 85% burns.
Ms Sadaqat's maternal aunt, Aasia, told the BBC the trouble started when the school's owner asked for her niece to marry his son.
She said: "She was teaching at their school. They sent in the proposal six months ago but the guy was already married and had a daughter. They wanted her to run the school after marrying the son of the owner of the school.
"Her father refused the proposal and they took the revenge by doing this."
"They have taken away my universe, why was she brutally murdered? How can they not feel any compassion?" Maria's mother told me, while waiting for her daughter's body.
We were outside a local hospital in Murree. It is a resort town with a 69% literacy rate which, even though high for a rural area, can still not combat the menace of violence against women.
Life here is strictly dictated by religious norms.
After this incident, the sleepy hill town is engulfed with panic and anger. The elders are trying to influence the victim's father to stay quiet as this is a matter of his honour.
One of the elders whispered in his ear "your daughter is gone and they are going to malign her and your family's honour the more you highlight it in the media."
The family is being pressured by fellow villagers to settle the case out of court.
Nearly 1,100 women were killed by relatives in Pakistan last year in so-called honour-killings, the country's independent Human Rights Commission says.
Violence against women by those outside the family is also common in Pakistan and is often connected to a perceived slight, as may have occurred in Maria Sadaqat's case.
Police said earlier this year that village elders had ordered the murder of a teenage girl because she helped a friend to elope.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in April: "The predominant causes of these killings in 2015 were domestic disputes, alleged illicit relations and exercising the right of choice in marriage."
Campaigners say most "honour killings" are not reported.
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says that in many cases, including those reported to the police, relatives hoping to keep the family name out of the news prefer to make out-of-court settlements and therefore there are no convictions.
Under Islamic laws introduced in the 1980s the victim's family can pardon the perpetrator in return for money or other considerations.
In February, Punjab province, where the attack on Miss Sadaqat happened, passed a landmark law criminalising all forms of violence against women.
However, more than 30 religious groups, including all the mainstream Islamic political parties, threatened to launch protests if the law was not repealed.
The Council of Islamic Ideology proposed making it legal for husbands to "lightly beat" their wives. It came under fire as a result.
Religious groups have equated women's rights campaigns with promotion of obscenity. They say the new Punjab law will increase the divorce rate and destroy the country's traditional family system.
A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week.
A child plays with a skipping rope in South Africa's Cape Town on Tuesday as a crowd gathers to mark what would have been anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela's 99th birthday.
Meanwhile this child sends out a political message, urging people to follow in the footsteps of Mr Mandela who dedicated most of his life to opposing racial discrimination and promoting unity.
On the same day, these girls in traditional dress take part in a ceremony at the international airport in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, to celebrate the national carrier's acquisition of an Airbus A320 to bolster its fleet to 10.
On Sunday, Benin's Angelique Kidjo, the three-time Grammy award winner known as "Africa's Premier Diva", performs at the Middle East's oldest arts festival, held annually in Baalbeck, Lebanon.
Ethiopian-American Kelela Mizanekristos, a relative newcomer to the international stage, performs at Canada's Quebec City Summer Festival on Saturday.
In Kenya on the same day, women from the Maasai ethnic group mourn attend the funeral of Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery. A Maasai, he was buried at his village in Kenya's Rift Valley after he died of a heart attack aged 67.
In the southern African kingdom of Lesotho on Saturday, men wear their traditional blankets to stay warm in the bitterly cold mountain air in Semonkong, a tiny town which was established as a refuge for Basotho people displaced by conflict with colonial forces in the 1880s.
In Cairo on Sunday, an Egyptian woman looks from the window while her daughter takes pictures of the funeral procession of Syed Tafshan, who died following clashes with the security forces over the demolition of illegal buildings.
Also on Sunday, these women represented Egypt in synchronised swimming at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
These Nigerian women cook in the kitchen at a girls' school in north-eastern Maiduguri city, where an insurgency by militant Islamists has forced many people to flee their homes and take refuge in camps.
In this photo released on Thursday, an image of former Soviet leader Josef Stalin adorns the wall of a restaurant named "The Dictator" in an upmarket suburb of Tunisia's capital, Tunis. A steak named "Grilled Freedom" is just one of many dishes that stand out on the menu.
In this handout photo released on Friday, a leopard cub is seen suckling on a lioness in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a World Heritage Site in Tanzania. Conservationists say the photograph is the first evidence of inter-species bonding between predators that are normally mortal enemies.
Army Gen Kim Yong-hyun promised "resolute retaliations" if South Korean lives were threatened.
North Korea said in a statement on Tuesday said it would end the truce on 11 March due to UN sanctions and military exercises in South Korea.
The Koreas remain technically at war, as they have not signed a peace treaty.
"If North Korea carries out provocations that threaten the lives and safety of South Koreans, our military will carry out strong and resolute retaliations," South Korea's Gen Kim Yong-hyun told reporters.
Gen Kim, who is director-general of operations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said they would target the "origin of provocation" and the North's commanding forces.
The agreement provided for:
The Korean War armistice
Tension is high on the Korean peninsula following North Korea's third nuclear test on 12 February.
The US on Tuesday tabled a UN resolution - agreed with China - on new sanctions that would target the North's diplomats and cash transfers, in response to the test. The resolution is expected to be formally adopted later this week.
The UN move came hours after the North Korean statement. Attributed to its Military Command, it said the North would "launch surgical strikes at any time and any target without being bounded by the armistice accord".
It is not the first time North Korea has used this kind of threat, says the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul.
But the familiar rhetoric comes at a particularly febrile time on both sides of the Pacific, with most people still waiting to hear what the new UN Security Council resolution will hold, our correspondent adds.
February's nuclear test was the first of its kind under new leader Kim Jong-un, who took over the leadership after his father Kim Jong-il died in December 2011.
North Korea claimed that a "miniaturised" device had been tested, increasing fears that Pyongyang had moved closer to building a warhead small enough to arm a missile.
It came weeks after Pyongyang successfully used a rocket to put a satellite into space, a move condemned by the UN as a banned test of missile technology.
Sviatchenko, 24, joins from Danish champions Midtjylland for a fee in the region of £1.5m.
"I will do everything I can to bring success to Celtic," Sviatchenko told the official Celtic website.
"It means so much to me to join a winning club, to join a club that goes for and wins trophies and wants to play in the Champions League."
Sviatchenko made his international debut in March and has since earned three more caps, and also has Champions League experience with the Danish champions.
He also helped them reach the last 32 of this season's Europa League.
"I have had a taste of winning with Midtjylland and I want more of this feeling at Celtic," he said. "When you play football, you want to be remembered for winning and I want to be remembered as a winner with Celtic.
"I know we have a squad of really talented players and I can't wait to get started, team up with them and get to work."
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The Scottish channel, which will receive £19m new cash and have a nightly 21:00 news show, has prompted criticism from Welsh politicians.
The announcement came after the BBC said it was investing an extra £8.5m a year in Welsh TV programmes - short of the £30m demanded by politicians.
BBC Wales said the needs of viewers in Scotland were "different".
Tory AM Darren Millar tweeted that it made the funding for Wales look like an "insult", while Labour shadow culture minister Kevin Brennan said it seemed that BBC Wales was "being short-changed compared to Scotland".
Under the Welsh package announced on Tuesday, the BBC said it would invest an extra £8.5m a year in English-language television programmes for Wales.
The BBC said the investment was a 50% increase and would fund new drama, comedy and entertainment programmes.
Bethan Jenkins, assembly culture committee chair and a Plaid Cymru AM, said she did not want to begrudge the Welsh deal but said different nations would "feel rightly aggrieved" at the different levels of investment.
Ms Jenkins' culture committee called for £30m extra to be spent on BBC English-language drama and broadcasting earlier this month.
Suzy Davies, Conservative AM for South Wales West and also a committee member, described the "sheer imbalance" as an "affront to Wales' journalists and to licence-fee payers".
But Alun Davies, Minister for Lifelong Learning and Welsh Language who has policy responsibility for broadcasting, said the creation of a separate channel would not answer the needs of Wales.
"A separate channel with tiny audiences will not bridge the current information deficit," he said.
"We need a comprehensive service on all of the BBC's existing channels and outlets which meet Wales' needs in news, sport and culture."
Speaking on BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Wales director Mr Davies said the Welsh funding deal was a substantial settlement and said political pressure played its part in both nations.
"There will be an announcement in due course about how the £8.5m will be spent. I do not spend my time comparing directly with what is happening in Scotland," he said.
"In Wales, we have intentionally chosen to spend the money on BBC One and BBC Two.
"We know through engaging with the audience that those are the channels where they want to see Wales being reflected."
A spokesman for the National Union of Journalists said: "Wales is being treated disgracefully, as there are no apparent plans for a similar channel or investment here.
"We call on BBC Cymru Wales to revisit the package announced yesterday and return with more imaginative and far-reaching proposals, similar to the ones being planned for Scotland."
A BBC spokeswoman said "the needs of audience in Scotland are different" and "as a result, different choices have been made that then require different levels of funding".
She said: "The BBC already has a very strong presence in Wales and we know audiences watch more BBC TV than any other part of the UK.
"We're already investing significantly more in Wales on producing programmes for the whole of the UK than our targets, and we've announced measures to make sure that output reflects Wales more strongly."
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The BBC has been accused of insulting Wales after it announced a new TV channel and funding for Scotland.
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The decision comes after a campaign by some riders who claimed the shoes could harm the animals' hooves in the long term.
Green Events chairman Lindsay Ketteringham said the terrain covered meant horses must wear them.
But he said it "will be carefully considered" ahead of next year's race.
Mr Ketteringham said they would "review the overall opinions of the equine and veterinary community".
He added that riders and farmers familiar with the terrain in Llanwrtyd Wells supported this view.
"The race has been run for the last 32 years under this ruling, and whilst this is not a deciding factor in itself, last year was the first occasion that a single rider requested to take part with an unshod rather than a shod horse," Mr Ketteringham said.
"It has become apparent to the committee that whilst the practice of barefoot horse riding and the use of boots rather than shoes is growing, there is still a divided body of opinion among the experts as to the suitability of the practice for race conditions."
The race has been run since 1980 and takes competitors along farm tracks, footpaths, open moor land and tarmac.
More than 300 solo runners, 111 relay teams of three, and 50 of their four-legged rivals took part in the 22-mile (35km) event around the town last year.
Sarah Braithwaite, who has written a book about so-called "barefoot" horses and competes in endurance rides, said rules forcing shod horses were outdated.
She said the decision was "unreasonable".
"For me, the point is riders should have the choice whether they do or do not shoe their horse," she said.
Mr Ketteringham said the "unique" event had been supported over its 32-year history "purely by volunteers who give up considerable amounts of their spare time to organise it".
The only occasions when men have beaten horses were in 2004 and 2007.
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The organisers of the annual Man versus Horse race in Powys have ruled, for this year at least, four-legged entrants must wear metal shoes.
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The demonstrators chanted the name of the party's leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and President Andrzej Duda, an ally of the party, at a rally on Sunday.
It follows protests organised by the Committee for the Defence of Democracy.
The group accuses Poland's government of trying to manipulate state institutions.
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Tensions rose in Poland after the conservative Law and Justice party attempted to replace five out of 15 judges of the constitutional court.
The opposition said the move was illegal, with MPs describing it as "a creeping coup d'etat".
The Law and Justice party argued it needed to appoint new judges to ensure a balance of power. It accused the Civic Platform party - which came second in elections after governing Poland for eight years - of refusing to accept the election results.
"We won the election, but we have no right to set laws and remodel Poland," Mr Kaczynski said to the crowds on Sunday.
"This court is supposed to be the stronghold... defending the system, defending all that has been bad and disgraceful in the last 26 years."
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Thousands of people marched through Warsaw to show support for the ruling Law and Justice party following anti-government protests on Saturday.
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The claim: MEPs have not done "proper jobs" that benefit the economy.
Reality Check verdict: It depends on your definition of a "proper job". Of the 14 MEPs who spoke on Tuesday, 13 have spent part of their careers outside politics. Five have worked in business or trade. Of these, four have started their own business, including Nigel Farage MEP.
It was one of many tense exchanges throughout the session, which was marked by booing and shouting. The European Parliament passed a motion urging the UK to start the exit process by triggering Article 50 immediately.
But politics and heckling aside, what do we mean by a proper job? This accusation is usually directed at people who have spent the majority of their working lives in politics, whether as elected politicians, in think tanks, or as civil servants. Mr Farage is talking about people who worked in business and trade.
There are 751 MEPs in the European Parliament - too many to look at it in one article - so we've looked into the previous careers of the 14 who spoke at the session today.
Let's start with Marine Le Pen. She began her political career in 1998 as a regional councillor, but before that she practised as a lawyer for six years. She is trained in criminal law and also worked as the director of the Front National's legal service from 1998 to 2004.
Guy Verhofstadt spent his whole career in politics. He began as a city councillor in 1976 after studying for a law degree. He served as prime minister of Belgium from 1999 to 2008. He has also sat as a Member of the Chamber of Representatives and a Member of the Senate in his home country as well as on a number of company boards.
Martin Schulz, president of the European parliament, is a former bookshop owner. He completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller between 1975 and 1977. In 1982 he opened a bookstore in Wuerselen which he managed for 12 years. In 1987 he was elected as the youngest ever mayor in North Rhine-Westphalia at the age of 31. In 1994 he was elected to the European Parliament (MEP) for the first time.
Alyn Smith graduated from Nottingham Law School in 1996 and taught English in India for a year before qualifying as a commercial lawyer. He worked at a law firm in Edinburgh from 2000, and in 2002 began working for MSP Richard Lochhead at Holyrood as an adviser on European, justice and business policies.
Diane Dodds is an MEP from Northern Ireland. Before that, she was a high school teacher who taught history and English for seven years. In 2003, she was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly and in 2005, she was elected to Belfast City Council. In 2009, she was elected to the European Parliament.
Gabriele Zimmer worked as a clerk and an editor from 1977 to 1986, then as an assistant in the German SED party until 1989. She was elected to the Thuringia state parliament in Germany in 1990. She became an MEP in 2004.
Philippe Lamberts worked at IBM for over two decades from 1987 to 2009. He first became involved in the Belgian Green party (Ecolo) in 1991 and he was elected as an MEP in 2009.
Ryszard Antoni Legutko has worked as a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, since 1975. He also edited an underground magazine called Arka in the city in the 1980s. He was elected as an MEP in 2009.
Manfred Weber graduated in engineering in 1996. After graduation he founded a consultancy firm called DG Beratung GmbH consultants (1996-2014) and another consultancy, the G+U GbR company, in 1998. He was a Member of the Bavarian Parliament between 2002 and 2004.
Gianni Pittella held various local and national posts during his career in Italian politics, prior to moving to Brussels. He studied medicine and specialised in forensic pathology. His profile on the EU Parliament website states that he was employed doctor in medicine in the private sector, but only in 1979.
Marcel De Graaff worked as an IT consultant from 1989 after studying theology. He had a brief stint teaching religion at a secondary school in Rotterdam in 2010 before becoming a member of parliament in 2011.
Syed Kamall has been a visiting fellow and lecturer at Leeds University Business School. Prior to that, in 2003, he started a diversity recruitment business, and worked as a consultant at a number of firms from 1997 to 2005. In 2005, he became a member of the European Parliament.
Martina Anderson spent 13 years in prison in England and Ireland before her release as part of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. She then worked for the Sinn Féin party until 2007 when she was elected to the Northern Irish parliament. She became an MEP in May 2012.
And what about Nigel Farage himself? He's the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). He became a commodities trader in 1982 and was listed as company secretary for Farage Limited, a commodities broker, until 2011. It is currently in liquidation. The company wasn't big enough to list how many employees it had so we don't have a precise figure for the number of jobs he created.
He joined UKIP in 1993 and became leader in 2006. He was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999, and still holds the post.
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Speaking at the European Parliament's first debate on the UK's vote to leave the EU, MEP and UKIP leader Nigel Farage told MEPs: "I know that virtually none of you have ever done a proper job in your lives or worked in business or worked in trade or ever created a job."
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Ms Varela said the female wing of the Uribana prison near the city of Barquisimeto had already been cleared.
She also called on male inmates to stop rioting.
Violence between rival gangs is common in Venezuela's overcrowded jails. More than 300 people were killed in 2012, according to a local rights group.
Gang warfare
Ms Varela did not say how many people had died in the riot, but a hospital director Ruy Medina said he had counted 61 bodies in the morgue.
Earlier, local media had reported that the security forces were still not in full control of the prison.
Mr Medina, the director of the Hospital Central Antonio Maria Pineda, said 120 people had been injured.
Ms Varela said officials had decided to clear the prison of all inmates to "close this chapter of violence".
She said soldiers had been sent to the prison to search prisoners for weapons after reports that rival gangs were preparing for a fight.
According to Ms Varela, the prisoners were alerted to the impending raid by news reports and lay in wait for the National Guard, attacking them as they entered the Uribana penitentiary.
She said most of the victims had been killed with home-made weapons and rudimentary knives.
However, Mr Medina had earlier said many of the bodies at his hospital's morgue had gunshot wounds.
Vice-President Nicolas Maduro said there would be a thorough investigation into the riot, led by Venezuela's Prosecutor General and the President of the National Assembly.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles blamed the violence on "incompetent and irresponsible government".
Venezuelan human rights activist Carlos Nieto Palma told BBC Mundo Uribana prison was among the most dangerous in the country and suffered from overcrowding.
There has been a series of deadly prison riots in Venezuela.
Last year, the security forces took almost three weeks to regain control of La Planta prison in the capital, Caracas, after inmates rioted in protest at a planned transfer to another jail.
The prisoners said they feared for their lives if they were moved to other already overcrowded jails.
According to the non-governmental Venezuelan Prisons Observatory (VPO), in 2012 more than 50,000 inmates were housed in prisons built to hold 14,000.
City forwards Jon Parkin and Oliver both had chances inside the first 10 minutes, but it was the latter who broke the deadlock after quarter of an hour.
Amari Morgan-Smith was fouled 30 yards out and Parkin's low free-kick struck the frame of the goal only for Oliver to tap into an empty net at the opposite post.
Oliver made it seven goals in 10 games in the 31st minute when he played a one-two with Asa Hall and curled the ball inside Nathan Baxter's left-hand post, but Harry White gave the Moors hope with a great 25-yard free-kick deep into first-half stoppage time.
Solihull should have equalised two minutes into the second half when White burst clear, but City keeper Scott Loach pushed his shot against the post, while George Carline also spurned a great chance to level from close range.
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Match ends, Solihull Moors 1, York City 2.
Second Half ends, Solihull Moors 1, York City 2.
Simon Heslop (York City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Omari Sterling-James replaces Connor Franklin.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Ashley Sammons replaces Hafeez Sanusi.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Oladapo Afolayan replaces Nortei Nortey.
Kristian Green (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, York City. Shaun Rooney replaces Danny Holmes.
Shaun Rooney (York City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Second Half begins Solihull Moors 1, York City 2.
First Half ends, Solihull Moors 1, York City 2.
Goal! Solihull Moors 1, York City 2. Harry White (Solihull Moors).
Connor Franklin (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Solihull Moors 0, York City 2. Vadaine Oliver (York City).
Goal! Solihull Moors 0, York City 1. Vadaine Oliver (York City).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
In a filing with US regulators, Fitbit said it would sell 22.4 million shares. At the top end of the price range, the company would be valued at $3.3bn.
Fitbit makes wristbands that track your fitness levels, such as calories burned and distance travelled.
It announced plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange last month.
In its prospectus, the company said it would benefit from an increasing focus from consumers on health and fitness.
Based on research from International Data Company, the company estimates that by 2019 the wearable devices market could be worth $27.9bn based on shipments of 126.1 million devices.
However, the company warned that there were "several challenges to overcome".
This includes "competition from larger, more established traditional health and fitness companies, uncertainty as to whether consumers will adopt our products... and our relative lack of experience selling other products and services".
In 2014, Fitbit reported a profit, making $131.8m compared with a loss of $51.6m the previous year.
For the first three months of 2015, Fitbit's net income was $48m, up from $8.9m in the first three months of 2014.
His last series will go out in spring 2017 following a Christmas special, after which he will be replaced by Broadchurch writer Chris Chibnall.
Moffat took over the reins on series five of the world's longest running sci-fi series in 2010.
BBC One's controller, Charlotte Moore, said Moffat was an "absolute genius".
In a statement, the BBC said he had been responsible for introducing the 11th and 12th Doctors - Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi - as well as two companions in Karen Gillan and Jenna Coleman.
Moffat said it took "a lot of gin and tonic" to talk Chibnall into taking up his new position.
"I am beyond delighted that one of the true stars of British television drama will be taking the Time Lord even further into the future," he said.
"At the start of season 11, Chris Chibnall will become the new showrunner of Doctor Who. And I will be thrown in a skip."
Chibnall described Doctor Who as "the ultimate BBC programme - bold, unique, vastly entertaining, and adored all around the world".
He added: "So it's a privilege and a joy to be the next curator of this funny, scary and emotional family drama.
"I've loved Doctor Who since I was four years old, and I'm relishing the thought of working with the exceptional team at BBC Wales to create new characters, creatures and worlds for the Doctor to explore."
Ms Moore thanked Moffat "for everything he has given Doctor Who".
She said: "I've loved working with him, he is an absolute genius and has brought fans all over the world such joy.
"I will be very sad to see him leave the show but I can't wait to see what he will deliver in his last-ever series next year with a brand new companion."
A third of people surveyed by housing charity Cymorth Cymru said health problems contributed to them losing their home.
Seven recommendations have been made to health boards, landlords and councils to ensure better support.
The Welsh Government said it welcomed the report and would consider its recommendations.
The charity - an umbrella body for providers of housing support and social care services - analysed responses from 332 homeless people from 21 out of 22 local authority areas.
It was commissioned by the Welsh Government to look at the experiences of people who had slept rough, stayed in a hostel or B&B, stayed with friends or relatives, or applied to the council as homeless.
A third of the sample stated their homelessness was caused, at least in part, by a health problem, when drug or alcohol problems were included as part of a broadly defined health issue.
Nearly a quarter who were admitted to hospital said they were discharged to the streets or "unsuitable accommodation".
More than two-thirds of respondents had not had a hepatitis B or flu vaccination and half the eligible female respondents did not have cervical smears or breast examinations on a regular basis.
Waiting times, the inability to make an appointment, as well as drug and alcohol problems are some of the factors which prevent people from accessing health services, the report said.
Cymorth Cymru director Katie Dalton said the results suggested poor health was a cause as well as an effect of homelessness.
"People can start to experience a physical or mental health problem and that can impact on their ability to engage in employment - they could see their income reduce or stop, not be able to afford their rent or mortgage and lose their home," she said.
"We know that around 30% of people who are homeless saw their health get worse in the past 12 months and that many of them face barriers to accessing a range of health services that could have prevented that deterioration from happening."
Recommendations
Ms Dalton added: "It's really important that we think more creatively to improve those health stats in future… this isn't necessarily about more resources - it's about being smarter.
"Significant proportions of homeless people use emergency departments and ambulances to access hospital - we believe that if early intervention was working, those people could be prevented from needing those services and reduce pressure on the NHS.
"We actually found that 63% of people who filled out the questionnaire didn't have a drug or alcohol problem - that's probably in contrast to what public perception is around substance misuse."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We continue to work closely with Public Health Wales, health boards, local authorities and homelessness organisations to ensure appropriate services are planned and delivered to meet the health needs of homeless people and those at risk of homelessness."
It was collected by a motorist on the M48 and taken to the nearby Marlow Vets in Chepstow, Monmouthshire.
Practice owner Caroline Marlow joked: "It looked as though it was trying to cross into England and is lucky there are no tolls that way."
She believes it could be up to 50 years old and possibly a much-loved family pet.
Mrs Marlow added: "They were once quite common family icons and there is probably quite a lot of family sentiment attached to it.
"We had another lost a few weeks ago and when the owner came to collect it, he was quite teary-eyed as it was his grandfather's."
The latest tortoise is not micro-chipped. Mrs Marlow is trying to reunite it with its owner.
The tomb was found in Abu-Sir, south-west of Cairo, and is thought to belong to the wife or mother of Pharaoh Neferefre who ruled 4,500 years ago.
Egyptian Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty said that her name, Khentakawess, had been found inscribed on a wall in the necropolis.
Mr Damaty added that this would make her Khentakawess III.
The tomb was discovered in Pharaoh Neferefre's funeral complex.
Miroslav Barta, head of the Czech Institute of Egyptology mission which made the discovery, said that the location of the queen's tomb made them believe that she was the wife of the pharaoh.
The Czech archaeologists also found about 30 utensils made of limestone and copper.
Mr Damaty explained that the discovery would "help us shed light on certain unknown aspects of the Fifth Dynasty, which along with the Fourth Dynasty, witnessed the construction of the first pyramids."
Abu-Sir was used as an Old Kingdom cemetery for the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis.
In Kiev
Fomenko cuts a sharp contrast to the spontaneous combustion that lurked permanently near the surface of Oleg Blokhin, his legendary predecessor.
Former Soviet Union striker Blokhin concluded a frank discussion with a Ukrainian journalist following their defeat by England in Euro 2012 with an old-fashioned invitation to go outside for "a man talk", complete with what looked suspiciously like a few tasty shadow-boxing moves just to emphasise his point.
It is hard to imagine such differing personalities as the emotional Blokhin and the taciturn - to put it very generously - Fomenko.
And yet the latter is clearly inspirational enough to have manoeuvred Ukraine into a position in Group H where they will be firm favourites for automatic qualification should they beat England on Tuesday.
Fomenko does not go in for such obvious dramatic gestures as Blokhin.
Indeed it seems he does not go in for gestures at all but one typically short answer brought a smattering of patriotic applause from his audience in the room deep inside the vast bowl of Kiev's Olympic Stadium.
Asked if the potentially decisive meeting with England was the game of his life, he simply replied: "Not only of mine."
This was all it took to prompt the response and shine a light on the feelings of Ukraine as they believe the goal of Brazil next summer will come into sharp relief should they beat Roy Hodgson's men.
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There was a mood of anticipation among Ukraine fans who walked along the banks of the vast Dnieper river that sweeps through this sprawling, exciting city.
And it will be mirrored in the mood of 70,000 supporters who will gather for what will be arguably the most important night of Hodgson's reign so far.
England are braced for the early whirlwind of attacks that have become Ukraine's calling card. Comparisons are being drawn with the occasion in October 1997 when Glenn Hoddle's England went to Rome's Stadio Olimpico and fought a rearguard action that brought back the goalless draw that sent them to France 98.
Hodgson, then coach of Inter Milan, worked as a television analyst that night.
He knows he will be under far more pressure on Tuesday as England reach the crucial point in their World Cup qualifying campaign.
The England manager admits he is feeling that pressure - and why not? Hodgson's years of experience will inform him of the stakes, both professionally and personally, that may ride on events.
Full qualifying tables
Hodgson seemed at ease with such weight of expectation as he said: "We're getting closer to the situation where we are either going to achieve our goal and qualify for the World Cup or we are going to fail in our goal.
"Of course that's pressure but, like Steve Gerrard said, that is part and parcel of the business. You can't get away from that, and discussing it and admitting to it even - what does that do?
"What would you like me to say? 'No I don't feel any pressure and I couldn't care less?' Of course you wouldn't expect me to say that.
"I can't sleep at night? I can't sleep a wink? I'm frightened to death we're going to lose? Do you want me to say that?"
It was all said perfectly calmly but with the air of a man who could probably reel off a list of the searching questions he would be asked should he leave Kiev in the small hours of Wednesday morning a loser.
Hodgson has had a turbulent build-up with new Football Association chairman Greg Dyke realistically suggesting England would not be among the favourites to win in Brazil should they even get there.
And another unwanted distraction came in the form of defender Kyle Walker's apology for his "poor judgement" after photographs were published of the Tottenham defender inhaling nitrous oxide, commonly known as "laughing gas", during a night out in Sheffield this summer.
Take a look back at Frank Lampard's long career with West Ham, Chelsea and England
At least Hodgson's team selection was uncomplicated, with the reliable James Milner the only expected change in place of suspended Danny Welbeck.
It is an England team with a lop-sided look in terms of experience. Frank Lampard will win his 100th cap to join a select band of eight that includes team-mates Steven Gerrard and Ashley Cole.
At the other end of the scale, Rickie Lambert's story gets another chapter as he earns only his third cap at the age of 31.
With midfielder Jack Wilshere also short of competitive England experience, Hodgson will rely heavily on his vastly and trusted trio.
Mikhail Fomenko has outlined what this night means to Ukraine - but Hodgson and England will also know what it will mean to spoil it.
Cerberus Capital Management will invest $605m (£406m) in Avon.
As part of the agreement, the North American division will be separated from the rest and mostly controlled by Cerberus.
Avon's North American business has been struggling, while its growth in emerging markets has been strong.
Avon's sales in North America accounted for just 14% of the company's revenue in 2014. Sales in Latin America made up nearly half of the company's total sales during that year.
"We believe that the separation of Avon North America is the best way to ensure that both businesses have an unencumbered path to profitability and growth," said Sheri McCoy, chief executive of Avon Products.
Cerberus will pay $170m for an 80% stake in Avon North America and will appoint a new chief executive. The investment firm said it will focus on creating new product lines and new incentive structures for its sales representatives.
The firm will also make a separate $435m investment for a minority stake in the international brand, Avon Products.
The company has turned down previous offers from would be buyers.
In 2012, beauty brand Coty made a $10bn offer to buy Avon that was rejected.
With the company's stock price falling 55% over the year, the executive team appeared to be changing their minds about buyouts.
Shares rose 1.2% following the deals announcement.
Avon, known for its catch phrase "Avon Calling" was set up in 1886.
The company relies on a direct door-to door sales method rather than selling products in stores. Most of Avon's sales representatives are women and the company prides itself on female empowerment.
"We are strong believers in the direct selling model, the principle of empowering Representatives, and the growth that direct selling can generate when Representatives are appropriately supported and incentivised to build their businesses," said Ms McCoy.
Mr Thakor, 23, has been suspended on full pay over two allegations said to have happened in June.
Police confirmed a 23-year-old had been arrested in connection with "an ongoing investigation into incidents of sexual exposure".
Derbyshire Cricket Club have previously said the all-rounder was not on club duty at the time.
Derbyshire Police said it received reports a man had indecently exposed himself to women on two separate occasions at a housing development off Radbourne Lane, in Mackworth.
Mr Thakor joined Derbyshire after rejecting a new contract with home county Leicestershire in 2014 and signed a new three-year deal in August 2016.
FutureLearn says it has 370,000 students enrolled for a British Council course preparing for an English language test.
This so-called Mooc - a "massive open online course" - has its biggest audience in the Middle East.
Simon Nelson, FutureLearn's chief executive said it showed the demand for English and scale of online learning.
There is an "enormous market" for learning English, said Mr Nelson, who predicted there would be even bigger numbers for such online courses.
FutureLearn's course, aimed at students preparing for the English language proficiency test IELTS, has more students than a course previously claimed as the biggest, a social psychology course from Wesleyan University in the US, which had 260,000 students
Mr Nelson said that online learning was not only about a "volume game", but the figures showed what was possible when courses were available "unimpeded by geography".
The six-week course, Understanding IELTS: Techniques for English Language Tests, has students from 153 countries, with the biggest number from the Middle East, Asia and Latin America.
The most typical profile for a student was a young woman in full-time work.
Mr Nelson says the expansion of such Mooc courses also raises questions about what students want from the social networking side of such online learning.
"They're able to come together as a community, but we still need to find out what that will mean," said Mr Nelson.
The course is free, but students can pay £29 for a "statement of participation", showing that they have followed the course.
It prepares students for the IELTS exam, taken 2.2 million times last year, which is used by employers and professional bodies to measure English language skills.
The fee is part of FutureLearn's plan to be a "sustainable business", said Mr Nelson.
Futurelearn is the UK's platform for online courses, with more than 50 partner universities and institutions such as the British Museum.
It has announced another big name joining, with University College London set to launch courses with FutureLearn.
This will arguably be FutureLearn's most prestigious university so far, with two online courses expected to be delivered.
It is competing against major US rivals, such as Coursera, which was founded by academics from Stanford University, and edX, created by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The boy was visiting his father in the east of the city on Monday when he took a handgun from the bedroom.
He is said to have thrown the gun out into the back garden, retrieved it and jumped into a parked car.
Later, the three-year-old boy went into the car, was then shot in the face and later died, prosecutors say.
The older boy appeared in a juvenile court for a preliminary hearing on Wednesday afternoon.
He faces another two charges of death by weapon aimed with intent, but without malice, and felony firearm.
"I cannot remember a time when we have charged someone so young with taking a life," said prosecutor Kym Worthy in a statement.
"Very unfortunately and very tragically, the alleged facts in this case demanded it."
But experts who spoke to the Detroit Free Press newspaper said it was not clear whether an 11-year-old could be competent enough to face such charges.
In Michigan, prosecutors have wide discretion to charge people of any age, though the judge has some say in the process, the paper says.
But prosecutors would have to prove that a youth, in this case 11 years old, had "criminal intent".
Meet best-selling Indian author Amish Tripathi who has just released his much anticipated fifth book, Sita: Warrior of Mithila, that re-imagines the life of the Hindu goddess from the epic Ramayan.
With four million copies in print, the former banker, who has successfully turned centuries-old mythological tales into bestselling works of fiction, is one of the highest selling Indian authors writing in English.
I first heard of Tripathi in 2010, just days after his first book The Immortals of Meluha was published. It was the first part of a trilogy based on Shiva, one of Hinduism's most important gods.
A fine blend of myth and history, the book read like a fast-paced airport thriller - it was gripping and "unputdownable". At the same time, it discussed religion and philosophy, the eternal battle between good and evil and the moral dilemmas that normally accompany such debates.
Written almost entirely during his daily commute to and from work, in the back seat of his car, the book took him five years to finish.
"After it was completed in 2008, I approached every single publisher, big and small, but everyone rejected it," the Mumbai-based writer told me during a recent visit to Delhi.
"They told me there was no hope for this book since the market was dominated by the youth and that they were not interested in religion. Also, they said since everyone knew the story of Shiva, why would anyone buy another book on him?
"I stopped counting after 20 rejections."
That's when he decided to self-publish. His wife came up with a clever idea to promote it - the first chapter was printed as a booklet and displayed near the cash counters in book stores two weeks before the launch, and customers were encouraged to take away free copies.
The campaign was so successful that within the first week of launch, Meluha hit the bestseller chart. Readers who had read the first chapter returned to book stores, asking for more.
The second and the third books in the Shiva trilogy - The Secret of the Nagas and the Oath of the Vayuptras - published in 2011 and 2013 were also huge hits and the trilogy sold more than 2.75 million copies.
Bollywood director Karan Johar has bought the rights to make a Hindi film on Meluha, and Tripathi has also sold English film rights to an unnamed Hollywood filmmaker.
The success of the trilogy changed his fortunes - according to reports he was paid a record signing amount of $1m (£770,932) for his next series, and huge publicity campaigns have turned his book launches into major events.
His Ramchandra series, based on the story of Hindu god Ram, was launched in 2015 with The Scion of Ikshvaku. Sita: Warrior of Mithila is the second in the five-part series.
Although critics say his books lack any literary merit, they admire him for his ability to "create completely new stories from old ones".
Says Tripathi: "The stories are thousands of years old, but they are so rich, so deeply ingrained in our genes, that we want to hear them over and over again. There can be different interpretations of old stories. The philosophical core remains, the soul remains, but the packaging can be new."
And his packaging is delightfully new - his Shiva is a marijuana-smoking Tibetan immigrant who's more human than god, with weaknesses and failings.
And Sita is not a meek woman who obediently follows her husband, Lord Ram. She is a warrior princess who rises to become the prime minister of her state, a goddess who fights to defend her people.
A voracious reader, the 42-year-old author says his knowledge of scriptures, philosophy and religion comes from the books he reads and his family, especially from his grandfather who was a priest in the holy city of Varanasi.
An atheist during his college days, he says he "returned to faith" while writing his first book.
"I believe faith gives peace. I believe in religious symbols and rituals. I do what gives me peace. I visit a Shiva temple every Monday. Most devotees pour milk over the Shiva lingam, I don't do that. I buy milk and give it to a beggar because that gives me peace. But I don't judge others who pour milk on the lingam."
Despite his extreme popularity and celebrity status, he doesn't participate in shrill television debates, uses social media judiciously and has so far managed to stay out of controversy.
"Most controversies are created. Journalists trigger controversies for ratings, artists do it for sales. I don't want to sell through controversies. I'd rather not sell my books then," he says.
Because of the sweep and popularity of his fiction, he's been compared to JR Tolkien and Paulo Coehlo.
"I'm a fan of both," he says. "Paulo Coehlo's Alchemist is one of the best books I've read and I like Tolkien for the depth of his thinking. But my writing is influenced by our ancient culture, my pride in it. And I'm influenced by all the books I read."
When I ask him about his future plans, Tripathi says he's got enough ideas to keep him going for the rest of his life.
"I have plenty of ideas to write for a lifetime. I'm afraid that I will die before writing them all and I'll carry them into my cremation pyre with me," he says.
Ward, 22, has been capped up to under-21 level with Wales and has previously been loaned by Liverpool to Morecambe.
He started his career with Wrexham, having a brief loan at Tamworth in 2011, before moving to Anfield the following the year.
"I am delighted to get Danny on board," Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes told his club website.
"He is a young goalkeeper we have been aware of for some time. We are thankful to Liverpool and [manager] Brendan [Rodgers] in particular for allowing this to happen.
"He is someone who is highly regarded at his club and they see the importance of getting him out on loan. Danny now has the task and challenge of playing football at a good level with us.
"We have real competition for places in all areas of the team, and we certainly now have that in the goalkeeping position."
Ward, who has made six senior appearances in his career, will be competing with Englishman Scott Brown, 30, and Scotsman Jamie Langfield, 35, for the Dons' goalkeeping position.
Yet his mention of China reveals some of the greatest security concerns brewing in Hanoi.
Since a brief but bloody border war in 1979 that cost thousands of lives, Vietnam-China relations have been bumpy to say the least. From being Vietnam's biggest ally, ironically, in the war against the United States, China has increasingly been seen as a dominant, and at times, threatening neighbour.
Recent tensions in the South China Sea have added to the growing mistrust. Vietnam protests against what it sees as excessive Chinese maritime claims and supports the court case brought against China by the Philippines. Not only does China's growing assertiveness in the area challenge Vietnam's sovereignty, it could greatly affect its fishery, oil and gas activities, too.
It is no secret that Vietnam is trying to boost its maritime defensive capability. Its largest arms contract to date with a foreign country was the $2bn purchase of six kilo-class submarines from Russia.
A large number of patrol and missile ships and fighter jets have also been purchased from Russia, as Vietnam's military spending more than doubled between 2004 and 2013. It is now the eighth largest importer of weapons in the world.
In the last few years Hanoi has also sought to expand its military ties with other countries, too, forging partnerships with Spain, the Netherlands and Israel to name a few.
Now the arms embargo has been lifted, Vietnam will be able to access the latest technologies and equipment the US military has to offer.
Beijing's new South China Sea islands
High hopes for Obama visit
But many think it will be a while before Vietnamese-manned F-16s are seen patrolling the East Sea, which is how the Vietnamese refer to the South China Sea.
Before the Obama visit, senior Vietnamese defence officials repeatedly said they had no major plans to buy weapons from the US. Instead, they were looking to transfer technology and perhaps boost patrol capability.
In the immediate future this is unlikely to change, especially because of the US precondition that the sale of arms will depend on Vietnam's human rights commitments and will be considered case by case.
Alongside this, of course, is the fact that Vietnam doesn't have much money to spare, given its economic problems.
But the US announcement is being seen as a powerfully symbolic gesture - "proof that the US-Vietnam relationship has fully normalised", as Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang put it.
His counterpart seemed to agree, saying that his visit to Vietnam showed that "hearts can change and peace is possible".
Burnley-born Sir Ian, a leading LGBT rights campaigner, is grand marshal of the event, which began at 13:00 BST.
Pride's chief executive Mark Fletcher said "much work has been achieved" over the years but more needs to be done.
The festival began in 1990 as a collection of bring-and-buy stalls outside a pub to champion gay rights.
It has since expanded to a parade and festival, with a weekend of live music and a candlelit vigil to commemorate those who have died after contracting HIV, or are living with the condition.
This year, Texas, Danni Minogue, Alesha Dixon and DJ Fresh are among the musicians performing.
The parade set off down Deansgate from Liverpool Road, turning up Peter Street, on to Oxford Street, Portland Street and Princess Street.
As grand marshal, the 76-year-old actor, who came out in 1988, was at its head through the city's streets.
Around 2,500 people from across Greater Manchester took part with around 100 entries from small community groups to large commercial organisations, all unified in their support for the LGBT community.
Mr Fletcher said the festival is vital in raising awareness, adding: "We have come a long way in 25 years, there's still have a long way to go.
"Barriers and boundaries are being been broken down but there's still more needs to be done."
He said the parade is a family-friendly event and last year there was tens of thousands of people who came out to show support including "proud straight allies."
Mrs Machel who met some of the parents of the girls in Nigeria's main city, Lagos, urged them to remain strong.
Seventeen of the girls' parents have died since their abduction, the BBC's Umar Elleman reports from the city.
The kidnap of the girls from a school in Chibok sparked global outrage.
Mrs Machel, a prominent child rights campaigner, says she speaks about the girls wherever she goes.
"I shook hands with all of you and feel what is in your blood... I share the pain with you of not knowing when the girls will come back."
She added that the parents have asked her to urge Nigerians and the international community to do more to free the missing girls.
The meeting was organised by Murtala Muhammed Foundation to support the parents as they deal with the trauma caused by the abductions.
The Nigerian army has rescued hundreds of hostages from Boko Haram, but none of the kidnapped schoolgirls have been found.
President Muhammadu Buhari, who took office in May, has given the military a mid-November deadline to defeat the militants.
With the support of neighbouring countries, Nigeria has recaptured most of the towns previously under Boko Haram control but the group still carries out frequent attacks, especially in Borno State, which includes Chibok.
The Chibok schoolgirls have not been seen since last May when Boko Haram released a video of around 130 of them gathered together, reciting the Koran.
Some of those who were kidnapped have since been forced to join the militant group, the BBC was told.
Amnesty International estimates that at least 2,000 women and girls have been abducted by Boko Haram since the start of 2014.
The US justice department said Harlem Suarez, also known as Almlak Benitez, has been charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.
He allegedly planned to bury a bomb containing nails at a beach in Key West and detonate it with a mobile phone.
Prosecutors claim he was inspired by the Islamic State militant group, which has called for attacks on the West.
According to the FBI, Suarez recorded a video in May in which he said: "We will destroy America and divide it into two. We will raise our black flag on top of your White House and any president on duty."
Officials say he first came to the attention of the FBI in April after posting extremist messages on Facebook.
He was caught after buying a fake device from an FBI agent in a sting operation on Monday.
Several young men have been arrested in the US in recent months, with many plotting attacks in the name of the Islamic State group.
Andrew Beaumont posted a picture on Twitter of the parliamentary hopefuls alongside his ballot paper for the Oxford West and Abingdon marginal seat.
The 34-year-old father of two, a bursar at Oxford University's Hertford College, says he hopes his figures will liven up the final days of campaigning.
Conservative candidate Nicola Blackwood is defending a majority of only 176.
Dr Beaumont, who describes himself as a "benign Lego obsessive and sometime c.18th historian" on Twitter, told BBC News he came up with the creations through "sheer boredom".
"I got all the literature and the manifestos through the door for all the seven candidates and looking at their mugshots, I just thought they all looked a bit the same," he said.
"That's where the idea to recreate them in Lego came from really. I took a look at my ballot paper and thought it would be a bit of fun to pair them up."
Some of the candidates got the chance to meet their Lego alter egos during a BBC Radio Oxford constituency debate which will be broadcast on Friday.
In alphabetical order, the candidates standing for Oxford West and Abingdon are: Nicola Blackwood (Conservative); Sally Copley (Labour); Mike Foster (Socialist Party of Great Britain); Alan Harris (UK Iindependence Party); Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat); Helen Salisbury (National Health Action Party); Larry Sanders (Green Party)
He was shot after reportedly setting off a small explosion and no-one else is believed to have been injured.
Prosecutors later said the man had died. They are treating the incident as a terrorist attack.
In March 2016, 32 people were killed in attacks on Brussels claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
According to Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique, quoting prosecutors, the man who was shot was wearing a rucksack and a bomb belt.
He detonated a device when he attracted the attention of soldiers in the station, the paper says.
Nicolas Van Herrewegen, a railway sorting agent, said he had gone down to the station's mezzanine level when he heard someone shouting.
"Then he cried 'Allahu Akbar' and he blew up a wheeled suitcase," he told AFP news agency.
"I was behind a wall when it exploded. I went down and alerted my colleagues to evacuate everyone. He [the suspect] was still around but after that we didn't see him."
"It wasn't exactly a big explosion but the impact was pretty big," he added. "People were running away."
Mr Van Herrewegen described the suspect as well-built and tanned with short hair, wearing a white shirt and jeans.
"I saw that he had something on him because I could see wires emerging, so it may have been a suicide vest," he said.
Lawyer Remy Bonnaffe, 23, was waiting for a train and took a photograph of flames seconds after the explosion.
He told Reuters news agency that people close to the explosion appeared unhurt and he saw no obvious damage to nearby walls.
"I'm happy that no-one was injured and that this was basically a failed attempt," he said.
Arash Aazami arrived at the station just after the explosion. He told the BBC: "As we entered into the station, we were evacuated loudly by some security personnel.
"Looked around, saw people running in the streets, trying to seek refuge and decided to do the same ourselves."
As the station and Grand Place were evacuated, businesses and restaurants were ordered to close and draw down their shutters, RTL radio reports.
Metro lines running through the station were also briefly suspended on orders of the police, according to the radio.
On 22 March of last year, three suicide bombers mounted twin attacks on the city's Zaventem airport and Maelbeek underground station.
The same Brussels-based IS cell was also behind the gun and bomb attacks in Paris in November 2015, that killed 130 people.
The French capital was jolted again on Monday when a man with an Islamist background died after ramming his car into a police van on the Avenue des Champs-Élysée.
London has also been on edge since a van was driven into Muslim worshippers outside a mosque on Sunday night, with one man dying and nine people injured. It followed IS-claimed attacks on London's Borough Market in June and a pop concert in Manchester in May that together left some 30 people dead and more than 100 injured.
Restaurant staff told the BBC they did not know who had removed the letters.
The NKVD was the forerunner of the Soviet KGB secret police. In the 1930s and 1940s the NKVD arrested millions of people and many were executed.
The restaurant sports a big portrait of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
Stalin's image also featured on the restaurant's menus, but when the BBC visited on Tuesday the barman said the management had told the staff to remove the menus "for now until we get the sign back".
"Look at the wall, the sign was just ripped off," he said, without giving his name.
The restaurant is not far from the Kremlin and the old secret police headquarters, on Ostozhenka Street.
The controversy over the "NKVD" name featured in Russian Vesti TV news - one of the main broadcasts on the state-controlled Rossiya 24 channel.
Restaurant staff told the BBC that the letters stood for "national cuisine of a great power" in Russian - not for Stalin's secret police.
The barman strongly defended the "NKVD" name.
"I really hope we put it back. Why not? People ask us why NKVD, but why not? It's NKVD and not Gestapo," he said.
But some Russians voiced alarm at what appeared to be more whitewashing of history and an insult to Stalin's many victims.
Public displays of Stalin portraits were taboo in the last decades of the Soviet Union - but they have reappeared in President Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Mr Putin has emphasised the sacrifices made by the USSR in World War Two. But he has also acknowledged that Stalin's security apparatus committed terrible crimes.
The NKVD name was possibly an ill-conceived publicity stunt, says the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow.
The sign caused a stir when human rights lawyer Mark Feygin tweeted a photo of it on 9 December.
Leonid Gozman, of the Russian civil society organisation, Perspektiva Foundation, said "it's a rehabilitation of our country's most tragic episodes.
"I can't imagine a 'Gestapo' restaurant in Munich or Berlin... A lot of our people consider the NKVD to have been a criminal organisation. Many people's relatives suffered or died [in that period]."
One Russian Facebook user, called Therese Philosophe, gave details of four Soviet terror victims who had lived at the address where the restaurant now stands.
Figures from the Labor Department showed the US economy created 178,000 jobs in November, while the jobless rate fell to 4.6% from 4.9% in October.
The data adds to recent evidence of healthy growth in the economy, although wage growth was weaker than expected.
Most analysts think the Federal Reserve will raise rates at its next meeting.
"This was the last hurdle on the path to a December hike, and it has been cleared convincingly," said Luke Bartholomew, investment manager at Aberdeen Asset Management.
"It is now incredibly hard to imagine what would stop the Fed from going [for a rate rise]."
The Federal Reserve will hold its next two-day policy meeting on 13-14 December.
Last month, the chair of the Fed, Janet Yellen, indicated that the US central bank could raise interest rates "relatively soon", adding that the US economy was "making very good progress".
Recent figures indicated that the US economy grew at an annual pace of 3.2% in the third quarter of the year.
The US economy has been creating jobs at an average of 180,000 jobs a month this year, although that is down on the average of 229,000 recorded in 2015.
Despite November's robust jobs figures, earnings grew by less than expected. Average hourly earnings fell 0.1% from the month before, and that reduced the annual increase in wages to 2.5% from 2.8% in October.
The job creation figures for September and October were also revised, with the latest estimates indicating that 2,000 fewer jobs were added in the two months than previously thought.
Before these figures the markets were pretty clear about what they think the Federal Reserve will do when it meets later this month; it will raise interest rates. The jobs numbers have further reinforced that expectation.
It was a pretty robust figure for job creation, well ahead of economists' estimates of what is needed to keep up with a growing population.
Also striking was a decline of 220,000 in the number who are working part-time for economic reasons. This is another measure of what economists call "slack in the labour market" that the Fed has been watching, because it thinks the unemployment rate doesn't tell the whole story about job problems. A decline in the number of part-timers suggests some more of the "slack" being taken up.
The marked decline in the unemployment rate is a little misleading. It partly reflects people who are no longer looking for work - they are counted as "not in the labour force" rather than unemployed. That said, this is a rather strong report.
His mother was able to catch him before he fell when she took him to the toilet on the Totnes Riverside to Buckfastleigh train in Devon.
Investigators said the floor had been removed for repairs to the carriage's brakes but had not been replaced.
South Devon Railway (SDR), which runs the steam train, said it is taking the investigation "extremely seriously".
More on the missing train floor and other Devon news
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) said the 13:00 BST train was running between Staverton and Buckfastleigh on the South Devon Railway when the mother took her child to the toilet in the fourth carriage on 22 June.
The train was travelling at about 20mph (32 km/h) when they opened the door and saw the floor of the compartment was missing, exposing the carriage wheels below.
She reported the matter to the train guard and the door was locked.
The mother and child were left shocked and the boy suffered minor bruising.
Staff had previously placed a notice on the door and tried to secure it to prevent it being opened, but those measures were not effective, the RAIB said.
Its investigation, which will look at the repairs to the carriage, the adequacy of the measures to secure the door and the railway's systems for assuring the safety of rolling stock in service, will be published in due course.
An investigation has also been launched by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).
A registered charity, SDR is a seven-mile former Great Western Railway branch line which runs steam trains and heritage rolling stock as a tourist attraction.
In a statement, SDR apologised and said: "On the day in question, something clearly went wrong with our safety control and hazard monitoring systems as evidenced by the incident having taken place - it simply should not have happened."
Missiles reportedly hit two tents in a village near the Red Sea port of Mocha, where a man linked to the Houthi rebel movement was celebrating his marriage.
But the Saudi-led coalition that has been bombing the rebels for six months denied responsibility for the attack.
The UN condemned "the disregard shown by all sides for human life" in Yemen.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed that there was no military solution to the conflict and its continuation would only bring more human suffering and destruction.
Some 5,000 people, including 2,355 civilians, have been killed in air strikes and fighting on the ground since 26 March, when Houthi fighters and allied army units forced Yemen's internationally recognised president to flee the country.
Last week, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi returned to the southern port city of Aden, where his government has set up a temporary base as southern militiamen and coalition forces press northwards towards the rebel-held capital, Sanaa.
Residents of the village of Wahijah said that in Monday's attack, missiles fired by coalition warplanes tore into two tents at the wedding reception.
Yemeni security sources confirmed to the Associated Press that there had been an air strike and a senior government official said it had been "a mistake".
But a coalition spokesman vehemently denied it was behind the attack. A spokesman said: "There have been no air operations by the coalition in that area for three days. This is totally false news."
Initial reports said at least 40 people were killed in the incident, many of them women and children.
But on Tuesday morning, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) said 130 or more people were now reported to have died.
A medical source at a hospital in Maqbana, where the casualties were taken, also told the Reuters news agency that the death toll had risen to 131.
"If the numbers are as high as suggested, this may be the single deadliest incident since the start of the conflict," UNHCR spokesman Rupert Colville said.
Mr Colville said almost two-thirds of the civilian deaths reported in Yemen over the past 12 months had allegedly been caused by coalition air strikes.
The UN has also criticised the coalition's naval blockade of Yemen's seaports, which it says has greatly exacerbated the "extremely dire" humanitarian situation.
Some 21 million people, or 80% of the population, now require some form of humanitarian assistance and almost 1.5 million people are internally displaced.
The hosts needed 47 runs from the final four overs, but got home with a ball to spare to chase a revised target of 161 off 18 overs and win by three wickets.
Stephen Parry hit an unbeaten 22 from nine balls and pulled the winning boundary off Shiv Thakor.
Derbyshire earlier made 132-2 from 21.3 overs when rain halted their innings.
The home side took 39 from the first four overs, but were halted by the leg-spin pair of Jeevan Mendis (2-38) and Matt Critchley (1-23), along with the impressive medium pace of Thakor (3-23).
As wickets fell at regular intervals, Lancashire looked to be out of the game with four overs to go, but Steven Croft (26 not out) and Ryan McLaren (16) took 15 from Mendis' final over.
When McLaren and Haseeb Hameed fell in the next over, Lancashire required 24 from two.
It was then that Derbyshire fell apart. Croft was dropped at third man by Mendis off the bowling of Hardus Viljoen, a Ben Cotton mis-field at square leg gave Parry a boundary, with two fielders colliding at third man to hand Parry four more. In all, 17 came from the over.
And though Thakor had nailed his yorkers all evening, he could not prevent Parry from completing the job at a partisan Stanley Park.
Thakor earlier made 38 on a frustrating, wet afternoon that was illuminated by the cover drives of Derbyshire opener Ben Slater.
Slater hammered 60 as Derbyshire looked well placed for a big total in an innings already reduced to 36 overs, with the rain arguably giving Lancashire a more manageable chase on the DLS method.
Their victory means they will definitely make the quarter-finals if they win their last two games, while Derbyshire are all but out.
The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) said it had received a complaint from solicitors after the photograph was published in December.
The magazine printed an apology on its
emails page
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's main home is on Anglesey, where he is a search and rescue pilot at RAF Valley.
The
complaint
was made under clauses in the editors' code of practice relating to privacy and harassment.
The magazine said: "In our issue cover-dated 3 - 9 December 2011, we published a photograph of the Duchess of Cambridge, taken while she was shopping in a store.
"We now accept that we should not have done so, and apologise to her for our actions."
It will be printed in its edition for 26 May - 1 June.
Acts including The Saturdays, Union J, Tich, and Luminites took part in the event at RAF Northolt in west London on Thursday evening.
Organisers at the Royal British Legion said military families were at the heart of the appeal for 2013.
The Duchess of Cornwall also visited The Poppy Factory in Richmond, south-west London, where poppies are made.
Ahead of her visit, The Poppy Factory announced that the duchess would become its patron.
The duchess was tasked with assembling one of the millions of poppies which are handmade by disabled veterans at the factory for Remembrance Day events.
She found putting a poppy together "quite fiddly work", before helping put the finishing touches to a wreath which will be laid at a memorial by her husband, the Prince of Wales, on Remembrance Sunday.
The charity's chief executive Melanie Waters said: "The patronage of the duchess will help us to continue this work and to highlight the increasing need to support our disabled veterans into meaningful civilian employment."
The Poppy Factory uses its expertise to help disabled veterans into work with many businesses throughout the UK.
The Poppy Girls sang this year's official Poppy Appeal single The Call (No Need To Say Goodbye).
The group of five daughters of active service personnel was assembled after a national talent search.
The Legion needs £1.6m a week to fund its work giving help, advice and support to the armed forces community.
L/Cpl Cassidy Little, 32, of 42 Commando Royal Marines, is among those due to attend the concert.
He benefitted from a theatre project supported by the Royal British Legion after he lost his lower right limb in an IED explosion in Afghanistan in May 2011.
He said: "The theatre project funded by the Royal British Legion was a turning point in my recovery.
"While the medical teams put my body back together, taking part in the play gave me back my self-esteem and confidence when it was at its lowest ebb."
George Shelley, of X Factor boy band Union J, and who has a brother serving in the Royal Marines, said the poppy was a "symbol of pride".
Royal British Legion fundraising director Charles Byrne said: "We support the entire armed forces community past and present, but families are at the heart of the Poppy Appeal in 2013.
"We recognise the strength of mothers, fathers, partners and kids in armed forces families, who serve alongside their loved ones every single day and often need practical care and advice too.
"We're encouraging people to dig deep for the Poppy Appeal so we can continue providing this vital support to individuals whether they're still serving, transitioning back to civilian life or have left the services, but importantly to their dependents too."
The Poppy Appeal in Scotland was launched by Craig and Charlie Reid from The Proclaimers in Edinburgh on Wednesday.
The government announced the dismissals after a report identifying mistakes by poorly trained pilots as the main cause of the crash.
Then-President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and 94 senior officials died when the jet tried to land in heavy fog.
The air force regiment responsible for VIP flights was also disbanded.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he was determined to quickly implement the report's recommendations, which heavily criticised the 36th Special Air Transport Regiment.
It had lacked training facilities and instructors and its pilots were continually overworked and had been trained in a hasty and haphazard manner, the report said.
Three air force generals were dismissed along with 10 other military officers.
Czeslaw Piatas, the deputy defence minister who resigned, is an army general.
"For some people this will be an earthquake, for others it will be the end of their careers," AP news agency quoted Mr Tusk as saying.
The Tupolev Tu-154 airliner crashed just short of the runway in Russia's Smolensk region after it hit trees in heavy fog.
Those on board included officials spanning the country's military and political elite.
They had been on their way to a memorial for the victims of Katyn, where thousands of Polish officers were massacred by Soviet forces in 1940.
The report said the pilots had been flying too low and too fast and had ignored repeated automated warnings to "pull up".
Air controllers and poor lighting at Smolensk were also at fault, it said.
Immediately after the report's publication, Bogdan Klich resigned as Poland's defence minister.
Pilots and other personnel from the disbanded regiment will be transferred to other air force units.
Poland's civilian national carrier, Lot, will now be responsible for VIP flights, Mr Tusk said.
Dr Fosters Restaurant in the city has made the dish using eels from Canada as they are a protected species in the UK.
The centuries-old tradition has seen pies made in distinctive shapes, such as a cathedral in 2012 to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
This year's pie was also shaped as a cathedral but, according to the baker, also reflected the city's diversity.
Restaurant owner Dawn Melvin, said: "I think we're a multi-cultural city, I think this represents everyone in the city - not just the cathedral but every ethnic part of the community which is important to us."
Mayor of Gloucester, councillor Sebastian Field said: "We're pleased to send the lamprey pie with our warmest wishes and our grateful thanks for Her Majesty's long and devoted service to our nation."
Lampreys are an ancient and primitive group of jawless vertebrates and have long, eel-like bodies that lack scales.
At about 17:30 BST Queen Elizabeth will have reigned for 23,226 days, 16 hours and approximately 30 minutes - 63 years and seven months, surpassing Queen Victoria's record.
The pie was presented to the Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire Dame Janet Trotter by the city mayor, councillor Sebastian Field on Wednesday morning.
A frozen pie will be taken to London on Thursday.
Dame Janet said the dish was a "great delicacy" which is sent to the monarch on "great occasions".
"It looks absolutely fantastic. It took 30 hours to make", she said adding the lampreys are "curious and horrible" creatures.
The software is widely used to write programs that run in web browsers. But Oracle said modern browsers were increasingly incompatible with it.
Oracle said it would begin winding the plug-in down with the release of its latest development kit software but its demise would not be immediate.
Java has been criticised by many online security experts, who have said it is vulnerable to hackers.
"By late 2015, many browser vendors have either removed or announced timelines for the removal of standards based plug-in support, eliminating the ability to embed Flash, Silverlight, Java and other plug-in based technologies," Oracle said, announcing the decision on Wednesday.
"With modern browser vendors working to restrict and reduce plug-in support in their products, developers of applications that rely on the Java browser plug-in need to consider alternative options such as migrating from Java Applets (which rely on a browser plug-in) to the plug-in free Java Web Start technology."
"Oracle plans to deprecate the Java browser plug-in" in the next release of its Java Development Kit, JDK 9, it said. The technology would be removed from future software releases, it added.
"By 'deprecate', Oracle doesn't mean that the Java plug-in will be killed stone dead. Instead they will increasingly hide it, and not encourage users to install it. In due course, the software will be entirely removed," said the security consultant Graham Cluley.
In a blog post for online security company Tripwire, Mr Cluley said: "Of course, Oracle isn't dropping support for Java entirely - but with the demise of the unpopular web browser plug-in, it hopes users will be happy to switch over to its replacement."
He said that, while the number of reported problems had fallen in recent years, Java remained notorious for its vulnerabilities.
"Many users have found it hard to muster... love for the technology," he said.
"And yet, the Java browser plug-in has plodded on, shrugging off the brickbats and abuse, and doggedly providing support for the odd, ageing website and bespoke applications relied upon by corporations."
Mr Cluley said browser manufacturers were making the Java plug-in irrelevant.
He added: "Oracle isn't the only company having to recognise that the world is changing. Adobe, developers of the often-attacked Flash plug-in, recently made clear that it was moving away from the platform to an HTML5-based future."
The Barry-born fighter, 30, dropped his opponent in round one of the non-title bout and always looked in control.
Selby showed graceful feet in contrast to Gago's block-like movement - and a flurry of punches in round nine saw referee Bob Williams stop the contest.
The victory improves Selby's record to 24 wins from 25 fights.
His win keeps alive hope of a 2017 meeting with Leo Santa Cruz or Carl Frampton.
Such stellar names are high on Selby's agenda and at Friday's weigh in, Selby mouthed "easy work" to fans chanting Frampton's name.
His hopes of fighting either man will much depend on whether Northern Ireland's Frampton and the WBA champion opt to conclude a trilogy of fights.
Fighting three hours before a main event with the O2 Arena barely half full seems a long way from the bright lights of Las Vegas, where Selby suffered the frustration of seeing a bout postponed at 24 hours notice in January.
But he visibly sought to put on an eye-catching show, ducking and weaving, slipping rare attacks with ease and showing variety in the angles of his punches as he worked the body and head consistently.
After this bout, he will no longer fight under promoters Matchroom Sport as he seeks a new direction and in truth, Gago - who has now lost three times in a 21-fight career - was never going to derail any well-thought out plans.
He was brave but there were signs Selby was breaking down the travelling fighter's defences in the sixth, when a straight right rattled through his guard.
A left-hook to the body followed by a snappy straight-right in eight saw Gago pushed to the ropes and a round later it was all over.
Selby landed a left hook to the temple which staggered his opponent and after a left to the body and another hook to the head, the contest was ended.
This was far from the test of 11 months ago, where Selby got up from the first knockdown of his career to defend his title against Eric Hunter.
In truth, he got enough rounds to justify a good workout and his talent is obvious but all eyes will now be on his next move as he bids to inject much-needed momentum into his career.
The Scottish FA said it expected a chairperson to be appointed in February and work would being "immediately".
It added that it had already held meetings with survivors to "shape and influence" the terms of reference.
The review was set up after several former players revealed they were abused by people in authority.
Police Scotland revealed last month that it was investigating more than 100 reports of child sex abuse in football.
In a statement, the SFA said its discussions with abuse survivors were an "open forum to hear their perspectives, provide support and to help shape and influence an appropriate terms of reference for the association's independent review."
Child wellbeing and protection manager, Donna Martin, who convened the meetings, said survivors wanted the review to examine all football in Scotland, without limit of time.
She said: "The ongoing dialogue we have had with survivors has contributed significantly to defining the terms of reference for the independent review.
"We received a wide range of feedback from the survivors, including the timeframe for completion of the review, that there should be no limit to the period of time the review examines, and that it should encompass all football in Scotland.
"It is vitally important to the Scottish FA that all parties are satisfied with the content before the review proceeds."
A first draft of the terms of reference will be presented to survivors at their next meeting later this month, before they are presented to the SFA board in February.
A delegation from the SFA has met regularly with Police Scotland and third-sector organisations with expertise in supporting survivors of abuse.
It said any survivors coming forward would receive a professional-needs assessment from a clinical psychologist, who would then refer the victim to the appropriate level of support.
During December, allegations were made against coaches who were formerly involved with clubs including Motherwell, Partick Thistle and Rangers, involving incidents which happened between the 1970s and the early 1990s.
A BBC Scotland investigation revealed that former youth coach and referee Hugh Stevenson was allowed to carry on working in football for several years after being reported to police and the SFA over child sex offences.
And Jim McCafferty, a former youth coach who was the kit man for Celtic, Hibernian and Falkirk was arrested in Belfast after allegations were made against him.
The year also saw a big recovery in exports into the European Union, up by more than a third on 2015.
But there was a warning about the impact on jobs if tariffs are introduced, and on the wider industry if migrant workers are cut back.
Sector leaders are in Brussels for the world's biggest fish industry expo.
The effort is seen as an important one for promoting Scotland's biggest food export, which was, in 2014, the biggest UK food export, above confectionery.
Much higher prices, due to a shortfall in supply, meant a sharp increase in profits for producers during the last year.
The new figures are from HM Revenue and Customs. They show that the tonnage of exported salmon fell by more than a quarter, from 100,000 tonnes in 2014 to 83,400 tonnes in 2015. And last year, it fell by 10%, to 74,600 tonnes.
The export value fell from £494m in 2014, to £386m. It then rose to £451m in 2016.
The decline is largely due to a fall in the supply of fish, and a reduced average size.
Much of this is explained by sea lice - what the industry calls "biological challenges".
The biggest producer, Marine Harvest, published figures recently showing that 69% of its farms last year breached levels when an outbreak of the parasite has to be notified. That was far higher than any other producing nation.
One response is to harvest fish quickly from an infected cage, long before they reach their optimum size. Over 7kg, the Atlantic salmon has a premium price in the US and Far East markets.
The industry has been strongly criticised by those who oppose intensive salmon farming, saying the sea lice problem has damaged eco-systems in sea lochs.
The industry body, the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO), claims that recent evidence suggests that the problem may now be reducing.
It expects an increase of 15,000 to 20,000 tonnes in production this year. If that happens, it could make 2017 a record export year.
Exports tend to soak up extra supply contracts after longer-term UK contracts have been fulfilled. Around 52% of salmon farmed in Scotland is consumed in the UK.
Exports of Scottish farmed salmon into the European Union was up 37% to £204m-worth last year. France is the biggest single EU market.
It fell the previous year because of the collapse in 2015 of the Norwegian krone, which made imports from Norway cheaper. Last year, the weakening of sterling helped with exports from Scotland.
Scott Landsburgh, chief executive of the Scottish Salmon Producers Association, said: "We sell every fish we produce. There's never a shortage of demand. The price may not be as strong in 2016, but it will still be very strong this year. We hope we can get back to 90,000 tonnes of export.
"New production sites are being added, and fish health performance looks like it's turning the corner."
However, the industry warned of the impact of losing migrant workers who do much of the processing of salmon and other food.
If Scotland has to trade with the rest of the European Union on the same basis as Norway, that would mean a 2% tariff on exports of fresh fish and 13% on processed fish, including smoked salmon.
The industry chief said there would be even more of a concern about future delays due to paperwork at European borders, following Britain's exit from the EU.
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Annual test results should be replaced in the tables by a three-year rolling average to "lower the stakes", says the Commons Education Select Committee.
The current system has led to a narrow curriculum and "unnecessary stress" on pupils and teachers, argues the report.
Last year, new tougher tests for 11-year-olds saw passes drop sharply.
Ministers maintain that parents have a right to expect testing in schools to show whether their children are gaining the right skills in maths and literacy.
But the committee says the close link between the tests at 11 and school accountability can "lead to a narrowing of the curriculum and 'teaching to the test', as well as affecting teacher and pupil well-being".
It wants the current system scrapped, with three-year rolling averages for schools published instead of the results of individual year groups.
The report also calls for greater emphasis in Ofsted inspections on a broad and balanced curriculum.
Committee chairman Neil Carmichael said too much emphasis on test results had led to too much "focus on English and maths at the expense of other subjects like science, humanities and the arts".
"It is right that schools are held to account for their performance but the government should act to lower the stakes and help teachers to deliver a broad, balanced and fulfilling curriculum for primary school children."
The report says poor implementation of the new system last year, with "guidance delayed and test papers leaked online", caused significant disruption in schools.
The MPs want ministers to reconsider the new writing assessment which emphasises "technical aspects like grammar and spelling, over creativity and composition".
"The balance of evidence we received did not support the proposition that focusing on specific grammatical techniques improved the overall quality of writing."
They also want spelling, punctuation and grammar tests for 11-year-olds to become non-statutory.
Ministers recently announced proposals to scrap tests for seven-year-olds, following years of pressure from teachers, parents and educationalists.
The Department for Education is consulting on a new assessment for pupils when they first start school - but the report urges caution when introducing a "baseline" measure.
"It should be designed as a diagnostic tool to help teachers identify pupils' needs and must avoid shifting negative consequences of high-stakes accountability to early years," they warn.
A Department for Education spokeswoman said the government would consider the report carefully and respond in due course.
Ofsted Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman said inspectors already looked for a broad curriculum in every primary school, adding that she had recently announced new research into "how the accountability system, including Ofsted, can encourage the development of a rich curriculum".
Russell Hobby, National Association of Head Teachers General Secretary, called last year's tests "a mess of chaos and confusion".
"Add into this the high-stakes nature of the system for school leaders, and you get a toxic mix."
Mr Hobby said the union had contributed to the government's proposals "to begin creating a primary assessment system that works".
"This report helpfully sets the agenda for the next stage of this debate," he added.
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The commission is looking into the administration and governance of Something Special, which deals with young adults with learning disabilities.
Parents received a letter saying the charity was being wound up and replaced by a new group.
The charity has not responded to the BBC and its gates have been locked.
The centre, based outside Eglinton, has used music to aid learning and social interaction.
Two letters recently received by parents and purporting to come from management appear to contradict each other.
The first letter, dated 11 April, states that Something Special was not closing but going through a process of transferring its activities from an "association" to an "academy".
On 20 April, families received a second letter saying the charity was closing down and the new academy would be taking it over.
Robert Cooke's daughter Louise, who is 23 and severely autistic, has been attending the group for the last five years.
"We have been left in the lurch," said Mr Cooke.
"For the past four weeks nearly now Louise has been in the house with us with no schemes or anything to go to.
"She's missing her friends now and she loves everybody that works in it. She's been asking when she can go back."
There is no suggestion of any wrong doing on anyone's part.
The Charity Commission said it would not be commenting any further while the investigation continues.
Frenchman Platini, 61, was head of Uefa until his ban for breaching ethics rules over a £1.3m "disloyal payment".
Uefa is meeting to select the former France midfielder's successor.
It asked Fifa for permission for its ex-leader to attend the gathering.
"The Fifa ethics committee has informed Uefa that Michel Platini will be allowed to address the 12th Extraordinary Uefa Congress in Athens on 14 September," it said in a statement.
"A request for Mr Platini's attendance had been recently made by Uefa and we welcome this decision," it added.
The ethics committee of world governing body Fifa handed down an initial eight-year ban for Platini and Fifa's then-president Sepp Blatter last year.
It related to a payment of 2m Swiss Francs Blatter made to the Frenchman in 2011.
The two have always denied wrongdoing and said the payment was made for consultancy work Platini had carried out for Blatter between 1998 and 2002, and that they had a "gentleman's agreement" on when the balance was settled.
But the ethics committee felt the pair had demonstrated an "abusive execution" of their positions.
Charges included conflict of interest, false accounting and non-co-operation, with investigators submitting a file of more than 50 pages.
The bans were later reduced to six years on appeal to Fifa, then four years in a further appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The issue is still under investigation by Swiss prosecutors.
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Mered Medhanie, known as The General, was held in Sudan in May and was flown to Rome on Tuesday.
Britain's National Crime Agency said he is thought to have arranged the transit of a boat that sank near the Italian island of Lampedusa in October 2013.
At least 359 migrants died when the boat, travelling from Libya, capsized.
Most were from Eritrea and Somalia.
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Italian news agency Ansa said Mr Medhanie was accused of being "the leader and organiser of one of the largest criminal groups operating between central Africa and Libya".
The investigation is being led by investigators in Palermo, Sicily. Mr Medhanie is expected to appear in court on Wednesday.
The National Crime Agency said they tracked him down to an address in Khartoum, where he was then arrested.
British investigators had been supporting Italian officials looking into the Lampedusa tragedy.
The NCA said Mr Medhanie, 35, was known as The General, as he styled himself on the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.
The organisation said telephone intercepts acquired by Italian investigators showed Mr Medhanie co-ordinated journeys across the Mediterranean and across Africa to Libya.
In one recording, he is reportedly heard laughing at the deadly overloading of migrant boats.
"Medhanie is a prolific people-smuggler and has absolute disregard for human life," said Tom Dowdall, the deputy director of the NCA.
"Although he was operating thousands of miles away, his criminal activity was impacting the UK. Medhanie no doubt thought he was beyond the reach of European justice but we were able to support the Italians by tracking him down to Sudan."
Italy's Corriere Della Serra newspaper reported that Mr Medhanie boasted of being in league with local officials in Tripoli, Libya, while also having a network of workers in Italy.
He charged migrants up to €5,000 (£3,900; $5,680) to travel from African countries to northern Europe, the newspaper said (in Italian).
Up to 500 people were on the boat when it broke down then sank in early October 2013.
Those who survived said that some of those on board set fire to a piece of material to try to attract the attention of passing ships, only to have the fire spread to the rest of the boat.
In 2014, the year after the Lampedusa tragedy, the number of migrant arrivals to Italy jumped to 170,000, before dropping to 153,800 last year. Close to 40,000 people have arrived in Italy so far this year.
Fire crews attended the property in Lewis Terrace in Mill o' Mains shortly after 19:00 on Monday.
The housing association building was unoccupied at the time and is understood to have been in the process of being adapted for a disabled tenant.
Police Scotland said "extensive damage" was caused to the building and have appealed for witnesses.
A Scottish Fire and Rescue spokesperson said: "On arrival, crews were faced with a timber framed house under construction which was engulfed in flames.
"The heat from the fire was so intense that it began to affect the guttering, fascias and windows of two neighbouring properties.
"Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze using four jets and remained at the scene throughout the evening to dampen the area down."
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Michael Davison and his wife spent six weeks living at a Premier Inn after their home in Mytholmroyd was flooded on Boxing Day.
They were told it would be up to nine months before they could return home, but a housing association has found a bungalow in Halifax for the couple.
BBC Look North's Charlotte Leeming reports.
Andy Haldane said low rates kept some "zombie" firms alive, but the trade off was far more people stayed in work.
A Bank modelling scenario found that years of 0.25% rates probably kept 1.5 million in jobs, he said in a speech.
He would not have sacrificed those jobs for an extra 1% or 2% productivity.
Mr Haldane was speaking at the London School of Economics about the "puzzles of productivity" and why it has been so low since the financial crisis.
On one measure, Mr Haldane said, total factor productivity had shown its longest stagnation in more than 200 years.
Low interest rates had probably played a role by keeping some heavily indebted, unproductive "zombie" businesses alive, he said. If the Bank had held rates at 4.25% since the 2008 financial crisis rather than cut them to record lows, productivity was likely to have been 1% to 3% higher.
However, holding rates would have imposed a "very significant macroeconomic cost" for unemployment, Mr Haldane said.
"Should monetary policymakers have sacrificed 1.5 million jobs for the sake of an extra 1% or 2% of productivity? Hand on heart, I can tell you this one would not knowingly have done so," the economist said.
Options other than higher rates offered a better way to boost productivity. A focus on exports and foreign ownership of companies tended to boost productivity, he said.
Mr Haldane pointed to a very wide divergence between Britain's most productive and least productive businesses, even within the same sectors and regions.
One solution could be a sort of mentoring scheme between what he called "frontier" firms and "non-frontier" ones so that they could share best practice, he suggested.
"What would be in it for frontier companies? A more productive supply chain is clearly in their interests. The public sector could also play a useful nudging role in its procurement practices," Mr Haldane said in his speech.
"By shining a light on companies' relative performance, the aim is that this would serve as a catalyst for remedial action by company management. Indeed, the aim is to provide firms not only with a means of benchmarking themselves, but with tools to improve performance along identified areas."
There would be no quick fix, he concluded, but said business could learn from sport on the importance of marginal gains in the quest to improve and succeed.
"As Olympic athletes have shown, marginal improvements accumulated over time can deliver world-beating performance. Applying those marginal gains to the population of UK companies could significantly improve UK living standards, even if those are harder to measure than gold medals," Mr Haldane said.
Waldomiro Costa Pereira was killed after the men burst into the building in the state of Para and surrounded guards, campaigners said.
Mr Costa Pereira was an activist with the Landless Workers Movement (MST).
He frequently demonstrated in support of land reform in Brazil.
The MST wrote in a statement that it was "with immense sadness that we mourn his death" adding that the group stood "in solidarity with his wife, children and all his family in this moment of pain".
Mr Costa Pereira had been a member of the MST since 1996, participating in protests organised in favour of the redistribution of agricultural land.
The MST supports labourers in disputes with landowners by staging protests and land invasions demanding better conditions for farmers.
Violent disputes over land are common in Brazil.
According to the Pastoral Land Commission, a non-governmental organisation in Brazil, 61 land rights activists were killed last year, the highest level since 2003.
Remote rural communities frequently complain to the authorities that Brazil's security forces are rarely present to intervene in rows between powerful land owners and landless farmers.
His assailant approached him from behind on Brodie Avenue at about 21:30 on Sunday and carried out the assault.
The attacker is described as between 40 and 50 years old, of thin build with short grey hair.
He was wearing blue jeans, a dark coloured top and trainers and was in the company of a woman, described as being short and aged about 19.
The victim suffered minor injuries but did not require medical assistance.
"I'm sure a lot of people will be disappointed on my behalf but I have really enjoyed my Eurovision experience," she said in Malmo, Sweden.
"I did the best that I could do with a great song. I don't feel down and I'm ready to party."
Denmark's Emmelie de Forest won the contest with her song Only Teardrops.
Denmark finished with 281 points, followed by Azerbaijan with 234 points, while Ukraine were third with 214 points.
Tyler, who found global fame in the 1980s with hits such as Total Eclipse of the Heart, garnered 23 points for her song Believe In Me.
"The songs at the top of the table totally deserve to be up there," the 61-year-old star said afterwards. "Of course I would have liked to bring it back to the UK but it's been a night to remember."
She added: "I'm so glad and so happy that I did it because it was an incredible experience. It was like the Grammy Awards all over again."
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Her result was an improvement on last year when the UK's entrant Engelbert Humperdinck came second from last with just 12 points.
Overnight viewing figures show that an average of 7.7 million people tuned into the contest on BBC One in the UK, reaching a peak of 9.2 million between 22:45 and 23:00 BST (21:45 and 22:00 GMT).
There was disappointment for Ireland's Ryan Dolan, who came last with just five points.
Johnny Logan, the three-time Eurovision winner who represented Ireland, said the UK's entries had not been strong enough in recent years.
"I think over the years it's been slated so much in England and Ireland that the best writers don't take part in it any more. That's the reality," he said.
William Beggs claimed Rosemary Agnew acted illegally over how she handled a freedom of information application he made from prison.
Last month, Lord Carloway ruled Ms Agnew had acted correctly.
The judge has now said Beggs has to pay the information commissioner's costs.
They are thought to be several thousand pounds.
Beggs had wanted to see notes from meetings held by the Scottish Prison Service's Internal Complaints Committee.
One committee meeting was held to discuss his complaint about how prison staff handled "privileged" legal mail which had been addressed to him.
The Court of Session in Edinburgh had earlier heard that Beggs owns property in Kilmarnock and has other assets, and could therefore pay the legal bill by selling them off.
The judge said that normal legal rules - that the loser pays the costs of the winner - must apply in the action.
Beggs was jailed for life in 2001 after murdering 18-year-old Barry Wallace and dismembering his body in December 1999 at a flat in Doon Place in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.
He was previously jailed in 1987 for another murder, but his conviction was overturned on appeal.
Beggs lost a lengthy appeal to overturn his conviction for the murder of Mr Wallace.
During his trial, the court heard how Beggs cut up Mr Wallace's body and dropped the limbs and torso of his victim in Loch Lomond.
Beggs disposed of Mr Wallace's head by throwing it into the sea off the Ayrshire coast.
The trial judge who jailed Beggs, Lord Osborne, ordered that he serve a minimum of 20 years and said he took into account the "seriousness of the appalling offences".
The murderer has pursued a series of legal actions since he was jailed and previously won a payout because his appeal took too long to be heard.
It is the latest move to stop the 33-year-old Bristol businessman being sent back to South Africa to face trial over his wife's death.
Mr Dewani is accused of plotting to kill 28-year-old Anni Dewani, who was shot in the head on the outskirts of Cape Town in November 2010.
He was told last month he will be extradited to South Africa for trial.
Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle ruled at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 24 July that he should be extradited and rejected his attempt to stay in the UK for further hospital treatment for mental health problems.
Judge Riddle had given the go-ahead to Mr Dewani's extradition in 2011.
He had to reconsider the position after two senior High Court judges - Sir John Thomas, president of the Queen's Bench Division, and Mr Justice Ouseley - allowed an appeal in March last year.
They were told Mr Dewani had depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The pair said it would be "unjust and oppressive" to remove him until he recovered but it was plainly in the interests of justice that he was extradited as soon as he was fit.
Mr Dewani's lawyers lodged an application at the High Court for the two judges to now certify that their ruling raised "a point of law of general public importance" for consideration by the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land.
Mr Dewani is suspected of ordering the killing of his new wife Anni as they drove through the Gugulethu township in a taxi.
They were kidnapped at gunpoint.
Mr Dewani was released unharmed, but the next day the body of Mrs Dewani was found on the back seat of the car in Lingelethu West, with injuries to her head and chest.
Last year, South African Xolile Mngeni was convicted of premeditated murder for shooting Mrs Dewani.
Prosecutors claimed that he was a hit-man hired by Mr Dewani to kill his wife, something that Mr Dewani has consistently denied.
The couple's taxi driver Zola Tongo was jailed for 18 years after he admitted his part in the killing, and another accomplice, Mziwamadoda Qwabe, also pleaded guilty to murder and was handed a 25-year prison sentence.
Over the last 36 hours, you have been having your say.
Using the BBC's selection list, fans picked the team that they thought stood the best chance of undoing the back-to-back world champion All Blacks.
And, based on the data as of 08:00 BST on Friday, there have been some differences of opinion between the coach and the popular vote.
The most marked difference was in the second row.
Gatland included Welshman Alun Wyn Jones, but admitted it was a "toss-of-a-coin" decision to go for the 31-year-old over England's Maro Itoje.
BBC users would have called it the other way by some margin.
Itoje was picked in the second row in 75% of the teams selected. By contrast, Jones was chosen to partner George Kruis - the most popular lock choice - in just 26% of teams.
BBC Sport users overwhelmingly backed Gatland's decision to bring back Owen Farrell in place of Johnny Sexton at fly-half after the England number 10 recovered from a thigh injury.
Farrell was picked at stand-off in 69% of teams, with Sexton lagging behind on 21%.
The decision to drop wing George North - a veteran of the series victory in Australia four years ago - was also replicated in your teams.
Anthony Watson and Elliot Daly - Gatland's starting wings - were picked in that position by 59% and 51% of selectors. North managed 32%.
Full-back was a trickier call.
Leigh Halfpenny was the most popular choice in that particular position,
He was full-back in 43% of teams, ahead of Gatland's pick Liam Williams, who got the nod at 15 from 36% of selectors.
However Williams suffered for his versatility and was included as a wing in more than twice as many teams as Halfpenny.
Overall, Williams was the 15th most selected player, a few hundred picks ahead of Halfpenny.
We've included Halfpenny at full-back, but, as Gatland said of his second-row options, it was a "toss-of-the-coin" call.
15. Leigh Halfpenny (included in 43% of teams in this position)
Liam Williams (36%)
Anthony Watson (9%)
14. Anthony Watson (41%)
George North (16%)
Elliot Daly (14%)
13. Jonathan Davies (42%)
Jonathan Joseph (25%)
Ben Te'o (9%)
12. Ben Te'o (59%)
Owen Farrell (12%)
Jonathan Joseph (9%)
11. Elliot Daly (37%)
Anthony Watson (18%)
George North (16%)
10. Owen Farrell (69%)
Johnny Sexton (21%)
Dan Biggar (4%)
9. Conor Murray (82%)
Rhys Webb (8%)
Greig Laidlaw (4%)
1. Mako Vunipola (58%)
Tadhg Furlong (22%)
Dan Cole (6%)
2. Jamie George (64%)
Ken Owens (13%)
Rory Best (13%)
3. Tadhg Furlong (52%)
Mako Vunipola (22%)
Kyle Sinckler (6%)
4. Maro Itoje (51%)
George Kruis (24%)
Alun Wyn Jones (14%)
5. George Kruis (52%)
Maro Itoje (21%)
Alun Wyn Jones (12%)
6. Peter O'Mahony (52%)
Sean O'Brien (15%)
CJ Stander (9%)
7. Sean O'Brien (43%)
Peter O'Mahony (20%)
Sam Warburton (9%)
8. Taulupe Faletau (75%)
CJ Stander (9%)
Peter O'Mahony (4%)
Who would you select in your Test XV for the Lions?
Use the numbers as they correspond to positions. So, one is loose-head prop, two is hooker, three tight-head prop, four and five are second rows, six is blind-side flanker, seven open-side flanker and eight - well that's the number eight, obviously.
For the backs, nine is scrum-half, 10 fly-half, 11 is left wing, 12 inside centre, 13 outside centre, 14 right wing and 15 is full-back.
Zulfiya Gabidullina set a new world record in the 100m freestyle swimming.
China has won most gold medals so far with seven, followed by the UK with five and Uzbekistan with three.
The Games had a rocky start, with Brazil's president booed at the opening ceremony and a Belarussian official banned for holding a Russian flag - Russia has not been allowed to compete.
However fears that budget cuts and low attendances could affect the event have been allayed following a cash injection from the federal government and a last-minute surge in ticket sales.
Gabidullina took nearly a second off the previous world record in the S3 class, for athletes with amputations, no use of their legs or severe coordination difficulties, finishing in 43.22 seconds. Previously a wheelchair racer, she only took up swimming in her 30s.
Host nation Brazil has won two golds, including Ricardo Costa's win in the long jump T11 class, for athletes with total blindness.
Costa jumped 6.52m on his last jump, beating Lex Gillette of the US who had jumped 6.44m and had to settle for his fourth straight Paralympic silver medal.
"I like R&B," Gillette told NBC. "I guess I'm going to be playing the blues for a little bit right now."
Costa follows in the footsteps of his sister Silvania Costa, who won gold in the T11 category at the World Championship in Doha in 2015 and is due to compete in the Paralympics later.
The siblings suffered Stargadt disease, an inherited eye condition that affects part of the retina, Globo reports.
Uzbekistan, currently third in the country ranking, won the first of three golds when Khusniddin Norbekov, 29, smashed the discus world record in the F37 class, for athletes with impaired coordination.
Norbekov threw 59.75m, adding 3.94m on to the previous record set by China's Dong Xia in London in 2012.
World records have also been set in power lifting, where Vietnam's Van Cong Le lifted 183kg to win the up to 49kg category.
Meanwhile Britain's Sarah Storey became the country's most successful Paralympian by winning her 12th gold medal in cycling. She caught compatriot Crystal Lane, who took silver, after only 1,375m of the 3,000m individual pursuit final in the C5 class.
The 38-year-old was born without a functioning left hand and competed in track events for able-bodied athletes before winning two gold medals as a Paralympic swimmer in Barcelona in 1992 and subsequently switching to cycling in 2005.
The Games initially risked being overshadowed by Brazil's well-documented political and economic problems.
Brazil's new president, Michel Temer, was booed at Thursday's opening ceremony and the BBC's Wyre Davies in Rio says he is regarded by many as an illegitimate leader after last week's impeachment of the elected president, Dilma Rousseff.
Andrey Fomachkin, the Belarussian official who carried a Russian flag into the opening ceremony, was banned for violating the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) ban on political gestures.
Russia - which borders Belarus - has been blocked from taking part over allegations of state-sponsored doping.
"A hero has appeared amongst us," said Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, describing the ban on Russian participation as "disgraceful and inhumane", Russia's Interfax news agency reports.
The latest round of Pisa results, published this week, show that many of the most disadvantaged students in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam perform as well as the highest-achieving quarter of students around the world.
In the western world, only Estonia and Finland match such a level of resilience against social disadvantage.
In the previous 2012 tests, Shanghai came out as the top performer among 65 education systems compared in mathematics, reading and science.
Some wondered to what extent Shanghai's success might be unrepresentative of other parts of China.
In the latest tests, Shanghai's results are combined with three other parts of China - and these show strong performances in science, so much so that more than one in 10 of all the highest achieving students, from 68 countries, are from these four provinces in mainland China.
So the world will continue to look to China as a global player in education.
But there are also areas where China can look to other countries for inspiration.
Chinese students excel at content knowledge in science. But it is equally important to be able to "think like a scientist", and Chinese students perform less well in this - although still better than most countries in the west.
That is also reflected in student attitudes - for example, American students seem more science-minded than their Chinese counterparts.
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They report more frequently than Chinese students that they value scientific approaches to enquiry and adopt a questioning approach.
This is important. Education used to be about teaching people facts and theorems, now it's about helping students to develop a reliable compass and the navigation skills to find their own way through an increasingly uncertain, volatile and ambiguous world.
These days, we no longer know how things will unfold, sometimes we make mistakes along the way. But it will often be the mistakes and failures, when properly understood, that help learning.
An important part of education today is helping students develop positive attitudes towards learning that will endure throughout their lives.
Twice as many students in the United States as in the four provinces of China, and in most other east Asian countries, for example, aspire to work in a science-related career.
That said, many American students will not be able to realise these dreams because they perform poorly in science at school.
But while east Asian students score higher in science, they need to develop more positive attitudes towards science.
Perhaps it has something to do with another finding from the Pisa process - that students in the four Chinese provinces spend close to 57 hours per week studying in school or at home; for students in high-performing Finland it is 36 hours.
Obviously one can't copy and paste school systems wholesale.
But Pisa has revealed a surprising number of features shared by the world's most successful school systems.
For a start, leaders in east Asian education systems have convinced their citizens to make choices that value education.
In east Asia, parents will invest their last resources in educating their children for a brighter future.
In much of the western world, citizens have already mortgaged their children's future, as seen in huge mountains of public debt.
Then there is the belief, widespread throughout east Asia, that all children can succeed.
The fact that students in most east Asian countries consistently believe that achievement is mainly a product of hard work, rather than inherited intelligence, suggests how much the social context can make a difference to fostering success.
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Nowhere does the quality of a school system exceed the quality of its teachers - and the east Asian school systems all pay great attention to how they select and train their staff.
When deciding where to invest, they prioritise the quality of teachers over the size of classes.
They provide intelligent pathways for teachers to grow in their careers. High-performing countries have also moved on from bureaucratic control and accountability to a great sense of professionalism.
They encourage their teachers to make innovations in how they teach, to improve their own performance and that of their colleagues, and to pursue professional development.
The goal of the past was standardisation and compliance.
But today's top-performing countries value inventiveness.
They focus on outcomes, shifting from looking inwards to the bureaucracy to looking outwards to the next teacher, the next school, to create networks of innovation. You can see that nowhere better than in Finland or Shanghai.
Perhaps the most impressive outcome of world-class school systems is that they deliver high quality across the entire school system so that every student benefits from excellent teaching.
And they align policies and practices across all aspects of the system, making them coherent over sustained periods of time, and ensuring that they are consistently implemented. You can see that nowhere better than in Singapore.
But the demands on modern education systems will not stop here.
Schools now need to prepare students to live and work with people from different cultural backgrounds and to appreciate different ideas, perspectives and values. They will live in a world in which people need to trust and collaborate across such differences.
Those are the reasons why, for the first time, the OECD is putting global competency at the centre of the next Pisa in 2018.
We need to enable students to think for themselves and act for others, to educate the next generation who will create jobs, not just seek them, and to prepare our students to confront the unexpected with intelligence and compassion.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt and Bahrain cut travel and diplomatic ties with Qatar on Monday.
Speaking after hosting his Qatari counterpart on Friday, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel called for the "sea and air blockades" to be lifted.
The Qataris deny accusations that they support Islamist extremists.
Ever since the dispute between Qatar and its neighbours erupted, Germany has pushed for a diplomatic solution.
Mr Gabriel met Saudi Foreign Minister Adil al-Ahmad al-Jubayr two days ago, and said all parties were seeking "to avoid further escalation".
Then on Friday, Mr Gabriel spoke to Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani in the northern German town of Wolfenbuettel.
"We are convinced that now is the hour of diplomacy and we must talk to each other; along with our American colleagues but above all our colleagues in the region, we must try to find solutions, especially lifting the sea and air blockades," he told reporters afterwards.
US President Donald Trump discussed Qatar and the need for Gulf unity with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Friday.
Earlier in the week he spoke to Saudi Arabia's King Salman.
However, Mr Trump had earlier claimed credit for the pressure placed on Qatar, saying his recent visit to Saudi Arabia was "already paying off".
The emir of Kuwait is trying to mediate the row, carrying out shuttle diplomacy between Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Also on Friday, Saudi Arabia and its three allies issued a list of 49 people - including Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi - and 12 Qatar-backed charities and groups accused of links with militants.
Qatar responded by saying that the list reinforced "baseless allegations".
He also called the moves against Qatar "violations of international law and international humanitarian law".
On Thursday, Qatar's Sheikh Mohammed said his country had been isolated "because we are successful and progressive" and called his country "a platform for peace not terrorism".
He added: "We are not ready to surrender, and will never be ready to surrender, the independence of our foreign policy."
Qatar is heavily dependent on food imports and the crisis has led to stockpiling and shortages.
Saudi Arabia has said Qatar needs to cut ties with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, if it wanted to end its isolation.
Qatar is home to the biggest American airbase in the region.
The Chesterfield striker denies raping a 19-year-old woman at a Premier Inn in Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, on 30 May 2011.
Mr Evans, 27, was found guilty of rape at Caernarfon Crown Court in 2012, but his conviction was quashed in April.
On Friday, Mrs Justice Nicola Davies finished her summing up and invited the jury to retire after a two-week trial at Cardiff Crown Court.
On Thursday, she told jurors to make their decision "calmly, objectively and without emotion" and not to judge the morals of anyone involved.
Mr Evans denies having sex with the woman while she was too drunk to consent.
He insists she agreed to let him "join in" while she was having consensual sex with fellow footballer Clayton McDonald, 27, after a night out in Rhyl.
His legal team argue the prosecution is "built around the myth" the complainant was too drunk to agree to sex.
But the prosecution alleges the victim did "not have the freedom or capacity to consent".
They have said Mr Evans treated her with a "callous, self-centred indifference essentially indistinguishable from utter contempt".
It says saving £800m over three years, such as by axing elected police and crime commissioners, would allow forces to maintain front-line staff.
Officer numbers in England and Wales fell by more than 16,000 since 2010.
Conservatives say Labour has "wildly overestimated" the possible savings and that crime has fallen despite cuts.
A BBC News survey last month found that every force was preparing for budget cuts, and Labour claims that if the Conservatives are elected more police posts will go.
This election issue includes policing, crime prevention and the criminal justice system.
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
Labour is setting out plans to legislate for a "local policing commitment", which would ensure forces guarantee neighbourhood policing in every area, and compel forces to save money by sharing support services and ending the police subsidy of gun licences.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: "Neighbourhood policing is far too important to let the Tories destroy it. That's why Labour is setting out a better plan - including abolishing police and crime commissioners and putting savings back into the front line so we can keep police on the beat.
"Under the Tories we've seen fewer police on the beat, longer waits for 999 calls and less justice for victims as there have been fewer arrests and prosecutions for rising crimes like violence, rape or child sex offences."
In December, the Home Office confirmed police forces in England and Wales would have their central government funding cut by almost 5% for 2015-16 - a cash reduction of £299m compared with 2014-15.
Home Secretary Theresa May said the government had increased the proportion of officers on the front line.
She added: "When we started to clear up the mess left by their legacy of debt, they warned that crime would rise.
"They were wrong: crime is down by more than a fifth under this government, and has never been lower."
Crime figures fell to record low levels in January, when the official crime survey found there were seven million incidents in the year to September 2014 - down 11% on the previous 12 months.
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Danny Kennedy, who lost his seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly election, said there needed to be a conversation about how to go forward.
He was speaking to the BBC TV programme The View in the wake of a poll which saw unionism losing its overall Stormont majority for the first time.
Mr Kennedy, a former MLA for Newry and Armagh, said the union was not at risk.
"Everyone in the house of unionism - I think there's now a duty to open the connecting doors which have been locked between the various factions, the various interests within unionism," he said.
"It's time to unlock those doors and to allow a deep conversation and a genuine assessment as to where we are."
Mr Kennedy added: "I don't think the union is in danger.
"I think in any referendum, a majority of the population will still vote to remain part of the United Kingdom, but I think we do need a conversation within unionism as to how best we now move forward."
The programme also hears a plea for unionist unity from the brother of a man who was murdered by the IRA in the Kingsmills massacre.
Colin Worton's brother, Kenneth, was one of 10 workmen shot dead by the side of the road in the 1976 attack.
"I honestly believe there only should have been one unionist party," he said.
"At the end of the day there can't be that much between them. It's maybe personalities at the end of the day.
"They should get together and get the majority back again for Stormont. I still believe there were thousands of people here who didn't bother voting.
"Like the DUP has been saying this last 10 years 'you either vote for us or else Sinn Féin will be the biggest party'."
But in his first television interview on the election result, a DUP founder member who called for compromise on Facebook this week said he does not believe unionist unity is necessarily the answer.
Wallace Thompson, a former special adviser to Nigel Dodds in the Department of Finance, said: "In many ways I felt that in the state of shock unionists sort of rallied to unionist unity as a comfort blanket to make themselves feel better but there's a large elephant in the room and that elephant really is the massive mandate that Sinn Féin have received.
"So I think unionist unity might have its merits but it's not a panacea and while I would like to see unionists coming together it might be better done through a form of unionist council as it was done in the 70s.
"If you're going to have one party, there's only one party people can unite behind and that is the DUP."
He added: "What we as unionists need to do is recognise we are faced with a significant proportion of the people of Northern Ireland now voting, sadly from our point of view, for Sinn Féin .
"We need to reach out as best we can in a spirit of - and I don't like the word compromise because its a dirty word - but compromise in life is part of life but it has to work both ways.
"I'm a Protestant , an Ulsterman, a British citizen but also I'm an Irishman and I think that breadth of perspective is what's needed."
The View will be broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland at 22:40 GMT on Thursday.
Investigators do not believe there are any outstanding suspects and a lockdown has been lifted.
The two dead were found inside a small office in an engineering building. Neither has been identified.
A gun was also recovered from the scene, LA police chief Charlie Beck told reporters.
"A homicide and a suicide occurred," he said.
"It appears to be entirely contained... There are no suspects outstanding and no continuing threat to UCLA's campus.
"[There is] evidence there there could be a suicide note but we don't know at this point."
Staff and students were slowly returning to the campus grounds on Wednesday afternoon, the police chief said.
Earlier a researcher working in the northern part of the extensive campus told BBC News she and her colleagues had barricaded themselves inside their building.
About 43,000 students are enrolled at UCLA.
The university has cancelled classes for the day. They are expected to resume on Thursday.
Pte Cameron Laing, 20, from Nottingham, was crushed by a truck while trying to manhandle a trailer on to a tow bar.
He suffered head and chest injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene at Bracken Tor, near Okehampton Army Camp, Devon, on 29 April last year.
The inquest jury at Exeter County Hall returned a narrative verdict.
A convoy of Army vehicles had been on its way to deliver storage containers to Okehampton Camp when the vehicles took a wrong turn after being directed by a Sat-nav system.
The father-to-be from Hucknall was helping colleagues in the Royal Logistics Corps manhandle the trailer on the gravel track, when a brake slipped and he was crushed between it and a truck.
An Army safety expert told the inquest a number of procedures had not been followed correctly in the run-up to the accident.
Lt Col Ian Burton also said fatigue may have played a part as the crews had exceeded the Army's normal 13-hour daily work limit when the accident happened just before 22:00.
Coroner Dr Elizabeth Earland said she would be writing to the Ministry of Defence recommending they review their training and development with regard to towing procedures.
The 2.4m-high bronze statue, which will stand in Bellies Brae car park, is due to be unveiled at the annual Bonfest event in April.
AC/DC backed the fundraising campaign to commemorate the singer who died in 1980, aged 33.
The council has received over 80 letters of support for the new statue.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said families it had interviewed described people being shot dead by IS as they crossed the Euphrates River.
The NRC, that runs refugee camps near Falluja, said up to 50,000 people remained in the city.
Iraq's army began the fight to retake the city late last month.
Falluja lies just 50km (30 miles) west of Baghdad and has been held by IS since 2014. It is one of two remaining IS strongholds in Iraq.
Shakir al-Essawi, the head of Falluja's regional council, told Reuters people were trying to cross the Euphrates in refrigerators, cupboards and barrels.
"Our biggest fears are now tragically confirmed with civilians being directly targeted while trying to flee to safety," said Nasr Muflahi, the Iraq country director of the NRC, in a statement which said "armed opposition groups" were behind the shooting.
"This is the worst that we feared would happen to innocent men, women and children who have had to leave everything behind in order to save their lives."
Falluja: Embattled city of mosques and minarets
Final push for Falluja some way off
Islamic State group: The full story
Iraq's army said on Sunday it had all but encircled Falluja, with only the western bank of the Euphrates not under its control.
The latest area secured by Iraq's military, with the help of US-led air strikes, was the southern district of Naymiyah, Associated Press reported.
Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said last week that the offensive had been slowed down to protect people still inside Falluja.
Other Iraqi officials have said IS is offering stiff resistance as troops push towards the city centre.
In other developments:
Panorama has obtained police emails sent shortly after Mr Watson's statement to the Commons in 2012.
They concluded that there was no evidence the minister was guilty of any criminal complicity.
Mr Watson has made no immediate comment on the emails' dismissal.
He has been criticised for allegations made during his campaign on behalf of victims of child abuse.
The statement concerning the current minister came during prime minister's questions in October 2012.
Mr Watson said a file of evidence seized in the early 1990s contained "clear intelligence of a widespread paedophile ring".
He added: "One of its members boasts of his links to a senior aide of a former prime minister, who says he could smuggle indecent images of children from abroad.
"The leads were not followed up, but if the file still exists I want to ensure that the Metropolitan Police secure the evidence, re-examine it and investigate clear intelligence suggesting a powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and No 10."
The claim dates back to the 1970s, when the political aide was in his teens. However, he later entered politics and is now a government minister.
Following Mr Watson's statement, police obtained the files from Metropolitan Police archive and examined them for evidence of any offences.
In December 2012 the police emails seen by the BBC concluded there was "no evidence of offending linked to [the minister] held within the files".
They went on: "There is not any further material in the file to support the inference to any level of criminal complicity on behalf of [the minister]."
This conclusion has never been made public. The Metropolitan Police had said in a statement that it did not publish an announcement on every allegation it investigated, adding that it was "checking records to ascertain the circumstances of the allegation".
The files on which Mr Watson based his Commons statement were seized as part of an investigation into the paedophile ring and centred on senior social worker Peter Righton in the early 1990s.
Mr Watson was briefed on their content, before making his statement, by Peter McKelvie, a former child protection manager who has described himself as a "whistleblower".
Mr McKelvie has told the BBC he did not claim to Mr Watson that there had been a "Westminster paedophile ring".
He also pointed out that the police investigations which followed the Commons statement had led to convictions of two men who were part of the original paedophile ring.
But despite the cameras, sensors and radars being introduced, it is still expected to be years before the vehicles become fully self-driving.
Tesla introduced its Autopilot system last year, allowing some self-drive functions such as auto-braking.
But it is now temporarily disabling Autopilot on all new cars to allow "robust" testing with the new systems.
Tesla founder Elon Musk said its hardware was "basically a super-computer in a car," but added it would be up to regulators and the public to decide when self-driving vehicles could actually be used on the roads.
He said it made sense to build in the self-driving tech now - even if it cannot be used for some time - because trying to retrofit the hardware at a later stage would cost consumers more than buying a new vehicle.
For now, the hardware will run in "shadow mode", gathering information on when the technology may have caused or avoided accidents had it been in command of the vehicle.
Mr Musk said he hoped that Tesla could one day show regulators significant data which demonstrated the self-driving technology was safer than having humans behind the wheel.
This is a statement of intent from Elon Musk but there's no real technological leap.
Google and pretty much everyone else in this game has the necessary sensor technology at the ready, but the research and development task in making the computer smart enough to intelligently work out what is going on around it. That's what's holding self-driving technology back right now.
What Tesla will gain by doing this, however, is a huge fleet of cars gathering data on the world's roads, something which could hasten the introduction of self-driving technology.
It's an announcement that seems more designed to keep up investor confidence that Tesla is still worth backing despite missing sales and revenue targets over the past year. He'd promised they'd be comfortably making a profit by now, but he certainly hasn't managed that.
Tesla has an Autopilot feature in its Model S and Model X vehicles, allowing them to automatically change lanes and keep up with traffic.
But it suffered a setback in May when a man was killed driving a Tesla Model S while using the Autopilot function. A preliminary US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report into the incident said the driver had been speeding moments before he collided with a lorry.
Mr Musk was critical of press coverage of this and other related Autopilot accidents, saying there had been a "paucity of media coverage of the 1.2 million people that die every year in manual crashes".
He claimed that publishing such negative stories risked dissuading people from using autonomous car tech, which would result in deaths.
To underline the point, he retweeted an account of how Autopilot had prevented a Tesla Model X rear-ending another car.
But one expert said it was right that critical articles be published.
"It's a revolutionary technology, so it's inevitable that it will attract a lot of attention," said Prof David Bailey from Aston Business School.
"If it was positive attention he wouldn't be complaining. But the point is that the press will pick up on things that go wrong, and things will go wrong.
"This technology will radically change the way we get around our cities, and as it's introduced it's absolutely right that it be scrutinised both by policy makers and the media."
In its last set of financial results, Tesla said it had missed production targets, saw sales below expectations and reported its thirteenth consecutive quarterly loss.
In April, Tesla unveiled plans for its Model 3 vehicle, its lowest-cost to date, due for release next year. It has been reported that so far 400,000 have been pre-ordered. That vehicle will now also include the new hardware.
The basic model will start at $35,000 (£28,500) and have a range of at least 215 miles (346km) per charge. Analysts say the price and range of the five-seater should make the vehicle appeal to new types of customers and could boost interest in other electric vehicles.
The firm faces competition from other similarly priced electric cars that will become available first, including General Motors' Chevy Bolt and BYD's Qin EV300.
Thousands of people have signed a petition to stop King's College London replacing the buildings on the Strand with a new, bigger academic building.
Save Britain's Heritage campaigners said the new building would be "bland".
Westminster Council approved the college plan on 21 April but a holding direction has since been applied.
The application for 154-158 Strand, which includes a new courtyard and link to Somerset House, was submitted in December 2014.
The college said it had the support of English Heritage and the council.
A spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government said: "The Department has received representations asking for this application to be called-in. We have issued an Article 31 holding direction on this planning application while we assess whether or not to do so, so we can give the matter proper consideration."
President Bashar al-Assad's office has spoken out against the US airstrikes.
"What America did is nothing but foolish and irresponsible behaviour, which only reveals its short-sightedness and political and military blindness to reality," it said.
The Syrian National Coalition - Assad's main opposition - said it wanted to see more air strikes to impair the Assad government's abilities.
"We hope for more strikes... and that these are just the beginning," spokesman Ahmad Ramadan told the AFP news agency.
But the Free Syrian Army told Reuters it feared for acts of "revenge" by Assad, and his allies, against civilians.
Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian President Vladimir Putin, described the US air strikes on the Shayrat airbase as "an act of aggression against a sovereign state delivered in violation of international law under a far-fetched pretext".
His statement said Washington's actions had "dealt a serious blow to Russian-US relations, which are already in a poor state".
The strikes would "create a major obstacle to the establishment of an international counterterrorist coalition", it added.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called it "an act of aggression under a completely invented pretext".
"Everything resembles the situation of 2003, when the USA, the UK and several of their allies invaded Iraq without the UN Security Council's approval - a grave violation of international law - but at that point they at least tried to show some material evidence."
The UK government said it fully supported the strikes and had been in close contact with the US government beforehand.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon told the BBC: "The Americans believe they've exhausted all possible diplomatic and peaceful ways of dealing with the use by the regime of chemical weapons and they have been determined to try to prevent future attacks like this so they've taken this action today."
He said the US "hasn't declared war" on Syria and the UK had not been asked to get involved.
Jeremy Corbyn, who leads the opposition Labour Party, condemned the attack, saying that it "risks escalating the war in Syria still further".
The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, tweeted his reaction to the unilateral airstrikes.
Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, said in a statement: "The US has informed the EU that these strikes were limited and seek to deter further chemical weapons atrocities."
"The repeated use of such weapons must be answered."
But the union's foreign policy chief issued a more critical response on behalf of all the member states.
Reuters quoted Federica Mogherini saying that while the US had an "understandable intention to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons", those responsible should face justice "within the framework of the United Nations".
Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of defence alliance Nato, said in a statement: "The Syrian regime bears the full responsibility for this development.
"Any use of chemical weapons is unacceptable, cannot go unanswered, and those responsible must be held accountable."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande issued a joint statement in response to the US air strike.
It said: "President Assad alone bears the responsibility for this development. His repeated use of chemical weapons and his crimes against his own people demand sanctions which France and Germany already asked for in the summer of 2013 after the massacre at Ghouta."
Angela Merkel later added that the attack was "understandable in view of the extent of the war crime" but "it remains right and important to focus all strength on political talks".
A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, quoted by ISNA news agency, said: "Iran strongly condemns any such unilateral strikes ... such measures will strengthen terrorists in Syria... and will complicate the situation in Syria and the region."
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement: "President Trump sent a strong and clear message today that the use and spread of chemical weapons will not be tolerated."
"Israel fully supports President Trump's decision and hopes that this message of resolve in the face of the Assad regime's horrific actions will resonate not only in Damascus, but in Tehran, Pyongyang and elsewhere."
Saudi Arabia has said it fully supports the US military strikes, praising what it described as "the courageous decision" by US President Trump.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is an opponent of President Assad's, welcomed the air strike.
"I want to say that I welcome this concrete step as positive," he said. "Is it enough? I don't see this as enough... the time has come for steps for a serious result to protect the oppressed Syrian people," he added.
His spokesman also called for the creation of a no-fly zone and safe zones within Syria.
Turkey's foreign ministry added that Turkey would fully support steps that would ensure accountability for the Syrian regime.
"What is urgent now is to avoid further deterioration of the situation," foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said during a regular press briefing.
"We oppose use of chemical weapons by any country, organisation or individual in any circumstance, for any purpose."
The Japanese government has said it supports the US government's determination to oppose the spread and use of chemical weapons.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said: "We understand the US government's strikes this time are to prevent further deterioration of the situation."
He said he valued the president's "strong commitment" to "maintaining international order as well as peace and security with US alliances and the world".
"The Australian government strongly supports the swift and just response of the United States," Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said.
"This was a calibrated, proportionate and targeted response. It sends a strong message to the Assad regime."
Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said that the US strikes were a "motivated response to a war crime" that the Syrian regime was responsible for.
Mr Gentiloni added that he hoped the strike "should accelerate chances of political negotiations for a long lasting solution" to the Syrian crisis.
Poland's President Andrzej Duda expressed his full support for the military operation in a statement.
"President Donald Trump's decision to attack one of the Syrian air bases was a reaction to the use by Assad's military regime of chemical weapons against civilians. The civilised world could not be indifferent to this act of unimaginable barbarity."
"Canada fully supports the United States' limited and focused action to degrade the Assad regime's ability to launch chemical weapons attacks against innocent civilians, including many children," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement.
"President Assad's use of chemical weapons and the crimes the Syrian regime has committed against its own people cannot be ignored."
Vafaei, 22, won the first two frames and made a century break in the fourth to take a 3-1 lead before world number two Trump, 27, hit back to level.
But Vafaei made a superb break of 106 in the seventh frame before edging the eighth to secure victory.
He will face Mark Williams in his first ranking semi-final.
Williams saw off fellow former world champion Shaun Murphy 5-1.
World number one Mark Selby was a 5-1 winner against Stephen Maguire to set up a meeting with Kyren Wilson, who beat China's Ding Junhui by the same score.
Saturday's semi-final draw
Hossein Vafaei v Mark Williams
Kyren Wilson v Mark Selby
Christopher Tester, from Torquay, is in an induced coma on the Caribbean island after he was attacked at his parents' restaurant on Christmas Day night.
Friends launched a fundraising appeal to fly the 37-year-old home. He is said to be in a critical condition.
It raised £40,000 of its £90,000 target within two days of being set up.
Family friend Charlotte Williams said Mr Tester was shot during a scuffle. He is being treated at Mount St John Hospital.
Ms Williams said: "For something like this to happen on Christmas Day is horrendous anywhere in the world.
"I'm hoping there will be some Christmas magic, and people will dig deep to fly him back."
On its Facebook page, ABS Television in Antigua said that Mr Tester's expat parents, Tony and Gill, run the Boxer Shack restaurant in Old Road.
ABS posted a police statement that said the masked gunman shot Mr Tester in a struggle during a bid to rob the family.
That is more than double its original estimate made in July, when it warned of a £40m hit.
Jet fuel is priced in dollars, so the falling pound has made it more expensive for Easyjet to run its aircraft.
Easyjet expects a profit of between $490m and £495m for its financial year, which ends on 30 September.
That would be down 28% on the £686m annual profit it made in 2015. It would also be the first fall in annual profits since 2009.
Shares closed down by nearly 7% to 933.5p.
"The current environment is tough for all airlines, but history shows that at times like this, the strongest airlines become stronger," said Carolyn McCall, Easyjet chief executive.
The problem for Easyjet is that although it has been flying passengers in record numbers, those passengers have been enjoying lower ticket prices.
Easyjet expects revenue per seat to be down 8.7% for the year and expects ticket prices to fall further in the coming months.
"Average fares are coming down, which is good for customers. To a certain extent, there is a price war going on," said Robin Byde, airline analyst at Cantor.
"Passenger growth is very strong, cabins are very full. To do that, they've had to discount quite aggressively," he said.
Terror attacks in Europe, Turkey and Tunisia have also affected sales.
"We have been disproportionately affected by extraordinary events," said Ms McCall.
Easyjet says "extraordinary" events have cost it £125m up to the end of its third quarter (which ended on 30 June).
The airline says that it is particularly vulnerable to strikes in France, as almost two-thirds of its flights touch French airspace.
Business is likely to be tough for Easyjet over the coming months. Recent terror attacks might discourage some people from travelling and Easyjet says the pound's weakness will make foreign travel less affordable for UK tourists.
"Easytet is facing challenging times on a number of fronts, and it's one of the worst performing stocks in the FTSE 100 since the EU referendum," said George Salmon, an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
"The competition is hotting up too. Other airlines are looking covetously at easyJet's market share, with pressure coming from both the budget players Wizz and Ryanair, and 'premium economy' offerings like Vueling," he said.
Customers can collect their purchases from lockers at Finchley Central and Newbury Park following company's deal with Transport for London (TfL).
In November, TfL signed a deal with Asda which allowed people to collect their shopping from six stations.
But the London Federation of Small Businesses said it hope small shops would not suffer as a result.
Matthew Jaffa, spokesman for the federation, said its members had not be "given a fair crack of whip" at being involved in the scheme, which TfL hopes will generate substantial income for the network.
"We would like more awareness and a communication about this," Mr Jaffa said.
"We want our members to be given more of an opportunity. Hopefully this will happen next time."
On Sunday it was announced Amazon customers will be able to pick-up parcels from railways stations.
Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's customers can currently have their groceries delivered by van to Tube station car parks and Waitrose is working with TfL to install click and collect facilities.
InPost, which delivers parcels, has a collection point at Buckurst Hill station.
Mr Matheson condemned the "appalling" scenes when fans fought on the pitch following the Scottish Cup final.
Speaking at the Scottish Football Association AGM in Glasgow, he called for a form of "strict liability" to crack down on "unacceptable conduct".
The SFA has set up an independent investigation into the final disorder.
May's Hampden cup final, which saw Hibs lift the trophy for the first time since 1902, was marred by violence after fans spilled onto the pitch following the final whistle.
Rangers players complained of being confronted by fans, while goalposts were broken and turf was torn up.
One man has already admitted a charge under the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act, a controversial piece of legislation introduced by the Scottish government in the last term but which opposition parties want to overturn.
The cup final disorder has been cited by parties on both sides of the debate, with SNP MSP John Mason claiming it showed the legislation should be kept.
Mr Matheson also cited the act, saying it proved the Scottish government "will act if we don't think football is doing enough".
He called for a form of strict liability, which could see clubs punished for the actions of their fans, although some clubs have recently spoken out against this.
Mr Matheson said: "The scenes we saw at Hampden last week were appalling and the Scottish government condemns in the strongest possible terms the disorder and violence which scarred the end of the game.
"But from those dreadful scenes there is an opportunity to address some of the negative long-standing issues in the game and I want football to be proactive and seize that opportunity.
"We need a transparent and robust scheme to prevent unacceptable conduct and deal with it effectively if it does occur, and encourage clubs to take all action possible to address unacceptable conduct.
"That may be strict liability or a form of strict liability or it may be something else, but the bottom line is we want to see football taking the opportunity to finally address this long-standing issue.
Mr Matheson said he was "encouraged" by the initial response of the SFA, but warned: "Let me be absolutely clear. The Scottish government is prepared to act if Scottish football isn't.
"On that basis we will explore alternative options if no solution can be delivered by football. I genuinely hope this is not needed, and Scottish football takes control of its own destiny."
In January, Alloa Athletic chairman Mike Mulraney said there was "no chance whatsoever of clubs agreeing to strict liability", describing the opposition as "pretty unanimous".
He said clubs should not be punished if they took "reasonable steps" to prevent unruly behaviour.
Police Scotland is investigating the Scottish Cup final disorder, and has made a number of arrests.
SFA Chief Executive Stewart Regan instructed a "comprehensive report" on the matter, as well as an independent commission to look into the disorder.
He added: "I am keen that the Scottish FA is proactive in the investigations with the police authorities and the independent commission."
Following the AGM in Glasgow, Mr Regan said Mr Matheson had told the SFA to "step up and sort out" problems within Scottish football.
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The comments came after it emerged the company had successfully appealed some large penalties.
Friends of the Earth said the government-owned company had reduced some pollution fines by more than 50%.
NI Water said it appeals in less than one in 10 cases and had a duty to "safeguard public money".
It only appealed when it felt it was appropriate, it said.
A Freedom of Information request revealed that NI Water had successfully appealed five cases out of 65 since 2008.
In 2014, a £10,000 fine for polluting the Cusher River from a sewage treatment plant at Tandragee, County Armagh was reduced to £5,000.
And in 2012, fines for two separate pollution incidents at Moneyreagh in County Down were cut from a combined figure of £12,000 to £3,000.
In the most recent case, a fine of £7,500 handed down earlier this year after an discharge from a facility in Saintfield, County Down, was cut to £2,000 on appeal.
The maximum fine for a pollution offence in Northern Ireland is £20,000.
Director of Friends of the Earth James Orr said the company seemed to have made a "strategic decision to manage the risk to itself by appealing certain fines".
"We would prefer to see the strategic effort of a publicly-owned company to act in the public interest by managing the risk to rivers and lakes."
NI Water was recently involved in a serious pollution incident from a treatment works at Annsborough near Castlewellan.
Last week, it was fined £13,000 for polluting the Blackwater River near Balloo in County Down.
Mr Orr said the level of fines in Northern Ireland was not a deterrent.
In Great Britain, the fines for pollution by what are privately-owned utility companies are much higher.
A spokesman for NI Water said a decision on appeals was taken "on the merits of each individual case".
He said it had invested £500m in the last three years upgrading the sewerage network and treatment facilities.
"Over the years, our work across the waste water network has done more to improve the quality of our water courses than it has ever done to harm them," he said.
Every year, the company returns 1.3bn litres of waste water from more than 1,000 treatment plants into 2,500 rivers.
Last year, it was responsible for 21 high or medium severity pollution incidents.
The artist known for his paintings of the industrial North East lived and worked in the house on Whitworth Terrace for more than 40 years.
Durham County Council, Spennymoor Town Council and the artist's family arranged for the plaque to be installed.
His son John Cornish said the painter would have been "very embarrassed".
Mr Cornish told BBC Tees: "He didn't like publicity at all, he was quite a humble man, he would have been hiding behind the settee somewhere.
"But we are pleased and delighted with the plaque."
Norman Cornish started working in the mines when he was 14 years old, but he was also sketching and painting from a young age and attended the Pitman's Academy for artists at the Spennymoor Settlement.
His son said: "His works portray a real warmth of community, everyday people going about their ordinary lives.
"He really encapsulated a time period."
Norman Cornish died last August aged 94.
The Outlaws, who have been beaten in the T20 quarter-finals in the last four years, go into the game in fifth place.
Notts need to beat the Foxes and hope either Lancashire or Northants slip up in their final games on Friday.
"Friday night is a massive game for the club and the team," Newell told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"We want to win that match and put some pressure on other teams - and make them win their games."
T20 captain James Taylor and bowler Harry Gurney are set to face their former club, while batsman Greg Smith, who made the move across the East Midlands in the winter, may also feature.
Gurney took 23 wickets for the Foxes when they won the Twenty20 in 2011, while Taylor scored a century on his Championship debut for Leicestershire against Middlesex back in 2009.
"It's a special place for myself, Titch (James Taylor) and Greg (Smith)," said Gurney. "It's always nice to go back there, if slightly weird.
"After losing the fixture to them at home, from a Nottinghamshire perspective we do need to get down there and put one over on them.
"We will go to Grace Road and priority number one is to get the two points and if we don't do that, we won't qualify.
"We just need the points and then hope one or two results around the country go our way."
Nottinghamshire's game at Grace Road gets under way at 17:30 BST, as does Lancashire's trip to already-qualified Worcestershire, while Northants against Durham begins an hour later.
Scotland, Wales and the north-west of England all had the wettest December in more than a century.
A UK mean temperature of 8C (46F) broke records too and would have felt more like a day in April or May.
The Met Office said storms Desmond, Eva and, most recently, Frank were behind the record rainfall, while a humid south-westerly airflow kept it warm.
Storm Frank: Flood warnings remain in wake of storm
Scotland recorded the most rain in December (333mm or 13 inches), making it wetter than any calendar month since 1910 and far wetter than the average of 204mm (8 inches).
Wales has only seen more rain fall in a single month once than it did in December 2015 - in November 1929.
Central and southern England escaped the worst of it, with rainfall figures much closer to average.
In between the storms, there were warm, sunny days across the UK.
England saw mean temperatures top 9.4C (50F), compared with an average 4.4C (33F) for December.
The Met Office said that, until last week, the year might have looked unremarkable with a cool spring and a cool, damp summer offset by a mild end to the year.
However, this week's rainfall will make 2015 one of the top 10 wettest years since 1910, when the Met Office's digitised records begin. The wettest was 2000, when 1,337mm (53 ins) of rain fell.
Storm Desmond, in early December, brought record-breaking rainfall to the Lake District.
On Christmas Eve, gales and heavy rain from Storm Eva flooded parts of the north-west of England, Scotland and north Wales.
And in recent days, Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England have borne the brunt of Storm Frank.
The Nasdaq added 13 points to close at 5,082.93 with shares in Altera up 5.8% after it agreed to be bought by Intel.
The world's biggest chipmaker has agreed to buy Altera in a $16.7bn (£10.9bn) deal, paying $54 a share for the firm. Intel shares dropped 1.6%.
On the broader markets, the Dow Jones rose 27 points to 18,038.04 while the S&P 500 was up four points at 2,111.73.
On the economic front, there was mixed news with a survey showing manufacturing picking up pace in May, and a strong jump in construction spending, but consumer spending coming in flat for April.
Overall, Art Hogan, chief market strategist, said Monday's economic data was "pretty positive".
The surviving driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries after the crash at about 14:30 GMT on the A141 at Hartford, Cambridgeshire Police said.
The road has been closed and will remain shut until "at least" Wednesday night, the force said.
A van was forced off the road during the crash but no details of injuries were reported.
More than 25 firefighters tackled the blaze.
The East of England Ambulance Service said two ambulances and a number of support vehicles were despatched.
Fire services from a nearby American air base assisted the six Cambridgeshire crews sent to the scene.
The award was given for the show's coverage of the death of former Northern Irish first minister, Ian Paisley.
BBC Newsline editor, Damien Magee, said receiving the award was an 'honour' for the team.
The programme was up against RTÉ Six One News, TG4 Nuacht, TV3 530 News and UTV Ireland Live.
Mr Magee said: "It was very important that BBC Newsline reflected the significance of the death of Ian Paisley. That we did that, I think, is recognised by this award, and it's a real tribute and a real honour for our team."
The ceremony was held in Dublin on Thursday night.
The Irish Film and Television Academy is an all-Ireland organisation whose mission is to encourage excellence in Irish film and television by providing a platform for creative development and collaboration across the industry.
The academy's annual awards honour and celebrate "excellence in outstanding Irish creativity".
Luke Shambrook, who has autism, was spotted from the air about 3km (1.8 miles) from where his family had been camping beside Lake Eildon in Victoria.
He was taken to hospital with hypothermia, but police said he appeared otherwise unharmed.
Dozens of holidaymakers had joined the search for Luke over the weekend.
In a statement, police thanked all those involved for the "immense amount of community support".
Luke had wandered away at around midday on Friday from the Candlebark Campground in the Fraser National Park, a popular recreation area.
His family raised the alarm, saying he liked to hide in small spaces and had a fascination with water.
Police on horseback, motorbikes and foot were joined by campers and other volunteers, searching in abandoned mine shafts, animal burrows and beneath trees.
Police divers were also scouring the lake and surrounding waterways while the Air Wing of the Victoria police searched from the sky.
On Monday, search teams found his black beanie hat lying on a track.
Then on Tuesday, a police helicopter spotted him in bush from the air, and directed paramedics to him. He was treated at the scene before being carried out on a stretcher.
Victoria Police posted a video on Instagram showing the moment a police officer reached Luke, lying on a hill on rough ground.
10 News reporter Trent Dann tweeted pictures of Luke being reunited with his parents and said rescuers had been "reduced to tears of joy".
Acting Cmdr Rick Nugent said Luke's parents had described their "absolute relief".
"An 11-year-old boy, challenged as he is with his autism, he's a courageous, resilient, strong young man," ABC News quoted him as saying.
"To find him safe and well, is just wonderful news."
Ex-World Cup referee Clive Thomas said: "I've lost faith in referees. I think refs are missing things."
But Phil Dorward, of Premier League and Professional Game Match Officials (PGMOL), believes standards are rising.
"Clive is entitled to his opinion but the facts point in the opposite direction," he said.
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QPR manager Mark Hughes and Wigan boss Roberto Martinez both spoke out after key incidents went against their sides in the battle to avoid relegation.
"You should have confidence that referees will get key decisions right," said Hughes after the final whistle. "Just lately a lot of managers have lost faith in them."
Welshman Thomas, 75, refereed at the 1974 and 1978 World Cups, and the 1976 European Championships.
And he reckons Hughes is "100% right" to question referees' abilities following the dismissal of Shaun Derry during Rangers' 2-0 defeat at Old Trafford.
Thomas said: "We haven't got our act together at all.
"I don't see that the referees of today are even in the right positions to give right decisions. That concerns me.
The referee was right there. If he didn't see it, why didn't he see it? That would be my concern if I was the referee
"Referees today are concerned, it seems, far more about what the assessors think of them, and are not thinking how to referee a game.
"It never worried me what the assessors would say."
Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli was sent for two bookable offences in the defeat by Arsenal on Sunday, but much post-match coverage focused on a challenge on Alex Song which went unpunished.
Thomas said: "That tackle was a disgrace. The studs were up and went on the player's leg. He should have been sent off then but he wasn't.
"The referee was right there. If he didn't see it, why didn't he see it? That would be my concern if I was the referee.
"I was far better than modern refs. British referees were better than they are today."
PGMOL provides match officials for the top flight of English football and Dorward added: "As he [Thomas] should know all too well, sometimes officials make human errors but the truth is that standards in officiating have never been higher.
"The Match Delegates report - compiled by former players and managers and which the clubs provide feedback on after every Premier League match - show that referees get over 92% of major decisions right.
"Data from ProZone additionally shows that assistant referees have got over 99% of offside decisions right this season.
"PGMOL do analyse reasons why errors are made and are always working on improving officiating technique.
"Everything that is available is used: both of the Match Delegates and PGMOL Assessors reports, match footage and ProZone data are analysed, there are a team of refereeing coaches working with them all season long, and also former players and managers helping improve their positioning.
"The fact that we are one of only three countries in world football to have three elite referees suggests that English officiating is of a very high standard."
Thomas officiated at the 1974 World Cup in West Germany and the '78 tournament in Argentina four years later.
He had a reputation as a disciplinarian and is widely remembered for disallowing a Zico headed goal for Brazil in a 1978 World Cup group game against Sweden by blowing for full-time while a corner ball was still in mid-air.
At the 1976 Euros in Yugoslavia, Thomas oversaw an upset when the 'Total Football' generation of Holland, spearheaded by Johan Cruyff, was defeated at the semi-final stage by Czechoslovakia.
In that match in Zagreb, Thomas sent off three players and threatened to abandon the fixture as the game descended into acrimony in extra-time.
"Michael did not brief this story," a source close to Mr Gove told the BBC.
The Sun said it had "multiple sources" and was confident its report was true.
Earlier, Mr Gove had said: "I don't know how the Sun got all its information and I don't think it's really worth my adding anything to what's already been said."
BBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins says Mr Gove's comments were notable for not including a specific denial that he had leaked the Queen's views.
Our correspondent says the source's remarks appear to reject the idea that Mr Gove actively sought to get the story reported, but do not rule out the possibility he was an inadvertent source.
On Wednesday, under the headline "Queen backs Brexit", the Sun's front page reported a conversation with MPs at Buckingham Palace "a few years ago" in which the Queen allegedly said: "I don't understand Europe."
The source said the Queen spoke the words with "venom and emotion".
The paper also reported an exchange between the monarch and pro-EU former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in 2011, which it called a "bust-up" that left no doubt about the Queen's "passionate feelings over Europe".
Mr Clegg has said he could not remember any such incident and called the story "nonsense".
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Buckingham Palace has complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) about the Sun's report, insisting the Queen is "politically neutral".
Asked about the press watchdog's investigation, Mr Gove, himself a former journalist, said it was a "matter for them".
In other comments, Mr Gove, who was in Southampton to give a speech supporting the Leave campaign, reiterated his view that the UK would be "stronger and safer outside" the EU.
"We'd have £350m a week extra to spend on our priorities, we'd be able to set our own laws, vary our own taxes [and] cut our own trade deals," he said.
Campaigners for Britain to stay in the EU have said leaving would increase national security and economic risks.
Mr Gove said this was "nonsense".
He also insisted he wanted David Cameron, who is leading the Remain campaign, to stay on as prime minister if voters backed Brexit.
"I want him to lead a strong team to negotiate a better deal," Mr Gove said.
Six-time Paralympic gold medallist Weir will be part of the 49-strong squad competing in Grosseto from 10-16 June.
Jonnie Peacock, who won gold in the T44 100m at London 2012, returns after missing out on the World Championships last year because of a leg injury.
Hannah Cockroft turned down a place to focus on training for the Paralympics.
With Cockroft absent, Olivia Breen, Jo Butterfield, Kadeena Cox, Aled Davies, Sophie Hahn, Georgie Hermitage, Maria Lyle and Richard Whitehead will be the eight world champions in the squad.
The new real-time meters will only save consumers a small amount of money on their energy bills, the Science and Technology Committee said.
The government must do more to convince people of the extra benefits that the system can bring, it said.
These included a smarter energy grid and less pollution.
The government wants every home and business to be offered a smart meter by the end of 2020. That requires 53 million meters to be fitted in more than 30 million premises over the next four years.
The meters will measure gas and electricity use and automatically send meter readings to energy suppliers, ending manual meter readings.
However, there have been mishaps during the major installation programme.
The communication system that links meters to energy suppliers has been delayed.
The committee also pointed out that there was an "unresolved" problem of early meters installed in the first phase of the rollout losing their "smart" function when the customer switches supplier.
The committee's interim chairwoman, Tania Mathias, said: "The government has known for years that early smart meters can lose their smartness if the customer switches supplier.
"Ministers merely have an 'ambition' to fix this by 2020. Taxpayers will be unimpressed with this situation, and timely action is needed.
"The evidence shows that homeowners and businesses need to receive tailored advice about how they can benefit from smart metering.
"The 'smartness' comes from what customers can do with them - fit and forget would be a wasted opportunity."
She added that the government needed to do more to convince and reassure customers that the technology was safe from being hacked.
A spokeswoman for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: "Smart meters will bring Britain's energy infrastructure into the 21st century - as the committee has made clear."
Sacha Deshmukh, chief executive of Smart Energy GB, which is running the campaign for the rollout, said: "The committee has also emphasised the transformative effect smart meters will have, not only on how we buy and use energy as individual consumers, but on Britain's energy infrastructure as a whole."
The 32-year-old has been coaching with Boro for the last three years, having previously worked for Brentford and Rotherham United.
Sarll has held the Uefa A Licence badge for the last 10 years.
His appointment follows that of former Colchester United midfielder Kevin Watson being named as Sheringham's assistant at Broadhall Way last week.
"It was a definite grab. A very long grab," said the 27-year-old, who is suing Mr Mueller, 55, over the alleged incident, which he denies.
"It was intentional," she told the court in Denver, Colorado.
"I felt him grab on to my ass cheek under my skirt. He grabbed my ass underneath my skirt."
The singer, who was responding to questions from Mr Mueller's lawyer, added: "He stayed latched on to my bare ass cheek as I lurched away from him. [His hand] didn't let go.
"It was a very shocking thing. I had never dealt with something like this before."
The alleged assault is said to have occurred in 2013, during a Denver stopover on Taylor Swift's Red tour. Mr Mueller, then a host on the top-rated radio station KYGO, had been invited to meet her before the show.
Ms Swift complained to KYGO and the station fired Mr Mueller two days later.
Mr Mueller sued the singer, saying that Ms Swift's allegation cost him his job. She countersued one month later, describing the groping incident as "completely intentional".
When Mr Mueller's lawyer, Gabriel McFarland, asked why her bodyguard did not interfere when the alleged incident happened, she said: "No-one could have expected this to happen... It had never happened before. It was horrifying and shocking."
She also rejected the assumption that she misidentified Mr Mueller, saying: "I'm not going to allow you or your client to say I am to blame."
The 55-year-old denies any inappropriate behaviour. Earlier in court, when asked if he had grabbed her, he said: "No, I did not."
Ms Swift took the stand the day after her mother gave her testimony and described how she wanted to "vomit and cry" when her daughter told her about the alleged incident.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6% to 17,175.19, while broad-based S&P 500 fell 0.65% to 1,989.30.
The tech stock-heavy Nasdaq declined 1.04% to 4,605.16.
Oil prices sank to new lows - depths not seen in more than five and a half years - on worries about excess supplies.
US crude fell 3.3% to $55.91 per barrel.
"What continues to be the focus for the markets is oil," said Tim Ghriskey, chief investment officer of Solaris Group in Bedford Hills, New York.
US manufacturing output had its largest increase in nine months in November as production expanded. However, the New York Federal Reserve's gauge of manufacturing turned negative in December for the first time in almost two years.
Shares of pet supply retailer PetSmart rose 4.3% after it agreed to be bought by a private equity consortium led by BC Partners Ltd for $8.7bn (£5.56bn), in the largest leveraged buyout of the year.
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Fans are set to protest this weekend after a disappointing season that has seen the Gunners' Premier League title challenge fade.
"When we built the stadium the banks demanded that I signed for five years," said the 66-year-old Frenchman.
"Do you want me to say how many clubs I turned down during that period?"
Construction began on the £390m Emirates Stadium in 2004, the year Wenger won the last of his three league titles with the club.
"The banks wanted the technical consistency to guarantee that we have a chance to pay them back," added Wenger, who has been in charge of the north Londoners since 1996.
Arsenal topped the Premier League at the turn of the year but have since slipped to fourth, some 12 points behind leaders Leicester, who can win the title this weekend.
The Gunners were also knocked out of the FA Cup, which they have won for the past two seasons, by Watford in the quarter-finals, and their Champions League campaign again ended in the last 16 for the sixth successive season.
During Saturday's home game against Norwich, fans' groups Black Scarf Movement, RedAction and the Arsenal Supporters Trust want supporters to raise placards reading: "Time for change. Arsenal is stale, fresh approach needed."
However, Wenger said his critics had gone "too far".
He added: "I did commit and I stayed, and under very difficult circumstances.
"So for me to come back and, on top of that, (critics) reproach me for not having won the championship during that period, it is a bit overboard."
Since the end of January, Arsenal have taken only 10 points from a possible 21 in seven home league games.
Wenger said his side lost out on the title "at home against the lower teams", having played some of those games "in a very difficult climate".
He added: "We have to realise that away from home we are championship winners. At home, against the smaller teams, we dropped the points.
"It is very frustrating because we were in a position for a long, long time where we could compete for the title.
"We are disappointed but we have to fight. We have not to forget that in football you go down very quickly and you come up very slowly. We have to stick together.
"I can understand the frustration of our fans but despite that we want to support our team and the best chance you can give to a team is to be behind them."
But it lost out on the night's top award, best soap, to ITV's Emmerdale.
Trophies won by EastEnders included best actor for Steve McFadden, who plays Phil Mitchell, and best actress for Lacey Turner, the soap's Stacey Fowler.
Tameka Empson, who is currently competing in Strictly Come Dancing, won funniest female for the fifth time.
EastEnders' other two awards were for Jacqueline Jossa, who won sexiest female, and best exit for the departure of Peggy Mitchell, played by Dame Barbara Windsor.
The Inside Soap awards, which were held at London's Hippodrome Casino, are voted for entirely by fans.
Emmerdale's victory in the biggest category of the night followed the show's best soap win at the British Soap Awards earlier this year.
The programme took home four trophies at the Inside Soap awards, including best shock twist for the death of Val, played by Charlie Hardwick, and a third consecutive win in the best young actor category for Amelia Flanagan, who plays April Windsor.
Eight-year-old Flanagan said: "It has been amazing to win three times in a row - I feel very lucky."
The best partnership award went to Ryan Hawley and Danny Miller, who play Emmerdale couple Robert Sugden and Aaron Dingle.
Coronation Street also took home four awards, including best bad boy for Connor McIntyre for his portrayal of Pat Phelan, and funniest male for Joe Duttine, who stars as Tim Metcalfe.
Former X Factor winner Shayne Ward made it a hat trick of best newcomer prizes, having also won in the category both at this year's National Television Awards and TV Choice Awards.
Ward said the Inside Soap win was "the cherry on top" of a great year.
"I've been blessed to have such great storylines in the first year that I've been here. This just rounds it off," he said.
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Biggar limped out of Sunday's 16-16 draw with Ireland in Dublin and was replaced by Rhys Priestland.
Bath's Priestland is named on the bench, with Liam Williams retaining the full-back shirt in an unchanged side, ahead of fit-again Gareth Anscombe.
Centre Jonathan Davies will make his 50th appearance for Wales.
Ospreys flanker Justin Tipuric retains the number seven shirt with captain Sam Warburton on the blind-side and Dan Lydiate on the bench.
"It's great to be able to name an unchanged side, with Dan coming through, fit and ready to play," said Wales coach Warren Gatland.
"It's a reward for some players who put in a great shift in Dublin whilst we will be asking a little more of some of the players as well.
"It's great to see Jonathan reach his 50th cap and continue his impressive international partnership with Jamie in the midfield.
"We were impressed with the impact from the bench last week and that will be just as vital this weekend in what's going to be a tough battle."
Scotland have made one change to their team following the 15-9 loss to England at Murrayfield.
Duncan Taylor comes in for injured Matt Scott in the centre as the Scots chase their first win over Wales in Cardiff since 2002.
Wales team: Liam Williams (Scarlets); George North (Northampton Saints), Jonathan Davies (ASM Clermont), Jamie Roberts (Harlequins), Tom James (Cardiff Blues); Dan Biggar (Ospreys), Gareth Davies (Scarlets); Rob Evans (Scarlets), Scott Baldwin (Ospreys), Samson Lee (Scarlets), Luke Charteris (Racing 92), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys), Sam Warburton (Cardiff Blues, Capt), Justin Tipuric (Ospreys), Taulupe Faletau (Newport Gwent Dragons).
Replacements: Ken Owens (Scarlets), Gethin Jenkins (Cardiff Blues), Tomas Francis (Exeter Chiefs), Bradley Davies (Wasps), Dan Lydiate (Ospreys), Lloyd Williams (Cardiff Blues), Rhys Priestland (Bath Rugby), Gareth Anscombe (Cardiff Blues).
Gerard Pique slid Marcelo's cross into his own net before Lionel Messi levelled with a penalty.
Ronaldo, who was a substitute, restored Real's lead when he ran from halfway before smashing an effort home.
He was booked for taking off his shirt to celebrate and shown a second yellow shortly after for a dive - before Marco Asensio scored Real's excellent third.
Ronaldo felt he should have had a penalty when he went down under pressure from Samuel Umtiti, and appeared to shove the referee in the back after he was shown the red card.
Real host Barca in Wednesday's second leg at 22:00 BST.
Even for a player who has been so prominent in El Clasico contests, the 24 minutes Ronaldo spent on the pitch were unusually eventful.
Having started on the bench, as he did for the Uefa Super Cup win over Manchester United, he was introduced in the 58th minute with his side leading 1-0.
He watched on as Messi levelled the scores before scoring a typically brilliant goal himself, cutting inside and curling home an unstoppable effort from the edge of the box.
To celebrate, he removed his shirt and flexed his muscles, earning himself a booking.
Two minutes later, he tumbled in the box after going shoulder to shoulder with Umtiti, for which he was shown a second yellow card.
Barca had 10 minutes to find another equaliser, but 10-man Real struck again as Asensio added to his growing reputation with a superb strike into the top corner from 25 yards.
The 21-year-old has now scored on his La Liga, Copa del Rey, Champions League, Uefa Super Cup and Spanish Super Cup debuts for Real.
Having broken up their famed 'MSN' strike-force through the summer-sale of Neymar to Paris St-Germain for £200m, Barcelona started Gerard Deulofeu in attack alongside Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez.
As his predecessor on the left wing made a goal-scoring start to life in France, former Everton player Deulofeu struggled to make a compelling case to be the Brazilian's long-term replacement in Spain.
He had one glorious chance to make an impression but wasted it, firing a shot across goal and wide from inside the box. He was replaced by Denis Suarez shortly after.
If Barca have their way, Deulofeu will soon find himself down the pecking order, possibly behind Philippe Coutinho.
The need for attacking reinforcements at the Nou Camp is obvious. Messi and Suarez were lively and combined for the penalty - the Uruguayan winning it, when he tumbled easily under a challenge from Real keeper Keylor Navas, with the Argentine converting.
But elsewhere it is a mix of lesser talent and young potential not yet ready to play such a major role for a side with lofty ambition at home and abroad.
Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane: "We played a great game but I am annoyed by Cristiano's sending-off.
"Perhaps it wasn't a penalty but the red card is a little harsh. We can't change it, but we'll try and make sure he plays on Wednesday."
Barcelona boss Ernesto Valverde said: "I don't have the sensation we were as far away from them as the scoreline suggests. They scored three times, but we played well and had our chances.
"They caught us on the counter-attack when it was 1-1 and scored a great goal, and then another one. But it's not just about getting into the danger zone - it's about putting your chances away."
Blues were denied a penalty when Clayton Donaldson appeared to be fouled by Ben Marshall just before Danny Graham doubled Blackburn's lead.
"You look back to the biggest moment in the game, that would have turned it on its head and the officials didn't do their jobs properly," he told BBC WM.
"The referee said [Donaldson] went down easily then said there was no contact."
Rowett continued: "There was another big decision when Jordi Gomez went right over top of the ball against Stephen Gleeson, which was a disgusting challenge.
"There's a massive gash down Gleeson's leg. The referee is 10 yards away, he decides to have a lovely little chat with Gomez about it but doesn't book him. I have to say I think it's the most inept officiating I think I have seen this season.
"I'll see the referee and ask his opinion [about the incidents]. He'll do what they usually do and say 'sorry if I've made a mistake, I apologise'. But it doesn't make any difference, it's not going to get us the points back."
Rowett was also critical of his team and was particularly unhappy with their defensive shape, having seen them concede their fourth goal in two games on the road.
"There's no excuse, it's very poor defending." he said. "The first goal [comes from] a ball that bounces in between two of our defenders in the box and we don't deal with it."
The statement is made on a covert recording made by the BBC's Spotlight programme.
Mr Cushnahan, who had been an adviser to Nama, has consistently denied that he was due to receive money.
Nama is the Republic of Ireland's "bad bank".
It sold its entire Northern Ireland loan portfolio to the Cerberus investment fund in 2014.
Nama was established in 2009 in the aftermath of the Irish banking and property crisis.
It took effective control of a huge property loan book in Northern Ireland and formed a committee to advise on that part of its portfolio.
Mr Cushnahan, a former banker, was appointed to that committee by the DUP.
Unknown to Nama he began talking to a US investment fund, Pimco, who were interested in buying the entire Northern Ireland portfolio.
Prior to leaving his post at Nama, Mr Cushnahan attended meetings with Pimco as it prepared to mount a bid.
He was due to be paid £5m if the bid succeeded - but it collapsed when Nama learned of Mr Cushnahan's role.
Another company called Cerberus then bought the loan portfolio for more than £1bn.
Nama had received assurances that no one connected with Nama (which would include Mr Cushnahan) was to benefit from that deal.
However, in the recording, Mr Cushnahan discusses work he did with a Belfast solicitor Ian Coulter.
He said: "You know when I was working on that Cerberus thing to get that thing out, he worked with me to get that. And basically all the work was done by me and him."
He goes on to say his role was deliberately hidden because of Nama's objections.
Meanwhile, a developer whose loans were in Nama has told BBC Spotlight he has made allegations of corruption to the US financial regulator
In a statement given to the programme late on Sunday, John Miskelly said that over several years he had gathered extensive evidence and records of his business meetings which he claims implicates others in financial misconduct, insider trading, and other corrupt practices.
His statement said: "I realised that, in view of the continual suppression of my complaints to financial institutions, that this would be the only way to expose their financial misconduct and their corrupt dealings.
"All payments made by me to any persons during this period are fully accounted for.
"I have also reported financial misconduct to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in relation to the Project Eagle sale.
"My complaint to the SEC relates to insider trading and the bribery of foreign officials. I have initiated the whistleblower procedures with the SEC.
"I have consistently truthfully raised what I consider to be criminality and financial misconduct with the relevant authorities.
"In view of the ongoing investigation of my criminal complaints and in the interest of integrity of the judicial process I do not thing it is appropriate for me to make any further public comment on these matters."
The National Audit of Dementia found some improvements since its first analysis of care in England and Wales in 2011.
But it says too few patients have their mental state assessed, and information is often not shared properly.
The Alzheimer's Society said a "culture change" was needed to improve care further.
The audit, commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), was led by the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Centre for Quality Improvement in partnership with other organisations.
It looked at data from 210 hospitals across England and Wales, including case notes for 8,000 patients with dementia.
Many people with the condition become very confused when they are admitted to hospital.
But the audit found only half had their mental state assessed, and even fewer were checked for delirium - a state of mental confusion - rates it said were "alarmingly low".
The authors said: "Delirium is associated with greater risks of longer admission, hospital acquired infections, admission to long term care, and death.
"Failure to assess and plan for mental health needs may also prevent appropriate assessment and care for physical health needs."
In addition, a third of hospitals did not have guidance available to staff on how to involve the patient's carer and how to share information.
Flaws were also found with patient notes, which often failed to include information that could have helped staff communicate with them - and with poor discharge information.
At board level, the audit said, hospital trusts failed to do enough to review the quality of care for people with dementia.
Two in five hospitals did not provide dementia awareness training to new staff.
However, since the last audit report in December 2011, some improvements were found.
There has been a 10% drop in the overall number of prescriptions of antipsychotic drugs, and patients are now more likely to receive an assessment of the food they are eating.
Prof Peter Crome, who led the audit's steering group, said he was pleased there had been improvements since the 2011 report.
But he added: "Much still needs to be done and there remains a large gap between what hospitals say should happen and what actually does happen."
Prof John Young, the government's National Clinical Director (or tsar) for Integration and the Frail Elderly, who advised the audit, said: "Hospitals are at last engaging with the special care requirements necessary to support people with dementia and their families."
George McNamara, head of policy and public affairs at the Alzheimer's Society, said: "Given that people with dementia occupy a quarter of hospital beds, it is scandalous that improving dementia care is not a top priority for a number of hospital managers."
He said hospitals must do more to give staff the training they needed to look after patients with dementia better.
Dr Peter Carter, general secretary the Royal College of Nursing, said: "A recent RCN report found that specialist dementia nurses can reduce the length of hospital stays, prevent readmissions and provide education and leadership for other staff.
"We must not deny our most vulnerable patients these improvements in care, and dementia specialist nurses should be a top priority."
Carrington netted from close range following Sean Newton's cross in the third minute of added time.
John Rooney and Hamza Bencherif had gone close to breaking the deadlock for Wrexham before Carrington's late winner.
Defeat was harsh on Moors, who suffered their first National League defeat following promotion.
Wrexham manager Gary Mills told BBC Radio Wales Sport: "The result is massive for all of us because after losing you don't want to lose again.
"You want to bounce back and we've done that. As much as it wasn't for the purists tonight, it's a result.
"I'm delighted for everybody and nice to bounce back after Saturday."
Match ends, Wrexham 1, Solihull Moors 0.
Second Half ends, Wrexham 1, Solihull Moors 0.
Goal! Wrexham 1, Solihull Moors 0. Mark Carrington (Wrexham).
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Omari Sterling-James replaces Akwasi Asante.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Andy Brown replaces Harry White.
Substitution, Wrexham. Callum Powell replaces Gerry McDonagh.
Sean Newton (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Ryan Beswick replaces Jamey Osborne.
Substitution, Wrexham. Michael Bakare replaces Antony Barry.
Second Half begins Wrexham 0, Solihull Moors 0.
First Half ends, Wrexham 0, Solihull Moors 0.
Jamey Osborne (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The police and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau have written to two sites known to share links to pirated copies of music, movies and games.
The letters warn the operators of the sites they are breaking UK laws that carry heavy jail sentences.
If site owners do not contact police by 14 June they face further action, the letters say.
In a statement, the City of London Police, said: "These websites are able to operate and profit from advertising on their sites without having licenses or paying the creators and owners of the films, TV programmes, music and publications.
"Intellectual property crime is a serious offence that is costing the UK economy hundreds of millions of pounds each year."
In addition, said the statement, the action would help protect UK citizens from the malicious software and other harmful programs that could be found on these sites.
The initiative came out of work done with UK advertisers, the Federation Against Copyright Theft, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and the Publishers Association.
The news about the police operation was broken by copyright news site Torrent Freak.
It is not known which sites have received the letters - but both are known to be located and run beyond the UK's borders.
The letters say the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau has become concerned by "websites causing harm to the UK's creative economy" and this has led to an initiative between government and media industry groups to target "criminal activity linked to websites involved in online copyright infringement".
The sites are receiving letters because the NFIB has grounds to suspect their operators are infringing copyright, they say, and if the site owners are found guilty of breaking UK copyright laws they could face long jail sentences.
The letters urge site owners to contact the police to stop further offences being committed, adding if contact is not made before 14 June, the sites could face "police action".
Simon Berkowitz, 68, was given a six-year sentence for breaking into a retired couple's home just 16 days after being given early release.
His crimes include trying to sell stolen documents in 1992 about Paddy Ashdown's affair with his secretary.
Berkowitz, from Hove, denied burglary but admitted five counts of using their bank cards fraudulently.
Judge Francis Gilbert QC told him: "You do not feel the least bit of sympathy for what you have done.
"It is perfectly obvious you have no regrets or remorse whatsoever. Burglary is your chosen way of life.
"You are a persistent burglar. You have an appalling record and it is extremely likely you will continue to offend."
About two weeks after being freed half way through a five-and-a-half-year sentence, Berkowitz travelled to Devon in search of properties to burgle.
He broke in to the home of pensioners John and Ann Searle on Guy Fawkes night last year while they were away on holiday.
Berkowitz was caught on CCTV when he used Mr Searle's stolen bank cards to obtain £1,100 in Sidmouth and Exmouth.
Police arrested him in Sidmouth carrying a rucksack containing a burglary kit consisting of metal levers, gaffer tape, two torches and a piece of wire bent into a hook.
He denied burgling the house in Hillside Road, Sidmouth and told Exeter Crown Court he had no need to steal because he inherited £4,000 from his mother who died during his last jail sentence.
The jury took less than an hour to convict him after hearing his list of previous convictions dating back to 1961.
Known as the Eemian, this time period extended from roughly 129,000 years ago to about 116,000 years before present.
The poles were known to have been a few degrees warmer than they are today.
But by pulling together more than 40 ice core and marine sediment records, researchers, led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), have obtained the most comprehensive assessment yet.
It confirms that the Antarctic emerged from Ice Age conditions first. The Northern Hemisphere followed.
"Interglacial conditions, warm conditions, were in place earlier in the Southern Hemisphere than in the Northern Hemisphere," explained Dr Emilie Capron from BAS.
"Eventually, the Northern Hemisphere catches up and then both poles are warmer than they are today.
"It's something we knew looking at a few records, but now we have more records showing exactly the same pattern," she told BBC News.
The researcher was speaking here in Vienna at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly.
The data synthesis has been completed as part of the UK iGlass programme and the Past4Future project - initiatives that seek clues about what will happen to the Earth's climate in the decades ahead from an understanding of its past behaviour.
Scientists will now use the information to test their computer models.
If their simulations can reproduce the variation in temperatures across the land and ocean surfaces during the Eemian there will be greater confidence in the models as they look forward in time.
This has already been done for one model, "and its simulations are on the right track," confirms Dr Capron.
For her analysis, the BAS researcher combined five ice cores and 39 marine sediment records.
These can be used to infer past temperatures.
Fore example, by studying the ratio of light to heavy molecules of water in the layers of the ice cores, it is possible to gauge the likely precipitation conditions, and therefore the prevailing temperatures, during the ancient snowfalls on Antarctica and Greenland.
And something similar can be done using the mud layers of marine sediments.
These contain the skeletons of microscopic organisms called foraminifera, and the chemistry of their hard parts is heavily influenced by the temperature of the surface waters in which they swam.
"But having the temperatures is not enough," explained Dr Capron.
"If you are going to compare the climate from one place to another, you need a common chronology for all the different records. And this was the great challenge in this study - to try to transfer all the palaeoclimatic records on to just one chronology, because we are working beyond the time where we can use radiocarbon dating."
One way to line up these types of records is to look for distinctive markers such as ash layers from major volcanic eruptions.
A set of marine sediment records that came too late to be included in the study is the newly retrieved cores that were drilled from the Baltic Sea at the end of last year.
Under the International Ocean Discovery Program, scientists took cores from seven locations that trace the history of the Baltic Sea back in time from the present, all the way to, and through, the Eemian.
Preliminary study of these cores reveals extremely fine layers that should throw up fascinating new insights on the climate history of the region.
"The sediments of the Baltic basin provide a link between the continental and marine records," Dr Thomas Andren, the expedition's co-chief scientist, reported here at the EGU meeting.
"The Baltic is complicated because it reflects both the inputs of freshwater precipitation over land and also the inflow of marine water. These new cores will allow us to pull apart these signals, to see the climate history of the Baltic in unprecedented detail."
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The release of Gen Ruben Dario Alzate and the other hostages had been expected a few days ago.
But the rebels cancelled the operation because of heavy military presence in the area where they are being held.
The kidnappings prompted President Juan Manuel Santos to suspend peace talks with the rebels being held in Cuba.
On Tuesday, the Farc released two soldiers - Paulo Cesar Rivera and Jonathan Andres Diaz - it had kidnapped on 9 November in the eastern border region of Arauca.
Gen Alzate was captured on 16 September along with a Cpl Jorge Rodriguez and a lawyer, Gloria Urrego, in Choco province, an isolated jungle region in Colombia's Pacific Coast.
In a statement released in Havana, the rebels say the three hostages will be handed over to a Red Cross team on Sunday.
But they warn that the operation could be cancelled in case of bad weather: "We hope that the weather will be on our side on this humanitarian mission," the Farc statement said.
Handover details: Arturo Wallace, BBC News, Bogota
The left-wing rebel group also called on the government to be inspired by its decision to release its hostages.
"We wish that other prisoners, arrested for political or social reasons, are also able to enjoy their freedom. That would be an easy, humanitarian gesture from the government," the statement says.
The Farc said previously that it kidnapped Gen Alzate because they were unhappy at the continuation of Colombian military activities during peace talks.
They had called for a ceasefire, rejected by the government.
Mr Santos has suspended the peace talks, which began two years ago in Cuba, and said they would only be resumed once Gen Alzate was released.
The negotiations are aimed at ending five decades of a conflict that has killed an estimated 220,000 people.
City ended a run of 422 minutes without a goal when Kyel Reid superbly fired them ahead with a dipping 20-yard volley in the 37th minute.
The hosts took just another four minutes to score again, from Kwame Thomas' clever close-range backheel.
All Vale could muster in response was Nathan Smith's deftly flicked header.
It leaves Vale still in the bottom four, two points behind 20th-placed Shrewsbury, although with two games in hand.
Coventry's first win in seven games leaves them still with a very slim chance of beating the drop, still 14 points adrift of safety but with only another 21 to play for.
And although it might not be long before relegation to League Two is confirmed, it might at least not now happen before City walk out at Wembley on Sunday week.
However, if they lose at home to Bristol Rovers on Saturday, they would be within one defeat of dropping into English football's bottom tier for the first time since 1959.
After a nine-game winless run since the turn of the year, successive home victories had given Vale, still under the caretaker management of Michael Brown, a better chance of avoiding the drop.
But they have only won once away from home this season. And, even against a struggling Coventry side who had not scored in their past four matches, they were cruelly found out.
An hour had gone before Vale had an effort on target, but home keeper Lee Burge saved Ryan Taylor's deflected shot.
By then, City were well in control thanks to their mini first-half goal flurry when, shortly after Reid's flick and volley, they confidently doubled their lead with another good strike.
Thomas got to the rebound first and finished with a stunning backheel after Deniz Mehmet had only parried Stuart Beavon's shot.
Vale rallied late on but all they had to show for it was centre-half Smith's fourth goal of the season from Taylor's neatly floated free-kick.
Match ends, Coventry City 2, Port Vale 1.
Second Half ends, Coventry City 2, Port Vale 1.
Foul by Paulo Tavares (Port Vale).
Ryan Haynes (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Farrend Rawson (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Sam Foley (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Farrend Rawson (Coventry City).
Paulo Tavares (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jodi Jones (Coventry City).
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Callum Reilly.
Attempt blocked. Gael Bigirimana (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Kiko (Port Vale).
Kwame Thomas (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Coventry City. Chris Stokes replaces Kyel Reid.
Chris Eagles (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kyel Reid (Coventry City).
Sam Foley (Port Vale) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kyel Reid (Coventry City).
Substitution, Coventry City. Jodi Jones replaces Stuart Beavon.
Substitution, Port Vale. Paulo Tavares replaces Ben Purkiss.
Sam Foley (Port Vale) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sam Foley (Port Vale).
Stuart Beavon (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Ryan Haynes.
Goal! Coventry City 2, Port Vale 1. Nathan Smith (Port Vale) header from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Ryan Taylor following a set piece situation.
Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Farrend Rawson (Coventry City).
Attempt saved. Farrend Rawson (Coventry City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Remie Streete.
Attempt saved. Callum Reilly (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Ryan Taylor (Port Vale).
Kwame Thomas (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Olamide Shodipo (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ryan Haynes (Coventry City).
Attempt saved. Olamide Shodipo (Port Vale) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Sam Foley (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kwame Thomas (Coventry City).
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Lee Burge.
Attempt saved. Ryan Taylor (Port Vale) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Port Vale. Dan Turner replaces Chris Eagles.
Glasgow-born Wyllie, who died in 2012 at the age of 90, gained international acclaim for his works Straw Locomotive and Paper Boat.
He also created art for sites in Aberdeenshire and Rannoch Moor.
His daughter Louise Wyllie, who lives in the Highlands, and arts journalist Jan Patience will discuss their book on Wyllie at NessBookFest.
The biography, Arrivals and Sailings: The Making of George Wyllie, will be discussed by its joint authors at an event in Inverness Library on Friday.
Born in Shettleston, Wyllie went on to have a close connection to the Scottish Highlands.
During World War Two, his early wartime service involved being part of a squad of engineers who set up radio location centres, many of them in the Highlands, for the RAF to track bombers flying into Britain.
In later life, the artist was a frequent visitor to Boat of Garten, near Inverness, where his daughter Louise has lived for about 15 years.
Wyllie's sculptures have also been installed in the Highlands, including a spire with a bottle of whisky buried underneath on the small island of Gruinard.
The 1990 piece of art marked the Ministry of Defence's declaration that Gruinard was officially anthrax-free. The island was contaminated with anthrax spores in 1942 as an experiment in germ warfare.
Inverness-born filmmaker Murray Grigor recorded the installation of the piece on Gruinard for his award-winning Channel 4 documentary on Wyllie, The Why?s Man.
One of Wyllie's last major works, Cosmic Reach, was installed at The Lecht Ski Centre, in Aberdeenshire, to celebrate the Highland Year of Culture in 2007.
Wyllie's best-known art emerged in the late 1980s.
In 1987, he attracted international attention with his Straw Locomotive, which hung from the Finnieston crane in Glasgow before being burned in nearby Springburn in a Viking-style funeral.
Two years later, his Paper Boat was seen by millions as it sailed around the world from Glasgow to New York and back to Scotland. It made it onto the front page of the Wall Street Journal, when it berthed at the World Financial Centre in New York in 1990.
In the 1980s, he also built a sculpture on Rannoch Moor as a tribute to his friend and mentor, the influential German conceptual artist, Joseph Beuys, after he died.
Robins were a recurring theme of Wyllie's work and he often said he would return to life as one of the little birds. Co-author Patience said she saw many of the birds while she was working on the biography.
Lesley Griffiths and First Minister Carwyn Jones met leading environment and agriculture figures in Cardiff Bay.
Ms Griffiths said her portfolio was "absolutely awash with EU funding, regulations, policies and legislation".
The Welsh Government Monday's meeting was a chance to discuss any concerns people had.
Ms Griffiths said: "My officials will be looking very carefully at what we need to unpick, what we can still use and where we can strengthen the legislation. We can have very Welsh-specific policies going forward."
Welsh Government officials have already begun to talk of a Welsh Agricultural Policy.
Ms Griffiths said the referendum result was a "situation we didn't want to see" and single market access was vital to Wales, with 90% of Welsh food and drink currently exported to the EU.
In terms of farming subsidies and EU funding for rural communities, she said the first minister had made clear to Prime Minister David Cameron he expected "to receive every penny that we would have got from the EU, from the UK government".
Mr Jones said securing the future of grant funding for farmers was "one of the most immediate concerns".
Vote Leave campaigners argued the Welsh and UK governments would design a new payments system for agriculture to replace EU subsidies.
In 2014, £240m was given to Welsh farmers in direct payments alone. Half made a loss, or would have done so that year, without them.
Between 2014 and 2020, £957m is meant to be made available via the Rural Development Programme - a system of grants and loans to support rural communities.
Country Land and Business Association Cymru director Rebecca Williams said the first priority should be "to establish a world-leading agricultural policy" and to ensure the sector played the "appropriate leading role in the critical trade negotiations that lie ahead".
Stephen James, president of NFU Cymru, said it was important politicians and those in the rural affairs sector worked together as the two years available to the UK to plan its exit from the EU would "pass very quickly".
The Duma declared that the Soviet dictator and other Soviet officials had ordered the "Katyn crime" in 1940.
The statement, which comes weeks before a Russian presidential visit to Poland, was welcomed in Warsaw.
In a stormy debate, Communist MPs opposed the declaration, some seeking to deny Soviet guilt.
Soviet propaganda sought for decades to portray the massacre as the work of the Nazis, who overran Katyn after invading the USSR in 1941.
The truth was finally acknowledged in 1990, in the dying days of Soviet power, but the issue has continued to cloud relations between Russia and Poland.
The Duma said it hoped for "the beginning of a new stage in relations" with Poland "based on democratic values". Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is set to visit the country early next month.
Grzegorz Schetyna, Speaker of Poland's Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, described the Duma declaration as a "good step and an important sign".
"President Medvedev's visit will thus take place in a better atmosphere," he was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.
"Published documents, kept in classified archives for many years, not only revealed the scale of this horrific tragedy, but also showed that the Katyn crime was carried out on direct orders of Stalin and other Soviet officials," the Duma declaration says.
"Official Soviet propaganda attributed responsibility for this villainy, which has received the collective name of the Katyn tragedy, to Nazi criminals.
"This theory remained the subject of hidden but nevertheless fierce discussions in Soviet society and unfailingly provoked the wrath, grievance and mistrust of the Polish people."
Russian leaders have publicly expressed regret for the massacre and this year saw the official online publication, by order of Mr Medvedev, of key documents proving the guilt of Stalin and his secret police chief Lavrenty Beria.
Nobody has ever been convicted over the massacre, with Russian prosecutors arguing that those responsible are now dead.
A Russian judicial investigation in 2005 only confirmed the execution of 1,803 victims, while the actual number of Polish prisoners killed at Katyn and other Soviet sites is generally held to be about 22,000, including about 8,000 military officers.
The Duma declaration called for the massacre to be investigated further in order to confirm the list of victims.
The Duma also argued that Katyn was a tragedy for Russia too as thousands of Soviet citizens were executed and buried in ditches there in the years 1936-38, the period of Soviet history known as the Terror.
Russia's Communist Party, which described Katyn last month as "one of the greatest myths of the 20th Century", voted against the declaration.
One of its MPs, Viktor Ilyukhin, told parliament the declaration was "degrading".
"It is alarming that for several decades, Russians have been forced to kneel and made to apologise for everything, even for things they did not commit, like apologising for the Katyn tragedy, which was not our fault," the Communist MP said.
But Konstantin Kosachev, head of the Duma's foreign affairs committee, said MPs had a duty to "remove this lie from our path".
"We want to close this issue, paying tribute to the victims of Katyn and condemning those who committed the evil deed," he said.
My great grandfather was killed in Katyn. He was one of the high rank Polish officers. His daughter, my grandmother, was left an orphan since her mother died during labour. She was sent to Siberia for several years and was dragged from one orphanage to another. Even though I welcome Russian acknowledgement of the Katyn massacre, after so many years of denial, my grandma cannot forgive them. My generation has forgotten the war as we have never known it. However, our grandparents have lived through it and only now do they get apology for their loss. For them it's simply too little too late. Karolina
Although no members of my family were killed in Katyn or other sites of this Soviet massacre (on the contrary, my grandfather was executed by the Gestapo), I think today's declaration of the Duma and the oncoming visit of president Dmitry Medvedev are crucial steps in the right direction. They will improve the relations between our two countries and help strengthen European integration. Everything takes time in this world, especially changing people's mindsets. In my student's years I happened to be in the Soviet Union a few times. Talking to Russian students I found them very nice, open and hospitable people, I could not believe that they really meant what they were saying about history and world politics. Revision of our political thinking is not an overnight matter. Michal Siuda, Poznan, Poland
My wife is Polish This means a great deal. Sometimes terrible things happen. It's helpful to acknowledge they were terrible and apologise, it really does help people move on. The British government recently apologised for Bloody Sunday (as indeed it should have done) and it helped. People aren't stupid and eventually the truth will come out. For me it signals that Russia is at last starting to be honest with itself and the world and that is a very good thing. Russia should be a friend - I hope they complete the journey. Ian, Leicester, UK
My father was not killed in Katyn, but suffered greatly because of it. He came to Canada and still lived a life of paranoia until his death in 1989. He was a part of the Polish resistance and aided in getting allied soldiers and pilots out of Poland. He was never feted for his accomplishments, as other allies were, and felt severely betrayed when Poland was "handed" over to the USSR. Mike Krawczynski, Toronto Canada
That is good news. I am really not sure that Russia is guilty. But it is our duty to be honest and have an open mind. The other step would be good if we gave some regret towards Polish people. No regret can put a shame on us. Ilya Laykin, Belgorod, Russia
I don't think the Duma decision is wise. In fact, if Stalin was not there to make Russia a superpower, the Duma would have been under the control of other countries. I am not defending what he did at Katyn, if he really did it. Georgian person
My uncle's father was killed in Katyn as he was a policeman in the Soviet-occupied eastern Poland. My uncle had to hide this fact in his personal files as he would not get a job in communist Poland, nor would he be accepted into university. I have known from my childhood who killed our best people, our elite - so although school history books told otherwise, we knew the truth. There was just no way we could believe the communists. Krzysztof Muchorowski, Warsaw, Poland
The truth prevails at last. That Russian communists should still refute the Katyn massacre is of no surprise to me. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was a vicious agreement between two barbaric states to crush Poland as a country and to annihilate Poles. Both Soviets and Nazis did this with great zeal. Members of my family were murdered in both Auschwitz and Katyn. If the Russian Duma has after so many years decided to make truth prevail, it is only to their honour. Will this declaration help relations between Russia and Poland? I suppose it must; it should also reveal the truth of the numerous massacres to the Russian people themselves, who had to suffer so much be it under Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev or Brezhnev. Ian Grocholski, Versailles, France
Artist Spencer Tunick photographed 3,200 people at sites around the city on 9 July for the Sea of Hull project.
The images will go on show at the Ferens Art Gallery, in Hull, as part of a new exhibition called SKIN.
The Sea of Hull was commissioned by the gallery to mark Hull's 2017 UK City of Culture status.
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Participants in the project will be invited to a special preview event attended by Tunick at 18:15 BST before the exhibition opens to the public on Saturday.
Speaking in 2016, Tunick said: "The Sea of Hull installation was one of the most fantastic projects I've ever done, and it was inspiring to be able to intertwine the city's maritime heritage against an urban backdrop throughout the whole piece."
The exhibition will include three of Tunick's photographs that have been bought by the gallery, while the Friends of Ferens Gallery are set to launch a crowd funding bid to buy a fourth.
Hull City Councillor Terry Geraghty said: "This bold and ambitious exhibition is one of the gallery's major highlights for 2017, in addition to the esteemed Turner Prize later this year."
Other artworks going on show at the gallery include works by Lucian Freud and sculptor Ron Mueck.
A preparatory study for Edouard Manet's controversial Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe will also feature in the exhibition, which runs from 22 April to 13 August.
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But as news spread, the crowds grew - and by Thursday evening up to 50 people were gathered near the scene of the cordoned-off tragedy.
The five who died have not yet been officially named, but they are thought to be Spanish nationals, of Gambian origin, who moved to Birmingham to work.
"Everybody is sad," Ansumana Barrow, 63, president of the Gambian Association in Birmingham, said.
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"We are hard working. They (the men who died) are feeding their families, that's why they are here. Unfortunately, this thing happens."
Mr Barrow was speaking just yards from the gates of Hawkeswood Metal, set in an area of modest terraced houses, manufacturing sites, a working men's club and the busy A47.
His main concern, he said, was to look after the men's families.
"We'll see how best we can help - with counselling or financially. It depends on what they need."
The association was formed in 1999.
Its project manager, Ousman Njie, 43, said most Gambians in the area are recruited from employment agencies.
"If we see people who come over, we know we can refer them to an agency and it is up to the agency if they are eligible for work," he said.
"We help people integrate into society. One of the men came to our classes, we were helping him to learn English."
Lang Dampha, 48, said two of the men lodged with him in Aston.
One of them had only been with him for a week and his family was due to arrive soon.
Other people talked about how happy everyone had been on Wednesday as the tight-knit community, many of whom know each other through attending the various mosques in the area, celebrated the Muslim festival of Eid.
Dantra Sillah said: "We were very happy yesterday. It is very sad."
And Abdulli Caeh, 39, said: "They were very good people, hard working. It is a bad shock.
"They are Muslims, we are Muslims.
"After Eid we went out to Victoria Park by the Dudley Road Mosque."
People were gathering to show their feelings, he said, "that is why they have come".
The Swiss team said in a statement on Thursday before this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix that the deal had been "cancelled".
The move follows the appointment of new team principal Frederic Vasseur, who replaces Monisha Kaltenborn after her departure in June.
Vasseur said the decision was "made for strategic reasons, with the best intent for Sauber's future in mind".
Honda makes the least competitive engine in F1 this year and has struggled with reliability and performance since returning to the sport with McLaren in 2015.
Honda's future with McLaren is also in doubt, with the team considering ending its long-term works partnership at the end of this season.
McLaren had been hoping for a move to Mercedes customer engines but in recent days it has emerged that Renault is also a serious contender.
If McLaren and Honda split, the Japanese company could potentially stay in F1 with the Toro Rosso team.
Sauber said it would announced a new engine partner "shortly".
Both Mercedes and Ferrari are possibilities.
Sauber is this year running Mercedes young driver Pascal Wehrlein in one of its cars and Vasseur is close friends with Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff.
However, Ferrari could well be the more likely option.
Sauber are already running year-old Ferrari customer engines, and have been in a partnership with the Italian team since 2010.
Insiders say that Ferrari development driver Charles Leclerc, who is dominating the Formula 2 championship this year, is close to doing a deal to race for Sauber in 2018.
Using Ferrari engines could be part of that deal and sources say Vasseur is pushing to make that happen, in partnership with Leclerc's manager Nicolas Todt, who is Vasseur's long-time partner in the ART company that runs teams in junior categories.
Jack O'Neil, 19, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob at Hull Crown Court earlier. He had initially denied the charge and changed his plea before a trial was due to start.
Watches worth about £200,000 were stolen in the raid on Guest and Philips Jewellers in Beverley in August 2013.
Kevin Smith, 22, has pleaded guilty. The pair will be sentenced on 21 July.
O'Neil, of Haigh Gardens, Leeds, and Smith, of Thorne Road, Stainforth, South Yorkshire, are due to be sentenced at Hull Crown Court.
Senior Investigating Officer Mathew Hutchinson, from Humberside Police, said: "The offence took place at a busy time of day in view of numerous people who were out and about performing their normal everyday activities and to witness the scenes at the jewellery store that day will have been quite alarming.
"Similarly, the staff at the shop were faced with a very frightening situation and it is hard to imagine the terror they experienced throughout the ordeal."
Russian-born Arsen Pavlov, nicknamed "Motorola", was killed by a bomb blast in the lift of his apartment block in the city of Donetsk on Sunday.
The rebels accused Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko of declaring war.
A video appeared online purportedly from a Ukrainian neo-Nazi group claiming it had killed Motorola.
But the claim from the mysterious "Misanthropic Division" has to be treated with great caution, the BBC's Tom Burridge in Kiev says. Propaganda, often vicious and cynical, is a feature of the conflict, he says.
Little is known about the "division". The clip was tweeted by Alexander Kots, a Russian war correspondent, and showed four masked men with guns.
The division's leader says his group had nothing to do with the video.
Motorola commanded a rebel battalion called Sparta, which took part in major offensives against Ukrainian government forces at Donetsk airport and Ilovaisk.
Ukraine accused him of war crimes.
Born in Komi, northern Russia, in 1983, Motorola called himself a "volunteer", the term used by the Kremlin for all Russians fighting in rebel ranks. Many of the rebel commanders are Russian citizens.
Last month President Poroshenko said Motorola had shot and killed a Ukrainian prisoner-of-war, Ihor Branovytsky, and said "the monster will answer" for that crime, the daily Ukrainskaya Pravda reported (in Russian).
In April last year Motorola told the Kiev Post that he had shot dead 15 Ukrainian soldiers captured by the rebels.
Commenting on the assassination, Donetsk rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko said: "As I understand it, Petro Poroshenko has violated the ceasefire and declared war on us."
He described the killing as "terrorism".
Russia backs the rebels, who run a self-declared "Donetsk People's Republic" (DNR).
Rebel commander was Russian veteran - by Tom Burridge in Kiev:
The video posted online must be treated with great care.
It is striking that the men make a Nazi salute. But little is known about the group mentioned and there are already reports that the video is a fake.
There are some far-right groups in Ukraine and far-right battalions in the army enjoyed some success early on in the war.
However, Russian propaganda has overblown their importance and, in an almost farcical way, has portrayed the conflict in the east as a struggle against fascism.
In reality, far-right political parties enjoy minimal support in Ukraine.
Pavlov was born in Russia, previously served in the Russian military in Chechnya, and rose to prominence in the DNR militia during key battles in eastern Ukraine.
Many Ukrainians have reason to want him dead.
In a chilling taped phone call last year, Pavlov admitted killing Ukrainian prisoners-of-war.
Eastern Ukraine's unrecognised separatist republics are international pariahs and therefore economically dependent on Russia.
And Russian money, Russian culture and propaganda shape the discourse in these two isolated, war-torn regions.
According to some reports, an ethnic Abkhaz commander in the rebel ranks had fallen out with Motorola and may have been motivated to have him killed.
The continuing use of heavy weapons along the front line in eastern Ukraine is undermining the fragile ceasefire.
Ukraine, Western leaders and Nato say there is clear evidence that Russia has supplied the rebels with heavy weapons and regular troops. Russia denies that, but it is hostile to the Kiev government and openly supports the rebel cause.
In the video, the "Misanthropic Division" warned that it would next target Mr Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky, the rebel leader in the neighbouring Luhansk region.
This is up from about £35m for the same period last year.
The bank said a number of factors were behind the rise, including an increase in business lending and an improvement in the housing market.
Danske Bank UK CEO Gerry Mallon said: "We can confidently say Northern Ireland continues to experience economic growth."
He added: "It is clear that businesses are starting to look at new plans for the future, while Danske Bank's own survey forecasts that overall local economic growth should reach 2% in 2015 and 2.3% in 2016."
From next year, Danske Bank in Northern Ireland will become a standalone business unit as part of the wider Danske Group.
The Copenhagen-headquartered banking group said a review of its business had "concluded that synergies between the Northern Irish market and the Nordic markets are limited".
"We are confident that the change will better enable us to create value for our customers in Northern Ireland, to develop our market position and to improve profitability," it said.
Egg theft had become such a problem on remote islands off Poole Harbour that police patrols were put in to protect the seabirds this year.
Charity, Birds of Poole Harbour, said a survey carried out on Tuesday revealed "zero evidence" of thefts by poachers.
Just over 2,500 out of 9,000 nests were left following egg thefts last year.
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Paul Morton, who runs the charity, said the colony was back up to nearly 6,000 nests.
He said: "We're thrilled. We saw our first chicks too which means that the eggs are now beyond the picking stage."
The eggs from black-headed and Mediterranean gulls - considered a delicacy - are stolen in April and May for their exclusivity and high price tag, and are often used in top restaurants.
The charity said it planned to continue to monitor the seabirds year on year and hoped to see the colony "recover and grow".
There were around 20 "pickers" operating under licenses issued by Natural England, which allows black-headed gull eggs to be collected legally at five sites in England.
No one is licensed to collect the eggs in Dorset.
Pilkington impressed for the Bluebirds before being injured in the second half, replaced by Aron Gunnarsson.
The 27-year-old left Turf Moor on crutches and Cardiff manager Russell Slade said he would be assessed when the play-off hopefuls return to Wales.
"He's in a brace so we're taking all precautions," Slade said.
"We just hope it's not too serious because he's done very well since we've converted him up there.
"I thought he was a threat all night for the two Burnley centre-backs."
Cardiff are now four points behind the Championship play-off places in seventh position after the 0-0 draw at Burnley.
Slade said his side fully deserved the point against the Championship leaders, who stretched their unbeaten run to 17 games but saw their lead at the top cut to a point.
Cardiff substitute Kenneth Zahore hit the crossbar with three minutes remaining before Bluebirds keeper David Marshall denied Sam Vokes and Ashley Barnes in injury time.
"Burnley could have stolen it in the dying seconds but on the balance of play that would have been cruel on us," Slade said.
"I thought we created some really good opportunities and probably the best chance came five minutes before those saves Marshall made.
"Zahore came on and had a wonderful chance to nick us a goal.
"The way the game was panning out I didn't think it would end 0-0. Both teams were trying to win a football match.
"There were opportunities at both ends. It was a very competitive Championship game."
The Romanians, beaten 42-3 at home by Quins last week, had Randall Morrison sent off in only the second minute for a high tackle on Marland Yarde.
Wales centre Jamie Roberts scored a hat-trick, while England duo Yarde and Mike Brown crossed twice.
Luke Wallace, Tim Visser, Jack Clifford and Tim Swiel also touched down, while Quins had Mat Luamanu sent off late on.
Ruardidh Jackson and Swiel each added five conversions as Quins notched up their record European win, with Gabriel Conache slotting over the visitors' only points from the tee.
The victory moves Quins, beaten Challenge Cup finalists last season, two points clear of Edinburgh at the top of the pool with three wins from four games.
Harlequins have now also won 12 successive home games in the competition in a run stretching back to 2006-07, while Conache's penalty was the first points Timisoara Saracens have scored away from home in this season's competition.
Harlequins: Mike Brown; Marland Yarde, Joe Marchant, Jamie Roberts, Tim Visser; Ruaridh Jackson, Danny Care (capt); Joe Marler, Rob Buchanan, Kyle Sinckler, George Merrick, Charlie Matthews, James Chisholm, Luke Wallace, Jack Clifford.
Replacements: Dave Ward, Owen Evans, Adam Jones, Stan South, Mat Luamanu, Karl Dickson, Tim Swiel, Alofa Alofa.
Sent off: Luamanu (76)
Timisoara Saracens: Stephen Shennan; Madalin Lemnaru, Brian Sefanaia, Paula Kinikinilau, Fonovai Tangimana; Jack Umaga, Gabriel Conache; Edmund Aholelei, Andrei Radoi, Horatiu Pungea, Valentin Popirlan, Marian Drenceanu, Randall Morrison, Dorin Lazar, Gabriel Ianus.
Replacements: Eugen Capatana, Gigi Militaru, Samuel Maris, Ionut Muresan, Victor Dumitru, Marius Simionescu, Florin Popa, Marian Gorcioaia.
Sent off: Morrison (2)
Referee: Thomas Charabas (France).
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Uhuru Kenyatta appealed for international aid and said the government would increase food handouts to the most needy communities.
Kenya's Red Cross says 2.7 million people face starvation if more help is not provided.
Other countries in the region have also been hit by the drought, blamed on last year's El Nino weather phenomenon.
In Somalia, nearly half the population is suffering from food shortages and the UN says there is a risk of famine in several parts of the country.
During the last drought on this scale in 2011, famine killed about 250,000 Somalis.
In a statement, Mr Kenyatta said the government had allocated $105m (£84m) to tackle the drought which has affected people, livestock and wildlife in 23 of Kenya's 47 counties.
"Support from our partners would complement government's efforts in mitigating the effects of drought," he said.
Mr Kenyatta added that all purchases of food and other items would be made in a transparent way.
"I will not tolerate anybody who would try to take advantage of this situation to defraud public funds," the president said.
Ellis and Taylor Welburn were born at 05:20 BST in Barnsley Hospital after mum, Rachel Carr, was moved from Hull.
The boys were named after Gareth Ellis, captain of Hull FC, and fellow forward Scott Taylor.
The twin's father, Lee Wellburn, 31, from Hull, said he was delighted the boys had arrived to allow him to attend Saturday's cup final.
Hull FC and Warrington Wolves are to meet in the Challenge Cup final at Wembley Stadium.
Mr Welburn said mother and babies were doing well and hoped to go home to Hull on Tuesday. The twins were born two weeks prematurely.
Mr Welburn said the couple had had difficulty finding names for the babies during the pregnancy until they struck on the idea of Hull FC players.
A life-long Hull FC fan, he admitted some of the players' names had "worked less well" but the choices of Ellis and Taylor "just seemed to work", he said.
Mr Welburn said the birth of the twins had made him even more confident of the outcome of the game in London.
"I've got two good luck charms now", he added.
Keirra Beaty, 20, lost control while racing another car on Sunday night, hitting a telephone pole on the side of a Dallas motorway.
Her 13-month-old son, who was not in a baby's car seat, was on a passenger's lap in the back, police said.
Ms Beaty and the passenger were taken to hospital for minor injuries.
The young boy was not hurt, and is currently with his father.
Ms Beaty has been charged with child endangerment.
Gan fod nifer o feysydd wedi eu datganoli i Lywodraeth Cymru, doedd nifer fawr o agweddau'r gyllideb ddim yn berthnasol i Gymru, ond fe gyhoeddodd y Canghellor y byddai Llywodraeth Cymru'n derbyn £200m yn ychwanegol dros bedair blynedd.
Bydd Llywodraeth yr Alban yn derbyn £350m yn ychwanegol ac fe fydd bron i £120m yn cael ei glustnodi i Lywodraeth Gogledd Iwerddon. Ychwanegodd wrth gyhoeddi'r newyddion fod y DU "yn gryfach gyda'n gilydd".
Mewn ymateb i'r cyhoeddiad, dywedodd Ysgrifennydd Cyllid Llywodraeth Cymru Mark Drakeford ar Twitter: "Dal dim eglurder ar doriadau gwariant o £3.5bn y DU sydd uwch ein pennau - gallai chwalu £175m o gyllideb Cymru."
Dywedodd yr Aelod Seneddol Llafur, Jo Stevens, sydd yn gyn lefarydd y blaid ar Gymru: "Felly mae'r Ysgrifennydd Cymru anweladwy wedi llwyddo i wasgu dim ond £50m y flwyddyn allan o'r Canghellor."
Wrth ymateb i gyhoeddiad y Canghellor, dywedodd Ysgrifennydd Cymru Alun Cairns fod y gyllideb yn "un oedd yn gweithio i bawb".
"Mae pobl Cymru'n manteisio o'r sefydlogrwydd o gael economi gref y DU tra bod y cynnydd o £200m mewn arian i Lywodraeth Cymru'n rhoi'r rhyddid i Lywodraeth Cymru i fuddsoddi yn eu blaenoriaethau", meddai.
Ar ran Plaid Cymru dywedodd Jonathan Edwards AS ei fod yn siomedig nad oedd digon o bwyslais ar fuddsoddi ar gyfer yr economi, ac fe hawliodd ei fod wedi syfrdanu nad oedd Mr Hammond wedi son am y newidiadau strwythurol sydd yn wynebu'r economi oherwydd Brexit.
Mewn ymateb i'r £200m ychwanegol i Lywodraeth Cymru, dywedodd Mr Edwards fod llawer mwy'n cael ei wario ar atgyweirio adeiladau Palas Buckingham a San Steffan.
Dywedodd Mark Williams AS, arweinydd y Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymreig: "Tra bo'r arian ychwanegol i Gymru i'w groesawu, nid yw'n ddigon.
"Bydd cynllun Theresa May i gymryd Cymru a'r DU allan o farchnad sengl yn gwneud difrod mawr i'r economi. Beth sy'n glir yw fedrwn ni ddim cael economi gref a Brexit caled."
Dywedodd Neil Hamilton AC ar ran grŵp UKIP yn y Cynulliad: "Heddiw roeddem angen cyllideb swyddi. Yn hytrach fe gawsom ryfel ar swyddi.
"Roeddem angen cynllun synhwyrol a chredadwy i gydnabod gwerth busnes i'r economi. Ond fe wnaeth Phillip Hammond benderfynu ymosod ar yr hunan gyflogedig drwy gynyddu cyfraniadau Yswiriant Cenedlaethol."
Ychwanegodd y dylai'r Canghellor gwtogi ar gyllideb £12bn cymorth tramor, ond roedd Mr Hammond yn "dyrnu'r bobl hynny sydd yng nghanol ein twf economaidd".
"Wrth gwrs rydym yn croesawu setliad tecach i Gymru ond yn galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru i sicrhau fod yr £200m ychwanegol yn mynd at greu isadeiledd o safon ryngwladol a chwtogi'r pwysau ar ein gwasanaethau cyhoeddus ac nid gwario ar ehangu'r Cynulliad Cenedlaethol a biwrocratiaeth Llywodraeth Cymru."
Cyn y cyhoeddiad roedd y Trysorlys wedi dweud y byddai'r gyllideb yn un fyddai'n paratoi Prydain ar gyfer "pennod newydd" yn dilyn canlyniad pleidlais Brexit i adael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd.
Dywedodd Mr Hammond y byddai'r gyllideb - yr olaf i gael ei chyhoeddi yn y gwanwyn - yn un fyddai'n paratoi Prydain ar gyfer "dyfodol disglair".
Wrth ymateb i fanylion y gyllideb, dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Cymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru y bydd y bobl mwyaf bregus yn "parhau i wynebu dyfodol ansicr."
Dywedodd y Cynghorydd Aaron Shotton o gyngor Sir y Fflint, llefarydd y gymdeithas ar gyllid ac adnoddau:
"Gall cyhoeddiad heddiw fod wedi mynd llawer yn bellach i wrthdroi llymder a'i effeithiau ar yr economi a gwasanaethau cyhoeddus yng Nghymru.
"Rydym wedi cydweithio yn dda gyda Llywodraeth Cymru i sicrhau nad yw'r argyfwng gofal cymdeithasol yn Lloegr yn cael ei ailadrodd yma. Fodd bynnag, mae gwasanaethau rwan yn gwegian a dim ond dwy flynedd i ffwrdd ydyn ni o wynebu argyfwng tebyg.
"Dylai unrhyw gyllid ychwanegol sydd yn cael ei wneud ar gael i gynghorau yn Lloegr gael ei adlewyrchu i gynghorau yma hefyd. Byddai hyn yn sicrhau nad yw gofal cymdeithasol yng Nghymru yn dilyn yr un trywydd enbyd. Beth sydd ei wir angen arnom ni yw ateb hir-dymor i'r problemau sy'n cael eu achosi gan boblogaeth sydd yn heneiddio gyda chyflyrau cronig."
Doedd na ddim cyhoeddiadau annisgwyl am drethi ar gan fod llawer o'r cyhoeddiadau wedi eu gwneud yn barod. Bydd paced o 20 o sigarets yn cynyddu 35c o 18:00 nos Fercher, ac fe fydd peint o gwrw'n costio dwy geiniog yn fwy o nos Lun. Bydd potel o wisig'n cynyddu 36c, gyda chynnydd o 34c ar jin, ceiniog o gynydd ar seidr a 10c ar botel o win.
Ymysg cyhoeddiadau eraill y Canghellor, dywedodd ei fod yn cyflwyno lleiafswm treth ar sigarets yn seiliedig ar becyn gwerth £7.35, ac ni fyddai unrhyw gynnydd mewn cynlluniau blaenorol ar drethi ar sigarets ac alcohol.
Bydd taliadau Yswiriant Cenedlaethol yr hunan gyflogedig hefyd yn cynyddu, ac mae disgwyl y bydd y rhagolygon benthyca yn gostwng i £51.7bn yn 2016.
Esboniodd Mr Hammond fod y Swyddfa Cyfrifoldeb Cyllidebol yn rhagweld twf i'r economi o 2% yn 2017/18, yn hytrach na'r 1.4% oedd wedi ei amcangyfrif yn wreiddiol. Byddai'r twf yma'n gostwng i 1.6% yn y flwyddyn ganlynol ac yna chynyddu ychydig y flwyddyn wedyn i 1.7%.
Ychwanegodd fod disgwyl i chwyddiant gyrraedd 2.4% eleni, yn ôl y Swyddfa Cyfrifoldeb Cyllidebol. Bydd hyn yn gostwng i 2.3% yn 2018 a 2% yn 2019 meddai. Byddai hyn yn cadw chwyddiant ar yr un lefel neu'n uwch na tharged Banc Lloegr o 2% am dair blynedd.
Dywedodd y Canghellor fod y rhagolygon economaidd yn parhau heb newid, ac fe gyhoeddodd nifer o fesurau i geisio lleddfu ofnau busnesau bychain yn Lloegr yn dilyn cynnydd sylweddol yn eu cyfraddau busnes, wedi'r adbrisiad diweddar.
Esboniodd na fyddai unrhyw fusnes sydd yn colli cymorth trethi busnes yn dilyn yr adbrisiad yn gweld cynnydd o fwy na £50 y mis yn eu biliau'r flwyddyn nesaf, ac fe fyddai 90% o dafarndai Lloegr yn cael disgownt o £1000 ar eu biliau cyfradd busnes.
Roedd disgwyl iddo gyhoeddi arian ychwanegol i ddelio gyda phroblemau gofal cymdeithasol yn Lloegr hefyd ac fe wnaeth hynny drwy gyhoeddi £2bn dros gyfnod o dair blynedd, gyda'r biliwn cyntaf yn dod yn 2017/18.
Cyhoeddodd fod gan Brydain ddyled o bron i £1.7tn a "phob blwyddyn rydym yn gwario £50bn mewn llogau ar y ddyled". Ychwanegodd mai'r unig gam cyfrifol i'w gymryd oedd i barhau gyda chynllun economaidd y llywodraeth.
"Ni wnawn osod baich ar ein plant gyda dyledion cynyddol", meddai.
Dywedodd Mr Hammond fod y Trysorlys yn bwriadu dilyn camau er mwyn mynd i'r afael ag achosion lle'r oedd unigolion yn ceisio osgoi talu treth.
Bydd y mesurau'n cynnwys taclo camddefnydd o gynlluniau pensiwn tramor, cyflwyno taliadau Treth Ar Werth Prydeinig ar wasanaethau telegyfathrebu, a chyflwyno cosbau newydd i unigolion sydd yn osgoi talu treth ond yna'n colli achosion sydd wedi eu cymryd yn eu herbyn gan Gyllid a Thollau Ei Mawrhyd.
Byddai hyn yn codi £830m meddai.
Er ei fod wedi cyhoeddi'r bwriad i wario £23bn yn yr Hydref ar wyddoniaeth a thechnoleg, fe roddodd ychydig mwy o gig ar yr asgwrn ddydd Mercher.
Dyweodd y byddai hyn yn galluogi'r DU i gystadlu ym maes arloesedd a gwyddoniaeth. Byddai'r arian yn cynnyws £300m am dalent ymchwil - yn cynnwys 1000 o leoliadau PhD, £270m ar gyfer robotiaid, biotechnoleg a cheir di-yrrwr, £16m ar gyfer hwb 5G technoleg symudol a £200m ar gyfer band eang hynod gyflym.
The claim: The UK can make itself energy self-sufficient in renewables.
Reality Check verdict: This is not the policy in the Liberal Democrat manifesto, which pledges to get 60% of electricity from renewables by 2030. Being self-sufficient and having all energy coming from renewables would require considerable development of storage technology to avoid having to use non-renewable sources or energy bought from overseas as back-up sources.
It came after he had said: "If it is simply for hair shirt, muesli-eating, Guardian readers to solve climate change... we're all stuffed."
Becoming energy self-sufficient in renewables is not current Liberal Democrat policy, although Mr Farron described it in a speech in February as being a "patriotic endeavour".
The manifesto says the party would: "Expand renewable energy, aiming to generate 60% of electricity from renewables by 2030."
A party spokeswoman described the leader's statement in the debate as "visionary as opposed to completely literal".
The problem with being entirely self-sufficient is that many renewable sources of energy cannot generate power all of the time (the notable exception being the burning of biomass), so if you are using a very high proportion of renewables you rely on interconnectedness (buying electricity from another country where the wind is blowing), storage (batteries in the short-term, some sort of gas storage in the longer term) or a back-up system using gas-fired power stations or nuclear energy.
The Liberal Democrat manifesto talks about investing in interconnectors, which would be unnecessary if the country was to become self-sufficient.
There are already private plans in place to increase the amount of electricity that may be bought from France via interconnectors.
It may be that when he said self-sufficient he meant that we should not have a trade deficit in energy, so it would be OK to buy energy from other countries when we needed it as long as we sold the same amount to other countries when they needed it.
While there have been suggestions that marine energy could make the UK a net exporter of electricity, being self-sufficient and generating 100% of energy from renewables is considerably more challenging than, for example, 90%, mainly because of the challenges of storage.
The development of a smart grid, which co-ordinates renewable energy supplies depending on demand, may also be needed for a 100% renewable system.
Also, while the Liberal Democrat manifesto targets 60% of electricity, Mr Farron was talking about all energy, which means, for example, that all cars have to run on renewable energy and all buildings have to be heated by it.
So in 2016, the UK generated 24.4% of its electricity from renewables, but in 2015 (the latest year available) it was only producing 8.8% of energy from renewables.
The UK has an obligation under European Union rules to derive 30% of electricity from renewables by 2020, which it is on the way to achieving (although the UK is currently scheduled to have left the EU by then). But the other two parts of the targets are 12% of heat and 10% of transport to be powered by renewables, which we are less likely to achieve.
The Labour manifesto pledges to get 60% of energy from zero-carbon or renewable sources by 2030.
The Conservative manifesto looks at it in a different way, saying that "energy policy should be focused on outcomes rather than the means by which we reach our objectives".
So they say that the focus will not be on how the energy is generated but on achieving, "reliable and affordable energy, seizing the industrial opportunity that new technology presents and meeting our global commitments on climate change".
The Green Party would have a target of near-100% renewable electricity generation by 2030 with significant investment in electric vehicles and lower-carbon sources of heating.
It supports self-sufficiency and a decentralised system of communities owning their own generation systems, but would also invest in interconnectors to allow for co-operation with other countries.
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The poster, headed "searching for you" is on display at Stafford station.
If the tall man who was wearing a grey suit recognises himself, he is urged to contact staff at the counter.
A Virgin Trains spokesman said the love-struck woman had contacted them to help find the man she saw on 6 August.
A hopeless romantic is looking for the man she exchanged lots of smiles and eye contact with here on Thursday 6th August between 5:50-7pm.
Was it you? Tall, silver/grey hair, wearing a grey suit, black shoes and with a black wheeled case.
If so you will recognise the lady in question... slim, blonde hair, luggage, black leather jacket, black boots, 44yrs old.
Her train arrived at platform 1 at 6:56pm and you went over to watch her board. She was too shy to speak but would really like to get in touch.
If this was you & you would like to make contact, please see a member of ticket office staff.
The Virgin Trains spokesman said: "Being the soppy, romantic souls we are we're hoping this brief encounter will lead to a fairytale ending.
"So if the mystery man is out there please do get in touch."
The notice, a picture of which has been posted on Facebook by BBC Radio Stoke, has attracted comments including "hope all goes well", "I hope she finds him", "he could be married but good luck" and "he was just perving. You won't be the only one".
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So many athletes in the Paralympics have come through an incredible amount of adversity to achieve some very special goals but there was something about Zanardi, an ex-Formula 1 driver who lost his legs in a Champ Car crash 11 years ago, that really hit home.
It just goes to show how life is a journey for all of us and you have to have so much admiration for Zanardi after the one he has been on
First of all, he is a very infectious character. Even before the accident, no-one had a bad word to say about him. He has a way with words, a charm and vitality, that makes him very appealing.
He went through so much after the accident and even to get back to some kind of normal life was an achievement after that.
But he did so much more than that. He got back into motor racing in a touring car with hand controls and won three world championship races. And then he changed his focus to something completely different.
When he was racing at Brands Hatch in single-seaters or touring cars, who would ever have thought he would go back there at the age of 45 and win a gold medal, let alone two?
It just goes to show how life is a journey for all of us and you have to have so much admiration for Zanardi after the one he has been on.
It's easy to be touched by his story and he is incredibly modest about what he has done.
But none of us can appreciate just how much he has had to put into that lifestyle change or have any grasp how hard those moments on his own have been when he was tested to the absolute limit.
I don't know the ratio at the Paralympics between people who were born with a disability and those who were affected later in life - and I'm certainly no expert as to which is harder to overcome.
But I guess what makes the Zanardi story so appealing is that he had an incredible skill-set in one area, had it taken away from him, found a way to employ it again in different circumstances - and then switched to something else as well.
He wants to get out of bed in the morning with a purpose. That, after all, is the key for all of us in life; to feel that we are testing ourselves and achieving goals.
There was a nasty accident at the start of the Belgian Grand Prix at the beginning of the month and it has brought the subject of driver safety in Formula 1 to the fore again.
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was lucky in that crash - Romain Grosjean's out-of-control Lotus flew across the front of his car and didn't miss Fernando's head by that much.
The FIA has been doing some research on driver head protection and at the moment it looks like some form of forward protection, probably a kind of roll-bar, is going to be introduced in the not-too-distant future.
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Head protection is a controversial subject and, unusually for me, I'm still on the fence on it.
Open-wheel, open-cockpit racing is what most racing drivers want to do - it requires incredible precision and they are the best racing cars in the world.
You don't want to lose that, so we have to get this decision right. It's a big step for the sport.
People are saying things like 'it's going to be ugly'. But you have to park that stuff. The tricky thing is to decide what exactly you are protecting against.
The Grosjean incident, and a similar one involving David Coulthard and Alexander Wurz in Australia in 2007, happened because of cars climbing over each other and being launched into the air.
That also happened to me when I flipped in Valencia in 2010.
So should you shut off that option somehow by enclosing the wheels but leave the cockpit open? Or leave the wheels open and create more cockpit protection?
Personally, I feel stopping cars launching is a bigger priority, if only because I think that happens more often. Cockpit intrusion is rarer, but it still has to be taken seriously.
In both cases, we have been lucky and we all know that luck will run out one day.
The drivers have to take some responsibility, too. In the last 10 years, the level of aggressiveness has ramped up a bit just because guys know that usually they'll be able to walk away from a crash.
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But you can be aggressive and safe or aggressive and unsafe. I've always said F1 is not a finishing school when it comes to racing.
Most of the youngsters who have come in have gone pretty well. This year, Pastor Maldonado and Grosjean have both had a few incidents.
If Grosjean's crash in Belgium had happened in open racing, it would have been fine. But there were lots of cars around, the track is narrow there and very quickly it became a nasty accident.
The nature of F1 has changed with the Pirelli tyres and DRS - overtaking is easier now - so you don't have to be so desperate at the start. That is why it is a surprise to see some of the things that are happening on the first lap.
You do need to get involved but some guys are having more incidents than the others and they need to take that on board.
We should be the best at what we do, racing in all conditions on all kinds of tracks, and driver etiquette has to match that.
The Italian Grand Prix was not a great weekend for me in Formula 1 terms - having to retire after a late spin badly damaged my tyres - but there was a rewarding aspect to it. Mitch Evans, a young New Zealander I am helping, won the GP3 championship on Sunday morning at Monza.
I got involved with Mitch when some people I knew asked me to keep an eye out for him after he'd achieved some good results down under and was looking at coming to Europe.
I realised he had some potential and the timing fitted nicely - we had just set up our own GP3 team.
Mitch has a gift, an incredibly raw talent, and this year he has won some races and poles and been one of a really solid bunch of drivers in that category, along with Aaro Vainio, Felix Da Costa and Daniel Abt.
It was the same last year, actually, with Mitch, Valtteri Bottas, who is now Williams reserve driver, James Calado and Alexander Sims.
It was a pretty tense finish at Monza - but Mitch just did it. He has ticked some good boxes but he knows that to win at the highest level there is work to be done, and that's where I can help.
I've seen a guy like Sebastian Vettel operate as my team-mate and I've beaten the likes of Fernando Alonso in tight battles. I've been on the end of some beatings but I have also done some winning against some pretty handy guys.
It's not just about the on-track stuff, it's about how to handle yourself off-track as well.
I've always had a thing about helping younger guys realise their potential and get more out of themselves. Ultimately it stops at their door, but it's nice to be able to give them a bit of hand.
Mark Webber was talking to BBC Sport's Andrew Benson
Leslie Jones quit Twitter this week after the abuse, and said the network was not doing enough to stop it.
She accused Breitbart technology editor Milo Yiannopoulos, known as @nero, of directing the abuse.
Yiannopoulos says his account has now been shut down by Twitter and will not be restored.
A screenshot of a message sent to him by Twitter, and posted by Breitbart, said he had broken its rules "prohibiting participating in or inciting targeted abuse of individuals".
He had received "repeated warnings" about similar issues in the past, the note said.
Jones is in the remake of the hit 1980s film Ghostbusters, which was released in the UK and the US last week.
The decision to cast all women has been criticised by some Ghostbusters fans.
Jones was sent tweets blaming her for Aids and comparing her to a gorilla. On Monday, the 48-year-old shared some of the offensive messages she had received.
She later wrote that she was leaving Twitter "with tears and a very sad heart. All this cause I did a movie."
Yiannopoulos posted two insulting tweets about Jones on Monday. Associated Press and Reuters both reported that he had also orchestrated wider abuse against the actress.
Before leaving, Jones wrote to him to say she had reported him and hoped his account would be locked.
Yiannopoulos had close to 338,000 followers before being banned. Many of the accounts that tweeted racist abuse at Jones have not been suspended.
"With the cowardly suspension of my account, Twitter has confirmed itself as a safe space for Muslim terrorists and Black Lives Matter extremists, but a no-go zone for conservatives," Yiannopoulos told Breitbart.
"This is the end for Twitter. Anyone who cares about free speech has been sent a clear message: you're not welcome on Twitter."
The website said his suspension came 20 minutes before he was due to speak at a "Gays for Trump" event at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Jones had criticised Twitter for not doing enough to block abuse, a criticism it has repeatedly faced.
After her complaint, Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey messaged her on Tuesday.
In a statement the network said it was "continuing to invest heavily in improving our tools and enforcement systems to prevent this kind of abuse", adding that it realised there was "a lot of work in front of us before Twitter is where it should be on how we handle these issues".
PC Neil Culham, 42, is accused of touching the woman, who cannot be named, after she was arrested in Clacton, Essex, in 2012.
She said he also forced her to touch him in the groin area when she answered bail at the police station two months later.
Mr Culham, of Ardleigh Road, Dedham, denies both charges.
He was working for Essex Police when the woman was arrested on suspicion of harassing her former partner.
Ipswich Crown Court heard how Mr Culham drove her from Clacton Police Station to her home in the town, after she had been questioned.
The woman said he pulled over on the way and kissed her, and then tried again as they approached her home.
"As we came to a stop he still had his hand on my thigh," she said in a statement read to the court.
"When he came to a stop he kissed me."
When the woman returned to the police station to answer bail she was warned over the harassment of her former partner.
While in a side room at the station, the woman said Mr Culham put her hand over his genitals and said: "Look what you've done to me."
She said she asked to leave, but was told by Mr Culham she had to put her tongue down his throat.
As she got up to go towards the door, the woman said Mr Culham put his right hand between her legs.
Defence lawyer Allan Compton disputed her version of events.
He suggested she had been emotional on the drive home from the police station, and Mr Culham had put his hand on her arm and told her to "calm down".
Mr Compton said nothing untoward happened at the police station.
The trial continues.
The city, located about 50 km (30 miles) northeast of Mexico City, dominated central Mexico in pre-Columbian times.
The relics found include jewellery, seeds, animal bones and pottery like these human figurines.
The objects were found inside a sacred tunnel that was sealed about 1,800 years ago.
The entrance of the tunnel was discovered in 2003 and its contents came to light after the archaeologists worked meticulously for nine years.
The researchers dug out mountains of dirt and rocks, using remote-control robots, and found zoomorphic vessels like this.
The artefacts, like these sea shells, were unearthed from about 18 metres (60 feet) below the Temple of the Plumed Serpent, the third largest pyramid at Teotihuacan.
At the end of the tunnel, the archaeologists also discovered offerings just before three chambers, suggesting that the remains of city's ruling elite could be buried there.
Such a discovery could help shine light on the leadership structure of Teotihuacan, including whether rule was hereditary.
The ancient city is the largest pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Americas, but its ruins have long been shrouded in mystery because its inhabitants did not leave behind written records.
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Young students at the Ghandi Memorial Public School in Delhi in India have been investigating the effects of bad air pollution in the city and the health of children there.
The air in the city is very polluted from all the traffic.
These children took air quality measurements to find out how bad the situation is.
Watch their report.
Sixers had posted a modest total of 115-7 from their 20 overs at the MCG.
Rachael Haynes (37) gave Thunder a good start but was one of three players run out as they slumped from 100-2 to 113-7 in the space of two overs.
But with three balls remaining, they clinched the win when Ellyse Perry bowled a wide and Thunder ran a bye.
The last remaining England player in the tournament was Sixers all-rounder Laura Marsh, but the Kent spinner was not selected for the final.
While there were plenty of nerves on show from both sides in the final, with catches dropped and run-out chances missed, Cricket Australia will be delighted with the staging of the highest profile domestic tournament in the history of women's cricket, with interest and viewing figures having exceeded expectations.
England skipper Charlotte Edwards and vice-captain Heather Knight finished second and third respectively in the voting for the player of the tournament award, which was won by Australia and Melbourne Stars captain Meg Lanning, the leading run-scorer.
Thunder later completed a double when they beat Melbourne Stars in the men's Big Bash League final, also at the MCG.
South Wales Police said the child, believed to be five or six, was assaulted by a "thick-set" man on Saturday at about 14:20 BST outside Remo's cafe.
The man, who is white and muscular with ginger hair and in his mid to late 30s, was pushing the child in a tricycle.
He was wearing a black or blue baseball cap and a bright pink T-shirt.
Police said he was with a woman who had long black hair, was wearing a long grey overcoat and pushing a toddler in a buggy.
A local democracy campaigner obtained the Highways England documents using Freedom of Information (FoI) requests.
Campaigner Dave Orr said: "We now know it's been value engineered down because the budget is constrained."
Highways England says it will listen to all feedback from its current single option consultation for the upgrade.
"We've ended up with a scheme which delivers more problems with noise, pollution and disturbance, accidents than if we did nothing which I think is absurd," added Mr Orr.
In March, the government and Highways England put forward one option to dual the A358 between Southfields roundabout and Taunton in Somerset.
Since then councils have criticised the plans saying they lack detail and residents have complained that only one option was being consulted on.
The FoI documents show ideas which include linking the M5 to a planned new hi-tech business park at Henlade were ruled out, along with other proposals as they would cost between £366m and £451m.
According to the released documents, the single option was estimated to cost £366m but was "still in excess of the budget of £251m".
The report also stated: "We cannot commit to a Junction 25 link on affordability grounds."
A Highways England spokesman said: "The current scheme cost remains within the Road Investment Strategy allocation of £250m - £500m."
Taunton MP Rebecca Pow has raised the issues with the Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling.
She said: "We need to look at why only route was offered because there was a feeling that initially more routes were going to be offered."
She added that the upgrade needed to bring "economic gain" to Taunton and link to the new business park, which is set to attract more than 4,000 jobs.
The consultation closes on 16 July.
Mary Sherry said the department is now dealing with almost double the number of patients originally planned for.
The casualty department is not expected to meet its target of treating 95% of patients within four hours this year.
Ms Sherry said discussions were being held into redeveloping the department, but vowed it would remain in Reading town centre.
The A&E department was designed for 65,000 attendees she said, but was now getting 120,000 annually.
Ms Sherry said there were problems with parking in the existing location which needed to be resolved with the help of Reading Borough Council.
She said: "We know there are land restraints... but I wouldn't be recommending a hospital elsewhere.
"I think we're in the right place for the population."
The acting chief executive said it had been a "really difficult year" for the A&E department where numbers of patients had "increased significantly".
"Those numbers haven't dropped over the summer at all," she said.
"Normally we'd be able to improve our performance over the summer, but we haven't been able to do that.
"We've had some very, very busy days."
Ms Sherry said there were also problems with patients being unable to leave the hospital because local social services were also under pressure.
People living in Reading are being urged to go for help elsewhere, such as local walk-in centres and urgent care centres.
England's Lauren Winfield (44) and Sri Lanka's Chamari Atapattu (41) survived several dropped chances to put on 72 for Yorkshire's first wicket.
Katherine Brunt and Alice Davidson-Richards accelerated late on to get the hosts to 162-4 from their 20 overs.
Davidson-Richards then took 3-20 as Lancashire were restricted to 134-7.
New Zealand's Amy Satterthwaite top-scored for Thunder with 28 off 26 balls, but the efforts of Katie Levick (3-30) and Davidson-Richards with the ball meant the visitors were always well behind their required run rate.
Yorkshire and Lancashire finished fifth and sixth of the six teams in the inaugural competition last year, both winning only one of their five group games.
The man was disturbed by the owner of the car he was trying to break into in Loughton, Essex, and dropped his bag.
Essex Police senior crime scene investigator Ryan Howell later tweeted a photo of the abandoned snacks and a message directed at the suspect.
"They're in my office at Harlow, call 101 to get back," he joked.
"We've also got your balaclava and glass hammer, but we need those for the time being," he wrote to the thief.
"You can definitely have your crisps back though," he added.
In a later post, Mr Howell revealed the crisps had been eaten, but said the suspect would be welcome to pick up the balaclava "when we're done extracting your DNA".
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Heavy rainfall overnight left the playing surface and surrounding areas under heavy water and a 10:00 GMT pitch inspection was called.
No new date has yet been set.
Several other north-west clubs have also had to cancel their Boxing Day fixtures following heavy rain, while the Met Office has issued a weather warning for parts of Lancashire.
For the latest on the Boxing Day postponements click here.
Judge Mario Carroza said investigators had found that Gen Alberto Bachelet died of heart problems aggravated by torture sessions after his arrest.
Gen Bachelet was loyal to President Salvador Allende, who was deposed in the coup led by Gen Augusto Pinochet.
Ms Bachelet, who was tortured herself, was Chile's president in 2006-2010.
Judge Carroza was assigned to review a complaint brought by relatives of the victims of military rule alleging that Gen Bachelet had been tortured to death.
He said a new forensic study concluded that "all the interrogations to which Gen Bachelet was submitted damaged his heart and was the likely cause of death".
Soon after the coup on 11 September 1973, the 51-year-old general was taken to a military academy, where he was questioned by members of the armed force he had previously led.
He died on 12 March 1974 while serving a sentence for treason in the capital Santiago.
His wife, Angela Jeria, and his daughter Michelle were also held and tortured before fleeing to Australia.
Michelle Bachelet now heads the UN women's agency.
Judge Carroza has also been in charge of an investigating into the death of Mr Allende.
A team of international experts concluded that Chile's first democratically elected Socialist president killed himself during the coup.
Mr Allende's family had always accepted he had committed suicide, but some of his supporters suspected he had been killed by soldiers.
Defending champions New England scored a touchdown with 12 seconds remaining but failed with a two-point conversion that would have levelled the scores.
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Quarterback Cam Newton led Carolina to a 49-15 win over the Arizona Cardinals in the NFC Championship game.
The Super Bowl takes place in San Francisco on 7 February.
Denver quarterback Peyton Manning, criticised all season after struggling with poor form and injury, has a chance to win his second Super Bowl title.
And at 39, he will be the oldest quarterback to play in the NFL's showpiece event.
Broncos legend John Elway was the previous oldest, appearing in the 1999 victory over the Atlanta Falcons at the age of 38.
"To be going to our second Super Bowl in four years is very special and just an awesome effort," said Manning, who is 40 in March.
Manning, who has thrown the most touchdowns in NFL history, managed just nine touchdown passes in the regular season.
But he threw two first-half scores to Owen Daniels to put the Broncos 17-9 ahead at their Mile High Stadium.
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady struggled against Denver's superb defence, throwing two interceptions in the first half, but rallied late on to throw a touchdown to Rob Gronkowski inside the final few seconds.
That made the score 20-18, but Denver defended the two-point conversion attempt to see out the win.
New England kicker Stephen Gostkowski's remarkable run of 523 consecutive kicks came to an end when he missed his extra point after Steven Jackson's touchdown.
Carolina scored the first three times they touched the ball to lead the Cardinals 24-7 at half-time.
Star quarterback Newton finished with 335 yards passing and 47 rushing, as the team set a scoring record for an NFC final.
"Oh, wow, playing 'The Sheriff'," 26-year-old Newton said of the prospect of going head-to-head with Manning.
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"We're going to live in the moment right now. We're going to be excited.
"We came out here and fought our tails off and did what a lot of people said we couldn't do. It's not over yet. We'll be ready to go in two weeks."
Newton, expected to be named the league's most valuable player, has run or thrown for 50 touchdowns this season.
The Panthers lost the 2004 Super Bowl 32-29 to the Patriots.
Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer described his mood after the defeat as "about as bad as you can feel".
"Carolina jumped out early and got on top of us," he said. "We dug ourselves a hole and never came close to coming out of it."
Palmer surrendered six of seven turnovers, including four interceptions.
"Staring over at their sideline and seeing that feeling the other team has is something that's probably going to stick with me for the rest of my life," he said.
The Cardinals reached their only Super Bowl in 2009, losing 27-23 to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The FTSE 100 index of leading shares rose by a meagre four points to end the day at 7,119.
There was little corporate news to move share prices, though Unilever ended the day 0.3% higher at £39.50 after reporting a strong rise in quarterly sales.
The pound rose 0.5% against the dollar to $1.284.
Against the euro the pound was unchanged at 1.193 euros.
Department stores were the main talking point of the day after Debenhams announced the outcome of a strategic review which includes the possible closure of 10 underperforming stores.
Its shares fell 5% to 52.5p.
And Marks & Spencer fell 1.3% to £3.54p after updating investors on its big turnaround plan, which includes both store closures and new store openings.
Unilever, one of the world's leading maker of groceries and household goods, said sales rose 3% in its first quarter, which was stronger growth than had been expected.
In February, Unilever rejected a takeover approach from its rival, the US firm Kraft Heinz.
First team coach John Bailie took charge of Ards for the game, which ended 3-3 at the Bangor Fuels Arena.
Following the game, Currie was expected to say his farewells to players and staff after five years in charge.
Ards are seeking compensation for the 18 months remaining on his contract.
Portadown are understood to have not responded to an official Ards statement on this and the clubs are believed to be still in dispute over the matter.
"Nothing is resolved but we understand Niall's situation and we have no issue with the way he has conducted himself," said Ards chairman Brian Adams on Friday evening.
"He and I agreed that it would be difficult for him to take charge tonight," he added.
Currie has been involved in talks with Portadown in recent days, having emerged as the preferred canididate to take over the reins at Shamrock Park.
Interim boss Vinny Arkins stepped aside on Thursday, having been in caretaker charge of the crisis club since previous manager Pat McGibbon resigned in mid October.
Arkins was not in contention to succeeed McGibbon as he does not hold a Uefa A coaching licence.
A statement from Ards on Thursday night said that the club had received a request from Portadown to speak to Currie about the vacancy.
The statement added Ards would seek compensation "for breach of contract" if Currie is offered the Portadown post.
"Portadown FC were at the outset informed that Niall had around 18 months to run on his contract and that our club would frown upon a job offer being made without compensation for breach of contract being discussed," added the Ards statement.
Earlier on Thursday, Arkins explained the reason for his departure from Shamrock Park.
"I became aware there would be a diminished role for me moving forward," Arkins told the Portadown Times.
"So I spoke to the chairman and told him it was best to make a clean break.
"I have contacted the players and wish the club every success moving forward, as that is the most important thing," added Arkins, who is Portadown's all-time leading scorer.
Portadown have endured a season of turmoil after being handed a 12-point deduction for making irregular payments to players plus additional fines.
After playing 18 games in the Irish Premiership campaign, Portadown are cut adrift at the bottom of the table on minus one points.
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The Najda Now foundation encouraged young children in Beirut's Shatila refugee camp to put their experiences of revolution onto paper.
The Light Against Darkness exhibition will be shown at St Mary's Cathedral on Great Western Road from 21-30 November.
Pollokshaws Methodist Church will then host the exhibition from 1-10 December.
The Children's War Museum and the Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre originally brought the works from Beirut to Scotland.
The paintings have alerady been shown at several venues in Edinburgh.
Brian Devlin, founder of the Children's War Museum, struggled to find space to exhibit the works in Glasgow as his organisation does not have a base there - but the campaign paid off.
Mr Devlin said the idea behind the Children's War Museum was to communicate children's experience of global wars through their own voices.
Telling their stories through art work means the language barrier is eliminated.
Najda Now, a relief and development humanitarian organisation working with Syrian refugees, helped the children created the works.
They depict the brutality of war as well as memories of families and homes left behind through a child's eyes.
Brian Larkin, coordinator of the Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre, commented on the progression from black and white drawings - showing helicopters, tanks, armed men shooting unarmed men and bleeding bodies - to the colour and vitality of homes, farms, animals, flowers and self portraits.
He said: "The whole thing moves from the darkness and trauma of war to the light of the return to happiness and life."
For Mr Devlin, the pieces are poignant because they are so relatable: "Somebody who was putting it up said 'my grandchildren could have painted some of this work'."
Mr Devlin wishes to encourage Scottish children to make their own art, and forge links between their schools and children in Beirut.
Mr Larkin said that the Edinburgh students who visited the exhibition were moved enough to contact the refugee children.
He said: "They wrote letters back to the kids in the Najda Now programme. One boy wrote: 'I am sorry for what you have been through. I can't imagine what you have been through'."
The works will continue their journey by travelling to Paris and Germany before being auctioned off to raise money for Najda Now.
But for the artists, still living out their childhoods in Shatila refugee camp, the future is not as bright.
Disley, from Corris in north Wales, and his friend Chris Brasher set up the first London event in 1981.
The British pair met in the 1950s when competing in the 3,000m steeplechase - Disley taking bronze at the 1952 Olympic Games and Brasher gold in 1956.
A former vice-chairman of the UK Sports Council, Disley was appointed a CBE in 1979 for his work in outdoor education.
Disley is regarded as the first world-class British steeplechaser, and lowered the British record for the 3,000 metres event five times at the peak of his career in the 1950s.
However, he didn't take up athletics seriously until he arrived at Loughborough College in 1946 and met his mentor, the tutor and athletics coach Geoffrey Dyson.
Disley was tipped for gold at the Olympics in Helsinki and twice broke the British record but could manage only third place in the final behind American Horace Ashenfelter and the Soviet Union's Vladimir Kazantsev.
Four years later it was his friend Brasher - ranked number three in Britain - who took the gold in Melbourne with Disley finishing sixth.
They were involved in another race 31 years later in 1979. This time it was the New York marathon and they were so impressed they determined to set up a similar event in London.
The pair convinced the Greater London Council, the police, the City of London, the Amateur Athletics Association and London Tourist Board to back the event.
And after securing a sponsorship deal to cover any potential cash shortfall, Disley and Brasher staged the first London race on 29 March 1981, with 7,474 runners taking part.
In 2015, a London record of 37,675 runners finished the race.
Disley continued as president of the London Marathon Charitable Trust after Brasher's death in 2003.
The Welshman, born and raised in Corris on the southern slopes of Snowdonia, held several other posts in sport.
He taught physical education at Isleworth Grammar School, and was the chief instructor at the National Mountain Sports Centre in Plas y Brenin in Snowdonia.
He was vice chairman of the UK Sports Council for eight years and was inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.
Disley was inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame in 2007 and was also BBC Cymru Wales Sports personality of the year in 1955.
Ikechi Anya of Watford and Scotland has roots in Castlemilk. So have James McCarthy and Aiden McGeady of Everton and Republic of Ireland.
Castlemilk is where Eddie and Frank Gray took their first steps in football before they made it big at Leeds, where Bernie Slaven and Ray Houghton spent time before departing for England, where Jim McInally had his formative years before his glittering career at Dundee United.
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The list stretches on - international footballers with a Castlemilk connection. And now there is another - with a difference.
On Saturday in Turin, Rory Hughes will play on the wing for Scotland as Vern Cotter continues to cast his eye over his options before picking his final 31-man World Cup squad with a deadline of 31 August.
Very few people outside Scotland would have heard of Hughes, mostly because very few people inside Scotland have heard of him.
Actually, that's only partly true. An element of his story is known. The grim part, the part that saw him charged and put on trial - along with two fellow Glasgow Warriors players, Ryan Grant and Ryan Wilson, for an assault in a fast food joint in Glasgow's west end in the autumn of 2013.
The case against Hughes was not proven. Apart from the basic biography, that's the extent of our knowledge about the wing.
He's 22, he's from Castlemilk, he's been a Glasgow player for two seasons and has played seven games, four of them off the bench. He has scored no tries and pulled up no trees.
He has been the source of one big 'Wow!' moment in his young career and that was when Cotter selected him in his training squad for the World Cup.
Nobody knew why. In Turin, we might start finding out.
It's going to take an improbable - you would have to say impossible - series of events for Hughes to make the final cut, but it's a blessing that Cotter picked him in the wider group for it gave us a chance to hear his story - and it's quite a tale.
In Scottish Rugby's attempts to develop the game in areas where rugby never previously existed, Hughes is their poster boy.
Clearly he has rugby talent, even if we've seen too little of it to judge how much of it he has. Cotter would not have selected him unless he thought he had something to bring to the table.
What's indisputable, though, is the strength of his personality. You want to talk about guys having to fight for everything's he got, then Hughes is your man.
"I went to Kings Park Secondary School which was a football school based in Castlemilk and that's where I grew up," he says.
"When I was at school there was no rugby at all. If I played it in the streets of Castlemilk there would be people wondering what kind of ball it was. They'd want to know why I was playing with a flat ball.
"When I was six-years-old I was too big for the other sports and I asked my mum if I could get into rugby. She found me a local club just down the road, which is called GHA. My mum enrolled me in there.
"I played for the first team when I was 16. From there I went to Stirling County and was contracted with the Scotland Sevens team as an elite development player.
"I was always the odd one out as a rugby player. All my friends were either footballers, joiners and things like that. I was really into my joinery. My dad's a plumber, my brother a roofer, so I would probably have gone into construction if I didn't have rugby.
"There aren't many people who come from Castlemilk who go on to play professional rugby. I'm proud to put my hand up and say I am the first person to do it. There are so many people from Castlemilk who have great talent but let the Castlemilk in them keep them down. They don't let themselves blossom.
"I always pride myself on coming from Castlemilk, not an up-and-coming area or a posh area. It always helped me out on the rugby pitch as well, because if I got hurt, instead of just lying down I would battle through it because you can't show weakness in Castlemilk."
Hughes said he was stunned when he heard that he was in the training squad to begin with.
"I went along to get a medical which involved a heart test, but I thought that was for every player who qualified for Scotland and we all needed to get it done as it was a World Cup year," he explained. "Then I found out that I had a chance of being named in the 46-man squad, so that was a shock."
From a squad of 46 he's now in the 15 for Turin. His progression from the bittiest of bit-parts at Glasgow to Test match rugby is a seismic leap into the unknown, the like of which we have not seen in Scotland for quite some time.
Earlier this year he was playing club rugby for Stirling County and nobody knew who he was, save for the court case.
It's not the stuff that's behind him that fascinates us now, but the stuff that lies ahead.
Russell, 38, appeared to aim a blow with his right hand while on board Kings Dolly, after the horse pulled up at a pre-race 'show' hurdle.
The incident took place at the Mares' Handicap Hurdle at Tramore on Friday.
"We will examine whatever footage is available," said Denis Egan, chief executive of the Irish Turf Club.
"We will then decide then whether or not any rules have been broken."
The race-day stewards were not aware of the matter but footage appeared on social media.
Russell won the 2014 Cheltenham Gold Cup with 20-1 outsider Lord Windermere.
"I am not sure everyone on social media quite understands how a thoroughbred racehorse handles at race time but I am happy to speak with the Turf Club about this," Russell told the Irish Daily Star.
"The situation with Kings Dolly was an ordinary enough situation and I didn't do anything out of the ordinary.
"I ride every horse to win, no matter what, and would never do anything to hamper its chances."
The company has launched an inquiry into how customers were wrongly charged excess fees for late payments.
The news was announced by the boss of the Home Retail Group, which owns Argos, in a trading update.
Affected customers will be written to in the next few weeks, and are expected to receive up to £100 each in compensation.
The issue was discovered earlier this year, but an initial sum set aside for redress proved insufficient.
"It's not a material number of customers and not a material amount of money per customer," said John Walden, Home Retail's chief executive.
"But for each customer it matters. We will address it and treat customers fairly."
Following a decision by the former Office of Fair Trading in 2006, late payment fees should generally be limited to £12 - with interest chargeable on top.
Home Retail Group is in the process of being taken over by Sainsbury.
The partnership of council, police, health bosses and other agencies was launched in November to improve life in Weymouth's Melcombe Regis district.
But at a public meeting on Wednesday, representatives outnumbered residents, who said they felt "disenfranchised".
The Melcombe Regis Board said there had been "activity on the ground".
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Board chairman Matt Prosser said: "It does take time to establish relationships, to understand the challenges each organisation faces. We are seeing some activity on the ground now."
Mr Prosser said the board had hired a part-time community development worker and given money to the Lantern Trust, which runs a resource centre for vulnerable people.
He added: "We are doing work, particularly on the housing issue, which is our number one priority."
Resident Jenny Burchill, who sits on the Park Community Forum, said: "I'm told there are changes but as a resident you don't see them.
"I know they are disappointed with the lack of residents who have turned up but unfortunately I think the residents in general feel quite disenfranchised because we've had so many of these boards over the years and we've told them what's wrong and nothing has changed.
"We are an itinerant population here. We have a lot of HMOs [houses of multiple occupation] - people are here for six months - so they don't have a vested interest in the area, they are not interested in what's going on at all."
According to police figures, there were 232 crimes reported in Melcombe Regis in March, compared with 26 in neighbouring Weymouth East and 53 in Radipole.
These included 37 violent or sexual offences and 16 instances of criminal damage or arson.
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Justin Hoyte [Unattached - Dagenham & Redbridge]
Jason Lokilo [Anderlecht - Crystal Palace] Undisclosed
Semi Ajayi [Cardiff - AFC Wimbledon] Loan
Emmanuel Mbende [Unattached - Birmingham]
Josh Yorwerth [Ipswich - Crawley] Loan
Jordan Graham [Wolves - Oxford] Loan
James Horsfield [Manchester City - Doncaster] Loan
Kenny McEvoy [Tottenham - Stevenage] Loan
Adam Reach [Middlesbrough - Preston] Loan
Josh Sheehan [Swansea - Yeovil] Loan
Joe Lolley [Huddersfield - Scunthorpe] Loan
Alan Sheehan [Bradford - Notts County] Loan
Keshi Anderson [Crystal Palace - Doncaster] Loan
Jack Barmby [Leicester - Notts County] Loan
Arlen Birch [Unattached - Burnley] Free
Tyler Blackwood [QPR - Newport] Loan
Janoi Donacien [Aston Villa - Newport] Loan
Michael Higdon [Sheffield United - Oldham] Loan
Aaron McCarey [Wolves - Portsmouth] Loan
Richard Wood [Rotherham - Fleetwood] Loan
Jake Forster-Caskey [Brighton - MK Dons] Loan
Nicky Maynard [Unattached - MK Dons]
Max Crocombe [Oxford - Barnet] Loan
Richard Eckersley [Unattached - Oldham]
Jay Fulton [Swansea - Oldham] Loan
Ross Jenkins [Unattached - Crawley]
Sullay Kaikai [Crystal Palace - Shrewsbury] Loan
Rhys Murphy [Oldham - Crawley] Loan
Rhys Turner [Oldham - York] Loan
Romuald Boco [Unattached - Portsmouth]
Ian Black [Unattached - Shrewsbury]
Macaulay Gillesphey [Newcastle - Carlisle] Loan
Alex Gilliead [Newcastle - Carlisle] Loan
Adam Jackson [Middlesbrough - Coventry] Loan
Conor McAleny [Everton - Charlton] Loan
Martin Paterson [Unattached - Blackpool]
Shaun Brisley [Peterborough - Northampton] Loan
Adam Eckersley [Unattached - Hibernian]
Jack Fitzwater [West Brom - Chesterfield] Loan
Darnell Furlong [QPR - Northampton] Loan
Chris Herd [Unattached - Chesterfield]
Jake Howells [Luton - Yeovil] Loan
Jamie Jones [Preston - Colchester] Loan
Lee Nicholls [Wigan - Bristol Rovers] Loan
Jed Steer [Aston Villa - Huddersfield] Loan
Louis Thompson [Norwich - Swindon] Loan
Brad Halliday [Middlesbrough - Hartlepool] Loan
Ryan Kent [Liverpool - Coventry] Loan
Marvin Sordell [Unattached - Colchester]
Jonathan Williams [Crystal Palace - Nottingham Forest] Loan
Shane Lowry [Unattached - Birmingham]
Gozie Ugwu [Unattached - Wycombe]
Elliott Ward [Bournemouth - Huddersfield] Loan
Paul Rachubka [Unattached - Bolton]
Jeremy Balmy [Unattached - Swindon]
Benjamin Buchel [Unattached - Oxford]
Ryan Mendes [Lille - Nottingham Forest] Loan
Nelson Oliveira [Benfica - Nottingham Forest] Loan
Henrik Ojamaa [Unattached - Swindon]
Simeon Jackson [Unattached - Barnsley]
David Norris [Unattached - Blackpool]
Isaiah Osbourne [Unattached - Walsall]
Nicky Ajose [Unattached - Swindon]
Dimitar Berbatov [Unattached - PAOK] Free
Mustapha Dumbuya [Unattached - Partick Thistle]
Premier League and Scottish Premiership signings
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00:00 - Greg Hurst [Stirling Albion - St Johnstone] Free
00:00 - Gary Woods [Leyton Orient - Ross County] Loan
23:22 - Jozo Simunovic [Dinamo Zagreb - Celtic] Undisclosed
22:01 - Kevin McHattie [Hearts - Kilmarnock] Free
20:07 - Matt Jarvis [West Ham - Norwich] Loan
20:00 - Tiago Ilori [Liverpool - Aston Villa] Loan
19:45 - Aaron Lennon [Tottenham - Everton] Undisclosed
19:06 - Regan Poole [Newport - Manchester United] Undisclosed
19:01 - Tomas Andrade [River Plate - Bournemouth] Loan
19:00 - Nathan Dyer [Swansea - Leicester] Loan
18:45 - Joe Bennett [Aston Villa - Bournemouth] Loan
18:09 - Miles Storey [Swindon - Inverness] Loan
18:09 - Tobi Sho-Silva [Charlton - Inverness] Loan
18:03 - Aaron Kuhl [Reading - Dundee United] Loan
17:52 - Michael Hector [Reading - Chelsea] £4m
17:34 - Adam Taggart [Fulham - Dundee United] Loan
17:31 - Victor Ibarbo [Cagliari - Watford] Undisclosed
17:21 - Adlene Guedioura [Crystal Palace - Watford] Undisclosed
17:15 - Anthony Martial [Monaco - Manchester United] £36m
17:10 - DeAndre Yedlin [Tottenham - Sunderland] Loan
16:38 - Rhys Healey [Cardiff - Dundee] Loan
16:05 - Michail Antonio [Nottingham Forest - West Ham] Undisclosed
16:04 - Obbi Oulare [Club Brugge - Watford] Undisclosed
15:49 - Joleon Lescott [West Brom - Aston Villa] £2m
14:32 - Virgil van Dijk [Celtic - Southampton] £11.5m
14:30 - Matija Sarkic [Anderlecht - Aston Villa] Undisclosed
13:45 - Glenn Murray [Crystal Palace - Bournemouth] £4m
11:36 - Nikica Jelavic [Hull - West Ham] £3m
11:35 - Papy Djilobodji [Nantes - Chelsea] £4m
11:33 - Ryan Christie [Celtic - Inverness] Loan
11:33 - Ryan Christie [Inverness - Celtic] Undisclosed
11:07 - Victor Moses [Chelsea - West Ham] Loan
09:43 - Robbie Muirhead [Dundee United - Partick Thistle] Loan
09:23 - Ramiro Funes Mori [River Plate - Everton] £9.5m
07:26 - Alex Song [Barcelona - West Ham] Loan
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19:32 - Ola John [Benfica - Reading] Loan
19:08 - Connor Smith [Watford - Stevenage] Loan
19:00 - Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe [Norwich - Rotherham] Loan
19:00 - Tony Andreu [Norwich - Rotherham] Loan
18:54 - Matej Vydra [Watford - Reading] Loan
18:46 - Nathaniel Chalobah [Chelsea - Napoli] Loan
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18:35 - Kieran O'Hara [Manchester United - Morecambe] Loan
18:30 - Haris Vuckic [Newcastle - Wigan] Loan
18:30 - Lee Camp [Bournemouth - Rotherham] Free
18:25 - Carlos de Pena [Nacional - Middlesbrough] Undisclosed
18:19 - Andy Kellett [Bolton - Wigan] Undisclosed
18:10 - Michael Smith [Swindon - Barnsley] Loan
18:05 - Bradley Johnson [Norwich - Derby] Undisclosed
18:00 - Eoin Doyle [Cardiff - Preston] Loan
18:00 - Stevie May [Sheffield Wednesday - Preston] Undisclosed
17:45 - Adama Diomande [Stabaek - Hull] Undisclosed
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17:31 - Wes Thomas [Birmingham - Swindon] Loan
17:27 - Matt Partridge [Dagenham & Redbridge - Newport] Free
17:00 - Nick Townsend [Birmingham - Barnsley] Undisclosed
17:00 - Oscar Gobern [QPR - Doncaster] Loan
17:00 - Ryan Woods [Shrewsbury - Brentford] Undisclosed
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17:00 - Mickey Demetriou [Shrewsbury - Cambridge] Loan
16:45 - Larnell Cole [Fulham - Shrewsbury] Loan
16:37 - Lateef Elford-Alliyu [Valletta - Coventry] Free
15:58 - Dillon Barnes [Bedford - Colchester] Free
14:57 - Eoghan O'Connell [Celtic - Oldham] Loan
14:45 - Jack Payne [Peterborough - Leyton Orient] Loan
14:45 - Gabriele Angella [Watford - QPR] Loan
14:01 - Richard Stearman [Wolves - Fulham] Undisclosed
13:58 - Harry White [Gloucester - Barnsley] Undisclosed
13:30 - Nathan Baker [Aston Villa - Bristol City] Loan
13:16 - Jacob Butterfield [Huddersfield - Derby] Undisclosed
12:16 - Liam Moore [Leicester - Bristol City] Loan
12:00 - Jordan Botaka [Excelsior - Leeds] Undisclosed
11:29 - Luke O'Neill [Burnley - Southend] Free
10:46 - Nathan Byrne [Swindon - Wolves] Undisclosed
10:42 - Miguel Layun [Watford - Porto] Loan
09:32 - Adam Drury [Manchester City - Bristol Rovers] Free
Premier League
Fabio Borini [Liverpool - Sunderland] £10m
Anders Lindegaard [Manchester United - West Brom] Free
Dieumerci Mbokani [Dynamo Kiev - Norwich] Loan
Football League
Barry Bannan [Crystal Palace - Sheffield Wednesday] Undisclosed
Sergi Canos [Liverpool - Brentford] Loan
Marco Djuricin [Red Bull Salzburg - Brentford] Loan
Ryan Fredericks [Bristol City - Fulham] Undisclosed
Lucas Piazon [Chelsea - Reading] Loan
Idriss Saadi [Clermont Foot - Cardiff] Undisclosed
Scottish Premiership
Riccardo Calder [Aston Villa - Dundee] Loan
Martin Woods [Shrewsbury - Ross County] Free
Global
Jason Denayer [Manchester City - Galatasaray] Loan
Julian Draxler [Schalke - Wolfsburg] Undisclosed
Emanuele Giaccherini [Sunderland - Bologna] Loan
Javi Guerra [Cardiff - Rayo Vallecano] Undisclosed
Javier Hernandez [Manchester United - Bayer Leverkusen] £7.3m
Hernanes [Inter Milan - Juventus] £9.5m
Brown Ideye [West Brom - Olympiakos] Undisclosed
Adnan Januzaj [Manchester United - Borussia Dortmund] Loan
Olivier Kemen [Newcastle - Lyon] £550,000
Mario Lemina [Marseille - Juventus] Loan
Modibo Maiga [West Ham - Al Nassr] Undisclosed
Emmanuel Mayuka [Southampton - Metz] Undisclosed
Felipe Melo [Galatasaray - Inter Milan] £8m
Loic Nego [Charlton - Videoton] Undisclosed
Jose Angel Pozo [Manchester City - Almeria] Undisclosed
Stefan Scepovic [Celtic - Getafe] Loan
Ricky van Wolfswinkel [Norwich - Real Betis] Loan
Etien Velikonja [Cardiff - Lierse SK] Undisclosed
Jelle Vossen [Burnley - Club Brugge] Undisclosed
It will invest £450m in its engine manufacturing centre, doubling its size to 200,000 sq ft (18,581 sq m).
The plant, on the i54 business site in south Staffordshire, employs 700 people, a number it expects to double.
A rise in global demand had led to the centre's expansion, the company said.
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Mike Wright, executive director of Jaguar Land Rover, said the plant was "absolutely pivotal" to the company's plans for global expansion.
"As we grow our volumes around the world we need more capacity," he said.
"We've started the initial phase just 12 months ago, that's gone really well, and we're now planning for the next phase for the next two or three years."
Business Secretary Sajid Javid said the company's further investment was "further evidence that the British automotive sector can compete with the best in the world".
"More than 10,000 jobs have been created and about £3.5bn has been invested in its Midlands' manufacturing sites since 2010."
Jaguar Land Rover first announced plans to build the engine manufacturing centre at the i54 business park in 2011, spending £500m on the site by the time it had opened.
It supports three other manufacturing sites in the UK, based at Castle Bromwich and Solihull in the West Midlands and Halewood on Merseyside.
The firm currently makes about 400,000 engines every year, with one coming off the production line every 40 seconds.
The 61-year-old guided Portugal to their first European title with an extra-time victory over hosts France in Paris earlier this month.
He has coached Portugal since 2014, having previously spent four years in charge of the Greece national team.
Portugal begin their 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign on 6 September against Switzerland in Basel.
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But the report found there was evidence of "system failings by social services and police in the past".
Barrister Sasha Wass QC, who led the inquiry, said "significant progress" had been made in child protection on the Atlantic island.
The UK government has given £1.2m to help improve services.
Ms Wass dismissed allegations of widespread abuse and said press reports, which labelled St Helena as a "paedophiles' paradise" gave a "totally misleading" picture.
The senior barrister also concluded there was "no truth" in allegations by "whistleblower" social workers that abuse on the island had been covered up by the UK and St Helena governments.
The Foreign Office, the Department for International Development and the island's authorities were all investigated as part of the inquiry.
The report concluded that the social workers' claims were a "gross distortion of reality" and allegations against others were made "in order to deflect from their own incompetence and wrongdoing".
The report also strongly criticised the findings of a previous investigation by the Lucy Faithfull Foundation charity in 2013.
Ms Wass said: "There was child abuse on St Helena but it was confined to isolated pockets of the population and involved a limited number of problem families."
However the report did find evidence of a "lack of understanding" of child safeguarding in some cases and raised the concern that a disabled adult was "literally left to waste away".
She also found signs that the unusual population profile of the island - where young adults often left to find work - had resulted in cases of underage sex.
But, she said: "The relationships… are not portrayed as the type of abusive or exploitative relationships such as one might find in the well-publicised Rochdale, Rotherham and Oxford cases in the UK."
St Helena and its dependencies - Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha - are about midway between Africa and South America in the South Atlantic Ocean and have an overall population of about 4,000.
Though far from each other, they form a single territorial grouping under the sovereignty of the British Crown.
The boy's father, Simon Lewis, 33, from Trowbridge, died in the crash on Lamby Way, Cardiff, on News Year's Eve.
His wife, Amanda, and their three-year-old daughter, Summer, were passengers in the Daihatsu Sirion car.
A 29-year-old driver of a blue Peugeot involved in the collision has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
He has also been arrested on suspicion of taking a vehicle without consent, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.
He remains at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, where he is being treated for non life-threatening injuries.
The Lewis' baby was born three months premature at the same hospital on Sunday amid concern he was in distress.
He died later the same day, said South Wales Police.
In a statement, the force said the family had requested privacy while they deal with the further "devastating loss".
Officers are appealing for witnesses to the two-car collision to come forward.
It happened at approximately 17:30 GMT on Thursday, about a quarter of a mile east of the Rover Way roundabout.
The Glovers took the lead in the sixth minute. Tom Eaves' marauding run down the right saw the frontman fizz in a cross that goalkeeper Russell Griffiths could not deal with, leaving Khan to tap home.
On 16 minutes, Yeovil doubled their lead as Khan's corner found Ward unmarked to head powerfully past the helpless Griffiths.
Cheltenham halved the deficit on 41 minutes as Aaron Downes rose highest to head past Artur Krysiak.
Yeovil regained their two-goal advantage in first-half stoppage time. The impressive Khan saw his effort saved by Griffiths but Dolan was there to convert with a diving header.
Cheltenham were awarded a penalty shortly before the hour after Eaves bundled into Rob Dickie. Krysiak saved the spot-kick but substitute Billy Waters netted in the ensuing scramble.
On the 90th minute, Eaves outpaced Downes to score an excellent solo goal and secure the three points.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Yeovil Town 4, Cheltenham Town 2.
Second Half ends, Yeovil Town 4, Cheltenham Town 2.
Liam Shephard (Yeovil Town) is shown the yellow card.
Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card.
Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Matt Butcher (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town).
Goal! Yeovil Town 4, Cheltenham Town 2. Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high.
Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Hedges (Yeovil Town).
Foul by Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town).
Alex Lacey (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Russell Griffiths.
Attempt saved. Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Russell Griffiths.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Danny Parslow.
Hand ball by Aaron Downes (Cheltenham Town).
Attempt missed. Robert Dickie (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Asa Hall replaces James Dayton.
Matt Butcher (Yeovil Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matt Butcher (Yeovil Town).
Foul by James Dayton (Cheltenham Town).
Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jack Munns (Cheltenham Town).
Liam Shephard (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town).
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Aaron Downes.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Jordan Cranston.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Tom Eaves.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Liam Shephard.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Alex Lawless replaces Ben Whitfield.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Bevis Mugabi replaces Darren Ward because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Ryan Hedges (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Penalty saved! Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
Goal! Yeovil Town 3, Cheltenham Town 2. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Robert Dickie with a cross following a set piece situation.
Penalty Cheltenham Town. Robert Dickie draws a foul in the penalty area.
Having scored just five goals in his first 31 outings this season, 30-year-old Dagnall has netted seven times in his last six League Two appearances.
And Artell is indebted to his role in the five wins in nine games which have lifted Crewe 13 points clear of danger.
"He's a goalscorer, a box player," Artell told BBC Radio Stoke.
"He's a League Two Michael Owen. He didn't score from 25 or 30 yards either.
"Michael Owen scored his goals from nought to eight yards, and Chris's latest two (in Saturday's 2-0 home win over Colchester) were both from nought to eight yards.
"I played against Chris and I didn't like playing against him. I didn't mind when he was playing out wide but, if you can get in the right areas, you'll score goals and he's a good finisher."
Ex-Tranmere, Rochdale, Scunthorpe, Barnsley, Coventry, Leyton Orient and Hibernian striker Dagnall managed only two league goals in his first 27 games for Crewe after being brought in last summer by previous boss Steve Davis.
But, following Ryan Lowe's return to Bury, a switch to a three-man attack alongside George Cooper and on-loan Jordan Bowery has reaped dividends for Dagnall in particular.
After getting his current run going with two goals in the 5-0 home win over Grimsby, he then scored in his next two matches, the last of them as the Alex came back from 2-0 down to draw at Blackpool.
He was sent off early on in the home defeat by Stevenage, but has scored three times in two games after serving a three-match suspension.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 10.14 points to 18,516.55.
The S&P 500 ended a week of record setting highs by slipping 2.01 points to 2,161.74, while the Nasdaq dipped 4.47 points to 5,029.59.
On Thursday, the Dow recorded its third consecutive record close. The S&P 500 registered its fourth record in a row
US retail sales rose by 0.6% in June. It was the third straight month of growth for consumer spending.
Paul Ashworth the US economist at Capital Economics noted that retail sales growth figures for April and May were revised upwards by 0.1%, having already been "ridiculously strong".
Citigroup shares fell 0.3%. The bank reported better than expected second quarter results ahead of the market's opening.
Rival Wells Fargo dropped 2.9% after it reported falling profits.
Shares in Herbalife jumped 10% after it agreed to pay regulators $200m to avoid being classified as a pyramid scheme.
Travel stocks were lower following the events in France.
Cruise line Carnival fell 2.2%. Delta Airlines dropped by 2.4%.
Shares of travel booking site Priceline dropped 1.2%.
Mr Mladic faces 11 charges, including genocide and crimes against humanity, dating to the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
He is specifically accused of a hand in the massacre of more than 7,000 Bosniak men and boys at Srebrenica - Europe's worst atrocity since World War II.
Mr Mladic denies all charges and has denounced the UN tribunal as "satanic".
At the session on Tuesday, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ruled that there were still good grounds to try Mr Mladic on two counts of genocide.
The charges relate to the killings at Srebrenica, and to the expulsion of the Muslim Bosniaks, Bosnian Croats and other non-Serb populations in a wartime campaign that came to be known as "ethnic cleansing".
Lawyers for Mr Mladic had argued that there was not enough evidence linking him to the most serious of the crimes.
However, Judge Alphons Orie said "that the accused has a case to answer on all counts", citing material presented by prosecutors, including video footage of Mr Mladic calling on revenge against the Muslims of Srebrenica.
Mr Mladic is also charged in connection with the 44-month siege of Sarajevo during which more than 10,000 people died.
Richard Simpson also wanted licensed shops in problem areas to mark cans and bottles so they could be traced.
He told MSPs there was a problem with "proxy" purchasing for teenagers.
However, ministers argued that the issue could be better dealt with through the government's alcohol misuse strategy.
When the members bill was scrutinised at committee stage, BMA Scotland expressed concerns about some aspects of it but it supported the section aimed at banning alcohol advertising around schools.
Figures analysed specially for the Scottish government in 2009 estimated that Scotland had the eighth highest level of alcohol consumption in the world.
The World Health Organisation has linked alcohol to more than 60 types of disease, disability and injury.
Livingstone looked certain to reach a maiden century when he was out lbw to Alex Hughes as Lancashire made 281-8.
Skipper Steven Croft also chipped in with 68 while Ben Cotton took 3-62.
Billy Godleman (91) looked to be leading Derbyshire home, but was dismissed by Croft with 101 needed off 82 balls, and the hosts ended on 254-9 to lose by 27 runs.
Godleman had barely offered a false shot in his 98-ball innings when he played around a straight one from spinner Croft to fall nine short of his second List A hundred and leave Derbyshire 180-4.
The chase lost all momentum thereafter, Kyle Jarvis keeping things tight to finish with 4-31.
Earlier, England Lions batsman Livingstone hammered six fours and three sixes in his run-a-ball knock and shared a fourth-wicket stand of 133 with Croft who hit three maximums himself.
Both fell in quick succession in the final 10 overs, but Jordan Clark clubbed two huge sixes in his 29 to take the Red Rose county to a competitive score.
Derbyshire's misery was compounded by wicketkeeper Harvey Hosein fracturing his thumb while Lancashire were batting.
Chasing 290 to win, the visitors were restricted to 237 despite Michael Klinger's 52 and Benny Howell's late strokeplay with 77.
Glamorgan built their innings on a second-wicket century stand between Will Bragg and Jacques Rudolph.
Gloucestershire's seamers struck back before Graham Wagg's 49 hoisted Glamorgan to a winning total.
Bragg's aggressive 75 off 68 balls got the scoreboard moving well, while Rudolph's cautious 53 was his first half-century off the season.
Matt Taylor, Liam Norwell and Howell all bowled intelligently to restrict Glamorgan's acceleration in the latter stages.
But the target of 290 looked a long way off as Graham Wagg claimed two early wickets and part-time spinner Colin Ingram took two cheap ones in the middle of the innings, including the vital one of Klinger.
Howell's hitting took the game into the closing overs and made it a fine personal performance, before becoming Timm van der Gugten's third wicket.
Glamorgan face Sussex in Cardiff on Wednesday 8 June while Gloucestershire host Middlesex on the same day, still looking for a first win.
Dywedodd Steve Davies wrth ACau fod swyddogion yn "bryderus" am nifer y disgyblion oedd yn ymgeisio yn gynnar.
Mae'r sylwadau yn dilyn beirniadaeth gan yr Ysgrifennydd Addysg, Kirsty Williams, fod plant yn "bancio" gyda chymwysterau is.
Dywedodd Mr Davies fod y llywodraeth am weithredu ar y mater yn yr hydref.
Fe fynegodd Ms Williams bryderon yn gynharach ym mis Mai bod ffocws ysgolion wedi bod ar godi cyrhaeddiad TGAU i raddau C.
Dywedodd bod hynny wedi arwain at "ganlyniadau anfwriadol", gyda rhai plant yn gwneud yr arholiadau yn gynnar er mwyn bancio cymhwyster is, yn hytrach na cheisio cyrraedd graddau uwch.
Fe ofynnodd yr AC Llafur, Lee Waters wrth y gwas sifil os oedd "ceisio arholiadau yn gynnar yn ffordd o chwarae'r system", a dywedodd mai cyngor Llywodraeth Cymru oedd bod penderfyniadau ynghylch y mater er "budd pob plentyn yn unigol".
Dywedodd wrth Bwyllgor Cyfrifon Cyhoeddus y Cynulliad bod rhai ysgolion wedi caniatáu i ddisgyblion geisio'r arholiadau yn gynnar er mwyn "profi'r system".
Ond ychwanegodd: "Dwi hefyd yn credu... bod rhai ysgolion yn chwarae'r system."
Dywedodd Mr Davies fod y llywodraeth yn gweithio gyda Chymwysterau Cymru (QW) i nodi "maint y broblem" gyda disgwyl adroddiad gan y corff ym mis Medi.
Ychwanegodd fod Ms Williams yn "ymwybodol iawn o'r mater" gan ychwanegu y bydd camau yn cael eu cymryd "ar ddechrau tymor yr hydref" yn dilyn yr adolygiad.
The incident happened on the Glen Road shortly before 01:00 BST on Sunday.
Police say at this stage they do not know what the object was.
They carried out searches in the area as a precaution, but nothing was found. The Glen Road has now reopened.
The move follows reports which found council officers failed to act quickly enough after claims were made against a councillor before elections in 2015.
Simon Carter later admitted 16 charges of making indecent images of children.
"I have nothing to hide and want to be open and transparent," said Mr Connolly, who quit as leader last year.
"That is why I have referred myself to the standards committee. I have co-operated fully with the independent review and I will co-operate fully with this investigation.
"It would be inappropriate to comment further."
Mr Connolly has previously said he was wrong to have given Carter a written reference on council-headed notepaper ahead of his sentencing, describing the former Labour councillor as "trustworthy, honest and reliable".
The disciplinary reports stated former chief executive Mike Owen and head of children's services Mark Carriline had "inexplicably" and "deliberately" delayed implementing safeguarding procedures when allegations about Carter first came to light in the spring of 2015.
Investigators said the pair had done so to help the council's ruling Labour group before the 2015 election and protect Mr Connolly from public scrutiny.
Mr Owen apologised for any errors but denied any political motivation. Mr Carriline could not be contacted.
They have both since resigned.
At an emergency meeting on Thursday, Bury councillors voted unanimously in favour of publishing the results of the reports and agreed to carry out a further investigation into councillors' conduct.
Current council leader Rishi Shori said Mr Connolly had apologised for writing on headed notepaper in support of Carter "and I think he accepts this was a terrible error of judgement".
Any "necessary action" would be taken when the investigation had been completed, he said.
Mr Rishi, who was elected in May 2016, commissioned an independent review which led to the reports.
He said: "These were individual failures by senior officers who blatantly didn't follow procedures in an unjustifiable manner.
"No child was put at risk in relation to these proceedings," he stressed, adding: "When I received the information [from a member of the public] I acted upon it decisively."
James Daly, leader of the Conservative group, said: "Yesterday was a very, very sad day for Bury Council.
"We simply cannot have in Bury the political fortunes of a party [no matter which party it is] trumping our responsibility to look after the most vulnerable children in our borough."
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The Australian Open enters the second week, Mark Chapman debates this weekend's Premier League matches and it's the World Indoor Bowls Championships men's pairs final.
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Brighton face Cardiff in the Championship with full commentary on BBC Radio 5 live, and coverage of the World Indoor Bowls Championships continues across BBC TV and online.
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The Ryder Cup veteran, 41, was set to lose his playing rights after he failed to earn the required points or prize money in the 10 events covered by his medical exemption after a foot injury.
However, the PGA Tour have decided that their rules "unintentionally made it more difficult" for injured players.
"It's a relief I can plan my schedule for the rest of 2017," Poulter said.
"Obviously I've got work to do but I'm in a very different situation today than I was yesterday."
Poulter is playing in this week's revamped New Orleans Classic team event as the invited partner of Geoff Ogilvy, who qualified for the tournament.
The duo are nine shots back after the opening three rounds, but should they win on Sunday, both will receive a two-year Tour exemption.
World number 195 Poulter had previously said he thought his struggles had been "slightly over-dramatised".
But the 2008 Open runner-up admitted that "being in kind of no-man's-land, not knowing whether you're going to play golf, is very tough".
Brian Gay of the United States is the other player to have benefited from the change.
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A two-month-old animal was found near Dorchester on Tuesday morning and a second was found nearby early the following day.
Dorset Police said it appeared that the animals had been deliberately beheaded using a sharp blade, rather than being attacked by predators.
PC Clare Dinsdale said it was "a shocking but, thankfully, rare event" and appealed for information.
Low cloud, rain and smog in Shanghai meant the helicopter was unable to land at the designated hospital.
Safety requirements dictate cars cannot run if the helicopter cannot fly.
The conditions also affected first practice, in which Red Bull's Max Verstappen was fastest during 10 minutes of running on a damp track.
The Dutchman, who was 1.5 seconds quicker than anyone else, said: "The car felt pretty good. Difficult to say [where we are] because Mercedes and Ferrari haven't run so we don't know their pace.
"But from our side it felt good and from the driver's side if the feeling is OK the speed is normally pretty good."
Valtteri Bottas was the only driver of the top two teams to set a lap time all day. The Finn was ninth quickest.
Team-mate Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari drivers Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen managed only a total of five laps between them.
As the clock ticked down, Hamilton did his best to entertain the crowd by crossing the track opposite the pits and walking in front of the main grandstand, filming for his social media accounts and signing caps which he then threw to the fans.
The forecast is better for Saturday, with dry weather predicted and occasional sunshine, and temperatures of 20C.
However, rain is due to return for race day on Sunday, with heavy downpours predicted overnight on Saturday and then fading through the morning, and temperatures of only 13-15C.
If conditions on Sunday are similar to those on Friday, the race would have to be delayed until organisers could guarantee a suitable medical evacuation method.
Chinese Grand Prix practice results in full
He said the National Rifle Association (NRA) had deliberately misrepresented proposed legislation on gun control.
The NRA declined to take part in the discussion, which it called a public relations spectacle.
Meanwhile, US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said he would eliminate gun-free zones in schools on his first day in office, if elected.
Addressing the audience at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, Mr Obama blamed the NRA and others for suggesting that "somebody's going to come grab your guns".
He said that all he was seeking to do was strengthen background checks - not seize all firearms.
Why Obama is powerless - the roadblock at Congress
Are you mad or criminal? - the question a gun seller asks
Texas women and their firearms - a photographer taught to shoot at an early age
Do tighter gun laws work? - a state where guns are a way of life
Guns at home - the question parents hate to ask before a playdate
He took questions from Taya Kyle, whose late husband, shooting victim Chris Kyle, was depicted in the film American Sniper.
Separately, in an article in the New York Times, he called gun violence a national crisis, and urged owners and firearm manufacturers to play their part in ending it.
Mr Obama added that he would not campaign for Democrats who did not back gun reforms, saying he wanted leaders brave enough to stand up to what he called the gun lobby's lies.
NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said the group had seen "no reason to participate in a public relations spectacle orchestrated by the White House".
What is the NRA?
History: The NRA was founded in 1871 with the aim of training men in marksmanship. It began lobbying on gun policy in 1975 and is now one of the most powerful special interest groups in the US.
Budget: The NRA has big coffers. It spends about $250m per year - more than all of America's gun control advocacy groups combined. About $3m of that is spent on lobbying.
Membership: The association boasts of nearly 5m members, although analysts say the figure is probably closer to 3m. Famous members have included Charlton Heston, Whoopi Goldberg, and former president George Bush Snr.
Controversy: The NRA has been widely criticised for its statements on mass shootings, including a claim in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre that a lack of armed guards at schools was to blame.
Donald Trump made his promise to end gun-free zones when he addressed a rally in Vermont.
"You know what a gun-free zone is for a sicko?" he asked the crowd. "That's bait."
Earlier this week, Mr Obama unveiled a package of executive actions aimed at keeping guns from people who should not have access to them.
These involve
Leading US Republicans denounced the move.
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said the executive orders, which bypass Congress, "undermined liberty" and would be challenged in court.
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The youngest on the shortlist, Marten uses sculpture, screen printing and writing to create her work.
The prestigious prize is awarded to a British artist, under the age of 50, considered to have put on the best exhibition of the past year.
It is the second prize in a month for Marten, who also won the inaugural Hepworth Prize.
The 31-year-old painter and sculptor brings together a range of handmade and recognisable objects from everyday life in her installations.
A collection of her work on display at Tate Britain in London as part of the Turner Prize exhibition include works made from cotton buds, marbles, snooker chalk and bicycle chains.
Accepting her prize from poet Ben Okri, Marten said she "wasn't expecting" to win and that she could not think of "a more brilliant and exciting shortlist of artists to be part of".
The London-based artist, who is from Macclesfield, faced competition from Anthea Hamilton, Michael Dean and Josephine Pryde for the prize, the aim of which is to "promote public debate around new developments in contemporary art".
The runners-up each receive £5,000.
Marten was nominated for projects including Lunar Nibs at the 56th Venice Biennale and her solo exhibition Eucalyptus Let Us In at Greene Naftali in New York.
In November, as she won the Hepworth Prize for sculpture, she announced she intended to share the £30,000 money with her four fellow nominees.
She told the BBC she also planned to share the Turner Prize money.
Addressing the ceremony, Sir Nicholas Serota, outgoing director of the Tate galleries, said: "At a time when there are fears that we in the UK may be becoming more insular and more inward-looking as a nation, the Turner Prize reminds us that art opens us to new ideas.
"We need to encourage such openness in a society that faces many challenges."
He stressed arts and humanities need to play a central role in the UK education system and should not be "pushed to the margin", adding the arts were "part of our DNA as a nation".
The prize's jury was chaired by Alex Farquharson, director of Tate Britain, who described Marten as a "kind of poet".
The jury said her work "is outstanding for its extraordinary range of materials and form".
"It doesn't present you with an easy, simple, static view of itself," Farquharson added.
"The work is like reading very rich, very enjoyable, very elusive, quite enigmatic poetry - rather than a very clear report on what happened in a newspaper.
"I think the thing is to enjoy it for its visual qualities, its physical qualities, and get lost in the game of meaning and games of composition that it offers up."
Analysis by Will Gompertz, BBC arts editor
For someone who says she would prefer her work to do the talking, Helen Marten is spending a lot of time in the limelight.
Last month she made national news as the winner of the inaugural Hepworth Prize for sculpture, to which she has now added one of the world's highest profile art accolades, the Turner Prize.
At 31 years old, she was the youngest artist on the shortlist - and, also, the most difficult to fathom in terms of her work.
Her hybrid sculptures, made out of materials both found and fabricated, form a complex tableau of ideas and associations. They are poetic puzzles that question meaning and assumption, and require an almost archaeological mind-set to solve.
She wants to jolt you, provoke you, throw you off balance.
Read more from Will
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The former Lib Dem leader said voters had "played safe" by backing the Tories to prevent a Labour/SNP government.
He said he would have quit as leader a year before polling day if he thought it would have made a difference.
And he had "no regrets" about coalition with the Tories, in his first interview since standing down as leader.
Mr Clegg said he feared David Cameron was undoing much of what his party achieved in coalition and that the Conservative Party had also been "gobsmacked" by the election, which he said they had not expected to win.
The Lib Dem leader said his first reaction on seeing the exit poll predicting the near-wipe out of his party, was to reach for a cigarette for the first time in months.
His initial disbelief at the poll's predictions quickly turned to despair and a "grim realisation that this was going to be an absolutely terrible night".
He worried first about whether he would retain his own seat before realising he had to "take responsibility" and began to call close colleagues, such as Danny Alexander and David Laws, to discuss the results and how badly the pollsters had got it wrong.
He said it had been a "strange" election campaign and although the party had not remotely expected to do as badly as it did they felt the Conservative strategy of talking up the prospect of Labour/SNP government was having a big effect in England.
"Ten days before the election day all of us really felt a Labour government dancing to the tune of the SNP really chilled the English heart," he told presenter Nick Ferrari.
Asked about reports in The Guardian that he had considered quitting as leader a year earlier, after his party's disastrous results in local and European election results, he said he did not believe "changing personnel at the top of the party " would have changed the general election result.
The former deputy prime minister denied he had destroyed his party, which saw its number of MPs reduced from 56 to just eight, insisting it would bounce back.
But he said they had paid the price for "putting country before party" in 2010.
Asked what the party had achieved in government, he said: "We had a strong and stable government, anchored in the centre ground for five years at a time of outright economic peril."
But he was concerned the Conservatives were now pursuing an "illiberal, punitive" approach to issues like child poverty and protecting the poor from welfare cuts.
He had been most proud of figures suggesting the "attainment gap" in schools was closing, with poorer pupils doing better, something he claimed was a direct result of Lib Dem policies such as "the pupil premium".
And the thing he most missed about being deputy prime minister was "making decisions" that would improve the country.
Asked a question suggested by former sparring partner Nigel Farage - if he regretted winning his Sheffield Hallam seat - Mr Clegg said he wanted to serve his constituents for the next five years and play an active role in the debate on Europe and other issues he cared about.
But, as for his future, he said would "take it one Parliament at a time".
Mr Clegg had to be persuaded to carry on as Lib Dem leader a full 12 months before the general election, according to The Guardian.
But was talked in to staying on by Lord Ashdown and Tim Farron, who is now bidding to be the party's next leader.
Mr Farron told The Guardian that when he spoke to Mr Clegg after the 2014 local and European polls he found him "just distraught about everything" and "he felt personally every single loss".
"I just thought this could end up in a bloodbath and we're far better off sticking with the captain who has done nothing to deserve this," he said.
Magdalen College acquired a 50% share held by M&G Real Estate for £18.1m, giving it 100% control of Oxford Science Park.
More than 60 companies, employing more than 2,400 people, are based at the park, south of Oxford city centre.
The college said it had "ambitious plans" for 300,000 sq ft (28,000 sq m) of new office and laboratory space.
Oxford Science Park opened in 1991 to accommodate science and technology businesses and support innovation and development.
Current tenants at the park include Amey, IBM, Oxford Nanopore, Sharp Laboratories and TripAdvisor.
They have now won the event every time since its introduction in 1988, although Russia won the World Championships in 2015.
But the favourites proved too strong, only dropping points in the final set.
Beforehand, Chinese Taipei took the bronze, beating Italy by five set points to three.
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Fawzi Barhoum was quoted as saying the visit by Ziad al-Bandak, adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, was "unjustified and unhelpful".
He also called the Holocaust an "alleged tragedy", media reports say.
Hamas spokesmen have previously described the Holocaust as fabricated.
More than a million people, mainly Jews, were murdered at Auschwitz, part of some six million Jews killed in the Nazi genocide during World War II.
Mr Bandak visited the camp late last month and paid his respects there to the dead.
Mr Barhoum is quoted in media reports as saying the visit is at "the expense of the true Palestinian tragedy".
A comment piece published by the Hamas-run Filastin newspaper also criticised Mr Bandak's visit.
"What is the wisdom in such a simple step that supports the Jews and their crimes?... Neither the Jews nor we believe that Hitler killed six millions Jews," the article read.
In 2009 the Hamas-led administration in the Gaza Strip resisted attempts to introduce lessons about the Holocaust in UN-run schools.
Lachlan returns to the Murdoch empire as co-chairman of News Corp and 21st Century Fox, having previously stood back to focus on his own businesses.
Meanwhile, younger son James was appointed co-chief operating officer at 21st Century Fox.
After the phone hacking scandal, James quit as executive chairman of News International in 2012.
News Corp is one of the world's biggest media organisations, and owns newspaper titles The Times, Sun, and the Wall Street Journal.
News Corp split from 21st Century Fox in 2013. The business owns broadcaster Fox News in the US and British Sky Broadcasting in the UK.
Rupert Murdoch, who went through a high-profile split with wife Wendi Deng last year, said Lachlan was a "talented executive" with a "rich" knowledge of the business.
Lachlan will report to Chase Carey, chief executive at 21st Century Fox.
Rupert said: "I am very pleased he is returning to a leadership role at the company, where he will look closely with me, Chase, James and rest of the board of directors to drive continued growth for years to come."
He also said he was "pleased" to promote James into the "important role".
There is reportedly no new role for the third sibling, Elisabeth Murdoch, however, who sought to distance herself from James after the phone hacking scandal.
The YouTube footage showed the rickshaw driver admitting he had charged the family after taking them less than a mile from Oxford Circus to Marble Arch.
Two police officers are also shown telling the driver on Wednesday he was "ripping-off" tourists.
However, the driver is not thought to have broken any laws.
A spokesman for the Mayor's office said: "The mayor has serious concerns about the pedicab trade and is lobbying the government for new legislation that would give Transport for London (TfL) powers to regulate them, powers they don't legally possess at the moment.
"This video only adds weight to his determination to make that happen. It is shocking and utterly disgraceful that pedicab drivers appear to be taking advantage of customers in this way."
The New West End Company, which represents businesses in Oxford Street and Regent Street, said the video meant it could "no longer ignore the damage unregulated rip-off transport is doing to London's global reputation".
It said it strongly supported regulation for rickshaws and said last week the government had indicated it was considering a draft bill to ensure that happened.
In the clip the family is clearly unhappy about the price the rickshaw driver has charged them for the ride. One of the party, a young boy who does not speak fluent English, stretches out his hand and asks for his money back saying: "give me, give me."
A passerby approaches when he hears the commotion and asks where the driver picked the family up from. The driver initially replies Piccadilly Circus, but later tells a police officer that it was from Oxford Circus to Marble Arch.
The passerby and says "that is wrong" but the driver restates the price as £206 and says "there's our price list", as he points to the side of his rickshaw. When challenged again he insists "look at our price list."
A police officer tells the rickshaw driver "You're ripping them off, aren't you? £206." The driver responds: "Look at the price list, they are four people."
A second police officer says: "£206 for 10 minutes? I suggest that is not very fair."
The driver responds: "We talked about the price and I said to their father [who was absent during filming] that it's £10 a minute."
The first police officer says: "You've given them a service, OK, they're foreign tourists, now you're blatantly ripping them off."
He continues: "You're blatantly ripping them off because you know that one minute in here [indicating to the rickshaw] is not £20 worth of money, you know that."
The dispute continued but the taxi driver filming it returned to his cab because customers had appeared.
The Met Police refused to comment, saying it was a civil matter.
Richard Long, a black cab driver who was parked in a nearby taxi rank, overheard the beginning of the dispute at about 15:00 BST on Wednesday and filmed it on his mobile phone.
He said he thought it was "outrageous" but he believed tourists being overcharged by rickshaw drivers "happens regularly".
Westminster City Council urged the government to regulate pedicabs and said: "We are truly shocked at the audacity shown in this video.
"We have long argued for greater regulation and licensing on rickshaws, not only to avoid clear rip offs like this, but to reduce congestion and improve safety on our streets."
Friedel Schroder, chairman of the London Pedicabs Operators Association (LPOA), said the operator did not belong to his organisation.
His members had signed up to a code of conduct. He also said LPOA had been warning the authorities of this rip-off practice for more than 15 years.
Froome, 31, was over six minutes behind the Dutch winner on a tortuous stage in the Pyrenees but finished alongside his main rivals, including fellow Briton Adam Yates, who stays in second place.
In heavy rain, Dumoulin (Team Giant-Alpecin) finished 38 seconds ahead of Rui Costa and Rafal Majka in Andorra.
Earlier, two-time Tour winner Alberto Contador quit the race through illness.
Yates, 23, remains in the young riders' white jersey, while Mark Cavendish is still in the sprinters' green jersey despite a day spent at the back of the peloton.
After the 184.5km stage, which started in Spain and comprised three category one climbs and the first mountain-top finish this year, the riders will take a rest day on Monday before resuming on Tuesday.
In the race for the king of the mountains, France's Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) took the polka dot jersey from Poland's Majka (Tinkoff).
Dumoulin's victory came courtesy of a classic breakaway from a large group of riders, which reduced in numbers but kept the peloton at least five minutes behind them on a day when temperatures soared to 35C.
With no general classification contenders among them, Team Sky and others hoping to make a yellow jersey challenge did not narrow the gap, which increased to eight minutes at the bottom of the last climb up to Andorre Arcalis.
Polka dot jersey holder Majka and Pinot were neck and neck with Dumoulin, but the Team Giant-Alpecin rider burst up the hors category climb and quickly established a lead which his rivals could not close as a downpour began.
The 25-year-old is renowned as a time-trialist but his first Tour de France win means he has now won a stage in each of the three Grand Tours, which includes Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a Espana.
He said: "I am so tired I cannot speak, it was an incredible day and it was so, so hard but I did it.
"It's very, very special [to win on all three Grand Tours]. I'm of course a time-trial specialist but I showed that I can do more."
Despite a third consecutive days in the Pyrenees, defending champion Froome had a relatively stress-free day as his main general classification contenders failed to break free from the peloton for most of the stage.
But as the field became stretched up the final ascent, there were attacks from rivals including Yates, Movistar's Nairo Quintana, BMC's Richie Porte and Ireland's Daniel Martin of Etixx-QuickStep, all of which the two-time winner coped with in pouring rain.
The biggest threat seemed to come from roadside fans, who ignored Froome's pleas to stay out of the way after he came into contact with one of them on Saturday.
New Zealand rider George Bennett (LottoNL-Jumbo) collided with one supporter as he descended towards the end of the stage, but neither party was hurt.
Froome, who had taken the yellow jersey after an unexpected attack on stage eight, said: "That was a tough old day out there, going from the extreme heat to a hailstorm at the finish and 10C.
"In the back of my mind I was waiting for [Quintana's] attack all the way up the last climb. I thought he was saving it for one big one, but that never came. I would like to think he was on his limit.
"He just stuck to my wheel like glue. He seems to be going well but right now he's not showing any more than anyone else.
"The [Team Sky] guys have done everything, they have ridden from start to finish and I couldn't be in a better place right now - although the others are right up there in contention."
Spain's Contador - the 2007 and 2009 winner who crashed twice in the opening two stages - had been suffering from a fever and got off his bike with about 104km left of Sunday's stage.
The Tinkoff rider started the day more than three minutes behind leader Froome, but quit the race after dropping back four times to talk with his team during the stage.
After a record run of seven stages without any withdrawals - with the first on stage eight - Sunday saw several abandonments, including that of Mark Renshaw, one of Cavendish's lead-out men for Team Dimension Data.
Froome said of Contador's departure: "We are not going to have to chase his attacks 100km out any more. It's one less thing for us to worry about, but it's maybe a shame for the race."
1. Tom Dumoulin (Ned / Giant) 5hrs 16mins 24 secs
2. Rui Costa (Por / Lampre) +38secs
3. Rafal Majka (Pol / Tinkoff) same time
4. Daniel Navarro (Spa / Cofidis) +1min 39secs
5. Winner Anacona (Col / Movistar) +1min 57secs
6. Thibaut Pinot (Fra / FDJ) +2mins 30sec
7. George Bennett (NZ / LottoNL) +2mins 48sec
8. Diego Rosa (Ita / Astana) +2mins 52secs
9. Mathias Frank (Swi / IAM Cycling) +3mins 45secs
10. Adam Yates (GB / Orica-BikeExchange) +6mins 35secs
1. Chris Froome (GB / Team Sky) 44 hrs 36mins 3secs
2. Adam Yates (GB / Orica) +16secs
3. Daniel Martin (Ire / Etixx - Quick-Step) +19seccs
4. Nairo Quintana (Col / Movistar) +23secs
5. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa / Katusha) +37secs
6. Romain Bardet (Fra / AG2R) +44secs
7. Bauke Mollema (Ned / Trek) same time
8. Sergio Henao (Col / Team Sky)
9. Louis Meintjes (RSA / Lampre) +55secs
10. Alejandro Valverde (Spain / Movistar) +1min 1secs
The colt, trained in France by Jean-Claude Rouget, won the French Derby,Irish Champion Stakes and Champion Stakes at Ascot in 2016.
He had been training as a four-year-old with the aim of running in October's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, but finished only fifth at Deauville last Tuesday.
"It was not an easy decision to take," said Sylvain Vidal, racing manager for part-owner Gerard Augustin-Normand.
"But everyone was in 100% agreement that it was the right thing to do.
"The plan was to go to the Arc, but after his performance last week we could not have gone there expecting to win.
"He was a very good horse and was the best three-year-old in Europe. He has done everything he needs to do on a racecourse."
Almanzor won eight times in 11 starts and earned more than £2.1m in prize money.
Stud details will be announced in the coming weeks.
Prof Venki Ramakrishnan said the science of genetic modification had been misunderstood by the public and it was time to set the record straight.
He said it was inappropriate to ban an "entire technology" and products should be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
But opponents say GM crop technology is untested and the ban should remain.
Prof Ramakrishnan said that the blanket ban on GM crops by European countries was misconceived.
His comments coincide with a guide published by the Royal Society, which describes itself as the UK's independent scientific academy, for the general public.
"GM is simply a technology for introducing a particular set of traits into a plant. And you have to decide on a case-by-case basis which of those traits are appropriate or not," he told BBC News.
"You should regulate each product, which should be properly tested for its health and environmental effects."
GM foods are not on sale in supermarkets and nor are they commercially grown in Europe for human consumption.
The Royal Society guide sets out to answer 18 key questions that it obtained from focus groups. These include:
The answers have been produced by an expert group of researchers who have drawn on evidence from scientific studies. The answers acknowledge areas of uncertainty and some of the technology's drawbacks.
The guide's stated intent is to provide clear, unbiased information on the science of GM crops.
It states that GM crops are safe to eat, though it acknowledges that they can cross breed with non-GM varieties and there might be unexpected and untoward side-effects.
Prof Ramakrishnan acknowledged there were some "legitimate worries".
One he said was the fear that a small number of multinational corporations would monopolise food production.
This could in turn lead to the loss of thousands of varieties of fruits, vegetables and cereals unless the technology was properly regulated.
"We should not conflate the issue of GM's reputation with its potential," he said.
"I hope the whole thing gets put on a more rational footing.
"With a growing world population - with a projected need for 50% more food by 2050 - I don't think we can afford to give up on useful technologies especially to help poorer countries have a reliable and nutritious source of food."
'One-sided'
In a statement, the Soil Association said it believed that the Royal Society guide was neither neutral nor unbiased as it claims.
"Everyone knows that there are at least some scientific controversies, and disagreements about evidence concerning GM crops. None of these are mentioned in the Royal Society document," the statement read.
"This may not be surprising, given that there are no scientists who have consistently expressed scepticism about the application of GM technology to agriculture listed among the authors.
"Scientific enquiry normally proceeds by open discussion of disagreements about evidence - the Royal Society's involvement in GM has been consistently one-sided, ignoring scientists with dissenting views, and overlooking facts which do not fit with the views of supporters of GM crops."
An analysis of 900 pieces of published research into GM technology by the US National Academy of Sciences concluded that GM food was safe to eat - though it did highlight some environmental concerns.
Prof Ramakrishnan said he recognised that the answers in the Royal Society guide would not end the controversy.
"But we hope that they will inform people about the science and allow those who might previously have felt excluded from the discussion to form a view," he said.
The Royal Society will hold a series of public panel discussion events (Growing tomorrow's dinner - should GM be on the table?) across the UK during the summer and autumn.
It said there was "insufficient evidence" to bring corporate liability charges against News Group or charges against 10 individuals at Mirror Group.
Piers Morgan, ex-Daily Mirror editor, who was questioned about phone-hacking allegations, welcomed the news.
News UK, parent company of News Group Newspapers, said "the right decision has been taken" by the CPS.
The police investigation into phone hacking began in 2011 and uncovered "a vast number" of victims.
It began the saga that led to the conviction of the former News of the World Editor Andy Coulson, the closure of the 168-year-old News of the World and moves to change the way newspapers are regulated.
A total of 12 prosecutions for offences relating to phone hacking were brought and there had been nine convictions, the CPS said.
Coulson, a former spokesman for No 10, was jailed for 18 months for conspiracy to hack phones in July 2014.
In a statement, the CPS said corporate criminal liability could not be attributed to the company through Coulson's actions because he could not be considered to have been the "controlling mind and will" of News Group.
It also said the call data it had looked at from Mirror Group Newspapers could not be proven to be "definite instances of phone hacking", nor shown to have been carried out by particular individuals.
The News of the World closed down in 2011 after its owners, Rupert Murdoch's News International - now named News UK - admitted the scale of hacking that had been going on, dating back many years. There had been a public outcry over reports that Milly Dowler, a teenager who was abducted and murdered, had her voicemails hacked.
Coulson and former editor Rebekah Brooks were charged with conspiracy to intercept mobile voicemails alongside others connected to the newspaper.
Mrs Brooks, who returned as News UK's chief executive this year, was cleared of all charges.
Since the News of the World closed in 2011, there's been an intense focus on the behaviour of Scotland Yard - where three senior figures resigned - on politicians, and on journalists.
First there was Leveson; an inquiry which imperilled, briefly, Jeremy Hunt's cabinet career and embarrassed David Cameron - a prime minister once prone to signing off texts LOL.
Then came the Old Bailey trial which ended with Rebekah Brooks walking free and her former lover, Andy Coulson, a convicted criminal. Hacking, we learned, had been carried out on an industrial scale at their old paper between 2004 and 2006.
The victims, nearly 300 of them, included the then Kate Middleton, targeted on Christmas Day and Valentine's Day, and four senior members of Tony Blair's government.
For years, despite growing evidence to the contrary, the NoW's publisher stuck to the lie that hacking was the work of a single rogue reporter. Now, Rupert Murdoch's company insists it has apologised, paid compensation, and reformed.
Eight people whose phones were hacked by Mirror Group journalists - including Sadie Frost, Paul Gascoigne, and Shane Richie - won damages totalling more than £1.25m earlier this year. Mirror Group has appealed against the decision.
Dozens more claims are expected to be heard next year.
Solicitors representing phone-hacking victims said civil cases against both Mirror Group and News Group were "absolutely not" affected by the CPS decision.
Director of public prosecutions Alison Saunders said: "These decisions bring the CPS's involvement in current investigations into phone hacking to a close."
A Metropolitan Police statement highlighted the nine convictions resulting from its investigations.
Assistant commissioner Patricia Gallan said: "Those that suffered from having their phones hacked included those who were already victims of crime, and all were greatly affected by the intrusion into their personal lives and the mistrust and paranoia it caused."
Mr Morgan tweeted: "As I've said since the investigation began four years ago, I've never hacked a phone and nor have I ever told anybody to hack a phone.
"Thanks to all my family & friends, and kind people on here, for all their support. It was greatly appreciated.
"I'm now going to get spectacularly drunk. Happy Christmas."
News UK, formally News International, which publishes newspapers the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times, said: "We now relish the chance to focus fully on what this company does best - world class professional journalism."
Former NoW deputy editor Neil Wallis, who was found not guilty of conspiring to hack phones, said police had been right to investigate "morally indefensible" behaviour but the investigation had been disproportionate and cost millions of pounds.
But Prof Brian Cathcart, the founder of the press standards campaign Hacked Off, said it was "not over".
"It is not acceptable that companies like this can walk away scot-free," he said.
"We are not safe from these companies unless people are made accountable."
A victim of phone hacking, the TV presenter Anne Diamond, said the investigation had led to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and a "change of culture".
She told the BBC: "Hacking did stop, some individuals did go to prison - for once the tabloid papers were afraid to act in the reprehensible way they did... so, it hasn't all been pointless. A lot has been achieved."
Phone hacking was a technique used to listen to people's mobile voicemail.
It was used by newspaper staff to target people in the news - celebrities, politicians and crime victims - so they could find angles on stories that would get them ahead of the competition.
They would listen to private messages left on voicemail, make a recording of them, and use the information to help write stories.
Of the nine convictions related to phone hacking, six were News of the World journalists, one had worked as a journalist at the News of the World and the Sunday Mirror, one was a private investigator working for the News of the World and one was a Sunday Mirror journalist.
News Group Newspapers was investigated for corporate liability as part of Operation Weeting, with prosecutors considering potential charges for phone hacking and perverting the course of justice.
The CPS said in a prosecution for corporate liability it would have to prove the involvement of someone with the "controlling mind or will" of the company, which it said it could not do for either charge.
It said the company's decision to settle the civil cases brought against it could not be seen as actions which could pervert the course of justice either and there was no evidence to suggest emails were deleted to pervert the course of justice.
As part of Operation Golding, the CPS looked into allegations of phone hacking against 10 individuals at Mirror Group Newspapers.
The CPS said it had looked at call data from the group which showed a "regular pattern" of two calls being placed to the same number and a large number of calls to voicemail numbers, but it could not prove these were "definite instances of phone hacking".
Additionally, it could not prove the calls were made by particular individuals as Mirror Group journalists often used each other's phones.
The Eurosceptic Conservative peer said the prime minister's efforts probably will not deliver "fundamental change".
Lord Lawson told BBC Newsnight the PM promised to hold an in/out referendum "largely" to keep the Tories together.
Speaking on the eve of the anniversary of the 1975 referendum, he feels the UK will vote to stay in and "regret it".
Lord Lawson said: "I think it's likely that the changes that David Cameron will secure will be inconsequential, of no significance at all.... but given the authority he has and the lack of a credible opposition leader I think it will be the same result."
He added there "isn't anybody" he can see who would be an effective leader of the campaign for an EU exit.
Last week, the prime minister began meeting European leaders as he tried to gather support for changes he wants before holding the UK's EU membership referendum, a vote which is to take place by the end of 2017.
Tighter rules on migrants' benefits are a priority for the Conservatives, as they want to control immigration from the EU.
Mr Cameron also wants an opt-out from the EU pledge of "ever closer union" and more influence for national parliaments over European laws.
Lord Lawson told Newsnight there was "a very small outside chance that he might achieve something of significance" but it was more likely to be "trivial".
He added that "in the short term, the next few years the PM will have bought peace in the Tory party".
On Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was confident conditions can be created for the UK to stay in the EU.
"It's not about losing sleep over this, but about doing our work and creating the necessary preconditions for Britain to remain in the EU," she told the BBC.
Mrs Merkel said: "There are other points where we have a different opinion, but we have always been able also to pursue a Europe at different speeds, to find opt-out solutions for example."
Meanwhile, a survey for think tank British Future suggests most people have still not made up their minds on which way to vote in the referendum.
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The online poll of 3,977 people across Britain found fewer than a third have firmly made a decision.
Only 16% of those questioned said they were definitely in favour of staying in the EU, while 12% said definitely in favour of leaving.
Of those surveyed, 31% said they were leaning towards staying and 28% towards leaving but they would want to see the final conditions of any deal Mr Cameron could secure with Brussels.
The county's Crop Circle Information and Coordination Centre (CICC) said they had only seen 25 so far this year - 15 fewer than usual for the period.
A decline in the man-made act and a late harvest have both been blamed.
Charles Mallet, from the centre, said he wished amateur crop circlers would quit because they were "clouding a genuine and real phenomenon".
He said: "The whole situation has become massively polluted over the last 10 years or so, to the degree where the real issue is clouded by huge amounts of organised crime and vandalism.
"These people are effectively creeping onto private land and vandalising it. Farmers are extremely angry about this."
In a bid to appease landowners, the centre has backed a crowd-funding campaign to sell "access passes" with money raised going towards compensating affected farmers.
So far it has raised about £1,900 towards a targeted £35,600.
Derren Heath, landlord of the Barge Inn near Pewsey, said local businesses depended on tourists coming to see the crop circles.
He added that tourists would spend time in the area to also visit the stone circles in Stonehenge and Avebury as well as West Kennet Long Barrow and Silbury Hill.
"We have had visitors from Norway, France, Spain in the last year - from everywhere in the world they come here," he said.
"They are going to stay here for a week and take in absolutely everything, so it brings a massive amount of money into the area."
But man-made crop circles are often unpopular among the landowners who have their crops targeted.
Ben Butler, a farmer from Avebury, said hundreds of pounds of damage was being done to his land every year.
"Farming over the last 12 months has been very hard due to the weather, so the crops were not established well last autumn, and now we've got criminal damage in the field," he said.
"Probably over the last 20 years we would see at least two formations on our farm every year.
"What that brings is the issue of people entering your field - nobody asks, they just come as they like.
"I wouldn't walk into someone's garden without asking so why should they be allowed to walk in the field without asking."
There have been gains and losses the length and breadth of the country, and a massive question mark hangs over what happens next at Westminster.
Alistair Carmichael summed it up during his victory speech in Orkney and Shetland: "The people have spoken, but it's not yet exactly clear what they've said."
So what do the results mean for the big issues in Scotland?
The UK is heading into a hung parliament, with no clear winner of the election.
The Conservatives are the largest party, with Labour a bit behind them. Both have increased their cohort north of the border - the Tories particularly so, with their best showing since 1983. All of those new MPs are important; whoever ends up forming a government is going to need every vote they can get.
Theresa May has indicated she will take first crack at getting a Queen's Speech through parliament; it seems likely that without the 12 seats she picked up north of the border, it would have proved an impossibility.
And despite losing more than 20 seats, the SNP are still comfortably the third largest party in the UK - and could end up playing a major role. They could potentially even be king-makers, should Mrs May's attempts to form a government fall apart.
Talk of formal coalitions was scotched in the latter days of the campaign, but Nicola Sturgeon has expressed an interest in her party working with Jeremy Corbyn's Labour on an "issue by issue basis".
Expect chaotic days to come, but the SNP are well placed to potentially play a pivotal role.
The SNP have won a majority of seats in Scotland. Despite a frequently painful night, they have won the election.
Their manifesto says this gives them a "triple lock" mandate to hold a second independence referendum. But will they want to, at this point?
Avowedly unionist parties have won more than 60% of the vote. While the dethroned Alex Salmond reckons a lot of Yes voters backed Jeremy Corbyn's Labour, indyref2 is going to be a pretty tough sell in the immediate future.
Ruth Davidson, who had as good a night as any leader in the country, has proclaimed it "dead" - although she, of course, would.
Nicola Sturgeon says she will reflect, but that triple lock is in truth on her as much as anyone else. She doesn't want to hold a referendum until she thinks she can win, but has she now painted herself into a corner with her party's base?
For that matter, could indyref2 end up playing a part in any potential agreement with a prospective UK government?
Nicola Sturgeon insists this is still a win for the SNP, despite the painful loss of Angus Robertson, her depute leader, and Alex Salmond, her mentor.
To start with, her leadership is not in doubt. A few sleep-deprived souls may have speculated wildly in the dead of the night as strongholds were toppled, but Ms Sturgeon remains unassailable at the top of the party.
But who will lead the troops at Westminster, now Mr Robertson is gone?
He was an increasingly impressive figure during the term cut short by the snap election, turning in polished performances at the weekly sessions of PMQs. His are rather large shoes to fill.
And with a lot of the more convincing candidates for the role also getting the boot, who is left?
Pete Wishart is now the party's longest-serving and most experienced MP, albeit a fairly divisive figure. Tommy Sheppard is popular with the grass roots, and Patrick Grady has had some standout moments. Joanna Cherry is often put forward to represent the party - could she be a possibility?
Stephen Gethins, an impressive performer in his two years as an MP so far, was a late addition to that list after he scraped home by almost the slimmest possible margin.
It's a discussion the party will really wish they didn't have to be having.
Ruth Davidson ended the night as the most successful Conservative leader in the UK.
Theresa May's gamble failed. Even the Daily Mail, perhaps the biggest Tory cheerleader in the Scottish press, are calling it "a night of humiliation". To contrast, it was a night of triumph for Ms Davidson's troops.
In all, the Tories made gains in 20 seats across the UK - 12 of them were in Scotland. In a parliament of paper-thin margins, those seats could make a huge difference.
The Tories have had their best result north of the border since 1983. They overturned some enormous SNP majorities, and knocked off some leading nationalists.
Ms Davidson has turned the party from electoral whipping boys into the second force in Scotland, and has now racked up a hat-trick of successes - at Holyrood, in local elections and now at Westminster.
And even in the aftermath, the Scottish party leader outshone her boss.
As Theresa May grimaced outside Downing Street while scarcely mentioning the election, Ms Davidson was rallying the troops, admitting the party "fell short of expectations" and pledging to build consensus.
She also made what seemed like an open policy intervention, calling for an "open Brexit, not a closed one", and tweeted a subtle dig at the DUP, her party's proposed Westminster partners.
It appears Ms Davidson has elected to roll up her sleeves and get involved. The party would dearly love to have her among the new cohort of MPs heading to Westminster.
It's been a good night for Scottish Labour. They came in with few expectations, but have reclaimed seats in many of their old heartlands in Fife and Glasgow.
Yes, they are in third place in Scotland, behind the Tories - a fairly unimaginable position as recently as 2014. But they are still hailing a "remarkable" result, given the hammering they took in 2015.
The party are hoping they are now emerging into the light at the end of a particularly dark tunnel.
But, some might ask, is this revival more down to Kez, or Jez? (That's Kezia Dugdale and Jeremy Corbyn to you).
Mr Corbyn's future seems assured. You would broadly expect the same to be true of Ms Dugdale, but it's worth remembering that she was at best a late convert to the Corbyn cause. Some of the UK leader's allies in the Scottish party have not forgotten her endorsement of his leadership rival Owen Smith.
But assuming all remains rosy in the Labour garden, will Ms Dugdale now have a chance to press through her plans for a federal UK?
The Scottish Lib Dems have rather propped the party up - three of their eight gains came north of the border.
It was a mixed night for the party overall, with Vince Cable returning to parliament, but Nick Clegg leaving.
Jo Swinson is another returning heavyweight, having reclaimed her old East Dunbartonshire seat from the SNP. Some have even speculated that she might be a future party leader.
There are some other experienced figures among the new Scottish cohort - Christine Jardine was an advisor in the coalition government, and Jamie Stone has now held more or less every elected position there is, from local councillor to MSP to MP.
They also produced perhaps the most dramatic moment of the night, when they missed out on North East Fife by two votes after a triple-recount. We might not have heard the end of that - the party is taking legal advice.
Even leaving indyref2 to one side, there are all sorts of constitutional questions looming.
Labour had a good night in Wales, winning 28 of the 40 seats. And Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones has called for the Barnett formula which underpins the financial side of devolution, to be scrapped. The other bits of Labour are opposed to that, but are calling for a "constitutional convention" to seek a more federal UK. Even if Labour doesn't end up in government the Welsh wing has undoubtedly strengthened its voice.
There's also the matter of English Votes for English Laws. We don't know for certain exactly who's going to end up in government at this stage, but with margins razor-thin the party in power will need their Scottish cohort in many parliamentary votes.
And what about Brexit? The big issue which was supposedly the catalyst for this election?
Whoever ends up leading the government will end up leading the Brexit negotiations, which start in a mere ten days. But the loss of so many seats may have damaged Nicola Sturgeon's claims for influence. If she was unable to exert much influence over the process with 56 (or 54) MPs, how will she fare with 34?
The answer is again rooted in who ends up in Downing Street, and how approachable they prove. Could Ms Sturgeon demand a place at the negotiating table, in exchange for her MPs propping up the government?
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The 35-year-old stand-off finished his league career less than a month ago - in Leeds Rhinos' treble-securing Super League Grand Final win against Wigan.
He has already begun training with the Championship union outfit.
"I'd love a run, but maybe it's a bit early," Sinfield told BBC Radio Leeds.
"Out of respect for the team, and the two lads with the [number 10] shirt it's probably the right thing that I didn't, given I've had a week's training."
Sinfield added that if coach Bryan Redpath said he could play 20 minutes of a match he would "snap his hand off".
As Sinfield comes into union with enthusiasm and hunger, there is speculation surrounding fellow code convert Sam Burgess and his future in the 15-man game.
While Sinfield is at the tail end of a glittering career for club and country, Burgess is at a crossroads, as brother Thomas acknowledged in a BBC Sport interview.
Burgess, 26, was controversially picked as a centre for England during the recent World Cup after switching codes in 2014.
There have been several reports about him being lured back to the 13-a-side code.
"Other league players who made the switch, they all take differing times," Sinfield said.
"Me and Sam are very different, and I think he's done extremely well. To play in a World Cup after 12 months is remarkable, and Sam will do what's right for him.
"I know there's a lot of speculation, I think if he were to join any Super League club it would only be the Rhinos, but I'm aware of the interest from the NRL, particularly South Sydney, a place that's close to his heart - we'll see what happens.
"Whether he decides to stay or not, he'll show everyone what a fantastic rugby player he is."
The challenge for Sinfield is adapting to new surroundings, a new group of team-mates and a new code of rugby which has unfamiliar nuances.
Though he is a fan of union, he has spent all of his 21 years at Leeds in the 13-man game.
Sinfield says the most difficult thing is "a combination of walking into the new dressing room, I've not done it since I was 13, as you're never quite sure if you'll be accepted, and then trying to build some of the friendships you need to go out on the field".
"Building trust and honesty takes a period of time," he added.
"I'm trying to make up for time with lads who have 15 or 20 years. Everybody's aware I'll make mistakes and get things wrong, but hopefully the positives I'll bring will outweigh the negatives.
"The two 10s Joel [Hodgson] and Harry [Leonard] spend a lot of time with me, they've been fantastic with me, at the moment they've got the shirts and are playing brilliantly."
Much like Burgess' arrival at Bath last season, Sinfield has gone straight from the rigours of a Super League season into a union campaign.
And it was not just any league season, but one that ended with the Challenge Cup, League Leaders' Shield and the Super League title all secured in style by the Rhinos.
"The finish we had rejuvenated me, we won three trophies, the last three weeks of the season were incredible," Sinfield added.
"To finish with that I then had a week away in the sunshine and rest with the kids, and a change is as good as a rest.
"I'm ready to get cracking, it's very different but that doesn't mean it's not fun or I'm not going to make a success of it."
The document includes improvements to equipment already in use as well as proposals for new technologies.
The list includes lasers and heat beams designed to disperse crowds, and nausea-inducing sound waves targeted at scuba divers.
Experts said the document acted as a "sales pitch" for continued funding.
The list - named the Non-Lethal Weapons Reference Book - is said to have been produced by the US Department of Defense's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD).
A copy of the report was obtained andpublished by "anti-secrecy" site Public Intelligence. The organisation has a track record of publishing US government documents relating to national security.
A spokeswoman for the US Department of Defense said she could neither confirm nor deny the document's authenticity.
Running to over 100 pages, the report details the characteristics of each weapon - as well as possible collateral damage and the policy implications of its use.
Typical effects of the weapons on the human body include temporary blindness, deafness and loss of movement.
One example, the Impulse Swimmer Gun, is described as being able to "suppress underwater swimmers and divers". It says an "underwater pulsed sound wave" affects a diver's hearing causing severe nausea.
The report noted "impact on aquatic life" as possible collateral damage. The weapon is marked as being in the "developmental" stage.
Of the more outlandish ideas, an entry for "Laser Based Flow Modification" details how lasers could be used to disrupt the aerodynamic flow around an aeroplane's wings, forcing an "enemy" plane to change direction.
Other non-lethal weapons said to be in development include:
The JNLWD was set up in 1996 with the goal of facilitating and deploying non-lethal weapons in the US military in the wake of US operations in Somalia and Bosnia.
"They came up with a new set of missions that didn't involve blowing things up," explained James Lewis, military technology expert and senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"They're developing the technologies to make it work. It's not clear if some of these things will ever see the light of day, but that's what they're trying to do."
The JNLWD has been criticised in the past for spending money on projects that had never materialised.
A 2009 report by the US Government Accountability Office said that the JNLWD had spent at least $386 million (£250m) on 50 research projects - but had failed to actually produce any new weapons.
However, a need to deploy non-lethal techniques in "nation-building" operations was becoming increasingly crucial, Mr Lewis told the BBC.
"One of the big problems in Iraq was if you set up a checkpoint and the cars didn't stop. At least half the time the car was completely innocent - but the only thing guys had to stop them with were weapons."
Mr Lewis told the BBC that this document was designed as a fresh sales pitch to Congress and the Department of Defense.
"It says: 'here's what we've done, here's what we'd like to do, and here's why you want to do it.'"
HM Revenue and Customs must avoid the impression it has "one rule for the rich and another for everyone else," the Public Accounts Committee said.
In a scathing report, PAC chairwoman Meg Hillier said HMRC's claims about its success "just don't stack up".
But an HMRC spokesman said the rich got extra scrutiny, not special treatment.
Since HMRC set up a specialist unit dealing with so-called high net worth individuals in 2009, the amount of income tax they paid had fallen by £1bn, the report said. This was despite income tax receipts from the public as a whole rising by £23bn over the same period.
Since 2009, each of the estimated 6,500 individuals worth £20m or more has been assigned a "customer relationship manager" by HMRC to administer their tax affairs.
But while HMRC said this had resulted in the collection of an additional £2bn in tax. it was unable to explain why the income tax they paid fell by 20% - from £4.5bn in 2009-10 to £3.5bn in 2014-15 - when the overall income tax take rose by 9% £23bn.
The PAC, which took evidence from HMRC chief Jon Thompson and other experts, said it was "alarming" that at any one time about a third of high net worth individuals were likely to be under inquiry for unpaid tax.
But the HMRC had a "dismal record" when it came to prosecuting the very wealthy for tax fraud in the criminal courts, the committee said.
In the five years to 31 March 2016, it completed just 72 fraud investigations into such individuals, with all but two having been dealt with using its civil powers. Only one case resulted in a successful criminal prosecution.
Of the 850 penalties issued to the very wealthy since 2012, the average charge was £10,500, a figure the MPs said was unlikely to be a deterrent to multi-millionaires.
The report highlighted particular concern about tax evasion in the football industry and the "misuse" of image rights to reduce tax liabilities.
The committee revealed that 43 players, 12 clubs and eight agents were currently the subject of "open inquiries" by HMRC. However, it said that in some cases clubs were failing to co-operate fully with the tax inspectors.
"We were appalled to hear that not all football clubs are providing HMRC with data under a voluntary agreement struck with the English Premier League," said the report.
Current tax rules allow for income from image rights to be treated as a separate revenue stream for tax purposes.
It means that taxpayers who believed their image had a market value could set up a company to receive payments for those rights.
But the committee feared these rules are being abused. "Government should take urgent action to address image rights taxation," the report said.
PAC chairwoman Meg Hillier said: "If the public are to have faith in the tax system then it must be seen to have fairness at its heart. It also needs to work properly. In our view, HMRC is failing on both counts.
"HMRC's claims about the success of its strategy to deal with the very wealthy just don't stack up," she said.
To re-build trust, HMRC must be far more transparent about its operations and dealings with the super-rich, said the PAC. And it should consider what further powers it needs. The MPs said HMRC must report back to the PAC by July this year.
An HMRC spokesman strongly defended the department.
He said there was "absolutely no special treatment" for the wealthy. "In fact we give them additional scrutiny, with one-to-one marking by HMRC's specialist tax collectors, to ensure that they pay everything they owe, just like the rest of us do," he said.
He added that the department carefully scrutinised arrangements between football clubs and their employees to ensure the right tax was paid.
"In recent years we have identified more than £158m additional tax yield from clubs, players and agents," he said.
Home Minister Zahid Hamidi said those arrested, the youngest just 14, were planning to attack police stations and army bases to gather weapons.
Two of the suspects had just returned from Syria, police said.
The government's tough and disputed new anti-terrorism laws are due to be debated in parliament this week.
The Bernama news agency quoted Mr Zahid as telling parliament that those arrested, who were aged between 14 and 44, were also planning to kidnap high-profile individuals. The targets were not named.
Mr Zahid said notes had also been found describing how to make bombs. The notes were written by an Indonesian executed for his role in the 2002 bomb attacks in Bali.
Two of those arrested were members of the army.
The new anti-terror laws have raised concern among human rights and opposition groups, who fear they may be used to stifle political dissent.
The new Prevention of Terrorism Act would permit indefinite detention without trial. The Special Measures Against Terrorism in Foreign Countries would permit the revocation of passports of Malaysians or foreigners suspected of terrorist activities.
Prime Minister Najib Razak said in November last year the measures were necessary to combat militant Islamist cells and "lone wolf" attacks.
He had previously pledged to abolish Malaysia's controversial sedition law, but at his party's annual congress in November said instead that it would be strengthened.
Why the controversy of Malaysia's sedition law?
Molly-Mae Wotherspoon was attacked by an American pit bull named Bruiser at a house in Daventry, Northamptonshire, in October 2014.
Mother Claire Riley, 23, admitted owning a dangerously out of control dog and grandmother Susan Aucott, 55, admitted being in charge of one.
Both were sentenced at Northampton Crown Court to two years.
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Jailing them, judge Mrs Justice Carr told the pair Molly-Mae was savagely attacked by the pit bull in "a tragic and totally avoidable incident".
The court heard Aucott, an alcoholic, was looking after her granddaughter at Riley's former home in Morning Star Road when the dog attacked the baby.
James House, prosecuting, said the pit bull broke free from his cage in the kitchen and opened the door to the lounge to reach baby Molly-Mae on the floor.
It grabbed the six-month-old by her head.
Aucott threw herself across the baby but it was too late.
Molly-Mae suffered injuries to every limb and puncture wounds to her brain.
She died from severe blood loss due to the head wounds, a post-mortem examination showed.
The dog was put down at the scene.
The court heard Riley knew her dog was aggressive and jealous of her baby and it had been kept away from Molly-Mae.
However, the baby's cries made it "an object of prey", the court heard.
A vet who treated the American pit bull - a breed banned in the UK - said Bruiser was one of the most dangerous dogs she had seen.
In June, Aucott, of Alfred Street, Northampton, admitted being in charge of a dangerously out of control dog resulting in death.
She was jailed for two years but will be released on licence after one year. She was also banned from owning a dog for ten years.
Riley, of Merrydale Square, Northampton, admitted owning a dangerously out of control dog on the first day of her trial later in June.
She was sentenced to two years, one of which she will serve in prison before being released on licence, and was banned from owning a dog for 10 years.
The recommendations of a Serious Case Review into the death of Molly-Mae are expected to be examined by Northampton Safeguarding Children Board officers next month.
It contained crude drawings of stick figures and descriptions of an upcoming attack, US news outlets say.
The University of Colorado, Denver, has confirmed that it received a suspicious package that it has handed to police.
James Holmes, 24, is being held over the massacre at the cinema in Aurora.
The reports emerged as the first funeral of the 12 victims was held.
Gordon Cowden, 51, was the oldest of those killed. His teenage children were also in the theatre during the shootings but emerged uninjured.
Fox News, citing an unnamed law enforcement source,
was first to report
that the suspect had allegedly posted the notebook to the university.
According to the network, it was sent to a psychiatrist and contained "full details about how he was going to kill people, drawings of what he was going to do in it, and drawings and illustrations of the massacre".
Other outlets also quoted unnamed sources as saying that Mr Holmes had sent a package to the university.
But the college itself appeared to contradict media reports that the package had been sent before the massacre, and that it had remained unopened for days.
Officials at the university's Anschutz Medical Campus said it had received a suspicious package on Monday that was immediately investigated and turned over to authorities within hours of its delivery.
The FBI refused to comment on the record about the reports, a day after a judge issued a gagging order limiting what officials can say about the case.
The suspect was a neuroscience PhD student at the college until he took steps last month to leave the programme.
Many remain in hospital after the shootings, with several in critical condition.
Denver-area hospitals that are treating survivors said on Wednesday they would eliminate or limit medical bills for the casualties, some of whom had no medical insurance and faced huge costs.
The research at the University of Abertay in Dundee aims to show how humans express themselves romantically.
Participants will take part in an online questionnaire examining three forms of romantic expression.
They are mouth-to-mouth kissing, when people decide to say "I love you", and the general emotions experienced by those in a committed relationship.
The survey is being led by Christopher Watkins, a psychology lecturer investigating human mate choices and romantic attraction.
Mr Watkins said: "This area of science is still relatively new.
"Anyone 18 years or older can take part in the study, regardless of whether they are currently in a relationship.
"This work will provide insight into factors that are important to well-being in close relationships."
PC James Burns, 55, is also accused with his colleague PC Robin Humphreys of trying to pervert the course of justice by later giving false statements about the incident.
They both deny the charges.
Caernarfon Crown Court court heard the officers were called to an anti-social behaviour incident at Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, on 10 April 2016.
When PC Humphreys tried to arrest Michael Stanley he ran off, the court was told.
He called for back-up and PC Burns and a colleague responded, with Mr Stanley detained and led to a police car in handcuffs.
Matthew Curtis, prosecuting, said as officers tried to get Mr Stanley into the vehicle, PC Burns grabbed him by the throat.
He said the incident was being recorded by a body camera worn by another officer at the scene, and the footage was shown to the jury.
It showed Mr Stanley sitting in the rear of the car before PC Burns opened the door and sprayed him in the face.
"It was not necessary and entirely disproportionate," Mr Curtis said, claiming the spraying constituted the second assault.
He then walked to the passenger side and again sprayed Mr Stanley, prompting the third alleged assault charge.
The jury was shown the entire body cam footage, including the subsequent journey to the custody suite.
"He couldn't wipe his face and he repeatedly head-butted the interior of the police vehicle as a result of being sprayed," said Mr Curtis.
He said officers had viewed the video footage of the incident in the following days, and alleged PC Burns had amended his statement to include the line "you are the old man who sprayed me.
"I will head butt you".
Mr Curtis also told the court PC Humphreys said in his statement he saw PC Burns grab Mr Stanley by the neck only after the prisoner tried to "head butt" the officer.
Mr Stanley was charged with a public disorder offence, assaulting a police officer and damaging the police car but the case against him was discontinued.
The hearing continues.
Publisher DC Thomson has introduced a paywall on the website of its daily publication.
Readers will be able to access three articles per month before being asked for registration details.
They can read seven free articles per month before the paywall, available in four packages, becomes active.
Courier editor Richard Neville said the paywall "placed value" on the publication's editorial content.
Mr Neville said: "The website has been designed to offer our readers instant access to news from their area, as and when they want it.
"The paid-for platform will provide exclusive content as it enables our editorial team to give updates on news stories as they break and develop.
"The subscription paywall helps us, like many publishers, to diversify our revenue streams.
"We are placing value on our editorial content and we believe users will be prepared to pay for this."
Mr Neville said the newspaper was "still a central focus" and the website would "continue to complement" the print edition.
The Courier celebrated its 200th anniversary in September.
Dundee-based DC Thomson has two existing subscription sites, the Press and Journal, and Energy Voice.
The company's head of digital, Kirsten Morrison, said: "The Courier's decision to implement a paywall is multi-faceted but is primarily focused on delivering a better user experience.
"Capturing what our users are consuming on site, and appending that to an email address, means we can deliver web and email personalisation to give our readers a better digital experience across our publishing network."
The charges relate to her comments comparing Muslims praying in the streets to the Nazi occupation of France in World War Two.
In October Ms Le Pen told a court in Lyon she did not commit any offence.
She was charged in July 2014 after her immunity as a member of the European Parliament was lifted following a vote.
In her 2010 speech to National Front supporters, broadcast by French media, she said that France had initially seen "more and more veils", then "more and more burkhas" and "after that came prayers in the streets".
She said: "I'm sorry, but some people are very fond of talking about World War Two and about the occupation, so let's talk about occupation, because that is what is happening here...
"There are no tanks, no soldiers, but it is still an occupation, and it weighs on people."
The case was originally dropped last year by the Lyon court of appeal but was revived by anti-racism groups who made a civil complaint.
Welsh hospitals continue to miss A&E targets of seeing 95% of patients within four hours of arrival.
Dr Paul Myres will highlight the significant level of demand for non-serious or life-threatening conditions when addressing AMs on Wednesday.
Between 15-26.5% of cases could have been dealt with by GPs, he will say.
It comes at a time when a senior nurse at Wales' biggest hospital - University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff - says that the stress A&E staff are under is worse than she faced on the front line during the second Iraq war.
Dr Myres is using research by Deloitte to address AMs he has been invited to speak to.
"Waiting times are increasing year on year and we know that the reason a lot of people attend A&E unnecessarily is because they cannot access a GP in time," he will say.
"What this research shows is that a significant percentage of the cases presenting at A&E could be dealt with in general practice.
"Unless we invest substantially in expanding the GP workforce in Wales, general practice is at risk of going into meltdown - with the profession's ability to deliver excellent patient care increasingly compromised."
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Diamond has previously said the winger, 23, "resigned" from rugby league.
Rugby league club Castleford say they have been instructed by their legal representatives not to comment.
"It's in the hands of the legal people, but I don't see any problems at this moment," Diamond told BBC North West Tonight.
"I'm confident that we made a substantial offer and it was knocked back.
"For various reasons Denny became available through being fired from Castleford and once he'd been fired we got in touch and signed a contract."
A sports lawyer has said the legal battle over the player could have an impact on both rugby codes in a way the Bosman ruling affected football.
Despite having two years remaining on his contract with Super League club Castleford Tigers, Solomona retired from rugby league and subsequently crossed rugby codes to join Sale on a three-year deal - making his debut in Sunday's European Champions Cup defeat by Saracens.
Tigers are suing for damages against Solomona for breach of contract and for damages, including exemplary damages, against Sale Sharks and agent Andy Clark for "inducing" the player to breach his contract.
Diamond, who has insisted that the wrangling over Solomona's contract is not a 'rugby league versus rugby union' case, said an offer to sign the player from Castleford was rejected.
Castleford had continually said that they would not welcome an approach for the player.
The Tigers are taking the case to the High Court in Leeds, having appointed London barrister Nick Randall QC and Leeds-based sports lawyer Richard Cramer to represent them.
When contacted by BBC Sport, Castleford's legal team said they would not respond to Diamond's latest comments.
Grainger, 40, and Vicky Thornley, 28, will compete in the double in Brazil in August, having failed in a late attempt to earn a place in the eight.
The duo were not among the 43 rowers named in the Team GB squad on 9 June.
"It's not been the smoothest or most direct route but it's a relief that we're there," Grainger told BBC Sport.
"There have been days when I couldn't necessarily see a way forward and times when I couldn't see the path but I never stopped believing I could get there."
Grainger, who won gold in the double in London with Anna Watkins after three consecutive silver medals, returned in September 2014 following a two-year sabbatical.
The Scot was paired with Welsh rower Thornley and the duo won European bronze, then finished sixth at the World Championships to qualify the boat for Rio.
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However, their failure to make the podium at this year's European Championships in May precipitated their abortive late attempt to force their way into the eight.
"The double was never written off," said Grainger. "We weren't happy with where we were competitively and there was still time to explore if there was a better option.
"I didn't take time out, then come back, to go to a fifth Olympics and just get a T-shirt. Vicky and myself both want a medal and we haven't lowered our sights."
Thornley's boyfriend - Olympic medallist Rick Egington - said the pair had been "mismanaged" by coach Paul Thompson, against whom bullying claims have been made.
Australian Thompson told the Daily Telegraph he does not feel he is a bully.
Grainger said now is not the time to dwell on that issue.
"After it's over, we'll have the chance to review things," she said. "But right now I don't want to waste any of these precious days thinking about what might have been done differently.
"The rest of my future can wait until the day after the Olympic final when I can put this part of my life to rest."
Grainger will be attempting to become Britain's most decorated female Olympian, but concedes winning a fifth medal is "the biggest challenge" of her career.
The final of the women's double is in fewer than 50 days and, in only their race since their partnership was resumed, the duo finished fifth at the World Cup in Poznan last weekend.
"There's not a lot of time left and there's nothing like Rio getting closer to sharpen the minds," Grainger said.
"There's a freshness and excitement because we can now concentrate on getting in the boat and trying to make it go faster."
Gary Andrew, from Cuminestown, died following the collision on the unclassified Cuminestown to Fyvie road near South Teuchar on Thursday morning.
Relatives said in a statement: "We are all devastated at the sudden loss of Gary, a very much loved husband, son, son-in-law, brother and uncle and a friend to many.
"He will be sorely missed."
The vehicles involves were a red Suzuki GSX bike and blue SsangYong Tivoli car.
Police Scotland have appealed for witnesses.
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Forest ended a run of three losses with a 1-1 home draw with Fulham on Tuesday.
But they are still winless in five Championship games, six if the EFL Cup defeat to Arsenal is included.
"We need a break. We saw a game with a not very high tempo because I think the two teams were a little tired," Montanier told BBC Radio Nottingham.
Forest have played six matches in 17 days but, because of the internationals, they have 12 days without a fixture following the trip to face Bristol City on Saturday, 1 October.
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They were killed by a firing squad on Sunday, state news agency BNA reports.
Human rights officials say there are serious concerns that evidence may have been obtained under torture.
But the Bahraini government, which rarely carries out executions, has said the decision was taken "in accordance with international law".
The executions of the three men, who Bahraini officials say were part of the listed terrorist group Saraya al-Ashtar, are the first since a 2011 uprising, led by the Shia majority, calling for greater political rights.
The Sunni-ruled kingdom has escalated a crackdown on its Shia critics over the past year, including revoking the citizenship of the country's most prominent Shia Muslim cleric.
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The UN's special rapporteur on extra-judicial killings, Agnes Callamard, condemned the executions in a tweet saying: "Torture, unfair trial + flimsy evidence: these are extrajudicial killings."
Maya Foa, head of the UK-based human rights group Reprieve, said: "It is nothing short of an outrage - and a disgraceful breach of international law - that Bahrain has gone ahead with these executions."
The death sentences handed to the three men, she added, "were based on 'confessions' extracted through torture, and the trial an utter sham".
But a statement from the government said evidence "included in part fingerprints on the IEDs, phone records which confirmed the locations of the three men (e.g., at the time of the attacks) and wide-ranging witness statements".
The statement added that the decision to execute the men met "all nine of the United Nations Safeguards" - including "clear and convincing evidence" which left "no room for an alternative explanation of the facts".
Abbas al-Samea, Sami Mushaima and Ali al-Singace were convicted of a bomb attack that killed three policemen, including one officer from the United Arab Emirates, nearly three years ago.
They were executed a week after their death sentences were upheld by a high court.
The executions are the first to be carried out in Bahrain in more than six years, according to Reprieve.
"This is a black day in Bahrain's history. It is the most heinous crime committed by the government of Bahrain and a shame upon its rulers... This act is a security threat to Bahrain and the entire region," Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy told Reuters news agency.
Protests erupted in several Shia villages over the news of the executions. When demonstrators blocked roads with burning tyres, police responded with tear gas.
A police officer was wounded when his patrol came under fire on Saturday in the Shia village of Bani Jamra, to the west of the capital Manama, the interior ministry said.
The prince and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, were meeting the Army Air Corps' mascot, Zephyr, a bald eagle, on the Sandringham estate.
In the past the prince was forced to dodge its wings as he handled the bird.
Zephyr chose to display the same behaviour this year. The prince said: "That's why I'm not holding him. I've learnt from experience."
He added: "I'm keeping well back."
The Royals were greeted by thousands as they visited some of the displays.
Michael Matheson was questioned at Holyrood following newspaper reports that the force's Counter Corruption Unit was to be closed down.
The unit is under investigation after officers broke rules by intercepting communications without approval.
Mr Matheson said it would not be proper to comment until the review was over.
The Sunday Mail newspaper had reported that the unit was to be shut down following May's Holyrood elections, less than three years after it was set up in 2013.
MSPs have been investigating the unit's conduct after the Interception of Communications Commissioner's Office (Iocco) said officers had obtained communications data on five occasions without judicial approval, breaching new regulations.
A review is also being undertaken by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland amid a series of allegations.
Deputy Chief Constable Neil Richardson, who headed the unit and was questioned by MSPs about its role, has announced he is to step down when his contract expires.
During topical questions at Holyrood on Tuesday afternoon, MSP Alison McInnes asked Mr Matheson if the unit was to be abolished.
He said the Scottish government "has not been advised of any plans" to do so.
When pressed by Ms McInnes about the unit's "unlawful spying on journalists' sources" and whether he was "concerned" about its conduct, Mr Matheson said it would be better not to comment while a review was ongoing.
He added: "The Scottish Police Authority has requested HMICS to undertake a review of the unit following the Iocco investigation last year. That review is currently taking place and it would seem the most sensible thing for us all to do is to wait for the outcome.
"I think it's always dangerous for any member to come to this chamber and base their question on what's contained within a newspaper report, which I'm sure all politicians are aware are not always as accurate as some members believe they are.
"We have not been made aware of any planned changes to the counter corruption unit."
Residents of the Ledbury estate in south-east London have been told they will have to move out after structural problems were found.
A survey, ordered in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire, found cracks in the walls leaving it vulnerable to "collapse" if a gas explosion occurred.
Southwark Council said it was doing "all it could" to help residents.
Gas supplies have been turned off and residents offered temporary hotplates to cook meals.
Southwark Council has written to residents of the estate near the Old Kent Road saying officials have arranged for them to use the shower facilities at any of the leisure centres in the borough if they provide proof of address.
Cllr Stephanie Cryan, deputy leader and cabinet member for housing, said: "At every stage of this investigation, we have put residents' safety first, and acted on the best information available.
"We are doing all we can to provide residents with alternatives while the gas is turned off, and are working up a plan to permanently replace the gas with electric ovens, boilers etc. as part of the wider works, should that be necessary."
The blocks' gas supply was installed when they were built between 1968-1970. Soon after a gas explosion at the similarly constructed Ronan Point block killed four people.
The council confirmed that "strengthening works" - carried out on estates under government order across the UK in the wake of Ronan Point - may never have happened on the Ledbury.
Since 19 July the council has been offering £5,800 to move tenants to new flats by placing them at the head of the housing waiting list.
The Lib Dem leader has been setting out his negotiating position in the belief no-one will win an outright victory.
Other "deal breakers" he has identified include education funding and action on the deficit and tax allowances
Polls suggest the Lib Dems are expected to see a drop in votes and seats but could still hold the balance of power.
In the event of another inconclusive election result, Mr Clegg has suggested that either his party, the SNP or UKIP could play a decisive role and that his party is right to set out its priorities for post-election negotiations in the spirit of accountability.
For his part, David Cameron has set out one "red line", saying he would not serve as prime minister in any government which could not deliver a referendum on the EU in 2017 - a referendum the Lib Dems oppose.
NHS England has said it will require £8bn in extra funding a year by 2020, on top of the above-inflation increases already promised, to ensure it can modernise and meet the growing demands on it from an ageing society.
The Conservatives and Lib Dems have said they will fund this in full. The two parties agreed to a £2bn annual "down payment" last year towards the full amount but have accused each other of a lack of clarity about where the rest will come from.
The Lib Dems have said they will raise an extra £1bn a year, covering the period from 2016 to 2018, through increases in capital gains tax and other tax measures.
After 2018, by which point the party hopes to have paid off the current deficit, they say they will ensure annual NHS budgets rise at least in line with economic growth to meet the remaining shortfall.
Labour has said it will make available an extra £2.5bn this year but will not commit to specific sums after that until it can show how they will be paid for, while UKIP has called for an extra £3bn a year to be pumped into the health service.
Speaking in Manchester, Mr Clegg threw down the gauntlet to his Labour counterpart to go further.
"I have a message for Ed Miliband. You might say you love the NHS - the NHS doesn't need warm words, it needs hard cash.
"So Ed Miliband, put your money where your heart is. That is what the Liberal Democrats will do.
"We know how much money the NHS needs. And we have got a plan, a fair plan, including the wealthiest in society making an additional contribution through the tax system, to make sure our NHS is properly funded.
"I cannot be clearer: this is a red line issue for the Liberal Democrats.
"The Liberal Democrats will not under any circumstances enter into a new coalition government unless we know exactly how the NHS is going to get the money it needs and how it is going to get that money fairly."
Mr Clegg said he would announce "one or two more" red lines over the weekend. Asked if this would include anything on Europe, Mr Clegg said: "Let's just wait and see what I say over the weekend."
Justine Greening said the government will not accept mandatory quotas.
The European Commission is expected to announce details of its plan to deal with the migrants on Wednesday.
Reports suggest it will call for a quota system for member states to relocate some 40,000 asylum seekers.
The UK has an opt-out which it has previously said it would use.
Many of the migrants arrived in southern Europe by boat in recent months.
The plan to use quotas to resettle those who have made it to Europe has caused controversy among several EU countries, including France and Spain.
Ms Greening told the BBC: "We don't accept having mandatory quotas or mandatory resettlement programmes.
"Our concern is that approach simply ends up acting as a pull for more migrants to make, what for many of them is a life and death decision to get on a boat that may not be sea worthy and over the past year 5,000 migrants have died at sea."
She said looking at why people were making the journeys was key.
"If you look at what is driving people to start these journeys in the first place, it's the hope of a better life," she said.
"And that's why the only real answer in the long term is to work together, as the international community, to tackle what is an international problem and to work together to deliver development and to level up the world so that we don't leave anyone behind, or leave anyone living in poverty in the future, as is happened in the past."
The issue was catapulted to the top of the EU agenda after hundreds of people were believed to have drowned when a boat carrying up to 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea in April.
The UN estimates that 60,000 people have already tried to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa this year.
More than 1,800 migrants have died - a 20-fold increase on the same period in 2014.
The UK has deployed a warship - HMS Bulwark - and search and rescue helicopters to the waters between Libya and Italy.
Abdul Aldhfeiry, 21, from Cardiff, broke his neck in the accident in Australia in 2012.
He can stand with assistance but now the £100,000 technology developed in the United States has allowed him to take his first steps.
The bionic legs have reactors to the body's movement.
"I feel really good," said Mr Aldhfeiry, who walked 119 steps in three minutes.
"It was very tiring but fun. Hopefully I can get to do it more.
"You lean to the left and you lean to the right. If you lean to the right and your left leg moves."
The suit, made by Esko Bionics, consists of a backpack with two batteries, two motors at the hips, two at the knees and the ankles are spring-loaded while there are sensors on the feet and throughout.
The equipment was used by patients receiving neuro-physiotherapy care at the Morrello Clinic in Newport on Wednesday.
A newer version will have electrodes which use the person's own muscles to help them walk.
Jakko Brouwers, the clinic's managing director, wants to be able to use the exoskeleton more frequently but the cost is a sticking point.
"We would like to be able to work in parallel with them [Esko Bionics] for the new model which is being developed," he said.
"We would also like to build on this to do research with universities to enable it to become available in this country."
The crash happened at about 22:40 on Saturday on the city's Telford Road.
The man was cut free from the wreckage by fire crews and taken by ambulance to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
Medic One, a team of medical and nursing specialists from the hospital, was also in attendance.
It is part of a nationwide push to increase digital skills in the UK.
The mixital website offers people the chance to create a range of content from popular BBC brands such as Strictly Come Dancing, Doctor Who and EastEnders.
It also launched a month of digital content on online, TV and radio.
Head of digital creativity Martin Wilson said that it was a "new direction for the BBC".
"We are handing over creativity tools and BBC assets to the audience, and they can make their own BBC," he said.
The project grew out of a game-making tool developed for the programme Technobabble, which attracted huge interest from its audience of under-12s.
"Youngsters made 250,000 games. We were bowled over and felt it proved that young people have a great appetite for making things digitally," said Mr Wilson.
According to innovation charity Nesta, more than 80% of schoolchildren have already made digital content, but most of this takes place inside schools.
A report from the Tech Partnership network of employers, launched to coincide with the BBC's announcements, found:
The mixital website gives youngsters the chance to make their own games, music and stories using BBC assets from popular programmes.
It will publish a range of maker kits in the coming weeks including:
Mr Wilson hopes using such BBC brands will engage its younger audience.
"Teenagers spend all day on their tablets looking at stuff. This takes the tablet and makes it creative," he said.
He promised the technology was very simple to use - most of it can be dragged and dropped - and users would "learn as they go".
"We are still in learning mode, it will be interesting to see what people create," he said.
Earlier this year, the BBC launched the Micro Bit, a tiny programmable computer.
It will be rolled out to one million Year 7 pupils this term and is already being test-driven by a group of teachers.
As part of its Make it Digital season, the BBC also announced a raft of TV and radio programmes, including documentaries on algorithms and video gaming.
Meanwhile, a season of content around the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) is being kicked off online on 11 September, with programmes on TV and radio to follow.
The BBC is also launching an interactive tool - Digital Matchr - to help people match their skills to specific jobs.
All of the new content is available via the BBC's Make it Digital website.
TSB, owned by Spanish lender Sabadell, said it was investing millions of pounds on upgrading remaining branches and on digital services.
Areas affected in Scotland include Aberdeen, Dundee, Denny, Edinburgh and East Renfrewshire.
Staff at the affected branches will be transferred, and the bank said there would be no compulsory redundancies.
TSB's plans include creating new flagship branches, the first of which will be in Birmingham and Aberdeen. Both are expected to open their doors to customers before the end of this year.
However, three branches in Aberdeen are expected to close in December.
Two Edinburgh branches are due to close in November but two others in the capital will be refitted.
The other closures are in Dundee, Denny near Falkirk, and Newton Mearns in East Renfrewshire. The TSB branch in Clarkston is due to be refitted.
In a statement, the bank said its ongoing £250m investment programme was designed to "ensure its branch and digital offerings meet evolving customer demand".
It added: "As part of TSB's ongoing strategy to ensure it has the right branches in the right places, TSB is fully refurbishing 10 branches and refitting around 100 others to upgrade and modernise its network.
"These branches will offer better technology, more facilities and improved services, including more self-service facilities and more TSB partners on hand to help customers.
"There are 13 towns and cities where TSB has multiple branches in close proximity and customers are showing a clear preference for one branch above another.
"As a result the bank will close 25 of the less well used outlets by the end of April 2017 and invest in the busier ones.
"This investment is part of TSB's ongoing commitment to providing a strong branch network."
Williams played under Pardew when he managed Reading between 1999 and 2003.
"Alan Pardew was the manager who helped take Reading as a club to the next level," Williams told BBC Sport.
Championship team Reading beat West Bromwich Albion 3-1 on Saturday to set up next month's quarter-final tie.
Pardew guided Reading to promotion to the second tier in 2002, but resigned the following year, a month before eventually joining West Ham.
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"I think he'll get a good reception," said former Reading club captain Williams, now a presenter for BBC Radio Berkshire.
"A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then and I think the Reading fans appreciate what he did to transform the club.
"Of all the managers I worked with, what he did behind the scenes was incredible. He was up with all the latest gadgets in analysis and sports science.
"He put the backroom staff in place that his successors Steve Coppell and Brian McDermott used so well to get the club promoted to the Premier League."
Reading are in the quarter-finals for the second year in succession, having lost in the semi-finals to Arsenal last season.
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Wenger, 67, was speaking at the end of one of the most turbulent weeks of his two-decade tenure as Gunners boss.
After Wednesday's 5-1 Champions League defeat by Bayern Munich, several ex-players said they believed his time in charge was coming to an end.
The Frenchman's contract expires at the end of this season and he said he would decide on a new deal in March or April.
"No matter what happens I will manage for another season. Whether it's here or somewhere else, that is for sure," Wenger said on Friday.
"If I said March or April it is because I didn't know. I do not want to come back on that.
"I am used to the criticism. I think in life it's important to do what you think is right and all the rest is judgement. I am in a public job and I have to accept that, but I have to behave with my values."
Wenger, who has been in charge of Arsenal since 1996, said: "We let everyone judge and criticise, we have to deal with that. We have to bounce back, that is what life is about.
"Even if I go, Arsenal will not win every single game in the future. It is not like before I arrived Arsenal had won five times in the European Cup.
"What is important is that the club makes the right decision for the future. I care about this club and its future and it is very important the club is in safe hands.
"The main emotion is everyone has a big disappointment. We have to regroup and refocus on the next game, and to take care of the consequences a disappointing result can have on everyone's spirit.
"We have to focus on the real problems and they are the way we play football, not my future.
"It is always important not to look for wrong excuses in life."
Arsenal have not won the Premier League since 2004, with FA Cups in 2005, 2014 and 2015 the only major silverware Wenger has secured since.
However, he has consistently qualified for the lucrative Champions League and the club has continued to grow financially, despite the pressures of building a new stadium.
The Gunners reached the knockout stage of Europe's elite club competition for a 14th year in a row this season, but the last-16 first-leg thrashing at German champions Bayern leaves them with little hope of progressing.
The performance, coupled with earlier damaging league defeats by Chelsea and Watford, prompted several former Arsenal players - some of whom played under Wenger - to suggest his time was up.
Former Gunners captain Martin Keown described the defeat as Wenger's "lowest point", while ex-defender Lee Dixon said: "This team is getting no response from him. I've never seen him like that."
In the Premier League, they are 10 points adrift of leaders Chelsea. After the Blues beat them 3-1 on 4 February, ex-England defender Danny Mills said Arsenal "have settled for fourth again".
Earlier, former striker Ian Wright, who scored 185 goals for the club between 1991 and 1998, said he believed Wenger's time as Arsenal boss was "coming to the end", although the Frenchman later denied giving any indication of his future plans.
Meanwhile, Wenger also said defender and captain Laurent Koscielny will have a scan on the injury he suffered against Bayern.
The France international was replaced by Gabriel after limping off just after half-time, and within seven minutes Arsenal conceded twice to go 3-1 down.
The Gunners travel to National League Sutton United in the FA Cup fifth round on Monday (19:55 GMT kick-off). The match is live on BBC One.
Ferguson left Port Vale by mutual consent in January, having made just one appearance for the club.
The 21-year-old had a loan spell with National League side Southport earlier this season, featuring in six games.
Former Chelsea trainee Omofe, 19, signed a short-term deal with Bristol City in June 2016, but did not make a first-team appearance for the club.
The 31-year-old played 15 games for Gateshead at the beginning of the season, while on loan from Carlisle.
In January Penn was released by League Two Carlisle and joined Wrexham until the end of the season.
"Obviously a big factor in me coming back was the time I spent here last season," Penn told the club website.
Raphael Rossi-Branco, Jermaine Hylton and Jon Obika have also been offered contracts by the Wiltshire outfit.
But midfielder Anton Rodgers is to leave the managerless side when his contract expires this summer.
Swindon previously let a further four players go and then parted company with head coach Luke Williams on 5 May.
They will spend next season in League Two after finishing 22nd in the third tier.
Most of the privately-owned concrete huts at Milford-on-Sea were destroyed during the storm, with the rest later requiring demolition.
New Forest District Council said the huts had been set into the promenade "to reduce exposure to the elements".
The authority said the 119 huts, new promenade and sea wall had cost £2.36m.
It said owners had made a "substantial contribution" towards the replacement huts and the expenditure of the project would be recouped over time through licence fees.
There are few jobs in which you can get away with copying techniques and tricks used by criminals, but being a professional "penetration tester" is one such trade.
Penetration testers are ethical hackers who by both reasonable and unreasonable methods try to defeat the digital defences set up by companies to keep out spammers, scammers and other cyber-villains.
The BBC was given a demonstration of some of the tricks and techniques used by the so-called "pen testers" by professionals from security firm Sentor and Trustwave's SpiderLabs.
Kalle Zetterlund from Sentor said pen testers were generally trying to persuade someone inside a company to make a mistake that, inadvertently, would let them in.
Sometimes, he said, this mistake could be as simple as choosing a weak password, such as password01, which is easily found by a computer that can make thousands of guesses every second.
However, he said, there was a whole host of other errors people made that, at first glance, looked innocuous but could prove dangerous.
One technique developed by the Sentor researchers exploits "water-holing" ie targeting the places where employees gather outside work.
Ideas for targets can be gleaned from social media where people regularly betray details about what they do in their spare time and where online they talk about it.
The websites and discussion forums they mention in connection with a sport or hobby rarely have decent digital defences, said Mr Zetterlund.
Some of those sites permit what is known as cross-site scripting which, in effect, lets an attacker run their own code on that web location. That can make it easy to booby-trap messages on a forum and trap the real target.
Others did a poor job of protecting the code behind a site or forum and inspecting that often yielded clues about vulnerabilities to which it might be susceptible.
Another route can be the weak algorithms used to generate random numbers as a "seed" for a password.
"It's a fairly common mistake," said Mr Zetterlund. "And even those that use proper random number generators get so little input that you can use that to guess them."
A site could be taken over using these weaknesses allowing an attacker, or ethical hacker, to start seeding chat forums with malicious messages or simply booby-trapping the site itself.
These traps work best when people do not keep Java and Adobe programs up to date.
One attack developed by Sentor's Bjorn Johansson strikes when an innocuous message is simply viewed on a compromised forum. If a machine running an old version of Java visits, it risks falling victim to the instructions contained in computer code added after the words in the subject line. Mr Johansson's code snippet opens up a connection directly to a target machine.
"I can do anything you can do sitting in front of your computer," said Mr Johansson who then turned on the webcam on the compromised machine to spy on its owner.
Given such access, scooping up login details for a corporate network or stealing documents would be trivial, he said.
Not all techniques depend on compromising a site, others work with spoofed emails sent to a few people inside a target company.
To make these look convincing, said Michele Orru, senior security consultant at Trustwave's SpiderLabs, pen testers might send a legitimate query to a company to generate a formal response. The resulting automatically generated message would have all the images and other details needed to make a spoof look authentic.
If this were coupled with a fake webpage that posed as a company's webmail gateway it could be a powerful way to trick people into handing over login details. Even if people spotted that the fake webmail page was an attempt to trick them, they could fall victim to a separate attack developed by Mr Orru that strikes when they visit the page.
"As soon as they land on our page we can see a list of information about them," said Mr Orru. That list is generated by quizzing a computer about what software it is running. That could betray known vulnerabilities that ethical attackers can capitalise on.
In addition, the attack tool created by Mr Orru can generate fake prompts which ask a victim for login details to websites and social media networks. Anything a victim types into those fake login boxes can be grabbed by the attacker and used to steal further information.
"We rely on social engineering or tricks to make people click on something and do something on our behalf," he said.
But not all penetration testing relies on technical knowledge. Some is much more brazen and involves testers using more physical methods to try out security.
These techniques include scattering booby-trapped USB drives in a company car park or leaving CDs in receptions which have "payroll" or some other trigger word written on them. Few can resist slotting them in a drive to see what they contain. Once they do, the code on the gadget springs to life and gives the attacker access.
Christian Angerbjorn, who carried out security testing for one of the UK's high-street banks, said he regularly documented how far he got inside a building using an iPhone in a Starbucks cup that had its camera peeping through a hole in the side.
Typically, he said, physical pen testers have a particular location in mind when they target a building. Reaching the IT director's desk unchallenged is usually enough to make the point, he said.
Other physical pen testers say getting past reception areas can often be accomplished by taking off your jacket, rolling up your sleeves and carrying a big box.
Sometimes, though, a pen tester just has to be lucky. Mr Angerbjorn remembered one job which involved him and his team being asked to get inside a large hosting facility in America. On day one of the assignment they turned up en masse to carry out reconnaissance and wondered just how they would get in to such a tightly monitored building.
As they watched, an alarm sounded and staff poured out of the building as a fire alarm test was carried out. The team bundled out of their car and tailgated their way inside. Job done.
Said Mr Angerbjorn: "My only thought was, 'What are we going to do for the rest of the week?'"
The Celtic striker was twice a runner-up with Hibernian in 2012 and 2013.
A win against Aberdeen at Hampden on 27 May would complete a domestic treble for the runaway Premiership champions.
"I've been to two cup finals before and got humiliated twice, so hopefully it's third time lucky for me," said Griffiths.
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"It wasn't a nice feeling. But we've got a great chance this year to go one step further and get that treble.
"Lots of great players in the past have not quite managed to get there. We're only one game away and we've got a great chance, but we can't take anything for granted."
Aberdeen are a distant second in the league, while Griffiths was a late substitute when the Dons were brushed aside 3-0 in November's League Cup final.
Victory at Hampden would also bring an end to teasing from team-mates, with Griffiths on the receiving end of taunts from captain Scott Brown, goalkeeper Craig Gordon and Liam Henderson, who picked up the trophy while on loan at Hibs last season.
"I'm sick of getting tortured by Scott, Craigy and Hendo," he said. "They're always winding me up on the bus, saying 'put your hand up if you've won the Scottish Cup'."
Griffiths, 26, scored his 15th goal of the campaign in last weekend's 5-1 win over Rangers at Ibrox, starting for the first time this year in the absence of injured top scorer Moussa Dembele.
Now Griffiths, who found the net 40 times last season, is eager to make the most of the opportunity.
"It's unfortunate that Moussa got injured and that's how I got my chance," he said. "It happened earlier in the season when I was injured and Moussa came in and stepped up to the plate.
"Hopefully I can repay the manager with a few goals.
"The Scottish Cup final is a massive incentive and there's a Scotland game against England coming up [June 10] so I want to do the best I can.
"I can only concentrate on what I do. If I play well and score goals then I'll give the manager a big, big problem.
"The manager calls the shots. I can only focus on myself and not worry about whether Moussa is going to be fit."
Griffiths was speaking at the club's new kit launch, which incorporates a tribute to the European Cup-winning side of 1967.
"We always have to remember what these guys did," said the striker. "They will always be legends.
"There's talk about us being invincible [unbeaten domestically this season] but I don't think anything we do will come close to winning the European Cup.
"It's virtually impossible for a team like Celtic to go and win it now, so it makes their achievement that more important.
"The manager wants us to compete in the Champions League. He did it at the first time of asking this season and hopefully we get there next season as well and maybe even progress to the next round."
The gun attack happened at a petrol station on the Crumlin Road on Sunday evening.
The officer, who is in his 20s, was hit two or three times in the arm.
The republican group said the attack was a "targeted" attempt to kill two officers, reported The Irish News.
The paper said that the group had claimed the attack using a recognised codeword, saying that it was unconnected to the recent collapse of political institutions at Stormont but was rather a "continuation of activity".
The new IRA was formed in 2012 after a number of dissident republican organisations said they were unifying under one leadership.
It is believed to be the largest dissident republican organisation.
As many as 10 shots from an automatic weapon are believed to have been fired in Sunday night's attack.
The officer, who underwent emergency surgery, is in a stable condition in hospital.
Chief Constable George Hamilton described the attack as "completely reckless" and "crazy".
Police arrested three men after the shooting - one, aged 36, on Sunday night and two, aged 30 and 39, on Monday
All three men have been released unconditionally.
The new IRA is believed to have been responsible for a number of attacks since its formation, including the murders of prison officers David Black and Adrian Ismay.
On Wednesday, opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn came in for criticism after he mistakenly suggested the officer had died, and offered his condolences to the family.
North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds later described Mr Corbyn's gaffe as "one of the worst displays of crass ignorance that could be imagined".
It is understood Mr Corbyn has written a letter to the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland to apologise for his error.
A spokesman for the Labour leader said: "He meant to say 'nearly died'", adding that Mr Corbyn "had not intended to cause offence".
During Prime Minister's Questions, PM Theresa May had sent thoughts to the officer, his friends and family.
"The PSNI does a superb job in keeping us safe and secure and they have our fullest support," said Mrs May.
The comment comes after the Welsh Government said deaths had stabilised following a significant rise towards the end of the last decade.
There were 463 deaths in 2015 and 504 in 2012, while all liver disease deaths were up 19.4% over the last five years.
But substance misuse charity Cais said there are still many older people who had drinking problems.
"I think we need to take cautious optimism from these figures," said Clive Wolfendale, the charity's chief executive.
"Deaths remain far too high. We still have decades of ill-health long stowed up in our population.
"There's certainly a culture of drinking to excess among the older generation and it's going to take some decades to play out.
"There are signs that alcohol consumption among teenagers are on the decline but, in some cases, they are turning to new psycho-active substances."
Mr Wolfendale added he was pleased to hear plans to introduce a new law setting a minimum price for alcohol in Wales could be revived by the Welsh Government.
Under the plans, the cost of alcohol would be determined by a formula based on its strength and volume.
However, the proposal depends on the result of a Supreme Court challenge against similar plans by the Scottish Government.
Meanwhile, Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said the Welsh Government's annual report on liver disease shows there is still more work to be done.
As well as alcohol, obesity and blood borne viral hepatitis C are the other most preventable causes of liver disease.
"In Wales, we want to reduce the number of people getting and dying from liver disease," he said.
"We want to ensure people - whatever their age - value good liver health, and are aware of the dangers of excess alcohol, obesity and blood borne viral hepatitis.
"We want everyone to take personal responsibility for their lifestyle choices and reduce the risk of acquiring preventable liver disease."
He said during 2015-16 there had been "continued progress in the care of patients with liver disease in Wales".
"We've seen a reduction in the number of alcohol-related deaths over recent years, but we know there's much more to do," he added.
"Services are improving throughout Wales, despite dealing with complex demand.
"The service needs to continue to undergo change if it is to cope with patients and their needs."
The Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership cash would be spent on creating better access for cyclists, walkers and public transport.
Great Western Railway (GWR) and West Berkshire Council have joined forces to undertake the refurbishment.
GWR said it hoped the funding, subject to planning permission, would help the station become a "gateway" to the town.
Jeanette Clifford, lead councillor for transport in West Berkshire, said the station "needs improving".
Detailed planning and a business case will now be created in order for the funding to be confirmed.
The visitors moved ahead when Tom Rogic volleyed in Kieran Tierney's cross.
Inverness equalised when Billy King cut inside from the left to send an impressive shot into the far corner.
Scott Sinclair punished Gary Warren's mistake with Celtic's second and though they dominated thereafter, Alex Fisher headed Inverness back on terms.
Brendan Rodgers' side, who have a game in hand, extend their lead over Hearts and St Johnstone to three points, while Caley Thistle move a point above Partick Thistle, who slip to bottom again.
The result completed a mixed week for Celtic, who beat Rangers 5-1 last week before losing 7-0 to Champions League opponents Barcelona on Tuesday.
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Celtic are simply irresistible at times on the front foot.
For the opener, Tierney broke clear down the left, measured a lovely ball with the outside off his boot and Rogic converted. Simple, ruthless, effective.
Celtic's second was executed beautifully. Sinclair seized on a defensive error, roared into open space and produced a magnificent curling finish.
Sinclair - with a goal in each of Celtic's five league games - could not have dreamed of a better start following his move from Aston Villa.
The visitors should certainly have added to their tally but goalkeeper Owain Fon Williams was inspirational in deflecting shot after shot away from his net.
He produced strong saves to deny Tierney, Moussa Dembele and Callum McGregor, whose effort was tipped on to the bar and over.
Sinclair saw another tremendous curling effort tipped away, Erik Sviatchenko nodded against the post and McGregor's chip was blocked by Fon Williams.
Tierney whacked another off the bar and Stuart Armstrong fired wide. It was punishing at times at the back for the home side.
On this form, Celtic will take some stopping but Inverness somehow managed to recover.
It would have been easy for the home side to wilt but they got back into the game in the first half thanks to a tremendous King shot.
Celtic keeper Dorus de Vries might have done better than touch the ball into the corner, though King deserves all the plaudits.
A crucial moment in the match arrived soon after. Ross Draper nicked possession off McGregor and raced clear. On the edge of the box he went to ground under Sviatchenko's challenge.
It seemed inevitable referee Don Robertson would blow his whistle for a foul but play continued.
It was a pivotal moment which went in Celtic's favour but they could not fully take advantage.
Inverness held on and equalised when substitute Fisher headed in Greg Tansey's delivery to make it three games unbeaten for Richie Foran's side.
Inverness will be content with how their back-line coped with Celtic's onslaught.
Rodgers may be less so with his own sides' defensive performance as for the fifth straight Premiership match they failed to earn a clean sheet.
Kolo Toure was rested. Sviatchenko looked less than sharp. Jozo Simunovic appeared as a second-half substitute for a long-awaited run-out following long-term injury.
On another day their front men would have had the match won but it's an area that arguably cost Celtic two points in the Highlands.
Match ends, Inverness CT 2, Celtic 2.
Second Half ends, Inverness CT 2, Celtic 2.
Attempt saved. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) header from very close range is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Jake Mulraney (Inverness CT).
Mikael Lustig (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Greg Tansey (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Aaron Doran (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic).
Goal! Inverness CT 2, Celtic 2. Alex Fisher (Inverness CT) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Greg Tansey with a cross.
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Dorus de Vries.
Attempt saved. Aaron Doran (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Billy King (Inverness CT) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Kieran Tierney (Celtic).
Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Celtic. Stuart Armstrong replaces Tomas Rogic.
Kieran Tierney (Celtic) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the left side of the box.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Alex Fisher replaces Lonsana Doumbouya.
Attempt missed. Callum McGregor (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Tomas Rogic (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Warren (Inverness CT).
Attempt missed. James Forrest (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Owain Fon Williams.
Attempt saved. Callum McGregor (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Aaron Doran (Inverness CT) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Callum McGregor (Celtic).
Substitution, Celtic. James Forrest replaces Patrick Roberts.
Aaron Doran (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic) hits the left post with a header from the centre of the box following a corner.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Carl Tremarco.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Jake Mulraney.
Foul by Greg Tansey (Inverness CT).
Callum McGregor (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Jake Mulraney replaces Liam Polworth.
Substitution, Celtic. Jozo Simunovic replaces Cristian Gamboa.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Owain Fon Williams.
Attempt saved. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Owain Fon Williams.
Attempt saved. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Now Thomas Piketty has launched a new crusade - an attempt to change the debate on mass immigration, which he describes as an economic good.
In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC, the chairman of the Paris School of Economics and visiting professor at the London School of Economics told me the European Union would benefit from a major increase in the inflow of people from the rest of the world.
"The European Union has the capacity to absorb a large flow of migrants, one million per year in terms of inflow net of outflow," he said.
"This is exactly what we had between 2000 and 2010 and this was working in the sense that unemployment was being reduced.
"The problem is - with the austerity policies and with the recession - now we are in a situation where it's very difficult in particular with southern Europe, with the terrible economic situation that we have created there in particular."
Mr Piketty was speaking to mark the launch of his new book, Chronicles On Our Troubled Times, a collection of essays he originally wrote for the French newspapers Liberation and Le Monde and published in English for the first time.
In the book Mr Piketty argues that, with a population of 510 million, the European Union is well able to cope with more immigrants.
The population of the EU has only risen by 0.2% a year since 1995, he argues, compared to 1.2% for the world's population over the same period.
According to Eurostat, the official statistical arm of the European Commission, a total of 3.4 million people came to the EU during 2013.
Some 2.8 million left, leaving a net immigration figure of around 600,000.
Between 2013 and 2014, the UK saw non-EU net migration of 157,000, according to the Office of National Statistics, a figure that has risen since then.
Mr Piketty said that slow growth across the eurozone had been exacerbated not just by a lack of immigration but also by austerity policies aimed at reducing public expenditure.
"I think there has been an attempt, particularly in the eurozone, to reduce the public deficit too fast," he said.
"When you look at the growth trajectory of Europe as compared to the United States, I think it's very clear that we started a new recession in 2011, 2012, 2013 because we have tried to reduce the public deficit too fast.
"If we had taken our budgetary decision in a eurozone parliament in a democratic manner rather than through these automatic rules about budget deficit [we could have avoided] excessive austerity and the rise in unemployment and xenophobia right at the time when there was a true need for Europe to be more open with respect to the rest of the world, in particular regarding the refugee crisis."
I ask him, if he were an adviser to George Osborne, what he would be saying about the Treasury's target of creating a budget surplus by 2020, eliminating the deficit.
He smiled in response - Mr Piketty knows he is not likely to be the chancellor's favourite economist.
"What I find particularly incredible in this policy is that, OK, we need to cut the deficit, we don't have money, we need a surplus," he said.
"But we have money to cut the tax of the higher income groups, so I think it's a complete contradiction and I think that's very hard to understand for the general public.
"I think you have some people in this country who have benefited from growth much more than others in the past decade and you cannot just give more and more to those who already have more."
The Treasury's analysis is different, with officials pointing to research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies which says that income inequality has reduced since the 2008-09 recession.
Rather than looking at the impact of tax changes on income, the Treasury analyses taxes paid as a proportion of the total.
Their figures show that in 2010, the richest fifth of households paid 49% of all taxes whereas the poorest fifth paid around 6% of all taxes.
By 2020, the proportion of tax paid by the richest fifth will have risen to 52%, with the poorest fifth paying around the same proportion, 6%.
Mr Piketty says that income inequality figures mask a broader problem of wealth inequality which is still growing.
"If you compare the 1980s and the 1970s with today - 20 or 30 years down the road - there's absolutely no doubt that not only in the US but also in the UK and in most developed countries we have had rising inequality," he said.
The Magal is a holy day for the Mouride sect, which overwhelmingly practises a moderate Sufi version of Islam, emphasising the power of hard work. It is marked by travel over long distances, feasting and expressions of brotherly love.
The company said those affected numbered into the hundreds of thousands - about 5% of its total customers.
Business users were particularly badly affected, with many reporting considerable lost revenue as a result.
BT said the service has now been fully restored, advising customers to "turn their hub or modem off and on again".
The first reports of lost connections began to appear at about 13:00 BST.
By 15:00 many customers on consumer packages reported being able to gain access, but business customers had to endure longer delays.
In a statement, the company said: "We can confirm that, as a result of a power failure at one of our major exchanges, some customers may have experienced loss of broadband service for a brief period this afternoon.
"All services have now been restored, with the majority of BT's consumer broadband customers' service being restored within just one hour.
"Some business customers' broadband service may have been affected for a slightly longer period. Should any customers continue to experience difficulty in accessing their broadband service, they are advised to turn their hub or modem off and on again."
Many businesses contacted the BBC to vent their frustration at the service, suggesting today's problems have had a serious impact on sales.
Daniel Morris, in London, said: "Really frustrating for a small business as we are so reliant on the internet.
"Best thing was the BT helpline advising customers to logon to BT.com if they can't get through on the phone - not easy logging in without internet!"
Greg Gillies, director of IT support company Pond Group, added: "We were unable, along with the rest of the country, to get hold of BT for confirmation and had to rely on Twitter for unconfirmed updates."
In response, BT has said they have received a "large number of calls" and was doing its best to answer queries using social media and other methods.
"We have been doing our very best to keep customers informed," the spokesperson added.
"BT apologises for any inconvenience caused."
Saltdean Lido Community Interest Company (CIC) wants Brighton and Hove City Council to lend it £70,000 to install the sub-station.
It says it cannot allow contractors on to the site next week if it does not have the money
The council said it had offered a top-up loan of £10,000.
The CIC has raised £8m to restore the Lido, which includes more than £4.7m from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Chair Rebecca Crook said that if it had to raise another £70,000 the project would be delayed and the 1930s art deco structure would deteriorate further.
"Until the £70,000 is found to fund the sub-station this remains a building site and doesn't open next summer, so its devastating to the residents and tourists to the city," she said.
"The council aren't necessarily obligated to help us but I think, morally, the tender documents that we read implied that there is power to the site and it has always operated as a swimming pool."
The council's bid information pack states the site has a sub-station. It is unclear when it was removed or by whom.
The CIC halted the project following a meeting with council officials on Friday.
The authority said in a statement: "We have been working in the spirit of partnership with the Saltdean Lido CIC to help progress the work.
"We offered a top-up loan of £10,000 following a meeting with the CIC and ward councillors.
"We don't believe there is any need to loan any more funds.
"We have to be particularly careful about funding as we face a further £68m of government cuts over the next four years."
The club are bottom of the Premier League and these are the first signings since Marco Silva replaced Mike Phelan as the Tigers' boss earlier in January.
Senegal international Niasse, 26, joined Everton in a £13.5m deal in February but failed to score for them.
Brazilian Evandro, 30, has played in the Champions League for Porto.
He was managed by Silva when he was in charge of Portuguese side Estoril.
However, Hull will be without attacking midfielder Markus Henriksen for 2-3 months because of a shoulder injury sustained during Tuesday's 2-0 EFL Cup semi-final first leg defeat at Manchester United.
Hull have not won a Premier League game since 6 November and are at home to Bournemouth on Saturday (15:00 GMT).
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The government said the woman was flown from the Pacific island to Australia on Thursday, local media said.
Refugees who try to get to Australia by boat are detained in off-shore centres like the one on Nauru.
The family of the Iranian woman, 23, said she had harmed herself in the wake of the alleged attack.
"Given advice from our medical providers ... we've agreed that she should be transferred to Australia for medical care," Immigration Department secretary Michael Pezzullo told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC)
"The individual has been receiving appropriate medical and mental health support on Nauru," Mr Pezzullo said.
Australia' s border protection agency, the Australian Border Force, confirmed earlier this month it was aware of the incident and was taking the allegations seriously.
The ABC had earlier reported that in May the woman had left the Nauru centre to visit friends on the island and was raped as she returned to the camp.
Australia asylum: Why is it controversial?
In 2001, Nauru signed an agreement with Australia to accommodate asylum seekers on the island, in return for millions of dollars in aid.
Australia ended its controversial "Pacific Solution" of detaining asylum seekers on islands in 2008, but reversed that decision and resumed the practice in September 2012, sparking fresh criticism from rights groups.
The bank now expects growth of 0.8% this year, compared to the previous forecast of 0.5%.
However that is still below the 1.5% growth estimated for 2016, which was the strongest performance since 2007.
Many economists have revised their short term forecasts in the wake of the Brexit vote.
Danske Bank economist Conor Lambe, said: "The post-referendum picture is still emerging and will continue to do so over the coming quarters.
"We have revised our forecast up slightly from the last quarterly forecast as the economy has performed better than expected following the outcome of the EU referendum."
However, Mr Lambe warned of a number of downside risks that could lead to lower growth.
He pointed to a weaker outlook for consumer demand, meaning "we might see a slight deterioration in the labour market over the short-term".
The UK economy has performed robustly in the wake of the Brexit vote.
Earlier this month, the Bank of England made another dramatic upward revision in its growth forecast for this year.
It expects the economy to grow 2% in 2017, up from a November forecast of 1.4%, which was itself an upgrade from the 0.8% forecast made in August.
The bank said the latest, improved forecast was partly the result of higher spending and investment contained in Chancellor Philip Hammond's Autumn Statement.
It also credited stronger growth in the US and Europe, rising stock markets and the greater availability of credit for households, for its more optimistic outlook for the UK economy.
Zsolt Lakatos, 31, from Hungary, admitted shaking his son on two separate occasions in 2015, but had denied intending to cause harm.
Liverpool Crown Court was told the four-month-old suffered bleeding on the brain and would need life-long care.
Lakatos, who had been living in Walton, was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
The 31-year-old, of Ashdale Road, gave evidence to the court on Friday but failed to return to court for sentencing.
During the trial, the court heard that the first time Lakatos shook his son in what he said was "a moment of frustration" when the baby would not stop crying, the boy suffered bleeding on the brain and four fractured ribs.
Those injuries only came to light when Lakatos shook him more forcibly, two to six weeks later, the jury was told.
The boy suffered further bleeding on the brain, a fractured right shin bone and retinal haemorrhaging.
The court was told that although there had been some improvements in his condition, the child - now 22 months old - has significant visual impairment and can only roll over with help.
Sentencing Lakatos, Judge Robert Trevor-Jones said the boy would "require nursing care for the rest of his life".
He has "a cocktail of complicated physical and emotional health needs", he said, and was "unlikely to... pursue any form of independent and properly mobile life".
A warrant has been issued for Lakatos' arrest.
Rangers travel to face the Dons after a difficult start to the season, and Ferguson says it was not always an enjoyable experience at Pittodrie.
"It is a place you go to and you don't feel very welcome," said Ferguson.
"There is a nastiness about the fixture."
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Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound, the Clyde manager added: "That's not with the staff. They are fine. It's with the fans.
"Obviously it goes back to the days of what happened with (Ian) Durrant.
"I always found it a very difficult place to go and especially now with Del (manager Derek McInnes) being there, I watched their game against Dundee, and they are back firing.
"They are looking good. The front three I really like - Hayes, McGinn and Rooney are always looking a threat.
"It is going to be a tough game."
Mark Warburton's side have come in for criticism for their performances since promotion to the Premiership, which culminated in a 5-1 hammering at rivals Celtic in their recent league outing.
Ferguson believes his old Ibrox team-mate McInnes will have his Aberdeen players primed for the visit of Rangers, but thinks Rangers could exploit weaknesses in the Dons defence.
He said: "The only problem I have with Aberdeen is that defensively they don't look great, but going forward they are a major threat.
"So it is a massive game next weekend. It is a very hostile place to go and it boils down to what happened with Durranty - it has always been like that.
"I know Del really well - obviously I played with him - and I really like the way he is setting his teams up, his signing policy.
"He's not got a lot of money to play about with, but he's got some real good players.
"I really like the look of the boy he's brought in from Norwich, the midfielder (James) Maddison - he looks a player.
"Del has an eye for a player and Rangers will have their work cut out, but I can't wait.
"It should be a cracker."
The National Gallery remains the second most visited attraction, while the Southbank Centre - a new member of ALVA - completes the top three.
Scottish attractions saw a surge in visitor numbers, thanks in part to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Visitors to Scottish attractions increased by 10% on the previous year.
Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum saw a 7.5% increase in visitors, the city's Gallery of Modern Art saw an increase of 8.8%, while the Riverside Museum saw a massive increase of 41.8% .
There was also a 39% rise in visitors to the Scottish National Gallery, with the landmark exhibition Generation: 25 Year of Contemporary Art in Scotland among the highlights.
Edinburgh's National Museum of Scotland remains the most visited free attraction in Scotland, as well as the most visited museum outside London, despite a comparative fall in visitor numbers, attributed to the fact that 10 galleries were closed to the public for redevelopment.
The list of the top 10 most visited sites contains only one attraction outside London, with the newly-built Library of Birmingham at number 10.
The library, which was completed in 2013, attracted some 2,414,860 visitors ahead of London's British Library, which drew 1,627,599 visits.
The library is now making more than half its staff redundant as part of council budget cuts.
Edinburgh Castle and Chester Zoo are the only other non-London attractions in the top 20.
War museum
Museums and Galleries across the UK saw an increase of more than 6% on visitor numbers on the previous year, with Tate Modern welcoming a record 5,785,427 visitors, largely due to its popular Matisse exhibition.
But it was London's Imperial War Museum which saw the most significant increase in visitor numbers across the year.
Driven by events marking the centenary, the museum's new World War One galleries, which opened in July 2014, saw almost one million visitors in just six months - an 153% increase on the same period in 2013.
Bernard Donoghue, director of ALVA, said he was confident the 2015 figures would "rise again with the anticipated increase in overseas visitors this year".
He added that membership and Friends schemes also show "Brits are voting for tourism with their feet and wallets".
There are three major factors driving these numbers on a seemingly ever-upward curve.
Number one is tourism. In many cases the amount of domestic visitors has remained the same or decreased, but not those from overseas who continue to visit Britain in large numbers in a post-Olympics and Commonwealth Games tourism boom.
Second is the event culture we live in. Museums and galleries have become masters of the mega-blockbuster: big, once-in-a-lifetime exhibitions like Matisse at Tate Modern or Rembrandt at the National Gallery that become must-see attractions.
And thirdly, education. The vast majority of museums and galleries in the UK have developed excellent education departments over the last decade, who help shape the content towards schools and students.
No institution is better at this than the British Museum, which attracts a large number of its domestic visits by offering well-packaged displays and exhibitions that tie-in directly to the school curriculum.
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McClaren, 55, replaces Nigel Pearson, who left by mutual consent on Saturday after less than five months, with temporary boss Chris Powell returning to his role as assistant manager.
"I regret how my time at Derby ended in 2015," said McClaren.
"I am very motivated to put things right for the club and supporters."
McClaren left Derby in acrimonious circumstances in May 2015 following constant speculation linking him with the job at Newcastle.
He subsequently joined the Magpies but was sacked in March 2016.
Derby president and chief executive Sam Rush said: "We enjoyed some fantastic and memorable moments under Steve during his previous tenure in charge.
"Steve's arrival and subsequent work helped transform how we played our football.
"Steve's time at Derby came to a premature end and I know he regrets that greatly. He values hugely his relationship with our supporters and I know that he will work very hard to ensure that the special connection returns."
More to follow.
Moore helped Reading to a fifth successive Championship win on Saturday as they edged out Bristol City 2-1.
"To have a manager who wants his defenders to play is only going to improve me as a player," Moore said.
The 23-year-old will miss their next match at Fulham on Saturday through suspension after picking up a fifth booking of the season.
Jaap Stam's possession-based approach to Reading's style of play received a cautious welcome, but has seen the Royals collect maximum points in November.
Moore, who joined the club from Leicester City in August, is thrilled to be given the chance to be a key part.
"We have to have the ball as defenders," he told BBC Radio Berkshire. "There's no two ways about it.
"We have to make angles and take brave decisions. The gaffer always wants us to take initiative, so if I can improve that in my game, it will obviously make me a better player."
"Throne Idle" and "Ice work if you can get it" were among the newspaper puns to greet the future king as he returned to the UK, having missed the Commonwealth Day events.
When he's not dad-dancing in Verbier or spending time with his young family, the Duke of Cambridge splits his time between royal duties, a part-time job as a pilot and his charitable work.
So far this year, the 34-year-old has attended royal engagements on 12 days, including a trip to south Wales, a gala dinner and an investiture at Buckingham Palace.
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12 days Duke of Cambridge
10 days Duchess of Cambridge
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The record of these attendances is detailed in the Court Circular, which was last updated on 10 March and does not specify the hours of each event.
Nor does it take into account behind-the-scenes activity or preparation for royal events.
Since 2015, the prince has worked as a helicopter pilot for the East Anglian Air Ambulance Service. There, he works 9.5 hour shifts, clocking up an average of 20 hours per week - the salary for which is donated to charity.
Based on these hours and the royal engagements, Prince William will have worked the equivalent of 34 of the possible 53 working days in 2017 so far.
Earlier this year he announced he would be leaving his ambulance job in the summer to take on more royal duties.
By Peter Hunt, BBC royal correspondent
This is not unfamiliar terrain for Prince William or indeed for his family.
To be found wanting in the eyes of the tabloids is an occupational hazard that has dogged them for decades.
When the prince decided to ski with his mates rather than leave early and attend a church service that mattered to his grandmother, he could have predicted that he would be judged to have made an error of judgement.
It was an error that he can regret at leisure.
But what he couldn't necessarily have predicted was that he would have remained headline news for so long. The future king is wary of the media. The newspapers are increasingly concerned at his attempts to bypass them and use social media instead.
The next test will come in the autumn when he becomes a full-time senior royal.
If by then there isn't a noticeable increase in his royal workload, there's a risk the tabloids will once again sit in judgement and once again find Prince William wanting.
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In 2016, Prince William clocked up 80 days of royal engagements - well behind the busiest member of the royal family, Princess Anne, with 179 days of engagements.
Prince Charles, 68, came second with 139 and the Queen, 90, matched her grandson with 80 days.
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Despite denouncing the work-shy claims as "absolute rubbish" and "grossly unfair", royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams said the headlines were "irresistible" for the tabloid press.
"It's an unfair perception that the photographs reinforce," he said.
Prince William has said criticism of being work-shy was not something he ignored, but not something he "took completely to heart" either.
Prince William is patron or president to 23 organisations, including the Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
Not all the work he does to fulfil these roles is classed as a royal engagement.
Centrepoint - the youth homelessness charity of which the Prince has been a patron since 2005 - said the royal visits hostels publicly and privately, volunteering alongside staff and regularly meeting with the Centrepoint parliament.
Chief executive Seyi Obakin, said: "Within the last three months, he has publicly and actively supported our plans to create a national helpline for homeless young people.
"Last month, he launched with us the Centrepoint helpline."
Prince William has also campaigned vigorously against animal poaching. At an international conference in November he called on the UK government to pass a total ban on the domestic ivory trade.
This week, the Cambridges are visiting Paris and in July, the royal couple are due to make an official visit to Germany and Poland, at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Kensington Palace declined to comment when contacted by the BBC.
Robert Randolph's book, You'll Never Spa in This Town Again, was published in Februrary.
Randolph claimed Travolta and his lawyer defamed him by spreading false statements about his mental health, to persuade people not to buy it.
Travolta's lawyer Martin Singer had called the legal action "absurd".
Judge Malcolm Mackey at Los Angeles Superior Court dismissed Randolph's defamation case, which centred on a letter Singer wrote to the website Gawker.com, in response to a story about the planned book.
The judge's reasons for the dismissal were not disclosed. However, CNN reported he had found part of the letter to have free speech protection under US law.
Randolph's book was published three months before two unidentified male masseurs filed sexual assault cases against Travolta.
They both swiftly dropped their cases in May, after doubt was cast over the details of their alleged encounters.
Pulp Fiction star Travolta has always denied the claims made against him.
The 58-year-old actor has been married to actress Kelly Preston since 1991.
The couple have two children. Their teenage son Jett died in 2009 during a family holiday in the Bahamas.
It began on Tuesday morning after a small metal object was discovered on North Queen Street.
As a result, a number of families living in the area had to leave their homes.
It was examined by an army robot and a controlled explosion was carried out. It was later declared to be a "viable device" and has been removed for examination.
The road between New Lodge Road and Duncairn Gardens was closed during the alert but has since reopened.
The incident had caused "massive inconvenience, disruption and upset for the local community of north Belfast", said Det Insp Mary White, who thanked the public for their "patience and cooperation".
"I am appealing for anyone who noticed any suspicious activity in the North Queen Street area close to Spamount Street or anyone with any information that could assist with the investigation to contact detectives."
A woman who entered the scene to retrieve a football was handcuffed and taken away by police.
Ms Giri allegedly approved licences that failed to meet government standards for agencies recruiting Nepalese to work in foreign countries.
Corruption is seen as a widespread problem in Nepal.
Last month former Communications Minister Jaya Prakash Prasad Gupta was sentenced to 18 months in prison for accumulating wealth beyond his means.
The payout by the estate, which owns London's Regent Street and the entire UK seabed, was up from £285m.
It comes ahead of a review of the Sovereign Grant - taxpayers' money given to the Queen by the Treasury.
This year the Queen received a grant of nearly £43m, currently calculated as 15% of the Crown Estate's profits.
The Sovereign Grant, which is paid two years in arrears, is reviewed every five years.
In the coming months, the government and a senior royal official will carry out a review of the grant, which was set at 15% in 2012.
If the formula is unchanged, the grant will rise to more than £45m next year, up from £31m in 2012.
This year, the Crown Estate has reaped the benefits of a regeneration programme of London's Regent Street and St James's, where it lets out shops.
The estate brought in £22.9m over the year from leasing the country's seabed to offshore wind farms, a rise of nearly 20%.
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The Sovereign Grant's annual report for 2015-2016 shows the monarchy cost the Treasury £40.1m, of which:
During a briefing to launch the report, Sir Alan Reid, Keeper of the Privy Purse, highlighted the large amount of funds spent on the upkeep of royal palaces.
Spending on property maintenance was up close to 40% on the previous year, he said, yet the condition of the estate was deteriorating at a faster rate than they have been able to respond to.
Sir Alan said a "significant amount" of the rise in this year's Sovereign Grant of £42.8m would be used to tackle the backlog in essential maintenance.
BBC royal correspondent Peter Hunt said it was now unlikely - as had been suggested last year after the publication of the Sovereign Grant's annual report - that the Queen would have to vacate Buckingham Palace during refurbishment.
Source: The Crown Estate
Meanwhile, Prince Charles's private income from his Duchy of Cornwall estate, a portfolio of land, property and financial investments, rose by 3% to £20.5m during the last financial year, and his tax bill increased by £531,000 to just over £5m.
The Duchy of Cornwall, which includes assets such as London's Oval cricket ground and has the Isles of Scilly among its possessions, funds the private and official expenditure of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall.
The estate is given to the heir to the throne and comprises 53,628 hectares (132,518 acres) of land in 23 counties, mostly in the south-west of England.
The prince also received £1.4m in funding from the Sovereign Grant and government departments during the period.
Armed response officers from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) were called at about 18:40 GMT on Thursday after reports there was a man with a gun.
The 43-year-old was uninjured during the incident in Albert Road, Levenshulme, GMP assistant chief constable Garry Shewan said.
"Officers have been with him, and have now apologised for what happened."
He said: "Two witnesses, as well as our firearms officers, believed the man was acting in an agitated manner and in the dark, the folded cane appeared to be a gun.
"An officer decided that in the circumstances, and to ensure the safety of the man and public, he should deploy a Taser."
He said an initial review indicated the officer "carried out a suitable risk assessment and, with the information he had available at the time, made what appeared to be an appropriate decision".
He said the 43-year-old man "acknowledged that his behaviour could have led to people being concerned".
"The man has accepted our apology and does not wish to make a complaint however we will continue to review the situation."
In 2012, a blind man was Tasered in Chorley, Lancashire, after his white stick was mistaken for a Samurai sword.
The South African sides Cheetahs and Southern Kings will join the league after losing their Super Rugby status.
The six-year deal is likely to benefit the league to the tune of an extra £6m per season from the South African Rugby Union and additional television income.
All elements of the deal have been agreed and, once legally ratified, could be formally announced next week.
The new Pro14 league will kick-off in the first week of September and will comprise two conferences of seven teams. Each conference will have one Scottish side, one South African side, one Italian side and two each from Wales and Ireland.
The current preference is for two conferences of seven teams playing each other home and away. Within this format, the teams would also play one game against all the sides from the other conference, which would deliver 19 fixtures.
Additionally, each club would also play home and away derby fixtures as well, providing a total of 21 league games. However, other formats are also being discussed.
The winners of each conference will qualify automatically for the semi-finals, while the teams placed in second and third in each conference will be drawn together in play-offs for the remaining two semi-final places.
The Pro12 currently raises around £12m in television revenues, meaning the addition of the two South African sides represents a significant uplift as the Scottish, Irish and Welsh rugby unions try to bridge the financial gap to the English Premiership and French Top 14 teams.
The increase equates to around £500,000 in additional income per season for the existing Scottish, Irish, Welsh and Italian sides in the Pro12.
The Cheetahs and the Southern Kings are the weakest of South Africa's Super Rugby teams, and they were cut from next season's competition, opening the way for the move to join the Pro12.
One of the anticipated clauses for the deal is that the two franchises will commit to strengthening their squads, to ensure the competitive nature of the competition is protected.
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The World Trade Organization's first comprehensive agreement involves an effort to simplify the procedures for doing business across borders.
There will also be improved duty-free access for goods sold by the world's poorest countries.
The deal, which could add about $1tn to world trade, gives developing nations more scope to increase farm subsidies.
"For the first time in our history, the WTO has truly delivered," said WTO chief Roberto Azevedo, as the organisation reached its first comprehensive agreement since it was founded in 1995.
Bureaucratic barriers to commerce can be a big problem.
Africa, for example, has the longest customs delays in the world. The African Development Bank says it can take 36 hours to get goods through the customs post at the Victoria Falls crossing from Zambia into Zimbabwe.
And there are often more barriers to negotiate once goods are over the border. The highway between Lagos and Abuja in Nigeria has 69 official checkpoints.
It takes time and costs money dealing with these delays. It can be disastrous for a cargo of perishable goods. These are exactly the kind of barriers that the WTO deal is intended to tackle.
Dealing with them would certainly make it cheaper for business to move goods across borders. And if it's cheaper, they will do more of it.
"This time the entire membership came together. We have put the 'world' back in World Trade Organization," he said.
Indonesian Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan said the deal would "benefit all WTO members".
UK Prime Minister David Cameron said the "historic" agreement could be a "lifeline" for the world's poorest people, as well as benefiting British businesses to the tune of more than $1bn (£600m).
However, the "Bali package", as the WTO calls the agreement, was criticised by some development campaigners who said it was not going far enough.
It is worth spelling out what is not covered by this: tariffs or taxes on imported goods.
Dealing with them has been the bread and butter of past trade rounds - but not for this deal.
The core of this agreement is what is called trade facilitation. This is about reducing the costs and delays involved in international trade. It is often described as "cutting red tape".
Some analysts suggest the benefits could be large. An influential Washington think tank has put the potential gains to the world economy at close to $1tn and 20m million jobs.
It also estimates the cost of administrative barriers as double the cost of tariffs.
The rich countries have agreed to help the poorer WTO members with implementing this agreement.
Another important aspect of the Bali package deals with enabling poor countries to sell their goods more easily. This part is about tariffs, and also quota limits on imports.
Rich countries and the more advanced developing countries have agreed to cut tariffs on products from the poorest nations.
EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht told the BBC that if the poorest nations "have more trading capacity it will also result in more investment in logistics and infrastructure".
But campaigners describe the plan as weak.
Nick Dearden of the World Development Movement said: "If the US and EU really wanted to tackle global poverty, they would have made the least-developed-countries package much stronger."
Getting this deal has involved introducing some extra flexibility into the existing WTO rules on farm subsidies. India led the campaign, by insisting that it should be allowed to subsidise grain under its new food security law.
There is a strong possibility that India's policy would break WTO rules that limit farm subsidies.
A "peace clause" has been agreed, under which members agree not to initiate WTO disputes against those breaching the subsidy limits as part of a food-security programme. But it only lasts four years and there is criticism from campaigners.
John Hilary of War on Want, a UK-based group, said: "The negotiations have failed to secure permanent protection for countries to safeguard the food rights of their peoples, exposing hundreds of millions to the prospect of hunger and starvation simply in order to satisfy the dogma of free trade."
The Bali meeting was an important one for the WTO's credibility. The deal includes a rather small part of the negotiating programme that was launched 12 years ago, known as the Doha Round.
Repeated delays have made the WTO seem irrelevant as a forum for negotiating trade liberalisation agreements. It was one of the main reasons so many countries have sought to make deals bilaterally or among small groups.
The agreement will help repair the WTO's damaged image. Nonetheless, the rest of the Doha Round will be very difficult to conclude.
The deal seeks further reductions in farm subsidies, tariffs on industrial goods, barriers to international trade in services and more.
All are very difficult to conclude and are entwined with domestic political factors in many of the WTO's 159 member countries.
So don't hold your breath waiting for the final deal.
Bamba was dismissed for his angry reaction to a tackle, and confronted the referee and fourth official.
Warnock attempted to restrain him as he approached the touchline and, after words were exchanged between the pair, Bamba pushed his manager's arm away.
Aron Gunnarsson gave Cardiff the lead, before Luke Varney equalised.
The draw did neither side any favours - the Welsh side remain in the bottom three and Ipswich slip to 17th.
Gunnarsson was the key for the visitors throughout the first half, hitting the post with a half-volley early on before testing Bialkowski with a driven shot from distance.
He eventually made the breakthrough seven minutes before half-time, pouncing when Bartosz Bialkowski dropped the ball from a corner.
But it was just seven minutes after the break when Varney scored for a second successive game at Portman Road, converting Adam Webster's pull-back from 12 yards.
After Bamba was sent off, following a tackle by Jonathan Douglas, it was Cardiff who had the best chance, only for Luke Chambers' superb block to deny Bruno Ecuele Manga.
Ipswich boss Mick McCarthy: "I am disappointed we didn't create more chances after the sending off. The game was going nowhere and the sending off probably affected us more than them.
"Cardiff then sat back and it was difficult to play through them. I think the fear of actually losing against 10 men can get into players' heads and Cardiff are no mugs, by any stretch of the imagination.
"I have seen players lose it, and I have lost it myself, but never on the fourth official.
"It probably was a foul but you can't condone what he did - he thoroughly deserved to be sent off."
Match ends, Ipswich Town 1, Cardiff City 1.
Second Half ends, Ipswich Town 1, Cardiff City 1.
Attempt missed. Craig Noone (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Bruno Ecuele Manga (Cardiff City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Pilkington with a headed pass.
Attempt saved. Sean Morrison (Cardiff City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Peter Whittingham with a cross.
Junior Hoilett (Cardiff City) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Cole Skuse.
Attempt blocked. Peter Whittingham (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Luke Chambers (Ipswich Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Luke Chambers (Ipswich Town).
Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City) is shown the yellow card.
Delay in match Lee Peltier (Cardiff City) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Teddy Bishop (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City).
Attempt missed. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Freddie Sears.
Foul by Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town).
Craig Noone (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Teddy Bishop replaces Jonathan Douglas.
Foul by Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town).
Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Junior Hoilett with a cross.
Offside, Cardiff City. Ben Amos tries a through ball, but Anthony Pilkington is caught offside.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Bruno Ecuele Manga replaces Rickie Lambert.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Brett Pitman replaces Luke Varney.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Freddie Sears replaces Grant Ward.
Sol Bamba (Cardiff City) is shown the red card.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Sol Bamba (Cardiff City) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Craig Noone (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Offside, Cardiff City. Peter Whittingham tries a through ball, but Craig Noone is caught offside.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Bartosz Bialkowski.
Attempt missed. Grant Ward (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Tom Lawrence.
Attempt missed. Rickie Lambert (Cardiff City) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the left. Assisted by Aron Gunnarsson with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Junior Hoilett (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Anthony Pilkington.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Anthony Pilkington replaces Joe Bennett.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Craig Noone replaces Kadeem Harris.
The 14th Nairn Book and Arts Festival has been left with the funding gap after not getting grant assistance from national arts body Creative Scotland.
Almost 100 events are planned as part of this year's festival in September.
But organisers said this year's and future festivals were in doubt if the money could not be raised.
Chairman David Godden said: "The festival plays a vital part in the local economy, boosts tourism in the region, and provides opportunities and support to local arts groups, volunteers and venues.
"The knock-on effect of losing it would be extremely damaging."
Energiekontor UK had originally been looking at building 15 turbines as part of the Pines Burn project.
It has scaled down its proposals following a series of public exhibitions in the area.
The company has estimated that the development could meet the annual energy needs of more than 22,000 homes if it goes ahead.
The National Union of Teachers, Fire Brigades Union and Association of Teachers and Lecturers are calling for cladding to be analysed urgently, in the wake of the Grenfell fire.
The unions also asked for clarity on whether plans to water down fire safety rules for schools were being scrapped.
Ministers say cladding on schools over four storeys high is being checked.
And the government insisted there were no plans to bring in any changes which would make fire safety laws less strict.
The unions made their call for fire safety action in a letter to Education Secretary Justine Greening.
They asked her to publish a list of all schools that had been fitted with cladding that needed to be removed, as well as a timetable for removal.
They also asked for ministers to bring forward legislation to require sprinklers to be fitted to all new schools.
Fire safety guidance for schools, known as Building Bulletin 100, had required all new schools to be fitted with sprinklers - except for a few low-risk schools, the letter highlights.
Despite this, only 35% of new schools built since 2010 - when the coalition government came to power - had been fitted with sprinklers.
This compared with 70% of schools built between 2007 and 2010.
In a statement, the unions said: "It is clear that current guidance is being ignored in the rush to build new schools as cheaply as possible."
Kevin Courtney, National Union of Teachers general secretary, said: "For far too long the government has viewed health and safety as a 'red tape' burden.
"It has been seen as an afterthought and an opportunity to try to cut corners and save money.
"We all now know the terrible consequences of that approach. Fire safety in schools must now become a priority and for this to happen the government needs to heed our advice."
The national school-building programme, Building Schools for the Future, was scrapped by the then Education Secretary Michael Gove in 2010 for being "wasteful" and too expensive.
A new programme for school building was developed which the then government said was more efficient and less costly.
And scores of free schools have since been opened up in buildings not previously used as schools.
The Local Government Association said that fire safety checks were continuing in council-run schools, with Friday the deadline for completion.
Nick Gibb said: "The government is taking the potential impact from the Grenfell Tower seriously and as such, we are taking a strategic approach to the assessment of the wider public sector estate.
"The department is undertaking an analysis of all school buildings to identify those over four storeys high, to ensure we include all buildings that are over 18m in our analysis.
"This analysis is to establish what, if any, external cladding has been used on these buildings."
A Department for Education spokesman said all schools had to have mandatory fire risk assessments and new schools were subject to additional checks during the design process.
Where these additional checks say that sprinklers or other fire safety issues are required, such steps must be taken.
The UUP left the executive last year due to issues surrounding IRA activity and paramilitarism.
Mr Nesbitt said his party had increased focus on the issue and "achieved what we want to achieve".
He also said he would meet with the three-strong panel set up as a result of the Fresh Start deal.
Mr Nesbitt was speaking at the launch of a document setting out his party's vision ahead of May's Assembly election.
It calls for a new era of belief - in Stormont, its politicians and their motivation.
The party intends to publish eight more documents before polling day on areas including health, economy, education and animal welfare.
If they were to go ahead, they would be the first high-level talks since 2015.
A senior official said talks should aim to stop "all hostile activities that raise military tension" at the fortified border between the Koreas.
South Korea's President Moon Jae-in has long signalled he wants closer engagement with the North.
North Korea has not responded to the South's proposal yet.
In a recent speech in Berlin, Mr Moon said dialogue with the North was more pressing than ever and called for a peace treaty to be signed.
He said such dialogue was crucial for those who seek the end of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme.
However, the North's frequent missile tests, including the most recent one of an intercontinental ballistic missile, are in consistent violation of UN resolutions and have alarmed its neighbours and the US.
South Korea's Vice Defence Minister Suh Choo-suk told a media briefing that talks could be held at Tongilgak, a North Korean building in the Panmunjom compound in the demilitarised zone between the two countries, which was used to host previous talks.
He proposed that the talks be held on 21 July, and said: "We expect a positive response from the North."
South Korea's Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon also urged the restoration of communication hotlines between the two Koreas, cut last year after a North Korean nuclear test.
The BBC's Karen Allen in Seoul says the ultimate aim of these talks would be to end the military confrontation that has dominated relations between the two Koreas for decades.
But it could begin with confidence-building measures such as ending the infamous loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts along the border, she says.
The Red Cross and the government have also proposed a separate meeting, aimed at discussing how to hold reunions of families separated by the Korean War, which ended in 1953.
But analysts say these could be highly fraught with Pyongyang still angry at the South's unwillingness to repatriate high-profile defectors.
Labour topped the list with £1.89m of donations between 30 March and 5 April, the Electoral Commission said.
The Conservatives received £501,850, UKIP was given £35,416 and the Lib Dems £20,000, figures show.
All parties standing candidates at the election are required by law to report any donations or loans over £7,500.
The Co-operative Party was given £8,400 and the Green Party received £13,792.
The biggest donation came from the Unite union, which gave Labour £1,005,000.
Unison gave the party £506,240.
The biggest donation to the Conservatives came from individual donor Michael Tory, who gave the party £75,000.
The Reds rejected an offer of more than £2.5m from Derby for the 26-year-old former Arsenal midfielder, who has scored six goals this season.
Montanier admitted other clubs have bid for Lansbury, but did not name them.
"We've had an offer but it's not me who makes the decision to sell him," he told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"He's my captain and the best player on my team. It is confidential but we have received offers from teams.
"I know in football some situations are difficult when a player receives a big offer and it is then difficult to play 100%."
Montanier said Lansbury, whose contract expires in the summer, will play no part in Saturday's FA Cup third-round tie at Wigan Athletic because of a hamstring injury.
He suffered the injury in the pre-match warm-up ahead of their 3-0 loss to Derby on 11 December.
Leading 4-2 from the first leg, the Spanish side were largely unflustered as they held the German side at bay.
However, home keeper Jan Oblak did make two superb saves in quick succession to deny Julian Brandt and Kevin Volland.
Bayer keeper Bernd Leno produced two excellent stops of his own to tip away Angel Correa and Koke shots.
Last season's runners-up Atletico are the third Spanish side through to the quarter-finals, along with Barcelona and holders Real Madrid.
They are joined by Monaco, who beat Manchester City on Wednesday, with German duo Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, English champions Leicester, and Italian side Juventus completing the draw, which takes place on Friday.
The result maintains Atletico's flawless record of reaching the Champions League quarter-finals under manager Diego Simeone, making it four in a row since 2013-14.
They have played much better during the Argentine's tenure, but this was an evening that demanded efficiency over entertainment and in that respect they fully delivered.
The returning Diego Godin marshalled a resolute back-line superbly, giving Bayer only the rarest sniff of one of the three goals they required to overturn the tie.
They could, and probably should have added to their advantage, but Leno was in fine form, diving to his left to tip away Correa's shot from inside the box and to his right to deny Koke from a similar range.
In the second half, Antoine Griezmann beat the offside trap and also Leno with a chipped effort that floated a yard past the post.
Another positive for the home side was the presence on the bench of Fernando Torres, who lost consciousness after a heavy challenge in a game with Deportivo La Coruna on 2 March and subsequently spent 24 hours in hospital.
Bayer had a new man in the dugout in Tayfun Korkut, who succeeded Roger Schmidt last week following the first-leg defeat and a 6-2 league loss to Borussia Dortmund.
Ex-Hannover and Kaiserslautern boss Korkut drew his first game 1-1 with Werder Bremen last Friday, but faced a near impossible task at the Vicente Calderon Stadium.
Only twice in Champions League history has a side overturned a home first-leg defeat to win the tie.
In addition, it is 31 Champions League games - in a run stretching back to 2002 - since Bayer have scored three goals away from home over 90 minutes.
And without six first-team regulars, including 17-year-old midfielder Kai Havertz, missing because he "has important exams at school", they gave it a go but never looked likely of bucking either of these trends.
Much of the credit for that goes to Oblak, who produced a number of superb saves to deny Bayer even a consolation goal to take back to Germany.
Match ends, Atlético de Madrid 0, Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0.
Second Half ends, Atlético de Madrid 0, Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0.
Attempt saved. Karim Bellarabi (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Kevin Kampl.
Attempt missed. Leon Bailey (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Karim Bellarabi with a cross.
Nicolás Gaitán (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kevin Kampl (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nicolás Gaitán (Atlético de Madrid).
Foul by Karim Bellarabi (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Lucas Hernández (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Charles Aránguiz replaces Kevin Volland.
Foul by Roberto Hilbert (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Lucas Hernández (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Saúl Ñíguez (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann.
Foul by Kevin Volland (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Admir Mehmedi replaces Chicharito.
Attempt saved. Kevin Kampl (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Leon Bailey.
Corner, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Conceded by Jan Oblak.
Attempt saved. Leon Bailey (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Tin Jedvaj.
Substitution, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Leon Bailey replaces Julian Brandt.
Attempt blocked. José Giménez (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Chicharito (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
José Giménez (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Tin Jedvaj (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Wendell (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Conceded by Stefan Savic.
Attempt saved. Karim Bellarabi (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Chicharito with a headed pass.
Substitution, Atlético de Madrid. Stefan Savic replaces Yannick Carrasco.
Julian Baumgartlinger (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Julian Baumgartlinger (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Sime Vrsaljko (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Yannick Carrasco.
Attempt missed. Chicharito (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Kevin Volland (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Kevin Volland (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Julian Brandt (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Offside, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Kevin Kampl tries a through ball, but Aleksandar Dragovic is caught offside.
José Giménez (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Chicharito (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by José Giménez (Atlético de Madrid).
In an attempt to raise awareness of the protocol visitors should follow when visiting loved ones, Craigavon Area Hospital has released a video to increase public awareness of the do's and don'ts.
Its release comes after the hospital had to cancel all non-emergency inpatient surgeries at the hospital on Thursday for a second day running due to norovirus.
They enlisted Ma, Da and Cal from Give My Head Peace to add some humour to a serious message.
In a series of sketches, Ma, who is sick in bed in hospital, receives visits from her devoted husband, Da, and her son, Cal.
Each sketch tackles a different issue, such as visitors who are not well coming to see patients in hospital or bringing hot food and flowers in for patients.
The 'Respect our Rules' campaign features four areas of awareness for visitors.
The chief executive of the Southern Health Trust, Francis Rice, said the hospital had decided to deliver a serious message in a humorous way through online and social media.
"We regularly appeal to people coming to our hospitals to respect visiting rules," she said.
"The winter vomiting bug is no laughing matter and it's widespread in our communities at the minute. People visiting hospital can carry the bug in and pass it on to our patients.
"So we hope this new campaign will explain how everyone can help us stop the spread of the virus."
The trust's medical director, Dr Richard Wright, said it was vital that hospital visiting rules were followed.
"Visitors are always very welcome to our hospitals and having visitors can help with patient recovery and wellbeing," he said.
"However, patients in hospital are often more vulnerable to infection and that's why it's so important that visitors do not come if they (or anybody at home) have any symptoms that could be contagious.
"Such symptoms include a cough, runny nose, rash, vomiting or diarrhoea.
"One cause of infection outbreaks on wards is visitors carrying infections in during visits.
"It is really important that everybody cleans their hands using soap and water, or alcohol hand rubs when they enter or leave a ward or other areas of the hospital.
"Sick patients often get tired very quickly and need plenty of time to rest and recuperate so the number of visitors each patient has should be restricted to a maximum of two at a time."
Dr Lorraine Doherty from the Public Health Agency said the same rules applied when visiting people in nursing and residential homes or attending other healthcare facilities such as doctor's surgeries.
"It's not unusual to see an increase in the winter vomiting and diarrhoea virus at this time of year, so we are urging people to take extra care with hand hygiene and, if you have the illness, take simple steps to prevent the spread," she added.
Michael Freshwater, 49, was found stabbed to death at a property in Westridge Road on 29 April.
A 28-year-old man is being held on suspicion of assisting an offender, conspiracy to supply class A drugs and money laundering.
At least 13 people have so far been arrested as part of the investigation.
A 25-year-old man from Southampton has become the latest to face charges.
He is being held on remand, accused of conspiracy to supply class A drugs, and is due before Southampton Crown Court on 5 August.
Last month, Mr Freshwater's partner, Jenny Downey, made an emotional appeal for help in tracking down his killers.
Hampshire Constabulary said it is believed there was a dispute at the property before Mr Freshwater's body was discovered.
Following the ill-fated Gallipoli landings in the Dardanelles, thousands of wounded Anzacs were evacuated to England. Weymouth was soon identified as an ideal site for their recuperation.
The influx of antipodean soldiers had an enduring impact on the resort which was affectionately dubbed "Wey-Aussie" by its wartime visitors.
The first hutted camp, complete with cook house, shower block, gymnasium and orthopaedic recovery unit was set up at Monte Video in Chickerell, near the site of the Granby Industrial estate today.
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Weymouth was chosen because of its existing army camp facilities, which were emptying as British soldiers completed their training and headed for the trenches in France.
But the seaside climate also lent itself to rest and recuperation - soldiers in their light blue uniforms, pushing others in wheelchairs became a common sight on the seafront.
A reporter from the Melbourne Argos visited the Chickerell camp, describing it as "an ideal place with warm sea breezes and slopes lined with purple heather that lay between the camp and the sea".
"And the markets of Weymouth supply plenty of honest butter, vegetables and fruit for the convalescent man," he added.
Phil Sherwood, of the Somerset and Dorset Family History Society, said: "You can imagine, in a town of 40,000 population, it had a big impact."
The Weymouth public welcomed the first influx of troops with a huge strawberry and cream tea. They and their successors would also enjoy whist drives, concerts and dances.
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The local church choir would also go into Chickerell camp to sing for those soldiers who could not get out.
There were fishing trips organised to Chesil beach while the Anzacs later formed their own band and performed at the Pavilion and Alexandra Gardens.
However, many did not get the chance to enjoy the resort's pleasures for long.
The priority was to get men fit enough to fight again and by October 1915, having survived the horrors of Gallipoli, hundreds of men were being transferred to Weymouth train station, to begin their journey to other European battle fronts.
Those who could not be restored to fighting fitness were sent back to Australia.
For those who did stay for longer there was a chance to get to know the Dorset population - 50 ended up marrying local women.
Fred Kelly, a member of the Goldfields Regiment had been brought to Weymouth after being wounded in action. He married a nurse and eventually they both moved to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
Mr Sherwood has set up a Facebook group to bring together family stories of the descendants of the Anzacs.
Eighty six soldiers did not make it back to their homelands and died while in Dorset. They are buried in Weymouth and Melcombe Regis cemeteries.
The town observes Anzac Day on 25 April, with a service at the special memorial erected on the esplanade.
Anne McCosker, a niece of Queenslander Lt Fred Martin, has researched her uncle's experiences convalescing at Westham Camp.
"You could hear the different accents - it was more relaxed and trying to pull the Pommeys' legs - it was just part of the relationship between the two people," she said.
"All the girls would be eyeing them, as they had the best overcoats and had more money.
"Every night apparently they used to have a punch up, up Boot Hill between the British soldiers and the Australians - it was never very serious.
"They would have loved the Fleet (lagoon behind Chesil Beach) as that reminded them of Queensland - with the lagoons and the more open skies, they felt very much at home here."
Although little evidence remains of the hutted camps, street names nearby bear names including Queensland Road and Canberra Road.
It was 1919 by the time the last Anzac soldiers left Weymouth. Their farewell was marked by writer Thomas Hardy in an interview with the Anzac newsletter.
"Now that the Australians are going back home and will soon be leaving us, would you please tell them I wish them a safe return and very good luck wherever they may go.
"We shall always be glad to see them, to welcome them and hold out the hand of not only friendship, but kinship and fraternal greeting," he said.
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While many of his countrymen play reggae or other musical styles borrowed from elsewhere, he and his band, the Amaravi Movement, make music inspired by traditional Malawian rhythms and instruments.
Known in his country as "the voice of the voiceless", Mawanga has a strong social conscience and is not afraid to speak out on behalf of the poor.
He ruffled feathers with his first hit Amakhala ku Blantyre which suggested that city dwellers who visit villages may not be as rich as they seem - they may have borrowed their fancy clothes.
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Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg claimed UKIP "promoted and tolerated prejudiced attitudes" to minority groups.
The society said it was "undemocratic" to withdraw the invitation.
Committee chairwoman Bethan Jenkins said witnesses could not choose who could ask questions, while UKIP's Neil Hamilton told Cymdeithas to "grow up".
Mr Hamilton, who leads his party in the assembly, is the only UKIP member of the committee.
Representatives of the society had been invited to give evidence on Welsh language standards on Wednesday.
Cymdeithas chairwoman Heledd Gwyndaf called the dropping of the invitation an "undemocratic decision" and "a dreadful reflection of the state of politics today".
She accused members of the committee of "embracing UKIP's prejudice with open arms", claiming: "They are blocking a platform for us, who support rights for the Welsh language and for other minorities.
"UKIP has promoted and tolerated prejudiced attitudes against a number of groups in our society - gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans people, ethnic minorities, migrants, people with HIV - and the Welsh language," Ms Gwyndaf added.
"We cannot treat them like any other party."
Ms Jenkins, Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales West, said: "There's every right for them [Cymdeithas] to come on the basis that every elected AM has the right to ask them questions if they so wish."
She said it was "odd at best" to call the submission of written evidence "undemocratic" and an "insult" to those who have provided evidence in such way.
"For the time being, the people of Wales have given UKIP a democratic mandate to be here and we have to respect those voters' wishes," Ms Jenkins said.
She added that she consulted all members of the committee after she was informed that Cymdeithas would refuse to take questions from any UKIP AM.
"The unanimous view of those who responded was that it was for the committee to decide who should ask questions and not witnesses," she said.
"On that basis, we wrote back to Cymdeithas and said we would consider its submitted written evidence to our inquiry instead."
Mr Hamilton said he was looking forward to speaking to the group, and had read their written evidence "with great sympathy", but said the organisation should "grow up".
"They do no favours to the Welsh language by their puerile display of ignorance and bigotry," he said.
The UKIP group leader said the assembly "cannot be dictated to by extremists".
Pointing to the 13% of Welsh voters who backed UKIP in May's assembly election and the 52% who voted for Brexit in June, he added: "It is bad politics for Cymdeithas yr Iaith to insult them as prejudiced.
"I personally support the Welsh Government's aim of making Wales a bilingual nation and I hope Cymdeithas yr Iaith will soon grow up."
An assembly spokesman said: "It is not for witnesses to dictate to an assembly committee who is allowed to ask questions.
"Decisions about inviting witnesses to give evidence are for individual committees to make on a case-by-case basis."
A £250m "City Deal" for Aberdeen will see the UK and Scottish governments jointly invest in the area.
Separately, the Scottish government has promised £254m for key infrastructure projects in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.
These include better rail links and improvements to the A90 junction at Laurencekirk.
Prime Minister David Cameron later announced an extra £20m package to help the oil and gas industry.
During a visit to Aberdeen, he said the money would fund further exploration, innovation, and skills development.
The City Deal agreement was formally signed by Scottish Secretary David Mundell and the Scottish government's infrastructure secretary, Keith Brown, in a ceremony in Aberdeen.
The agreement includes funding for an energy innovation centre and the expansion of Aberdeen harbour to help the city compete for oil and gas industry decommissioning work.
The deal also includes proposals to help exploit the remaining North Sea oil reserves.
The Aberdeen agreement follows a similar deal for Glasgow in 2014.
Mr Mundell said the "historic" City Deal demonstrated the commitment of both the UK and Scottish governments to the region.
He added: "I think that it is an example of what people here in the north east and right across Scotland want to see - their two governments and their local authorities working together to deliver the transformational deal that we have got on the table today."
He said the agreement would also help to kick start "hundreds of millions" of additional funds to the region from the private sector.
Mr Brown said the deal marked "something of a red letter day" for the north east, and predicted the new oil and gas innovation centre would help to "anchor the region in terms of global research and development".
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Package of funding for next 5 to 10 years
£250m - Joint Westminster and Holyrood funding
£254m - Additional Scottish government funding
He also outlined details of the separate £254m of support offered to the region by the Scottish government, saying it would "help to cement the north east as one of the world's leading areas for business and industry.
The investment will come from future Scottish government budgets over the next five to 10 years.
It will go towards:
Aberdeen City Council leader Jenny Laing said the City Deal package was "only the first stage in transforming the north east of Scotland", while Martin Kitts-Hayes, co-leader of Aberdeenshire Council, said the deal would open the doors to further investment in key areas such as infrastructure and housing.
The two council had originally bid for a deal worth £2.9bn over 20 years.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told Holyrood that her government would continue to press the UK government to offer more financial support to the north east.
Ms Sturgeon had written to the prime minister calling for more help for the area following job losses in the offshore industry, which is struggling due to the fall in global oil prices.
Mr Cameron is visiting Aberdeen to meet local workers and senior offshore industry executives, and is expected to announce further UK government measures to help safeguard jobs.
A new ministerial group on oil and gas, chaired by UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd, has been set up to help support the industry.
The group met for the first time on Wednesday and agreed to produce an oil and gas workforce plan in the spring, focusing on what the government can do to support workers at risk of redundancy.
Nicola Sturgeon will visit Aberdeen on Monday for meetings with the oil and gas industry where she will make a further announcement of Scottish government action to support innovation, exploration, skills and access to finance for the North Sea industry.
The Scottish government has also called on Chancellor George Osborne to cut taxes for the industry in his budget in March.
Rebel fighters and civilians had been due to leave early on Wednesday, but the ceasefire collapsed.
Rebel groups said late on Wednesday that evacuations would take place in the coming hours.
But there has been no confirmation so far from the Syrian government or its major ally Russia.
And a media unit run by the Lebanese Shia Muslim movement Hezbollah, an ally of the Syrian government, said negotiations were undergoing "big complications" and had not yet concluded.
Rebels said the new ceasefire would come into effect late on Wednesday, with evacuations to follow early on Thursday.
The BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet, in Beirut, said the new deal would also allow the simultaneous evacuation of two villages being besieged by rebels in north-west Syria.
Syria's government and its ally Iran had insisted the evacuation from east Aleppo could happen only when those villages were evacuated, our correspondent said.
Hours after the first agreement collapsed on Wednesday morning, air strikes resumed over rebel-held territory, where at least 50,000 civilians remain.
The UN said raids by the Syrian government and its allies on an area "packed with civilians" most likely violated international law.
In a statement, Zeid Raad al-Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said: "The way this deal was dangled in front of this battered and beleaguered population - causing them to hope they might indeed live to see another day - and then snatched away just half a day later is also outrageously cruel."
Meanwhile, the BBC has learned that Western forces are using satellites and unmanned aircraft to gather evidence of possible war crimes in Aleppo and elsewhere in Syria.
Besieged residents have faced weeks of bombardment and chronic food and fuel shortages.
Medical facilities in the city have largely been reduced to rubble, as rebels have been squeezed into ever-smaller areas by a major government offensive, backed by Russian air power.
"The wounded and dead are lying in the street," one activist, Mohammad al-Khatib, told AFP. "No one dares to try and retrieve the bodies."
It is not clear how many people remain in the besieged areas. UN envoy Staffan de Mistura put the figure at about 50,000.
He said there were approximately 1,500 rebel fighters, about 30% of whom were from the jihadist group formerly known as the al-Nusra Front.
Other local sources say there could be as many as 100,000 people, many of them arriving from areas recently taken by the government.
Meanwhile, demonstrations in solidarity with the people of Aleppo have taken place in cities across the world, including Hamburg in Germany, Sarajevo in Bosnia and Rabat in Morocco.
The lights of the Eiffel Tower were also dimmed. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said she hoped the gesture would highlight the need for "urgent action" to help the people of Aleppo.
The striker took his goal tally to four in three league games with a second-half double that sealed back-to-back home wins and took Chesterfield to the top of the table.
Walsall started well when Simeon Jackson's flick put Andreas Makris in but his shot from the edge of the area hit the crossbar in the 11th minute.
But Chesterfield responded with a low drive from Jay O'Shea that Neil Etheridge did well to turn behind for a corner in the 19th minute and Gboly Ariyibi fired into the side netting in the 34th minute.
Etheridge made another excellent save in the 61st minute when he parried a low shot from Evans and the striker saw a 20-yard strike saved five minutes later.
But the goalkeeper could do nothing in the 75th minute when Evans ran forward and smashed in a right foot shot from 20 yards that flashed inside the left post and he was beaten again four minutes later by a deflected strike from the edge of the box.
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Match ends, Chesterfield 2, Walsall 0.
Second Half ends, Chesterfield 2, Walsall 0.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Rai Simons replaces Ched Evans.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Joe Edwards.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Joe Edwards.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Jason McCarthy.
Attempt blocked. Dan Gardner (Chesterfield) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Walsall. Maz Kouhyar replaces Kieron Morris.
Goal! Chesterfield 2, Walsall 0. Ched Evans (Chesterfield) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Jay O'Shea.
Substitution, Walsall. Amadou Bakayoko replaces George Dobson.
Goal! Chesterfield 1, Walsall 0. Ched Evans (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Walsall. Florent Cuvelier replaces Franck Moussa.
Attempt saved. Ched Evans (Chesterfield) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Joe Edwards.
Attempt missed. Jay O'Shea (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Kieron Morris (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Jason McCarthy (Walsall) header from the centre of the box misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Foul by Ian Evatt (Chesterfield).
Simeon Jackson (Walsall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Ched Evans (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Kieron Morris (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Jason McCarthy.
Attempt missed. Ian Evatt (Chesterfield) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Jason McCarthy.
Foul by Sam Hird (Chesterfield).
Simeon Jackson (Walsall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Paul McGinn (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Franck Moussa (Walsall).
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by James O'Connor.
Second Half begins Chesterfield 0, Walsall 0.
First Half ends, Chesterfield 0, Walsall 0.
Gboly Ariyibi (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joe Edwards (Walsall).
Foul by Paul McGinn (Chesterfield).
Andreas Makris (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Paul McGinn.
Attempt missed. Gary Liddle (Chesterfield) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high following a corner.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Matt Preston.
Gboly Ariyibi (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Franck Moussa (Walsall).
The party won 10 seats, but the Conservatives have retained control with 45 out of 78 councillors.
The Tories had 51 seats before Thursday's vote, while the Liberal Democrats slipped from 24 to 17.
Labour's seats increased from one to four, while two independent councillors were also elected.
Former cabinet minister Mr Huhne, a Lib Dem, was jailed in March for perverting the course of justice, and his party lost both Eastleigh council seats to UKIP.
One of UKIP's gains was in South Waterside where Philip Fawkes, a distant relative of Guy Fawkes, was elected.
A 15th Century ancestor of the retired head teacher was the great-great-grandfather of the the failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot ringleader.
When Mr Fawkes' candidacy was announced, party leader Nigel Farage said it showed "the blood of rebellion still runs in his veins".
By Steve HumphreyBBC South
It's been an historic night in the local elections - with UKIP winning its first seats on county councils in the south.
As soon as the votes came tumbling out of the ballot boxes in Hampshire it became clear that it was going to be a tough night for the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
Labour gained three seats - but it was UKIP's supporters who had the biggest smiles. They started the night with no seats on the county council - but they ended up with 10.
Across Hampshire, there were losses for the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives - but the Tories retain control of the county council.
One senior Conservative MP says the UKIP surge should prompt the prime minister to deliver stronger policies on immigration and Europe.
Conservative Alexis McEvoy criticised her own party's national leadership after losing her South Waterside seat to Mr Fawkes.
She said Tory leaders "choose not to listen to what the public are saying", which boosted the UKIP vote.
"I hope the government will listen because they never do," she added.
"They're arrogant, out of touch and because of them good councillors have now been lost."
Andy Moore, 53, who won Eastleigh East for UKIP, said: "We have told the truth. We have listened to the public who have put us in these positions as councillors."
Martin Lyon, 47, who took nearby Bishopstoke and Fair Oak for UKIP, added: "I'm just shell shocked.
"It's all about the people on the ground. There have been a lot of people who have put the work in over five to 10 years in Eastleigh."
Lib Dem Sandra Gidley, who lost to Conservative Roy Perry in Romsey Extra, said she was disappointed but her stronger feeling was one of concern about the gains made by UKIP.
"It's a protest vote, it's a dangerous one; nobody knows what that party stands for," she said.
"It's now down to all politicians to try and reconnect with the public because what was clear to me is that the public have lost faith in all of us from all parties; that's why UKIP did well, not because they have anything to offer."
Voting was also held on the Isle of Wight on Thursday and counting began at 09:00 BST.
The disease, caused by a parasite that attacks the nervous system, is fatal if it is not treated.
Scientists said the number of acute cases in rural Uganda fell by 90% after they injected cattle with a drug that kills a parasite.
The disease is transmitted from cattle to humans by the tsetse fly.
Professor Sue Welburn, the university's vice-principal global access, led the research.
She told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that sleeping sickness was a parasitic disease like malaria.
Prof Welburn said: "It is transmitted by tsetse flies and they inoculate these parasites into your blood where they multiply and then these parasites move from your blood to your central nervous system where they cause profound problems and really quite extraordinary symptoms.
"It is absolutely fatal if it is not treated."
She said that domestic cattle had become the main "reservoir of infection" in Uganda.
The cattle do not get sick from the parasite so they can be infected for a long time.
Prof Welburn said: "It is just a matter of chance that that animal gets bitten by a tsetse fly and that fly bites a human and infects them."
Researchers tested a new approach to sleeping sickness control by targeting 500,000 cows for treatment.
They eliminated the trypanosome parasite that carries the disease by giving livestock a single injection of trypanocide and by carrying out regular insecticide spraying to prevent re-infection.
Prof Welburn said the treatment for humans was extremely complex and expensive but the drug for cattle was "really cheap".
The University of Edinburgh researchers aim to extend the project to all districts of Uganda affected by the condition - treating about 2.7 million head of cattle.
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The hosts led 6-4 at half-time after Joel Moon and Adam Swift traded scores.
Stevie Ward's try extended Leeds' advantage early in the second period, only for Saints to then turn the match around thanks to Tommy Makinson and James Roby.
However, Kallum Watkins and Ryan Hall made it 24-16 to Leeds, and they held on despite Alex Walmsley's late try.
Rhinos are now six points off Super League leaders Castleford Tigers, while St Helens remain sixth, three points behind Wakefield in fifth.
Saints beat Leeds in a low-scoring but enthralling encounter on the opening night of the season, but this time they were to find themselves on the wrong end of another topsy-turvy two-point game.
The key period at Headingley came after Jon Wilkin was sin-binned for a dangerous tackle on 62 minutes, with Leeds twice crossing the whitewash while St Helens were a man light.
There was also some concern over Saints half-back Matty Smith, who was forced off during the first half with what coach Justin Holbrook described after the game as a "serious eye injury".
"Matty had his eyelid ripped open and we couldn't stitch it so he's had to go to hospital," said Holbrook. "We're hoping he'll be OK."
Leeds coach Brian McDermott (on 17-year-old full-back Jack Walker): "He was good. He took some challenging high balls and looks okay with the ball in his hands.
"It was a big game for him and his development will be better for it.
"We've had to overcome a little bit of adversity with bans and injuries but overall I'm very pleased. We were really challenged by a determined Saints.
"We got put on the back foot a couple of times, we needed to have some fight about us."
St Helens coach Matty Holbrook: "I'm just as proud of the boys as I was last week when we got the win.
"It was really crucial to lose your half-back for pretty much the whole game. Obviously he's our main organiser so it made it hard on us and, to nearly get away with that without your half would have been huge.
"I think the sin-binning was harsh and it was massive. It makes it hard, that's for sure, when you are playing a man short for 10 minutes.
"But it shows the players are loving playing for each other. We just need to string some wins together."
Leeds Rhinos: Walker, Briscoe, Watkins, L. Sutcliffe, Hall, Moon, Lilley, Galloway, Parcell, Singleton, Ablett, Ward, Cuthbertson.
Replacements: Garbutt, Mullally, Ormondroyd, Handley.
St Helens: Lomax, Swift, Makinson, Morgan, Grace, Fages, Smith, Thompson, Roby, Amor, Taia, Wilkin, Knowles.
Replacements: Walmsley, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Douglas, Peyroux.
Referee: James Child (RFL)
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About 350,000 names are already recorded on the online tool, thought to be the first of its kind in the UK.
The register will provide insights into land use, the archaeology and history of Wales and reflects how place names have evolved.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said the statutory list would help "keep these precious names alive".
It was introduced as a requirement as part of the Welsh Government's Historic Environment (Wales) Act.
The act gives ministers powers to make owners who damage monuments undertake repairs.
Dr Eurwyn Wiliam, chairman of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, compiled the list on behalf of the Welsh Government.
He said: "The study of these names reveals the legacies of past environments, battles, invasions, industrial and agricultural revolutions.
"They are a hugely important element of the historic environment of Wales and we hope that many people will enjoy using this new website to learn more about, and recognise the value of, the historic place names of Wales."
In March, a bid in the assembly to protect Welsh historical place names in planning law failed after AMs voted against it.
The proposal had followed a series of rows over changes to names over the years, including a dispute where the Grade I-listed Plas Glynllifon near Caernarfon was referred to as Wynnborn mansion in online marketing material.
Plaid Cymru AM Dai Lloyd, who wanted to introduce the bill, said the list would be "ineffective" as there would be no legal requirement for the names to be protected.
He said: "As a result, if individuals want to change historical place names in Wales, they can do it - this production of this list does not prevent them."
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Charlotte Eades, who died in February at the age of 19, was diagnosed with glioblastoma when she was 16.
Her YouTube channel, where she discussed the difficulties of dealing with her illness, has received almost 750,000 views.
Cancer charity CLIC Sargent also made a short film about Ms Eades.
Her mother, Alex Eades, and her 21-year-old brother Miles have set off from Eastbourne to walk the South Downs Way to Winchester and back in 16 days.
They want to raise money to fund research and clinical trials into glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer in adults.
Mr Eades said the walk was "quite a big task".
"Hopefully we can advance, through our fundraising and subsequent research, the treatment for glioblastoma so it's not quite so traumatic and life-ending," said Mr Eades.
Her mother, from Brighton, said Ms Eades would be "very proud".
"I think just carrying on her memory would mean an awful lot to her," she said.
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Tui said it was buying the 60 planes at a "substantial" discount to the list price of $6.1bn (£4bn).
Tui operates 141 aircraft across six European airlines - Thomson Airways, Tuifly, Tuifly Nordic, Arkefly, Jetairfly and Corsair - and said the new planes would boost fuel efficiency.
Boeing says its 737 MAX plane will burn 13% less fuel than other 737 models.
Tui, which is the world's largest tour operator with a presence in 180 countries, said it expected the aircraft to be delivered between January 2018 and March 2023.
The travel firm also has an option to buy a further 60 737 MAX planes on the same terms as the initial deal, and an option to buy 30 more on terms to be determined at the time of purchase.
Tui's last Boeing purchase - of the Dreamliner plane - ran into problems after Tui had to delay its first flights, blaming a "lack of delivery schedule" from the planemaker.
Its Thomson brand was due to start flying passengers on Dreamliners in May.
All 787 Dreamliners were grounded in January due to problems with batteries, although commercial flights have now restarted after the planes were modified.
Brian Reader, 77, suffered a stroke while being held at Belmarsh Prison.
He and six others were due to be sentenced in a three-day hearing, starting on Monday, over the £14m Hatton Garden safety deposit box heist.
His barrister James Scobie said Reader, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary, was too ill to appear via video link from the London prison.
The hearing started without Reader.
Mr Scobie said: "He [Reader] had what turned out to be a second fall in Belmarsh prison, which resulted in him being left for two days without proper care and then ultimately ending up in a critical care unit at Woolwich hospital, having had a stroke."
The pensioner may not "have many more months to live," the lawyer added, asking for his sentence, due to be handed down at Woolwich Crown Court, to be adjourned.
Judge Christopher Kinch said Reader did not need to be in court for the sentencing hearing and that he would revisit the matter on Wednesday when more information on the prisoner's condition should be available.
The court heard Reader has a history of prostate cancer, was treated for septicaemia and has a growth on his face which is potentially cancerous.
Mr Scobie also told the court Reader's recovery was not aided by the nine armed officers who guarded him in hospital.
The lawyer also said he was concerned Belmarsh Prison was not capable of adequately caring for his client, who has reduced vision in his right eye and problems hearing.
He said: "He [Reader] is a double Category A prisoner, which we view with nothing other than scorn given his age and other factors."
A report from a doctor indicated one of the reasons Reader had a stroke was because the secure unit he was in did not have "sufficient capacity" to look after his health concerns, said Mr Scobie.
Opening the sentencing, prosecutor Philip Evans said the "group of thieves" brought with them a "great deal of experience in planning and executing sophisticated and serious acquisitive crime".
Mr Evans asked the judge to reconsider the sentence for count one in the trial, conspiracy to burgle.
The maximum sentence for burgling a non-dwelling property is imprisonment for 10 years, he said, which should be reconsidered as the plot was "of the utmost sophistication, that was many years in the planning".
He added: "It was designed to achieve the maximum possible return for the minimum possible risk, and, the prosecution submit, plainly fits within the broad range of the worst type of this offence which comes before the court, particularly bearing in mind the low maximum sentence."
He said it would be "contrary to the interests of justice" to follow the relevant guidelines and urged the judge to take the 10 year sentence as a "starting point".
Ringleaders John "Kenny" Collins, 75, Daniel Jones, 61 and Terry Perkins, 67 pleaded guilty to the offence last September.
Carl Wood, 59, of Elderbeck Close, Hertfordshire, and William Lincoln, 60, of Winkley Street, Bethnal Green, were convicted of conspiracy to commit burglary and conspiracy to conceal, convert or transfer criminal property after a trial at Woolwich Crown Court.
Plumber Hugh Doyle, 49, of Riverside Gardens, in Enfield, was found guilty of concealing, converting or transferring criminal property between 1 January and 19 May last year.
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Stephen Muncaster, 47, was found shortly after midnight on Tuesday in the front garden of a property in Magdalen, near King's Lynn.
His wife Allison, 48, was discovered inside the lounge.
Mr Muncaster's nephew, 2002 National Lottery winner Michael Carroll, has declined to comment on the case.
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The lottery winner was living with Mr Muncaster and his since estranged wife Kelly at the Magdalen home when he scooped a £9.7 million jackpot aged 19 in 2002.
Mr Carroll became known as the "Lotto lout" when he collected his winnings wearing an electronic tag.
He hit the headlines as he gave away chunks of his fortune, but also gave sums to relatives including Mr Muncaster and his then wife Kelly.
Det Supt Paul Durham said the investigation was being treated as a "closed case" and no other parties were involved in the deaths.
Norfolk Police says it will be investigating the background of Stephen Muncaster and his wife Allison to see why "we ended with this catastrophic incident".
Local councillor Sandra Squire, whose Wimbotsham with Fincham Ward borders Magdalen, said: "Magdalen is a tiny village, most people don't even know it exists. We are completely stunned. It's horrendous.
"What concerns me most as a school governor is the road block for the incident is where some of the kids walk past.
"It is transition week anyway, which is very unsettling, so this is even more unsettling for them. Nothing gets past kids."
Scottish Borders Council's planning committee agreed the 1514 Club's application for the three-foot high stone and paved area.
Some members, however, only agreed because officials told them there were no planning grounds for refusal.
They felt, like opponents, that the new plaque could detract from the existing memorial.
Conservative councillor Michelle Ballantyne said she had some sympathy with a submission by objectors.
"From our point of view that's our job done, planning permission has been granted," she said.
"I think most members of the planning committee and the officers would say really this is a matter for the people of Hawick."
She said it was time for locals to "work together".
"The granting of planning permission doesn't mean that it has to happen, it merely means that the option is there," she added.
"I would urge both sides in the argument within Hawick to talk to each other and see if they can't resolve between them a way forward that they can all support."
The stone structure would mark the battle between an English raiding party and youths from Hawick.
The young Scots defeated the invaders and captured their standard at Hornshole.
Well's Scottish Premiership rivals parted with Mark Warburton on Friday.
While McGhee thinks former Rangers manager Alex McLeish would do a good job, he also hopes Aberdeen's Derek McInnes and St Johnstone's Tommy Wright will be considered.
"I would love to see one of these guys get the opportunity," McGhee said of McInnes and Wright.
"We all do these courses, the pro-licences, and we all work hard with the resources that we have and I think it is good when these guys get that recognition."
Former Rangers midfielder McInnes and Saints boss Wright have both dismissed as speculation media talk about them being candidates for the Ibrox vacancy.
McGhee, a former player and manager of Aberdeen, takes his 'Well side to Pittodrie on Wednesday and is an admirer of the present Dons boss.
"As someone who has been at that club and knowing how difficult it is to manage it, I think he has done a brilliant job," he said.
"I see Tommy Wright linked and, equally, with the resources he has, he has done a brilliant job."
Managing director Stewart Robertson has revealed that Rangers will look to fill a new post of director of football following Warburton's departure.
Former Ibrox manager McLeish is the bookmakers' favourite to be named team boss and McGhee thinks his former Aberdeen and Scotland team-mate could also be a good director of football.
"Alex has the ability, experience, contacts and knowledge to do either role, to go in there as manager or go in there as director of football and work with a younger manager," added the Well manager.
"He would be a big asset for any club. It is a club he knows well, a club that he has worked at and a club he has the heart for, so I don't see anything negative about that.
"Alex is a brilliant networker. He has contacts everywhere and he has been the Scotland manager, so he would be a fantastic asset to a club the size of Rangers, there is no doubt about that."
Mr Orban, who has taken a hardline stance against migration, suggested a new Libyan government run the camp.
He made the remarks at a Vienna summit of European and Balkan leaders.
Libya has descended into chaos since a 2011 uprising, with rival governments and militias vying for power.
Mr Orban, who has closed Hungary's own southern borders with razor-wire fences and guard dogs, said the EU should retake "total control" of its external borders.
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He called for a Western arms embargo against Libya to be cancelled and for Western support to be provided to the Libyan Liberation Army, a rebel group formerly known as the Free Libyan Army.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has faced criticism from the Hungarian prime minister over her so-called "open-door" policy towards refugees and migrants, said the solution was to secure deals with African countries to send back migrants who do not qualify for asylum.
She said it was "necessary to get agreements with third countries, especially in Africa but also Pakistan and Afghanistan... so that it becomes clear that those with no right to stay in Europe can go back to their home countries".
She also called for the EU to do more to stop illegal immigration while living up to its humanitarian responsibilities.
Mrs Merkel has faced criticism from some quarters within Germany over her approach to the crisis. Her Christian Democrats lost ground to populist, anti-immigration rivals in recent state elections.
More than 300,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean this year, with 3,500 deaths recorded so far.
The 60-year-old, who was killed in the explosion on the Piccadilly line train at Russell Square on 7 July 2005, was born in Grenada.
As a young man, he moved to the neighbouring island of Montserrat, a British overseas territory, where he made his home and established his career as a police officer.
His son Astrid Wade, a firefighter in Montserrat, said: "He was well-respected in the Montserrat community, known for his dedicated service to the island as a police officer, as well as recording the calypso hit Signs of Christmas."
In 1997, Mr Frederick retired after 31 years in the Royal Montserrat Police, and moved to London.
He settled in Seven Sisters, north London, and took work as a museum security guard.
Mr Wade said it was the eruption of the Soufriere Hills volcano in the late 1990s that had made his father first think about leaving Montserrat.
"He was scared of the volcano so packed up and left.
"London became his second home but his mind and his heart were in Grenada, and his mum and dad are still there."
Shortly before his death, he had returned to his country of origin for several weeks to help his elderly parents rebuild their home, which had been severely damaged by Hurricane Ivan.
Mr Frederick had a couple of hits on the island and he recorded a CD when he moved to London. His musical talents earned him the nicknames Soul, Vision, Napo and Otis.
At the inquest into his death, Mr Wade said in a statement: "I knew my father as a friendly person who got along with everyone.
"A man who loved his music and participated in the local calypso competition every December (in Montserrat).
"I still hear his songs on the radio and it brings back his memory to me. I do miss him.
"Although we had our ups and downs, he was my father and I have a lot of feelings for him."
Mr Frederick also left behind a brother, Albert, who lives in the US.
Shortly after his death, Montserrat police commissioner John Douglas paid tribute to Mr Frederick, who he first met in 1967.
"He was a very committed and devoted police officer who took his job very seriously and he served his country well," he said.
Shire won over Baxalta, the maker of treatments for rare blood conditions, cancers and immune system disorders, after six months of talks.
It is the first major healthcare deal of 2016 and suggests high-profile takeovers are likely to continue.
Health firms struck $673bn in deals in 2015, according to Thomson Reuters.
Announcing the deal, Shire chief executive Flemming Ornskov said the merged group would generate $20bn in revenue by 2020.
"Together we will have the number one platform in rare diseases with a strong foundation for future growth," Mr Ornskov told reporters.
Shire prizes Baxalta's pipeline of new treatments, which it believes will contribute to an extra $5bn in revenue in the next four years.
The firms also estimate $500m in cost savings, partly from Baxalta benefiting from Shire's lower corporation tax in Dublin.
Shire shares dropped 6.7% to 3,990p.
An initial bid of $30bn, made up entirely of Shire stock, was rejected by Baxalta in August for "significantly undervaluing" the company.
But Shire won over Baxalta's shareholders in part with a sweetener of $18 cash per Baxalta share.
The deal is now due to go through by mid-2016, Shire said.
It suggests house prices will rise at an average of 5% a year, pricing the typical home at £360,000 by 2020.
Industry figures show that first-time buyers typically need to find a deposit of 18% to secure a mortgage.
Using PwC data, that would equate to a requirement for £64,800 in savings to get on the property ladder in 2020.
"Driven by a decade of soaring house prices before the financial crisis and lower loan-to-value ratios post-crisis, the deposits needed by first time buyers have risen significantly. As a result, a generation of private renters have emerged and this will increasingly be the norm for the 20 to 39 age group," said Richard Snook, senior economist at PwC.
"There is also a rising dichotomy in the market between those - mostly older - households who own outright and those - mostly younger - households who still have a mortgage or rent to pay."
Ownership issues for young adults would become more acute owing to a lack of supply in affordable housing, the PwC report suggested.
The contrast between young and old would be marked by the number of people owning their homes having bought in cash or having paid off a mortgage.
The number of homes owned outright would rise from 8.4 million now to 10.6 million by 2025, accounting for 35% of the total, PwC said.
Overall, it predicted that the proportion of residents who owned the home they lived in would drop from its peak of 70% in the middle of the last decade to about 60% in 2025.
About 7.2 million households would be private tenants in 10 years' time, it suggested.
The recently-published English Housing Survey found that, in 2013-14, some 48% of households made up of 25 to 34-year-olds rented their home from a private landlord.
This had risen from 45% a year earlier, and from 21% in 2003-04.
Over the same 10 years, owner occupation in this age group dropped from 59% to 36%.
In 2013-14, of the 22.6 million households in England, 7.4 million owned their property outright, and 6.9 million had a mortgage, the survey showed. The rest rented their homes.
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28% of households are occupied by someone living on their own
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Figures showed 95.2% of patients were seen and then admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.
The statistics for the week ending 19 July showed 10 of the 14 health boards met the target.
NHS Forth Valley was the poorest performing health board, with 83.9% of patients seen within the timeframe.
NHS Lanarkshire (94.1%), NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (94.7%) and NHS Shetland (94.6%) narrowly missed the target.
A total of 56 patients spent more than eight hours in A&E while six people spent more than 12 hours in the department over the week.
The controversial 95% target was introduced by the Scottish government as a stepping stone towards its full target of 98% of patients being dealt with in four hours or less.
When weekly reporting started in February, only 86.1% of A&E patients were treated within four hours.
A spokeswoman for NHS Forth Valley said: "This was a difficult week with a number of particularly challenging days and we are very sorry that some patients experienced longer waits.
"While we met the four-hour A&E target the previous week and our emergency department waiting times have significantly improved in recent days, we recognise that we must do more to improve the consistency of our performance and work is already under way to address this."
Health Secretary Shona Robison said the figures were "encouraging".
She said: "Three quarters of core emergency departments are seeing over 95% of patients within four hours and the number of long waits across Scotland remains very low.
"The statistics published today show how important it is that the whole hospital, and the whole NHS and social care system, works together for the benefit of patients."
"Week to week these figures will fluctuate but our focus now will be to maintain this improving trend in performance going forward - particularly as we head towards winter."
They include a role for Neil Findlay who will be the party's trade union liaison, reporting directly to the leader.
Ms Dugdale announced her key front bench appointments earlier this week.
Lothians MSP Mr Findlay was previously health spokesman and stood for the party leadership last year against Jim Murphy.
He will be part of the equality team led by Jenny Marra.
Rhoda Grant and Drew Smith also join Ms Marra's team while Iain Gray, the party's opportunity spokesman, will be supported by Mark Griffin and John Pentland.
Elaine Murray joins Graeme Pearson on the justice brief while Jackie Baillie, public services and wealth creation spokeswoman, is supported by Richard Simpson, Lewis Macdonald and Siobhan McMahon.
There are also roles for Michael McMahon, Jayne Baxter, Claudia Beamish, David Stewart and Anne McTaggart on the community, environment and democracy teams.
Ms Dugdale said: "I am excited about the future and want my front bench team to get out and about across the country making clear our positive Labour vision for transforming Scotland.
"In recent times people have said they don't know what Labour stands for. That won't be the case under my leadership - people will know what we stand for and who we stand with.
"We stand for a Scotland where a person's ability to get on in life is determined by their potential, work rate and ambition, not by their background.
"That's what Labour stands for and that's the message I want my new front bench team to take out with them across Scotland."
Leader - Kezia Dugdale
Deputy Leader - Alex Rowley
Covering policy and strategy
Equality spokeswoman - Jenny Marra
Team - Neil Findlay (also Trade Union liaison reporting direct to Kezia Dugdale), Rhoda Grant and Drew Smith
Covering health, equalities, welfare, care and social inclusion
Opportunity spokesman - Iain Gray
Team - Mark Griffin and John Pentland
Covering schools, childcare, skills, lifelong learning, sport, science, workplace issues
Justice spokesman - Graeme Pearson
Team - Elaine Murray
Covering justice and policing
Public Services and Wealth Creation spokeswoman - Jackie Baillie
Team - Richard Simpson, Lewis Macdonald and Siobhan McMahon
Covering finance, infrastructure, business, delivery of public services, tourism
Community spokesman - Ken Macintosh
Team - Michael McMahon and Jayne Baxter
Covering housing, local government, cities, planning, island communities
Environmental Justice spokeswoman - Sarah Boyack
Team - Claudia Beamish and David Stewart
Covering transport, environment and rural affairs, land reform, climate change, energy (including oil and gas)
Democracy spokeswoman - Claire Baker
Team - Anne McTaggart
Covering constitution, Europe, culture, power in society
Reform spokeswoman - Mary Fee
Covering party and parliamentary reform
Business Manager - James Kelly
Chief Whip - Neil Bibby
The Dons were jeered off at the interval after trailing from Craig Curran's early strike.
Goals from Adam Rooney, Jonny Hayes and Niall McGinn turned the game in the host's favour as they won 3-1.
"The players did that themselves as they showed real responsibility in the second half and real determination to get the result," said McInnes.
The suspicion was the manager had given them the sort of dressing down on the club's Retro Day that used to be the preserve of Sir Alex Ferguson.
They certainly came blasting back out like a team transformed after the break and, within eight minutes, goals from Adam Rooney and Jonny Hayes had them ahead.
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Niall McGinn capped a fine individual display with a late third to take Aberdeen back into second place.
"I couldn't have been more pleased with how they played from the first whistle in that second half," McInnes told BBC Scotland.
"It was relentless, thoughtful, intense, intelligent and some real quality play as well.
"The first half was more nervy than it should have been because of the poor goal we lost, but we still had time to put it right and the players did that.
"They deserve all the credit. It's not about what anyone said to them."
Aberdeen have now gone three games undefeated as they begin to find the form that had them top of the table and moved above Hearts and cut the gap on leaders Celtic to four points.
"We recognise we play for ourselves and nobody is going to do us any favours so we have to deal with difficult situations and that's what we did," said the Dons manager.
"There is an intensity and challenge when you play for Aberdeen to win games all the time and our supporters are used to see us winning.
"We have only lost once at home this season. Now we are back in to second place so as things are we are doing alright."
Ross County manager Jim McIntyre was as stunned as his players at their reversal of fortune after the break and believes his side need to be more streetwise to pick up points on the road.
They have won just once away from home in the league this season and that was at Kilmarnock back in August, but McInytre said they blew the chance to end that statistic.
"We dominated the first half and should have been more goals ahead at half time and it came back to bite us when we didn't," he said.
"When things like that happen, it is sore to take, but we produced enough good things to have got something.
"The goals we gave away were really disappointing as we can defend better than that and Aberdeen won the battles in the second half as we didn't match them.
"I can take a lot from the way we played first half and it was much better than the last time when we were thumped 4-0 here, so there has been progress."
Originally designed by Liverpool architect Herbert Rowse, the Grade II-listed building first welcomed audiences in 1939 but was closed in May for a revamp of the main concert hall and auditorium.
Architects Caruso St. John, who have worked on the Barbican and Tate Britain in London, led the renovation, which included the grand foyer, now with a chandelier made of bottles.
They researched Rowse's influences among the 1930s modern architecture movement. Original building features have been "enhanced with colour and lighting and a new-look floor", an orchestra spokeswoman said.
The changes to the concert hall are the first part of the overhaul of the interior, due for completion next summer. But Michael Eakin, chief executive of Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, said the orchestra was "keen to welcome audiences back to the hall for concerts and events as soon as we could".
Conductor Vasily Petrenko (left) led the first concert in the restored venue on Thursday, including a world premiere from the American composer James Horner (right), best known for his film soundtracks on Titanic and Apollo 13.
The orchestra also performed music by Russian composer Tchaikovsky, born in 1840 - the year the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic was formed.
The auditorium also showcases the Greek Muses, considered to be the patron goddesses of poets and musicians, according to mythology.
The 29-year-old Nigerian has played 372 times for Chelsea since joining in 2006 but has not featured this season.
He said it had been "an honour" to play for the Stamford Bridge club but it was time to "seek a new challenge".
Mikel has won two Premier League titles, four FA Cups and the 2012 Champions League during his time at Stamford Bridge.
"I haven't featured as much this season as I would have liked and I still have many years in the game ahead of me," Mikel wrote on Twitter in a message to Chelsea fans.
"With this in mind, I feel now is the time to seek a new challenge.
"I'm delighted to be joining Tianjin TEDA FC at a time that the Chinese Super League is really taking off, and I look forward to helping Tianjin TEDA FC continue to grow.
"To play in the Premier League is every professional player's ambition.
"But to play for Chelsea, to become part of the Chelsea family to work with some of the best managers and players in the world, has truly been an honour.
Mikel is the second Chelsea player to move to the Chinese Super League in recent weeks following Oscar's transfer to Shanghai SIPG.
The 23-year-old was dismissed late on as the hosts lost 2-1 to their local rivals in League One.
He was originally deemed to have fouled Oxford's Kane Hemmings.
Former Liverpool and Hyde keeper Vigouroux will now be eligible for Saturday's league trip to the Robins' fellow strugglers, Bury.
This will be the seventh consecutive Christmas mother-of-five Asia Bibi will spend in solitary confinement within the Islamic Republic of Pakistan - a country that has what the United Nations describes as "one of the worst situations in the world for religious freedom".
A member of the Christian minority, just 1.6% of the population, 45-year-old Asia Bibi was jailed after being found guilty of breaching Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws.
Her case has provoked global protests, with supporters accusing the judiciary of fabricating the charge to persecute a Christian. There have been no fewer than three attempts at appealing against the verdict.
There's also been a direct intervention by Pope Francis, who received a delegation of family and friends at the Vatican. But still she languishes in a small cell as the world awaits a final decision from the Supreme Court in Lahore.
"The case of Asia Bibi is precisely the reason why I continue to fight for religious minorities around the world," says crossbench peer Baroness Cox, who recently returned from visiting oppressed Christians in Nigeria.
"Only those of us in open and free societies can be a voice to the voiceless and Christmas is the perfect season for us to renew our appeal for humanity and tolerance."
The original incident, which occurred in June 2009, centred around Asia Bibi sharing a bowl of water with fellow workers in a field, about 30 miles (48km) from Lahore, where they were working as farm labourers.
It's alleged that an argument erupted after some of the women felt it was sacrilegious for Muslims to share the cup with a Christian. Within weeks, the allegations had escalated to the charge of blasphemy, with some fellow workers accusing her of insulting the Prophet Muhammad. She was arrested and imprisoned.
Despite reports of inconsistent witness testimony and fragmentary evidence, she was found guilty in November 2010. Large crowds gathered to celebrate her sentencing, and there soon followed a trail of death and destruction.
A month after sentencing, Asia Bibi was visited by the Governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer. He emerged from jail and stated that the blasphemy laws had been misused and wrongly applied in her case. Within days, he was murdered by his bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri.
Two months later, in March 2011, the Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti - the only Christian in the Pakistan cabinet - criticised the country's blasphemy laws as being open to abuse and manipulation.
After leaving his mother's house, his car was sprayed with bullets: a second assassination in a matter of weeks and both apparently linked to the case of Asia Bibi.
Beyond the application of blasphemy laws, 2016 has also witnessed the continued targeting of Christian minorities by militant groups in Pakistan.
The most severe attack was launched on Easter Sunday in Lahore. A large number of the Christians had chosen to visit a neighbourhood park following morning worship. Spirits were naturally high.
"Things were going well," said the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lahore, the Most Reverend Sebastian Shaw, "but it was very cautious. A priest called us and told us that we must be alert all the time."
As parents pushed their children on swings and enjoyed the company of friends, two suicide bombers entered the park. Within minutes, the hum of children's voices was overwhelmed by the sound of tragedy. More than 340 people were injured and 75 died. The vast majority were women and children.
"It was very difficult," said Archbishop Shaw, who rushed to several medical facilities where the injured had been taken. "Even in the corridors of the hospital, at the entrance [there were] so many people. It was very difficult to console people.
"I visited a lady. She came from Hyderabad. Her husband and two children were killed and another cousin was also killed. So the lady was totally out of her senses and didn't know what had happened."
Within hours a group affiliated to the Pakistan Taliban, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, said it had carried out the bombing and was reported to have deliberately targeted Christians.
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, condemned the attack and urged the Pakistan government "to do its utmost to put in place protective measures to ensure the personal security of all individuals, including religious minority communities living in the country".
But Pakistan is not alone.
Earlier this month, an individual wearing a suicide vest attacked a Coptic Christian church in Cairo, during Sunday morning prayers. There are conflicting reports about whether this was a man or a woman.
But the effect was unequivocal: at least 25 people were killed and a further 45 injured. Orthodox Copts comprise just 10% of Egypt's 90 million people but are the Middle East's largest Christian community.
The latest attack followed complaints by Christians in the town of Minya, about 140 miles (225km) south of Cairo, where several buildings were burned after they were suspected of hosting prayer meetings.
Christian worship in countries such as Pakistan and Egypt remains the most dangerous practice and this year of horrifying attacks could yet end with further bloodshed.
If Asia Bibi's appeal is rejected by the Supreme Court, she will become the first woman in Pakistan to be executed for blasphemy. Christians throughout Pakistan are praying for a miracle this Christmas.
The woman was walking her dog in Whitstable, Kent, when she was grabbed in an alleyway by a man dressed in black and wearing a hooded top.
She fought off her attacker by punching him in the mouth. Kent Police say they are looking for a suspect with an injured face.
Det Ch Insp Paul Fotheringham, of Kent Police, said: "It appears the suspect has picked on the wrong person."
The attack took place at 07:20 BST in an alleyway between Bellevue Road and Invicta Road.
Det Ch Insp Fotheringham added: "I would like to hear from anyone who has information in relation to this incident.
"Do you know anyone who may have been out when the assault occurred and returned home with a facial injury?
"If anyone can help with this investigation."
Akhilesh Yadav, 44, was sacked from the Samajwadi Party (SP), after a row over candidate lists for state elections.
His father, party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, made the U-turn after the two met on Friday.
"All misunderstandings are now over", Indian media quoted Akhilesh Yadav's uncle as saying.
Mulayam, a former chief minister of the state, announced he was expelling Akhilesh on Thursday, a day after his son released a list of 235 candidates for the upcoming polls, despite the party announcing its own choices earlier.
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The list reportedly included Akhilesh's supporters, and excluded some of his father's loyalists.
Elections are expected to be announced in Uttar Pradesh in the coming days.
On Saturday, Mulayam also revoked the expulsion of his cousin, senior party leader Ramgopal Yadav.
Ramgopal earned the wrath of the party chief after announcing an emergency meeting of the SP on 1 January, which Mulayam said only he was entitled to do.
"Now we will all fight UP polls united and will form the government with majority," said Shivpal Yadav, Akhilesh's uncle and Mulayam's brother.
Earlier there were angry scenes outside the chief minister's residence as supporters vented their fury, the Times of India reported.
It said that 200 of the 229 party MLAs (Members of the Legislative Assembly) attended a meeting there expressing their support for Akhilesh.
There are reported to be 20-plus members of the Yadav family active in Indian politics. The bitter feud between them has been simmering for some years, prompting infighting and factionalism in the SP.
Some political analysts say Akhilesh is more popular than his father, as he can reach beyond the caste boundaries that are prevalent in north Indian politics.
Caroline Hannigan collected £287 for the British Heart Foundation at Glanhowy Primary School in Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, in February 2015.
But she used the money to pay drug dealers after her son was threatened.
Mrs Hannigan told a fitness to practise committee hearing in Cardiff she was "deeply remorseful".
Mrs Hannigan, who had worked at the school in various roles for 23 years, was arrested after she admitted to her head teacher that she had never passed on the money to the British Heart Foundation.
The hearing was told she was given a 12-month conditional discharge after admitting theft by an employee at Caerphilly Magistrates' Court in February 2016.
Mrs Hannigan, who had qualified as a teaching assistant in 2009, raised the money at a school cross country event.
The hearing was told Mrs Hannigan asked head teacher Rebecca Fowler if she could raise money for the British Heart Foundation because it was a cause close to her heart as her daughter has a heart defect.
When Mrs Fowler questioned what happened to the money in November 2015, Mrs Hannigan insisted she had given it to the charity.
But when Mrs Fowler asked to see a receipt, Mrs Hannigan confessed and the police were called.
Mrs Hannigan said she acted "on the spur of the moment out of fright".
She said she took the money home after missing the bank on the day of the fundraising event.
Instead, she said she stored the cash in a bag in her wardrobe, intending to pay it into the bank on the Saturday.
But that night, there was banging on both her front and back doors and two men demanded £500 towards a £1,000 drug debt owed by her 31-year-old son, who was living with her.
Mrs Hannigan told the hearing: "They made no qualms about what would happen to me [if they did not get the money].
"They threatened to hurt me and my son.
"They said if I phoned the police or anything, things would happen like your house would burn down, people would disappear."
Mrs Hannigan said her son was at the house at the time but she would not let him speak to the men as she was frightened for him. Instead, she got the money from the fundraising and made it up to £300.
She said the drug dealers accepted that sum on condition she paid off the rest of the debt at the end of the month.
Sarah Maunder, who carried out an independent investigation, told the panel: "Caroline Hannigan panicked when drug dealers turned up at her house threatening her son with violence."
She added Mrs Hannigan was "incredibly remorseful" and wanted to return to her job as she had a "deep connection" with the school.
Mrs Hannigan, who has left Glanhowy Primary and is now working as a supply teaching assistant, admits unacceptable professional misconduct.
The hearing was told she had since paid the money to the British Heart Foundation.
Gary Lane, 52, of Fairfax Road in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, attacked the boys between January and November 2015.
He admitted two counts of raping a child under 13, sexually assaulting a child under 13, and causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
Judge Patrick Eccles, sentencing Lane at Oxford Crown Court, described him as an "unscrupulous paedophile".
The boys were not members of any scout group at the time of the offences.
Judge Eccles told Lane: "You are an unscrupulous paedophile who has shown a depraved course of conduct.
"You have shown no sense of remorse... there is something wrong with your sexual thinking."
Rhys Bevan, of Thames Valley Police's child abuse investigation unit, said Lane was "where he belongs".
He added: "What Lane has put the victims and their families and loved-ones through is horrendous.
"Lane failed to turn up for court twice in 2016, fleeing once to Scotland, which caused unnecessary stress for all involved."
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Five Lee Brennan points helped Tyrone lead 0-7 to 0-6 after a tight first half at the Athletic Grounds.
However, Monaghan hit five out of six scores after the resumption to move into a 0-11 to 0-8 lead.
Tyrone cut the margin to a point but Adam Treanor's late score helped Monaghan complete a deserved success.
Barry McGinn top-scored for Monaghan with six points while his team-mate Ryan McAnespie completed a hat-trick of Ulster football medals after his earlier senior and minor successes.
The victory clinched only Monaghan's third Ulster under-21 title.
Monaghan, managed by former Tyrone star Ciaran McBride, will probably look back on a crucial early double save by keeper Conor Forde which prevented Sean Fox from netting.
After Shea Hamill opened the scoring for the Red Hands the sides were point for point until two in a row from McGinn and another Monaghan senior panelists Conor McCarthy helped the Red Hands lead 0-4 to 0-3.
Three straight Brennan scores edged Tyrone two ahead but an Aaron Lynch point helped Monaghan level before Brennan's fifth score of the half left the Red Hands 0-7 to 0-6 ahead at the break.
However, Monaghan's dominance of the third quarter turned the match in their favour as two points apiece from McGinn and McCarthy plus a Barry Kerr score helped them move 0-11 to 0-8 ahead.
Tyrone remained three in arrears with five minutes left before scores from Cathal McShane and David Mulgrew left the minimum between the sides with two minutes of normal time remaining.
However, Tyrone were unable to get on terms and Treanor's point in the fourth minute of injury completed Monaghan's deserved win.
There have been 221,000 tweets that included the term "Kim Kardashian" or "Kim K", both of which were trending on Twitter worldwide.
So on this International Women's Day, is Kim's decision an indication of women's freedom or is it simply demeaning?
The veteran actress and singer Bette Midler condemned Kim with this tweet which generated 100,000 retweets:
Meanwhile young actress Chloe Moretz tweeted directly to Kim about setting goals for women:
Broadcaster Piers Morgan waded in with an offer to Kim:
There have been mixed responses in general to Kim's move.
Jenna Olbermann tweeted@BBC_HaveYourSay:"It's a step back because we are so much more than just our bodies."
Jim Stewart tweets: "KK defines 'women' as narrowly as possible. Malala, Mother Theresa & the scores that fight for justice r WOMEN!"
Lunaticmission tweets: "It's a step backwards. We should be celebrating successful women in science, industry + sport."
But some people disagree, such as Tidz Tidz who tweets: "Feminism and women's rights are all about the right to choose how we want to live our lives... therefore step forwards."
Andrew Young tweets that it was a positive move from women: "It will be a step forward for women if every one can do what she wants without being demonised or made to feel guilty."
Johnny tweets: "She is free to do as she pleases. Any judgement says more about the judge than the judged."
And Lorraine Kelham tweets: "It's her body if she wants to post naked pics of herself its up to her - doesn't affect me in the slightest."
More than 150 nests of the tiny mammal have been found around Selborne, Hampshire. They had been thought to be locally extinct for more than 25 years.
Local farmers and volunteers had planted hedges and maintained grass strips to encourage their habitat.
Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss said it showed an "innovative approach" to managing farm land.
Harvest mice are classed as a species for priority conservation action, and were in decline as a result of loss of habitat and modern farming practices.
Farmers around Selborne worked with volunteers to conduct surveys and carry out work around arable fields to create connected habitats for birds, small mammals and insects.
The work was carried out by a so-called "cluster" of 11 farmers covering 4,000 hectares (almost 10,000 acres) of land, one of nine clusters run by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust with support from Natural England.
Ms Truss said: "The Selborne farmer cluster is a great example of responsible landowners thinking beyond their own fields, meadows and woodlands and looking at the wider landscape to deliver greater environmental benefits on a larger scale."
The village is the birthplace of famous naturalist Gilbert White who first distinguished the harvest mouse, micromys minutus, as a species in 1767.
Source: BBC Nature/The Mammal Society
Prof Sugata Mitra was outlining details of the first "school in the cloud".
While there would be an online adult moderator at times, the pupils would largely organise themselves, he said.
Meanwhile, an MIT professor laid out his vision of bringing the very best university education to some of the poorest parts of the world.
Prof Anant Agarwal already has one million students enrolled in his online school, edX, an online platform offering courses from some of the highest-profile universities.
He started the non-profit website because he believed it was time for a radical shake-up of education.
"Education has not changed in 500 years - we still herd children like cats into classrooms at 9am."
Such a model might work to a certain extent in the developed world but for many parts of the world, another way of doing things is needed.
The edX platform now has 27 university partners, all offering online courses in a wide range of subjects.
"For the first time, learners are able to take course from some of the best professors in the world," said Prof Agarwal.
The cost of running the platform has been boosted with investments of $60m (£38m) from MIT and Harvard universities and the site is hoping to fund itself in the future by licensing some of the online courses back to universities to offer a more blended learning experience for all students.
At the main TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in LA in February, Prof Sugata Mitra was awarded a $1m (£638,000) prize fund to set up a series of cloud schools.
At TEDGlobal he laid out how he intended to spend the money and what a cloud school would be like.
"A school in the cloud is basically a school without physical teachers. We need this because in many places you can't get teachers or the teachers are very bad," he said.
Initially he intends to set up five cloud schools, three in India and two in the UK, near the University of Newcastle where he teaches.
The remotest of the locations is Korakati, a village in eastern India, where he hopes to build a school in the next four months.
It will be very different from a conventional school - a glass pod filled with computers and with one large screen to allow moderators to Skype in and play a role in the education of the children.
The moderators will be drawn from Prof Mitra's "cloud granny" programme, which is already up and running in the UK and India.
Retired people in the UK connect via Skype to a variety of community-run youth clubs in India, offering a range of activities, with the most popular being reading them stories.
What their exact role in the cloud schools will be is unclear - "I don't know what they will do," said Prof Mitra.
For him, the key part of the project will be to let the children self-organise.
There will be no timetables or curriculum and much of the learning will be left to the children.
"We will let 300 children in on the first day and all hell will break loose. But gradually they will start to organise themselves," he said.
The model for the schools is drawn from the hole-in-the-wall computers that Prof Mitra set up in the slums of India in 1999.
The computers came with no instructions and were simply left for children to explore for themselves. The way they developed skills amazed Prof Mitra.
He expects that a similar pattern will emerge in the cloud schools.
"In the first few weeks they will go berserk with games. Then one child will discover Paint and the others will copy. After four months they will discover Google," he said.
The children will not be pre-warned about the moderator but at some point in the first couple of weeks they will appear on the big screen.
"They will be life-size because this is important to children. It will be interesting to see how they react," said Prof Mitra.
The only rule in the school will be when it shuts.
"I will close it at sundown otherwise I will have all the mothers after me," he said.
He has already talked to mothers from the remote village of Korakati, but most were baffled by what he was trying to achieve.
"One thought that the children were going to be taught by ghosts," he said.
Those present are now involved in a discussion on Islam and why people choose to stay with it, despite the negative press it gets.
It is the initiative of a group of Muslims who want to open alternative mosques in the UK that would allow men and women to pray side-by-side and welcome gay people.
The Inclusive Mosque Initiative (IMI) was set up in November last year.
Its UK co-ordinator Tamsila Tauqir said: "We want to offer Muslims an alternative space in which they can pray and meet.
"We will not discriminate against anyone, they can be Sunni or Shia, straight or gay, people with families and people without."
The IMI said women could also lead the prayers.
Many mosques still do not allow women to partake in communal Friday prayer because they either do not have the room or believe in segregation.
Imam Adnan Rashid, from the London-based Islamic think-tank The Hittin Institute, said: "The orthodox values of Islam are very clear.
"Muslims already believe in things that have been established for them for centuries and they are not going change.
"The Koran is not going to change, the prophetic position is not going to change. Muslim thinking and practices are not going to change.
"So I don't know what the point of this mosque is."
The BBC contacted Islamic groups which represent institutions and places of worship in the UK, including two of the largest - The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) and the Mosque and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB).
They both declined to comment.
The Lancashire Council of Mosques, which represents about 60 mosques, also failed to respond.
And the new movement has received a mixed response from worshippers.
Outside a newly-built mosque in Blackburn, Lancashire, Mohammed Shahid said: "I think it's not right for men and women to go to the mosque together.
"It can be distracting for men, some are not good with women, so women should pray at home."
His friend, Shazad Khan, said: "I don't think homosexuals should be allowed in to the mosque, they are not Muslims. How can they go for prayers?"
Ali Noor said: "I think it's a good idea, it promotes equal opportunities especially for the disabled. Provision should have been made for them a long time ago but it hasn't."
At the IMI meeting in north London nobody wants to be named for fear of repercussions from the community.
But one Muslim man said: "We have issues with patriarchy in the mosques, whereby even if women are allowed in they are not given any representation.
"They have to speak through a male figure which I don't think is Islamic or fair."
Asked if he thought the movement would ever gain mass support, he said he hoped it would act like a beacon.
He said if people realised there was an alternative then they would move towards it and even if they did not go to IMI, he thought that other mosques would be affected.
A practising Muslim student in her 20s said: "No-one is here to set the rules about how you should live.
"It's a lot about how you understand the text and you can come to any conclusions about Islam yourself, without having to go to an imam or a community leader."
Although they have a small following in the UK, it is part of a growing global network with sites in Srinagar in India and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
They also have support networks in the US, Canada, South Africa, Australia and Sweden. Their ultimate aim is to set up a network of international mosques.
Ms Tauqir knows that their actions could be seen to be provocative.
She said: "In some people's view it is controversial. For us what we are trying to do is to create a space that is welcoming.
"We want to show the mainstream community that we are not all extremists, we are a variety of people."
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Henry's owner Beverley Leonard searched for her pet in Prestbury for three days before contacting the RSPCA and the fire brigade.
It joins Apple - which launched a rival facility last year - in trying to convince shoppers to use their handsets, rather than plastic cards, to make in-store purchases.
And Samsung believes it has one critical fact that will work in its favour: its tech works with a much larger number of existing payment terminals.
In truth, it's still unclear whether using mobiles to buy goods offline has much appeal beyond a novelty factor when it comes to non-geek members of the public.
But with two of the biggest names in tech betting their mobile payment services will help their handsets stand out, the days of slipping a bulky wallet into your pocket or handbag could be numbered.
At launch, Samsung Pay is only available in the company's home country.
But it will expand to the US on 28 September, and the firm has indicated that the UK, Spain and China will be next to get the facility sometime in the near-future.
That signals a more aggressive rollout than Apple Pay, which currently remains limited to the US and UK.
However, there are two other additional factors to consider.
Samsung Pay will only work with the firm's newest Android smartphones:
And bank/credit card providers involved must be signed up to the scheme.
Unlike Google Wallet and several other earlier payment apps, there's no need to unlock the phone and launch a special app to get started.
Assuming you've already entered your payment card details, all you need do is swipe up from the bottom of the device's face and Samsung Pay will appear, even if the screen was turned off to begin with.
Next, pick a credit card and scan your fingerprint or provide a Pin code.
Finally, you have to bring the phone close to the payment terminal within 15 seconds to complete the sale.
No - it should be able to work with two existing types of widely used kit.
Like Apple Pay, Samsung's service is designed to work existing "tap-and-go" terminals that use near field communication (NFC) transmissions. This is the technology that was widely deployed across the UK alongside the introduction of chip-and-pin cards.
But Samsung Pay's added trick is that it also works with magnetic stripe readers, which remain popular in the US and Asia.
This is thanks to a proprietary technology it calls Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST).
"Rather than swiping the card, which normally transmits the data, we are using electronic signals [made by alternating current through] coils inside the phone to send the signal over," Thomas Ko, vice president of Samsung Pay, explained to the BBC.
"So, from the machine's perspective it is actually receiving the same amount of information that it would from a magnetic reader."
Samsung has been able to deploy the innovation thanks to its takeover of LoopPay - an American company that initially tried to pioneer the tech via bulky add-on smartphone cases.
Is that safe? Couldn't someone steal my account details by "eavesdropping" on the transmission?
Payment cards have indeed been successfully targeted by thieves who clone the details coded on their magnetic stripes.
However, Samsung Pay uses a security system called tokenisation to protect against this threat.
Rather than transmitting the same, static "primary account number" (Pan) each time, a Samsung Pay handset instead sends:
These two sets of data are sent to the payment processor, who checks they correspond before authorising the payment.
Even if a thief were able to get close enough to intercept the transmission, there is no way for them to reverse-engineer the token to deduce the victim's card account details.
And they would not be able to use the token with another magstripe reader unless they also had a way to generate a matching cryptogram. That should should be next to impossible to do without access to the encryption key.
The system works without changes having to be made to the magstripe machine itself. It treats MST transmissions as if they are a traditional card swipe.
Yes - but it's unlikely that many people will be swayed from Apple's iOS ecosystem solely because of the type of mobile payments Samsung supports.
Perhaps the more important comparison is with Android Pay - Google's forthcoming mobile wallet service.
Google is also pitching its service as simple to use because it doesn't need a special app to be launched. But it will require payment terminals to offer NFC support.
Even so, one shouldn't totally discount app-based rivals - especially if they can offer distinctive services of their own.
In South Korea Kakao Pay also allows users to make money transfers to each other and AliPlay does something similar in China. Meanwhile, in the US the forthcoming CurrentC service is promising "exclusive offers" to its users.
The government announced that it will take a "special share" in critical infrastructure projects to stop investors selling before completion.
But Mr Osborne told the BBC's Today programme: "It looks to me pretty much the same deal."
He said he rejected a special share option during original negotiations.
Mr Osborne said he had sought advice from security experts and civil servants in energy who said it "would not add more protection" because the nuclear industry was already so heavily regulated.
He was responding to comments from Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat MP and former energy secretary in the coalition government, who in 2013 granted planning permission for the £18bn nuclear power plant to be built at Hinkley Point in Somerset. France's EDF is investing £12bn in the project and China is funding the remaining £6bn.
Mr Davey said Mr Osborne vetoed the special share option because he was "so keen to send positive signals to the Chinese that he was prepared not to go the extra mile for national security".
Shortly after becoming Prime Minister, Theresa May delayed giving Hinkley Point the go-ahead.
The project has been mired in controversy over price - the government has guarantee a price of £92.50 per megawatt hour of electricity generated - as well as national security. Critics have questioned whether foreign governments should be allowed to invest in and build critical infrastructure in the UK such as nuclear power stations.
The Chinese agreed to take a stake in Hinkley and to develop a new nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk on the understanding that the UK government would approve a Chinese-led and designed project at Bradwell in Essex.
On Thursday, the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy announced: "After Hinkley, the British government will take a special share in all future nuclear new build projects. This will ensure that significant stakes cannot be sold without the government's knowledge or consent."
It added: "There will be reforms to the government's approach to the ownership and control of critical infrastructure to ensure that the full implications of foreign ownership are scrutinised for the purposes of national security."
The pair are making their comeback as part of a 30th anniversary special.
"It was an immediate yes when I was invited to return for the 30th anniversary, I wouldn't have missed it and I'm thrilled with the way their story unfolds," said Charleston.
There are no official details yet on the storyline surrounding their return.
"I spent half my working life on Neighbours and so it's lovely to be back with Anne and all the cast and crew," said Ian Smith, who plays Harold.
He retired from Neighbours in 2009.
Madge joined the series in 1986 as the mother of Charlene, played by Kylie Minogue. After her marriage failed, she married Harold Bishop.
Harold has already made one iconic return to the show, reappearing with amnesia, five years after being swept out to sea.
He renewed his vows with Madge after regaining his memory, before she died of pancreatic cancer a few years later.
The pair are currently filming their episode at the Neighbours studio in Melbourne.
Other cast members from previous years are thought to also be making a return as part of the celebration, although no official details have been confirmed.
Neighbours currently airs on Channel 5 in the UK and the anniversary special featuring Harold and Madge will be shown in 2015.
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Mr Trump has ruffled feathers in Germany by threatening its carmakers with tariffs and calling on Berlin to boost defence spending.
Mrs Merkel will be accompanied by top executives from German companies Siemens, Schaeffer and car giant BMW.
Her visit was scheduled for Tuesday but had to be postponed due to a snowstorm.
Ahead of Friday's talks, Mrs Merkel told a German newspaper she was looking forward to her first meeting with President Trump.
"It's always better to talk with each other than about each other," she told Saarbruecker Zeitung.
During his presidential campaign, Mr Trump threatened higher import taxes for countries such as Germany that have a trade surplus over America.
But Mrs Merkel said there was a lot of direct German investment in the US.
She said BMW's plant in the US exported "more cars than GM and Ford together" from the United States, adding: "I'll make that clear."
The meeting has been highly anticipated as the two leaders have publicly differed on key issues.
In January, Mr Trump said the German chancellor had made "a catastrophic mistake" by allowing hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants into Germany.
Mrs Merkel responded by saying the EU had to take responsibility for itself. "We Europeans have our fate in our own hands," she said.
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For her part, Mrs Merkel has criticised President Trump's controversial travel ban that targets the citizens of several mainly Muslim countries.
In January, she explained during a phone call to him that the Geneva Convention obliges signatories, including the US, to take in refugees of war on humanitarian grounds.
The two leaders are due to hold more than two hours of talks followed by a working lunch.
The agenda is also expected to cover foreign policy issues involving Russia, Syria, Iran, North Korea and the Middle East peace process.
The footprints are more than 800,000 years old and were found on the shores of Happisburgh.
They are direct evidence of the earliest known humans in northern Europe.
Details of the extraordinary markings have been published in the science journal Plos One.
The footprints have been described as "one of the most important discoveries, if not the most important discovery that has been made on [Britain's] shores," by Dr Nick Ashton of the British Museum.
"It will rewrite our understanding of the early human occupation of Britain and indeed of Europe," he told BBC News.
The markings were first indentified in May last year during a low tide. Rough seas had eroded the sandy beach to reveal a series of elongated hollows.
I walked with Dr Ashton along the shore where the discovery was made. He recalled how he and a colleague stumbled across the hollows: "At the time, I wondered 'could these really be the case? If it was the case, these could be the earliest footprints outside Africa and that would be absolutely incredible."
Such discoveries are very rare. The Happisburgh footprints are the only ones of this age in Europe and there are only three other sets that are older, all of which are in Africa.
"At first, we weren't sure what we were seeing," Dr Ashton told me, "but it was soon clear that the hollows resembled human footprints."
The hollows were washed away not long after they were identified. The team were, however, able to capture the footprints on video that will be shown at an exhibition at London's Natural History Museum later this month.
The video shows the researchers on their hands and knees in cold, driving rain, engaged in a race against time to record the hollows. Dr Ashton recalls how they scooped out rainwater from the footprints so that they could be photographed. "But the rain was filling the hollows as quickly as we could empty them," he told me.
The team took a 3D scan of the footprints over the following two weeks. A detailed analysis of these images by Dr Isabelle De Groote of Liverpool John Moores University confirmed that the hollows were indeed human footprints, possibly of five people, one adult male and some children.
Dr De Groote said she could make out the heel, arch and even toes in some of the prints, the largest of which would have filled a UK shoe size 8 (European size 42; American size 9) .
"When I was told about the footprints, I was absolutely stunned," Dr De Groote told BBC News.
"They appear to have been made by one adult male who was about 5ft 9in (175cm) tall and the shortest was about 3ft. The other larger footprints could come from young adult males or have been left by females. The glimpse of the past that we are seeing is that we have a family group moving together across the landscape."
It is unclear who these humans were. One suggestion is that they were a species called Homo antecessor, which was known to have lived in southern Europe. It is thought that these people could have made their way to what is now Norfolk across a strip of land that connected the UK to the rest of Europe a million years ago. They would have disappeared around 800,000 years ago because of a much colder climate setting in not long after the footprints were made.
It was not until 500,000 years ago that a species called Homo heidelbergensis lived in the UK. It is thought that these people evolved into early Neanderthals some 400,000 years ago. The Neanderthals then lived in Britain intermittently until about 40,000 years ago - a time that coincided with the arrival of our species, Homo sapiens.
There are no fossils of antecessor in Happisburgh, but the circumstantial evidence of their presence is getting stronger by the day.
In 2010, the same research team discovered the stone tools used by such people. And the discovery of the footprints now all but confirms that humans were in Britain nearly a million years ago, according to Prof Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum, who is also involved in the research at Happisburgh.
"This discovery gives us even more concrete evidence that there were people there," he told BBC News. "We can now start to look at a group of people and their everyday activities. And if we keep looking, we will find even more evidence of them, hopefully even human fossils. That would be my dream".
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Dr Andrew McCormick said that, without direct evidence, he understood Dr Andrew Crawford influenced the decision to keep the Renewable Heat Initiative (RHI) running.
Mrs Foster set up the scheme in 2012 when enterprise minister and Dr Crawford was her then adviser.
Mr Crawford denies the allegation.
The RHI or "ash for cash" scandal, as it has become known, led Stormont's deputy first minister Martin McGuinness to resign from powersharing with the Democratic Unionist Party in protest and forced the collapse of the executive and a snap election.
Mrs Foster, from the Democratic Unionist Party, had refused to stand aside while an investigation into RHI was carried out.
The aim of RHI was to increase consumption of heat from renewable sources but businesses received more in subsidies than they paid for fuel, and the scheme became heavily oversubscribed.
It could lead to an overspend of £490m over the next 20 years.
Dr McCormick told Stormont's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Wednesday that initially no advice was given to Mrs Foster that she needed to get cost controls into the RHI as the uptake was low when she was minister.
The Economy Department senior official added that she followed her officials' advice on the scheme and that "ministers have the right to expect civil servants will get this kind of thing right".
Mrs Foster had moved on from the department by summer 2015.
In a statement Mr Crawford said in discussing RHI with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment special adviser, he "would have been offering informal advice and assistance as a colleague to my successor in the department and not on behalf of the finance minister or the party".
"However, as I pointed out to the BBC in December I did not attempt to keep the RHI scheme open at the original tariff against the wishes of the minister. Indeed, I specifically stated on 31 July 2015 that the department, 'will need to make changes from 1st October'," he added.
A son of a farmer from Beragh in County Tyrone, Dr Andrew Crawford is a former employee of the Ulster Farmers' Union.
He was an assistant to the former DUP MEP Jim Allister before the North Antrim politician quit to form the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV).
Dr Crawford was an adviser to Arlene Foster when she was enterprise minister during the time the RHI scheme was created, and followed her to the Department of Finance and Personnel last year.
Jonathan Bell, who succeeded Arlene Foster as enterprise minister, accused him of preventing the closure of the scheme, but Dr Crawford has denied that claim.
These days, he advises another DUP minister, Michelle McIlveen, in the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.
Dr Crawford's poultry-farmer brother is a claimant of the RHI scheme.
Civil servants wanted to cut the rate paid to businesses involved in the scheme in July 2015. It was eventually reduced that November but not before a massive surge in the number of applications.
Dr McCormick said insider information may have had a significant impact on the £490m overspend.
He said there was "an extra level of information" in the renewable heating industry in the summer of 2015 that the RHI tariff could be reduced, so people should "get in quick".
Dr McCormick added that anonymous letters showed the information came from his department.
Among the other revelations made by Dr McCormick to the PAC were:
Earlier, the Nolan Show revealed Dr McCormick believed a DUP special adviser had exerted influence to delay cost controls.
It said that Dr McCormick told the DUP of his concerns but had no evidence. The DUP confirmed to the programme that Dr McCormick told the party of his belief.
Jonathan Bell was in the public gallery while Dr McCormick gave evidence to the PAC.
He broke ranks from the DUP when he made serious allegations about how the scheme was run in a BBC interview in December. He was later suspended from the party..
Speaking under parliamentary privilege on Tuesday, Mr Bell also claimed he was told when he was minister that two DUP special advisers' "extensive interests in the poultry industry" would prevent scrutiny of the RHI scheme.
The advisers, Timothy Johnston and John Robinson, and the DUP denied the claims.
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The display of such goods has been illegal in large stores and supermarkets since 2012.
Now small stores, and other outlets such as pubs and clubs, will also have to keep cigarettes out of sight.
The ban has been welcomed by campaign group Action on Smoking and Health (Ash), but criticised by shopkeeper group the Tobacco Retailers' Alliance.
Hazel Cheeseman, director of policy at Ash, said: "Two-thirds of smokers start before the age of 18, so it is vital that everything is done to put tobacco out of sight to protect future generations.
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The 23-year-old has signed a six-year deal with the Spanish giants.
Rodriguez won the Golden Boot with six goals in five matches in Brazil as Colombia reached the quarter-finals.
Madrid president Florentino Perez said: "He played brilliantly and his goals confirmed his status as one of the best players at the World Cup."
Rodriguez's move is the fourth most expensive transfer of all time after those of new team-mates Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona's Luis Suarez.
"I am very happy, this is a dream come true. I hope to make people very happy and win a lot of titles here," he said.
The Colombian scored against Greece, Ivory Coast and Japan as they topped Group C before netting twice, one a sublime volley, during the 2-0 last-16 win against Uruguay, which was voted goal of the tournament.
Rodriguez's final goal was a late consolation from the penalty spot as Colombia lost 2-1 to Brazil.
The former Porto forward won the Portuguese league three years in a row before joining Monaco last season, where he scored nine goals in 34 Ligue 1 games.
Monaco vice-chairman Vadim Vasilyev said his club had no plans to sell Rodriguez, but were proud to be part of "one of the most significant transfers in football history".
Vasilyev added: "The time came when the solution of a transfer was considered to be the most beneficial solution for all parties."
Madrid made Ronaldo the world's most expensive player when they signed him for £80m from Manchester United in 2009, and eclipsed that with the £85.3m they paid Tottenham for Gareth Bale last summer.
Rodriguez's signing comes less than a week after they signed German World Cup winner Toni Kroos, who moved from Bayern Munich for an undisclosed fee.
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Bijan Ebrahimi, 44, was killed in a vigilante attack in 2013 after false accusations of being a paedophile.
PC Kevin Duffy, 52, told Bristol Crown Court he felt Mr Ebrahimi sometimes wanted to use complaints as "ammunition" against the council.
Mr Duffy denies a charge of misconduct in public office.
Mr Ebrahimi was beaten to death and his body was set on fire by neighbour Lee James, who was later sentenced to life in prison.
The trial heard PC Duffy, who joined Avon and Somerset Police in 2005, had been investigating complaints concerning Mr Ebrahimi since 2007.
The investigations included a complaint of harassment in 2007, claims of racial assault and racial harassment in 2009, a report of a threat to kill in 2010 and a report of a ball being thrown to break one of his plant pots in 2011.
The officer replied "no" when asked by his defence lawyer - Ian Stern QC - whether he had "any deep-seated animosity" towards Mr Ebrahimi.
He told the court he had dealt with the Iranian national "in a professional way".
A police log, written by Duffy and read out to the court, said Mr Ebrahimi had "a history of making spurious complaints against his neighbours".
On one occasion in July 2013, PC Henrietta Staveley-Brown warned Mr Duffy that neighbours were heading to "dangerous ground that could bring on vigilante-type issues".
Mr Duffy told the court he could have arranged for officers to visit Mr Ebrahimi and his neighbours if there was "an imminent risk".
Three others also deny a charge of misconduct in public office - PC Leanne Winter, 38, PC Helen Harris, 40, and PCSO Andrew Passmore, 55.
The trial at Bristol Crown Court continues.
The Lynx UK Trust wants to place up to six lynx per site as part of efforts to repopulate the species, which has been extinct in Britain for 1,300 years.
But the National Sheep Association (NSA) fears the move could damage the livelihoods of sheep farmers.
The trust says that if successful the trial will boost regional economies.
The trust is looking to lodge a formal application with Natural England to go ahead with the trial later this year.
Its chief scientific specialist Dr Paul O'Donoghue, said: "The UK can support a population of up to 400 lynx, that is based on habitat suitability studies.
"We think conservatively that the reintroduction of lynx would be worth £60m to £70m a year to the UK economy. They will play a vital role in both promoting rural regeneration and forest regeneration.
"The experience in other parts of Europe where lynx have been reintroduced is that it results in a massive boost for the environment as well as to the economy."
But the NSA report calls for more research before the trial is approved.
It says: "The impacts that lynx would have on sheep are completely unjustifiable when farmers already work tirelessly for the welfare and performance of their livestock, and also to maintain their own livelihood.
"Sheep play an important part of maintaining the biodiversity of the current, perfectly functioning ecosystem, which would be disrupted by the introduction of an unnecessary predator."
The association's chief executive Phil Stoker added: "We think the UK is too small an island and too heavily populated for this and the way the countryside is managed at the moment is already good for tourism.
"Also, these animals are going to be nocturnal and extremely shy and it is going to be very unlikely that anyone ever actually gets to see one."
The result of an indicative ballot by the EIS Further Education Lecturers Association (EIS-Fela) showed 92% supporting action and 8% against.
Lecturers are to hold a protest later to highlight their concerns about further education.
EIS general secretary Larry Flanagan called the result of the vote "very clear". Turnout was 55%.
Because it was an indicative ballot, the union would have to organise a further vote before industrial action could begin.
EIS-Fela has argued the college sector in Scotland has been under attack.
Lecturers are calling on the education secretary to inject extra cash into Scotland's colleges in the wake of what they called "draconian cuts".
The Scottish government said it had a strong track record on colleges and had provided significant investment.
Colleges Scotland, the body that represents colleges, said it was disappointed over the action.
Mr Flanagan said: "In an environment where millions of pounds of cuts have been imposed, where certain college managers are awarding themselves pay increases of more than 5%, where some principals have manoeuvred massive pay-offs for themselves, and where hundreds of millions of pounds of college funds have been stashed in secretive Arm's Length Foundations, the management side's 1% pay offer is an insult to hard-working lecturing staff and their support staff colleagues."
He added: "Should no acceptable offer be made, the EIS Executive will consider the next steps to be taken in pursuit of the 2015-16 pay claim.
"Given this very strong message from the indicative ballot the most likely action would be a move to a statutory ballot for industrial action in the new year.
"It is also now time for the Scottish government to act to ensure that national bargaining delivers a fair and acceptable pay offer from college management."
The demonstration will take place outside the offices of the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council (SFC) in Edinburgh.
John Kelly, EIS-Fela President, said: "The main focus of our lobby here today is to highlight the appalling attacks which further education provision in colleges has come under over the past few years.
"The SFC has implemented draconian cuts on further education colleges which have been exacerbated further by light touch regulation.
"We are calling on (education secretary) Angela Constance to inject more money into the sector, however at the same time we are also urging the SFC to switch off the green light which has been shown to colleges allowing them to spend on a few, at the expense of further education students and staff."
Shona Struthers, chief executive of Colleges Scotland, said: "We hope that no students have been disrupted because of today's unofficial demonstration.
"While we recognise that there have been a few legacy issues, they should not detract from the excellent work that colleges do for the benefit of students and the hard work and dedication of staff in colleges."
A Scottish government spokesman said: "This government has a strong track record on colleges and recognises that they are vital to Scotland's success.
"We have invested significantly in colleges since 2007 and are providing resource funding of £526m to the sector in 2015-16.
"The Scottish Government remains committed to national bargaining in our further education sector.
"However, we recognise that moving towards this approach was always going to be challenging given the level of change required.
"For this reason, we consider this year to be a transitional year where we expect a willingness on both sides to move things forward; not everything can be achieved quickly, or all at once.
"We have been clear that the college severance arrangements described in the Auditor General's report were completely unacceptable."
Jamie McIvor, BBC Scotland Education correspondent
Mergers in any field can often be difficult - they can lead to job losses and the inevitable challenges of bringing together the culture and practices of different institutions.
These concerns were exacerbated by rows over pay offs for some senior staff. The public spending watchdog raised concerns about the practices followed by some.
At the former Coatbridge College there were claims of collusion though, when questioned by MSPs, the former principal denied any wrongdoing.
Indeed at some colleges, the merger process itself has been difficult.
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The GMB won a legal ruling over its bid to negotiate for more than 200 warehouse workers at the site but the firm is challenging the decision.
Supporters protested outside a Lidl store in Cardiff, saying further demonstrations will be held.
The company has argued that staff are already "fairly represented" in the business without unions.
GMB regional secretary John Phillips said: "Lidl must abandon attempts to subvert these rights and begin to bargain with their employees and to extend collective bargaining to their hard pressed retail workers.
"Promoting value for consumers must not be at the expense of workers' rights and decent labour standards."
In August, the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), the independent tribunal with statutory powers over trade union recognition, dismissed Lidl's attempts to block warehouse workers in Bridgend from having union representation.
But the German-owned supermarket chain described that decision as "disappointing" and continues to challenge it.
"We continue to believe that our employees are fairly represented within the business, without having to deal with trade unions and creating a divided workforce," said a spokesperson following last month's ruling.
The firm has 637 stores and nine distribution centres in Britain, employing about 18,000 staff.
Graham Burn, 46, and Ann Boddy, 34, caused "prolonged suffering" to a mastiff-type and a terrier.
The pair, of Burbank Street, Hartlepool, were convicted of two section 4 offences under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 at Teesside Magistrates Court.
They were each jailed for 12 weeks and banned from keeping animals for life.
RSPCA inspector Lucy Hoehne had been visiting the address for over a year due to concerns over the dogs' welfare.
She said: "I'd been giving advice and offering assistance and, initially, they made some improvements but then they stopped answering the door to me or letting me in.
"Eventually, when I managed to speak to them, they told me they didn't have the dogs any more, but I was able to establish that the dogs were actually being kept locked in a cupboard under the stairs."
District Judge Harrison said the case was an example of prolonged neglect involving what she described as a protracted course of action involving months, if not years, of starvation resulting almost to the point of death.
The dogs have now been re-homed.
Pedro J Ramirez struts around the open-plan office of El Espanol, the designer furniture arranged so that the 70 journalists can work at their screens standing up or seated upon tall stools.
The charismatic founding editor of Spain's El Mundo newspaper, until he was controversially sacked last year, has a glint in his eye.
Pedro J, as he is known to friends and enemies alike, thinks he has reinvented the newspaper - but with no ink or paper in sight.
"We are trying to provide an alternative to the traditional newspaper," says Mr Ramirez, who wants El Espanol to compete with the digital versions of Spain's leading newspapers, including El Mundo.
"That is probably why our project is different to all the others, not only in Spain, but in Europe. We are going to become the model. Paper is dead, with no possibility of recuperation."
But why, at the age of 63, is Mr Ramirez doing this?
Could it be revenge on an establishment led by conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy that many observers in Spain believe brought about his ousting from El Mundo in a boardroom coup?
Although conservative in its editorial line, El Mundo played a central role in revealing allegations of cash payments to top officials from Mr Rajoy's Popular Party by former party treasurer Luis Barcenas.
"People say El Espanol is being launched to destroy Mr Rajoy, but Mr Rajoy is going to destroy himself very soon," Mr Ramirez says.
"I have a lot of defects but I never look back in anger. It's so fun to be a journalist that I am not going to get trapped in these low feelings."
He believes there were dark forces behind his removal.
"I think the economic crisis put a lot of papers in the red and this was the perfect alibi for the political and economic powers to interfere. I can say positively that in the Spanish press censorship and self-censorship have gained a lot of ground in recent years."
Mr Ramirez also claims to have no regrets about El Mundo's controversial reporting of the 11 March 2004 bombings of Madrid commuter trains. His newspaper pursued the theory that Basque organisation Eta had been involved long after the police and judiciary were satisfied that Islamist extremists were responsible for the 191 deaths.
El Espanol, which has been warming up for several months in a simple blog format, will consist of a general news webpage and a nightly special edition of in-house material only for subscribers displayed on a comfortable tablet and smartphone-friendly app.
The main site, also incorporating a "river" of breaking news alerts, is free to use until a pay wall is hit after 25 articles per month.
The faith of some Spaniards in Mr Ramirez is such that El Espanol already has around 10,000 subscribers before launch. The project also broke the crowdfunding record for a media project by raising €3.6m (£2.7m) with donations of between €100 - the value of one share - and €10,000.
Mr Ramirez says he will listen to El Espanol's 5,624 mostly small equity holders, who will have what he calls a "shareholder button" so that they can comment directly on the site's output.
"We are going to show that a media outlet can be profitable through both advertising and subscriptions," says Chief Executive Eva Fernandez.
Advertising will be relied upon for 80% of revenues at first, but Pedro J Ramirez wants subscriptions eventually to match that income. Ms Fernandez says El Espanol will become profitable in its third year.
But Juan Varela, a Spanish journalist and media consultant based in New York, has his doubts.
"It's great to have those kinds of numbers before launching but the reality for everyone is that conversion rates of readers to subscribers are very low.
"Because Pedro J is the first of the great old-school editors to convert to a purely online approach, it will be very interesting to see if he can find a model that works."
Joe Howlett succeeded in rescuing the whale, only to be struck by it moments later as it flipped into the water.
He was a lobster fisherman by trade and a founder of the whale rescue group on Campobello Island, New Brunswick.
Friends told the Canadian Press he had saved some two dozen whales over 15 years.
Mackie Green, a friend of Mr Howlett who had founded the rescue team with him, said: "They got the whale totally disentangled and then some kind of freak thing happened and the whale made a big flip."
"Joe definitely would not want us to stop because of this," he added. "This is something he loved and there's no better feeling than getting a whale untangled, and I know how good he was feeling after cutting that whale clear."
The animal was a North Atlantic right whale - an endangered species that may grow to about 15m (50 feet) in length and weigh up to 70 tonnes.
The species is "critically endangered", with about 500 left alive, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Seven were found dead in Canada's Gulf of St Laurence in the last month - a significant blow to the global population.
Mr Howlett was on board a government response vessel at the time of his death.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans said he had rescued another whale days before, on 5 July. Rescuers like Mr Howlett had "immense bravery and a passion for the welfare of marine mammals", it said.
"There are serious risks involved with any disentanglement attempt. Each situation is unique, and entangled whales can be unpredictable."
Mr Howlett lived on Campobello Island, a small community on the border with the US, where locals have been paying tribute to the well-known rescue worker.
"There's only 850 people here on Campobello Island now and Joe was a very lively character, he had a great sense of humour," mayor Stephen Smart told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
"Everybody knew Joe Howlett and everybody respected Joe Howlett... it's a big blow."
The BBC has announced plans to host The Biggest Weekend while Glasto has its traditional fallow year.
The four-day festival will take place in May across four sites in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The last time Glastonbury had a year off, in 2012, BBC Radio 1 brought its Big Weekend festival to Hackney.
It coincided with the London Olympics, which took place in the capital a few weeks after the festival.
The Biggest Weekend is scheduled for the late May bank holiday weekend (25-28 May) - earlier than when Glastonbury normally is.
More than 175,000 tickets will be made available, which is more than the number sold for Glasto, but this one is across four locations.
The BBC said it will bring "the biggest artists in the world" to the event - but headliners won't be announced for some time yet.
Those who don't fancy the mud and rain will be able to watch and listen to the coverage on various BBC outlets.
Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3 and 6 Music will all broadcast live sets from the weekend, while BBC Two and BBC Four will lead the TV coverage.
Don't worry if you're away that weekend - because all the sets will also be available on BBC iPlayer.
Bob Shennan, director of BBC radio and music, said the corporation "has a strong history of bringing the nation together for some special moments, and this is the biggest single music event ever attempted by the BBC".
"We will be celebrating the diversity of music from four different corners of the country, bringing the best UK music to the world and the best global music to the UK."
The festival will be for one year only and there are no plans for it to become an annual event.
Glastonbury takes a break every five to six years to prevent excessive damage to the site.
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The US singer rattled through a medley of hits during a 12-minute concert that also included a guest appearance from rapper Missy Elliott.
It ended with Perry singing Firework as actual pyrotechnics exploded above her.
According to The Guardian, the result was a "high-octane show [as] notable for its surreal camp as for its tunes".
The New York Times said she "held her own, navigating a handful of her smashes and three wardrobe changes in a performance that resisted bad mood".
"Even if you weren't a fan of Perry's music, you had to be impressed with her spectacle," agreed USA Today.
Britney Spears, Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg were among the celebrities on hand to watch the New England Patriots narrowly beat the Seattle Seahawks 28-24.
Earlier, Frozen star Idina Menzel kicked off proceedings at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona with the traditional rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner.
Perry followed such other high-profile half-time performers as Madonna, Beyonce and last year's interval act, Bruno Mars.
The 30-year-old avoided the controversy that dogged such previous performers as Janet Jackson, whose infamous "wardrobe malfunction" made headlines around the world in 2004.
The California Gurls singer marked the occasion by having XLIX - the Roman numerals for 49, marking the 49th Super Bowl - tattooed on one of the fingers of her right hand.
"I thought it would be appropriate to draw blood tonight," tweeted the singer, who also sang excerpts from I Kissed a Girl and Teenage Dream during her set.
Viewers in the US were also treated to new trailers for Jurassic World, Pitch Perfect 2 and other upcoming films during the ad breaks that punctuated the American Football action.
Other highlights included actor Bryan Cranston reviving his Walter White character from Breaking Bad for a car insurance commercial.
The 24-year-old has played in 13 internationals and signed a national contract in December 2014.
His new contract is with the Ospreys only, and not an extension of the national deal which was jointly funded by the Welsh Rugby Union.
The tight-head made his 100th appearance for the Scarlets in the win over Edinburgh on Friday, 12 February.
"We are disappointed to see Rhodri leave the Scarlets however we respect his decision," said Scarlets general manager Jon Daniels.
Jones said: "It was an honour to have played my 100th game for the Scarlets last weekend and I will give my all to the region as we challenge for a Pro12 play-off position from now until the end of the season.
"I've enjoyed my time with the Scarlets but this is a great opportunity for me professionally. I'm very excited about this move."
Jones' chances have been limited at the region and the national team by the emergence of Samson Lee, who has established himself as Warren Gatland's first-choice tight-head.
His opportunities with Wales have also been limited by Exeter's Tomas Francis, who was selected for the World Cup squad and has made two appearances off the bench during the 2016 Six Nations Championship.
Ospreys rugby manager Andrew Millward welcomed the signing.
"Rhodri is someone with huge potential to become a quality player," he said.
"We see him as an individual who fits what we want from a tight head, in terms of ability and character, and we believe that we can work with him to keep moving his set piece work forward."
Ineos wants to drill near Woodsetts, near Rotherham, based on "existing geological data".
The proposed site is west of the village and south of Dinnington Road.
Rose Dickinson, of Friends of the Earth, said: "It is concerning this is the first stage of a potential fracking application."
"There has been no fracking for six years and it is not a viable technology, it poses many risks to people and the environment," the energy and climate campaigner added.
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The firm is yet to submit an application for test drilling and said it would consult with people.
Any well would be designed to extract a sample of the rock for laboratory analysis to see if it has gas-producing properties and test whether conditions are encouraging for shale gas extraction, said the company.
Construction of the rig could take up to three months and drilling, coring and testing could take up to five months, it added.
The company submitted planning applications for exploratory drilling at Common Road, Harthill, in Rotherham and Bramleymoor Lane in the village of Marsh Lane, Derbyshire, in March.
Before any shale operation can begin in the UK, operators must pass rigorous health and safety, environmental and planning permission processes, according to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Shale gas could be recoverable through hydraulic fracturing or fracking.
What is fracking?
Fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside.
Water, sand and chemicals are injected into the rock at high pressure which allows the gas to flow out to the head of the well.
The process can be carried out vertically or, more commonly, by drilling horizontally to the rock layer and can create new pathways to release gas or can be used to extend existing channels.
The term fracking refers to how the rock is fractured apart by the high pressure mixture.
Kathleen Maccuish had returned from walking her dog when she was thrown to the ground and punched in the face in Roylelands, Rochdale.
She suffered bruising around her eyes, nose and mouth in the assault at about 20:15 BST on 10 September.
The attacker was white, in his early 30s, slim with short dark hair.
Greater Manchester Police revealed details of the attack as they search for the suspect.
PC Michelle Farmer said: "This was a sickening and unprovoked attack on an elderly woman that has left her shaken and anxious about going out.
"It is fortunate that she was not seriously injured."
Donna Sullock let friend Michael Pearce look after son Alfie while she went on a night out last August and said the baby had no marks on him when she left.
Newport Crown Court heard the defendant text her saying Alfie was "fine" but soon after he was brain damaged.
Mr Pearce, 32, of Nelson, Caerphilly county, denies murder and manslaughter.
The injuries were said to have happened in the two hours the defendant babysit Alfie, of Fairwater, Cardiff, for the first time on 16 August.
The jury were read a series of texts between the defendant and 29-year-old Ms Sullock, who became friends when she was six months pregnant.
He texted a photo of the baby to her and she replied: "Has he been crying, his face looks red?"
Responding a minute later, at 20:20 BST he said: "He's had a little wind. He's fine now, sleeping, don't worry".
He sent another text 20 minutes later saying: "You can trust me you know," and then at 21:07 BST, another text was sent informing Ms Sullock that Alfie was still sleeping.
But four minutes later, the court heard he dialled 999 and then called Alfie's mum to say her baby had stopped breathing and was being taken to hospital by ambulance.
Alfie was taken to Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil before being transferred to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff where he died four days later.
The prosecution claim Mr Pearce had beaten him with a shoe and a hard plastic bottle.
A post mortem examination showed Alfie died of blunt trauma injury and extensive bleeding into the brain.
The trial continues.
Forbes Media - which includes Forbes magazine - was sold to Integrated Whale Media Investments for an undisclosed sum.
The Forbes family said it would still have a "significant" stake.
Steve Forbes will remain as chairman and editor-in-chief.
"While today marks a fundamental turning point in this 97-year-old company founded by my grandfather, it should be seen as an opportunity to continue and strengthen our mission," said Mr Forbes in a blog post announcing the sale.
Forbes - which says it reaches 75 million people worldwide every month through its print, digital, TV, conferences and research ventures - began looking for a buyer last November.
Forbes will continue to be headquartered in the US, but announced plans for an international expansion.
The body of Sinead Wooding, 26, was found by joggers near Alwoodley Crags car park in Stairfoot Lane on 14 May.
Vicky Briggs, 25, of Reginald Mount, Chapeltown, is accused of assisting an offender and is due at Leeds Magistrates' Court on Monday.
Two people have previously been charged with murder and a 20-year-old has been charged with assisting an offender.
The blast targeted a vehicle carrying members of the Central Reserve Police Force in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh state, reports said.
Officials say the death toll is likely to increase.
The Maoists say they are fighting for communist rule and greater rights for tribal people and the rural poor.
Their insurgency began in the eastern state of West Bengal in the late 1960s, spreading to more than one-third of India's 600-plus administrative districts.
Chhattisgarh is often hit by Maoist violence.
Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh described India's Maoist insurgency as its "greatest internal security challenge".
Major military and police offensives in recent years have pushed the rebels back to their forest strongholds and levels of violence have fallen.
But hit-and-run attacks are still common, killing hundreds of people every year.
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Nadal moved on to the same number of titles as Monaco's compatriot Guillermo Vilas.
The start of the match was delayed because of rain and there was a further hold-up at 1-1 in the opening set.
But once play got started, the 28-year-old swept to an easy victory.
"I had the hope of winning here and I prepared very well for this so it's objective achieved," the nine-time French Open champion said.
It was his first final since winning at Roland Garros last June, having been hampered by a wrist injury and appendicitis in the second half of 2014, and was his 65th career title.
Nadal got the first break in the seventh game when the Argentine netted a service return.
He went on to break serve three more times for a comfortable victory in one hour and 26 minutes.
Nadal moved up to third in the world rankings after the victory, overtaking Britain's Andy Murray, who is now fifth, with Japan's Kei Nishikori fourth.
The Shanghai stock market went on a roller coaster ride after an apparent trading error that led China Everbright Securities, a major mainland brokerage firm, to make billions of yuan of buying orders within seconds during the morning trading on Friday.
Shanghai Composite index jumped 5.6 per cent in a flash on Friday morning, but ended the day with a loss of 0.6 per cent.
China's securities watchdog says the chaotic trading was caused by "design flaws" in China Everbright Securities' computer-based automated trading system and "obviously inadequate" internal risk controls.
However, some industry insiders and traders are making calls in the media for an investigation into possible market manipulation behind the firm's "own goal".
The China Daily says some are also dismissing reports that a trader may have made a buy order, thinking it was on a virtual trading system, when it was on a computer connected to the real exchange market.
"I've still got a lot of doubts and questions. In general there is a firewall between the two computers, and any big purchasing order should be approved by the compliance department," Yang Guoying, a researcher with China Finance Thinktank, tells the newspaper.
One director of an investment agency was incredulous at how such a massive purchase could be made without prior approval and called the transaction "a serious fraud, manipulation and disruption of the stock market" in an interview with The Beijing News.
"If Everbright Securities are not punished, the trustworthiness of China's securities market will drop from the 17th level of Hell into the 18th level of Hell," says Ye Tan, a financial commentator for Shanghai's National Business Daily, in her call for full compensation for short-sellers who suffered losses.
Meanwhile, a New York Times online report on JP Morgan Chase facing a US probe for allegedly hiring "princelings" - the children of senior Chinese officials - to boost its business in China, has been picked up in the mainland press, but there has been little comment so far.
Turning to other news, the Southern Metropolis Daily says a former top official at China's top economic policy-making body, Liu Tienan, has been placed under criminal investigation for suspected bribe-taking.
Just days ahead of the long-awaited corruption trial of fallen Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai that begins on Thursday, many media are paying tribute to an outspoken senior forensic scientist who has resigned in frustration over the standard of forensic evidence presented in trials.
Wang Xuemei, who quit as vice-president of the Chinese Forensic Medicine Association, had previously questioned the government's inquest into the murder of Briton Neil Heywood, whom Gu Kailai, Mr Bo's estranged wife, was convicted of poisoning.
Ms Wang said in her resignation video on Saturday that her name could not be related to an academic organization that offers "ridiculous and irresponsible" conclusions.
"We would like to pay tribute to Wang Xuemei not only because of her long-standing professional commitment, but because she was brave enough to expose shady dealings in the industry, as well as vowing to defend the bottom line of the industry to the death," says a Beijing Youth Daily commentary.
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post gives details of an open letter signed by 70 police officers in Guizhou province accusing the acting president of the Shanghai High Court of corruption and abuse of power during his time as a provincial police chief.
Finally, the media are shocked at another "baby-throwing" incident that has gone viral on the internet, but this time there is even greater outrage because the alleged perpetrator is a policeman.
The Southern Metropolis Daily says the arrested suspect, Guo Zengxi, should be severely punished if found guilty of taking a 7-month-old girl from her father's arms, lifting her up and then throwing her to the ground.
The Beijing News asks why the police officer was not investigated until last Saturday, when the alleged incident took place on 20 July.
A similar case occurred on 23 July when a Beijing man allegedly picked up and threw a two-year-old girl to the ground during a dispute with her mother over a parking space. The girl later died.
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Soon after it would be seen for the last time at Beachy Head in East Sussex.
What happened next to the craft and its famous passenger, who led the World War II big band craze, has never been uncovered.
No sign of the aircraft was ever found and Miller's disappearance remains one of World War II's most enduring mysteries.
And until now, it had never been confirmed the route the aircraft had taken saw it travel by Maidenhead.
The band leader and jazz trombonist, famous for records including Pennsylvania 6-5000 and In The Mood, was on his way from Bedfordshire to entertain US troops in Versailles, France - a flight which should have taken him across the English Channel.
His UC-64A Norseman, an American transport aircraft, never arrived. No trace of the aircrew, passengers or plane has ever been found.
Varying theories about different flight paths have abounded, but the Berkshire route has now been confirmed by the Glenn Miller Archive at Colorado University, and will feature as one of the facts in an official report on the musician's disappearance, commissioned by Glenn Miller's children.
The most recent discovery started with a 17-year-old plane-spotter in 1944, who meticulously logged each plane he saw flying overhead while he worked at an airfield in Woodley, Reading.
The now deceased Richard Anderton had two small notebooks filled with details of the locations of passing aircraft, estimated altitude and directions of flight.
On 15 December 1944, he logged a UC-64A-type aircraft passing on the horizon to his east and flying below the fog in a south-easterly direction.
It was not until his brother, 77-year-old Sylvan Anderton, brought the books into the BBC's Antiques Roadshow TV programme 67 years later that the entry came to light.
"I'd had them for about 28 years and really didn't do anything about it," said Mr Anderton, who grew up in Reading but now lives in Bideford, Devon.
"I knew there was a connection because he'd cut out an article from the Daily Express in 1969 about Glenn Miller's disappearance and he'd put it in the pages in the notebook for 15 December 1944."
Roadshow expert Clive Stewart-Lockhart, who valued the books at around £1,000, said Glenn Miller was "one of the great mysteries of that part of the war," and that he found the teenager's dedication to plane-spotting extraordinary "when a bomb could've dropped on him".
He has never questioned the authenticity of the notebooks.
"You'd have to be an absolute genius to make it up," he said.
But when it came to official verification, Dennis Spragg, senior consultant at the Glenn Miller Archives in Colorado, said he initially took the notebook entry "with a pinch of salt".
"I was a bit sceptical," he said.
"If I had £10 for every time I heard someone with a new bit of information on Glenn Miller I'd have bought my own Caribbean island by now."
But when he looked into it, and found out Mr Anderton was based at Woodley - within eight miles of the Maidenhead waypoint - pieces of the puzzle started to fit.
Mr Spragg said if the craft was passing to the east of Mr Anderton, he indeed would have been able to have seen it on his horizon.
"I went back and consulted the records for what would've been the route of the flight," he said.
"I worked out flight times and the speed of the aircraft and worked out that he probably saw the airplane to his east at eight or nine minutes past two in the afternoon."
He said the discovery was "very valuable".
"It's a piece of the entire story. The notebook confirms that the plane was on time and on course."
It also eradicates other theories about alternate routes the plane could have taken.
"All the speculators saying he went east of London have now gone out the picture," said Mr Anderton.
Aside from the notebook's historic significance, his late brother's unexpected new status as the next-to-last known observer of Glenn Miller's plane has caused some excitement in the Anderton household.
"We're part of the Glenn Miller story, we're very thrilled about that," he said.
"We've even started playing his music."
The notebook entry will feature in Dennis Spragg's report called Major A Glenn Miller, 15 December 1944, The Facts, which is due to be published this year.
The Brazilian's release clause has been set at 200m euros (£167m), rising to 222m (£186m) in the second and 250m (£209m) for the final three.
Manchester United and Paris St-Germain were both reported to be interested in the 24-year-old.
Neymar has scored 55 goals in 93 La Liga games since joining from Santos for a reported fee of £48.6m in 2013.
On Thursday, Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu confirmed talks were being held, with Neymar declaring on Twitter he was "very happy to continue living this dream".
The forward has also scored 46 goals in 70 appearances for his country.
Since moving to the Nou Camp, he has won two La Liga titles, two Copa del Rey trophies and the 2014-15 Champions League.
Barcelona were forced to pay a £4.3m fine in June because of mistakes in Neymar's transfer from Santos.
An OECD/G20 report found laws allowing companies to shift profits to low-tax jurisdictions means that between $100bn and $240bn is lost annually.
That equates to between 4% and 10% of global corporate tax revenues.
While governments are being encouraged to adopt the proposals, they do not have to implement them.
The final report from the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project found that no single rule was to blame for making profits "disappear" for tax purposes.
Rather, it was the "interplay among different rules... domestic laws and rules which are not co-ordinated across borders, international standards which have not always kept pace with the changing global business environment and an endemic and worrying lack of data and information".
The report outlines measures intended to combat the practice of transfer pricing - whereby companies conduct transactions between different parts of the same organisation.
Companies will now be required to outline their global business operations and transfer pricing policies in a "master file", with more detail in a "local file".
"Country-by-country reporting will provide a clear overview of where profits, sales, employees and assets are located and where taxes are paid and accrued," the report stated.
Richard Murphy, of Tax Research UK, said the proposals represented some progress but that the governments of the UK and US in particular were not committed to implementing them.
"Anyone who thinks that this will solve the problem with international tax is living in cloud cuckoo land," he said.
George Osborne's plan to cut corporate tax rates meant that the UK was embroiled in a "race to the bottom" of tax competition rather than tax co-operation with its neighbours, Mr Murphy said.
A Treasury spokesperson said the recommendations would be considered in full: "The government was instrumental in calling for international action to tackle corporate tax avoidance and has been fully supportive of the OECD BEPS process since it began in 2013."
The charity Christian Aid said the proposals amounted to a "sticking-plaster approach" that would allow global companies to keep depriving poor countries of billions every year.
Toby Quantrill, its principal adviser on economic justice, said: "Any potential the OECD experts had to recommend effective solutions has been thwarted governments' unwillingness to stand up to multinationals and the tax avoidance industry."
ActionAid tax policy adviser Anders Dahlbeck said: "This tax deal has been cooked up by a club of rich countries and fails to properly tackle tax avoidance by large multinationals."
The BEPS project, which began in 2013, involved all OECD and G20 member countries and is said to be the most significant revision of international tax rules in decades.
It was partly a response to consumer anger about multinational companies such as Starbucks and Amazon paying small amounts of tax in countries such as the UK despite having sales worth billions of pounds.
In 2012, a Reuters investigation found that Starbucks paid just £8.6m in UK corporation tax over 14 years, despite making sales worth more than £3bn in UK sales since 1998.
New measures will ensure that governments review rules intended to attract "paper" profits rather than substantial business activities.
A new framework to ensure greater transparency between governments is also proposed.
Rules have also been devised to ensure that value-added tax is collected in the country where the consumer is located.
Implementing the changes was now the next step, the report said, with a new framework for monitoring set to be drawn up.
Bill Dodwell, head of tax policy at Deloitte, said it was up to governments and tax authorities to make the proposals into law, but that prudent companies would start planning for them very soon.
The measures will be presented to a meeting of G20 finance ministers on Thursday in Lima and G20 leaders at a November summit in Antalya.
The Jim Clark Museum already has planning permission for the site in Duns in the Scottish Borders.
It has £1.3m pledged towards the £1.6m required to secure the project.
The latest backer of its crowdfunding appeal is former World Rally champion Louise Aitken-Walker, who lives in Duns.
Scottish Borders Council has pledged £620,000 towards the museum celebrating the achievements of two-time Formula One world champion Jim Clark, with a similar sum coming from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Planning permission has been given, subject to the work starting in the next three years.
It is hoped the development could be completed by 2018 - the 50th anniversary of Clark's death at Hockenheim in Germany, aged just 32.
The driver was born in Kilmany in Fife, but raised in the Borders, and was crowned Formula One world champion in 1963 and 1965. He won a total of 25 grand prix races.
The project - co-produced by Lionsgate UK and Eighth Wonder Pictures - is expected to start shooting on location in the UK later this year.
Casting has yet to be announced in what has been described as "an exhilarating, emotionally-charged action-thriller".
Lewis Collins and Martin Shaw starred in the original 1970s TV show.
"The Professionals was such an iconic British crime series that it's a fantastic opportunity for Lionsgate to be able to bring it to the big screen for the first time," said Zygi Kamasa of Lionsgate UK.
"This production will combine the wit and fast-paced action of the original TV series but also completely reinvent it for a new, modern audience."
The original Professionals - which also featured Gordon Jackson as CI5 chief George Cowley - ran from 1977 to 1983.
"To take this 70s TV classic and launch it onto the big screen is a dream come true," said Eighth Wonder's Richard Whelan.
Created by writer Brian Clemens, The Professionals was famous for its propulsive Laurie Johnson theme tune and the cars its characters drove and occasionally jumped over.
The late Edward Woodward appeared in a short-lived TV remake - CI5: The New Professionals - that aired on Sky One in 1999.
The body of Charlene Walker, also known as Jamie Paylor, was found at the property on Louisa Street shortly after 12:30 GMT on Tuesday.
The 36-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.
Julie Gowling, 43, of Louisa Street, will appear at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates' Court later charged with murder.
Behrouz Boochani is messaging me on WhatsApp from Australia's offshore detention facility in Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG), where he has been since 2013 after fleeing his home country of Iran.
The Kurdish journalist has just finished his biggest project yet - a full-length feature film, shot using his iPhone and smuggled out over the internet in small clips, beneath the radar of his guards.
"The movie is a record of Australian history. I hope that the next generations will know what Australia did in Manus and Nauru," he says, referring to Australia's other offshore detention facility for asylum seekers.
The project began last year, when Dutch-Iranian filmmaker Arash Kamali Sarvestani got in touch with Mr Boochani, who has made a name for himself as the island's most outspoken detainee, writing regularly for international publications.
Mr Sarvestani had attended a film workshop where the theme was the sea, and he had been looking into the possibility of speaking to children on Nauru.
He quickly realised that access to Nauru was too difficult.
"There is almost no internet connection, and people are scared to talk. They are scared for their future," he says.
That was when he started reading online about Mr Boochani, who he said seemed to be "shouting about what is happening" on the two islands.
Since it opened, the Manus Island facility has made headlines with riots and hunger strikes, including images of asylum seekers sewing their lips shut. But Mr Sarvestani's aim was not to show those kind of extremes.
"I wanted to show a painting, about what was happening there… I didn't want to show blood, the violence. I wanted to show the invisible violence within the camp," he says.
The idea was to film everyday scenes of the facility, to portray the agony of the mundane and the psychological suffering when one has no control over their future - the "invisible violence" Mr Sarvestani talks about.
"People [on Manus] are just losing their minds. They have lost the meaning of time," he says.
Over six months, the two men communicated over WhatsApp, recording and sending audio messages to one another, though never speaking directly.
"The internet wasn't strong enough to talk, but it was possible to send audio," Mr Sarvestani says. "That was vital to the project. We needed to listen to each other."
Mr Boochani had an iPhone that an Australian friend sent to him, and some connectivity on the island, but he had never filmed anything before.
He was guided by Mr Sarvestani at first, who told him which shots he was looking for.
He then sent the footage over WhatsApp, but the internet was very slow, and it could take one to two hours to send 30 seconds of video.
The covert nature of the project made it highly stressful for Mr Boochani.
"To take some of the shots I had to wait for several days until I had the opportunity to do it secretly, and I could only ever do one take," he says.
"As a journalist the system is always monitoring me, and I had to be careful because if the guards knew that I was making a movie they definitely would have stopped me.
"But now that I've done it, what can they do? Nothing."
The 88-minute film is called "Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time", after a bird native to Manus that starts singing at the same time every morning. "Chauka" was also the name given to the detention centre's solitary confinement area.
The two men have become great friends over the course of the film-making, after what Mr Sarvestani said amounted to "around 10,000 minutes" of indirect conversation.
"It's one of my dreams to one day meet him," he says.
The filmmaker holds hope that day will come, but there is no certainty.
Mr Boochani fled Iran after his work as an editor of a magazine, Werya, attracted the attention of authorities, who were unhappy with its promotion of Kurdish culture and politics.
When his colleagues were arrested in February 2013, Mr Boochani went into hiding. Later he tried to make his way to Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean.
The same year, Australia did a deal with PNG, offering around A$400m (£235m; $300m) in aid if it agreed to house the detention centre and resettle refugees.
The Australian government said it made the decision to deter people-smuggling boats and thereby prevent deaths at sea.
Australia is now hoping the US will take up to 1,250 refugees from Manus and Nauru, so it can close the Manus centre by November after a PNG court ruled it was unconstitutional.
But with information so tightly controlled, it is unclear how many will go, and when. And if the deal goes to plan, there are questions over what happens to asylum seekers left in PNG.
Meanwhile, tensions are rising between locals, the police and those in the centre.
Last week multiple shots were fired and a group, including members of the Papua New Guinea defence force, stormed the facility.
Amnesty International called for an investigation.
Mr Boochani says PNG police believe his work is aimed at them, but he insists it is not.
"It is not just for refugees but for Manusian people," he says. "They will know how I respect their culture by watching this movie".
Screenings of Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time will be held later this year in Australia
Four Tornados from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus took part in the operation soon after MPs voted to approve bombing.
The "successful" strikes hit the IS-controlled Omar oil fields in eastern Syria, the defence secretary said.
But PM David Cameron said the campaign would take time, saying "we're going to need to be patient and persistent".
"It is complex and it is difficult what we are asking our pilots to do, and our thoughts should be with them and their families as they commence this important work," Mr Cameron said.
MPs overwhelmingly backed UK military action against IS - also known as Daesh - in Syria, by 397 votes to 223, after a 10-hour Commons debate on Wednesday.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the MoD would be assessing the damage done by the bombing later, but the aim was to strike "a very real blow on the oil and revenue on which Daesh depends".
He had personally approved the targets ahead of the Commons vote, he said.
Mr Fallon confirmed that eight more jets - two Tornados and six Typhoons - were being sent to to join the eight existing jets at the Akrotiri base.
The Typhoons have left RAF Lossiemouth in Moray, Scotland, to join the air strikes.
By BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale, at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus
We watched the orange/blue glow from the engine afterburners of a pair of Tornados disappear into the night sky. Each aircraft was carrying three 500lb Paveway bombs.
Less than an hour later, they were followed by a second pair loaded with the same weapons.
The use of high precision Paveway bombs, rather than the Brimstone missile, suggests they were hitting static rather than moving targets.
We waited for the first pair of Tornados to return to base. They landed after just over three hours in the air. As they taxied on the runway, it was clear to see their bombs were missing.
Mr Fallon said there was a "very rigorous" process by which targets were chosen, and all British military action would adhere to "very strict rules of engagement".
Asked how long the UK might be involved in the coalition campaign against IS in Syria, he said it would "not be quick", but argued it had not been right to leave bombing to other air forces.
On the issue of ground forces, he said the prime minister of Iraq had made it very clear he did not want Western troops on the ground to fight IS.
But the UK could still achieve "plenty from the air", including cutting off IS sources of income such as oil fields, he added.
By BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet
This morning's newspapers in Damascus reiterate criticism Syrian officials have made for years about the West's engagement here.
"Britain didn't ask permission from Syria's government," declares the state news agency SANA. "Cameron told lies," it says.
Syrian officials insist Britain and its allies must follow Russia's example and co-ordinate their campaign with Syrian government forces. If they don't, they warn, they simply won't succeed.
The deadlock over President Assad's future role will continue to block the formation of a unified command against a common enemy. It will also stand in the way of Britain's pledge that it will now also focus on finding a negotiated way out of this war.
Syrian activists and opposition groups feel bitterly let down that the West did not give them this kind of military support to help remove President Assad.
And the many Syrians exhausted by war want, most of all, to believe Britain's promise that it's stepping up the fight to "win the peace" - as hard as that is.
Syrian state media reacts with scorn
In a statement, the MoD said the British jets - supported by a Voyager air refuelling tanker, an unmanned Reaper drone and other coalition aircraft - had attacked six targets.
"Carefully selected elements of the oilfield infrastructure were targeted, ensuring the strikes will have a significant impact on Daesh's ability to extract the oil to fund their terrorism," it said.
Before the attacks, pilots used the aircrafts' sensors to confirm "no civilians were in the proximity of the targets", it stated.
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said the Omar oilfield - a target of the UK airstrikes - was one of eight oilfields targeted by coalition forces.
The RAF has been carrying out operations against IS in Iraq since last year.
To date, the US has conducted nearly all of the air strikes in Syria and Iraq, with France, Australia and Denmark also taking part.
Mr Cameron said he was glad there had been "strong support" from Parliament for the UK to extend its strikes to Syria, and said he believed the move would also be supported by Muslim countries.
French foreign affairs minister Laurent Fabius welcomed UK military action, adding: "A fortnight after the 13 November [Paris] attacks, this is a concrete demonstration of solidarity with our country."
A total of 66 Labour MPs - 29% of the parliamentary party - sided with the government as it secured a larger than expected Commons majority.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had argued the case for war "does not stack up" - but senior Labour figures, including 11 members of his shadow cabinet, were among those who voted with the government after they were given a free vote.
Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who was applauded by MPs for a speech in support of bombing, said: "All of our thoughts today are with the brave men and women of the Royal Air Force and we pray for their safe return."
The government scheme came to light when one of the letters, which were sent more than 200 Irish republicans, caused an IRA bomb trial to collapse.
John Downey was wrongly told he was not wanted by any UK police force.
Jonathan Powell said the victims of the Hyde Park bomb "have every reason to feel aggrieved that the trial failed".
He told the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee that the issue of On the Runs dealt with people who were wanted by the authorities while the administrative letters scheme dealt with people who were not wanted.
"The peace process is still quite fragile; it can be destroyed if people try hard enough to do so - I hope it won't be," he said.
"I think the victims of the Hyde Park bomb have every reason to feel very aggrieved because the trial failed.
"I don't think that applies to the whole administrative scheme, because it was to allow people to come back who weren't wanted - in the case of Downey, he was wanted.
"Logically speaking, this shouldn't impinge on other victims because this is not supposed to be about giving pardons or 'get out of jail free cards'."
Last week, the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee resumed its inquiry after a summer recess with an appearance by Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers.
Mr Powell was asked about Ms Villiers' remarks that those who received letters should no longer rely on them as a defence.
"I was surprised that was a gesture a politician would make, given that you have to have a relative balance if you are secretary of state for Northern Ireland on these matters," he said.
"She may well have her reasons for doing that which I am simply unaware of."
Mr Powell added: "One of the things I have discovered after leaving government is that people in government know a lot of things that people outside government don't know, and it's sensible to be quite cautious about opining on those things without that knowledge."
He said the On the Runs issue had never been resolved.
He said the letters scheme "evolved" after Sinn Féin came forward with the first names.
"This scheme evolved - when the first names were put to us we had no plan for a scheme, it developed into a scheme," he said.
Mr Powell said many aspects of the peace process were unpalatable to him, but "you can't have a peace agreement that is a la carte".
In July, a separate review into the scheme by Lady Justice Hallett found that it was flawed, but not an amnesty for those who received letters.
Mr Powell said he agreed with all of Lady Hallett's findings.
It will allow members of the public to make complaints about the conduct of Scotland's charities
The new measure was recommended by the Fundraising Working Group in Scotland.
The Scottish government said it was important confidence was maintained in the country's charities, but stressed that the majority operated to high standards.
Communities Secretary Angela Constance said: "Scotland's charities benefit from a great deal of public trust and it's important that that confidence is maintained.
"This new phone number and website will be run by Scottish Fundraising Complaints - set up by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations and the Scottish Charity Regulator - and will give people information about how to raise any concerns they may have."
Members of the public who are concerned about the fundraising tactics of a charity in Scotland can call 0808 164 2520 or visit the website.
Cross-border charities, where charities operate in Scotland but are registered in England and Wales, will continue to be regulated by the Fundraising Regulator.
The young animal was found by chance at the Cromarty Firth by a couple who had got lost trying to drive to a dolphin-watching spot at the Moray Firth.
Animal welfare officers and members of the public refloated the dolphin.
It was sighted again for the first time this month in the Moray Firth by University of Aberdeen scientists.
The university and the Inverness-based Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS) said that for the first time in the UK scientists have been able to track a dolphin's behaviour following a stranding.
There are hopes the dolphin might eventually breed and raise young.
SMASS said the blistering on the right side of the juvenile female looked "horrific", but because of the make-up of dolphins' skin it has survived a burn that other animals might not have.
Also, crucially, the wound does not appear to be infected and shows signs of healing.
The dolphin has been showing signs of normal behaviour, including foraging.
It is part of a group of about 200 animals known to the University of Aberdeen marine scientists as the East Coast Scotland population.
Barbara Cheney, research fellow at the university's Lighthouse Field Station in Cromarty, said: "We've not seen anything like this before. It is quite a unique case and hopefully we will be able to continue to keep an eye on her."
Dr Andrew Brownlow, of Scotland's Rural College-run SMASS, said it was "a miracle" the dolphin was spotted in the first place on a large expanse of tidal mudflats.
He said: "This couple had wanted to go to Chanonry Point and got lost.
"They read their map wrong and ended up on the Nigg peninsula. This whole region dries out almost entirely and they spotted the dolphin flapping in the mud."
Dr Brownlow, along with volunteers from British Divers Marine Life Rescue and also the Scottish SPCA and staff from North 58 Sea Adventures, were involved in refloating the animal.
Following the rescue on 29 May, Spirtle disappeared until she was indentified from her wound by the university scientists.
A BBC investigation has uncovered people selling unwanted or unused drugs, which can only be prescribed by specialists.
Prescription medicines to treat a variety of ailments were readily available for sale on eBay.
An eBay spokesperson confirmed it had removed a number of listings for sale from the site.
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An undercover reporter for BBC's Inside Out West Midlands was illegally sold Caverject, a prescription medication for erectile dysfunction, and Enbrel, used to treat arthritis.
The patient selling Caverject confirmed he received the drugs for free on prescription as he had Type 1 diabetes, but said he "can't use them anymore" and he had "three or four" regular customers.
He said he was prescribed four boxes a month - at a cost of about £500 a year to the NHS. The boxes were listed for sale for £6 each.
Another man was filmed selling Enbrel, a specialist arthritis drug, for £250. The drug costs the NHS about £10,000 a year.
He told the reporter: "This is £800 at the pharmacy."
He said he was prescribed a box every four weeks and sold on any that was unused.
"I'm accumulating a box every three months," he said. "I've only put it up on eBay because the person that was normally collecting from London stopped."
He admitted: "I was thinking [whether] someone's going to get me done for this, because I shouldn't really post an ad like this."
A total of 1.084 billion NHS prescriptions were dispensed in the community in England in 2015, at a cost of £9.267bn. This does not include prescription items dispensed in hospitals, or for the UK as a whole.
It's difficult to gauge the extent of this black market trade in NHS prescriptions.
NHS Protect - the dedicated crime unit - couldn't provide an estimate.
But given the ease with which I was able to find and purchase prescriptions from patients, the anecdotal evidence points to it being widespread.
The true scale of the problem of patients selling prescription drugs online is not clear.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is responsible for ensuring the supply chain for medicines, medical devices and blood components is safe and secure.
A spokesperson said: "Medicines are not ordinary consumer goods - and appropriately, strict legal controls apply to their sale and supply.
"Prescription medicines are "prescription only" for good reason - and should only be prescribed by doctors or approved healthcare professionals, based on clinical judgement, to ensure patients are getting the right treatment and monitor progress or deal with adverse reactions.
"Selling medicines, other than through a legitimate supply chain, is both illegal and poses unquestionable risks to the patient.
"Medicines have the ability to harm as well as cure - use them as directed by a healthcare professional."
When approached by the BBC for a comment, the wife of the man selling Caverject said they knew what they were doing was wrong but were "not making a lot of money" from it.
Meanwhile, the man who sold the BBC Enbrel said: "I just want to apologise because I know what I've done was wrong."
Asked if he would be selling NHS prescriptions again, he added: "No, 100%."
A statement from eBay said any substance or item that required a prescription from, or the supervision of, a licensed practitioner to dispense was not allowed on the site, but some medicines on the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency General Sales List were allowed.
A spokesperson said: "EBay is a marketplace and sellers must comply with the law. EBay sellers are prohibited from listing prescription drugs, in line with rules set by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.
"In addition to our own filters and other technology, eBay works closely with the MHRA and other regulators across the globe who have a direct line to eBay and enable us to remove any listings of concern as soon as they are reported."
You can see this story in full on BBC Inside Out West Midlands at 19:30 GMT on BBC One on Monday 16 January or via iPlayer afterwards.
Inderjit Bhogal, a 41-year-old banker from Handsworth Wood, was last seen on Broad Street in the city centre on Friday 20 November.
His death is not being treated as suspicious and will be referred to the coroner, West Midlands Police said.
Mr Bhogal's family has been informed and are being supported by officers, a statement from the force added.
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But when French teenagers sitting an exam about the book were asked to cope with a tough question, they fell short on one key element - the word "coping".
Now almost 12,000 students have signed a petition saying the question was "impossible" to answer because they didn't know the word.
The 17-year-old behind it claims "only someone bilingual" would understand it.
The students of the baccalaureate English exam were asked how Robbie Turner - who is falsely accused of rape - is "coping with the situation".
But thousands of them took to social media after the test, using the hashtag #BacAnglais, to claim that the question was too difficult.
Addressed to France's Minister of Education Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the petition calls the question "incomprehensible and impossible to answer".
The pupil behind it, a 17-year-old known only as Arthur, told a local TV station that coping was "not a very common word" and only someone with "excellent" English would know it.
The petition calls for the question either to be annulled from the marking scheme or that bonus points are awarded to those who answered it.
However, others defended the question. Hugo Travers, 18, tweeted: "In 2015 you find a question a little difficult, you launch a petition full of mistakes. No, just no."
The complaint follows a similar controversy in the UK two weeks ago, when a petition over a maths question attracted almost 40,000 signatures.
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The 22-year-old American could not make the 130lbs limit at Friday's weigh-in, forcing him to relinquish his title - and Fonseca would have claimed the belt with victory in Las Vegas.
Davis showboated early on before being rocked in the seventh round.
But a left hook in the eighth left the Costa Rican unable to answer the count.
However, it seemed to land on the back of Fonseca's neck.
Davis had set his man up with a good straight right moments earlier, but his telling punch drew boos when replays were shown.
To add to the hostility, he knelt next to Fonseca as he lay on the floor.
Davis, who needed three attempts to make weight when he defended the IBF strap against Britain's Liam Walsh in London in May, tweeted an apology to his fans for missing the weight.
The Baltimore-born fighter, one of the sport's most promising talents, put the error down to being "young" and "growing", adding he would win the title again.
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But Davis recovered, the straight right and a body shot softening his rival up for the finish and a 19th win in 19 fights.
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Thousands of people lined the streets to watch throughout the afternoon.
The theme of this year's parade was 'Demand Change' and focused on efforts to overturn Northern Ireland's ban on same-sex marriage.
Northern Ireland is the only region of the UK in which same-sex marriage is not allowed.
The parade was led by Belfast Lord Mayor Nuala McAllister and was the main event of the nine-day long Pride festival, which finishes on Sunday.
Festival goers and musicians gathered in Custom House Square before parading through the city centre.
PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) and Gardaí (Irish police) officers marched in uniform in the parade for the first time.
A small protest against the Pride parade was held outside City Hall.
Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar, the Republic of Ireland's first openly gay taoiseach, told a Pride breakfast event on Saturday morning that it is "only a matter of time" before the law in Northern Ireland is changed.
In 2015, the Republic of Ireland voted to legalise same-sex marriage in a referendum.
Denise Hart, from the Pride organising committee, said that the theme was chosen because the LGBT community are demanding the "same rights as the rest of the United Kindom".
"Having looked at the rest of the UK, Northern Ireland is still lagging behind the rest of the UK in terms of laws that have enacted there that have not been enacted here.
"It really is time that we as a community demand change."
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DUP MP Emma-Little Pengelly was among those to tweet well wishes to those taking part in Pride.
The DUP is opposed to same-sex marriage and has used a Stormont veto known as a petition of concern to block motions to change the law.
The party has previously rejected accusations it is homophobic and said that it is protecting the "traditional" definition of marriage between a man and a woman.
The issue of same-sex marriage is one of the major stumbling blocks in the ongoing Stormont crisis, with Sinn Féin demanding that the DUP stop blocking a law change.
Other politicians who attended the Pride march included Sinn Féin's northern leader Michelle O'Neill, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long and SDLP leader Colum Eastwood, who tweeted a picture of him with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
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Judge Carlos Castro Martins barred any work that would interfere with the natural flow of the Xingu river.
He ruled in favour of a fisheries group which argued that the Belo Monte dam would affect local fish stocks and could harm indigenous families who make a living from fishing.
The government says the dam is crucial to meeting growing energy needs.
Judge Martins barred the Norte Energia company behind the project from "building a port, using explosives, installing dikes, building canals and any other infrastructure work that would interfere with the natural flow of the Xingu river, thereby affecting local fish stocks".
Legal battle
He said the building of canals and dikes could have negative repercussions for river communities living off small-scale fishing.
The judge said building work currently underway on accommodation blocks for the project's many workers could continue as it would not interfere with the flow of the river.
The consortium behind the project is expected to appeal against the decision.
In June, the Brazilian environment agency backed the construction, dismissing concerns by environmentalists and indigenous groups who argue that it will harm the world's largest tropical rainforest and displace tens of thousands of people.
The agency, Ibama, said the dam had been subjected to "robust analysis" of its impact on the environment.
The 11,000-megawatt dam would be the third biggest in the world - after the Three Gorges in China and Itaipu, which is jointly run by Brazil and Paraguay.
Lake Tanganyika is Africa's oldest lake and its fish are a critical part of the diet of neighbouring countries.
But catches have declined markedly in recent decades as commercial fleets have expanded.
However this new study says that climate warming and not overfishing is the real cause of the problem.
Estimated to be the world's second-largest freshwater lake, Tanganyika is an important resource for the countries that border it: Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Zambia.
As well fish from the lake providing up to 60% of the animal protein consumed in the region, it is also an important biodiversity hotspot.
But there have been growing concerns about the impact of overfishing, land use change and changes in climate on this key ecosystem.
In an attempt to understand what's happening, researchers have examined samples of sediment from the bottom of the lake.
The chemical analysis of the cores and the fossils found there indicate that fish numbers have been dropping in parallel with a rise in global temperatures.
The scientists say that in tropical lakes a warming of the waters reduce the mixing between the oxygenated top layer and the nutrient-rich layer at the bottom.
This increasing stratification of the waters means fewer nutrients get to top, meaning less algae which means less food for fish.
The authors conclude that sustained warming is associated with reduction in mixing in the lake, stagnation of algal production, and significant shrinking of the habitat of the lake's key bottom dwellers, such as molluscs and crustaceans.
"Our idea was to look at the fish fossil record and to see when that decline actually started," said Prof Andrew Cohen from the University of Arizona,
"If it happened before the start of the industrial fishing in the 1950s, you'd have strong evidence that the decline is not simply driven by this fishing activity and that's exactly what we found."
The scientists don't discount the impact of fishing over the past six decades. They recognise that there has been a significant increase in the 1990s as refugees from numerous regional conflicts poured into the areas around the lake.
"Fishing in the lake is a Wild West activity, there are nominal controls but no teeth," said Prof Cohen.
"Given the current trends of warming, the lake stratification will get stronger and the productivity will continue to be affected by that. The people in charge of these decisions need to be thinking about alternative livelihoods for people in the region."
Other researchers are alarmed about the future of the lake. One said: "We are sleepwalking into a disaster."
Others point to the fact that the in Europe and North America, a warming climate is increasing production in lakes. But the tropics are very different.
"In tropical regions, the increased stratification is doing the reverse, at least in some lakes," said Prof John Smol from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada.
"Decreasing algal production means that the base of the food chain is being affected - and this can cascade though the food chain up to fish and organisms - like humans - who depend on these resources."
Besides the threat to food supplies and jobs, the impact of warming on the biodiversity of Lake Tanganyika is of great scientific concern as well. Prof Cohen argues that we should think of the lake as being as significant as some of the world's key hotspots.
"Think about the Galapagos, and how iconic they are, Lake Tanganyika has many times more endemic species and nobody knows about it," he said.
"It's coming to bite us in terms of really impacting livelihoods for people around the lake, and the fact they have so many unsettled people in the region.
"These social and environmental trends are converging and I would say it's a really urgent issue to be aware of and start doing something about."
The research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.
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Ali Qasemi, 45, of Birchtree Avenue, Peterborough, was delivering pizzas when the attack happened in Shrewsbury Avenue, in the early hours of Sunday.
He was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital, in Cambridge, but died on Tuesday afternoon.
In a tribute to her husband, Mrs Qasemi said: "My husband was my everything; my best friend, my soul mate, my life partner and an amazing father."
Anyone with information is asked to call Cambridgeshire Police.
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Defender Vincent Sasso starts a three-game suspension, but Tom Lees could return after missing nine games with a knee injury.
Reading hope to have defenders Liam Moore (hamstring) and Paul McShane (back) available after injury.
Midfielders Liam Kelly and Jordon Mutch are both doubts with hamstring problems and Tiago Ilori (knee) remains out.
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"We're in the position we are now because we've played well throughout the course of the season.
"Of course you want to win every game, but you have to be realistic as well. We're not in a position where we can beat everybody.
"The thing is in how we've played and lost in the past couple of games away, is the little mistakes we've made not because the other teams were better than us."
The 30-year-old was out of contract and was offered a new deal following Vale's relegation to League Two.
But, having appeared 83 times in two seasons for Vale after joining from Yeovil, he has opted to sign a two-year deal at Sixfields Stadium.
The move reunites him with Cobblers boss Justin Edinburgh - his manager at Newport County.
Foley told BBC Radio Northampton: "Justin being here has been the big lure for me. I've worked hard in my career with Justin previously, I know what he wants from his players and football and sort of aligns with what I want.
"Also, Northampton being a League One club, it's where I want to play my football and I'm thankful they wanted to sign me. The opportunity to play at a higher division was too good to turn down."
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The force says its effort has "almost entirely" stopped UK campaigns by the car, food/drink and property sectors being placed on the illegal web pages.
The scheme involves a blacklist, which is shared with ad brokers whose software determines what ads go where.
But one expert said the effect on the sites' earnings might be "negligible".
Operation Creative was launched by the City of London Police's Intellectual Property Crime Unit (Pipcu) in the summer of 2013.
It led to the creation of the Infringing Website List (IWL) - a database of online services that the police have confirmed provide access to unauthorised content.
Hundreds of sites now appear on the list, which has not been made public. Owners are given a chance to remove illegal material before their platforms are included.
Two years on, Pipcu says there has been a 73% drop in advertising from the UK's "top ad spending companies" on the affected sites, which it suggests both reduces their income and removes their "look of legitimacy".
The figure is based on research carried out by Whitebullet - a firm that provides online intellectual property services.
It surveyed the ads placed on 17 sites that offer unauthorised access to TV shows, movies, music and games - both over a 12-week period between June and September 2013 and again between March and June 2015.
The firm's chief executive explained that ads are typically targeted at a local audience - so, a UK-based web user will normally see ads funded by a British campaign, even if the site in question is based elsewhere.
"The effort in the UK means that the advertising profile changes considerably," Peter Szyszko told the BBC.
"You start getting less and less high value advertising - big brands, household name - and you start moving towards either no advertising or different formats of advertising that tend to pay less or are less credible from a consumer perspective - adult sites or sites advertising 'free games' that ultimately contain malware, are fraudulent or are generally just inappropriate."
Mr Szyszko acknowledged, however, that some big-name ads were still getting through.
Brokers used by the leading media buying agencies are supposed to filter the sites they direct ads to, in order to screen out those on the blacklist.
But Mr Szyszko explained that sometimes brokers sub-contracted the work out to other third-parties who were less diligent, meaning the process was not foolproof.
"Holes can appear, and that's why you can still get the premium advertising appearing," he said.
One expert had mixed feelings about the effort.
"It shows copyright enforcement activities are no longer focused on violating internet user's fundamental and civil rights by monitoring all internet traffic, censorship, and shady political deals, as was the case just a few years ago," said Bendert Zevenbergen from the Oxford Internet Institute.
"However, if a few [advertising] sectors do indeed pull out, others will automatically take their place, and the effect on the website's income may be negligible.
"The strategy also does not tackle the underlying problem.
"Internet users demand ubiquitous access to quality content - for which they would gladly pay - so the creative industries would do better to focus their efforts on making their catalogues available on innovative internet-based distribution channels, like Spotify and Netflix, or invest in creating new user friendly services online."
A police spokesman said the man - earlier named as Adem Karadag - was the figure in a yellow shirt seen on CCTV leaving a bag at the shrine.
Thai police had earlier said neither of two men in their custody were the main suspects for the 17 August attack.
The motive for the bombing, which killed 20 people, remains unclear.
Fourteen foreigners were among those killed.
Police have released warrants for a total of 17 people over charges stemming from the attack.
The suspects are believed to carrying Chinese, Thai, Turkish and Pakistani passports, though their exact origins are unclear as some are thought to be using fake documents.
Mr Karadag, who has also been named as Bilal Mohammed, was arrested in late August in a raid on a flat on the eastern outskirts of Bangkok.
Thai police had said DNA samples taken from him did not match the DNA found on evidence that the bomber is believed to have left behind on the night of the attack.
Police also appeared to rule out that a second man in their custody - identified as Yusufu Mieraili - was a main suspect in the attack.
However, on Friday, police spokesman Prawut Thornsiri said one of the warrants issued was for "Bilal Mohammed, who is the man in yellow who placed the rucksack at the Erawan shrine".
"All the information we have leads back to him."
Many of the suspects named by Thai police have Muslim-sounding names, prompting speculation that they may be linked to jihadist networks or to Uighur separatist militants from China.
However, the police have not suggested that the attack was politically motivated.
The Erawan shrine - centred around a four-faced golden statue of the Hindu god Brahma - is considered sacred by Thai Buddhists, and attracts many foreign visitors.
Resuming on 141-3, Glamorgan collapsed to 223 all out, only Aneurin Donald (57) offering any real resistance.
Openers Daryl Mitchell and Brett D'Oliveira fell cheaply, but Tom Fell's 15 not out saw the visitors to 28-2.
Glamorgan were beaten in under two-and-a-half days, having failed to last two days in their opener with Northants.
Six ft 5 in paceman Tongue, 19, was making only his second Worcestershire appearance, having taken four wickets in the match in his first-class debut against Oxford MCCU earlier in April.
Glamorgan coach Robert Croft told BBC Wales Sport:
"It is frustrating to everybody. There is a group of players that are very disappointed. As support staff we are, and I am sure every supporter that followers Glamorgan is.
"It is certainly not the start that we envisaged or imagine or hoped for, but it is where we find ourselves. The crucial thing is as a squad, and I include support staff and players in that, is we work our way out of it. And when we work our way out of it we remember how it feels so we don't go back here.
"It is inevitable that confidence gets dented when you have got hurt badly in the first innings in Northampton and the same happened here. We've been very much behind the eight ball from the first session of the game."
Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"I'm really proud of the boys. It was a terrific effort. The toss was important, and we soon had them in trouble in helpful conditions.
"It was so good to see the young players such as Josh Tongue and Tom Kohler- Cadmore perform so well. It bodes well for the remainder of the summer.
"There's more to come from Josh Tongue. He's certainly got some pace in him. We saw that when he hit Donald on the helmet. However, he still has two screws in his back, following a stress fracture, and it's very important that we do things right for him."
That would be an increase from the tally of five places that the continent currently holds.
A tenth African country will take part in a six-nation play-off tournament to decide the last two spots.
Football's world governing body has revealed its plans for how all 48 places will be allocated, with 16 Europeans teams set to qualify.
"The Bureau of the Fifa Council, comprised of the Fifa President and the president of each of the six confederations, agreed on (the) proposed allocation," said a Fifa statement.
The recommendations will be voted on by the Fifa Council at its next meeting on 9 May.
Fifa members voted in January to expand the World Cup from 32 to 48 teams, starting with the 2026 edition.
Proposed allocation:
NB: Currently teams from Asia, north and central America, South America and Oceania play-off for two places hence .5 spots above.
Gareth Malachy Doris, 39, of Gortnaskea Place, Coalisland, disputed any involvement in fuel laundering.
The charges followed an incident at J & K coaches in Ardboe on 19 March 2014 which was attended by police and an HMRC official.
Doris was found guilty of fraudulent evasion of duty on hydrocarbon oil.
Separately, Kevin Quinn, 40, of Ardean Close, Cookstown, pleaded guilty on Monday to fraudulent evasion of duty on hydrocarbon oil and having vehicles with laundered fuel, in relation to the incident.
Another man, John Thomas O'Neill, 46, of Sandy Row, Coalisland, pleaded guilty to a single count of fraudulent evasion of duty.
Doris's case has been adjourned for sentence along with the two co-accused next month.
Mr Tusk, who is overseeing the negotiation, urged European leaders to handle the situation "with care".
UK PM David Cameron is seeking a deal at this week's crunch EU summit before holding the UK's referendum.
Earlier he bowed to pressure to hold a cabinet meeting straight after the summit if a deal is agreed.
A Number 10 spokesman said the prime minister and French President Francois Hollande had held "constructive discussions" on the UK renegotiation when they met in Paris late on Monday.
"They agreed that we are making good progress... and that the draft text from the European Council provides a firm basis to reach agreement at this week's summit," the spokesman said.
Mr Tusk is on a tour of European countries ahead of the two-day summit of EU leaders, which begins on Thursday.
Speaking after holding talks with the Romanian and French presidents, he said negotiations on Britain's future inside the 28-member bloc were "difficult but… hugely important".
Reflecting on the talks, he said: "This is a critical moment. It is high time we started listening to each other's arguments more than to our own.
"It is natural in negotiations that positions harden, as we get closer to crunch time.
"But the risk of break-up is real because this process is indeed very fragile. Handle with care. What is broken cannot be mended."
BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said Mr Tusk was trying to "concentrate minds" ahead of the EU summit as leaders of the different member states stake out their positions.
The French government is said to be concerned about UK calls for protection for non-eurozone countries, but No 10 said the French had shown "willingness" to find a solution.
As part of his diplomatic push, Mr Cameron - who met German Chancellor Angela Merkel for talks on Friday - will discuss the renegotiation with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Tuesday, as well as senior MEPs.
If a deal is agreed on the PM's reforms, which also include curbs on migrants' welfare entitlement, he will hold a cabinet meeting on Friday evening, sources have told the BBC.
Downing Street has said ministers cannot speak out until the cabinet has met to agree a government position, and it was claimed this would give the Remain campaign an unfair head start if a meeting was delayed until the following week.
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Former singing teacher Ali Cameron Daw aims to show people how to hold a note and to enrol them in a backing group for The Rooterz.
She said: "I know people believe they can't sing, and my mission really is to prove them wrong and get them to come along."
The group will be performing live on stage in January at a weekend music festival in Bradford on Avon, in Wiltshire.
BBC Points West's Ali Vowles reports.
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City will pay an initial £44m for the 20-year-old, making him the most expensive English player ever.
Sterling had asked to leave Anfield and was the subject of two bids from City in June, both of which were rejected.
City boss Manuel Pellegrini described Sterling, who has signed a five-year deal, as "one of the best attacking players in world football".
Sterling, who is only behind Gareth Bale on the list of most expensive British players, will wear the number seven shirt.
Pellegrini added: "He is a young player with outstanding ability, and I am sure the Manchester City fans will be very excited about seeing him in action for the team."
The England international had been under contract at Liverpool until 2017 but turned down a £100,000-a-week deal to extend his five-year stay at Anfield.
Sterling joined Liverpool from QPR in February 2010 for an initial fee of £600,000, and the Loftus Road club will receive 20% of his fee.
Several former Liverpool players have criticised the player since he told manager Brendan Rodgers and chief executive Ian Ayre he wanted to leave the club this summer.
Former captain Steven Gerrard said he was "disappointed" in the England international.
A recent study ranked Sterling as the most valuable young player in Europe, ahead of Paris St-Germain defender Marquinhos and Manchester United's recently acquired Dutch forward Memphis Depay.
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Jerome scored City's consolation in a 5-1 thrashing at Sheffield Wednesday - their 10th away defeat this season.
Norwich have picked up 36 points at Carrow Road, but just 16 on their travels this term.
"You've got to be honest with yourself and as players we're not honest with ourselves," he told BBC Radio Norfolk.
"I think we lack respect for our team-mates, we're not fighting for each other.
"We lack respect for the coaching staff. All the things they do for us we don't follow our instructions or orders. It's like everyone plays for themselves."
The defeat left Norwich in eighth place, nine points adrift of the Owls in sixth - the final play-off spot - with 11 matches of the season remaining.
Jerome, the Canaries' leading scorer with 12 league goals, said it would be an "uphill task now to make the play-offs".
"We've not got enough about us as a squad to roll our sleeves up unfortunately and we've been found out on more than one occasion, that's why our away record's so poor," 30-year-old Jerome said.
"Ultimately we've been embarrassing, and a lack of everything on the pitch has let us down.
"We'll keep fighting, we'll keep going to the end. We owe it to ourselves, we owe it the fans, we owe it to the club."
Jordan Begley, 23, died in hospital two hours after he was shot by a police officer with the stun gun at his home in Gorton, Manchester, in July 2013.
His mother Dorothy called police after a row escalated with neighbours.
Manchester Civil Courts of Justice heard Mr Begley threatened to stab a neighbour as the 999 call was made.
Hugh Davies QC, representing PC Terence Donnelly, who is said to have shot the stun gun, and four other officers involved in the incident, read part of the transcript from Mrs Begley's 999 call to the court.
She had barred Jordan from leaving the house they shared after he had been accused of stealing a handbag by a neighbour amid threats of revenge.
Her son, who was a heavy drinker and used cocaine, was heard protesting his innocence and shouting at his neighbour, saying he will get a "knife right in his face".
Mrs Begley told the call handler: "There's going to be murder."
Mr Davies said: "He was a threat to other people with the knife in the mood he was in."
She replied: "If I let him go out he probably would have used it."
The court heard when police arrived Mr Begley was calm at first but became "extremely agitated" and swore at officers to get out of "his house".
Mr Davies reminded the jury Mrs Begley previously said as she left the house her son had a look on his face that said, 'mum help me' as the officer pointed the Taser at him.
Asked why she did not help, Mrs Begley said she did not think they would Taser him "because he was not doing anything" and he "did nothing that deserved being Tasered".
Mr Begley was Tasered from a distance of 70cm (27ins) then hit with "distraction strikes" as police restrained and handcuffed him, the inquest has heard. He was not armed.
Mr Begley then become unwell and was admitted to hospital, where he died.
The inquest continues.
It's a formal state visit. He will be the Queen's guest at Buckingham Palace.
There will be plenty of pomp and circumstance, but also a lot of hard-nosed commercial work.
Both sides are keen to see more trade, and the UK in particular wants to encourage Chinese investment here.
Before any of the business gets under way there has been some news that will affect the atmosphere of President Xi's visit. We have had new data for China's economic growth in the third quarter of the year.
And it came very close to what was expected. According to the official figures China's economy grew by 6.9% compared with a year earlier. That's just below 7% for each of the first two quarters, and significantly down from the 10% average of the previous three decades.
The figures feed into what is arguably the biggest global economic issue of the moment - will China's growth slowdown be a smooth or bumpy ride? Or as it is often put - a hard or soft landing?
That there is a slowdown is beyond doubt, and in principle, as long as we do get the soft landing, it's generally seen as welcome.
For three decades China's annual economic growth averaged 10%. Since 2010 it has slowed. Last year's figure was 7.4%, and it's generally accepted this year will be slower, followed by a further deceleration in 2016.
Yes, these are Chinese official figures whose reliability is widely criticised. Willem Buiter, chief economist at the giant financial firm Citigroup has suggested this year's true figure could be less than 4%. Danny Gabay of Fathom Consulting told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it's more like 3%. He says China is already into a hard landing and there's a financial crisis on the way.
There are plenty who don't think it's that bad. But there is no real doubt that growth is slowing, perhaps by a good deal more than those official figures suggest.
Meanwhile, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, wants to deepen the UK's commercial relationship with China.
Back in 2013 he took steps to encourage trading of the Chinese currency in London.
More recently, while in China, he told the BBC he wants the country to become Britain's second-biggest export market within 10 years. It's currently sixth.
Is that wise, you might ask? If China is slowing perhaps British exporters have missed the boat if they have not already established themselves there.
And will China be such an important source of business for British financial services?
Well, it may be slowing but it is continuing to grow. The International Monetary Fund projects growth of more than 6% up to 2019.
As China is either the largest, or second largest, economy on the planet, depending on how you convert national figures into dollars (or some other currency), it means China growing at more than 6% would contribute more growth to the global economy than any other country.
In fact China alone growing at 6% would mean global economic growth of more than 1%. On the basis of IMF projections for growth over the next few years, no other country comes close.
Even if you take sides with the statistical sceptics and take a lower figure for China's growth outlook, it still looks like an important business opportunity.
It's true some countries are already feeling the pinch from China's slowdown.
Producers of industrial commodities - energy and metals - are especially exposed. China's slowdown has undermined demand for their exports, and prices have fallen dramatically.
Not that Britain has been completely immune to this kind of problem.
The crisis and the job losses at the SSI steel plant in Redcar - and more expected at Tata Steel operations in Scunthorpe and Lanarkshire - have been blamed in part on cheaper Chinese steel sales and the fall in global steel prices
But China is not just slowing. It's trying to change the driving forces behind its expanding economy.
The aim for China's leaders is to shift from an economy driven by exports and very high levels of investment. The focus it's shifting away from - industry and big construction projects - is the kind of business that is hungry for these industrial commodities.
Instead the Chinese authorities want an economy that's increasingly driven by Chinese consumers.
So perhaps that will open up new types of opportunity.
Foreign Office economists have looked at where the gains might lie for British industry if China opens its economy up.
The report suggested that cars, pharmaceuticals, and financial and business services have a lot to gain.
That certainly makes sense in terms of sectors you would expect to experience growing demand as a country's economy develops. As Chinese businesses become more sophisticated they are likely to need more specialist services, an area where Britain is strong.
More prosperous people will want more medicines, and of course more cars.
The UK's Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said (in February): "China is the largest single market for British-built cars after the UK".
The manufacturers are not British-owned, but they do make cars in the UK and sell them abroad.
China still has a long way to go to catch up with the developed world in terms of average living standards.
Even if the whole economy is arguably the biggest of all in terms of gross domestic product (GDP), it is far behind in GDP per person, which is a rough and ready indicator of prosperity.
China's GDP per capita is just over a third of the UK's, and a quarter of the US figure. But the gap is closing.
Slowdown or not, China's economy is increasingly one of the biggest games in town, even if it's not the only one.
That is the cover of the Meat Atlas, a yearly publication by the Heinrich Boell Foundation - a German environmental NGO - and Friends of the Earth. The first English version for the international market was released on Thursday.
But the Meat Atlas is not necessarily meant to turn you veggie - although the cover title "facts and figures about the animals we eat" might appear blunt to the more squeamish.
The aim is to inform consumers about the dangers of increasingly industrialised meat production, says Barbara Unmuessig, the foundation's president, herself a self-confessed enjoyer of the occasional organic steak.
"In the rich North we already have high meat consumption. Now the poor South is catching up," she said. "Catering for this growing demand means industrialised farming methods: animals are pumped full of growth hormones. This has terrible consequences on how animals are treated and on the health of consumers."
In the United States more than 75kg (165lbs) of meat is consumed per person each year. In Germany that figure is around 60kg. Huge amounts compared to per capita meat consumption rates of 38kg in China, and less than 20kg in Africa.
But whereas in the developed world meat consumption has stabilised - or in some countries such as Germany, is even falling - in other parts of the world, particularly in India and China, consumers are taking enthusiastically to a meat-heavy Western diet.
There are social consequences, according to the Meat Atlas: the more meat we eat, the more animals we have to feed.
As a result increasing amounts of agricultural land are being given over to grow animal feed, such as soya. Globally 70% of arable land is now being used to grow food for animals, rather than food for people, says the Heinrich Boell Foundation.
This is undermining the fight against starvation and poverty, says Barbara Unmuessig, as individual farmers are pushed off their land by huge competitive corporations. And industrialised methods have led to an overuse of damaging chemicals, she believes.
But Germans are torn.
On the one hand, this is a country with a powerful meat industry which slaughters 700 million animals a year - as well as a strong tradition of eating meat: wandering round chomping on a sausage is a normal part of most street festivals, and dried pieces of salami, wrapped in plastic wrappers like chocolate bars, are popular snacks.
German consumers are also used to the cheap food which is a direct result of industrial farming methods. The average German household spends around 10% of its entire income on food today, one of the lowest figures in the world, compared to more than 30% three decades ago.
At the same time, though, environmental concerns rank high in Germany. The Green Party is a powerful political force here, with 63 seats in the national parliament.
And saving the planet is not just a left-wing or fringe issue: it was a centre-right government, led by Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, which decided to phase out nuclear power within the next decade because of fears of damaging the environment.
And culturally, German society has an almost fetishised love of all things deemed to be natural.
So eating meat has become a guilt-inducing balancing act for your average socially conscious, environmentally aware German consumer.
But attempts to force the issue have fallen flat. An initiative proposed by the Green Party before the recent election to introduce a weekly vegetarian day in work canteens was ridiculed by opponents as an unwarranted infringement of personal choice.
Steffen Hentrich from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, a free market think-tank, disagrees with the connection made by the Meat Atlas between meat-eating and environmental damage.
"We all want a cleaner environment. But meat-eating in itself is not the problem. It's rather the political frameworks in developing countries which cause the environmental damage. So we shouldn't have a bad conscience."
Estimated consumption per person in kg, based on dressed carcass weight Source: Meat Atlas
He says that meat-eating is being stigmatised in Germany, and that a lot of the statistics in the Meat Atlas are interpreted in a subjective political manner - criticising phrases like "in slaughterhouses the battle for the lowest prices is being fought on the workers' backs" as politically-biased anti-capitalist language.
And he believes that too often in Germany there is a romanticised idea of the traditional meat industry which ignores the reality of the past.
"A complete rejection of modern farming methods is just not legitimate," he argues. "I grew up near a sheep slaughter house. I saw how sheep were killed. And it wasn't kind or pretty. In the past the welfare of the animal was the bottom priority."
"Our aim is not to make anyone feel guilty," counters Barbara Unmuessig. "It's not about preaching or moralising to people. What we eat is a private matter. But it's important to remember that what we put on our plates has political consequences."
Eat less and eat better, appears to be the message for tortured environmentally conscious meat-eaters.
So, the day after she passed away, he made the multiple telephone calls required, hoping that her affairs could be tied up swiftly to allow the family time to grieve.
"Everybody could not have been more helpful," he says.
Everyone, that is, except the cable and telephone company.
It wrote a letter addressed to Mr Stevenson's late mother, Jean Campbell, which was then followed up with a email asking why she was leaving. Staff were sent to the wrong address to pick up the TV box, and a rebate cheque was made out to her instead of her son.
It took weeks and many telephone calls to get these mistakes corrected. The company never replied to Mr Stevenson's letter of complaint at the end of the whole saga.
"Things like this are a one-off for people like us, but companies have to deal with these situations every day," he says. "It could have been so much easier if they got it right first time."
Mr Stevenson, from Falkirk, was one of many BBC News website readers who shared their stories of poor customer service after losing a loved one, having read about the case of Jim Boyden.
Mr Boyden had posted a photograph on Facebook of a broadband bill sent to his late father-in-law by Virgin Media, which included a fine for late payment even though the direct debit note said "payer deceased". The company apologised.
Some of these stories appear to be the result of computers generating the letters in a world of big business dealing with millions of customers.
One reader told of how his family was sent a final bill by a communications company, while they were still grieving, demanding a payment of 1p.
Other cases seem beyond belief. Jean Barton, of Stockport, rang a company to explain that her mother had died and the account needed to be closed.
They sent an invoice, addressed to her late mother, which said "Sorry you have chosen to leave".
It is not just those who have suffered the loss of a loved one who have been on the receiving end of insensitive letters and calls.
Reader Andrew Wilson, of Wigan, writes: "My mum called me to say her [cable] services had been disconnected. When we called we were informed that the account had been closed as my mum had passed away.
"We informed them that my mother was very much alive."
In the highly automated and regulated world of customer services, mistakes like this do occur. Yet, Jo Causon, chief executive of the Institute of Customer Service, says this should never be used as an excuse during brief contact with families who are bereaved and often feeling vulnerable.
Source: Money Advice Service
"This is a moment of truth in terms of getting it right," she says.
"The process can be seen to be quite mechanical, cold and insensitive."
She says operators, who have to keep to certain rules regarding sensitive personal data, still need to show "emotional intelligence" by appreciating the position the caller is in and respond with empathy and respect.
Even if they are just doing their job, some understanding of the vulnerability of customers might prevent people being offended.
Chris Pratt, of Nottingham, outlined a case of this kind. He was sent an "insensitive and ironically prompt" request to send part of a pension payment back because his father, who had retired after 38 years of service, had died halfway through the month.
In some cases, the bereaved family might want the matter just to be dealt with in a functional and prompt way, Ms Causon says.
With the internet and social media pushing the balance of power further towards the consumer, the consequences of getting it wrong may now have a wider effect, as Mr Boyden's case proved.
So, Ms Causon says, the key to avoiding such mistakes is good training.
Kristina Hultgren, a lecturer in English language and applied linguistics at the Open University, has conducted research into how call centre staff are coached to talk to customers.
She says staff receive "empathy training" and need to compensate for the personal relationship being diluted in the name of call centre efficiency.
First Direct, the online and telephone bank, employs nearly 3,000 people at its enormous call centre in Leeds, and has won various awards for customer service.
It has a team who are trained specifically in taking calls from bereaved relatives of customers. They sit in a quieter corner of the call centre.
As soon as it is clear that the caller is a bereaved relative, then the call is diverted to one of at least two of these specialist staff members who are on shift at any one time.
But mistakes still occur, and like many other institutions, the bank has a "grovel list" that staff can use if a mistake has been made.
Call operators can offer wine, chocolate, flowers or a cheque up to the value of £50 to compensate people left upset or distressed.
Staff make the call depending on what is said on the phone, but can also refer the case to senior management in more serious circumstances.
So, what can customers do to save themselves from this extra upset if they lose a loved one?
The paperwork involved after a death can be cumbersome and confusing, and lead to bigger problems. This was illustrated in the case, sent to BBC News, of Kathryn Dewar's newly widowed mother. She was pursued by debt collectors for an unpaid bill of £11, despite her belief all the outstanding bills had been paid.
Rebecca Hirst, of First Direct, suggests that it is important to keep a will up to date. Loved ones should also be aware of their close family members' financial affairs, such as knowing which accounts they hold.
There are lots of guides for those who are recently bereaved, such as the Money Advice Service's checklist of dealing with money after a death, which includes tips on clearing up tax and pension issues, and meeting the immediate costs of funerals.
Citizens Advice also has help on financial affairs when somebody dies, and specific information on redirecting post of a late family member.
And among the paperwork, there is the expense.
Matthew Kelly told the BBC of how his mother was told she would be charged to insert her name on an account in place of that of her late husband - the fee was greater than that for a death certificate.
The company eventually waived the charge. Given the chance, these companies and their staff want to make amends for any upset they have caused.
Innisfil will subsidise a portion of the fare for all trips with the taxi firm taken by residents within the town's boundaries.
Officials say the deal offers more flexibility for residents and is cheaper than adding a town bus service.
Uber Canada public policy manager Chris Schafer says the project has sparked global interest.
The cost of a ride to any four of the community's transport or recreation hubs will cost residents between C$3 (US$2.20/£1.70) and C$5 (US$3.60/£2.80).
They will also get a C$5 discount on any custom trip within Innisfil, a lake-side Ontario town of about 36,000 people 100 km (62 miles) north of Toronto.
Tim Cane, the town's land use planning manager, said Innisfil had been struggling to figure out an affordable transport model that would serve an area over 290 square km (110 square miles).
A bus would have cost the town $270,000 annually for one route and $610,000 for two, which they thought would be too expensive, Mr Cane added.
Mr Cane said the town council wrestled for years with the question: "How do we afford a transit model that on a good day would serve maybe 20% of the population?"
Senior Innisfil official Jason Reynar issued his staff the challenge, and the idea for a "demand-responsive transit service" was born.
But one cab company owner has expressed frustration.
Global Taxi owner Manjot Saini told the CP24 news station that Uber puts local taxis at a disadvantage. He worries he might lose drivers to the competition.
"Uber is destroying the industry," he said.
Mr Cane said the town consulted with the three local companies early in the process and the programme was "never about Uber versus taxis" but about providing a service to residents.
"Let's just try this on," said Mr Cane. "Whatever service we provide is better than a service we don't have."
The community has set aside $100,000 for the programme's initial 6-9 month phase and another $125,000 for the indeterminate second phase.
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Esports is organised, competitive computer gaming and can be staged in front of a live audience and millions more online.
"It has the potential to become one of the top five sports in the world," said Peter Warman of esport analysts Newzoo.
French football club Paris St-Germain has created an esports team.
Some English clubs - including Manchester City - employ professional gamers.
Esports generated $493m (£400m) in revenue in 2016, with a global audience of about 320 million people.
Prize money of $93.3m (£76m) was won last year, with the winning team at the League of Legends world championship - the biggest esports event - sharing a pot of $1m (£810,000).
Paris St-Germain moved into gaming in October, creating its own esports franchise and signing three of the world's leading gamers.
PSG wants to establish the team in one of esports' most iconic games - League of Legends - as the club tries to raise its global profile, particularly targeting the US and Asian markets.
As part of State of Sport week, BBC Sport was given behind-the-scenes access to PSG's gaming house.
"Esport for us is a way to find a new fan of the brand, not necessarily focus on the soccer," Fabien Allegre, PSG's director of merchandising and brand diversification, told BBC Sport.
"The idea is to bring the club to a large number of people who don't know anything about football."
In the long run I'm pretty sure esports can grow as big as football"
Manchester City and West Ham have already signed players of the Fifa football game to represent them, but no British club has set up a dedicated esports team.
Allegre believes it is the "future" for football clubs and predicts the creation of an online Champions League-style competition between clubs that own esports franchises.
"It's more than a marketing stunt," says Warman. "Football clubs see this opportunity as a strategic part of their franchise. Sports clubs are now dependent on revenues that come from areas outside of their league so this is their marketing objective.
"They are only dipping their toes into it right now but their expectations are long-term and very large.
"Esports is completely global, with hundreds of millions of viewers, so it would take their brand across the globe."
PSG players Thomas 'Kirei' Yeun, Etienne 'Steve' Michels, and Hampus 'Sprattel' Abrahmsson Thuring
Bora Kim, PSG esports team manager
Sponsorship is the biggest revenue stream in esports, bringing in much more than is raised by the media, advertising, merchandise and ticketing.
Newzoo predicts income will treble in the next four years, valuing esports as a $1.49bn (£1.21m) industry by 2020.
"The reason companies are investing in this is because they want more eyeballs and time to promote their product so people will spend more money on their games," said Warman.
"Gaming has been the favourite pastime of the younger generation for a long time and esports branching out to live events is like becoming comparable to [traditional] sports.
"Brands now have a way to reach this audience that previously was so hard to reach, because gaming is transforming into something they understand. They can sponsor it and advertise so brands and other companies are jumping on this like crazy.
"We are going to see a lot of parallels that we see now in sports and that will take it to the next level."
"Considering an audience of about 160 million is watching esports frequently and another 160 million watch big championship games, it already compares to medium-tier sports," says Warman.
"So it can match the size of, say, tennis and field hockey, while it's also coming very close to basketball and the audience size is becoming very comparable to individual sports.
"In terms of revenue, it is still dwarfed by sports but it is only a question of time to when that will change.
"If you see it as an individual sport it has the potential to become one of the top five sports in the world. That will take maybe five years."
"Young digital natives are not really into sports," claims Warman. "The majority of these esports enthusiasts are aged between 20 and 35.
"That is quite surprising because you would expect teenagers to be the majority figures in this group. But the viewing audience is generally older.
"When it comes to gender, there are more women that watch esports than you would expect - about 25% of that audience is female. That may surprise people who think gaming is for a predominantly male audience."
According to Newzoo, in 2016, the total esports audience in the UK reached about 6.5 million, with 3.1 million esports enthusiasts. The vast majority of these are males (69%) and aged 21-35.
BBC Sport was also given access to the Intel Extreme Masters in Katowice, hosting the world championships in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO).
"Fans of esports are normal guys," one spectator told BBC Sport. "Everyone has some hobbies in their real life, not only playing.
"Sports have an older public. My dad never watches Counter-Strike, but I'm never watching tennis or something that he likes."
Another fan said: "Esports is a new experience, especially for younger people to see their heroes in real life."
Diego Gigliani runs Manchester City's esports team as the senior vice-president for media and innovation for the City Football Group.
Keiran 'Kez' Brown is City's professional Fifa player, with the club feeling a football game is a more "authentic way" of moving into esports.
"We can't overlook the fact the way we are participating in esports is in a relatively small space compared to the actual category of esports," says Gigliani.
"The real big esports titles are things like League of Legends, DOTA 2, Counter-Strike, and that's where the massive audiences are going to - that's where people see the commercial opportunities.
"Have we considered those spaces? We have. We've felt that for the time being the right place to start was with Fifa and see how much we learn and where that takes us next."
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'Sprattel', a 22-year-old Swede, is part of Paris St-Germain's professional League of Legends team.
11am: "Wake up and get ready for practice by playing games on your own or going through replay reviews."
Noon: "Lunch before team practice."
3pm: "Team practice begins. You play three games and that ends about 6pm."
6pm: "Dinner. You have an hour's break and discuss the games."
7pm: "You play three more games and that finishes about 10-11pm."
10pm-11pm: "You play on your own, watch games or see how other people play - it is free time but mostly it is us playing until the early hours of the morning."
2am-3am: "We go to bed. Then repeat it."
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Warman believes the industry needs to professionalise and set up an organised structure of governance.
He also predicts a big battle between the world's leading sportswear giants to get their brand on the jerseys of esports heroes.
And an esports World Cup?
"We already have world championships for individual games," says Warman. "The question is are these games going to be put together to create one big World Cup event?
"I think we will see events of a similar size to the World Cup of football. It will take a year or two to structure that. We will need to have qualifying rounds by country and by region for that.
"But this will ultimately make up a World Cup event watched by a billion people."
The 45-year-old, previously of Ospreys, was with Bristol for three seasons.
"Sean departs having fulfilled his remit of helping Bristol return to the top flight," director of rugby Andy Robinson told the club website.
"Sean was ready for a fresh challenge and we felt now was the right time to restructure our coaching department."
Holley, who had signed a new contract in March, added: "I'm delighted and proud to have played my part in helping Bristol reach their goal of getting back to the Premiership after a seven-year absence.
"However, it's been a tough three years with some highs and lows and professional rugby takes its toll, especially on the family who have remained living in Wales.
"I'd like to thank everyone involved with Bristol for some great memories and wish them all the best for the future but I now look forward to pursuing some new and exciting challenges."
More senior government staff are obliged to go further, to give details of any conduct they have ever been involved in that might make them susceptible to pressure or improper influence.
They must answer yes or no to question 18d.
But the secretary of state is not required to sign anything.
There is no formal vetting of government ministers, although the security services have been known to conduct some background checks.
Appointments are entirely at the discretion of the prime minister.
The issue arises because Mr Whittingdale did not tell Number 10 about his "embarrassing" relationship with a prostitute, a story that was widely known by the tabloids.
Should he have alerted his department's top civil servant and Downing Street when he was appointed to a post with responsibility for regulating the newspapers?
The Ministerial Code says ministers must ensure that there isn't even the appearance of a conflict of interest between their public duties and private interests.
They are told not to do things that "might reasonably appear to compromise their judgement or place them under an improper obligation".
However, while ministers are not formally obliged to disclose any skeletons in their closet, civil servants are warned that not to reveal past indiscretions could result in dismissal.
Advice on how to fill out the official security questionnaire says this:
"Lying or concealing information on a security questionnaire or at interview is viewed very seriously because it is taken as evidence of unreliability and/or dishonesty.
"Indeed, your security clearance could be refused because you lied, even though what you were seeking to conceal would not in itself have caused a problem.
"Furthermore, your security clearance could be removed at a later date if the lie subsequently came to light."
John Whittingdale says he ended his relationship in February 2014 when he discovered she was a sex worker. He says he found out after learning tabloid newspapers had been approached about the story.
A little over a year later he was appointed secretary of state for culture, media and sport, with responsibility for regulating newspapers.
New ministers routinely sit down with their department's most senior civil servant, the permanent secretary, to talk through anything that might cause a problem.
We don't know whether Mr Whittingdale told Sue Owen at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport CMS about the embarrassing personal story that had been hawked around Fleet Street for over a year.
Given that Downing Street says it only learned about it 10 days ago, if he did say anything, it would seem it was not passed on.
Having ended the relationship 15 months earlier, Mr Whittingdale may argue there was no longer anything that could look like a conflict of interest, nothing that might appear to place him under an improper obligation.
It is understood that four newspaper groups have got extensive details of the relationship, including unpublished tapes and photographs.
The Information Commission (ICO) ruled on Monday that the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust had not done enough to safeguard patient data.
The controversy is over an app DeepMind developed to identify patients at risk of kidney disease.
The NHS shared 1.6 million patient data records with the company.
Dr Julian Huppert, who chairs the DeepMind Health Independent Review Panel, said that the initial data-sharing contract signed with the Royal Free Hospital Trust had had "deficiencies" and that a revised version, written after the controversy hit the media, needed "a lot of changes".
The panel also acknowledged that this first contract had differed from the standard ones the NHS signed with third-parties despite the fact that DeepMind had said its deal was "no different" from the multitude of other data-sharing deals done within the NHS.
Although most of the ICO's criticism was of the Royal Free, which controlled patient data, the panel had the following advice for DeepMind.
"It would be well-advised to remind partners of their responsibilities," said Dr Huppert.
"People are concerned about the power of big technology firms, and we felt that we should hold DeepMind to a very high standard because of its link to Google," he said, as the panel released its first annual report.
It concluded that DeepMind itself had not broken any laws over the data agreements.
DeepMind is an artificial intelligence company with a health division and a division exploring how to use AI in other walks of life.
But it has previously said that no element of artificial intelligence was used in the development of the Streams app.
On this, Dr Huppert said: "DeepMind could use AI to help with healthcare, but I think that it found that the state of data in the NHS was not as good as it had hoped so it had to step back from this."
The panel did not look at DeepMind's business model, saying it was something to consider for the next report, but, when questioned by journalists, Dr Huppert said that the app was currently offered to the NHS for free.
"It is not sustainable to offer the app for free, and I suspect DeepMind intends to make money but whether that is in the UK or not we don't know," he said.
DeepMind has previously said that it wanted to be paid on the outcomes it delivers.
The panel also appointed a team of experts to look at the security of the patient data being held by DeepMind, and they concluded that there were 11 data vulnerabilities, most of them low risk.
These included a flaw in the data centre that meant anyone with access to the system could overwrite data and potentially introduce malware.
And the the experts suggested devices used by healthcare professionals to access patient data could be more locked down.
DeepMind said that it was addressing the vulnerabilities.
They also found that the data being kept by DeepMind was completely separate from Google.
In a blogpost, DeepMind acknowledged its mistakes.
"Ultimately, if we want to build technology to support a vital social institution like the NHS, then we have to make sure we serve society's priorities and not outrun them," said DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman.
"There's a fine line between finding exciting new ways to improve care, and moving ahead of patients' expectations. We know that we fell short at this when our work in health began, and we'll keep listening and learning about how to get better at this."
The Cambridge student's murder outside Cairo earlier this year has shone a light on Egypt's human rights record.
Egyptian police and prosecutors are expected to share initial findings of their investigation, which has faced strong Italian criticism.
Regeni, 28, disappeared on his way to meet a friend on 25 January.
His body, mutilated and showing signs of torture, was found in a ditch on 3 February.
Giulio Regeni murder: Family in Italy expects Egypt answers
Body of Italian student found in Egypt
The BBC's Julian Miglierini in Rome says the case has strained the relationship between Egypt and Italy, and expectations for the meeting in Rome on Thursday morning are running high.
Our correspondent says that there is a feeling in Italy that the Egyptian authorities are not moving fast enough in their investigation into the murder.
His family and the Italian government have been unsatisfied by the several contradicting accounts given by the Egyptian authorities of what may have happened to the Cambridge University student after he went missing.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has said Italy would not settle for what he called a "convenient truth".
"We owe that to Giulio, his friends, his mother, father, his little sister - and we owe it to all of us. We hope and we think Egypt can co-operate with our magistrates."
Many in Italy think that Regeni could have been targeted by the Egyptian intelligence services because of his research on trade unions and activism.
But Cairo investigators have suggested that he was kidnapped and killed by a criminal gang, possibly posing as members of Egyptian police.
At the meeting in Rome, Egyptian investigators are expected to deliver evidence such as phone taps, CCTV footage and forensic analyses which could help the Italian team carrying out a parallel inquiry.
Regeni's mother, Paola Deffendi, recently told a Rome news conference that she and her husband had strong doubts about what the Egyptian authorities had said so far about the circumstances surrounding his murder.
Cairo deputy prosecutor Mostafa Soliman and another official are on Thursday due to be joined by police officers, including one from the Giza area where the young student's body was found.
Regeni, 28, disappeared on 25 January, the fifth anniversary of the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak, while there was a heavy police presence in Cairo.
His body was found a week later in a ditch on the outskirts of Cairo, showing signs of severe torture.
Egypt's initial autopsy report said Regeni had been hit on the back of the head with a sharp instrument.
Much of the evidence of torture came to light in a second autopsy by Italian doctors. Italy's Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said Mr Regeni had suffered "something inhuman".
As a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, Regeni was carrying out research on trade unions and labour rights in Egypt, a sensitive topic in recent years.
Rumours about possible involvement of Egypt's security services in the killing have been reported by the Italian press, activists and opposition groups.
Cairo investigators have suggested that Mr Regeni was kidnapped and killed by a criminal gang posing as members of Egyptian police.
Police then said they had killed all five members of the alleged gang in a raid and recovered some of Mr Regeni's personal belongings.
Mr Regeni's family say they are adamant their son was killed by Egyptian authorities and that the criminal gang theory is a cover up.
"In 2015 I want to sing at 3 weddings," the Take That singer posted to his 3.7m followers.
He then followed that up with: "Ok we're 1 wedding down! Really looking forward to it."
The Take That singer says he receives "thousands of requests" to sing at people's weddings.
One person joked they were going to marry "another big GB fan" to double her odds of getting Barlow to her wedding.
Barlow said he would only pick "HUGE fans" who "stalk" him on Twitter.
He says he won't announce which weddings he's picked, but will organise it with the bride's best friend as long as they keep it secret.
"I won't publish on here which weddings till after the event."
In 2014 Barlow surprised a fan at her wedding after a year long twitter campaign by the maid of honour using #getgary2louswedding.
Barlow called it "the best use of Twitter".
The bride, Louise Newman, said: "It was just magical. I went up and cupped his face in my hands, then he got down on one knee and sang to me."
Her husband Mark said: "He just turned around and thought he was a really good lookalike then I realised he was actually singing the song and it was him.
"I saw a couple of tears in their eyes."
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Rosie Ellison from Film Edinburgh said the city's "film-friendly" policy was paying dividends, with the two movies picking up eight awards nominations.
Ms Ellison also welcomed reports of ambitious new plans for a film studio in the Edinburgh area.
She said: "It could only be a positive for the east of Scotland."
A planning application has been submitted for a £40m Pentland Studios project in the Straiton area, which would offer studio space and production facilities that could attract major film-makers.
Creative Scotland has ringfenced £1m towards the cost of a Scottish studio, while the Scottish government has pledged a further £2m loan.
It has been reported that the Pentland studio plans have been extended to provide space for constructing huge sets.
Ms Ellison said: "I am excited by the opportunity of the studios.
"The Pentland plans keep getting bigger. It would bring a lot of production to the area and could only be a positive for the east of Scotland, meaning large-scale productions would have easier access to locations in the Borders and East Lothian as well as Edinburgh."
She said recent films successes such as Sunshine on Leith and Filth showed that the city's policy of getting decisions on filming made quickly was working.
Other films such as the Railway Man and Under the Skin have also recently used the east of Scotland as a location.
Ms Ellison said other recent film success such as One Day had proved a great tourist draw for Edinburgh.
The nominations for the Bafta Scotland awards, to be presented on Sunday 16 November, give the nod to Sunshine on Leith in five categories and Filth in three.
As well as best film, Sunshine on Leith, a musical based on the songs of the Proclaimers, has nominations for Peter Mullan as Best Actor and both Jane Horrocks and Freya Mavor for Best Actress.
Dexter Fletcher is nominated for Best Director.
Filth, an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's controversial novel, is nominated for Best Film, its star James McAvoy and director Jon S Baird receive nods for Best Actor and Director respectively.
Other nominations include:
JAMES MCAVOY Filth
PETER MULLAN Sunshine on Leith
JACK O'CONNELL Starred Up
MARK BONNAR Line of Duty
DOUGLAS HENSHALL Shetland
DAVID TENNANT The Escape Artist
JANE HORROCKS Sunshine on Leith
SOPHIE KENNEDY CLARK Philomena
FREYA MAVOR Sunshine on Leith
LAURIE BRETT Waterloo Road
SHIRLEY HENDERSON Southcliffe
SHARON ROONEY My Mad Fat Diary
ALL OVER THE PLACE AUSTRALIA
THE DOG ATE MY HOMEWORK
KATIE MORAG
LIMMY'S SHOW! CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!
MILLER'S MOUNTAIN
MRS BROWN'S BOYS
BLETHERING REFERENDUM
DAVE: LOAN RANGER
PANORAMA: ALL IN A GOOD CAUSE
JON S BAIRD Filth
DAVID MACKENZIE Starred Up
DEXTER FLETCHER Sunshine on Leith
BRITAIN'S WHALE HUNTERS: THE UNTOLD STORY
CLYDEBUILT: SHIPS THAT BUILT THE COMMONWEALTH
THE STORY OF WOMEN AND ART
FILTH
STARRED UP
SUNSHINE ON LEITH
DREAM ME UP SCOTTY
I BELONG TO GLASGOW
LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION
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Mr Neville died in Australia, after being taken ill on a visit to support his daughter Tracey, who is England netball head coach, during the World Cup.
The 65-year-old was a former commercial director of Bury Football Club.
His funeral service will be held in Bury, followed by a private burial.
Mr Neville was involved in the fans' group Save Our Shakers, which was formed when the side faced bankruptcy in 2002.
His sons both started their lengthy football careers with Manchester United in the early 1990s. Gary won 85 England caps, while Phil won 59.
An emotional Tracey Neville led her England side out on court hours after it emerged her father had been taken ill.
She said it was the right decision to stay, as her father would not have expected her to "bail out" of a tournament.
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Seventeen-month old Blue was on a walk with his elderly owner in Bradford when he sniffed out a bag of heart-shaped pills and started eating them.
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Blue made a full recovery and the incident has been reported to police.
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"He was put on an IV drip and received activated charcoal to absorb the toxins. Without the treatment, he would not have survived the night."
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This weekend F1's attention is focused on the Canadian Grand Prix at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, but behind the scenes a race of a different kind is taking place.
Plans for a Grand Prix in Las Vegas have hit top gear, as organisers have revealed that a Chinese conglomerate has agreed to commit the £100m needed for the race to get the green light.
They add that Las Vegas could appear on the calendar as soon as next year, giving F1 a record 22 Grands Prix.
The showpiece event would rival even F1's flagship, the Monaco Grand Prix, as it would see cars hurtling down the world-famous Strip, past landmark casinos like the Bellagio and Caesar's Palace.
A race on the streets of Las Vegas is a long-time dream of F1's chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, but it has failed to get the green light so far as local organisers struggled to secure funding.
In March Ecclestone joked that the race contract hadn't been signed as "the trouble is the pen. The organiser hasn't got a pen."
However, American entrepreneur Farid Shidfar, founder of organising group P2M Motorsports, says this is no longer a roadblock as he has an "agreement in principle" with a Beijing-based conglomerate.
"They are very close to Las Vegas and have got businesses in media, sport, technology and entertainment, so they are a massive conglomerate.
"They came to us out of the blue late last year, because of the initiatives they are involved with in the state of Nevada, and we have been in due diligence since then. The benefits they will derive are very strategic so that's why they are very excited about it."
It is the latest in an accelerating number of Chinese investments in overseas sports. Investors from China already have minority stakes in several football clubs including Manchester City, Atletico Madrid and New York City FC, while Chinese electronics retailer Suning announced on Monday that it had bought a 68.55% stake in Inter Milan.
F1's previous race in Las Vegas was a nail-biter in 1982 that handed the title to Keke Rosberg, father of current championship leader Nico.
Keke Rosberg needed to finish in the points (which were then awarded to the top six finishers) to claim his first championship. His closest competitor, McLaren's John Watson, needed to win the race and his rival to finish out of the points in order to take home the title.
Watson was known for his incredible starts and accelerated into third place from ninth on the grid. To win he needed to pass the Tyrrell of Michele Alboreto and former champion Alain Prost, who was hampered by tyre vibrations.
Alboreto and Watson passed the Frenchman on laps 51 and 54 respectively, of the 75-lap race.
Unfortunately for Watson, he could not overtake Alboreto and his second place finish handed the championship victory to Rosberg, who finished the race fifth.
Despite being a thrilling climax to the season, the race failed to get support from within F1 due to the makeshift nature of the course, which was in the Caesar's Palace car park. The sport won't repeat this mistake.
"We have successfully designed a racetrack which is partly on the Las Vegas Strip and does not impact any resort," says Peter Wahl, managing partner of F1's track designers Tilke.
"The track definitely has its own character and shall provide drivers high-speed challenges with different sharp corners. Best part, the track is designed to host large numbers of spectators, and I can't wait to see the first car fire up. I believe the Vegas race will become one of the highlights of the F1 calendar."
P2 Motorsports co-founder Russell Dixon says "the race will cost investors nearly $150m (£103m) including hosting fees".
Farid Shidfar adds he is still fielding calls from other interested parties. However, he says that the state needs to boost its efforts in order to get the race off the grid.
"The key party in terms of making this happen is the state. It's not the investor. The investor is happy to proceed so long as there is some formality about the contribution from the state."
It is important as the only revenue that organisers receive from F1 races tends to come from ticket sales. Revenue from television broadcasts, trackside advertising and corporate hospitality during the race is generally retained by F1 itself, which also receives the hosting fees.
Ticket sales cover the running costs of a Grand Prix while governments foot the hosting fees as the races promote their countries to F1's 400 million television viewers and typically generate annual economic impact of about £200m.
Funding usually comes from central government, but in some countries, such as Canada, the contribution comes from local authorities. The same is true in the US where the state of Texas pays around £14.5m annually to organisers of a Grand Prix in the capital of Austin, which is currently the only F1 race in the country.
According to Shidfar, "the [Nevada] government is showing interest in putting money in," as F1 would also help to reverse declining gaming revenues in Las Vegas.
Last year Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval commissioned a study for economic diversification in the state that recommended a F1 race as it would attract a high number of international visitors. Sandoval has also written to Ecclestone to offer "support and interest in bringing Formula One Grand Prix to the world famous Las Vegas Strip".
Shidfar says "the resort community has shown interest in helping subsidise this" as it would boost their bookings and gambling takings. He adds that at a meeting of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority in 2014, "every major resort unanimously voted in favour of carrying out F1 racing on the Strip."
They may soon get their wish as he adds: "There has been discussions of 2018, but it could be as early as 2017. We need roughly 14 months to prepare for this race."
"They did consider me but, to be perfectly blunt, the American public haven't got a clue who I am," he said.
The job became available earlier this year, when host Donald Trump plumped for the 2016 presidential election campaign over another series.
"I would have done it but the producers wanted someone the US public knew."
Trump's replacement is Hollywood star and former Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Lord Sugar joked: "They've got Arnie now - I can't wait to see what a cock-up he's going to make of it!"
The eleventh series of the UK Apprentice kicks off next Wednesday with 18 new candidates competing for the chance to go into business with Lord Sugar.
They include two former Naval officers who served in the Gulf War, a Kosovan refugee and a former Miss Jamaica.
This year sees a change to the panel chaired by Lord Sugar following the departure of his long-term confidante, Nick Hewer.
Claude Littner, who has worked with Lord Sugar for the past 25 years, has replaced Hewer as one of his advisers alongside Karren Brady.
Littner gained a fierce reputation on the show previously, having appeared as a tough interviewer towards the end of the selection process.
He chairs a number of Lord Sugar's companies and has been part of the interview episode for 10 years.
Littner said he may still be involved at the interview stage but would "see how it works out".
He said his new role, which involves giving feedback to Lord Sugar on how the candidates perform on weekly tasks, was "a completely different role. You can't compare one with the other".
"I'm acting as an observer and trying not to show any emotion at all," he added.
Lord Sugar said The Apprentice was still a success because it didn't rely on gimmicks.
"If it's not broke, don't try to fix it. (It has) consistency with slight tweaks. With respect to The X Factor, gimmicks don't work.
"I'm the same, a bit older 11 years on. What's not the same is the candidates, they make compelling viewing."
The North has said the Kwangmyongsong-4 is a communications satellite and that Sunday's launch was a complete success.
But the move was internationally condemned as North Korea is banned under UN sanctions from using any ballistic missile technology.
The UN has vowed to impose further sanctions as punishment.
The US said on Monday that this could include "a range of economic sanctions that would further isolate North Korea" and send a clear signal "that the resolve of the international community here is firm".
The US has also said it will help South Korea deploy an advanced missile defence system as soon as possible, officials from the Pentagon have said.
The South's defence ministry said the launch indicated the North now has long-range missiles with a 12,000km (7,500-mile) range, the Yonhap news agency reports.
But it remains unclear whether it has developed the technology to make a missile re-enter the atmosphere, critical if it is to use the missile as as weapon.
The North insists its space programme is purely scientific in nature but the US, South Korea and even Pyongyang's ally China say the rocket launches are aimed at developing inter-continental ballistic missiles.
Last month North Korea also carried out its fourth test of a nuclear bomb.
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The station is being rebuilt as part of the £6.5bn Thameslink Programme.
The Conservative MP for Sevenoaks said there had been "too much disruption" and some "serious overcrowding".
Network Rail admitted recent problems, as a result of work on the north side platforms, were "unacceptable" and "embarrassing".
"We all want to see London Bridge rebuilt but they have been planning this for a long time now," Mr Fallon said.
"These are works that are going to go on for the next two years and therefore it is important that they get it right, that we don't have overcrowded platforms and people have proper information and they are told clearly what their alternative routes are.
"It is not yet working well."
Charing Cross services, which stopped calling at London Bridge on 12 January, are due to resume in August 2016.
Mr Fallon added: "This is week two. I've asked the managing director of Southeastern to travel up from Sevenoaks in the morning, as a commuter, and to come down in the evening at the peak hour to see how we can better manage the flow of people at London Bridge."
He said he would like to see more staff helping commuters and also urged Southeastern to allow people to use their tickets at more stations.
Network Rail apologised to passengers for major disruption 10 days ago when a new timetable was introduced for Southern and Thameslink trains at London Bridge.
The company said it was reviewing services and had made changes to ease crowding on the station concourse, including new customer information screens and more staff.
It also apologised for reliability problems with equipment on the railway near London Bridge, which caused further delays over the last week.
At 178 years old, London Bridge is the city's oldest surviving rail terminus.
The new concourse at the station will increase passenger capacity by 65% when complete, according to Network Rail.
A Southeastern spokesman said David Statham, the rail company's managing director, had been travelling across the network since the new timetable was introduced on 12 January.
"He met with Mr Fallon last Friday and welcomed the invitation to travel from Sevenoaks as part of his tour of the network," the spokesman said.
"Southeastern is closely monitoring the feedback from passengers."
The Cabinet Office announced on Friday that two former home secretaries and a retired senior civil servant would sit on the five-member committee.
But the Campaign for Freedom of Information says the panel does not include any advocates for transparency.
The review was launched amid concerns within government that "sensitive information" was not being protected.
The panel includes former Conservative Home Secretary Michael Howard, some of whose decisions in government were disclosed using the act and Labour's Jack Straw, who helped draft the original law but has since openly criticised FOIs.
The campaigners say an FOI request to the Foreign Office seeking information about UK involvement in the rendition of a terror suspect relates to the period when Mr Straw was foreign secretary.
Another committee member, Lord Burns, was the most senior civil servant in the Treasury between 1991 and 1998. The civil service is known to have misgivings about the act.
The Campaign for Freedom of Information said no-one on the panel had a previous record of having benefitted from the openness the act provides, while the UKIP MP Douglas Carswell said the review was a "fix" because the panel consisted of people who had "made their careers by toadying up to the establishment".
The passing of the Freedom of Information Act in 2000, which gave anyone the right to access recorded information held by government and other public sector bodies, is regarded by many as one of the landmark achievements of the last Labour government.
It obliged public authorities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and UK-wide authorities based in Scotland, to publish certain information about their activities.
But former Prime Minister Tony Blair has since described the law as one of his "biggest regrets", arguing it has had the effect of denying civil servants a "safe space" to properly advise ministers for fear their conversations will later become public.
It has been used to reveal information in a number of high profile incidents including the MPs expenses scandal, Prince Charles's lobbying letters to ministers and Friday's revelation that British pilots had been taking part in air strikes in Syria.
Cabinet Office minister Lord Bridges said: "We fully support the Freedom of Information Act but after more than a decade in operation it is time that the process is reviewed to make sure it's working effectively."
The letter, written by senior vice president Gerald Mason, says that the EU has pushed up the firm's costs.
He is not telling the 800 staff how to vote, but say jobs will be more secure outside the EU.
Meanwhile, entrepreneur Sir James Dyson says the vote "is the last opportunity to regain control of our futures".
Sir James, most famous for his vacuum cleaner, says in an article in the Times that voting to remain in the EU "would be an act of national self-harm".
Wednesday is the last official day of campaigning ahead of the UK's in/out referendum on its membership of the European Union, with voters going to the polls on Thursday.
The intervention by Tate & Lyle Sugars (TLS) and Mr Dyson comes as more than 1,280 business people signed a letter in the Times backing a vote to remain in the EU.
TLS, which is no longer part of the FTSE 100 company Tate & Lyle, is the largest sugar cane refiner in Europe and has been based on the banks of the River Thames since 1878.
Telling staff the company is losing money because of EU policies, Mr Mason writes: "Last year EU restrictions and tariffs pushed our raw material costs up by nearly 40m euros (£31m) alone, turning what should have been a good profit that we would all share into a 25m euros loss.
"We pay as much as 3.5m euros of import tariffs to the European Union on some of the boats of cane sugar that unload at our refinery, only for the European Union to then send that money to subsidise our beet sugar producing competitors in Europe."
Mr Mason said he has challenged EU officials about reforms, but been told "that if we lose our jobs then that's democracy because there are more beet producers than cane refiners in Europe. That is not the sort of democracy I want to be part of".
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His frustration at being unable to influence Brussels was echoed on Wednesday by Sir James.
In his Times letter, the entrepreneur says: "I have been manufacturing and exporting globally for 46 years and have 'sat at the table' dealing with European bodies for at least 25 of those.
"I can confirm that we have no influence whatsoever in the shaping of Europe's protectionist laws and regulations. Believe me, we've tried."
He said the argument that Britain would be more prosperous outside the EU was overwhelming. He writes: "There is an entirely misplaced belief in the mythical powers of the single market and its influence and importance to the UK economy.
"It is simply untrue that Europe is the world's largest market. It represents only 16% of global trade - and its share is contracting according to the IMF.
"It remains a collection of smaller markets each with its own languages (Belgium has two), laws and cultures, with different plugs, boxes, and advertising."
Britain's focus should be more on the rest of world, he adds, saying "we have nothing to fear by leaving".
The 72-year-old singer was taken to a Los Angeles hospital after playing a sold-out show on Wednesday evening.
In a message posted on Manilow's Facebook page, his management team said it was due to complications arising from an operation he had on Monday.
His next immediate tour dates have been postponed.
"For the next 48 hours, Manilow has been instructed not to talk, sing, or rap," an updated posting on the singer's Facebook page said.
However, those hoping to see the performer will be able to use their tickets for the rescheduled shows.
"Ticket holders should retain their existing tickets for redemption on the night of the new date," the Facebook original statement said.
Manilow is due to attend Monday night's Grammy awards - it's not yet known whether he will still be able to make it.
The New York-born singer, who rose to fame in the 1970s, has a global fanbase. He is best-known for hits Mandy and Copacabana (At the Copa).
He has suffered a series of health scares over his career - having to undergo regular dental treatment after a benign tumour ruptured in his mouth in 1986.
One Last Time, One Last Tour is his final live tour, taking in the UK and North America. It is scheduled to end on 23 June at the O2 Arena in London.
The five-year plan will see the autonomous cars, vans and buses slowly introduced to the eastern city of Wuhu.
Initially no passengers will be carried by the vehicles as the technology to control them is refined via journeys along designated test zones.
Eventually the test areas will be expanded and passengers will be able to use the vehicles.
"They want to be the first city in the world to embrace autonomous driving," said Wang Jing, Baidu's head of driverless cars, in an interview with the BBC's Click programme.
"This is the first city that is brave enough, daring enough and innovative enough to test autonomous driving," he said.
Mr Jing said the first phase of the trial would last about three years and would involve restricted areas in the city where buses, mid-size vans and cars would be tested.
After three years, the areas of the city in which the autonomous cars can drive will be expanded and the service will be commercialised to allow some of the three million inhabitants of Wuhu to use it.
After five years, he said, the whole city will be open to the driverless vehicles which will mix with human-driven cars, trucks and buses.
Mr Jing said the city was keen to use robot vehicles because they were a much more efficient way to transport people and goods.
The current model in which many households own a car was a "great waste" of resources, he said, because most of the time private cars stood idle. By contrast, he said, robot cars would be much more heavily used.
A study released this week suggested that greater use of driverless cars could promote congestion. The study by accounting group KPMG suggested the robot cars could be used widely by groups, such as the young and old, who do not usually drive thereby increasing the numbers of vehicles on the road.
Mr Jing said he hoped the Wuhu trial would lead to projects elsewhere.
"We are trying to give the experience and data to the central government so they can see the benefit and that will make it easier for us to push to other cities in China," he said. "We hope it will be a starting point that lets us take it to other countries."
Baidu is known to be working closely with German car maker BMW on the development of control systems for autonomous vehicles. The cars emerging from that partnership as well as others made by Chinese car maker Chery will be used in the Wuhu trial.
Many tech firms, including Google, and car manufacturers are also working on control systems for robot cars.
The official data confirmed that the world's third largest economy suffered its sharpest quarterly contraction since the 2011 earthquake disaster.
On an annualised basis it would mean gross domestic product (GDP) fell 7.1%.
The fall was blamed in part on a consumer sales tax introduced in April, with another rise planned for 2015.
The release of Monday's revised official data follows publication of initial GDP estimates that put the second quarter contraction at 1.7%, with the annualised rate at 6.8%.
In the first quarter of 2014, the economy grew by 1.5%.
The single biggest factor behind the contraction in the second quarter is thought to be a rise in the nation's sales tax in April, to 8% from 5%.
There are now calls for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to delay a further rise planned for next year, while the central bank has faced fresh demands to expand its stimulus programme.
Private consumption makes up some 60% of Japan's economic activity.
Retail spending figures have showed that the country's consumers boosted spending the first quarter in an attempt to beat the sales tax hike in April.
And that activity is what economists say negatively impacted growth in the second quarter.
A raft of official data released at the end of last month by Japan's government showed that households had spent less and that factory output stayed flat in July.
Retail sales in July showed some small hope, rising by 0.5% from a year earlier, after a fall of 0.6% in June.
But economists say the current economic landscape should encourage the government to introduce even more reforms.
At the beginning of this month, Mr Abe announced a government re-shuffle, which many have said signals his determination to get the economy back on track by the end of the year.
Mr Abe is expected to make a decision in December about a second hike to the sales tax, which would see it move to 10% in October next year.
Japan's economy minister Akira Amari said on Friday that the nation was ready to introduce a stimulus package that would buffer the impact of another sales tax hike if it was introduced.
He said the prime minister's position was "utterly neutral" on a further sales tax rise.
"[Mr Abe] said no countries have doubled the sales tax rate over a year and a half," said Mr Amari.
"I expect that he will make a considerably cautious decision."
Somerset CCC, Gloucestershire CCC and the University of Exeter have joined forces for their bid, with home games played at several South West venues.
Lancashire confirmed their interest in July but have now asked to be involved in the T20 tournament next summer.
There were 28 bids made to the England and Wales Cricket Board by August.
"Our objective is to play matches at Taunton, Bristol and other venues around the region," said Somerset chief executive Guy Lavender in a statement.
"We not only want to produce an outstanding team but also to use this as a vehicle to engage more participation for women and girls right across the region."
Lancashire Cricket Board vice-chairman Bobby Cross added: "This is an unprecedented period in the development of the game in this country.
"We see WCSL as a fantastic opportunity to explore the potential for the next generation of young cricketers to push the boundaries and to give the national side a bigger pool of talented players challenging for places."
Hampshire's Ageas Bowl has also confirmed it is bidding to host a side in the inaugural Twenty20 event next season.
An announcement regarding the successful bids is expected by the end of January 2016.
Nicky Ajose put Swindon ahead by firing home Bradley Barry's cross before Louis Thompson fired under Tommy Lee.
The hosts came close to reducing the deficit when Dan Jones volleyed over while Jay O'Shea hit the crossbar.
Swindon's third came when Ben Gladwin teed up Jon Obika to score before Ajose sealed it with a cool finish late on.
CD Palencia will try to win promotion from Spain's fourth tier wearing a bizarre new kit that looks like something out of a biology textbook.
The Tercera Division side's strip is a detailed look at the human anatomy, with abdominals, pectorals and biceps on show.
CD Palencia - only founded in 2011 - will wear the kit for the end-of-season play-offs.
The MEP told the Daily Telegraph he could have had an "easy win" in the former UKIP seat of Clacton but had decided to "fight for Brexit in Europe" instead.
Earlier he said he had not yet decided whether to put himself forward.
He also said current leader Paul Nuttall had "six weeks to prove himself" in the party's top job.
The only MP to be elected under a UKIP banner at a general election was Douglas Carswell in Clacton - but he has since quit the party.
Ex-UKIP donor Arron Banks has said he intends to stand in Clacton this time, although Mr Carswell has now confirmed he will stand down.
Mr Farage, who is chairman of the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group in the European Parliament, has failed in seven attempts to get elected to Westminster.
On Mr Nuttall, who finished behind Labour in the Stoke Central by-election in February, he added: "He's got six weeks to prove himself, hasn't he? It's just as simple as that."
City slumped to their lowest league position since 1959 following their 0-0 home draw with Oldham last weekend.
They then parted company with managing director Chris Anderson on Monday.
"With all the off-field stuff that's happening around I do try to cocoon ourselves from it," Mowbray told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire.
"I live it every day and have done since I came here, which is only 18 months ago. Does it filter through to the players? No, I don't think so.
"The key is just to keep working hard and try to enjoy each other's company on the training ground."
City have only conceded eight goals in as many league games this season, but have only scored three themselves prior to Saturday's trip to Gillingham.
"Our form is certainly not scintillating by any standards," said Mowbray. "It's a totally different team, 11 new players, two re-signings.
"But we can't just keep getting the same results just by picking the same players. I've told them there will be changes.
"Having said that, we're not far away from being a good team in this league and we pretty quickly have to turn draws into victories."
Anderson's departure comes as two fan bodies, the Preservation Group and the Sky Blue Trust, have issued statements registering their disaffection with the club's owners, Otium, formerly known as Sisu.
And the local newspaper, the Coventry Telegraph, has been banned by the club for initiating a petition demanding the owners' removal after nine years in charge.
"It's a difficult situation if you put a foot in either camp," said Mowbray. "I don't see myself as a politician-type of manager. I like to get my boots on and try to make us better on the training pitch.
"Things will resolve themselves at some stage. There could be better days around the corner. But, while people move on, the only thing that stays constant is the fans.
"Somewhere along the line, this team will gel, click into gear and then off we go. But we need to have everyone pulling in the right direction."
The latest Bank of Scotland PMI suggested a four-month high in combined manufacturing and services output in January.
However, the rate at which business conditions improved was "only modest".
The report indicated that backlogs of work continued to deteriorate.
Employment also fell slightly, having risen slightly at the end of 2016.
This was despite survey data pointing to a marked increase in Scottish manufacturing production, with the rate of growth accelerating at its quickest rate in 34 months.
In contrast, service providers reported that business activity stagnated last month.
Where an increase in output was recorded, firms attributed this to higher levels of new business, while declines were partly linked with Brexit uncertainty.
Sub-sector data showed an uptick in activity in business services and financial services, while travel, tourism and leisure firms registered a decline.
Meanwhile, the survey suggested that both manufacturing and services companies reacted to a sharp increase in their input costs last month by raising selling prices at historically strong rates.
Nick Laird, from Bank of Scotland Commercial Banking, said: "The start of 2017 proved promising for Scottish private sector companies, as new order growth accelerated to a 20-month high, encouraging firms to raise business activity faster.
"Pleasingly, the expansion in new work came in the face of the fastest increase in selling prices since February 2011, with this trend looking likely to be maintained over the coming months."
He added: "Underneath the positive headlines however, we note that the increase in demand was more positive for Scotland's manufacturers than their service sector counterparts.
"As such, whilst the latest figures give cause for optimism, the overall improvement in business conditions for the Scottish private sector remained modest."
Analysis of the results of 1.3 million young people over a three-year period found 75% had been given overly optimistic predictions by schools.
But nearly one in 10 (9%) did better than predicted, the study, published by the University and College Union, says.
University admissions service Ucas said the 16% related to those with no net deviation from all their predictions.
The UCU is calling for an overhaul of the university admissions system, which currently sees students apply on the strength of their predicted grades.
It said it was time the UK allowed students to apply with firm results not predictions that are "poor guestimates".
It said a post-qualifications admission (PQA) system would also abolish the need for unconditional offers for university places.
Researchers at UCL's Institute of Education analysed the top three A-level results from 1.3 million candidates who sat A-levels in 2013, 2014 and 2015 went on to higher education through the Ucas service.
The report also found the grades of able students from disadvantaged backgrounds were most likely to be under-predicted.
Almost one in four (24%) applicants from lower-income households was under-predicted in their results, the UCU said, compared with a fifth (20%) of those from wealthier homes.
Report author, Dr Gill Wyness, from UCL's Institute of Education, said students having their future grades under-rated by teachers should be of particular concern.
She said: "I find worrying evidence that, among high-achieving (ie AAB or higher) applicants, disadvantaged students are more likely to be under-predicted than their more advantaged counterparts.
"Indeed almost 3,000 disadvantaged, high-achieving students (or 1,000 per year) have their grades under-predicted."
Dr Wyness said applicants who were under-predicted were more likely to apply to, and attend, a university for which they were over-qualified, which could, in turn, have an impact on their future careers.
UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said: "This report exposes the vast majority of predicted grades as guestimates, which are not fit to be the basis on which young people and universities take key decisions about their futures.
"This report is a damning indictment on a broken system, not the hard-working teachers tasked with the impossible job of trying to make predictions.
"The results strongly support our call for a complete overhaul of the system, where students apply after they receive their results.
"It is quite absurd that the UK is the only country that persists with using such a broken system."
But UCAS chief Mary Curnock Cook rejected the UCU's calls.
"Whilst a post-results application system is logical, it would work against those from less advantaged backgrounds," she said.
"It wouldn't leave enough time for universities to properly assess and meet the needs of the full range of students, nor for students (particularly from disadvantaged backgrounds) to conduct all their research into accommodation and finance before making informed choices.
"Finally, it is not the case that only 16% of predicted grades are right - the correct interpretation is that only about 16% of students have no net deviation at all from their predicted grades across three A-level results."
A Department for Education spokeswoman said it was up to universities, as independent bodies, to decide on their admissions processes.
"However we would expect them to take account of the full range of information available, not just predicted grades, so that they select the students with the talent and potential to succeed on their particular course," the spokeswoman added.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung says the warning emerged during VW's current investigation into the scandal.
Separately, Bild am Sonntag said the internal inquiry had found that parts supplier Bosch had warned Volkswagen not to use its software illegally.
Volkswagen told the BBC they would not comment on "newspaper speculation".
Last week VW apologised for cheating on emissions tests in the US. Some 11 million VW diesel cars built since 2008 are affected by the scandal.
They had devices which could detect when the engine was being tested and could change the car's performance to improve results.
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Citing unidentified sources, Bild said Bosch had warned Volkswagen as early as 2007 that its software should only be used in company tests and not for normal driving.
Last week VW's chief executive Martin Winterkorn was forced out over the scandal and replaced by Matthias Mueller, the former head of Porsche.
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As well as shocking VW customers, the scandal has stunned investors in the car maker.
The BBC has learned that debt products issued by Volkswagen are under review by the European Central Bank (ECB).
The ECB has been buying debt products from big companies, including VW, as part of its scheme to boost the eurozone economy.
But following the admission by the carmaker that it cheated emissions tests, the ECB is reviewing its purchase of debt from VW.
In particular, it is examining debt backed by loans to buyers of VW cars.
The products, known as asset-backed securities, have been popular investments as they offer a relatively high rate of return in an era when interest rates are low.
Such debt is also very important to car makers and allows them to finance loans to customers.
The indication of concern by the ECB will be a worry for other investors in that debt and could affect VW's ability to raise money.
United States: Scandal emerged following findings by the Environmental Protection Agency. Justice Department and New York regulators have launched criminal investigations
Germany: Transport Ministry to send fact-finding committee to Volkswagen
United Kingdom: Vehicle Certification Agency to re-run lab tests and compare with "real-world" driving emissions
Switzerland: Task force set up to investigate
Italy: Spot checks to be carried out on at least 1,000 diesel vehicles, transport minister says
France: Random checks on 100 diesel cars aimed at "ensuring the absence of fraud", says Environment Minister Segolene Royal
South Korea: Environment Ministry to investigate 4-5,000 Jetta, Golf and Audi A3 vehicles, could extend to all German diesel cars if problems found
Canada: Environmental Agency investigating some 100,000 Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars
Norway and India opening fraud investigations
On Friday Switzerland temporarily banned the sale of Volkswagen (VW) diesel-engine models which could have devices capable of tricking emission tests.
It said the move could affect 180,000 cars - not yet sold or registered - in the Euro5 emission category.
The Swiss authorities have also set up a taskforce to fully investigate the issue.
A spokesman for the British department for transport said there were no plans for a similar ban in the UK.
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) told the BBC that it would join the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) investigation into VW.
The EPA's findings of the scandal cover 482,000 cars in the US only, including the VW-manufactured Audi A3, and the VW brands Jetta, Beetle, Golf and Passat.
But VW has admitted that about 11 million cars worldwide are fitted with the so-called "defeat device" - 2.8 million of them in Germany - and further costly recalls and refits are possible.
Half of the company's sales in Europe - VW's biggest market - are for diesel cars.
VW shares plunged around 30% in the days after the scandal broke.
He was 29-year-old Reginald Diamond from the Upperlands area.
The one-vehicle collision happened close to Culcrow Primary School on the Curragh Road just after 06:30 GMT on Saturday.
Police continue to appeal for anyone who was travelling on the Curragh Road at the time and who witnessed the collision to contact them.
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The Tyco BMW rider sat out the North West 200 and Isle of Man TT to take part in the Tour Divide cycle race.
The Lincolnshire man, who was injured in a 130mph crash at Ireland's Corner last August, has yet to indicate whether he will race again this season.
"We are hoping that Guy will be back at the Ulster once again," said Johnston.
"While he might be short on track time this season you could never bet against him at Dundrod," said Johnston of the 11-times winner.
Organisers and fans may get a clearer indication of Martin's intentions for the remainder of the season if he competes in next week's Southern 100 races on the Isle of Man.
Among the riders who will be on the grid on 10-13 August are Yorkshire's Ian Hutchinson and Ballymoney man Michael Dunlop, who dominated last month's Isle of Man TT Races.
They will come up against Kawasaki pilot Peter Hickman, the winner of a Superbike race at the 7.4-mile circuit last year, and the 2015 hat-trick hero, Fermanagh's Lee Johnston.
Other confirmed entries include William Dunlop, double North West 200 Supertwins victor Ivan Lintin, Silicone Engineering Kawasaki rider Dean Harrison, Mar-Train Yamaha pilot Dan Kneen and New Zealander Bruce Anstey.
Anstey has held the absolute lap record for Dundrod since 2010 at a speed of 133.977mph and will ride the MotoGP-based RCV Padgett's Honda that he campaigned at the TT last month.
The event has a new title sponsor for 2016 in MCE Insurance and boasts a revised practice schedule, plus a new Superpole style qualifying session.
The midfielder pounced on Korey Smith's mistake and beat Richard O'Donnell from inside the centre circle after spotting the City keeper off his line.
Jamie Murphy cut in from the left to then fire in a second for the Seagulls.
Jiri Skalak went close to a third for second-placed Brighton, who are now unbeaten in their last 10 league games.
The Seagulls remain three points behind Newcastle following their victory at Ashton Gate, but are now five points clear of third-placed Huddersfield, who drew with Birmingham City.
Bristol City, who slip out of the play-off places, started brightly and saw Lee Tomlin shoot wide early on.
But they struggled to recover from Sidwell's audacious effort from just inside the City half after he had seized on Smith's mis-control on half-way.
The 33-year-old's first goal since April also provided a poignant moment for Brighton as the entire team celebrated by holding up the shirt of team-mate Anthony Knockaert, who missed the game following the sudden death of his father.
Murphy's finish, with the help of a deflection, enabled Brighton to control the remainder of the game, although Bristol City had a penalty appeal tuned down near the end when Shane Duffy appeared to foul Aaron Wilbraham.
Brighton boss Chris Hughton: "The celebration after the first goal was for a very popular member of our squad in Anthony Knockaert and showed what the lads think of him.
"It was a wonderful strike by Sidwell on his left foot when I would have expected it more from his right. It caught everyone by surprise, including their goalkeeper.
"We had opportunities to score more goals, but what we did really well was limit them to very few clear chances."
Bristol City manager Lee Johnson: "I was frustrated by the opening goal. It was a great strike but I was disappointed with the way we were caught out by a square pass in midfield.
"Richard O'Donnell was probably too far off his line and couldn't keep his feet to deal with the shot.
"I have no doubt that Brighton will be promoted this season. They tick all the boxes and remind me of Hull last season."
Match ends, Bristol City 0, Brighton and Hove Albion 2.
Second Half ends, Bristol City 0, Brighton and Hove Albion 2.
Attempt missed. Gary O'Neil (Bristol City) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is high and wide to the right.
Attempt blocked. Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Jamie Murphy (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jamie Murphy (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Solly March replaces Jiri Skalak.
Attempt missed. Tammy Abraham (Bristol City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Bobby Reid with a through ball.
Foul by Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City).
Jiri Skalak (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Wilbraham (Bristol City).
Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jamie Paterson (Bristol City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt blocked. Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Aaron Wilbraham with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Oliver Norwood.
Attempt blocked. Bobby Reid (Bristol City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Callum O'Dowda.
Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Oliver Norwood tries a through ball, but Jiri Skalak is caught offside.
Substitution, Bristol City. Callum O'Dowda replaces Joe Bryan.
Offside, Bristol City. Jamie Paterson tries a through ball, but Aaron Wilbraham is caught offside.
Lee Tomlin (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steve Sidwell (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Tomer Hemed replaces Glenn Murray.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Oliver Norwood replaces Sam Baldock.
Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aden Flint (Bristol City).
Jamie Paterson (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Attempt blocked. Lee Tomlin (Bristol City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Aaron Wilbraham (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Gary O'Neil (Bristol City) because of an injury.
Foul by Sam Baldock (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Bobby Reid (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Bristol City. Bobby Reid replaces Korey Smith.
Substitution, Bristol City. Aaron Wilbraham replaces Scott Golbourne.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Richard O'Donnell.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jiri Skalak (Brighton and Hove Albion) because of an injury.
Organised by the Fire Brigades Union, the first draw of the Firefighters 100 Lottery will take place later.
Funds raised will also be used to promote education in fire safety.
Sue Veevers, whose son Stephen Hunt died in Manchester in 2013, said the scheme was "much needed and very welcome".
Mr Hunt, 38, from Bury, Greater Manchester, died after a fire at Paul's Hair World in Oldham Street.
Earlier this year an inquest jury concluded it was probable two 15-year-old girls deliberately started the fire after smoking cigarettes at the rear of the building.
Ms Veevers said: "No-one could imagine the hell our family went through after my son died.
"People assume that families such as mine are looked after following such a tragedy, but it's not always the case."
Mr Hunt was among 60 firefighters called to the hair salon blaze.
Along with a colleague, he entered the building but was later found collapsed and could not be resuscitated. He died later that evening.
Police said the case is to be reviewed to determine if any further action should be taken.
A Manchester street was named in memory of Mr Hunt in September.
The 53-year-old shot rounds of 66 and 71 to secure one of three places available from final qualifying at Gailes Links, Irvine.
Montgomerie finished third at Gailes behind Oskar Arvidsson of Sweden and Scott Fernandez of Spain.
The Scot made 21 straight Open appearances until 2010 at St Andrews.
Montgomerie, for whom it is likely to be his last chance to play an Open at Troon, finished one stroke ahead of fellow Scot Jack Doherty, who finished on four under after a second-round 70.
Arvidsson, who is ranked 1,418th in the world, finished four strokes ahead of Fernandez after a blistering opening 64, with the Spaniard one ahead of Montgomerie.
Final qualifying for the year's third major - from 14-17 July - was held over four courses and there was drama at Hillside after five players tied for second behind England's Jack Senior.
Compatriots Paul Howard and Dave Coupland qualified after a play-off, with English amateur Steven Robins, Scotland's Jay Taylor and Australia's Scott Arnold missing out.
There was also a play-off at Woborn, where Ireland's Paul Dunne led the field to finish one ahead of England's Ryan Evans on nine-under par.
Robert Rock won a play-off against fellow Englishman Aaron Rai to clinch the third qualifying spot after they tied on seven under.
England's Matthew Southgate led the field by three shots at Royal Cinque Ports, with compatriot James Heath and New Zealand's Steven Alker also qualifying after tying three strokes behind on three under par.
Gailes Links Golf Course (Par 71)
132 - Oskar Arvidsson (Swe) 64 68
136 - Scott Fernandez (Spa) 70 66
137 - Colin Mongomerie (Sco) 66 71
Hillside (Par 72)
139 - Jack Senior (Eng) 69 70
142 - Paul Howard (Eng) 72 70, Dave Coupland (Eng) 69 73 (won play-off), Scott Arnold (Aus) 71 71, Jay Taylor (Sco) 74 68, Steven Robins (Eng, A), 69 73.
Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club (Par 71)
136 - Matthew Southgate (Eng) 70 66
139 - Steven Alker (NZ) 68 71, James Heath (Eng) 69 70
The Marquess' Course, Woburn (Par 72)
135 - Paul Dunne (Ire) 68 67
136 - Ryan Evans (Eng) 68 68
137 - Robert Rock (Eng) 71 66 (won play-off), Aaron Rai (Eng) 69 68
Danny Healy-Rae told the Irish Times that issues with the N22 were caused by "numerous fairy forts in the area".
The road had previously been repaired but problems had reappeared.
Mr Healy-Rae said he shared local belief that "there was something in these places you shouldn't touch".
He added that the road passed through an area that was rich in fairy folklore and magic.
The N22 is the main road between Killarney in County Kerry and Cork.
In Irish folklore, it is believed that disturbing areas, said to have strong connections to fairies, could bring bad luck or a curse.
These areas include fairy forts, also known as raths or lios, which are the remains of hillforts or ancient circular dwellings, and fairy trees or thorn bushes.
Some people believe that destroying or tampering with these forts, trees or bushes, could lead to them dying young or becoming seriously ill.
Mr Healy-Rae, an independent TD (Irish member of parliament) for County Kerry, said: "I have a machine standing in the yard right now. And if someone told me to go out and knock a fairy fort or touch it, I would starve first."
The issue was raised at Kerry County Council, where Mr Healy-Rae's daughter, Maura, is a councillor, last week.
She told a council meeting that her father was convinced fairies were in the area of the road problems.
Mr Healy-Rae also raised the issue at Kerry County Council in 2007 when he was a councillor, asking if a dip in the N22 near Curraglass was caused by "fairies at work".
The Irish Times reports that the council's road department replied that it was due to a "deeper underlying subsoil/geotechnical problem".
Mr Healy-Rae, whose brother Michael is also a TD, has previously hit the headlines for comments in which he denied any human impact on climate change and said that "God above" controlled the weather.
The federal government budget plan will be submitted to Congress on Thursday.
The US State Department, which oversees foreign affairs, faces a budget cut of about 28%.
And the Environmental Protection Agency is in line for cuts to programmes that President Trump does not agree with such as climate change and renewables.
That includes initiatives intended to bring the US into line with its Paris Agreement climate deal obligations.
Environmental Protection Agency could be cut by 31%, the New York Times reported.
The increase defence spending will be recouped through deep cuts elsewhere, the BBC understands.
The Department of Defence budget will be boosted by 10%, and Homeland Security will get a 6% boost.
The budget will include a $1.5bn request for pilot schemes to determine construction methods and locations for Mr Trump's promised wall between the US and Mexico.
The White House wants a 30% cut from an Energy Department office that promotes energy efficiency and renewable energy.
The Energy Department could see steep cuts for its 17 national laboratories, which conduct research into subjects including nuclear power and advanced materials for energy generation, storage and use.
There will also be a complete cut to funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the largest source of public broadcasting funding in the US.
The budget, known as a "skinny budget", will be limited to the $1tn portion of the $4tn annual federal budget that pays for US agencies and departments.
The remainder of Mr Trump's budget, which will include proposals on taxes, mandatory spending and deficits and projections on the economy, won't come out until May.
The Hang Seng index closed up 2.7% at 26,944.39, its highest closing level since January 2008.
The surge in interest was triggered by Beijing's move last month to let mutual funds invest in Hong Kong through the connect plan.
The Shanghai Composite ended down 0.9%.
The mainland index closed at 3,957.53 as investors rushed to buy relatively cheaper Hong Kong shares.
Chinese investors had used the entire 10.5bn yuan ($1.69bn) daily investment quota for buying Hong Kong stocks under the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect scheme for a second day.
Shares in the rest of Asia were mixed despite a rise in US markets on Wednesday.
Investor sentiment remained cautious following the latest committee minutes from the Federal Reserve, which showed the central bank was split over when to raise interest rates.
Japan's Nikkei 225 closed up 0.75% at 19,937.72, edging closer to the key threshold of 20,000 which was last seen in 2000.
Analysts said the psychologically important level was likely to be hit soon.
Shares in Asia's biggest clothing retailer, Japan's Fast Retailing, closed up nearly 2% after it raised its annual profit forecast by 20% on Thursday.
The owner of Uniqlo, which has been expanding aggressively overseas, said its net income would be 120bn yen ($998m) for the year ending in August, up from its previous forecast of 100bn yen.
The company's profits were boosted by sales outside Japan.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 0.48% at 5,932.20 as a result of falling oil prices, which analysts said would affect the energy sector.
US-based oil and gas giant, Apache, said it was selling its Australian operations for $2.1bn (£1.4bn) as it shifts its focus back to North America.
"Following the sale of our Australian assets, about 70% of Apache's production will come from North America onshore," said the firm's chief executive, John Christmann.
South Korea's benchmark Kospi index closed down 0.02% at 2,058.87.
After a surprise cut in March, South Korea's central bank said on Thursday it would hold its interest rates steady.
The decision was not unanimous, however, and analysts suggested that the bank's easing cycle was not over.
The prince, who founded the games for injured veterans, said at the opening ceremony in Florida that it was "not just physical injuries that our Invictus competitors have overcome".
This is the second time the games have been run, after London in 2014.
Athletes from 14 countries will compete over four days, with finals in rowing, powerlifting and archery on Monday.
Micky Yule won Britain's first Invictus Games gold medal in the men's lightweight powerlifting competition.
A former staff sergeant, he served with the Royal Engineers and lost both of his legs above the knee when he stepped on an improvised explosive device (IED) in Afghanistan in 2010.
The 39-year-old, from Musselburgh near Edinburgh, described Prince Harry as a "top lad".
"Do you know what, he's such a supporter and I think without Prince Harry's input into the whole games, I'm sure it wouldn't be what it is," he said.
"He puts himself out, he's around everybody. You see him in the back helping everybody."
Thousands of people attended the opening ceremony on Sunday, which included speeches from US First Lady Michelle Obama, Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman and former US President George W Bush. There were also performances by British singer James Blunt and the soprano Laura Wright.
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Prince Harry paid tribute to the competitors during the opening ceremony.
"Every single one of them will have confronted tremendous emotional and mental challenges. When we give a standing ovation to the competitor with the missing limbs, let's also cheer our hearts out for the man who overcame anxiety so severe he couldn't leave his house.
"Let's cheer for the woman who fought through post-traumatic stress and let's celebrate the soldier who was brave enough to get help for his depression."
He added: "To those of you watching at home and who are suffering from mental illness in silence - whether a veteran or a civilian, a mum or a dad, a teenager or a grandparent - I hope you see the bravery of our Invictus champions who have confronted invisible injuries and I hope you are inspired to ask for the help that you need."
The BBC's Aleem Maqbool, who was at the ceremony, said it was "at some times a very emotional event with injured veterans telling their stories" and Prince Harry describing his own experience of 10 years in the British Army.
The prince also joined Mrs Obama in an interview for US television where he said he wanted to "smash the stigma" around mental health problems, adding that conditions such as depression and post-traumatic stress were "not a life sentence".
The US First Lady told Good Morning America the Games were a part of rehabilitation for many injured servicemen and women.
"Once they take that uniform off they are still looking for ways to serve and we can't waste that talent," she said.
Prince Harry also revealed how he was determined to accept the US President and First Lady's challenge and get the Queen involved in a video to promote the games after the couple had acted "so confident" about the home team during their recent visit to London.
He said: "I didn't want to ask the Queen because I didn't want to back her into a corner but when I showed her their video and told her, she said 'Right, what do we need to do? Let's do this.'"
British cycling competitor Craig Preece, who suffered injuries to both legs in a bomb blast in Afghanistan, said he was looking forward to being able "to showcase to the world what we can still do".
The Paralympic-style tournament will feature track and field athletics, indoor rowing, sitting volleyball, wheelchair rugby, tennis and basketball as well as cycling, swimming, archery and triathlon.
As well as powerlifting, Monday's schedule includes rowing and archery.
Live coverage, behind-the-scenes action and commentary will also be featured on the BBC Sport website.
Coverage of day one of the Games including highlights of the opening ceremony will be broadcast on BBC One at 19:30 and 20:30 BST each day.
North Warwickshire Police uploaded a picture of its new "mobile station", emblazoned with a map of the force area.
But two towns in the patch - Shipston-on-Stour and Wellesbourne - were spelled incorrectly.
The force said it was working to resolve the mistake "as quickly and cost effectively as possible."
More on this story and updates from Coventry & Warwickshire
The misspellings - Shipstone-on-Stour and Wellsbourne - were picked up by a local team from one of the towns.
Shipston Safer Neighbourhood Team pointed out the errors and tweeted: "I think you need to ask for a refund."
Policing North Warwickshire replied: "For Sale 2016 mobile police station, 187 miles, slight artwork issue...."
Pakistani officials said Ali Haider Gilani would be transferred to Pakistan after undergoing medical checks.
Mr Gilani was abducted three years ago in his home town of Multan as he was campaigning in elections for the Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP).
The Afghan envoy to Pakistan said he was held by an al-Qaeda-linked group.
"He is well and will be repatriated to his family soon," Dr Omar Zakhilwal said on his Facebook page.
The Nato-led mission in Afghanistan said he had been rescued in a joint operation in the eastern Paktika province, not in neighbouring Ghazni as earlier reported.
"The counter-terrorism mission was planned and launched after evidence of terrorist activity was confirmed," the Resolute Support mission said in a statement.
"Four enemy combatants were killed as a result of the operation. No other injuries or damage was observed or reported."
Ali Haider Gilani's brother, Ali Musa Gilani, told the BBC he had been caught unaware by the release, with the family not told about the operation.
"He [Ali Haider Gilani] called himself from an Afghanistan number, and he just told me, 'I have US military around me, and they have rescued me, and now what are you doing? Who are you getting in touch with to get me out of here?'"
Television pictures showed celebrations in Multan. At a party rally in Pakistan-administrated Kashmir, his father was seen surrounded by well-wishers.
The newly released captive has been taken to Bagram airbase in Afghanistan and will be transferred to Pakistan in a few hours, Geo TV reports.
Ali Haider Gilani is the youngest son of Yusuf Raza Gilani, who was prime minister of Pakistan from 2008 until 2012.
He had been contesting a seat in the Punjab provincial assembly in the May 2013 elections, when he was seized by gunmen who opened fire on a campaign rally just a few days before the polls opened.
Suspicion immediately fell on the Pakistani Taliban, which had been openly threatening the governing PPP and other secular parties in Pakistan in the run-up to the election.
Kidnapping has frequently been used as a tactic by militant groups across Pakistan, who want the ransom money for revenue and use the hostages as bargaining chips in negotiations with the authorities.
Yusuf Raza Gilani said last year that he had been allowed to speak to his son for several minutes by phone, and that the kidnappers wanted the release of several high-profile al-Qaeda prisoners.
In March, the kidnapped son of Pakistan governor Salman Taseer was found alive, nearly five years after his father was assassinated and he was seized in Lahore.
Shahbaz Tasser was recovered by counter-terrorism police in a compound north of Quetta, just a few days after his father's killer - his bodyguard Mumtaz Qadri - was hanged.
Marvin Couson, 39, was wounded at the Lime in London bar in Shoreditch in May 2002. He was left unable to communicate or leave his bed, and died on 8 August.
Police have launched a murder investigation and appealed for witnesses to come forward.
Mr Couson, who suffered injuries to his internal organs, was cared for at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability.
About 600 people were at the bar on 12 May 2002 when police were called to reports of gunfire. They found Mr Couson lying on the ground outside with a gunshot wound to the chest.
A man was arrested during the police investigation, but later released with no further action.
Det Ch Insp Noel McHugh said: "For 13 years Marvin's family have been at his bedside and now, tragically, he has succumbed to the injuries he suffered.
"We have launched a full murder investigation and, despite the passage of time, are committed to finding the person who shot Marvin that night."
He added: "We know there are potential witnesses who did not speak to police at the time and I would ask them to now please come forward with any information, no matter how small. Do not assume that someone else will contact police."
Until a change in the law in 1996, a murder was only deemed to have been committed if the victim died within a year and a day.
Tottenham striker Harry Kane was given his full international debut while captain Wayne Rooney remains two goals off equalling Sir Bobby Charlton's England goalscoring record.
Southampton striker Pelle headed Italy in front before the break, but Townsend's brilliant 25-yard strike rescued a draw for England.
How did England's players fare overall?
Made two good saves and had little chance with Graziano Pelle's goal.
Not a hugely distinguished night. Was caught out of position occasionally and England's narrow team line-up did not help him.
Steady but unspectacular. Missed a good second-half chance.
England's best defender - some anxious second-half moments but did well overall.
Some uncomfortable moments as Italy put England under pressure, then went off ill before half-time.
The Manchester United defender proved he will never be an England midfield player. So often he looks clumsy and uncomfortable at this level.
Part of an ineffective England midfield before he was substituted in the second half.
Anonymous and lots of the energy he did put in was wasted.
Very quiet night in a forward role with Harry Kane. Looked rusty and it is clear that if he is to play, he must play wide. Not used correctly.
Worked tirelessly throughout, although nowhere near his best. Hit the woodwork and forced a fine save from Gianluigi Buffon. Sir Bobby Charlton's England scoring record must wait for another day.
Found it much harder than his debut against Lithuania and was clattered within moments by Italy's Giorgio Chiellini. Not his fault as service was poor for so long, but still showed good instincts near goal.
So composed on the ball. Gave England direction as a midfield anchor.
Lack of defensive awareness occasionally exposed. Battle still on for England's right-back position.
Excellent cameo from Everton's youngster. Added real drive and threat - an exciting talent.
Great strike for England's equaliser and looked confident.
Quiet debut.
The February 2011 quake damaged the only factory in the country that produces Marmite, forcing it to close.
Stocks then dwindled, leading to shortages dubbed "marmageddon" by media, from early 2012.
The factory has since reopened, with food company Sanitarium thanking consumers for "not freaking out".
Sanitarium Marmite uses a different recipe than the English version of Marmite, manufactured by a different company.
It was first brought to New Zealand in the 1900s but the country came up with its own version, which has its own distinctive taste. Australia also has a similar product called Vegemite.
The shortage led to complaints from many New Zealanders, including Prime Minister John Key.
"You've rationed, you've scraped, you've survived marmaggedon - and now the wait is over!" Sanitarium said on its website.
"Thanks for not freaking out and for waiting patiently for the black gold's return."
The Marmite factory was scheduled to re-open by middle of last year but faced unexpected delays.
Even with its return, some supermarkets in New Zealand were rationing supplies to two jars per customer in the face of high demand.
Kelly Moddy, a supermarket store manager, told Fairfax they had limited supply. "All other supermarkets in the country are in the same boat," she said.
But customers said they were happy with the spread's return.
"I've tried the alternatives but they're just not the same, so I've had to have jam or peanut butter on my toast," consumer Robyn Lonergan told Agence-France Presse news agency.
Police say Darius McCollum, 50, stole the coach from the nation's busiest bus terminal, New York Port Authority, on Wednesday.
He was found with the vehicle two hours after it was scheduled to leave.
Among his previous crimes was the theft of a bus full of passengers at Penn Station, driving it to Kennedy airport.
He grew up in Queens and spent a lot of time at the terminus of the F train, where his fascination with the trains brought him to the attention of workers there who took him under their wing.
By the age of eight, he could reportedly recall the names of every station on the New York subway system.
His train and bus troubles began in 1981, when the then-teenager took control of an underground train and drove it for six stops.
Over the years, he has also been arrested for trespassing at a subway control tower, attempting to commandeer a suburban train and stealing a coach bus, according to local media.
In 2008, Mr McCollum told the Associated Press news agency he planned to get in touch with a charity to help him find a therapist.
Five years later, he said: "It was a rough process but I finally made it.
"I can't afford to get arrested again, I can't deal with the jail thing - it's too much, the gang mentality."
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Hill was shown a red card six minutes into the second half of Sunday's 35-35 draw with the Premiership leaders.
The 22-year-old pleaded guilty to a charge of striking with the shoulder, and will miss games at Worcester and at home to Newcastle.
Chiefs are third in the Premiership and are unbeaten in six league games.
Elections, party reform and the UK constitution were discussed.
The spokesman added that the first minister "looked forward" to seeing Mr Corbyn in Wales "soon".
Before the meeting Mr Jones said MPs - including Mr Corbyn - were "welcome to help" in the 2016 assembly election.
Mr Jones said Labour's UK leader would "of course" be involved in the campaign.
Voters go to the polls in Wales, Scotland and London in May, in what will be the first electoral test for Labour since Mr Corbyn took over.
Mr Jones told BBC Wales: "In the elections of course I'll be, as leader of Welsh Labour, leading the campaign, with help of course from colleagues in London who are welcome to help.
"But it's a Welsh election, Welsh manifesto, Welsh Labour will produce, and that would be true whoever was the leader here in London and has been true in years gone by."
It is understood Mr Jones was keen to discuss the prospect of greater autonomy for Welsh Labour.
The first minister has described Mr Corbyn's win as "incredible", but previously called him an "unusual choice" for leader.
Mr Corbyn praised Welsh Labour during the leadership campaign and in his victory speech for its record in office, in particular for ending the internal market in the NHS.
He was the only one of the four leadership contenders not to meet the first minister during the campaign, although it was said to be a matter of availability.
Political commentators have asked whether Mr Corbyn becoming UK Labour leader will help or hinder the party's chances of winning the assembly election.
Prof Richard Wyn Jones of Cardiff University has said Labour could find it harder to hold onto key marginals such as Gower and Vale of Clwyd, which the Tories captured at the general election.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies has said the assembly election will now take on an "even greater significance", accusing Labour of "abandoning mainstream politics in favour of a hard left agenda".
Bailey, 16, was stabbed during a fight with a fellow pupil at Cults Academy.
His killer is serving nine years for culpable homicide.
Mr Swinney said on Tuesday the Scottish government is to push for a UK-wide crackdown on the sale of knives online. However it has emerged the report provided to him was redacted.
A review of the death made a series of recommendations, one of which was for the government to seek "further legislative controls" on the sale of weapons online.
The review, by child welfare professional Andrew Lowe, made 21 recommendations.
The review found the pupil's death was "potentially avoidable" and said the Scottish government should consider legal changes to give teachers more power to search pupils and to crack down on online knife sales.
The heavily-redacted report into the killing was published last year.
This was said to be on the grounds of "data protection laws and respect the wishes of the individuals and families involved".
The Scottish government said on Thursday: "We have not been provided with an unredacted copy of the report by Aberdeen City Council and have focused on the recommendations directed to us.
"Officials sought views and advice from a key range of stakeholders including all teaching unions in Scotland, the Association of Directors of Education in Scotland and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities.
"Feedback was also sought from a range of other stakeholders including Police Scotland, the national Violence Reduction Unit, Medics Against Violence and the National Parent Forum of Scotland."
A spokesperson for Aberdeen City Council said: "We have worked closely with the Scottish government following the publication of the report and have provided everything requested, including the full findings."
Mr Swinney rejected another recommendation to give teachers a statutory power to search pupils without permission.
Mr Swinney said this would "place teachers on the same footing as police officers" and "radically change the pupil-teacher relationship".
The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) welcomed the announcement.
Klopp's side moved above City and into second place in the Premier League with Tuesday's 4-1 win over Stoke.
City boss Pep Guardiola, whose side beat Hull 3-0 on Monday, was at Anfield to see the Reds' emphatic victory.
"I respect them a lot, but I have not been to City's stadium this season or last to watch games," said Klopp.
"We are already looking forward. It's a difficult game for both teams, but an exciting one. The best news for us is that it's at Anfield.
"They're an outstanding side, we are not too bad. It'll be a nice game.
"Whatever I say tonight, we cannot win it tonight. But maybe I could say a few things that make it more difficult for us. It's probably best I shut my mouth."
Liverpool fell behind on Tuesday as Jonathan Walters gave Stoke the lead, but goals from Adam Lallana and Roberto Firmino swung the game in the home side's favour.
Giannelli Imbula's own goal and Daniel Sturridge's first strike of the season ensured the win, which keeps Liverpool six points behind league-leaders Chelsea.
"The start of the game was really difficult because the plan of Stoke was to press really high, especially with the two strikers," added Klopp. "We were not patient enough in our passing game, we could have done more.
"It became a wild game and when they had the ball it was immediately in the air.
"Peter Crouch did outstanding work, he was really difficult to defend, and Joe Allen was brilliant with the second balls in the beginning.
"At 2-1 we could adjust at half-time, we spoke about a few things. We scored a wonderful third goal and then Daniel closed the game. That was really important."
"Confidence is not a problem of the team at the moment. We know about our quality, but obviously we don't show it all the time."
The Redditch skater, 25, secured her first medal on the World Cup circuit in her debut World Cup A final appearance.
Fellow Briton Elise Christie, 25, won the B final on Saturday morning to finish fifth overall in the 1000m.
Gilmartin competes again in the 1500m on Sunday, while Christie is seeking a fourth World Cup medal of the season in the 500m at the Oriental Sports Centre.
The Scot followed up her gold and silver medals in Toronto with a silver in the 500m at the third ISU World Cup event in Nagoya, Japan last weekend.
In the men's competition, Murray Cochrane is through to Sunday's 1500m quarter-final after recording a time of two minutes 13.278 seconds in Friday's heats.
The Dundee-born skater, 22, beat the previous British record of 2:14.091 achieved by Jack Whelbourne in the first round at the 2014 Sochi Olympics en route to becoming the first Briton to reach an Olympic 1500m short track final.
The body of Gillian Hiney, 48, was discovered in Cardwell Street early on Wednesday when police were called.
A 58-year-old man from the city was arrested by Staffordshire Police on suspicion of murder. He has been released without charge.
Police said investigations are continuing to establish the cause of Ms Hiney's death.
Det Ch Insp Dave Giles said: "A detailed investigation will continue in an effort to establish whether Gillian's death was caused by another person or whether it was as a result of a medical condition."
Police said a post-mortem examination took place on Wednesday afternoon, but did not establish a clear cause of death.
Forensic investigators will continue with a detailed examination of the property over the next 24 hours.
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In 2016 there was an unemployment rate of 18% for black male graduates aged 16 to 24 in the capital.
According to the data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the rate for their white counterparts was 10%.
A government spokesperson said the employment rate for ethnic minorities was "at a record high".
More than 83,000 young men in London are from black and mixed black ethnic groups, making up about one in five of young men in the capital.
Research by the National Audit Office (NAO) has found that along with Pakistani and Bangladeshi women, black men consistently have the lowest employment rates in the UK.
Gary Chimuzinga was initially unsuccessful getting a place on a graduate scheme at a bank after studying Financial Economics with Econometrics at the University of Kent.
He then went through Rare, a recruitment company which focuses on placing people from ethnic minorities and working-class backgrounds, and got an internship at Barclays and later got on their graduate scheme.
The 23-year-old said he faced "a lot of struggles" during his search for a job.
He believes there are several things which hold back young black men in London but "ultimately it comes down to confidence".
"We don't have many role models which can give us a bit of confidence, that it is doable," he added.
BBC London contacted 50 of London's 500 top graduate employers last year across the banking, accounting, medical, legal and retail sectors.
Eleven were able to provide data relating to their employment of black men specifically.
Those 11 organisations recruited 1,803 graduates in 2016. Of those, 30 were black men.
The NHS leadership academy, for trainee managers, was among those which did not recruit any among its intake of 112 graduates.
National director Stephen Hart said the scheme was "hugely popular".
"We know more work needs to be done across the system to improve the under-representation of black, Asian and minority ethnic background (BAME) colleagues at a senior level in the NHS," he said.
Barclays was one of the organisations which employed the highest percentage of black men. Of 320 recruits, nine were black men.
The figures from the Annual Population Survey cover the 12 months ending October 2016.
They do show the gap is closing with a decrease from the previous year when the unemployment rate for young black men with a degree in London was 27%.
A spokesperson for the Department for Work and Pensions said: "The employment rate for ethnic minorities is at a record high, with 80,000 more people in London finding work in the last year alone.
"We've set a target to increase BAME employment by 20% by 2020, and remain firmly committed to that," they said.
Mr Singh told the BBC that he took the action because he felt "Lord Ram was unjust to his wife Sita", and he wanted a court in the eastern state of Bihar to "acknowledge this fact".
The court wasn't convinced with his argument and rejected his plea last week, saying it wasn't a "practical case".
And to add to Mr Singh's woes, a group of his colleagues have accused him of "seeking publicity", and one of them has sued him for defamation.
Ram is the hero of the Ramayana, the Sanskrit epic of 24,000 stanzas.
He is revered by millions in India and around the world.
Mr Singh is undeterred by the criticism, and believes strongly that he has a valid case.
He quotes from religious scriptures to support his argument.
"It's well known that Ram asked Sita to prove that she was pure after he rescued her from the clutches of the demon king Ravana. He did not trust Sita," Mr Singh told the BBC.
"Ram's treatment of Sita shows that women were not respected even in ancient times. I am aware that the case may sound ridiculous to many, but we have to discuss this part of our ancient religious history. I will file a case again because I really believe that Indians have to acknowledge that Ram mistreated Sita."
Mr Singh also rejected allegations that he was merely seeking publicity.
"I filed the case because we cannot talk about respecting women in modern day India when we know that one of our most revered gods did not treat his own wife with respect," he said.
But he admits the reactions have taken him by surprise.
"I expected some objection but did not anticipate that my colleagues would turn against me. I was only talking about justice and had no intention of hurting anybody's religious sentiments," he said.
"Is it wrong to seek justice for women? The court's acceptance of my plea would have sent a good message that respecting women was important to Indians."
But his colleagues are not convinced.
Lawyer Ranjan Kumar Singh told the BBC that the plea "insulted Hindus".
"He has a history of filing publicity-seeking pleas. But this time he has gone too far. He has hurt our sentiments," he said.
Ranjan Kumar Singh has also filed a defamation case against his colleague.
"We have also requested the bar council to cancel his licence to practice law. All lawyers are united against Chandan, he needs to learn a lesson," he told the BBC.
"We see Ram and Sita as one and worship them as a couple, there is no question of us believing that Ram mistreated Sita," Ranjan Kumar Singh added.
But Chandan Kumar Singh insists that "his fight isn't against Ram".
"I too worship Ram. I am a practising Hindu. I apologise to people if they feel hurt, but I cannot ignore the fact that Sita wasn't respected," he said.
Deputy assistant commissioner Neil Basu said: "We must all accept that there is a possibility we will never understand why he did this."
Four people died and 50 were injured when Masood drove his car into people before stabbing a police officer.
The family of PC Keith Palmer said his bravery will be remembered.
Detectives confirmed the attack was over within 82 seconds.
Mr Basu said: "We still believe that Masood acted alone on the day and there is no information or intelligence to suggest there are further attacks planned.
"Even if he acted alone in the preparation, we need to establish with absolute clarity why he did these unspeakable acts to bring reassurance to Londoners, and to provide answers and closure for the families of those killed and the victims and survivors of this atrocity.
"Nevertheless, we are determined to understand if Masood was a lone actor inspired by terrorist propaganda or if others have encouraged, supported or directed him.
"If the latter proves to be the case, they will face justice."
He urged those who knew Masood to speak to police.
In a statement released on Saturday, the family of PC Palmer addressed those who tried to save his life.
"There was nothing more you could have done," it said.
"You did your best and we are just grateful he was not alone.
"We care about him being remembered for his selfless bravery and loving nature. We miss him so much, but we are also incredibly proud of Keith."
The family said they had been "overwhelmed by the love and support" shown for them and for PC Palmer and they praised the support from the police.
David Lord, from Westerham, denied causing Valerie Deakin's death by dangerous driving following the crash in Westerham, Kent, on Christmas Eve.
Ms Deakin, 74, of Udimore, East Sussex, died when Mr Lord's Audi crashed into the town centre branch of Costa.
Mr Lord was given unconditional bail at Maidstone Crown Court but no date has yet been set for his trial.
Two men and two women were taken to hospital after the crash. Another woman was treated for minor injuries.
He has threatened repercussions and said "all options are on the table".
But would the US seriously consider "all options", including the military ones? What can the US and the West realistically do?
The first big step often taken in response to an international outrage is condemnation by the UN Security Council, potentially followed by council resolutions demanding restorative steps by the offender and, when that fails, authorising international military action.
But all of those options are effectively off the table. Russia is a permanent council member and so can and will veto any attempt to condemn it. This is the failure built into the Security Council system - that it is impotent against any permanent member.
But there are other forums for action. Seven members of the G8 group of major industrialised nations have turned on the eighth - Russia - cancelling preparations for the G8 summit that was due to take place in Sochi, Russia, in June.
There are also other forms of co-operation with Russia that could be suspended. The EU-Russia partnership, with its biannual summits, is one. The Nato-Russia Council is another.
But turning diplomatic backs on Russia has major risks. Russia's co-operation is vital to the West's policy on Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan, and it has vital influence in Syria.
Britain has reportedly ordered a ministerial boycott of the Paralympic Winter Games which start on Friday in Sochi, which is less than 300 miles (480km) from the Crimean capital, Simferopol. But only a sporting boycott would have real news impact, and countries have been very reluctant to impose those since the tit-for-tat 1980 and 1984 Cold War boycotts.
What next for both sides?
Going beyond diplomatic gestures, the West could impose measures designed to hit Russia where it hurts - in the pocket. These could be imposed without UN backing.
Russia has huge trade links with the West. The US has already cancelled talks with Russia on a bilateral investment treaty and energy issues.
One of the Europe's biggest potential levers over Russia, oil and gas, is also a weakness. Russia is the EU's biggest outside supplier, providing about 25% of its gas, worth almost $100m (£60m) a day, but precisely because Europe is so dependent it makes it an unlikely battleground. Europe does not have alternatives to make up the supply shortage - though, after a mild winter, it may have enough gas in storage to last several months.
Russia's rich elite could be a target. Frequent visitors to the West, they often keep their billions in Western bank accounts or invested in property and football teams in the West.
Russian-security analyst Mark Galeotti says: "There is no way round it, the most powerful weapon against the Kremlin is one targeting the elites on which it depends."
He says he expects "targeted bans and asset-freezes on officials, visa restrictions and even potentially targeted sanctions against Russian corporations".
Hitting businesses might sound attractive - but the West is vulnerable to retaliation, with some of its own companies, like ExxonMobil and Boeing, having a huge presence in Russia.
Economic pressure from the West may have to come over the longer term - focused on reduced investment and trade.
Visa restrictions and asset freezes have been used before - notably by the US against Russian officials deemed to be involved in the arrest, death and posthumous trial of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. These, relatively limited, sanctions had an ill effect on relations with Russia, which retaliated with measures including a ban on US-Russian adoption.
But Francesco Giumelli, an expert on international sanctions at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, says these cannot just be used against any rich Russian. "It is legally very difficult… how do you link those people in the elite to specific actions in Crimea? You need to have proof that they're involved in wrongdoing".
He says travel bans - not financial measures - are the most likely first step, directed at generals or defence officials with a direct role in Crimea or, at a stretch, MPs who voted to support Russian action in Crimea. He says this might seem "symbolic" but shows a commitment to act, that could be escalated later - and the emphasis for now is likely to remain on mediation.
Taking aim with harsher measures at Mr Putin's close circle or powerful businesses is likely only to provoke retaliation, he says, "and how does that help Ukraine?"
"It's easy to say 'we need to be strong' but what if they [the Russians] say the same? I don't think the EU has the will to raise it to a situation where somebody has to back down."
Gas supply fears fuelled
Inferring from Mr Kerry's "all options" that he is not ruling out military action may be taking him too literally. Analysts agree that there is no prospect of Nato going to war with Russia over Ukraine.
Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague has said explicitly: "For today, no military options [are] on the table."
Ukraine is a partner-country of Nato but not an Alliance member, and thus receives no security guarantees.
The overwhelming goal at the moment is to de-militarise the crisis and to try to get talks between Russia and Ukraine under way, says the BBC's diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus. Nato is thus likely to move cautiously. Any deployment of forces to the Black Sea region or offers for example of surveillance assets would inevitably be seen by Moscow as Nato wading in on the side of Kiev and would be "a red rag to a bull", our correspondent says.
This is not a potential war that Ukraine can win in military terms, with or without Nato help, he adds.
Jonathan Marcus: The military balance of war
Many analysts think that sudden decisive action by the West is unlikely. Any sanctions are likely to start small and get bigger, and in any case they take time to draw up and impose - not least in the European Union, where the agreement of 28 countries must be secured. The West will also be aware that sanctions can backfire, by harming its own economic links with Russia - especially if Moscow chooses to retaliate.
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McIlroy became the youngest US Open champion since Bobby Jones in 1923 and the youngest major winner since Tiger Woods triumphed at the Masters in 1997.
The 22-year-old broke a host of scoring records and shot a final-round 69 to end 16 under par at Congressional.
Australian Jason Day (68) was second, with Lee Westwood (70) tied in third.
Alongside Westwood were Yang Yong-Eun (71) of South Korea and Americans Kevin Chappell (66) and Robert Garrigus (70).
McIlroy banished memories of his Masters meltdown, when he blew a four-shot lead going into the final day, and marched to a first major title at his 10th attempt as a professional.
He led from start to finish, carding 65, 66, 68, 69 to post a tournament record total of 16-under 268, four better than the previous mark.
Leaving his rivals in his wake, he became the quickest player in the 111-year history of the US Open to reach 10 under par (after 26 holes), the first player to go beyond 12 under, reaching as much as 17 under on Sunday, and also recorded the best 36 and 54-hole totals.
He becomes the second successive Northern Irishman to win the US Open after Graeme McDowell triumphed at Pebble Beach last year and the third major champion after Fred Daly won the Open in 1947.
He is also the 11th different major winner in a row and the eighth of those 11 to be clinching their first major title. For the first time in history there have been no American winners in five successive majors.
"The whole week has been incredible - I could not have asked for any more and I am so happy to hold this trophy," said McIlroy, who rises to number four in the world rankings thanks to his win.
I know a few of my friends will be partying and I can't wait to get home and join them
"For such a small nation to win two US Opens in a row is pretty special. As Graeme [McDowell] said last year, there will be a lot of pints of Guinness going down.
"I know a few of my friends will be partying and I can't wait to get home and join them."
During the presentation ceremony McIlroy shouted across to his father Gerry: "Happy Father's Day - this one's for you.
"I have to mention my mum too. Everything they have done for me I can't thank them enough."
McIlroy's humbling of the field - and the supposedly tough 7,574-yard Blue Course, albeit softened by recent rain - evoked memories of Woods, who was 21 when he won the 1997 Masters by 12 shots to capture the first of his 14 major titles. He did, however, fall short of Woods's record 15-stroke victory when winning the US Open at Pebble Beach in 2000.
"I know how good Tiger was in 2000 to win by 15 in Pebble. I was trying to go out there and emulate him in some way," McIlroy added.
With an eight-shot lead going into the final round, McIlroy showed few signs of nerves and opened with a birdie, stretching his lead to 10 shots, with another at the fourth to get to 17 under.
He birdied the short 10th after hitting his tee shot to six inches and made only his second bogey of the week after driving into sand on the 12th.
Like Woods at his best, McIlroy made a number of crucial putts for par to keep up the momentum but he was really competing in his own tournament. He got back to 17 under with another birdie at the long 16th but, with the title in his pocket, he leaked his first three-putt of the week on the 17th to drop a shot. A safe par at the last gave him the fourth highest winning margin in US Open history.
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"Unbelievable," said Gerry McIlroy. "With what's happened over the last couple of months, and to come back and do this, it's fantastic. After the Masters, he worked so hard. It's fantastic. You couldn't beat it."
Behind, a fierce battle was raging for the minor places. Westwood, who began the day nine shots back in third, had the wind knocked out of his sails when he found the water on the sixth, while Frederik Jacobson was flying until he four-putted the 12th green.
Chappell and Garrigus launched late surges, while Yang, playing with McIlroy in the final group, slipped back with two bogeys in his last four holes.
Day had a bogey-free round to secure his second successive runner-up spot in majors, while Sergio Garcia (70) and Peter Hanson (67) both dropped back to five under late on.
Masters champion Charl Schwartzel (66) and fellow South African Louis Oosthuizen (67), the Open champion, were tied ninth at five under.
McDowell (69) ended in a tie for 14th at two under, with England's world number one Luke Donald (69) five over and five-time US Open runner-up Phil Mickelson (71) seven over.
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Jamey Osborne fired the visitors in front early on, before doubling the lead from the edge of the box.
Danny Hylton pulled one back after Jack Marriott's pass, and Jonny Mullins slotted in an equaliser soon after.
Luton dominated from then on, with two goals each from Jack Marriott and Stephen O'Donnell ensuring a comfortable finish for the hosts.
The Moors had reached the second round for the first time in their nine-year history with a penalty shootout victory at Yeovil in the first round, and seemed set to go even further when Solihull-born Osborne placed his second goal into the bottom corner.
But the visitors were unable to match Luton in the second half, as the Hatters advanced to the third round for the fourth time in their past five attempts.
Match ends, Luton Town 6, Solihull Moors 2.
Second Half ends, Luton Town 6, Solihull Moors 2.
Attempt missed. Jamey Osborne (Solihull Moors) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Isaac Vassell (Luton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jordan Fagbola (Solihull Moors).
Goal! Luton Town 6, Solihull Moors 2. Jack Marriott (Luton Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Cameron McGeehan.
Attempt missed. Akwasi Asante (Solihull Moors) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Goal! Luton Town 5, Solihull Moors 2. Stephen O'Donnell (Luton Town) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner.
Foul by Alan Sheehan (Luton Town).
Jordan Gough (Solihull Moors) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Jack Marriott (Luton Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Jordan Gough.
Foul by Dan Potts (Luton Town).
Shepherd Murombedzi (Solihull Moors) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Liam Daly.
Foul by Cameron McGeehan (Luton Town).
Jamey Osborne (Solihull Moors) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Darryl Knights replaces Eddie Jones.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Harry White replaces Omari Sterling-James.
Substitution, Luton Town. Isaac Vassell replaces Danny Hylton.
Foul by Scott Cuthbert (Luton Town).
Jordan Fagbola (Solihull Moors) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Jordan Gough.
Attempt saved. Jack Marriott (Luton Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
(Luton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jamey Osborne (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jamey Osborne (Solihull Moors).
Attempt saved. Jack Marriott (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Luton Town. Dan Potts replaces Alex Gilliead because of an injury.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Charlie Morris replaces Connor Franklin.
Attempt missed. Alex Gilliead (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt saved. Omari Sterling-James (Solihull Moors) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Jack Byrne (Solihull Moors) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Glen Rea (Luton Town).
Jamey Osborne (Solihull Moors) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Solihull Moors. Conceded by Scott Cuthbert.
Foul by Cameron McGeehan (Luton Town).
Jamey Osborne (Solihull Moors) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Jamey Osborne (Solihull Moors) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Omari Sterling-James (Solihull Moors) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
After his 13-9 defeat, Allen bemoaned a failure to prepare for morning sessions in the marathon Sheffield tournament.
"I don't practise at 10 o'clock in the morning. I didn't get started until 12 o'clock today," said Allen on Saturday.
However, Allen released a statement on Sunday directed at "anyone questioning my commitment".
"People who take everything I said in last night's press conference literally need to get a life," said Allen's statement.
"Some things are said in jest. I'd be pretty confident there aren't many players out there who work as hard as I do on the table.
"I am working hard to get things right off it too. Few days off and I'll be back practising as I KNOW I have the game to win."
In his post-match news conference on Saturday night, Allen also said he was attempting to lose weight in order to boost his ability to perform in the major tournaments.
"I've lost a stone and half since the Masters. There's maybe another seven [stone] to go. I'll just keep working hard."
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The Northern Irishman led four-time world champion Higgins 5-3 after a brilliant opening session on Friday only for the Scot, 41, to dominate Saturday's morning play as he moved 9-7 up, before going on to close out the match.
Immediately after Saturday's defeat, world number 11 Allen said: "It's my own fault. I don't prepare properly for these tournaments.
"Twelve o'clock is normally the time when I'm getting up and lazing about the house," continued Allen, who has won three ranking tournaments in his 12-year professional career.
"You need to prepare in all facets. Not just working on the table but working on the table at the right times. I just wasn't prepared for a 10 o'clock match."
When asked whether he would address the morning session issue in the future, Allen replied: "Probably not."
In Sunday's statement, Allen also said his attempts to get Terry Griffiths back on board as his coach had been rebuffed by the Welshman after they had been unable to agree financial terms.
"Terry approached me in February about wanting me back. I obviously said as I view him as the best coach in the business that I was interested.
"I told him I had missed working with him. I said that I would like to review the normal contract and have it more performance-based so we both had to earn our money.
"I offered him three different contracts which were all financially better for him. He turned down all three.
"I confided a lot of things in Terry as I always viewed him as family, not just a coach.
"[But] taking weeks to respond and then to point blank say 'no, we're doing it this way or nor way' wasn't good enough for me."
A banjo, accordion, double bass, violin, guitar, trumpet, mandolin, drums, marching drums, a mini piano, a saw and a broom are all used in creating their distinctive sound.
Musically speaking, comparisons could be made to Zach Condon's Beirut, but that would be omitting Three Beards' desire to play music influenced by events close to home.
"We're into this whole Eastern Anglian tradition," said James Barnard, who plays banjo.
"The Darkness did a song about Black Shuck and we're trying to mine that bestial dark heart of East Anglia, using DIY products."
James is one of the three founding members of the band. And yes, they all had beards.
When they were offered their first gig as a three piece the name seemed like a good idea, and it has stuck despite their numbers swelling.
Double bass player Sue Hewlett was next to join.
"A few of us were at Norwich Arts School together - lots of us have London connections but we're grounded in Suffolk," she said.
It can be difficult to co-ordinate the schedules of eight band members but they manage to get together for a weekly practice in London.
Gigs are less regular, but the band aim to make each one memorable.
"When we do live shows we do a procession and a march and base that on East Anglian morris traditions, like the straw bear or Plough Monday and we'll pagan it up a bit," said Simon.
"We got a bit fed up with people saying we're klezmer music or gypsy music, so we invented our own tradition."
Sue added: "We had one gig over Christmas where we got our good friend Elliott to wear a bear suit.
"We strapped lots of foliage to him and he was lead along with a lead or a chain. Lots of people were burning hands full of joss sticks and there were some pyrotechnics."
Simon said: "We're hoping after a few years it will become a proper tradition and Eastern Anglian will be at Cecil Sharp House or something."
"And we don't play Suffolk enough," said James. "We want to put the 'folk' in 'Suffolk'."
Three Beards performed live for BBC Introducing in Suffolk on 31 March, 2011.
You can listen to their session and interview by downloading the podcast - available for a month after the show was broadcast.
The country's President Htin Kyaw visited the area on Thursday to see the damage and discuss how to repair it with local officials.
Bagan's spectacular plain has more than 2,200 pagodas, temples, monasteries and other structures on it, most left over from the city's heyday in the 11th-13th century, when it was the capital of the regions that went on to form modern Myanmar.
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The east Antrim club finished top of the Irish League's second flight after a nervy 1-0 win over relegated Dundela.
Carrick ended the 26-match campaign two points ahead of second-placed Bangor who beat Lisburn Distillery 3-0.
Bangor will now face Warrenpoint Town, who finished one from bottom in the Premiership, in the two-legged promotion/relegation play-off.
For champions Carrick, it is a return to the top division after a three-year absence having been relegated in 2012.
It was skipper Aaron Harmon who settled their nerves on Saturday with the opening goal against bottom club Dundela at Taylor's Avenue.
Harmon stroked the ball home at the back post in the 11th minute to send Rangers on their way to the vital victory.
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It proved to be the only goal of the game as an anxious Carrick missed a number of chances to double their advantage.
Carrick end the season unbeaten at home in the league, winning 12 matches and drawing the other.
Bangor, who could have snatched the title and automatic promotion if Carrick had failed to win, kept up the pressure by winning away to Lisburn Distillery.
Dean Youle headed the Seasiders into a 17th-minute lead after Mark Cooling's volley had struck the Distillery crossbar.
Andy Hall scored a close-range goal early in the second half and Jordan Forsythe headed in from Hall's corner to make it 3-0.
Ards, who started the day in third and hoping to overhaul neighbours Bangor, ended the season with 1-1 draw away to Ballyclare Comrades.
Stephen O'Neill scored for Niall Currie's side in the 40th minute at Dixon Park with Andrew Doyle netting the Comrades equaliser with a free-kick in the second half.
The sharp drop came one day after the struggling smartphone maker reported a record quarterly loss.
For the three months to June, losses hit 8bn Taiwanese dollars (£163m; $253m) from Tw$2.26bn a year earlier.
A pioneer of early Android smartphones, HTC is struggling with competition from Apple, Samsung and Chinese rivals.
The company also said the outlook was weak for the next quarter with revenues expected to fall.
Friday's shares tumble saw the company stocks fall by 10%, which is the maximum allowed on one day. Shares fell to their lowest since February 2005.
The disappointing results were triggered by "weaker than expected demand at the high end along with weak sales in China", the firm said in a statement.
The company also said it would cut jobs and discontinue some of its models to focus more on high-end devices.
"HTC has begun to implement company-wide efficiency measures to reduce operating costs across the organisation and ensure resources are appropriately allocated to future growth," the statement said.
The smartphone maker has been losing market share over the past years, hit by strong competition at the top-end of the market from the likes of Apple and Samsung, while cheaper Chinese rivals have affected HTC's low-cost offerings.
At least two senior officials and nine attackers are reported dead but the security minister told the BBC the situation was "under control".
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has told the UN envoy to Somalia he was not harmed, envoy Nick Kay has tweeted.
The al-Qaeda-linked group al-Shabab has said it carried out the attack.
BBC Somalia analyst Mohamed Mohamed says this is the first time that al-Shabab fighters have entered the presidential palace, known as Villa Somalia.
The heavily guarded complex is home to the president, prime minister, speaker of parliament, other ministers and a mosque, which was hit during the attack.
The president was preparing for Friday prayers at the mosque, senior police officer Abdikadir Ahmed told Reuters news agency.
Some of the attackers were wearing suicide vests, police sources have told the BBC.
Another police officer, Hussein Farah, told Reuters there were about 10 assailants, wearing uniforms similar to that of the presidential guards.
"All the Shabab fighters perished, some blew up themselves while others were shot dead. Several government guards also died," he said.
"Now the fighting is over, and scattered on the scene is human flesh and blood."
Security Minister Abdi Karim Hussein told the BBC Somali service that all of the country's leaders were safe.
Senior officials in the prime minister's office and security services are said to have been killed.
Al-Shabab military spokesman Sheikh Abdul Aziz Abu Musab said militants were still in control of some buildings inside the presidential compound.
"Our commandos have attacked the so-called presidential palace in order to kill or arrest those who who are inside," he told the AFP news agency.
Mr Kay said the attack on Villa Somalia had "failed".
"Sadly some lives lost. I condemn strongly this terrorism," he said.
Al-Shabab was driven out of Mogadishu in 2011 but it still controls many smaller towns and rural areas of the country and stages periodic attacks in Mogadishu.
Some 22,000 African Union troops are helping the government battle al-Shabab.
There are few open public records of an event that is seared into the memories of those who survived this largely man-made disaster.
A documentary maker now hopes to redress that imbalance by collecting the stories of hundreds of people who lived through the famine.
He has sent young film-makers across China to video the survivors' testimonies.
Some of those videos have already been shown to the public in screenings at the 798 arts district on the outskirts of Beijing.
Stories are still being collected and the long-term aim is to bring all these video memories together.
Wu Wenguang, the man behind the project, said: "If we don't know about the past, then there will be no future."
Armed with video cameras, Mr Wu's researchers have already travelled to 50 villages in 10 provinces across China.
So far they have collected more than 600 memories from the famine, the result of a disastrous political campaign launched by Mao Zedong.
The Great Leap Forward was supposed to propel China into a new age of communism and plenty - but it failed spectacularly.
Agriculture was disrupted as private property was abolished and people were forced into supposedly self-sufficient communes.
Interviews for this new project reveal that even though the famine happened a long time ago - between late 1958 and 1962 - memories are still sharp.
Those interviewed seem to remember exactly how many grams of rice they were allocated in the period's communal kitchens.
It was sometimes as low as 150g a day, occasionally they got nothing.
Just one of those featured in the public screenings was Li Guocheng, a pensioner from the village of Baiyun in Yunnan province.
He told the story of a relative who was so hungry that he stole a few ears of corn and took them home to cook.
"After he ate them he was caught and tied up with a vine. They bound him to a post at his house," said Mr Li.
But the next day he said the relative did the same again. He was once more caught and once more tied up as punishment.
His 10-year-old daughter was told not to release him.
"The next day he didn't steal again. He stayed home, put a rope over the beam of his house and hanged himself. He was so miserable," said Mr Li.
The researcher who recorded this story is Li Xinmin.
The 23-year-old comes from the same Yunnan village as Mr Li, but it was not until she went back there to video its elderly residents that she realised the full horror of the famine.
"Only occasionally would older people talk about these bitter times - when they had to eat wild vegetables or other stuff that humans wouldn't usually eat," she said.
The 23-year-old is now finding out about a famine she learned little about in school.
Calculating how many people died is difficult. Not every government organisation kept accurate records at the time and there is little official appetite to investigate this dark episode in China's modern history.
One Chinese textbook used to teach teenage schoolchildren makes little attempt to explain what happened and why so many people died.
"The party made a serious mistake when it launched the Great Leap Forward and the commune movement as it attempted to build socialism," reads one of the few statements on this period.
Tens of millions of people died, but the book mentions no numbers.
It does not even say people did die - just that the country and its people faced "serious economic hardship".
The only illustration on the page is a poster of an overweight pig.
China is reluctant to talk about this period because those in charge then - the communists - are still in charge now.
To unpick what went on then might encourage people to talk about how the country is ruled today - and that is something the party strongly resists.
Mr Wu, the man in charge of this memory project, thinks Chinese people should know more about the famine.
"We have to know why it happened and what lessons we can learn from it. We have to be warned so it doesn't happen again," he said.
But getting people to talk publicly about it will not be easy.
Mr Wu himself seems aware of just how sensitive this subject still is, decades after it happened.
The title of his project does not mention the word "famine" or the phrase "Great Leap Forward" and he is keen to emphasise that this is an arts project, not a political campaign.
He knows there is little prospect that the current communist-controlled government will suddenly want to look again at this famine.
"Maybe we can change nothing, but at least we can change ourselves," said Mr Wu.
Harold Burnett, 81, of Lytham Road, Moss Side, Lytham was convicted of 18 sexual offences after a trial at Preston Crown Court.
The offences took place when the victims were aged between four and 10-years-old, police said.
Passing sentence, Judge Robert Altham, said Burnett had shown "no remorse".
He said: "You abused these children without humility, pity or compassion.
"In the course of doing that you systematically shattered their lives without so much as a backwards glance for what must only have been your warped need for sexual gratification."
Burnett was convicted of 18 specimen counts reflecting almost a decade of abuse, despite having denied the charges.
Judge Altham said Burnett "committed something like 2,000 sexual offences in relation to these children" adding "it is a further tragedy that you do not have the courage to admit what you have done".
Lisa Worsley, prosecuting, read a statement from one of the victims in which he said "the abuse has had a very negative impact on him. He turned into someone without emotion."
Louise Blackwell QC, defending, said Burnett will be a particularly vulnerable inmate due to his age and a number of health difficulties including heart problems and hearing loss.
She said: "He is shrinking within himself. He is likely to die in prison."
She added there was no evidence of continuing sexual interest in children and when Burnett's computer equipment was seized there was no inappropriate material discovered.
But the judge said: "Had these sentences been committed in modern times, the maximum sentences would be far higher and the sentences you would have received would be longer."
Madeleine Bridle said the wall, which runs behind gardens in a cul-de-sac, was "integral" to Blandford Forum.
The town council had decided to replace the section with a wooden fence due to its poor condition.
Historic England said the entire wall, cemetery gateway and two chapels had been granted a Grade ll listing.
The wall, which was built in the mid-1800s, has been damaged by the roots of several lime and sycamore trees which are subject to preservation orders, Blandford Town Council said.
The authority said it had made a failed attempt to list the chapels following an arson attack in September 2013.
It had planned to replace the wall with a wooden fence at a cost of £13,525, some of which would be offset by the sale of the bricks.
Ms Bridle, who lodged the application, said: "Why should we sell town property?"
"We don't want a fence replacing this beautiful 19th Century brick wall.
"It is integral to the character of the town."
Blandford town clerk Linda Scott-Giles said the wall would now be preserved.
She said a builder originally contracted to repair one section had given an estimate of £150,000 to rebuild the entire wall.
She said: "This is money we do not have. I don't know what we're going to do.
"We may have to put buttresses in people's gardens, but that's not something residents will want."
Fuel costs for the year were down 6.3%, and would have been 17.2% lower, but for a rise in the value of the dollar.
IAG reports figures in euros but buys its fuel in dollars. Over the year the euro fell in value against the dollar.
IAG said it had "undoubtedly been a good year".
However, it added it had also been challenging because of the big movements in the currency and fuel markets and that "the benefits gained from lower fuel prices have been partially offset by the stronger US dollar".
The price of oil has dropped around 50% over the year.
IAG, whose airlines also include Vueling and Aer Lingus, said it was expecting next year's full-year profit to show similar growth to this year's. The company said it was on course to make an operating profit of €3.2bn next year.
A number of top 100 UK company heads have been giving their views this week as to whether or not the UK should stay in the European Union.
Willie Walsh, IAG's chief executive told the BBC he didn't think it would make much difference one way or the other to his business: "We've undertaken a risk analysis and we don't believe a vote will have a material impact on our business."
He also repeated his previous view on the chances of a third runway at Heathrow, saying he did not think one would be built because the government continued to delay decision making.
"We just got an army of people and many women who left their kitchens to go out and go door to door and to put yard signs up for me," he said, reflecting on his first public test in the 1970s.
His remarks were to a crowd of about 1,000 at a town hall in Virginia.
One woman in the audience issued an immediate challenge to his comments.
"First off, I want to say: Your comment earlier about the women came out of the kitchen to support you? I'll come to support you but I won't be coming out of the kitchen."
"I gotcha," John Kasich replied.
But the reaction on Twitter came swiftly.
Some of his critics did not realise he was talking about 1976.
That's because the first clips to emerge of his comments did not contain the context.
A spokesman for John Kasich came out to defend his remarks, describing the Ohio governor's campaigns as "home-grown affairs".
"They've literally been run out of his friends' kitchens and many of his early campaign teams were made up of stay-at-home moms who believed deeply in the changes he wanted to bring to them and their families. That's real grassroots campaigning and he's proud of that authentic support," Rob Nichols said.
And how many women were employed in 1976? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 43% of women over 16 (and 72% of men) were in the workforce. It is now about 58% (69% for men).
This is not the first time the second-term governor has come under fire for comments made about women.
In October, an 18-year-old female university student hit back at Mr Kasich in a Huffington Post column after he responded to her request for a question by saying: "I'm sorry, I don't have any Taylor Swift concert tickets."
At another rally in November, he asked a woman "have you ever been on a diet?" in response to a question about balancing budgets.
Mr Kasich's latest comments recall those made by Mitt Romney during his unsuccessful run for the Republican nomination against Barack Obama in 2012.
The former governor of Massachusetts turned into an internet meme for saying his aides had presented him with "whole binders full of women" when asked to see more female candidates and pay equality during the second presidential debate.
On Sunday, Mr Kasich's signing of a bill that blocks government funding in Ohio for Planned Parenthood - a healthcare not-for-profit organisation - drew strong condemnation from the Democratic party.
John Kasich, who has been endorsed by the New York Times, has vowed continue his campaign despite placing a disappointing fifth in the third Republican presidential test in South Carolina on Saturday.
"We're getting big crowds everywhere we go," he said on Monday.
The result comes two weeks after he finished second in the New Hampshire presidential primary. He is now pinning his hopes in Vermont, Massachusetts and Virginia in a bid to garner votes among mainstream Republicans.
Now, ahead of the budget on 16 March, the pensions industry is again on the edge of its seat.
Amongst the rumours: The chancellor is about to abolish the 25% tax-free lump sum; the maximum annual contribution could be cut to as low as £25,000; or the whole tax relief system could be abolished, in favour of an Isa-style system of tax upfront, but tax free on the way out.
So what are the chancellor's options - and which is he likely to favour?
At the moment, basic rate taxpayers who pay into a pension get 20% tax relief. Higher rate taxpayers get 40% - and top rate taxpayers get 45%.
But higher rate tax relief costs the Treasury some £7bn a year, and clearly favours the well-off.
Replacing this with flat-rate relief would be beneficial to most workers, AND save the government money.
The lower the figure is set, the better off the Treasury would be, but the smaller the benefit to savers. Options being talked about are 25%, 30%, 33% or, if the chancellor was in generous mood, even 35%.
But, as has been pointed out vehemently by the pensions industry, higher and top rate taxpayers stand to lose.
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has lobbied hard for this solution, calling it a "savers' bonus". But The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has said it would produce little benefit to basic rate taxpayers, especially if set at 25%.
Clearly basic rate taxpayers would gain from a flat rate of tax relief, while higher and top rate taxpayers would lose out.
But even under the current system, calculating tax relief is a complex matter.
Suppose John, a basic rate taxpayer, wants to contribute £8,000 into his pension. To earn that sum, he would have been paid £10,000 gross - ie before tax. The difference - £2000 - is what he gets back in tax relief. £2000 is 20% of the gross, or pre-tax, amount.
If John were a 40% taxpayer he would need to make only a £6,000 net payment for a gross contribution of £10,000. His tax relief would be £4,000.
The table below provides an indication of how much John would stand to win or lose if we changed to a flat rate system.
Top rate taxpayers (45%) stand to lose even more.
One idea the Treasury has examined is to make pensions like Individual Savings Accounts, or Isas.
Pension savers currently pay no tax on money they put into a pension, but they do pay tax on the money they take out.
An Isa system would be the opposite: Income tax would be paid before the money was saved, but it would be tax-free when taken out.
If this was chosen, the current 25% tax-free lump sum would also disappear.
The huge advantage to this from the Treasury's point of view is that the government would immediately save billions of pounds in up-front tax relief.
But to run an Isa system alongside the current system would be horribly complex.
And there would be no immediate incentive to encourage people to save more, as the tax benefits would only occur after they had retired.
While the former pensions minister, Steve Webb, thinks this option is still a strong possibility, in practice it is unlikely.
After all, the title of the Treasury's consultation is: "Strengthening the incentive to save". Furthermore one Treasury minister confirmed to the BBC that this will be the main focus of the changes.
The amount anyone can save into a pension - and get tax relief - is already capped in two regards:
Cutting these limits further would save the Treasury more money.
Tom McPhail, pensions expert with Hargreaves Lansdown, thinks a reduction to the Annual Allowance is "highly likely, possibly down to as low as £25,000".
But reducing it would be difficult for savers who make large contributions near retirement, to catch up on earlier under-funding.
As for the Lifetime Allowance, Mr McPhail describes it as a "perverse irrelevance", but believes the government may be reluctant to give it up.
Many employers offer their staff "salary sacrifice". Employees agree to take a smaller salary, in return for increased benefits, including pension contributions.
This can mean the employee pays less income tax, while the employer saves on National Insurance contributions.
This is widely seen as a loophole, which costs the Treasury a significant amount of revenue. The chancellor could well decide to abolish it, or place restrictions on the way it operates.
After an eight-month Treasury consultation - which has the potential to save the government money and improve fairness - it is unlikely the chancellor would choose this option.
"Incredulity meters would explode, jaws would drop and hats would be eaten," says Tom McPhail.
But equally well, the chancellor may decide not to do anything too radical. Last year's pension reforms are still bedding in, and the government's big idea of auto enrolment has a long way to go.
Many small employers, and workers, are struggling to understand those changes. The last thing they want - or the industry can stand - will be another upheaval of the pensions system.
New York Congressman Sean Maloney shared a gleeful selfie...
...while Senator Bob Menendez suggested Republicans had got a taste of their own medicine.
California congressman Adam Schiff mocked Mr Trump for blaming the Democrats for the bill's failure - despite the Republicans controlling both the House and the Senate.
Former president Barack Obama's spokesman didn't bother with words - but tweeted an old photo of Mr Obama celebrating.
But Minnesota congressman and senior Democrat Keith Ellison pointed out that one reason the bill failed was because some Republicans felt it did not roll back enough of Mr Obama's Affordable Care Act.
Hillary Clinton, who lost the presidential race to Mr Trump, also celebrated, but warned that the fight wasn't over:
Republicans, for their part, were more sombre on Twitter.
Senator Lindsey Graham had a warning for the happy Democrats:
Alabama congressman Bradley Byrne said Democrats wouldn't be celebrating after Obamacare fell apart:
Utah congresswoman Mia Love said she had worked with President Trump to make the bill as good as she could.
Meanwhile, congressmen Bruce Poliquin and Darrell Issa criticised Obamacare - but said Mr Trump's healthcare bill wasn't the right solution.
The pair, who meet at London's O2 Arena on 4 March, went head-to-head before Haye reacted to a shove from Bellew.
WBC cruiserweight champion Bellew, 34, had previously taunted 36-year-old Haye after retaining his title by knocking out BJ Flores in October.
"He's unbelievable, the biggest diva boxing has ever seen," said Bellew.
Haye returned to the ring in January after a three-and-a-half-year absence with a knockout win over Mark de Mori, before beating Arnold Gjergjaj in May.
The Londoner has been mentioned as potential opponent for IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.
"You could be fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world, but you're fighting me," added Bellew, who will step up to heavyweight for the first time. "And you know why? For the money. You're skint."
Liverpudlian Bellew also had time away from the ring - to play a supporting role in the Rocky spin-off Creed - before winning the world title with a third-round knockout of Ilunga Makabu at Goodison Park in May.
He added: "You were giving tickets away outside [at your last two fights]. You're struggling, and you don't want a real fight."
The £44m centre received the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors award, which recognises projects with innovation and community benefits.
It was praised for its "precise and beautifully detailed multi-sensory design".
A prison, chapel and a castle visitor centre were also recognised.
Cubric brings together four hi-tech scanners under one roof and is considered a centre of excellence for brain imaging and a world-leader for research in psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience.
The centre, which also won the Design Through Innovation category, also houses brain stimulation equipment, sleep laboratories and drug trial facilities.
RICS judges said it "exquisitely embraces a cluster of unique brain imaging scanners, with the surrounding building design harmoniously reflecting the neuroscience work".
They added: "Precise and beautifully detailed multi-sensory design generates an intuitive rhythm throughout. Interconnected functions, from world-class scanning through research, to sleep laboratories intertwine creatively, maximising purpose with invisible user-enhancing design."
Other winners included:
All winners will now compete at the RICS Awards Grand Final on 2 November in London, for the chance to be crowned the overall UK winner in their respective category.
More than 374 bombs, including cluster bombs, were dropped in 67 locations between January and April, killing at least 35 people, the human rights group said.
Sudan's army has not yet commented on the allegations.
It has been battling rebels demanding more rights for the region since 2011.
At least 1.4 million people, or a third of South Kordofan's population, have fled their homes because of the conflict, Amnesty said in a report.
African Union chief mediator Thabo Mbeki is currently in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, where he is expected to discuss the conflict with government officials, the AFP news agency reports.
"War crimes cannot be allowed to be committed with impunity and a population facing a protracted humanitarian crisis can no longer be ignored by the world," Amnesty said.
It added that its research team had visited South Kordofan, and found cluster munitions at four sites.
"The use of prohibited weapons - such as cluster bombs - launched from high-flying aircraft has resulted in civilian casualties," the group said.
Children had been killed playing with unexploded ordinance, Amnesty added.
Sudan's government has previously accused the rebels, the Sudan People's Liberation Army-North, of being backed by neighbouring South Sudan, which became independent in 2011.
South Sudan denied the allegation.
The conflict has been fuelled by grievances among non-Arab groups over what they see as neglect and discrimination by the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum.
Injuries have limited 27-year-old Sturridge to 46 league appearances in the past three seasons.
"He is in good physical shape, absolutely," said Klopp, who took over at Anfield in October 2015.
"Daniel could be part of the full pre-season so far so that's very important. It's looking good."
He added: "[Pre-season] was quite intense, especially in England. He was part of pretty much each session so it's good."
Liverpool have been linked with RB Leipzig midfielder Naby Keita but Klopp would not be drawn on any move for the 22-year-old Guinea international.
"Nothing new to say about this," said the German.
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The inaugural 20-over tournament last summer, won by Southern Vipers, was widely seen as a success.
After a consultation with the six teams involved, the England and Wales Cricket Board has decided to focus resources on developing the T20 version.
In addition, the 2017 World Cup in England hinders the availability of overseas players.
The 50-over competition was due to take place before the World Cup, which runs from 26 June to 23 July, with the 20-over tournament still set for the two-week timeslot it filled last August.
ECB director of women's cricket Clare Connor said: "It had been our intention to introduce a 50-over version of the Super League in 2017, but the success of the first edition of the T20 competition has given us a new lens to reassess this."
Since the completion of the first tournament, the ECB has undertaken a review involving "hosts, players, partners and internal colleagues", and a "unanimous decision" has been taken for the Super League to remain in its current format.
The maiden 20-over tournament attracted an average attendance of more than 1,000 people across its 15 fixtures.
"The 2016 competition exceeded all of our expectations," said Super League general manager Jo Kirk.
"We now have a great opportunity to build on this relationship and create an even bigger fan base for the women's game."
There is no new target date for the launch of the 50-over competition.
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The man, 42, masqueraded as the Canadian singer to gain explicit images from children, Queensland Police said.
He was charged with 931 crimes, including three of rape, involving 157 alleged victims across the globe.
Detective Inspector Jon Rouse called the allegations "frankly horrendous" and warned young fans of the singer and parents to be vigilant.
"The fact that so many children could believe that they were communicating with this particular celebrity highlights the need for a serious rethink about the way that we as a society educate our children about online safety," said Mr Rouse.
Queensland Police confirmed the investigation also involved international authorities. According to local media they are German police and US Homeland Security.
Of the alleged victims, 50 were in the US, up to 20 were in the UK and six were in Australia, police said. More precise information was still being gathered.
The man was already facing charges in Queensland of possessing exploitative material and grooming children, but the 931 charges were added this week after police searched his computer.
He had been using "multiple online platforms" including Facebook and Skype to communicate with children, police said.
The fresh claims, dating back to 2007, include three charges of rape and five of indecently treating a child under 12.
Mr Rouse said the allegations showed "the global reach and skill that child sex offenders have to groom and seduce victims".
He urged parents to help keep children safe online.
The accused man will face a Brisbane court on 6 April.
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Pressure has grown on the UK to take more of the people fleeing from Syria.
It follows scenes of bodies of Greece-bound migrants, including a three-year-old boy, washed up on a Turkish beach..
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said Northern Ireland "could take a couple of thousand refugees" at first.
Justin Kouame works for the Northern Ireland Community of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (NICRAS), which currently has about 500 members.
"They come here every day, it's like a sanctuary for them. They will get advice and support," he said.
"This humanitarian crisis brings back memories.
"And you know if people come here it will put a lot of pressure on small organisations like NICRAS. We cannot prepare for it, we just have to wait and see what's going to happen next."
He said a lot would depend on the goodwill and generosity of local people.
"People taking boats, some of them don't even know how to swim, but they're risking their lives like we saw yesterday on TV, losing a member of your family or your child," he said.
"This is a drastic situation for someone to put themselves into."
Jeffrey Donaldson, DUP, said: ""We have a history in Northern Ireland... one thinks of the Vietnamese boat people or the people from Hong Kong who came and settled. When it comes to refugees, people fleeing religious persecution, we need to make a distinction between that and what are called economic migrants.
"We are talking about people who have been driven from their own country because of religious hatred. We have a tradition of opening our country to such people and we should do it."
Belfast Lord Mayor Arder Carson, Sinn Féin, has called on everyone in the city to show support for people caught up in the refugee crisis engulfing Europe.
He urged people to go to a vigil on Monday at the City Hall at 17:00 BST, which, he said, would "underline the city's reputation for compassion and generosity and willingness to help others".
"These are real people, it is a humanitarian tragedy, and the untold suffering that they are enduring in the 21st century is almost beyond belief," he said.
"We have consulted with the agencies working with the refugees and they have made it clear that it is too difficult logistically to send goods such as blankets, clothes and food, what is really required is money."
On Friday, children from a Londonderry school - St Oliver Plunkett Primary School - sold vegetables from the school garden to raise funds for Syrian refugees.
David McNarry, UKIP, said it was important to ask how Northern Ireland would cope with an influx of refugees.
"Are we going to bring people in to give them shelter, heat and food? There is nobody who would say: 'I wouldn't do that'," he said.
"But are we going to give them permanent residence? Where will the houses come from, where will the jobs come from and where will the school places be found eventually? How will that sit with people who, today, in my country, are looking for a job or they are waiting on a house and they are unable to get their child the school place that they want?"
Sami Ibrahim, who came to Northern Ireland from southern Sudan six years ago, said more people will come from Syria because of the violence there.
"People here, they struggle and the refugees they already struggle, so everyone's going to pay the price, all of us," he said.
Meanwhile, Irish Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald said the Republic of Ireland may take in 1,800 refugees.
Last winter, English Heritage chose to close Clifford's Tower on winter weekdays in response to a 32% cut in its government grant.
The organisation said it had decided to keep the attraction open daily after reviewing demand at its sites.
Local tourist body, Visit York, is supporting the move.
Visit York is currently running a "Wrapped Up" campaign to encourage people to visit the city during the winter months.
Clifford's Tower was built in 1068 in the reign of William the Conqueror.
It has served as a prison and a royal mint, as well as the place where Henry VIII had the bodies of his enemies put on public display.
Liz Page, from English Heritage, said: "Having reviewed last winter's season and the demand at all our properties, Clifford's Tower in York will now be open throughout the winter.
"We recognise we need to play a full part in supporting York as a year-round tourist destination and we're very much looking forward to welcoming thousands more visitors to enjoy the best views of York seven days a week over the coming months."
Malala, 15, who campaigns for girls' education, says the memoir is her own story and that of millions of others denied the chance to go to school.
She was shot by a Taliban gunman in her home region of Swat.
She and her family now live in the British city of Birmingham where she has been receiving treatment.
The book, titled I am Malala, is scheduled for publication in the autumn.
"I hope the book will reach people around the world, so they realise how difficult it is for some children to get access to education," she said.
"I want to tell my story, but it will also be the story of 61 million children who can't get education.
"I want it to be part of the campaign to give every boy and girl the right to go to school. It is their basic right."
Publishers Weidenfeld and Nicolson say that her memoir will tell what happened on the day she was shot "and the inspiring story of her determination not be intimidated by extremists".
It will also be about the schoolgirl's family, who "gave her remarkable courage".
Malala writes in the memoir that Tuesday 9 October 2012 was "not the best of days as it was the middle of school exams - though as a bookish girl I don't mind them as much as my friends do".
At the time of the attack she was "squashed between friends and teachers on the benches of the open-back truck used as a school bus".
The gunman walked onto the vehicle and shot her in the face at point-blank range.
Since the shooting and her recovery after treatment in Pakistan and the UK, Malala has received numerous peace awards around the world.
Her father has been appointed a UN educational advisor, and 12 July has been designated by the United Nations as Malala Day.
The Malala Fund, set up on behalf of her and her family, is dedicated to the education and empowerment of girls in Pakistan and around the world.
Ellis Downes, 16, from Harwell near Didcot, disappeared while playing in the water with friends at Culham, near Abingdon, on Saturday evening.
His sister Alex told the BBC her family had been warned to expect the worst.
"It's just a horrible waiting game," she said. "We need as many people as possible to help find him."
Ms Downes said her brother had disappeared under the water after becoming tired while trying to swim back across the river, according to the friends he was with.
"One of his friends jumped in to try and save him," she said. "Now family and friends, everyone from Facebook is out searching."
The police launched a full-scale search with boats and divers, but Ms Downes said this had now been scaled back.
She said: "That's why I'm appealing for help, because we need as many people as possible to help find him.
"[The police] are fearing the worst and thinking it might be more of a recovery of the body."
She described the circumstances of his disappearance as "strange" because "it was so out of character... he wasn't a good swimmer at all".
She added: "He was scared of deep water, so that's why it's so unbelievable for us."
Thames Valley Police has blamed "poor visibility" in the river as having "hampered" underwater searches for Ellis.
Supt Rory Freeman said: "We are seeking support from other forces for a specialist dive team to continue with the search of the river itself.
"Road closures are in place nearby to allow the search to continue and the river is closed to all boat traffic between Abingdon lock and Culham lock."
Family friend Theresa James said Ellis's mother was "absolutely devastated, his dad is heartbroken".
"Everyone's just in limbo, they can't move forward from this until he's out of the water."
Another friend of the family, Sharon Russell, said: "I'm really angry. There's no resources down here.
"I know there are cutbacks… but there should be divers in that water."
Martin Hogan, who has helped search the river, said: "It's not on, it's all wrong… all the friends had to chip in and hire a boat out for ourselves. It's ridiculous."
Walters headed a Cesar Azpilicueta cross into his own net just before half-time and repeated his unwanted trick from a Juan Mata corner.
Frank Lampard made it 3-0 from the spot after Mata was fouled and Eden Hazard smashed in a fourth from 30 yards out.
Walters' misery was completed when he blasted a late penalty against the bar.
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The 29-year-old Republic of Ireland international has won plenty of plaudits for his play for the Potters this season but his 100th Premier League appearance turned into a memorable day for all the wrong reasons.
Chelsea move third in the table with what became a runaway victory but they were under the cosh for long spells early on and were grateful to assistant referee Sian Massey for correctly reversing a decision to award Stoke a penalty with the score at 1-0.
Referee Andre Marriner pointed to the spot when Azpilicueta slid in to bring down Matthew Etherington inside the area, but Massey had already flagged Etherington offside.
Three other players have scored two own goals in a single Premier League game - Gary Breen while playing for Coventry against Manchester United in 1997, Liverpool's Jamie Carragher against Manchester United in 1999 and Michael Proctor while playing for Sunderland against Charlton in 2003.
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Stoke, who have never beaten Chelsea at the Britannia Stadium, had begun the game brightly, bombarding the visitors with balls into the box and seeing Kenwyne Jones fire narrowly wide.
Demba Ba was making his Premier League debut for Chelsea but, in the early stages, he was busier in his own area and twice had to hack clear.
Ba, preferred to Fernando Torres up front, got more involved at the other end of the pitch as the half progressed.
He provided the flick for Lampard to burst into the area and bring a reflex save from Asmir Begovic, then ran clear himself to force another fine stop.
Then came Walters first faux pas, which saw him send a bullet header past Begovic as he tried to beat Mata to a cross.
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His second own goal came moments after Massey had denied Stoke a penalty. This time Walters beat Lampard to Mata's delivery and saw the ball bounce in.
Lampard's powerful spot-kick, from a penalty awarded when Robert Huth pushed Mata, left the home side with no way back.
Stoke's first home defeat in the league since February last year, and their heaviest at the Britannia Stadium since they returned to the top flight in 2008, was confirmed when Hazard span into space 30 yards from goal and unleashed an unstoppable shot into the top corner.
There was more good news for Chelsea when John Terry came off the bench with 10 minutes left for his first appearance in two months, but there was to be no happy ending for Walters.
He was fouled by Terry inside the area with only seconds to go and stepped up to take the spot-kick himself, only to slam it against the bar.
Full Time The referee ends the match.
The ball is delivered by Glenn Whelan, clearance by John Terry.
The ball is delivered by Michael Kightly, Ashley Cole gets a block in.
Power penalty missed by Jonathan Walters.
Foul by John Terry on Jonathan Walters, Penalty awarded.
Substitution Michael Kightly replaces Matthew Etherington.
Unfair challenge on David Luiz by Jonathan Walters results in a free kick. Direct free kick taken by David Luiz.
Short corner taken by Frank Lampard.
Substitution Paulo Ferreira replaces Cesar Azpilicueta.
Geoff Cameron sends in a cross, Petr Cech makes a save.
The referee blows for offside. Branislav Ivanovic restarts play with the free kick.
Frank Lampard takes a shot. Save by Asmir Begovic.
Substitution John Terry joins the action as a substitute, replacing Juan Mata.
Substitution Dean Whitehead is brought on as a substitute for Charlie Adam.
Substitution Kenwyne Jones goes off and Cameron Jerome comes on.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Fernando Torres by Robert Huth. Free kick taken by Juan Mata.
Shot from just outside the box by Charlie Adam goes over the target.
Assist by Juan Mata.
Goal! - Eden Hazard - Stoke 0 - 4 Chelsea Eden Hazard scores a goal from long range to the top left corner of the goal. Stoke 0-4 Chelsea.
Kenwyne Jones takes a shot. Branislav Ivanovic gets a block in.
Substitution Demba Ba goes off and Fernando Torres comes on.
Jonathan Walters concedes a free kick for a foul on Ryan Bertrand. David Luiz produces a strike on goal direct from the free kick.
Demba Ba takes a shot. Blocked by Robert Huth. Frank Lampard takes a shot. Save made by Asmir Begovic.
Juan Mata provided the assist for the goal.
Goal! - Frank Lampard - Stoke 0 - 3 Chelsea Penalty taken right-footed by Frank Lampard and scored. Stoke 0-3 Chelsea.
Foul by Ryan Shawcross on Juan Mata, Penalty awarded.
The assist for the goal came from Juan Mata.
Goal! - Jonathan Walters - Stoke 0 - 2 Chelsea Headed own goal by Jonathan Walters. Stoke 0-2 Chelsea.
Inswinging corner taken by Juan Mata from the right by-line.
Demba Ba gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Andy Wilkinson. Glenn Whelan takes the direct free kick.
The referee blows for offside. Free kick taken by Petr Cech.
Centre by Eden Hazard, Robert Huth makes a clearance.
David Luiz challenges Ryan Shawcross unfairly and gives away a free kick. Free kick taken by Asmir Begovic.
Inswinging corner taken by Matthew Etherington from the right by-line, save by Petr Cech.
Steven Nzonzi takes a shot. Petr Cech makes a save. Corner taken right-footed by Matthew Etherington from the right by-line, Robert Huth has a headed effort at goal from deep inside the area missing to the left of the target.
Steven Nzonzi fouled by Ryan Bertrand, the ref awards a free kick. Matthew Etherington crosses the ball in from the free kick.
Ashley Cole takes a shot. Save by Petr Cech. Corner taken short by Eden Hazard.
The referee blows for offside against Jonathan Walters. Branislav Ivanovic restarts play with the free kick.
Eden Hazard fouled by Robert Huth, the ref awards a free kick. Free kick taken by David Luiz.
The ball is swung over by Charlie Adam, David Luiz makes a clearance.
Steven Nzonzi has shot on goal from just outside the box which goes wide of the right-hand upright.
The assistant referee signals for offside against Juan Mata. Asmir Begovic restarts play with the free kick.
The second half kicks off.
Half Time The first half comes to an end.
Assist on the goal came from Cesar Azpilicueta.
Goal! - Jonathan Walters - Stoke 0 - 1 Chelsea Headed own goal by Jonathan Walters. Stoke 0-1 Chelsea.
Inswinging corner taken right-footed by Eden Hazard from the right by-line.
Steven Nzonzi is penalised for handball and concedes a free kick. Frank Lampard produces a shot on goal direct from the free kick.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Andy Wilkinson on Eden Hazard. Free kick crossed right-footed by Frank Lampard, Robert Huth manages to make a clearance.
Glenn Whelan takes a shot. Save by Petr Cech.
Shot by Ashley Cole from outside the box goes high over the target.
Short corner worked by Frank Lampard.
The free kick is swung in left-footed by Juan Mata, clearance by Ryan Shawcross.
Booking Andy Wilkinson goes into the referee's book for unsporting behaviour.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Andy Wilkinson on Eden Hazard.
Juan Mata sends in a cross, clearance made by Ryan Shawcross.
Geoff Cameron crosses the ball, clearance made by Branislav Ivanovic.
Shot from just outside the area by Eden Hazard goes over the bar.
Corner taken by Juan Mata from the left by-line, clearance by Kenwyne Jones.
Demba Ba takes a shot. Petr Cech makes a save.
Unfair challenge on Frank Lampard by Glenn Whelan results in a free kick. Free kick taken by Branislav Ivanovic.
Kenwyne Jones takes a shot. Petr Cech makes a save.
Andy Wilkinson challenges Eden Hazard unfairly and gives away a free kick. Branislav Ivanovic restarts play with the free kick.
Jonathan Walters fouled by Ryan Bertrand, the ref awards a free kick. Indirect free kick taken by Asmir Begovic.
Nascimento Ramires fouled by Steven Nzonzi, the ref awards a free kick. Free kick taken by Petr Cech.
Frank Lampard takes a shot. Asmir Begovic makes a brilliant save.
Effort from inside the area by Jonathan Walters misses to the left of the target.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Kenwyne Jones by Branislav Ivanovic. Glenn Whelan crosses the ball in from the free kick.
Glenn Whelan has an effort at goal from outside the box which goes wide right of the target.
Inswinging corner taken by Matthew Etherington from the right by-line, save by Petr Cech.
Corner from the left by-line taken by Glenn Whelan, Ashley Cole manages to make a clearance.
Steven Nzonzi takes a shot. Petr Cech makes a save.
Corner taken by Matthew Etherington, Frank Lampard makes a clearance.
Eden Hazard challenges Charlie Adam unfairly and gives away a free kick. Free kick crossed left-footed by Matthew Etherington, Demba Ba manages to make a clearance.
Foul by Jonathan Walters on David Luiz, free kick awarded. Direct free kick taken by David Luiz.
Juan Mata delivers the ball, Asmir Begovic makes a save.
Matthew Etherington sends in a cross.
Outswinging corner taken from the right by-line by Glenn Whelan, Branislav Ivanovic makes a clearance.
Jonathan Walters challenges David Luiz unfairly and gives away a free kick. Free kick taken by Petr Cech.
Unfair challenge on Steven Nzonzi by Nascimento Ramires results in a free kick. Indirect free kick taken by Asmir Begovic.
Effort from inside the area by Kenwyne Jones misses to the right of the goal.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Charlie Adam by David Luiz. Glenn Whelan crosses the ball from the free kick right-footed from right channel, Ashley Cole makes a clearance.
The ball is delivered by Eden Hazard, Robert Huth manages to make a clearance.
Corner taken by Juan Mata, clearance by Kenwyne Jones.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on David Luiz by Jonathan Walters. David Luiz takes the free kick.
The referee starts the match.
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Organised by the Children of Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW) group, it included an address by former peace envoy Terry Waite CBE.
It was one of dozens of events taking place across the country.
Paul Watson, chairman of COFEPOW, said it was important to remember those who experienced "immense suffering" in the region during World War Two.
He said many former prisoners of war had died and the period was in danger of being forgotten by the younger generation.
While the war in Europe ended in May 1945, the Japanese did not surrender until 14 August 1945 after the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, together killing more than 200,000 people.
Britain suffered more than 90,000 casualties in the war against Japan.
The Queen attended a remembrance service in London, while a minute's silence was held at a ceremony in Tokyo.
Vladimir Urin says she died of a heart attack. "The doctors tried everything, but there was nothing they could do," he is quoted as saying by Tass agency.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his "deep condolences" to Plisetskaya's family and relatives.
Plisetskaya joined the Bolshoi in 1943, captivating audiences around the world with the purity of her performances.
In 1960, she became the Bolshoi's prima ballerina.
Among her acclaimed roles were Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty and Carmen in Carmen Suite.
Plisetskaya left the stage aged 65, becoming a choreographer and giving master classes around the world.
She moved to the German city of Munich with her composer husband Rodion Shchedrin in 1991.
Simon Pitts will replace Rob Woodward, who announced in April that he would step down from the STV board within 12 months.
Mr Pitts is currently managing director of online, pay TV, interactive and technology at ITV, having spent 17 years at the company.
He will join the STV board on 3 January.
In a statement, STV said that Mr Pitts had overseen strong growth in ITV's digital businesses and had been "one of the main architects of the company's recent transformation".
STV chairwoman Margaret Ford said: "The combination of Simon's sector experience, drive and track record in delivering strategic change make him an ideal candidate to lead STV's next phase of growth."
Mr Pitts said: "I have got to know STV well during my time at ITV and I'm excited by the opportunity to lead a company with such a strong brand and relationship with its audience.
"I'm looking forward to working with everyone at STV to make the most of its great potential in the future."
Mr Christie dropped out of the 2016 presidential race after a lacklustre showing in polls and state races.
"I'm happy to be on the Trump team and I look forward to working with him," said Mr Christie during a press conference.
Mr Trump gives Republicans the best chance to win the White House, he adds.
He said junior senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, both running for president, were "unprepared" for the job.
There is "no question" that Mr Trump will turn around Washington, Mr Christie continued, and keep Democratic candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from winning the White House.
If Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio generated any momentum from their ferocious attacks on Donald Trump during Thursday night's Republican debate, that's all gone now.
Mr Christie's endorsement allows Mr Trump to boast that he's drawing bona fide support from mainstream Republican officeholders - and not just a ragtag collection of politicians on the fringes of the party.
The New Jersey governor will help assure voters wary of Mr Trump's brash style that he's an acceptable candidate. He can also serve as an attack dog, tearing into Mr Rubio the way he did during that fateful debate in New Hampshire.
The Christie endorsement could signal a new phase of Mr Trump's presidential campaign, when prominent politicians begin to make peace with the reality of a Trump nomination.
Mr Christie, and others, may see a benefit to being among the first major figures on board the Trump bandwagon. Already rumours are floating that former candidate Mike Huckabee is on the verge of joining Mr Trump's ranks as well.
This is what happens when a frontrunner draws close to victory. And just because the man approaching the finish line is Donald Trump doesn't make it any less true.
Frontrunner Donald Trump, a businessman from New York, is leading in many state polls and has already won three consecutive state contests in New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, despite never having worked in politics.
He shouldered some criticism from Mr Rubio and Mr Cruz at a Republican debate on Thursday but it is not yet clear whether this has hurt his popularity.
"He is rewriting the playbook of American politics because he's providing strong leadership that is not dependent upon the status quo," Mr Christie said of Mr Trump.
"I will lend my support between now and November in every way that I can for Donald, to help to make this campaign an even better campaign than it's already been."
Mr Rubio, the Florida Senator, continued to assail Mr Trump the morning after the debate.
He told CBS: "A con artist is about to take over the Republican Party and the conservative movement, and we have to put a stop to it."
And at a morning rally in Dallas, he mocked the Republican front-runner about his misspelled tweets and said he had seen Mr Trump having a "meltdown" backstage at the debate.
The 35-year-old announced his retirement in September because of injury problems.
Falcons have also signed scrum-half Justin Booth, 21, on a three-month deal from New Zealand side Manawatu Turbos.
Goode and Booth will provide cover for Mike Delany and Ruki Tipuna, who are both injured and not expected to play again until the spring.
Both newcomers may make their debuts in the Premiership against Bath on 2 January.
"We're delighted to welcome Andy and Jamie to Kingston Park, although there is obviously disappointment that they come through injuries to Mike and Ruki," said Falcons director of rugby Dean Richards.
"With those two unavailable to us for the immediate future, the opportunity to bring in additional players of the quality of Andy and Jamie, to supplement what we already have here, was a great opportunity."
Goode, who won 17 England caps, has played 229 games in the Premiership and scored 2,228 points.
In December 2014, he equalled the Premiership record for the most points in a single game with 33 for Wasps.
He moved to London Irish in the summer, but did not play a single game for the club because of persistent injuries, which prompted his retirement.
Visitors to the Port Lympne Reserve, near Hythe in Kent, were moved to safety when the two-year-old, called Kitwana, got out on Sunday.
Animal director Adrian Harland said the cheetah was "calm and pacing the enclosure fence, looking to get back in" and there was "no real threat".
He was enticed back into the enclosure with food after almost 30 minutes.
Mr Harland said the intervention of a vet was not required.
He added: "He climbed out to get back with his mother, after he was separated to stop him eating all her dinner.
"We have secured the enclosure's perimeter fencing to ensure the cheetah cannot climb out again."
Iran spoke of "serious issues" that must be resolved, while one Western diplomat cited "considerable gaps".
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has arrived to join the talks, and reports say the discussions could extend into the weekend.
The deal could see Iran curb uranium enrichment for some sanctions relief.
However, US politicians have indicated they will push forward with a bill proposing more sanctions against Iran next month if the talks fail.
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he would support "broadening the scope" of current oil and trade sanctions.
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Both Republican and Democrat congressmen say the threat of sanctions will bolster the negotiating position of the world powers.
President Barack Obama had earlier urged Congress not to promote the bill while talks were going on.
Iran insists its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes, but some world powers suspect it is seeking a nuclear weapons capability.
Talks extended?
EU foreign policy chief Baroness Catherine Ashton is leading the talks for the world powers.
She has begun a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif.
The Geneva talks, which are currently scheduled to conclude on Friday, involve Iran and representatives of the so-called P5+1 - UN Security Council permanent members US, UK, France, China and Russia, plus Germany.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Friday that negotiations were "positive", but said meetings were likely to continue into Saturday.
US Secretary of State John Kerry may join later.
After Thursday's talks, Mr Araqchi was quoted by the Mehr news agency as saying "serious issues remain a source of difference".
One senior Western diplomat told Reuters: "Considerable gaps remain, and we have to narrow the gaps. Some issues really need to be clarified.
"I sensed a real commitment... from both sides. Will it happen? We will see. But, as always, the devil is in the details."
One US source said simply: "It is very hard."
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told France 2 television: "This deal will only be possible if it has a firm base."
However, one diplomat told Reuters there was still a "very high probability" that foreign ministers would join the talks at some point.
The Geneva meeting follows a previous round of talks earlier this month.
The US has said any interim agreement would see the bulk of international and US sanctions targeting Iran's nuclear programme remain in place.
Mr Obama said sanctions relief would be worth between $6bn and $7bn.
The essence of the deal would involve Iran making no more advances in its nuclear programme and agreeing to "more vigorous inspections", he said.
Analysts say a major sticking point is Iran's insistence on its right to enrich uranium - a process that yields material used to manufacture fuel for power stations, but can also be used for weapons.
Western diplomats are also concerned about a reactor Iran is building at Arak, which disrupted the first round of talks.
Before the talks opened, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said Iran would not step back "one iota" from its nuclear rights.
He also referred to Israel as a "rabid dog".
Israel has vehemently opposed the proposed deal and says it will not be obliged to honour it.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is in Moscow, said the ayatollah's speech represented the "real Iran".
"We are not confused. They must not have nuclear weapons. And I promise you that they will not have nuclear weapons," he said.
A TV ad and poster received 63 complaints over claims it "hydrates and fuels you better than water".
The drink's former makers, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), said that two health claims for this kind of drink, a carbohydrate-electrolyte solution, had been authorised by the European Union.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the claims were not accurately reflected in the adverts.
They have ruled the adverts can no longer appear in their current form.
The television advert showed two groups of men, one drinking water and the other Lucozade Sport, running on treadmills while being monitored by technicians.
A voiceover then said: "At the limits of your ability, you need to replace the electrolytes you lose in sweat, keep your body hydrated, give your body fuel.
"Lucozade Sport gives you the electrolytes and carbohydrates you need, hydrating you, fuelling you better than water."
The poster featured an image of a professional rugby player and stated: "Hydrates and fuels you better than water."
GSK, which sold Lucozade and Ribena to Japanese firm Suntory for £1.35bn last September, said the adverts represented the authorised claim "carbohydrate-electrolyte solutions enhance the absorption of water during physical exercise".
The company also said it "strongly believed" that people would realise that Lucozade Sport provided calorific energy, mostly from carbohydrates, whereas water has none and could not therefore be said to provide "fuel" at all.
"Common sense dictated that the claim should be acceptable, because consumers were unlikely to misunderstand it," they added.
The ASA said the campaign did not make it clear that the benefits of the drink would only be got during prolonged endurance exercise.
They added: "Even if we had accepted that 'fuels' was an acceptable rewording of the authorised claim 'contributes to the maintenance of endurance performance during prolonged endurance exercise', we noted that that claim did not make any comparison with water, and we therefore considered that it would not have been acceptable for GSK to state that the product 'fuels ... better than water'."
One of the 63 complaints came from the Natural Hydration Council, a body which represents bottled water sellers.
Their general manager, Kinvara Carey, said: "We are pleased with the decision by the ASA to uphold our complaint regarding the high-profile Lucozade Sport advertising campaign.
"There is already much confusion over the role of sports drinks and for the majority of people participating in exercise and sporting activities, water is all that is needed for effective hydration."
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Taking audience questions on a live BBC TV election special, Andrew RT Davies claimed Welsh Labour's tuition fee subsidies were "unaffordable".
He added that living costs were a bigger barrier than tuition fees.
Mr Davies said he also wanted to see parity between academic and vocational education.
Students from Wales currently pay the first £3,810 a year of their tuition fees, with the Welsh Government paying the rest, up to a maximum of an extra £5,190.
Speaking on the first of BBC Wales' Ask the Leader programmes, Mr Davies admitted students "would end up with less" money under his party's proposal.
But he claimed: "All parties know that the current system is unaffordable.
"Our package is £400m over the five years of the assembly and ultimately the current package of support is heading towards £250m a year," he said.
The Welsh Conservatives have previously announced plans to pay half of the rent of students from Wales, wherever they go to college in the UK.
"There would not be support for living with your parents - it is for students who move away," Mr Davies said.
"It would be an upfront payment, rather than having to wait to be paid," he added.
"The biggest put-off to students about going to university is these upfront costs that deter many people accessing the university of their choice."
Welsh Labour has ruled out means testing for university tuition fee grants if the party remains in power after the election in May.
Plaid Cymru would scrap tuition fee subsidies and instead pay Welsh students working in Wales after graduation £6,000 a year, up to a maximum of £18,000.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats also want to move away from subsidising tuition fees to helping students pay their living costs.
UKIP has said it would like to cut tuition fees, while the Greens have called for free university education across the UK.
Duncan Slater, who lost both legs while serving in Afghanistan, completed the 251km (156 miles) Marathon Des Sables in Morocco on Friday evening.
The ex-RAF platoon sergeant has raised £20,000 for servicemen and women in his second attempt at the endurance event.
Mr Slater said he hoped to "inspire other wounded, injured and sick from the armed forces community and beyond".
Since last Sunday, Norwich-based Mr Slater and his former colleague Chris Moore have been travelling across the Sahara desert in temperatures reaching 50C (122F).
The pair, who had to carry all their food and equipment, served in Afghanistan together when Mr Slater's vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in 2009.
After crossing the line, Mr Slater said he wanted other amputees to "know that there is life beyond injury".
Kensington Palace, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's official residence, tweeted its congratulations to Mr Slater, describing him as a "huge inspiration".
Mr Slater, who is now a charity worker, has been raising money online for Walking With The Wounded's project for former servicemen and women with mental health difficulties.
Mr Slater said he took the challenge on to "prove that a double leg amputee can do it".
He was forced to pull out of the 2016 race at the end of the fourth day, where participants must travel 81.5km (50.6 miles).
"Sadly, due to significant damage to my legs, I withdrew from the race," he said on his fundraising page.
"I have spent the last year working with some ground breaking new prosthetics experts to improve performance."
The race, which translates as the "'Marathon of the Sands", gives participants water rations and tents. It was started by Frenchman Patrick Bauer in 1986 and about 1,000 people now take part each year.
In a Facebook post, Walking With The Wounded said Mr Slater was "a true inspiration to us all".
It added that Mr Slater suffered "severe dehydration" on Thursday night and started the final day of the race on an empty stomach.
"His last day started with drama... with defeat not an option."
Chris Murphy spoke from Wednesday morning into Thursday. The tactic enables senators to block proceedings.
He said he had secured commitments from Republicans to hold a vote but his recommendations are not likely to pass.
Sunday's mass shooting in Orlando was the worst in recent US history, with 49 people dead.
Dozens of people remain in hospital, some in a critical condition.
President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden are due to visit Orlando later on Thursday.
In another development, it emerged that the gunman, Omar Mateen, made a series of Facebook posts before and during his attack in which he raged against the "filthy ways of the West".
Mateen also said on Facebook: "America and Russia stop bombing the Islamic state."
The Senate Homeland Security Committee has asked Facebook to provide information on Mateen's online activity.
Senator Murphy began the filibuster at 11:21 on Wednesday, vowing to stay on the Senate floor "until we get some signal... that we can come together".
Much of his speech focused on the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in his home state of Connecticut in 2012, where 26 people died.
Senator Murphy said he wanted to force Republicans and Democrats to agree on legislation to deny suspected terrorists the right to buy guns and require universal background checks.
"For those of us that represent Connecticut, the failure of this body to do anything, anything at all in the face of that continued slaughter isn't just painful to us, it's unconscionable," he said.
He later tweeted: "I am proud to announce that after 14+ hours on the floor, we will have a vote on closing the terror gap & universal background checks."
Gun control is a divisive topic in the US, where the right to bear arms is enshrined in the constitution.
Earlier on Wednesday, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said anyone on a terror watch list should be prevented from buying guns.
He tweeted that he would meet powerful lobby group the National Rifle Association to discuss the gun control issue.
The NRA responded by saying it would meet him but it already opposes terrorists buying guns.
Until now, Mr Trump has been a strong supporter of protecting gun rights and his candidacy was endorsed by the NRA.
Just over half of Americans - 51% - disapproved of his initial response to the shooting, in which he repeated a call to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the US, an NBC poll showed.
The same poll found 57% of US citizens think gun laws should be more strict.
Vice-President Biden, speaking at a gun-control fundraising event in Washington, said the idea that a suspect on a terror watch list could still legally buy guns was absurd.
He said it had taken seven years for Congress to approve a ban on assault weapons which expired in 2004.
"I refuse to give up. We refuse to give up. It took me seven years to get the first ban put in place. There is no reason why we should ever stop," he said.
Mateen was on an FBI terror watch list but investigators concluded there was no evidence he was a threat.
The Wales v Scotland showdown is the first major match at the renamed Principality Stadium since the Paris attacks in November.
Police stress there is no specific threat, but say there will be extra checks - including bag searches.
Officials said those leaving it late may not make the 16:50 GMT kick-off.
"Cardiff will be busy on matchday and those coming to the stadium should plan to arrive early to allow extra time to get through the turnstiles," said Principality Stadium manager Mark Williams.
He also advised fans to "leave rucksacks and larger bags at home" to avoid further delays.
South Wales Police said a decision was taken to step up security in Cardiff at a meeting of the city's safety advisory group last month.
Insp Andy Smith said: "With immediate effect this will mean if spectators bring a bag it might be searched before they can enter the four main stadia - the Cardiff City Stadium, the BT Sport Cardiff Arms Park, the SSE SWALEC Stadium and Principality Stadium.
"While there is no specific threat to south Wales, it is important that we all remain vigilant."
As well as heightened security, the city faces the usual road closures and changes to rail services on matchday.
Arriva Trains Wales said it had put on extra capacity to cope with an estimated 40,000 people travelling by rail to the match.
The redevelopment work at Central Square also means changes to the post-match queuing system, with leaflets outlining the new arrangements being handed out.
Arriva Trains Wales director Lynne Milligan added: "As always for Six Nations matches we are expecting the post-match queues to be very busy and customers may have to queue for up to two hours to catch their last train home."
Cardiff council said supervised park and ride facilities will be open from 09:30 GMT at Pentwyn and Leckwith, but urged motorists to pre-book their space online for the Leckwith car park.
Anomali specialises in threat intelligence and analysis, working with organisations which include the Bank of England.
The company was founded in 2013 and its investors include GV, formerly known as Google Ventures.
The jobs are expected to be in place by the end of 2019.
They are being supported with a £780,000 grant from Invest NI.
Invest NI is also making a £5.5m grant to the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) at Queen's University, Belfast.
It forms part of a £38.5m research programme at CSIT.
Invest NI chief executive Alastair Hamilton said CSIT is undertaking "a very complex technology project which will be undertaken by a team of experts over a five year period".
Belfast has developed a significant cyber-security cluster with investments by firms like WhiteHat Security, Proofpoint and Black Duck Software.
Consultancy firms like Deloitte also have a cyber-security function in the city.
CSIT plays a key role in the cluster providing a stream of post-graduate qualified workers, running a business incubator and developing new security tools.
Its director, Dr Godfrey Gaston, said the money from Invest NI had helped attract further investment from funding bodies like InnovateUK and businesses such as Allstate and Equiniti.
They were charged with perverting the course of justice for their role in the arrest and prosecution of five men for the murder in Cardiff in 1988.
The 20-year-old sex worker was stabbed more than 50 times in a docklands flat.
Three men had convictions for the killing quashed.
But the officers' trial - the most expensive in British legal history - was halted in 2011.
The report by Richard Horwell QC found there was no deliberate attempt to cover up any crime.
Instead the investigation, ordered by the Home Office, blamed the collapse of the case against the officers on "multiple human failings" and "not wickedness".
It said the events that followed the murder of Ms White "represent one of the worst miscarriages of justice in the history of our criminal justice system".
Timeline: Lynette White murder
It made 17 recommendations for the police and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to improve the process of disclosure of evidence.
Fourteen of these recommendations are for the police and three for the CPS.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the findings were "deeply troubling" but added: "I am pleased the causes have now been fully revealed."
She said: "The Home Office will write to both the police and CPS to bring their attention to the report's recommendations and every effort must be made to ensure they are acted upon."
Five men were originally put on trial in 1990 for Ms White's murder.
Tony Paris, Yusef Abdullahi and Stephen Miller - who became known as the Cardiff Three - were wrongly jailed for life in 1990 for the murder and freed in 1992 after their convictions were quashed.
In 2003, new DNA technology led South Wales Police to Ms White's real killer, Jeffrey Gafoor. He confessed to stabbing her in a row over £30.
In 2015, the eight ex-officers cleared of perverting the course of justice launched a High Court civil action against South Wales Police.
Graham Mouncher, Thomas Page, Richard Powell, John Seaford, Michael Daniels, Peter Greenwood, Paul Jennings and Paul Stephen sued for malicious prosecution, false imprisonment and misfeasance.
But the judge in the civil action dismissed their case at the end of 2015.
Matthew Gold, the solicitor for Stephen Miller - whose murder conviction was quashed - described the collapse of the officers' trial as "a terrible and inexcusable failure by the criminal justice system and the state".
A spokesman for South Wales Police said: "We welcome the report... in which Mr Horwell QC acknowledges the scale and complexity of the disclosure process in that matter.
"In the same way as significant civil litigation and the other reviews of the discontinued trial have found, he concluded there was no evidence of corruption, malice or misfeasance within the investigation of the former officers and has rejected the need for a public inquiry.
"A series of recommendations for national bodies contained within the report relate to how disclosure is managed and to disclosure training.
"Mr Horwell QC recognises the work that South Wales Police has already undertaken to respond to these challenges and we will continue to work with colleagues nationally to share our learning."
Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael added that 29 years after the murder "we now have a far greater understanding of all the events".
He said: "I have seen the enormous care with which the current Chief Constable and his team have left no stone unturned in efforts to get to the bottom of the whole affair.
"I hope the thoroughness of this report will now have addressed all the concerns that have been raised over recent years and provide reassurance to all those affected by Lynette's murder and subsequent events."
A CPS spokesman said: "We have recognised and accepted the shortcomings identified in this case previously, but we are pleased Richard Horwell QC recognises the significant improvements we have made in how we disclose material in serious cases.
"We will study the findings of the report in detail to consider whether any issues have been identified which have not yet been addressed."
The owners of the Bon Accord Centre want to build new shops, flats and a hotel on land to the north of the shopping complex.
The plans include the creation of a four or five storey retail block, linking the Bon Accord Centre with John Lewis.
Planning permission in principle has been sought.
The plans include demolishing Santander and Co-op buildings on George Street to make way for new shops and a hotel.
Also, a reconfiguration of Crooked Lane which links Harriet Street with St Andrews Street.
The owners of the Bon Accord Centre said the development would create a new retail destination for the area, and would enhance the environment of George Street.
Homosexuality among men was illegal in Scotland until 1980.
Same-sex contact between women had never been targeted in law and was not illegal. Scottish society just chose to believe lassies did not do that kind of thing.
When the Sexual Offences Act was granted royal assent on 27 July 1967 it applied to England and Wales only, Scotland, along with Northern Ireland, was excluded.
England and Wales can now mark 50 years since the historic reforms which partially decriminalised homosexuality between two consenting men in private over 21 years of age.
But Scotland took 13 years to adopt the same legislation into Scots Law.
Why did it take so long and what effect did it have on the men who lived through that period?
Nick Mitchell and Phil Duffy converted their civil partnership to marriage on the first day it was allowed by law, 16 December 2014. So they believe they are the longest-married gay couple in Scotland.
Nick, 71, grew up in England and moved to Scotland to be with his partner Phil, 64, in the early 2000s. Both men were secondary school teachers and struggled to reconcile their public and private lives.
"In the 90s and in the 80s, I could be quite aggressive, quite angry, quite frustrated," recalls Phil.
"I think I suffered a kind of trauma. Even though the law changed in Scotland in 1980, I was getting messages 'you're wrong, you're diseased, you're this, you're that'.
"So I shut my mouth. And suppressing all that, natural urges and so on, does have an effect on you."
Phil adds: "Making a law that says that something is legal doesn't necessarily change attitudes.
"So when the law changed in 1967 in England and Wales, and in 1980 in Scotland that didn't necessarily make it any different.
"I don't think it actually came into my conscious mind that the law made it legal to be gay or homosexual.
"And when I eventually came out, when I met Nick, and I had to tell family and friends, I was amazed with the reaction.
"'It's about time you told us', 'What were you worrying about?'
"If I had been told that message, or the opportunity had been there for that message to be given to me earlier, then I wouldn't have suffered all those years."
Nick talks about moving to London in his younger days where he was raped by another man.
The episode left him shaken and seeking answers. Voluntarily, he sought medical treatment to address his sexual attraction towards men.
"I was an in-patient for two weeks in what I assume was the mental ward. I sat in the chair and there was a projector behind me and fixed to the left arm of the chair was a button.
"The rules were quite simple. If a picture of a woman came up on the screen then I knew I wouldn't get an electric shock.
"If a picture of a man came up on the screen, and I pushed a button, I might not get an electric shock.
"But if I just sat there and looked at him I knew my arms would be flung up in the air. The pain was pretty excruciating.
"I'm very sad about it. I can feel myself, sort of..."
At this point in the interview Nick pauses to fight back the urge to cry.
He continues: "It's just so cruel."
Witness testimonies of the period also tell stories of police entrapment.
Nick explains his brush with the law.
He says: "I was so frustrated and lonely and isolated and all those things that single people go through, and more so when you feel you're outside of society, that I did what many gay men have done and that is I used to use toilets to try to find some sort of contact.
"One day I was trapped by the police, which was a normal procedure for the police. I was arrested. I could have died, I didn't know how to cope with it. Ended up in court - I tried to lie my way out of it and failed totally. I was so naive. And I was fined.
"There was nobody I could talk to, there was nobody I could share it with either, how I felt beforehand or afterwards having gone through court and been condemned and that went on for years, because every time I would go for a post, especially here in Scotland, I would have to fill in one of these forms to have my record checked."
Stories like Nick and Phil's are familiar ones for gay men who grew up in 20th Century post-war Britain. A great deal of fear and hostility was directed towards gay people.
After the war an increase in prosecutions for homosexual crimes in England and Wales drew the attention of government.
Sir John Wolfenden was asked by the Home Office to form a committee to advise on how laws around homosexuality might be reformed. The Wolfenden Committee commenced in 1954. Religious groups, legal representatives from the home nations, civic leaders and legislators all gave evidence to the committee.
The Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution in Great Britain finally submitted its report in 1957.
It recommended that the criminalisation of homosexuality impinged civil liberties.
It in no way condoned or sanctioned same-sex relationships, or indeed same-sex sex.
Wolfenden's report recommended that homosexual sex was a private issue of personal morality.
It also advised that young people and vulnerable adults be protected from homosexual activity.
The report condoned the use of medical treatment for homosexual impulses and behaviour.
Cabinet did not take any of the recommendations of the report forward at the time.
However the work of the committee was a milestone moment in public discourse on homosexuality.
Ten years later Leo Abse MP sponsored reform to the Sexual Offences Act.
A free vote in the commons meant that eventually the recommendations of Wolfenden were enshrined in law in England and Wales.
However Scotland and Northern Ireland were exempt from the reform.
Dr Gayle Davis is a social historian from the University of Edinburgh. She co-authored a book on sexuality and Scottish governance through the period 1950 to 1980.
Dr Davis says that Scotland was exempt from the 1967 Sexual Offences Act for reasons grounded in the attitudes of Scottish civic society, the influence of the church and also the Scottish criminal justice system.
She says: "There's a lot of resistance to Wolfenden in Scotland, there's really a great deal.
"Law in fact can be quite resistant - lawyers themselves.
"And one of the reasons, kind of ironically, is because they argue Scotland has, basically, a more lenient legal system anyway.
"It's actually much more difficult to be prosecuted for homosexuality in Scotland than it is in England and Wales and therefore let's not touch it. we don't need to interfere."
Dr Davis adds: "Then also it's seen as, well we know Scottish people just don't approve of homosexuality, that's what the churches keep telling us.
"That's what these polls, when they're occasionally taken, do seem to tell us.
"So there's also a strong sense that, whether or not gay people are being apprehended, that actually we fundamentally don't want to publicly state that it's acceptable."
During her research Dr Davis learned about some of the therapies being used to treat gay men convicted of homosexual crimes.
The treatments - which convicted men had to consent to - included chemical castration or oestrogen therapy.
The controversial treatment, often attributed to the infamous suicide of World War Two code-breaker Alan Turing, was sanctioned in Scotland.
She says: "In some places electroconvulsive therapy was used, ECT.
"My understanding it was not used in the Scottish prison system.
"But it could be used in homosexual cases and it certainly has been used in the past.
"One of the interesting ones in Scotland is oestrogen therapy and it's interesting because it wasn't seen as legal in England and Wales.
"And actually Wolfenden mentions this, that maybe it should be, or could be used, in other areas. But in Scotland it is being used in the Scottish prison system."
A Scottish voice who opposed decriminalisation of homosexuality in Scotland was James Adair OBE, a former Procurator Fiscal of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
He sat on the Wolfenden committee and formed the only dissenting voice. His minority report was printed in the Scotsman on 5 September 1957.
Mr Adair was quoted as saying: "The presence in a district of, for example, adult male lovers living openly and notoriously under the approval of the law is bound to have a regrettable and pernicious effect on the young people of the community".
In the Glasgow Herald of 27 May 1959 Adair was reported as having addressed The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland as a commissioner from the Presbytery of Glasgow.
He urged the assembly to disapprove of what was suggested by the Wolfenden committee regarding any amendment to the law in Scotland.
Adair advised that any legal changes would make "sinning for the sake of sinning" no longer unlawful.
The Assembly's firm opposition warned that legislation which sought to legitimise homosexuality would only increase "this grave evil".
Dr Davis says that, MPs such as Robin Cook were influential in motivating change in Scotland through the 1970s and 1980s.
It was also thanks to the work of pressure groups like, the Scottish Minorities Group, who took a case to the European Court of Human Rights, which led to Scottish law finally levelling with that of England and Wales through the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980.
Much has changed in Scotland.
The practices and views of the past seem unrecognisable today.
However it is an uncomfortable fact that Scotland did lag behind other parts of the UK quite substantially on its legal position on homosexuality - a stance which the Scottish government now describes as discrimination.
A spokesperson from the Scottish government's justice division says: "Until relatively recently, the criminal law in Scotland discriminated against same-sex sexual activity between men. Such laws clearly have no place in a modern and inclusive Scotland."
The Scottish government has plans to introduce a scheme which would allow some gay men to have historical convictions, no longer considered illegal, to be removed from criminal records. This scheme is expected to be available this year.
The government's statement continues: "The justice secretary announced in October 2016 that the Scottish government will introduce legislation to provide an automatic pardon to people who have been convicted of offences for same-sex sexual activity that would now be legal.
"We will also establish a scheme that will allow men who were convicted as a result of actions that are now legal to have those convictions disregarded and have them removed from central conviction records. In these instances a person will be treated as not having been convicted of that offence.
"Scotland is now widely recognised as one of the most progressive countries in Europe on LGBTI rights. This summer, we are focussing particularly on making progress for transgender and intersex people by reviewing and reforming gender recognition law so it is in line with international best practice."
Stonewall Scotland campaigns for equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people. In a statement it says that although significant progress has been made, there is still room for improvement in some areas.
It says: "It's important to remember how far LGBT rights have come for LGBT people across Britain since partial decriminalisation in England and Wales in 1967.
"We've seen anti-LGBT laws repealed and laws which protect the LGBT community introduced. However, we must also use this time to think about the challenges that still lie ahead.
"While LGBT people might almost be equal in law, lesbian, gay, bi and trans people continue to face discrimination.
"LGBT people can find themselves excluded, or face verbal and physical abuse, whether at work, at school, in sport, in faith or within local communities.
"Trans people are disproportionately affected by discrimination and abuse.
"Overseas, same-sex relations are illegal in 72 countries, and punishable by death in eight.
"We all have a part to play in ensuring all LGBT people are accepted without exception and all we can hope is that, in 50 more years, we will have lots more progress to look back on."
McInnes confirmed versatile Shinnie, 25, will skipper the Dons next season.
Ryan Jack, who has been captain since 2015, is leaving Pittodrie this summer but is available for Saturday's showpiece at Hampden.
"It's to try and take the sting out of the whole situation," McInnes told Aberdeen's RedTV channel.
"There's been far too much focus on Ryan and his situation. Ryan's made the decision to move on. We've absolutely accepted that and we've no problem with that.
"But just to try and be fair on everybody, on Ryan, but especially on the team, it's so important that the focus and the support is on the team.
"Ryan, I spoke to over the last couple of days as well and he accepts the decision that we've made.
"I think we have got players there who would fill that void anyway next season but Graeme was the one for me who will captain the team next season and will therefore take the team out on Saturday."
Midfielder Jack, 25, who has been linked with Rangers, and winger Peter Pawlett, 26, could make their final Dons appearances at Hampden, with Pawlett having agreed to join MK Dons.
"Whatever team's picked, I'd like to think that the Aberdeen supporters will get right behind us and help us try and create our own bit of history - it's too important," explained McInnes, who is bidding to be the first Aberdeen manager to win the Scottish Cup since Alex Smith in 1990.
"Any personal opinions, any side issues aren't the most important thing at the minute, it's all about the team and we have got a fully committed squad and we'll have that again on Saturday, regardless of who is playing.
"Ryan has been a fantastic servant of the club and like a few others, it'll be his last time involved with the team at the weekend and we want everybody involved with the team - whether they're staying here next year or they're moving on - to have that winner's medal in their hand at the end of it.
"Nobody gives us any real chance. We put that demand on ourselves. The fact that we're re-visiting Hampden for the fourth time this season will help. We've experienced European games. It's our third cup final in four years for a lot of the players. We've just won at Ibrox [for the first time since 1991] last week.
"All these little experiences that we've had can help play a part but ultimately we're looking for good performances. We need that from the players and we'll try and find a way to make sure we help them become Scottish Cup winners."
Meanwhile, McInnes said it was "a boost" for two of his players - midfielder Kenny McLean and defender Mark Reynolds - to have been called up to Gordon Strachan's Scotland squad for next month's meeting with England.
"Being involved with the national team is very important and so it should be," added McInnes.
Mr Moise, a 48-year-old banana exporter, was elected with 55.6% of the vote, well ahead of his closest rival, an electoral tribunal confirmed.
Officials dismissed allegations of fraud. But some protesters marched in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
The poorest country in the Americas, Haiti has been led by an interim president since last February.
It has been blighted by political instability for decades, and is vulnerable to natural disasters. Haiti is still recovering from Hurricane Matthew, which killed up to 1,000 people in October.
On Tuesday, the electoral tribunal confirmed preliminary numbers released in November. Mr Moises's closest rival Jude Celestin, had 19.5% of the vote.
The president-elect, from the centre-right Haitian Tet Kale Party and backed by former President Michel Martelly, is expected to take office by 7 February.
The election was held on 20 November, more than a year after the previous poll was annulled following allegations of widespread fraud.
That vote, in October 2015, was won by Mr Moise but the opposition challenged the result and after violent unrest the ballot was annulled.
Some protests erupted after the results were confirmed, but there were no reports of major violence.
Haiti has been led by interim President Jocelerme Privert since February 2016 when Mr Martelly stepped down at the end of his term.
Allegations that a Spaniard was behind the killing were being investigated, Johnny Rodrigues said.
The lion, named Cecil, was shot with a crossbow and rifle, before being beheaded and skinned, he added.
The 13-year-old lion was a major tourist attraction at Zimbabwe's famous Hwange National Park.
Zimbabwe, like many African countries, is battling to curb illegal hunting and poaching which threatens to make some of its wildlife extinct.
Mr Rodrigues, the head of Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, said the use of a bow and arrow heralded a new trend aimed at avoiding arrest.
"It's more silent. If you want to do anything illegal, that's the way to do it," he told BBC's Newsday programme.
However, the lion, which had a distinctive black mane, did not die immediately and was followed for more than 40 hours before it was shot with rifle, Mr Rodrigues said.
The animal had a GPS collar for a research project by UK-based Oxford University, allowing authorities to track its movements.
Mr Rodrigues said Cecil's killing was tragic.
"He never bothered anybody. He was one of the most beautiful animals to look at."
The lion had been "baited" out of the park, a tactic which hunters used to portray their action as legal, Mr Rodrigues said.
Two guides had been arrested and if it was confirmed that the hunter was a Spaniard, "we will expose him for what he is", he added.
The six cubs of Cecil will now be killed, as a new male lion in the pride will not allow them to live in order to encourage the lionesses to mate with him.
"That's how it works... it's in the wild; it's nature taking its course," Mr Rodrigues said.
What was not to like? People sliding stones and shouting a lot, manic sweeping, chess-like tactics, snazzy outfits - who could forget the Norwegian curlers' trousers. And Team GB are good at it - a silver for the men and a bronze for the women.
But there's also that niggling feeling that it's a sport you could do if you practised.
There's something very reassuring about seeing what appear to be everyday people competing at the Olympics.
So that's how I came to be shuffling tentatively on the ice alongside about 30 other participants of a free Try Curling session (yes, free) at the Braehead curling rink in Glasgow.
The rink is among 22 across Scotland that are offering taster sessions and beginner lessons, as part of the sport's governing body, The Royal Caledonian Curling Club (RCCC), 2014 Try Curling initiative to get more people into the sport.
It felt a bit like ten-pin bowling, with a cross-section of families, students, work colleagues and friends all making a day of it.
It's one of the few sports where all ages, genders and abilities can play together and against each other. There's also a wheelchair club at Braehead.
Andrew Baldacci, 19, came along to the taster session with friends from his college course.
"We watched the Olympics on the television and we thought we should definitely come down and give it a try - we wanted to have a bit of fun.
"You get the tactics involved and you get the exercise. It's really enjoyable and definitely not just for older people."
Coaches helped guide the participants through throwing the stones and also sweeping to help it to travel further as well as influence its direction.
Yvonne Anson, 42, said she had been meaning to try the sport for a while.
"It's a very interesting and exciting sport," she said. "It's been harder than I thought though. It looks a lot easier on the TV."
Scott Arbuckle, 10, from Renfrew, was among the younger participants to take to the ice for the first time.
"I saw it on the TV and I really liked it," he said. "I really enjoyed the session today, but sweeping was the worst part."
After throwing only a couple of stones, which fail to reach the target, I also feel hooked.
I can see why the "roaring" game was so popular in the 19th Century, when it can be said emphatically that it was the Scottish game.
"It's still is the Scottish sport," insists David Horne, the development officer for curling at Braehead.
"This is where it started in 1541 and we're right up in the top - you can see that at the recent Olympics where we've just come back with silver and bronze."
It's hoped the Try Curling campaign will ensure Team GB will continue to have success in the sport.
David added: "We think we're going to get at least 400 through the door.
"And even if we only get 10% of that back that's 40 more curlers next season than we had this season."
However, for those who think they could become an Olympic star in the sport, David warns that while it's an easy game for anyone to play, it's a hard game to reach the top.
"It takes years and years of dedication and a lot of hard work and a lot of time," he said.
However, I'm sure there were no shortage of Olympic dreams starting out on the ice rink in Braehead this week.
Scott's dad, William, 43 agreed. "My son Scott said to me on the way down maybe he could be a curler in the Olympics - quote!"
If the Sochi Winter Olympics has motivated you to try a new sport, go to the BBC's Get Inspired pages for more information.
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The 23-year-old joined the Nethermoor Park side on a three-month loan deal in September and has made 12 appearances for the National League strugglers.
The Lions are bottom of the table, four points adrift of safety.
"We've been really impressed with Jon while he's been with us so we were keen to get him under permanent contract," football secretary Adie Towers said.
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The pun pundit, who won the Perrier newcomer award in 1995, was presented with his latest prize by digital TV channel Dave.
His winning one-liner was: "I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again."
The award was judged by eight comedy critics, whose shortlist of 24 jokes went forward to a public vote.
The top 10 festival funnies were judged to be:
1) Tim Vine "I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again."
2) David Gibson "I'm currently dating a couple of anorexics. Two birds, one stone."
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3) Emo Philips "I picked up a hitch hiker. You've got to when you hit them."
4) Jack Whitehall "I bought one of those anti-bullying wristbands when they first came out. I say 'bought', I actually stole it off a short, fat ginger kid."
5) Gary Delaney "As a kid I was made to walk the plank. We couldn't afford a dog."
6) John Bishop "Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day."
7) Bo Burnham "What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names."
8) Gary Delaney "Dave drowned. So at the funeral we got him a wreath in the shape of a lifebelt. Well, it's what he would have wanted."
9) Robert White "For Vanessa Feltz, life is like a box of chocolates: Empty."
10) Gareth Richards "Wooden spoons are great. You can either use them to prepare food. Or, if you can't be bothered with that, just write a number on one and walk into a pub…"
Competition organisers Dave said each judge sat through an average of 60 performances, totalling 3,600 minutes of comedy material.
They may only have skimmed the surface, however. The Fringe website lists 883 comedy shows taking place during the festival's month-long run.
Tim Vine, whose brother is BBC Radio 2 presenter Jeremy, is appearing in Edinburgh with his stand-up show, The Joke-amotive.
A regular guest in Countdown's dictionary corner, he once held the world record for the most jokes told in an hour, after delivering 499 quips in 60 minutes (the current holder is Australian comic Anthony Lehmann, who managed 549).
On receiving his prize, Vine said: "I am very happy to win this award and I'm going to celebrate by going to Sooty's barbecue and having a sweepsteak".
Judges also selected some of the worst jokes of this year's Fringe, which included:
Sara Pascoe "Why did the chicken commit suicide? To get to the other side."
Sean Hughes "You know city-centre beat officers... Well are they police who rap?"
John Luke Roberts "I made a Battenberg where the two colours ran alongside each other. I called it apartheid sponge."
Emo Phillips "I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them."
Bec Hill "Some of my best friends are vegan. They were going to come today but they didn't have the energy to climb up the stairs."
Dan Antopolski "How many Spaniards does it take to change a lightbulb? Juan."
Antopolski's inclusion in the "worst joke" list comes just a year after he won the Dave trophy.
His winning joke was: "Hedgehogs - why can't they just share the hedge?"
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Second seed Bautista Agut, 28, won 6-3 6-3 against France's Benoit Paire, the man who beat British number four Aljaz Bedene in the quarter-finals in India.
Unseeded Medvedev, 20, reached the final with a 4-6 7-6 (7-2) 6-2 win over Dudi Sela of Israel in the last four.
Medvedev is 99th in the rankings, but will need to beat an opponent who is 14th in the world.
The top seed in the competition was Marin Cilic of Croatia, but he suffered a shock defeat against Josek Kovalik of Slovakia in the last 16.
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They do serve good food here but the reason the place is packed is because there are many visitors in town.
They are diaspora Armenians from different parts of the world who have come to mark the centenary of what they call Meds Yeghern or the Great Catastrophe - the mass killings of ethnic Armenians in Ottoman Turkey.
Most of them are descendants of the survivors of the 1915 killings.
Krikor Krikorian, in his 70s, is from the UK and is dining with his English wife.
"The Armenians are like Irish, there are seven million of them living outside the country and just over two and a half million here," he says.
"My grandmother was from western Armenia, eastern Turkey. She had it extremely badly, she lost all her family, they were slaughtered.
"Two of her children were dying and she threw them over the bridge into the Euphrates river. They could have never walked to Syria - they could not have survived."
Krikor's grandmother did survive but on her deathbed she was still remembering Armenia.
"'If you ever make any money, don't forget Armenia,' these were her words to me."
Krikor fulfilled that pledge and is now involved in a charitable organisation that helps Armenian families in need.
"You can't find an Armenian family which did not suffer as a result of the events of 1915," says the Yerevan-based journalist Mark Grigorian.
"I am doing a TV programme now in Yerevan, I could not have imagined how many stories came out about the families that moved, that were trying to escape from genocide.
"It is still a huge trauma, we are talking about third, fourth generations of those who survived and even they are burning from this trauma deep inside."
The purple forget-me-not is the symbol of the centenary. It can be seen everywhere in Yerevan: from shop windows and windscreen stickers, to lapel pins that many are proudly wearing.
There is also a centenary slogan which reads: "I remember and demand".
But what is it that the Armenians are demanding? I asked some of the people in Yerevan's Mashtotz Avenue.
"We demand fairness from the world community, that's it," says Sergey Martirossyan.
"But for me personally it won't make any difference, what we actually need in Armenia is for the government to take serious steps towards economic growth."
Fourteen-year old Natalia is wearing a black T-shirt with giant 1915 digits in red and a slogan in Armenian.
"The slogan says that our wounds are still bleeding," she says.
On Friday, tens of thousands pay their respects at the memorial in Yerevan. A few days ahead of the commemoration ceremonies, there was already a sea of flowers, and people kept coming with more.
They are young and old, diaspora Armenians and locals - all united in their collective memory of injustice. And time has not healed their wounds.
Leicestershire lost to Sussex by five wickets at Grace Road despite dominating the first half of the game.
De Bruyn's side remain winless in the County Championship after six matches.
"It's a mental thing. We need to be a lot better," de Bruyn told BBC Radio Leicester.
Leicestershire posted 340 in their first innings after being asked to bat first by Sussex and then reduced their opposition to 156 for 7 and looked set to take a big lead.
But Vernon Philander's unbeaten 73 led a Sussex recovery to 284 all out, before Leicestershire folded for just 175 in their second innings, leaving Sussex 232 to win, a target achieved with comfort.
"We were driving the game but then that third innings disease came in again and we let ourselves down." said de Bruyn.
"Call it that mongrel attitude that you show when a bowler bowls a good spell when the wicket is showing just a little sign of inconsistency.
"It's just that resilience that you show to get through the difficult phases in an innings. We need to be a lot better there and it's definitely a mental thing."
Leicestershire are ninth in Division Two of the County Championship and resume their campaign against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge on 19 June.
Brexit Secretary David Davis said the Great Repeal Bill would allow the UK Parliament and Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland administrations to scrap, amend and improve laws.
It would also end the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.
But Labour warned it was being done without proper Parliamentary scrutiny.
It comes a day after Prime Minister Theresa May triggered Article 50, starting the process which will officially take Britain out of the EU in March 2019.
In a statement to MPs, David Davis said the repeal bill would allow businesses to continue operating on the day after the UK leaves the EU "knowing the rules have not changed overnight".
It would also make trade talks easier because member states "will know that we start from a position where we have the same standards and rules", added Mr Davis.
It would mean that workers' rights, environmental protection and consumer rights currently enshrined in EU laws would continue as UK laws, he told MPs - although Parliament would be free to change them later.
The repeal bill will also "end the supremacy" of EU law in the UK, "delivering" on the result of last year's referendum, he added.
"Our laws will then be made in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast and interpreted not by judges in Luxembourg but by judges across the United Kingdom," he told MPs.
Mr Davis said the repeal bill would not give the European Court of Justice a "future role" in the interpretation of UK laws, and UK courts will not be obliged to consider cases decided by the ECJ after Brexit.
But UK courts will be allowed to refer to ECJ case law "as it exists on the day we leave the EU" and it would have the same status as Supreme Court decisions, which can be overturned by subsequent rulings.
The Great Repeal Bill, which Theresa May has said will make the UK an "independent, sovereign nation", would:
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Business group the CBI welcomed the "clarity and continuity" of the repeal bill and said it would speak to ministers after Brexit about cutting EU red tape.
For unions, the TUC called for guarantees that workers' rights such as full holiday pay and equal pay for women will be protected.
There are more than 12,000 EU regulations in force in the UK, with the intention being that they are all going to be transferred into UK law.
But the government says many of them will not work properly after Brexit without "technical changes", and allowing MPs to scrutinise these changes fully would create a "prohibitively large" amount of work for Parliament.
It estimates that around 800 to 1,000 existing measures will need to change and proposes using statutory instruments - laws passed without much debate or scrutiny - to do so.
Labour's shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Kier Starmer warned ministers were being handed "sweeping powers" to make hasty, ill thought-out legislation.
But Mr Davis said any laws changed in this way would be time limited and any problems "we have missed will be put right".
Lib Dem chief whip Tom Brake said: "If needed, we will grind the government's agenda to a standstill, unless proper and rigorous safeguards are given over the Great Repeal Bill. The ball is now in the prime minister's court."
The SNP's Europe spokesman Stephen Gethins said: "It strikes me that the government has pushed the big red button marked Brexit with their fingers crossed and very little idea of what comes next."
The government's white paper is entitled The Great Repeal Bill but it will be given a less dramatic name when it comes before Parliament because UK legislation must be described in a factual manner and anything that sounds like a slogan is banned.
The government plans to introduce separate bills on some aspects of Brexit, such as immigration and customs rules at the border, which will be debated in Parliament.
Mr Davis earlier hit back at claims the UK was trying to "blackmail" the EU by raising security issues ahead of Brexit talks.
In her letter on Wednesday triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, Theresa May suggested cooperation with the EU on the fight against crime and terror was at risk if Britain did not agree an overall Brexit deal within the two year time limit.
The prime minister's words sparked an angry reaction from some EU officials who said security was too important to be used as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations.
But Mr Davis told BBC Radio 4's Today programme "this is not a threat... it is a statement of the fact that this will be harmful for both of us... if we don't get a deal. It's an argument for having a deal".
Mr Davis, who will be Britain's chief negotiator in Brussels, said the rights of British expats would be the first priority in Brexit talks.
The UK also wanted "to deal with the Northern Ireland border situation early as well", he added.
The EU wants to sort out an exit deal - including how much the UK might have to pay to cover its "existing obligations" - before turning to a future trade arrangement but Mr Davis said Britain wanted to "look at the whole package together".
The prime minister has vowed to "consult fully on which powers should reside in Westminster and which should be devolved to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland".
She has said that the process will lead to a "significant increase in the decision-making power of each devolved administration".
The Scottish Parliament will get its own vote on the repeal bill and the UK government is working on the basis that it will need the consent of MSPs to get it through.
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A federal judge issued an injunction saying there was a risk a federal judicial investigation could be derailed if Lula was a minister.
In Brazil, cabinet members can only be investigated by the Supreme Court, not by federal courts.
Lula is under investigation in connection with a corruption scandal.
The government said it would appeal against the decision.
Prosecutors filed charges against Lula last week accusing him of money laundering and fraud, which he has denied.
Lula's nomination as chief of staff has divided Brazilians.
Some said it was a move to shield him from prosecution while others welcomed his return to active politics.
Ahead of the swearing-in ceremony, groups of supporters and opponents of the government clashes outside the presidential palace.
The ceremony itself was interrupted by a protester who cried "Shame!"
The protester was drowned out by supporters of the governing Workers' Party, who shouted pro-government slogans and Lula's name.
Anthony Wordsworth gave the hosts an early lead from close range but Stuart Beavon equalised for Burton just before the break with a deflected strike.
Tyrone Barnett's fine drive restored Southend's advantage and David Mooney sealed the win in the last minute on the counter-attack.
Burton have now lost three of their past six matches.
Burton boss Nigel Clough told BBC Radio Derby:
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"I thought we played well enough to get something out of the game.
"After the first 10 minutes we got to grips with the game and played well; deserved the equaliser and I thought we started the second half very well.
"They hardly had a shot and then all of a sudden one flies in the top corner and we're chasing the game again.
"We probably played better for an hour of the game tonight than we did in the two previous victories."
Tory AMs will travel to Westminster on Thursday for what is described as their regular annual meeting at No 10.
David Cameron is expected to be present despite German Chancellor Angela Merkel visiting parliament the same day.
The gathering follows the sacking of four shadow cabinet ministers by Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies.
There are also tensions between him and the Secretary of State for Wales David Jones.
Mr Davies's chief of staff, Antony Pickles, was called to a meeting in Downing Street on Tuesday evening as No 10 tries to resolve the rows.
There is said to be puzzlement in Downing Street over the sackings and a desire to find out what happened and why.
Tuesday's meeting was said to be about finding a way through the tensions and to prepare for Thursday's gathering.
One MP said they were traditionally not invited to the annual meeting between AMs and the prime minister, although Wales Office Minister Stephen Crabb has cancelled an official visit to promote tourism so he can be in Westminster on Thursday.
Secretary of State David Jones is also expected to attend the meeting at Downing Street.
Last week, Mr Cameron said plans to hand restricted tax powers to Wales are the "starting point" for a debate.
UK ministers want to hold a referendum on allowing the Welsh government to vary income tax rates.
Each income tax band could only be moved at the same time and by the same amount - the so-called "lockstep".
A row over whether to back the lockstep or not led to Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies sacking four members of his shadow cabinet.
Mr Davies has criticised the lockstep while the four colleagues he sacked said they were supporting the policy of the UK coalition government.
Mr Cameron made his comments on the issue while visiting flood-hit areas of Pembrokeshire last Wednesday.
He did not comment directly on divisions within his party's assembly group, but said: "What we believe is that we need further devolution here in Wales.
"We want the Welsh assembly to have the power over taxes and we want the Conservative Party to be the low-tax party in Wales campaigning here to make sure we help people with the cost of living by keeping the cost of government down and making sure they keep more of their hard-earned money to spend as the choose.
"That's what we stand for, that's what the Welsh Conservatives stand for and I welcome that.
"First of all we need to get the referendum, we need to have the debate about the referendum and the Conservative Party will be supporting a 'Yes' vote, and the starting point for all that is the settlement as set out in the [UK] government's response to the Silk inquiry."
The Silk Commission was set up by UK ministers to look into devolved powers and said Wales should be responsible for raising some of the money it spends.
Its $500m (£326m) programme was heavily criticised after it emerged that US-trained rebels had handed vehicles and ammunition over to extremists.
It emerged last month that only four or five of the fighters were in Syria.
The programme had aimed to train and equip 5,400 fighters this year and a further 15,000 in 2016.
A senior administration official said the programme was being put on "pause" and said it could be restarted in future.
The programme had suffered from "significant challenges", the official said, adding: "We had a very high bar in terms of recruiting".
The US will no longer vet every individual recruit but just the leaders of the groups they decide to work with, who will face "very vigorous vetting".
Of the initial two groups sent into the country under the previous programme, the first was rounded up by Jabhat al-Nusra, an offshoot of al-Qaeda, in July. The second handed much of its equipment over to the same group in September, reportedly in exchange for safe passage.
Quoting an anonymous US Department of Defense source, the New York Times reported that the US would no longer recruit Syrian rebels to go through its training programmes in Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates.
Instead, it would establish a smaller training centre in Turkey, where "enablers" - mostly leaders of opposition groups - would be taught operational manoeuvres like how to call in airstrikes, the newspaper said.
The failure of the programme underscores the wider problem of the inability to create large and effective moderate forces on the ground.
It will also have wider repercussions since the programme helped to coordinate support activities between the Americans, the Gulf states, Turkey, and Jordan.
The risk now is that those countries may push on with more separate initiatives backing individual client groups.
Washington was already limited in its ability to influence events on the ground. The failure of this initiative will reduce it even further.
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Speaking in a joint news conference with UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, Mr Carter admitted that he "wasn't satisfied with the early efforts" of the training.
The US was now looking at "different" ways to "enable capable, motivated forces on the ground to retake territory from ISIL and reclaim Syrian territory from extremism", he added, using another acronym for IS.
Mr Carter also said there were indications that four Russian cruise missiles that crashed in Iran before reaching their targets in Syria had malfunctioned.
The defence secretary is the first US official to comment publicly on the reports that the Russian missiles crashed. Russia has denied the claim, saying all 26 missiles hit their targets.
The missiles were fired from the Caspian Sea some 1,500km (930 miles) away, their route taking them over Iran and Iraq. They were launched in support of a major ground offensive by Syrian government troops in western Syria.
Mr Carter accused Russia of running "fundamentally flawed" operations in Syria which would "inflame the civil war and therefore extremism".
Moscow says it has been hitting IS positions and denies reports that Russian strikes have mainly targeted other opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Robert Kay, 36, from Bonnyrigg, stabbed Carlo Volante, 40, in a "one sided violent attack" in broad daylight in front of his girlfriend, Mhairi Hughes.
At the High Court in Glasgow, Kay pleaded guilty to murdering Mr Volante in Bonnyrigg, on 3 January 2017.
Judge Lady Rae will sentence Kay at a later date.
The court heard Kay rented a room to Miss Hughes who was in a relationship with Mr Volante, who lived with her.
Advocate depute Angela Gray said at about 14:00 on 3 January, Mr Volante and Miss Hughes decided to go to her mum's house to walk the dog.
She said: "In doing so they also woke up the accused who shouted.
"Miss Hughes shouted at Kay and Mr Volante told Kay not to shout at Miss Hughes.
"Miss Hughes felt she had enough and was not going to put up with Kay any longer so she and Mr Volante decided they were moving out right away."
They started packing belongings and shouted at one another to hurry and Mr Volante realised he should have been at work that day.
He shouted at Kay because he was annoyed at missing work then went downstairs to take bags outside for his girlfriend.
Seconds later Miss Hughes heard a disturbance and looked out to see Kay running down the path, away from the door.
She heard Mr Volante shouting "He has a knife" and other witnesses saw Kay chase after him.
Mr Volante ended up on the ground and Kay stood over him and stabbed him "a number of times on the upper body".
Miss Gray added: "Miss Hughes at this time was only five metres away, not going any closer out of fear and was shouting and screaming at Kay to leave Mr Volante alone.
Mr Volante was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary but pronounced dead at 5.52pm.
He was found to have 14 sharp blade injuries with nine of them being stab type injuries.
Defence QC Donald Findlay said Kay has no recollection of the incident and the last memory beforehand is an alleged threat made by Mr Volante.
The 33-year-old, who led England to the semi-finals of the World Cup, is joined on a 10-person shortlist by Colin Bell (Frankfurt), Laura Harvey (Seattle Reign) and John Herdman (Canada).
Portsmouth-born USA coach Jill Ellis is also a contender.
USA trio Hope Solo, Carli Lloyd and Megan Rapinoe are among those shortlisted for player of the year.
Goalkeeper Solo, midfielder Lloyd and forward Rapinoe helped their team win the World Cup in July.
Lloyd's six goals meant she finished as joint top-scorer along with Germany's Celia Sasic, who is also shortlisted along with team-mate Nadine Angerer.
Japan captain Aya Miyama is also a contender, along with Ramona Bachmann (Switzerland), Kadeisha Buchanan (Canada) and France pair Amandine Henry and Eugenie Le Sommer.
The managerial shortlist is completed by Calle Barrling (Sweden Under-19s), Farid Benstiti (Paris St Germain), Gerard Precheur (Lyon), Norio Sasaki (Japan) and Thomas Worle (Bayern Munich).
"England fans may question why no Lionesses were nominated for this year's Ballon d'Or award after Sampson's team claimed bronze at this summer's World Cup.
"Manchester City defender Lucy Bronze in particular is a notable absentee. The right-back was rewarded for her two goals in Canada by being shortlisted for the Golden Ball - the award given to the best player at the tournament.
"Bronze, fellow defender and captain Steph Houghton, and goalkeeper Karen Bardsley were also named all in the World Cup All-Stars squad.
"Another name missing from the list is Scotland international Kim Little. The midfielder finished another prolific season with Seattle Reign in the USA as joint-second top scorer, as she continues to shine in the NWSL."
Richards, 33, has scored 18 goals for the League Two leaders this term, but will be out for at least four weeks.
Marquis, 23, played for the Cobblers in 2013-2014, scoring in their final game against Oxford to avoid relegation.
"It's a very different situation. I want to help a team already doing really well get promoted," he said.
Marquis has made a total of 27 appearances this season, having had a loan spell at Leyton Orient, but only scored once.
He is out of contract at the end of the season, and continued to BBC Radio Northampton: "I went to Leyton Orient earlier in the season and played the majority of games in midfield, which obviously isn't my best position but at least I was playing there.
"I went back to Millwall and wasn't really playing, mainly because the two forwards are playing well; Steve Morison's the captain and Lee Gregory's already got 20 goals this season."
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In an interview with the Associated Press at the GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday, Soloway said getting Jenner to join was a "dream come true."
"We are all part of the same community. A lot of the transwomen who work on our show are also in her show, I Am Cait."
Amazon has not officially confirmed Jenner's casting yet.
One of I Am Cait's cast members, Zackary Drucker, is also a producer on comedy show Transparent. Filming begins next week.
The story revolves around a Los Angeles family and their lives after they discover their father Mort (Jeffrey Tambor) is transgender.
I Am Cait is a documentary series on the entertainment channel E!, which chronicles the life of Jenner following her gender transition.
Jenner previously starred with her family in Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Before her transition, she won the decathlon at the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 as Bruce Jenner. She is seen as the highest-profile American to come out as transgender.
In a fan question and answer session on her blog last year, Jenner was asked what had given her the courage to come out.
She says: "I had all of my diversions, sports… this… that… married… family.
"But after 65 years, here I was right back with the same problems that I had when I was 10-years-old and I had to finally do something about that.
"It's been both eye-opening and difficult to see first-hand what so many members of the transgender community have had to go through just to be themselves."
Star Wars actor Warwick Davis and former Doctor Who and Hobbit star Sylvester McCoy are also taking part.
Those who attended were given the chance to meet the authors of their favourite books or characters from their favourite shows.
The convention, now in its fifth year, has become renowned for fans' enthusiasm for dressing up.
Brian Cooney, managing director of the MCM expo group which organises the event, said: "The whole genre and the fact that people enjoy going out and dressing up is amazing to watch and a big part of the event.
"They like to 'cos play' - they call it that because they like to costume play and don't just put on a costume and go 'look at my costume'. They want to try and play the characters. It's their escape for a day or two where they come and enjoy the fun."
Mr Cooney said Comic Con had become a broad term that embraced pop culture.
He added: "It's totally mainstream now. The fact that the movies have become so successful has led even more people into it, but it was already on the way up before the movies."
Wolves kicked a drop-ball from close to their own box out for a throw-in deep inside the visitors' half after an injury to City midfielder Luke Freeman.
The throw-in led to a free-kick for the hosts, which Matt Doherty headed in.
"I'm an angry man at the moment if I'm honest, for a number of reasons," Johnson told BBC Radio Bristol.
"A big club like this, you don't expect a historic club to have to resort to unsporting behaviour.
"The lad said he was going to kick it back to the goalkeeper and he smashes it out right in our corner and puts us under pressure."
Wolves head coach Kenny Jackett responded: "He (Johnson) was unhappy on the sidelines definitely. I wasn't quite sure what the expectation was.
"The ball went out for a throw-in quite deep. It is splitting hairs really."
The defeat left Bristol City 20th in the Championship table, two points above the relegation zone, while Wolves moved up to 12th.
"I thought we were the side that was looking like we was going to go on and win it," Johnson added.
"We were in the ascendancy, and that incident changed the ascendancy from us having it to them having it through, in my opinion, unsporting behaviour."
The North has moved two missiles to its east coast and South Korea is on alert.
Speaking in Seoul, Mr Kerry reconfirmed the US's commitment to protecting itself and its allies.
But he played down a US report that the North has a nuclear warhead, saying it was "inaccurate" to suggest it has "a working and tested" device.
Later, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Pyongyang had "not demonstrated the capability to deploy a nuclear-armed missile".
A declassified section of a report from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report had warned there was "moderate" confidence that Pyongyang had developed the technology to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile.
By Kim GhattasBBC News, Seoul
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North Korea has increased its warlike rhetoric following fresh UN sanctions imposed after its third nuclear test in February and joint military manoeuvres by the US and South Korea.
The North has said it will restart a mothballed nuclear reactor, has shut an emergency military hotline to the South and has urged countries to withdraw diplomatic staff, saying it cannot now guarantee their safety.
On 15 April, North Korea will mark the birth of national founder Kim Il-sung , a date which could be used for a missile launch.
North Korean TV has been showing preparations for the birthday celebrations, which include displays of "Kimilsungia" flowers, parades, and models of missiles.
By Ian Pannell,BBC News, Washington
Does North Korea have a nuclear weapon capable of being fired on a ballistic missile? Someone in America's vast intelligence community thinks the answer is "Yes" - well "probably Yes", as analysts do not like absolutes.
They also think it would not be very reliable.
This is a deeply sensitive area and with recent history in mind, no-one wants to be accused of "sexing-up" intelligence.
The honest answer is that no-one outside of a small group of people in Pyongyang actually knows what capability North Korea has. It is also true that, as with most conflicts, there are always hawks and doves and people with competing agendas. For now at least this probably remains one of former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's infamous "known unknowns".
Recently, the North reportedly moved two Musudan ballistic missiles to its east coast. Estimates of their range vary, but some suggest the missiles could travel 4,000km (2,500 miles).
That would put US bases on Guam within range, although it is not believed that the Musudan has been tested before.
In a joint news conference with his South Korea counterpart, Mr Kerry said that if Northern leader Kim Jong-un decided to go ahead with a launch it would be "a provocative and unwanted act that will raise people's temperature".
"It is a huge mistake for him to choose to do that because it will further isolate his people ... who are desperate for food not missile launches, who are desperate for opportunity not for a leader who wants to flex his muscles in this manner," he said.
"Kim Jong-un needs to understand - and I think he probably does - what the outcome of a conflict would be," he added.
Mr Kerry said that in his talks with South Korean President Park Geun-hye she had made clear her "bright vision" of a peaceful Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons.
"We are prepared to work with conviction that relations between the North and South can improve and can improve very quickly," he said.
"The world will be much better off if the leaders of the North, and one leader in particular, can make the right decision."
Russia, which has expressed growing concern over North Korea, said on Friday that it had issued "an urgent appeal" to Pyongyang "to refrain from actions which could lead to further escalation of tension".
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North Korea's missile programme
On Saturday Mr Kerry will move on to China. He said he would urge leaders there to use their influence to rein in Pyongyang's aggression. He will then travel to Japan.
Mr Kerry said it was "clear to everybody in the world that no country in the world has as close a relationship or as significant an impact on [North Korea] than China", and that talks there would aim to "lay out a path that will defuse this tension".
China, like the US, wanted denuclearisation, he said, adding: "If that's your policy, you've got to put some teeth into it."
On Thursday, China carried out a civilian emergency drill in a town near its border with the North.
China's state media said the half-hour exercise covered evacuations and responses to an air raid and was aimed at raising public awareness of disaster prevention and relief.
Sgt Louise Lucas, 41, was airlifted to Morriston Hospital after the crash in March 2015, where she later died.
Her eight-year-old daughter suffered minor injuries.
The inquest at Swansea Civic Centre was shown CCTV footage on Tuesday of the moments leading up to when Sgt Lucas stepped off the central reservation.
It heard evidence from her best friend, Karen Williams, who was with her at the time.
Ms Williams said she had decided to go into the city centre with Sgt Lucas and her daughter to do some shopping, and were discussing what to buy as they crossed the first line of traffic.
As they walked along the central reservation, Ms Williams said she saw Sgt Lucas had stepped into the road.
She said: "It all seemed clear... Louise wouldn't have known the bus was coming.
"It all happened in an instant."
She said Sgt Lucas's daughter was "swiped" by the bus and had a graze on her side, and she attended to her before rushing over to help Sgt Lucas who was lying on her back in the road a few feet from the central reservation.
Ms Williams said before stepping into the road Sgt Lucas "did not say she was going to cross, she did not turn and look what was coming".
A new one-way system has since been introduced on Kingsway following a number of incidents.
The inquest continues.
Emails indicate that suppliers are selling a form of mechanically recovered residue under different names so that it can be legally termed meat in Britain.
One of the UK's biggest sausage suppliers admitted that some of this meat is in their products but where used it is always declared.
Another manufacturer told the BBC he believes the product is being widely used in Britain.
In April 2012 the European Union told the British government that a type of mechanically separated meat (MSM) used across the UK could no longer count towards the meat content of a product.
Called desinewed meat (DSM), it had been introduced into the UK in the 1990s and supporters argued that it was a higher form of recovered meat, retrieved from animal bones using low pressure water. Visually it is said to be similar to a fine mince, and closer to meat than the more liquid MSM "slurry".
The EU said DSM could still be used in UK meat products but could not be considered part of the meat content. This ban should also apply to desinewed meat across every member state.
But the BBC has learned that across Europe many suppliers continue to produce desinewed meat using different names including "Baader meat" and "3mm mince".
Baader meat is made using a machine from the Baader company in Germany and according to a spokesman, the device removes the membrane and the sinew and in the end "it is meat!"
Suppliers that use the Baader system in Germany, the Netherlands, France and Spain all stated they believed their desinewed products are outside the EU ban and can count towards the meat content of sausages and other foods.
In e-mails seen by the BBC, some of these companies say they are very keen to supply it to the UK.
"My information is that you only have to declare MSM, and Baader no," said one German based supplier.
"I know it is very strange but I didn't invent these laws," he writes.
A supplier of chicken meat made a similar point in another email: "Declarable MSM is derived from chickens with all the meat and skin in its original format and minced via the Baader machine, all the bones are separated mechanically. This format can be declared as meat in the ingredients."
Mark Fiddy is the managing director of Poultex, a UK based international meat and poultry trading firm. I asked him if his company sold Baader meat in the UK.
"Well we supply that product, I can't say who we supply it to or what they do with it, but we supply that product," he said.
I asked him if that Baader meat can count towards the actual meat content of a sausage in the UK.
He replied: "Well we buy and sell it, we're not responsible for the end labelling and what goes on meat contents and things like that."
Freshlink Foods is the largest private label frozen sausage supplier in the UK retail market. When contacted by BBC News they admitted that they did use Baader meat.
"Some Baader meat is used in our own branded product that goes into the foodservice market. Where used, this is clearly declared," they said in a statement.
Freshlink is a subsidiary of ABP Food Group, the company that owns Silvercrest Foods where the first products with equine DNA were discovered in January.
Other people close to the food processing industry in the UK suggest that the use of Baader meat is widespread.
Kevin McWhinney is a sausage maker in Northern Ireland who has been campaigning against the use of these types of meat residues for years.
"The UK should not be using this Baader meat but as far as I am aware it is coming into the country and is being used," he said.
This perspective is supported by Matt Starling, a lawyer with the firm Geldards who specialises in regulatory issues.
"We know that there are significant (EU) exports of Baader meat, and it is fair to assume, and that's the government's view, that it is being used to replace DSM," he told BBC News.
"And that view of the government was strongly made by the minister last year and is shared, as I understand, by the FSA."
He said there was a legal inconsistency between the UK and the EU because the Commission hadn't specifically banned the Baader meat process.
"The matter hasn't been tested, but as things stand there appears to be no clear legal redress if a company does export Baader and it is used to replace the products that we were producing ourselves until they were banned last year."
When contacted by the BBC, a spokesman for the EU said that as far as the Union is concerned Baader meat is MSM.
Sausage maker Kevin McWhinney's family have been in the business for five generations - he agrees wholeheartedly with the position taken by the EU. Whether the process is called Baader meat or DSM or 3mm mince, to him it was all the same.
"The powers that be would have you think its different because it uses a low pressure - but it is the same bones, same scraps off the bones, the same machines, just with different pressure. Someone's just trying to invent a new product," he said.
Many people connected to the meat industry in Britain say the EU has "used a sledgehammer" against the UK on this issue, while letting other European countries effectively get away with continuing to sell similar products without restrictions.
Dr Duncan Campbell is one of Britain's most senior food inspectors and head of West Yorkshire Analytical Services.
"What is clear is that there is a lack of uniformity of enforcement of EU regulation - and that is the loophole that is allowing material to be counted as meat in another European member state - the same product would not be considered meat in the UK," he said.
But there is also the sense that the intense downward pressure on prices driven by supermarkets is pushing manufacturers to find the cheapest ingredients.
One EU based meat supplier pointed out that a half kilo of sausages was selling in one supermarket for less than a euro.
It was impossible, he said, to produce meat at that price without cutting corners.
Bottled water is more expensive than this, he added.
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Thousands were protesting in the slum popularly known as Sodom and Gomorrah.
They blockaded roads after soldiers and police used earth-moving equipment to clear part of the slum.
Authorities say the slum blocks drains taking water to the ocean, causing caused floods at the beginning of June where an explosion at a petrol station killed at least 150 people.
The BBC's Sammy Darko at the scene of the protest says police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters but they seemed to be overpowered by protesters who threw stones and damaged police vehicles.
He also heard gun shots but could not confirm if the police were using live ammunition.
Police spokesman Cephas Arthur told the BBC that the situation had been brought under control, but the police would remain on the scene "for as long as it takes us to ensure that the situation doesn't resurrect".
Protest organiser Osman Alhassan said people now don't have anywhere to sleep.
Some 50,000 people live in the slum which is thought to be the biggest and oldest slum in the country.
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Stephen Clarke, 60, of Wednesbury, had admitted causing the death of Farzana Kousar, 39, by dangerous driving.
A court had previously heard how he fell asleep at the wheel before the accident in December 2014.
Ms Kousar's family expressed disappointment at the sentence and urged the Crown to appeal against it.
Clarke was also disqualified from driving for a period of four years at the High Court in Edinburgh.
His van was seen to swerve from lane to lane before colliding with the car in which Ms Kousar was a passenger which had been parked on the hard shoulder.
Judge Lord Boyd said: "It is difficult to find words to describe the impact on Ms Kousar's family and friends.
"I note that she has four children ranging in ages from 21 years old to four years old.
"The youngest was only two years old at the time of her mother's death."
He said a victim statement prepared by her mother made "heart-breaking reading".
"There is nothing I can do or say that can compensate for their loss," he said.
The judge told Clarke it was clear the amount of sleep he had had before undertaking the journey had been "inadequate".
"It is very concerning to learn of the pressures that appear to be placed on self-employed delivery drivers such as you," he added.
However, he said it was to Clarke's credit he had taken full responsibility for what happened.
"You have shown considerable remorse," he added.
Lord Boyd told him he would have jailed him for three years after trial but took into account of his guilty plea in imposing the sentence to two years.
The Kousar family, in a statement given to the press, described it as a "lenient decision".
It said they did not feel justice had been done and were "angry and frustrated" by the sentence.
"We would like the Crown to appeal this decision," the statement said.
"We feel that it gives people permission to fall asleep at the wheel of their vehicles - it sends the message that they won't be properly punished for not taking care on the roads."
It said Clarke would be out of jail "soon enough" to go back to his family.
"We will spend the rest of our lives grieving for the loss of our loved one," the statement added.
The 22-year-old ex-Derby County trainee has also previously had a spell at Shrewsbury Town.
Meanwhile, the Robins have recalled striker Jermaine Hylton early from his loan spell at non-league Guiseley.
Both players could feature in Swindon's EFL Trophy second-round match at home to Luton Town on Tuesday.
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At the height of the Cold War, in 1968, the K-27 met with disaster when radiation escaped from one of its reactors during a voyage in the Arctic.
Vyacheslav Mazurenko, then 22, was serving as a chief warrant officer (CWO) on the vessel, which now lies abandoned in the Arctic's Kara Sea. Today he lives in Ukraine and he told BBC Russian what happened.
"We were on a five-day trip to check everything was working normally, before a 70-day round-the-world mission without resurfacing," he said.
"It was the end of the third day and everything seemed to be going well. The crew was really tired."
The mission would be to collect data about Nato and other enemy bases. K-27 had two experimental liquid metal-cooled reactors - a design never tried before in the Soviet navy. Nuclear power enabled the sub to stay underwater for weeks without resurfacing and without having to refuel.
"At 11:35 everything was peaceful," he said.
"The bulkheads were open. I was in the fifth compartment, next to the fourth compartment with the two nuclear reactors, talking to some crew members there. We suddenly noticed some people running.
"We had a radiation detector in the compartment, but it was switched off. To be honest, we hadn't paid much attention to the radiation dosimeters we were given. But then, our radiation supervisor switched on the detector in the compartment and it went off the scale. He looked surprised and worried."
They did not understand what had happened immediately because the radioactive gas had no odour or colour. But two hours later, some crewmen came out of the fourth compartment - and some of them had to be carried, because they could not walk, CWO Mazurenko said.
He put it down to fatigue, because the crew had spent three days with almost no sleep.
The submarine headed back to its base on the Kola Peninsula, by the Barents Sea, which took five hours.
As the sub approached, the base's command fled the dockside, because special radiation alarms onshore were emitting a deafening roar, CWO Mazurenko recalled.
Soon after, the base commander picked up the captain in a car, but most of the crew had to walk 2km (1.2 miles) back to their barracks under their own steam.
Several specialist crew members were left on board the toxic sub for about a day, because they were under orders to keep watch.
Some have blamed K-27's Capt Pavel Leonov over the accident, but CWO Mazurenko says the captain faced a life-or-death choice.
"When the sub surfaced to make the trip back to the docks, the division ordered it to cut its engines and await special instructions. The captain, however, decided to keep going, because if the sub stopped for several hours nobody would survive long enough to get it back to base."
The crew of 144 were poisoned - nine died of radiation sickness soon after the emergency, and the others were ill for years before their premature deaths.
K-27 went into service in 1963, about five years after construction had started. It was very expensive and took longer to build than other Soviet nuclear submarines. So the sailors called it the "Little Golden Fish" - or "Zolotaya Rybka" in Russian - after a magical, fairy-tale fish which makes people's wishes come true.
"In Soviet times, we were told that our subs were the best, and we had to be different from the 'imperialists'. But the first subs were far from perfect. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev said: 'We'll catch up with you and overtake you'. They kept churning out new subs, regardless of the risk to people," CWO Mazurenko said.
The crew were part of the military elite. They got lemons and oranges - citrus fruit that most Soviet citizens, battling daily with shortages, never saw.
The crew were told that their reactors were extremely safe and could not suffer the breakdowns that had plagued some other Russian submarines in the past, CWO Mazurenko said.
"When the assessment commission came round, its members were often afraid to visit the reactor compartment. They always tried to avoid it, but Captain Leonov actually sat on one of the reactors, to show them how safe it was."
However, CWO Mazurenko says radioactive particles had been detected aboard the submarine from the very start.
He was among 10 lucky crew members to be sent to a Leningrad hospital within a day of the disaster. The fate of the rest of the crew was in the hands of the Communist Party in Moscow.
Five days after the accident, the rest were taken to Leningrad - now called St Petersburg. They were each isolated from the outside world.
Many Soviet sailors and officers were ordered to donate blood and bone marrow, knowing nothing about the accident, which remained an official secret for three decades.
K-27 officers were later warned they should not have children for five years and were given regular check-ups, but there was no proper medical follow-up for the ordinary submariners, according to CWO Mazurenko. Many of them were declared "healthy" by military doctors, despite their illnesses, he added.
On the medical certificate they received 25 years after the disaster, it simply read: "Participated in nuclear accident elimination on the submarine. Exposed to radiation."
Despite what happened, Vyacheslav Mazurenko told the BBC: "I do not regret that I served almost four years on this submarine, with these people."
Of the original 144 crew, only 56 are still alive. Most of them became physically handicapped and they still do not know the level of radiation they were exposed to.
In 1981, K-27 was sunk at a depth of just 30m (99ft) in the Kara Sea - far shallower than the depth required by international guidelines.
The figures, based on 2011 census data, showed a rise of 14,100 people compared to the previous year, said the National Records of Scotland statistics.
About 47,700 people came to Scotland from England, Wales and Northern Ireland, according to the figures.
And about 39,800 left Scotland to go in the opposite direction, resulting in a net migration gain of 7,900.
National Records of Scotland chief executive Tim Ellis, said: "Scotland's population increased by 14,100 from mid-2012 to mid-2013, primarily because of a net in-flow of approximately 10,000 more people coming to Scotland than leaving, although there were also around 900 more births than deaths.
"For the 10th consecutive year, more people arrived in Scotland from the rest of the UK and overseas than left to go in the opposite direction.
"However, for the first time in nine years, net migration from the rest of the UK was larger than that from overseas."
Mr Ellis added: "More people arrived in Scotland from the rest of UK and fewer people left to go in the opposite direction, compared with the previous year.
"In contrast, for the third consecutive year, fewer people came to Scotland from overseas than in the preceding year."
The figures also said:
It's five years since his palaces, private fairground, and security headquarters were pounded by Nato air strikes. Since then the complex appears to have been overlooked like - some say - Libya itself.
Now the international community is paying attention. The so-called Islamic State is in residence in Gaddafi's former hometown of Sirte, and waves of migrants are leaving Libya for Europe. Once again, the fate of Libya is a key concern for the West.
Enter the new "unity" government, albeit with some difficulty.
It came to the capital by boat at the end of March after rivals closed the airspace.
"The challenge of arriving was daunting," said Deputy Prime Minister Mousa al-Koni. "But thanks to God and the Navy Seals, we managed to carry out this operation and enter Tripoli."
The optimistically named Government of National Accord is operating from a heavily guarded naval base. It has the backing of the United Nations but it also has rivals. There are two other governments in Libya - one led by Islamists in Tripoli and an internationally recognised administration in Tobruk, in the east.
Then there's the multitude of militias. Having carved up the country, they are not keen to loosen their grip.
"We face many challenges starting with taking over ministries and premises occupied by militias and getting the army and police into operation," said Mr Koni. "They have started assuming their responsibilities and are already taking control of some streets and buildings. We have high hopes."
He is blunt about the threat posed by Islamic state, which he says could take control of much of the country.
"Libya does not have a strong figure who can lead the army or even the militias to fight this enemy," he said.
"They will spread quickly, especially in the south. This area is weak and they could occupy it in minutes. If so, they will control two-thirds of the country. If we don't act today we can't do anything tomorrow."
We joined one militia, the Nawasi Brigade, for a night patrol along the coast road in Tripoli. Heavily armed men in uniform set out in a convoy of police cars and other vehicles with blue lights flashing. It looked like an operation by regular police. The Nawasi Brigade is working with Libya's interior ministry but many militias are a law unto themselves.
"Less than 50% follow orders," said Hussam Mohammed, an interior ministry spokesman for Southern Tripoli. He reluctantly admitted that only about 10 militias have been trained and integrated into the ministry. Like many in Libya, he is calling for unity.
"Just give us one government, and one Libya, under one president. I will protect this government. Now we will wait to see what they can give us. But the people won't wait forever."
Adel Kakli has already been waiting a long time for a new Libya. He spent 17 years in Manchester before coming home in 2011 to fight against Col Gaddafi. In a park by the shore, he gave his guarded assessment of the new government.
"They won't do much for the people but at least they will put us on the first step," he said.
"We saw in the faces of the people that they are smiling. They were happy with the government when they came here. "
For Mr Kakli, the past five years of turmoil came as no surprise.
"Most people are very disappointed but for me it's normal after a revolution," he says.
"Some other countries took a long time to settle. But people are now fed up with fighting each other. They found out fighting each other is no solution, and they want to move on through politics."
Some of Adel's friends who came back to fight with him lost their lives during the revolution. I asked if they would think it had been worth it.
"Not yet," he said. "We didn't get to the point that we wanted, but always there is hope to become a good country."
Tripoli feels like a city holding its breath - watching and waiting to see if the sea breezes will blow in calm or chaos.
"I'm expecting ups and downs for weeks," one local man told me in Martyrs' Square, where Libyans celebrated the fall of Gaddafi.
"The militias will keep flexing their muscles, trying to get a bigger slice of the cake," he said. "The contest could continue for some time."
He too is hoping the new government can gain a foothold.
"This really is our last chance," he said.
Lehman Brothers was one of the few major institutions that collapsed without a bailout during the meltdown.
JP Morgan was Lehman's main short-term lender before its collapse.
It was accused of contributing to the failure by demanding $8.6bn of collateral as credit markets tightened.
JP Morgan will also pay the insurer Ambac $995m in settlement of a case involving the sale of mortgage-backed securities.
JP Morgan says the payouts will not "have a material" effect on its earnings.
In a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission JP Morgan also said the settlement with what remains of Lehman Brothers resolved among other things actions brought by Lehman for the return of $7.9bn in collateral and billions of dollars in damages.
It also resolved the recovery of about $2.4bn related to Lehman's claims against JP Morgan involving derivatives transactions between the two firms after Lehman's bankruptcy.
The Lehman settlement still needs to be approved by the Bankruptcy Court.
Scarlett Keeling, 15, from Bideford, Devon, was found dead on Anjuna beach in Goa in February 2008.
Her body had been held in Exeter by the Greater Devon coroner because of the ongoing trial of two men charged over her death.
But, in April, the Goan authorities gave permission for the body to be released to Scarlett's family.
Scarlett was buried in a garden prepared for her on the family's smallholding in a simple ceremony, attended by friends and family on Friday afternoon.
Her body was carried to its resting place by her father, brother and friends.
Some of her poems were read out as tributes.
Talking to BBC News in January last year, her mother, Fiona MacKeown, said burying her daughter would finally give the family a sense of closure.
Ms MacKeown said she hoped the funeral would put an end to the nightmares and sleeplessness which continued to affect Scarlett's siblings.
After the ceremony on Friday, Ms MacKeown said it was a relief that the burial could be carried out and it was "lovely to have her here".
She said: "We've waited to all this time to get her back.
"Everybody's been working like ants on her garden, getting it ready for her to come home."
Scarlett would have celebrated her 20th birthday on Sunday.
Her family and friends said they would use the weekend to celebrate her birthday and her life.
Scarlett was on a six-month "trip of a lifetime" with her family when she was killed.
Ms MacKeown had allowed her to stay in Anjuna in the care of a 25-year-old tour guide while the rest of the family went travelling - a decision Ms MacKeown said she "bitterly regretted" with hindsight.
"I was wrong to leave her, but at the time obviously I didn't think so - I thought she was going to be safe."
When Scarlett's body was found, police initially said her death had been an accidental drowning.
However, a second post-mortem examination - held at the insistence of Ms MacKeown - found she had been drugged, raped and killed.
India's Central Bureau of Investigation started a fresh investigation which led to the arrest of two men.
Samson D'Souza, 31, and Placido Carvalho, 43, were charged with sexual assault, outraging modesty and destroying evidence. Both have denied the charges.
The trial at Indian Children's Court in Goa, has been running for more than two years, but has yet to conclude.
Anne Longfield said personal, social, health and economics education (PSHE) lessons should help children spot when they are being targeted by gangs.
It follows reports children are being used by criminals as "money mules".
She said children looking for "a sense of belonging, fast money" or "glamour" were at risk.
Ms Longfield's research has found 46,000 children in England are involved in gangs.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Sunday Breakfast programme, the children's commissioner said children as young as 10 were being recruited into gangs that could be "extremely violent, usually intimidatory and sexually abusive, particularly towards girls".
"These are horrific situations that young people are getting themselves into."
Simon Dukes, chief executive of the fraud prevention organisation Cifas, said some were being persuaded to hand over access to their bank accounts to criminals for money laundering purposes.
He said criminals lure children in with apparent money-making opportunities on social media, and pass money through their accounts to disguise the sources of illicit funds.
"Criminals, of course, prey on the most vulnerable and they're preying on younger people because of their lack of knowledge, in particular, about what is effectively money laundering."
Ms Longfield said other young people were being used to transport drugs.
"Anecdotally, I'm told that middle-class children are often being targeted as well because they are less likely to be stopped.
"Children who are easier to intimidate, vulnerable in some way and often being bullied, those that are easier to control, are being picked on."
Earlier this year, the government announced that PSHE would be made compulsory in all state schools.
The government is currently consulting on what to include in the permanent curriculum, but as yet, there is no timetable for its introduction.
Ms Longfield said the "life skills lessons" should include information on the risks of becoming involved in gangs, an understanding of how gangs target children and help in building resilience to resist them.
Parents may not be aware of who their children are talking to via social media, so young people themselves need to be able to understand the difference between "genuine opportunities" and exploitative situations, she added.
"For younger children it will often be the draw of fast money - sometimes protection for themselves if they're fearful about their own wellbeing - but certainly also a sense of belonging, fast money, sometimes glamour...
"Life skills is something that the government has committed itself to do.
"Most schools at the moment do provide life skill lessons but they're often inconsistent and often they don't tackle some of these issues that are much harder to tackle."
The commissioner also called for police forces to work together to produce better data on the number of children targeted by gangs.
The PSHE Association, a national body working to improve PSHE education, said it supported the call for compulsory lessons to help young people understand "the specific risks of gang membership for individuals, families and communities".
A spokesman said a broad PSHE education "gives pupils the knowledge and skills to better understand peer influence, and helps them recognise and avoid exploitative relationships, online and offline".
They include a man caught on CCTV who appears to be aiming a missile at police officers.
Up to 4,000 people met up for a waterfight on the hottest day of 2016 so far, but it descended into violence.
The Met Police has cancelled all officer leave in the wake of the incident.
The festivities turned hostile as the evening wore on when some people reportedly attempted to set up an illegal sound system.
Three people, including a police officer, were stabbed in the violence that spilled into Marble Arch, yards from the shops on Oxford Street.
A second police officer was injured at the scene by a flying bottle.
The police are yet to make any arrests and Scotland Yard has now publicly identified eight people they want to trace.
The suspects include the man appearing to throw the object in Hyde Park and three others who are alleged to have committed offences in the Marble Arch area.
They are wanted alongside four men, three of whom are wanted in connection with violent disorder in Hyde Park and one over trouble in Marble Arch.
Detectives are continuing to study CCTV from the area.
There were also violent clashes in Hackney, east London, as police went to break up a so-called block party.
An 18-year-old woman and two 17-year-old girls were arrested on suspicion of committing grievous bodily harm in violent clashes on the Stamford Hill Estate, in Hackney.
Cdr Nick Downing said: "We have a number of specialist officers who are reviewing hours of CCTV footage and whilst we are still in the early stages of the investigation they have been able to identify key individuals who are believed to have taken part in the disorder in some way or form.
"We are appealing to the public to help us identify the individuals...or if you are the person in the images now is your opportunity to make yourself known to police.
"As the investigation continues we are still keen to hear from any witnesses or anyone with any information."
The 33-year-old, a former Wales Under-21 international, moves to the region after making more than 150 appearances for Sale Sharks.
"I have strong links with the Dragons through many of the players and coaches, so I am looking forward to my return home," said Macleod.
"It's great to be able to come back to Wales for both personal and professional reasons."
Macleod adds experience to a young Dragons squad.
"The coaches are assembling a young and exciting squad and I am looking forward to joining the region," he said.
"I feel that part of my role next season will be to mentor the youngsters as well as challenging for a spot on the team sheet."
Dragons director of rugby Lyn Jones said: "We have made a strong and conscious decision to back our youngsters and their development, and signing someone of Nick's calibre recognises this as he will act as a catalyst for these players.
"Nick will be mentoring the likes of Dorian Jones, Angus O'Brien and Arwel Robson whilst also playing his part in the squad moving forward next season.
"His vast experience and maturity within the Aviva Premiership will be a valuable addition to our young squad."
On Wednesday night, two opposing beams of protons were steered into each other at the four collision points spaced around the LHC's tunnel.
The energy of the collisions was 13 trillion electronvolts - dwarfing the eight trillion reached during the LHC's first run, which ended in early 2013.
"Physics collisions" commence in June.
At that point, the beams will contain many more "bunches" of protons: up to 2,800 instead of the one or two currently circulating. And the various experiments will be in full swing, with every possible detector working to try to sniff out all the exotic, unprecedented particles of debris that fly out of proton collisions at these new energies.
For now, however, the collisions are part of the gradual testing process designed to ensure nothing is missed and nothing goes awry when the LHC goes into that full "collision factory" mode.
"We begin by bringing the beams into collision at 13 TeV (teraelectronvolts), and adjusting their orbits to collide them head-on," said Ronaldus Suykerbuyk from the operations team at Cern - the organisation based near Geneva in Switzerland that runs the LHC.
The huge collider has been through a planned two-year refit, after the conclusion of its first run - which in 2012 produced the first solid evidence for the famous Higgs boson.
So physicists are excited to see the machine winding back up again, although it is an overwhelmingly incremental process.
In early April, after a slight delay, twin proton beams circulated the LHC's 27km ring, 30 storeys below the Swiss-French border, for the first time in two years. This was at a much lower, preliminary energy; five days later the energy reached 6.5 TeV per beam for the first time.
The first collisions followed in early May - again, at a lower, safer energy to begin with. Thursday's collisions are in new territory.
Prof David Newbold, from the University of Bristol, works on the CMS experiment. He said the new energies present new technical challenges.
"When you accelerate the beams, they actually get quite a lot smaller - so the act of actually getting them to collide inside the detectors is really quite an important technical step," Prof Newbold told BBC News.
"13 TeV is a new regime - nobody's been here before."
Now that collisions are under way, Prof Newbold explained, the engineers in charge of the beams can start to pump in more and more protons.
"The special thing about the LHC is not just the energy we can collide the beams at, it's also the number of collisions per second, which is also higher than any other accelerator in history.
"The reason for that is - like the Higgs boson last time - what we're principally looking for is incredibly rare decay particles. And the more collisions you have per second, the more chance you have of finding something that's statistically significant."
So the build-up that will now unfold, from one or two bunches of protons to thousands, will make even more history. But these early tests are critical to make sure that the 6.5 TeV beams can be steered onto collision course without damaging any of the detectors, or the massive magnets that steer the protons and accelerate them to very near the speed of light.
Dan Tovey, a physics professor at the University of Sheffield who works on the LHC's Atlas experiment, said the teams were having to "re-learn" how to run their detectors.
"We know how everything worked back in 2012, but a lot has changed since then, both with the machine and with the experiments as well," Prof Tovey told the BBC.
"At this stage it's not telling us anything about new physics. Mainly it's helping us learn about the performance of our experiments."
Come June, however, the data emerging from the LHC will shift the scientific horizon. Researchers hope to tackle big, unanswered questions and push our knowledge beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.
"It's tremendously exciting," Prof Tovey said.
"Individually, we all have the things that we're particularly interested in; there's a variety of new physics models that could show up. But to be honest, we can't say for certain what - if anything - will show up.
"And the best thing that could possibly happen is that we find something that nobody has predicted at all. Something completely new and unexpected, which would set off a fresh programme of research for years to come."
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The defender, 35, has been struggling with a hip injury this year and last played on 30 January.
Mackay was the first Saints captain to lift the Scottish Cup, in 2014, and manager Tommy Wright said the player was close to "irreplaceable".
"I'm happy that I've given myself every chance to get back playing but it's not to be," MacKay told the St Johnstone website.
"I've been aware of this issue for the past couple of years and, although the first operation brought about a level of improvement that enabled me to get back playing and feeling fine, there was a gradual deterioration again over a period of time to the extent that I was unable to train.
"A second operation followed which again helped but not to the extent that I feel that I can get back to the fitness levels needed for full-time football.
"The decision hasn't been an easy one but I've had to take into consideration that I don't want to do irreversible damage that affects me away from football.
"I'll obviously miss playing but my decision opens up plenty of other opportunities.
"The club has done everything it could have to help in my recovery and I thank them for that and I thank the fans for their support over the past seven years and assure them I'll be around the club for some time yet."
Mackay, who also played for Dundee and Livingston, has been coaching Saints' under-20s side, which he says he is "thoroughly enjoying".
In total, he made 268 appearances for St Johnstone and Wright said: "It's disappointing news for Dave and the club but ultimately he is still a young man and it's the best decision for him and that's all that matters.
"I could go on all day about what Dave has done for Saints but that is well documented in the club history books.
"The simple truth is that I'm losing a great player and my captain. Very few players can be described as irreplaceable but Dave comes close.
"He'll be missed in the dressing room with his leadership qualities and dry sense of humour and on behalf of myself, my staff and the players we wish him every success in the future."
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It is believed the 16:39 train on Wednesday was travelling at about 75mph when it hit the vehicle which had been abandoned after falling onto the line.
One passenger suffered grazing to her arm caused by one of the windows on the train smashing.
The train's driver was uninjured, although he was left shocked by the incident.
At 17:05 the red Toyota Hilux, which had been stolen from a nearby garage, was seen to be driven erratically on the road beside the railway.
It then went out of control before rolling down an embankment and landing on its roof.
A short time later, the 16:39 Edinburgh to Milngavie service, collided with the vehicle on the Edinburgh to Glasgow (via Bathgate) railway line.
The pick-up was extensively damaged, however the train remained upright and did not derail.
One of the men seen fleeing from the pick-up truck was described as between 18 and 27 years old, about 5ft 9ins in height, of slim to medium build with short dark brown hair.
He was wearing a dark top and jeans.
The other man was 18 to 20 years old, between 5ft 6ins and 5ft 9ins in height and of slim build.
He was wearing a light grey hooded top or zipper and was in possession of a black phone
The vehicle was removed from the railway line at about 02:30 and services have now returned to normal.
Forensic inquiries at the scene are ongoing and officers are carrying out door-to-door inquiries.
CCTV footage is also being looked at.
Supt Kyle Gordon, Head of Operations for BTP in Scotland, said: "I cannot stress enough the seriousness of the incident and the potential circumstances of the two men's actions do not bear thinking about.
"Thankfully no-one was seriously injured. However, many people were inconvenienced and the rail network was disrupted for several hours.
"Anyone who witnessed the incident or who recognises the two men from the descriptions is urged to get in touch."
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The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the Norwegian authorities have allowed flights to resume if new safety conditions are met.
A crash involving the helicopter off the coast of Norway killed 13 people, including Iain Stewart from Aberdeenshire, in April 2016.
The worker said he could not tell his family if he had to fly in one again.
The man, who wished to remain anonymous, said: "When you go on everyone tries to go to sleep, so if something happens you are not going to know about it.
"You can't tell your kids that you're flying in a 225 because they worry and the last thing you want to do is to worry them when you're away"
The Super Puma 225 and L2 type helicopters were grounded following the fatal crash off Norway last year.
Offshore firms are yet to confirm whether they would use the aircraft again.
Unite union said that it would be inappropriate to lift any ban before the root cause of the 2016 accident is known.
The union's regional organiser in Aberdeen, Tommy Campbell, said Unite is "very disappointed and very angry" that the decision has been made before questions have been answered concerning last year's crash.
The CAA said that helicopters would not begin flying immediately and that a plan of checks, modifications and inspections will be undertaken before any flights take place.
These include:
CAA head of airworthiness John McColl said: "This is not a decision we have taken lightly. It has only been made after receiving extensive information from the Norwegian accident investigators and being satisfied with the subsequent changes introduced by Airbus Helicopters through detailed assessment and analysis."
Palace were 2-0 up inside 12 minutes thanks to goals at set pieces from defenders James Tomkins and Scott Dann.
Stoke improved after the break but nearly went 3-0 down when Bojan Krkic cleared a Dann header off the line.
James McArthur's deflected strike was followed by a fine Andros Townsend goal before Marko Arnautovic scored a consolation with the game's final play.
Townsend's first goal for the Eagles came from a super low shot after he drove at the Stoke defence and cut the ball on to his right foot.
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This is the third time this season that Stoke have conceded four goals.
Since goalkeeper Jack Butland suffered an ankle injury in England's friendly win over Germany in March, Stoke have failed to record a single clean sheet in the Premier League.
Worse than that, the Potters have won just one of the 12 league games the former Birmingham man has missed.
Their hopes of collecting a first Premier League win of the season on Sunday were all but over inside 15 minutes at Selhurst Park.
First Tomkins bundled in from a matter of inches out after Jonathan Walters flicked Andros Townsend's free-kick towards his own goal.
Then, just two minutes and 14 seconds later, it was 2-0 when Dann attacked Jason Puncheon's corner with real intent and headed home his second league goal of the season.
There was little veteran keeper Shay Given could do about any of the four goals but the 40-year-old has now conceded 26 times in his 10 Premier League appearances for the Potters.
A setback in his recovery means Butland could now be out until November, and if Stoke's poor run of form has not improved by then, manager Mark Hughes could find his tenure at the Britannia Stadium under increasing threat.
Townsend's excellent individual strike capped an impressive performance by the England international.
The former Tottenham man also claimed an assist and the visitors had no answers to his direct running.
A petulant challenge by Arnautovic - the Austrian barging into Townsend after he had crossed the ball - led to the Eagles' third, when Jason Puncheon's free-kick found its way to McArthur, who scored via heavy deflection off Geoff Cameron.
Townsend, wing partner Wilfried Zaha and Puncheon all enjoyed a profitable afternoon as they exploited Stoke with their quick passing and movement.
It was a tough day for all of Stoke's players after the concession of two early goals.
The shell-shocked visitors looked desperately disjointed as they tried to play their way back into the match.
New signing Wilfried Bony played as a lone front man for much of the game but received very little support from his team-mates and failed to hold the ball up when it did come his way.
The Manchester City loanee's day was summed up when he slipped after Mame Biram Diouf's low cross left him with a straightforward opportunity.
Bony was not the only Stoke forward to look off-colour, with Jonathan Walters miscuing in front of goal and Arnautovic cutting a frustrated figure throughout before scoring with a well-placed 20-yarder with the last kick of the game.
With his side looking so frail defensively, manager Hughes desperately needs his strikers to find some scoring form.
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Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew told Sky Sports: "We looked solid, we are a powerful team and we looked like that today, and it was that power that won us the game.
"I thought Andros was sensational, he's been threatening to do that and I hope Big Sam [Allardyce, England manager] was watching because he was outstanding.
"I thought it was a solid performance, it was a shame they scored because they didn't deserve that."
Stoke boss Mark Hughes: "The start didn't help our situation, it has been happening in almost every game. We're too open and teams capitalise on that. We are not giving ourselves a chance to win Premier League games.
"It's key we stay in games - at the moment we are just chasing games too much.
"This is not the start we expected, it's a case of getting together and what we are doing, the game plan needs to be at a better level. The dressing room is full of good talent, but that talent needs to ally it to sensible play, which we're not doing."
Palace face a trip to Southampton in the EFL Cup on Wednesday, while Stoke also have Premier League opposition in the Cup, hosting Hull.
The Eagles are back on the road on Saturday with a visit to Sunderland and Stoke will be looking for a first three points against West Brom at the Britannia on the same day.
Match ends, Crystal Palace 4, Stoke City 1.
Second Half ends, Crystal Palace 4, Stoke City 1.
Goal! Crystal Palace 4, Stoke City 1. Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
Corner, Crystal Palace. Conceded by Geoff Cameron.
Attempt blocked. Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mathieu Flamini.
Attempt missed. Jonathan Walters (Stoke City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Joe Allen with a through ball.
Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Glenn Whelan (Stoke City).
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Lee Chung-yong replaces Andros Townsend.
Foul by Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace).
Ryan Shawcross (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Wilfried Bony (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Glen Johnson.
Attempt missed. Wilfried Bony (Stoke City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is too high.
Attempt missed. Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Joe Allen with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Martin Kelly.
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Mathieu Flamini replaces Joe Ledley.
Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace).
Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Crystal Palace 4, Stoke City 0. Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Martin Kelly.
Offside, Crystal Palace. Steve Mandanda tries a through ball, but Christian Benteke is caught offside.
Goal! Crystal Palace 3, Stoke City 0. James McArthur (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal following a set piece situation.
Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City).
Joel Ward (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Glenn Whelan (Stoke City).
Substitution, Stoke City. Mame Biram Diouf replaces Bojan.
Corner, Crystal Palace. Conceded by Glenn Whelan.
Attempt blocked. Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jason Puncheon.
Corner, Crystal Palace. Conceded by Bruno Martins Indi.
Attempt blocked. Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jason Puncheon.
Attempt saved. Glen Johnson (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Glenn Whelan.
Hand ball by Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace).
James McArthur (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by James McArthur (Crystal Palace).
Jonathan Walters (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Ryan Shawcross (Stoke City) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Martin Kelly.
Attempt blocked. Bruno Martins Indi (Stoke City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jonathan Walters with a headed pass.
Gray, who succeeds Gerard Lyttle in the Solitude hotseat, took Warrenpoint from junior football to the Premiership during a decade in charge.
He said: "Cliftonville fans like good, attractive and entertaining football and I can certainly promise them that's what we'll be working on from day one."
Gray joins the north Belfast side on a rolling contract.
His backroom team will include Harry Fay and Stephen Small.
Cliftonville's search for a new manager began when Lyttle left last month to become Sligo Rovers boss.
Tommy Breslin, who stepped down as Reds manager in 2015, returned to the club in a temporary role for the last league game and the Europa League play-offs.
Cliftonville finished fifth in the Premiership and their season ended with a 5-3 home defeat by Glenavon in Tuesday's play-off semi-final.
Gray operated in the dual role of manager and Director of Football at Warrenpoint until Matthew Tipton took over as boss last November.
The Co Down club was relegated in 2016 but has made an immediate return to the Premiership by winning the Championship title last month.
"I didn't really expect to be back in management quite so quickly because I'd always have been quite pernickety and fussy about what club was right for me and ticked all the boxes," added Gray.
Cliftonville does that, no question about it. There would have been very few other jobs that I'd have been interested in so, when the opportunity arose, it's not something I had to think about.
"I like my teams to play attractive football at a high tempo and that's what I'll be setting us up to do."
He tweeted a photograph of a bulldozer and digger breaking ground for the settlement, to be known as Amichai.
It will accommodate some 40 families whose homes were cleared from the unauthorised settler outpost of Amona.
A Palestinian official denounced the ground-breaking as a "grave escalation" and an attempt to thwart peace efforts.
More than 600,000 Jews live in about 140 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem - land the Palestinians claim for a future state. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
There are also almost 100 settler outposts - built without official authorisation from the Israeli government - across the West Bank, according to the Israeli anti-settlement watchdog Peace Now.
"Today, ground works began, as I promised, for the establishment of the new community for the residents of Amona," Mr Netanyahu announced on Tuesday.
"After decades, I have the privilege to be the prime minister who is building a new community in Judea and Samaria," he added, using the biblical name for the West Bank.
Israel Radio reported that the work involved installing infrastructure for the settlement. However, the building plans still need to go through several stages of planning approval, according to the Times of Israel newspaper.
Amichai, previously known as Geulat Zion, will be constructed on an hilltop about 2.5km (1.5 miles) east of the settlement of Shilo, which is close to the site of Amona.
Amona was evacuated by police at the start of February after Israel's Supreme Court ordered that the outpost be dismantled because it was built on private Palestinian land.
While Israel has continued to expand settlements, this is the first time it has built a new one since the 1990s.
Nabil Abu Rudeina, a spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, told Reuters news agency that the ground-breaking was "a grave escalation and an attempt to foil efforts" by the administration of US President Donald Trump to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Mr Trump's special representative, Jason Greenblatt, and his son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, are visiting the region this week to hear directly from Israeli and Palestinian leaders "about their priorities and potential next steps".
Mr Trump has said he considers settlement expansion as unhelpful for a peace deal.
"Every time you take land for a settlement, less territory remains," he told the Israel Hayom newspaper in February.
He has taken a considerably milder position towards Israeli settlements though than his predecessor, Barack Obama, who sharply criticised settlement activity.
O'Neill is among several names to have been linked with the Premier League side since Claudio Ranieri's sacking.
Caretaker boss Craig Shakespeare has strengthened his prospects after guiding the Foxes to two straight wins.
"You have to consider these things if the opportunity is presented to you," said O'Neill, 47.
"I don't think you can ever say 'no' in football but equally I'm not actively looking for another job.
"When vacancies have arisen particularly in England this year, my name has been mentioned but I actively haven't sought another job outside of the one I'm in. That won't change over the course of my contract.
"It's always nice to be linked with jobs. It's the nature of football now and the media that surrounds football."
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Leicester, who won the Premier League last season, are believed to have spoken to a number of potential candidates to replace Ranieri, including former England manager Roy Hodgson.
O'Neill added that all his focus at the moment is on Northern Ireland's crucial home World Cup qualifier against Norway on 26 March.
"As a squad and as a team, we want to do the country proud and give ourselves the opportunity of going to Russia."
The Northern Ireland boss was appointed in December 2011 and has three more years on his current contract.
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O'Neill's four-year deal, signed last March, included a release clause which would see the Irish FA being entitled to compensation if the Ballymena man was lured into club management.
He guided Northern Ireland to their major finals in 30 years as his side qualified for Euro 2016.
O'Neill's side qualified for the knockout stages in France before a second-round defeat by Wales and his team lie second in their World Cup qualifying group after four series of fixtures.
The consumer group found all but one of the 30 bars it analysed were high in sugar, with more than half containing over 30% sugar.
One bar, Nutri-Grain Elevenses, contained nearly four teaspoons - more than in a small can of cola and 20% of the recommended daily allowance.
Other snacks it analysed were found to be high in fat and saturated fat.
The Tracker Roasted Nut bar, for example, was almost a third fat.
Meanwhile, six of the seven cereal bars targeted at children were high in saturated fat, the study found.
And Monster Puffs, a cereal bar marketed to children and described as "great for your lunchbox", contained 43.5% sugar - more than two teaspoons.
Which? compared the nutritional content of the bars using the manufacturers' information and applied traffic light labelling to see if the levels of fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt were high, medium or low.
The Nakd Apple Pie was the only bar in the study that did not contain any added sugar, while the Alpen Light Apple and Sultana was the only one to have three green traffic lights for fat, saturated fat and salt.
Which? is calling for manufacturers to reduce sugar and fat in food products marketed to children and for tighter controls over the way they are promoted.
Which? executive director Richard Lloyd said: "People often choose cereal bars in the belief they're healthier than chocolate or biscuits, but our research shows this can be a myth."
A spokeswoman for Kellogg's, which makes the Nutri-Grain Elevenses bar and some of the other snacks tested, said: "We're confused as to why anyone would call a Nutri-Grain Elevenses snack a cereal bar.
"If you've eaten one you know it's not. It's a baked bar and looks and eats much more like a muffin or cake.
"We bake it like a cake and market it as a mid-morning snack.
"In fact, compared to other similar mid-morning snacks, it's one of the choices that has slightly less sugar than the norm."
Joanne Mogavero, from Florida, suffered first and second degree burns when the lid popped off a cup of coffee at a Starbucks in 2014, a jury was told.
Her lawyers had argued that Starbucks should warn its customers that lids could pop off.
The jury awarded Ms Mogavero $85,000 for pain and suffering and more than $15,000 to cover medical bills.
Starbucks says it is considering an appeal.
The incident happened at a drive-through outlet in Jacksonville as she took the hot drink from an employee and prepared to pass it to her passenger.
Her lawyer, ​Steve Earle,​ said: "My client didn't want sympathy from the jury - she wanted justice - and the jury gave it to her with its verdict."
In a statement, Ms Mogavero's legal team said a Starbucks representative had testified during the court hearing in Duval County, Florida, that the company gets 80 complaints a month about problems with lids popping off or leaking.
A Starbucks spokesperson told the BBC: "As we said in trial, we stand behind our store partners in this case and maintain that they did nothing wrong."
She said she and her husband Barack Obama were "outraged and heartbroken" over the abduction on 14 April of more than 200 girls from their school.
She was speaking instead of her husband in the weekly presidential address.
The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has claimed the abductions.
In the latest incident attributed to Boko Haram, residents said the group destroyed an important bridge near the area in north-eastern Nigeria where the girls were seized.
It is the second reported bridge attack in two days, and may indicate an attempt to limit access for anyone trying to rescue the captives, correspondents say.
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Mrs Obama, who was speaking ahead of Mother's Day in the US on Sunday, said the girls reminded her and her husband of their own daughters.
"What happened in Nigeria was not an isolated incident. It's a story we see every day as girls around the world risk their lives to pursue their ambitions," she said.
She cited the Pakistani schoolgirl and campaigner Malala Yousafzai, who was shot and wounded by the Taliban for speaking out for girls' education.
"The courage and hope embodied by Malala and girls like her around the world should serve as a call to action," Mrs Obama said.
It is unusual for a US first lady to make outspoken foreign policy remarks, but Mrs Obama has campaigned for the girls' release.
Michelle Obama has often appeared alongside her husband during the weekly address, but this is the first time she has delivered the speech alone.
Earlier this week, she tweeted a picture of herself in the White House holding a sign with the message "#BringBackOurGirls".
The UN Security Council expressed outrage over the abductions, saying it would consider "appropriate measures" against Boko Haram. The US is seeking to have UN sanctions imposed on the group.
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US and British experts are in Nigeria to assist with rescue efforts.
A senior US official said Washington was also considering a Nigerian request for surveillance aircraft.
British High Commissioner Andrew Pocock said drones could help gather intelligence but urged caution.
He told the BBC's Today programme: "The eye in the sky, even if it were able to be focused on the spot, isn't a panacea."
Traditional hunters armed with bows and arrows and old-fashioned shotguns are ready to enter the forest where the girls are thought to be held, local officials in Borno state have told the BBC's Mark Doyle.
They say 400 to 500 men have gathered but their departure is not imminent - they still hope the army will step up its efforts.
Our correspondent says it is a sign of Nigerians' frustration with the lack of progress in the search.
Nigerian army spokesman Major General Chris Olukolade told the BBC the allegations of a lack of action were being made in order to discredit the military and there was no truth in them.
"This is not the first time we're hearing of hunters wanting to go into the forest. The military has always carefully utilised the support and understanding of locals ... and others who have vital knowledge and information that could enhance counter terrorism operations," he said.
Boko Haram has admitted capturing the girls, saying they should not have been in school and should get married instead.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language, began its insurgency in Borno state in 2009.
At least 1,200 people are estimated to have died in the violence this year alone.
The 4.1 magnitude quake happened at about 13:21 GMT and was felt in Devon, south Wales and Somerset.
The focus was north of Ilfracombe, Devon, and south of the Gower, in Wales, and was at a depth of 3.1 miles (5km).
Devon and Cornwall Police said one caller in North Devon described it as "quite a violent tremor".
The BGS said it had received reports of people feeling the quake in Dartmoor, Bristol, Taunton, Swansea, Llanelli, Exmouth, Barnstaple, Gloucester and South Molton.
Susanne Sargeant, from the BGS, said it was "not unusual" to get quakes in the channel.
"It is an area in the Bristol Channel we know to have seismological action," she said.
"One guy called and said he was in his house when he felt the earthquake - he said it was a bit of a surprise. Things were shaking on the shelves and he ran outside.
"We do see earthquakes here from time to time and the last one was at Hartland Point in 2001 - that's 50km south west of today's earthquake."
By David ShukmanScience editor, BBC News
We rarely think of Britain as vulnerable to earthquakes but its geology is surprisingly volatile.
Today's quake of 4.1 is not all that unusual. According to the British Geological Survey, quakes of magnitude 4 are felt roughly every two years. Stronger tremors of magnitude 5 strike every 10-20 years.
The worst on record was one of 6.1 in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea in 1931.
Explanations are often hard to come by. Britain's geological history has not left it with neat divisions between tectonic plates.
Instead, the underground patterns of the rocks are highly complex with numerous minor faults, many under strain as parts of the country rise slowly in the aftermath of the last Ice Age.
To put today's quake in context, it is one of nine around the world in the last 24 hours to reach a magnitude greater than 4, a reminder that for many regions earthquakes are a dangerous threat not a curious surprise.
Colin Taylor, who is a professor of earthquake engineering at the University of Bristol, said an event with a magnitude of 4.1 should not cause any significant damage.
"Humans are very sensitive to movement and although it might feel quite noticeable the worse you're likely to get is perhaps cracks in plaster or old masonry," he said.
"These so-called shallow events happen every now and again in the UK and is typically caused by a local fault - under stress - which moves from time to time.
"It is an intra-plate event rather than the inter-plate movement you'd see on something like the San Andreas fault in California."
Rachel Howells, 36, from West Cross in Swansea, said she was sat at her desk working when the building "shook like jelly" and it felt like something had "slammed into the side of the house".
"We are having an extension built on the side of the house and I just thought something had gone wrong with the building work.
"It didn't shake for long, it was more like a hiccup, just this big wobble.
"It didn't make any noise, it was like a shock, just the whole house reverberating, like a van going into the side of the house or something.
"It lasted about two seconds, so it was hardly anything really."
Reports on Twitter talked of one building in Bridgwater "swaying" during the quake while others said it was felt as far away as Taunton.
Ruth O'Malley, in Swansea, tweeted that there was a "definite rumble" from the quake and Ilfracombe Museum tweeted "the ground definitely shook just now".
Mid Wales Fire Service said it had received several calls while Avon and Somerset Police said it had not had any calls about the earthquake.
Syria is a country in the Middle East that has been greatly effected by violence and war causing many ordinary people living there, including lots of children, to leave the country to try and find safety.
The President made immigration a big issue in his election. The things he has said about migrants and refugees have made him popular with his supporters.
Mr Trump says the decision is part of new plans to protect US people and keep radical terrorist groups out of America.
Donald Trump's supporters say he's made the right choice to make Americans safe.
But many people say banning all refugees from Syria is not right because it will punish people who have nothing to do with terrorism:
Mr Trump has been heavily criticised for the decision, including by female rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai, who said she's "heartbroken" that President Trump is closing the door to children fleeing violence and war.
She says Mr Trump shouldn't be "turning his back on the world's most defenceless children and families."
President Trump has also signed an order to stop people from six other mainly Muslim countries, including Iran and Iraq in the Middle East and Somalia and Sudan in Africa, being given permission to travel to America for the next three months.
Sanchez got the first with a masterful chip from just inside the box.
Walcott powered a curling shot home after Ludogorets' Wanderson hit a post.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain smashed a loose ball into the corner for the third, before Ozil claimed the first hat-trick of his career.
The Gunners have won seven games in a row in all competitions - scoring 23 goals - and are unbeaten in 11 matches.
Their last defeat was at home to Liverpool on the opening day of the Premier League season.
Victory over Bulgarian champions Ludogorets means Arsenal top Group A ahead of Paris St-Germain, who beat Basel 3-0, on goal difference.
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As Sanchez's drifting lob settled in the Ludogorets net, gleeful manager Arsene Wenger leapt from the bench in celebration. It was just the beginning.
The Frenchman's side were so dominant and full of confidence they perhaps should even have won by a greater margin.
Oxlade-Chamberlain certainly might have provided a better finish to Sanchez's beautifully disguised chipped through pass - the Chilean's second moment of genius on a night his hard running and quick mind came to the fore.
But the player who most obviously embodies Arsenal's new dynamic mood is Walcott. He impressively put two earlier missed chances out of mind when doubling the lead with a powerful strike that signalled the away side's slide towards heavy defeat.
It was the 27-year-old's seventh goal in his past six Arsenal games, having scored the same amount in his previous 42.
For 60 minutes, Walcott and Sanchez terrified the opposition backline with their pace, and he went off to huge round of applause when he was replaced by Lucas Perez.
There were big smiles as he took up a seat on the bench - from both Walcott and Wenger.
In each of the past six seasons, Arsenal have fallen at the first knockout stage, the last 16. In all but one of those seasons, they finished second in their group.
With Swiss club Basel and Ludogorets six points adrift with three matches to play, Group A will surely be won by Arsenal or French champions PSG.
The Gunners began their Champions League campaign with a battling point in Paris, and the two teams meet in north London on 23 November.
Wenger told BT Sport: "Let's qualify first. We go to Ludogorets in two weeks and they will want to show us they are better than 6-0, but if we win there it would come down to the game against PSG."
Sanchez was a close contender (the brilliant goal, determination and beautiful footwork) but this has to go to Ozil.
Having earlier assisted Walcott with a pin-point pass to the edge of the area, the Germany international fired in three excellent close-range finishes in just over 30 second-half minutes.
The first was a cool, calm finish with plenty of time to pick his spot after Santi Cazorla's ball over the top, the second he slotted home from Perez's cross, and the third was a sweet, low volley that sneaked in at the near post, with Perez the provider again.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger: "Our confidence is stronger with every win but we have to keep the vigilance and the urgency to bring that into the next game.
"Let's not be too quick on the verdict. We have a strong squad and a strong spirit, but you have to take care of it and keep your feet on the ground. The only way to win something big is to focus on the next one and work on humility.
"I feel that at the moment because we win game after game our confidence is high. Maybe we get over dodgy periods with less psychological damage.
"In the first half, it looked like a difficult game because they were dangerous going forward; they had good technique in short space; they are quick on the counter attack.
"I believe it was not easy but in the second half we took complete control of the game. I think we could have scored more."
Former England defender Rio Ferdinand on BT Sport: "I want to see [Arsenal play like this] for a sustained period of time.
"They always make you think they've got a chance, and then they let you down.
"Now they have to take things game by game, get through Christmas with this kind of form, and then you can start really judging them as a team. They need to win something."
Arsenal host Middlesbrough in the Premier League at 15:00 BST on Saturday. Their next match in the Champions League is the return fixture against Ludogorets in Bulgaria on Tuesday, 1 November.
Match ends, Arsenal 6, Ludogorets Razgrad 0.
Second Half ends, Arsenal 6, Ludogorets Razgrad 0.
Attempt saved. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Natanael Pimienta.
Jonathan Cafu (Ludogorets Razgrad) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal).
Goal! Arsenal 6, Ludogorets Razgrad 0. Mesut Özil (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lucas Pérez.
Attempt missed. Yordan Minev (Ludogorets Razgrad) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Ludogorets Razgrad. Conceded by Kieran Gibbs.
Goal! Arsenal 5, Ludogorets Razgrad 0. Mesut Özil (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Lucas Pérez with a cross.
Substitution, Ludogorets Razgrad. Jody Lukoki replaces Wanderson.
Attempt missed. Anicet (Ludogorets Razgrad) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marcelinho.
Substitution, Arsenal. Alex Iwobi replaces Alexis Sánchez.
Attempt missed. Lucas Pérez (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain with a cross.
Foul by Claudiu Keseru (Ludogorets Razgrad).
Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Ludogorets Razgrad. Natanael Pimienta tries a through ball, but Claudiu Keseru is caught offside.
Substitution, Ludogorets Razgrad. Claudiu Keseru replaces Virgil Misidjan.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Vladislav Stoyanov.
Attempt saved. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Alexis Sánchez with a through ball.
Wanderson (Ludogorets Razgrad) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lucas Pérez (Arsenal).
Substitution, Arsenal. Lucas Pérez replaces Theo Walcott.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Svetoslav Dyakov.
Attempt blocked. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Virgil Misidjan (Ludogorets Razgrad) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Svetoslav Dyakov (Ludogorets Razgrad) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Francis Coquelin (Arsenal).
Substitution, Arsenal. Mohamed Elneny replaces Santiago Cazorla because of an injury.
Goal! Arsenal 4, Ludogorets Razgrad 0. Mesut Özil (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Santiago Cazorla with a through ball following a fast break.
Dangerous play by Yordan Minev (Ludogorets Razgrad).
Mesut Özil (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Offside, Ludogorets Razgrad. Marcelinho tries a through ball, but Yordan Minev is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Marcelinho (Ludogorets Razgrad) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Jonathan Cafu (Ludogorets Razgrad) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Marcelinho.
Offside, Ludogorets Razgrad. Natanael Pimienta tries a through ball, but Virgil Misidjan is caught offside.
Marcelinho (Ludogorets Razgrad) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Francis Coquelin (Arsenal).
Attempt saved. Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Shkodran Mustafi with a cross.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Vladislav Stoyanov.
The blaze caused significant structural damage to the rear of the building and equipment was badly damaged at Cowpen Crematorium in Blyth on 12 March.
Dozens of planned funerals had to be cancelled and rebooked in Newcastle and North Tyneside.
Northumberland County Council said work was now under way to repair the fire-damaged roof and equipment.
Councillor Ian Swithenbank said: "We appreciate the significant distress and inconvenience this has caused to families and have been working hard to get this facility up and running again as quickly as possible.
"We're continuing to work with neighbouring local authorities and have received excellent support from them to ensure that bereaved families are able to access crematorium services without any delays."
An investigation into the cause of the fire is continuing, but there is no evidence to suggest that the fire was started deliberately, the council said.
The council said early indications show the most likely cause was heat from machinery and flues causing a fire in the roof structure.
The 29-year-old Denmark international signed a two-year deal with the Championship club in September, but only made seven league starts.
The former Arsenal player scored two goals in 17 appearances in total.
He had fallen out of favour in recent weeks, with forwards Britt Assombalonga, Zach Clough and teenager Ben Brereton all starting ahead of him.
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It followed an incident on the motorway near Eaglesfield in December 2014 in which Faranza Kousar, of Glasgow, died.
Stephen Clarke, 59, from Wednesbury, was on a petition in private before Sheriff Scott Pattison on a charge involving dangerous driving.
No plea or declaration was made and he was released on bail.
Tory MPs, used to intensive (parliamentary) whipping, and at the very least a due diligence phone call to double check their position, were surprised to be left alone. The Government didn't seem to be trying very hard.
On the rebel side, the whipping operation was not as formidable as it has been on some occasions - but a solid phalanx of old Maastrictistas and usual suspect rebels plus two rather predictable members of the 2015 intake, Tom Pursglove and Craig MacKinlay meant 37 MPs defied their party line. A respectable, but not earth-shaking showing. (I'm told one 2015-er who intended to rebel accidentally voted with the Government - bless….)
There are several reasons why the Government might have taken a relaxed attitude; first allowing the Eurosceptic wing of the party to have its way on the rules might make it harder for them to cry foul after the referendum. Second, under the astute leadership of their new Chief, Mark Harper, the whips may be playing a longer game. Sometimes there's a price to be paid for frogmarching MPs through the division lobbies. Anger festers, regrets curdle and a resolution crystallises against being strong-armed in future. It was certainly true that many who did as they were told in the first great rebellion of the Blair years, over single parent benefits, became more intractable afterwards. So maybe there's an element of waiting till the vote is really vital.
This was a reminder of the fragility of the Government's majority. But it's not a reliable guide to future rebellions. The next big pinch point is likely to be a vote on military intervention in Syria - flagged up for October. The MPs likely to defy ministers on that issue may be a quite different bunch from those who rebelled on the Purdah issue …. And it's far from clear what the Opposition, which by then will be under new management, will do.
Meanwhile there's another, scrappier, whipping operation under way, for Friday's second reading debate on Rob Marris's Private Members Bill on Assisted Dying. This is a reincarnation of the Bill introduced in the Lords last year by the former Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer.
Because it's the first real "conscience issue" to come before the 2015 Commons, no-one's entirely sure what will happen. The SNP, I'm told, are unlikely to show up in great numbers, because (a) the Bill applies to England and Wales and (b) they've just had a bruising battle over the same issue in Holyrood. In past years there would have been a solid contingent of Scottish Catholic MPs in the No Lobby for a measure of this kind, so the SNP landslide changes the arithmetic, whether its MPs turn up, or not.
The two sides of the argument are working hard to ensure a decent turnout, and there seems to be increasing confidence that the hundred MPs needed to trigger the closure of the debate, and move the Bill to a vote, will be there.
Both want a vote, not least because if the Bill is frustrated by the normal device of talking it out, it will probably come back every year. Getting a definite vote will at least establish whether there is sufficient support in the new House to justify what would certainly be a legislative marathon. So the expectation is that a vote will be held - probably after 1pm this Friday.
But the company said it would "accelerate innovation" in golf footwear and clothes.
Nike invested heavily in golf during the late 1990s with its sponsorship of Tiger Woods, giving him his first five-year contract in 1996, worth $40m.
But the winner of 14 of golf's major tournaments has been struggling with a loss of form in recent years.
In 2013 Nike signed a sponsorship deal with Rory Mcllroy, reported to be worth $100m over five years.
But despite that hefty spending on marketing, Nike has been struggling in the golf business.
Last year sales at Nike's golf unit fell by 8% to $706m, the third year of declining sales.
World number four McIlroy tweeted after the announcement: "Sad for @nikegolf employees that worked so hard and made genuinely great golf equipment. Your support will always be appreciated #TeamNike"
Nike said it still intends to "partner with more of the world's best golfers".
"We're committed to being the undisputed leader in golf footwear and apparel," said Trevor Edwards, president of Nike Brand.
"We will achieve this by investing in performance innovation for athletes and delivering sustainable profitable growth for Nike Golf."
Earlier this year Nike's rival Adidas announced its intention to sell most of its golf business.
It put its TaylorMade, Adams and Ashworth brands up for sale.
The small Gulf state's influence in the UK, and London in particular, is becoming more evident. It is a joint owner of London's newest landmark, the Shard, it stepped in to provide funds for Barclays back in 2008 which helped the bank avoid being semi-nationalised, and has bought a 20% stake in the company that owns Heathrow airport.
The list of what else it owns through its sovereign wealth fund - the government-controlled investment fund - goes on. Harrods, a 20% stake in Camden market, a 26% stake in supermarket Sainsbury's to name but a few.
And according to recent reports, the UK government is now looking to tap up the oil and gas-rich Middle East state for some £10bn ($15bn) for infrastructure projects.
The Commercial Secretary to the Treasury, Lord Deighton, hinted at the move recently. "We have had multiple recent contacts over the last 12 months with many governments and sovereign wealth funds on infrastructure," he told an infrastructure investment forum.
"Strong inward investment into the UK economy has created or secured more than 112,000 jobs in 2011-12, a rise of 19% on the preceding year.
"We hope to be even better and are working with institutional investors - from banks through pension funds to sovereign wealth funds - to ensure that the deepest possible sources of capital are available to the widest possible range of infrastructure projects."
The UK is not alone in courting Qatari investment.
Debt-laden Greece has been wooing the state, which has already invested in one of Greece's gold-mining projects. Qatar has also agreed to contribute to a fund to reinvigorate disadvantaged suburbs in France.
And it is involved with some African nations to help fund charitable projects, and is looking to invest in China's capital market.
"Living in Qatar, it seems like every country in the world is currently targeting Qatar," says Iain Webster, executive director for Qatar, at the Brand Union, which advises companies on brand strategy, and whose clients include Qatar National Bank and the Qatar Olympic Committee.
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah Al Thani is one of the world's busiest leaders at the moment, according to Mr Webster.
"Every single week he has bilateral conversations with leaders from all over the world."
The draw of Qatar as an investor is easy to see. At a time when so many western economies are struggling, liquidity is not an issue for the Gulf state.
"Qatar can afford to be a long-term strategic investor and at this moment in time to have someone with the liquidity to provide funds with no pressure for short-term returns is quite rare," says Mr Webster.
But Colin Foreman, news editor of Middle East Economic Digest (MEED), points out the difference between government and private funding.
"It's quite attractive on the sovereign side as an investor," he says, "as you're dealing with a government that has not got a financial issue.
"Where it becomes more tricky is with private funders. I don't think foreign banks are particularly open to that kind of funding."
So what does Qatar look for when choosing where to invest its vast wealth?
Most investments are long-term strategic investments, but they all contribute to the Qatar National Vision 2030 which seeks to shift the country from a carbon economy to a knowledge economy.
The awareness that at some stage its oil and gas resources will dry up and planning for the future draws parallels with Norway, which set up a sovereign wealth fund in 1990 to ensure the country had other sources of income in a "post-oil" world.
Mr Foreman says investment decisions are based on whether they make economic sense, and whether they can tie back to help the domestic economy.
"They've bought into construction companies before. That is a logical move."
But he adds, "Some of the others are more trophy assets and there are other considerations at play."
For instance, the country has turned its attention to football. In 2011 the Qatar Investment Authority took over French club Paris Saint-Germain, and the Qatar Foundation are the shirt sponsors of Spanish superstars Barcelona.
"Clearly when you buy a football club, there's a different set of rationale - it's not a basic economic decision, it's profile as well," says Mr Foreman.
Inward investment in infrastructure is also making Qatar a destination for foreign companies seeking lucrative contracts.
The National Vision's aim of preparing for "a new international order that is knowledge-based and extremely competitive" has led to billions of dollars being spent on bringing international university campuses - including Georgetown, Weill Cornell Medical College, and French business school HEC Paris - to the country.
There has also been massive interest in tenders for Qatar's sewage infrastructure and metro projects.
But perhaps more significantly, with Qatar hosting the 2022 Football World Cup, it is set to invest heavily in a tournament that it hopes will raise its profile around the world, and will reportedly spend up to $150bn (£100bn) on infrastructure projects ahead of the event.
With foreign firms eager to cash in on the boom, Iain Webster says UK companies are already well-represented in Qatar and seem well-placed for the future.
The UK and Qatar have a unique relationship, he says. "A lot of Qataris seem to me to be real 'anglophiles'. They love London as a city and are avid consumers of British brands. The more Qatar invests in London and the UK, the more the bonds that connect the two countries will be strengthened, bringing valuable benefits to each party."
He points to Qatar UK 2013, which aims to forge new partnerships between the two countries in the fields of art, culture, education, sport and science.
"Any initiative like that is positive for the Middle East because it's had such polarised reporting in the western media."
So with Qatari money up for grabs, both British firms and projects in Britain look well-placed to continue to benefit.
Aaron Ravel, 46, of Cavehill Road, Belfast, appeared at Belfast Magistrates' Court for a preliminary enquiry hearing.
The alleged offences are said to be connected to files found on a computer.
The prosecution stressed at an earlier hearing there was no suggestion that any of the images relate to patients.
The alleged offences cover a period between October 2013 to April 2014.
The accused confirmed that he understood the charges on Friday.
He declined to give evidence or call witnesses at this stage of the case.
He will appear at Belfast Crown Court on a date to be fixed and has been released on bail until trial.
The judge said the accused was not to have unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 16 unless approved by social services.
The Wallabies face New Zealand in Saturday's World Cup final.
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They were found in a drainage ditch on Oristown bog, near Kells, by contractors called in to prepare the site for forensic excavations.
The land is being examined in the search for the remains of Belfast man Brendan Megraw.
He was one of the 16 murder victims that became known as the Disappeared.
Earlier, a representative of the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims Remains (ICLVR) told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme it was acting on information received from Sinn Féin.
Later, the commission said it wanted to make it clear that the information came from a long-standing republican contact.
Members of Mr Megraw's family visited the site on Wednesday.
His brother, Sean, said the remains would not be removed until Thursday, but he hoped his brother could soon be laid to rest with their father and mother.
"I'm sad, but there's relief that apparently it is Brendan - we can't be 100% but we're fairly sure it is him," he said.
"From what we've been told and where he is etc, it looks like it is Brendan.
"It was a shock this morning. I knew they were about to start searching and it was more or less while they were doing some preparatory work that incidentally they found his remains."
He said it could be weeks before the remains are formally identified.
Mr Megraw was 23 when he was abducted from Twinbrook in Belfast in 1978, and murdered by the IRA.
The IRA claimed that he had confessed to being a British provocateur and Military Reaction Force undercover agent.
Sean Megraw said for the first 20 years after his brother's disappearance the family had no idea what had happened to him.
"It was only since 1999 that we knew for definite that he had been killed, but prior to that you were nearly afraid to talk to people," he said.
Investigators from the ICLVR - set up by the British and Irish governments to liaise with former paramilitaries to find the Disappeared - confirmed a body was being recovered on Wednesday.
Geoff Knupfer, a lead forensic investigator with the ICLVR, said the team had been clearing out drains when they unearthed remains.
Dark mounds of earth sit in piles on top of the bogland where the body was discovered.
It was found during work ahead of a concentrated search. But the diggers lie idle either side of a police forensic tent.
There is a simple police cordon on the old road that leads into the bog but the flat land stretches out in every direction.
It is an obvious reminder of the scale of all of these searches for the Disappeared.
Their bodies were never meant to be found. Republican paramilitaries buried their remains in remote areas to try to hide their crimes.
That left families always wondering, always questioning what had happened to their loved one.
For years, some even held out the hope that they might still be alive.
It is likely to be days before the body found in Oristown is identified but Brendan Megraw's relatives are praying their long hunt to find him is finally over.
It is important to remember they are not the only family still waiting to be able to hold a proper burial for people who were taken from them during the brutal decades of Northern Ireland's Troubles.
"A microscopic search of the ground will be taking place to ensure nothing is left to chance," he said.
The state pathologist is to begin the process of a post-mortem examination and formal identification.
Mr Knupfer told Talkback the commission had received fresh information from Sinn Féin in the summer of this year and as a result, a fresh dig for Mr Megraw had been getting under way.
However, Mr Knupfer said that he was "not at liberty" to go into the details of that information.
Earlier, another of Brendan Megraw's brothers, Kieran, said the family had mixed feelings.
"We still have to get confirmation that it is actually Brendan, but it's within the area that they were going to start searching, so you have to be hopeful," he said.
"It's a joy that a body has been found, but (there's) also a sense of sadness too."
There have been three unsuccessful searches for Mr Megraw, the most recent in 2010.
In August, the ICLVR announced that a new search for Mr Megraw would get under way.
They said that a "geophysical survey" would be carried out on 2.5 hectares of land.
New MP Craig Tracey won Warwickshire North with a majority of 2,973, a swing of 3% from Labour. The Tories were defending a majority of just 54 votes.
Labour's Mike O'Brien came second, polling 17,069 votes, with UKIP in third place, winning 8,256 votes.
The Tories also held the key marginal Nuneaton, with an increased majority.
Sitting MP Marcus Jones was re-elected in Nuneaton with a majority of 4,882, an increase of 2,813 from the last general election.
Mr Jones said the voters in Nuneaton had "spoken for Britain".
Polling experts were predicting a swing to Labour, but their candidate Vicky Fowler came second with 15,945 votes.
Labour held the seat from 1992 until 2010.
UKIP's Alwyn Waine polled 6,582 votes to take third place.
Mr Tracey said: "I always felt that we'd win but the majority has surprised me but it's testament to the work that we've done campaigning."
Mr O'Brien said he was "somewhat surprised" about the result "but the people will make their choice and they've done so".
When it comes to writing the history of the 2015 General Election the name of Nuneaton will loom large.
Marcus Jones held the seat for the Conservatives, doubling his majority, in a seat Labour simply had to win if they were to have any hope of victory.
The BBC exit poll suggested a bad night for Labour and this was confirmation the party was underperforming in a key seat.
Approaching the microphone for his victory speech, Mr Jones simply said: "Wow!"
His reaction spoke volumes about the significance of the result.
The news got worse for Labour shortly afterwards when the party failed to overturn a Conservative majority of just 54 in Warwickshire North - the seat was Ed Miliband's top UK target.
Laura Kuenssberg, chief correspondent for Newsnight, said: "Worryingly for Labour, the increase in the majority gives more weight to the possibility that the Conservatives could win an outright majority."
There was an increase of 11,530 in the Conservatives' majority as they held the Stratford-on-Avon seat.
Labour held Coventry South, Coventry North West and Coventry North East.
The body of James Prout, 43, was found near his home on Sunday. He had not been seen since early February but was only reported missing on Good Friday.
Anne Corbett, 25, of Percy Main, also charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, appeared before North Tyneside Magistrates' Court.
She was remanded in custody to appear at Newcastle Crown Court on 31 March.
Three other people, also charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, were remanded in custody.
Myra Wood, 49, and Kay Rayworth, 55, from Percy Main, are due to appear before Newcastle Crown Court on 31 March.
Zahid Zaman, 42, also from Percy main, will appear at Teesside Crown Court on 26 April.
Officers found the body on an "area of open land" a short distance from Mr Prout's home in St Stephen's Way in Percy Main on Easter Sunday afternoon.
Police said the body had not been formally identified, but they said they were "fairly certain" it was Mr Prout's.
A 26-year-old man from Ashington who was also arrested has been released on bail pending further inquiries.
Pistorius was found guilty of murdering Ms Steenkamp after a court overturned an earlier manslaughter verdict.
The sentencing hearing - expected to conclude by Friday - will decide if he will face a jail term of 15 years.
Barry Steenkamp asked for photos of his daughter's body to be made public so people could see the wounds.
Correspondents say Mr Steenkamp's voice broke and tears streamed down his face as he said that he thought about his daughter "morning, noon and night... every hour".
The 73-year-old told Pretoria's High Court that he had had no contact with Pistorius, but said that wife June had been able to forgive the double-amputee athlete.
"You must understand why forgiving doesn't exonerate you from the crime you committed," he said.
Barry Steenkamp, a tall man, looked broken on the stand as he reminded the world that this protracted legal case was about the death of his daughter, and losing her was the greatest pain he had ever known.
Tears streamed down his face as he told the court how he thought of Reeva every day and that even after all this time it felt like it had all happened yesterday. He described jabbing himself with needles from his diabetes treatment to see if he could feel the same pain his daughter must have felt the night she died.
In the aftermath of her death, he had a stroke and now has heart problems, which is why he had not been able to testify during the original trial. But he said he felt compelled to speak now.
Eyes red from crying and shoulders shaking, he said that he and his wife had been changed forever and all they wanted was justice - being forgiven, did not exonerate someone from a crime. "He has to pay for what he did," Mr Steenkamp repeated about four times.
Pistorius stared into space as Mr Steenkamp spoke. He too had been crying.
Mr Steenkamp also told the court how the couple had been left in financial "dire straits" after their daughter's death.
Their landlady had served them with an eviction notice two weeks afterwards - which was why they had initially accepted monthly payments of 6,500 rand ($425; £300) from Pistorius.
This was meant to have been confidential and he said he was "disgusted" that Pistorius' legal team had brought it up during the trial.
When questioned by Pistorius' lawyer, Barry Roux, Mr Steenkamp confirmed that he and his wife had declined an offer to meet the athlete.
"The time will come and I would like to talk to Oscar," he said.
Pistorius, 29, killed Ms Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine's Day in 2013 after firing four times through a locked toilet door.
The athlete has always maintained he believed he was shooting at an intruder.
He was initially jailed for manslaughter in 2014 and was released into house arrest after a year, but his conviction was changed to murder after the prosecution appealed.
Pistorius was released from prison last October and allowed to serve out the remainder of his initial sentence under house arrest at his uncle's property in Pretoria.
The South African made history by becoming the first amputee sprinter to compete at the Olympics, in London in 2012.
He competed in the 400m, wearing carbon-fibre blades to run against able-bodied athletes.
Officers investigating the murder of Jamie Lee want to speak to 23-year-old Jordan Owen.
Mr Lee was fatally wounded and five other people were injured during a large scale disturbance in Castlemilk on 8 July.
Police Scotland said Jordan Owen was considered dangerous and the public should not approach him.
He is described as 5ft 8ins in height, of slim build, with short brown hair.
Two teenagers have already appeared in court in connection with the disturbance close to the play area in Ballantay Terrace
Overall, more than a quarter have been warned about their performance by research group Dr Foster.
And weekend care has also been branded as risky with death rates jumping by 10% compared to weekdays.
But it is not all bad news. Among the worrying statistics are examples of good practice.
If you are going to have a stroke, London is probably the best place in the world to have one.
Services are provided from eight "super sites" that guarantee expert, round-the-clock care.
All patients suspected of having a stroke are taken to one of the centres, which were formed in early 2010 after an overhaul of the system.
Previously 30 hospitals were involved in providing care, but it meant that patients did not always get the expert care they needed.
Now all are assessed by stroke specialists and given brain scans within 30 minutes of arrival. This allows medics to ensure they get the right treatment in time.
And this has, unsurprisingly, resulted in a fall in death rates. Since the changes were introduced the numbers dying within seven days of admission have fallen by a quarter.
Elderly patients are a major part of many hospitals' workload - and Poole Hospital in east Dorset is no different.
In the past year it has revolutionised the way they are treated through the creation of a dedicated assessment unit for older people
The unit - known as rapid assessment and consultant evaluation - is staffed seven days a week by senior doctors, nurses and therapists who are specially trained in treating older people.
All patients receive a comprehensive assessment and an emergency clinic is on hand to deal with the most complicated conditions.
Nearly one in three patients are assessed, treated and discharged within 48 hours, while the average length of stay has reduced from 12 days to nine.
But the reach of the unit does not stop there.
Dr Matt Thomas, a consultant geriatrician, said: "The ward sister follows up the frailer patients by telephone the day after they have gone home to check that they are safe and well supported and help to relieve any anxieties."
East London's Homerton Hospital likes to compare its acute care team to the Dutch 'total football' movement of the 1970s.
The Holland team led by Johan Cruyff had a group of footballers able to step into any position.
The Homerton team, which runs a 40-bed unit, is similar in the respect they have the staff available 12 hours a day to ensure nearly any adult emergency patient can be seen quickly.
The team includes a range of consultants, from surgeons and anaesthetists to urologists and orthopaedic doctors, as well as a host of nurses.
Within 48 hours half of patients are discharged or transferred to other parts of the hospital which can provide longer-term, specialist care.
Dr John Coakley, Homerton's medical director, said it has proved a huge success since it was set up four years ago.
"It has meant patients are seen more quickly by experienced consultants. And this is available for much longer than just the traditional nine to five."
Daley totalled 507.95 from his six routines to finish ahead of Matty Lee (428.00) and Noah Williams (389.05).
"There were a lot of positives and I'm happy how my dives are progressing," the 22-year-old told BBC Sport.
Scotland's Grace Reid will also expect to be named in the Team GB line-up after winning the 3m springboard title.
Daley made his Olympic debut at the 2008 Beijing Games when he was just 14, before winning bronze at London 2012.
Assuming he attains a place at this summer's Rio Games, Daley believes the event could represent his best chance yet of securing Olympic gold.
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"My consistency has certainly gone up over the last 12 months, particularly with the new dive," said the Devon-born diver.
"Every time I go into competition, I'm getting more confident of getting the big scores, which is what I'll need if I'm to challenge for an Olympic gold medal."
Reid has enjoyed an impressive year, which began by securing Britain a place in the women's individual 3m event at the Rio Olympic test event in February.
She then became the first Scottish diver to gain an individual European medal for 62 years with a bronze in London last month.
The 20-year-old, who is based in Edinburgh, also earned European gold alongside Tom Daley in the non-Olympic mixed synchronised 3m springboard event.
"It's just amazing and I'm really pleased not only with the result today but also the new consistency that I've found," Reid told BBC Sport.
"I was in emotional trauma if I'm honest (with the pressure today), but I was able to find my composure and hopefully it's enough for Rio because that would mean everything."
British divers will learn whether they have been selected to represent Team GB at the Rio Olympics later this week.
The 17-year-old pleaded guilty to the manslaughter by diminished responsibility of James Attfield, 33, and Saudi student Nahid Almanea, 31.
He denied a more serious murder charge, which prosecutors have decided to pursue.
His trial will begin in April, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
The boy, who was 15 at the time, cannot be named for legal reasons.
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The Daily Gazette, which first reported the story, said prosecutors had been given time to consider whether to pursue the murder charges or accept the lesser pleas.
Both died in Colchester in 2014.
Mr Attfield was found stabbed at Lower Castle Park and died in hospital on 29 March 2014.
Miss Almanea was attacked and died on on 17 June 2014, at Salary Brook Trail near the University of Essex where she was studying English.
The Northside regeneration scheme planned to revamp an area between Royal Avenue and Carrick Hill with the help of private investors.
Proposals included as many as 3,000 apartments and houses, mostly for students, as well as retail outlets, offices and a hotel.
The scheme would have taken five to seven years to complete.
The development consortium appointed by the DSD in 2014, Northside Regeneration Limited, expressed "surprise and disappointment" at the move.
In a letter seen by the BBC, the DSD said that the decision to pull out came after an "assessment of the scheme".
"As part of this process, minister committed to taking the views of local stakeholders into account as well as a number of areas, including where the developer had not met requirements set by the department.
"The minister has decided that the scheme as proposed by Northside Regeneration Limited should no longer benefit from the potential use of his department's statutory powers."
The DSD added that it "has no alternative plans at this time".
However, it added that "other options can now be explored" and said it is committed to "the regeneration the area needs".
The development consortium - a partnership between local developer Kevin McKay and international firm Balfour Beatty - is now seeking an urgent meeting with Social Development Minister Lord Morrow.
A statement from them said that "significant financial resources" had been invested in the project up to this point.
They added that "a number of factors beyond our control" have affected the timeframe.
A collaboration agreement between the DSD and the consortium expired on 31 March and has not been extended.
The scheme had faced community opposition.
Responding to the DSD move, Frank Dempsey of the Carrick Hill Residents' Association said the project was "ill-conceived from the start".
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Charles Kinsey, who works with people with disabilities, told WSVN television he was helping a patient who had wandered away from a facility.
Mobile phone video shows Mr Kinsey lying down with his hands in the air, and his patient sitting in the road with a toy truck.
The latest shooting follows weeks of violence involving police.
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North Miami Assistant Police Chief Neal Cuevas said officers were called out on Monday, following reports of a man threatening to shoot himself.
Police ordered Mr Kinsey and the patient to lie on the ground, he told The Miami Herald.
The video shows Mr Kinsey lying down while trying to get his patient to comply.
He can be heard telling officers he has no weapon, and that the other man is autistic and has a toy truck.
An officer then fired three times, striking Kinsey in the leg, Mr Cuevas said. No weapon was found.
Police have not released the name or race of the officer who shot him but said he had been placed on administrative leave.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the incident.
In an interview with the TV station from his hospital bed, Mr Kinsey said he was more worried about his patient than himself during the incident.
"As long as I've got my hands up, they're not going to shoot me. This is what I'm thinking. They're not going to shoot me," he said. "Wow, was I wrong."
Mr Kinsey is a member of the Circle of Brotherhood, a collective of African American men and community activists in south Florida.
"It could be any of us," Lyle Muhammad, a spokesman for the group, told BBC.
"Here's an individual who is going about his daily employment and doing it well, and speaking clearly and following every single instruction he was given, and he still finds himself assaulted."
The shooting comes amid concern over worsening race relations in the United States.
Mr Muhammad said there was an "inherent fear of black men in this country that allows us to to be gunned down without provocation".
He said he hoped better community policing training would come to the North Miami Police Department as a result of the incident.
Three law enforcement officers were shot dead and three others wounded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Sunday.
The killer was shot by police. It later transpired he had posted videos complaining at police treatment of African Americans and urging them to "fight back".
Two weeks earlier, on 5 July, two white officers in Baton Rouge killed a black man, Alton Sterling, 37.
That shooting, also captured on mobile phone video, provoked widespread protests about police treatment of the black community.
A day later, on 6 July, another black man, 32-year-old Philando Castile, was killed in Minnesota when a police officer pulled him over. The next day, a sniper killed five Dallas police officers as they guarded a peaceful protest.
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The world's biggest luxury goods group said sales rose 16% in 2015 to €35.67bn (£27bn). Like-for-like sales rose 6%.
The company owns a host of the world's most famous brands, including Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior.
Chief executive Bernard Arnault said trading in France was almost back to normal after the November attacks.
The Paris terror attacks resulted in falls of 50% at some stores and sales were still 4% to 5% lower. LVMH makes 10% of its sales in France.
"Over time, sales are coming back to normal," Mr Arnault said.
Net profit for 2015 was €3.57bn - lower than the €3.71bn expected by analysts. The figure was down 37% compared with 2014, although the company had €2.8bn in capital gains from selling its stake in rival Hermes that year.
LVMH shares rose €9.65 to €154.80 in morning trading in Paris on Wednesday.
The company reported strong progress in Europe, the United States and Japan which helped compensate for lower sales in Asia.
Sales at the fashion and leather division, which accounted for the bulk of revenue, rose 3% in the fourth quarter, beating analysts' expectations of a 1% increase.
The division rose posted a 4% annual rise in like-for-like sales, with the perfumes and cosmetics division up 7% and watches and jewellery expanding by 8%.
Exane BNP Paribas analyst Luca Solca said the results were "a solid set of numbers with a good beat on fashion and leather".
Mr Arnault said sales growth for Louis Vuitton was "in double-digit terms", while Fendi was up more than 20%. However, the figures were flattered by exchange rates given the weak euro.
LVMH will increase the dividend by 11% to €3.55 a share.
Goldman Sachs raised its target price from €164.90 to €171.90 and rated the shares as a "buy".
Neil Gorsuch's comments were made to a Democratic senator and confirmed by his spokesman.
The president called a judge who halted his controversial travel ban a "so-called judge", and said any terror attacks on US soil would be his fault.
The ban on arrivals from seven mainly Muslim countries faces a legal test.
Judge James Robart made headlines last week when he issued a stay on the president's refugee and immigration ban.
Mr Trump's reaction was swift.
He tweeted: "The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!"
Later he said that a high school student could see that the president's ban was lawful.
Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut revealed the conversation with Mr Gorsuch after meeting the Supreme Court nominee on Wednesday.
The federal judge, Mr Blumenthal said, found the president's criticism to be "demoralising and disheartening".
Donald Trump has offered Neil Gorsuch the keys to the kingdom - a lifetime appointment to the US Supreme Court, where the 47-year-old judge would have the opportunity to make a lasting mark on American jurisprudence.
The gift comes at a price, however. Mr Gorsuch, highly regarded for his judicial temperament and sharp legal mind, is now in the uncomfortable position of having to explain why the president who nominated him seems intent on eroding the authority of the judicial branch in which he serves.
While past presidents have questioned judicial decisions, Mr Trump - with his "so-called judge" tweet and warnings of assigning blame to courts for future terrorist attacks - has made his disagreements personal.
Now we have evidence that Mr Gorsuch may not hold his tongue and play the loyal soldier. In the end, he has a reputation to protect - one that will outlive the upcoming confirmation battle.
This is the Trump dilemma for conservatives in a nutshell. The president offers Republicans the opportunity to achieve goals long delayed after eight years of Democratic rule. They may not enjoy the political journey the president takes them on to get there, however.
Ajax, concerned with internal travel arrangements in Angola, honoured the fixture after South Africa's Football Association (Safa) said they would face severe sanctions if they did not go.
Ruzaigh Gamildien and Riyaad Norodien grabbed vital away goals for Ajax, with Antonio Oliviera scoring for the hosts.
In other first round first leg ties, Tripoli-based Al Ittihad began their Confederation Cup campaign with a resounding 4-1 win over visiting Sonidep from Niger on Friday.
The Libyan club played their match in Tunisia at the home of Stade Gabesien, about 400km along the coast from Tripoli because of the war in Libya.
Al Ittihad are looking to go one step further than 2010 when they reached the semi-finals of the Confederation Cup.
Stade Gabesian were also in action themselves on Friday as they travelled to Bakaridjan in Mali where it finished 1-1.
Two-time African champions Esperance from Tunisia and Morocco's FUS Rabat have a bye and so will see action from the first round in March.
The second-tier Confederation Cup has been hit by the withdrawal of Gaborone United of Botswana and Wallidan from The Gambia, giving JKU of Zanzibar and Mouloudia d'Oran byes.
The return leg matches will be played on the weekend of 26-28 February with the overall winners advancing to the round of 32 to be played from 11-13 March.
Robert McLean, from Patna in East Ayrshire, hit a verge when his car left the road near Lendalfoot at about 19:00 on Monday.
He was taken by ambulance to Ayr Hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
Police Scotland said a report would be submitted to the procurator fiscal.
The Lynx UK Trust is holding a consultation into bringing the big cats to Norfolk, Cumbria and Aberdeenshire.
It is now considering Kielder Forest, in Northumberland, as another site as it has a large deer population - the main prey for lynx.
Sheep farmers have raised concerns about the animals attacking sheep.
The scheme would see four to six lynx, wearing radio tracking devices at each site, each of which are rich in deer and tree cover.
Once the Lynx UK Trust's consultation is completed, it will lodge a formal application with Natural England and Scottish Natural Heritage.
A spokesman for the trust said this could take many months.
Chief scientific specialist Dr Paul O'Donoghue, of the Lynx Trust, said: "These are beautiful cats which will fit beautifully into the UK environment.
"They're extremely shy animals which have never attacked a human anywhere they live, and everywhere they live their preferred prey is deer which we have a serious overpopulation issue with in the UK.
"Concerns raised by some sheep farmers at the plans have been met with assurances of a comprehensive and generous compensation program, and extensive research from Europe showing that lynx very rarely predate on sheep anywhere they live, preferring the hiding places of remote forestry to the open environment of farms or sheep moors."
He said that there was no pre-arranged plan for him to stage a takeover.
But former President Nasheed says that he has been the victim of an organised coup.
He told the AFP news agency that he had been forced to resign by armed police and army officers in a plot hatched with the knowledge of his successor.
Mr Nasheed, speaking by telephone from the capital, said he had gone to military headquarters on Tuesday where he found about 18 "middle-ranking" police and army officers in control.
"They told me if I didn't resign they would resort to use arms," he said. "I took it as a threat. I wanted to negotiate the lives of the people who were serving in my government."
He added that he feared Mr Hassan - formerly his vice president - was "in on" their plans.
The new president in turn criticised Mr Nasheed for wrongfully arresting a top judge.
President Hassan said his aim now was to form a coalition to help build a stable and democratic country.
"We will respect the rule of law, we will uphold the constitution, the executive will not interfere in legislation and we will make sure that democracy is consolidated," he told a news conference on Wednesday.
Mr Hassan repeated his call for the formation of a national unity government to help the country recover from the political crisis that led to the resignation of his predecessor.
The authorities are also reported to be investigating the discovery of bottles of alcohol being removed from outside Mr Nasheed's residence.
Consuming alcohol outside tourist resorts is a crime in the Muslim nation.
Mr Hassan also promised to protect Mr Nasheed from retribution, pointing out that he was free to leave the country.
However he said he would not interfere with any police or court action against Mr Nasheed.
The former president's resignation followed protests over the arrest of Justice Abdulla Mohamed last month.
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He was released soon after Mr Hassan took power.
The judge was accused of being loyal to the opposition by ordering the release of a government critic he said had been illegally detained.
Mr Nasheed's supporters say that they fear for his safety as well as the safety of other senior members of his government.
Mr Hassan on Tuesday described Mr Nasheed's resignation as a "generous decision... because he has taken into consideration the call from the people and he has also helped to prevent bloodshed".
He pledged to hold elections in 2013 which would lead to the formation of a government of national unity which could bring "calm and quiet to the streets".
Mr Nasheed's resignation came within hours of a mutiny in police ranks which saw a few dozen officers side with protesters and then clash with soldiers in the streets.
The mutinying officers took control of the state broadcaster in the capital, Male, and began playing out messages in support of Mr Gayoom.
The Welshman, 28, has lost three of his last six fights but still has ambitions of becoming world champion again.
Cleverly was accused of avoiding the best light-heavyweights during his three-year reign as WBO champion before losing to Sergey Kovalev in 2013.
"Every fight now till the end of my career, until I hang the gloves up I'll go to war," Cleverly said.
"Real fights against elite fighters, world title belts or top level fighters on the big stage, only those now till the end of my career."
Cleverly concedes that the fight against Kovalev and the loss to Pole Andrzej Fonfara in October this year were a step-up in class to previous opponents.
He moved up a division after losing his title to Kovalev two years ago.
The Welshman considered retiring after losing to English cruiserweight Tony Bellew in November 2014, yet returned to light-heavyweight for a "fresh assault" on the division.
That resulted in a points defeat against Fonfara in a WBC International light heavyweight title bout.
"I could happily have stayed unbeaten against fringe contenders," he added. "But I tested myself against Kovalev, who is probably the best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet.
"Obviously I lost my last fight, but again Fonfara is an elite level fighter."
Although Cleverly says retirement is not an option, he concedes that he is concerned about the effect on his health.
"There's a large element of me which says you don't want many of those fights," he said.
"They're brutal, your nose is broken, your face is swollen and you can feel the swelling around your brain.
"You definitely don't want too many of them but I'm prepared to do it again."
The Welshman is hoping to speak to his promoter Eddie Hearn over the next few weeks with a view to setting up a bout with Germany WBA light-heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer.
David Gillespie said he found investment firm Merchant Turnaround had "less funds than expected" in 2011.
Mr Whyte, 46, is on trial at the High Court in Glasgow for acquiring Rangers by fraud, and for a second charge under the Companies Act.
He denies both charges.
The court heard that Mr Gillespie, 68, was director of Merchant Turnaround and Mr Whyte was company secretary.
The retired stockbroker said he had never given "authority" for the money to be used in any Rangers buy-out.
Instead, he had earlier warned Mr Whyte that he had not wanted any involvement in a football club.
The jury has heard how Mr Whyte struck a £1 deal to purchase Sir David Murray's controlling stake at Ibrox in May 2011.
Around that time, another director asked for an "analysis" of investments.
Mr Gillespie said: "We discovered that there were less funds than expected."
It was found £1m had been sent to law firm Collyer Bristow, which was involved in Mr Whyte's takeover.
Mr Gillespie said, up to that point, he had been unaware of the money transfer.
Prosecutor Alex Prentice QC asked what his reaction was.
The witness said he was "annoyed".
"I obviously referred to Mr Whyte what was going down really," he added.
"He said that he had put it across as a prelude to being involved in the Rangers acquisition that he was trying to pursue or had concluded."
Mr Gillespie told how months earlier he had met Mr Whyte in Glasgow as speculation mounted about his Rangers bid.
He said: "We discussed that and I made it clear that I did not want to get involved with a football club.
"I just would not want to stretch to something as high profile as that."
Mr Gillespie added he had not granted permission for the cash to be transferred although he "could not speak" for another director Philip Betts.
The jury heard Mr Betts was a key associate in the takeover.
Mr Prentice asked the witness had he given "authority" for money to be used in any "proposed acquisition".
Mr Gillespie: "No. As I said previously, I had discussed it with Mr Whyte and he knew my view."
Prosecutors allege Mr Whyte pretended to Sir David Murray, and others, that funds were available to make all required payments to acquire a "controlling and majority stake" in the club.
The Crown alleges Mr Whyte had only £4m available from two sources at the time but took out a £24m loan from Ticketus against three years of future season ticket sales.
The court has heard the sale was eventually made to Mr Whyte for £1 but came with obligations to pay an £18m bank debt, a £2.8m "small tax case" bill, £1.7m for stadium repairs, £5m for players and £5m in working capital.
The second charge under the Companies Act centres on the £18m payment between Mr Whyte's Wavetower company and Rangers to clear a bank debt.
The trial, before Judge Lady Stacey, continues.
Udinese fan Arrigo Brovedani was the club's sole supporter in Genoa for a Serie A match against local team Sampdoria.
The 30-something wine merchant found himself alone in the visitors' section.
But Sampdoria stewards gave him coffee and home fans invited him for a drink after the match.
Mr Brovedani told the BBC he had not expected to find many fellow supporters from Udinese, one of the smaller clubs in Serie A.
It was a cold Monday night and Udinese never attracts more than 50 or 60 away fans.
"But I went there thinking I'd find five or six other people," the Udinese fan said.
"I went into the stadium while they [Udinese] were warming up. I shouted and said 'hi' to the team.
"When I went in the local fans booed me, I felt a bit offended.
"But in the end they clapped and invited me for coffee and a meal, and the club managers gave me a shirt. They wished me a merry Christmas."
Genoa is about four hours' drive from Friuli, where Udinese are based.
But Mr Brovedani was in Genoa on business.
"I like the stadium there, it's very similar to English stadiums," he said. "I always take my flag and scarf around - they're always in the car with me."
Luckily for Mr Brovedani, Udinese won the match 2-0 and the team dedicated their victory to their only fan. He has been invited to attend its next home match on Saturday.
Vincent Copeland from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, who admitted three counts of making indecent images, must join a sex offenders' treatment programme.
He confessed to the offences in a letter to friends found at his home, Ipswich Crown Court court heard.
Judge David Goodin said Copeland had been "completely humiliated".
The 61-year-old was arrested after officials in the US contacted the UK authorities about his online activity, and police went to his home in Leigh Road.
The charges related to seven images. Three were in the most serious category - A - and involved boys as young as 10. Two were category B and a further two category C.
In the letter found at his home he said he was ashamed and he would serve his sentence.
An earlier hearing revealed Copeland often talked online with other adult males as well as posing as a child having fantasy chats online, but he had never touched a child.
Judge David Goodin said: "As a teacher and a magistrate he should have known better... it's complete humiliation."
He gave him credit for his early guilty plea and for the fact he had previously referred himself to a self-funded Lucy Faithfull foundation treatment programme.
He told him: "You could never have imagined yourself in this position."
He said the three-year community order had two conditions - that he take part in a 30-day rehabilitation activity programme and in an internet sex offenders' treatment programme.
Officers said they was dealing with 100 victims manipulated by men and women pretending to love them.
The warning comes as the BBC's Angus Crawford spoke to one victim who sent money three times to a man in the United States.
She said she did not know how she had been "so damn stupid" to fall for it.
The woman, who asked not to be identified, said she met the man who claimed to be a US Marine living in California after being encouraged to try online dating by friends.
"My common sense was telling me something wasn't right in his story," she said.
"He sounded too much like a movie character."
But she said the man's young son began ringing her on her mobile phone and calling her "mum".
So who's most likely to become a victim of dating fraud? The short answer is, anyone looking for love online is vulnerable.
From January to the end of October this year - there were 2,858 reports of dating fraud reported to Action Fraud from around the UK. Victims lost more than £21m.
One victim told me when she tried internet dating the first man who replied to her profile "was the only one who sounded like a decent person".
What she didn't know was that scammers routinely use multiple, fake profiles to target a single victim - sending abusive or unpleasant messages from some of the fakes, to make their main bogus profile seem comparatively kind and considerate.
Det Ch Insp Gary Miles is from the Met Police's Falcon Unit, which investigates cybercrime and fraud. He says victims aren't stupid, the criminals are very sophisticated.
"This is their profession, they have designed social engineering specifically to target the vulnerabilities of those seeking relationships."
After a while she said she was asked for money to buy the boy an iPad. She was later told the boy needed surgery, which needed paying for, and then that he had cholera and needed money for treatment.
The woman said she had the feeling "something was not right".
"The first thing I thought was, 'how in hell could I have been so damn stupid?' after sending him money three times."
She said when she questioned the man he became abusive.
"[He] said he would kill himself because his son was dying and how that blood would be on my hands."
In September, two men admitted their part in duping a woman out of £1.6m in the biggest online dating scam the Met have investigated.
Olusegun Agbaje, 43, of Kershaw Close, Hornchurch, Essex and Ife Ojo, 31, of Hammonds Drive, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, will return to court on 8 January to be sentenced.
Their sentencing was adjourned earlier at Basildon Crown Court after the Probation Service failed to produce a report requested at conviction.
However, the figure is likely to have been distorted by tax changes.
There were 8,556 new cars sold during the month, 1,000 fewer than the pre-recession peak of 9,564 in March 2006.
New Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) rates came into effect on 1 April, which introduced an annual flat-rate charge for all cars except those with zero emissions.
The latest figures had been flattered by some motorists bringing forward buying a new car ahead of the tax changes, said Ulster Bank economist Richard Ramsey.
"We can therefore anticipate April and May's figures to be somewhat softer," he said.
"It's also noted that Northern Ireland's near double-digit rise in March followed a double-digit fall of 11.2% year-on-year in February."
For the UK as whole, March was the best month on record for UK car registrations, according to the car industry trade body.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said 562,337 new cars were registered in March, up 8.4% on the same month last year.
"These record figures are undoubtedly boosted by consumers reacting to new VED changes, pulling forward purchases into March, especially those ultra-low emission vehicles that will no longer benefit from a zero-rate fee," said SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes.
Square priced its shares at $9 (£5.88), lower than the expected range of $11 to $13. The stock closed at $13.07.
The low price had caused some investors to speculate about the long term financial health of the company.
Square - which helps companies accept and process credit card payments - was created by the co-founder and chief executive of Twitter, Jack Dorsey.
Square is a cube shape plug that attaches to smart phones and tablets to allow them to accept credit card swipes.
Listing its shares publically allowed Square to raise $243m.
"Square's financials leave much to be desired. But there's still a lot to like here, and... the success of their debut will say a lot about the current IPO environment," said Brian Hamilton, chairman of data firm Sageworks.
Marcia Dorsey - Mr Dorsey's mother - rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange.
On Monday, Square addressed for the first time how it planed to handle having a chief executive who is the head of two public companies.
In a statement, the company said Mr Dorsey would give his "full business efforts and time to the company, other than with respect to [his] work with Twitter Inc".
It was a strong day all around for tech stocks. Match.com also began selling its shares publically.
The company - owner of dating websites Match, OkCupid and Tinder - saw its shares end 23% higher after being priced at $12.
Some investors had begun to question whether tech starts were being overvalued.
According to Thomson Reuters data, more than 50 companies have withdrawn plans to sell shares publically and others have had to lower valuations before listing them on Wall Street.
Ucas head Mary Curnock Cook said universities were now "more flexible" with grade requirements, amid intense competition to attract more students.
Universities are accepting more candidates who fail to gain their predicted grades, Ucas data suggests.
There is no cap on degree place numbers at England's universities.
Last year, more than half of students accepted on to degree courses had missed their results by two or more grades, spread over three qualifications, Ms Curnock Cook said.
She added that some teachers had told her they were "over-predicting" sixth-formers' results in a bid to secure initial offers from university.
Speaking at a conference on higher education at Wellington College, Berkshire, she said: "I talk to a lot of schools and people who advise students and, in the past, I would have said, 'Surely you wouldn't be over-predicting your students on purpose?', and actually just this last summer really, I had teachers coming back to me and saying, 'Actually, yes we would.'
"I'll show you why, because actually, accepted applicants, the number who are being accepted with quite significant discounts on their offers and their predicted grades, has grown quite a lot - 52% of A-level accepts have missed their grades by two or more grades over the portfolio of three [A-levels]."
Ucas figures show a nine percentage point rise since 2010 in the number of students predicted to score at least two A grades and a B at A-level, to 63% in 2015.
Over-prediction of grades had always occurred, Ms Curnock Cook said, but she indicated that it was becoming more common.
"Offers are being discounted at confirmation time, and we can see that.
"We can see that because the lifting of the number controls has increased competition amongst universities to recruit students - you can see that happening.
"For example, of the proportion accepted to higher-tariff universities, about 44% of those with BBB in their A-levels got a place at higher-tariff institutions, compared to just 20% in 2011," she added.
As universities compete for students they are being "more flexible with their entry grades", she said.
But she stressed that there had always been inaccuracies in predicted grades because they have always been used by teachers to signal what a pupil is capable of.
Association of School and College Leaders acting general secretary Malcolm Trobe agreed that predictive grades were often higher than the ones pupils achieved.
"There are a number of reasons for this, one of which is teachers are looking at the best possible outcome for the student if everything goes really, really well - if they manage to achieve their maximum grade."
He added that there were likely to be more discrepancies between predicted grades and the ones pupils achieved because of the move to linear A-levels and the scrapping of AS-levels. This was because teachers were used to having half the marks from the AS level.
Prof Michael Arthur, provost and president of University College London, said that his institution's standard offer is one A* grade and two As or three A grades, adding that last year, "we did drop down one grade for about 9% or so of students that we admitted".
Previously universities were allowed to take as many ABB students as they wished to recruit. This is the grade threshold for many sought-after courses at many leading universities.
A report published by the Task Force on Low Carbon Infrastructure said less should be spent on projects that increase energy use.
That could include new roads.
The Scottish government said the report was a "valuable contribution" to shifting to a low-carbon economy.
The report argues that it is better to build now for changed public choices and behaviour, travel patterns and energy efficiency standards rather than alter infrastructure when the changes have taken place.
Compiled by the Green Alliance think tank, it says there are "critical weaknesses" in the way Scotland now spends.
It says international comparisons suggest 72% of infrastructure spending in other countries is on projects designed to reduce carbon emissions, whereas that is thought to be 52% in Scotland.
The report's authors set a challenge to see that 20-point gap closed - a change for a fifth of infrastructure spending.
The "Scotland's Way Ahead" report pushes for further progress on renewable electricity, transport, housing and waste, but says the approach should also apply across health, schools, the digital economy, culture and justice.
One of the main areas addressed is in local district heating of homes and other buildings. It argues for a more co-ordinated approach, rather than project-by-project.
And while it says telecom links will allow people to work from home and reduce commuting, it suggests a better understanding is required of how that could increase energy use in workers' homes.
The report argues that there are benefits from more emphasis on capital spending to reduce energy use.
Less use of cars - with more walking or cycling - can help health, lower energy use should help cut fuel poverty and there are tens of thousands of "low-carbon" jobs yet to be created.
Sara Thiam, chairwoman of the task force, said: "As Scotland prepares to spend billions of pounds over the coming decades to upgrade our ageing infrastructure, it's essential we invest wisely for the future, building infrastructure that improves our economy, environment and quality of life for the people of Scotland in the 21st Century and beyond."
As a director of the Institute of Civil Engineers, she added that the challenge of the report could "inspire the next generation of men and women into the profession to build on the legacy of famous engineers of the past including Telford, Watt, Arrol and Stevenson".
She added: "They have the potential to build a better world by getting involved in 21st Century engineering projects that will stand the test of time, as the Forth Bridge has done."
A Scottish government spokeswoman said the report was a "valuable contribution" to the challenge of shifting to a low-carbon economy.
"Establishing Scotland as a low-carbon place is already a central theme of Scotland's National Planning Framework," she said. "We are also broadening our infrastructure approach, building on the success of our approach to renewable energy.
"For example, in June we announced that improving the energy efficiency of Scotland's homes and non-domestic building stock would be designated a National Infrastructure Priority."
Dr Sam Gardner, Task Force member and head of policy at WWF Scotland, said: "The report shows that Scotland's climate action plan must be matched by an infrastructure plan that ensures we build the foundations for a low-carbon future.
"Securing the benefits of a low-carbon Scotland will mean shifting the focus from projects that lock in high-carbon emissions to the essential fabric of a low-carbon economy such as energy efficiency, district heating and sustainable transport."
Ross Martin, chief executive of the Scottish Council for Development & Industry, said: "As we take our next few steps on our journey to a low-carbon economy, we recognise the importance of infrastructure in supporting our drive for higher productivity, greater levels of innovation and a stronger presence in international markets - the three key economic challenges of our time.
"This report sheds new light on this important issue enabling us to view low-carbon infrastructure from this economic perspective."
The 26-year-old Ghana forward, a £20.5m signing from Swansea, was injured 35 minutes into his Hammers league debut in the 2-1 defeat by Chelsea on Monday.
"It is not good and he needs surgery," said manager Slaven Bilic after his side's 1-1 Europa League qualifying draw against Astra Giurgiu.
"Four months is a big, big blow for us but we have to cope with it."
West Ham co-chairman David Gold earlier tweeted: "Sad news. Ayew has injured his quadriceps and will need surgery.
"He will be out for 4 months. Good luck Andre."
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Alexander Pacteau, 21, was jailed for a minimum of 23 years after admitting bludgeoning the 24-year-old with a spanner and strangling her in his car.
He then attempted to dispose of Ms Buckley's body in a vat of chemicals at a farm outside Glasgow.
A spokeswoman from the Judiciary of Scotland confirmed the case will no longer call as planned on Friday.
Papers for Pacteau's appeal were lodged at the Criminal Court of Appeal in Edinburgh in September.
At his sentencing in the High Court in Glasgow that month, Judge Lady Rae said Pacteau had carried out a "brutal, senseless and motiveless attack on a defenceless young woman".
Pacteau originally faced a second charge of attempting to defeat the ends of justice by misleading police and trying to conceal Miss Buckley's body.
The Crown withdrew the charge before his plea and his solicitor John Scullion QC suggested his actions after the killing should not therefore be regarded when considering sentence.
During the sentencing, Lady Rae told the court she regretted that the Crown had withdrawn a charge relating to Pacteau's actions after the murder, saying it "tied her hands" to some extent in relation to the sentence.
But she added: "I have come to the view that I cannot ignore your conduct after the killing."
The Dundee musician is accused of shouting and swearing at passengers and making a homophobic remark to a cabin crew member.
The incident is alleged to have happened on board a Jet2 flight between Reus Airport in Spain and Glasgow International Airport in June.
Mr Falconer, 29, was not present at the hearing at Paisley Sheriff Court.
The case was continued without plea for further investigation until 12 October.
A solicitor told the court that it had to be established which country's air space the plane was in at the exact time of the alleged offences.
Mr Falconer faces two charges of alleged threatening and abusive behaviour.
He is accused of behaving "in a threatening or abusive manner which was likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm" by shouting, swearing and acting aggressively towards other passengers "whilst in possession of two bottles".
The singer is also accused of uttering a homophobic remark on the flight.
Going into Tuesday's Midland derby at mid-table Walsall, Vale are four points adrift of 20th-placed Gillingham.
A Vale draw would mean having to win at Fleetwood on Sunday, while hoping for a seven-goal swing on Gillingham, who go to Northampton on the final day.
"We've got to win. We'll certainly take the game to them," Brown said.
A Vale victory would at least give them a realistic chance of remaining in League One, as well as ensuring that both Shrewsbury Town and Bury would both need something from their final games, at Oxford and Southend respectively.
Brown told BBC Radio Stoke: "If we play like we can, with that endeavour, we can get a result and take it into the last game.
"Then at least we'll have given ourselves a chance and, from there, it's a case of 'never say never'."
Brown again finds himself hit by injuries, including captain Ben Purkiss, who is a doubt for the meeting with his former club.
"We're patching a few up. We've had freak injuries. It's strained circumstances and is very frustrating, but that's the cards we've been dealt."
Although a Vale defeat would relegate them, Brown can at least be encouraged by their record at the Banks's Stadium, where they have lost just once in six visits.
Vale's survival hopes were hit by Saturday's 2-0 home defeat by Bolton in a match that was marred by a pitch invasion which followed the Trotters' opening goal.
Play was suspended for 12 minutes, which eventually involved fans from both sides jumping the barricades and getting involved in clashes with each other, leading to four arrests.
"It was very disappointing," said Brown, whose side were reduced to 10 men after 33 minutes when striker Rigino Cicilia was sent off.
"When security staff are taking the players off the pitch and talking safety, it's very worrying.
"I understand fans want to celebrate but there is a fine line with how far people take it."
While defeat for Vale at Bescot would send the visitors down to League Two, Walsall manager Jon Whitney has sympathy for his opposite number, recognising that it has not been straightforward for Brown, since taking over in mid-season from Bruno Ribeiro.
"He was left with players from the previous regime who have not been quite good enough for him," Whitney told BBC WM.
"He tried to bring in people in January but didn't really get his targets.
"I saw their game on Saturday and, before the sending-off they were the better side against Bolton and should have scored."
But Whitney's only concern is getting his own team back on track after a poor result at relegated Coventry on Saturday.
After a game in which he lost defender Eoghan O'Connell, sent off for a second yellow card, Whitney apologised to the travelling fans for a lacklustre first-half performance.
"It had an end of season feel to it," he said. "Some of them will have lost their names on the shirts. And my only concern is winning on Tuesday night and remaining unbeaten in our last two matches."
Mr FitzPatrick was accused of misleading the bank's auditors about millions of euros in loans made to him.
The 68-year-old had pleaded not guilty to 27 charges from 2002 and 2007.
On day 126 of the trial, the judge said he would direct the jury to acquit the defendant on Wednesday.
He said that the investigation into the accused was not sufficiently unbiased, impartial and balanced.
Speaking outside court, Mr FitzPatrick told reporters it had been a "very long, tiring and difficult time for my family and myself, but thankfully, today, the trial is over".
Mr FitzPatrick stepped down as chairman of Anglo Irish Bank in December 2008. A month later, the bank was nationalised after it was brought to the brink of collapse.
The move cost Irish taxpayers about 30bn euros (£23.4bn).
He was declared bankrupt in 2010.
Sean FitzPatrick was the public face of Anglo. His star rose with the bank.
He became general manager in 1980 and was later appointed chief executive of the parent company and transformed it into Anglo.
In 2005, he became the chairman, though he maintained a hands-on role. It was still very much 'Seanie's bank'.
He became an admired and influential figure, at one stage acting as an unofficial advisor to Prime Minister Brian Cowen.
But in 2008, he was forced to resign amid allegations about the true size of his personal borrowings from the bank.
Prosecutors had alleged that Mr FitzPatrick had misled Anglo Irish Bank's auditors, Ernst and Young, about details of director's loans he received from Anglo Irish Bank between November 2002 and February 2008.
The judge's ruling came after lengthy submissions by the defence - who argued that flaws in the investigation should prevent the case from going before the jury - and prosecutors who said that the trial should continue.
However, the judge said the ruling to acquit was in the interests of Mr FitzPatrick's right to a fair trial.
He said that the investigation, carried out by the Office of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE), failed to seek out evidence of innocence as well as evidence of the accused's guilt.
The judge added that the most fundamental error in the ODCE investigation was in how it received statements from witnesses.
The judge said this involved coaching witnesses, contamination of their statements from third parties, such as solicitors for the auditors, and cross-contamination of their statements between other witnesses.
The judge also said he was concerned that potential documentary evidence destroyed by the ODCE's lead investigator could have helped the defence and damaged the prosecution.
The material was destroyed during Mr FitzPatrick's first trial, which collapsed in 2015.
An investigation into Mr FitzPatrick was launched by the ODCE after the full amount of his personal loans emerged in December 2008.
Between 2005 and 2007, loans from the bank linked to the chairman quadrupled to around 122m euros (£106m).
Lowry, who held a share of the lead following the first round, is seven under after a one-under round of 70.
USA's James Hahn leads on 10 under with compatriot Rickie Fowler and New Zealand's Danny Lee one shot back.
Japan's Hideki Matsuyama and the USA's Harris English are alongside Lowry on seven under at TPC Scottsdale.
Forestieri pounced on a poor clearance by Villa goalkeeper Pierluigi Gollini to slot in an 85th-minute winner.
Roberto di Matteo's Villa improved as the game progressed after a slow start.
They looked on course for a point until Forestieri's intervention for last season's beaten play-off finalists.
Gollini had twice denied the Italian forward during the second period but was powerless to rectify his kicking error as Forestieri raced clear before finishing coolly into the corner of the net.
Jordan Ayew and Rudy Gestede both had headers saved and Ashley Westwood also drilled two long-range shots just wide as Villa, aiming to return to the Premier League at the first attempt under new boss Di Matteo, made a creditable but ultimately pointless start to life in the Championship.
Chances were scarce during a cagey first period, which was interrupted for five minutes while Owls debutant Steven Fletcher and Villa captain Tommy Elphick received treatment following a nasty clash of heads.
Scotland striker Fletcher required 10 stitches in a head wound and was unable to continue.
Villa's new £12m front man Ross McCormack was denied a debut goal by Tom Lees' last-ditch tackle shortly before his withdrawal after 77 minutes.
Sheffield Wednesday head coach Carlos Carvalhal told BBC Radio Sheffield: "We were fantastic in the first half and deserved to be ahead.
"Villa have a good team and they started playing more near our defence, who did some very good work.
"We gave a signal to everybody that we wanted to win by putting Atdhe Nuhiu up with Gary Hooper, and we scored the goal with a mistake because Gary pressed the goalkeeper. We deserved to win against a strong team in the competition."
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Aston Villa boss Roberto di Matteo told BBC WM: "With 10 minutes to go, you're away from home against a good side, you'd like to see the game out. If you can't win it, don't lose it.
"Unfortunately it was an error from us that gave them the goal, but I thought that in the second half we were a very good team and had some excellent opportunities to score.
"It's very harsh for us to take because I'd like the opposition to do something special to score, rather than give them a goal.
"We have to learn from this situation - we've only been together for five weeks and you can see they've been together for a much longer time."
Match ends, Sheffield Wednesday 1, Aston Villa 0.
Second Half ends, Sheffield Wednesday 1, Aston Villa 0.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Tommy Elphick.
Attempt missed. Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Andre Green.
Attempt blocked. Ashley Westwood (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nathan Baker.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Sam Hutchinson.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Andre Green replaces Leandro Bacuna.
Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 1, Aston Villa 0. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Liam Palmer replaces Jack Hunt.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Alan Hutton.
Foul by Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday).
Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Jack Hunt.
Foul by Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday).
Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Tom Lees (Sheffield Wednesday) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Barry Bannan with a cross.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Aaron Tshibola.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Jack Grealish replaces Ross McCormack.
Attempt missed. Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the right. Assisted by Fernando Forestieri with a cross.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Atdhe Nuhiu.
Attempt blocked. Tommy Elphick (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alan Hutton with a cross.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Tom Lees.
Attempt blocked. Ross McCormack (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rudy Gestede with a headed pass.
Foul by Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday).
Alan Hutton (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Hand ball by Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday).
Offside, Sheffield Wednesday. Kieran Lee tries a through ball, but Gary Hooper is caught offside.
Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Nathan Baker (Aston Villa).
Substitution, Aston Villa. Aaron Tshibola replaces Gary Gardner.
Daniel Pudil (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Leandro Bacuna (Aston Villa).
Attempt missed. Jordan Ayew (Aston Villa) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Ross McCormack.
Attempt blocked. Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kieran Lee with a cross.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Atdhe Nuhiu replaces Ross Wallace.
Nathan Baker (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Pierluigi Gollini.
Attempt saved. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kieran Lee.
Attempt missed. Ashley Westwood (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.
Dean Anthony Evans, 31, from Kempshott, was found lying in Benham Road in Basingstoke, Hampshire, shortly before 05:30 BST on Friday.
He was taken to hospital but died a short time later.
Two 22-year-old men and a 20-year-old man, all from Basingstoke, have been arrested on suspicion of murder. Police described the assault as "an isolated incident".
France's president has called for a "growth pact", Tony Blair has urged a "grand bargain", the markets demand a "big bazooka", while in Germany there are rumblings about federalism.
Yet the economic and financial solutions to the eurozone crisis are actually surprisingly straightforward.
How so?
Easy. Just ask how the exact same problems have been solved by the members of that other large (and much better functioning) single currency area - the United States of America.
Europe's real problem is that almost all of the solutions are far from politically palatable.
The eurozone's root problem is that
the southern European economies have become fundamentally uncompetitive
- their wages rose too quickly during the boom years, which led them to import a lot more than they exported, and borrow the difference.
The southern economies' excessive debts, persistent uncompetitiveness and resulting need to continue borrowing - along with Germany's reluctance to give them the money - is what has driven the financial panic that has made it much harder for southern European governments and banks to borrow from markets.
What's more, the seizing up of European financial markets - not to mention the collective determination of Europe's governments to cut spending, and the European Central Bank's focus on price stability - is threatening to push the entire continent into a long and deep recession, something that would merely compound the debt problems.
So, if the eurozone were to look at the US model for inspiration in its hour of need, what sorts of changes - economic, financial and, ultimately, political - might need to be considered?
Europe's most immediate task is to restore confidence in its banks.
All the
bad loans made by eurozone banks (loans to mortgage borrowers, property speculators and even governments that may not be fully repaid) may need to be cleaned up (by injecting money into the banks), with the potential losses borne by the eurozone as a whole - because many national governments probably cannot afford it. In the case of Spain's banks, the current bailout deal leaves Spain's government sitting on all the losses.
Deposits at all eurozone banks may need to be guaranteed
in euros by the eurozone as a whole, in order to stop panicky investors from moving their money from banks in southern European countries at risk of exiting the euro, to Germany (and increasingly to Switzerland and Denmark).
All of Europe's banks may need to be placed under a
common regime of regulation and supervision, with troubled banks given equal access to rescue loans, and being wound up by a central authority when they go bust.
Europe's biggest long-term conundrum is how to stop governments like Spain or Italy going bust - and restore confidence in their commitment to stay within the euro - while ensuring that all governments are more responsible with their finances in future.
The biggest sticking point
is
eurobonds. A large chunk of eurozone government debt may need to be amalgamated - with governments standing behind each other's finances - in order to reinforce the commitment of governments to staying in the euro:
In the long-run, a US-style
federal budget may be needed to cover the cost of recessions, so that individual governments don't risk going bust when their national economies get into trouble. For example, the cost of a minimum level of social security - especially unemployment benefits - could be permanently shared across the eurozone, paid for by a common income tax.
The new French President Francois Hollande was elected on a platform demanding a "growth pact" in Europe - a set of reforms designed to boost European economies and mitigate the pain being inflicted by government spending cuts across the continent.
The
European Central Bank may need to have its mandate changed so that it has an explicit dual target to support employment as well as price stability, just like its American counterparty, the US Federal Reserve does, as proposed by Mr Hollande.
The eurozone may need to pay for large-scale
investment in infrastructure, particularly in southern Europe, much in the way that West Germany invested in rebuilding East German after reunification in 1990. Proposals on the table include increasing the European Investment Bank's ability to lend, and
creating common "project bonds"
to finance major construction.
All Europeans (and especially southerners) are having to implement
structural reforms that will increase their long-term growth and strengthen government finances (although at the risk of hurting growth in the short-term). These include removing restrictions on market competition, raising the retirement age, laying off (over many years) a lot of state employees, and making it much easier to hire and fire employees. Mr Hollande has resisted many of these reforms in France.
"Rebalancing" means solving the big underlying competitiveness problem faced by southern Europeans that led to their economies racking up so much debt in the first place.
The ECB and German government may need to stimulate high
wage inflation in Germany for several years in order to eliminate the country's current massive competitive trade advantage over southern Europe -
something that is already beginning to happen
.
In the same way that Washington helps out struggling US states, the southern European governments may need to be given money (
given, not
lent) by the rest of the eurozone via direct
fiscal transfers, so that they can afford to prop up their economies until they have regained their competitiveness. These transfers could end up taking the form of bailout loans that are never repaid.
Structural reforms - particularly labour market reforms - also play a key role in rebalancing, by ensuring that wages in southern Europe do not rise too quickly, as they did in the past decade.
To make a full banking, fiscal and monetary union work, the eurozone governments would need to hand power to a
central authority (the European Commission) that can pay for and supervise all of the above, while national governments accept that in future they have to keep their own spending strictly within their limited means.
As most of the above reforms involve Germany sharing its wealth with the rest of Europe (and all European nations handing power to Brussels), Berlin is insisting on the principle of no taxation without representation - in other words a move towards full
federalism, with spending and regulation controlled by a
directly elected presidency
of the European Commission.
The 64-year-old Italian has guided Leicester to the top of the Premier League in his first season in charge.
He has been linked with the Italy job after Antonio Conte announced that he will leave his post after Euro 2016.
"I want to stay here," said Ranieri. "There isn't another team, nothing will change my mind. I am so happy here."
Former Chelsea boss Ranieri joined Leicester in July on a three-year contract.
He added: "I am just starting to build, if the owner is happy with me, I am happy with him."
Leicester are five points clear of second placed Tottenham in the title race, with eight games of the season remaining.
They face Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Saturday.
BBC Radio Leicester: "Have you heard about the 'Ranieri' sausage, Claudio?"
Leicester's Danny Drinkwater has received his first call-up to the England squad for the friendlies against Germany and Holland, while fellow midfielder N'Golo Kante's form has been rewarded with his first call-up for France.
Ranieri thinks Drinkwater, 26, could force his way into Roy Hogson's Euro 2016 squad.
"Roy follows us for so many matches and maybe he wants to feel and to know him better," he said. "Maybe he can bring him for the European Championship.
"He is always available for his team-mates to ask for the ball, to have a personality. There is a very good partnership with Kante, they understand together and it's solid. I like him because when he goes into the tackle, he wins the tackle.
"Drinky is a very solid man, a focused man. He is a fantastic character but you have to know him because he observes and doesn't speak. When he speaks it is in the right way. I love him because he wants the best, when he makes mistakes he is very angry."
Caf Secretary General Hicham El Amrani has also been charged.
A lawyer representing both parties attended a hearing on Monday.
With Caf based in Cairo, Egyptian authorities maintain it is governed by local laws.
The African football body firmly rejects accusations it committed any wrongdoing when signing a multi-million dollar deal with sports agency Lagardere in June 2015.
"Caf categorically asserts that all claims against it are groundless and without merit," a statement read.
"Caf will vigorously defend its position, its right and reputation using all legal means available under international law."
The Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) started to investigate the Lagardere deal in June 2016, prior to asserting - in January 2017 - that Caf had engaged in monopolistic practices that infringed local laws.
The deal gives Lagardere rights to a variety of African football competitions, including the flagship Africa Cup of Nations, from 2017 until 2028.
"As a result, the board voted in favour of (referring) Hayatou and El Amrani for criminal prosecution," said the ECA in a statement dated 8 March.
Caf stresses that the allegations accusing it of selling rights without opening them for due tender are incorrect.
The organisation, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this week, maintains it did not sell any broadcasting rights to Lagardere - merely appointing the French company as its marketing and media agent instead.
Lagardere paid $1bn to Caf for the privilege and while it then undertakes responsibility for negotiating deals across the globe, "the rights remain vested at Caf" - says Caf Communications Director Junior Binyam.
The resurgence of the ECA's interest comes at a critical time for Caf, which hosts its presidential elections on Thursday.
"The timing of the ECA's media campaign underlines its attempt to disrupt and undermine Caf at the time of its presidential elections," the Caf statement added.
"The referral of Caf's president and its secretary general, in violation of all Caf's constitutionally- and universally-protected rights of defence, only a few days before Caf's presidential elections is meant to tarnish Hayatou's image and exercise unfair external influence on the integrity of the whole electoral process," added Binyam.
Hayatou is seeking an eighth term as he stands against his sole challenger, Ahmad, who goes by one name and who heads up Madagascar's FA.
The African body also says it has not been given a chance to discuss the case with local authorities.
"In the ordinary course of any legal dispute under international norms, Caf would be given the opportunity to present its case to relevant authorities and have the right to be heard in accordance with due process," says Caf.
"To date, the ECA and the Public Prosecutor, in quite remarkable and unprecedented fashion for regulatory bodies, have attempted to conduct a trial by media offering Caf no right of defence and serving it with no formal charges other than through the media.
"Indeed, the Public Prosecutor has referred its fait accompli case to the Egyptian Economic court following only a few days of investigations without any communication or engagement whatsoever with Caf."
By contrast, ECA officials have often spoken to Egyptian media to air the organisation's claims.
Baxter Reid, 26, had tried to enter Canada for a holiday just before his US visa expired at midnight on 23 April.
Relatives said Mr Reid was held up by Canadian officials before being sent back to the US, by which time his visa was invalid.
He was released from custody on Wednesday and will not be deported, according to his brother, Alex Reid.
"He's free to leave of his own accord," Alex Reid told the BBC, adding that his brother would be allowed to return.
"He's not angry, he's not upset, he doesn't hold grudges. He's just happy."
Mr Reid was with his American girlfriend, Heather Kancso, when he was handcuffed at the border in upstate New York.
According to his family, Mr Reid was on a visa that required him to leave the country before six months elapsed. He had planned to return to the US after visiting Canada.
It was not clear why Mr Reid had been turned away by Canada, his brother said.
"He's just a typical Australian tourist just travelling America with his girlfriend," Alex Reid said.
Ms Kancso had set up an online campaign to pay for an immigration lawyer, raising more than $10,000 (£7,700).
She wrote online: "I am beyond happy to say that Baxter's court case went well."
He had been given 120 days to exit the US voluntarily, she said.
Alex Reid said he expected his brother to return to Australia this month.
"He just wants to have a beer with his mates," he said.
The Australian government confirmed it had offered consular assistance.
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Katrina Percy had faced calls to quit over the trust's failure to investigate hundreds of deaths.
Now the BBC has learned that her new job - worth nearly ??250,000 a year - did not exist previously, and she was the only candidate.
Tim Smart gave details of the move in an exclusive interview with the BBC.
North Wales Police said the pair were waiting for the businessman after he left the Fusion club on Rhyl's West Parade on Saturday.
They demanded money from their victim after confronting him at Violet Grove in the town at about 04:30 BST.
The nightclub owner needed hospital treatment as a result of the assault.
"This was a cowardly attack on a local businessman. It is fortunate that he has not sustained more serious injuries," said Det Insp Chris Bell.
Officers said they want to speak to anyone who may have any information about the attack, or who saw people acting suspiciously outside the nightclub or Violet Grove at the time.
Faletau, 25, is one of three wildcard picks under the Welsh Rugby Union's senior player selection policy, along with George North and Jamie Roberts.
That means fly-half Rhys Priestland misses out, but there is a first call-up for Ospreys number 10 Sam Davies.
Full-back Leigh Halfpenny returns after a year out injured, while wing Alex Cuthbert is recalled.
There are also returns for props Rhys Gill and Scott Andrews with Scarlets loose-head Rob Evans out injured.
Ospreys lock Rory Thornton, 21, is the second uncapped player in the squad along with 23-year-old Davies.
Faletau is not expected back in training by club Bath until mid-November, but the back row is boosted by Dan Lydiate's return after the flanker missed the summer tour of New Zealand following shoulder surgery.
"Taulupe is still in his rehab process and has been working closely with Bath," Wales coach Rob Howley said.
"We hope he will be available in the later part of the campaign, but his experience will be vitally important to have around the squad."
Sam Warburton continues as captain despite having surgery on a cheek injury.
Wales open their autumn series against Australia on 5 November.
That game falls outside World Rugby's autumn Tests window and means Wales are without their England-based players for that match.
Howley also had to contend with the WRU's senior player selection policy, which means only three of Faletau, North, Roberts and Priestland could be picked as wildcards.
Japan-based lock Dominic Day, Gloucester prop Nicky Thomas and scrum-half Rhodri Williams are the others affected by the rule.
However, all other England and France-based players are freely available to Howley, who is deputising for 2017 British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland.
Forwards: Scott Andrews (Cardiff Blues), Tomas Francis (Exeter Chiefs), Rhys Gill (Cardiff Blues), Gethin Jenkins (Cardiff Blues), Samson Lee (Scarlets), Nicky Smith (Ospreys), Scott Baldwin (Ospreys), Kristian Dacey (Cardiff Blues), Ken Owens (Scarlets), Jake Ball (Scarlets), Luke Charteris (Bath Rugby), Bradley Davies (Ospreys), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys), Rory Thornton (Ospreys), Dan Baker (Ospreys), Taulupe Faletau (Bath Rugby), James King (Ospreys), Dan Lydiate (Ospreys), Ross Moriarty (Gloucester), Justin Tipuric (Ospreys), Sam Warburton (capt, Cardiff Blues).
Backs: Gareth Davies (Scarlets), Rhys Webb (Ospreys), Lloyd Williams (Cardiff Blues), Gareth Anscombe (Cardiff Blues), Dan Biggar (Ospreys), Sam Davies (Ospreys), Jonathan Davies (Scarlets), Tyler Morgan (Newport Gwent Dragons), Jamie Roberts (Harlequins), Scott Williams (Scarlets), Hallam Amos (Newport Gwent Dragons), Alex Cuthbert (Cardiff Blues), Leigh Halfpenny (Toulon), George North (Northampton Saints), Liam Williams (Scarlets).
He was awarded the prize for reaching a peace agreement with the Farc rebel group last month.
The deal was rejected a few days later by Colombian voters in a referendum.
About 260,000 people have been killed and more than six million internally displaced in Colombia.
"Last night, I met with my family and we have decided to donate those eight million Swedish krona ($925,000) to the victims," said Mr Santos.
He made the announcement in the city of Bojaya, in the north-western region of Choco, after taking part in a religious ceremony for people affected by the conflict.
The head of the Nobel commitee said on Friday the award recognised the president's "resolute efforts" to end the conflict.
"The award should also be seen as a tribute to the Colombian people who, despite great hardships and abuses, have not given up hope of a just peace, and to all the parties who have contributed to the peace process," Kaci Kullman Five added.
Mr Santos said he dedicated the award to "all the victims of the conflict".
The award did not include the Farc (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) leader Timoleon Rodriguez, better known as Timochenko.
He also signed the accord after nearly four years of negotiations held by government and rebel delegates in the Cuban capital, Havana.
Sources: BBC Monitoring, Colombian presidency
The peace deal was rejected by 50.2% of voters who went to the polls on 2 October.
The committee acknowledged the result, saying: "What the 'No' side rejected was not the desire for peace, but a specific peace agreement."
It also said that finding a balance between the need for reconciliation and ensuring justice for the victims would be a difficult challenge.
Despite the rejection by voters, Mr Santos vowed to continue with talks with the rebels.
Government negotiators have already returned to the Cuban capital Havana for further discussions with Farc leaders.
On Twitter, Farc leader Timochenko said: "I congratulate President Juan Manuel Santos, Cuba and Norway, who sponsored the process, and Venezuela and Chile, who assisted it, without them, peace would be impossible."
Critics, led by former President Alvaro Uribe, said the deal was too lenient on the rebels.
1964: Set up as armed wing of Communist Party
2002: At its height, it had an army of 20,000 fighters controlling up to a third of the country. Senator Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped and held for six years along with 14 other hostages
2008: The Farc suffers a series of defeats in its worst year
2012: Start of peace talks in Havana
2016: Definitive ceasefire
Under the agreement, special courts would have been created to try crimes committed during the conflict.
Those who confessed would have received lighter sentences and avoided serving any time in conventional prisons.
The Farc would also have been guaranteed 10 seats in the Colombian Congress in the 2018 and 2022 elections.
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The Welsh Government says it wants to improve exam results and aspirations of those who need extra support.
Lifelong Learning Minister Alun Davies has said the current system is "no longer fit for purpose".
But some teaching unions have said they have "serious concerns" about the new bill and are waiting to see the full details of the planned legislation.
If passed, the Additional Learning Needs and Educational Tribunal (ALNET) Bill could come into force by 2019.
Last year, 23% of pupils with ALNs achieved five GCSEs compared with 59% of all pupils in Wales.
In September, the Children's Commissioner for Wales criticised the current process for assessing children with ALNs and said the planned new legislation was "a one in a generation opportunity".
As part of the bill, a single system - called an individual development plan - will replace "statements" which currently address the needs of an individual aged up to 25.
The bill would also replace two terms known as "special educational needs" and "learning difficulties and/or disabilities", from which the current "statements" take their names.
Nearly a quarter of learners in Wales experience some form of additional learning need during their early years or education, according to the Welsh Government.
However, following the draft consultation on the new laws over the summer, several teaching unions flagged worries about the legislation.
A joint statement by the ATL, NAHT Cymru, UCAC and UCU unions said ALN "must be properly funded, with prevention of cuts by local authorities to ALN budgets".
The unions also demanded that educational establishments must have access to specialist services, such as psychologists and speech therapists, and that the all-important assessment process was made clear.
UCAC said it welcomed the bill in general but wanted more assurances for Welsh speaking pupils.
Plaid Cymru education spokesman Llyr Gruffydd welcomed the bill and said his party would "work to ensure it offers the strongest possible support" for children and young people with additional learning needs in Wales.
He added: "The current system for supporting those with special educational needs is based on a model that was introduced over 30 years ago. It's no longer fit for purpose and reform is long overdue."
Darren Millar of the Welsh Conservatives said his party also welcomed the bill, saying: "We look forward to scrutinising the legislation to ensure that it addresses key concerns around staffing capacity, finances and access to professionals for those who need them."
Mustafina won with a score of 15.900 to add a gold medal to the silver and bronze she had already won in Rio.
Victory took the 21-year-old's tally of Olympic medals to seven after she won four on her debut at London 2012.
Madison Kocian of the United States won silver with a score of 15.833 with Germany's Sophie Scheder taking bronze with 15.566.
The International Gymnastics Federation only announced on 4 August, the day before the Games started, that 20 Russian gymnasts had been cleared to compete in Rio.
This was the first women's gymnastics gold medal in Rio not be won by the United States.
All along the streets of north Kensington, eyes are fixed on the blazing shards of Grenfell Tower.
In the gaps between houses, members of the public mingle with journalists from across the world, all watching flames still visible in the upper storeys of the block.
Every so often debris lifts from the tower and floats off into the air.
Overhead a police helicopter thrums, while an acrid burning smell is carried by the breeze.
Large groups of residents have congregated near the police cordon, many clutching the few belongings they managed to grab when they were evacuated.
In the shadow of the blackened building, some lie on the grass. They look like they're catching some lunchtime sunshine, except their possessions are scattered around them.
One man has an electric guitar casually slung over his shoulder. "I had to grab it," he says. Two girls wearing pyjamas and dressing gowns walk past dragging suitcases.
"It's unbelievable," says one woman who sits against a wall. "I saw people jumping out of windows. I heard their screams."
Another cries out, having learnt the fate of somebody who was in the tower. People rush towards her to give her comfort.
"It's a lot to take in. It's very emotional. I'm still shaking here now," one man says.
Elena Maravilla, who has lived in the area for 40 years, stands with her husband in the shade of a tree, hoping for information about friends in the tower.
She was evacuated from her flat and is in limbo, waiting for details about when they can return home.
"We saw the flames. It was scary, everyone was shouting. It was suddenly gone."
The mood has an almost post-apocalyptic air. Though the estate is humming with emergency services, there are pockets of silence as people take in the night's events.
Some have headed to the evacuation centre at St Clement's Church where a constant line of people pushing trolleys full of water and food continue to arrive at the front door.
One of those generous donors is Felix Mosey, who went to the supermarket and bought water, fruit and sandwiches.
He is just one of many who have offered to help.
"It's my area and I wanted to play my part," he says.
"It's shocking what has happened, but the community has come together."
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The 21-year-old was given five years of probation last August and six months of community labour after pleading guilty to assaulting pop star Rihanna.
Seen recently in the film Takers, Brown has been cleaning roads and removing graffiti in his home state of Virginia.
During a brief court hearing, Judge Patricia Schnegg said he had been "working diligently" on his duties.
"Out of thousands of probationers, no one has done a better or more consistent job than you have," she said on Thursday.
"I really want to commend you for taking responsibility and for actually working diligently to complete all the things the court has required of you."
Brown has almost completed the domestic violence counselling he was required to undertake as part of his sentence.
"Obviously he's gratified and he's working hard to live up to everyone's expectations," said his lawyer, Mark Geragos.
Brown was arrested in February 2009 after attacking Rihanna, his then-girlfriend, on the eve of the Grammy Awards.
The singer, whose hits include Run It! and Kiss Kiss, later said he was "very sad and very ashamed" of his actions.
Gurney, whose previous best in the tournament was the last 32, lost the opening set but won the next three.
The Londonderry man missed five darts to secure victory and Welshman Webster fought back to level at 3-3.
Gurney prevailed 3-1 in the deciding set and he will meet world number one Michael van Gerwen on Friday night.
Webster won the first set 3-0 before struggling on the doubles and Gurney capitalised to take control of the match at Alexandra Palace.
Gurney clinched a tight second set 3-2 before winning 3-2 and 3-0 to leave the 30-year-old just one set away from victory.
However, it was Gurney's turn to miss doubles and Webster won the next two sets by a 3-2 scoreline.
Gurney failed with a sixth attempt to seal it before finally seeing off Webster 3-1 in the final set.
"I'm really relieved to come through," Gurney told Sky Sports.
"I should have won it earlier by 4-1 or 4-2 - my darts to win the match were dreadful."
Discussions have taken place over the prospect of arranging a match in Kiev next March.
"We're hoping that will be one of the [friendly] games," said Wales assistant manager Osian Roberts.
"It's quite obvious to see the similarities with Russia so we're trying to mirror the games in the tournament with the preparation games."
The fixture has an obvious attraction for Ukraine too, given they will face Northern Ireland in Group C in France next summer.
Russia will be Wales' final Group B opponents in Euro 2016 on 20 June in Toulouse, following games against Slovakia (11 June) and England (16 June).
Wales' preparations for the finals began with a 3-2 loss to the Netherlands at Cardiff City Stadium in November.
There are two friendly dates designated in March, with a final warm-up match likely to be staged at the end of May, preferably at home.
Ukraine booked their place in the finals by beating Slovenia in the play-offs. They finished third in their group behind Spain and Slovakia.
"It's important that the friendly games are a useful exercise for us in preparation for the summer," added Roberts on BBC Radio Wales.
"Ukraine would be a perfect preparation game for us, no doubt about that."
Wales and Ukraine have met twice before in 2001, with both games ending 1-1 during the 2002 World Cup qualifying campaign.
The incident happened on Gilmerton Dykes Avenue, Edinburgh, between 05:00 and 07:00 on Monday.
Nobody was injured but damage was caused to the property. Police said they would have an increased presence in the area over the next few days.
A 24-year-old man was due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Wednesday.
BBC News has learned that the vehicle will be go on display in the Science Museum in London in early 2017.
The Russian Soyuz TMA-19M craft has been refurbished, but is still slightly singed from re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
Major Peake told BBC News that he was "absolutely delighted" to hear his spacecraft would be brought to the UK.
"Hopefully it may act as an inspiration for the next generation of scientists and engineers," he said.
"Flying into space is a huge privilege but it also comes with risk and one of the highest risk areas are launch into space and re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
"The Soyuz spacecraft is designed to protect the crew from these harsh conditions. So you get very attached to your spacecraft because it definitely does save your life."
Britain's first astronaut, Helen Sharman, said she hoped the acquisition would have an inspirational effect.
"I think it is a tremendous thing to have Tim's capsule. Not just a Soyuz capsule - but it is Tim's. And the fact that we know that our astronaut was actually inside it - he physically sweated inside that suit, he looked outside of that window and saw what it was like to re-enter Earth's atmosphere - it really provides us with the link to our own astronauts," she told BBC News.
The space suit used by Ms Sharman on her mission to the Mir space station in 1991 is on display at the Science Museum.
She said that it was important to have real artefacts that had actually been in orbit for people in the UK to view.
"Even now, 25 years after my space flight, people want to touch me even though every cell in body has probably regenerated," she said.
"It is really significant (having Tim's Soyuz in the UK). It is not a mock up, it is not a simulator, it is not someone else's Soyuz. The fact that our own astronaut actually did things inside provides us with a connection to human spaceflight.
"It might only be psychological as it will look very similar to other Soyuz spacecraft that have actually re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, but it's not - this is Tim's."
The Science Museum's group director, Ian Blatchford, said he hoped that the museum's acquisition would help inspire future generations.
"It is a great honour to be here to officially acquire the first flown human spacecraft in the Science Museum Group collection, one which allowed Tim Peake to make his historic journey to the International Space Station which we plan to share with the public," he said.
Ms Sharman said that seeing the spacecraft would make children believe that they too might be able to follow in Tim Peake's footsteps.
"I think that is the whole point about all this - the fact that someone else sat in that seat. Well you know what? So can they," she said.
"Astronauts might be well trained - but basically we are just people, like everybody else. And there are many other people we hope will be inspired - if not to go into space themselves one day, to think about the science that enables astronauts to go into space and make the world a better place."
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On Sunday, Home Secretary Amber Rudd refused to say whether the pledge - which was in the 2010 and 2015 Tory manifestos - would be repeated.
But the BBC understands it will definitely be in the 2017 manifesto.
The target, set by David Cameron in 2010, has never been met and recent figures put net migration at 273,000.
The Conservative manifesto, setting out the party's policies if it wins 8 June's general election, is expected to be published next week.
Questions had been raised about whether the migration target would be in it after Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said that immigration was "not about putting numbers on it" but about ensuring Britain had the skilled workers it needed.
Asked whether she agreed with her colleague, Ms Rudd told BBC Radio 5 live's Pienaar's Politics: "It's too early to say.
"I appreciate you want to push me on this but we are going to have to wait until the manifesto comes out."
Pressed on the issue again, she added: "That's why we're having a new manifesto. It's not going to be identical to the last one.
"We're setting it out for hopefully for a five-year term. We've got a lot to think through to work out what's the best way to deliver on our priorities."
She added: "My personal view is, we need to continue to bring immigration down.
"I want to make sure that we do it in a way that supports businesses - you know we're ending freedom of movement when we leaving the European Union.
"So the situation from that time the [2015] manifesto... has changed because we're leaving the European Union, so it's right that we look at it again."
Net migration is the difference between the number of people arriving into and leaving the UK.
BBC political correspondent Ben Wright said he understood that the "tens of thousands" target would definitely be in the 2017 manifesto.
Speaking on a campaign visit last month, Theresa May, who was Ms Rudd's predecessor as home secretary, told the BBC: "We want to see sustainable net migration in this country.
"I believe that sustainable net migration is in the tens of thousands."
The Conservatives have promised new migration controls after the UK leaves the EU, when freedom of movement rules will no longer apply, but they have yet to set out the precise model they would adopt.
Labour says it accepts that the principle of the free movement of people - which EU leaders say goes hand-in-hand with single market membership - would have to end after Brexit.
But shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has said new immigration controls should not be the "overarching priority" as the UK leaves.
UKIP has said that Mrs May's failure to reduce net migration to under 100,000 while she was home secretary suggests that she could yet "back slide" on delivering Brexit.
He told the US Senate's Foreign Relations Committee: "We set out to dismantle [Iran's] ability to build a nuclear weapon and we achieved that."
Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio told him the deal was "fundamentally flawed".
Congress has until 17 September to approve or reject the deal.
Meanwhile, Iran's president has also been defending last week's agreement, which was the result of nearly two years of intense negotiations with the P5+1 group of world powers - the US, UK, France, China and Russia plus Germany.
Hassan Rouhani, in a speech broadcast live on television, said the deal represented "a new page in history" and was wanted by the Iranian people.
Under the deal, Iran must curb its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. Tehran has always insisted its nuclear ambitions are peaceful and energy-related.
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Mr Kerry told the committee hearing that the US administration came to the negotiating table with one clear objective - to address the issue of nuclear weapons.
Under the terms of the deal, he said Iran has agreed to:
Mr Kerry said that if Iran failed to comply with the agreement "we will be able to respond accordingly by reinstituting sanctions all the way up to the most draconian options that we have today".
Turning on his critics, he said any suggestion of a "better deal, some sort of unicorn arrangement involving Iran's complete capitulation" was "fantasy, plain and simple".
"The choice we face is between an agreement that will ensure Iran's nuclear programme is limited, rigorously scrutinised and wholly peaceful - or no deal at all."
But Mr Kerry - who appeared at the committee hearing along with fellow negotiators, the Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew - faced scepticism from some senators.
Bob Corker, the committee's Republican chairman, opened the meeting by telling Mr Kerry he had been "fleeced".
Marco Rubio said the deal was "fundamentally flawed" and would "weaken our national security and make the world a more dangerous place".
Iran would still be able to build long-range ballistic missiles "that know only one purpose and that is for nuclear warfare" and would provide billions "to a regime that... directly threatens the interests of the United States and our allies", Mr Rubio said.
Separately, two Republicans have complained that Congress has not been given access to "side deals" stuck between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency, which allegedly relate to the inspection of a key military site as well as past military activity.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest rejected the suggestion they were "some sort of side deal", saying the agreements were critical to the overall deal.
But he did admit that the details of the agreements could not be made public because it involves sensitive nuclear information.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) told the BBC that evidence of a nationwide surge in such incidents is "anecdotal but not a fantasy".
The nonprofit group said many of the attacks were linked to supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
It comes after the FBI reported a 67% rise in anti-Muslim bigotry last year.
Senior SPLC fellow Mark Potok said it has created an online form for victims to report hate attacks.
It added that it was also monitoring social media and news reports of hate incidents.
The group said its new tracking method had found "on an anecdotal level [the increase in hate attacks] has been obvious".
"An awful lot of these crimes are directly linked to the Trump campaign in the sense that graffiti was left or words were shouted that directly invoked Trump," Mr Potok added.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has also been critical of Mr Trump's decision to appoint a right-wing media executive to the role of chief White House strategist.
The group accused Stephen Bannon of being "the main driver behind Breitbart [News] becoming a white ethno-nationalist propaganda mill".
Nevada Senator Harry Reid took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to cite the SPLC figures.
He said Mr Trump's election had "sparked a rise in hate crimes and threats of violence".
He added that "overwhelmingly the hateful acts are anti-Muslim, anti-Hispanic, anti-African American, anti-woman, anti-LGBT, anti-Semitic and anti-Asian".
Meanwhile, the Massachusetts Attorney General has set up a hotline for citizens "to report bias-motivated threats, harassment, and violence".
Maura Healey, an openly gay Democrat, took action after reading reports from around the country of "conduct that imperils safety and civil rights".
The New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, has also established a statewide hotline due to an "uptick in recent reports of discrimination, bias-motivated threats, harassment and violence".
"Any acts of discrimination or intimidation will be met with the full force of the law," the governor said in a statement.
Hate crimes were also being reported north of the border in Canada, although it is not clear if they have anything to do with the US election.
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The Toronto Police hate crimes unit is investigating after signs urging people to join the "alt-right" were posted around town.
The posters began "Hey, white person" and directed people to join white nationalist groups.
In Ottawa police are also investigating after a swastika was spray painted on the door of a local Jewish community centre.
In the 2013-14 season the Premier League generated income of £3.26bn, compared to £1.51bn for La Liga.
"We hope to grow so the Premier League does not become the biggest competition in the world and we can be at the same level economically," said Tebas.
"We do not want the Premier League as a leader one step ahead of the rest."
The United States' NBA is widely considered to be the leading global basketball competition and attracts the best players from the across the world.
Tebas, a 53-year-old lawyer, told BBC Sport: "If we fail to do this [compete economically], the Premier League could become the NBA of football and that would not be good not for us, not for the sport.
"We plan to work harder in the TV rights market and in the sponsorship market to get more money."
Tebas believes Spain's economic problems in recent years have helped La Liga teams become better at spotting talent and getting value for money for players than their English counterparts.
"The economic crisis made the clubs here utilise their capital better in selecting players," he said.
"When you have less you have to work to find cheaper talent in the market. In this Spanish football has done pretty well.
"Barcelona and Real Madrid, but also other clubs like Sevilla, Valencia and Villarreal, took advantage of this market.
"The crisis taught Spanish football to work harder to find talent, whereas the Premier League had it easier and didn't have to work as hard for this."
Tebas pointed to the Premier League's financial clout as a reason why the division attracts the world's top coaches and could compete for some of La Liga's premier playing talent.
"The Premier League can pay the managers more money than they can get in La Liga," he said.
"The best players are already in the Spanish league, but the risk is there, and it is a challenge that we have."
However, Tebas said Leicester City's remarkable title challenge this season proves that the richest clubs do not always succeed.
"It is magnificent. It is literally a miracle what Leicester are doing and that they will qualify for the Champion's League," he said.
"That demonstrates that football is not all about the money, and that is a very positive thing."
Glasgow-based Home Energy & Lifestyle Management Ltd has been fined £200,000 by the Information Commissioner.
Complainants described being powerless against calls or finding that calls were filling up answer machines.
The company blamed another firm it hired to make calls and said it was appealing against the ruling.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said that the company conducted a massive automated call marketing campaign offering "free" solar panels.
One complainant told the ICO that they had been waiting for news of a terminally ill family member and could not ignore the phone.
"The bottom line is companies trying to sell a product have got to stick to the rules. Nuisance phone calls are a modern pest," said the Information Commissioner Christopher Graham.
"People expect the Information Commissioner and other agencies to close this down and we're now closing down on these phone pests."
The ICO said an organisation should have people's permission, which specifically names the company concerned, in order to make automated calls, but the company admitted it did not know what the rules were.
To give that permission, consumers have to tick a box saying they are interested in a particular product from a particular company.
"This company's ignorance of the law is beyond belief. It did not even bother to find out what the rules were and its badly thought out marketing campaign made people's lives a misery," said Steve Eckersley, head of enforcement at the ICO.
The firm is also obliged to provide a means for consumers to stop receiving such calls, but in some cases it failed to do so.
The Telephone Preference Service, which enables people to opt out of unsolicited calls, only applies when there is a real person on the end of the phone.
In this case Home Energy & Lifestyle Management (Helms) used special software to send automated messages, which can be repeated frequently.
The company - part of the government's Green Deal initiative - was also misleading people in the calls as the solar panels were not free, the ICO said.
However, Helms hit back, claiming that the campaign had stopped before the ICO investigation commenced and blaming another company for the issues raised.
"Helms had significant difficulty in fully co-operating with the ICO, owing to the failure of the third party company to give any information to verify and explain the extent of the calls made," the company said in a statement from its lawyer.
It said the ICO had "seemingly disregarded" its representations and vowed to appeal, as well as taking action against the other company.
McClaren is still in charge after talks with managing director Lee Charnley.
The 54-year-old, whose side are 19th in the Premier League, has taken training all week and spoke to Charnley by phone on Wednesday after a planned face-to-face meeting failed to take place.
His future remains unclear but he is expected to take training on Thursday before Monday's game at Leicester.
The Magpies are in danger of a second relegation in seven years after five defeats in six league games, including Saturday's 3-1 loss to Bournemouth.
Spaniard Benitez was sacked as manager of Real Madrid in January after only seven months in charge of the La Liga side.
The 55-year-old spent six years in charge of Liverpool, winning the 2004-05 Champions League, and had an interim spell with Chelsea, with whom he won the Europa League in 2012-13.
Newcastle board members Charnley, chief scout Graham Carr and club ambassador Bob Moncur met away from Tyneside on Monday to discuss possible ways forward with 10 games of the season remaining.
However, there has been no public comment from the club in the days since, despite the speculation over McClaren's position.
On Wednesday, the former England manager was pictured smiling as he left the club's training ground.
McClaren took over in the summer after leaving Championship side Derby, but has only won six of his 28 top-flight matches in charge.
Former club owner Sir John Hall claimed he should be sacked, while Alan Shearer - Newcastle's record goalscorer - has described the club as a "mess from top to bottom".
The NUFC Fans' Forum - a representative body of supporters' groups - has called for action to be taken in an open letter to the club's hierarchy.
The Aberdeen-based firm will carry out engineering modifications and upgrades to the Kollsnes facility, west of Bergen.
The contract was awarded by Statoil on behalf of plant operator Gassco.
Wood Group Mustang Norway has already started work on the project, which will last through 2017.
The scope of the contract includes front-end engineering design as well as work on updating electrical, instrumentation and control systems.
The Kollsnes plant processes natural gas from the Troll, Kvitebjorn and Visund fields in the North Sea and currently provides almost 40% of Norwegian gas deliveries.
Once modifications are complete, the Kollsnes facility will be one of the largest gas processing plants in the world, capable of processing 144.5 million cubic metres per day of gas.
Groove Loch Ness saw several acts including Eli & Fur, B Traits, Tensnake and 2 Many DJs play to a crowd of about 4,500 people at Dores over the weekend.
A spokesman for the event said the organisers would be meeting later this week to discuss its future.
Groove Armada closed the festival which ran from Saturday until 02:00 on Sunday.
The spokesman added: "We are delighted with the response to the first Groove festival.
"The audience were fantastic, all of the DJ's played incredible sets and we of course had the most incredible festival setting in the world.
"The Groove team are going to regroup this week once everything has sunk in, so watch this space and information on Groove's next chapter will be revealed soon."
The festival near Inverness was organised in just eight months by four people working in the music industry in Scotland.
Caroline Campbell is director of the Ironworks venue in Inverness, while Dougie Brown, Sam Barker and Joe Gibbs are involved in the running of the Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival near Beauly. Mr Gibbs was a co-founder of RockNess.
Police estimated about 4,500 festival-goers attended the event, which they said passed without significant incident.
Officers carried out 31 positive drugs searches over the course of the day and dealt with only one report of minor disorder.
An analysis of 15,827 people showed women were worst affected, and barely reduced the risk if they remarried.
The study, published in the journal Circulation, argued that chronic stress, linked to divorce, had a long-term impact on the body.
The British Heart Foundation called for more research before divorce is classed as a major heart risk.
We already know that the death of a close loved one can greatly increase the risk of a heart attack.
Now a team at Duke University has shown a similar effect after divorce.
During the course of the study, between 1992 and 2010, roughly one in three people divorced at least once.
Women who divorced once were 24% more likely to have had a heart attack in the study than women who were continuously married. The figure was 77% for those having multiple divorces.
In men, there was a modest 10% extra risk for one divorce and 30% increase after multiple divorces.
One of the researchers Prof Linda George said: "This risk is comparable to that of high blood pressure or if you have diabetes, so it's right up there, it is pretty big."
When it came to remarriage, the risk was only marginally reduced for women while men bounced back.
"I think this is the most interesting bit in the paper," Prof George added.
She told the BBC News website: "We joke around here and call it the 'any-women-will-do orientation' for men.
"They're more comfortable being married than not married and cope with different women being their spouses.
"First marriages are protective for women and it's a little dicey after that."
The researchers found that changes in lifestyle, such as loss of income, could not explain the heightened risk.
Prof George told the BBC News website: "My educated speculation is that we know that psychological distress is a constant stress on the immune system, higher levels of inflammation and stress hormones increase.
"Immune function is altered for the worse and if that continues for many years it does take a physiological toll."
She argues the sex-difference is also found in depression and that divorce is a greater "psychological burden" for women although "we don't know exactly what's going on".
While tablets can reduce the risks caused by high blood pressure, there is no easy solution for the pain of divorce.
The researchers recommend close, supportive friends.
Prof Jeremy Pearson, from the British Heart Foundation, commented: "We have known for some time that our mental health can affect our heart health.
"This study suggests that divorce might increase a person's risk of a heart attack.
"But the results are not definitive so further evidence would be needed before divorce could be considered a significant risk factor for causing a heart attack."
Since then, he's won a Brit Award, sold out the Hammersmith Apollo and proposed to his girlfriend, Sarah Elabdi.
Hailing from Little Chalfont in Buckinghamshire, Garratt has come a long way since 2005, when he entered the British heats for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and placed eighth - out of eight.
Forced to rethink his approach, he conjured up a musical style that takes sentimental singer-songwriter material and smashes a box-full of electronics right over its head.
It won him a deal with Island Records, while his athletic one-man shows have packed out concert halls around the world.
Ahead of the announcement of the Sound of 2017 next week, Garratt reflects on the highs and lows of his first year in the spotlight.
I found out a few days before it was announced, but that doesn't mean I believed it. It means I was told those words and my ears conveyed those words to my brain. I didn't know in my heart it was real until the announcement happened.
I didn't like flying. It's not so much the fear of heights as it is the fear of losing control - but I ended up taking a course that British Airways offer and have not been on a plane since where I have been terrified like I was before.
They do equal parts sitting down with a pilot and understanding what flying is; and sitting down with a therapist and talking about what fears are. So you get your insecurities challenged from both angles. You get told about the reasons why you shouldn't be scared, then the therapist says, "Your fear is natural, your fear is normal, and it's expected. Here's a way to help change your attitude."
I would 100% recommend to anyone who is insecure about flying.
I cannot understand why that has not become a global phenomenon. Every visit was perfect and comfortable. I'd bring my own with me everywhere if (a) I could afford to and (b) I could put up with the scrutiny and embarrassment.
I could not be prouder or happier with the placement of that record. To come third behind Adele and David Bowie, I think that's fine. To have made a record that sounds like the one I made - which is challenging pop music about death and love - I could not have expected it to have done any better.
The album's just gone silver, which is unbelievable. But a lot of people - not people whose opinions I care about, but unfortunately people whose opinions I'm exposed to - said that because the record hasn't sold hundreds of thousands of copies it's a failure.
The music I'm making appeals to an audience that doesn't buy records. That would be like trying to sell meat to a vegetarian and then complaining that it doesn't sell well.
It was very strange. I'm not going to say everyone was over the moon. But if you compared the atmosphere on Friday morning to that evening, it was like being at two different festivals. In the morning, everyone was like, "Oh God, what are we going to do?" But by the evening we were saying, "Mate, we can keep doing what we've always done."
While obviously being aware there are huge consequences to come, we realised that music and art will prevail over everything.
That was a huge moment. Craig David, without a doubt, one of the most inspirational people I've ever met. He taught me a lot about how you should be with strangers in this industry. When you met him, he gives you his full attention and it doesn't feel forced or fake. That is a rare thing.
I moved to Chicago recently, but I'm rarely at home. Then in July, I played Lollapalooza in Chicago for the first time - and I asked my girlfriend to become my fiancee and she said yes! It was really lovely to be able to do something as special and as life-changing as that in my own living room.
Rock never dies, man! No, I'm kidding... Every guitarist I've ever loved and admired, I've seen a video of them going through something where it seems impossible they'll bound back, and every time they do because, ultimately, the moment is way more important than, "My strings have broken," or, "My foot's been bitten off by a dog."
I mean, that hasn't happened yet - but I'm planning to do a show this month at a puppy adoption agency so we'll see what happens.
I sent President Obama a copy of my vinyl and didn't expect to hear anything about it - but, lo and behold, about three months later, a letter came through the post from the Oval Office and it was signed by him, which was incredible.
Will I send a copy of my next album to Donald Trump? Um, maybe not. We'll see what the lyrics are going to be about first. I'm not sure if he's going to appreciate it.
I know there are people who didn't go to the awards because they disagreed with the sponsor, and I admire that, but I think the best thing to do was exactly what happened: Three young artists, who have all been affected by secondary ticketing sites - myself, James Bay and Bastille - all said something about the fact secondary ticketing is not ethically or morally right.
We fight really hard to make sure our tickets are affordable, because we want everyone to come to our shows. But when you hear about some millionaire out in Quebec who buys thousands and thousands of tickets before anyone else, and then resells them at a profit, that's not right. It's making a business out of stealing moments away from people. I don't agree with that and will do everything I can to expose those kinds of people as immoral and unethical.
Being given an award by Mel C, then handing an award over to U2 and then sitting on a train to my mum and dad's and eating a pasty - I don't know about you, but that screams a perfect night to me.
The music I'm making at the moment is very different from anything I've ever done. There's a lot of stuff I can't quite openly talk about yet, which is really fun and very exciting, but I'm going to go and disappear for a few months now.
Well, I don't think I got the crown. No-one gave it to me. I absolutely 100% do not believe there was a crown in the first place.
I think this year's list is incredibly diverse and they are all artists that I love. 2017 is going to be such an incredible year for art, especially given how awful 2016 has been for politics. We've all got a lot to write about and I think we're going to write some incredible stuff.
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Deputy Elis Bebb is organising the island's Holocaust commemorations on 27 January and said Guernsey States' involvement was "often forgotten".
Former Bailiff Sir Geoffrey Rowland said the wartime government was effectively powerless to protest.
"We had two Germans to three Guernsey people - total domination," he said.
Mr Bebb said: "We're the only British soil to have deported people to death camps.
"To mark and to remember and to never forget that dreadful past is something we should have to do to ensure we never repeat those mistakes."
The small number of Jews in the island has been seen by some historians as a reason for a lack of protest from island authorities to the deportations.
Of the six Jewish residents in the Bailiwick of Guernsey during the occupation three of them - Marianne Grunfeld, Auguste Spitz and Therese Steiner - died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
They had been deported to St Malo on 21 April 1942 and were among those rounded up by the Nazis and sent to the concentration camp in July.
Elda Brouard and Elisabet Duquemin, along with her 18-month-old daughter and non-Jewish husband, were sent to detention camps in France and Germany in February 1943 with all of them ending up in Biberach, Germany, and surviving the war.
Annie Wranowsky, who lived in Sark, denied she was a Jew despite what her German passport said and was on the list of those due to be deported in February 1943, but was excused for unknown reasons.
Sir Geoffrey said: "To think only of the Guernsey aspect is correct in one sense, that it highlights that things can happen on your own doorstep.
"On the other hand you do want to think about genocide in general and take the international view."
Mr Bebb said: "We talk of the liberation of Guernsey, we talk of the history of the Nazi occupation, but this particular part... doesn't enter into that conversation.
"Few people would know today that anti-Jewish measures were passed readily and willing by the States."
Nine orders relating to Jewish residents or those deemed to be Jews were approved by the island's States, including limiting the jobs they could hold, introducing a register, forcing the wearing of a yellow Star of David, controls on Jewish-owned businesses.
Dr Louise Willmot, co-author of Protest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands, said: "It is fair to say the Guernsey authorities did not know what the fate [of the three women] would be when they were sent to Europe.
"They were deported in April 1942 and the first round ups of Jews in western Europe happened in July and the women were rounded up in France and sent to Auschwitz.
"It is very controversial, it is true to say there was very little direct opposition to the orders against the Jews... there was a brief protest by Sir Abraham Laine, the jurat, in 1940 against the registration order."
She said historians differed in opinion with some suggesting the lack of protest was due to anti-Semitism or the small numbers of Jews in the island, while others believe it was due to the lack of influence or status of the individuals affected.
Sir Geoffrey described the island's link to the "unprecedented horror" of the Holocaust as "a stain on our statute book".
However, he questioned if protest would have stopped the deportations.
"In breach of international law [the German authorities] were soon to deport 1,000 islanders to Biberach and Laufen, they weren't taking any note of law," he said.
"It can be very misleading if it's not seen in the right context. You need all of the facts to come out and people can make their own decisions."
The man died at the Gunmakers Arms, Aston, Birmingham, on 10 December.
A coroner's inquest later ruled the customer died from acute ethyl alcohol intoxication and a pre-existing heart condition.
Police have asked the city council to review the pub's licence, which it will do at a meeting of the Licensing Committee on Tuesday.
The committee will be shown documents including police witness statements, ambulance and police logs and the coroner's report.
In a statement to police the bar manager, Radoslav Halabrin, said the customer had been in the pub since about 18:00 GMT on 9 December, drinking cider and spirits.
He told police the customer later grabbed a bottle of spirits and drank directly from it.
At about 23:30 GMT he fell asleep in a chair, Mr Halabrin said.
He was still asleep at 00:30 GMT when Mr Halabrin and another customer decided to get some food.
The bar manager told police he placed the customer on the floor "in the recovery position", locked the pub and went to get food with the other customer.
They called an ambulance when they returned after half an hour and could not revive the man, the police statement said.
West Midlands Police later submitted a sudden death report to the coroner.
The committee can take a number of actions, including modifying the conditions of the pub's licence, suspending it for up to three months or revoking it completely.
A spokesman confirmed that the singer's girlfriend, 29-year-old American ballerina Melanie Hamrick, is pregnant.
Sir Mick, 72, already has seven children whose ages range from 17 to 45 and he became a great-grandfather last year.
The news comes two months after fellow Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood became a father again aged 68, after his wife Sally Humphreys had twin girls.
Sir Mick began dating Hamrick after the suicide of L'Wren Scott in 2014, his partner of 13 years.
The music star had his other children with Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Jerry Hall and Luciana Gimenez Morad.
He has five grandchildren and became a great-grandfather in May 2014 when his granddaughter Assisi, daughter of Jade Jagger, gave birth to a baby girl.
The Rolling Stones have confirmed they are working on a new, blues-inspired album for release this year.
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Ings, 23, left the Clarets for Anfield last summer after his contract expired.
As Ings is under 24, the clubs had the opportunity to agree compensation, but have failed to do so.
"The reason it is different to the ordinary is this tribunal claim will be the biggest in history," Baldwin told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"The key to this was that we bring the claim against Liverpool, therefore we had to prepare an extremely robust case.
"You're talking a documentation bundle of probably in excess of 400 or 500 pages with witness statements, evidence, analytics about player performance, the statement as to why we make a judgement as to what we believe the player is worth, compared to what Liverpool want to offer.
"You get your ducks in a row and do the job right."
Ings joined the Clarets from Bournemouth in 2011 for an undisclosed fee, reported to be £1m, and scored 43 goals in 130 games for the club.
He made his England debut in October in the Euro 2016 qualifier against Lithuania, but subsequently suffered a knee injury which has prevented him playing since October.
"The value is based on training compensation, not the market value of a player," added Baldwin.
"It's how long you have that player at your club, what did you do to develop him, what were your investments in how you developed him and as a result of that what player did you produce at the point he departed your club.
"Thereafter, his injury should bear no relevance to the tribunal panel.
"We are dealing with five human beings here who have to make an opinion and no right to appeal."
Burnley chief executive Dave Baldwin was speaking at a fans' forum alongside manager Sean Dyche. You can listen to show show again via the iPlayer.
Fine Gael politician Sean Conlan was arrested after he arrived at Castleblayney Garda Station by appointment to make a statement.
Mr Conlan was interviewed under caution and later released without charge.
A file on the case is to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The incident is alleged to have occurred in the Conlan family pub in Ballybay, at about 20:00 local time on 23 August.
Police said that a man in his 20s was allegedly assaulted and received minor injuries which did not require hospital treatment.
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Laura Trott has won gold for Great Britain and Sir Bradley Wiggins and the British men's pursuit team have won silver medals.
Double Olympic cycling champion, Victoria Pendleton, retired from the sport after the 2012 Olympics but is now commentating at the event.
She sent Newsround this report from behind the scenes at the competition.
Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy (IPACA) is an independent trust, co-sponsored by the Aldridge Foundation and Dorset County Council.
It had been due to join multi-academy trust Aldridge Education from January.
However, Aldridge said this would no longer go ahead and it would not continue to sponsor the school.
London-based Aldridge Education previously said IPACA governors had voted to join the trust.
However, following discussions with the regional schools commissioner it said the move was "no longer in the best interests of the children and IPACA".
"We will therefore stand aside as the academy's lead sponsor to enable a decision to be reached on how the school is best supported going forward."
Joss Hayes, IPACA's principal, said a multi-academy trust with more resources to deploy locally would better support staff "to achieve improvement quickly and ensure a sustainable and stable future for the academy".
She said the Aldridge Foundation had committed to continue supporting the school "as part of an orderly transition process".
Chairman John Tizard and vice-chairman Matt Longshaw of IPACA board of governors resigned last month, shortly before the BBC also learned the school had been issued with a government warning over its finances.
More than 1,000 parents signed an online petition against the plans to join Aldridge Education, and about 40 had protested at the site.
Commenting on the IPACA Supporters' Group page on Facebook, Matt Longshaw said he hoped the latest development would lead to "more local accountability and control".
Debbie Smith added it was "great news for the future of our children".
IPACA has 1,029 students aged from four to 19.
Stars including Isla Fisher and Mel Gibson arrived in Sydney for the Australian film industry's glitziest annual awards on Wednesday night. On the red carpet Mathisen, however, squeezed herself not into a glamorous ball gown but a jumbo frankfurter.
She was one of 16 "sausage" protesters who stormed the AACTAs to highlight gender inequality in the film industry.
To chants of "end the sausage party!" the protesters, all members of the non-profit Women in Film and Television (WIFT), were forcibly dragged away, some rolling around on the floor, by security guards.
Out of 28 feature films pre-selected for the AACTAs Screening Tour, just two were directed by women. The event is, according to WIFT president Mathisen, "Australia's biggest sausage party".
WIFT's demonstration was tongue in cheek, as is their accompanying Sausage Party online music video. In the recording, the female sausages gyrate to a Peaches song while waving bananas and spraying whipped cream.
But the protest highlights a serious issue. In 1979 Gillian Armstrong became the first Australian woman to direct a feature film in nearly half a century with the classic My Brilliant Career.
Today just under 50% of film school graduates are women. Yet only 16% of film directors, 23% of screenwriters, and 32% of producers in Australia are female according to Screen Australia.
The numbers reflect what Deb Verhoeven, a professor of media and communication at Deakin University, sees as "systemic and persistent discrimination" in the film industry. It exists "at just about every level - wage equality, participation rates (inclusion), levels of funding for projects, sexual harassment".
The AACTAs, in particular, benefit men who have "become adept at ensuring their ongoing success". Australia is not alone. Hollywood, too, favours men, with just 1.9 percent of 2013's 100 top-grossing films directed by women.
At stake is not only career advancement but the kind of stories that we see on screen. Despite the success of franchises starring strong women such as The Hunger Games and Pitch Perfect, female-led content is "still considered to be speaking to a narrow minority of audiences rather than 50% of our population", says Mathisen.
She is adamant that "we need to make space for different stories".
In order to do this, Mathisen, 29, not only wrote, directed, co-produced, and starred in her 2015 debut feature, Drama, which has an 8.1 rating on IMDb and 4.5-star rating on iTunes. She insisted on a 50% quota for her crew.
Her decision came after realising the only section that consistently hired women was makeup and costume - often derogatorily dubbed the "glamour department" on film-sets.
For Drama - in which the protagonist Anna tracks down a former flame in Paris, disrupting her gay best friend's own relationship in the process - Mathisen made sure to hire equal numbers of women in technical roles, too.
In the US just 3% of cinematographers are women, according to a 2015 Celluloid Ceiling report. In Australia since 1958, only 10 female cinematographers have received accreditation by the Australian Cinematographers Society.
Yet Mathisen discovered "there's absolutely no shortage of women who want to work. There's just a shortage of opportunities. You have to break down the assumption that film is a male space."
Some organisations are making headway. Australian actress Rose Byrne formed an all-female production company, Sydney-based The Dollhouse Collective, in 2015.
This July, Screen Australia announced $3 million of funding towards Gender Matters, which will spearhead new film projects by women. The new initiative is hoped to help creative teams become 50/50 male-female by the end of 2018.
"Ultimately things like charters, guidelines and specific funding opportunities are the foundations of change," says Lucy Fisher, director of the Gold Coast Film Festival.
Fisher offers free childcare for industry panellists, insists that over 50% of speakers on festival talks are women, and deliberately showcases films with female content.
She insists that gender equality "doesn't will itself into existence - you really have to plan and make deliberate choices".
WIFT, too, believes that actual, rather than tokenistic change, will only occur with a rigorously enforced quota system - and that this is particularly important in an industry largely run on government subsidies, paid for by public tax dollars.
Crucial is changing the narrative about how we talk about women in film. In November Sally Caplan, Screen Australia's head of production, created controversy by stating the funding body wanted to make a "a system whereby organically we'll get to 50/50" once women are able to "believe in themselves".
Verhoeven believes such "strategies focused on bringing women 'up to speed' simply reiterate the belief that women are somehow the source or cause of their own failure".
Instead, she says, the lack of meaningful change is down to the fact that it is in the industry gatekeepers' interests - the majority of whom are men - to maintain the status quo that keeps them on top.
Male producers also tend to hire in their own image: on average male producers have creative teams which are 70% male. In one Australian study done over 10 years, roughly 40% of male producers worked with no women at all.
As journalist Scott Mendelson wrote in a Forbes article last month: "Men are offered the presumption of competence regardless of experience. Women are considered a risk regardless of experience."
Mathisen, for one, is done with "just been flat out ignored" and the feeling "of shouting into the void".
With the sausage party footage now doing rounds online, she hopes people will finally listen. Her message? "Enough talking. We want action and we want it now."
There were 209 convictions from 2012-13 to 2016-17, with more than half dealt with by the Metropolitan Police, Transport Minister Andrew Jones said.
In addition, 111 people were convicted of taking the practical or theory tests on behalf of others over the same time.
A total of about 1.5 million practical and 1.9 million theory tests are taken each year.
Mr Jones said the majority of investigations were conducted by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) until there was enough evidence to support an arrest and prosecution.
DVSA head of counter-fraud and investigations Andy Rice said: "The driving test is there to ensure that all drivers have the skills and knowledge to use the roads safely and responsibly.
"Anyone who tries to circumvent this process is putting innocent road users at risk."
Driving test fraud was a serious offence and dealt with accordingly, he said.
More than 1,100 licences have been revoked due to such activity in the past five years.
In September, a man was given a two-year prison sentence at Croydon Crown Court after taking a series of car, motorcycle and lorry theory tests on behalf of other people.
RAC Foundation director Steve Gooding said people hiring impersonators put everyone's lives at risk, because "neither we nor they have any idea whether their driving meets the required standard".
Driving safety was built on three pillars, he said - "roadworthy vehicles, responsibly driven by properly qualified drivers".
"This sort of behaviour is flagrantly kicking one of those pillars away."
The data was released in response to a parliamentary question by Lincoln MP Karl McCartney.
Cheaper clothing and footwear, offset by a rise in petrol prices, helped to maintain the rate at 0% for a second month, official figures show.
The figure was the lowest rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation since estimates of the measure began in the late 1980s.
It means the cost of living is broadly the same as it was a year earlier.
However, the ONS said that if the rate of inflation was calculated to two decimal places, prices were 0.01% lower than a year before - the first fall on record for the CPI measure.
One of the main reasons the CPI rate remained broadly unchanged was rising petrol and diesel prices between February and March, the ONS said.
But an overall fall in fuel prices over the past year has been a major contributor to low inflation, it added.
The CPI figure leaves inflation well below the Bank of England's 2% target.
There had been speculation that the CPI rate - as measured to one decimal place - would fall below zero in March, and there remains a possibility that the rate could fall in the coming months.
However, few economists think the UK is at risk of the type of entrenched deflation that Japan has suffered from.
"Inflation should start to pick up in the second half of the year, especially as the downward pressure from lower oil prices eases," said Rain Newton-Smith, director of economics at the CBI business group.
She added that falling prices had benefitted households, and lower oil prices had been good for businesses in general. However, North Sea oil firms had taken a hit from the fall in the price of crude.
Martin Beck, senior economic adviser to the EY ITEM Club, said he continued to expect the Bank of England "to wait until early 2016 before raising interest rates".
In March, inflation as measured by the Retail Prices Index (RPI) fell to 0.9% from 1.0% the previous month, the Office for National Statistics said.
Like CPI, RPI inflation is calculated from a sample of retail goods and services. However, RPI is calculated differently and includes data such as mortgage repayments.
Nathan Weston, 22, pleaded guilty to prison mutiny at Birmingham Crown Court earlier.
He will be sentenced after the trial of seven other men who have been charged over the major disorder on 16 December, which involved up to 500 inmates.
They have been charged with taking part in a prison mutiny intending to overthrow lawful authority at the jail.
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John Burton, 39, Robert Smith, 33, Luke Mansell, 23, and Ross Wilkinson, also 23, all appeared in court to deny the charge.
Grant Samed, 30, did not enter a plea to the charge.
Ross Queen, 30, and Carl Brookes, 32, are both accused of prison mutiny and unauthorised taking of a photograph in jail.
A trial date was fixed for 11 September.
The Dons take a 2-1 advantage into the game, which has been switched to the AEK Stadium in Larnaca.
Ryan Christie put them in front after four minutes of the first leg, and Graeme Shinnie hit a stunning winner on 78 minutes after Jander's equaliser.
"We go over to Cyprus confident of getting the job done," said McInnes.
"We are disappointed to lose the away goal, but we thoroughly deserved to win the game."
McInnes said he was always confident his side would score goals, no matter who they are playing.
"We will be ready for them having more of the ball and we have to take the heat over there into consideration as well," he said.
"But we have had a couple of big wins when we have played against good teams like Rijeka and Siroki Brijeg in hot temperatures, so we can do that again."
McInnes is wary of having conceded an away goal but believes his team has the firepower necessary to reach the play-off round for the first time.
Striker Adam Rooney missed Thursday's match with a hamstring injury, but his manager has not given up hope of having his most reliable goalscorer fit to play in the return leg.
The hosts will be without Esteban Sachetti after the Argentine midfielder was sent off at Pittodrie, while coach Safronis Avgousti was sent to the stand.
McInnes hoped his side would have pressed home their numerical advantage, but added he was not shocked by the quality of Apollon's play.
"I'm not surprised they scored as they are a good team, but I was always confident that we would score at least two goals," he said.
"We finished the game strongly and, if it had gone on for another 10 minutes, I think we would have scored more.
"It was a very good team performance and we are beginning to show what we can be capable of in the season ahead.
"I can't not mention the sell-out crowd as well as they are a real asset to us and I just wish we could have that backing in every game at Pittodrie."
The Metropolitan Police were called to Crown Street in Acton at about 11:50 BST.
The teenager was taken to hospital in central London but was pronounced dead a short time later. His next-of-kin are yet to be informed, police said.
A 17-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of murder and is being questioned.
Some local businesses, including Acton Pet Stores, closed following the stabbing, with one employee saying police were "everywhere".
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Kingston Police's video, which shows a "prisoner" challenge officers to a dance off, has had more than 450,000 views.
While the acting leaves a lot to be desired, PC Daniel Graham, 33, impresses with his dance moves.
The viral craze was started by a police force in New Zealand.
Kingston Police have now challenged NPAS Redhill and Surrey Police to take on the running man challenge.
Sports promoter Hearn, 66, took over the O's during the 1994-95 season.
His decision follows the club's defeat on penalties by Rotherham in last season's League One play-off final.
Becchetti, who is the head of the Becchetti Energy Group, has previously been linked to takeovers of Reading and Italian Serie B side Bologna.
A statement on the Orient website confirmed that Hearn was in talks to sell the Matchroom Stadium outfit.
"The sale is subject to due diligence and Football League approval and the club will not be making any further comment at this stage," the statement read.
Dagenham-born Hearn, who first attended an Orient game aged 11, is also the chairman of World Snooker and the Professional Darts Corporation.
Orient were struggling financially when he took over the club, but have since established themselves in League One.
Hearn had wanted Orient to move from Brisbane Road to the Olympic Stadium, but the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) appointed West Ham United as their preferred bidders and, in March 2013, the Premier League side were awarded the right to occupy the stadium.
Hearn wants Orient to groundshare with West Ham and has been seeking a judicial review of the bidding process.
Becchetti, 47, is listed as a director of Leyton Orient Holdings Limited, which was registered as a private limited company at Companies House earlier this month.
Ms Stone will take on the role of overseeing the code of conduct and rules for MPs, including the register of financial interests.
She has previously served as the commissioner for victims and survivors of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Ms Stone will take over from current standards commissioner Kathryn Hudson in January next year.
Currently the chief legal ombudsman of England and Wales, Ms Stone has also worked for the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
She spent 11 years as chief executive of the charity Voice UK and was awarded an OBE in 2007 for her services to people with learning disabilities.
Ms Stone took on the role of victims' commissioner in 2012 but faced criticism the following year for an interview she gave in the News Letter in which she refused to be drawn on whether she believed the IRA and UVF were terrorists.
She later said she had "no hesitation at all in condemning all acts of violence".
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The Reds remain in third, nine points clear of fifth-placed Arsenal, who have three games in hand.
"Today you could feel it immediately in the dressing room," he said.
"Everybody was like, 'that's very important'. Of course, we have to keep on proving it, but it feels outstandingly good in this moment."
He added: "This was massive, it's absolutely massive.
"That's how it feels. We have won a few games this year, but this was really special."
The Reds fell a goal behind just before half-time when Jon Walters headed in Xherdan Shaqiri's cross.
But two second-half goals from Brazilian substitutes Roberto Firmino and Philippe Coutinho saw Liverpool seal an 18th league win of the season.
The pair had started on the bench, with Klopp saying Firmino had been suffering from exhaustion after his recent exertions for Brazil, and Coutinho had lost three kilograms (6.6 lbs) in the past week due to illness.
"At half-time it was a difficult decision to make because it was not clear that Roberto and Phil would be ready for 45 minutes," Klopp added, whose side have 12 more points than they did at this stage last season.
The Reds' next league game is at West Brom. They do not face any teams in the top six during their final six matches of the season.
Former Manchester United and Everton defender Phil Neville
"Having seen Liverpool's starting XI, I fancied Stoke to win this because their opponents were missing their front four of Coutinho, Firmino, Sadio Mane and Adam Lallana.
"They were all over the place in the first half. The Stoke goal was a poor one to give away.
"The game changed after Klopp brought the Brazilian pair on. Liverpool started to dominate possession.
"This was the most important three points of the season for the Reds."
The 21-year-old has been on trial with the U's during the League Two club's pre-season.
Last season Long spent three months on loan at Luton, making 11 appearances, before spending a further three months with National League side Braintree.
"I have played in League Two before so I know what to expect," Long told the club website.
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It is only the second time an Omura's whale has been recorded in Australia.
The whale was found on a remote beach near the town of Exmouth, 1,265km (784 miles) north of Perth.
Scientists say the discovery will help them learn more about the species and better understand its regional distribution.
Omura's whales have a streamlined body shape and several unique skeletal features that distinguish them from other whales.
"This find is highly significant for whale scientists in Western Australia and researchers globally because there have not been many recorded sightings of this species, so very little is known about it," said Western Australia Environment Minister Albert Jacob.
"Omura's whale was only described in scientific journals for the first time in 2003 and is apparently restricted to tropical and subtropical waters.
"The knowledge we gain from this whale will help to improve field identification guides to better understand the whale's regional distribution."
He added: "Scientists know a fair bit about many whale species but this exciting discovery shows there is still so much more to learn in our oceans."
The International Union for Conservation of Nature says that only a handful of Omura's whales have been found before, including in the Sea of Japan and the Solomon Sea.
Little is known about them and it is still not possible to estimate their numbers.
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The drone attacks in Nangarhar's remote Achin district hit the "Voice of the Caliphate" station operated by IS, officials said.
IS expanded into Afghanistan last year, and began an FM radio station in an effort to attract new recruits.
They have clashed with Afghan forces, as well as rival Taliban militants.
IS members have also killed numerous local people, who tell stories of horrific violence.
The air strikes took place from 19:00 to 20:00 local time (14:30 to 15:30 GMT) on Monday, a spokesman for Nangarhar province, Attaullah Khogyani, told the BBC's Mahfouz Zubaide.
There were a total of four drone strikes, which hit the radio station, an internet control centre and other IS targets, he added.
Twenty-one IS members, including five operating the radio station, were killed, reports said.
The "Voice of the Caliphate" station had been broadcasting in Pashto, Dari and Arabic, carrying anti-government propaganda and calls for young Afghans to join Islamic State.
Radio is the main source of entertainment and news in Afghanistan, which has more than 170 radio stations.
The Islamic State group announced an offshoot in Afghanistan in January 2015, sparking a conflict with the Taliban.
The Taliban say they have set up a "special forces" unit with more than 1,000 fighters that aims to crush IS.
Last month, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani vowed to "bury" IS, telling the BBC that the group's atrocities had "alienated the people".
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Michael Gething, 42, died near the Methodist Church in Totnes. It is believed he died of hypothermia.
Mr Gething is thought to have been living in the town for about 18 months.
South Hams District Council said it would be assessing whether any premises in Totnes might be suitable for a shelter or hostel.
Local undertaker Rupert Callender, who arranged the funeral, said: "I hope people might put their judgements aside about what life on the streets is like, and what people who live on the streets are like.
"I hope they can see that they are ordinary people who have fallen on hard times."
Jonathan Taylor, who took part in the funeral proceedings, said: "There is a sense that this is a really important community event."
Melissa Worsley, who lives in Totnes, said people such as Mr Gething "are part of the community and we should look after them".
She added: "If they can't cope with society they still have the right to be looked after."
Earlier in the week Graham Walker, who used to be homeless in the area, slept out for 48 hours to raise funds towards Mr Gething's funeral.
Mr Walker said: "He died on the street. I think that, as a community, we should be aware of that fact and acknowledge it, and do something about it."
South Hams Council said it was saddened by the death of Mr Gething, adding he had been offered advice, assistance and accommodation on several occasions.
It added: "Unfortunately, accommodation is not always available in Totnes and sometimes it may be offered in nearby towns.
"A place was offered to Mr Gething in a supported accommodation unit in Dartmouth, known as St Barnabas, but he did not take up the place."
The council added that, in the event of severe weather, it had an emergency protocol in place which sought to ensure people living on the streets were offered help and accommodation.
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The coffin of a man who died while sleeping rough on the streets of a Devon town has been carried by local people during his funeral.
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Christopher Tester, 37, from Torquay, has arrived back in Devon after a campaign raised more than £103,000 to get him home for treatment.
He was wounded on Christmas Day while trying to shield his mother.
Friend Charlotte Williams said: "Never in a million years thought we would raise enough to get him home. It really has saved Chris's life."
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He arrived at Exeter Airport on Monday night, accompanied by his father Tony.
Mr Tester, who grew up in Brentwood, Essex, is now being assessed by doctors at Derriford Hospital, in Plymouth.
Ms Williams said: "There has been a huge amount of people involved in this. It has been a mammoth effort and we're delighted we had the generous support from everybody and we could get Chris home.
"His injuries were so critical at the time and there was only so much the doctors could do in Antigua, it was common sense to get him back to the UK as quickly as we possibly could."
Ms Williams said it was not yet clear what the long-term implications of Mr Tester's injuries could be.
"He landed back safely, but was very tired," she said.
"He's stable and was transferred to Derriford with no problems.
"We are all so relieved - it's the conclusion we were all wishing for."
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Cars were targeted in Bryan Street and Mill Road early on Monday morning.
The window of a house on Mill Road was smashed and a petrol-oaked rag, possibly from an unlit petrol bomb, was recovered from the porch roof.
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The winner will be announced at the Borders Book Festival in Melrose later this year.
Jo Baker, Sebastian Barry, Charlotte Hobson, Hannah Kent, Francis Spufford, Graham Swift and Rose Tremain are in the running for the £25,000 prize.
Judges said they had extended the list to seven titles due to the "variety of the longlist".
They said the seven shortlisted novels offered readers "joy in the discovery of unusual subjects and times" as well as appreciation of historical research and a "visceral connection" with their characters.
The seven contenders are:
A statement from the judges said: "Our shortlist was achieved by the judges' instinctive reaction to each book.
"These seven wonderful books encapsulate moments in history in truly unforgettable ways, making the 2017 Walter Scott prize shortlist one to savour.
"The second and final judges' meeting looks set to be as lively as the first."
They will meet again to decide the winner just ahead of its announcement at the Borders Book Festival on 17 June.
The Walter Scott Prize was founded in 2009 by its patrons the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch.
The winner receives £25,000, and shortlisted authors each receive £1,000.
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Labour AM Jenny Rathbone was fired after criticising Welsh ministers' spending on a proposed motorway scheme.
On Wednesday, Carwyn Jones told AMs she had been bound by "collective responsibility", like ministers.
Mr Davies has suggested this leads to a conflict of interest.
Under collective responsibility, ministers are expected to support government policies and not criticise them publicly.
Ms Rathbone also sits on the assembly's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) - on which members of the Welsh government are not allowed to serve.
The Tory leader has written to Presiding Officer Rosemary Butler, saying there are now questions over the validity of some of the PAC's decisions.
He wrote: "The comments made by the first minister in the chamber yesterday are deeply damaging and bring into question the legitimacy and democratic nature of the assembly committees during this fourth assembly.
"Given the important role assembly committees are meant to play in ensuring proper and thorough scrutiny of decisions taken by the Welsh government, this development is one that causes serious concern."
He added: "These concerns are of course still applicable to the new chair [of the EU funds monitoring committee], Mick Antoniw, who also participates on a number of assembly committees."
A Welsh government spokesman said: "Members of [assembly] committees are approved by the National Assembly for Wales.
"The chair of the PMC [Programme Monitoring Committee for European funds] is not a minister, but as the first minister made clear, should adhere to collective responsibility."
Labour AM Alun Davies, who has backed Ms Rathbone for opposing the planned M4 relief road around Newport, wrote on his blog on Thursday: "It is clear that this has been handled poorly by the government and the advice received by the first minister has led to far greater difficulties for the government than the original offence."
On Tuesday, Ms Rathbone said there was "an unhealthy culture at the top of the Welsh government which does not allow for rigorous debate and reflection on the best use of public funds".
Last week, she said she was "appalled" that £20m had been spent on preparatory work on the relief road.
A final decision on the project is due after the 2016 assembly election.
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The visitors, who resumed on 18-0 having dominated the opening day, lost Marcus Trescothick for 13 when he chopped on from Gareth Berg (1-14).
But debutant Eddie Byrom and Adam Hose prevented any further loss before the rain arrived at Southampton.
Somerset, who are winless this season, now have two days to try to convert their strong position into a victory.
Hampshire first-team coach Craig White told BBC Solent:
"We knew there was going to be a little bit of rain around. A frustrating day but we bowled better this morning.
"I can only go with what the boys say but it doesn't sound like a cricket ball when it hits the bat.
"It sounds more like an indoor ball. It is hard to time and soft on the bat when you hit it. And I find it hard to follow along the ground."
Somerset opener Eddie Byrom told BBC Radio Bristol:
"Since I was small it has been a massive dream of mine to play first-class cricket so it was amazing to make that dream come true. I moved over to England three years ago to finish my schooling at King's College in Taunton and my cricket flourished from there.
"Steve Snell, the second-team coach, has been great for me and being able to learn off the likes of Marcus Trescothick is amazing.
"It was young and old last night. There was about 20 years' difference between us. He is such a calming influence so when I was walking out with him, that was exactly what I needed on my debut."
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Somerset's progress was stalled as poor weather meant only 13 overs were bowled on day two against Hampshire.
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Derbyshire were dismissed for 125 in their second innings and lie sixth in Division Two, while Welch's side are also bottom of the T20 Blast North Group with six losses from eight games.
"We have had opportunities in games which we have showed no fight and no bottle," he told BBC Radio Derby.
"That is the most disturbing thing."
Welch described the loss to Surrey at the County Ground as "one of the worst he has seen" since taking charge.
"The senior players have let themselves, their team-mates and the club down," Welch said.
"There have been a few harsh words said and few a things said that people did not want to hear. We will see where we go from here.
"These lads have got everything they need so they need to look within. They need to look at themselves in the mirror as all us management do every day.
"They need to fight harder. There are lads with a lot of experience and they have to look in the mirror."
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The 49-year-old has been selected for the island's seven-strong shooting team for Glasgow 2014.
He will shoot with Daniel Richardson in the fullbore events, having previously competed at Edinburgh in 1986.
David Turner, Richard Bouchard and Steve Le Couillard are in the smallbore team while pistol shooters Nikki Holmes and George Winstanley are selected.
"It's a bit of a lay-off," Le Cheminant told BBC Sport.
As an 18-year-old, he missed out on a bronze medal in the individual event by just one point in the 1982 Games at Brisbane, finishing fourth behind Guernsey's Charles Trotter, before teaming up with Cliff Mallett to end the pairs event in 11th place.
Four years later, Le Cherminant took seventh place in both competitions, again partnering Mallett in the pairs.
However, he then decided to put family first ahead of his sport.
"I took time off as my children were growing up," he said.
"Spending half a day or a day at the range, it does impose on your family time. I wanted to be there when the children grew up.
"Thankfully shooting's a sport that, all being well, one can come back to at a later stage, although it's been a bit longer than I envisaged."
The stockbroker's children are now 24 and 22 and he has re-dedicated himself to shooting, although his love of the sport never disappeared in the interim.
"When the Bisley main meeting was on in the summer for a week in July, I was always desperate to see the scores because it's something that's been of great interest for me," he explained.
"But my wife's been great, she's said 'you've missed it for 20 years, off you go back to the range'."
Fullbore shooting is one of Jersey's leading sports when it comes to success at Commonwealth Games.
The island's most recent medals were won in Auckland in 1990 when Colin Mallett took individual gold before teaming up with his father, Le Cheminant's former partner Cliff, to win pairs bronze.
"Jersey has a long shooting history," said Le Cheminant.
"We had the militia here, my great-grandfather won a shooting cup with the Royal Jersey Infantry in the 1880s.
"The facilities we have are really good. We have a range at Crabbé for 200-600 yards and one at Les Landes for 900 and 1000.
"The local range is deemed to be one of those most similar to the range we'll be competing on in Scotland.
"We've just had the Welsh Commonwealth Games team over for three days to get the experience of shooting on a coastal range because the range we'll be shooting on in Scotland is also coastal so it's perfect for practise."
But will Le Cheminant carry on until Gold Coast 2018 and therby complete a unique double of two Australian and two Scottish Commonwealth Games three decades apart?
"That would be great, but it's a long way away," he added.
"I think I'll have to see what happens after this one, relax a bit and get my weekends back and see where I go from there."
The price being paid has not been revealed. According to Thomson Reuters, SCMP has a market value of HK$3bn ($392m; £258.5m).
Alibaba will remove the paywall from the paper's website to make its content freely available.
Alibaba said the title was unique because it covered news from China in the English language.
Such coverage is in demand by readers globally who want to understand the world's second-largest economy, said Joe Tsai, Alibaba Group's executive vice chairman.
In a letter to readers, Mr Tsai said: "We see the perfect opportunity to marry our technology with the deep heritage of the SCMP to create a vision of news for the digital age."
He added: "Only through additional resources will the SCMP be able to stay true to its core values of quality, integrity and trust."
Robin Hu, chief executive of SCMP, said it welcomed Alibaba's commitment to invest in the title.
"With proven expertise especially in mobile internet, Alibaba is in an excellent position to leverage technology to create content more efficiently and reach a global audience."
The paper was founded in 1903 but profits and sales have in recent years been hit by the same declines as newspapers in many countries.
The deal also includes licences for the Hong Kong editions of magazines including Elle, Cosmopolitan and Harper's Bazaar.
Alibaba's New York-listed shares ended down 5.4% after the deal was announced.
His son, Adam, said he died of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on Friday morning.
Nimoy had a long career as both an actor and director.
However he was best known for his portrayal of the half-human, half-Vulcan character in both the TV franchise and series of films.
Last year, the actor revealed he was suffering chronic lung disease COPD, despite stopping smoking 30 years ago.
It was reported earlier this week he had been taken to hospital on 19 February after suffering from chest pains.
He later tweeted: "A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory."
He signed off what was to be his final tweet with "LLAP" - a reference to his character's famous catchphrase, "Live long and prosper".
The same Twitter account was used by his granddaughter to confirm that he died at home on Friday in Bel-Air, California.
Dani Nimoy said her grandfather was an "extraordinary man, husband, grandfather, brother, actor, author - the list goes on - and friend."
She added that special merchandise was being added to Nimoy's website, with all proceeds going to the COPD foundation.
George Takei, who played Hikaru Sulu on Star Trek and was a friend of Nimoy's, paid tribute to the actor.
"The word extraordinary is often overused but I think it's really appropriate for Leonard", Mr Takei told US broadcaster MSNBC.
"He was an extraordinarily talented man but he was also a very decent human being."
Among the torrent of tributes on Twitter was a message from Nasa crediting Nimoy and Star Trek as an inspiration.
Thousands took to Twitter to pay tribute after Nimoy's death was announced, including Star Trek actors past and present.
William Shatner, who as Captain Kirk acted alongside Nimoy for years in Star Trek, said he loved the actor "like a brother".
"We will all miss his humor, his talent, and his capacity to love," Mr Shatner said on Twitter.
Wil Wheaton, who played Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation, said: "We stood on your shoulders, and wouldn't have had a galaxy to explore if you hadn't been there, first. Thank you, Leonard, Rest in peace."
It was Nimoy's casting as Spock in 1966 that made him in a star and, in many ways, defined his acting career.
He played the character in all three of the original series of the programme and later in several big-screen spin offs.
Nimoy had an ambivalent relationship with Spock, seeming to both cherish and resent his close association with the role.
His two volumes of autobiography - "I Am Not Spock" in 1975 and "I Am Spock" two decades later - seemed to epitomise his mixed feelings.
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when he died
1965 appeared in rejected Star Trek pilot The Cage
1966-69 played Spock in original Star Trek series
4 Emmy award nominations, 3 for his character Spock
2013 appeared in Star Trek Into Darkness - his last film
Nimoy did have success outside of his Spock costume, in both acting and directing, and he pursued music, painting, and photography.
After the end of Star Trek's initial run, he played master of disguise Paris in the hit adventure series Mission Impossible.
Later he directed two of the Star Trek films, The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home, and in 1987 helmed the hit comedy Three Men and a Baby, one of the highest-grossing films of that year.
Nimoy announced that he was suffering from COPD last year, writing: "I quit smoking 30 years ago. Not soon enough. Grandpa says, quit now!!"
COPD is an umbrella term for several lung diseases including chronic bronchitis, emphysema and some forms of bronchiectasis.
Sufferers experience increasing breathlessness during the advanced stages of the disease but it can be symptomless for a long time as it develops.
1931 Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Jewish immigrants Dora (Spinner) and Max Nimoy
1951 Bit-part Hollywood debut in Queen for a Day
1954 Marries Sandra Zober. Two children, Julie and and Adam, follow.
1966 Cast as Spock in Star Trek, which turns Nimoy into a star
1969 Joins cast of Mission: Impossible and plays The Great Paris for two years
1979 Reprises role as Spock in the first big-screen version of Star Trek
1987 Directs the hugely successful comedy Three Men and a Baby
1989 Stars in Star Trek V and then Star Trek VI in 1991
2009 Comes out of retirement to play Spock in new Star Trek films directed by JJ Abrams
2014 Reveals diagnosis with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a progressive lung condition
2015 Passes away in Los Angeles
Obituary: Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy: Life in pictures
The company hopes to attract users with a mixture of officially licensed tracks and its catalogue of 125 million covers, remixes, DJ sets and podcasts.
Called Soundcloud Go, it costs £9.99 per month in line with its rivals.
Soundcloud itself will remain free to use, although listeners in the UK and Ireland will hear advertisements between songs from Tuesday morning.
The launch is a big move for the company, which built its business by allowing artists to upload their music and share it with fans on social media and blogs.
Acts like Drake, Lily Allen, Kanye West and Miley Cyrus have used it to premiere songs, or share works in progress - even when they have a stake in rival streaming services, as West does with Tidal.
It has established the Berlin-based company as an influential player in the music industry, especially in the dance music genre.
Crowded market
The company was valued at $700m (£478m) in a funding round in 2014, but it has only recently started trying to make money from its 175 million users.
The subscription service launches with a free 30-day trial, and allows users to store tracks on their phone for offline use - "the number one requested feature", the company says.
But it is launching into an increasingly crowded market. Apple has attracted 11 million people to its music streaming service since it arrived last summer. Market leader Spotify is approaching 30 million subscribers while Tidal, which recently boasted exclusives from Rihanna and Beyonce, has about three million paying customers.
Soundcloud Go launched in the US in March to mixed reviews, with tech website Engadget calling it "a mess" and "a chore to use".
The Verge noted it offered "far fewer" official tracks than its rivals, with artists like Katy Perry, One Direction, The Beatles and Radiohead missing from its line-up.
CEO Alexander Ljung and senior vice president Sylvain Grande told BBC News those gaps were being plugged, and discussed their plans for the service.
Tell us a bit about Soundcloud Go
Alexander: The cool part about that is you have everything from the biggest hits to all the emerging stuff - new artists and remixes and so on. It's the first time that's ever existed.
And you combine that with actually having this presence from the artists themselves. So you get these authentic moments and tracks you wouldn't have expected - like when Miley Cyrus came out of the studio once and uploaded 100 tracks.
There were a lot songs missing when you launched in the US. Is that going to be the case for the UK launch, too?
Alexander: Not everything was there on day one, but a lot of it has been added since. We're still ingesting huge amount of content every day.
Why launch the product before that work was complete?
Sylvain: We wanted to avoid leaks. 99% of the content is there now.
Will people like Kanye West still put exclusive tracks on Soundcloud now it's become more commercial?
Alexander: For artists generally, one of the things that's special about SoundCloud is they have their own account, which they control. So that's led to a different degree of authenticity. If they have an idea they went to get out to the world, a bit like Twitter, they can publish it instantly. That's become a really powerful way for artists to connect to fans. They can't really do that anywhere else.
Right now, you can find individual tracks from Adele or Coldplay, but there's no way to listen to a complete album. Why not?
Sylvain: We've ingested all the tracks and we're working on it. We never had albums functionality per se on SoundCloud - people might create playlists and so on - but in the coming months we're going to have the album visualisation in the service as well.
It's been reported that Sony and Universal took a stake in the company when you signed a licensing deal with them...
Alexander: We don't comment on any deal terms. There hasn't been any official word on how the deals work.
Does having closer ties with the major labels mean we'll see unofficial remixes and cover versions taken down from Soundcloud?
Alexander: A lot of people believe that doing deals with the majors leads to more takedowns, when it's exactly the opposite. Part of the deal is that it creates a framework for being able to create a revenue stream for all this derivative content - remixes and cover versions. That type of content has never really existed in the music industry before, and now we can start to generate revenue from that and pay it back to the industry. So the incentive is to keep it up and earn money, rather than take it down.
It was widely reported that Soundcloud made a loss of $44m in 2014. Can the subscription service turn that around?
Alexander: We don't really comment on the financial results but the truth is that we're a high-growth start-up. It's a very common path. The reason you raise money is to invest it into growth before you focus on profitability.
Do you have a goal for profitability?
Alexander: I have a point in mind. But we might change it along the way, depending on what we want to prioritise.
Soundcloud Go is launching today in the UK and Ireland. Will it be coming to the rest of Europe?
Alexander: Yes, there will be more territories coming soon.
Capita - which assesses claimants for the government - confirmed the nurse was dismissed two weeks ago.
The Facebook posts were found by Sarah Goldstein, 24, who had been turned down for personal independence payments (PIPs) by the nurse.
Husband Jay Goldstein said he was glad "the right thing" had been done.
Mrs Goldstein, who has fibromyalgia, Raynaud's phenomenon, and suffers with chronic anxiety, migraines and depression, claimed Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and first applied for PIPs in October 2014.
Mr Goldstein said she had been assessed last year but turned down for PIPs because it was felt she was "making everything up".
Mrs Goldstein reapplied for PIPs at the end of 2015 and was assessed at her home in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, in March by the nurse.
But the couple's suspicions were aroused when they found they had been turned down by the nurse on the basis of a number of "falsehoods" in an accompanying report, which has been seen by the BBC.
These included claims that Mrs Goldstein had given birth to 13-month-old daughter AJ naturally. In fact, Mrs Goldstein had a Caesarean and said she was never asked about the birth.
Mrs Goldstein saw the nurse's name on the report and looked her up on social media "to make sure everything was above board" and discovered the posts.
One, written in July 2014, appears to attack a claimant who had lost two legs as a child and had appeared on a programme about benefits.
The post said he should "get a job fitting carpets" and that she "would like to catapult the scrounger back to...[where] he came from".
It is believed the nurse started working for Capita a few months before the July post.
In a statement, a spokeswoman for the outsourcing firm said: "We can confirm that the individual in question no longer works for Capita."
Mr Goldstein, 25, said his wife has had a new assessment and is awaiting the result.
"We are glad that Capita has done the right thing and sacked the nurse," he said.
"We feel a tiny bit of justice has been done."
Preserved tree stumps were uncovered in Norway by a team including Cardiff University researchers.
Scientists believe the forest could help explain a 15-fold reduction in carbon dioxide levels at the time.
Dr Chris Berry said it showed what the landscape was like as "the first trees were beginning to appear on Earth".
The forests, found in Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, grew near the equator during the Devonian period (420 - 360 million years ago).
Dr Berry, from Cardiff University's school of earth and ocean science, said: "During the Devonian period, it is widely believed that there was a huge drop in the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, from 15 times the present amount to something approaching current levels.
"The evolution of tree-sized vegetation is the most likely cause of this dramatic drop in carbon dioxide because the plants were absorbing carbon dioxide through photosynthesis to build their tissues and also through the process of forming soils."
The team found forests were mainly formed of lycopod trees, which grew about 20cm (8in) apart from one another and reached 4m (13ft) in height.
During the Devonian period, Svalbard was located on the equator before tectonic plates shifted and it moved to its current location.
The findings were published in the journal Geology on Thursday.
He says 2015 could be as challenging.
In an interview with BBC 5 live's Wake Up to Money, broadcast on Wednesday, he said discount grocers have had a striking impact on retailing.
Analysts Kantar Worldpanel say Aldi and Lidl have reached a record combined market share of 8.6% of all shopping done at major UK grocery chains.
Their rise has come at the expense of the "Big Four" supermarkets, Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons.
"The level of profitability decline in some retailers over the course of 2014 - we've never seen it before," said Mr Clarke. "It suggests 2015 is going to be equally as challenging."
Although Asda has suffered less than rivals such as Tesco from the rise of the discounters, its market share fell 1% in the three months to December according to Kantar Worldpanel.
The discounters are planning to make bigger inroads into the UK this year.
So confident are they that Danish discounter Netto is returning to the UK after a 4 year absence.
Interestingly, the company is being partnered by Sainsbury, in what some see as a "can't beat them, join them" move.
Established Aldi is on a major expansion drive, with plans to create 35,000 new jobs in the UK and to almost double its total number of stores to 1,000 by 2022.
The former UK managing director of Aldi, Paul Foley, told Wake Up to Money the rise of the discounters was "unstoppable."
"The golden age of food retail profits by big, very successful, very well run businesses is over and discounters are the disrupters."
Mr Foley said the discounters were likely to grow to take a 20% market share.
Morrisons has been hit hard by the rise of Aldi and Lidl. It reported a 6.3% fall in sales in the three months to November and a fall in half year profits of just over 30%.
In October the supermarket responded with the launch of Match & More, a loyalty card that matches prices against Aldi and Lidl, as well as the Big Four.
Morrisons' Group Marketing Director Nick Collard told Wake Up to Money that customer behaviour had "really changed".
"The number one driver of store choice used to be convenience - it's absolutely now about price.
"We still have the same relative number of customers, they're just shopping slightly less frequently and buying slightly less."
The bitter supermarket price war has forced the grocery market into deflation. According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics food prices have fallen by 1.7%.
Kantar Worldpanel reported that the value of UK grocery sales fell for the first time in two decades in November.
Supermarket expert and Loyalty Magazine editor Annich McIntosh, says the changes the industry is experiencing are profound.
"This modern shopper is unlike any we've known before - a person with a mobile phone who can compare prices instantly.
"There are a lot of very worried executives of food stores out there."
Global Research Director at analysts Planet Retail, Natalie Berg describes the rise of the discounters as part of "a perfect storm".
"I think there's been a real shift just in the past 18 months.
"Shoppers are generally more accepting of the discounters. They view it as a badge of honour and they're happy to shop those own brands"
"On top of the shift in mindset the discounters have significantly upped their game."
Despite the threats, Asda Chief Executive Andy Clarke sees grounds for optimism.
"Kwik Save had a place in this market for a good period of time and it disappeared from the landscape.
"I'm not suggesting that's going to be the case with the current discounters but they are a retail format that's been in this country for a good period of time."
"They're a very different shopping experience. They've got roughly 10% of the product range of a superstore."
But Mr Clarke had this warning: "The discounters will grow and there will be winners and losers."
Former Aldi UK boss Paul Foley is bullish about the German retailers' prospects. "The game's only half over."
Mark Price, the managing director of Waitrose, is also upbeat.
The high-end supermarket has grown market share, and said discounters aren't having an impact on sales.
Mr Price had this advice for Waitrose's rivals: "Be very clear with your customers what you stand for.
"The ones that do that well will do extraordinarily well and they'll survive. The ones that do it less well will find the going tougher."
Wake Up to Money is broadcast weekdays on BBC 5 live. You can sign up to the podcast via the 5 live website.
Saturday's "Bare with us" march took place in Waterloo, Ontario. The women say that police told them to cover up whilst cycling in the neighbouring town of Kitchener last month.
They have filed a formal complaint with the police.
It is legal for women to be topless in Ontario after a court ruling in 1996.
Protestors held signs that included the slogans "They are boobs not bombs, chill out" and "Nudity isn't sexual."
The three sisters, Tameera, Nadia and Alysha Mohamed, say that they took their shirts off because it was a hot summer day.
However, they allege that a police officer approached them and told them to cover up. But when they challenged this, the officer said he was stopping them for bike safety reasons.
One of the sisters is an award nominated Canadian singer under her stage name Alysha Brilla.
"I had no idea how polarizing the issue would be. I thought people wouldn't be so disturbed by the female breast," she told CBC news.
"We just want to advocate and let people know that they do have this right," the singer added.
Ontario passed legislation confirming the right of women to go topless in 1996, after the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned a woman's conviction for removing her shirt.
Gwen Jacobs had been fined in 1991, but on appeal the court found that there was "nothing degrading or dehumanising" about her going topless in public.
The AA said the average comprehensive motor insurance figure was £531 at the start of 2014.
This was 5.6% down on the last three months of 2013 and 16.6% down on the figure for the same period last year.
The figure for third party, fire and theft was £725, down 8.4% on the past three months and 18.5% on last year.
The AA said this policy was higher than comprehensive insurance because it is typically taken out by people aged between 17-22 who have to pay the most for comprehensive insurance.
Young drivers did however experience the biggest fall in premiums in the first part of this year, coming down by a fifth; while the smallest movement was for those aged over 70 whose premium went down 7%.
The age bracket which pays the cheapest comprehensive insurance was those aged 60-69, with an average of £299.81.
The figures also show that north-west of England saw the biggest fall at 21% compared with East Anglia with the least at 13%.
However, the AA warned that the downward trend could be under threat.
AA insurance director Simon Douglas said: "Legal reforms introduced by the justice ministry to curb organised attempts at whiplash injury fraud coupled with better fraud detection by insurers have also certainly helped put downward pressure on premiums.
Source: The AA
"But despite this there is no evidence that this is delivering any significant reduction in the number and value of personal injury claims."
He added: "I do expect premiums to start rising again this year unless the fraud issue can be dealt with.
"If not, it's likely to be young drivers, those with a poor claims history or those in localities where there are frequent claims who will find it most difficult to obtain competitive cover."
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said: "We are turning the tide on the compensation culture and doing our bit to help drivers with the cost of running a car.
"We have made major law changes which have been a significant factor in these record falls in car insurance premiums.
"But we want to do more, and we are now going after the fraudsters who force up the costs for everyone else."
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Cecile Pieper put world number seven side Germany ahead in the first quarter with a lofted finish past goalkeeper Maddie Hinch.
England created plenty of chances but were unable to repeat the 4-1 victory of their opening match over Ireland.
Meanwhile, England men opened their campaign with a comprehensive 6-0 victory over Poland in Pool B.
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Two penalty corner strikes from Mark Gleghorne gave England the perfect start.
And before half-time, they had doubled that lead through a deflected Chris Griffiths strike and Sam Ward's drag flick from a penalty corner.
David Condon turned in Phil Roper's pass for the fifth and Ward added his second to round off the victory.
England men face Germany on Monday and Ireland on Wednesday; victory in either of their next two games would see them progress to the semi-finals.
The women take on 17th-ranked Scotland, who drew 0-0 with Ireland, on Tuesday at 11.30 BST. A point from the game would see England into the last four.
President Mahamadou Issoufou told French media that security was being tightened at the Arlit mine after the recent hostage crisis in Algeria.
French company Areva plays a major part in mining in Niger - the world's fifth-largest producer of uranium.
Islamist militants kidnapped five French workers from the mine in Arlit three years ago.
Four of them are still being held - along with three other French hostages - and it is believed they could be in the north of Mali close to where French troops are battling al-Qaeda-linked militants.
Asked if he could confirm that French special forces were guarding the uranium mine, President Issoufou told channel TV5: "Absolutely I can confirm.
"We decided, especially in light of what happened in Algeria... not to take risks and strengthen the protection of mining sites," he added.
France's Agence France-Presse news agency said a dozen French special forces reservists were strengthening security at the site.
Areva gets much of its uranium from the two mines it operates in the country, at Arlit and Imouraren.
Last month, at least 37 foreign workers were killed when Islamist militants seized a gas plant at In Amenas, eastern Algeria.
Connery played past-his-best boxer Malcolm "Mountain" McClintock in the 1957 play Requiem for a Heavyweight, which was broadcast live on the BBC.
Director Alvin Rakoff recorded the play for posterity and stored it in his attic where it remained for 55 years.
"He was tall, good-looking and had charisma from the start," he said.
Connery "was an extra" at the time, said Rakoff. "One of those guys who rang every other day and asked: 'Do you have any work for me?'
"I did a show called The Condemned, in which he played four of five parts for me - one was an old man who had been in prison for a long time and had gone a bit bonkers.
"I tried to get one of the other extras to do it and he wasn't quite right and Sean said: 'I can have a go at that, Al'."
Requiem for a Heavyweight was written for US television in 1956 by The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling and starred Jack Palance in the lead role. The play won a Peabody Award.
Rakoff said it was his future wife, Doctor Who actress Jacqueline Hill - who he had cast in the BBC adaptation, who convinced him to cast Connery in the Palance role of a boxer who is told that he can no longer fight for health reasons.
He told BBC News: "I got a call from his [Palance's] agent who said: 'Jack ain't gonna show'. Something better had come up and he didn't want to come to England.
"She [Jacqueline] said, 'Have you seen Sean?... the ladies will like him', which was quite a remarkable statement but it was true, women adored him and so I called him and narrowed it to two fellows and Sean got it."
Because the play was broadcast live and no recording was made, it had been thought the performance was lost until Rakoff, 87, remembered the recording he had made during a recent interview and found it gathering dust in his London home.
Speaking on his decision more than 50 years ago to make the recording, he said: "I had suddenly thought: 'Maybe this is an important piece,' and I spoke to the man in the sound booth and asked him to do a reel-to-reel so he had an audio recording, and he did."
The British version was screened on 31 March 1957 on the BBC's Sunday Night Theatre anthology and co-starred Till Death Do Us part actor Warren Mitchell and another young actor by the name of Michael Caine.
"It went out on American television so there were commercial breaks and on the BBC there weren't any and Sean had a big costume change and I rang Rod and said we needed a new scene just to let him change.
"He said, rather nonchalantly, 'I hear you can write Alvin, you write it'.
"I cast two actors as has-been boxers who were struggling and Michael Caine was one of them. People in rehearsals watched the little scene and said: 'That guy's going to go far'."
The crackly recording of Requiem for a Heavyweight features Connery's unmistakably Scottish burr despite the character being written as an American.
Rakoff said: "We worked hard and long on the accent, he was trying but couldn't get rid of some of the Scottish-ness and in fact Michael Barry, who was the head of drama at the time came to rehearsals and he said: 'Are you sure you want to go ahead with this guy, I don't think he can do it'.
"I said: 'Michael I can assure you he can do it'."
In 1962, Connery became a household name when he played James Bond in his first big screen outing Dr No and would go on to become one of the biggest film stars of the 20th Century.
Now in his 80s, Rakoff is still working and has just written the conspiracy thriller The Seven Einsteins.
Strikingly obvious, really. Think of your own budgeting. The chancellor, though, only lays out how he's going to raise money - generally through tax but also borrowing - and what he's going to spend it on, once a year (usually). In the past few decades this has also involved commitments to future years. Many of us, of course, don't bother laying out our budgets, the salary and bills seem to take care of themselves. He has to make a Budget by law as certain taxes have to be approved each year by parliament.
We've already had one this year, but after a new government is elected, the chancellor, even if it is the same one, traditionally announces another one. This year, because the Conservatives no longer have to worry about what their former Liberal Democrat coalition partners think, they are free to spend the nation's money how they want. Like after divorce. Except they get to keep all the assets, the income, and, oh yes, the debts.
Other countries call them finance ministers. Thomas Cromwell, Sir Robert Peel, creator of the police, and Sir Winston Churchill are former holders of the post. Chancellor just means official in Latin, roughly speaking. So that's boring. Exchequer is better. It refers to a special cloth that was used to place counters on. It looked like a chess board.
There have been arguments about this. Is it rising or falling? National debt - household and governments - in total, is rising. There's also debt as a percentage of the whole economy. That falls when the economy grows faster than that pile of debt. Like you've increased your mortgage but your property's value has gone up by more. In 2014-15, net UK debt stood at almost £1.5 trillion.
The gap between income and spending. Simply, shrinking the deficit means either raising taxes or cutting spending. It is sometimes called the country's overdraft. A concept some think is fatuous as unlike households, governments can keep rolling over the debt for years, and inflation, still a usually occurring phenomenon, erodes it. The next generation does not have to wipe out the previous one's debts, as it does in a family.
Excise duty. Like VAT it is an indirect tax applied within a country to goods or services. Unlike VAT, which is charged at 20% of the sale price, it is often a flat amount levied to each item. It is applied commonly to tobacco, alcohol, gambling - and fuel. The fuel duty is the reason why motorists fume when oil prices fall yet petrol prices do not. That and VAT make up 65% of the price. It has been as much as 80%. Governments raise most excise duties in line with inflation. Fuel price rises though tend to annoy the electorate more than just about anything. Most Budgets have either cancelled or deferred increasing it in line with inflation.
The rate of income tax people pay depends on how much they earn: the higher their income, the higher rate of tax. In expanding economies, people's earnings are more likely to increase. In some cases, those people will cross an earnings threshold and find themselves paying a higher rate of tax. If this is widespread, it can act as a brake on how the economy expands, as people have less money to spend. However, it can also be seen as something that stops inflation rising too quickly.
Different rates of income tax are paid on different parts of incomes. People pay nothing on the first £10,600 that they earn. They pay 20% on anything between that and the next £31,785. After that it is 40% on anything higher until you get to an income of more than £150,000. Earnings above £150,000 are taxed at 45%. The "threshold" refers to the barrier between the tax rates. So once someone edges over a threshold, they pay tax at a higher rate on anything they earn above that level. Not, as some think, suddenly on the whole amount, meaning if you're approaching a pay rise that takes you into a higher tax band, you needn't worry you will actually take home less.
Bank levy. Effectively another tax; introduced in 2011 it is charged on the amount of debt held by all UK banks. Initially brought in at the sliver rate of 0.05% it has been quadrupled in that short time to 0.21%. That is too much for some. Analysts cite it as one of the reasons HSBC, which makes the bulk of its profits abroad but is based here and taxed here, wants to move its business base elsewhere. The levy raised more than £2bn last year, of which about a third came from HSBC alone.
The OBR was created in 2010 to provide independent and authoritative analysis of the UK's public finances. It has five main roles: producing five year forecasts; judging the government's performance against fiscal targets; scrutinising the Treasury's costing of tax; assessing sustainability of public finances; and assessing the government's performance against the welfare cap.
The government allows every taxpayer to earn a certain amount before they start paying tax - the personal allowance. It sets a threshold below which people don't pay income tax. Bear in mind that people may earn below this threshold and still pay other types of tax (for instance, national insurance contributions, which raise a lot of the total tax take). In 2015-16, the UK personal allowance is £10,600.
The structural deficit is a relatively new concept. It is basically the current budget deficit adjusted to strip out the cyclical nature of the economy. You would expect, for example, the budget deficit to get smaller when the economy grows. In other words, it's the underlying deficit that is not directly affected by general economic conditions.
Possibly the biggest political potato of this Budget. There are two types: Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit. They are paid to more than four million people who may be eligible if they earn less than £33,000 a year. The taxpayer spends some £30bn a year on them. Formerly barely mentioned, now that the government is planning to cut another £12bn from welfare spending, they are firmly in the spotlight. They were designed to make it worthwhile for people to come off unemployment benefits - even for more low-paid jobs. One argument in favour is that it is better to have people in work, even if that is subsidised to some extent. But some argue that they subsidise low wages, and therefore business profits. The government has begun saying that if these were cut, business would pay more to make up the shortfall.
This is a term used to describe protections for increases in the state pension. Under the triple-lock scheme, the government promises to lift pensions by whatever is the highest out of: inflation, increases in average earnings or 2.5%. It guarantees that pensioners would see their pensions go up even if inflation is low.
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Arlene Foster campaigned for Brexit but the UUP accused her of a "U-turn" after she signed a joint letter to the prime minister outlining several concerns.
Mrs Foster said the UUP had set up Steven Aiken as its "attack dog" but said he was more like a Chihuahua.
He snapped back that Chihuahuas were "small but intelligent and ferocious".
The snarling match began on Wednesday, when Mrs Foster and Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness jointly wrote to Prime Minister Theresa May, outlining their priorities for the Brexit negotiations.
Mrs Foster's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Mr McGuinness from Sinn Féin were on opposite sides of the debate during the EU referendum campaign.
Their joint letter identified five key areas of concern when the UK leaves the European Union - the Irish border; trading costs; the energy market; drawdown of EU funding and treatment of the agri-food sector.
After the letter's contents were revealed, rival unionist parties accused the DUP of shifting their position.
Mr Aiken, the UUP's economy spokesperson, said he was "astonished the first ministers would have the audacity to release this letter".
"These are all concerns that existed before the referendum," he added.
"Indeed given the content of the letter I would question whether this is a DUP u-turn on their position on the referendum after the vote has taken place?"
Mr Aiken said that Stormont's Executive Office was "quickly becoming the Department for Stating the Obvious".
But Mrs Foster denied that campaigning for Brexit was a mistake and said leading the EU provided opportunities as well as challenges.
"Poor Steven Aiken has been sent out once again to be the attack dog against the executive and frankly, he comes across more as a Chihuahua," she told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.
Responding on his Twitter account, Mr Aiken snapped back that it was the first time he had "ever been compared to small but intelligent and ferocious Mexican attack dog".
His UUP colleague Stephen Nicholl tweeted a photo of an angry Chihuahua and said Mr Aiken had become their party's "new mascot".
The animal antics continued when Claire Hanna from the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) weighed in to criticise the DUP leader over the letter.
"The first minister has serious questions to answer over the breath-taking reverse ferret she is currently performing," said the SDLP MLA.
"Ms Foster has clearly realised the error of her ways in backing Brexit and, now the horse has bolted, is asking the Conservative government to close the gate."
Nidhi Chaphekar, 40, suffered burns and fractured her foot in the explosion.
A photograph of Ms Chaphekar taken moments after the blast has become an iconic image of the attacks.
The attacks at Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro left 31 people dead and about 300 wounded.
The so-called Islamic State (IS) group has said it carried out the attacks.
Ms Chaphekar was one of the two Indian crew members of a Jet Airways flight bound for Newark in the US who were injured in the blast.
Her husband, who flew from Mumbai to Paris and travelled by road to Brussels, has reached the hospital, reports say.
Jet Airways denied unconfirmed reports in Indian media on Friday, which said Ms Chaphekar had been "placed in coma" at the hospital near Brussels.
"The doctor has confirmed that Nidhi is in stable condition and not in a coma,'' the company said in a statement.
"She is resting and under sedation for her comfort."
Ms Chaphekar's photograph - taken by Ketevan Kardava, a journalist with the Georgian Public Broadcaster network - was widely shared around the world on social media sites with the #PrayForNidhi hashtag.
The picture shows her sitting bloodied and dazed with a leg stretched across a seat.
Her yellow blazer is shredded by the force of the blast, her hair is covered with soot and her face streaked with blood.
"She was in shock, speechless," Ms Kardava, who was her way to Geneva on assignment, told Time magazine.
"There was no crying, no shouting. She was only looking around with fear."
Bradford One wants to turn the derelict site, currently owned by the city council, into a concert setting with a capacity of up to 2,000 people.
Plans also include restaurants, bars and a new office within the building.
A campaign has been under way to save the 1930s landmark, which played host to acts including The Beatles, since its closure in 2000.
It was bought by regional development agency Yorkshire Forward in 2003, which later entered into a development agreement with Langtree Artisan.
That agreement, which would have seen the demolition of the building, was scrapped last September after the Homes and Communities Agency took over the site following the abolition of Yorkshire Forward.
Earlier this year, the building was bought by Bradford Council for £1.
The authority said it would now consider proposals for commercially viable developments which retain all or part of the building.
Bradford One said the redevelopment and use of the building would be funded in a mix of ways including grants, community funding and a community share scheme.
Another bid has also been unveiled by Bradford Live, which is also calling for the building to become a music venue.
The Seagulls, who became Women's Premier League champions on Sunday, have met the necessary WSL licensing requirements.
The Sussex side beat Sporting Club Albion 4-2 in Sunday's play-off and will take their place in WSL 2 in spring 2017.
Brighton lost just two games as they won the Southern Division this season.
The WSL's on- and off-field criteria included finance and business management, facilities and marketing requirements.
"Brighton thoroughly deserve their promotion after such a fantastic season and for their development off the pitch in recent years," the Football Association's head of leagues and competitions Katie Brazier said.
"It is great for the league that we now have a club on the south coast, which will help us to develop a wider fan-base."
Brighton chief executive Paul Barber added: "We are very proud of the achievements of our women's team this season.
"The club's initial ambition has been to reach the Women's Super League and, having achieved that aim, we are now very much looking forward to kicking off the new season in 2017."
Frazer, 26, sustained serious knee ligament damage in a training session with German club Mannheimer.
She will undergone surgery next week and will definitely miss the opening qualifiers in Kuala Lumpur in January.
Frazer could also be a doubt for the final qualifiers next July.
Ireland should be capable of progressing from the Malaysian tournament in January when they will be up against lower-ranked opposition and require only a top-three finish.
However the next stage of the process in either Belgium or South Africa will be much more taxing as Ireland will need to beat higher-ranked nations to qualify.
The Londonderry woman was distraught after suffering the injury in seemingly innocuous circumstances.
She said: "I have completely ruptured my anterior cruciate and partially torn my medial cruciate ligament and I am having surgery on 3 November and it will take six to nine months recovery from then."
"I am completely devastated that I am missing the tournament in Malaysia for definite and also unable to finish my first season with Mannheimer.
"I was running fast with the ball unopposed in training and went to pass it off my right foot but it just gave way and I fell and it was extremely painful."
Mannheimer's Director of Sport, Peter Leemen added: "She will be operated on by a specialist, who has already performed this type of surgery on other players in the team."
"The cartilage in the knee is completely in order which is important for a good healing process but it´s is such a pity as Megan was settling in so well with the club and her team-mates."
Frazer was able to travel with the Ireland squad for two international defeats in Belgium earlier this week and found the experience at least went some way towards cushioning the blow.
She added: "It was great to be around the team again and it really lifted my mood. Luckily I don't have too much pain and have started to work on my pre-surgery exercises."
International metals group, Liberty House, said the deal with Tata Steel UK for the Hartlepool steelworks would also safeguard 140 existing jobs.
Liberty executive chairman, Sanjeev Gupta, said he wanted the site to become a world leader in the gas and oil pipes industry.
Tata Steel will retain a third mill on the site, employing 270 people.
Liberty has already bought Tata's speciality steelworks in Yorkshire, Lancashire and the West Midlands, and Scunthorpe's Caparo Merchant Bar mill.
The company now have a workforce of nearly 5,000 across the UK, it said.
The tourists' 24-21 victory in the second Test, their first over the All Blacks since 1993, set up the decider at Auckland's Eden Park.
Furlong, part of the Ireland side who beat New Zealand in November, expects a backlash from Steve Hansen's side.
"When your pride is dented, you come out and are up for it," he said.
Furlong was one of eight men in the initial Lions squad who helped end Ireland's 111-year wait for a win over the All Blacks with a 40-29 victory in Chicago last November.
Rory Best, Jack McGrath, CJ Stander, Robbie Henshaw, Conor Murray, Jared Payne and Johnny Sexton were also part of the victorious Irish team.
But New Zealand avenged that defeat with a bruising 21-9 win over Joe Schmidt's men in Dublin two weeks later.
"That match in Dublin, I remember coming off the pitch and being absolutely shattered," Furlong added. "I was sore for days afterwards.
"It was one of the most brutal Test matches I've played in my short career. So we all expect to have the same thing again. And we've got to tee ourselves up for it."
It was a physical contest when New Zealand won in Dublin last November, with centre Henshaw forced off early on after a controversial high challenge by Sam Cane.
In the same match, Malakai Fekitoa was sin-binned for the All Blacks for a dangerous hit on Simon Zebo.
"I think you always fear the All Blacks in the way that if you don't get your stuff sorted, if you don't man up and meet them head on head it's a tough day at the office," added Furlong.
"They can score a try from anywhere. They're that dangerous. They've threats all over the park.
"If none of that works, they're just so damn consistent, and good at holding on to the ball. They're a tough team to beat.
"You have to keep attacking them, but it's easier said than done."
Furlong will be going for three wins over the All Blacks in eight months as Hansen's side look to extend their unbeaten run at Eden Park to 40 games on Saturday.
The Lions, meanwhile, are bidding to secure only their second series win in New Zealand.
Roedd Chanice Bowen, 25 o'r Barri, wedi dweud wrth yr Adran Gwaith a Phensiynau ei bod wedi gwahanu o'i phartner yn Ionawr 2013, ac fe aeth ei thaliadau budd-dal i fyny.
Ond fe wnaeth hi briodi Lee Mapstone yn Hydref 2013, a derbyn £22,000 na ddylai hi wedi ei dderbyn.
Cafodd ddedfryd o 10 mis yn y carchar wedi ei ohirio.
Clywodd Llys y Goron Caerdydd bod swyddogion wedi cael gwybod am y lluniau priodas ar dudalen Facebook Bowen, gyda chapsiwn yn dweud 'Blynyddoedd gorau fy mywyd...'.
Wrth gael ei holi gan yr heddlu yn 2015, roedd Bowen wedi dweud nad oedd hi'n cofio beth oedd hi'n ei wneud ar y diwrnod briododd Mr Mapstone.
Yn y llys, fe wnaeth hi gyfaddef twyll drwy fethu â datgan cael taliadau gormodol o £21,696 rhwng Ionawr 2013 a Thachwedd 2015.
Dywedodd y barnwr bod Bowen wedi osgoi mynd i'r carchar "o drwch blewyn", a phenderfynodd ohirio'r ddedfryd oherwydd yr effaith ar ferch Bowen pe bai dan glo.
Yn ogystal â'r ddedfryd ohiriedig, cafodd orchymyn i wneud 120 awr o waith di-dâl, talu'r arian yn ôl, a thalu costau o £500.
Congress went too far in passing the law, which would change US State Department policy, the court ruled.
Currently, the US State Department does not list Israel as the place of birth for Jerusalem-born Americans.
The status of Jerusalem is highly contentious, as the city is claimed by both Israel and the Palestinians.
The ruling shows that the US government still refuses to recognise sovereignty over Jerusalem, and accentuates the president's power in foreign affairs.
Congress passed the law in 2002, but neither former US president George W Bush nor president Barack Obama has enforced it.
The ruling puts an end to a 12-year-old lawsuit from a Jerusalem-born American and his parents.
Jerusalem-born Menachem Zivotofsky's parents Ari and Naomi Zivotofsky long wanted Menachem's passport to say he was born in Israel.
About 50,000 American citizens were born in Jerusalem.
The 45-year-old mother-of-two suffered a punctured lung and permanent damage to her sight following the crash on the Firth of Forth last summer.
The woman had been part of an organised trip to the Isle of May seabird haven.
She was crushed after being seated on an inflatable tube on the boat, used when passenger numbers were high.
The accident happened onboard the Osprey II, which normally carried eight passengers to the Isle of May from Anstruther Harbour.
However, on 19 July 2016, the vessel was carrying 11 passengers, including seven adults and four children.
The boat's sister craft, Osprey, was also in the water and was carrying 12 passengers, including 11 adults and one child.
Investigators were told that passenger spaces on Osprey II were normally limited to the eight spaces available on its four bench seats, but in good weather two additional spaces were sold, with the extra passengers sitting in designated positions on its inflatable tubes.
On the day of the accident, the skipper of each boat - known as rigid inflatable boats (RIB) - had increased speed and started a power turn away from each other with the intention of passing each other in the course of completing a round turn.
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) report said that as the vessels turned towards each other, it became apparent to both skippers they were in danger of colliding. Despite skippers both acting quickly to reduce their speed, they were unable to prevent the collision.
The report said: "Passengers not sitting on suitable inboard seating have an increased risk of falling overboard, are at significant risk of musculoskeletal injuries and are more exposed to serious injury in the event of a collision."
The injured woman, who was on the vessel with her husband and two children aged eight and 12, was taken to hospital after the incident and was put into an induced coma, having suffered two broken collar bones, five broken ribs, a punctured lung and lacerations and bruising to her back and torso.
The internal injuries she sustained in the accident also resulted in permanent damage to her sight in both eyes.
There are currently no regulations to prevent people on RIBs from sitting on the inflatable tubes, but the MAIB said they are at increased risk in that position.
The MAIB has recommended the Maritime and Coastguard Agency's (MCA) forthcoming recreational craft code includes the stipulation that the certified maximum number of passengers carried on commercially-operated passenger-carrying RIBs should be limited to the number of suitable seats designated for passengers.
Isle of May Boat Trips Ltd, which owns and operates the two vessels, has banned passengers and crew from sitting on the inflatable tubes of Osprey and Osprey II, and has limited passenger numbers to 12 and eight respectively.
It has also issued an instruction that twin RIB operations are not to take place except in an emergency and has reviewed its risk assessments to ensure they incorporate all activities undertaken by Osprey and Osprey II.
Chief Inspector of Marine Accidents, Steve Clinch, said the MAIB had investigated several accidents in which people had been injured as a result of inappropriate seating on RIBs, and the faster the RIB was travelling, the greater the risk.
He confirmed passenger limit recommendations have been made to the MAC, and added: "We have also made a recommendation to the Royal Yachting Association and Passenger Boating Association aimed at improving the guidance available to the operators of commercial passenger-carrying RIBs."
Adam Rooney twice came close for the Dons in the first half, heading over then having a shot saved.
Nial McGinn and Kenny McLean also tested goalkeeper Craig Samson while Well rarely threatened.
It looked as though the visitors had done enough for a point until McGinn converted Jonny Hayes' low cross in stoppage time.
The gap between Aberdeen and leaders Celtic, who host Rangers on Sunday, now stands at 24 points while Motherwell remain three points above second-bottom Hamilton Academical but are now just four ahead of Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
One thing about Aberdeen under Derek McInnes is that they find ways to win matches and this was another example.
It was the eighth time this season a late goal has secured victory.
They hit the same opponents for seven less than a month ago, but the points accumulation is the same.
For long spells they dominated Motherwell with Samson pulling several good saves out of the top drawer, in particular from Rooney and McGinn in the first half.
McGinn's goal came way too late for Motherwell to be able to do anything about it, slotting home from Hayes and once again underlining his value to the club and illustrating just why McInnes wants to retain his services.
And whilst the Steelmen left the Granite City empty handed again, there were plenty positives to take.
Motherwell came to Pittodrie with last month's 7-2 hammering still fresh in the memory.
That was an evening to forget for the Steelmen with former Well boss Mark McGhee's altercation with the home fans producing as many headlines as Aberdeen's ruthlessness.
But Stephen Robinson's impact has been clear to see since he took interim charge with last week's win at Kilmarnock a positive start to his reign.
They were resolute and continually kept their hosts at arm's length with Scotland squad keeper Samson looking determined to make up for February's horror show.
However, the long wait for an away clean sheet in the league goes on for Motherwell, having failed to do so for a year now.
Robinson has certainly strengthened his hopes of getting the Fir Park job full-time despite the defeat.
Victory at Killie followed by a strong performance in Aberdeen has certainly made a statement and the Northern Irishman has to be in pole position for the post after confirmation he is on a five-man shortlist to replace McGhee.
In truth, Motherwell were a shambles on their last visit to Pittodrie, but in just a couple of weeks Robinson has brought organisation to the leakiest defence in the Premiership.
Aberdeen assistant manager Tony Docherty: "It just shows you the spirit of the side - it shows we never know when we're beaten and today was an example of that.
"There was only one team here to win the game and the other team to try and spoil it and we got exactly what we deserved out the game.
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"You credit Motherwell, they were here to stop us. They were stuffy. I thought their centre-halves played particularly well but we again found a way.
"It's a great finish from Niall but I wouldn't single out anybody. That was a real team effort to get over the line and get the three points and I feel we fully merited that."
Motherwell interim manager Stephen Robinson: "It's difficult to take. I thought we matched them every step of the way.
"We came here with a game-plan, we frustrated the life out of them. They had possession in areas that weren't going to hurt us. We defended very well.
"We get punished from switching off once.
"They worked hard. They worked the system we asked them to play and it's a massive improvement on the last time they were up here but obviously still very disappointed.
"We've done okay, we're really disappointed in terms of result and how it happened and where the five minutes of added time came from we're not too sure. You deal with that and we get on with it.
"I'm going to have a chat with the board on Monday, see what they feel about the club and where they want to take the football club and we'll go from there."
Match ends, Aberdeen 1, Motherwell 0.
Second Half ends, Aberdeen 1, Motherwell 0.
Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by David Ferguson (Motherwell).
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Carl McHugh.
Goal! Aberdeen 1, Motherwell 0. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jonny Hayes with a cross.
Foul by Ryan Jack (Aberdeen).
Chris Cadden (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Chris Cadden (Motherwell) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Chris Cadden.
Foul by Craig Clay (Motherwell).
Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Miles Storey replaces Anthony O'Connor.
Jayden Stockley (Aberdeen) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Chris Cadden (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen).
Attempt missed. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Craig Samson.
Attempt saved. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Craig Samson.
Attempt saved. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Motherwell. Elliott Frear replaces Steven Hammell.
Attempt blocked. Stephen Pearson (Motherwell) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
David Ferguson (Motherwell) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Ryan Christie replaces Adam Rooney.
Ben Heneghan (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adam Rooney (Aberdeen).
Steven Hammell (Motherwell) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Steven Hammell (Motherwell).
Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Carl McHugh (Motherwell) header from very close range is blocked.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Graeme Shinnie.
David Ferguson (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen).
Stephen Pearson (Motherwell) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Stephen Pearson (Motherwell).
Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt missed. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is too high.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by David Ferguson.
The silver Kia C'eed was followed by police after it was seen on Shawclough Road at about 18:15 GMT on Sunday. It crashed into another vehicle, a wall and then the house on Sandy Lane.
Two women, aged 18 and 46, were rescued from the car by firefighters and taken to hospital with serious but not life threatening injuries.
A 23-year-old man was arrested at the scene.
Fire crews were called in to lift the car and make the area safe.
Christine Carriage, 67, of The Runnel, Bowthorpe, in Norwich, pleaded guilty to the possession of criminal property to the value of £5,620.
Police seized the goods after a search at the address in November 2013.
She was given a six month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, at Norwich Crown Court on Wednesday.
The items were found in the garden, garage, cupboards, bedroom and dining room at The Runnel property with 340 items, mainly clothing for men, women and children, still having their price labels attached, police said.
More than 210 items of clothing and sundries were still packaged and unopened.
Carriage was also sentenced to 120 hours unpaid work and given an £80 victim charge.
The court said it would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate claims that Mr Martinelli had inflated multi-million dollar contracts during his time in office from 2009 to 2014.
Mr Martinelli denies the allegations.
His successor in office, Juan Carlos Varela, campaigned on a promise to clean up Panamanian politics.
The Supreme Court made the decision on Wednesday after a former government official accused Mr Martinelli of pressuring him to sign "anomalous" contracts worth $45m (£30m).
The former official, Giacomo Tamburelli, ran a government social programme and is himself under investigation for alleged corruption.
The probe centres on accusations that the government paid highly inflated prices for dried food it handed out to students as part of its social programme.
Mr Martinelli, a wealthy supermarket tycoon, said the allegations were part of a political vendetta against him by President Varela.
Mr Varela has in the past accused Mr Martinelli of taking kickbacks, but this is the first time the former leader faces a formal investigation.
Mr Martinelli travelled to Guatemala on Wednesday to attend a session of the Central American parliament, a regional political body with headquarters in Guatemala City.
The former leader did not say whether he would return to Panama.
"I will make that decision in the future, but I am not going to go for a trial arranged by Mr Varela," he said.
During his presidential campaign, Mr Varela, a former Martinelli ally turned bitter rival, said he would root out widespread corruption within Panama's political system.
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), which oversees public transport in the region, said the cuts had been made because of reduced funding.
Twenty-two services have been totally withdrawn since July 2014 with a another 29 reduced in some way.
TfGM said it was committed to protecting essential services within the limited budget available.
The organisation, which receives most of its money from Greater Manchester's 10 local authorities, has seen a 3% reduction in funding.
The budget for supported bus services has been reduced by £7.1 million during the last two years.
Savings are being achieved by removing the subsidies which commercial bus companies receive to run night buses, and by "rationalisation of existing services".
TfGM is also attempting to persuade operators to take on "marginal commercial" services and redesigning services so "maximum value" is obtained from subsidies.
Of Greater Manchester's 950 bus services, 275 are subsidised by the public transport body.
From July 2014 to July 2015, TfGM pledged to continue 177 subsidised services with contracts either being extended or awarded to a different bus company.
Over the next 12 months a further 130 subsidised services will be up for renewal.
TfGM said: "We will continue to undertake a rigorous, case-by-case review of every bus journey we pay for."
The clouds are created when rapidly rotating winds form beneath heavy shower or thunder clouds.
BBC weatherman Paul Hudson said it was "a surprise" to see one forming "on a day when weather conditions across Yorkshire are relatively settled".
He said: "There must have been just enough energy and rotation of the air within the cloud to create it."
Nigel Taylor, in Wath upon Dearne, said he saw it forming and thought he was going to need to "take cover in Greggs!"
Earlier in June, a funnel cloud lifted an inflatable slide into the air at a country show in Lincolnshire.
Conwy council has published the symbols which show a range of indicators including whether people were elderly, vulnerable, living alone or considered an "easy target".
Its trading standards will be on patrol to catch those marking houses.
Police notified the council of a Dwygyfylchi home which appeared marked.
Anyone who sees properties being marked is asked to call police on 101.
The firm, Carfinance247, was investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), after it received 912 complaints from members of the public.
When challenged by the ICO, the firm claimed the messages had been sent by another company.
The texts were designed to persuade people to visit the firm's website.
Typical messages read: "You have been accepted for Car Finance no upfront costs or credit checks, drive away in a car within 24hrs at www.go-finance.com to stop txt stop."
The website named is now defunct.
"Carfinance247 Ltd tried to hide behind another company and distance themselves from the marketing practices involved," said Steve Eckersley, the ICO's head of enforcement.
"Let me be clear - if your business has hired someone else to provide direct marketing then the responsibility for the campaign is yours. There is nowhere to hide. If you break the rules we will find you and fine you."
Under the law, marketing messages can only be sent to consumers who have already agreed to receive them, or who have been a customer in the past, and have been given an opportunity to opt out of such messages on each occasion.
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Sixteen men were charged in connection with a "minor disturbance" on Chapel Street in the early hours of 28 July.
Three of the men lived locally and the rest were from Eastern Europe.
The Crown Office has now dropped all charges against the Eastern European men.
Only a handful of supporters attended the game from Slovenia to watch Maribor draw 1-1 with the home side.
A Crown Office spokesman said: "The procurator fiscal in Aberdeen received a report concerning 10 individuals in connection with alleged offences on 29 July, 2016.
"After full and thorough consideration of the facts and circumstances, the procurator fiscal decided there should be no further action."
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But fans in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are in for disappointment after the so-called "UK" tour will only include English gigs.
It's the first tour in the UK since 2010 for the Believe star.
In 2013 he'll visit Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham and London.
Box offices are expected to get busy on Friday when tickets go on sale.
We asked you how you felt about Justin's tour announcement. Will you be rushing to buy a ticket?
How do you feel if you live in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland? Would your parent or guardian take you hundreds of miles to one of his gigs?
"I think it is okay because he has got a lot on his hands at the moment when he is only 18-years-old. I will just have to watch the concerts on TV!"
Hannah, Wales
"I can't believe he's only touring in England what's the point in calling it a UK tour!"
Megan, Falkirk, Scotland
"It's sad that Justin left out some parts of the UK."
Harbir, Slough, England
"This is so unfair, England gets everything, nobody remembers that without Scotland, Wales and NI there would be no Great Britain so Bieber should remember that most of his fans probably come from Scotland, Wales and NI!"
Niamh, Glasgow, Scotland
"I think it's quite mean to leave out Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland, they are just as important as England!"
Harriet, Devon, England
"That's not fair for people who are Bieber's biggest fans and live in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. What if their mum or dad cannot drive? What a let-down for all those people!"
Delyth, Wales
"I'm really Upset that Justin isn't coming to Scotland! Considering he's only going to England I probably won't be able to go."
Molly, Scotland
"Why leave out all of the countries except England? Technically it is the England tour not the UK."
Emi, Manchester, England
"My parents will never let me go to England but don't worry I still have Bieber fever!"
Ellie, Falkirk, Scotland
"I will literally rush to buy a ticket and I will get someone to drive me as far as I have to go to see one of Justin Bieber's gigs."
Sana, Wales
The ruling Fidesz party, which has a two-thirds majority, has approved the constitutional change in the final session of parliament this year.
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Hungary's debt to junk status last week, partly due to the proposed changes to the constitution.
EU and IMF officials have cut short aid talks with Hungary over to the law.
Hungary had been seeking a standby credit line of 15-20bn euros ($19.5bn, £12.6bn) in case it ran into trouble issuing new debt.
But the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission have both cast doubts over aid because of the law.
On Thursday, Hungary abandoned part of a planned bond auction, when investors demanded a higher interest rate on the debt the country planned to issue.
Hungary's central bank governor, Andras Simor, has said the bill amounts to a takeover of the central bank.
The law has also been criticised by the European Central Bank, who said it raised "concern as to whether [it] could be used to influence the decision-making process, to the detriment of central bank independence".
International pressure
The government wants to keep interest rates low to boost growth - but last week, Hungary's central bank increased rates for the the second month in a row, to 7% from 6.5%.
Consumer prices inflation in Hungary is currently running at 4.25%, well above the official 3% target.
"Some amendments have been made since the original draft was presented before the Christmas holiday, but concerns remain that the essence of the law has not changed," said the BBC's Eastern Europe reporter Nick Thorpe.
"The reform of the bank would introduce deputy governors and allow the government greater potential influence over key aspects of monetary policy, such as the level of interest rates."
Hungary was given a 20bn-euro standby loan by the IMF in 2008 to prevent it having to default on its debts.
But the newly-elected Prime Minister Viktor Orban decided not to renew the standby facility last year.
Standard & Poor's has cited heightened risks to the country's ability to repay its debts due to the weakening domestic and global economic outlook.
"In our view, the predictability of Hungary's policy framework continues to weaken, harming Hungary's medium-term growth prospects," S&P said.
Last month, fellow ratings agency Moody's also downgraded Hungary to junk status, blaming the economy's high levels of debt and weak prospects for growth.
Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro opened the scoring for the visitors and, despite Gwion Edwards' leveller, Mauro Vilnete and a penalty from former Peterborough striker Shaquile Coulthirst gave the Bees victory.
Barnet started brightly with David Tutonda hitting the post from 25 yards and Coulthirst having a shot saved by home goalkeeper Jonathan Bond.
Akpa-Akpro then found the roof of the net after 22 minutes following a header across goal by ex-Posh player Ricardo Santos.
Edwards levelled after half an hour, firing in low from 25 yards, but a slick passing move nine minutes later ended with Vilhete finding the corner.
The midfielder's free-kick after 58 minutes was then adjudged to have been handled in the wall by Ryan Tafazolli and Coulthirst stepped up to score the penalty, although the ball dribbled in after Bond got a hand to it.
Posh had a good chance to pull a goal back, but Barnet goalkeeper Jamie Stephens turned Tafazolli's header onto the bar.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Peterborough United 1, Barnet 3.
Second Half ends, Peterborough United 1, Barnet 3.
Attempt missed. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) left footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Jack Baldwin (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ruben Bover (Barnet).
Attempt missed. Gwion Edwards (Peterborough United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Barnet. Charlie Clough replaces Wesley Fonguck because of an injury.
Ryan Tafazolli (Peterborough United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Justin Amaluzor (Barnet).
Attempt missed. Ryan Tafazolli (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the right.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Elliot Johnson.
Attempt missed. Jack Baldwin (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Tafazolli (Peterborough United) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by David Tutonda.
Leonardo Da Silva Lopes (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ruben Bover (Barnet).
Attempt missed. Gwion Edwards (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Jack Baldwin (Peterborough United) hits the bar with a header from the centre of the box.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Ricardo Santos.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Tafazolli (Peterborough United) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ricardo Santos (Barnet).
Attempt saved. Justin Amaluzor (Barnet) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Andrew Hughes (Peterborough United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by David Tutonda.
Andrew Hughes (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Justin Amaluzor (Barnet).
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by David Tutonda.
Attempt blocked. Junior Morias (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Ricardo Santos.
Attempt blocked. Junior Morias (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Idris Kanu replaces Michael Doughty.
Foul by Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United).
Justin Amaluzor (Barnet) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Leonardo Da Silva Lopes replaces Alex Penny.
Substitution, Barnet. Justin Amaluzor replaces Shaquile Coulthirst.
Attempt saved. Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Barnet) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Ruben Bover (Barnet) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked.
Attempt saved. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by Chris Forrester.
After Friday's opening day in Bermuda was postponed due to strong winds, Ainslie's Land Rover BAR beat Sweden's Artemis Racing in their opening race.
But they were then defeated by SoftBank Team Japan after helmsman Ainslie was penalised for a start-line collision.
With damage to one hull, GB finished 48 seconds behind the Japanese.
BAR - whose crew includes tactician Giles Scott, who won Olympic gold in Rio last summer - still finished the day top of the table with defending champions Oracle Team USA, who await the top challenger in the 35th America's Cup starting on 17 June.
Oracle won both of their races on Saturday, leaving the two teams level on three points.
*Land Rover BAR started the qualifiers with two points and Oracle Team USA with one point after finishing first and second respectively in the 2015-16 America's Cup World Series.
"We had a bit of an up-and-down day," said Ainslie. "We had a fantastic first race, we took down Artemis who were the form team coming into this America's Cup.
"It was fantastic for the team, we silenced a lot of doubters out there.
"We've then got to back that up with a win in the second race - unfortunately we had a big collision with Softbank Team Japan. We suffered a big hole in the side of our boat.
"It was all we could do to get round the course and, frankly given the damage to the boat, it was pretty amazing that we did that.
"Now the shore team have got to work their magic to fix the damage and get us out for racing tomorrow."
Ainslie was penalised for not taking evasive action when Japan had right of way before the two crossed the starting line.
There were signs of damage to the outer skin of his boat's high-tech carbon fibre hull, which appeared to narrowly miss several of SoftBank's six-man crew as it lurched dramatically in the air as the two boats came together.
"There's a couple of bruises," SoftBank Team Japan's tactician Chris Draper said. "It got pretty ugly, pretty quick."
Oracle, the defending champions, beat France's Groupama team before taking on New Zealand in a rematch of the 2013 America's Cup - when the US outfit won eight straight races to seal one of the biggest comebacks in sport.
Oracle skipper Jimmy Spithill caught New Zealand as they rounded the mark into the penultimate leg and went on to win by six seconds.
Ainslie steered his Portsmouth-based team to victory in the 2015-16 America's Cup World Series, a result which earned two points for the qualifying series.
Each team will race each other twice in the qualifiers, scoring one point per win, with the top four teams progressing to the challenger round.
Land Rover BAR start the qualifiers with two points and Oracle Team USA with one point after finishing first and second respectively in the 2015-16 America's Cup World Series.
The top four challengers are split into two best-of-five semi-finals from 4 June, with the winners competing in the final for the right to take on holders Oracle Team USA - who are also taking part in the qualifiers - in the actual America's Cup matches.
The first to seven points wins the America's Cup, or the Auld Mug as the trophy is known, with a possible 13 races to be sailed on 17-18 and 24-27 June.
The America's Cup, the oldest competition in international sport, was first raced in 1851 around the Isle of Wight and has only been won by four nations.
Six races take place on Sunday, with the British team involved in two - against the US and New Zealand. Racing runs from 18:00-21:00 BST.
Race 7 - Sweden v France, Race 8 - United States v Great Britain, Race 9 - Japan v New Zealand, Race 10 - USA v Sweden, Race 11 - New Zealand v Great Britain, Race 12 - Japan v United States
Link to full schedule
On 1 July 1916, Gp Capt Lionel Rees, of the Royal Flying Corps, fought an enemy force that outnumbered him eight to one.
A Hawk Jet from RAF Valley flew over his hometown, Caernarfon, at 12:00 BST.
At 11:45, a memorial paving stone was also unveiled at his birthplace on Castle Street.
Events to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme are taking place around Wales.
Mr Rees was the only Gwynedd man to win a Victoria Cross during World War One, with 628 given out in total.
The airman was on flying duties at Double Crassieurs, France, when he was attacked by German bombers.
He was able to disperse them, seriously damaging two, and despite being shot in the leg and temporarily losing control of his plane, he managed to land it safely.
Following World War One, Mr Rees sailed single-handedly from Wales to Nassau in the Bahamas, where he died in 1955, aged 71.
Air officer for Wales, Air Cmdr Dai Williams, will join Gwynedd councillors for the flypast.
Councillor Ioan Thomas said it was "extremely important" that the council paid tribute to all the Gwynedd men who fought in the war.
The Livingston-based firm, which focuses on upper limb prosthetic technologies, opened its latest Touch Life Centre in Heidelberg, Germany.
Touch said the facility complemented its existing centres of excellence in Hilliard, Ohio, and Livingston.
The centre will offer customer support operations for other European markets.
Touch chief executive Ian Stevens said: "We recognise the importance of education and training to clinicians when delivering optimal outcomes for the community of i-limb wearers.
"We intend that this well-equipped and highly professional facility, utilising our recently revised teaching methods and online learning modules, will be a very useful clinical resource for all our customers."
Earlier this year a nine-year-old boy was fitted with an i-limb quantum, a "bionic" hand designed by Touch Bionics.
Josh Cathcart, from Dalgety Bay in Fife, was thought to be the youngest person in the world to receive such technology.
The trees were removed from the Market Place in Melksham, Wiltshire, as part of a planned redevelopment.
Volunteer Kathy Iles said she "stood in the town hall and cried" after seeing the felled trees while walking "the route for a last check".
Wiltshire Council apologised and said hoped it "doesn't affect the judging".
Ms Iles said while walking the route on Wednesday, to her "horror" she saw a team of contractors in the Market Place cutting down trees.
She said judges did "not just look at the blooms but took everything into account".
"It's about community participation, about cleanliness of the town," she said.
"These trees are due for removal as part of the Market Place redevelopment but they're not supposed to be coming down this week.
"And definitely not the night before judging. I was just absolutely horrified. I rushed across the road and tried to get them to stop but they're there to do the work aren't they?
"They haven't even finished the job. There's a tree stump left standing in the Market Place. The other tree is half-done and it's got Christmas lights dangling from it. It just looks awful."
A Wiltshire Council spokesman said: "These trees were always planned to be removed as part of ongoing investment in Melksham. They are in a poor condition and had to be removed as part of this work."
They said the authority had been doing "all we can" to make the Market Place look "as nice as it can in the circumstances".
Britain in Bloom is a nationwide community gardening campaign which aims "to transform cities, towns and villages".
It was set up by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1964.
The action is being led by Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian leader jailed by Israel for life for five murders.
Barghouti has been touted as a possible future successor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Israeli authorities have placed him under solitary confinement for calling the strike - now in its second day.
Barghouti was "instigating mutiny and leading the hunger strike and that is a severe violation of the rules of the prison," said Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan.
"We have no reason to negotiate," Mr Erdan told Israeli public radio.
"They are terrorists and incarcerated murderers who are getting what they deserve," he added.
Protests in support of the prisoners were held in the occupied West Bank on the first day of the strike on Monday, with youths clashing with Israeli security forces in Bethlehem.
There are fears that the hunger strike - observed by 1,187 detainees, according to Israel's prison service - could fuel tensions across the Palestinian areas.
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Palestinians regard the detainees as political prisoners. Many have been convicted of attacks against Israelis and other offences.
Others are detained under so-called Administrative Detention, which allows suspects to be held without charge for six-month intervals.
There were about 7,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails at the end of last year, according to Palestinian prisoners' groups.
Wolves captain Batth opened the scoring with a header for his second goal of the season.
Kenneth Zohore's ninth goal in nine games brought Cardiff level soon after but a second header from Batth restored Wolves' lead before half time.
Helder Costa's fine individual goal sealed a fourth successive win for Wolves with seven minutes remaining.
Defensive mistakes and missed opportunities proved costly for Cardiff, who have not won away from home since victory at Derby in February.
The Bluebirds slipped one place to 14th in the table while Wolves, who edged closer to safety, remain 16th.
Batth's header put Wolves in front after Andreas Weimann headed Ben Marshall's free-kick across the penalty area with Cardiff punished for defensive mistakes.
Neil Warnock's side were level within three minutes when Denmark Under-21 striker Zohore netted his 11th goal of the season, beating Andy Lonergan to the ball to head home into an empty net.
Cardiff had further chances when Aron Gunnarsson pushed his shot wide after being set up by Zohore, who along with Junior Hoilett failed to react to a Sean Morrison head down.
But Batth restored the home side's lead with his second goal of the game four minutes before the interval.
Marshall's brilliant cross from the right-hand side found the Wolves captain at the far post, and Batth rose above Morrison to head home.
Batth nearly scored a hat-trick from a Marshall corner, only to see his header fly over the bar.
Cardiff substitute Craig Noone struck the post before Costa sealed Wolves' victory with a tough of magic.
The Portuguese winger was released by Edwards with a weaving run through the Cardiff defence before nonchalantly rolling the ball past Allan McGregor.
Wolves manager Paul Lambert told BBC WM: "I thought it was well deserved. We were excellent right from the off - some of the football we played was fantastic.
"There's a lot of work still to be done but we're on the right road of trying to create something really good here.
"In comparison to some other clubs we're nowhere near where we want to be in the division, but we're exciting to watch."
Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock told BBC Radio Wales: "I don't think they won the game, I think we lost it We looked comfortable early doors and even when they scored we looked dangerous.
"I don't think there was much wrong. You couldn't say they didn't try - we didn't get the rub of the green on certain decisions but you're away from home and don't expect that."
Match ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 3, Cardiff City 1.
Second Half ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 3, Cardiff City 1.
Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Bruno Ecuele Manga (Cardiff City) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Craig Noone with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Conor Coady.
Attempt blocked. Joe Bennett (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kenneth Zohore.
Foul by George Saville (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Jazz Richards (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. George Saville replaces Andreas Weimann.
Attempt saved. Craig Noone (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Goal! Wolverhampton Wanderers 3, Cardiff City 1. Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by David Edwards.
David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jazz Richards (Cardiff City).
Substitution, Cardiff City. Anthony Pilkington replaces Kadeem Harris.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Conor Coady.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Jón Dadi Bödvarsson replaces Ivan Cavaleiro.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Romain Saiss replaces Ben Marshall.
Delay in match Kadeem Harris (Cardiff City) because of an injury.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Bruno Ecuele Manga.
Offside, Cardiff City. Peter Whittingham tries a through ball, but Jazz Richards is caught offside.
Ben Marshall (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ben Marshall (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Sol Bamba (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Craig Noone (Cardiff City) hits the right post with a left footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Aron Gunnarsson.
Attempt missed. Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from very close range is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Ben Marshall with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Sean Morrison.
Attempt blocked. Ivan Cavaleiro (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Hélder Costa.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Craig Noone replaces Junior Hoilett.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Peter Whittingham replaces Joe Ralls.
Kadeem Harris (Cardiff City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Delay in match Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers) because of an injury.
Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kadeem Harris (Cardiff City).
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Conor Coady.
Attempt missed. Sean Morrison (Cardiff City) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Aron Gunnarsson.
Attempt blocked. Joe Ralls (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
In a memo to staff, leaked to tech news website the Verge, he said that bullying behaviour on the network was driving users away.
He promised tougher action to deal with abusers.
A series of high-profile users have quit Twitter in recent months, citing online abuse.
In his memo to staff, Mr Costolo wrote: "We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we've sucked at it for years.
"It's no secret that the rest of the world talks about it every day. We lose core user after core user by not addressing simple trolling issues that they face every day."
His words echo a December blog post in which the company admitted that it "was nowhere near being done making changes in this area".
It promises that, in coming months, it will bring in further user controls and improvements in the way users can report abusive accounts.
The debate over so-called internet trolls - people who use social media accounts to abuse others - has been attracting headlines for several years now.
The daughter of actor Robin Williams signed off Twitter following taunts about her father's suicide.
Screenwriter Jane Goldman deleted her account following abuse of her family.
And Sara Payne, whose daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered in 2000, said she was leaving the social media network after years of online harassment.
Increasingly victims of trolling are confronting their bullies.
When a troll targeted US journalist Lindy West, setting up an account in her dead father's name, she wrote about it.
After describing some of the abuse, she received an email from the troll, apologising for his behaviour.
And Isabella Sorley, who was jailed after posting abusive messages on Twitter about feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez, has been attempting to make amends, appearing in media interviews condemning her own words and urging other young people not to follow in her footsteps.
Twitter's confession about how it deals with online abuse comes ahead of rumours that it is about to strike a deal with Google to make its 140-character updates more searchable on Google.
The deal may be confirmed when the firm releases its financial results for 2014, expected on 5 February.
The new environment secretary said leaving the EU was a chance to remove "cumbersome bureaucracy" and replace "inefficient subsidies" with a better form of financial support for farmers.
Mr Gove was recalled to the front bench after the general election.
He was addressing a meeting in Parliament organised by the National Farmers' Union.
The NFU has warned that the "wrong" kind of Brexit deal could result in seasonal labour shortages and the government having to pay billions in direct financial assistance to help farmers cope with market and price volatility.
Mr Gove said while EU membership had helped improve environmental standards and encouraged rural diversification, it had had a harmful impact in other areas and the UK's exit from the common agricultural policy meant the UK would no longer be "dictated to" by Brussels.
"We now have an opportunity to put things right," he said.
He pledged to listen to and learn from the industry as the Brexit process unfolded and be their "energetic champion" in government.
While farmers were excellent custodians of the environment, he said, he recognised that the industry had to be financially viable because people were "running businesses not just providing scenery".
Mr Gove, whose appointment was criticised by some environmental campaigners, also said combating air pollution would be a priority for him in his new role since clean air was a vital resource for the countryside.
Keane Wallis-Bennett, 12, died at Liberton High School in April 2014.
The inquiry into her death has been taking place at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.
Mark Hatfield, an inspector for the Health and Safety Executive, was asked about evidence which had been given by a fellow pupil at the school.
The pupil had described "mucking about" with a friend in the changing room by leaning against the wall with their feet up on the opposite wall.
Fiscal depute Gary Aitken said the girl could not remember whether she and her friend had been doing this at the same time or separately.
"If one of the girls was acting in the manner described, is it possible that may be the reason the wall collapsed?" he asked.
Mr Hatfield replied: "If the wall was only partially cracked, I do not believe it possible for a single girl to have caused it to fall.
"If the wall was already fully cracked, it is possible a single girl, acting in the way described, may have made the wall fall."
He added that if two girls had been acting simultaneously and the wall was fully cracked, it would "turn possibility into probability".
The parties involved in the inquiry will make their submissions on Friday.
The body of Jorge Mauricio Melendez Herrera, 20, was found on Friday in Ciudad Juarez, with signs of torture.
Investigators said Mr Melendez was part of the first ring of security guarding the outside of the jail in the city.
Guzman has previously escaped from two top security prisons in Mexico.
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February 2014: Captured after 13 years on the run in a hotel in Sinaloa state
July 2015: Escaped via tunnel from Altiplano prison
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May 2016: Moved from Altiplano maximum security prison to a jail in Ciudad Juarez, near the US border
A forensic expert said Mr Melendez had died from a blow to the back of the neck. He had also been stabbed a number of times.
His body was identified after his family reported him missing.
Officials said the case was currently with authorities in Chihuahua state, where the jail is located, but could be passed on to federal investigators because of the victim's job guarding Guzman.
Three hundred soldiers have been deployed from nearby barracks to boost security at the prison in Ciudad Juarez.
He was moved there at the beginning of May from the maximum security Altiplano prison. Officials said the move was part of a routine rotation for security reasons.
How authorities hope to stop another escape
The United States has asked for Guzman's extradition so he can stand trial on drug trafficking charges there.
While Mexico has agreed, Guzman's lawyer is currently appealing.
The US has in the past expressed concern about whether Mexico can keep Guzman locked up after he twice escaped from maximum security jails.
Eleven guards and officials are in prison pending trial on charges that they helped the drug lord escape from Altiplano prison through a 1.5km-long tunnel last year.
And on Tuesday, a regional lawmaker from the state of Sinaloa was stripped of her post for her alleged links with Guzman.
Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez allegedly visited Guzman in prison prior to his jailbreak in July 2015, giving a false identity.
But he's the latest in a long line of amazing animal record breakers - Newsround's got your top five.
Jiff smashed the world record for being the fastest dog on two paws.
He took just under 8 seconds to cover five metres on his front paws and was even quicker on his hinds legs, completing the same distance in less than 7 seconds.
Chris the sheep set a Guinness World Record for having the most wool shaved in a single sitting.
Chris' coat was dangerously big and he needed a life-saving shave.
Five shearers volunteered to help and together the team removed 41.1 kilograms of wool.
Chris is now well and has found a new home on a farm.
A French sheepdog called Norman became the fastest canine to travel 30 metres on a scooter.
The three-year-old covered the distance in twenty one seconds - nine seconds under the previous world record.
This hairy cat called Colonel Meow broke the record for having the longest fur.
The Colonel is a Himalayan-Persian cross and at its longest his fur reaches 22.97cm (that's nearly the length of a school ruler).
They're not strictly animal record breakers, but this record wouldn't have been possible without cows and their poo!
This bus powered by cow poo set a new land speed record for a bus after reaching speeds of almost 77mph.
Yu Shaolei, an editor at Southern Metropolis Daily, posted a resignation note online, saying he could no longer follow the Communist Party line.
He also uploaded a message wishing those responsible for censoring his social media account well.
Chinese media outlets are subject to censorship, with government control tightening in recent years.
Mr Yu, who edited the cultural section of the newspaper, posted a photo of his resignation form on his Sina Weibo microblog account on Monday evening.
Under the "reason for resignation" section, he wrote: "Unable to bear your surname".
This was a reference to Chinese President Xi Jinping's tour of state media outlets in February, when he said journalists must give absolute loyalty to the Communist Party, and "bear the surname of the Party".
Mr Yu's post was quickly deleted, although a cached copy was still viewable on monitoring sites online.
He wrote: "I'm getting old, and my knees can't stand it after so many years [of kneeling]."
He added what appeared to be a tongue-in-cheek apology to the censors responsible for monitoring his social media account.
"To the person responsible for watching my weibo feed and notifying their superiors about what to delete, you can heave a sigh of relief now, apologies for causing you stress over the last few years, and I sincerely wish your career will head in a new direction."
When approached by the BBC, Mr Yu said he did not wish to comment further, and that he had said everything he wanted to say on social media.
It is not known if he has received any admonishment from the authorities, the BBC's John Sudworth in Beijing reports.
A columnist at the same paper, Li Xin, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in Thailand after claiming he had been forced to inform on fellow journalists, is now back in police custody in China, our correspondent adds.
And last month, a front-page editor at Southern Metropolis Daily was fired after the headlines on one of the newspaper's front pages, when combined with a headline from another story, allegedly contained a veiled criticism of the government's demand that media "bear the surname of the Party".
In recent weeks, China detained more than 20 people following the publication of a letter calling on President Xi to resign on state-backed website Wujie News.
Those detained included journalists linked to the website, employees at a related technology company, and prominent columnist Jia Jia, who has since been released.
Two overseas Chinese dissidents also say their relatives have been detained in connection with the letter.
Wen Yunchao, who lives in the US, said he believed his parents and his brother had been detained because authorities were trying to pressure him to reveal information. But he told the BBC that he knew nothing about the letter.
Meanwhile, German-based writer Zhang Ping, also known by his penname Chang Ping, said three of his siblings had been detained and that Chinese police had demanded that he stop writing in German media.
Mr Zhang said he had written about the letter, but had no other connection to it.
Authorities in China said they were investigating Mr Zhang's relatives on suspicion of arson.
The Colin Bloomfield Sun Meter was installed in Markeaton Park, Derby, to measure ultraviolet rays (UV).
The 33-year-old BBC Radio Derby presenter launched an appeal shortly before he died last year to provide UV sun meters in public places.
A second UV meter and sun shade has been planned for West Park, in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, later this summer.
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The sun meter advises people on what action to take depending on the strength of the sun, such as going into the shade or putting on sun cream.
In 2013, Mr Bloomfield was diagnosed with stage four melanoma and later launched the Colin Bloomfield Melanoma Appeal, raising almost £175,000.
Station listener, John Williams, unveiled the metre and said he was successfully treated for a cancerous mole after hearing Mr Bloomfield's story.
"My melanoma was detected at an early stage, you couldn't get it earlier," Mr Williams said.
"Colin has made a tremendous impact on me... he saved my life.
"I just want to give him a big hug and say thanks."
"My melanoma story started when I was 21. A mole on my thigh had changed colour, shape and size. I should have been concerned, but wasn't.
"On New Years Eve 2001, a dermatologist confirmed it was skin cancer. I was terrified. At that age, you're invincible.
"The cancer was cut out at a hospital. Regular check-ups followed and with no recurrence during five years of visits, I was effectively discharged. My life continued.
"One morning...I woke up to discover a lump under my groin. 10 years after my first visit there, I returned to the hospital.
"I was told the cancer had come back, it was stage four and it was as bad as it could get."
The presenter's appeal was launched in conjunction with Derby Telegraph and charity Skcin, which specialises in skin cancer prevention.
Money raised funded the Sun Safe Schools programme to teach thousands of schoolchildren about sun safety, as well as UV meters and sun shades.
A public sun shade was installed at Alvaston Park, in Derby, in April.
The government has said it will not hand powers on corporation tax to Stormont unless the parties reach agreement on welfare reform.
The airport's Managing Director Graham Keddie said it was important there were no delays.
He was speaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Inside Business programme.
"Decisions have to be made, things have to be done in the business world," he said.
"We can't hold back and operate at a different speed.
"Unless we take part in the wider business world and say we're open for business, how are the executive going to move forward and how's it going to assist Invest NI in getting business and investment here into Northern Ireland?"
Meanwhile, the businessman who chaired Northern Ireland's air route development fund, Bill McGinnis, has said the Stormont executive should "seriously consider" setting up a new scheme to attract more direct flights.
"With the new economic development model we're now looking towards, with corporation tax, minister Foster has to decide where best to place her bets to get the best return," he said.
"But I think there's probably an opportunity to do that."
He added that the success of the first fund, which also established the Belfast to New York flight, could be repeated.
He said: "That £4m last time generated serious money for the economy, and if you imagine the extra jobs here, those passengers helped create inward tourists.
"All that money was spent in Northern Ireland and if you didn't have that, the people wouldn't be here."
Inside Business is on BBC Radio Ulster on Sundays at 13:30 GMT
The $1m prize is awarded each year to an individual who is judged able to spark global change.
Dr Parcak is using the money to set up a website to crowdsource as yet undiscovered sites around the world.
The so-called citizen scientists will also be called on to spot and report looting at existing sites.
Dr Parcak is known as a space archaeologist because she uses satellite imagery collected above the Earth and analyses it using algorithms to identify subtle changes that could signal a hidden human-made structure.
Her satellite mapping of Egypt has already suggested the existence of 17 hitherto unknown pyramids, 1,000 tombs and 3,100 settlements.
Each TED prizewinner must articulate how they will spend the money via a "wish". Dr Parcak's is to get the world more engaged in archaeology.
"I wish for us to discover the millions of unknown archaeological sites across the globe," she said.
"By creating a 21st Century army of global explorers, we'll find and protect the world's hidden heritage, which contains humankind's collective resilience and creativity."
Her website will offer the public access to satellite imagery and tutorials to help spot potential sites.
Users will be asked to fill in a checklist of what they have seen. Although they will be given imagery, they will not know the exact location of the sites they are exploring to prevent possible looting or misuse of information.
"If 50 people say that they have seen a tomb, then we will think that it is worth a look," she explained.
She added that the site would be launched in a game format. Users will be given points and high-scorers could win the opportunity to be involved in digs via social media if archaeologists follow up their discoveries.
"Archaeology is currently at a tipping point," she told the TED audience on accepting her prize.
"Isil is blowing up and looting temples in Iraq and Syria. If we don't do something, these sites will be gone."
The volunteers will also be called on to spot evidence of sites being raided and treasures stolen by locals who are desperate for money.
Dr Parcak's team has spent the last six months looking for looting pits in Egypt, which are distinctive and relatively easy to identify.
She said they had uncovered evidence of excavations across the country where people had tunnelled underneath to steal mummies, jewellery and other valuables.
"We can't keep up, we are losing the battle. It is heartbreaking," she said.
She hopes that by engaging an army of citizen scientists, some of the treasures at the ancient sites in the Middle East can be saved.
"If the platform can detect looting early enough we can alert the authorities and start protecting the site," she said.
Ofsted said "too many children" were being left in situations of "risk of significant harm for too long" because dangers were not recognised.
It rated children's services as inadequate and said standards had "deteriorated significantly" since it was last rated inadequate in 2011.
The council admitted it had "fallen short" but has made "major changes".
The report, which covered an inspection period from 27 February to 23 March, said it had "serious concerns" about the services' senior leadership team.
It said a "lack of management oversight" was leaving children in "situations of risk" and its findings - along with an "unprecedented number of whistleblowing concerns" - showed that management was "failing to protect children and families".
Inspectors found a "significant number" of cases being referred back to the local authority because managers and social workers "failed to identify children at risk" or "respond appropriately to escalating risks in families".
The report also found only 60% of children were risk assessed within an "appropriate timescale", that current systems and processes were "ineffective" and that an "unprecedented number" of staff had raised concerns about a "culture of bullying and blame".
In a statement, the council said it has "changed the leadership team" and "made some major changes in management".
"Our social workers do very difficult and complex work - they are not to blame," a spokesperson said.
"The responsibility lies with their leadership and management team and we have taken swift action to deal with this."
Chief Executive Pete Bungard, said it has also brought in "social work specialists" to lead its staff.
"I am sorry that we have not supported our children and their families as quickly as we should have done," he said.
"We will continue to work very closely with the Department for Education, Ofsted and the Local Government Association."
Jack Clifford, Ollie Devoto and Paul Hill could make their debuts in what will be Jones' first match in charge.
Uncapped duo Maro Itoje and Elliot Daly will travel to Edinburgh as reserves.
Saracens' Itoje may yet feature in the match-day squad, with Courtney Lawes battling a hamstring injury.
Assistant coach Steve Borthwick told BBC Sport that Northampton lock Lawes did not train on Tuesday but was hopeful he would play.
"Courtney is working hard on his recovery. He was working well with the physios and hopefully he'll be fit and healthy for Saturday," said the former England second-rower.
Sale forward Josh Beaumont, one of seven uncapped players in England's original 33-man squad, is one of the eight to return to their clubs this weekend.
Kieran Brookes (Northampton Saints), Luke Cowan-Dickie (Exeter Chiefs), Matt Kvesic (Gloucester Rugby), Matt Mullan (Wasps), Sam Hill (Exeter Chiefs), Semesa Rokoduguni (Bath Rugby) and Marland Yarde (Harlequins) have also been freed up to play in the Premiership.
England have a new coach, and a new captain in Dylan Hartley, and will aim to atone for becoming the first host nation to fail to progress beyond the World Cup group stages in 2015.
The statistics bode well for Jones, as Scotland have not beaten England in their last eight attempts since 2008, with one draw in 2010.
Scotland have only won their first game of the Six Nations once, in 2006, and have not scored a try against England at Murrayfield since 2004.
Backs: Mike Brown (Harlequins), Danny Care (Harlequins), Ollie Devoto (Bath Rugby), Owen Farrell (Saracens), George Ford (Bath Rugby), Alex Goode (Saracens), Jonathan Joseph (Bath Rugby), Jack Nowell (Exeter Chiefs), Anthony Watson (Bath Rugby), Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers).
Forwards: Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers), Jack Clifford (Harlequins), Jamie George (Saracens), Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints), James Haskell (Wasps), Paul Hill (Northampton Saints), George Kruis (Saracens), Joe Launchbury (Wasps), Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints), Joe Marler (Harlequins), Chris Robshaw (Harlequins), Billy Vunipola (Saracens), Mako Vunipola (Saracens).
Earlier this week Shelter rejected donations from the star, saying they felt they had to take a stand.
In a statement the comedian said: "I think it's important that if we overstep the mark and cause upset that we apologise.
"I'd like to say sorry to those people who I have upset by my comments."
Daniel O'Reilly became well known on the video-sharing app Vine before being handed a show, Dapper Laughs, on ITV2.
But his lad culture-style comedy has been criticised and plans to donate part of the proceeds of his new Christmas album to the homeless were turned down by Shelter.
One song on his album is called A Walk To The Pub... With A Tramp while another is called Proper Moist.
On Twitter he's sent posts including: "Just gave my number to a homeless woman (cracking boobs tho, not sure if her top was low cut or just ripped) closed with: your place or mine?"
His Christmas album has been posted on Spotify, where artists are thought to make around half a penny every time a song is played.
Shelter has started to receive donations from supporters who agree with the charity's decision to reject any money raised.
The charity's CEO Campbell Robb said in a statement: "The fact that 90,000 children will wake up homeless this Christmas is no joke.
"Dapper Laughs's brand of 'comedy' - which is deeply offensive about homeless people, not to mention many others - is something we felt it was important to take a stand against.
"The support from the public has been overwhelming and we've seen a fantastic rise in donations as a result, meaning Shelter can help even more people this Christmas."
The comedian was recently forced to call off his tour of Wales after nearly 1,000 people signed a petition demanding Cardiff University Student's Union cancel a performance because of its "sexist and inappropriate" content.
His Vine channel has had 144 million views, he has 1.7 million followers on Facebook and another 362,000 on Twitter.
There's also a petition online trying to get his TV show cancelled.
An ITV spokesman said about the ITV2 show: "Dapper Laughs: On The Pull features an established internet comedy character created by Daniel O'Reilly.
"ITV2 commissioned a show in which this character is placed within a recognisable TV format, a dating advice show.
"Comedy is subjective and we realise the content of the show might not be to everyone's taste.
"We regret that any of our viewers were offended.
"However, as with all of our shows, the series content was carefully considered, complied and deemed suitable for broadcast."
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Athletes were cheered by children and mobbed for selfies as they arrived at Oriam, the new sports performance centre at Heriot-Watt University.
The homecoming event included a Q&A and an opportunity for young people to try Olympic sports such as rowing, judo and tennis, with tips from the athletes.
It was followed by a public celebration in Edinburgh's Festival Square.
Later the athletes attended the Team Scotland Scottish Sports Awards at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
About 50 Scottish Olympic and Paralympic athletes took part in the celebration.
Sportscotland said 18 medallists were at the events which the organisation said demonstrated "Scotland's pride" in what the athletes have achieved.
Double silver medal winning swimmer Duncan Scott said he hoped to encourage athletes of the future.
He said: "The biggest advice I could give is work on the little things.
"I think the whole point of being an athlete is trying to inspire the next generation no matter what level you are at.
"It's so important to carry that and keep it going."
Rio 2016 was Scotland's most successful overseas Olympics, with Scottish competitors securing 13 medals - four gold, seven silver and two bronze.
Cyclists Callum Skinner and Katie Archibald won gold along with rower Heather Stanning and tennis star Andy Murray.
Rower Katherine Grainger's silver medal made her Britain's most decorated female Olympian.
Callum Skinner, who won the silver medal in the individual cycling track sprints and was a member of the British team that won gold in the team sprint in Rio, said he was pleased to see so many young people at the event.
He said: "I was inspired by watching Chris Hoy as a kid and sport should be something for everyone.
"It's a great thing to get involved in so the more kids that get inspired the better.
"My medals are not just for me they are for everyone to pass around to see what they are like.
"I saw Chris' Olympic medals when I was younger and that's something I want to pass on as well."
There were 33 Scottish athletes on the ParalympicsGB team. Between them they won 17 medals - the team's best performance since 2004.
Libby Clegg secured half of the gold haul with her two medals on the track while Jo Butterfield won gold in the F51 club throw while Karen Darke took gold in the cycling H1-3 time trial.
Gordon Reid won gold in the wheelchair tennis men's singles.
Sportscotland chief executive Stewart Harris said earlier this month: "This represents the most successful overseas Games for Scots on Team GB and everyone in Scotland can be very proud of their success.
"It's testament to all the hard work by the athletes, sports, coaches and the collaboration between UK Sport and the sportscotland institute of sport that Scottish athletes are delivering record-breaking performances on the Olympic stage."
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the athletes were a credit to Scotland.
She said: "On behalf of the people of Scotland, I would like to offer my congratulations to all of the Scottish Olympians and Paralympians.
"They have done themselves and their country proud and will have inspired the next generation of athletes.
"Today's event was a fantastic way to celebrate the achievements of our athletes and it is hard to think of a more fitting venue for us to do this than at Oriam, Scotland's brand new, world class national performance centre."
Wheelchair tennis star Gordon Reid proudly showed off his gold and silver medals from Rio 2016 at Oriam.
He said: "It's been pretty crazy since I got back, the reception has been incredible.
"To be able to come back and share the success is nice and to see so many kids here is great.
"Hopefully the chance to see a gold or silver medal and maybe try it on will inspire them to go and do the same in the future. Days like this are really important."
Sportscotland chairman Mel Young said Oriam was chosen to stage the first celebration as it will be key to future Scottish sporting success.
"Sometimes in this country we're not so good at celebrating success so this is a big three cheers to everyone involved, and we need to build on it for the future.
"We're creating a world-class system here in Scotland with places like Oriam to create more success in the future but related to that, of course, we want more people participating in sport in the wider community, so it should be a win-win for society."
12 August 2016 Last updated at 17:35 BST
The Met Office said gusts reached speeds of up to 47mph in Kirkwall on Friday.
The incident was captured on camera by agricultural firm manager Andy Mair.
"There were at least 20 people helping to get it pegged down again," he said.
Sr Clare Theresa Crockett, 33, who was from Derry's Long Tower area, died when a school collapsed in Playa Prieta.
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed at least 480 people, and left more than 4,000 injured and 231 missing.
Shauna Gill said that it was a tribute to her sister that people were still so interested in her story a year after her death.
"Over the past year we have had a lot of support from people," Ms Gill told BBC News NI.
"Clare was always happy and loved life.
"To think that a year on people are still writing about her is unbelievable."
Sr Clare and another Irish nun injured in the quake, Sr Thérèse Ryan from County Limerick, were part of the Home of the Mother order.
They had been teaching guitar and singing with five young women postulants, who were entering the religious order, when the earthquake struck.
It is believed they became trapped on a stairwell as they ran out of the building.
Lance Corporal James Ross, who was from Leeds and served in Afghanistan with the 2nd Battalion the Rifles, was found hanging in his room at the County Down barracks in December 2012.
Two months later, Rifleman Darren Mitchell, who was 20 and also served in Afghanistan, was found hanging at the base.
An inquest into their deaths will begin in January.
A preliminary hearing on Friday heard that both soldiers has concerns about disciplinary issues before their deaths.
Details about the eight additional cases of self harm at the County Down base emerged during legal arguments about information being withheld by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
The coroner has ordered the MoD to explain, in writing, by next Tuesday, why it should continue to withhold certain information contained in the army inquiry.
Jane Howells has been commissioned by Cornwall councillor, Bert Biscoe, and will be meeting Guernsey politicians and lawmakers in September.
Mrs Howells said: "It's obviously self-contained governance and seems to work extremely well.
"We hope our research will find out if anything can be applied to Cornwall."
The research comes while the UK government's localism bill is being prepared, which will allow governance to be adapted more specifically to the areas in which they operate.
Mrs Howells said: "In Guernsey this is something you've really been working at, developed your laws and enhanced your laws over centuries now.
"We want to see how it works in Guernsey and what elements could be adapted in Cornwall, what we can learn about how you approach things in a slightly less complex way."
Asked if people in the county wanted more autonomy she said: "I think it's necessary and Cornwall is ready for that, very few decisions are actually made in Cornwall at the moment and there's a general feeling that we do need to be making our decisions rather more.
"We are so specific here, which is why we do want to look into somewhere like Guernsey that really does, and has been doing for centuries, work in a way that benefits its population."
The former Cornwall county council commissioned a Mori poll in 2003 which showed 55% of Cornish people were in favour of a democratically-elected, fully devolved regional assembly for Cornwall.
The court heard how the teenager, who called himself DJ Stolen, earned more than 15,000 euros (£13,260) by breaking copyright laws and hacking personal information from a number of singers.
The hacker used phishing emails and Trojan horse software to steal unpublished songs and then offer them for sale on the internet.
Anti-piracy teams in the UK and Germany noticed a growing number of pre-release tracks being leaked much earlier than normal.
Tracks were stolen from Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Leona Lewis, Ke$ha and Mariah Carey in 2009 and 2010.
The teenager, referred to in court as 'Deniz A' because of his age, was also found guilty of downloading explicit private photos from Kesha's computer.
The court in the German city of Duisburg also heard how a letter of apology was published in the Bild, a German tabloid newspaper, from the teenager.
It said: "Dear Lady Gaga, I am ashamed of what I have done. I did not think about the consequences."
The judge ruled that the teen was "driven more by a desire for recognition than by criminal intent".
The 18-year-old was also ordered to have therapy for an addiction to the internet.
Another hacker, 23, whose name wasn't released, was also given an 18 months suspended sentence.
Jeremy Banks, from the International Federation of the Phonograhic Industry (IFPI), which helped with the investigation said the sentences acted as a "deterrent" to others.
He said the crimes caused "huge damage to artists and record companies".
The fire at Fegan's Quarry on the Madden Road in Keady happened in the early hours of Tuesday.
Police have said they are working to establish a motive for the incident.
They are appealing for anyone who noticed any suspicious activity in the area, or who has any other information, to contact them.
The woman, in her 40s, died at a block of flats in Ruth Bagnall Court, Cambridge, on Sunday evening.
She got into difficulty with the automatic shutter doors at the entrance to an underground garage, the Cambridge News reported.
Housing group Luminus, which manages the block, said it was assisting the Health and Safety Executive with its inquiries.
Paramedics were called to a report of a woman not breathing in Coleridge Road, the East of England Ambulance Service said.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
A Luminus spokesman said Cambridge Police informed them a woman had died as a result of "an accident involving a car park security shutter" and it was helping the force with its inquiries.
The Californian authorities had claimed Backpage.com's boss and two of its former owners had generated millions of dollars by hosting sex trade ads, some of which involved under-age children.
Prosecutors told the judge Backpage.com had screened the ads on its site.
But the judge ruled they could not be held liable for third parties' actions.
"This court finds it difficult to see any illegal behaviour outside of the reliance upon the content of speech created by others," said Judge Michael Bowman.
His decision was based on 1996's Communications Decency Act, which says publishers should not be held responsible for content created solely by their users.
The case against Backpage.com had alleged that it should not qualify for protection because it "helps pimps and traffickers develop the ads they post".
The site had previously stated it used both an automated system searching for key words and human review to check the contents of every post to its adult section.
But the judge said he needed further evidence that the site was actually involved in the notices' creation.
Charges of pimping a minor, pimping and conspiracy to commit pimping have now been dropped against the site's chief executive, Carl Ferrer, while charges of conspiracy to commit pimping have also been dropped against its ex-owners Michael Lacey and James Larkin.
A spokesman for the business described the attempted prosecution of the men as an "abuse of power".
But California's attorney general, Kamala Harris, who will shortly become a senator for the Democrat Party, said she intended to find other means to hold the men to account.
"We will not turn a blind eye to the defendants' exploitative behaviour simply because they conducted their criminal enterprise online rather than on a street corner," she said.
Despite a substantial injury list that limited them to six players on the night, the Eagles moved out of reach of second-placed Leicester Riders.
Charles Smith played all 40 minutes and scored 27 points to keep the title with Fabulous Flournoy's team.
It completes a treble for Newcastle, after winning the BBL Cup and Trophy.
"When the final buzzer sounded it was indescribable," said Flournoy. "To have a run of winning as much as we have over a 10-year period and to have more than 20 trophies is incredible.
"But we want to continue this legacy and all the team and the club wants to do now is to keep on winning.
"This success was a little bit different because we started off the season with not exactly a question mark, but when I said at the pre-season press conference that this team was potentially special and then we the lost opening game of season, it was interesting.
"From that moment on, it seems like the guys were on a mission and I think we floated under the radar a lot this season in the early days.
"We discovered some incredible rhythm - we played together and it just felt right."
Riders are now guaranteed to finish in second position following Tuesday's 66-63 victory over third-placed Worcester Wolves
Elsewhere, Glasgow Rocks moved up to fifth with a 96-77 win over Surrey United, with Omotayo Ogedengbe scoring 22 points.
Emlyn Culverwell‚ 29, and Iryna Nohai, 27, were reportedly arrested after a doctor discovered Ms Nohai, who had stomach cramps, was pregnant.
They were arrested for sex outside of marriage, which is illegal in the UAE.
Mr Culverwell's mother has pleaded for their release, saying "the only thing they did wrong was fall in love".
South Africa's foreign ministry has said that it is not able to help the couple as this is a matter of domestic UAE law, News24 reports.
The South African government has advised the couple to get legal assistance, the BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg says.
There was no immediate comment from the UAE government.
Mr Culverwell and Ms Nohai have reportedly been held since January, but news of their detention has only emerged now.
Mr Culverwell has been working in the UAE for the past five years.
His mother Linda told News24 that the family is "trying to get messages to the two to say we love them and that they shouldn't be worried".
The couple have not yet been charged as the authorities are still carrying out tests, Mrs Culverwell added.
If found guilty, they could face a long jail sentence.
They include "continued participation" in the single market and ensuring EU aid for Wales is fully replaced.
Ms Wood called for further devolution and for the rights of all EU nationals living in Wales to be guaranteed.
But the Conservatives said her Welsh independence campaign would break up the "vital single market" of the UK.
Theresa May launches negotiations on Wednesday under Article 50, by writing to the European Council president.
The letter will begin a two-year process to agree the terms of the UK's departure from the EU, and to outline of the UK's future relationship with the remaining 27 EU members.
Ms Wood said: "Our alternative demands for the Article 50 letter reflect not only what is important to Wales and everyone who lives here, but the promises that were made to voters by the Vote Leave campaign.
"They offer the UK Prime Minister a list of sensible and moderate options that do not go against the mandate to leave the EU but protect our vital economic links with the continent and reflect the interests of Wales and all who live here."
A Welsh Conservative spokesman said: "The British public voted to leave the European Union and that vote was endorsed by the people of Wales, giving the Westminster Government a mandate to negotiate on behalf of the whole of the UK.
"Leanne Wood purports to be acting in the national interest, but there is an inherent irony in her demands to retain access to the single market and for the maintenance of current funding levels - whilst simultaneously campaigning for independence from the UK, which would see the taps turned off for our public services and break up a vital single market."
Welsh Labour MEP Derek Vaughan said the UK government had "backed itself into a corner by setting conditions which indicate we are heading for hard Brexit or no deal".
This, he warned, would be "catastrophic" for Wales.
"It's time for Theresa May to do what's best for Wales and the UK rather than catering to the far right at the expense of our future," he said.
UKIP published "six key tests to prove Brexit means Exit", including a requirement that "Parliament must resume its supremacy of law-making with no impediments, qualifications or restrictions on its future actions".
The party called for the UK to have full control of its immigration, asylum and border control policies and the seas around its coast, insisting there should be no final settlement payment to the EU or any ongoing payments.
The river is powering two turbines at Thrybergh Weir, near Kilnhurst, Rotherham, to generate electricity.
It should work constantly for up to 11 months of the year and last 100 years, said the developers Barn Energy and Yorkshire Hydropower.
The plant also includes a passage to help eel, salmon and trout swim upstream towards Sheffield.
It is hoped that salmon could return to Sheffield to spawn.
They have not been seen for more than 100 years given the past pollution and the weirs on the river.
Stuart Mills, of the Canal & River Trust, said: "The Thrybergh scheme shows how renewable power generation can be harnessed with virtually no environmental impact on rivers."
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Victory for the Wallabies sent them and Wales through to the quarter-finals, with England the first World Cup host nation not to reach that stage.
"We feel we let the country down today. We apologise to them," Robshaw said.
Head coach Stuart Lancaster said it was "too raw" to consider his own position following the loss at Twickenham.
"During the last three years we've put in some pretty good performances, but on the day Australia were better," Lancaster told BBC Radio 5 live. "And that's what World Cups are all about - on the day.
"But there are some good players in this squad and I hope the nation stays behind them. Will I be staying behind them as their coach? It's not for me to say. I've just got to get them ready for next week."
England take on Uruguay in their final group game on Saturday, 10 October.
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England began their World Cup campaign with a hard-fought bonus-point win over Fiji, but defeat by Wales last week left them needing to beat the Wallabies to remain in the tournament.
Since Lancaster took over in 2011, England have recorded eye-catching victories over world champions New Zealand and Australia, but have been unable to lift the Six Nations title and have now failed to make it out of their World Cup pool for the first time.
"Results wouldn't say it in terms of the World Cup, but overall we've won more games than we've lost and we've had some big scalps," Lancaster, 45, said.
"I think they're a fantastic group of players, they're great ambassadors for the country and fantastic role models. They've come up short today, but I don't think they'll come up short in the future."
England dominated many of the attacking statistics at Twickenham, but Australia had the better of the breakdown, winning eight turnovers.
Lancaster described Australia number eight David Pocock, who won three of those turnovers, as "outstanding" and "a special player".
Robshaw, 29, added: "They put us under a lot of pressure. We had a spell in the second half where we built a bit of momentum, but to come back from a 17-3 half-time deficit against a quality side like that was always going to difficult.
"A lot of hard work has gone into it but, for whatever reason, we haven't got the results we wanted."
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England captain Chris Robshaw says his team "let the whole nation down" after a 33-13 defeat by Australia led to a pool-stage exit from the World Cup.
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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.
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The cancellation of Castle after eight seasons follows the departure of one of the main cast members, Stana Katic.
Country music-themed soap Nashville will come to an end later this month after four seasons on ABC.
The network also dropped The Muppets, the series set behind the scenes of Miss Piggy's TV talk show, after only one season due to poor ratings.
Other TV cancellations that have been announced include The Family, The Grinder and Bordertown.
The Marvel-produced series Agent Carter, a spin-off to Captain America has also been dropped after two seasons.
The show, which starred British actress Hayley Atwell in the title role, gathered a devoted fan following but did not achieve ratings success in the US.
ABC also announced that it wouldn't be proceeding with a planned production of Marvel's Most Wanted - a spin-off to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
CBS announced the cancellation of CSI: Cyber, the network's last remaining CSI series.
It's likely further shows will be dropped by networks in the coming days, in an annual clean-up of schedules as networks make way for new shows.
The five major US broadcast channels will pitch pilot episodes for up to 100 new shows to advertisers later this month.
Successful shows will then have full seasons commissioned, which will begin in the autumn.
Castle tells the story of mystery novelist Richard Castle, who begins working with the police after a copycat murder based on one of his novels is committed.
Andrew W Marlowe, the show's creator, said: "To the whole Castle family - our amazing cast, our remarkable crew, our imaginative writers and our wonderful fans, thank you for eight amazing years."
Hayden Panettiere and Connie Britton play two rival country singers in musical drama Nashville, the final episode of which will air in the US later this month.
Creator Callie Khouri tweeted: "With a heavy heart, I thank all our incredible fans for all of your love, huge thanks to the city of Nashville. See you on down the road."
Rob Lowe, who starred in The Grinder, said the show was "unapologetically original, smart, funny and had a murderer's row of talent.
"The great news is, that film is forever. And I'm thrilled to have 22 episodes that were as acclaimed as they were. Time well spent," he added.
Romelu Lukaku put the visitors in front with a penalty after keeper Jack Butland had brought down Tom Cleverley.
Seamus Coleman headed in a Cleverley corner and Aaron Lennon intercepted a pass before slotting in as Everton went 3-0 up at the break.
Lukaku also had a header tipped on to the crossbar by Butland, while a poor Stoke struggled to create chances.
Relive Everton's win against Stoke
Follow reaction to Saturday's games
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A lot was made about Everton boss Roberto Martinez's dance moves at a Jason Derulo concert in the week, but it was his team impressing with their performance at the Britannia Stadium.
England manager Roy Hodgson was at the game and he will have liked what he saw from Toffees midfielders Cleverley and Ross Barkley.
The industrious Cleverley burst through before being brought down for Everton's penalty, while his delivery from corners was a constant threat and led to Coleman's goal.
Barkley's attacking instincts also played a part in the win and he could have had an assist when he crossed for Lukaku, whose header from close range was brilliantly saved by Butland.
"I thought we were very strong in every department," said Martinez. "Cleverley had a big influence in the game throughout."
Stoke have endured a month to forget since their last league win against Norwich on 13 January.
Mark Hughes' side have been knocked out the Capital One Cup after a semi-final defeat on penalties by Liverpool, while they were beaten by Crystal Palace in the FA Cup.
The Potters have gained just one point from 12 in the league, dropping from seventh to 11th, and scored just one goal in six games.
The home side gave a debut to record £18.3m signing Gianelli Imbula but, like the rest of his team-mates, the midfielder struggled to make any kind of impact.
"I thought Imbila did OK. I felt sorry for him because as a debut that was a hard one to come into," said Hughes.
Stoke boss Mark Hughes: "We huffed and puffed and didn't really create again and that is a concern for us.
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"A disappointing day. We made mistakes at key times in the game and couldn't recover.
"We have to pick ourselves up and start doing the fundamentals and basics."
Everton manager Roberto Martinez: "We defended really well when we had to but the amount of opportunities we created is pleasing. If anything we should have scored three or four more in the second half.
"We have to make sure we don't drop our standards now."
Stoke's next game is at Bournemouth on 13 February, while Everton host West Brom on the same day with both games kicking off at 15:00 GMT.
Match ends, Stoke City 0, Everton 3.
Second Half ends, Stoke City 0, Everton 3.
Attempt saved. Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Joselu with a cross.
Foul by Peter Odemwingie (Stoke City).
Bryan Oviedo (Everton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Everton. Leon Osman replaces James McCarthy.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Marc Muniesa.
Substitution, Everton. Kevin Mirallas replaces Ross Barkley.
Attempt missed. Stephen Ireland (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Joselu.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Phil Jagielka.
Offside, Stoke City. Joselu tries a through ball, but Glen Johnson is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Ramiro Funes Mori (Everton) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Tom Cleverley with a cross.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Jack Butland.
Attempt saved. Arouna Koné (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ross Barkley.
Substitution, Stoke City. Joselu replaces Marko Arnautovic.
Substitution, Everton. Arouna Koné replaces Romelu Lukaku.
Giannelli Imbula (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gareth Barry (Everton).
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Ramiro Funes Mori.
Attempt blocked. Giannelli Imbula (Stoke City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Stephen Ireland.
Attempt blocked. Ross Barkley (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Attempt saved. Glen Johnson (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Marko Arnautovic.
Attempt missed. James McCarthy (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Attempt blocked. Ross Barkley (Everton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Attempt blocked. Peter Odemwingie (Stoke City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Offside, Everton. Seamus Coleman tries a through ball, but Aaron Lennon is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Ross Barkley (Everton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gareth Barry with a cross.
Attempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aaron Lennon.
Substitution, Stoke City. Peter Odemwingie replaces Xherdan Shaqiri.
Substitution, Stoke City. Stephen Ireland replaces Ibrahim Afellay.
Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Bryan Oviedo (Everton).
Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City).
Aaron Lennon (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ross Barkley with a cross.
Foul by Erik Pieters (Stoke City).
Seamus Coleman (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Gareth Barry.
Kevin Smith, from Cleethorpes, said it was one of the aircraft that were used against German U-boats in the Atlantic.
He said he was "baffled" as there were no records that one of the planes ever crashed in the North Sea.
The Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre said the find was "intriguing" but a mystery as to why the aircraft was there.
The wreckage was found by the French Navy in 2005, about 27 miles (45 km) off the coast of Mablethorpe.
Mr Smith, who has explored the submerged aircraft three times, had previously thought it was the remains of a Halifax bomber.
However, over the summer he said he examined the wreckage and identified four Bristol Pegasus engines which were consistent with a MK1 Sunderland.
Sunderland flying boats were stationed in the west at RAF Pembroke Dock and used in the Battle of the Atlantic.
He said: "It's got us baffled. But I can't believe they [flying boats] didn't come down the North Sea looking for submarines.
"We might never know."
John Evans, from the Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre, Pembrokeshire, said: "There were a number of Sunderlands that disappeared [during World War Two] but the location is very interesting.
"It could well be a war grave and if that's the case it's, 'look, don't touch'.
"We're told it definitely hasn't an undercarriage, [it's got] four engines. It's very likely to be a Sunderland."
Mr Evans speculated that the Sunderland could have been returning from an operation in Norway in 1940.
"There was terrific activity [at the time], who knows what was happening?" he said.
He hopes to find a serial number to help identify the aircraft next year.
Legal papers were filed at the High Court in London on Thursday.
They list Sir Cliff as a claimant, and the BBC and chief constable of South Yorkshire Police as defendants.
The star, 75, has always denied the allegations, and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in June it was taking no further action against him.
The decision to sue the BBC and South Yorkshire Police comes after Sir Cliff was the subject of a long-running police investigation based on allegations dating between 1958 and 1983 made by four men.
Sir Cliff was named as the subject of the investigation after police officers searching his apartment in 2014 were filmed by the BBC.
The CPS announced it was taking no further action against Sir Cliff on 16 June on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
That decision was reviewed last month following an application by one of his alleged accusers, but concluded the original decision not to proceed was correct.
After that announcement, Sir Cliff told BBC Radio 2 that "a cloud lifted" when he was informed of the news he would not be prosecuted.
The singer has previously spoken publicly about the investigation and the publicity surrounding it.
In a statement released in June he criticised what he called "vile accusations", adding he was "named before I was even interviewed, and for me that was like being hung out like 'live bait'".
A spokesman for the singer said: "We can confirm that Sir Cliff today issued legal proceedings at the High Court against both South Yorkshire Police and the BBC. It would not be appropriate to comment further."
A BBC spokesman said: "While we haven't received any notification of action, we've said previously we are very sorry that Sir Cliff has suffered distress but we have a duty to report on matters of public interest and we stand by our journalism."
The telecoms giant says it wants to boost its proportion of female staff.
About 10% of its new management hires will be women who have taken a break from work, perhaps to start a family.
Women face challenges when coming back to work including a "pay penalty", according to think tank the Resolution Foundation.
"We do have a gender imbalance which we are working very hard on," Vodafone's chief executive Vittorio Colao told the BBC.
"We need to do it because these are very talented individuals, but also this is an amazing way to get to more equality in the company."
In the 2015-16 financial year, just 24% of senior management at Vodafone were women.
It has committed to make its workforce more balanced, ensuring women hold at least 30% of senior roles.
The company will also give hiring managers "unconscious bias training".
"There are women who think that if they lose their career momentum it cannot be recovered," said Mr Calao. "This is a waste for society. It's unjust for them."
In a pilot of the scheme, Mr Calao said they had found women "who thought there was no opportunity for them because after a two or three year break, maybe after a baby, they would not be sought after because their competencies were obsolete or not right."
Fiona Packman, a partner at the executive headhunters Egon Zehnder, said women who return to work after having a child faced many hurdles.
"They face a lot of challenges. Not all organisations, both public and private sector, have been very adept at how they help those women overcome those challenges."
Recent research from the Resolution Foundation found women who leave work to have children faced a severe "pay penalty" when they returned to work.
It said women born between 1981 and 2000 can expect to be paid 9% less than men when they hit their 30th birthday.
Challenged on this, the Vodafone chief executive said "there shouldn't be a pay deferential for the same job and the same position".
The government-backed Davies review wants 33% of all board seats at Britain's 100 biggest publicly-listed companies to be held by women by 2020.
In June 2016, women held 26% of such boardroom roles, according to the review.
Water levels are receding from most parts of Tamil Nadu state, where at least 280 people are now known to have died in floods since last month.
Garbage and sludge have collected on the streets and sewage has entered homes, damaging properties.
The rains, the heaviest in 100 years, are being blamed on climate change.
BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi in Chennai says people have begun cleaning up their houses, offices, shops and showrooms, all of which had been submerged.
"Floodwaters damaged three TV sets, two refrigerators, washing machine, beds and a sofa in our three-bedroom house," Shobana, a resident, said.
"Worse, we lost all our important papers that were kept in our almirah [cupboard]."
Soldiers and emergency workers are now rushing food, clean drinking water and medical supplies to flood-hit residents, reports say.
Gradel did not start a Premier League game for Bournemouth last season and is now at the French club until the end of the season.
The 29-year-old is relishing playing regularly and a return to France.
"I understand the French league and coming back here was not a difficult decision," Gradel told BBC Sport.
"There was no problems or whatsoever with Bournemouth, but the chance to play regular football was too good an opportunity to turn down,
"Even though it's tough when you are not getting regular football, but I always enjoyed support from everyone connected to the club."
The former Leeds United player joined the Bournemouth from French side St Etienne in 2015 and signed a new four-year contract the following year.
Despite a lack for regular playing time for Bournemouth he was part of the Ivory Coast squad at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon.
The winger, who has scored eight goals in 50 appearances for his country, felt his lack of opportunities was going to affect his international career.
"There's personal desire play regularly for club and country this season, considering the World Cup qualifiers throws up a big competition for places," he added.
"So my decision [to go out on loan] is based purely on football and ambition. You have to make a strong case for yourself by playing regularly wherever you are.
"It's what's best for me and my career because I want to help my country qualify for Russia and play in the World Cup."
Gradel played in all three of Ivory Coast's games at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon as the defending champions failed to get past the group stages.
He has played in four African Cup of Nations tournaments with the Ivory Coast and was a member of the 2015 title-winning squad in Equatorial Guinea.
Gradel was also part of the squad for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, featuring against Colombia.
Steven Woodhouse, 30, was stabbed in the chest in Park Lane in Westcliff-on-Sea on Tuesday afternoon and later died.
Bradley Johnson, 47, of Old School Court in Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, was charged on Friday night.
He will appear before magistrates in Chelmsford on Saturday, said Essex Police.
Matt Godden gave Stevenage, who did the double over the Shrimps last season, the lead in the 37th minute after Stevenage took full advantage of some shocking Morecambe defending.
Dale Gorman was given time and space down the right to pick his spot and cross perfectly for Godden to head past Barry Roche from six yards out.
Ben Kennedy then added a second just before the hour with a special strike. The midfielder tried his luck from 30 yards with a left-footed curler that gave home keeper Roche no chance as it dipped under the crossbar and ended up in the back of the net.
Morecambe were given a late chance to get something from the game when they were awarded a penalty with three minutes to go. Liam Wakefield's right-wing cross hit the top of Charlie Lee's arm and the referee pointed to the spot but Paul Mullin's effort hit the left post and the chance went begging.
It was the second time the Shrimps hit the woodwork as Lee Molyneux's 25th-minute shot crashed against the crossbar after a mistake from Jamie Jones.
The same player saw an effort cleared off the line moments later by Fraser Franks but after Stevenage opened the scoring the visitors took control.
The home side forced a save from Jones in injury time as Kevin Ellison's shot looked set for the top-left corner but it was too little too late from Jim Bentley's side.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Morecambe 0, Stevenage 2.
Second Half ends, Morecambe 0, Stevenage 2.
Foul by Tom Barkhuizen (Morecambe).
(Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Peter Murphy (Morecambe) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt saved. Peter Murphy (Morecambe) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Jamie Jones.
Attempt saved. Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Foul by Tom Barkhuizen (Morecambe).
Kgosi Ntlhe (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Mullin (Morecambe).
Jack King (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Henry Cowans (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Tom Barkhuizen (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fraser Franks (Stevenage).
Ronnie Henry (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card.
Penalty missed! Still Morecambe 0, Stevenage 2. Paul Mullin (Morecambe) hits the right post with a right footed shot.
Penalty conceded by Charlie Lee (Stevenage) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Jake Hyde (Stevenage) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Jake Hyde (Stevenage) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Stevenage. Rowan Liburd replaces Matt Godden.
Substitution, Stevenage. Jake Hyde replaces Ben Kennedy.
Attempt saved. Tom Barkhuizen (Morecambe) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Dale Gorman (Stevenage) because of an injury.
Peter Murphy (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Charlie Lee (Stevenage).
Substitution, Morecambe. Peter Murphy replaces Michael Rose.
Corner, Stevenage. Conceded by Barry Roche.
Attempt saved. Charlie Lee (Stevenage) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Stevenage. Conceded by Luke Conlan.
Attempt missed. Charlie Lee (Stevenage) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Alex Whitmore (Morecambe) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Alex Whitmore (Morecambe).
Matt Godden (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Morecambe. Paul Mullin replaces Lee Molyneux.
Substitution, Morecambe. Luke Conlan replaces James Jennings.
Goal! Morecambe 0, Stevenage 2. Ben Kennedy (Stevenage) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner.
Attempt missed. Jack King (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Henry Cowans (Stevenage) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
The Welsh Government wants there to be one million Welsh speakers by 2050.
Public bodies like councils already have to provide services in Welsh, with new standards being set for water, energy, bus and rail companies.
Campaigners have said Welsh language minister Alun Davies told them they should cover the whole private sector.
Assembly members were discussing the target of one million Welsh speakers in the Senedd on Wednesday.
The issue of compelling private companies and public bodies to offer services in Welsh has been controversial in some quarters on the grounds of cost and complexity.
The pressure group Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (Welsh Language Society) has said Mr Davies told them of his support for widening such measures to other firms at a meeting in March.
In a letter to the minister the following day, the group said: "We are glad that you are privately and personally in favour of including the rest of the private sector in the measure."
The Welsh Government is expected to publish its plans to reform Welsh language requirements before the assembly breaks for summer recess in late July.
Plaid Cymru, which led the debate on Wednesday, is urging ministers to plan for "substantial growth" in Welsh medium education and childcare, strengthen the role of the Welsh language commissioner, and to ensure economic planning takes the Welsh language into account.
Consultation in 2016 on the target of one million Welsh speakers suggested it would be based on the census returns where people in Wales are asked to identify whether they speak the language or not, although not how fluently or regularly.
The last census in 2011 showed the number of Welsh speakers in Wales fell from 582,000 in 2001 (20.8% of the population) to 562,000 (19%).
The 1911 census reported the number of Welsh speakers as being close to a million at 977,000.
Farc leader Rodrigo Londono, known as Timochenko, made the warning after the arrest of a rebel - a move that went against the terms of the deal.
President Juan Manuel Santos said there had been "confusion" over the arrest and the situation was being resolved.
Under the deal, the left-wing rebels are due to disarm by 20 June.
Timochenko issued the warning on Twitter late on Sunday, accusing the government of violating the terms of the peace deal agreed in November 2016.
He also said the rebels would seek "international monitoring" of the agreement.
It not clear what he was referring to, as the UN already has a mission in Colombia that oversees the implementation of the deal, the BBC's Natalio Cosoy in Bogota reports.
Meanwhile, President Santos insisted that from the government's point of view the current timetable for the implementation of the agreement remained unchanged.
Thousands of Farc rebels have already handed over their weapons since the deal was signed.
About 260,000 people have been killed and more than six million internally displaced in Colombia during more than five decades of the conflict.
During Prime Minister's Questions she said she wanted "maximum possible access" for the UK to the single market after leaving the European Union.
Mr Corbyn said the government had "no answers", but Mrs May promised to be "ambitious" in Brexit negotiations and to exert greater migration control.
But several senior Tories demanded more clarity about the UK's aims.
During a debate on a Labour motion about Parliament's role in Brexit policy, former business minister Anna Soubry said MPs must consent to the process of the UK's separation from the EU while Clare Perry said confusion about the UK's future access to the EU single market was having an alarming impact on the pound.
"The problem is that many people in the country don't think that there is a policy to put the national interest first, they think there is a policy to put people's narrow ideological interests first," she said.
Frankly, we know almost as little about the plan for Brexit that's concrete as we did that momentous morning after the referendum itself.
But there have been plenty of hints, implications and suggestions of priorities that are worth noting, even if just to reveal how much that we can't be sure of.
It is not by any stretch an exhaustive list, and without concrete proposals, everything is still open to interpretation.
Read Laura's full analysis
In response, Brexit Secretary David Davis conceded there must be proper scrutiny of the UK's blueprint for leaving the EU but "it is not one where we will allow anyone to veto the decision of the British people" set out in June's referendum.
The subject of Brexit dominated the first Prime Minister's Questions since the end of the party conference season, with Mr Corbyn asking: "Is the prime minister really willing to risk a shambolic Tory Brexit just to appease the people behind her (Conservative backbench MPs)?"
Mrs May replied: "We will negotiate the right deal for the UK. That's what matters to everyone in the UK and that's what we will deliver."
She told MPs any deal would aim for "maximum possible access to the single market", but added she was "absolutely clear that the British people" wanted "maximum control" over immigration.
The Labour leader accused the government of having "no answers" and said it should stop "running away from the looming threat" to jobs and living standards.
Ministers are facing calls to set out details on what they want Brexit to look like before triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - the two-year process of working out the terms of the UK leaving the EU.
Labour is calling for "proper scrutiny" by Parliament of discussions ahead of the government starting negotiations with the EU.
Ahead of the Brexit debate Labour set out 170 questions for the government, including on trading relationships and migration rules.
Some senior politicians - including former Labour leader Ed Miliband - are demanding a full vote on the UK's negotiating stance ahead of full discussions with the EU beginning.
But the government says it does not want to have its hands tied before talks, and some argue a vote could be used as a way of undermining the result of June's referendum, in which voters chose by 52% to 48% to leave the EU.
Labour's Commons motion fell short of specifically asking for a full vote on the UK's Brexit negotiating stance. Instead, it asks for a "full and transparent" debate on the plan for leaving the organisation and for Prime Minister Theresa May "to ensure that this House is able properly to scrutinise that plan... before Article 50 is invoked".
The government has tabled an amendment to the motion - which Labour has accepted - stating that negotiations for Brexit must be handled in a way that "respects the decision" reached in the referendum.
Labour's decision to agree to the government amendment means there was not a vote at the end of Wednesday's debate.
Opening the debate on Labour's motion, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the terms under which Brexit could happen were "not on the ballot paper" for the referendum.
He added: "Nor did the prime minister set out her terms for Brexit before assuming office."
Former Conservative ministers Ken Clarke and Dominic Grieve suggested MPs should get a vote on the Brexit blueprint, which Sir Keir agreed with.
But Brexit Secretary Mr Davis said: "We have been pretty clear on the overarching aims, not the detailed aims. We're not even at the point that that's possible.
"The overarching aims are these: bringing back control of laws to parliament, bringing back control over decisions of immigration to the UK, maintaining the strong security cooperation that we have with the European Union and establishing the freest possible market in goods and services with the European Union and the rest of the world."
Liberal Democrat former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said that, with "fancy diplomatic footwork and some political intelligence", it was possible to negotiate continued access to the single market while curtailing freedom of movement.
Conservative former minister John Redwood, a prominent Leave supporter, said: "I'm very optimistic about our European partners. I think they will want tariff-free trade. I don't hear Germany and France queuing up to impose tariffs on us."
Bryan Boggis, 75, of Suffield Road, Gorleston, Norfolk, denied the charge at Cambridge Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
The offence is alleged to have taken place between 1 July 1968 and 30 June 1970, police said.
Mr Boggis, who played for a number of clubs in the 1960s, will stand trial at Cambridge Crown Court on 5 September.
Police said the case is part of a probe into non-recent, football-related allegations in Cambridgeshire.
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He's pulling America out of the Paris agreement on climate change. But what does it all mean?
In 2015, there was a huge international deal to do something about climate change.
It was agreed by leaders from 195 countries at a big meeting in Paris, France.
Among them was Barack Obama, who was the US president at the time.
He said that the deal offered "the best chance we have" to save the planet.
Among the things agreed in Paris were:
President Trump said on Thursday that the deal "punished" the US, and would cost millions of American jobs, such people who work in coal.
He said he was fulfilling his "duty to protect America and its citizens".
But he added that he was prepared to try and figure out a new agreement, or change the conditions of the Paris deal. However, that's been ruled out by other leaders.
It's a big deal because of the impact that the US has on climate change.
Apart from China, the US produces the most greenhouse gases of any country in the world. These gases can contribute to climate change.
Only two countries chose not to sign the deal in 2015 - Syria and Nicaragua.
Many leaders around the world are unhappy at Trump's decision.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May told Mr Trump in a phone call that she was disappointed, and said that the UK was committed to the deal.
However, some people think she should have been stronger in her criticism.
French President Emmanuel Macron called Trump's decision "a mistake" and said that we all share responsibility to "make our planet great again".
Former US President Barack Obama said that Trump and his government were "rejecting the future".
But people in Trump's party, the Republicans, supported his decision, as well as people who work in the coal industry in the US.
Taxi drivers provided free rides from the cordons around London Bridge and Borough Market that left many cut off.
Places of worship across many faiths joined pubs, hotels and businesses in providing food and shelter.
Strangers reached out on social media offering a cuppa, chat or spare bed for the night.
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George Moss, 22, was taken in by friends Holly Robinson and Mary Lynch, who had tweeted that strangers with nowhere else to stay could go to their home in Vauxhall.
Mr Moss, who had lost his mobile phone, was unable to get home after police put a cordon between Borough Market and Elephant and Castle.
He borrowed a phone from a journalist to let his parents know he was safe and spotted #SofaForLondon on Twitter.
"After that I went towards Vauxhall and found Holly and Mary who very kindly gave me a place to stay," he said.
"I would have been in a pickle, I wouldn't have anywhere else to go."
Ms Lynch, 23, originally from Nottingham, said: "If I had been in that situation I would want to know that people were going to open up their homes."
Ms Robinson, from Birmingham, added: "You have to give whatever you can, whenever you can."
Staff at the Royal Oak pub in Tabard Street, Southwark said they gave shelter to around 150 people following the attacks.
"There were people standing in the street who were evacuated from hotels nearby or who couldn't get back so we invited them in," said barman Radek Malis.
"There were families with children, people were pretty shocked a lot of them didn't speak English, they were foreigners visiting.
"Everyone was just sitting and trying to make sense of things. We had about 150 people in here and they stayed until about 3am."
Neil Coyle, Labour candidate for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, was just minutes away from the scene of the attack and said the response from Londoners was "amazing".
He praised "the cabbies who offered free rides, the hotels offering accommodation and people just offering a spare room, a sofa for the evening or somewhere just to charge a mobile phone".
Anthony Myers tweeted a heart-warming offer to "anyone caught up in" the terror attacks: "Tea, salt and vinegar crisps and comfy cushions. All the essentials. #sofaforLondon #LondonBridge".
The Makersville bike workshop in Hackney tweeted: "#sofaforlondon heads up guys - if you're stuck, let us know."
Singer and broadcaster Mo Ansar tweeted: "Mosques, churches, temples and gurdwaras are open for the public in London. Seek shelter, food and safety if you need it."
Rachael Crawford, 19, from Bedford tweeted for help to find the bags she left in panic at the Slug and Lettuce pub when it was evacuated following the London Bridge attack.
She said: "I was having a drink with my boyfriend at 10pm when this guy was saying that there had been gunshots and then there were police in there telling everyone to get out and just run so that's what we did.
"I left my bags in panic and I couldn't get back as it was too dangerous. I just hope they're still there."
Amir Eden, chairman of the Bankside Residents' Forum, said he was walking home when armed police told pedestrians to "run away as far as we can".
He was not able to get home due to the police cordon but managed to contact a friend and stay there.
He said: "I found a kebab shop to charge my phone in case I needed some battery and then I was able to come across the Millennium Bridge and ask my friend Andrew if I could stay at his."
The company, which has issued a string of profit warnings in recent years, made £1.35bn before one-offs.
The chief executive said there would be further cost cuts on top of the £200m savings already planned.
Shares were buoyed by the prospect of further efficiencies and the fact that Rolls ruled out issuing more shares.
A rights issue of more shares would mean that the share of profits would be spread more thinly.
Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said in a note: "Investors breathed a sigh of relief that the group did not issue a further profit warning and that it only cut its dividend whereas many feared it might be scrapped."
Despite the gain in the share price, the biggest one-day move for more than 10 years, Rolls-Royce is trading at around half the level it reached last May.
The company said it had already made roughly 50% of those savings already announced.
Rolls-Royce employs more than 21,000 people in the UK, with more than 12,000 employed at its Derby aerospace engines and submarines division, and over 3,000 in Bristol.
Last year, the company announced 3,600 job cuts and warned that some of its 2,000 senior managers would depart.
Rolls also said it had cut the two top layers of management by 20% and planned further cuts.
It added that the initial exceptional restructuring charge for these changes would be £75m-100m this year.
As well as its world-famous plane engines, the company also makes engines for the UK nuclear submarine fleet.
Its recent troubles have alarmed the government to the extent that the Business Minister, Anna Soubry, said in December that the government was "monitoring the situation carefully".
The next generation of nuclear submarines, due to be deployed by 2030, is being planned by the government.
Chief executive Warren East, who joined the company in July, has said an "accounting fog" had developed that had left investors unclear about its direction.
Mr East said: "In the context of challenging trading conditions, our overall performance for the year was in line with the expectations we set out in July 2015.
"It was a year of considerable change for Rolls-Royce: in our management, in some market conditions and in our near-term outlook."
He added that there were some positive notes, including the underlying growth of long-term markets and a growing order book.
To add to the company's problems, it is the subject of an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.
Rolls said it was continuing to co-operate with the authorities in the UK, the US and elsewhere, but was unable to give any further details or a timescale for when the investigation would end.
The world champion headed Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel by 0.257 seconds and was more than half a second clear of Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo were next, both 0.9secs off Hamilton, separated by only 0.012secs.
Jenson Button was an encouraging seventh for McLaren, matching the time of Williams' Valtteri Bottas in sixth.
Button's team-mate Fernando Alonso was 0.197secs behind in 11th place, setting his fastest lap earlier in the session. The McLaren drivers were separated by Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen, Force India's Nico Hulkenberg and Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz.
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Hamilton is currently 24 points off Rosberg in the championship, ahead of a weekend when the circuit will, as ever in Montreal, be packed with about 100,000 enthusiastic fans.
Changeable weather is predicted for Sunday's race, which will be live on the BBC Sport website and radio 5 live Sports Extra.
Hamilton took his first victory of the year in Monaco last time out, closing the margin between the two Mercedes drivers by 19 points as Rosberg struggled to seventh.
And the Briton has looked like a man on a mission since he took to the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in first practice on Friday morning.
He set the pace in the first session, 0.331secs quicker than his team-mate, and was nearly 0.9secs than the German on the first runs in second practice.
Hamilton was then quicker on his first lap as they did their qualifying simulations on the ultra-soft tyres than Rosberg managed on his second, which was marginally faster than his first.
The world champion also had an advantage of about 0.2secs on average on the race-simulation runs later in the session, when the cars are filled up with fuel and the drivers try them as they will be set up at the start of the grand prix.
The gaps suggest that Mercedes, at least in Hamilton's hands, still have a comfortable margin over the rest of the field after Red Bull set the pace in Monaco.
"It's been an awesome day," said Hamilton. "This has always been a strong circuit for me and I'm really enjoying being back here again. I've generally been really happy with the car so far."
Rosberg said: "Generally I feel good in the car. But getting the tyres working is not so straightforward here, so that needs some further analysis tonight."
And at least on Friday Red Bull do not appear to have emerged as the second fastest team despite the 0.5-second-per-lap improvement in the upgraded Renault engine both drivers are using this weekend.
"I've always enjoyed driving around here," said Ricciardo. "Bouncing over the kerbs, it's a lot of fun. I don't think we quite got everything out of it today but I think if we put it all together we can be pretty close with Ferrari. With the right lap, we can be ahead of them."
Behind the Mercedes and Vettel, the field is very closely packed - just over half a second separated Bottas in sixth from Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat in 14th.
"The car is always very alive here," said Vettel. "It is a rough ride. All the new bits we brought are giving us what we expected so that is good news for today."
Ferrari have a new turbo design, plus some new Canada-specific bodywork.
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The match will be held on 16 September, at MLS side Philadelphia Union's 18,500-capacity Talen Energy Stadium.
Saracens were involved in the first Premiership fixture played in the USA, beating London Irish 26-16 at New York's Red Bull Stadium in March 2016.
"This is an exciting opportunity which is commercially very good," Falcons managing director Mick Hogan said.
"We are excited and honoured that Newcastle Falcons will represent the Premiership in what is going to be rugby's next huge market."
One in every 200 women loses her baby after an amniocentesis, in which the fluid around the developing foetus is tested for genetic disorders.
A trial at Great Ormond Street Hospital of the new test - for fragments of foetal DNA in the mother's blood - suggested it could be cost-effective.
The NHS is to decide if it should be added to screening for Down's syndrome.
About 750 babies are born with Down's syndrome in the UK each year.
All pregnant women are offered testing for genetic disorders.
Initially an ultrasound scan and chemicals in the mother's blood are used to assess the likelihood of the baby having Down's.
Anyone calculated to have up to a one-in-150 chance of a baby with Down's syndrome is offered an amniocentesis - in which a needle is used to extract a sample of amniotic fluid, which surrounds the foetus.
But those women, of whom most would probably not have a baby with Down's, need to decide whether to have the risky test.
Fragments of the developing foetus's DNA naturally end up in the mother's bloodstream.
"Non-invasive prenatal testing" - or NIPT - uses this DNA to test for major genetic abnormalities.
It is already used in nearly 100 countries, but Great Ormond Street Hospital has assessed how it could be used on the NHS.
Prof Lyn Chitty, who led the trial, told the BBC: "It's a much more accurate test, so it's 99% accurate for Down's syndrome so it reduces the number of [invasive] tests significantly.
"In our study it reduced the number of invasive tests by more than 80%."
However, it does not completely eliminate the need for an amniocentesis.
Anyone who has a positive NIPT test result would still need final confirmation with an amniocentesis.
One anonymous mother who took part in the trial said: "We probably wouldn't have done [invasive testing] because there's a risk of miscarriage.
"I think that we were very lucky, it's enabled us to make an informed choice about what happens for the rest of our lives."
Prof Chitty, who will present data from the trial involving 2,500 mothers at the European Society of Human Genetics conference, said the measure could be cost-effective.
While the blood test is costly, it could also help the NHS save money by reducing the number of expensive amniocenteses.
She also rejected the idea that the extra testing would lead to more abortions.
Prof Chitty said the trial showed that many women who would have refused an amniocentesis chose to have the safer test to help them prepare.
The UK's National Screening Committee will begin assessing the idea this month.
Dr Anne Mackie, its director of programmes, said: "Before NIPT can be safely introduced we must be sure it is accurate when used on large numbers of women and that there are quality-assessed pathways in place providing the care, support and information women need."
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland would each make their own decision on whether to make any recommendations.
The medical charity Medicines Sans Frontieres will host the studies in three of its Ebola treatment centres in West Africa from next month.
One of the trials involves using blood donated by Ebola survivors to treat sick patients.
There are no clinically proven vaccines or treatments for the virus that has killed more than 5,400 people.
Trying to find a cure in the midst of the worst ever Ebola outbreak is a major challenge.
But scientists say this could be the best chance they have.
At the moment, medics can only treat the symptoms of Ebola, giving people pain relief and keeping patients hydrated in the hope they will be strong enough to fight the virus off themselves.
The blood of survivors contains antibodies that have successfully destroyed the disease.
The theory is that using their blood to treat infected people will help boost patients' immune systems, giving them a better chance of survival.
But such procedures could prove controversial in communities where some still do not believe the virus exists.
"We would like to be as transparent as possible," said Xavier Trompette, MSF field co-ordinator for Guinea's capital, Conakry.
"We will also communicate in the media to inform the people about what is going on here. Just to avoid people thinking we are making some experimentation on people.
"We will do (the blood donation and transfusions) with the approval of each patient," Mr Trompette added.
Survivors can face a great deal of stigma from their communities after recovering from the virus.
But a group of them have got together in Conakry to help recovering patients and educate people about Ebola.
Some of them also plan on giving blood in these convalescent blood therapy trials.
Fanta Camara, 25, caught the virus from her cousin back in March when the outbreak was first declared.
"Other patients were dying all around me," she said.
"I was sure it was only a matter of time before my time came, too. I even asked a man at the hospital to tell my mother not to cry too much when I die - because it is the will of God."
But Ms Camara pulled through, and she said she was now ready to help other patients.
"If donating my blood will save others from dying then it will be an honour to do it.
"There's always the question of our culture, but given that this Ebola outbreak is an emergency, I think we can put cultural issues aside."
Another major challenge will be doing these trials safely in countries with decimated health systems.
Researchers from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, are working alongside the National Blood Transfusion Centre in Conakry to plan how the trials will work.
Donated blood will have to be screened for blood-borne viruses such as HIV and hepatitis. All of this requires more expertise, equipment and medics.
Dr Jules Konundoung became infected with Ebola while caring for a patient. He noticed his symptoms early and made a speedy recovery.
"I think this therapy has a chance of slowing down the outbreak," he said.
"As a medical doctor I know what antibodies are and what they can do to remove strange objects in our systems.
"The only problem is that people would need to be educated on this just to make them feel at ease and confidant about donating their blood."
The World Health Organization (WHO) agreed to the investigation on the use of these kinds of experimental treatments back in September.
"At this point in time… we do not have real tools to treat Ebola. This could be an opportunity to get them," Dr Jean-Marie Dangoutold, WHO country director in Guinea, told the BBC.
He said it was important to get the community on board with the trials, but said that would not be too difficult.
"The population here is mainly Muslim, and Islam doesn't ban blood transfusions - so it's something doable here in Guinea."
Blood treatments have been used in a handful of Ebola cases before and have shown some promise, but this is the first time they will be tested on a larger scale.
It is unclear how effective this one will prove to be, but it offers some possible hope of finally finding a cure.
"I think the blood therapy will give a good result. But we must not be too reliant of this one possible cure," said Ms Camara.
"People must also be educated so they understand how to avoid getting Ebola in the first place.
"Finding a cure and educating people about the virus - must go together to stop this outbreak."
The bad weather reduced Sussex's innings to 45 overs and after slipping to 100-5, Chris Jordan (55) and David Wiese (41) pushed them to 239 all out.
Chasing 235 in 43 overs, Surrey eased home despite a mid-innings wobble.
Rory Burns made 70 not out and Ben Foakes an unbeaten 61 as Surrey reached 235-4 with nearly 10 overs to spare.
Jason Roy (32) and Steven Davies (36) had put on 65 for the first wicket to give Surrey a solid start, but both fell to George Garton (2-66).
Ajmal Shahzad (2-34) got rid of Kumar Sangakkara (20) and Zafar Ansari for a golden duck as the home side slipped to 99-4.
But an unbroken fifth-wicket stand of 136 in 111 balls between Burns and Foakes ended Surrey's run of two successive defeats in the South Group.
Sussex sit second from bottom with one win from four games.
The former One Direction singer pulled out of several live performances earlier this year because of what he called "extreme anxiety".
Malik told ES magazine: "Anxiety is something people don't necessarily want to advertise because it's seen, in a way, like a weakness."
The 23-year-old added: "For me to pretend that I didn't have anxiety would be fake."
The singer had been due to perform at the Summertime Ball at Wembley Stadium in June and a concert in Dubai in September, but cancelled both appearances.
"I speak about it so that people understand that it doesn't matter what level of success you have, where you're from, who you are, what sex you are, what you do - you can still experience these things," Malik said.
"I want people to see the good side to me and, yeah, the emotional stress of maybe not fulfilling that is a lot sometimes."
In the same interview, Malik was asked whether he would have signed his record deal with One Direction knowing the pressures of fame.
The singer replied: "I probably wouldn't have - I would've waited a couple more extra years.
"Just so I had that time to just get my head around being a famous person. I've never been able to have, what's the word? Anonymity.
"If I could go back, I'd have a few more years of anonymity."
He added that he was "very ignorant at 17 - blind beyond my years".
The singer launched a solo career after quitting One Direction last year. His debut solo single, Pillowtalk, debuted at number one.
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Eight unofficial Labour candidates stood in May's assembly election.
Andrew Mackinlay said they would do so again in future polls.
The Labour Party allows membership in Northern Ireland, but does not field candidates. The issue is being examined by senior Labour figures in London.
Mr Mackinlay, the former Thurrock MP, told the BBC: "Even if the party hierarchy don't back local candidates, there will be candidates, of that I am sure.
"I am fairly sure there is a degree of inevitability that Labour headquarters and the general secretary and the NEC will acquiesce."
Under the banner of the Northern Ireland Labour Representation Committee, eight party members defied the wish of headquarters and polled a total of 1,500 votes.
Kathryn Johnston, who ran for the group in North Antrim, accepted it was a disappointing total, but said there were difficulties getting the name on the ballot paper.
She said the total "was quite low", but said party activists would continue to fight elections in Northern Ireland.
The Northern Ireland Labour Party was once a political heavyweight and in elections in the 1960s and in 1970 polled nearly 100,000 votes.
Dr Aaron Edwards, an author and historian who has written about the Labour movement in Northern Ireland, said it is clear Conservative and Labour candidates find life difficult in Northern Ireland elections.
He said the majority of electors vote on traditional unionist and nationalist lines and there is "no sign of that softening".
For the Northern Ireland Conservatives the recent assembly election was disappointing.
The Tories polled 2,500 votes across 12 constituencies which was a drop of 26% on their 2007 figure.
Frank Shivers, who ran as a candidate in North Down, admitted it was a poor result. He told BBC NI's The View': "We were obviously very disappointed as a party, very disappointed."
The low poll in this month's Assembly election is a far cry from 1992 when the Conservatives got 44,000 votes across Northern Ireland in the general election.
Former Conservative Party activist Shiela Davidson thinks the Northern Ireland Tories will not grow politically unless they change tack.
She was involved with Conservatives back in 2010 at the time of their electoral alliance with the UUP.
The prominent businesswoman has since left the party and said both the Northern Ireland Labour and Conservative groups are seen as irrelevant.
She said they are "very much bit players in reality here. They are not considered to be serious. They don't really have very good or heavyweight representation".
Despite the poor results, Conservative MPs are keen that voters in Northern Ireland get the chance to vote Tory.
Nigel Mills, a member of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, said it was "important the parties engage with voters across the UK".
Labour Party activists in Northern Ireland hope that the party will agree to officially stand candidates in the 2019 local council elections and in the 2021 assembly poll.
Labour Peer Lord Soley, who was once a party spokesman on Northern Ireland, has some sympathy for the NI activists' campaign, but has urged caution.
"I think what we need to know is to think through the consequences. There is an impact on our sister party the SDLP and there will be an impact on them," he said.
It is clear senior figures in the Labour Party and the Conservatives have some thinking to do.
Labour officials must decide if Northern Ireland is a battleground they really want to officially compete in.
It is a crowded market and at the assembly election voters had a variety of left-wing parties to choose from, including the cross-community Labour Alternative and People Before Profit, which had two candidates elected to Stormont.
The Conservatives also have some thinking to do.
They must consider how they can stand out from the other unionist parties and what they can do to address a vote share that is in decline.
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Danny Welbeck opened the scoring on seven minutes, put through by Alexis Sanchez to round Joel Robles and slot home for his fourth of the season.
On 42 minutes, teenager Alex Iwobi marked his maiden Premier League start with a first goal for the club.
The result leaves the Gunners 11 points behind leaders Leicester City.
It was a first win in four league matches for third-placed Arsenal, who dominated the game.
In contrast, Everton failed to test their opponents properly and had just two shots on target as their dreadful home form - now four defeats in five in the league - continued.
Relive Arsenal's stroll at Goodison Park
Arsenal began the week with a 2-1 home defeat by Watford in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup being knocked out of the FA Cup.
Then on Wednesday they lost 3-1 to Barcelona at the Nou Camp as they were knocked out of the Champions League.
With only the league to focus on, this looked like a must-win match for the Gunners if they were to stay in touch with Leicester.
There are also not yet assured of a Champions League place with fifth-placed West Ham only three points behind before kick-off.
In the event, they responded to last week's disappointments with a positive performance and earned a first league win since beating Leicester 2-1 on 14 February.
It was a dream full league debut by Iwobi, the 19-year-old Nigeria midfielder.
He has come through the ranks at Arsenal's Hale End academy and made his first-team debut in October's 3-0 League Cup defeat by Sheffield Wednesday and signed a new contract last year.
Iwobi was born in Lagos but played for England's youth teams before deciding to represent Nigeria and has won two caps for the Super Eagles.
He boasts footballing pedigree as his uncle is former Bolton and Nigeria legend Jay-Jay Okocha.
Iwobi was brimming with confidence in attack and had the most shots of any of his team-mates.
He linked well with Welbeck and showed composure and strength to hold off the challenge of Ramiro Funes Mori before scoring his goal.
Everton have now won just one of their past nine Premier League games at Goodison Park.
They have the league's worst defensive record at home, conceding 28 goals - already the most they have shipped in a 38-game Premier League season.
The Toffees' record is worse than bottom club Aston Villa, who have let in 25 at Villa Park.
They have kept only two clean sheets at home in the league this season and their Goodison Park record reads: played 16, won four, drawn four, lost eight.
The fans were audibly frustrated at their team's poor form and the home defence was exposed horribly by Hector Bellerin's well-flighted pass for Iwobi's goal.
Manager Roberto Martinez changed formation at half-time, bringing on defender John Stones for midfielder Muhamed Besic and switching to a back three.
The change worked as Everton looked more compact in the second half, but they rarely threatened a comeback.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger: "It was a very significant win for us and a mental test. We continued the level of performance against Barcelona.
"I like this group, I like the mental attitude - it has been questioned and it hurts me.
"When you work every day with them you see how much effort they put in."
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Everton manager Roberto Martinez: "We were second best. I thought Arsenal had more bite and intensity.
"It was so disappointing, the contrast in performance from last Saturday [the 2-0 FA Cup victory over Chelsea] is difficult to explain.
"We never got a platform into the game, we were ineffective, we had second thoughts in every action and Arsenal were, in every single aspect of the performance, better than us."
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The Premier League takes a break for international football and Arsenal do not play again until 2 April when Watford visit Emirates Stadium.
Next for Everton is a trip to Old Trafford to face Manchester United on 3 April.
Match ends, Everton 0, Arsenal 2.
Second Half ends, Everton 0, Arsenal 2.
Mohamed Elneny (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Phil Jagielka (Everton).
Attempt missed. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Calum Chambers.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Mohamed Elneny.
Foul by Calum Chambers (Arsenal).
Aaron Lennon (Everton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ramiro Funes Mori with a cross.
Substitution, Arsenal. Calum Chambers replaces Alex Iwobi.
Foul by Alex Iwobi (Arsenal).
Leighton Baines (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Olivier Giroud (Arsenal).
Phil Jagielka (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Seamus Coleman.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Phil Jagielka.
Attempt blocked. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Phil Jagielka.
Kieran Gibbs (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Seamus Coleman (Everton).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Arsenal. Olivier Giroud replaces Danny Welbeck.
Substitution, Arsenal. Kieran Gibbs replaces Mesut Özil because of an injury.
Delay in match Mesut Özil (Arsenal) because of an injury.
Substitution, Everton. Gerard Deulofeu replaces Ross Barkley.
Attempt missed. Tom Cleverley (Everton) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Aaron Lennon.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Laurent Koscielny.
Attempt missed. Phil Jagielka (Everton) with an attempt from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Tom Cleverley with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Nacho Monreal.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match David Ospina (Arsenal) because of an injury.
David Ospina (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Romelu Lukaku (Everton).
Foul by Nacho Monreal (Arsenal).
Aaron Lennon (Everton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Arsenal. Alex Iwobi tries a through ball, but Mesut Özil is caught offside.
Foul by Nacho Monreal (Arsenal).
Aaron Lennon (Everton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Francis Coquelin (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Francis Coquelin (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The walkout on 25 and 26 May is part of a pay dispute - with the University and College Union rejecting an offer of 1.1%.
Lecturers have also warned of escalating the dispute to disrupt the allocation of places after A-level exam results in the summer.
University employers described the decision to strike as "disappointing".
The walk-out will involve academics, such as lecturers and researchers, but would also include university employees such as librarians.
The strike days are during the exam season - but the university employers' body, the University and Colleges Employers' Association, said individual universities would look at how they could minimise any impact on students taking exams.
The employers also said exam invigilators would not necessarily be academics, who might be affected by the strike call.
"Industrial action which impacts on students is never taken lightly, but staff feel that they have been left with no alternative, said Sally Hunt, general secretary of the UCU lecturers' union.
She said university staff had faced a long-term wage stagnation, with pay falling by 14.5% in real terms over the past six years.
"A 1.1% offer is an insult to the hard work and dedication of higher education staff, particularly in light of the 3% average pay rise enjoyed by vice-chancellors this year."
The union has warned that without a resolution to the pay dispute there would be further strikes - and threatened "additional action in August to coincide with the release of A-level results".
The UCEA employers' body said the headline figure of a 1.1% increase only represented part of the pay deal - and that with other increments the average rise would be worth 2.3%.
"Planning for any form of industrial action is disappointing for higher education institutions, with one trade union on a path to try and cause disruption," said a UCEA spokesman.
"The vast majority of staff in higher education institutions understand the reality of the current environment and do not support action that could harm both their institutions and their students."
Speaking to BBC 6 Music in her first broadcast interview since her casting was revealed, she said: "This will be a blessing and a curse.
"I've missed a lot of the fun stuff and probably the bad stuff."
The Broadchurch star also praised fans of the sci-fi series as "the most amazing, creative people".
And she said she had spoken to the actors who have previously played the Doctor - although she didn't ask for advice.
"The overwhelming sense was this is such an exciting journey," she said.
"It's to be enjoyed. There's no advice you can do - no person plays this part the same. What a freeing thing it is."
The reaction to Whittaker's casting was mostly positive - but a sizeable minority protested that the Doctor shouldn't be played by a woman.
"The people that are in this role, that we're excited by and we're passionate about, that we look up to, don't always have to tick the same box, and that's what's really incredible about it."
The actress said she managed to avoid most of the commentary.
"I've missed a lot of the fun stuff and probably the bad stuff because I'm not on any type of social media and never have been," she told Shaun Keaveny.
"So if I get something it's a mate screen grabbing something and sending it to me.
"They obviously edit... actually, sometimes they don't!" she added, joking that any negative posts sent on to her by friends left her confidence on the floor.
She said she had seen "an amazing video" of a young girl's reaction, as she watched the trailer revealing the Doctor's new identity.
Whittaker also admitted the role "was not in the realm of possibility" when she was growing up and that getting the part was "incredibly emotional".
The 35-year-old said that when she found out her audition had been successful: "I didn't faint - I played it really cool and cried."
She added she was looking forward to the "freedoms and fun" and the "scale of the storylines" - especially as she is going to be working with Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall, who is the new Doctor Who showrunner.
"I already know Chris - I already know how incredible he is. The direction he's going to take it is going to be amazing. I get excited by it," she said.
"I don't even know what the journey is. Every script I read will be brand new. This certainly is very different."
And in an interview with BBC News, the actor said she felt "relief" at the news of her role being "public knowledge".
She added that she'd had "a lot of fantastic advice" about the attention she would receive as the Doctor.
"I'm lucky because I've had a body of work, so it's not like going from anonymous to recognised.
"I've worked with David (Tennant) and other people who've been part of the Doctor Who journey.
"I knew there'd be an interest in me going to the shops - I hope it dies down as it's very boring!"
She said it was "really exciting" that the Doctor is now female.
"We can celebrate differences. I hope my gender isn't a fearful thing. In this (Doctor Who) world, there aren't rules."
Whittaker is also going to be seen in new BBC One series Trust Me, which starts on 8 August.
She stars as Cath Hardacre, a nurse who loses her job after she turns whistle-blower - and then steals her friend's identity as a senior doctor in an Edinburgh hospital.
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Celine Dion, who performed with Gibb and his brothers Barry and Maurice on her 1998 track Immortality, said she was "very sad" to hear of his passing.
The Who's Roger Daltrey said Gibb was "a lovely, lovely guy", while Labour leader Ed Miliband said he would be "remembered for his incredible gifts".
Flowers were left on the Bee Gees' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in LA.
Floral tributes were also placed by fans outside his home in Thame, Oxfordshire.
Daltrey praised the sensitivity of Gibb's vocals. "I hear everyone talking about the success of their career but I haven't heard many talk about him as a singer and I used to think he was one of the best," he said.
"To me, singing is about moving people and Robin's voice had something about it that could move me and, I'm sure, millions of others. It was almost like his heart was on the outside."
John Travolta, whose film Saturday Night Fever was given a memorable soundtrack by The Bee Gees, said: "I thought Robin was one of the most wonderful people - gifted, generous and a real friend to everyone he knew. And we'll miss him."
Gibb has also been remembered by charities he worked with, such as the Stoke-on-Trent based Cauldwell Children, which helps terminally ill youngsters and their families.
Charity chief executive Trudi Beswick said: "Over the last 18 months we have had the pleasure of working with Robin on several occasions. He was an extremely caring and compassionate person who dedicated much of his time to helping others."
Sir Miles Walker, from Hospice Isle of Man, said: "Robin had a quiet and shy way about him, and everyone enjoyed having him as one of the locals."
Funeral arrangements are expected to be announced later this week. A spokesman for Gibb told Reuters the funeral would be held in private and a memorial was being planned.
Gibb died at the London Clinic following a long fight with cancer. His second wife Dwina, sons Spencer and Robin-John and daughter Melissa were at his bedside.
One man is on a mission to find out - amateur historian Sebastian Graham spends his spare time mapping all of the mills in Northern Ireland.
To date, he has found records for more than 3,000 mills.
He is creating an online database, with details of their owners, photos of the mills and stories from former workers.
"My aim is to record as many as possible before they are demolished," Mr Graham told BBC News NI.
Guided by Valuation Office records, history journals, newspaper archives, historic maps and the personal memories of former mill staff, he has been building the database for the last three years.
It contains details of former linen mills, corn mills, windmills, saw mills, and flax spinning sites, many of which have been demolished or fallen into dereliction.
"Literally, every day I come home from work, I spend an hour or two going through the old records and putting it out online," said Mr Graham.
From his computer history, he estimated he had spent "a couple of hundred thousand minutes" working on his database.
"I don't know how long that is in hours, or weeks, but it's very labour intensive," he said.
For the record - 200,000 minutes equates to 3,333 hours, 139 days or, if you prefer, four-and-a-half months.
He admitted that mapping old mills from a computer in his bedroom may seem like an unusual hobby for a 25-year-old.
"It's bizarre, I'm sure, for a lot of younger people - they probably wouldn't have much of an interest at this stage, but when they get older in life, they'll be interested, I'm sure," he said.
The private research project is a bit of a busman's holiday for the National Trust tour guide.
Mr Graham has been working at Wellbrook Mill outside Cookstown, County Tyrone, for the last eight years, hosting tours of what is thought to be the last working water-powered linen beetling mill in the UK.
Beetling, in case you were wondering, is a mechanised process in which fabric is pounded with wooden blocks to produce a glossy texture - a finish highly sought-after in the textile industry.
As former mill workers weaved him tales of a bygone era, Mr Graham was inspired to preserve some of the rich tapestry of Northern Ireland's industrial and social heritage.
"It's not just about the historical information - it's about the workers and their stories," he said.
"It's absolutely fascinating, because that's information that very rarely appears in books - you can't really capture it except when you are talking to them.
"I was talking to a gentleman outside Whitecross, County Armagh, last week and you could see it, just in his eyes, when he was talking about pulling the flax and being in the flax dam.
"If you get the right questions out, it brings back memories to them and you can see the smiles and the tears when they're laughing."
Linen manufacturing was difficult work in damp, dirty conditions and as the former Whitecross mill worker told him, it had some unfortunate side effects.
"They couldn't go out to the dances because of the smell they brought with them, so it was very amusing to hear what they came up with," said Mr Graham.
Despite the stink, the linen industry transformed the north of Ireland economically and culturally in the late 19th Century.
Belfast grew rapidly from a small town into an industrial city and by 1891 it had overtaken Dublin in terms of population size.
Today, the Northern Ireland Assembly uses a motif of the flax plant as its logo, in recognition of its historical importance to the economy.
However, the introduction of cheaper, man-made fibres in the early to mid-20th Century unravelled the whole industry, and many mills were abandoned.
Though some have fallen into dereliction, others have moved with the times and ground out new identities for themselves, fit for the 21st Century.
A few are being used for purposes far removed from that which the buildings were originally designed.
Perhaps the least run-of the-mill transformation is that of a former linen manufacturing site in Banbridge, County Down.
Now known as the Linen Mill Film and Television Studios, it has played host to productions such as the hit US TV drama, Game of Thrones.
Staying with the artistic theme - Mossley Mill in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, took on a completely new role after it was saved from demolition in 1996.
The former flax spinning site, which dates back to 1834, was extensively renovated by the local council and is now home to the Theatre at The Mill.
In Belfast, the award-winning regeneration of Conway Mill created a community hub in the west of the city.
The old flax mill, which dates back to 1842, now hosts an education centre, artists' studios and a number of businesses.
Mr Graham is a fan of such projects, preferring renovation to demolition.
"I'd rather see it being used for some other purpose, but incorporating the history behind it," he said.
"I know Conway Mill does incorporate that with a lot of its work."
However, a mill owner in Dungannon, County Tyrone, is determined to keep his family tradition alive.
Ennish Mill has been in Harold Bennett's family since his grandfather bought the building in 1917.
It closed as an industrial mill in 1950, but 50 years later Mr Bennett began to renovate it as an industrial heritage site.
He is being assisted by members of the Killeeshil and Clonaneese Historical Society.
According to Jonathan Gray from the historical society, Ennish is now is believed to be one of only three working scutch mills remaining in Northern lreland.
Scutching is the process of removing flax fibres from the plant's woody stem, in order to make it easier to spin into cloth.
Mr Gray told BBC News NI that Mr Bennett even managed to track down the original diesel engine installed by his grandfather during World War One, repairing it himself.
The regeneration is an ongoing project, aimed at enhancing public knowledge of the "golden age of the linen industry".
It hosts regular open days, with the next planned for Saturday 13 May.
Mr Graham said many other mill sites in Northern Ireland had potential for restoration, but added that it was very difficult to secure financial support.
"People are interested in hydro-electric power - they're very interested in fact - but it's just getting the right funding that is the real killer," he said.
"There are bigger mills around Belfast, Gilford, Lisburn, Sion Mills, they are all mills that have been wrecked and ruined.
"It's very difficult to keep them standing."
It is also a tough grind for one man to track down records of all of Northern Ireland's mills, past and present.
Mr Graham is looking for help from the public to compile his database, including contributions of old photographs and stories.
He can be contacted at his website - Mills of Northern Ireland.
Adam Higson ran in two first-half tries to help put Leigh - the only side to be promoted to the top-flight via the Qualifiers when they went up last year - 10-0 up at the break.
Corey Paterson and Josh Drinkwater grabbed further scores before Brayden Wiliame went in for Dragons' only try.
Paterson's second completed the win, leaving Catalans fifth in the table.
The French side have earned just one win from three games as they battle to avoid relegation, and can be overtaken in the Qualifiers table by Championship clubs London Broncos and Featherstone on Sunday if either one seals victory.
Catalans Dragons: Tierney; Duport, Inu, Wiliame, Yaha; Walsh, Myler; Moa, Aiton, Casty, Anderson, Horo, Bird.
Replacements: Bousquet; Garcia, Baitieri, Margalet.
Leigh Centurions: McNally; Dawson, Brown, Langi, Higson, Reynolds, Drinkwater; Hansen, Mortimer, Maria, Paterson, Vea, Burr.
Replacements: Higham, Stewart, Hopkins, Richards.
Referee: Phil Bentham.
Public Prosecutions Director Marianne Ny said there was "reason to believe a crime has been committed" and that the crime was classified as rape.
Last week prosecutors cancelled an arrest warrant for Mr Assange on accusations of rape and molestation, saying he was no longer suspected.
Mr Assange denies any wrongdoing saying the accusations are "without basis".
The decision to re-open the case follows an appeal by a Swedish woman who has accused Mr Assange of raping her.
In a statement about her decision to review the case, Ms Ny said of the rape allegation that "more investigations are necessary before a final decision can be made".
She also said that an accusation of molestation - which is not a sex offence under Swedish law - against Mr Assange should be reclassified and investigated as a case of sexual coercion and sexual molestation.
The statement said Ms Ny would lead the new inquiries.
Sensitive timing
It is the second time a Swedish prosecutor has been overruled by a prosecutor of higher rank in relation to the claims against Mr Assange.
Last week the chief prosecutor for Stockholm quashed an arrest warrant which another prosecutor had pursued against Mr Assange, saying that there was no reason to suspect he had carried out the assault.
Mr Assange, a 39-year-old Australian, has suggested that the allegations are part of a smear campaign by opponents of his whistle-blowing website.
When the rape allegations first emerged, he said their appearance at a time when Wikileaks had been criticised for leaking Afghan war documents was "deeply disturbing".
In July, Wikileaks published more than 75,000 secret US military documents on the war in Afghanistan.
US authorities attacked the leak, saying it could put the lives of coalition soldiers and Afghans, especially informers, at risk.
The accident happened in County Place at about 18:30 on Saturday and involved a Stagecoach bus.
The woman's injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
The road was closed while police investigations were carried out.
Two messages, passed on to the Leveson Inquiry into the media, have been published by the Mail on Sunday.
In the other, the prime minister describes a horse he has been riding.
Downing Street confirmed the text messages were authentic and said Mr Cameron had co-operated with the Leveson Inquiry into the media.
Much of Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry was taken up with questions about links between politicians and Rupert Murdoch's News International media company.
After David Cameron's Conservative Party conference speech in 2009, Mrs Brooks texted him to say: "Brilliant speech. I cried twice. Will love 'working together'."
In the same year, Mr Cameron sent Mrs Brooks a text referring to her racehorse trainer husband Charlie, writing: "The horse CB put me on. Fast, unpredictable and hard to control but fun. DC."
Conservative business minister David Willetts explained Mrs Brooks's emotional reaction to Mr Cameron's conference speech, telling BBC One's Sunday Politics: "I find, when someone sets out the case for what we are doing, I do think it's not just an appeal to the head, but the heart as well."
Meanwhile, Labour MP Chris Bryant said he had written to Lord Leveson asking for all the emails and texts between Mr Cameron and Mrs Brooks to be published.
Lord Leveson has said that only those relating to the one-time proposed takeover of the broadcaster BSkyB by News International's parent company, News Corp, must be passed on to the inquiry.
But Mr Bryant told the BBC News Channel it was important to investigate the "whole of the relationship" between the press, police and politicians.
He added: "Most ordinary members of the public would think it's material whether the prime minister was texting Rebekah Brooks every day or just once every two years.
"So I think it's time we saw all the material, and then we can judge for ourselves."
However, he conceded that the prime minister was entitled to "a degree of privacy".
Downing Street said all the documents requested by the Leveson Inquiry had been handed over and that the position had not changed regarding publication.
Lord Leveson is thought to be poring over a large amount of correspondence between Mr Cameron, Mrs Brooks, and former Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson, also a former editor of the News of the World.
But the inquiry's lead counsel Robert Jay QC has said only "relevant" documents will be published.
Mr Cameron and Mrs Brooks live near each other in Oxfordshire and Mr Brooks went to Eton with the prime minister.
Mrs Brooks caused amusement at the Leveson Inquiry earlier this year when she revealed that Mr Cameron signed some of his texts LOL, thinking it meant Lots Of Love, rather than Laugh Out Loud.
The two messages published by the Mail on Sunday were sent in October 2009, shortly after Mrs Brooks became chief executive of News International. They were among a number of texts and emails handed over to the Leveson Inquiry by Downing Street and Mrs Brooks.
In her evidence to Lord Justice Leveson, Mrs Brooks said Mr Cameron had sent her a text when she resigned in July 2011, telling her to "keep your head up".
She quit after the phone-hacking scandal led to the News of the World's closure, a paper she was editing when voicemails of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's mobile phone were intercepted.
It also emerged that Mr Cameron rode a police horse, Raisa, which had been lent to Mrs Brooks by the Metropolitan Police.
Mrs Brooks and Mr Coulson are awaiting trial accused of conspiracy to access voicemails. Mrs Brooks and her husband are also charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
The Leveson Inquiry is due to publish a report later this month.
A senior Egyptian official - who asked not to be named - told the BBC that every lead was now being followed up.
However, Egypt stresses that the official investigation into the crash of the Airbus 321 is not yet finished.
Some Western experts have suggested militants in the Sinai peninsula could have bombed the plane on 31 October.
Sinai Province, a group affiliated to Islamic State has repeatedly claimed it brought down Metrojet Flight 9268, flying from the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to the Russian city of St Petersburg.
The UK halted flights to and from Sharm el-Sheikh last Wednesday, citing intelligence concerns.
Russia - who initially criticised London's move - later announced it was stopping all flights to Egypt and flying some 80,000 Russian holidaymakers back home. Most of the victims on board the Metrojet airliner were Russian nationals.
We are all used to the liquids ban on planes. And you have probably had to take your shoes off before going through security.
Both restrictions came about because of attack plots on airliners.
So the big question then. If the Russian plane crash in Sinai was a terror attack, will we see yet more rules put in place before we clear security? And will it mean even longer queues?
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Meanwhile, Egyptian officials said on Monday that Ashraf Gharabli, a leader of Sinai Province, had died in a shootout in Cairo after security forces tried to arrest him.
Western officials say there is a strong possibility that a bomb exploded on the plane, though there has been no indication that Gharabli himself was involved.
On Monday, an Egyptian official told the BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner that the country's intelligence service was looking into every possibility of how someone could have placed a bomb inside the luggage compartment of the plane.
The official said this included going through CCTV footage from the airport's baggage area, which had not yet revealed anything suspicious, and questioning employees.
Western counter-terrorism experts suspect that jihadists were able to penetrate airport security to target the plane, and there is a belief that Islamic State's affiliate in Sinai may have been able to bribe an airport employee, our correspondent says.
But the Egyptian official said foreign airliners at Sharm el-Sheikh airport were never boarded by Egyptian personnel unless requested by the airline.
He added that before the crash only 20-30% of airport employees were searched - but that figure had now been raised to 100%, with workers being screened both on entry and exit.
Cars were being stopped half-a-mile (1km) from the terminal and checked for any explosive traces, he said, and planes on the runway were being guarded around the clock by a cordon of Egyptian military and security personnel.
"We are willing to pay any price to eliminate any repeat of this." the official said.
He also added that Britain had still not shared its intelligence with Egypt on the suspected bombing, which was causing considerable tensions between London and Cairo.
An Egyptian member of the international team investigating the crash last week told Reuters that they were "90% sure" that a sound heard in the last moments of the recording of the plane's cockpit voice recorder was an explosion caused by a bomb.
The plane is believed to have broken up in mid-air.
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Up to 50 weeks of leave - 37 weeks of which is paid - can be shared by parents if they meet certain eligibility criteria.
The TUC has argued that many parents will not qualify for the new rights and some employers' groups have criticised the greater complexity now facing businesses.
Traditionally, it has only been an option for a mother to take paid time off work to look after a newborn.
Now, most couples who are in paid work and bringing up a child together can share leave following the birth or adoption of their child.
Parents can take leave in their child's first year at different times, or double up by taking leave at the same time.
The rights apply to parents in work, including those who are adopting, same-sex couples, co-habiting couples, and couples bringing up a child together even if the baby is from a previous relationship.
Not greatly. Fathers will still be entitled to two weeks of paid paternity leave. The new rules replace "additional paternity leave".
Mums can take maternity leave under existing rules.
Mothers must still take the initial two weeks after birth, but they can then cut their maternity leave short and exchange it for shared parental leave.
Both parents will then have a flexible choice of how to split up the rest of the leave entitlement - of up to 50 weeks.
For example, if a mother ends her maternity leave after the 12 weeks following the child's birth, that leaves 40 weeks of leave. She chooses to take 30 weeks and so her partner can take the other 10 weeks. Alternatively, the couple may choose to take 20 weeks of leave at the same time or at different times.
New flexibility means that shared parental leave does not have to be taken all in one go.
A parent can book up to three blocks of leave in the course of the child's first year. They must give their employer at least eight weeks notice before taking leave.
An employer may agree to shorter blocks of leave, of just a week or more, but that is up to them.
A mother who wants such flexibility can take her leave as shared parental leave - even if the father takes none of it - rather than traditional maternity leave.
A mother can also let her employer know before her baby is born that she doesn't plan to use all of her 52 weeks' maternity leave and wants to convert some of it into shared parental leave. Her partner could then use this leave to help out in the first few weeks after birth while she is still on maternity leave.
This is where it gets a little more complicated.
To take shared leave, one parent must have been an employee with at least 26 weeks of service with the same employer by the end of the 15th week before the baby is due, or when matched with an adopted child.
The other must have worked for at least 26 weeks in the 66 weeks leading up to the due date and have earned at least £30 a week in 13 of the 66 weeks.
Got it. Well, there are caveats. For example, the self-employed, and a parent not in work at the time of the birth can still qualify.
Shared parental leave pay is £139.58 a week or 90% of an employee's average weekly earnings, whichever is lower. There is a possibility that an employer may offer more.
This is the same as statutory maternity pay, except that during the first six weeks statutory maternity pay amounts to 90% of whatever the employee earns, with no maximum.
Shared parental pay is only given for 37 weeks. The remaining 13 weeks of leave entitlement, if taken, is unpaid.
Some mothers receive full pay during their maternity leave, rather than the statutory minimum.
Lawyers have suggested that some employers may worry that dads, taking shared parental leave, could bring discrimination claims if the extra pay was not offered to them too. As a result, lawyers say some employers may stop giving mums this enhanced pay.
Some mums moving from maternity to shared parental leave may not receive full pay. The details should be in an employment contract.
However, the Civil Service says it will give full parental pay to fathers, as well mothers, taking shared parental leave.
From 2011 to now, fathers have been entitled to extended paid paternity leave, called additional paternity leave. Shared parental leave rules will replace this, but concerns have been raised that only a fraction of new fathers had taken the opportunity of longer paternity leave.
On behalf of employees, the TUC says that two in five fathers in work will not be eligible for shared parental leave, mainly because their partner is not in paid work.
Speaking for employers, the Institute of Directors and the Federation of Small Businesses, say that many companies, particularly smaller firms, will find it difficult to deal with the complexity of the new arrangements.
There is plenty of help for new parents and employers trying to understand and make the most of the new rules.
The government's official website Gov.uk has a section on shared parental leave, including details for new parents, a pay and leave calculator, a selection of forms to download when applying for the leave, and a guide for employers.
The conciliation service Acas also has a guide for employers and employees.
18 July 2016 Last updated at 21:05 BST
Conisbrough Castle in South Yorkshire, built in 1175, is famous for the settings of Ivanhoe stories.
English Heritage volunteers were helped 30ft down into the bowels of the building's by a mine rescue team.
English Heritage said it was a "once in a lifetime" experience.
Cave will captain the A team in the British & Irish Cup game against London Scottish at Kingspan (19:00 GMT).
Gilroy, fit again after an ankle injury, will start at wing for the A side with Diack named at lock.
The A side also includes Rob Lyttle and Ricky Lutton.
But this was no joke. In the hours that followed a series of announcements, each more puzzling than the other, confirmed "The Anzhi Project", at least as we previously knew it, was coming to an end. Suleyman Kerimov, Anzhi's billionaire backer since January 2011, was no longer happy to finance a gravy train.
The club's budget, officially quoted at an extravagant £116m per season (second only to Zenit St Petersburg in Russia), was to be reduced to between £32m and £45m.
Rene Meulensteen, formerly Sir Alex Ferguson's assistant at Manchester United and the man hand-picked by predecessor Guus Hiddink to manage the club, lost his job after just 16 days. And a host of players, foreign and Russian, bought for extravagant fees over the past two and a half years, were to be shipped out post-haste.
The football media naturally looks for footballing reasons for Kerimov's sudden about-face - and there are several.
After finishing in third place last season, hopes were high of a title push, but Anzhi have begun the campaign in disappointing fashion, losing two and drawing two of their opening four games.
An official statement said as much, stating that "having analysed the club's recent sporting results, the decision has been taken to work on a new long-term strategy for the club".
Rumours have been rife of training-ground bust-ups ever since Meulensteen was handed the manager's job just over a fortnight ago. There were reports that a rift between newly signed Russia captain Igor Denisov and £130,000-per-week striker Samuel Eto'o, with Meulensteen caught in the middle, had destroyed the Dutchman's authority.
There are apparent precedents here, with Eto'o's alleged unwillingness to work with previous Anzhi coaches Gadzhi Gadzhiev and Yury Krasnozhan seeing them leave. Ironically - and this could spell the end for Eto'o too - Gadzhiev is widely tipped to replace Meulensteen.
But events on the field only provide a partial explanation for Anzhi's sudden dismantling of more than two years of hard work and investment. Speculation about the personal affairs of owner Kerimov has dominated the headlines in Russia in recent days.
Though rumours the 47-year-old is suffering from ill-health have been denied, what is not in question is that another of the oligarch's main business interests, potash producer Uralkali, has had a rocky few days.
Only last week it was announced the company had severed a trade agreement with a Belarusian company, ending a cartel which had effectively fixed prices and guaranteed a steady flow of income to Uralkali and Kerimov, whose fortune was said to be in excess of £4bn in March.
In the hours after the announcement £5.5bn was wiped off the company's value, with Kerimov losing some £325m in net worth, although the share price has since recovered. Kerimov's representatives are drawing no connections between Uralkali's woes and Anzhi, but the coincidence of events seems instructive.
How things play out for the remainder of the season and beyond remains an open question. But while many are already writing Anzhi's obituaries, club president Konstantin Remchukov insists Kerimov "is still in control of the club" and will remain its chief financial backer.
And several commentators and fans have greeted the change of policy with relief.
"Having spent £290m, all Kerimov has done is enriched a bunch of speculators," Alisher Aminov, a former board member of the Russian Football Union, said.
Fans have reacted in a similar fashion, with the webpage of Wild Division, the club's supporters organisation, peppered with positive comments.
"Many of us have waited for this for a long time," a user named Gubden wrote. "What difference does it make which players are on our side? The most important thing is that they wear our colours and we support them," another, Maga Pitersky, added.
What is certainly true is that Anzhi will now have to turn towards homegrown talent.
They may finally return to Dagestan; the players currently live and train in Moscow, flying the 800 miles to Makhachkala only for home games.
And even with a budget of £32-£45m, they can certainly compete for the Russian league's European places.
But the days of excess, of Eto'o's enormous contract, of the Bugatti Veyron given to former player Roberto Carlos as a present, and of Anzhi's £24m game of tug-of-war with QPR over Christopher Samba, are now most certainly consigned to the past.
Thomas's Battersea is a preparatory school located a few miles from the family residence in Kensington Palace.
The duke and duchess said they were "delighted" to have found a school for their son - the third in line to the throne - who turns four in July.
The school's headmaster, Ben Thomas, said he was "honoured" to welcome the prince as a pupil.
He said: "We greatly look forward to welcoming him and all of our new pupils to the school in September."
Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, said "they are confident George will have a happy and successful start to his education".
Prince George, who is third in line to the throne after his grandfather Prince Charles and his father, currently goes to a nursery in Norfolk, Westacre Montessori School.
Thomas's Battersea charges more than £6,000 a term, according to the 2017 Tatler Schools Guide.
The royal couple recently announced plans to move from their main home in Norfolk, Anmer Hall, to their apartment in Kensington Palace as Prince William takes on more royal duties.
Princess Charlotte, who turns two in May, will start nursery in the summer.
By Peter Hunt, BBC royal correspondent
When it comes to education, the royals have embraced change, but not revolutionary change.
Prince George's great-grandmother had a governess. A home based education was the norm for upper class girls like the future Queen.
While the third in line to the throne prepares to join more than 500 other pupils, his grandfather, at around the same age, was having a blackboard and a desk installed in a room at Buckingham Palace.
A week before his eighth birthday, in a break with royal convention, Prince Charles did go to school.
His peer group was then able to use the palace swimming pool because it was thought inappropriate for the heir to the throne to use a public one.
George will probably be spared what was inflicted on princes William and Harry on their first day at school. Photographers and camera crews are unlikely to be invited to record the moment.
It will be the start of the prince's private education. The prospect of a state educated British king or queen remains a remote one.
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Michael Davenport told jurors at Warwick Crown Court the sounds appeared to be coming from the bathroom where Bethany Hill's body was found.
It is alleged Miss Hill, 20, was killed by Jack Williams and his girlfriend, Kayleigh Woods, at the flat they all shared in Stratford-upon-Avon.
The pair both deny murder.
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Mr Davenport told the court there had been terrible anti-social behaviour at the one-bedroom flat occupied by Mr Williams, 21, and Ms Woods, 23.
Jurors heard he made five recordings between 01:30 and 03:00 GMT on 3 February last year to pass on to the housing association, which ran the block of flats on Hertford Road.
Describing events after he was woken by a loud bang at about 01:30, Mr Davenport said he heard "what I thought was something hitting a wall".
"It sounded like a head or something hitting a wall," he said.
During the third recording, which began at 02:21 and lasted for 15 minutes, he said he heard the sound of a female moaning.
"It basically sounded as if somebody was in distress," he said.
Mr Davenport, who also told the court he had heard a cutlery drawer being opened and closed aggressively, was cross-examined by Michael Duck QC, who is defending Mr Williams.
Asked why he had not dialled 999, Mr Davenport added: "I thought somebody had fallen or they were drunk."
The court was told Miss Hill died of a neck wound inflicted with a blade that was later found dumped in a river.
The trial continues.
The laws would also curb President Donald Trump's ability to lift any sanctions. He has resisted the move.
The new White House communications director said the president was yet to decide whether to sign the bill.
But the Trump administration's press secretary says the White House supports the legislation.
The bill is intended as punishment for alleged Russian meddling in the US election.
Mr Trump's presidency has been dogged by allegations of collusion with Russia during the campaign. Russia has denied interfering and Mr Trump says there was no collusion.
Republican and Democrat leaders reached agreement on the legislation on Saturday, in what is seen as a sign of determination in Congress to maintain a firm line against Russia, whatever Mr Trump's view.
He has argued he needs leeway against Russia and his officials have been lobbying against the bill, which effectively stifles his ability to conduct foreign policy.
The legislation would allow new sanctions against Russia for its 2014 annexation of Crimea as well as for its alleged meddling in the US election.
The bill also covers the possibility of further sanctions against Iran and North Korea. It has already passed the Senate and the House is due to vote on it on Tuesday.
The White House's newly appointed communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, told CNN he did not know the president's view.
"It's my second or third day on the job. My guess is he's going to make that decision shortly," he said. "He hasn't made the decision yet to sign that bill one way or the other."
But Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gave a different account.
"The administration is supportive of being tough on Russia, particularly in putting these sanctions in place," she said.
"The original piece of legislation was poorly written but we were able to work with House and Senate and the administration is happy with the ability to do that and make those changes that were necessary and we support where the legislation is now."
The president could veto the bill, but in doing so would fuel suspicion that he is too supportive of the Kremlin, correspondents say.
On the other hand, if he signs it he would be imposing legislation that his administration has opposed.
The US already has a raft of sanctions in place against Russian individuals and companies over Crimea. In December, following claims of election hacking, then President Barack Obama also expelled 35 diplomats and closed two Russian compounds in the US.
But the club reiterated its belief that Hibernian fans were to blame for the chaotic scenes at Hampden Park on Saturday.
Thousands of Hibs fans swarmed onto the pitch after their side's 3-2 win.
Several Rangers players were targeted, and fights broke out as Rangers supporters also spilled onto the pitch.
Rangers issued a statement on Sunday night admitting a "tiny minority" of their fans had entered the playing surface but only to "protect our players and officials".
But the club's managing director, Stewart Robertson, said on Thursday morning that the club did not condone any fan that went onto the pitch.
Speaking as he launched the Club 1872 supporters group, he added: "We don't condone violence and we will wait to see what comes out of the investigations. We will deal with any Rangers fans in the appropriate manner.
"But we have to remember it was the Hibs fans who came over the wall. It was the Hibs fans who ran over the halfway line towards the Rangers fans. They provoked, they goaded, they taunted.
"In no shape or form do we condone any fan who came onto the pitch. But I don't think we can get away from the fact that it was Hibs fans who came onto the park and provoked them."
Hibs chairman Rod Petrie has promised to work with the authorities to ensure "those who have transgressed face the consequences of their actions".
Police Scotland - which has so far made more than a dozen arrests - has launched a criminal investigation into the scenes, while the Scottish Football Association (SFA) is also setting up an independent commission to examine the causes of the trouble.
But Rangers remain angry that the safety of their players and staff were put in jeopardy.
Mr Robertson said he hoped the inquiries being carried out could also help to pinpoint a solution that guaranteed there would be no repeat next season, when newly-promoted Rangers will be playing in the Scottish Premiership.
He added: "The scenes we saw afterwards were horrendous, disgraceful. For the Hibs fans to come over the wall the way they did and for the attacks on our players and staff to happen the way it did, that is something no-one should experience when they are at their work.
"So that has still left a bad taste in the mouth. Is there a concern this could happen again in future? I hope not, I really hope not.
"We've asked the SFA to set up an investigation and they have done very quickly. Police Scotland have set up their inquiries very quickly so we just have to wait and see what comes out of those investigations.
"Hopefully they will get to their conclusions within a short space of time. These inquiries need to look at ways of making sure they don't happen again.
"The Rangers fans have had a hard time over the last couple of years but I'd like to think that we will never see what we saw on Saturday happen again."
Born in Crossgar, County Down, in 1953 to a farming family, Jim Allister began his career with the DUP in 1971, but left to return to a career as a barrister after disagreeing with party policy.
Mr Allister famously fell out with the then DUP leader Ian Paisley in 1987 when he was not allowed to stand in the general election in East Antrim because of a unionist electoral pact.
Peter Robinson subsequently brought Mr Allister out of self-imposed political exile to contest the European election for the DUP in 2004.
He topped the poll, exceeding even Mr Paisley's percentage share of the vote, if not the number of votes cast.
But Mr Allister quit the DUP again in 2007, this time over his dislike of power-sharing with Sinn Féin.
But rather than return to his other job as a barrister, he held onto his European seat and formed a new party, the Traditional Unionist Voice, as a vehicle to drive his opposition to the Stormont executive.
Politically, one of his finest moments came in the Dromore council by-election in February 2008 when his party made its electoral debut, gathering 739 votes and effectively depriving the DUP of the seat.
He lost his European seat in the 2009 election but, as a North Antrim assembly member, has continued to make outspoken attacks on the DUP and Sinn Féin.
In 2013, Mr Allister succeeded in getting a private members' bill passed preventing anyone with a serious criminal conviction being appointed as a Stormont special adviser.
In October 2014, Mr Allister was barred from speaking in the assembly for a month due to a clash with a deputy speaker.
The TUV leader was told his behaviour towards Ulster Unionist Roy Beggs was "among the worst the assembly had seen".
He strongly opposed the Fresh Start agreement last November, calling it an insult to victims.
New standards for school food became mandatory in council maintained schools and some academies in January 2015.
But for schools that became academies between 2010 and 2014, the food standards are voluntary.
Schools teaching about a million pupils have failed to adopt the code, says the Local Government Association, (LGA).
The standards restrict the amount of sugary, fried and fatty foods in school meals and require pupils to be offered at least one portion of vegetables or salad as part of their lunch each day
They are mandatory in all council schools, new academies and schools that became academies between 2008 and 2010.
But having to follow them was optional for the 3,896 academies and free schools that opened between 2010 and 2014, as their funding contracts allow them greater autonomy.
Rather than change their contracts, the government wrote to these academies to make a voluntary agreement to comply with the new food standards.
But, according to the LGA, 2,476 schools have still not formally committed to the standards.
The LGA argues it is essential the government uses a new childhood obesity strategy, expected this summer, to close the loophole and oblige all academies to commit to the same food standards as other state schools.
It says its analysis of official figures suggests 3.5 million children in England are overweight or obese, putting them at a higher risk of diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
Izzi Seccombe, the LGA's spokeswoman for community wellbeing, called the lack of commitment to healthy meals from some academies "deeply worrying".
"It's not right that we have rules for some but not all," she said.
"The forthcoming childhood obesity strategy is a great opportunity for the government to close this loophole in legislation, which will make all academies follow standards that demonstrate a nutritional safety net to parents, who can be assured that their children are eating healthy food at school, rather than meals that could be laden in high amounts of fat, salt or sugar."
A Department for Education spokeswoman did not directly respond to the LGA's call for the loophole to be closed but said: "The new school food standards are ensuring more pupils eat good food that encourages healthy eating for life.
"They also make it easier for school cooks to devise nutritious, tasty and varied menus.
"Parents rightly expect every school to serve children a healthy lunch.
"All new academies are expected to meet the food standards, and we are pleased that more and more academies are signing up voluntarily."
Moussa Dembele's 17th league goal of the season, from Scott Parker's cross, gave Fulham the lead.
But the hosts responded to remain eight points behind sixth-placed Sheffield Wednesday with three games left.
Fulham have all but secured their Championship safety, remaining nine points clear of third-bottom MK Dons.
The Whites, who recovered from a 5-0 defeat by Brighton on Friday, are 16 goals better off than Karl Robinson's side, who kept their slim hopes alive with a goalless draw at Hillsborough.
Left-back Knudsen's first Ipswich goal came after a poor display from Mick McCarthy's side, who did not register a shot on target until the 74th minute.
Fulham created more of the entertainment, as Ryan Tunnicliffe had a shot saved, Dembele shot wildly over from close range and Shaun Hutchinson's header was brilliantly tipped over by Bartosz Bialkowski.
Dembele ended the gloom but after home fans ironically cheered a shot towards goal late on, the breakthrough finally came in stoppage time when David McGoldrick cleverly played in Freddie Sears and his low cross was rifled in by Knudsen.
Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy:
"We got a result at the end but it was always a hard game and not one that will live long in the memory.
"They made it very hard for us, they slowed it down, got men behind the ball and they have some good quality.
"It looked like real end-of-season fare, which was a shame as I didn't set out that way."
Fulham head coach Slavisa Jokanovic:
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"I am disappointed by the late goal but I believe we deserved to win and keep a clean sheet.
"I am satisfied with the fighting spirit and how my team tried to win the game.
"We need to keep trying until the end of the season and finish the competition in style."
Match ends, Ipswich Town 1, Fulham 1.
Second Half ends, Ipswich Town 1, Fulham 1.
Tommy Smith (Ipswich Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Tommy Smith (Ipswich Town).
Moussa Dembele (Fulham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town) header from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Freddie Sears with a cross.
Goal! Ipswich Town 1, Fulham 1. Jonas Knudsen (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Freddie Sears.
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Shaun Hutchinson.
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Marcus Bettinelli.
Attempt saved. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kevin Bru.
Substitution, Fulham. Chris Baird replaces Scott Parker.
Foul by Kevin Bru (Ipswich Town).
Tom Cairney (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Hand ball by David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town).
Scott Parker (Fulham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kevin Bru (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Scott Parker (Fulham).
Attempt blocked. Kevin Bru (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Fulham. Tom Cairney replaces Ross McCormack.
Liam Feeney (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Scott Parker (Fulham).
Foul by Brett Pitman (Ipswich Town).
Richard Stearman (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Tommy Smith (Ipswich Town) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Kevin Bru with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Marcus Bettinelli.
Attempt saved. Brett Pitman (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Shaun Hutchinson (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Ross McCormack with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Jonas Knudsen.
Attempt missed. Kevin Bru (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Liam Feeney.
Substitution, Fulham. Ryan Fredericks replaces Lasse Vigen Christensen.
Freddie Sears (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Scott Parker (Fulham).
Goal! Ipswich Town 0, Fulham 1. Moussa Dembele (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Scott Parker.
Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lasse Vigen Christensen (Fulham).
Attempt blocked. Ross McCormack (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lasse Vigen Christensen.
Liam Feeney (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Scott Parker (Fulham).
Attempt missed. Richard Stearman (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Lasse Vigen Christensen with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Bartosz Bialkowski.
Sports including badminton, basketball, netball, rugby and volleyball will be provided for in the new Regional Performance Centre for Sport.
Objectors had highlighted concerns over protected species in the area.
A new layout was included in an amended planning application after Dundee FC withdrew its interest in using it as a training facility last December.
Four deputations argued against the plans at a meeting of Dundee City Council's development management committee on Monday.
The council received 18 letters of objection to the proposal and 37 letters of support.
Two people count the votes and know the winners in advance. Each has a full set of envelopes containing cards with the winners' names - just in case something happens to the other set.
Those people - from accountancy firm PwC - stand on either side of the Oscars stage and hand the envelopes to the award presenters just before they step on stage.
So after Emma Stone won best actress, the other best actress envelope was handed to Warren Beatty - who was presenting the best picture prize - by mistake.
That explains why a confused Stone told reporters afterwards: "I was holding my best actress in a leading role card that entire time."
It looked like the veteran actor was fooling around when he opened the envelope, looked at the card, then looked inside the envelope again to see if there was another card inside.
He checked again, then showed the envelope to his co-presenter Faye Dunaway. She read the words: "La La Land."
Beatty explained: "I want to tell you what happened. I opened the envelope, and it said Emma Stone, La La Land. That's why I took such a long look at Faye, and at you [the audience], I wasn't trying to be funny."
Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel said afterwards: "He was confused because the card, which he showed to me by the way, said 'Emma Stone, La La Land' on it.
"So this was confusing obviously, we thought he was being coy and cute to make everybody suffer but in reality he was perplexed by why her name was on it."
With the La La Land acceptance speeches in full flow, the PwC people and other officials came on stage to inform the film's cast and creators - and the world - that there had been a terrible mistake.
La La Land producer Fred Berger said: "We lost by the way, but you know."
Fellow producer Jordan Horowitz then said: "Guys, I'm sorry, no, there's a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won best picture."
And the third producer Marc Platt said: "This is not a joke I'm afraid they read the wrong thing."
Horowitz added: "This is not a joke, Moonlight has won best picture." He then held the card up to the audience to prove his point, reading from it: "Moonlight, best picture."
Cue bedlam.
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Pte Martin Bell, 24, was killed in an explosion in January 2011 while going to the aid of a wounded friend and saving his life.
He was posthumously awarded the George Medal for his selfless act.
Martin Bell Way, a road in a new housing development in Leeds Road, Shipley, was officially named by Bradford's Lord Mayor Mike Gibbons.
Councillor Joanne Dodds said: "This is an ideal opportunity for us to show our appreciation for those who were prepared to sacrifice their lives for their country.
"The least we can do is to ensure that they are never forgotten in their home city."
The George Medal is awarded for gallantry not directly in the face of the enemy and was presented to Pte Bell's family by the Queen in 2012.
Pte Bell had worked as a police community support officer with West Yorkshire Police before joining the Army.
The paratrooper was on his first tour in Afghanistan, serving with the 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, when he was killed.
There will be a grace period for projects which already have planning permission, the Department of Energy and Climate Change said.
Energy firms had been facing an end to subsidies in 2017.
The funding for the subsidy comes from the Renewables Obligation, which is funded by levies added to household fuel bills.
After the announcement was made, Fergus Ewing, Scottish minister for business, energy and tourism and member of the Scottish parliament, said he had warned the UK government that the decision could be the subject of a judicial review.
Analysis: Roger Harrabin, environment analyst
The Conservatives promised in their manifesto to hold down bills and increase renewable energy.
But onshore wind is the cheapest readily-available form of clean energy in the UK. That's why some experts have described their decision to kill the onshore wind programme as bizarre and irrational.
Speaking to business leaders in London last night, Amber Rudd said it was time to shift subsidies from onshore wind to other technologies that needed them more. But she did not say what those technologies would be, and the government has not announced compensatory subsidies for other forms of energy.
Some of the business leaders are baffled why ministers will give local people a unique veto over wind turbines, when they cannot veto shale gas fracking or even a nuclear power station on their doorstep.
The government's policies are seen by green groups as nakedly political. Another reason may be partly at play - the right-leaning think tank Policy Exchange calculates that the energy subsidies programme has simply run out of cash.
If this is accurate, it presents a formidable challenge to an energy secretary who says she is committed to transforming the UK into a low-carbon economy.
"The decision by the UK government to end the Renewables Obligation next year is deeply regrettable and will have a disproportionate impact on Scotland, as around 70% of onshore wind projects in the UK planning system are here," he added.
The move was part of a manifesto commitment by the Conservative party ahead of the general election in May.
"We are driving forward our commitment to end new onshore wind subsidies and give local communities the final say over any new wind farms," said Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd.
"Onshore wind is an important part of our energy mix and we now have enough subsidised projects in the pipeline to meet our renewable energy commitments," she said.
5,061
onshore turbines in the UK
18,000 gigawatt hours of electrcity generated by onshore turbines in 2014
5.5 million homes could run for a year on that power
5.6% of the UK total electricity needs
The Conservatives also say that the onshore turbines "often fail to win public support and are unable by themselves to provide the firm capacity that a stable energy system requires".
Some reports estimate that almost 3,000 wind turbines are awaiting planning permission and this announcement could jeopardise those plans.
Friends of the Earth's renewable energy campaigner Alasdair Cameron said: "While the government rolls out the red carpet for fracking, they're pulling the rug out from under onshore wind.
"Proposed changes to the planning system could make it more difficult for local authorities to give the go-ahead to new wind installations - even if it's the local community who want to build and run them."
And Gordon MacDougall, managing director of Renewable Energy Systems, a Sir Robert McAlpine Group company, told the BBC that "what we are seeing is political intervention".
He criticised the intervention in what he says is the cheapest form of low-carbon energy.
The grace period could allow up to 5.2 gigawatts (GW) of wind capacity to go ahead, which could mean hundreds more wind turbines going up across the UK.
The government's health arm has bought the former GlaxoSmithKlein site in Harlow for £25m as its major centre.
This heralds the transfer of 2,745 jobs from other parts of the country, many from Porton Down in Wiltshire, by 2024.
Plans for the move were announced in September 2015 bringing a protest from Salisbury MP John Glen.
He told George Osborne, then the Chancellor, who announced the move while visiting Harlow that he was "extremely disappointed" with the step.
Harlow MP Robert Halfon, expressed his delight that one of the world's leading science hubs was now almost certain to come to Harlow.
"We're going to be the public health science capital of the world as the only other place that does this work is Atlanta in the United States," he said.
"It will bring thousands of jobs in to Harlow. These are people with scientific expertise and the step will encourage micro-business in the town."
Richard Gleave, deputy chief executive and chief operating officer, said: "This will be Public Health England's main centre in the country and will offer lots of job and career opportunities with an organisation committed to education and development."
Jay Bolton, 28, of Conwy, admitted possessing 94 indecent child images in April 2014 and making child abuse images in 2012.
He also pleaded guilty to having bestiality pornography during a hearing before magistrates in Llandudno.
Bolton will be sentenced at Caernarfon Crown Court on 19 June.
The first minister was speaking at Stanford University in California as she continued her five-day US trip.
Ms Sturgeon also urged the UK government to recognise the "right" of Scots to decide their own future.
Opposition parties said she was trying to build support for a referendum which the majority of Scots did not want.
The Scottish Parliament last week voted to back the first minister's call for talks to take place with the UK government over a second independence referendum.
But the UK government has already declined Ms Sturgeon's request to be given the powers to hold a legally-binding independence referendum before the Brexit process is complete.
It has argued that the focus should instead be on getting the best deal for the whole of the UK in the forthcoming negotiations with the EU - with the prime minister repeatedly saying "now is not the time" for another vote on independence.
Voters in Scotland rejected independence by 55% to 45% in September 2014.
Ms Sturgeon used her speech to highlight the global role an independent Scotland could have, stressing it would remain an "open, outward-looking and inclusive" nation that would continue to welcome people from across the world.
It would also seek to "build partnerships around the world", including with governments, businesses and universities, she said.
Ms Sturgeon said the Brexit vote in June 2016 posed a "fundamental question for Scotland", saying the country now faces an "exit against our will from the largest trading block in the world, at the hand of a UK government prioritising curbs on immigration above all else".
The alternative to this is independence, with its "opportunities and challenges", she said, claiming this would give Scotland "the freedom to be an equal partner with the other nations of the UK and Europe and with countries across the world".
The first minister added: "Independence, combined with equal partnership, is the best way for us to build a fairer society at home and to make a positive contribution to the world.
"However that is something which will be debated and discussed across Scotland as we move forward. The immediate point that the UK government must recognise is that the people of Scotland have the right to make that choice."
The SNP leader accepted some people "understandably are reluctant" to hold another vote on the issue so soon after the first one, but also claimed Mrs May's refusal to grant permission for a second referendum was "not a sustainable position".
She added: "It is a bit of a holding position just now. There will be another referendum on Scottish independence, of that I am fairly certain."
While the legislation that created the Scottish Parliament reserved powers over constitutional issues to the UK, Ms Sturgeon argued that "is quite a vague term" and said the issue had never been tested in court.
The first minister sketched out a political philosophy here which used to be very popular.
The vision she described at Stanford University was of an open country which uses the fruits of trade to help everyone in society.
The free movement of people and goods was, Nicola Sturgeon claimed, particularly important for a small country like Scotland.
But immigration and trade must go hand-in-hand with a more caring economic model, she argued, in a speech which cited as an example "Rhine Capitalism", the co-operation between workers, firms and government which produced such remarkable success for the economy of post-war Germany.
In essence Ms Sturgeon was arguing that the election of President Trump in the United States and Brexit in Europe were symptoms rather than solutions.
The extent to which voters in Scotland agree or disagree with the first minister's assessment and philosophy may play a role in determining whether or not her country eventually becomes independent.
The first minister also used the speech to set out her views on the challenges and opportunities of globalisation, migration and climate change.
The event, which was billed as discussing Scotland's place in the world, came on the second day of Ms Sturgeon's visit to California.
On Monday she signed a climate change agreement with the state's governor, Jerry Brown.
Ms Sturgeon is to spend a total of five days in the US, with the aim of "promoting trade and investment, boosting tourism, sharing best practice across the public and private sector and promoting Scottish innovation and entrepreneurship".
As well as Mr Brown, she has already met senior executives from Apple and Tesla, but will not be meeting anyone from President Donald Trump's administration.
She will be in New York on Wednesday, where she will give a speech at the United Nations headquarters, before completing her trip on Friday.
Responding to Ms Sturgeon's speech, John Lamont of the Scottish Conservatives said it was a "great shame that she has chosen to use her taxpayer-funded trip to America to promote independence, and an unwanted referendum."
He added: "She may be representing the SNP in doing so - but she does not represent mainstream Scottish opinion."
Scottish Labour's James Kelly said Ms Sturgeon should use foreign trips to represent the interests of all the people of Scotland, rather than "trying to build up support for a second referendum that the majority here don't want".
And Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie accused Ms Sturgeon of using California as the next stop in her "global grievance tour".
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Growth had slowed and many businesses could not repay money they had borrowed. That hit the country's banks hard - and some are still swamped with bad debts.
Now India has put in place its first bankruptcy laws - designed to try and help lenders.
Sameer Hashmi reports from Mumbai.
"We're getting gang members out, we're getting drug lords out," Mr Trump said in late February.
"We're getting really bad dudes out of this country, and at a rate that nobody's ever seen before."
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) raids have been executed across the nation. Hundreds of people have been apprehended and deportation proceedings have been initiated for them.
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According to figures provided by Ice, there were 18,378 removals in January. Mr Trump took office on 20 January. Of those, 9,580 had some type of criminal record, or about 52%.
In February, 17,226 people were deported - again, 52% had past criminal convictions.
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Arrested: 25 February, Charlotte, North Carolina
Mr Zamudio was arrested for allegedly stealing nearly $3,000 (£2,427) from the convenience store where he worked as a cashier. The 18-year-old high school senior was transferred into Ice custody after his arrest, and now faces deportation.
Before his arrest, he was protected by an Obama-era policy called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as Daca, that allowed people who immigrated to the US illegally as children to apply for renewable two-year deferrals of immigration enforcement. Mr Zamudio's family moved to the US from Mexico when he was only five years old.
Under the Obama administration, Daca recipients convicted of crimes typically served their sentence and then went through immigration hearings to determine whether they would face deportation.
Lawyers for the Trump-led Department of Homeland Security have argued that agents can revoke Daca on the spot, at the time of arrest.
"I don't want him to be deported because he doesn't remember Mexico," Mr Zamudio's mother, Maria Aguilar, told a local news station.
"It's not his fault for me bringing him here. He's afraid, afraid of leaving because he doesn't know anyone there."
A judge denied Mr Zamudio bail and he is still in an immigration detention facility in Georgia awaiting further action in his case.
Deportation ordered: 7 March, from Chicago
Ms Lino has lived in the US for the past 18 years as an undocumented immigrant. She married a US citizen and has six children.
At a routine check-in with Ice in Chicago, Ms Lino was told that although she had no criminal history or violations on her record, she would nonetheless be deported to Mexico by this summer.
"It's very hard imagining life without my mother," Ms Lino's daughter, Britzy, told the Washington Post. "We've been talking about what we're going to do, what our plans are."
Ms Lino, her family and community members, as well as US Representative Luis Gutierrez gathered in front of the Ice office in the Chicago federal building on Monday to protest against her deportation order. When their requests were ignored, Mr Gutierrez and other immigration activists staged a sit-in at the office and were arrested on Tuesday.
Ms Lino isn't being held in an immigration detention centre, but Ice officials told her that she should return to their offices, prepared for a flight to Mexico, on 12 July.
Deported: 2 March, from Houston, Texas
Mr Escobar moved to the US legally from El Salvador with his mother when he was 15, and both qualified for protected status. However, his mother made an error when filing their renewal paperwork when Escobar was still a teenager, causing his protected status to lapse.
He didn't know that he was living in the country illegally until the government put an order for his deportation in motion in 2006. Mr Escobar spent years trying to sort out his status and received a stay of deportation from a judge in 2012.
Mr Escobar is married to a US citizen, has two children and got a work permit so he could take construction jobs.
But under the Trump administration, the deportation process started up again for Mr Escobar, who was detained at his annual check-in with Ice and flown to San Salvador in early March.
His family is devastated.
"I'm begging President Donald Trump to look into my case and see if my husband is really destroying America," his wife told reporters.
Deported: 13 March, from Ice detention centre in Georgia
In 2006, Adem, originally from Addis Ababa, was convicted of female genital mutilation, a federal offence.
While living near Atlanta, Georgia, Adem used scissors to remove his two-year-old daughter's clitoris. His wife testified against him at the trial.
A judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison, and which he completed in October 2016.
Adem was transferred immediately into Ice custody where he had been awaiting a decision on his immigration status - he was deported this month back to Ethiopia.
The case was the first of its kind in the US and inspired state laws against genital mutilation in Georgia and other states.
Deportation hearing: 6 February, Chicago
Perez joined the US Army on his 23rd birthday in April 2001. At the time, he was a green card holder, as were his parents, who immigrated legally to the US from Mexico. He served in Afghanistan in 2003.
When he returned to America, he made the common assumption that he had been granted citizenship automatically by virtue of his military service. In reality, he was still a lawful permanent resident.
The transition back to civilian life did not go smoothly for Perez. He was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and started using and distributing cocaine. Perez went to prison on drugs charges for seven years, and when the sentence was up in February, he was transferred directly into Ice custody.
He faces a deportation order to Mexico because of his felony drug conviction.
Perez's son and a daughter still live in the Chicago area, as do his parents and siblings.
"We want our brother home," Perez's sister, Sandra Marshall, said at a press conference. "He's been gone for a long time. No holidays together. He needs to see his kids, his kids need to know him again."
Arrested: 7 March, Nogales, Arizona
US Customs and Border Patrol agents arrested Rene Murillo-Almansa as he was crossing the border into the US near Nogales, Arizona.
When officers ran a background check, they noticed that he had a criminal record that reached back to the 1990s.
Murillo-Almansa was convicted of the sexual assault of a minor in 1994 and served 26 months in jail, followed by a two-year probation.
In February, he was deported, but crossed back into the US illegally. He now faces felony charges for illegal re-entry and will probably be deported again.
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The 30-year-old former Wales international made 14 appearances for the Latics this term.
He could make his debut for the Iron in Saturday's League One game against struggling Bury, having been named on the bench.
Graham Alexander's side are third in the table, one point behind second-placed Bolton.
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Chinese researchers had noticed that cone-shaped cactus spines harvest water from air pushing it to their base.
Copying Nature's design, they used conical copper needles to separate tiny oil drops from dirty water - a problem existing methods struggle with.
The scientists, who are based in Beijing, have reported their results in the journal Nature Communications.
The discovery points the way to a new method for addressing environmental problems like oil spill clean up, with the artificial spines capturing microscopic droplets of oil underwater, continuously transporting them to the base of the sheet of spikes.
Last year, researchers from Beijing reported the discovery that the conical needles of the "bunny ear" cactus, Optunia microdasys, can collect water from the air.
Droplets of water coalesce on its barbed spines and are then driven to the spine base by the interaction between the shape of the spine and the surface tension of the water droplet.
They now report that synthetic spines are capable of separating and collecting oil droplets out of water in just the same way, and have made a synthetic "cactus skin" of needles that do exactly that.
While oil and water don't mix, if very small droplets of oil co-mingle with water it becomes almost impossible to separate the droplets out of the water again - an example is homogenised milk, in which tiny fat droplets stay suspended in the milk forever.
Describing their method, Lei Jiang, leader of the research project, said: "We fabricated needle arrays. Each conical needle in the array is a little oil collection device. The arrays can collect micron-sized oil droplets from water continuously and effectively."
The synthetic needles are half a millimetre long, and will remove tiny micron-sized droplets of oil from water, which are very difficult to separate out by any other method. In tests they found that hexagonal arrays of these needles could separate around 99% of oil mixed with water.
The researchers have constructed conical needles made of copper and of a silicone polymer and find that the affinity of the material surface for oil, together with the shape of the cone are crucial in the operation of the device, but that rougher cones are more efficient at harvesting oil from water.
"This excellent piece of work provides a perfect example of first describing an interesting biological system and then taking it one step further by solving an engineering problem." Professor Joanna Aizenberg of Harvard University told the BBC. "It shows not only how we can learn from Nature but also how to apply that knowledge in bio-inspired design.
"It is a beautiful experiment, and seems very effective showing almost complete separation of oil and water. Next, it will require scaling up and testing in field experiments."
The phenomenon relies on the fact that the radius of a cone surface is very small near the tip, and larger further from the tip towards the base. This causes a pressure difference for a droplet at the tip compared to near the base forcing the liquid to move to the wider part of the cone. As a droplet moves along it captures any others on the way, coalescing at the cone's base.
Different types of oil-water mixtures were tested, including vegetable oil, gasoline, and organic solvents mixed with water, and all were successfully separated in the same process.
Copying designs from Nature, or biomimicry, is a growing area of materials technology, and such materials are termed biomimetic.
Professor Stephen Michielsen from North Carolina State University spoke to the BBC and said of the Beijing group: "Their main research area is trying to mimic Nature. In the past they have looked at spiders' webs and at cacti, and now they are using the same concepts to gather tiny tiny oil droplets from water.
"Their method should also work to remove really tiny oil drops from air, which occur when oil gets aerosolised in compressed air. This should be a more efficient method than filters.
"They are very good at observing what Nature does and mimicking it - Nature has perfected methods over the years and this group has done a great job at figuring out how to put it all together."
Previous examples of biomimetic inventions include Velcro fasteners (copying plant burrs that get stuck onto animal fur), the friction-reducing sharkskin swimsuits used at the Beijing Olympics, and artificial photosynthesis employed by some of the latest solar cells.
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Arrays of tiny copper spikes can clean oil from water, mimicking the way cacti pull water out of desert air.
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New maps by software analysts Esri UK show Edinburgh tops the list with 49% green space.
Glasgow's total of 32% placed it second in the league table - ahead of Bristol (29%), Birmingham (24.6) and Greater London (23%).
Liverpool was shown to have the least, with only just over a sixth of its land classified as green space.
The bright green areas on each map represent green space.
The other cities included in the list are Sheffield (22.1%), Leeds (21.7%), Manchester (20.4%) and Bradford (18.4%).
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Edinburgh and Glasgow have more green space than any of the UK's other 10 most populated cities.
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Dale Nish, of no fixed address and Connor Hegarty admitted at Manchester Crown Court to dealing the drug said to leave users in a "zombie-like" state.
Nish, 31, was sentenced to three and a half years for possession of Spice with intent to supply and cash from dealing.
Hegarty, 20 and of Ancoats, was jailed for two years for three drugs offences relating to Spice and heroin.
The pair were also issued with four-year criminal behaviour orders, banning them from Manchester city centre when they are released.
Police said they were arrested in the China Town area of the city, on 10 August last year, with a bag of Spice with an estimated street value of £2,000.
Both were bailed, but on the following day Hegarty, of Old Mill Street, was captured on CCTV taking part in suspected drug deals in Piccadilly Gardens.
Officers later found him in possession of ten wraps of Spice and he later admitted supplying Class A drugs in Miles Platting.
On 13 May, Nish was found in the Northern Quarter with a bag containing a "large amount" of the substance and cash, said police.
Con Leon Cawley-Bowyer, of Greater Manchester Police, said their sentences demonstrate "how committed we are to tackling the issue of Spice".
He said the force will "continue to target those in particular who choose to deal it in the city centre" and "if you are caught dealing Spice... you could end up behind bars."
A blanket ban on so-called legal highs now known as psychoactive substances came into force in the UK last May.
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The referendum is being watched closely by many leading players in the pharmaceutical industry who argue that a Brexit vote would be damaging for research and patient access.
But some campaigners have argued that drugs could be made available more quickly if the UK votes to leave.
Each EU member state has its own medical regulatory body, in the UK's case the Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
Companies wanting to sell new drugs or devices in this country have to get them licensed by the MHRA. But an alternative route for major pharmaceutical companies is to get approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which is a decentralised agency of the EU.
Through this centralised procedure, companies can get the go-ahead for medicines to be marketed across all member states. Typically, manufacturers of drugs to treat cancer and rare diseases use this central approval route.
The EMA is run by regulators from member states who staff its committees so there is input from across the EU for each approval. That means there does not need to be a separate national process and, once granted by the EMA, the centralised authorisation is valid both in member states and countries in the European Economic Area (EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway). The EMA is based in London.
So what happens if there is a vote for the UK to leave? It seems certain that the EMA would move its headquarters out of London to an EU country. Some in the pharma world argue that this will in itself reduce the importance of this country in the eyes of the global drug companies.
If the UK decides to negotiate to stay in the EEA there would not, in practice, be much difference to regulation. But if the UK stays out of the EEA, drug companies would need to go through a separate process with British regulators for new products as the centralised European route would not be applicable to the UK.
Most leading players in the world of big pharma have come out in favour of Britain remaining in the EU, arguing that being outside the EMA process will deter manufacturers from selling some new drugs in this country. The other side of the argument is that Switzerland is not a member of the EEA and has a well-established pharma industry with big names such as Hoffman-La Roche and Novartis.
Drug trials are currently carried out on a national level, with companies needing to approach each regulator and ethics committee separately. There is a move to harmonise this procedure across the EU over the next few years, allowing a single entry point for companies that wish to carry out trials of a new drug on patients in different countries.
The Leave campaign argues that the existing EU Clinical Trials Directive has damaged medical research and innovation in the UK. The Commons Science and Technology Committee said in a recent report: "Weaknesses in the 2001 Clinical Trials Directive significantly increased the administrative burden and cost of running academic clinical trials and saw a reduction in trials taking place in Europe." But it went on to add that the new regulations due to take effect in 2018 appeared to be an improvement.
The pharma industry argues that the UK is involved in about 40% of all adult rare diseases trials in the EU at present, but this would be undermined by a change of status. Being outside the EU, the industry claims, would mean the UK was not part of the harmonised procedure and so might lose out on some trials that might otherwise benefit patients.
Officials at the National Eczema Society have said they have been informed by two US companies that trials of new treatments would not take place in the UK in the event of Brexit.
But the EMA has been criticised for a bureaucratic and slow-moving process, which has not helped patients desperate for life-preserving drugs. Recent media reports suggested that European approval of a breast cancer drug, palbociclib, which helps the slow the development of tumours, had been held up at a time when US regulators had fast-tracked its adoption.
The industry points out, however, that the approval documentation was submitted to EU regulators 10 months after the American Federal Drugs Administration.
Few would disagree that the result of the referendum vote is important for drug companies and their products. Whatever the outcome, though, it could take years rather than months for the implications to become clear.
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Mr Janot accused Lula of playing a key role in the huge corruption scandal at the state oil company, Petrobras.
Local media report that Mr Janot also requested that current President Dilma Rousseff be investigated.
The reports say she is suspected of obstructing the corruption inquiry.
However, there has been no official confirmation yet of the request for investigation of President Rousseff.
Mr Janot accused Lula of playing a key role in the huge corruption scandal at the state oil company, Petrobras.
He said the corruption could not have taken place without the participation of the former leader.
Lula, who was in office between 2003 and 2011, denies the allegations.
Lula returned to frontline politics in March, when President Dilma Rousseff nominated him as her chief of staff.
But within an hour of being sworn in, a judge suspended his nomination saying it had been aimed at protecting him from possible prosecution on corruption charges.
Under Brazilian law, members of the cabinet can only be investigated by the country's top court, the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court has yet to rule on whether he can take up his post.
The former president was previously accused of getting a penthouse flat in favourable conditions from a building company involved in the Petrobras scandal.
But the accusations filed now by the Brazilian attorney general are much more serious.
Mr Janot said Lula and other senior politicians conspired to create a scheme that siphoned off vast amounts of money from Petrobras.
He requested authorisation to investigate Lula and 29 other senior politicians, officials and businessmen.
The speaker of the lower house of Congress, Eduardo Cunha - a former government ally who is now in the opposition - and ministers from President Dilma Rousseff's cabinet are on Mr Janot's list.
Prosecutors say the corruption scheme is estimated to have cost the company more than $2bn (£1.45bn).
Part of the money was used to finance the electoral campaign of top Brazilian politicians, they allege.
The accusations are part of Operation Car Wash, which was launched two years ago by a group of prosecutors focusing initially on money laundering.
Their investigations led them to allegations of a complex corruption scheme at Petrobras.
Several politicians and Petrobras executives have been arrested and sentenced.
Some of them have agreed to testify against other suspects in exchange for more lenient sentences, taking the investigation to a new level.
Until now, 39 people were being officially investigated in Operation Car Wash.
Mr Janot has asked for the inclusion of another 30 names on that list.
He has acted on new information from suspects who agreed to a plea bargain, Brazilian media reported.
On Monday, Mr Janot requested authorization to investigate prominent opposition leader and former presidential candidate Senator Aecio Neves.
He has been accused of receiving bribes from officials at the state electric company, Furnas.
Mr Neves has rejected the allegations.
Ms Rousseff, who defeated Mr Neves by a narrow margin in 2014, was head of the Petrobras board of directors when much of the corruption took place, but she is not facing any official accusations against her.
We do not like science very much in this country.
We prefer to ascribe spiritual and miraculous explanations to all things that happen in our lives. Accidents, deaths, ill health, passing and failing exams, finding a partner, wealth, poverty, good fortune - none of them have scientific explanations.
The rest of the world has probably heard that Ghana has successfully launched its first satellite into space. It certainly made headlines on the BBC, but you would have missed it completely if you were depending on the news outlets in our country.
I concede I have not been following the news very keenly in the past three weeks, for reasons we had better not get into, and therefore would admit it was likely I would miss some stories.
But I imagined the launch of our first satellite would be such big news it was unlikely to pass me by.
When I heard the news on BBC radio I immediately switched to a local station, but there was no mention of the story.
I checked the websites of my favourite local stations and there was no mention. When the story eventually appeared, it was to report that President Nana Akufo-Addo had congratulated the All Nations University on the launch of GhanaSat-1.
The next morning there was no mention of the story in either of the two widely-read daily newspapers that I buy. There was nothing vaguely interesting or attractive about the story as reported on their websites either.
It was obvious that apart from the official congratulatory statement there was no local flavour to the story as carried in the Ghanaian media for the first three days. The language of the reports sounded like scientific mumbo-jumbo to be understood only by nerdy scientists.
Elizabeth Ohene:
I had dared to even imagine that maths and science were getting a grip on the popular imagination
Here is a statement from the report on the website of one of our local radio stations: "Ghanasat-1 is of Cube Standard shape with a dimension of 100mm x 100 mm and was launched by Nasa to the International Space Station via Space X CRS Flight 11 on 3 June, 2017 at the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, USA and then released into orbit using Japan KIBO on board the ISS."
Make of that what you will but I certainly could not understand a word of it.
There was no mention that All Nations University in Koforidua is not exactly one of the fancy universities in Ghana. There was no word about the $500,000 (£380,000) reported cost of the project, the kind of money that is routinely reported as embezzled by officials.
I must say that social media did its bit and there was enthusiasm on Facebook and Twitter about the launch but it took until Monday morning for the newspapers and many of the radio stations to wake up to the story after the launch on Friday morning.
I confess I was saddened and put it all down to our national antipathy towards science and maths.
And yet the week before, the entire country had been caught up in genuine excitement over the National and Science and Maths Quiz. This is an annual quiz contested by secondary schools and this year it had been particularly keen.
I was caught up in the general enthusiasm that greeted the competition and I had dared to even imagine that maths and science were getting a grip on the popular imagination and would eventually manifest in our everyday lives.
The final between three schools was carried live on radio and television and the viewing and audience figures challenged the most popular telenovelas on our television sets.
But I am cheering up slowly and something tells me that the local media will catch up and accord the satellite launch story the importance it deserves.
The project coordinator of the launch has certainly hit the right note by placing the satellite right in the midst of the things that currently capture the imagination of the people.
He says the satellite will be used to monitor illegal mining, or galamsey as we call it. Galamsey guarantees the front page.
The satellite might not have made it to the front pages on its launch but if it is going to monitor illegal mining, then GhanaSat-1 is guaranteed to stay on the front pages forever.
We might yet accord science the importance it deserves.
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Juan Mendez accused the Bahraini government of trying to "avoid responsibility" for the postponement.
The country's official news agency said the trip was called off "until further notice", but Mr Mendez said it was "effectively a cancellation".
The Gulf kingdom has been wracked by civil unrest for two years.
The violence has left at least 50 people dead.
Mr Mendez refuted a Bahraini media statement that claimed he had "put off" his visit.
"Let me be clear," he said, "this was a unilateral decision by the authorities. Unfortunately, it is not the first time the Government has tried to avoid responsibility for the postponement of my visit, which was originally supposed to take place over a year ago."
On Monday, a spokesperson in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) told the BBC the decision was "disappointing". He said FCO minister Alistair Burt, had raised the issue with the Bahraini government "stressing the importance we and the international community place on the visit".
He added: "We hope that a new date for this visit can be found soon."
The comments come just days after the release of a US State Department report on human rights in Bahrain which spoke of "significant" violations including torture in detention.
The report spoke of "serious human rights problems", including "citizens' inability to change their government peacefully; arrest and detention of protesters on vague charges, in some cases leading to their torture in detention; and lack of due process in trials of political and human rights activists".
The US ambassador was summoned to a meeting with Bahrain's Foreign Minister Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifa on Monday.
Mr Al Khalifa is said to have expressed his dismay with the report.
The ministry said the report "lacks objectivity and impartiality and has overlooked Bahrain's progress in protecting and promoting human rights".
However Mr Mendez said the decision to postpone his visit did not "demonstrate a commitment to redress impunity regarding any violations".
The special rapporteur called on the Bahraini government to "honour its commitments" and spoke of his "compassion with the people of Bahrain who were expecting my visit, and in particular, victims of torture and ill-treatment and their families".
Saints were the better side at the LFF Stadium in Vilnius, but Maksim Maksimov's late strike added to his side's 2-1 first-leg win in Perth.
Joe Shaughnessy had two first-half headers well saved by goalkeeper Ignas Plukas and missed badly in the second.
And Saints could not take advantage when Arunas Klimavicius was sent off.
It is Trakai, who lie second in the Lithuanian top flight after 16 games, 10 points behind reigning champions Zalgiris, who will face Norrkoping of Sweden in the next round.
Saints manager Tommy Wright had lamented his side's technical inferiority in the first leg, but that was never evident in the second leg against a side bolstered with greater match sharpness thanks to being halfway through their domestic season.
Alyaksander Bychanok was presented with a chance to virtually kill the tie in the opening minutes after Chris Millar was short with a header.
But the midfielder's chip over goalkeeper Zander Clark spun wide and that was virtually the only threat from the home side during the opening 45 minutes.
Olegas Vasilenko had admitted his surprise at leaving Perth with his first-ever victory as a coach in European competition, but his promise not to simply protect the one-goal lead - and to attack the Scots - never materialised.
Wright had made five changes to his starting line-up and, despite dropping Steven MacLean to the bench because of the continuing medical advice not to play the top scorer on artificial surfaces, his revamped side were looking the more dangerous side.
Shaughnessy had scored Saints equaliser in Perth and the big central defender came close twice.
His header from Liam Craig's floated free-kick was touched over the crossbar by Plukas and the goalkeeper was again on hand to deny the Irishman from the corner.
Team-mate Chris Kane should have done better than lob weakly at Plukas after latching on to a long ball over the home defence and then had an appeal for a penalty waved away by Bulgarian referee Stanislav Todorov after claiming an elbow had been used.
St Johnstone were dominating possession as Trakai were content to play on the break and home central defender Klimavicius was fortunate to escape with only a yellow card after hauling down Callum Davidson as the midfielder marauded towards goal, but Blair Alston curled the resulting free-kick wastefully wide.
Trakai, with veteran former Hearts midfielder Deividas Cesnauskis starting in place of Vaidotas Silenas, who was sent off after scoring the winner in Perth, would have been satisfied to have reached half-time level on the night.
However, it was the home side who started the more positive after the break until captain Klimavicius was dismissed after picking up a second yellow card for a challenge on Kane.
Saints now had more than half an hour to score the two goals needed to progress but should have taken advantage immediately.
Shaughnessy, though, headed wide of the far post when found unmarked by Alston 15 yards from goal.
Wright threw caution to the wind by sacrificing defensive midfielder Millar and throwing on MacLean for his first appearance on an artificial pitch for two years.
Trakai scrambled clear everything thrown into their penalty box by visitors with more huff and puff than gunpowder and Maksimov threatened twice at the other end on the break before killing off the tie.
The 21-year-old Russian striker, who had opened the scoring in Perth, latched on to a fine ball through the centre of the Saints defence before a composed side-foot finish past goalkeeper Clark to secure his side's second-ever victory in European competition.
The Dons will face CS Fola Esch of Luxembourg in the first qualifying round later this month.
Awaiting the winners of that tie are Lithuanian side FK Ventspils or Vikingur from the Faroe Islands.
"Once we watch them, we'll be able to say whether it's a good draw or not but we're pleased from a travelling aspect," McInnes told BBC Scotland.
"As it stands, it could have been a lot more difficult."
Aberdeen were in Macedonia, Croatia and Kazakhstan in last season's qualifiers, losing at the third round stage to Kairat.
McInnes's side are at home for the first leg on 30 June against a side that are yet to win in 10 previous European ties.
"I don't really see home or away first as an issue," said McInnes. "Hopefully, we can go and prove we are a better side at home and away."
The Aberdeen boss is also confident he will be well informed on CS Fola Esch by the time the teams meet.
"They have a pre-season game tomorrow and another on Saturday, so we'll get out to watch them twice," he revealed.
"It's important to get an idea of their team shape and individual players.
"They got a good result with 1-1 away to Dinamo Zagreb with 10 men [in last season's Champions League qualifiers], so that shows they are capable.
"We had a closed doors game today and will have a couple more friendlies before the first leg."
Aberdeen are likely to be without Niall McGinn, who is on Euro 2016 duty with Northern Ireland and McInnes confirmed that striker Miles Storey will not complete his move from Swindon until 1 July.
"We still have the potential to maybe sign one more before the game," said the manager. "If not, I'm confident we can get the job done with the squad we have."
The Dons made a strong start to last year's league campaign, winning their first eight matches, but McInnes wants more from Europe than a few warm-up matches.
"We look at it as an opportunity to do well," he said.
"We've enjoyed the last couple of years. We've had some big results and brilliant nights.
"Financially, the club has benefitted and the players have gained good experience, while the supporters have had some good trips and good memories.
"We want to make every European campaign worthwhile."
Infantino's visit to Uganda followed his trips to Zimbabwe and South Africa earlier in the week.
"I decided to make Africa a big priority since I came to office last year. I started this by appointing an African woman as the Fifa secretary general in Fatma Samoura," said Infantino whilst addressing football stakeholders in Kampala.
"Africa has the talent and passion for the game of football and this is a very big advantage," Infantino added.
On Friday night, Infantino met the Uganda President, Yoweri Museveni at State House, and then met Uganda FA delegates on Saturday.
He later watched an Under-17 game between KCCA FC and Lweza FC before heading to Rubaga to open a new sports training facility.
Infantino promised that more investment would be made in Africa by Fifa whilst he is in office, starting from this year.
"Africa will see the benefits of football development from Fifa and I hope we can have a world champion from this continent," he said.
The Fifa president also reiterated his stance that he has no influence on next month's Confederation of African Football presidential elections which will be held in Ethiopia.
The Uganda FA President thanked Infantino for travelling to Uganda and asked him to come again in the future to see further football development.
The Fifa boss later travelled to Kigali, Rwanda where he was expected to launch a football development project.
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North, 22, appeared to be knocked out after clashing heads with team-mate Richard Hibbard in Cardiff.
Mathema said Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) medics will have access to video replays at future matches.
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"Having seen it since, he should definitely have been removed," he said.
"At that moment it was clear to see that he had a momentary loss of consciousness and, because of that, irrespective of him having no signs or symptoms, we've been dealing with George North as a concussion.
"We've seen where our protocols need to improve."
North has passed all tests for concussion and could play against Scotland at Murrayfield on Sunday.
The Northampton player left the field for eight minutes during the first half after receiving an accidental kick to the head, but was allowed to resume playing after showing no sign of concussion.
The incident with Hibbard was picked up by television cameras but was not seen by the Welsh Rugby Union medical staff, who did not have access to a video feed.
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"All I saw was George North getting up off his knees when I arrived at the scene," said Mathema, who was pitch-side at the time.
"He was completely lucid and conversing spontaneously with me. At that time I deemed him fit to play."
Mathema said the WRU has responded to a request from World Rugby, the sport's governing body, for an explanation of North's treatment.
A decision on whether North will be available against Scotland, who lost their opening game 15-8 in France, will be made by Wales this weekend.
Mathema added: "Today he has been evaluated and he has shown no signs of any concussion and, because of that, he's started his return-to-play protocol already and there's been no issues.
"He has to go through that process for the rest of the week, having a step-by-step increase in his activity."
The Irish laboured to an unconvincing 1-0 World Cup qualifying victory over Georgia on Thursday and face Moldova in Chisnau on Sunday (19:45 BST).
"It's not a case of raising ourselves against better opposition," he said.
"We can play better, we know that - we did this in France."
The Republic lie level on points with Wales, Serbia and Austria in Group D after a performance against the Georgians which the manager admitted was not up to scratch, particularly in the first half.
The former Celtic boss says that it is only a matter of months since his team was mixing with Europe's best at Euro 2016.
"We're not the type of team that is going to wipe the floor with people, we have to fight for everything, we know that ourselves.
"Everybody goes through these periods, even teams like, for instance, Portugal.
"Portugal won the competition, went out and then lost to Switzerland. Things like this happen.
"We have to try to raise ourselves again for this. It's a big game for us and obviously the result is the most important thing."
The Irish performed well in France in the summer, reaching the last 16 by beating Italy in their final group game, before being edged out by the hosts in the knockout stages.
"It's only a couple of months ago since we played brilliantly against Sweden and brilliantly against Italy, beating Italy - and we should have beaten Sweden.
"For a long period, we had France... you would have to say they were extremely concerned about us.
"Those are a couple of months ago. We have played two games in this: we have gone to Serbia and drawn against Serbia, a top-class side, and we haven't played very well at home in a game, and that can happen.
"These things are forgotten about."
On paper at least, Ireland should add another three points to their tally in Moldova, who are ranked 130 places below them by Fifa.
Igor Dobrovolski's men have lost 4-0 in Wales and 3-0 at home to Serbia in their opening two fixtures, but O'Neill, while welcoming increased expectation, is taking nothing for granted as he anticipates potential pitfalls.
"These games are tough, they are really tough matches for us. You are talking about top-level football, so it's going to be hard for us.
"There has been a togetherness that we've had over the last few seasons. We did qualify for a competition and now the expectation is high - that's good, I'm pleased with it.
"I'm delighted with the expectation being high and we have to try to live up to that ourselves."
O'Neill's task at the Stadionul Zimbru will be complicated by the absence of Jeff Hendrick through suspension and Robbie Brady because of injury, but he is confident he has the players to plug a sizeable gap.
He said: "It will be a blow for us, the two of them out at the same time. But that's the way it goes, so we have other players to come in and hopefully they will fill those gaps for us and go and perform."
Freestyle hope work on Parc Kronberg in Aberystwyth, which already has planning consent, will finish by summer 2017.
The firm said the community park is unique in that it will include pathways forming an entrance to the town.
It follows a seven-year consultation with more than 2,000 people.
About £400,000 has been confirmed in big lottery funding, with Aberystwyth Town Council providing a further £100,000.
Chris Taylor from Freestyle said: "We are all just incredibly excited - it's a UK first because it's not just a skate park, it's a community park.
"We have designed it in such a way that skaters, riders and the community can mix as much as they want.
"The skaters wanted to be interacting, and the public wanted to be closer to the youths using it too."
The project includes a play area, climbing wall, riverside viewing, cycle and footpaths and community seating areas as well as spaces for skating.
Dentist Dr Helen Nicoll, 53, was found in Great Wilbraham at about 06:30 BST on Friday.
Officers said they were treating her death as "unexplained pending further tests and inquiries".
A 53-year-old man from south Cambridgeshire, arrested in connection with the death, was released with no further action and his bail cancelled.
A police spokesman said further tests would be carried out "to provide clarity over the circumstances of her death".
The case had been passed to the coroner, he said.
Mrs Nicoll lived at the property in Frog End with her husband, Stephen Nicoll, 53, also a dentist, with a practice in Harley Street.
Neighbours described them as a "loving but private" couple.
Ms Dyer, who retired as chief executive of the prosecution service in March, will lead the in-depth review, which was announced in February.
Education Secretary John Swinney confirmed her appointment at a child protection summit in Perth.
Politicians, police and council bosses have come together for the conference.
Child protection professionals from across Scotland are taking part in discussions and group work at the event, which was set up as one of the recommendations of the Brock Report, a child protection study published in November 2014.
Mr Swinney and Health Secretary Shona Robison both gave speeches at the event.
The deputy first minister said the "long-standing" event was set up before issues such as the Liam Fee case were raised, although it was discussed in speeches.
He added: "Child protection is the responsibility of every person in society, but we must also accept that those of us in leadership positions over services charged with child protection, bear a particular responsibility.
"An essential part of the child protection improvement programme is a review of policy, practice, services and structures so that we can identify strengths, achievements and priorities for change.
"We will look at child protection committees, initial case reviews, significant case reviews and the child protection register to ensure that they work together to create a holistic, coherent and responsive child protection system that optimises outcomes for children."
Mr Swinney said Ms Dyer would bring "expertise, experience and independence" to the review from her time as chief executive of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.
She worked as Crown Agent, the civil service head of legal staff in the Crown Office, who works as a legal advisor to the Lord Advocate on prosecution matters.
Mr Swinney previously told BBC Scotland the government was working as quickly as possible to implement the recommendations of the Brock Report, as well as the Daniel Report from 2012.
The deputy first minister said the conclusions of the current review of child protection arrangements would "become clear towards the end of the year".
Speaking since the verdict in the Liam Fee case was delivered on Tuesday, some social workers have said that their caseloads have grown.
Some have said they are spending 80% of their time on paperwork and only 20% dealing face-to-face with the families that need their help.
Concerns have also been raised about the government's controversial named person scheme, which is due to be rolled out across Scotland later this year.
Highland Council has been running the initiative for eight years.
Speaking on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland radio programme, director of care and learning at the council, Bill Alexander, said the aim of the scheme was to give families a single point of contact for advice.
"What's important to most families is not a social worker, they don't want social workers in their lives. They wanted a single point of contact if they wanted advice or if they had a concern about their child's well-being," he said.
"The Scottish government adopted this only because families said it was important to them."
Mr Alexander added: "What that has meant is that more families in Highland...have had that early support.
"That's meant that need has not escalated for many families and therefore the number of children being referred to the children's reporter has reduced, the number of children being looked after has reduced, and significantly in relation to this issue, the number of children deemed to be at risk of significant harm has also reduced."
Emmerdale, EastEnders, Coronation Street and Hollyoaks were examined over a two-week period.
The study also looked at exercising, drinking water and healthy eating.
Emmerdale characters managed to consume 46 alcoholic drinks during the research period, with Coronation Street not far behind on 40 beverages.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Emmerdale said it was a "small community", adding: "Characters regularly meet in the pub where the focus is on story as opposed to alcohol intake. We present a balanced view of alcohol as we take our responsibilities for portraying alcohol consumption seriously."
Hollyoaks was named the healthiest UK soap overall, while EastEnders came second, followed by Emmerdale in third and Coronation Street in fourth spot.
In total, 48% of activity in Hollyoaks was considered healthy, with EastEnders on 36%, Emmerdale on 18%, and Coronation Street on 15%.
The Hollyoaks characters were the most active, with characters sitting down for just 15% of the episodes compared with Coronation Street's cast, who spent 31% on the couch.
EastEnders characters enjoyed the most nights out, with 11 in total, while there were no evenings out on the town on Coronation Street.
Corrie's characters also consumed the most takeaways, while Emmerdale consumed the least.
A spokesperson for Coronation Street said: "We present a balanced view of alcohol consumption, healthy eating and the lifestyles of our characters as we take our responsibilities for these issues seriously. Characters do frequent the pub but we also see them engaging in exercise and we have explored lifestyle related health issues through many different storylines."
Lee Matthews of Fitness First, which conducted the study, said: "While studying Hollyoaks, we saw that despite there being three big nights out, there were zero instances of smoking shown on screen. In comparison there were 13 instances of jogging, walking and playing a sport.
"Hollyoaks has demonstrated perfectly that we can play hard and still incorporate healthy habits along the way."
The show is aimed at a younger audience than the other soaps, which is reflected in its earlier broadcasting timeslot.
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One officer was shot in the face and one in the shoulder, St Louis County police chief Jon Belmar said.
Both suffered "very serious gunshot injuries" but were conscious, he said.
They were shot during a demonstration after the resignation of Ferguson's police chief, which followed a report alleging racial bias in his department.
Protesters had gathered outside Ferguson police headquarters late on Wednesday, in what was a relatively low-key demonstration.
But at about midnight at least three shots were fired as the crowd of protesters was starting to break up, Mr Belmar said.
Several witnesses said the shots had come from a hill on the other side of the street from the crowd of protesters.
In a press conference on Thursday, Mr Belmar said the shots were fired from about 125yds (114m) away, but he did not specify from which direction.
"We were very close to having what happened in New York last year," Mr Belmar said, referring to two police officers shot and killed while on duty. He said he thought it was a "miracle" that such an incident had not occurred during earlier protests in Ferguson.
He also said he would "have to imagine" that some protesters "were among the shooters". Detectives were still investigating who was responsible, and no-one had been arrested.
The St Louis County police chief said after hearing the gunshots many officers had drawn their weapons but no-one had fired.
One protester, Keith Rose, said he saw an officer "covered in blood", and that other officers were carrying and dragging him, leaving a trail of blood on the ground.
Demonstrators were calling for further action to be taken over the federal report, and for more resignations in the police department, Mr Rose said.
In the hours after the policemen were shot, use of the hashtag #BlueLivesMatter spiked on Twitter, driven by self-identified supporters of gun rights and other conservative causes, as well as supporters of the police.
Police chief Thomas Jackson was the sixth Ferguson official to be fired or step down. He had initially resisted calls from protesters and some state leaders to resign.
Mr Jackson was widely criticised after the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in August and the weeks of demonstrations that followed.
How Ferguson unrest spread
Report on Ferguson police report - key findings
Brown's killing was one of several recent cases around the US in which the deaths of black men at the hands of the police have triggered protests.
In November, a St Louis County grand jury found that white police officer Darren Wilson did not break any laws when he shot Brown.
However, Brown's shooting and the riots that followed spurred a federal investigation. It found overwhelming racial bias in the town's policing practices, though Darren Wilson was cleared of civil rights violations.
The report noted public officials regularly made tickets and other minor violations "go away" for white friends, while some black residents spent nights in jail for non-payment of fines.
93%
of people arrested are African Americans, whereas only:
67%
of Ferguson population is black
96% of people arrested for outstanding municipal warrants are African American
95% of "Manner of walking in roadway" charges were against black people
90% of documented force was against African Americans
30% of searches of white suspects resulted in a contraband finding - compared with 24% of black suspects
A local Democratic party leader, Patricia Bynes, said "a lot of anger" had built up in Ferguson because more action had not been taken sooner.
The names of the two officers wounded on Thursday have not been released.
The one shot in the face, under his right eye, is a 32-year-old from a police department in another St Louis suburb, Webster Groves, and the other a 41-year-old from St Louis County police department.
Corey Whitely and Fejiri Okenabirhie's pace were constant threats in a dominant opening period for the Daggers but it was the visitors who took the lead under controversial circumstances just before the 30-minute mark.
Omar Bugiel worked his way into the Dagenham box with some wonderful trickery before being felled by the challenge of Mark Cousins - the German forward drawing contact with the on-rushing goalkeeper - to earn his side a penalty, which captain Liam Noble drilled into the bottom corner to put Rovers ahead.
But the hosts went into the break level as Jordan Maguire-Drew pounced onto a flicked header from Paul Benson to fire in an equaliser in first half stoppage-time for his 15th league goal of the season.
Okenabirhie spurned a decent opportunity after the restart but clear-cut chances were at a premium with both sides happy to remain all-square ahead of the second leg.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 1, Forest Green Rovers 1.
Second Half ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 1, Forest Green Rovers 1.
Shamir Mullings (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Keanu Marsh-Brown replaces Liam Noble.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Oliver Hawkins replaces Fejiri Okenabirhie.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Ethan Pinnock replaces Drissa Traoré.
Dale Bennett (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Shamir Mullings replaces Omar Bugiel.
Second Half begins Dagenham and Redbridge 1, Forest Green Rovers 1.
First Half ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 1, Forest Green Rovers 1.
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 1, Forest Green Rovers 1. Jordan Maguire-Drew (Dagenham and Redbridge).
Fejiri Okenabirhie (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Forest Green Rovers 1. Liam Noble (Forest Green Rovers) converts the penalty with a.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Luke Howell replaces Josh Staunton.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Some 3,740 people died until 23 October, a number that is set to rise as the two worst months are yet to come. Last year's death toll was 3,771.
This comes despite a sharp decline on the number of people crossing the Mediterranean this year.
The UN believes smugglers are changing their tactics, using riskier routes.
One of every 47 migrants or refugees attempting the voyage between Libya and Italy is dying, said William Spindler, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
"This is by far the worse we ever have seen in the Mediterranean," he told journalists in Geneva.
"We can say the death rate has increased threefold."
There were 327,800 crossings this year, against more than one million in 2015, UN numbers showed.
Smugglers, the UN says, are organising more crossings in very bad weather and staging mass embarkations, in which thousands of people in flimsy boats set off at the same time.
This means that if they do run into trouble, rescue services cannot possibly save them all.
"Smuggling has become a big business, it's being done almost on an industrial scale," Mr Splinder added.
"So now they send several boats at the same time and that puts rescue services in difficulty because they need to rescue several thousand people on several hundred boats," he said.
An agreement between Turkey and the European Union to halt migrants from travelling to Greek islands has drastically reduced the number of boat arrivals there.
But there has been a traffic increase on the highly perilous journey between North Africa and Italy.
On Monday, the Italian coastguard said it recovered the bodies of 16 people during 21 rescue missions. Some 2,200 migrants were saved from 18 rubber boats.
Unionists complained after masked men paraded through Lurgan on Saturday and marchers wore paramilitary-style uniform in Coalisland on Sunday.
Officers are examining "suspected breaches of Parades Commission determinations in Coalisland".
They are investigating "un-notified processions in Ardoyne and Lurgan".
During the Lurgan parade, masked republicans marched from the Kilwilkie estate to St Colman's Cemetery in the town.
Police said they were not notified of the event.
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) councillor Carla Lockhart said it was "deeply concerning".
"It is certainly very worrying, we are in a new Northern Ireland, this is unacceptable behaviour and I have been in contact with the PSNI who will be investigating this incident," she said.
"It is very worrying to see masked men walking through the streets of Lurgan."
The TUV's Roy Ferguson said the parade was a "totally unacceptable state of affairs" and he would be "contacting the PSNI to demand an explanation as to why the terrorist show of strength was permitted to take place and how they propose to bring those involved before the courts".
On Sunday about 50 people in paramilitary-style uniforms led a parade associated with dissident republicans in Coalisland.
In a statement, ACC Stephen Martin said: "In policing all events over the Easter weekend our overriding desire is to ensure that commemorative occasions, parades and protests pass off lawfully and peacefully.
"Our focus is on keeping communities safe and our job, with a few notable exceptions, has been made that much easier because of the responsible attitude of all parties concerned.
"We are however, investigating suspected breaches of Parades Commission determinations in Coalisland and un-notified processions in Ardoyne and Lurgan. We have gathered evidence at these events and will present reports to the Public Prosecution Service with a view to holding individuals accountable."
Foxes forward Riyad Mahrez was voted Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year, and his team are three points closer to the Premier League title after beating Swansea 4-0.
Stoke midfielder Charlie Adam tells Match of the Day 2 why he thought a Leicester player deserved the individual accolade, and why he hopes to see Claudio Ranieri's side crowned champions too.
Adam: "Mahrez is a worthy winner of the PFA award, but you could have given it to a number of Leicester players.
"Robert Huth did not even get in the Team of the Year, which amazed me. N'Golo Kante has done a terrific job for them too.
"I voted for Jamie Vardy and I know a lot of my Stoke team-mates did as well, because of his record-breaking run of scoring in 11 straight league games.
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"Vardy has scored 22 Premier League goals so far this season and I think the way he works so hard for his team epitomises the way that the whole Leicester side have played.
"Tottenham striker Harry Kane can count himself extremely unlucky to miss out because again he has been in brilliant form, but it would have been a massive surprise to me if Vardy and Mahrez had both missed out.
"Leicester have been top of the table longer than anyone else and one of their players definitely deserves individual recognition too.
"Mahrez has had a fantastic season, because he has created a lot of goals, as well as scoring a few too.
"I've heard people say he has been quiet in the last few weeks, until he opened the scoring in Sunday's win over Swansea.
"But I think that was only because he was not scoring goals. The team was still playing well and so was he, and he has done all season."
Adam: "With Vardy suspended, I was expecting Mahrez to be pushed further forward and lead Leicester's attack against Swansea on Sunday.
"They needed someone to provide the pace that Vardy usually gives them down the channels because, without it, they would not be able to play their usual out-ball out of defence, or have anyone who can stretch the opposition defence and run in behind.
"Claudio Ranieri brought in Leonardo Ulloa up front instead but made up for Ulloa's lack of speed with another change, replacing Marc Albrighton with Jeff Schlupp.
"Both of them played extremely well but we did not really find out whether Leicester would struggle without Vardy because Swansea gifted Leicester their first goal with a slack pass after 10 minutes and were poor throughout.
"Instead of having to worry about how to break Swansea down, the Foxes were 1-0 up, and it became a lot easier for them.
"They could sit in two banks of four, wait for Swansea to come at them and then hit them on the counter. Leicester ended up winning comfortably."
Adam: "It is down to the last two in the title race now. Leicester and Tottenham are two very different teams, in terms of how they are structured and the way they play.
"Spurs are the best team Stoke have played this season. With the fluidity in their one-touch passing and movement, they definitely play the best football. They took us apart when we played them on Monday night.
"Defensively too, the way they press with three or four players chasing you down together and looking to isolate you means it is difficult to have any time on the ball.
"Leicester play a very different way, based on defenders who just defend and looking to Mahrez and Vardy to win games for them, but it works.
"They get results, which is the most important thing, and they have done it very well all season.
"When we played them in January they were on a very good run and you could tell they were full of confidence. They come out for games thinking they can beat anybody and when teams have got belief like that, they are very difficult to stop.
"That has played a big part in their success. Every week when you see their result, it is unbelievable how they have just kept going.
"Leicester deserve to be where they are, and I hope they can finish the job."
Charlie Adam was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
May is joined by Kate Humble and car designer Ant Anstead for BBC Two's Building Cars Live programme, which will broadcast from BMW's Mini plant in Oxford.
The massive factory - which has its own fire and ambulance station and rail terminal - produces a car every 67 seconds.
"It's difficult to think of a subject that lends itself better to live TV," says May.
"We're not going to be driving around in cars very much - mainly we're looking at stuff being conceived and being put together."
He says that, unlike the pre-recorded Top Gear, the pace of this car show will be dictated by the "beat" of the car factory.
"If I talk for a minute on the assembly line, in that time a whole car will have gone through."
What if the production line grinds to a halt during the live show?
May says such events are rare, but he adds: "If that happens, that is part of the reality of live TV - we'd have to film it and watch them sort it out.
"They always do sort it out one way or another. In some ways - but I wouldn't wish it on them - that would be an exciting bit of the programme because you would see this massive, complicated machine deal with a crisis."
Building Cars Live comes just days after May started filming an Amazon Prime motoring show for 2016 with former Top Gear colleagues Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond.
The trio left the hit BBC Two show earlier this year after Clarkson's contract was not renewed following a "fracas" with a Top Gear producer.
Viewers of the BBC Two live show will follow the journey of a car from being welded by robots in the body shop to when it is driven off at the end of the production line.
In the body shop - a building the size of 16 football pitches - hundreds of robots work almost round the clock.
One section is nicknamed Jurassic Park because "one of the robots looks like a dinosaur running up and down", explains one Mini employee.
About 30 human technicians keep the robots functioning smoothly, riding on scooters so they can move quickly around the vast space.
Next up is the assembly hall, where the cars are painted and fitted with doors, seats, wheels and engines by teams of skilled workers.
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Each car is marked with a barcode so the robots can build the vehicle to the exact specification requested by the new owner. It's unlikely that any two cars on the production line are the same.
"When you say, 'Production line,' you do think of boiled sweets," says co-presenter Kate Humble.
"But these aren't sherbet lemons. Every single one is different to the one behind it and as bespoke as the person who's ordered it."
She says the whole point is to show what happens in real time.
"People will get a sense it is happening now. Yes, you could package it up and make a glossy documentary about it - but it wouldn't be as exciting."
"It's a show about manufacturing and design and human desire," adds May.
"The car is one of the most desirable things humanity has every produced."
Building Cars Live is on BBC Two on Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 October at 19:30 BST
The North Wales Fire and Rescue Service was called to the blaze in Blaenau Ffestiniog on Christmas Day at 19:32 GMT.
The fire started in a static caravan on the site and no-one was injured.
After a strong start from the hosts, they went ahead through Scott Sinclair's strike.
Moussa Dembele and Kieran Tierney fired against the goal frame as Celtic's dominance continued.
Craig Samson made some fine saves for Motherwell but then fouled Dembele and could not keep out the Frenchman's penalty.
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Home manager Brendan Rodgers knows he has a frontline that can strike fear into most domestic defences and, despite it not quite clicking as efficiently as it has been recently, his two most potent predators still managed to find the net.
Sinclair's opener had been coming despite Motherwell containing the champions well in the opening 15 minutes.
He latched on to a James Forrest cross from the right-hand side after Dembele had a fresh-air swing, was quick to pounce and his left foot shot gave Craig Sampson no chance.
Dembele's own goal contribution may have come from the spot late in the match, but once again his pace and movement meant a torrid afternoon for Motherwell's back four.
The visitors could have crumbled after the opening goal - better teams have in the east end of Glasgow recently - but they remained organised and composed throughout the match.
Well manager Mark McGhee had set up to frustrate Celtic in the middle of the park and decided to allow the home side possession in the wide areas.
It was a bold move and, in terms of keeping the score line respectable, it worked.
The Fir Park side also had their goalkeeper to thank for the relatively narrow defeat.
Sampson pulled off three top-class saves - the pick of the lot perhaps a low dive to claw away a deflected Scott Brown effort midway through the second half.
It's a rare thing in Scotland to see a left-back receive a standing ovation for an effort on goal, but Kieran Tierney is a rare talent.
In the second half, he jinked and danced his way past three Motherwell defenders inside the box, but his close-range effort smashed agonisingly against the crossbar.
Celtic Park rose as one to salute the skill and the effort - the 19-year-old now a firm fans favourite - and it's easy to see why with every passing performance.
It's progress of a kind for Motherwell, who left Celtic Park in August with a 5-0 thumping - and a similar scoreline never looked likely this time around.
Celtic played within themselves, though, and they'll have to find their extra gear if they're to record another memorable result in the Champions League when Borussia Monchengladbach come calling on Wednesday night.
Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers: "I said to the players before the game for us to succeed it's not just about us being hungry for the success, it's about being starving.
"You have to really, really push yourself in moments when you think things are gone and you have to fight.
"That (Dembele winning the penalty) was a perfect example of the spirit in the team in that they will chase everything.
"That looked like it was dead and was going to go through to the keeper but he made it something. The best strikers do that and create something out of nothing or make something for themselves.
"He made the penalty through his endeavour. Forget about his quality, that's about a mind-set to get there and he tucked it away really well."
Motherwell manager Mark McGhee: "I thought Ross MacLean was terrific. David Ferguson is a great athlete.
"He is quick but still has 10 or 12 pounds to put on before he is going to be the full specimen and Jack McMillan the same. So we have a lot of work to do with these boys.
"But it shows you the raw material coming through from Scott Leitch's academy.
"Stephen Craigan is working with them at Under-20 level and we are top of that league, winning games and we are getting them in our team.
"That is the important thing. That is what Motherwell have to do, we have to breed young players that are going to fill the boots of those who are stepping on."
Match ends, Celtic 2, Motherwell 0.
Second Half ends, Celtic 2, Motherwell 0.
Goal! Celtic 2, Motherwell 0. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty Celtic. Moussa Dembele draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Craig Samson (Motherwell) after a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Celtic. Kolo Touré replaces James Forrest.
Attempt missed. Louis Moult (Motherwell) header from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Foul by Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic).
Ryan Bowman (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Liam Henderson (Celtic).
Jake Hastie (Motherwell) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Motherwell. Jake Hastie replaces Ross MacLean.
Louis Moult (Motherwell) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Liam Henderson (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Louis Moult (Motherwell).
Attempt missed. Ryan Bowman (Motherwell) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Richard Tait.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Craig Samson.
Attempt saved. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Attempt missed. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Scott Brown (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt blocked. Scott Brown (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Moussa Dembele (Celtic).
Craig Clay (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Richard Tait (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. James Forrest (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Ross MacLean (Motherwell) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Louis Moult (Motherwell) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Celtic. Patrick Roberts replaces Stuart Armstrong.
Substitution, Celtic. Leigh Griffiths replaces Cristian Gamboa.
Substitution, Motherwell. David Ferguson replaces Jack McMillan because of an injury.
Delay in match Jack McMillan (Motherwell) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Louis Moult (Motherwell) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Cristian Gamboa (Celtic).
Ryan Bowman (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Richard Tait.
Those travelling to and from the UK on EasyJet flights have waited the longest among the 10 busiest airlines.
Figures collected by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) during the last two summers reveal the typical delays.
All flyers using EasyJet had an average delay of 24 minutes, and those leaving from Gatwick waited 27 minutes.
Both said they appeared at the top of the delay list partly as a result of having among the biggest number of flights.
The analysis, by the BBC's data journalism team, is based on the last two years of CAA data for all flights from or to UK airports during June to August.
Below, you can enter your UK departure city, and your destination, to find average delays for the airlines serving this route in the last two summers.
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EasyJet has the longest average delay at 24 minutes when taking all summer flights into consideration, whether delayed or not, for the busiest airlines in June to August for the last two years. Aer Lingus delays were half that length, at 12 minutes.
This chart shows the average delay per journey for the 10 airlines with the greatest number of flights from or to the UK over the last two summers.
Past performance will not necessarily be repeated during this and future summers.
An EasyJet spokeswoman said: "EasyJet operates the largest number of flights of any UK airline, flying over 78 million passengers per year. In 2017, EasyJet will operate 33% more flights than in 2011, with less than 0.8% delayed by more than three hours.
"In fact, despite a number of adverse external factors like increasingly congested airspace, particularly in the London area, and record numbers of air traffic control strikes, over the last year, EasyJet has actually reduced the proportion of flights delayed by more than three hours.
"We work hard to minimise disruption and fully comply with all relevant regulations."
While Gatwick had the longest average delay per outbound flight, the data reveals that travellers were less likely to experience departure delays at smaller UK airports.
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A spokesperson for Gatwick Airport said it had more flights to Europe than any other UK airport, and was impacted disproportionately by events on the continent. He said the airport was calling on UK and European authorities to accelerate plans to increase the efficiency of UK and European airspace.
"We recognise the inconvenience that delays cause to our passengers, and we will continue to do everything possible to prevent them from occurring," he said.
"We operate the world's busiest and most efficient single runway airport, but, over recent years, Gatwick has been disproportionately affected by issues beyond our control.
"These include repeated strike action by French, Greek, Spanish and Italian air traffic controllers and airport employees, prolonged bad weather, and heavily congested airspace above parts of Europe and London.
"Gatwick has made it a priority to address punctuality and, in partnership with our airlines and ground handlers, we are already seeing the benefits of a new wide range of measures that have been implemented to improve punctuality."
Travellers flying from the EU or on European airlines do have a right to compensation. This means:
Alex Neill, from the consumer organisation, Which?, said airlines should offer compensation, rather than wait for customers to come to them: "If you're unlucky enough to experience a severe delay, compensation could be available and people should claim what they're entitled to.
"We want to see airlines introduce automatic compensation where possible so that passengers can quickly and simply receive the money they are owed."
All data used on this page is compiled and made available by the Civil Aviation Authority, which publishes aggregated statistics on punctuality for all flights taking off or landing at major UK airports.
The BBC has combined the CAA's data for June, July and August of 2015 and 2016 and used this to calculate the average (i.e. mean) delay per flight across these months for all routes listed in the data.
Routes with fewer than 50 flights over this period were excluded, as were airlines that registered no flight data for the summer months of 2016 (even if they had been active in 2015). Chartered flights were not distinguished from scheduled flights in the calculations for airlines that fly both categories on the same route.
The data for outbound delays is based on the time the aeroplane takes off from the UK runway, and the data for return delays is based on the time the aeroplane arrives back on the UK runway.
Flights that take off or land early are recorded as having a delay of zero minutes.
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South Lakeland District Council said it hoped to save more than £64,000 and 1,285 tonnes of CO2 by switching to green energy.
It will install solar panels, insulate key council buildings and buy the rest of its energy from green suppliers.
It hopes businesses in the county will follow its lead.
Cllr Clare Feeney-Johnson, who is responsible for the environment and sustainability, said: "By focusing the council's efforts on these three key priorities the organisation can make a long-term commitment to not only energy savings but generating green energy.
"In the short term some of these green initiatives will cost more money but over time they will bring great savings and more importantly will bring huge environmental benefits across our district."
It's predicted that fully insulating council buildings such as South Lakeland House in Kendal, Ulverston Town Hall and Ferry Nab in Windermere will save the council £4,500 per year and cut 30 tonnes of CO2.
The council is committed to cut emissions by 25% by 2013.
His brace against Ross County took him past the 100-goal mark and left Thistle on the cusp of their first top-six finish since the split was introduced.
That would ensure their best top flight placing since finishing sixth in 1981.
"I've scored a lot of memorable ones, but those, in a big game with what was at stake is something I'll remember forever," Doolan told BBC Scotland.
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The striker has been at Firhill since 2009, joining from Junior side Auchinleck Talbot when Thistle were in the First Division.
He knows as well as anyone how impressive an achievement finishing in the top half of the league would be for Thistle.
"It was a huge victory for us," Doolan added after the 2-1 triumph over County at Firhill. "That cements us almost in the top six. We know we're not over the line but it gives us an opportunity to go and cement things over the next three games."
Alan Archibald's side are four points clear of seventh-place Kilmarnock, with three games to play before the split - away to Celtic and Rangers, with a home game against Motherwell in between.
Three points from those fixtures would all but guarantee a top-six place, with Kilmarnock due to play Rangers, Celtic and Hearts.
"It's a huge achievement for the club," added Doolan.
"It's been our aim for a couple of seasons now to get in that top six. We just missed out last year by one goal. It was pretty cruel and we all remember that feeling. As a club we want to be in the top six with the big clubs."
Doolan has made over 300 appearances for Thistle and quipped that his 101st goal is the starting point for another 100.
Now 30, though, the frontman is still relishing his role as Thistle's major goal threat, with 12 to his credit this season.
"A lot of strikers have come and gone. I've fought a lot of them off," he added.
"It's about producing on the pitch. If you're a striker and you come in and you're scoring goals, you can't be taken out the team. I'm just glad I'm at the top end of the pitch, putting the goals away for us."
The Child Welfare Inequalities Project found one in 60 children is in care in England's most deprived areas, compared with one in 660 in the least deprived.
It studies links between deprivation and child welfare interventions.
Council leaders said discussions were ongoing about how children and families could be supported in Wales.
And the UK Department for Education said it was changing the law to help vulnerable children and providing extra funding to tackle inequality in communities in England.
Academics from the seven universities investigated data on over 35,000 children in the UK who were either in care or on child protection plans on March 2015, when the study began.
The project concluded that children in the most deprived 10% of neighbourhoods in the UK were at least 10 times more likely to be in care than children in the least deprived 10% but in Wales the figure was more stark.
The research also found children were 24 times more likely to be on the child protection register.
Jonathan Scourfield, a professor of social work at Cardiff University, said: "The experience of living in poverty puts enormous strain on families which can result in various social and behavioural problems which can cause harm to children.
"We're not at all saying all children living in poorer areas are necessarily at risk - that's far too crude. It is the case that poverty is part of the picture of harm to children."
The Welsh Local Government Association, which represents councils, said there were ongoing discussions with the Association of Directors of Social Services Cymru and the Welsh Government as to "how children and their families can be best supported".
Prof Scourfield added that a "lot of policy attention" focused on reducing health and education inequalities which was "absolutely right".
But he added: "The adult outcomes, though, of harm to children are much more serious than the problems caused in adulthood by educational underachievement or having slightly worse health.
"Reducing inequalities could have the effect of reducing harm to children.
"We need to connect child protection and the reduction of child poverty which, currently, are thought of as two separate areas of policy."
The study said there are 5,350 children in care and 2,936 on the child protection register in Wales.
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Michael Ali, 22, from Ely, Cardiff, grew up in foster care. He said it was not until he attended a high school in a neighbouring community that he realised there were "different stigmas attached to different areas".
A Welsh Government spokesperson said the lead researchers had been invited to present their findings to its Improving Outcomes for Children Ministerial Advisory Group later this week.
The spokesperson said: "The group aims to identify what early intervention and preventative action can be taken to help reduce the numbers of children taken into care and to improve outcomes for looked after children."
Lead investigator Paul Bywaters, professor of social work at Coventry University, said: "This is not about pointing the finger at local authorities or apportioning blame to anyone for a situation that is in critical need of attention.
"What we're doing is holding up a mirror to the child welfare sector, and to the UK's governments, and saying 'This is how it is - now what shall we do about it?'."
A Department for Education spokesperson said it was changing the law to "strengthen protections for vulnerable children, give them greater support in school to help support their educational attainment and help them as they prepare to leave the care system and enter adulthood".
It was also investing £72m to promote social mobility, supporting schools and links with employers, according to the spokesperson.
Naysmith, 38, will take over at Scottish Championship Queens following the Fifers' Scottish Cup replay against Edinburgh City on Monday.
The former Everton, Hearts and Scotland player took over at Bayview Stadium in 2013, having joined East Fife as a player earlier that year.
"I'm thrilled to be taking over at Queens," said Naysmith.
"They are a decent sized club with plenty of potential.
"I've loved my time at East Fife and thank them for giving me the opportunity, but I'm delighted to be making the move back to a full-time club and being able to work with the players on a daily basis.
"Queens have some decent players within the squad and I'm looking forward to working with them to achieve success."
The Palmerston club are currently sixth in the second tier, five points off the promotion play-off places, with coaches Jim Thomson and Graeme Robertson again looking after the team for Saturday's trip to Dumbarton following Gavin Skelton's resignation in early November.
East Fife are second bottom of League One, having won promotion last season.
Assistant manager Dougie Anderson is making the switch from Methil along with Naysmith.
Queens chairman Billy Hewitson added: "We are delighted to welcome Gary to Palmerston. With his involvement at another club, it's been a complicated process and not as straight forward as some would've liked, but we feel we have appointed the right person and we look forward to working with him."
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UUP leader Mike Nesbitt said it was "beyond belief" that Carál Ní Chuilín was unaware of safety concerns until a committee meeting last month.
A safety expert said the 38,000-capacity stadium could not be evacuated safely in certain emergencies.
The minister said she was "confident" her role would stand up to scrutiny.
In a statement, Carál Ní Chuilín said Mr Nesbitt's comments were "without foundation".
"It is unbelievable that Mr Nesbitt would try to seek some form of political gain by suggesting that I would put people's lives in jeopardy in order to build a sporting stadium," she said.
"This issue is well above petty political point scoring.
"I have repeatedly stated that I will not compromise on safety and that no stadium will open without a valid safety certificate. That was the case for the Kingspan Stadium at Ravenhill and it will be the case for Windsor Park and Casement Park.
"It is encouraging, however, to note the new found interest of Mr Nesbitt in GAA stadia and I look forward to seeing him in the future in the new and safe Casement Park."
Last month, Paul Scott of Sport NI and the Safety Technical Group examining Casement, briefed the Culture, Arts and Leisure Committee about the redevelopment plan by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).
Mr Scott said there was the potential for a disaster at the new stadium, like the Hillsborough tragedy.
He also told the committee he was put under "undue pressure" to approve plans for the new ground by officials from the minister's department. He said his concerns about safety had been "largely ignored".
Afterwards, Ms Ní Chuilín said she first heard of his allegations when he appeared before the committee. She said she was "absolutely confident that had concerns of that nature been raised with my officials before I would have heard about it".
However, on Wednesday, UUP leader Mike Nesbitt said it was "frankly inconceivable that a senior official in possession of the sort of briefing Paul Scott would have given, focused as he was on the possibility of a Hillsborough-style disaster in a 38,000-capacity stadium, would sit on that knowledge".
Mr Nesbitt called on members of the Committee for Culture Arts and Leisure to vote on Thursday to begin an inquiry.
Ms Chuilín has asked for a full review of the Casement Park project and has refuted the allegations.
A new consultation process is due to take place ahead of any fresh planning application.
Ms Ní Chuilín has said safety would always remain paramount.
Former Fifa officials Chuck Blazer, Jack Warner and Jeffrey Webb are among those being sued by world football's governing body, which has submitted documents to US authorities.
Fifa has been in turmoil since allegations of corruption in May 2015.
In total, 41 individuals and entities have been charged by US authorities.
A US investigation exposed widespread corruption at the top of world football and Fifa esitmates millions of dollars were diverted from the sport illegally through bribery, kickbacks and corrupt schemes carried out by the defendants.
In a statement, Fifa described itself as a "victimised institution", with new president Gianni Infantino saying those convicted "abused positions of trust".
He added: "They caused serious and lasting damage to Fifa, its member associations and the football community.
"The monies they pocketed belonged to global football and were meant for the development and promotion of the game.
"Fifa as the world governing body of football wants that money back and we are determined to get it no matter how long it takes."
Infantino, 45, was elected as Fifa chief last month following the suspension of predecessor Sepp Blatter, who had been in charge of the governing body since 1998.
He said that once the money had been recovered, it would be directed back to its original purpose to benefit and develop international football.
Ifantino added: "These dollars were meant to build football fields, not mansions and pools; to buy football kits, not jewellery and cars; and to fund youth player and coach development, not to underwrite lavish lifestyles for football and sports marketing executives. "
Defender Scott Wharton gave the U's the lead against the run of play 10 minutes before half-time, glancing Harrison Dunk's corner across Glenn Morris and into the net.
Cambridge had previously been saved by the post when Andre Blackman's effort from distance bounced back off the inside of Will Norris' upright, before Norris produced a superb stop to keep out Jimmy Smith's effort from the edge of the box.
After the interval, Leon Legge nearly doubled the lead with another header from a corner, only for substitute keeper Yusuf Mersin to turn his effort over the bar.
With a minute to play, United sub Gerry McDonagh ran through on goal and was brought down by Josh Payne, who was sent off, with Luke Berry sealing the win from the subsequent penalty.
Shaun Derry's side must win at Wycombe next weekend to have any chance of making the top seven, while hoping for favourable results elsewhere.
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Match ends, Cambridge United 2, Crawley Town 0.
Second Half ends, Cambridge United 2, Crawley Town 0.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Lewis Young.
Goal! Cambridge United 2, Crawley Town 0. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Josh Payne (Crawley Town) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Penalty Cambridge United. Gerry McDonagh draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Josh Payne (Crawley Town) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Ben Williamson (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt blocked. Gerry McDonagh (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Ben Williamson (Cambridge United).
Mark Connolly (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Ben Williamson replaces Medy Elito.
Foul by James Dunne (Cambridge United).
Matt Harrold (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town).
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Greg Taylor.
Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Roberts (Crawley Town).
Medy Elito (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Mark Connolly (Crawley Town).
Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matt Harrold (Crawley Town).
Attempt missed. Matt Harrold (Crawley Town) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Leon Legge.
Gerry McDonagh (Cambridge United) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Luke Berry (Cambridge United).
Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Jordan Roberts replaces Enzio Boldewijn.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Matt Harrold replaces Kaby.
Greg Taylor (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town).
Attempt missed. Josh Payne (Crawley Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
James Collins (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United).
Foul by James Dunne (Cambridge United).
Kaby (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Collins (Crawley Town).
The site has been accused of tampering with its Trending Topics feature, promoting "progressive" views and websites over content presenting views from the American right.
Mr Zuckerberg has denied the reports - which first appeared on tech news site Gizmodo - were accurate, though the site did concede that the feature was controlled by human editors rather than a popularity algorithm.
After Wednesday's meeting at the company's headquarters in California, he wrote on his Facebook page: "This afternoon I hosted more than a dozen leading conservatives to talk about how we can make sure Facebook continues to be a platform for all ideas across the political spectrum.
"Silicon Valley has a reputation for being liberal. But the Facebook community includes more than 1.6 billion people of every background and ideology - from liberal to conservative and everything in between.
"We've built Facebook to be a platform for all ideas. Our community's success depends on everyone feeling comfortable sharing anything they want. It doesn't make sense for our mission or our business to suppress political content or prevent anyone from seeing what matters most to them."
Facebook earlier confirmed to the BBC that those travelling to Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, included:
It is understood that several others declined Mr Zuckerberg's offer.
Matthew Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, wrote in a statement: "We will not be attending this meeting. We know one meeting cannot possibly resolve all of the above mentioned issues."
Glenn Beck, writing on his Facebook page, said: " It would be interesting to look him in the eye as he explains and a win for all voices if we can come to a place of real trust with this powerful tool.
"While they are a private business and I support their right to run it any way they desire without government interference, it would be wonderful if a tool like Facebook independently chose to hold up freedom of speech and freedom of association as a corporate principle."
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Heads and principals who have played a key role in turning around a school or college will get the letters, with a copy going to the education secretary.
Sir Michael Wilshaw set out the plan as he confirmed a switch to more frequent, but shorter Ofsted inspections.
Heads said the changes could make inspections fairer and more effective.
The plans are designed to encourage school leaders who put their careers on the line to tackle troubled schools.
In a speech in London, Sir Michael said: "Those leaders who are taking risks, putting themselves out and disseminating good practice beyond their own institution need to be celebrated as exceptional reformers."
On the move to shorten inspections, Sir Michael said it would "reduce the burden of inspection without losing the rigour which parents and the public rightly expect of Ofsted".
The new inspections will last a single day, rather than two days as at present, and be led by two senior inspectors or HMIs.
"Make no mistake, this a very different inspection model to what has gone before," Sir Michael said.
"The starting assumption of HMIs will be that the school or college is good. This should engender an atmosphere in which honest, challenging, professional dialogue can take place."
The changes are due to come into force in September along with changes to the way Ofsted inspectors are hired and managed.
More Ofsted inspectors will be drawn from staff in good and outstanding schools and colleges, for example.
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: "While we welcomed Ofsted's plan to carry out short inspections of 'good' schools rather than full inspections, we felt that schools likely to be downgraded, or upgraded, should immediately have the required full inspection rather than being kept in limbo. We are reassured that our advice has been acted upon.
"We are also pleased that the emphasis in Ofsted's revised school inspection handbook will be on assessing schools on the outcomes they achieve for students, particularly in terms of the progress made at school.
"We believe it is right that the inspection system should focus on outcomes, rather than telling schools how to teach. This is a step in the right direction."
Moore, 33, was picked by captain Davis Love III after losing to Rory McIlroy in a play-off at the Tour Championship.
Love III, who skippered the US team beaten in 2012, named Rickie Fowler, Matt Kuchar and JB Holmes as his other wildcard choices on 12 September.
This year's Ryder Cup will take place at Hazeltine National in Minnesota from 30 September to 2 October.
Love III made the announcement during the half-time break of Sunday night's televised NFL match between Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys.
The selection of rookie Moore, who is the world number 42, means there is no place in the US Ryder Cup team for two-time Masters champion and world number seven Bubba Watson, 37.
"Ryan fits so well with what we have in place. He's an easy-going, thoughtful guy, but don't be fooled. Ryan's a great match-play player with an incredible match-play record," said Love.
"He has guts and determination and everyone saw that on Sunday. We are thrilled to have him with us."
Brooks Koepka is the only other rookie in the US team.
Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Phil Mickelson, Patrick Reed, Jimmy Walker, Brooks Koepka, Brandt Snedeker and Zach Johnson qualified automatically by making the top eight of the money list.
US wildcard picks
European captain Darren Clarke has named Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer and rookie Thomas Pieters as his three wildcards.
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Two years ago the American team travelled to Scotland in the knowledge that they would not be fielding their strongest possible line-up.
At the time, the most in-form US player was Billy Horschel. He had not been selected because the team was picked before his late surge through the PGA Tour play-offs, culminating in Tour Championship victory at East Lake.
Chris Kirk was similarly inspired, winning the Deutsche Bank Championship, finishing fourth at the season finale and second to Horschel in the play-off standings. He too was absent from the American team.
The US have ensured they don't suffer a similar fate this time by introducing what is unofficially known as the "Horschel rule".
The 26-year-old was the Championship club's top scorer last season, with 20 goals in 48 games in all competitions.
Lansdown also said the Robins would not sell Kodjia to any Championship clubs.
"It would have to be a mega price to prize him away and it would have to be a Premier League side," Lansdown told BBC Radio Bristol. "People have talked about five or six million - no chance."
The former Angers front man, who signed for the club in July 2015 for around £2m, played 90 minutes as City beat Wigan Athletic 2-1 on Saturday in their first match of 2016-17 and their first home game in the fully-redeveloped Ashton Gate.
"We wouldn't sell him to anybody in in the Championship because we're looking to compete in the Championship this year, and he's an integral part of that," Lansdown added.
"If it's not £10 million-plus, we're not even looking at it. If it's £10 million-plus from a Championship club, we're still not looking at it.
"If somebody comes in with the right offer, you've got to look at it."
Uche Ikpeazu gave the U's the lead six minutes into the second half, running onto Conor Newton's pass and firing a rising effort past Ben Garratt.
Newton had missed the best chance of the first half, which the hosts had dominated, shooting wastefully off target when well placed following Harrison Dunk's pass.
Full-back Greg Taylor doubled the lead on the hour, robbing Chris Dagnall and unleashing a stunning effort which flew home via the underside of the crossbar.
Despite being comprehensively outplayed, Crewe found a way back into the match eight minutes later through James Jones, who fired a fine low effort across Will Norris from just outside the box.
Piero Mingoia came closest to building Cambridge's advantage and sealing their fourth straight league win, forcing Garratt into a parry after being played in by Ikpeazu.
The U's are now seventh, having been bottom until the end of September.
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Match ends, Cambridge United 2, Crewe Alexandra 1.
Second Half ends, Cambridge United 2, Crewe Alexandra 1.
Substitution, Cambridge United. George Maris replaces Luke Berry.
Attempt missed. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. James Jones (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Foul by Ben Williamson (Cambridge United).
Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Ben Williamson replaces Uche Ikpeazu.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Harry Davis.
Conor Newton (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Billy Bingham (Crewe Alexandra).
Substitution, Cambridge United. Max Clark replaces Harrison Dunk.
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harry Davis (Crewe Alexandra).
Attempt saved. Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is saved in the top left corner.
Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Zoumana Bakayogo (Crewe Alexandra).
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Daniel Udoh replaces Ryan Lowe because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra) because of an injury.
Goal! Cambridge United 2, Crewe Alexandra 1. James Jones (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Lowe.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Leon Legge.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Greg Taylor.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Charlie Kirk replaces Chris Dagnall.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Billy Bingham replaces Danny Hollands.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Oliver Turton.
Foul by Conor Newton (Cambridge United).
Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Cambridge United 2, Crewe Alexandra 0. Greg Taylor (Cambridge United) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner.
Attempt missed. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United).
George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James Jones (Crewe Alexandra).
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Jones (Crewe Alexandra).
Goal! Cambridge United 1, Crewe Alexandra 0. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Conor Newton.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Jon Guthrie.
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
It said those travelling to the continent should take plenty of food and water and check with travel operators before starting out.
The Port of Dover says roads are clear and it is not expecting severe delays.
Last weekend drivers queued for up to 14 hours because of extra French security checks.
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Traffic going to the Port of Dover traffic should use the M20/A20, while drivers not planning to cross the channel should consider routes such as the B2011, A256 or A258, which may not be suitable for HGVs, KCC advised.
The Port of Dover said anyone travelling to the port should be "properly prepared".
KCC said it has delivered 52,300 2-litre bottles of water to the Dover coastguard from where it can be distributed to delayed motorists if necessary.
Writing on the Conservative Home website on Thursday, Charlie Elphicke, Tory MP for Dover and Deal, said: "It seems every summer there is travel chaos in Kent.
"If this happened at Heathrow there would be uproar.
"But it's somehow seen as okay for tens of thousands of holidaymakers and truckers to be stuck in the sweltering heat all day long without water, food, information or toilet facilities," he wrote.
"You can't help but get the impression that travelling from the Channel Ports is looked down upon and far less of a priority than the elite jet-set."
The pair were appointed in December when Martin Allen departed to become manager of National League Eastleigh.
"Henry was instrumental in bringing through a number of our talented youngsters while he was academy manager," a club statement said.
"Everyone at the club would like to wish Henry all the best for the future."
Barnet say Newman left the club on Sunday, after winning four of 11 games in joint charge with Eames.
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Coleman says he will step down when his current contract expires at the end of the 2018 World Cup campaign.
He guided Wales to the Euro 2016 semi-finals in their first appearance at a major tournament in 58 years.
"Hopefully we'll be able to persuade him to stay on because what we've done over the past few years has been sensational," Roberts said.
"I haven't spoken to him about it yet. The plan is to get to Russia. I'm hoping there's 12 months until that decision has to be acted upon.
"During that time I'll certainly be talking to him about it. I know how much he's enjoyed the experience leading this group of players, leading the team behind the team, and leading the nation.
"He's obviously done a remarkable job. Anything's possible in football. Things change very quickly. Hopefully on this occasion Chris will change his mind."
Coleman's side drew 1-1 away to Serbia in their recent World Cup qualifier to remain unbeaten in their group.
Wales are currently four points behind Serbia and the Republic of Ireland in group D, with four matches remaining.
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Only the winners of the nine European World Cup qualifying groups will advance automatically to next year's finals in Russia, while the eight best runners-up enter the play-offs.
However, Roberts still believes finishing top is a realistic aim and is not ready to concede that Wales cannot win the group.
"All we can do is focus on the games coming up in September. Win those and see where it takes us," he said.
"But we know that we have to take maximum points really, and that's well within the reach of this group of players.
"The aim is to finish top of the group. If that doesn't happen we'll have to aim for the play-off spot. But we're prepared for either [scenario]."
After beating Moldova in their opening game in the group, Wales have drawn their last five matches.
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But Roberts says the coaching team have been happy with the performances.
"We've created more chances than the opposition in each of those games. So it's fine lines," he said.
"When we look at the games against Serbia - in the home game, they had one effort on target and they scored. And yet again last week they get one effort on target and they score.
"It's very difficult to stop a team for 90 minutes from getting one effort on target.
"Based on statistics, we've been really unlucky not to get maximum points out of most of the games, apart from [the 1-1 draw] with Georgia. That's the only game we didn't deserve maximum points.
"But we are where we are. We've got to continue to work hard. And we've got to continue to be effective in that final third, in particular in open play."
But Russia said the partnership agreement, also signed by two other ex-Soviet states Georgia and Moldova, would have "serious consequences".
The pact is the issue that triggered Ukraine's current crisis.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said making Ukraine choose between Russia and the EU would split it in two.
A week-long ceasefire between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in restive eastern Ukraine expired on Friday at 22:00 (19:00 GMT).
Rebel spokesmen had indicated they were willing to extend it to 30 June.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, in Brussels to sign the pact, had said he would take a decision on an extension on Friday evening, after he arrived back in Kiev.
There is a general sense of irritation or perhaps even anger here that Moscow has failed to convince countries like Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia not to sign this historic free trade deal today with the EU.
Moscow has economic concerns about these deals - it is worried that the Russian market could be flooded by cheap goods from the EU that would hit Russian producers.
More pressing for Moscow are the geopolitical concerns here - the whole idea of former Soviet states, countries that Moscow still views as being within its sphere of influence, drifting towards Europe and one day possibly becoming part of the EU - that really grates with Moscow, particularly in the case of Ukraine.
There's a lot of concern about what could happen in eastern Ukraine - the ceasefire announced a few days ago by Mr Poroshenko, and the ceasefire announced by armed separatist rebels, is due to expire today. It's unclear how things are going to develop later.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had said he would welcome an extension, but not if it were simply an ultimatum for separatists to lay down their arms.
Mr Putin insisted on a long-term ceasefire to allow for negotiations between the Ukrainian government and separatists, urging Mr Poroshenko to embark on a "path of peace, dialogue and accord".
Mr Putin said: "There is bloodshed in the south-east Ukraine, humanitarian catastrophe, tens of thousands of refugees have to look for shelter, on Russian territory."
Mr Putin said that "attempts to force on the Ukrainian people an artificial choice between Europe and Russia brought [a split] to society, a painful internal confrontation".
The refusal of Mr Poroshenko's predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych, to sign the EU deal, under pressure from Russia, had led to protests in Kiev and his eventual overthrow this year.
In Brussels, Mr Poroshenko hailed the 1,200-page Association Agreement as a turning point, describing it as a "symbol of faith and unbreakable will".
"What a great day! It is a historic day, maybe the most important day since independence," he said.
Mr Poroshenko also said he saw the signing as the start of preparations for joining the EU bloc.
The pact binds the three countries more closely to the West both economically and politically.
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy described the pacts as a "great day for Europe".
But Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said there would "undoubtedly be serious consequences for Ukraine's and Moldova's signing".
The Kremlin immediately said it would take "all the necessary measures" against Ukraine.
Russia has warned it will hit Ukraine with punishing trade restrictions.
It could withdraw Ukraine's duty-free benefits as a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The European Council on Friday also issued a policy statement on Ukraine, setting out key steps it expected to happen by Monday, including the return of three key checkpoints to Ukrainian forces and the "launch of substantial negotiations on the implementation of President Poroshenko's peace plan".
Mr Poroshenko set out a 15-point peace plan on 20 June. It involves decentralising power and holding early local and parliamentary elections.
It also proposes the creation of a 10km (six-mile) buffer zone on the Ukrainian-Russian border, and a safe corridor for pro-Russian separatists to leave the conflict areas.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Russia the EU was prepared for "drastic measures" if there was no speedy progress on Mr Poroshenko's peace plan.
French President Francois Hollande said more measures would be taken if there was no progress after Sunday, when he and Mrs Merkel will speak to Mr Putin by phone.
Fighting is said to have continued in some areas of eastern Ukraine despite the ceasefire.
But rebels have now released four international observers captured more than a month ago.
More than 420 people have been killed in fighting between pro-Russia rebels and government forces in eastern Ukraine since mid-April, the UN estimates.
The separatists have declared independence, claiming that extremists have taken power in Kiev.
Their move followed Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region.
Shiloh Moore, 21, of Elmbridge Road, Deptford, appeared before Wimbledon magistrates and was held in custody.
Two others are in custody after being charged with the same offence.
Nassem, 17, was killed on 26 September when he crashed his car after a concrete block was hurled at it on the Turnham estate in Brockley, south-east London.
Tershan Thompson-Williams, 21, of Seager Place, Deptford; and Remi Moore, 22, of Lea Bridge Road, Leyton; were charged with violent disorder earlier this month.
Mr Thompson-Williams is due to appear at Woolwich Crown Court later this month, and Mr Moore in November.
Officers were called to reports of a fight on the estate which flared up before the car was attacked.
The suspects ran off afterwards, leaving passers-by to rush to the aid of Nassem and two friends who were in the car with him. A post-mortem examination revealed Nassem died as a result of multiple injuries.
A Muslim cleric in Izbat Marco, a village in Beni Suef province, said he saw the boys, aged nine and 10, take pages of the Koran and urinate on them.
A Coptic priest said local Islamists attended demonstrations calling for revenge for the desecration of a Koran.
Human rights groups say allegations of contempt of religion are on the rise.
Seventeen cases have been filed since the 2011 uprising, many of them against Copts, who make up about 10% of Egypt's 82 million people.
Tensions have also been heightened in the past month by the posting online of Innocence of Muslims - an amateur video made by a Coptic Christian in the US which mocks Islam and has sparked violent protests worldwide.
A neighbour of the boys detained in Izbat Marco said he doubted the allegations were true because they were illiterate and could not have recognised the Koran.
"We brought one boy and asked him if he knew this is the Koran. He didn't know it was the Koran. He can't even read or write, like most kids in the village," he told the Associated Press news agency.
The neighbour said a police office had detained the boys for their own safety because Islamists from outside the village had gathered at the mosque calling for revenge.
"We begged him to leave the kids. They can't spend night outside their home. The officer said he feared for their lives and he wanted to keep them with him."
On Thursday, a senior security official in Beni Suef, Gen Attiya Mazrou, said police had been ordered to release the boys, but that they would remain under investigation.
The entertainment organisation has tweeted that WWE Network will start in the UK and Ireland on 19 January.
The subscription video-on-demand service will be available just before the Royal Rumble 2015, which takes place in the US on 25 January.
"This time we really mean it," said WWE CEO Vince McMahon, confirming the news in a video statement.
"You've been waiting a long time for the WWE Network and we thank you for your patience."
In October, the company blamed delays to the launch of the UK branch of the service on ongoing "discussions with potential partners".
It promised an announcement of the new date by 1 November, but this was again delayed.
WWE is currently broadcast exclusively on Sky Sports with pay per view events such as WrestleMania and Royal Rumble sold for £15 on Sky Box Office.
Sky signed a new deal in 2014 with WWE to broadcast 12 pay per view events every year from January 2015 until 2019 exclusively in the UK and Ireland.
At the time managing director of Sky Sports, Barney Francis, said: "WWE is brilliant entertainment and I am delighted to once again extend our relationship with them.
"WWE is hugely popular with our viewers and now they can continue to watch all the big events and weekly programmes with us."
The WWE Network was launched in the US just before WrestleMania XXX in April 2014 and costs $9.99 (£6.16) a month with a minimum six-month contract.
Users get access to library matches and a daily live show as well as pre and post-match extras.
In the UK, subscriptions will be priced at £9.99 and there will be no minimum commitment.
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Mr Carney said he believed that those chosen should represent the diversity of great British historical figures.
He wrote a letter in response to a Conservative MP who is disappointed that the appearance of Sir Winston Churchill on a new £5 note leaves no female characters on the currency.
Mr Carney said discussions began on his first day in office on Monday.
Mary Macleod is the Conservative MP for Brentford and Isleworth and chairwoman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Women in Parliament.
She told Mr Carney that the decision to leave no women on banknotes when Elizabeth Fry is replaced by Sir Winston Churchill was "completely unrepresentative of the role that women have played and continue to play in our country's history."
"The symbolism of having no women on our banknotes leaves a chasm where there was once inspiration."
In reply, Mr Carney said that it was not the Bank's intention to leave women unrepresented and that he was already discussing with his new colleagues the best way to ensure that the currency celebrated a diverse range of figures, both now and in the future.
"Like you, I consider Sir Winston Churchill to be an excellent choice to appear on a banknote," he said.
"However, I fully recognise that, with Sir Winston replacing Elizabeth Fry as the character on the £5 note - in the absence of any other changes to the Bank of England's notes - none of the four characters on our notes would be a woman."
"That is not the bank's intention."
Mr Carney added that he expected to make a public announcement once his discussions have been completed, no later than the end of July.
The Bank of England issues nearly a billion banknotes each year, and withdraws almost as many from circulation.
Notes are redesigned on a relatively frequent basis, in order to maintain security and prevent forgeries. Other security features include threads woven into the paper and microlettering.
The most recent new design from the Bank of England was the £50 note, which entered circulation in November. This features Matthew Boulton and James Watt who were most celebrated for bringing the steam engine into the textile manufacturing process.
Close by, his neighbours make bricks, grow vegetables and run shops such as cafes, a bakery, a barber's salon and a tattoo studio.
All the workers are inmates living at Punta de Rieles, a progressive "open" prison just outside the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo.
"We never imagined we would have something like this," said Campo, 50, who has spent 23 years behind bars for bank robbery.
"It's a model prison which offers opportunities you don't find anywhere else."
With incidents of prison violence recently hitting the headlines around Latin America, particularly in Brazil where more than 100 people died in January alone in a series of riots, the liberal philosophy behind Punta de Rieles offers an alternative view of how correctional institutions can be operated.
Its director, Luis Parodi, is a former schoolteacher who believes that "if the context changes, the man changes" and who runs his prison based on three fundamental elements: work, education and culture.
"We want to provide the best daily life possible, so prisoners can sleep peacefully and do not feel humiliated, scared or fearful," Mr Parodi told the BBC.
By creating a "village" which mimics the outside world as closely as conditions allow, he hopes to ease the rocky transition when prisoners return to freedom.
Many of the 630 inmates at Punta de Rieles are approaching the end of their sentences.
With the national re-offending rate estimated at around 50%, Mr Parodi often tells departing prisoners to "call me before you think about stealing something", and gives out his personal phone number.
Uruguay's prison population has more than doubled since 2000. Prisons are currently 9% over their capacity.
In this nation of 3.4 million inhabitants, 10,416 people were serving custodial sentences in 2016.
In 2009, a UN Special Rapporteur expressed concern about the country's penitentiary system, describing "sub-human conditions" in which inmates at one prison were held "like animals in metal boxes" for nearly 24 hours per day.
At Punta de Rieles, prisoners can circulate freely within the prison boundaries until 19:00.
Many use mobile phones to stay in touch with the outside world, and some are allowed tablets or computers.
Inside the cells, which are typically shared between four people, they are allowed to have televisions, games consoles, refrigerators and musical instruments.
Families can visit three times per week, and overnight stays have been allowed since 2015.
In many cases, family members assist inmates who run businesses which sell their wares outside, like Cesar Campo's carpentry workshop.
Of 38 active "companies", 35 were started by prisoners themselves, and another is run by several former inmates who still return to work at the prison.
All business owners pay a small tax, which is used to provide micro-credit loans for inmates opening a new venture.
Successful start-ups are also registered with Uruguayan tax authorities, and Luis Parodi's latest initiative enables prisoners to open bank accounts from inside.
Another of Mr Parodi's unconventional ideas was to create a security force comprised almost entirely of unarmed female guards.
"At first I was scared, but not for long," said Ines Marcos, who has been working at Punta de Rieles for three-and-a-half years. "I wouldn't say we're like their mothers, but we give the right advice, like a guide or a sister who helps them out."
Sport and cultural activities are offered to complement education programmes.
A colourful music studio in the main cell block rumbles with noise at all hours of the day as bands practise.
"Instead of staying inside, cutting your arms or building up rage against the police, we do something positive," said Santiago Garrido, 28, who plays in a rock group and teaches guitar to fellow inmates.
"It's a way of channelling our energy. If we didn't do this, our heads would be thinking about other stuff," he added.
"The need to save ourselves is fundamental."
Garrido's group is currently working on an album that will be recorded at a studio outside the prison.
With members of a theatre workshop, he frequently performs at other penitentiaries and in public, including a show at the Uruguayan parliament last year.
Adriano Baraldo, 29, is an actor and singer who is serving a 19-year sentence for armed robbery.
"I recognise that I've done bad things," he says.
"I shouldn't have left my children [to grow up like] orphans."
"Prisons are the sewer of the capitalist system, but people can always learn to recycle themselves."
The 25-year-old former Newcastle United trainee made 110 appearances for the U's over three seasons, but was restricted by injuries last campaign.
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The final result came in Fermanagh and South Tyrone where UUP's Tom Elliott lost to Sinn Féin's Michelle Gildernew.
Former SDLP party leaders Mark Durkan, Margaret Ritchie and Alasdair McDonnell were toppled in Foyle, South Down and Belfast South.
In Foyle, Sinn Féin's Elisha McCallion won by 169 votes after a recount.
She is the first non-SDLP MP to win the seat since the Foyle constituency was formed in 1983.
Mr Durkan said the loss "hurt" and apologised to former SDLP leader John Hume, who was the constituency's MP from 1983 to 2005.
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said it was a "very difficult night" for the party and paid tribute to the party's three former MPs.
Meanwhile, the DUP celebrated a resurgence with a 10% increase in their vote share, a return to a level of support they last enjoyed in the 2005 general election.
The confirmed results saw the DUP win 10 seats, Sinn Féin win seven and independent candidate Lady Sylvia Hermon retain her seat in North Down.
DUP leader Arlene Foster said she was "absolutely delighted" with the result, and that it showed the voters had bought into the party's vision.
Michelle O'Neill, Sinn Féin's northern leader, ruled out the prospect of the party taking its seats at Westminster.
The Conservatives are on course to be the largest party but may not have an overall majority, which may make Northern Ireland's 18 MPs crucial in the balance of power.
In South Down, Ms Ritchie lost to Sinn Féin's Chris Hazzard while the DUP's Emma Little-Pengelly won the seat in Belfast South from Dr McDonnell.
The UUP's Danny Kinahan lost his seat in South Antrim to the DUP's Paul Girvan.
Politics here has turned another corner.
The middle-ground parties have been wiped from Westminster and the DUP will be Northern Ireland's only voice on the green benches.
Playing the union and border poll card has paid off for the DUP and Sinn Féin.
The polarisation of politics has moved to another level.
The upshot may well be a coming together of the unionist parties while the SDLP are likely to look south to Fianna Fail to find their way back from the wilderness.
Lady Sylvia Hermon retained her seat in North Down but had her majority of over 9,000 votes cut to around 1,200 by DUP candidate Alex Easton.
The DUP's Jim Shannon, Jeffrey Donaldson, Gregory Campbell, Gavin Robinson, Ian Paisley, Nigel Dodds, David Simpson and Sammy Wilson retained their seats in Strangford, Lagan Valley, East Londonderry, Belfast East, Belfast North, Upper Bann and East Antrim.
Sinn Féin's Paul Maskey, Mickey Brady and Francie Molloy also retained their seats in Belfast West, Newry and Armagh and Mid-Ulster while Barry McElduff won in West Tyrone.
A total of 109 candidates stood across Northern Ireland and 1.2m people were eligible to vote.
The general election exit poll indicated that the Conservatives will be the largest party at Westminster but may not secure an overall majority.
If this proves correct, Northern Ireland's 18 MPs may become crucial in the formation of a government.
The discovery could explain why seabirds such as the albatross swallow plastic, causing injury or death.
The smell, similar to the odour of rotting seaweed, is caused by the breakdown of plankton that sticks to floating bits of plastic.
About 90% of seabirds have eaten plastic and may keep some in their bellies, putting their health at risk.
The rate of plastic pollution is increasing around the world, with a quarter of a billion tonnes of plastic waste recorded in the oceans in 2014.
Scientists think seabirds associate the smell of plastic with food - and are tricked into swallowing plastic waste.
"These seabirds actually use odours to find their way around in the world and to find food," said Matthew Savoca, of University of California, Davis.
"We found a chemical on plastic that these birds typically associate with food, but now it's being associated with plastic.
"And so these birds might be very confused - and tricked into consuming plastic as food."
In experiments, scientists at the University of California put microbeads into mesh bags and dangled them in the ocean.
After three weeks at sea, they analysed the plastic for chemical signatures.
Nothing was found on new plastic samples, but three types of plastic in the sea acquired a distinctive chemical smell.
The chemical - dimethyl sulfide - has a characteristic sulphurous odour associated with boiling cabbage or decaying seaweed.
It is also produced in the oceans through the breakdown of microscopic algae or phytoplankton, which collects on plastic.
Seabirds with a keen sense of smell, including albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters, can detect this odour, which they associate with food.
Thus, smells as well as visual cues - such as shiny plastic - may attract seabirds to plastic.
Co-researcher Prof Gabrielle Nevitt, also from UC Davis, said species such as petrels were likely to be affected by plastic ingestion.
"These species nest in underground burrows, which are hard to study, so they are often overlooked," she said.
"Yet, based on their foraging strategy, this study shows they're actually consuming a lot of plastic and are particularly vulnerable to marine debris."
The researchers are calling for more research to see if other animals - such as fish, penguins and turtles - are also drawn to plastic by chemicals.
And they say it might be possible to develop plastics that either do not attract algae or break down more quickly in the environment.
Even knowing which species are most at risk based on the way they find food is informative - because it helps us - the scientific community - figure out how to best allocate monitoring and conservation effort to those species most at need," said Dr Savoca.
The research is published in the journal Science Advances.
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They said he had severe dementia.
Sommer, 93, was one of 10 ex-Nazi officers found guilty in absentia in Italy of one of the country's worst civilian wartime massacres.
He was convicted for his role in the murders of 560 civilians in the Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in August 1944.
The Nazis, who were retreating in northern Italy ahead of Allied troops, surrounded the village early on 12 August and in the space of a few hours murdered men, women and 119 children.
Sommer was serving at the time in an SS Panzer division. He now lives in a nursing home in Hamburg-Volksdorf and tops the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted Nazi criminals.
Hamburg lawyer Gabriele Heinecke, who has campaigned on behalf of the victims' families to put him on trial, said she was unhappy with the way specialists had reached the conclusion that Sommer was suffering from dementia.
When asked by Berlin website Tageszeitung if she thought dementia could be faked, Ms Heinecke said: "Of course. In matters of pensions it's something that happens every day."
The decision to drop the trial comes as Oskar Groening, another 93-year-old former Nazi, described as "The Bookkeeper of Auschwitz" is being tried in Germany on at least 300,000 counts of accessory to murder.
For years, attempts have been made to put Sommer on trial in Germany, and prosecutors in Hamburg said if he had been deemed fit he would "with high probability have been charged with 342 cases of murder, committed cruelly and on base motives".
In 2012, the case was dropped for lack of evidence after a 10-year investigation, but it was eventually re-opened in August last year.
Police say he attacked officers with a large knife after being approached by a Boston police officer and an FBI agent.
The shooting took place early on Tuesday morning outside a CVS pharmacy in the residential Roslindale neighbourhood of Boston.
Officials say the man, identified as 26-year-old Usaama Rahim, had been under 24 hour surveillance.
Police and FBI officials would not comment on any ties to Islamic extremism, or whether Mr Rahim had been planning a terrorist act.
Boston Police Commissioner William B. Evans described the man as "known suspect wanted for some terrorist-related information", but he said there was no warrant for his arrest.
Officers approached the man without drawing their guns intending to interview him on the street, officials said.
They did not intend to take him into custody at that time, although officials acknowledge he was considered a threat to the public.
"He's someone we were watching for quite a time... and so that level of alarm brought us to question him today," Mr Evans said.
"I don't think anyone expected the reaction we were going to get out of him today, and that's why we had the tragic turnout here."
Iman Ibrahim Rahim, a religious leader in San Francisco, had posted to his Facebook page saying his brother was shot in the back while waiting for a bus to bring him to his job, contradicting police reports.
"This morning while at the bus stop in Boston, my youngest brother Usaama Rahim was waiting for the bus to go to his job. He was confronted by three Boston Police officers and subsequently shot in the back three times," Iman Rahim wrote.
Iman Rahim says his brother was speaking on the phone with his father when he was shot.
"His last words to my father who heard the shots were: I can't breathe!"
Officials say the man refused multiple orders to drop his weapon before charging at the officers.
"Our officers tried their best to get him to put down the knife,'' Mr Evans told the Boston Globe newspaper.
"Unfortunately, they had to take a life.''
Police say witnesses and video confirm that the officers were retreating when they each fired shots at Rahim, who was wielding a "military style knife".
The suspect was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead from at least two gunshot wounds.
The two officers are in hospital to be examined for stress, but did not suffer physical injuries, police said.
An investigation will be conducted by Boston Police and the FBI to determine if the shooting was justified.
A home in the nearby town of Everett was being searched in connection with the case.
Officials say there is no threat to public safety.
Governing body British Cycling said there had been a 25% increase in Welsh members in the last year.
About 70% of them are competitive cyclists with the rest including commuters.
The rise has been in part to the success of Nicole Cooke and GB cyclists who took eight golds at Beijing.
British Cycling said the pastime in Britain had "never been in better health".
Gold Olympian and Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins is just one of the high-profile names who are said to be part of an upsurge in interest into the sport.
The attention on Thursday turns to Cardiff cyclist Geraint Thomas, who won gold in Beijing, as the GB team pursuit take to the track in the Velodrome.
And cycling clubs around Wales are preparing for a rush of new members as people are inspired by this success.
Phil Graham, secretary of Swansea Wheelers Cycling Club, said: "I'm a solicitor and I was with a client on Monday and we spent half an hour talking about her wanting her kids to go out cycling and join a club.
"She had been watching the Olympic [cycling] road race. Until she had watched that, she had no idea how the racing worked.
"I suspect if there was no coverage of it on the TV she wouldn't have known about it."
Mr Graham said that the Beijing Olympics in 2008 was an important factor in the increased interest in the sport.
"Wiggins himself would say it's not an overnight thing. It's definitely been growing," he said.
"In the past 12 months, our average attendance has gone up about 20%."
Other clubs around Wales have enjoyed similar success in attracting new riders.
Dax Jenkins, chairman of Pontypool Road Cycling Club in Torfaen, said it had doubled its membership in the past three years.
"That's because of the success of the cyclists at the Olympic Games [in Beijing]," he said.
"I would say the success the British lads are having has been building for the past five years.
"It's promoted an interest in cycling and we've noticed a surge in membership."
He said the success of British cyclists had been "phenomenal".
"We've got Geraint Thomas as well. I think he's going to concentrate on the road racing the next few years and we will see him making an impact," he said.
Mr Jenkins said he had noticed an increase in the number of people who were using bicycles to commute to work.
Director of development for Welsh Cycling, Ian Jenkins, said there had been a "real surge" in recreational cycling, including organised non-competitive events, due to the interest sparked by the elite riders.
"That was triggered off by Beijing but we're expecting another spike this year with Bradley Wiggins in the Tour de France and all the Olympic coverage that's upon us," he said.
"I think the other key thing since Beijing is that we've almost doubled our under-16 membership.
"It's very important to us because we're bringing youngsters into the sport."
But there is concern that seeing elite cyclists on the television may give the message that it is a sport only for ultra-fit athletes.
Lee Waters, director of sustainable transport group Sustrans Cymru, said: "One of the barriers is that people feel they are not fit enough for it.
"There's a danger people might get put off by somebody like Bradley Wiggins from giving cycling a go.
"Having said that, it's very high profile and very positive so we expect it to inspire people to try it, which is fantastic, but we also want the message to be that you don't have to be like this to have a go."
Ana Garrido thinks it is. The 50-year-old former civil servant's personal investigation played a key role in exposing a massive corruption network linked to Spain's ruling Popular Party (PP).
But it is her life that has been ruined.
When 37 accused, including an ex-minister and the PP's former treasurer, go on trial in Madrid on Tuesday, it will mark a milestone in the fight against corruption in Spain.
But Ms Garrido no longer works at the council in Boadilla del Monte, a leafy Madrid suburb, where almost a decade ago she realised that something shady was going on. Instead, she has turned to making and selling handicraft jewellery to pay her rent.
She started working at the council in 1993. Then in 2007, as part of her role in the youth department, she says she received strange instructions to favour certain companies when contracts were to be awarded.
She cross-checked data and found that under the PP mayor of Boadilla at the time, Arturo Gonzalez Panero, a network of firms was being favoured without due process.
"I was passionate about my job working with young people and children. I had a good salary, I was buying a nice home and travelled a lot. I was a very happy person."
When Ms Garrido began to realise the dimensions of a scandal that spread far wider than the confines of her home town, she felt scared, exposed and vulnerable, she says.
"There is nothing like a whistle-blowers' charter in Spain. Not only are we not protected, but we can be persecuted and harassed by those we accuse of abusing power."
Ms Garrido's evidence ended up in the hands of investigating judge Baltasar Garzon. But her treatment at work led to clinical depression and, eventually, giving up her civil service career.
"My bosses held meetings without me, made me change office over and over and halted each project I was working on. Every day when I went in, I just didn't know what was in store for me."
Eventually, Ms Garrido won a lawsuit against the council for harassment, but she has not yet seen the €95,000 (£82,000; $106,558) awarded to her as compensation, because Boadilla town hall has appealed against the ruling. And the conservative PP has reported Ms Garrido for keeping public documents in her home.
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Ms Garrido also claims to have been vilified by sections of the Spanish media.
"Even some of my friends have asked me if I have tampered with documents. This is what they do; the aim is to discredit the whistle-blower, and it has not happened only to me."
In Andalucia, the UGT labour union is trying to have former employee Roberto Macias jailed for four years, for stealing computer files that helped uncover alleged fraud in the use of government subsidies.
Ms Garrido says that all of the parties in Spain's parliament are receptive to her Platform for Honesty's proposals to establish certain legal safeguards for whistle-blowers - all except the PP.
So has it been worth it, or is Spanish politics just as corrupt as it was in 2007, when Ms Garrido's life changed for ever?
"There is still a great deal of corruption in Spain, but today perhaps people will think twice about taking things that they used to assume was their right. I would do it all over again, but I have only managed to get so far because I don't have children. It is not the same to suffer extortion and threats directly if it affects the life of your children."
Nicola Cross, 37, was found with stab wounds at her house in Hemel Hempstead on Monday, an hour after police were called to the same street over reports of a man behaving suspiciously.
Her body was discovered after officers responding to a separate call about a break-in at a neighbour's house heard a disturbance from next door.
Marcin Porczynski, 25, has been charged with Ms Cross's murder.
He also faces two counts of kidnap and a charge of burglary relating to a neighbouring property in Dunlin Road, police said.
Mr Porczynski, from Claymore Avenue, Hemel Hempstead, is due to appear at Hatfield Remand Court on Thursday.
Two children were in the house when officers found Ms Cross's body. Police said they were physically unharmed.
Det Ch Insp Jerome Kent said the children were safe and with family.
Ms Cross's death was a "tragic and isolated incident," he said, and sought to reassure people such events were "highly unusual within Hertfordshire."
Hertfordshire Police has referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission in relation to the case.
A 19-year-old man from Hemel Hempstead arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to burgle has been released on police bail until 24 September.
Variety says it will be based on the Iron Man star's Perry Mason reboot, which he had been developing as a feature film at Warner Bros for several years.
It is thought it will be a short series, rather than a TV film.
1960s legal drama Perry Mason was one of TV's longest-running legal series.
The show, which starred Raymond Burr, was based on a character created by author Erle Stanley Gardner.
Mason is an unorthodox Los Angeles investigating criminal defence lawyer, and each episode focused on one client's murder trial.
Deadline report that the series could be ongoing with future seasons dependent on Downey Jr's availability.
There have been two series of True Detective - the first staring Matthew McConaughey was highly acclaimed but the second series disappointed critics.
It will be the first TV role for Downey Jr since comedy series Ally McBeal, starring Calista Flockhart, which he left in 2001.
He won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors' Guild award for his performance as Ally's boyfriend in the hit show, but left after he was arrested for drugs offences.
Downey Jr is currently filming Spider-Man: Homecoming, reprising his role of Tony Stark/Iron Man.
It has also been announced he will star in a third Sherlock Holmes film.
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The victim had been returning with friends to a house in The Drive, Hullbridge, on Sunday evening when they were approached by two masked men.
Detectives say the victim, 57, was "pushed" - and "fell heavily into a low level wall". He suffered a brain injury and died in hospital on Tuesday.
Police are treating his death as "an isolated, targeted incident".
It was also revealed that one of the masked men was carrying a gun, police say, but it was not used in the attack.
The robbery took place when the group of friends returned to a house at around 23:10 GMT on Sunday after spending the evening in the Anchor Pub on Ferry Road.
Police said the group was forced inside and demands were made. A sum of money was handed over.
Det Ch Insp Martin Pasmore, of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, said: "We understand that during the incident one of the suspects pushed the victim and he fell heavily onto a low level wall, causing a serious brain injury.
"He was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, where he sadly died.
"This is an extremely tragic incident during which an innocent man lost his life. We are treating this as an isolated, targeted incident.
"These men were clearly ready to use any level of violence necessary to achieve their aim."
A US team studied a mineral called apatite, which is found in a variety of lunar rock types.
Apatite, the name for which comes from a Greek word meaning deceit, may have misled scientists into thinking the Moon is wetter than it actually is.
Lead author Jeremy Boyce said: "We thought we had a great indicator, but it turns out it's not that reliable."
Initial analysis of the lunar rocks brought back to Earth by the Apollo missions suggested the Moon was "bone dry".
But in the last decade, studies of volcanic glasses and apatite in lunar rocks have revealed them to be hydrogen-rich, building a compelling case for significant water having been present on the Moon as different minerals crystallised from cooling magma.
Dr Boyce, a Nasa Early Career Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, presented his results at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas, this week. The work has also just been published in the prestigious journal Science.
The UCLA geochemist, along with collaborators Francis McCubbin, Steve Tomlinson, James Greenwood and Allan Treiman, simulated the formation of apatite minerals containing different amounts of volatile elements - hydrogen, chlorine and fluorine.
They demonstrated that it was possible to start with any water composition in the magma and, by varying only the degree of crystallisation and the chlorine content, reproduce all the features seen in a diverse range of apatite from the Moon.
"We used to think it was a simple proportionality - that the more hydrogen was in the apatite, the more hydrogen in the magma," Dr Boyce explained.
"Then we figured out… that it's a competition between hydrogen and mostly fluorine. Fluorine is the element that apatite most wants."
To illustrate the complex chemical process involved in the formation of lunar apatite, Dr Boyce used a dating analogy, in which fluorine is apatite's ideal partner and the two pair up preferentially. Chlorine is also attractive to apatite, but not quite as much as fluorine.
He continued: "Then the last apatite comes and there's nothing left but hydrogen. So it says: 'Okay, want to go out'?
"So all the apatites are taking all the fluorine and hiding it from the melt. Then the melt forgets that it had all that fluorine and the apatites get more chlorine-rich and more hydrogen-rich." In this way, apatite may have produced a misleading indication of the original abundance of water in the Moon's interior.
The abundance of water in lunar rocks has important implications for the prevailing theory of the Moon's formation - known as the Giant Impact Model. According to the theory, several billion years ago, a planet-sized object called Theia collided with Earth, blasting rock into Earth orbit.
This material then coalesced to form the Moon. But this fiery origin story requires that volatile elements were boiled off, leaving the Moon depleted of water relative to Earth. So a less watery Moon ties in better with this theory.
The result generates new uncertainty about how much water the Moon started with. And the researchers point out that other sources of hydrogen, such as the solar wind, could have been incorporated into the apatite - further complicating the picture.
Dr Francis McCubbin, senior research scientist at the University of New Mexico, who's a co-author on the new study, told the BBC: "There is some hydrogen that's coming in from the solar wind and getting stuck on the surface. But there is some amount - definitely seems to be less than on Earth - that the Moon started with."
But what's also notable is that some of the authors of this study previously published some of the papers that built the case for a watery Moon.
"Clearly, we did the best we could at the time. But that's the progress of science - there are course corrections," Dr Boyce explained.
"Definitely, there is still water on the Moon. Those rocks are not completely anhydrous. There's a really interesting record of heavy chlorine and hydrogen isotopes. But the abundances, we've demonstrated, are difficult to interpret."
Dr McCubbin commented: "Forty years ago, the Apollo astronauts built a building and the elevator was on a floor where [the water abundance] was one part per billion (ppb).
"We took it up to where we were near terrestrial abundances, and then we realised we were on the wrong floor. We've taken it back down, but not all the way down to where we were 40 years ago."
Dr Everett Gibson, from Nasa's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, who was not involved in the latest study, told BBC News he found the results eminently plausible.
He said the scant evidence for hydrated minerals in lunar rocks had always been a problem for models of a water-rich Moon.
"The worry is, everything we measure is being modified and concentrated in a way that makes it impossible to get back to where it started," explained Dr Boyce.
And Dr McCubbin commented: "Apatite's name comes from the Greek word 'apat', meaning 'deceit'. And this is the last time we're going to let it trick us."
The new results represent a personal landmark for Dr Boyce, who was hospitalised in 2012 with a viral infection and spent several weeks in a coma. The researcher had to learn to walk again afterwards.
"We're celebrating as only scientists celebrate, by publishing papers and getting back into our normal lives," he said.
Jeremy Boyce added that he, Francis McCubbin and James Greenwood of Wesleyan University had been publishing papers on lunar apatite at the same time and could have spent the rest of their careers as scientific rivals.
However, the three scientists subsequently formed an alliance at a scientific meeting, deciding to collaborate, rather than compete, on the problem.
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God Save the Queen is the national anthem for the UK as a whole but after today's vote MPs have said that England should have its own anthem in the same way as Scotland and Wales.
Scotland's anthem is Flower of Scotland, while Welsh people sing Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau.
Prime Minister David Cameron's choice would be Jerusalem, which is popular among groups campaigning for England's own anthem.
Other choices include Land of Hope and Glory, I Vow To Thee My Country and There'll Always Be an England - or an entirely new national anthem could be written.
There's plenty of time to think about it; MPs will discuss it again in March before a final decision on whether to go ahead with a new anthem for England is made.
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He replaces Neil McDonald, who left following Blackpool's relegation from League One, and has signed a one-year rolling contract at Bloomfield Road.
Bowyer, 44, was in charge at Blackburn from March 2013 to his dismissal in November 2015 following two earlier spells as caretaker.
He becomes Blackpool's eighth manager since 2012.
That temperature was just shy of the record 16C recorded at Murlough in County Down on 11 December 1994.
The mild weather is being driven by warmer air coming from south of the Azores in the mid-Atlantic.
It is not unusual to have temperatures in the double digits at this time of year.
"In December last year, amidst the wind, rain, and storms we actually had the mildest December since the 1980s," said John Wylie from the Met Office.
"Temperatures of 14C and 15C were fairly common place."
Rewind six years and we were just entering the coldest winter on record with widespread disruption due to heavy snow.
It's set to remain mild for the rest of the week according to the Met Office, although temperatures are unlikely to be as high as Wednesday's.
Will we get a white Christmas though? It's still much too early to say.
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) says it has "serious concerns" over the effects of the 28 June attack.
"[It] has been debilitating for some small firms who remain in the dark over when, and if, they can expect their goods to be delivered," the FSB said.
A TNT website message reads: "We regret any inconvenience to our customers."
It adds: "We are implementing remediation steps as quickly as possible to support customers who experience limited interruption in pick-up and delivery operations and tracking systems access."
However, the FedEx-owned firm did not wish to comment directly on the FSB's comments.
Mike Cherry, the FSB's national chairman, said continuing disruption could threaten the survival of its members.
"Small business customers need accurate, clear and frequent updates from TNT to help them with their own contingency planning and a commitment to provide redress to those small businesses who have lost out," he said.
"This is a stark reminder of the danger posed by cyber-crime and how it can strike down smaller businesses indirectly, having a much wider impact on the economy.
"It serves as a major wake-up call on the need to tackle and prevent the growing threat of cyber-crime right across the business community."
FedEx has already warned the US stock exchange that the cyber attack will have a "material" financial effect on the company, given that it did "not have cyber or other insurance in place that covers this attack".
A message posted on FedEx's US website adds: "TNT operates in Ukraine and uses the software that was compromised, which allowed the virus to infiltrate TNT systems and encrypt its data.
"While TNT operations and communications were significantly affected, no data breach or data loss to third parties is known to have occurred."
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Experts at America's National Weather Service have said that this kind of event only normally happens about once every two years.
However, for the second time in two months a thick layer of fog has filled up the canyon to create a giant sea of clouds.
This event is called cloud inversion and is the result of warm air trapping cold air lower down in the canyon.
When there's enough moisture in the cold air, it turns into fog, creating this cloudy effect.
The clouds have now left the canyon, drifting in a westwards direction.
The situation at Worcestershire Royal Hospital is now being monitored by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
The paediatric ward was closed to admissions on 18 November and 8 December after coming under "increased pressure", the CQC said.
The hospital said it was still able to treat young people elsewhere in the hospital on the December occasion.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust is relying on beds in Worcester having closed its children's ward in Redditch in September.
Sources have told the BBC that ambulances carrying children have been diverted as far afield as Coventry, Hereford and Dudley.
One mother, Louise George, whose daughter Isabella has been hospitalised six times due to asthma attacks, said she was shocked by the revelation.
"When you need medical care, you want to get somewhere as soon as possible," she said. "You don't want to go as far as Hereford. It's not safe."
Paramedic Stuart Gardiner voiced his concerns in September about the safety in carrying extremely sick children long distances.
The CQC, which tracks safety in hospitals, has confirmed it was made aware of the two closures.
"We will continue to monitor the trust closely and work with relevant stakeholders," a spokeswoman said.
The Trust said it experienced increased pressure on 18 November.
"As a result, some ambulance conveyances were diverted to other hospitals to help us manage the pressure," a spokesman said.
"This is something that is enacted to ensure that the NHS is able to manage periods of high demand."
On 8 December, it said it did not refuse admission to any child, but it may not have had available beds at the time of admission.
Wheelchair-user Seamus McCollum, 56, had cerebral palsy and was fed through a tube.
Mr McCollum died at the Maine Nursing Home in Randalstown.
A doctor told a Belfast inquest into his death that marks were found on his face and neck after his death.
Assistant state pathologist Dr Peter Ingram said there were "a considerable number of worrying injuries, principally to the neck or face, for which no satisfactory plausible explanation has been proffered".
He said: "The possibility of strangulation cannot be excluded. The possibility of smothering needs also to be considered."
Dr Ingram said it was highly unlikely some of the injuries were sustained during attempts to resuscitate Mr McCollum.
Mr McCollum had spent most of his life in care and had been in the Randalstown home for almost a decade.
He was fed through a peg as he had difficulties swallowing and was lifted in and out of bed using a hoist.
Mr McCollum could not control his head and used a board to communicate. Despite his challenges, he was in good form before his death, his sisters said.
Irish state pathologist Marie Cassidy was asked to examine post-mortem findings. She said no satisfactory explanation had been provided for some marks.
There were deep bruises to the neck but no trauma to the skeleton and the cause of death was undetermined.
Ms Cassidy said: "It cannot be excluded that the injuries were caused by a third party."
Staff nurse Mary Harraghy, who carried out CPR, did not notice any marks on him bar a blemish on his collar bone before she handed him over to paramedics.
She believed elastic from the oxygen mask could have caused the damage when he was moved from the bed to the floor by the emergency team.
Another possibility coroner Joe McCrisken is investigating is whether Mr McCollum fell from his bed.
A fit could be another explanation, Mr McCrisken added.
Claire Thompson was one of the last people to see him alive and in a statement she said she noticed yellow marks on his neck after she returned from calling an ambulance because he had became poorly.
She said: "They shocked me and made me feel uneasy."
When asked about this on Monday she was unable to remember many of the details.
Other staff said they had not noticed any bruising on his neck before his death and his sisters Molly Gilbert and Bernadette McFall had no complaints about his care up to that point.
At 46, he has led his country out of the international wilderness and he is enjoying a spell of satisfaction ahead of the finals.
O'Neill is, now, at the height of his managerial achievements so far.
He would be in a different place, though, if it had not been for events outwith his control.
Four weeks before O'Neill was interviewed for the Northern Ireland job, he spent five hours in a meeting with two Hibernian directors.
There was a managerial vacancy at Easter Road following Colin Calderwood's departure and, as a former Hibs player who had restored Shamrock Rovers to domestic glory and led them to the Europa League group stage, O'Neill felt sure he would be offered the job.
Instead, he never heard from Hibs again. The outcome rankled, not least because he felt he might also have been in the frame at Dundee United when Peter Houston suffered a moment of doubt and declared that he did not want to be the manager at Tannadice before changing his mind.
The combination of a word of warning from Geoff Brown, the St Johnstone chairman, and phone calls from members of the media, alerted O'Neill to the fact that individuals were spreading rumours that he had a drink problem, which he did not.
"I was appalled to hear that," he says. "Yes, I'll go to the pub and have a beer, of course, and I always enjoyed as a player being around my team-mates, but I don't think anyone would ever say that I was a poor professional as a player.
"The other thing about it was that I was commuting from Belfast to Dublin. It was virtually impossible for me to have a drink problem, I spent most of my time in the car.
"Geoff Brown had phoned me up - the St Johnstone job was available - and he said, 'would you not apply for it' and, if I'm honest, I thought the Hibs job was going to come up, so I said, 'no, I need to see the Europa League through'.
"But he said to me, 'look, there are people saying things about you that I don't believe are true and it's only fair you know'.
"If it was something of that nature that stopped me getting a job then it's poor because, if chairmen had dug properly, they'd have found quite clearly that it wasn't true.
"I have a fair idea where that came from - you find things out. It came initially out of Ireland from someone who was trying to help someone else get a job.
"At the time, I had a Dublin-based agent, Fintan Drury, who was quite a powerful man in Irish sport and he tackled it with the people in question.
"Had a job in Scotland been offered to me prior to the international job, I would have taken [it], but it wasn't offered to me. Personally, I didn't think I was ready at 41 years of age to be an international manager."
O'Neill believes that he knows who the individuals in Ireland and Scotland are, but he has moved on from that time.
Having led Northern Ireland to the finals of a major international tournament for the first time in 29 years, he is being lauded.
He is also a strong-willed character. There was a time, at the outset of his career, when he was considered the next Northern Irish prodigy.
In a matter of months, O'Neill went from studying for his A-levels and playing for Coleraine to lining up alongside Paul Gascoigne for Newcastle United and establishing himself as an international.
Relegation and a change of manager led to O'Neill moving to Dundee United when he was 20.
He felt that his development would be better served at a club that had reached the Uefa Cup final two years before, but O'Neill's relationship with Jim McLean was always fraught.
"My dad had to phone him up and tell him I was going to Newcastle and he ate the head off my dad down the phone. I should have reflected on that before I took the plunge," he says, laughing.
"It was so much more professional than Newcastle. We had an athletics coach, a strength and conditioning coach, we had a psychologist.
"Jim McLean was always ahead of the game in relation to things like that, but you had to withstand the abuse at times.
"I was different from a lot of the young lads at United, because I'd been signed, at the time it was a record fee they paid for me, and it was almost as if Jim McLean held that against me.
"When I played, there were some really good times, but there were times when you were very harshly treated, particularly in the last year of my contract.
"I'd made it clear that I was looking south again and Jim McLean just refused to play me. There were numerous discussions of a very heated nature.
"I probably benefited from Jim McLean stepping away from the managers' role and Ivan Golac taking it.
"I was the first decision that Ivan got to make and he opted to sell me, which was against McLean's will. I think that was the only decision he got to make."
O'Neill believes that he then played some of the best football of his career during three years with Hibernian before embarking on a tour of clubs and countries.
During his spell of banishment at Tannadice and then again at Coventry City, he continued his education and, after retirement in 2004, embarked on a career in financial services.
Yet the game never relinquished its hold and he returned to it the following year in a part-time role assisting Mixu Paatelainen at Cowdenbeath.
A former team-mate, Grant Johnson, then paved the way for a move into management with Brechin City.
"I spoke to them and Grant phoned me that night. He was quite excited and said they wanted to give me the job. I went, 'oh no'," O'Neill says.
"I'd done my coaching badges, so this was a chance to see if I was any good at it or not. It's a tough challenge I took on, to be fair."
O'Neill admits that much of his work in management has been based on the structures McLean established at Tannadice, particularly the use of bonus money to motivate players.
He revived Shamrock Rovers, leading them to their first title in 16 years in his second season in charge, then another title and qualifying for the Europa League group stages.
The success generated resentment from opponents, but O'Neill also encountered additional abuse.
"You were from the north and at times what people would shout at me during games wasn't particularly pleasant," he says.
Jim Magilton and Iain Dowie were considered the front runners for the Northern Ireland job in December 2011, but O'Neill was appointed on the basis of an impressive interview.
Religion was never an issue for him during his playing career, with O'Neill one of many Northern Ireland players from a Catholic background.
He rejects the notion that it might have played a part in his appointment, with Northern Ireland having seen a number of players from a nationalist background persuaded to switch allegiance to the Republic of Ireland.
"There was media speculation that was one of the reasons I was appointed. I remember being asked, 'do you think you've got the job because you're Catholic', and I said, 'I'm not here to say Mass, I'm here to pick a team'," O'Neill says.
He feels it is "grossly unfair" that youngsters are persuaded to make a binding decision at an early stage of their careers, but it is an issue he cannot control.
Others might emerge, too, since his contract runs only until the end of the European Championships.
He describes club management as "very appealing" but also that he would be happy to continue in international management.
"At one point," he says, "I definitely want to work in Scotland."
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Lennon had described his side as "a disgrace" following Saturday's 1-1 draw at Stark's Park.
But, after beating Edinburgh rivals Hearts 3-1 to set up a quarter-final with Ayr United, the head coach said: "I got the reaction I was looking for.
"They were magnificent and thoroughly deserved to win."
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Goals from Jason Cummings and Grant Holt put Championship leaders Hibs in charge and Andrew Shinnie added a third before Esmael Goncalves pulled one back for the Premiership side.
The cup holders will host Ayr on 4 March.
"We were hungrier, we passed the ball, exploded at times through them, and it could have been more," Lennon explained.
"That's the enigma this team is, from down there to through the roof. We need to find more consistency and I wish we could play under the floodlights every week.
"I've got a good group here. I know what I've got, an abundance of character. You don't win cups without character and personality in the group. We've got 12 cup finals in the league and hopefully three Scottish Cup ties.
"You saw the scenes last season at the cup final, that was a big appeal to me to come here, the support. They've been unbelievable and I'm so glad they could see us turn over their biggest rivals in a dominant way."
Padarn Bus, which operated routes from Bangor, Caernarfon, Llanberis and to Beaumaris on Anglesey, ceased its services overnight with 84 job losses.
There was some disruption after Friday's announcement with council officers trying to find new providers.
They are hopeful Padarn Bus drivers can be recruited by alternative operators contracted to cover the work.
Gwynedd council is trying to provide companies to take on all affected routes in the county.
"We are not leaving any community with no services at all," said Gwynedd council senior transport manager Dafydd Williams.
He said the council had identified firms which could help but that one issue was that some did not have enough staff to cover the services so it was possible drivers employed at Padarn Bus could find work.
Affected routes on Anglesey will now be provided by Arriva Buses Wales, Gwynfor Coaches and O R Jones Llanfaethlu.
Padarn Bus's sudden announcement came a day after a man, aged 44, and a women, 28 were arrested following allegations of fraud at the company.
On Saturday, Gwynedd council confirmed school transport would run as normal on Monday as children return from their half term holiday.
Deiniolen councillor Elfed Wyn Williams, who is a regular user of buses to Bangor and Caernarfon, said: "I feel for the workers as well.
"The council are looking for replacements but their priority is that children get to school."
Llanberis councillor Trefor Edwards said: "It's better to have some services than nothing at all."
He said the village's main bus services to Bangor and Caernarfon would be covered and he was hopeful routes covering outlying communities like Llanrug would also be protected.
Gwynedd council has published revised timetables but says some of the services formerly provided by Padarn Bus around Bethesda, Maesgeirchen, Glasinfryn, and Gerlan among others will not be covered directly.
The Snowdon Sherpa services have been revised but will continue their circuits around Snowdonia's most popular destinations.
A spokesperson for Snowdonia National Park Authority said the organisation was "very happy that Gwynedd council has taken the initiative and the lead to ensure that this important service will continue".
Hywel Williams, MP for Caernarfon, described the bus services as vital links in rural communities.
"For some of the outlying villages they [bus services] are social services to allow people to get to work," he said.
The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet received the prize on Thursday.
Nobel committee chairperson Kaci Kullmann Five said the Quartet helped pull the country back from civil war in 2013.
It is credited with creating a dialogue between the country's Islamist and secular coalition parties.
The Quartet, made up of the country's key labour, legal, human rights and business organisations, was formed in 2013 at a time when the revolution that overthrew President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 appeared to be unravelling.
It brought the different sides together and showed that Islamist and secular groups "can negotiate with one another to reach solutions in the country's best interests", the Nobel committee said.
Trade unionist Hassine Abassi, lawyer Mohamed Fadhel Mahfoudh, human rights activist Abdessatar Ben Moussa and business representative Ouided Bouchamaoui collected the award at a ceremony in Norway's capital, Oslo.
In December 2014 Beji Caid Essebsi was elected president following a peaceful vote that was held under a new constitution approved in January that year.
But the country is still facing security problems, particularly from Islamists over the border in Libya.
Tunisia has been rocked by two major terror attacks this year alone - on Tunis's renowned Bardo Museum in March in which 22 people were killed, and on the resort of Sousse in June in which 38 tourists were killed.
The Nobel committee said there are "dark forces" which do not want Tunisia to succeed.
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The sport's governing body has made 14 proposals, among them longer bans for drug cheats and a public register of tested athletes.
It follows a number of doping and cover-up allegations.
UKA chairman Ed Warner said it was time for "radical reform", adding: "The integrity of athletics was challenged as never before in 2015."
The IAAF, which governs world athletics, said it welcomed UKA's contribution and would review its ideas.
The sport has been dogged by a string of damaging stories and revelations in recent months.
Russia was barred from international competition for alleged "state-sponsored doping".
Lamine Diack, the former boss of world governing body the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), was placed under criminal investigation over allegations he took payments for deferring sanctions against Russian drugs cheats. He denies wrongdoing.
And three IAAF figures - including Diack's son, Papa Massata Diack - were given lifetime bans after a report claimed they "conspired" to blackmail a Russian athlete in order to cover up her doping violations.
New IAAF president Lord Coe has pledged to double the anti-doping budget, establish a separate integrity unit for athletics before Rio 2016, and double the international testing pool of athletes to 1,000.
Warner says trust in the sport is at its "lowest point for decades", adding clean athletes and fans "have been let down".
"Greater transparency, tougher sanctions, longer bans - and even resetting the clock on world records for a new era - we should be open to do whatever it takes to restore credibility in the sport," he said.
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Warner says it is all about provoking a discussion and defended the UKA's decision to go it alone.
"We've surprised people by revealing this because we want to promote debate," Warner told BBC Radio 5 live.
"If we go to people in advance, they try to talk you out of publishing the ideas. These are 14 ideas to stimulate discussion."
Warner points out that London is hosting the World Championships next year and wants athletics to take steps to clean up its act before then.
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It may look that way to some, but Warner insists that is not the case.
"Of course I've got faith in him," he said.
"He is a great leader of the organisation, but he needs help and we are here to help him. This is one way we are trying to help."
He added that the IAAF was in a "beleaguered" state and said he would be meeting with Coe later on Monday to discuss the UKA's proposals.
In response to UKA's manifesto, the IAAF said it had already begun implementing its own proposals and would "look forward to reviewing" the UKA recommendations in full.
On Monday, UKA also published the recommendations of its review into the Oregon Project, run by Mo Farah's coach, Alberto Salazar.
The review was commissioned following allegations by BBC's Panorama that the coach had violated anti-doping rules.
UKA had already found that there was "no evidence of any impropriety" from Farah, Britain's multiple Olympic gold medallist, and no reason to "lack confidence" in his elite training programme.
But UKA has announced it will retain the Performance Oversight Committee (POC) as an independent watchdog of its practices.
Recommendations also include UKA carrying out due diligence whenever an athlete with British funding wishes to move to a foreign coach, or when UKA wants to have a working relationship with a coach or consultant.
Athletes in receipt of support from UKA should also be required to sign an agreement which outlines "moral and ethical" obligations.
It was a Wada independent commission report that threw the IAAF into crisis by disclosing "state-sponsored doping" in Russian athletics
On Thursday, part two of that damning report will be published.
At the time, Dick Pound, chairman of the independent commission, warned the public to expect further revelations.
Delayed to allow criminal investigations to progress, it is expected to focus on German TV documentary claims that the IAAF was allegedly complicit in covering up systematic doping and extortion in Russian athletics.
"This is a radical set of proposals by UKA, which is desperate to see progress on anti-doping amid the worst crisis the sport has known.
"It believes the IAAF, run by Lord Coe, is too preoccupied with salvaging its own credibility after recent corruption allegations.
"With time running out to restore public trust before the 2017 World Championships in London, it has taken it upon itself to lead a debate.
"Greater investment, tougher sanctions and more transparency will be welcomed by many in the sport.
"However, Ukad was surprised that it was not consulted on the manifesto and only found out about it on Saturday.
"It may also decide to raise concerns over the lengthening of bans given it feels the current four-year sanction is proportionate.
"The idea of a 'clean era' of records is likely to be controversial, too."
There is something very unusual about these objects, however.
It appears they are the roasted remains of planets that spent a period of time inside the outer layers of their star.
Scientists tell Nature magazine that these worlds are therefore likely to have been much bigger in the past.
Once again, these worlds were identified using data from Nasa's Kepler telescope, which was put in orbit in 2009 with the specific goal of hunting down small planets.
This latest haul was detected around a star known as KIC 05807616. They have diameters that are just 76% and 87% of that of Earth.
What is interesting about this star is that it is a former red giant, a so-called "hot B subdwarf".
Red giant refers to a late phase in a star's life when it has begun to exhaust its hydrogen fuel.
A star in this phase will expand, its outer layers will cool and it will glow a more reddish colour. Our own Sun will go through this phase in a few billion years' time.
But the consequence is that any planets that happen to be orbiting relatively close to the star will likely be engulfed in its expanding envelope of gas.
This will happen to the Earth and it appears to have been the case with the newly detected planets named KOI 55.01 and KOI 55.02, which whip around their host star in just a matter of hours.
Their presence so close to KIC 05807616 is a tell-tale for what must have happened to them.
Going into the expanding outer layers of a star would have severely eroded the worlds, ripping away any gaseous or liquid material.
What the team sees in its data are probably just the remnant cores of what were once giant gas planets not unlike our own Jupiter.
"The details of all this are of course uncertain and would require dedicated modelling but we expect that, due to friction and tidal dissipation, the engulfed planets must have spiralled in even deeper inside the star," said lead researcher Stephane Charpinet from Toulouse University, France.
"In the process, their volatile layers have probably been evaporated or pulled away by the friction.
"At the same time, the envelope of the star may have expanded further and accelerated its rotation due to this inward motion of the planets.
"Then, the system may have stabilised into a common envelope configuration, where the planets settle on stable orbits inside the red giant," he told BBC News.
"The red giant envelope was ultimately expelled almost completely due to increased mass loss, leading to the formation of the hot subdwarf B star that we have observed."
The discovery was made while the scientists were engaged in asteroseismology - the practice of studying a star's pulsations to gauge its inner structure. It is akin to seismology which studies the interior of the Earth from the oscillations in rock generated by earthquakes.
But as they were doing this, Charpinet and colleagues noticed a characteristic dip in the light coming from KIC 05807616 every 5.76 and 8.23 hours - the result of two objects passing in front of the star as viewed from Kepler.
What seems remarkable is that the planets were not completely destroyed in the process of engulfment. But Dr Charpinet said that the large iron cores of giant planets could resist the environment for millions of years.
"Iron is certainly much harder to evaporate than the gaseous or liquid layers made of volatile elements that make the large envelopes of giant planets," he explained.
"Moreover the dense cores are quite tightly bound by their own gravity. Then, it will take more time to completely evaporate them.
"In fact our discovery suggests that such cores could survive long enough throughout the red giant phase and later on around a very hot star."
On Tuesday, a separate team announced that they had used Kepler to detect planets with diameters just 87% and 103% of that of the Earth. These go into the record books as the first true Earth-size planets found outside our Solar System.
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Police were searching the residential area of Kallyanpur when they were attacked by handmade bombs.
Bangladesh has seen a string of deadly attacks on secular writers, bloggers, and member of religious minorities.
Earlier this month 20 people, mostly foreigners, were killed in a bloody attack on an upmarket cafe in Dhaka.
It was not immediately clear which group the suspected militants killed on Tuesday were part of. One suspect was taken into custody by police.
On 1 July, five armed men entered the Holey Artisan Bakery in the diplomatic area and held people hostage for several hours. At least 20 people died in an attack claimed by Islamic State.
Since the attack, police have been conducting planned "block raids" in suspected militant hideouts.
It was during one of these regular searches that the police came under attack on Tuesday, according to Deputy Police Commissioner Masud Ahmed, and retaliated with gun fire.
This is the first time several suspected Islamist militants have been killed in an operation since the Holey Artisan bakery siege. It is not yet clear which group they belonged to.
Police believe that dozens of extremists are still in hiding and may be planning further attacks. The security forces have been under intense criticism for failing to prevent recent attacks and the targeted killings in the past three years.
The Bangladeshi government says home-grown extremists are responsible for the violence. But the so-called Islamic State and Al-Qaeda in South Asia have claimed to have carried out some of these attacks.
MSPs want the government to review its strategy due to the "changing economic landscape" since the EU referendum.
The committee argues that it is "time to maximise opportunities in growing markets such as China and India".
The Scottish government said it was "working on an ambitious programme of internationalisation" and trade.
A spokeswoman described Brexit as "by far the biggest threat to Scotland's jobs, prosperity and economy".
Meanwhile Scottish Brexit minister Mike Russell has denied there would be a "bonfire of regulations" for exporting firms after the UK leaves the EU.
Holyrood's economy, jobs and fair work committee is one of several which have been taking evidence on the potential economic impact of leaving the European Union.
The committee's report on the topic calls on the Scottish government to do more to boost trade within the EU and beyond, in particular for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
It reads: "Trade promotion must be the focus of the Scottish government going forward, both within the EU and beyond.
"More needs to be done to support businesses in exporting across the world. Now is the time to maximise opportunities in growing markets such as China and India."
They said access to the single market was "vitally important" to many exporting business in sectors across Scotland, calling on the government to prioritise supporting businesses throughout the Brexit negotiations.
Members asked to see a strategy for dealing with import inflation "as a matter of urgency", and for work to "address issues of skills gaps and workforce planning" in relation to EU migrant workers.
Committee convener Gordon Lindhurst said the group was "calling on the Scottish government to redouble its efforts in encouraging and supporting businesses to export".
He said: "The need to support SMEs is more crucial than ever. The committee cannot over-state the importance of continuing to promote the growth of indigenous businesses, and it is vital that the right balance is struck between supporting foreign direct investment and home grown businesses."
"The committee is urging the Scottish government and enterprise agencies to engage with businesses based in Scotland to understand what specific support is needed from sector to sector and region to region."
The Scottish government has argued in Brexit talks that exporting firms are "more likely to innovate and grow faster", highlighting membership of the single market as being helpful to this.
Scotland's economy secretary Keith Brown recently welcomed an increase in international exports as "hugely encouraging".
A spokeswoman said: "The Scottish government is working on an ambitious programme of internationalisation, including measures to broaden Scotland's export base and grow exports beyond traditional markets, such as establishing a new trade board, that will take forward this important work alongside new hubs in Dublin, Brussels, London and Berlin and our planned network of trade envoys.
"The Scottish government will continue to work to mitigate and overcome the damage Brexit will cause before and after the UK government triggers Article 50.
"In everything it does, the Scottish government will continue to seek agreement in the best interests of the people of Scotland."
Meanwhile, leading Brexit campaigner and Conservative MP Michael Gove argued that the European Union had not created a good environment for businesses in the UK.
Speaking at an event sponsored by the Times newspaper in Edinburgh, he said there would be "opportunities" for Scottish businesses in sectors ranging from brewing and distilling to technology.
He said: "At the moment, the European Union not only imposes a tariff wall on outside nations, it's also the case that the European Union has not created an environment which we'd like to see in our country to encourage innovation.
"There's no European equivalent of Google, or Uber, or Amazon, all of these companies operate or started outside the EU."
He also said Brexit would remove regulatory barriers to trade, pointing out that UK businesses have to abide by EU rules even when just trading within the UK market - something he called "running with a handicap we don't need to".
However, at the same event Scottish Brexit minister Mike Russell denied that there would be a "bonfire of regulations" for Scottish businesses, as many of them would go on selling into European markets after Brexit and would need to recognise EU regulations at the point of sale.
He argued that regulations can "enhance our lives", highlighting environmental and employment protection measures, asking for control over these to be devolved post-Brexit.
And Mr Russell highlighted freedom of movement as particularly key for Scottish business, adding that he was "happy to do more" to support SMEs.
Mr Gove also said First Minister Nicola Sturgeon would be "foolish" to call a second independence referendum in the wake of the Brexit vote.
He said: "The people of the United Kingdom, having voted to leave one union that didn't work, the people of Scotland are not going to vote to leave another union that works."
The former UK education secretary argued that rather than "agitating" for another vote on independence, the Scottish government should use the powers it has to "enhance the lives of Scottish people".
Although he would not be drawn on whether the UK government should actually block any bid for a second independence poll, he said one would be "destabilising and wrong".
Mr Russell replied that the UK government appeared to be closing off options to Scotland, but said there was "still time for a negotiated agreement".
He said the best deal would have been for the UK to remain in the single market, but noted that as "that's not going to happen" the Scottish government was now looking for a differentiated solution within the UK-wide Brexit deal.
Abul Kalam Azad's conviction is the first verdict handed down by the controversial tribunal.
The cleric, a presenter of Islamic programmes on television, shot dead six Hindus and raped Hindu women during the war, prosecutors said.
He is thought to be in Pakistan and was found guilty in absentia.
BBC Bengali editor Sabir Mustafa says the verdict is being seen as a triumph for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who has made prosecuting war crimes a key goal of her government.
Critics of the tribunal, however, say the charges against Maulana Azad and others are politically motivated. The court is not endorsed by the United Nations.
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Tribunal officials said Maulana Azad's family failed to co-operate with his court-appointed defence lawyer, and they did not provide any witnesses to testify on his behalf.
As a result, the case was concluded fairly quickly.
Mr Azad was a junior leader in the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami party in 1971 and a member of the Razakar Bahini, an auxiliary force set up to help the Pakistani army by rooting out local resistance.
The Razakars were notorious for their operations targeting Hindus as well as civilians suspected of being sympathetic towards Bengali nationalists.
The International Crimes Tribunal was set up by the Awami League-led government to try those Bangladeshis accused of collaborating with Pakistani forces who attempted to stop East Pakistan (as Bangladesh was then) from becoming an independent country.
Those charged include a number of senior Jamaat leaders and a former minister from the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
All of the people currently indicted by the tribunal deny the charges and opposition leaders accuse the government of carrying out a political vendetta.
Bangladesh government figures estimate more than three million people were killed during the independence war, although some researchers put the figure at between 300,000 and 500,000.
Isaac Mwaura is also asking for funding for gender alignment surgery and a public awareness campaign to end stigma against intersex people.
"They see me as a curse," one person born female who later developed male physical characteristics told the BBC.
Intersex are people whose sex is neither completely male nor female.
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James Karanja, who identifies as a male, told the BBC's Idris Situma in Nairobi of the anguish he's been experiencing.
"My official name is Mary Waithera - the name that I was given by my mother after my gender was confused at birth. They thought I was a girl but I'm a boy."
Mr Karanja is currently undergoing a surgical realignment procedure, a costly medical expense beyond the reach of many.
Mr Mwaura says it is for this reason that he is pushing his colleagues in parliament to allocate money in the budget to cater for the medical expenses of 120 people registered as intersex,
"Already a process to assist James medically has proven to be an expensive affair," he said.
Mr Karanja says the ambiguity in his identity has taken a toll on his life and that of his family, especially his mother.
"My mother had a mental breakdown because my relatives were avoiding me. Some say I'm a bad omen."
Kenya is a largely conservative country where issues of gender identity and sexual orientation are usually dismissed using cultural and religious beliefs.
However, in 2014, a court in the country broke with tradition by ruling in favour of a transsexual woman who had sued the education authorities for refusing to amend her certificates to reflect her new gender and name.
Despite the high-profile case, other minorities in Kenya are still sidelined. Mr Karanja is finding it hard to get a job as "some businessmen think I will make their businesses collapse".
South African Olympic champion athlete Caster Semenya, is believed to be intersex.
Despite her sporting achievements, she has been dogged by controversy because she has hyperandrogenism, a condition that makes her have testosterone levels far in excess of the vast majority of women. Some say she has an unfair advantage over other women.
It's not the same for Mr Karanja's colleagues, he says many of them have found life unbearable and some have committed suicide.
Archibald, 38, took over as interim manager in January 2013 and led Thistle to promotion to the Premiership.
They subsequently finished 10th and eighth in the top flight, and currently lie ninth with three games remaining.
Archibald's assistant Scott Paterson, plus managing director Ian Maxwell, have also agreed new long-term deals.
"Alan and Scott have done an incredible job since taking over midway through our promotion season," said Thistle chairman David Beattie.
"Every season since, we have challenged them to drive the team forward and achieve more in the league with what other teams would regard as restricted resources - and every season they have achieved what we have asked of them.
"Undoubtedly there have been bumps in the road, but both Alan and Scott have taken everything in their stride and risen to the challenges very effectively."
While Thistle, who travel to Kilmarnock on Saturday, still require at least a point to be sure of avoiding the Premiership play-offs this season, Beattie has challenged the management duo to deliver a top-six finish next season.
"No-one should be in any doubt that Partick Thistle means business," he added. "Following three-and-a-half years of constant progress, growth and development, we are now in a stable position to build something really special here over the next three seasons.
"That means that not only do Alan and Scott have the board's full backing but we will also give them all the resources we can to ensure we go one step better next season and grab a top-six spot with both hands."
Mr Keane was elected on a count of second preference votes and polled 84,601 votes when first and second preferences were added.
His Conservative rival John Dwyer, was the first Cheshire PCC elected in 2012, and polled 81,652 votes.
Overall turnout in the election was 23% and Mr Keane said he was "honoured".
He said he had pledged to "deliver real neighbourhood policing", to get officers "back on the streets fighting crime" and to "deliver a police service you can be proud of".
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Police spent hours checking documents at the 1MDB fund's Kuala Lumpur office.
Mr Najib denies allegations that nearly $700m were transferred to his personal bank accounts from the fund.
On Tuesday officials froze six accounts as part of the inquiry. The account holders were not identified.
But the country's attorney general has since clarified that none of the accounts frozen were ones allegedly held by Mr Najib.
The 1MDB fund said it was co-operating with the police investigation.
"We can confirm that a number of officials from the task force, conducting an inquiry into 1MDB, visited our offices today," it said in a statement.
"They were provided with a number of documents and materials to aid with the investigations currently taking place."
The fund, set up by Mr Najib in 2009 and still chaired by him, denies giving any money to the prime minister.
Meanwhile, in a BBC interview, Malaysia's former leader Mahathir Mohamed called on Mr Najib to show public proof that his assets are legal.
Correspondents say he is facing the biggest crisis of his political career - pressure has been mounting since the Wall Street Journal published a detailed report last week. He was already under fire over his leadership, particularly from Mr Mahathir.
Mr Najib has previously issued a statement on Facebook, saying that the various allegations made against him are "unsubstantiated" and "outrageous".
He accuses Mr Mahathir of trying to topple him and describes his former mentor's claim that 42bn ringgits ($11bn) have gone missing from the fund as "reckless".
"These are audited debts backed by 51bn ringgits [in] audited assets." Mr Najib said in his Facebook post.
Ceilidhs, rock gigs, a jewellery-making workshop and even speed-dating are among the events lined up for Museums at Night.
Festival manager Nick Stockman said they wanted to capitalise on the "special feeling" people get from going to a museum after hours.
Rose Clark, from organisers Culture 24, told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland that the festival opens cultural hubs to a new audience.
She said: "We have an amazing culture and heritage offering here in the UK but it can be quite difficult if you're working nine-to-five to actually get out with friends and family and explore museums and galleries.
"The Museums and Night festival is all about offering really exciting after-hours programmes to all new audiences to explore amazing museums and galleries on their doorsteps."
Here is a selection of some of the events taking place in Scotland.
Rock band Idlewild will headline a full evening of entertainment at the landmark Edinburgh museum on Friday.
Guests will have the rare opportunity to explore the building at a time when it is normally closed and to take part in a hands-on archaeology workshop.
A performance by The Beltane Fire Society, a silent disco and pop-up bars are also part of the packed programme of events.
This museum will host a jewellery making workshop with a mathematical twist on Friday.
Participants will learn how maths can be used to make things beautiful - and then put the theory into practice.
Find our more information here.
Evening tours of this 18th-century castle in Maybole will be available on Saturday as part of an evening's entertainment in honour of the Museums at Night festival.
Afterwards visitors will be invited to take part in a traditional Ayrshire ceilidh in the Home Farm.
Find full details here.
There will be a spooky feel to Museums at Night at The Tenement House museum in Garnethill, Glasgow, on Thursday.
From 19:00, visitors will receive a tour of the property before they enter the parlour to meet a professional mind reader, astrologer and psychic.
He will demonstrate techniques used by the mind readers and fortune tellers of the late Victorian period and early 20th century, including tricks, palmistry and crystal gazing.
Purely entertainment, organisers claim it will give an insight into a mysterious element of local history.
Science fiction and science fact will collide at Super Sci-Fi Saturday in Paisley this weekend.
Organisers have promised an interactive theatre performance, arts and craft activities as well as film and story-telling sessions - with a superhero spin.
Afterwards visitors will be invited to take part in a stargazing session at Coats Observatory, where the science of the solar system will be explained in a planetarium film show.
There will be a speed dating event with a difference in St Andrews on Saturday, when the British Golf Museum plays host to the match-making occasion.
Its organisers say it doesn't matter whether participants are avid golfers or they're unable to "tell their tea from their tees".
They will be introduced to the museum by a curator, before climbing to the rooftop cafe where they will have four minutes to impress each date.
There will also be an opportunity to explore the galleries after hours.
Jah-Nea Myles, 16 months, apparently slipped through the balcony railing and fell into the arms of Helen Beard.
Ms Beard, of Worksop, was at the pool at Orlando's Econo Lodge hotel when she saw the baby hanging from the railing and ran underneath, she said.
She held the child until emergency medical workers arrived.
The baby was taken to hospital, where medical staff said they saw no bruises or scratches and deemed her in good health.
An investigator with the Orange County sheriff's office described her as "playful" and said she was not crying.
Helena Myles, Jah-Nea's 20-year-old mother, told police her friend Dominique Holt had been watching the baby in the adjacent hotel room.
Ms Holt, 21, said she went to the bathroom about 2100 local time (0100 GMT), then heard screaming and saw the balcony door ajar.
She ran out onto the balcony and saw the baby in the arms of Ms Beard, from Nottinghamshire.
Ms Myles told Reuters: "She's perfectly fine. Not a scratch on her body.
"I'm thanking the Lord above right now for saving my child's life. I'm also thanking that lady because she was an angel sent from heaven."
Police said no criminal charges were pending.
Orlando is a popular destination for holidaymakers, with Walt Disney World and other tourist attractions.
Hampshire-born Bath Academy product Spencer, 23, follows the signings of centres Ben Te'o from Leinster and Jackson Willison from Grenoble.
"Will is a hungry young second rower who will add vital competition to the pack," said Warriors director of rugby Dean Ryan.
"We're looking to help him realise his potential here at Sixways."
Spencer will be reunited with Bath team-mate Tom Heathcote, who is in his first season as Warriors' first-choice fly-half.
"From speaking to Dean and Tom, Worcester feels like the right place for me to further my career over the next few seasons," said Spencer. "There is a great young squad at the club.
"Hopefully, over time, we can achieve our goals and become a top Premiership side."
Meanwhile, Worcester look like they could be without first-choice scrum-half Jonny Arr for the rest of the season.
Arr was an unexpected absentee for Saturday's last-gasp 32-22 defeat at Wasps. But it has now emerged that he has suffered a lateral media knee ligament injury - and Ryan predicts that he will be out for "three to four months".
After joining the Bath Academy in 2010, Spencer made the transition to Bath's first-team squad in 2014 and has since made 11 appearances.
The 6ft 7in forward spent a season on loan at London Welsh in 2013-14, playing a part in the Exiles' Championship-winning campaign.
His current contract with Worcester's Premiership rivals Bath was due to expire at the end of the 2015-16 season.
Police have not named the monk but said he is 24 years old and was caught with 72 packets of chewing tobacco.
Bhutan says it is determined to become the world's first smoking-free nation. It banned the sale of tobacco in 2005.
But authorities admit that booming contraband traffic from neighbouring India has largely undermined the ban.
Critics say the flow of illegal cigarettes is so strong that the ban has failed to make much of an impact.
Kuensel newspaper said that the monk is the first person in the country to be charged under legislation passed in January which prohibits consuming and smuggling tobacco.
An earlier law passed in 2005 gives police sweeping powers to enter homes and search for tobacco products.
In addition it gives them power to jail shopkeepers for selling tobacco and arrest smokers if they fail to provide customs receipts for imported cigarettes - which are only permitted in very small quantities.
Smokers can legally import only up to 200 cigarettes or 150 grams of other tobacco products a month. They must provide a customs receipt when challenged by police.
A senior Bhutanese police official confirmed the arrest of the monk at the weekend after he failed to provide receipts to back his claim that he had purchased 72 packets of chewing tobacco from the Indian border town of Jaigaon.
"We will charge him with smuggling of controlled material, which is a fourth degree felony," an official of the Bhutanese Narcotic Drug and Law Enforcement unit told the BBC.
A fourth degree felony carries a sentence of five years.
The monk told the police he was "not aware of the new laws and had not kept the receipt" - a claim police have not accepted.
Monks are highly respected in a deeply religious society like Bhutan and thousands of them are maintained by the state.
Bhutanese people - some of whom drink and smoke heavily - have largely complied with the new laws, though somewhat grudgingly.
It happened at about 06:30 BST on Monday at a flat in the Limestone Road area.
The men were treated in hospital, but the extent of their injuries is not known. Police have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
A man in his 30s has been arrested.
The Scottish club said voting in favour of allowing women had fallen just short of the required two thirds majority.
Governing body the R&A said it would not stage the Open "at a venue that does not admit women as members".
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Muirfield's stance was "simply indefensible".
To admit women golfers as members, Muirfield - a privately owned links in East Lothian run by The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers - needed two thirds (432) of its 648 eligible voters to back the move.
But after a "comprehensive" two-year consultation process described as "thorough" and conducted "with all due diligence and professionalism", it fell short.
Of the 616 members who voted, 397 - or 64% - voted for the resolution, while 219 (36%) voted against it.
Royal Troon is the only other Open venue that still excludes women. The club, which will stage this year's Championship, it is consulting members about altering that arrangement.
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St Andrews opened its membership to women in 2014 for the first time in 260 years, while Royal St George's in Kent lifted its ban on women last year.
Muirfield last hosted the Open in 2013, when American Phil Mickelson won the Claret Jug.
Iain Carter, BBC Sport golf correspondent
"The Muirfield based Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, have, at best, been left to look out of touch with modern thinking. At worst, they look like a bunch of selfish bigots who have no place at the top of the game.
"Sources close to the club suggest they will explore the opportunities of staging another ballot. One said they might ask for simple majority vote next time, instead of a two-thirds requirement.
"Another said overseas members might be allowed to take part in the decision-making process after being denied this time."
Muirfield battle lost, but can the war still be won?
Muirfield captain Henry Fairweather, who announced the result of the ballot, said: "Our club committee recommended that members should vote for the admission of women as members.
"A majority voted for women as members but the two-thirds majority that we require for a change in the rules was not met. The club, therefore, will retain its men-only membership policy.
"The Honorary Club is a members club and the members decide the rules of the club, including its membership policy.
"Women will continue to be welcome on the course and in the clubhouse as guests and visitors, as they have been for many years."
A 33-strong group of 'no' campaigners among the Muirfield members had cited concerns about slow play and making women "feel uncomfortable" among the "risks" of admitting female members.
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English golfer Melissa Reid, twice a member of Europe's Solheim Cup team, described the decision as "embarrassing".
"You know it was an opportunity for Muirfield, but they've wasted it," she told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I think that the decision the R&A have made to postpone the Open being there is a good one. I wouldn't play there, because I'd be going against what I believe.
"We're still a long way off the men's game in terms of prize money, and this just sets it back even further".
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R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers said: "The Open is one of the world's great sporting events and going forward we will not stage the Championship at a venue that does not admit women as members.
"If the policy at the club should change, we would reconsider Muirfield as a venue in future."
Scottish Golf said it was "disappointed" with Muirfield's decision.
"We believe every golf club has a duty to be inclusive and to reflect modern society. We hope that those who voted for change continue to make the case for the modernisation of their club," it added in a statement.
George Kerevan, the SNP MP for East Lothian, tweeted: "I'm outraged by decision of minority at Muirfield Golf Club to block admitting female members. Sad for golf, equality, democracy."
He added: "Defeat of proposal to admit women members at Muirfield Golf Club imperils the sport in East Lothian. Very selfish."
The terms of reference for the Charleton Tribunal were agreed by the Irish government on Thursday.
It followed claims by Sgt Maurice McCabe that the Republic's penalty points system was fraudulent.
County Donegal based garda Keith Harrison said he hoped the inquiry would "establish the truth".
Sgt McCabe was investigated by the Republic's child and family agency (Tusla) following allegations of abuse, that were later found to be untrue.
Mr Harrison claims he was also the subject of untrue abuse accusations.
"After a long and difficult battle to have all my complaints investigated, I would like to acknowledge the publication today of the expanded terms of reference of the Tribunal of Inquiry that finally includes an investigation of the ill-treatment of my family and I.
"The inclusion of an investigation of the ill-treatment of other whistleblowers within An Garda Síochána (Irish police) is a welcome development.
"I trust the inquiry will establish the truth and bring about a change within senior management of An Garda Síochána," he said.
The tribunal will prioritise allegations against Sgt McCabe, with other high-profile whistleblowers such as Mr Harrison included in a separate module.
It is expected to issue an interim report within three months.
The former business secretary, who has served as deputy leader and acting leader in the past, is throwing his hat into the ring after Tim Farron said he would stand down this summer.
Sir Vince, 74, has been a senior figure in the party for more than 20 years and won his Twickenham seat back at the election.
Other possible candidates include ex-ministers Norman Lamb and Sir Ed Davey.
Jo Swinson has ruled herself out although she might contest the position of deputy leader which is being revived following the general election. No date has yet been set by the party for the close of nominations for leader.
Announcing his candidacy on the Lib Dem Voice website, Sir Vince said the "political winds" were moving in the party's direction and it could become a "credible contender" for power, with the Conservatives "in disarray" and Labour still lacking economic credibility.
"There is a big space in British politics which I am determined that we should occupy," he wrote.
"I am ready to commit my energy, enthusiasm and experience to the task of leading the Liberal Democrats through what will be a period of chronic uncertainty. With the prospect of another election looming large, we must be ready for the fight."
The BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said Sir Vince, currently the party's economic spokesman, is likely to stress his economic background and his ministerial experience after five years serving in the coalition government.
Sir Vince has said he will continue with the Lib Dems' call for a fresh referendum on any Brexit deal.
He told Lib Dem Voice. "We must fight for the British public to have a final say on the government's deal with a chance to stay in the EU if the deal is not good enough. To achieve this, we will need to work with like-minded people in other parties."
Sir Vince started his political career as a Labour councillor in the 1970s before defecting to the SDP and subsequently joining the Lib Dems. He served as deputy leader between 2006 and 2010 and as acting leader for several months after Menzies Campbell's resignation in 2007.
Sir Ed Davey, who also won his seat back after being defeated in 2015, said he would be announcing his intentions later this week. He told the BBC that a "lot of people", including his wife, had been encouraging him to run.
The Liberal Democrat manifesto says the British people should be offered a vote on the final deal to leave the EU.
But the party is firmly opposed to another referendum on whether Scotland should be independent.
Willie Rennie said people knew what they were voting for when they rejected independence in 2014.
Speaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader said: "What we are saying with the Brexit vote is that it should be the first referendum on the deal.
"When we see the details the British people should have the final say on something so monumental.
"To be fair to the SNP in the 2014 referendum they produced a White Paper - it was repetitive, it was a bit boring - but people knew what they were rejecting when they rejected it.
"We did not have a White Paper in the European referendum last year so therefore it would only be right for when that detail is forthcoming for the British people to sign it off."
He said the Conservatives, led by Theresa May, were "pursuing the extreme, hardest Brexit you could possibly imagine".
"I don't think that's what people really voted for," he said.
"That's why I think the British people, not just Theresa May, not just the MPs, not just the Conservatives, should decide on whether that deal is good enough or not.
"Because the Conservatives will wave it through no matter how bad it is for our country, for jobs, for the NHS."
Mr Rennie also said that the Liberal Democrats supported "radical" reform of the United Kingdom constitution to create a federal UK.
And he defended the party's stance on legalising cannabis.
He said: "What we want to do is separate cannabis from the really strong, hard and dangerous drugs that exist in the country.
"We need to regulate cannabis so that we can control the strains that exist."
The Liberal Democrat's UK manifesto set out its policy on cannabis on Wednesday. The party would:
Mr Rennie later told BBC Scotland's Kaye Adams programme that he had smoked cannabis in the past but does not any more, adding: "It may look like it, but I don't".
In a series of interviews on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, each main party leader made their campaign pitch ahead of the 8 June election.
Nicola Sturgeon - Scottish National Party
Nicola Sturgeon has said a vote for the SNP would strengthen Scotland's hand over Brexit and allow her to argue for a seat at the negotiating table. The Scottish government wants Scotland to remain in the EU - and in particular the single market. Ms Sturgeon told the BBC: "What I am saying in this election is that we have an opportunity, by how we vote, to give those proposals democratic legitimacy. And, by voting for the SNP, to give me the ability to strengthen Scotland's hands in those [Brexit] negotiations, get a seat at the negotiating table and argue for Scotland's place in the single market."
Kezia Dugdale - Scottish Labour
The leader of Scottish Labour, Kezia Dugdale, has insisted that she thinks her party can win next month's general election. She said people across Scotland were tired of politics in Scotland being dominated by the constitution. She told the BBC: "What I am saying clearly is that with Labour you get a clear promise of opposition to independence and an independence referendum."
Ruth Davidson - Scottish Conservative
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said there were issues around why Scotland appeared to be "uniquely unattractive" to immigrants. She told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that being the "highest taxed part" of the UK disadvantaged the country. She added: "I have my own theories about this in terms of the fact that we are the highest taxed part of the UK, the fact that we have an economy that is shrinking not growing when the rest of the UK economy is growing."
There was the death of Chatsworth's Dowager Duchess and a poignant royal visit to a Derbyshire artist's hugely popular World War One memorial.
Survivors of an air crash in Leicestershire told their stories, 25 years on.
Of the 117 people on board the London to Belfast flight, 47 lost their lives when it crashed into an embankment of the M1 motorway, having lost both its engines.
The Boeing 737 came down yards from the village of Kegworth in January 1989.
One of Derby's main entertainment venues remains closed after a large fire on the top floor of its multi-storey car park in March.
The blaze in the plant room next door to the Assembly Rooms caused several streets in the city centre to be closed.
The city council has not yet decided whether to repair the venue, upgrade it or build a new one in another location.
They shot dead her parents and buried them in their Mansfield back garden in 1998.
A series of faked letters to relatives ensured the bodies of Pat and William Wycherley lay undiscovered for 15 years, while Susan and Christopher Edwards siphoned off their pensions and their house.
The couple spent the £245,000 they stole on old film memorabilia and autographs from stars such as Frank Sinatra and Gary Cooper.
They were both jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 25 years, at Nottingham Crown Court in June.
The spotlight was shone on a little-known form of boxing when a man died in Nottingham in June.
Lance Ferguson-Prayogg died after collapsing and falling unconscious during a "white-collar" boxing match at a city nightclub.
The sport, which is not governed by the same rules as amateur boxing, involves boxers - often with a limited amount of training - entering the ring.
In June, eight men were sentenced over the deaths of a mother and her three children after an arson attack on the wrong house in Leicester.
Shehnila Taufiq, daughter Zainab, 19, and sons Bilal, 17, and Jamal, 15 died in the blaze on 13 September 2013.
Tristan Richards, 23 and Kemo Porter, 19, were sentenced to 35 years and 25 years respectively for their murders.
Six other men were jailed for manslaughter.
A Derbyshire artist's installation, featuring 888,246 ceramic poppies - one for every British and Commonwealth soldier who died during World War One - was visited by royalty on the centenary.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry "planted" a poppy at the Tower of London to mark the date in August.
The installation by Paul Cummins, from Chesterfield, remained in place until Armistice Day.
The skies above Lincolnshire were host to an historic reunion in August.
The world's only two flying Lancasters were united with a Vulcan bomber in a formation flight, described as a "never to be repeated" event.
One of the Lancasters involved in the flypast, which launched from RAF Waddington, was a Battle of Britain memorial Flight aircraft. The other was flown over from Canada.
The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire died at her home at Chatsworth House in September.
Deborah was the last surviving Mitford sister - three women who fascinated and sometimes scandalised British society in the 1940s.
The 94-year-old's funeral was attended by 600 staff from the Derbyshire stately home and hundreds of members of the public.
Prince Charles said he was "saddened" by the news, saying he "adored and admired" Deborah and would "miss her so very much".
Angelina Jolie's attempt at an East Midlands phrase gave BBC News Online one of its most shared stories in the region this year.
The actress put on a Derby accent as she introduced actor Jack O'Connell, who comes from the city, with "Ay up mi duck", at the Hollywood Film Awards in November.
O'Connell plays the lead in Unbroken, a movie, which Jolie has produced and directed.
She was speaking at meeting of central bankers at Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
The FTSE 100 index, which for most of the morning was little changed, closed up 0.3%, or 21 points to 6,838.
Meanwhile, on the currency markets, the pound initially jumped on the news but then fell back to trade 0.12% lower against the dollar at $1.3176.
Against the euro, it rose 0.33% to €1.1728.
"In light of the continued solid performance of the labour market and our outlook for economic activity and inflation, I believe the case for an increase in the federal funds rate has strengthened in recent months," Ms Yellen said.
She added: "Of course, our decisions always depend on the degree to which incoming data continues to confirm the Committee's outlook."
Mining shares were among the biggest risers after metal prices steadied, with zinc at a 15-month high.
Shares in Glencore rose 3.2%, as did Rio Tinto.
On the FTSE 250, shares in Restaurant Group rose 3.6% after it announced plans to close or sell 33 of its sites.
The group said its Frankie & Benny's chain had underperformed because of mistakes over menus and pricing.
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The health minister said the NI Ambulance Service was still completing the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service business case.
Michelle O'Neill said that once this had been approved, building the helipad could take nine months.
NI is the only UK region without a helicopter emergency medical service.
Northern Ireland's new air ambulance service is expected to be closely based on the Welsh model.
The Welsh model has three helicopters and has been operating for 15 years. It is run by a charity but staffed by the NHS.
Following the death of a 35-year-old known as the "flying doctor" of Irish motorcycle sport, plans were announced last year to set up a charity to support Dr John Hinds' vision of a Northern Ireland air ambulance.
The motorcycle medic died as a result of a motorcycle crash in July 2015, while providing medical cover at a road racing meeting in County Dublin.
Just weeks before his death, Dr Hinds told the BBC that an air ambulance service was essential and would be "a game-changer in terms of trauma provision".
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Both horses fractured legs on the Aintree course and were later put down.
The RSPCA described the deaths as "totally unacceptable" and called for "an urgent examination" of the race.
"There is no doubt this is a black day for the Grand National and for horse racing. Nobody should under-estimate it - this is very serious for everyone in the racing industry. A big dark cloud hangs over the Grand National. Its future is in a certain amount of doubt."
Professor Tim Morris from the British Horseracing Authority said: "The BHA takes its responsibility of looking after the welfare of horse and rider very seriously."
He added: "We are very sad about the fatal injuries suffered by Synchronised and According to Pete in the Grand National."
Synchronised,the nine-year-old gelding trained by Jonjo O'Neill, was bidding to become the first horse for 78 years to seal a Cheltenham Gold Cup and Grand National double in the same season.
But he looked in a nervous mood before the race, getting loose and unseating champion jockey AP McCoy on the way to the start.
Aintree officials said he was thoroughly checked by a racecourse vet and, after being cleared to compete, fell at the notorious Becher's Brook, unseating McCoy in the process, before continuing until the 11th fence, where he suffered the fracture.
According to Pete suffered a fractured leg when he was brought down after jumping the 22nd fence [Becher's Brook second time round], when On His Own fell in front of him.
There have now been consecutive Grand Nationals with two fatalities, following the deaths of Dooney's Gate and Ornais last year, after which new safety measures were introduced.
This year's race, which was won by Neptune Collonges, saw just 15 of the 40-horse field reach the finishing post.
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Chief executive of the RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) Gavin Grant said: "The death of two horses at the Grand National, bringing the total to three at the Aintree meeting, is totally unacceptable.
"In its current format, the risks to horses are not appropriate and we want an urgent examination of the Grand National, including a number of fences such as Becher's Brook where horses are continuing to die despite safety improvements."
Morris, who is director of equine science and welfare for the BHA, added: "In both cases the horse incurred a fracture to the leg and the humane option was to put the injured horses down.
"We will examine closely the circumstances which led to both incidents.
"The key data from these accidents will be collated, as is the BHA's policy in the event of any serious equine injury.
BBC pundit Mick Fitzgerald, who won the 1996 Grand National on Rough Quest, said Synchronised should have stayed in the race, despite unseating his rider beforehand.
"Synchronised cantered and sauntered down on an approach of no more than 400m - more than he would have done anyway. He was examined by two vets and he had his heart monitored.
"AP got back on board and he was happy and even allowed him to look at the first fence again. [Owner] JP McManus looked at him and was happy. They would not even have attempted it if they didn't think the horse was 100%."
"Each year the BHA and Aintree review all incidents which occur during the Grand National meeting and consider what measures can be taken to address the risk of a repeat in the future.
"We consult and work with recognised welfare organisations such as the RSPCA, SSPCA and World Horse Welfare."
Managing director at Aintree Julian Thick said: "We are desperately sad at these two accidents and our sympathies are with the connections of both horses.
"Horseracing is a sport that is very carefully regulated and monitored by the British Horseracing Authority, but risk can never be completely removed.
"Since last year's race we have made further significant changes to the course and there have been four races run over the course without serious incident since then.
"After today, we will, as always, be looking at all aspects of this year's race to see how we can improve safety further."
Two other injured horses, Killyglen and Weird Al, were reported to be recovering after receiving treatment.
It is the best day to see your MP, as they are nearly all in the building. Queues to get into Parliament start forming early in the morning. The protests in Parliament Square seem noisier and more colourful than normal.
Things start to wind down after the main event but there is still a festive atmosphere in nearby pubs, as people from all parts of the UK - down in London for the day to lobby their MPs - swap stories and buy drinks.
Now the wide roads leading in all directions to the Houses of Parliament are silent and empty, blocked off by police tape, following a deadly terror attack. The police cordon covers an area of a few square miles and keeps being extended.
"You are now in the de facto press pen," shouts a police officer as we are moved back further down a side road behind a more distant line of tape. "I have to make this road sterile."
The incessant clattering of helicopters overhead and the occasional police siren have replaced the roar of traffic.
Foreign TV crews mill about at the police cordons, their mobile phones clamped to their ears as they explain to their editors why they can't get near the scene.
A few locals chat to the reporters. The mood is calm and almost resigned.
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"It was a matter of time I suppose," says one man. "I'm old enough to remember the IRA days. I remember them saying 'we only have to get lucky once'."
Father Giles Orton, a Church of England curate from Derbyshire, in London to shop for "ecclesiastical supplies", says he is "just shocked and saddened".
But he adds, we "should be grateful" that it had not been worse.
Constantine, a 23-year-old student, says he was near Trafalgar Square when news of the attack broke.
"I saw the police start shutting everything off. I heard a lot of people talking. I have a cousin who works in Parliament and I live in Soho and I am a little worried about safety. Particularly LGBT safety which I am heavily involved with."
"I heard one man say 'this is why we need Donald Trump' which annoyed me," he adds.
Some MPs were earlier evacuated from the Palace of Westminster to nearby New Scotland Yard and Westminster Abbey, while others had to remain in the Commons chamber.
Pupils from Westminster School, next door to the Abbey, were in high spirits after being sent home early.
Some of them wondered aloud why the school wasn't put on lock down like most of the other buildings in the area, including both House of Parliament and St Thomas's hospital on the other side of the Thames.
A man from Merseyside, visiting his daughter, who is a teacher at the school, said he was in the National Gallery when she texted him about the attack.
"It happens in any big city now," he says, "and any small city. I am not really surprised."
On Birdcage Walk, at the rear of Downing Street, civil servants were streaming out of imposing government offices after being sent home early; heads down, chatting to colleagues, refusing to chat to the media.
They trooped off towards Trafalgar Square in search of an alternative route home since Westminster Underground station was closed, melting into the crowds at Charing Cross and Embankment.
Beyond the police cordons and the TV crews it felt like any other day.
Speaking on Monday's opening night, he said being able to assemble the cast quickly allowed him to bring his plans forward for the London production.
The show is based on the hit 2003 film starring Jack Black.
It tells the story of a wannabe rock star who poses as a teacher and forms a band with his students.
"We were originally going to open next April, because I thought that we would find [the casting] much more difficult than we did," Lord Lloyd-Webber told the BBC.
"I think we could have cast the show over again."
School of Rock had its world premiere on Broadway almost a year ago, earning four nominations at this year's Tony Awards.
Because of UK child labour laws, the West End production at the New London Theatre features three teams of 13 young musicians and singers - 39 in total. All of them perform live.
David Fynn, who plays the lead role of guitarist Dewey Finn, said the constant rotation of the young cast kept him on his toes.
"Each new team come in with such energy it gives me nowhere to hide. I have to match that. It also gives me a really good excuse to be childish all the time."
Fynn stars alongside Florence Andrews as school head Rosalie Mullins, with Oliver Jackson playing Finn's ex-band mate Ned Schneebly and Preeya Kalidas as Ned's girlfriend Patty Di Marco.
The musical features 12 new songs by Lord Lloyd-Webber, with lyrics by Glenn Slater and stage dialogue by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes.
"It takes me right back to my days with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat nearly 50 years ago," Lord Lloyd-Webber said.
"That started in a school and it's all about the empowering force of music and how it can transform everybody's lives."
Reviews have been overwhelmingly positive, with the Daily Telegraph's Dominic Cavendish saying in a five-star review it was "the most enjoyable few hours money can buy".
The Guardian's Michael Billington called it "Lloyd Webber's most exuberant show in years".
Mark Shenton's review in The Stage said that Lloyd Webber had gone "back to his rock roots" and produced "his freshest musical in years".
The child cast "all deserve to be showered with gold stars", added The Independent's Paul Taylor.
Oscar Francisco, 12, who plays geeky keyboard player Lawrence, said it had been exciting perform after months of rehearsals.
"It was good going on stage for the first proper night and having the crowds to react when you play your solos," he told the BBC.
How did he manage combining his two or three performances with his school work?
"It's difficult and tiring," he said. "It involves a lot of sleep!"
School of Rock is currently booking at the New London Theatre until 12 February.
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Justice Minister Eduardo Cardozo said they were looking at possible tax evasion and money laundering within Brazil.
Costa Rica has opened an enquiry into US accusations against Eduardo Li, head of Costa Rica's football association.
In Argentina, a judge has issued warrants for three local businessmen wanted by the US.
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff said football in her country "will only benefit" from the US corruption investigation of Fifa and other top officials of the sport.
In the meantime, the Brazilian Football Confederation has removed the name of Jose Maria Marin from the facade of its Rio de Janeiro headquarters after the former president was arrested in Switzerland on corruption charges.
A Congressional enquiry into corruption in the CBF may also be on the agenda.
On Wednesday, the Brazilian senator and former football player Romario made a formal application for an enquiry to be opened.
Mr Marin, who faces extradition to the US, was head of the CBF from 2012 to April 2015 and headed the local committee for the organisation of the 2014 World Cup.
Up to his arrest, he was part of a Fifa committee organizing the Olympic football tournaments.
In Costa Rica, prosecutors have opened an investigation into the president of the country's football federation, Eduardo Li, who was also detained on Wednesday.
The arrest of Mr Li was met with surprise in Costa Rica. He had become a national hero after the national team's unexpected run to the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Brazil in 2014.
A spokesman for Costa Rica's public prosecutor said: "The investigation opened today aims to determine whether the hypothesis of the US Department of Justice probe related to a case of money laundering and corruption involving Eduardo Li can be corroborated."
Costa Rica's tax office said it had also opened an investigation into Mr Li's various business interests in the country.
In Argentina, the football association - AFA - issued a statement in support of the US led investigation into Fifa.
"The Argentine Football Association states that it supports and joins the investigations on Fifa and Conmebol representatives and members, sharing the football world's concerns as regard transparency in our beloved sport."
A judge issued arrest warrants for three businessmen accused of conspiring to win and keep lucrative media rights contracts from regional football federations in return for millions of dollars in bribes.
The warrants were issued a day after the US Justice Department had requested them.
The head of the Argentine Cabinet, Anibal Fernandez, said the country's tax authority would pursue any money owed it and that bribery should be investigated in Argentina "no matter the cost".
Company owners in Monmouthshire said some are facing increases in excess of 130%.
They have told BBC Wales it is another "nail in the coffin" for many rural high streets.
The Welsh Government said it would be providing £200m worth of business rate relief next year.
Business rates all over Wales and England have been re-calculated, with the tariffs based primarily on how much a property would cost to rent.
It was last calculated in 2010 based on 2008 prices. The new rate is based on 2015 prices and will come into force next April.
The smallest businesses will not have to pay any business rates.
UK government figures also show that rates, on average, are set to drop in Welsh cities.
But figures from the Valuation Office Agency show rates are on the rise in more rural areas.
Monmouth rare tea importer David Tovey said his business rates are set to rise by more than 60%.
"That extra £2,500 is probably going to mean either I'm not going to be putting food on the table, or I'm going to have to consider selling the business and at the moment that is more likely," he said.
Philip Ramsden, the proprietor of the Gatehouse Pub in Monmouth, said he was facing a rise of nearly 140% - an extra £15,000.
"I was enraged, because I was expecting some form of increases, but when I saw the actual increase in ours - that is non-viable," he said.
"We would seriously have to look at overheads and the only overhead is staff."
David Cummings, who chairs the Monmouth Chamber of Trade, said he believed the Welsh Government should have done more to highlight the potential consequences of the rate re-valuation.
"The Welsh Government has been remiss in the way it's provided information to business organisations," he claimed.
"The results of the Valuation Office exercise came out on the 30 September, and I've had no communication from the Welsh Government since then. I believe they should have had somebody monitoring the results and identifying any problem areas".
The Welsh Government has insisted it is acting to help businesses - especially smaller firms.
"Our Small Business Rates Relief scheme will save small businesses in Wales from having to pay £100m in tax in 2017-18 and a new permanent scheme will be introduced from 2018 onwards," a government official said.
"We also know business rates can represent a higher proportion of costs for smaller businesses - that's why we decided to act and announced a £10m transitional relief scheme, which will be available from 1 April 2017 when revaluation comes into effect."
The government said this cash was in addition to the £100m rate relief scheme.
A consultation on business rates in Wales is set to end on Friday.
"All organisations representing businesses have had an opportunity to comment on the scheme through our consultation," added the spokesman.
The discovery was made at Bradgate Park, in Newtown Linford on Tuesday following an annual deer cull.
Peter Tyldesley, director of the Bradgate Park Trust, said leaving dog mess lying around in plastic bags is "lethal" for all wildlife.
He said the culled deer was in good health despite the contents of its gut.
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Mr Tyldesley said: "When we examined its internal organs, to make sure its not got any parasites or diseases, we found the stomach was full of plastic dog poo bags.
He said animals had been found in the past "looking emaciated and in poor health" and later their stomachs were found to be "full of plastic".
"This is the first time that one has been walking around apparently healthy ... you do wonder how many animals out there have ingested a whole load of plastic."
He added the deer could be associating the bags with picnic food.
In this case that laid bare the former prime minister's so called "bunga-bunga" party lifestyle, the judges delivered a crushing verdict.
Mr Berlusconi was convicted on both the charges he faced, sentenced to seven years in jail and banned from holding public office ever again.
The judges decided that he did indeed pay for sex with underage prostitute Karima El Mahroug, better known by her nightclub dancer stage name "Ruby the Heartstealer".
The court had heard that he slept with her on 13 occasions at a time when he was still Italy's prime minister.
Ms El Mahroug, however, says she has never been a prostitute. And both she and Mr Berlusconi denied they had ever had sex.
The judges also decided that the former prime minister had abused the powers of his office; that he pressured the police into freeing Ms El Mahroug when she was in custody.
The court had heard that Mr Berlusconi had met the dancer when she attended one of his party nights.
These were occasions when aspiring showgirls and models would mix with him and his influential entourage.
Prosecution witnesses talked of raunchy, sexually-charged cavorting.
There were accounts of women dressed as nuns stripping to their underwear for the entertainment of the then prime minister.
Mr Berlusconi has always denied that anything sleazy ever went on at what he has called his "elegant" dinner parties.
And he was furious at the judgement.
"It is not only bad justice, it is an offence to all Italians who have believed in me and trusted in my commitment to the country," he wrote in a statement.
He has always argued that he is being hounded by politically motivated left-wing prosecutors in Milan.
And he said this verdict had been an effort to eliminate him from political life.
Many of the millions of Italians who vote for Mr Berlusconi will agree.
Among them is a friend of the former prime minister, Diego Volpe Pasini, who used to go to the "bunga-bunga" parties.
"The Ruby case is extraordinary," he said, in the days before the verdict.
"It's a nonsense. How can you be convicted if you can't see a victim? Ruby's not a victim," he said, referring to Ms El Mahroug's denials that she ever had sex with Mr Berlusconi.
Mr Volpe Pasini said that at his parties Mr Berlusconi would sing and tell jokes.
He added that - although showgirls might have tried to impress the media magnate prime minister with dance routines - nothing morally questionable happened.
But many of those Italians who loathe Mr Berlusconi and everything he stands for will believe he is guilty as charged.
And this very high-profile case has probably damaged Mr Berlusconi more than most of his many courtroom dramas.
"Some of the information that's been emerging has been a bit excessive from the point of view of moral behaviour and private behaviour," Professor Franco Pavoncello of John Cabot University in Rome.
"I think that people are a bit disturbed by the kind of images that started to appear from those evenings in Mr Berlusconi's villa."
But Mr Berlusconi has ridden out countless scandals and legal storms that would have sunk almost any other political career, and he will certainly survive "the Ruby case".
This judgement will have no immediate, practical impact. It was only the verdict of a lower court. Appeals against it could go on for years.
Even if the sentence was eventually confirmed, a man of Mr Berlusconi's age would be extremely unlikely to go to prison for crimes like these in Italy.
Much more serious for the former PM is another case that is fast reaching a conclusion.
This is an affair in which Mr Berlusconi has been convicted of tax evasion.
And if he cannot get the sentence overturned at a final appeal hearing he will be barred from holding any public office as soon as this autumn.
He would see this as intolerable victory for those left-wing prosecutors who, he says, have schemed against him.
And there is intense speculation as to how Mr Berlusconi will manoeuvre to counter the looming threat.
The tensions surrounding this legal battle are already feeding into the political arena.
The veteran Berlusconi-watcher, Professor James Walston, of the American University of Rome wrote in his blog: "If they uphold his conviction... with its bar on his holding public office, then we will see Silvio Berlusconi slip from the statesman role to the rabble-rousing populist with uncertain and dangerous possibilities."
It is even possible to envisage a scenario in which the ructions might eventually bring down Italy's coalition government, of which the former prime minister's faction is a major part.
The UK's highest court was asked to judge whether the Attorney General's office acted unlawfully when it prevented their publication in 2012.
The newspaper sought disclosure of the letters, written to seven government departments between 2004-5.
The prince's office at Clarence House said it was "disappointed the principle of privacy had not been upheld".
A spokeswoman also said the issue was "a matter for the government".
It has been argued that releasing the so-called "black spider memos" - a reference to the prince's handwriting - would undermine his neutral political status.
Prime Minister David Cameron called the ruling "disappointing" and said the government would now consider how best to release the documents.
He added: "This is about the principle that senior members of the royal family are able to express their views to government confidentially. I think most people would agree this is fair enough."
Mr Cameron also hinted that the legislation could need tightening in the wake of the ruling.
"Our FOI (Freedom of Information) laws specifically include the option of a governmental veto, which we exercised in this case for a reason.
"If the legislation does not make Parliament's intentions for the veto clear enough, then we will need to make it clearer."
Campaign for Freedom of Information director Maurice Frankel welcomed the decision to release the letters but expressed concern that any move now to strengthen the veto could see it extended to more politically embarrassing cases.
"That would be very unwelcome," he said.
"It gives ministers the opportunity to overturn the wheelbarrow every time they don't like a decision."
On the ruling to release the letters, he added: "This is a critical decision which strengthens the FOI Act. It says the courts, not ministers, normally have the last word."
In 2010 the government changed FOI laws to remove the public interest test.
The Republic group, which campaigns for a "democratic alternative to the monarchy", is now calling for the law to change so future requests for disclosure can be successful.
Republic CEO Graham Smith said: "This is excellent news. The government must now act to end royal secrecy. Any risk to the monarchy must pale against a risk to democracy from having an activist prince acting in secret."
"We can't have a situation where we don't know what influence Charles is having on government policy."
"The changes made to FOI laws in 2010 must be reversed so future requests for disclosure can be successful."
Shortly before the ruling, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said Prince Charles was "entitled to assume" his letters would remain private.
Speaking on his weekly LBC radio phone-in Mr Clegg said there was "a legitimate role" of the government allowing it to say "correspondence like that since it was intended to be private should remain private".
A Number 10 spokeswoman was unable to give any timetable for disclosure of the letters.
By Peter Hunt, BBC diplomatic and royal correspondent
What was once private, will now - at some stage - be very public.
A future king's letters to seven government ministers - written, no doubt, in his distinctive style which includes plenty of underlinings and exclamation marks.
We have a sense of what they might contain. The former attorney general has described them as particularly frank and he said their publication could lead the public to interpret them as disagreeing with government policy at the time.
Those around the prince insist the contents are relatively benign and they are relaxed about their eventual publication.
Given his passion and his history of conveying blunt messages, some of Charles' letters will, at the very least, raise the odd eyebrow.
His challenge is that their release will focus attention once again on how he operates, so close to the throne.
Prince Charles divides opinion as heir.
Will he be, and can he be, a unifying monarch?
Read more on Peter Hunt's blog.
The Guardian said it had been "pressing the government" for 10 years to see the letters and Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of Guardian News and Media, said he was "delighted" by the ruling.
"The government wasted hundreds of thousands of pounds trying to cover up these letters, admitting their publication would 'seriously damage' perceptions of the prince's political neutrality," he said.
"Now they must publish them so that the public can make their own judgment.
"This is a good day for transparency in government and shows how essential it is to have a fully independent judiciary and free press."
According to previous Attorney General Dominic Grieve, the letters contain the prince's "most deeply held personal views and beliefs".
The prince is heir to the throne and, as the royal family's own website explains, it is central to the British constitution that the reigning monarch should remain politically neutral.
Mr Grieve has also said that any perception the prince had disagreed with the then Labour government in 2004-5 "would be seriously damaging to his role as future monarch because if he forfeits his position of political neutrality as heir to the throne, he cannot easily recover it when he is King".
Guardian journalist Rob Evans originally applied to see letters under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004; this was initially denied by the information commissioner.
But several legal decisions followed:
Seven justices at the Supreme Court in London have now heard a challenge by current Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC against the Court of Appeal ruling, but that was dismissed, paving the way for the letters to be published.
The Supreme Court considered by a majority of five to two that the attorney general was not entitled to issue a certificate under Section 53 of the Freedom of Information Act - known as a veto - "in the manner that he did", and ruled that the certificate was "invalid".
Lord Neuberger concluded that Section 53 does not permit the attorney general to override a decision of a judicial tribunal or court by issuing a certificate "merely because he, a member of the executive, considering the same facts and arguments, takes a different view from that taken by the tribunal or court".
This would be, he said, "unique in the laws of the United Kingdom".
Mr Frankel added: "The veto is not a trump card to be slipped out of a minister's sleeve to block any embarrassing disclosure. Ministers will now have to argue their case not impose it."
Rea, 27, and his title rivals will be back in action this weekend at the Lausitzring circuit, which hosts a round for the first time since 2007.
With four rounds remaining, Rea enjoys a 46-point lead over Kawasaki team-mate Tom Sykes at the top of the standings.
Ducati's Chaz Davies is a further 62 points in arrears in third.
The final positions will be decided over the forthcoming eight races, which will be staged in Germany, France, Spain and Qatar.
The riders have enjoyed a longer than anticipated summer break since the ninth round at Laguna Seca in July, the Monza round in Italy having been removed from the calendar because of safety concerns with the track layout.
Rea and Sykes took a win apiece at the Californian circuit, but the Northern Ireland was forced to retire in race two with a mechanical problem, ending his 17-race podium streak.
Isle of Man-based Rea and the Yorkshireman have won eight and five races respectively in the championship so far, with Welshman Davies also occupying the top step of the podium on five occasions.
"I rode at the Lausitzring recently on my own road bike and it was good to get some track time at a course that is new to me. Our rivals tested there so it was important," said Rea.
"It was a long summer break - at first I just enjoyed being at home and after that I knuckled down to be in ideal condition for the last few races.
"I really put in some effort at the gym, riding motocross and my bicycle."
Rea's aim will be to finish ahead of his team-mate at the next two rounds, which would provide him with the opportunity to retain his title in mid-October at Jerez, the same venue where he wrapped up the Championship last season.
"The last four rounds come along in quick succession and it's important to be razor sharp to give myself the best possible chance through to the end of the season.
"My focus now is to increase the championship lead," added the County Antrim rider.
The computer server base is expected to cost $150m (??94m) and will employ up to 20 people, said the firm.
Google said it chose Chile because of its reliable infrastructure and skilled workforce.
The country has been trying to become a tech hub, with initiatives such as Start-Up Chile attracting entrepreneurs from around the world.
The search giant said the data communications centre would make its products faster to access, and more reliable for the local population.
Chile's selection is a coup for the nation bearing in mind Brazil has a much larger population, is more centrally located and contains a fast-growing tech sector.
"Chile??? fosters an atmosphere of innovation, and in recent years has developed cutting edge policies and programs that encourage the growth of the internet," Google said.
"As with all of our facilities around the world, we chose Quilicura, Chile, following a thorough and rigorous site selection process, taking many technical and other considerations into account including location, infrastructure, workforce, reasonable business regulations and cost."
Google already has data centres in the United States, Finland and Belgium, and plans to build more in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan by next year.
The centre in Chile is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2013.
Opening a data centre in Latin America may help Google's ambitions in the region.
Orkut, a social network operated and owned by Google, used to be number one in Brazil and several other places in Latin America.
But according to digital media analytics company Comscore, it has now slipped to third place, behind Facebook and Twitter.
Richard Sumner and Julian Barnfield, of the Heythrop Hunt, pleaded guilty at Oxford Magistrates' Court to charges brought by the RSPCA.
Film gathered by anti-hunt monitors over four days during the 2011/12 season was played in court.
Sumner and Barnfield were the master and huntsman of the hunting group.
They pleaded guilty to four separate counts, on four separate occasions, of unlawfully hunting a wild fox with dogs.
Heythrop Hunt Ltd also pleaded guilty to four counts of the same charge.
The presiding magistrate called the RSPCA's £327,000 costs "staggering".
He said the public could question whether the charity's funds to bring the case to court could have been better spent.
Sumner was ordered to pay a £1,800 and £2,500 in court costs.
Barnsfield was ordered to pay a £1,000 fine £2,000 in costs.
In addition, Heythrop Hunt Ltd was fined £4,000 and must pay £15,000 in costs.
The prosecution said hounds had been encouraged to chase foxes - which is banned under legislation that came into force in 2005.
Mr Cameron rode with the Heythrop Hunt on six occasions before the change in legislation.
Both Sumner and Barnfield have since retired from their positions.
An RSPCA spokesman said it was a "landmark" case.
"[It] is thought to be the first where a hunt has faced corporate charges," he said.
"It is also the first taken by the RSPCA involving the prosecution of a hunt itself."
The two-seater Rasa was developed in Llandrindod Wells, Powys, by Riversimple Movement Ltd.
Its road-legal prototype does 0-60mph (96kmh) in 10 seconds, with its only output water.
The Rasa, which received a £2m Welsh grant in 2015, will go on trial for 12 months later this year, with the final model set for release in 2018.
Hugo Spowers, founder of Riversimple, said the prototype marked a "key milestone" in bringing the Rasa to market.
"The car is simple, light and fun in every respect," he said.
If the trial - to be funded by a £1.6m European Union grant - proves successful, the firm has said the next step would be to set up volume production in a factory employing 220 people.
Riversimple believes the Rasa will be the most efficient vehicle in the world.
Weighing 580kg (91 stone) - about the half the weight of a small petrol or diesel car - it has a potential range of up to 300 miles (482 km) on 1.5kg of hydrogen - a fuel-economy equivalent of 250mpg.
The car has a top speed of 60 mph (96kmh).
It works by passing hydrogen through the fuel cell, where it combines with oxygen to form water and electricity to drive motors positioned in each of the four wheels.
Prof Garel Rhys, who is part of the Welsh government's steering group on the low-carbon vehicle sector, said the company was "at the forefront".
"Hydrogen fuel cell technology is in its infancy," he added, "and they (Riversimple) are at the cutting-edge".
Prof Peter Wells, of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research and Cardiff Business School, said the team had reduced the weight of the car to the "absolute minimum".
"This allows it to run on a very small fuel cell, compared to the big car manufacturers," he said.
The car will not be sold but offered under a leasing agreement, with repairs, maintenance, insurance and fuel expenses covered by a fixed monthly-fee, with the aim of lowering the cost of hydrogen-powered motoring.
Tilly was found to have suffered a single stab wound to the stomach in a field off Broadcar Road in Hoyland near Barnsley on Sunday.
The RSPCA and a vet were called after the grey mare was found by a dog walker just before 07:00 BST.
Owner Michelle Steeples said she had been left "devastated" by the attack on Tilly who was ready to be rehomed.
The RSPCA and South Yorkshire Police has launched a joint investigation.
"It was like something out of a horror film," Ms Steeples said.
Tilly was being cared and trained for by Ms Steeples after getting a reputation for being "difficult".
"She was making great progress. She was just about ready to get rehomed," Ms Steeples said.
Ms Steeples has set up a Justice for Tilly Facebook group and the reward has been offered by a stranger who heard what had happened.
"The vet confirmed it was a deliberate wound," she said. "It was one single stab wound to the underside of her stomach.
"The wound was about two or three hours old."
RSPCA inspector John Lawson said: "The poor horse, a very sweet small grey mare, was suffering greatly and was put to sleep on humane grounds."
The Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme has left taxpayers with a multi-million pound bill.
David Sterling was permanent secretary at the Department of Enterprise Trade and Investment when the initiative was set up in 2012.
But generous subsidies and poor regulation meant it ran away from officials.
It could cost taxpayers up to £20m annually for 20 years to make up the funding shortfall.
That is money that will have to come out of the block grant.
Mr Sterling, who is now the permanent secretary at the Department of Finance, appeared before the assembly's Public Accounts committee this afternoon.
He said the subsidy rate and the failure to review the scheme after 18 months were the key issues and he had "no satisfactory answer" for why a planned review in January 2014 did not happen.
He left the department in July of that year.
DUP and Sinn Féin MLAs said he appeared to be attempting to "pass the blame" for the mismanagement of the scheme.
But Mr Sterling said he was not trying to "duck responsibility".
"I'm not seeking to pass the buck," he said. "I accept responsibility for failures which occurred during my time."
Mr Sterling said he was "not conscious" of the need to carry out the review in January 2014.
He said his recollection of the scheme was that it had been under-performing and had meant his department handing back money it could not spend.
Applications to the scheme subsequently increased when plans were announced to change the subsidy rate in 2015.
A 20-year commitment to make subsidy payments meant a spike in applications left officials with a massive bill.
It is estimated the scheme could now cost up more than £1bn. It was originally estimated to cost about half that.
The 21-year-old right-back joined the club in 2011 and is established in the starting line-up.
He signed a long-term deal in July 2015 but had been linked with a move away, with his former club Barcelona - where he played in the youth teams - and Manchester City reportedly interested.
"I have been here a long time, I feel like this is my home and this is the right thing to do," Bellerin said.
"I am very happy to still be a Gunner for many more years."
Bellerin has made 67 top-flight appearances, including 11 this season before he was ruled out for four weeks with injury.
Councillors backed a fresh consultation at an extraordinary meeting on Thursday.
The public will be able to have their say on the plans, which include changes to secondary schools in Fishguard and St Davids and the development of a new Welsh medium school, from 16 September.
The consultation will close on 28 October.
During that time, two public information sessions will take place - at Fishguard Town Hall on 24 September and Ysgol Dewi Sant, St Davids, on 29 September.
The callback affects China-made models sold under a variety of brands and affects about 501,000 units.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said it followed at least 99 incidents where battery packs had overheated.
In some cases they caught fire leading to burn injuries and property damage. Owners are being told to contact the companies responsible, which should fix the problem or issue a full refund.
Models involved include:
A spokeswoman for Swagway told the BBC that it would be retrofitting the X1s it received with new "UL-certified" battery packs.
"UL-Certification means that the product has been tested by Underwriters Laboratories, one of the largest consumer products testing labs in the world," she explained.
"Please note that this does not affect any of the other models made by Swagway."
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said that the Chinese retailer Alibaba had given it a commitment that in the future it would require sellers to have safety check certificates for the hoverboards they sell via its sites.
However, the recall is not limited to kit sold via AliExpress.com and Alibaba.com.
The Overstock.com website, Boscov's department stores and Yuka Clothing shops also sold some of the recalled stock.
Customers are also being asked to return a further 5,000 Swagway hoverboards distributed in Canada.
This is not the first time the self-balancing scooters have been flagged as a safety risk.
In December, the UK's Trading Standards agencies seized more than 38,000 hoverboards it said were at danger of overheating after several house fires were blamed on the products. The authorities had already said it was an offence to ride them on pavements and roads.
In the US, Amazon pulled some boards from sale and began offering customers full refunds in January after the Consumer Product Safety Commission voiced its concerns.
A month later it stopped selling all examples of the product, but later returned some brands to sale.
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Rutherford's fourth-round leap of 8.31m was enough to take victory on a glorious night for Team GB.
"It is immense. He is so talented but he hasn't had that bit of luck to get onto the podium in a major championship before. This time he has had that little bit and now he is the Olympic champion. Greg Rutherford, take a bow."
He finished ahead of Australia's Mitchell Watt, who recorded 8.16m to take silver.
Will Claye of the United States won bronze with a jump of 8.12m while Britain's Chris Tomlinson finished sixth with a best of 8.07m.
Tomlinson led after the first round, posting a jump of 8.06m, but it did not take long for Rutherford to hit form, with the Brit leaping 8.21m to take a second-round lead as the atmosphere intensified inside the Olympic Stadium.
The 25-year-old's third round was a more modest 8.14m while Tomlinson too could not better his initial jump, with the rest of the field also struggling to make a significant impression on the leaderboard.
Both Claye and Sweden's Michel Torneus were his nearest rivals with the pair locked at 8.07m, fully 14cm behind the Brit at the halfway stage.
Torneus reduced that gap with a jump of 8.11m before Rutherford extended his lead with 8.31m with two jumps left.
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Watt then posted his best jump of the competition, but neither he nor Claye could surpass Rutherford, who held on to win Britain's fifth gold medal of the day, with Mo Farah later making it six in the 10,000m.
It was the first time since 1964 that GB had won the long jump, Lynn Davies taking victory in Tokyo.
"I knew I was in great shape," Rutherford told BBC Sport.
"My team are incredible and I have the most amazing parents and beautiful girlfriend in the world. I've got a pretty good life, I cannot lie. Everybody has worked so hard for me.
"I thought I was going to jump further than that, but I don't care, I'm Olympic champion. What a night for British athletics - three gold medals. I can't thank everyone enough.
"This is what I have dreamed of my whole life and to do it in London is just incredible, I might wake up in a minute."
"Do you mean Big Joe?" asks one woman in Liverpool city centre when I ask about the Liverpool City Region's mayoral election on 4 May.
While Joe Anderson is mayor of the city of Liverpool, there are five other boroughs in this newly created region - Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral in Merseyside, plus Halton in neighbouring Cheshire.
And Mr Anderson was beaten by Steve Rotheram last August in the battle to be selected as Labour's candidate in the Liverpool City Region's mayoral election.
The "Liverpool City Region" does not have a long-established political history - even choosing its name was not problem-free.
Now that a devolution deal has been thrashed out, though, what will her or his powers be?
The mayor will have significant powers over transport, which could transform the lives of the 1.5 million people who live there by redesigning bus routes and offering integrated ticketing systems.
He or she will also be in charge of housing, which many argue is desperate for root-and-branch reform.
Liverpool City Region's Mayoral Election Candidates (listed in alphabetical order)
Roger Bannister - Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition
Paul Breen - Get the Coppers off the Jury
Tony Caldeira - Conservative
Carl Cashman - Liberal Democrat
Tom Crone - Green Party
Tabitha Morton - Women's Equality Party
Steve Rotheram - Labour
Paula Walters - UKIP
Find out more about the candidates - and their key manifesto commitments
Local authorities included in the mayoral region: Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton, and Wirral
Along with the leaders of the six boroughs, and the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), the mayor will be part of the combined authority, which will also take control of training and skills, and consider how to best invest £900m over the next 30 years.
This isn't the comprehensive and detailed deal they have down the Mersey in Greater Manchester.
Liverpool City Region has not secured control over policing and fire and rescue, for example, and are only "working on" a deal for health and social care devolution.
In the wording of the deal, it's also notable that in many areas Liverpool City Region will "work with" central government rather than be "free from" Whitehall.
There are big issues around governance too.
I'm told the constitution - which will decide how policies are passed - won't be fully ironed out until the mayor is elected.
Is it fair to send the voters to the polls without that clarity?
Also the Local Enterprise Partnership will get to vote on whether certain policies pass. Again, is it right that a non-elected body can do that?
Despite not having the depth and the history of the Greater Manchester deal, though, I have found a level of public engagement in the mayoral race.
One young mum in the south of the city told me: "You need to know Liverpool to control it."
Merseyside's sense of identity is arguably almost unrivalled in the UK, and that could play out well for whoever becomes mayor on 5 May once the votes are tallied.
There is also an economic optimism intertwined with devolution.
The opening page of this devolution deal talks about commercial ventures including Superport, 3MG in Halton, and science and innovation strengths at Daresbury.
These may be jargony phrases to the majority of the 1.5 million who live here, but companies like Peel Holdings don't invest £400m without expecting a decent return.
There is also growing support at Westminster. Liverpool Riverside MP Louise Ellman has been a strong voice in making sure the Buses Bill (part of devolution) delivers all that it promises.
The combined authority tells me that once its mayor is in place, it will start lobbying Whitehall for even more powers.
Merseysiders are known for a determination to get what they want, so we can expect a fascinating few years ahead.
The valuation of its titles has been slashed in two tranches over the past year.
With its half-year results, it announced a write-down of £224m. To that, it has added a reduction of £120m with its full-year figures.
Company assets are now worth less than half of called-up share capital.
By law, that means it has to summon a special shareholder meeting in the next four weeks to discuss how it should respond.
An activist investor fund, Crystal Amber, has been pushing for changes to company strategy, while building up a stake of more than 20% of Johnston Press shares.
The share price dropped 9% after the annual results were published.
An additional challenge in the results was a large increase in pension liability, up from £27m to £68m in the past year.
In a "viability statement", company directors have set out the risk of insolvency if trading patterns from last year are continued until 2019. That is when £220m of bonds are due to be re-financed.
They concluded that they have a "reasonable expectation" of being able to continue in operation and meet liabilities, but that is subject to many uncertainties.
Johnston Press is based in Edinburgh, where it publishes The Scotsman. In addition to 'i', it is also owner of the Yorkshire Post, the Northern Ireland News Letter and nearly 200 local titles.
It has sold some papers in Ireland, the Isle of Man and East Anglia, to raise funds with which to lower debt, having borrowed heavily to expand before the financial crash. It has stopped actively looking to sell titles.
Last year saw a continued decline in advertising revenue for the company, down by 18%.
Hopes that digital revenue would replace print advertising were undermined by a small decline also in those digital sales, mainly due to a "very difficult summer".
This was most notable in job advertising, mainly by small and medium-sized enterprises, and down 27%. Johnston Press believes the sharp fall in the third quarter of last year was due to uncertainty following the Brexit referendum.
However, it said there were improving trends in more recent months.
Print advertising was down from £149m to £123m in 2016. Digital advertising remained below £19m.
Costs continued to be cut, to £179m, down £26m on last year, and by £100m since 2012. Following major cuts in journalist numbers, last year saw 200 jobs going in sales and distribution.
Other costs include the £20m annual cost of servicing the debt, and £10m extra for pensions.
There was an operating profit of £42m, but the major revaluations took the pre-tax statutory loss to £300m.
Readership was up, including online and mobile users of its 173 websites, rising from 19.5m monthly unique users in 2015 to 22.5m last year. Links through Facebook also drove viewers to its news stories in fast-increasing numbers.
The company bought the 'i' newspaper in April last year, for £24m. It helped boost circulation revenue by 11% to £80m. However, not including 'i', circulation revenue was down 9%.
Ashley Highfield, Johnston's chief executive, said: "Despite an industry-wide backdrop of significant downward pressure on revenues, the actions we have taken to pilot the business through this rapidly-changing market and create the conditions from which to create growth are starting to bear fruit.
"Circulation figures of key titles are improving, the 'i' has bucked the trend of declining national newspaper sales".
He said digital advertising had returned to growth in the first quarter of this year, and argued that advertisers would be attracted to more conventional news publishers, following controversies around advert placing next to unacceptable material and fake news.
Some security experts say what is needed is more intelligence-based, risk-based screenings of both passengers - and airport staff.
For decades, it has been well known that aircraft are prime targets for terrorist attacks. A relatively small explosion is capable of bringing down a large aircraft, inflicting numerous casualties.
Even before the cause of the Metrojet crash was known for certain, leading figures within the industry were warning that changes would be needed.
The chief executive of Easyjet, Carolyn McCall, recently told the BBC that the idea of a bomb on board an aircraft "kept airline chief executives awake at night". She added that in "certain airports" around the world, standards simply weren't good enough.
Her comments echoed a warning from the UK's Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, who said that travellers could face delays and extra costs as a result.
Global standards for airport security do already exist. They are laid down in Annex 17 of the Chicago Convention, a document that effectively sets out international rules for the air transport industry. It states, for example, that both passengers and baggage should be screened before being allowed aboard an aircraft.
However, these are only minimum requirements. It is up to individual governments to decide how to implement them, and of course the airport itself has to abide by those national procedures.
In practice, this means that standards can vary widely. Security in major hubs such as London Heathrow is generally very good, with state of the art technology being used by well-trained staff. But in regional airports, particularly in the developing world, standards can be more lax.
Organisations such as the US Transportation Security Administration have overseas representatives whose job is to help foreign governments boost security, but experts say the results have been mixed.
In any case, standards can slip almost anywhere. The TSA itself came in for heavy criticism earlier this year, when government agents managed to smuggle fake weapons and explosives through security at US airports in 67 out of 70 attempts.
So what can be done to improve matters? Physical checks on passengers were dramatically tightened up after the 9/11 attacks, and the subsequent attempt to bring down another aircraft by the "shoe bomber" Richard Reid.
Further measures were introduced after the unsuccessful liquid bomb plot of 2006. Even today, it's not uncommon to be asked to remove shoes when passing through security, while curbs on carrying liquids have been eased somewhat, but remain in force.
According to Ben Vogel, editor of Jane's Airport Review, there is no need for further restrictions of this sort.
"If tighter screening controls are introduced," he says, "it would run counter to aviation policies over recent years."
"The talk in recent times has been about intelligence-based, risk-based screening. Risk-based protocols rely less on a blanket one-size-fits-all method, and use a more nuanced approach that focuses on 'persons of interest'."
Matthew Finn, managing director of security consultancy Augmentiq, agrees. "We cannot continue to view every passenger as posing the same amount of risk," he says.
"The 85-year-old grandmother and the 3-year-old toddler do not pose the same amount of risk as someone who might already be known to the authorities, travelling on a one-way ticket to a destination that gives us cause for concern."
Such an approach might actually be welcomed by passengers. Current security procedures can be very time consuming, while some people find them embarrassing and undignified.
But those in favour of greater risk profiling say it would allow most people to undergo less intense screening, potentially reducing delays and stress at the airport.
However, many experts believe the priority now should be to focus, not on passengers, but on the people who actually work within the airport.
Security staff, for example, are often low paid and poorly trained. In countries where corruption is endemic, there is a risk they could be paid to turn a blind eye to potentially suspect baggage.
Low morale, meanwhile, can mean experienced staff leave the industry, depriving it of much-needed expertise.
"The technology, manpower and procedures at airports are only effective if they are deployed correctly", says Matthew Finn.
"We've got to move away from low wages, tenuous contracts and minimal opportunities to create a culture that recognises high performers."
But security staff are not the only airport workers under scrutiny.
Anyone who works "airside", beyond the security screen is potentially a risk. That includes people like baggage handlers, bus drivers, maintenance staff and engineers.
"It only takes one person, one 'bad egg' to cause a disaster," Philip Baum, editor of Aviation Security International, told the BBC.
"We've seen a multitude of incidents around the world where airport employees have been engaged in human trafficking, drug trafficking
"But… it could easily be an improvised explosive device that's infiltrated, for example."
Mathew Finn of Augmentiq thinks that, like passengers, airport staff should be subjected to more risk-based screening.
"We've spent incredible amounts of money focusing on what passengers may have in their bags, but nowhere near enough on who is being screened at security or who is working in restricted areas of the airport," he says.
One thing the airports themselves do not want to see is increased regulation. According to Angela Gittens, director of the industry group ACI World, that would be "counterproductive".
However, it is fair to say the loss of flight Metrojet KGL9268 has put the security of airports under an intense spotlight - and the "inside threat" posed by airside workers is being taken more seriously than ever.
The doctor, known as a medical incident officer, cared for eight patients at Worcestershire Royal Hospital on Friday night.
In an "unprecedented" move, West Midlands Ambulance Service demanded action following delays in treatment.
The Care Quality Commission said it was monitoring the situation.
It was the first time a medical incident officer has been deployed to a hospital in the West Midlands, according to the ambulance service.
A spokeswoman for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said she was not aware of it having happened elsewhere.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman called the decision to send the doctor "unprecedented" and "not taken lightly".
An unidentified senior clinical member of staff from the trust said: "The problem at the moment is that the Worcestershire hospital is far too small. They can't cope with the number of admissions or the number of walk-in patients that turn up in A&E.
"These things mean we have ended up with a crisis in A&E.
"They have now drawn little rectangles into the corridors to signify that is a corridor bed. It's incredibly stressful. It becomes a Third World situation where only the very sickest patients can be treated properly."
Patients treated by the medical incident officer included one who had been left for four hours following a seizure and another with a suspected blood clot who had been left in the hands of ambulance staff.
Another had been waiting five hours with heart-related chest pain, ambulance staff said.
The last time a medical incident officer was called out was when a firework warehouse exploded in Stafford in October.
The Care Quality Commission said it was aware that West Midlands Ambulance Service took the action at the weekend and was monitoring the situation.
It has already carried out an inspection of the emergency department and said it would report its conclusions soon.
The trust said the latest peak over the past two weekends was caused by a 15% increase in blue light ambulance calls, a figure disputed by the ambulance service.
Mary Wilkes from Stourport-on-Severn said her 89-year-old very sick husband was taken to the emergency department on Saturday 4 April and was still on a trolley when she left 11 hours later.
Her next-door-neighbour, Roger Barry, complained after being left for more than 15 hours on a trolley in February. He said he had not yet received a response to his complaint.
Robson, 31, was cited for an altercation with Yorkshire Carnegie number eight Ollie Stedman during their Championship match on 5 November.
The former Harlequins second row will be free to play again on 28 December.
"The charge was for acts contrary to good sportsmanship, contrary to Law 10.4(m)," an RFU statement read.
A whole host of politicians, including Prime Minister David Cameron, have headed in the direction of both Pendle and the Rossensdale & Darwen constituencies.
Labour lost both to the Conservatives in the 2010 general election, and are as desperate to win them back on 7 May as the Tories are to retain them.
I have lost count of the number of senior figures who have already toured around Pendle to stake their case.
Mr Cameron popped into the Silentnight bed factory to talk to workers, while one of his potential successors Boris Johnson has also paid a visit.
Labour have sent a couple of their biggest hitters, deputy leader Harriet Harman and the man who wants to replace George Osborne as Chancellor, Ed Balls.
In Rossendale & Darwen, meanwhile the incumbent Tory MP Jake Berry is defending a majority of just under 5,000 against Labour's Will Straw, son of former cabinet member Jack.
Can Will, standing in his first general election, ensure the family name lives on in the House of Commons following his dad's retirement after more than 30 years as Blackburn's MP?
Jack Straw's successor in Blackburn, Labour council leader Kate Hollern, should be able to defend a majority of just under 10,000.
In the north of the county, Conservatives David Morris and Eric Ollerenshaw will face an anxious wait on election night to discover whether they've done enough to repel Labour's challenge in Morecambe & Lunesdale and Lancaster & Fleetwood respectively.
Morris only has a 333 majority in the former while Ollerenshaw only has an 866-vote advantage.
The 2010 general election was not a good one for Labour in Lancashire. The party lost six seats in all to the Tories and saw Burnley snatched away from them by the Liberal Democrats.
Gordon Birtwistle, is now well-established as the town's MP and won't give up his party's best chance of keeping a splash of yellow on the county's political map on the morning of 8 May.
While Blackpool ceased to be an automatic choice for party conferences many years ago, there may well be a lot of politicians in town during the next six weeks.
Blackpool North - won by the Conservatives at the last election - and Blackpool South - held by Labour - both feature 5% majorities but are being viewed as very much up for grabs.
What about UKIP, who are fielding candidates in every seat? While they may struggle to convert votes into MPs, they are likely to significantly influence the result in many constituencies.
At the last local elections, UKIP only won a couple of seats but they will be hoping their gathering momentum nationally will help them in places like Burnley, where right-wing parties have enjoyed some success.
The Greens have struggled to do well away from their main base in Lancaster but it appears that the controversy over the television debates has given them new heart. As a result the party will now be fielding five extra candidates in Lancashire.
While winning a seat looks to be beyond them, an increase in their share of the vote certainly seems possible.
In 2013/14, 120 more postal workers were bitten than in the previous year.
In the PO postcode covering Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, there were 28 attacks in 2012/3 and 46 last year, the highest rise in the south.
Russell Dawson, a postman for 11 years, said he had been bitten five times and had lost the top of his finger.
Mr Dawson, from Dorset, said of the most severe attack in 2011: "I didn't realise there was a dog in the house, I went to push a letter through and there was a big thump on the door.
"When I pulled my hand out I realised the top of my finger had gone."
Attacks on postal workers also increased in the PO, SO, DT, GU and SP postcode areas.
Ian Stockdale, head of health and safety management for Royal Mail, said: "There are a lot of times when we are on people's premises, in their gardens.
"Put that together that dogs, like most animals, are territorial in nature. That's where the risk arises."
The Royal Mail has been identifying high risk properties, holding dog awareness briefings and supplying posting pegs, which are used to open letter boxes, to try to tackle the problem.
In the UK, there were 3,300 attacks between April 2013 and 2014, an 8% increase on the year before.
Royal Mail said the severity of the attacks were also getting worse.
There was a decrease in the BH, SN, BN, OX, RG and SL areas and the number stayed the same in the BA postcode region.
Lessons about online responsibilities, risks and acceptable behaviour should be mandatory in all UK schools, the Lords Communications Committee argues.
The internet is "hugely beneficial" but children need awareness of its hazards, said committee chairman Lord Best.
Industry leaders said education was key to keeping children safe online.
The Lords report builds on findings by the Children's Commissioner for England in January that the internet is not designed for children, despite them being the biggest users by age group.
"Children inhabit a world in which every aspect of their lives is mediated through technology: from health to education, from socialising to entertainment.
"Yet the recognition that children have different needs to those of adults has not yet been fully accepted in the online world," say the Lords.
Lord Best added: "There is a lot of material which makes the internet harmful but it can also be hugely beneficial - a way for children to interact and find out about the world."
However, they need to cope with online pornography, internet grooming, sexting and body image issues, he said, as well as building resilience to the addictive properties of internet games which are "designed and developed to keep users online, missing out on sleep as they stay in their bedrooms glued to the screen".
Children also need to be aware of the dangers of fake news and covert advertising online, he added.
The report argues that "digital literacy should be the fourth pillar of a child's education alongside reading, writing and mathematics and be resourced and taught accordingly".
It should form the core of a new curriculum for personal social health and economic education, it adds.
It backs the government's move to make sex and relationships education statutory in England but says PSHE should also be mandatory in all schools, with the subject included in inspections.
The report notes "a worrying rise in unhappy and anxious children emerging alongside the upward trend of childhood internet use" and calls for more robust research into a "possible causal relationship" alongside immediate action to prevent children being affected.
Overall, the report says the internet should "do more to promote children's best interests" but found self-regulation by industry was "failing" and that commercial interests "very often" took priority.
Meanwhile, it adds, government responsibility is "fragmented" with little co-ordinated policy and joined-up action.
Other recommendations include:
"This issue is of such critical importance for our children that the government, civil society and all those in the internet value chain must work together to improve the opportunities and support where the end user is a child," the Lords conclude.
Jonathan Baggaley, chief executive of the PSHE Association, called the report "spot on" in its recognition that making the subject statutory would give it space on the timetable to teach "the knowledge and skills to manage the challenges of life online".
But the Internet Services Providers' Association rejected calls for stronger regulation, while backing the report's call for better education.
James Blessing, who chairs the ISPA, said the UK was regarded as a world leader in keeping children safe online "through a self-regulatory approach".
"We believe the most effective response is a joint approach based on education, raising awareness and technical tools," he said.
A government spokesman said ministers wanted to make the UK the safest place in the world for young people to go online and would "carefully consider the recommendations included in the Lords Communications Committee Report".
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Artillery shells and rockets landed in the heart of the capital as part of a surprise rebel attack launched in the Jobar district.
The assault began early on Sunday with car bombs and suicide attacks, activists said. State media said secret tunnels were also used.
The military says it managed to push the rebels back.
Government warplanes launched more than 30 air strikes on rebel positions, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group of activists monitoring the conflict.
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Damascus only has a few opposition-held areas, and Jobar is the closest to the city centre. Control of the war-damaged area - which is split between rebels and jihadists on one side and government forces on the other - has been fought over for more than two years.
AFP correspondents in Damascus said the army had closed routes into the strategically important Abbasid Square as explosions reverberated across the city.
The Observatory said the rebels had initiated the attack to relieve pressure on fighters under attack from government forces in the districts of Barzeh, Tishreen and Qabun.
Last Wednesday, at least 31 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack at the main court complex in the centre of Damascus.
Later, another suicide bomber attacked a restaurant in the western district of Rabweh, injuring more than 20 people.
The attacks came on the sixth anniversary of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
Heseltine, who became known as Minister for Merseyside, lobbied for Merseyside in the wake of the 1981 Toxteth riots.
The 78-year-old said he was "deeply appreciative" of being put forward for the city's highest honour.
Leader of Liverpool City Council Joe Anderson said Lord Heseltine would be a "worthy recipient of the freedom of the city".
Lord Heseltine said: "It has been a rare privilege to have been so closely associated with one of England's great cities for over thirty years.
"To have witnessed the transformation in the city's fortunes over that time is reward enough but I am deeply appreciative of the signal honour that the offer of the Freedom of the City represents."
Mr Anderson said Lord Heseltine had been "a great friend of Liverpool" for many years.
"The renaissance of the city started with the transformation of the Albert Dock and the International Garden Festival which he was largely responsible for bringing about as Minister for Merseyside.
"He has played an important role in the regeneration of Liverpool over the past three decades.
"He has worked with me to push the government hard to win new powers and substantial extra investment for our future regeneration plans which are now set to transform the face of Liverpool."
Labour-run Liverpool City Council will vote on making him a freeman of the city at a meeting to be confirmed in March.
If the council is in agreement, he will officially receive the title at a civic reception in May.
The Syrian Democratic Forces said the pictures, showing a convoy of hundreds of vehicles, were taken on Friday.
The US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters did not attack as there were civilians in each of the vehicles and it wanted to avoid casualties.
The militants were thought to have gone north, towards the Turkish border.
SDF fighters took full control of Manbij after a 10-week offensive backed by US-led coalition air strikes and special forces personnel.
As it became apparent that the town would fall, some 100 to 200 IS militants gathered members of their families, supporters and civilian hostages, Baghdad-based US-led coalition spokesman Col Chris Garver told reporters on Tuesday.
The civilians were then placed with the militants in every vehicle in the convoy that headed north, tracked by SDF fighters and the coalition, he said.
"We had to treat them all as non-combatants. We didn't shoot. We kept watching."
Hundreds of the civilians were released on Saturday, while others escaped.
During the offensive, the SDF had offered the militants a safe route out of Manbij to avoid civilian casualties, but they refused.
Col Garver said the jihadists kept "throwing civilians... into the line of fire, trying to get them shot to use that potentially as propaganda".
IS militants attempted to flee the Iraqi city of Falluja in a large convoy in June, but were bombed by Iraqi and coalition warplanes. About 175 vehicles were destroyed.
Hamza Bashir, of Glenfield Drive, Middlesbrough, admitted causing Linda Warren's death by driving without due care and attention on 23 October 2014.
Teesside Crown Court sentenced him to 32 weeks in jail suspended for a year, 200 hours unpaid work and banned him from driving for two years.
The 20-year-old had initially denied the offence but changed his plea.
The court heard the grandmother of seven died in hospital after being hit by a Hyundai driven by Bashir.
The crash happened in Saltersgill Avenue, Middlesbrough.
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The 24-year-old made a one-fingered gesture to the judges after losing to Russia's Vladimir Nikitin in the quarter-finals in Rio.
International Boxing Association (AIBA) president Dr Ching-Kuo Wu has said "disciplinary action will follow".
"They can try to do what they want," said Conlan, now expected to turn pro.
"It doesn't bother me. I spoke the truth and how can they discipline me after more or less admitting what they did was wrong because they sacked the judges?"
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After arriving at Dublin Airport with the majority of Ireland's Olympians, a relaxed Conlan held his 17-month-year-old daughter Luisne in his arms as a large crowd turned up to welcome the athletes.
"I still believe everything I said was the truth," said Conlan, who swore live on Irish television and claimed he was "robbed" and "cheated" after his defeat.
"If I hadn't said those things, even though it was a bit crazy, I would probably have a bit of regret now. I know what happened and what went on.
"I'm just happy to come back here and get a hero's welcome," added the Belfastman, who won last year's World Amateur title.
He added that he had received messages of support from as far away as Mongolia since the defeat.
"The support I have had has been overwhelming," he said. "It has made it a lot easier."
Conlan's defeat ended hopes of any Irish boxing medals in Rio for the highly rated eight-strong team, after the successes of London 2012 when he and Paddy Barnes won bronze and Katie Taylor took gold.
The Irish boxing team's Games got off to a dreadful start as middleweight Michael O'Reilly was sent home after failing a drugs test, while medal hopefuls Barnes, Conlan, Taylor and Joe Ward were among those on the wrong end of judges' decisions.
"Some of us performed very well. Some of us didn't perform at all," added Conlan.
"At the same time, we weren't getting any decisions over there. Close decisions were going against us."
Conlan repeated his belief that he is capable of "winning multiple world titles" as a professional.
He said: "I'm confident I will have a successful future. I'll put the work in. This (setback) is only going to drive me on."
Light-flyweight Barnes, who has also been linked with a move to the professional ranks, said on Wednesday: "I don't know what I'm going to do now. But you haven't seen the end of Paddy Barnes."
There's a school of thought that seems to suggest if you wave a laptop or something shiny and digital at the classroom, learning will somehow mysteriously improve.
Digital technology is associated with the classroom of the future. And if you throw iPads into the mix, you're even more likely to hear the language of an over-optimistic tomorrow.
So you might not expect to find tablet computers being deployed to defend a language first written down 1,700 years ago when "writing on a tablet" would have meant carving on a stone.
But in an innovative blend of ancient and modern, online technology is being used to keep alive teaching in the Irish language.
And Apple, the Californian technology giant, is using this schools project in the west of Ireland as a signpost for a much more ambitious, global application of iPads in education.
The problem that it's trying to solve is how to provide a full range of textbooks and teaching materials for a small, specialist, under-served area of education.
The number of schools in Ireland teaching through the Irish language has grown sharply in recent years, after near extinction in the early 1970s. But in total there are still fewer than 250 primary and secondary schools.
"It doesn't make sense for publishers to put money into translating text books from English," says Sean O'Gradaigh, lecturer in the school of education at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
He says you can Google any topic for teaching in English and find hundreds of textbooks and resources, but there are very few useful equivalents in Irish, because the market is too small.
It means there is demand from Irish language schools, but not enough resources to breathe life into the teaching.
Mr O'Gradaigh's response has been to use tablet computers - in this case iPads - to produce digital textbooks that can be downloaded and shared by Irish language schools.
The university in Galway is the teacher-training centre for schools teaching in Irish, and its students have become part of this digital self-publishing enterprise.
As part of their training, students are required to learn about educational technology. But Mr O'Gradaigh has some uncompromising views on this.
"Teaching technology is pointless, it's obsolete in two years," he said.
Instead 80 trainee teachers learn by making their own digital content and finding the best ways of using their own expanding library of materials.
In this contrast of old and new, the current cohort of student teachers use tablet computers throughout their training.
All their course materials are contained on iPads, and they use them to create and publish digital books.
Irish language schools are big users of technology, says Mr O'Gradaigh. In about three-quarters of secondary schools, all the teaching staff will have their own iPad. In one in five schools, every pupil will have their own.
The big picture here is that schools and academics have become the authors and publishers of their own specialist textbooks. And because it is online and digital, it can be replicated and shared immediately.
"There are schools which are deciding not to buy books any more," says Mr O'Gradaigh.
It's not just about the Irish language.
His own subject is geography, and he says printed books are out of date within a few years.
The digital versions can be updated. But he says that just as important is that they can be "personalised and localised". Individual teachers can adapt materials for the needs of their individual class.
Mr O'Gradaigh sees the shift to digital publishing for schools as being a "no brainer".
And it's bubbling away as one of the next big things in educational technology.
Merlin John, an education technology commentator who is about to publish a book about using mobile devices, says schools are beginning to show how they can "personalise support materials and make considerable savings on textbooks through the use of digital devices".
In the UK, the Stephen Perse Foundation school in Cambridge, a recent winner of the Independent School of the Year award, has published digital materials for dozens of courses and made them free online through iTunes U.
It means that any pupils or other schools can download the resources created in this top-performing school for GCSEs, A-levels and International Baccalaureate subjects.
But it's not all tablets and Apple. Google's Chromebook and the Google Apps for Education have been challenging the iPad in the education sector, particularly in US schools.
This month, the New York City school system, with a million pupils, signed a deal supporting the use of Google apps for its schools, but leaving the final choice up to teachers.
Whether it's Apple or the Big Apple or the west of Ireland, who better than schools to know what schools need best?
Tricia Kelleher, head of the Stephen Perse Foundation school, said teachers could now "create and curate" their own content.
"This is not an experience offered by static textbooks," she said.
"Digital technology really does open up the possibility of schools becoming publishing houses."
Dyfed-Powys Police closed Graig Avenue after being called to a house at about 17:45 BST on Thursday the road has remained shut since then.
The 19-year-old woman has been taken to hospital with serious injuries and a 21-year-old man has been arrested.
Anyone who was in the area between 17:00 and 19:00 and witnessed the incident is asked to call 101.
Morgan Schneiderlin could return from a calf problem but James McCarthy and Aaron Lennon are still unavailable, along with long-term absentees Seamus Coleman and Ramiro Funes Mori.
Leicester City remain without captain Wes Morgan and midfielder Papy Mendy because of injuries.
Manager Craig Shakespeare has hinted at making changes to prevent fatigue.
Steve Bower: "After their remarkable run of six straight wins under Craig Shakespeare, Leicester's form will face a stern test at Goodison Park.
"Everton have lost just once at home in the league under Ronald Koeman and have won all six so far in this calendar year.
"The Everton boss has given younger players opportunities and that has given them a freshness and energy that they hope will help them finish the season strongly.
"Leicester went into the weekend in their highest league position since September, a sign of the turnaround since Claudio Ranieri's departure.
"Another challenge will be to focus fully on a seventh win in a row with a Champions League quarter-final in Madrid on the horizon."
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Everton manager Ronald Koeman: "We are fighting for European football. I expect if we get six points from our next two home games, we will fight for fifth and sixth place in the table.
"I don't understand the difference [in Leicester's form since Claudio Ranieri was sacked]. It's the same players. Maybe the manager is keeping the team the same as last season. We expect a tough opponent."
Leicester manager Craig Shakespeare: "There hasn't been any Champions League talk. It hasn't been banned, it's just all about keeping the run going against Everton.
"It'll be a tough game. They're a good side, strong at home, well organised and have a goal threat too."
This is not a good time to play Leicester, who look unstoppable at the moment. The Foxes have got their swagger back and I think they will win.
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During the first half of the financial year beginning in April 2016 until September 2016, 908,116 passengers used Hial airports.
This figure was up by 111,750 on the same period last year when 796,366 passengers used the airports.
Hial operates sites in the Highlands, islands, Argyll and Dundee Airport.
Inverness Airport has reported "outstanding performances" on its new airline services connecting the Highland capital to London and Amsterdam, Hial said.
Tipu Sultan, 32, was found with a single gunshot wound on Tuesday at the back of the Herbs n Spice Kitchen, where he worked in South Shields.
Police said they arrested a 35-year-old Newcastle man on Sunday afternoon.
Earlier, officers searched areas including a golf course, along a route which they think a motorbike seen leaving the area may have followed.
Mr Sultan was shot at close range, in what police believe was a planned killing. He was treated by paramedics but died at the scene.
His family have run the restaurant in Lake Avenue for more than a decade.
Two men riding a large red high-powered motorbike were seen leaving the area immediately after the shooting.
Detectives said several areas had been searched on Sunday along the route the bike is thought to have travelled, including Whitburn Golf Club.
Footage taken from a CCTV camera showed the bike heading along Lizard Lane towards the course at 21:55 BST on Tuesday.
Det Ch Insp John Bent of Northumbria Police said the force had received a "very positive" response to an appeal for information from the public, and was following up several calls.
"We'd still appeal for anyone who thinks they may have information about the motorbike or the two men to come forward and speak to officers," he said.
Mr Mandela, 94, has been in a Pretoria hospital since 8 June being treated for a recurring lung infection, and his condition became critical on Sunday.
"Doctors continue to do their best to ensure his recovery, well-being and comfort," the latest update said.
The statement came as Mr Mandela's family members were meeting at his home in the village of Qunu.
His eldest daughter, Makaziwe, and some grandchildren were said to be at the meeting in Eastern Cape province.
Little has emerged from the family meeting, which South African media say was called to discuss "sensitive family business".
In the latest statement President Zuma thanked the South African public for "ongoing support and understanding".
His spokesman said on Monday that South Africans should not hold out "false hopes".
Mandela family members, including grandchildren, have continued to visit him in hospital, where dozens of white doves were released by a local businessman in tribute.
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The scene at the hospital, where well-wishers have decorated a wall with flowers and supportive messages, is described as quiet, save for waiting journalists.
It is Mr Mandela's third stay in hospital this year with lung problems which are thought to date from damage sustained while working in a prison quarry.
He contracted tuberculosis in the 1980s while being held in jail on the windy Robben Island.
Mr Mandela is revered for leading the fight against white minority rule in South Africa and then preaching reconciliation despite being imprisoned for 27 years. He left power after five years as the country's first black president.
He retired from public life in 2004 and has rarely been seen at official events since.
The statistics - released as the charity celebrates its annual RSPCA Week - also reveal that it received 10,540 complaints about cruelty.
Officers issued 7,119 warning notices - an increase of 22.95% on the previous year.
The charity said it had "much to celebrate across Wales in rescuing, re-homing and rehabilitating animals".
Animal rescues took officers to some unusual situations - including a kitten trapped on a wall in Pembroke Castle, a bearded dragon saved from a Monmouthshire doorstep, and a sheep rescued from barbed wire on Christmas Day.
The new data is included in RSPCA Cymru's annual summary which shows the scope of its work in Wales in 2016.
Prosecutions increased for the first time in three years, with a total of 120 convictions.
But the charity said that, while prosecution activity is important, it is a very small proportion of its core work.
Claire Lawson, the RSPCA's assistant director of external relations, said: "A huge surge in the use of welfare and improvement notices outlines our successful commitment to educating and working with animal owners."
The unusual hog, named Burt, was admitted to the Secret World Wildlife Rescue at the end of September.
Burt, who was treated for ringworm, was due to be released in autumn but had "other plans", carer Trudi Howell said.
"He went into hibernation so spent the winter in our hedgehog hotel," she said. He has now been released at a secret location.
Described as one of the centre's "more unusual residents", the sick hedgehog was originally handed into a vet in Worle by a member of the public.
"He was covered in diarrhoea and very poorly," said Ms Howell.
"But he responded really well to his treatment.
"And now that the weather is mild enough, he is ready to return to the wild."
The centre said it would continue to feed the hog in the area where he was released until "he is able to fend for himself once again".
"I have found the perfect release site for Burt but we are keeping it a secret," said Ms Howell.
"As he is a bit of an unusual hog, we want to avoid him getting too much interest from the public which could compromise his welfare."
Blond or leucistic hedgehogs are usually only found on Alderney in the Channel Islands where they became common after a pair were released in the 1960s.
Their creamy-coloured spines are caused by a rare recessive gene.
It is unclear how many people were involved in the attack, but one person was shot and then detained by police.
There is no information yet on the motivation for this attack, but it comes a week after an attack at a station in Urumqi, in the western region in Xinjiang.
It also follows an attack at Kunming station in March that killed 29 people.
Chinese authorities have blamed both these attacks on separatists from the Uighur minority group, which lives in Xinjiang.
Local media carried conflicting accounts on the number of people involved in Tuesday's attack, with some reporting four attackers, while others said there were two young men, one of whom managed to get away.
It was also unclear how the incident started. Guangzhou Daily quoted a store owner who said the suspects had waited by his shop for about two hours before they launched their attack.
But several eyewitnesses told Guangzhou Journal that the attack began shortly after a train from Kunming arrived at the station. They said that among the disembarking passengers was a group of young men clad in white clothes and wearing white caps, holding large knives.
China News spoke to a woman from Inner Mongolia who was among those attacked.
Ms Liu Yuying had just arrived at Guangzhou railway station and was taking pictures in the plaza outside when two men rushed towards them wielding knives. She injured her leg when she fell while trying to flee.
Two other people from her tour group, believed to be brother and sister, were slashed, she said.
In a statement on the public security bureau's official microblog, police said they arrived at the station at 11:30 on Tuesday.
They shot a male suspect armed with a knife after he failed to heed warnings, they said.
The six injured people had been taken to hospital for further treatment, they said, and further investigations were underway.
This is the third attack on a public transport hub in China in three months. Officials say Uighur extremists from the Xinjiang region carried out the attacks in Urumqi and Kunming.
Xinjiang has seen a long history of discord between Chinese authorities and the minority Uighurs, including bloody ethnic riots in 2009 that left about 200 people dead.
The Uighurs, who are ethnically Turkic Muslims, say that large-scale Han Chinese immigration has eroded their traditional culture. Beijing, meanwhile, says it has invested heavily in the region to improve people's lives.
He said there had been "no fallings out" and he had "spent some of the best years" of his life with them.
However, he did not want to commit to making and promoting a new record.
The original band formed in 1990, split up in 1996 and four of the five members re-formed for a successful comeback in 2005. The fifth founder member, Robbie Williams, rejoined briefly in 2010.
Orange's bandmates, Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen, said his departure was "a huge loss".
Orange's statement read: "I want to start by saying how proud I am of what we have achieved together over the years.
"However, at a band meeting last week I confirmed to Mark, Gary and Howard that I do not wish to commit to recording and promoting a new album."
He also thanked his fans, calling them "beautiful and ever-loyal".
A joint statement from the remaining bandmates said: "We first became aware of Jason's reservations a couple of years ago but had hoped that by giving him the desired time and space he may begin to feel differently.
"This has not been the case and we now have to accept and fully respect his decision which we know hasn't been an easy one."
After they got back together, the band were briefly rejoined by Robbie Williams for the 2010 album Progress.
Orange said: "I know how much Mark, Gary and Howard enjoy writing and making music.
"They know that they have my full support and encouragement to continue on with what is to be another chapter for the band."
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But, is this a fair reflection of the problem?
There are more than 11,000 homeless families and individuals in Northern Ireland, including the elderly, according to the Housing Executive.
The Housing Executive also said that rarely more than six people sleep on the streets on any night.
Several homeless charities have said that some people are choosing this option and not seeking support or shelter.
Others, like Stuart, say it's not that simple.
I find him and his friend, Mark, sitting in sleeping bags in Belfast city centre.
They are beside a CCTV camera for safety.
Stuart describes rough sleeping as a "vicious circle".
He said they were told there was no room at the hostels they tried that night, so they're asking for money to pay for a B&B.
However, he said many homeless people on the street are begging for money to spend on drugs.
Stuart and Mark both said they understand why people might be reluctant to give them cash because no one can be certain where it is being spent.
Just over a mile away, I meet a former rough sleeper called Michelle.
We are at a drop-in centre where hundreds of homeless people each week have access to free meals, tea, coffee and the internet.
She said public generosity is fuelling drug dealers in Belfast.
In less than five hours, she could make £170 and be given new clothes with receipts for refunds.
In a week, she said, some street beggars can make more than £1,000 - and this is not being spent on food and water.
"It's not going back into the system or going to charities. It's going straight to your drug dealer," she added.
A short distance away, I meet several other homeless people.
There are no sleeping bags or people asking for change. Instead, there is a group of young men playing football.
They are taking the session seriously. Some recently represented Northern Ireland at the Homeless World Cup in Scotland.
All of these men are, or at some stage have been, homeless.
Some are refugees from Africa.
One of the players, Colum, has recently secured his own flat after years of living in hostels.
He first became homeless when his father was sent to prison and then, after he passed away, Colum became homeless for a second time.
He is one of the standout players at this session. So is his teammate, Gerald, who said this initiative has transformed his life.
After becoming homeless because of behavioural problems and substance abuse, he went to live in a hostel.
He is back in contact with his family and said the football initiative has given him a fresh focus.
But, he added, there is a stigma that comes with being homeless.
"People look at you in the street and bars won't let you in… it's disgusting and it's discriminating. We're just normal people. We're trying to change our lives."
Substance abuse is a common problem among many homeless people. But there's another serious concern - mental health.
Whether it is the few regulars on the streets, or the many staying in some form of accommodation, numerous homeless people suffer from serious mental health problems.
Some people, like Seamus, said this can lead to tragedy.
He and some of his homeless friends have regularly slept rough. He said homeless street culture is dominated by fights, isolation and a sense of worthlessness.
"You feel depressed, you feel lonely and you do feel suicidal. I made a lot of good friends on the street, we're like one big family, and it's heartbreaking to see a lot of people losing their lives."
The reasons people become homeless can be as complex as the issue itself.
There is not a single image or voice that can define homelessness. The streets form just part of a much broader picture.
From football pitches, drop-in centres and hostels, the daily struggle to find a place called home continues for thousands of people in Northern Ireland.
It's one of the biggest sporting events taking place this summer.
Football teams from all over Europe will be going head-to-head to represent their country.
But which of the 24 countries competing will you be supporting, and why?!
I will be supporting England because our players are awesome.
Alfie, 9, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
I will be supporting Wales. Come on you Dragons!
James, 12, Canterbury
I will be supporting Wales
George, 14, Teeside
I will be supporting Republic Of Ireland (come on u boys in green!)
Ben, 12, Northern Ireland
I will be supporting England because they have good players.
Jessica, London
We think that France will win the Tournament because of Dimitri Payet's awesome skills.
P5 from Rimbleton Primary, Scotland
I'll be supporting Portugal.
Afonso, 9, Portugal
I'm thinking that England will win it! - their front four look crazy!
Jack, 8
Sam Allardyce surprised the boys from Jersey when they were given a tour of Wembley Stadium.
Harlan Moss, aged 11, and Jonathan Trant, 10, said in their application they would give "100% effort" to coaching the team.
"They were all very knowledgeable about the game," Allardyce said.
The boys, from St George's Preparatory School, were allowed to quiz Allardyce on his new role after he made the surprise appearance when the boys were given a tour of his office.
"If they stay focused and keep working hard then you never know, they could be in my position in 30 years," Allardyce said.
The application was one of 700 submitted for the job, which became available after Roy Hodgson resigned following England's defeat by Iceland at Euro 2016.
In their letter, Harlan and Jonathan explained how they would act as joint coaches, with their friends James Douglas, Felix O-Connor and Bertie Cooke, all aged 10, taking on more specialist roles.
"My management team and I would absolutely love being the coaches for England," the letter read.
"We will promise you that we will give 100% effort, 100% getting the squad right and 100% commitment in getting our legends fully fit.
"I am confident in my coaching staff and we promise that we will do the best we can to bring success to English football," it finished.
It comes ahead of peace talks between the left-wing group and the government, which begin on Tuesday in Ecuador.
The soldier, Freddy Moreno, has been handed over to delegates from the International Committee of the Red Cross in Arauca province.
"The ELN has stood by its word," the rebel group tweeted.
The ELN talks follow successful negotiations between the government and Colombia's largest rebel group, the Farc, which took place in the Cuban capital, Havana, and lasted four years.
The head of the Red Cross in Colombia, Christoph Harnisch, said the gesture would "reinforce trust between the Colombian government and the ELN before the imminent opening of the public phase of peace negotiations".
The talks were due to begin at the end of October. But they were delayed as the government refused to go sit down for formal negotiations while the rebels still held Odin Sanchez, a former congressman.
Mr Sanchez was released last Thursday, after 10 months in captivity.
The rebels had demanded that in exchange the government pardoned two of its members serving time in Colombian jails.
The two sides struck a deal and the two ELN members were released on Saturday.
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The two who have been released are expected to serve as rebel negotiators at the peace talks in the Ecuadorean capital, Quito.
The government reached a peace agreement with Colombia's largest rebel group, the Farc, last year.
Members of the Farc have been gathering in "transition zones", where they are to demobilise and lay down their weapons under the supervision of United Nations monitors.
The last of the Farc rebels are expected to reach the designated demobilisation areas by Wednesday, government officials said.
The German industrial giant will also halt deliveries of power generation equipment to Russian state-controlled customers for the "time being".
Siemens said it had received "credible information" that its turbines had been diverted from the original destination.
It said this breaches EU sanctions against Russia.
The four gas turbines in question had been delivered for a project in Taman, southern Russia in 2016.
However, Siemens said the equipment had since been locally modified and shifted to Crimea which it said breached EU sanctions Russia introduced in 2014 following over its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
Siemens will exit the Interautimatika joint venture, in which holds a 46% stake, with the rest owned by Russian state-owned businesses TPE and Rostec.
The German company said it would continue to pursue criminal charges "against the responsible individuals" at TPE.
The Reuters news agency reported on Friday that the Kremlin had declined to comment, saying it was a matter for Siemens and its Russian partners.
However, the affair threatens to strain relations between Germany and Russia. Last week, a spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the the delivery to Crimea was "remarkable and completely unacceptable".
Germany's ambassador to Russia, Rudiger von Fritsch, said: "There are all grounds to believe that if what has happened is true, Siemens was seriously deceived, and it was a violation of a contract, a serious blow to trust and a very serious blow to investments in Russia."
On Friday, Siemens announced that it had also terminated a licence granted to a Russian company to manufacture equipment for power plants. It said it was "reviewing all potential collaboration between its subsidiaries and other entities around the world with regard to deliveries to Russia".
Siemens added that new gas power projects in Russia would only be carried out through companies it controls, ensuring "Siemens-controlled delivery and installation" overseen by its own personnel.
The warning from one industry body, the Pre-School Learning Alliance, comes as ministers say trials of the new scheme are being brought forward to 2016.
The current allowance of 570 hours a year for three and four-year-olds will be doubled for working parents.
David Cameron said it would "take time" to get the policy right.
The Pre-School Learning Alliance - which represents 14,000 private, voluntary and independent groups - is warning of "meltdown" in the system because of a shortfall in government funding.
It says the grant for the existing 15 hours falls, on average, around 20% short of the true cost of providing care - £3.88 per hour compared with £4.53.
Employment Minister Priti Patel told the BBC the government accepted "funding rates need to increase" and is launching a consultation on how the policy will work in practice.
Currently, all three and four-year-olds in England are entitled to 570 hours of free early education or childcare a year, which works out as 15 hours each week for 38 weeks of the year.
The Childcare Bill, announced in last week's Queen's Speech, would double this for working parents - although it is not clear yet how many hours they will have to work in order to qualify.
Ministers say up to 600,000 families could benefit, saving as much as £5,000 a year.
The change had been due to come into force from September 2017, but some working parents will be entitled to the extra help when pilots begin in September next year.
However, the alliance said many groups were already having to charge parents extra for hours of childcare not included in the scheme to make ends meet, and would struggle to deal with the changes.
"I think this is crunch time," said chief executive Neil Leitch.
"While we of course welcome the drive to improve the availability of childcare in this country, these figures clearly show the government's plan to extend funded childcare hours simply cannot work without a substantial increase in sector funding.
"The so-called 'free' childcare scheme is nothing of the sort. For years now, the initiative has been subsidised by providers and parents because of a lack of adequate government funding."
Fiona Weir, chief executive of single-parent charity Gingerbread, said 30 free hours of childcare a week was "really good news" for those who will get it.
"The cost of childcare is one of the biggest barriers the UK's two million single parents face to finding and staying in work. As the primary carers for their children, they can't do the kind of 'shift parenting' couple parents often do.
"However, we look forward to seeing more detail on how parents will qualify for this extra support, and the way in which the extra hours will work."
Following the announcement, the prime minister visited Buttercups Nursery in Teddington, south-west London.
Kate Thomas, 49, whose three-year-old daughter attends the nursery, said it was worrying that any shortfall in funding for the extra hours might be passed on to parents.
"Most mothers I know don't work full time and if they are lucky they will have a job that covers their childcare and have a bit extra," she said.
"But if that bit extra then ends up being what funds the extra cost of the nursery, what is the point of working?"
The National Day Nurseries Association welcomed the doubling of provision, but also said its members were "struggling with current levels of investment".
"Funding is critical and it's vital that the increase pledged by the government is meaningful," chief executive Purnima Tanuku said.
Jill Rutter, from the Family and Childcare Trust, which campaigns for quality childcare that is affordable and accessible, said there was "no proper funding formula".
"The money local authorities get from government to pass on to providers is very varied," she said.
The short answer is - from parents.
But as extra hourly fees are not legal, nurseries have worked out canny ways to get round this.
The most common technique is requiring parents to take more than the total number of free hours and charging a set fee for the extra time.
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Extra free childcare: Who benefits?
Labour's shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said the Conservative Party "failed to explain how it would fund its childcare offer before the general election", and added: "It remains unclear how they propose to fill the funding gaps in their plans now."
Mr Cameron told ITV's This Morning it would "take time" to get the policy right "because obviously we need an expansion of the childcare sector, we need more nurseries, more of these places to open, so we're working with them to expand".
He said the government would start talking to childcare providers immediately "about what's the best way of making sure that they're being properly paid for the childcare that they provide so we can expand the number of places".
The cost to the Treasury was initially estimated at £350 million a year, but Ms Patel said the sums involved were yet to be finalised.
Asked why households with a relatively high income would receive help, she added: "This isn't about subsidising well-off people at all. This is about providing affordable childcare and increasing childcare provision for working families."
In Scotland, three and four-year-olds are entitled to up to 600 hours of free early years education or childcare a year, while in Wales, provision is for a minimum of 10 hours a week.
In Northern Ireland, it is limited to four-year-olds only, for up to 12.5 hours a week.
England average
Nursery 25 hrs (aged 2+) £111.64
Childminder 25 hrs (aged 2+) £104.15
Scotland average
Nursery 25 hrs (aged 2+) £99.93
Childminder 25 hrs (aged 2+) £99.30
Wales average
Nursery 25 hrs (aged 2+) £103.44
Childminder 25 hrs (aged 2+) £96.81
Source: Family and Childcare Trust
In nearly two-thirds of cases the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) found that banks were not responsible for victims' losses.
It looked at 200 examples of the telephone fraud, in which account holders lost up to £100,000 each.
But it ruled that the bank was liable for those losses in only 37% of cases.
In 63% of them, consumers were left without compensation, having, in effect, given their own money away.
As a result it is warning that account holders need to be much more aware of the risks.
"We really want to share what we are seeing in the complaints we handle, and encourage people to get talking about scams with their friends and relatives so they become more alert to the risks," said Caroline Wayman, the chief ombudsman.
"Vishing" - or voice phishing - occurs when fraudsters phone up, posing as the police or the victim's bank. Last year the scam cost customers £24m, according to Financial Fraud Action.
Usually the fraudsters persuade their victims to move money from their account.
Often they do this by telling customers to phone their bank immediately. However the fraudster stays on the line, tricking the victim into thinking they are talking to their bank directly.
This is known as a "no hang up" scam.
Banks will never
source: FOS
The FOS found that 80% of consumers conned out of their cash were over the age of 55.
But it is a grey area for banks, who have also lost millions of pounds.
Some banks do pay compensation, while others do not.
"Every case is slightly different," said a spokesperson for the British Bankers Association.
"That's why banks look into the details of each case, rather than having a blanket policy for all instances of vishing," he said.
Although the surface had passed an inspection earlier in the day, the amount of rain made it impossible for the match to take place.
Some Torquay fans had already arrived but Gulls manager Kevin Nicholson had no complaints about the decision.
"I don't think the referee had many options really so I can't moan, but it's a huge shame," he said.
David McGreavy was jailed for life in 1973 for the murders of four-year-old Paul Ralph, two-year-old Dawn and nine-month-old Samantha.
Their mutilated bodies were found on garden railings at their home in Gillam Street, Worcester.
The Parole Board rejected his application for release.
A board spokesman said McGreavy - who became known as the Monster of Worcester following the attack - would next be eligible to apply for parole in two years.
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Dorothy Ralph, the mother of the murdered children, previously said McGreavy should never be freed.
The man, identified as Mohammed Said Ismail Musallam, was accused by IS of working for Israel's Mossad foreign intelligence service.
The 19-year-old left his home in East Jerusalem for Turkey last year, apparently intending to fight in Syria.
Israeli officials and Mr Musallam's family denied he was an Israeli spy.
The video footage has not been independently verified and Israeli officials said they could not confirm its authenticity.
Mr Musallam's family said he had left for Turkey four months ago without telling them. Soon after his departure, he told his brother that he planned to join IS in Syria.
A spokesman for the Shin Beth security service also told the AFP news agency that he had left home "on his own initiative".
Comforted by her remaining three sons, Umm Ahmed sits weeping for 19-year-old Mohammed Musallam.
She recalls her shock when she discovered that he had run away to join Islamic State fighters in northern Syria. "They recruited him through the internet," she says. "They told him: 'Come and we'll give you a house, money, you can get married - we have beautiful girls.'"
By the time Mohammed contacted his family from Raqqa late last year, the clean-shaven teenager had grown a beard and was carrying a Kalashnikov rifle. But his father says he had become disillusioned and wanted to return home.
Said Musallam tells me that Mohammed, an Israeli citizen, tried to escape but was caught and accused of being an Israeli spy.
"There was no way they were going to let him go," he says. "He'd been there for three months and seen their weapons. They said: 'He betrayed us, we'll ruin his reputation.' And that's what they did."
In February, the IS magazine Dabiq carried a long interview with Mr Musallam which contained what purported to be a confession that he had been sent by Israel to infiltrate the jihadist group.
The BBC's Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem says the article gave sketchy details about his alleged training and mission, but its publication was a clear signal that he had fallen foul of the group and was in clear danger.
On Tuesday evening, Islamic State's Furqan media outlet published a 13-minute video showing a young man, identified as Mr Musallam, sitting in a room wearing an orange jumpsuit, talking about how he was recruited and trained by Israeli intelligence.
He is later shown kneeling in an empty field, facing the camera. Behind him stand two figures in camouflage fatigues, one of whom appears to be a boy.
The boy appears to shoot the kneeling figure in the head with a handgun and then to fire further shots into the body.
The video then carries a warning from an older, French-speaking militant aimed at the Jewish people.
French media and IS supporters identified the older militant as Sabri Essid. He is reportedly a half-brother of Mohamed Merah, who killed three unarmed French soldiers, a rabbi and three small children at a Jewish school in France in 2012.
An average 4.6m watched Peter Capaldi back for his second series playing the Time Lord, compared with 6.8m for his full debut last year.
It was roundly beaten by ITV's X Factor, which had 7.3 million viewers.
But reviewers were enthusiastic about the Doctor's return, with the Radio Times giving it five stars.
"We're now in the ninth series in 11 years since Doctor Who's revival, and it shows no sign of fatigue. The first episode rattles along with barely a bum note," wrote Patrick Mulkern in his review.
The Mirror said Michelle Gomez as Missy "steals the episode as the demented Time Lady who kills for fun and prances around in the face of greater evil".
And Catherine Gee in The Telegraph described the opening episodes as "packed full of jaw-droppers, one whopper of a cliffhanger and nerdy nods that date back to the time of Tom Baker."
Doctor Who was the most watched BBC programme of the evening, and ratings will rise once figures for catch-up and iPlayer requests are consolidated.
Jenna Coleman, who plays the Doctor's assistant Clara Oswald, revealed this week that she would be leaving the show, having joined in 2012 when Matt Smith was serving as the Time Lord.
Speaking about her departure, she said: "It's been in the works for a very long time.
"[Writer] Steven [Moffat] and I sat down a year and a half ago and tried to work out the best place to do it and tell a really good story.
"We're not going to give any details but it will happen at some point this season... We worked out a really good story arc out so hopefully people will love it."
Currently, UK legislation is subject to rulings made by the EU's highest court, the European Court of Justice.
Lord Neuberger said Parliament must be "very clear" in telling the judges what to do about decisions of the ECJ after the UK leaves the EU.
He said judges should not be blamed for misinterpretations if it is unclear.
Prime Minister Theresa May has insisted the ECJ should have no jurisdiction over the UK after Britain leaves the EU.
UK courts will continue to interpret ECJ case law - even after Brexit.
Lord Neuberger, who will step down as Supreme Court president next month, told the BBC that judges need more guidance on how they should do just that.
"If [the government] doesn't express clearly what the judges should do about decisions of the ECJ after Brexit, or indeed any other topic after Brexit, then the judges will simply have to do their best."
"But to blame the judges for making the law when parliament has failed to do so would be unfair," he added.
He said all judges "would hope and expect Parliament to spell out how the judges would approach that sort of issue after Brexit, and to spell it out in a statute".
The ECJ is in effect the EU's Supreme Court, overseeing the application and interpretation of EU law. Its rulings are binding on all member states.
When the UK leaves the EU, the ECJ will continue to develop law on everything from consumer rights to discrimination - from things like compensation for airline passengers to transgender rights.
The government's Repeal Bill states that UK courts do not have to pay any heed to decisions of the ECJ after the UK has left the EU - but any court "may do so if it considers it appropriate".
Brexiteers, such as ex-Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, want the authority of the ECJ expunged as soon as possible after Brexit. He has called the court "an illegitimate challenge to our sovereignty".
Opponents point out the apparent contradiction of that position, saying any British company or organisation doing business in the EU is subject to the jurisdiction of the ECJ.
The EU's position document that deals with governance issues around the withdrawal agreement says all Court of Justice rulings would be enforceable in the UK.
The government has said its repeal Bill - also known as the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill - will ensure that historic judgements of the ECJ will be given the same binding or precedent status in our courts as decisions of our own Supreme Court.
These judgments extend some rights in areas including the calculation of holiday pay for UK workers.
The Supreme Court rarely departs from one of its own decisions and so historic rulings of the ECJ will be binding upon it in almost all situations.
But Lord Neuberger said he was more concerned about post-Brexit rulings of the ECJ, adding: "If the UK parliament says we should take into account decisions of the ECJ then we will do so.
"If it says we shouldn't then we won't. Basically we will do what the statute says."
Lord Neuberger, who will be replaced in his position by Baroness Hale, also expressed his concerns about cuts to legal aid, which was largely removed for most family cases in 2013.
He said: "I appreciate there are demands on government finance and money is short, but if people have a right to go to court to defend their position or enforce their rights then if they cannot do so the rule of law is undermined and we are all in a very unhappy situation."
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, former Conservative minister Owen Paterson, who campaigned to leave the EU, suggested a new UK body with specialist British lawyers to adjudicate on the interpretation of EU law.
"You cannot leave the judges flapping around without clear guidance and I would suggest we set up our own body which would parallel and mirror and be in symmetry with the ECJ," he said.
A government spokesman said: "We have been clear that as we leave the EU, the direct jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in the UK must come to an end.
"However, we want to provide maximum certainty so the Repeal Bill will ensure that for future cases, UK courts continue to interpret EU-derived law using the ECJ's case law, as it exists on the day we leave the EU."
Companies at Estuary Court in Teignmouth say staff have to make trips home to check for messages and are losing orders as a result.
The park opened two months ago and the connection was ordered 11 months ago.
BT says it is a complex engineering project and it is doing all it can to get it up and running.
The landlords, Teignbridge Council, say they have asked the company to explore temporary measures to get the park connected.
Internet company Doorstuff is supposed to have moved in but director Helen Butland said it is "just not possible to trade without phones".
Steph Proctor from Mark Proctor Flooring said they have lost business to the value of a month's rent due to the lack of connectivity.
"I know of at least two jobs I've lost from not being able to contact people as quickly as I would like to," she said.
The BBC understands that BT is ultimately responsible for the delay of the works, which have stalled following a number of unexpected complications.
A BT spokesman said they are in talks with the Highways Agency because the job requires excavations and underground cabling and they are hoping to complete the work next month.
Harry Street was detained indefinitely in October after guns and explosives were found at his Birmingham home.
In 1978, then known as Barry Williams, he killed three people on the Bustleholm estate and later the owners of a petrol station in Warwickshire.
The 70-year-old died after a suspected heart attack at Ashworth Hospital.
A spokesperson for Mersey Care NHS Trust said a patient was admitted to the general hospital after becoming unwell but died at 09:49 GMT on Christmas Eve.
Two months ago Street admitted making an improvised explosive device as well as 50 homemade bullets.
Three handguns were also found at his home in the Hall Green area.
A serious case review is ongoing after police said they were initially unaware of Street's previous name or past convictions.
Sentencing Street, the judge at Birmingham Crown Court said he had "become obsessed" with his neighbours and harboured delusions they were harassing him.
Mr Justice Blair also drew comparisons with the 70-year-old's past, that saw him kill three neighbours in West Bromwich 36 years earlier.
He said Street had shown "similar behaviour to that which had preceded the terrible events of 26 October 1978".
Among other charges, Street also admitted one count of putting a neighbour in fear of violence between 2009 and 2013.
Street had been released in 1994 after serving 15 years at Broadmoor hospital for the 1978 shootings.
The spree started with him killing his neighbour George Burkitt and Mr Burkitt's son, Phillip, who were fixing a car on their driveway in Andrew Road.
Iris Burkitt became his next victim, before Street shot her daughter Gillian, who survived.
Neighbours Judith and Joe Chambers also survived, despite being shot multiple times.
Street then fled the scene in his Ford Capri, indiscriminately shooting as he left the estate.
Heading towards the East Midlands, he stopped at a petrol station in Nuneaton, where he shot dead the owners Lisa Di Maria and her husband Michel.
He was eventually cornered in Buxton, where police rammed his car before arresting him.
Almost 40 years on, Gillian Burkitt, now Gillian Dudley, was in the public gallery to hear sentence passed.
She celebrated with other victims as Street was told he may never be released.
Former England spinner Giles, 43, has a year left on his Old Trafford contract.
He guided the team to promotion from Division Two in 2015, his first season in charge, as well as the Red Rose's first domestic T20 Blast title.
"It (the speculation) is something none of us could ignore. We'd like him to stay," Croft told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"I don't think our goal or our plans are going to change too much as we still want to win things and develop players, and we'd like to do that with him.
"He's been great in the two years he's been here and hopefully we can get a few more out of him."
Giles, who still lives in the Midlands, was appointed Warwickshire's director of cricket in 2007 and led the Bears to the County Championship in 2012.
He also had a spell as England's one-day coach.
Mr Chanos, who is betting against the shares of both firms, described the bid as a "shameful example of corporate governance at its worst".
Tesla made a $2.8bn (1.9bn) offer for SolarCity on Tuesday.
Tesla's chief executive Elon Musk said the deal, which will be paid for in Telsa shares, was a "no brainer".
The two firms have close ties.
Mr Musk owns 22% of SolarCity and sits on the company's board. SolarCity's chief executive Lyndon Rive and Mr Musk are cousins.
"As a combined automotive and power storage and power generation company, the potential is there for Tesla to be a trillion-dollar market cap company," Mr Musk said.
Mr Chanos has taken short positions in both Tesla and SolarCity.
When investors take short positions they borrow shares of a company, sell those shares and try to buy them back at a lower price.
Mr Chanos said SolarCity was "headed toward financial distress," and neither company could handle the burden of a tie-up.
"[SolarCity] is burning hundreds of millions in cash every quarter, a burden that now Tesla shareholders will have to bear, at a total cost of over $8bn," he said.
Mr Musk said SolarCity would not impact Telsa's cash flow and would have its own positive cash flow in the next three to six months.
SolarCity reported a loss of $25m in the first quarter and has liabilities of $6bn, which includes debt and unpaid tax.
On Wednesday, Tesla's share price put the company's value at $29.8bn while SolarCity's was $2.2bn.
SolarCity's shares have fallen over 50% during the last year, but rose more than 3% on Wednesday.
Tesla shares closed more than 10% lower.
The highest hourly rate for repair work was £240 at a garage in Surrey, according to research by Auto Express and Warrantywise.
The lowest rate was just £36 an hour at a garage in Birmingham.
The study found wide variations across the country, even given higher wage rates in London and the South East.
For example, the average cost of getting a car repaired in the Scottish borders was £91 an hour - more expensive than in North London, where the average cost was £81.
"Obviously, higher hourly rates in London are to be expected, but the huge difference in average costs across Great Britain shows motorists are not being treated fairly," said Graham Hope, the deputy editor of Auto Express.
"And a difference of £204 per hour between individual garages is completely unjustifiable."
Overall, the average cost of garage bills across Britain was £84.30 an hour.
London is generally the most expensive place, at an average hourly rate of £101.60. Scotland was by far the cheapest, at £71.42.
"Some of the differences Warrantywise has discovered are, frankly, offensive," said Lawrence Whittaker, the company's chief executive.
"Our advice is simple: shop around, negotiate and remember that as a paying customer, you are holding the ace cards."
To conduct the research, the company called 1,200 garages across England, Scotland and Wales.
The field occupied by Mid Surrey Pony Club in Ebbisham Lane, Walton on the Hill, is being sold when its lease expires in April 2011.
The club has built a barn, catering facilities and cross country course on the site, which it says could not be replicated quickly or easily elsewhere.
It is now hoping to raise £480,000 to buy the field from the farmer.
The club, which has 200 members, has been on its present site for 23 years, but has historic links with Walton on the Hill and the surrounding area.
Many past members now have children and grandchildren at the club.
"We have developed the site over the years to be used by the larger community," Pony Club district commissioner Gina Kitchener said.
"The equestrian community in Surrey and the bordering counties come to our shows and we use it for our training.
"Local livery yards who have flourished because of our position and the supporting equestrian community would lose out if we weren't there."
Migrants are not only joining local congregations, but setting up their own churches too. The number of churches in Northern Ireland led by migrants has risen to more than 30 in recent years.
These new churches are not only attracting people from ethnic minorities, but intriguing locals.
The Redeemed Christian Church of God is a Nigerian-based church, but has become the fastest growing denomination in the UK and Ireland.
They have set up three churches in Northern Ireland within the last eight years. The congregation includes people from a variety of African nations, the Caribbean, and both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Chris Ifonlaja, who runs one of their Belfast churches with his wife, says it appeals to people because it is a "neutral place".
"We did not experience the Troubles," he said. "We see that as a blessing because we don't see all of the division, we just see people."
The couple said they were conscious of the possibility that migrants joining their church may be slower to integrate into Northern Ireland.
Angela Ifonlaja said "we didn't come to run a church for migrants, it's just a church".
"But I think what happens is when you go into a place where you are new in that place, it's natural that you gravitate towards those that you identify with, at least on a physical level," she added.
Other churches have decided to make a permanent physical commitment to Northern Ireland.
Iglesia Ni Cristo or Church of Christ, are headquartered in the Philippines. They began meeting in a house in Belfast 10 years ago with only a handful of people. In 2014, they purchased an old church on University Avenue and refurbished the whole building.
The converted church has only been open a few months.
Brother Philip Velasquez is the minister, and he said that his church is reversing the traditional flow of mission.
"It is very rare for a religious organisation which began in the far east - in an impoverished country - to actually spread its mission throughout the whole world to first world countries," he said.
"We're not only growing because of the immigration of Filipinos but also because of the conversion of many people who belong to those first world countries."
These new churches may still be small in number, but they are seeing growth at a time when many traditional churches are losing members, and are challenging the old divisions in Northern Ireland.
There will be more information on the new churches on BBC Newsline on Thursday and Friday at 18:30 BST.
After a seven-year delay, planning permission to redevelop Buxton Crescent, built between 1780 and 1789, was granted in September 2010
The first phase of construction work should begin with repairs to the Pump Room.
Plans include a 79-bedroom hotel and natural mineral water spa.
A development agreement was signed between landowners High Peak Borough Council and Derbyshire County Council and the Buxton Crescent Hotel and Thermal Spa Company at the beginning of April.
The Pump Room will serve as an information centre for the duration of the project after which it will be converted into a cafe where visitors will be able to "take the waters" for the first time since the mid-1970s.
Caitlin Bisknell, leader of High Peak Borough Council, said: "Tourism is vitally important to the High Peak and this development will create jobs and attract countless new visitors while protecting Buxton's precious architectural heritage."
Funding for the project includes a £12.5m Heritage Lottery Fund grant.
The Assynt Foundation said its project would involve affordable homes on crofts of varying size and type.
The organisation manages 44,400 acres acquired in a community land buyout of the Glencanisp and Drumrunie estates from a private landowner in June 2005.
A working group has been set up to explore possible locations for crofts.
Potential sites include Tileathdoire and Drumrunie, Ledbeg, Cnocnaneach and Glencanisp.
Crofts involve smaller areas of land than farms and crofters usually share areas of common grazing for raising livestock.
The foundation said: "These crofts will be established and regulated according to crofting law.
"They will be life-long, heritable tenancies, with an annual rent payable to Assynt Foundation, with no automatic right to buy or assign."
Rankin's Ireland contract expires at the end of December so he will be available for the ICC World Twenty20 competition in September.
"I have genuine ambitions of playing Test cricket and I have to give myself the best chance to do that," he said.
Rankin has signed a new three-year deal with Warwickshire, ending speculation of a possible move to Somerset.
The contract extension will keep him at Edgbaston until the end of the 2015 season.
"I feel I can't continue to play the amount of cricket I have been playing with Warwickshire, England Lions and Ireland over the last few years," continued Rankin.
"It has become increasingly difficult to play for three different sides throughout the year as it leaves me with little time for rest and recovery, which helps reduce my chance of injury."
Rankin follows Ed Joyce and Eoin Morgan is switching his international allegiance from Ireland to England, although the former later returned to Irish duty.
Ireland coach Phil Simmons described Rankin's decision as a "damaging blow", while paying tribute to the Bready native's efforts.
"Boyd has been a superb strike bowler for us, particularly in World Cups and qualifying tournaments," said Simmons.
"Time and time again he took vital early wickets and the new ball partnership he has forged with Trent Johnston has been one of the main reasons for our success since 2007.
"His extra pace and the lift he generates with his height made him a very dangerous proposition for our opponents and none relished facing him."
Cricket Ireland's performance director Richard Holdsworth said Rankin had been offered a "significantly improved contract" to remain with the Irish squad but "unfortunately we were unable to compete with the lure of Test cricket and the financial rewards of being a potential England cricketer".
"This further loss only strengthens our aim of becoming a full member of the International Cricket Council and ultimately a Test-playing country," added the Cricket Ireland official.
"This will be the third Irish player we have lost to the England cause in just six years, notwithstanding Ed Joyce's return.
"It is our strong view that we must be given the opportunity very soon to finance a full-time international programme and centrally contract all our players in order to halt this exodus.
"We were very grateful for ICC's recent boost to our funding to permit us to implement a domestic first-class structure in 2013 and play more international fixtures against the full members.
"However it is becoming increasingly obvious that only an accelerated pathway towards the financial benefits and opportunities afforded to the full members, allied to a change in eligibility regulations, will allow us to keep hold of our home-grown developed players.
"ICC has an excellent ambition to ensure that there are more competitive nations on the world stage - indeed the terrific TAPP initiative is designed for this very purpose.
"However, this will not be realised if its next best non-Test nation is merely a breeding ground for the England team."
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Raymond Manners, 56 from Leeds, admitted raping a woman in the Chapeltown area of the city on 23 February 1991.
The cold case was solved thanks to advances in DNA profiling.
Manners, who is already serving 10 years for two 1979 rapes, was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court.
West Yorkshire Police said other criminals should be "dreading that knock on the door" due to forensic advances.
Det Ch Insp Jim Dunkerley said: "This is a fantastic result. It has brought justice and hopefully some closure for the victim and sent a message to any criminals still out there who think the passage of time has meant they have got away with what they did.
"I want them to be dreading that knock on the door and to always be looking over their shoulder for the police to come."
The court heard that officers were unable to identify the rapist in 1991.
But specialist cold case investigators later reviewed it and found similarities with two other unsolved rapes dating back to 1979.
In 2012, the same team linked Manners to the 1979 rapes through forensic evidence and he was jailed for 10 years.
At the time, there was insufficient evidence to successfully link him to the 1991 rape.
However, the team reviewed the case again in 2016 and thanks to new techniques in DNA profiling, Manners was linked to the crime scene.
Manners, who was described by police as a "serial rapist", was jailed for a further 12 years on Thursday after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing.
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The RMT said about 16,000 staff would vote on whether to strike, after talks with Network Rail bosses broke down.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said the offer of a one-off £500 payment to staff was "wholly inadequate".
Network Rail said its offer, including future rises, was a "significant improvement" on previous pay offers.
Talks had been held at the conciliation service Acas - but an RMT statement said the breakdown had left it with "no alternative" but to move to a national industrial action vote.
Union bosses rejected the offer of a "non-consolidated lump sum payment" of £500 this year, followed by three years of rises in line with inflation.
It comes after an earlier offer was rejected by 93% of members in a 56% turnout, the RMT said.
"Despite intensive talks we have not been able to secure enough significant movement and that puts us into dispute and triggers the start of a national industrial action ballot," Mr Cash said.
"As far as we are concerned the one off, non-consolidated, lump-sum payment this year is wholly inadequate and fails to recognise the massive pressures staff are working under to keep services running at a time when the company is generating profits of £1bn."
Network Rail managing director Phil Hufton said the company's offer was fair "given our financial pressures".
The pay proposal would provide long-term employment opportunities by guaranteeing an extension to a no compulsory redundancy agreement, he said.
"Pay awards at Network Rail over the last four years have been well ahead of the rest of the country," he said.
"Pay has increased eight times more than workers in the public sector - such as teachers and nurses - and double the pay for private sector workers.
"We remain open to talks with the RMT."
Network Rail owns and maintains most of Britain's railway infrastructure, as well as stations including Kings Cross, Paddington and Victoria in London, Manchester Piccadilly and Edinburgh Waverley.
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Holland, who won bronze for England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, sat out the first three races of the season.
But the 29-year-old clocked one hour 49 minutes 51 seconds to finish ahead of American Katie Zaferes and Switzerland's Nicola Spirig.
Fellow Briton Helen Jenkins, also making her season debut, was fifth and Emma Pallant 10th.
Zaferes now leads the overall women's rankings ahead of fellow American Gwen Jorgensen, who sat out the race in Cape Town after three consecutive victories this season.
The men's race is on Sunday at 14:00 BST, and Britain's Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee is set to make his return from injury.
His brother Jonny finished top of the podium in the Gold Coast and Auckland.
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In Deepwater Horizon, he plays the real-life character of oil rig manager Jimmy Harrell, opposite Mark Wahlberg as engineer Mike Williams.
When the BP-operated oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, it led to one of the world's worst environmental catastrophes.
Eleven crew members died, and millions of gallons of crude oil gushed into the ocean.
Peter Berg's film, based on a New York Times article about the rig's final hours, highlights the human story behind the tragedy.
At the start of the film there is a scene in which Mr Harrell, or "Mr Jimmy" as he was known to the crew, objects to a man's tie as its magenta colour reminds him of a level of emergency that is "as bad as it gets".
As well as setting up a sense of impending doom, it establishes Mr Harrell as a no-nonsense manager with years of experience.
It is no surprise when he clashes with John Malkovich's oil company executive over the results of a safety test.
"Mr Jimmy was someone who quite clearly really cared about the people who worked on that rig," says Russell.
"He understands that it's not an easy thing getting that oil out of the ground.
"It was a day of confusion, and you see that these decisions are made by human beings, and human beings are flawed, and they are capable of miscalculation."
Unlike his co-star Mark Wahlberg, who had the real Mike Williams as an adviser on the film, Russell did not get to meet the real Jimmy Harrell.
"I watched his testimony [at the disaster enquiry] a lot. I talked to people who worked with him, I talked to guys who had his job," he says.
"One thing became clear very quickly - there's a type of person who has this job, just as there's a type of person who's the submarine captain, there's a type of person that runs the baseball club - it's in every walk of life, there are guys or women who are just right for the job."
It is a shame, he adds, that when a tragedy strikes, they can be remembered for the wrong reasons.
Wahlberg has stated that the film is a tribute to the people who lost their lives, and Russell says that is one of the reasons he signed up.
"We don't live in a perfect world when it comes to getting oil out of the ground and turned into gas to put in the airplanes or cars that we drive," he says.
"When things go wrong, they go catastrophically wrong. Not just an environmental disaster - people can be killed.
"Is it worth it?" he asks.
"I suppose the answer is, 'What's the alternative?' Stop? If we'd have stopped flying when the first aeroplane crashed I don't think our life would be what it is.
"Maybe there'll be a day when all these things don't happen because we'll learn from them.
"Or did we already learn a lesson that we chose not to pay attention to?
"That's where the drama comes in."
In a career spanning more than 50 years, Russell has played some of Hollywood's most memorable characters.
His roles include eye-patched anti-hero Snake Plissken in Escape from New York and its sequel Escape from LA, helicopter pilot RJ MacReady in Antarctic horror The Thing, and, more recently, The Hangman in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight.
His other films include Big Trouble in Little China, Tango & Cash, Backdraft, Tombstone, Stargate, Poseidon, Death Proof and Bone Tomahawk.
"I've been fortunate to work with good people," says Russell.
"I have an inner thing that responds to a screenplay - and then you get into the inner workings of the motion picture business. Who's directing? How much money are they going to put into this? Is it going to be cheesy or classy?
"The truth is you weigh all those things. If you feel it's worth it for 50 cents to do this movie, then you go to work.
"If you feel the project isn't spectacular, but it can be worked on and they are going to give you a tonne of money to do that - at some point you go, 'OK, let's do it.'"
Russell cites Jonathan Mostow's desert-based thriller Breakdown (1997) as his personal career high.
"It was a really precise screenplay with a really compelling story.
"I really wanted to do it and the studio wanted to pay me a lot of money to do it.
"It was the easiest decision I ever had to make."
Deepwater Horizon is released in UK cinemas on 29 September
Castle Quays was planned to be the biggest rebuilding project in the city centre since the three-day blitz during World War Two and make it a leading shopping destination fit for the 21st Century.
But after several false starts, issues over buying land, the developer and an anchor tenant pulling out, the plans - first mooted in 1994 - were scrapped in 2004.
Since then the respective ruling councils have struggled to find an alternative option, with the most recent falling through last year when the firm behind a planned £1bn transformation pulled out.
Today, the state of the city centre today is evident.
Empty shop units, major retailers leaving, and a feeling that it has fallen further behind other cities in the UK.
Some have launched a defence on the state of the city saying it is a trend affecting many city centres and point the finger at out-of-town retail outlets along with online shopping and the global financial crisis.
But when you look at the likes of Cardiff, Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool, those cities have gone through major transformations in recent years and are thriving.
"Castle Quays was a hugely missed opportunity," said Lawrence Bailey, who was leader of Swansea council when the scheme collapsed.
"The plan was to put a third of the city centre under cover in a similar shopping mall to St David's in Cardiff.
"But Swansea has got a real battle on its hands now."
So much so, it seems, that the current ruling authority has drafted in experts to help take the city forward.
One of them is Prof Ken Maher, a leading Australian architect who has helped transform Sydney, which he said has also suffered from failed plans.
"Swansea has got great potential," said Prof Maher.
"It's had some challenges like many cities in the last few decades but it seems to me it has some great natural assets around the city, a close connection to the beach and it's got a city centre that needs revitalisation.
"The two cities (Swansea and Sydney) have the same challenges but there are parallels in what they face.
"Bringing life and safety back into the centre of the city is one of the principal challenges.
"Following that is a shift on the quality of public spaces in the city and then public transport. These are all interlinked in a way."
Prof Maher said a key aspect of Sydney's current 20-year plan was to have year by year targets and for developments to be sustainable.
So what next?
The group of experts held their first meeting on the way forward for Swansea last month.
And Swansea council leader Rob Stewart is honest about the challenge that lies ahead for all who are involved.
"Swansea has fallen way behind other cities and is punching well below its weight at the moment," he said.
"I don't want to replicate cities like Cardiff or Birmingham. We need to keep it different. The city centre is not as attractive as it should be.
"The amount of people living in the city centre is too low. We also don't have enough of the right quality, right size shops and office space in the city centre.
"When we build it has to be a much wider mix. The development should be an all day and all night development.
"I don't want to be the person that has created another plan. What's different this time is that we've got a city region in place and for that to be successful Swansea city has to be viable and successful."
Knocking down buildings to make way for new developments has already begun with part of the failed St David's shopping centre replaced with a temporary car park until a suitable replacement is found.
Those in charge know something needs to happen soon. What will 2015 bring?
The island's director of squash, Nick Taylor, hailed their performance after Jersey beat Luxembourg 3-1 to finish third in the tournament in Romania.
"It really sets us with the other nations and puts Jersey on the map.
"It's as big, if not bigger, than the medals that we have got in the previous Island Games," Taylor told BBC Jersey.
Having come second to Italy in the pool stages following wins over Greece, Romania and Gibraltar, Jersey lost 3-1 to Portugal in the semi-finals before beating Luxembourg for third place.
"We can compete at the top level, we were one place off being promoted to the second division," added Taylor.
"We'll continue to stay in the third division, we'll continue to try and strengthen our squad and bring some of the young players in."
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Konta, 25, edged a tie-break in the first set, but the quality of the Czech's relentless serving told.
Hometown favourite Konta had beaten 2010 champion Ekaterina Makarova 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 earlier in the day in a rain-delayed quarter-final.
Konta is seeded 16th at Wimbledon and plays Monica Puig in the first round.
After defeats in the second rounds of the Birmingham and Nottingham grass-court events, Konta's run to the last four provides valuable preparation ahead of her arrival at the All England Club as the first British female seed since Jo Durie in 1984.
It was also one better than last year's run to the quarter-finals as the world number 146.
Since then though Konta has risen into the world's top 20 and her frustration at being unable to break down world number 17 Pliskova was clear in her on-court discussions with coach Esteban Carill.
The Briton's failure to convert three break-back points from 0-40 up in the fifth game of the second set proved costly as Pliskova served out and she never recovered after losing her first two service games in the decider.
A government-commissioned report on the ban on women serving in close combat roles called for more research to assess the physical demands involved.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said armed forces roles "should be determined by ability and not gender".
And he added that he hoped to "open up combat roles to women" in 2016.
Currently women can serve on the front line, but not where the primary aim is to "close with and kill the enemy".
This means women are not permitted to serve in the infantry or armoured corps.
Mr Fallon said the report had concluded that allowing women in combat roles would not hinder the ability of the army in battle.
He told BBC's Radio 4: "The review makes clear that there's no question mark over the cohesion of the unit, the overall effectiveness of the unit. Women can fight just as effectively as men."
However, the review said that a decision to lift the exclusion now "could be perceived as reckless" and called for further research into the "physiological demands" placed on those in close combat roles.
Mr Fallon has ordered an 18-month review of training procedures and the physical demands of fighting to ensure the change can be made without damaging female soldiers' health.
Initial findings are expected in 2016.
"I hope that, following further work on our training regimes and equipment, we can open up combat roles to women in 2016," Mr Fallon said.
BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said military sources have told the BBC there is now a "real desire" among ministers to end the restrictions.
Kevan Jones, Labour's shadow armed forces minister, welcomed the move.
This is a signal of intent, but not a done deal.
The fact that the review did not lift the ban on women serving in close combat roles shows there are still issues to be resolved - most importantly, how will a woman's body stand up to the huge physical demands of being an infantry soldier?
Those against lifting the ban will also be worried that standards will be weakened for women. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has talked of the need to "improve" training if the infantry is opened up to women. What exactly does that mean?
With so many allies, including the US, now allowing women to carry out close combat roles, it will be increasingly hard for the British Armed Forces to keep the ban in place. Times have changed and there is political pressure for the Army to change too.
But in reality even in those countries that have lifted the ban, women are still in a significant minority. Few may want to join the infantry and even fewer are likely to meet the physical demands.
To join an infantry unit at recruitment level, men have to complete run of 1.5 miles in 12 minutes 45 seconds.
They then have to complete an annual fitness assessment which involves carrying 25kg, plus a rifle and helmet, over a distance of just under eight miles in two hours, the MoD said.
Col Mike Dewar, a military historian who served in Cyprus, Borneo and Northern Ireland, told the BBC the "battle fitness test" also required the infantry to "pick up another man, with his rifle and equipment, and carry him in a fireman's lift 200 metres."
He said upper body strength in "99.9% of women" would make it "virtually impossible" to pass the tests.
Fitness standards: full MoD list.
Maj Judith Webb, the first woman to command an all-male field force squadron in the Army, said women are "physically different" to men. The presence of weaker soldiers over an extended period "could create an effect on our combat effectiveness," she added.
But Brig Nicky Moffat, until recently the most senior female officer serving in the Army, has described caution as "sexism dressed up as concern".
And Dr Christine Cheng, who lectures in war studies at King's College London, said women in combat roles had been good for armed forces in other countries.
Countries who currently allow women to participate in close combat roles include the United States, Canada, Denmark and New Zealand.
Maj Gen Patrick Cordingley, a former commander of the 7th Armoured Brigade - known as the Desert Rats, said the move would be a "mistake".
He added: "The practicalities of women in the infantry and armoured corps are considerable and should not be overlooked."
A defence source told the BBC the wellbeing of British personnel is of the utmost importance.
All services
160,650
Includes 15,920 women
Navy
3,000 (9%)
Army
8,010 (9%)
Royal Air Force
4,910 (14%)
The Exiles have won only once in League Two this season - back in August - and are currently bottom of the table.
Feeney's assistant Andy Todd has also left the club. Coaches Sean McCarthy and James Bittner will take caretaker charge for the clash with Stevenage on Saturday.
Feeney was appointed manager in January after previous boss John Sheridan left for Oldham Athletic.
Northern Ireland international Feeney initially joined the Exiles in October 2015 as Sheridan's assistant following the sacking of Terry Butcher.
A club statement read: "Following a mixed start to the season the board of directors feel a change is necessary,
"We would like to thank Warren for his service since joining the club back in October and wish him all the best for his future career."
The Exiles have revealed they hope to announce a successor to Feeney "as soon as possible."
Feeney has paid the price for two defeats in the past four days, with County losing their basement battle with Cambridge on Saturday before being beaten 1-0 at Grimsby on Tuesday evening.
Ex-Linfield boss Feeney made clear on Saturday that he knew he was under pressure.
"I take full responsibility for everything," Feeney told BBC Wales Sport.
"You can stand here and say this or say that, but the results don't lie."
Newport captain Scot Bennett expressed his disappointment.
"Absolutely gutted waking up to the news of the gaffer being sacked," he wrote on social media.
"Top manager and top bloke and all I can do is wish him well for the future."
The delegation, led by Fianna Fáil's Seán Ó Fearghaíl, will raise his case during meetings with Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi.
Mr Halawa, the son of Ireland's most senior Muslim cleric, was arrested during anti-government protests in Cairo in August 2013.
The 21-year-old's trial has been adjourned 17 times.
"The invitation is to meet with President al-Sisi and members of his government and indeed with the secretary-general of the Arab League," said Mr Ó Fearghaíl, speaker of the lower house of the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament).
"In the course of these meetings we will be discussing a range of important, bilateral issues, and of course the issue of Ibrahim Halawa will be raised at those meetings."
The eight-person delegation, which left for the North African country on Monday, will also be holding talks on trade, transport and tourism.
The Irish government has been lobbying for Mr Halawa's release and deportation to Ireland.
He has been charged, along with 463 others, with inciting violence, rioting and sabotage.
His family has denied claims that Mr Halawa is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's oldest and largest Islamist organisation.
The Egyptian government has declared it a terrorist group, a claim the organisation rejects.
More than 1,000 people have been killed and 40,000 are believed to have been jailed since President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi led the military's overthrow of Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected head of state, in 2013.
Spieth, 22, pulled out because of fears concerning the Zika virus in Brazil.
The American is the latest high-profile player to pull out of the event in Rio, where the sport is making its return to the Games after a 112-year absence.
World number one Jason Day, number two Dustin Johnson and number four Rory McIlroy have all already pulled out.
The Zika virus has been linked to defects in newborn babies.
Two-time major winner Spieth, who is replaced by Matt Kuchar, is expected to give details about his withdrawal at a news conference before the Open Championship on Tuesday.
IGF president Peter Dawson said the number of withdrawals by top players "hasn't shed golf in the best light".
He added: "We do understand why these individual decisions have been made.
"Personally, I think there's been something of an overreaction to the Zika situation, but that's for individuals to determine, and there's certainly a great deal of concern about this issue inside the game of golf."
Meanwhile, defending Open champion Zach Johnson has questioned the inclusion of golf, football and basketball in the Olympics.
Johnson, 40, said the three sports would instead count majors, the World Cup and the NBA as their pinnacles.
"I don't know if golf has its place," Johnson said. "Basketball and soccer, do they really need to be in there either? My guess is they want a World Cup, an NBA Championship, before a gold medal.
"No offence to the Olympics but I'd rather be on the Ryder Cup team. As an American golfer I have that opportunity and that's what I'd rather do."
American Bubba Watson, the world number five, is now the highest-ranked player on the Olympic list, while Masters champion Danny Willett (nine in the world) and fellow Englishman Justin Rose (11th) are the highest-ranked Britons due to compete.
Australian Adam Scott and South African Louis Oosthuizen are among the other major winners who will not take part but USA Ryder Cup team-mates Rickie Fowler and Patrick Reed will compete.
The Olympics take place from 5 to 21 August, with the men's golf tournament from 11 to 14 August.
The remains include suicide bombers and militants who died in operations as far back as 1975.
The repatriation of the bodies forms part of a deal to end a mass hunger strike by hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Israeli officials say the transfer is a confidence-building gesture.
However, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has given no indication that he is willing to return to talks.
Coffins containing the remains, which had been interred in numbered graves in an Israeli military cemetery for "enemy combatants", were handed over at dawn.
By Jon DonnisonBBC News, West Bank
Palestinians don't have a state but the ceremony today had some of the trappings of a state funeral. Proceedings were led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
There was a military feel. A lone bugler played the Last Post and Palestinian security forces offered a salute, firing into the air.
Relatives of the dead then carried the coffins draped in red, black, white and green Palestinian flags and loaded them on to trucks. The remains will now be reburied.
For most Palestinians, these men were martyrs who died fighting for the Palestinian cause. Some were suicide bombers. For Israelis, they were terrorists responsible for the deaths of scores of civilians.
This transfer was part of a deal earlier this month to end a mass hunger strike by hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. Israel said it was a gesture aimed at building confidence.
Such confidence is in short supply. Direct peace talks between the two sides collapsed in 2010. Most Palestinians and Israelis would say only a fool would be optimistic about a significant breakthrough any time soon.
In pictures: Remains repatriated
The head of the Palestinian general committee for civil affairs said 79 coffins were transferred to Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority (PA) has its headquarters.
The official said the other 12 were taken to Gaza, which is run by the militant Islamist Hamas movement.
President Abbas, the head of the PA, attended a ceremony at his compound, Muqataa, to receive the coffins, each of them draped in a Palestinian flag.
According to Israeli media, Hamas will hold a full military service for the remains in Gaza, with each coffin receiving a 21-gun salute. They will then be shuttled to various towns for burial.
The repatriation has long been a sensitive issue often subject to prolonged negotiations, the BBC's Jon Donnison in Ramallah says.
The dead are considered martyrs by Palestinians, but terrorists by Israelis, and their remains are used as bargaining chips, he says.
Earlier this month, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails agreed to end a mass hunger strike, which had been going on for more than two months.
More than 1,500 Palestinians had been refusing food to demand an improvement in conditions.
There were fears of a violent Palestinian backlash, had any of the inmates died.
The mother of one of the dead, Um Ramez Obeid, said the transfer made her "very happy".
"We have waited for this moment for 16 years. The more they talked about the deal to hand over the bodies, the more we hoped his body will be among them.
"God willing they will hand over his body to us, to be buried next to his father at the cemetery. We will visit him, even if he is dead and is in the grave, I feel that he is returned to me."
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said he hoped the "humanitarian gesture" would help get the peace process back on track.
"Israel is ready for the immediate resumption of peace talks without any preconditions whatsoever," he said.
Direct talks collapsed in December 2010 over Israel's refusal to stop building settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The hosts took the lead when Lucas fired home from Blaise Matuidi's cross before Marco Verratti added a second with a long-range strike.
Edinson Cavani tapped in to make it 3-0 and Marquinhos added a fourth to put the game firmly beyond Bastia.
After missing a penalty, Cavani got his second following a defensive error.
That goal was Cavani's 47th in 47 games in all competitions this season as he helped move PSG onto 83 points.
Monaco have the advantage in the Ligue 1 title race as Leonardo Jardim's side has two games in hand over PSG.
Match ends, Paris Saint Germain 5, Bastia 0.
Second Half ends, Paris Saint Germain 5, Bastia 0.
Foul by Giovani Lo Celso (Paris Saint Germain).
Lenny Nangis (Bastia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Paris Saint Germain 5, Bastia 0. Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Julian Draxler.
Substitution, Bastia. Sadio Diallo replaces Enzo Crivelli.
Attempt missed. Thomas Meunier (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Maxwell.
Hand ball by Christopher Nkunku (Paris Saint Germain).
Giovani Lo Celso (Paris Saint Germain) hits the bar with a left footed shot from outside the box following a corner.
Corner, Paris Saint Germain. Conceded by Alexander Djiku.
Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Christopher Nkunku replaces Blaise Matuidi.
Goal! Paris Saint Germain 4, Bastia 0. Marquinhos (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from very close range to the top right corner. Assisted by Giovani Lo Celso.
Attempt blocked. Giovani Lo Celso (Paris Saint Germain) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Edinson Cavani.
Corner, Paris Saint Germain. Conceded by Pierre Bengtsson.
Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Giovani Lo Celso replaces Marco Verratti.
Penalty saved! Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint Germain) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.
Penalty Paris Saint Germain. Edinson Cavani draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Alexander Djiku (Bastia) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt blocked. Prince Oniangué (Bastia) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Enzo Crivelli.
Foul by Thiago Silva (Paris Saint Germain).
Enzo Crivelli (Bastia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Paris Saint Germain 3, Bastia 0. Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Gonçalo Guedes.
Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Gonçalo Guedes replaces Lucas Moura.
Thomas Meunier (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Thomas Meunier (Paris Saint Germain).
Alexander Djiku (Bastia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Marco Verratti (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Bastia. Lenny Nangis replaces Axel Ngando.
Hand ball by Blaise Matuidi (Paris Saint Germain).
Offside, Paris Saint Germain. Julian Draxler tries a through ball, but Edinson Cavani is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Julian Draxler (Paris Saint Germain) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Blaise Matuidi with a cross.
Foul by Thiago Silva (Paris Saint Germain).
Axel Ngando (Bastia) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Thomas Meunier (Paris Saint Germain).
Enzo Crivelli (Bastia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Marquinhos (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Lucas Moura with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Paris Saint Germain. Conceded by Gaël Danic.
Attempt missed. Julian Draxler (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Lucas Moura with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Paris Saint Germain. Conceded by Jean-Louis Leca.
Attempt saved. Thomas Meunier (Paris Saint Germain) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Julian Draxler with a cross.
Len Ironside, the Labour councillor for Kingswells, Sheddocksley and Summerhill, led the council for four years, from 1999 to 2003, and spent 10 years as group leader.
He will stand down at next year's council elections.
Mr Ironside said it was time for someone new.
He told BBC Scotland: "It's been a huge part of my life and I have enjoyed it, even the difficult bits - it's been a battle sometimes.
"I respect what the public say and I think I have done my best to serve the public of Aberdeen.
"But now it's time to move on and some new people to take on the challenge."
The judge said a lower court had been correct in ruling that Col Inocente Orlando Montano should be extradited.
Col Montano can appeal against the decision at a federal court; his lawyer has not yet said if he will do so.
The killing of the priests during El Salvador's civil war caused outrage.
Col Montano has denied any wrongdoing and has been fighting against his extradition to Spain.
The priests, five of whom were Spanish and one Salvadorean, were shot dead along with their housekeeper and her 16-year-old daughter on 16 November 1989 by an elite unit of the Salvadorean army.
Col Montano was the deputy minister of public security at the time of the killing.
Prosecutors allege he helped plot it and provided the killers with key information.
The security forces suspected the priests, who worked at the Central American University, of sympathising with left-wing rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).
According to a 1993 UN Truth Commission report, more than 75,000 people were killed during the 12-year civil war, which pitted the left-wing rebels against the army and right-wing death squads.
A UN-brokered peace process brought the conflict to an end in 1992, but a 1993 amnesty law meant that civil-war era human rights violations went unpunished.
Col Montano has been living in the US since 2001 and was working in a sweet factory in the US state of Massachusetts when he was arrested on immigration charges in 2011.
He was sentenced to nearly two years for immigration fraud and perjury.
While he was in prison, a Spanish judge requested his extradition to face charges under Spain's universal jurisdiction law, which holds that some crimes are so grave that they can be tried anywhere.
The photograph was taken at Hornchurch Country Park in east London on Monday afternoon.
Speaking to BBC News, Mr Le-May said he had managed to capture the moment while he was out walking with his wife Ann.
He said: "I heard a distressed squawking noise and feared the worst.
"I soon realised it was a woodpecker with some kind of small mammal on its back.
"I think we may have distracted the weasel as when the woodpecker landed it managed to escape and the weasel ran into the grass."
Mr Le-May said he was astounded by the reaction to the picture on social media.
The wildlife shot has been retweeted several thousand times.
He said; "I'm so proud so many people are getting to see my image. I'm totally taken aback by the response to it."
Wildlife expert Lucy Cooke told the BBC News Channel: "This is a truly extraordinary image.
"The green woodpecker is a ground-feeding bird, but weasels normally attack rabbits. The woodpecker is not its usual prey.
"But weasels are fearless.
"A female weasel weighs less than a Mars Bar but is as ferocious as a lion, so this is why the woodpecker would have been able to take off with it on its back."
Wildlife presenter Steve Backshall agrees that while highly unusual it is not totally unheard of and has "no reason to doubt" the photo.
He compared the woodpecker to other animals like leaf cutter ants and rhino beetles, which can carry 850 times their body weight.
He said: "The weasel is pretty fascinating as well. It can kill things much bigger than itself, so it's an impressive little creature when you think about its size."
Shadow justice minister and Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens said the 37-year-old had died because his epilepsy had not been diagnosed and the prison did not allow him medical assistance.
Prisons minister Andrew Selous said the UK government had put more money into providing safer custody.
G4S said it has made changes at Parc Prison since the "tragic death".
Prison director Janet Wallesgrove said improvements have been made to how medical appointments are overseen by clinical staff.
She added: "The latest inspection at the prison praised the new healthcare unit and the attention paid to health promotion, and in 2015 HMP Parc was judged to be providing 'exceptional performance' in the government's prison rating system."
Justice Secretary Michael Gove told the Commons debate on Wednesday that Parc Prison was doing "an exemplary job".
But Ms Stevens said: "Failures of operators of a G4S-run prison to allow medical assistance to a 37-year-old prisoner who died in his cell because his epilepsy had not been diagnosed. That prison was HMP Parc Prison in Bridgend, which the justice minister singled out for praise.
"I repeat our call from these benches for the justice secretary to instigate a review into all G4S-run prisons."
She added there was a prison crisis - citing the case of a man who was jailed for breaching an Asbo (anti-social behaviour order) by street begging and died in his Cardiff cell after being stabbed with a ballpoint pen.
"We have the highest imprisonment rate in Europe," she said.
The man was assaulted by two men on Great Northern Road, close to its junction with Barron Street, at about 22:00 on Tuesday 19 May.
He suffered facial injuries and was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
The two men involved were both described as being aged between 18 and 35 and about 5ft 10in tall.
The first man was described as being of average build, with short blond hair, and was wearing a white or light grey hooded top, light jeans and light trainers.
The second man was described as being slim.
"There's a kingfisher that flies past now and again," he says. "We have herons and cormorants regularly around here."
He points to the river, where he lives on a houseboat.
"Reed beds have been put in to clean water and attract wildlife," he explains. "When we first got here, the site was desolate, there was no green and hardly anyone came here. Lately more wildlife is coming into the area, and people can see it."
Al is one of an army of volunteers who have regenerated Cody Dock in east London.
Unlike the traditional bucolic setting, it stands under the gaze of the sky scrapers of Canary Wharf, accessed through a grey industrial estate on the outskirts of Canning Town.
Built in the 1870s, Cody Dock was once an industrial heartland, employing thousands of people at gas and chemical works.
But in the past 25 years it lay abandoned, blocking people from walking the length of the Lea River.
The effort of volunteers and local businesses has created a green space where once there was concrete and piles of industrial waste.
"Since we began the project, the site has gone from being a dumping ground for 10ft-high piles of industrial waste, to a green, living haven for kingfishers, cormorants, reed warblers, teal and redshanks," says Simon Myers, who leads the Gasworks Dock Partnership.
To mark the final step in the project, the Royal Horticultural Society has donated hundreds of plants in raised beds to provide habitat for birds, bees and butterflies.
It is campaigning to turn 6,000 grey spaces green over the next three years, involving everything from planting along public walls, to sewing wild flowers on roundabouts, to creating community gardens.
"Plants play a number of different roles with positive environmental benefits," says Andrea Van-Sittart, head of communities at the RHS. "The more green the better in providing connecting spaces to form corridors for wildlife."
The RHS says gardens account for about 25% of the land in most cities, and domestic gardens contain about 25% of all the trees found in the UK outside of forests and woodland.
According to its science team, practical tips to encourage wildlife and "fight the concrete jungle" include:
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The club is owned by businessman Chris Giwa, who is involved in a power struggle with the Nigerian Football Federation having declared himself its elected president.
The League Management Company (LMC), which runs the Nigeria Premier League said the club had failed to play three consecutive matches "without acceptable reason".
The club had been forced to play home games at a neutral venue in the southwestern city of Ilorin after recent crowd trouble in Jos against Enugu Rangers that forced the game to be abandoned.
Giwa has since August 2014 insisted he was elected president of the NFF in a disputed vote that saw Fifa threaten to ban the country from international competition. He has taken the NFF to court challenge their legitimacy.
Last week the NFF banned him and several of his supporters for five years for impersonation and taking football matters to a civil court, in breach of Fifa regulations.
Full-back Halfpenny, 26, is out of contract with Toulon at the end of the season and is weighing up his options.
Blues coach Danny Wilson says they cannot offer the highest wages but would be able to ensure Halfpenny is in "peak" condition for Wales.
"The best interests of the player internationally would be at the front of our minds," said Wilson.
Halfpenny, who made 87 appearances for the Blues between 2008 and 2014 , would be a strong contender for a national dual contract (NDC) if he returned to Wales after spending two years in France.
The salary on such a deal would be funded 60% by the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU), with the region paying the rest.
In return for the financial support, the regions agree to limit the number of appearances the player makes to suit the needs of the national side.
Wilson believes the prospect of being managed in that way would be a major attraction for Halfpenny, whose career has been blighted by injury, including missing the recent Rugby World Cup.
"The design of the central [NDC] contract is to get our best players playing and staying in Wales, and therefore the management of those players has to be a huge selling point," he said.
"Between us and the strong relationship with the Welsh Rugby Union, the player gets the management he wants to peak and perform for Wales.
"That's the idea of it and that has to be a selling point from a regional relationship. The other selling point we don't have is the same money as other people have to offer."
Scarlets have also voiced their interest in the British and Irish Lion, while Premiership side Wasps have been strongly linked.
Both are likely to be involved in the top tier of European competition next season, the Champions Cup, whereas the Blues are set to be in the second tier Challenge Cup.
If Halfpenny wants to return to Wales, the binding agreement between the WRU and the Welsh regions gives the Blues first refusal as the region that developed him.
"If Leigh does make a decision he wants to come back to Wales, I'd like to think Cardiff Blues would be high on his list of considerations," said Wilson.
"I'd imagine all four regions would like to have Leigh Halfpenny playing for them.
"A calibre of player like Leigh Halfpenny will have many options, whether that's regions, clubs over the bridge, clubs in France.
"There are a number of players we are talking to - players we are in the process of finalising conversations with and we'll see how things pan out."
19 May 2015 Last updated at 12:02 BST
Some people think that keeping polar bears in captivity can help the species survive in the future but other people don't agree.
We want to know what you think about zoos. Maybe you think it's a good thing animals can live in zoos or perhaps you think they should live in the wild.
Send us an email to [email protected] to tell us what you think.
In the wild polar bears rely on sea ice to hunt but some scientists believe that this ice is melting earlier and forming later each year which means the bears have less time to find food they need.
They say because of this polar bear numbers could drop over the next 100 years.
Leah went to see the only two polar bears that live in England to find out how they are looked after and also heard from a campaign group who don't think they should be in the UK.
And by the sounds of it, so are the contestants.
"I just want to get on with it now, and burn my first cake," one says in the opening episode.
Quite.
So, we've been to a press screening of the series opener and spoken to Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith, Sandi Toksvig, Noel Fielding and Channel 4's chief creative officer Jay Hunt.
Here's what you can expect from the new series.
Warning: This article contains some info about the first episode but doesn't reveal star baker or who goes home or anything like that.
1. Channel 4 have avoided any icing controversy.
Remember when the BBC gave the male contestants blue icing and the female contestants pink icing last year in the promo shots?
Yeah, Channel 4 have cleverly avoided that by using some rainbow cake.
2. It's weird having new presenters to start with.
"Visually, it's scary that Mel has been replaced by a vampire," joked Noel after the press screening.
But you get used to it pretty quickly to be fair.
Some of the opening jokes feel a little forced and awkward (but then so were some of Mel and Sue's) and it becomes more natural as the episode goes on.
3. Prue has some advice for those who hate the thought of adverts during Bake Off.
"You don't have to watch it in real time," she says, championing the joy of services which let you skip the ads.
Jay Hunt (jokingly) put her head in her hands at this point.
4. There are 12 contestants.
And their names are Liam, Stacey, Yan, Steven, Tom, Flo, Kate, Julia, James, Chris, Sophie and Peter.
Please don't ask us who's who in the below photo because we haven't learned them off by heart yet.
5. They're definitely not dialling down the innuendo.
"I don't know what it is but I want to dip my finger in it," is just one of several glorious lines in the first episode.
6. The ad breaks are well placed.
There's one between the first challenge and the judging of it. One after the judging of the technical. And another between the showstopper and the judging.
Hunt said she makes "no apology" for the ad breaks because they pay for the show, adding: "We've been careful about thinking where the ad breaks sit and how the format works with it, so it's quite seamless."
7. Prue is planning to steal from the contestants.
"After 25 years of not writing cookery books because I was writing novels, I thought right, now I'm on Bake Off I'll do a cookery book," Prue said.
"And you know what I'm doing is just keeping notes of what the bakers are doing. There are some off-the-wall contributions which work brilliantly, so I'm quietly cribbing them."
Don't worry, she was kidding (we think).
8. Noel and Sandi are an unlikely double act.
"There's a lot of repressed sexual tension," Sandi joked at the screening.
9. But it seemed to win over the audience.
"When we did our chemistry test we made love straight away," said Noel.
He's talking about the screen tests presenters do to make sure they work well together on camera.
"Sandi is the quickest comedian I've ever worked with," he added.
10. Prue hates to watch herself on TV.
"I'm so vain, I can't bear it," she said. "I'm thinking, why is that cameraman going round the back of my head or filming close up and getting my double chin?"
11. Sandi also can't stand watching herself back.
At this rate the viewing figures are going to be pretty low.
12. There are some brilliantly dreadful jokes in the first episode.
At one point, Sandi gives Noel a bowl, at which point he falls on the ground.
"He's bowled over," says Sandi.
Amazing.
13. Paul has a new nickname.
"We're all newbies here, except for ol' blue-eyes," Noel says (speaking about Paul, obvs) as he tries to put everyone at ease during the opening challenge.
14. Jay Hunt is hopeful about the viewing figures.
"We're expecting a strong performance," she said. Noel was a little more specific.
15. "I think it will get between five viewers and 17 million viewers," he said.
So actually, not that much more specific.
16. Paul "won't be looking at Twitter" when the show goes out.
So don't @ him.
17. The standard is ridiculously high this year.
Seriously, look out for the watermelon cake.
18. So high, in fact, that there are TWO Hollywood handshakes in the first episode.
Blimey.
19. But it's also not short on disasters.
One contestant forgets to actually turn the oven on.
Another literally bins all the sponge she's baked so far and starts over.
20. Noel and Sandi are taking hosting duties to new heights.
The pair are seen in a hot air balloon during the show's opening shots.
21. Prue Leith will be firm but fair as a judge, because she wants the bakers to be their very best.
"I'll be firm but fair as a judge, because I want the bakers to be their very best," Prue Leith said.
Probably didn't need an explainer on this one.
22. Also, Prue doesn't like too many accessories.
One contestant puts actual flowers on the side of their cake to make it look prettier.
"I always have a problem with things you're not going to eat, and nobody is going to eat a marigold," Prue says.
At this point, Noel brilliantly proves her wrong, stuffing it in his mouth.
23. Noel was "staggered" to be asked to present the show.
Adding that it was "too big an opportunity" to turn down.
24. He even got some advice about it from his friend Serge from Kasabian.
Who Sandi has never heard of.
25. Jay Hunt says the format is fundamentally the same.
But adds the show has a "more surreal, comedic take" and a "uniquely Channel 4 tone".
26. GBBO is LGBT friendly.
"This is like my wedding day all over again, except my wife isn't here," says one female contestant right at the top of the show.
A woman being gay is obviously not a thing in 2017, and we've had LGBT contestants before, but it's telling that Channel 4 gave this line such a prominent placing at the beginning of the episode.
27. It doesn't take itself too seriously.
"No-one's going to die," one contestant correctly observes.
28. Noel is sweetly supportive to the contestants.
"Everything is redeemable, you can do this," he tells one, in a nice Mel-and-Sue kind of way.
29. One dish is described as "the Peter Beardsley of cakes".
ie Displaying skill, but not much to look at.
30. They've messed with one crucial Mel and Sue catchphrase.
Perkins and Giedroyc used to alternate the "On your marks" / "Get set" / "Bake" bit.
But for their first time uttering the famous phrase, Noel and Sandi say it TOGETHER.
Hugely controversial.
But stay calm everyone, they then revert to alternating for the rest of the episode.
31. The showstoppers really are showstopping.
In the first episode there are cakes shaped as everything from a Russian doll to a champagne bottle and ice bucket. And they all look incredible.
If Instagram was a TV show, it would be this episode.
32. One contestant makes an extremely shrewd observation.
"I've never made a mini chocolate roll. Why would I?"
Well said.
Why would you make a mini version of ANYTHING so delicious indeed.
33. There is one moment that will definitely make you giggle.
But if you really think the top of that champagne bottle cake is phallic-shaped then it says more about your filthy state of mind, you disgusting individual.
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He also said he had been struck by how much the situation had changed in the past six weeks.
Sir Mervyn said he was particularly concerned about the worsening situation in Asia and other emerging markets.
His comments followed official data showing the government borrowed more than expected in May.
Excluding financial interventions such as bank bailouts, it borrowed £17.9bn, compared with £15.2bn in May 2011.
A 7% fall in income tax receipts contributed to the rise in borrowing.
By Hugh PymChief economics correspondent, BBC News
You know when the Treasury quote "special factors" with government borrowing that the underlying picture is not good.
Spending in May was swelled by tax credits being paid early - usually payments are made in early June but they were brought forward because of the Jubilee Bank Holidays.
But there is no disguising the awkward message of these figures for the chancellor - borrowing over the first two months of this financial year (stripping out the effects of the Royal Mail pension fund transfer to the government) is higher than the same period last year.
What's more it has been revised up for the full 2011-12 year.
Recession is biting into tax revenues and the Treasury will be looking more nervously at the prospects for the rest of the financial year.
Speaking at the Treasury committee, Sir Mervyn said the economic crisis had continued longer than he had expected, questioning the response of European authorities.
"Over two years now we have seen the situation in the euro area get worse and the problem being pushed down the road," he said.
"There is just enormous uncertainty out there, I have no idea what is going to happen in the euro area."
Sir Mervyn confirmed he would be prepared to cut interest rates further if "that turns out to be necessary".
He was one of four members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee to vote for additional quantitative easing at its last meeting to try to stimulate the UK economy.
One of the main reasons for this was the deteriorating situation in emerging economies, he said.
"And my colleagues in the United States are more concerned than they were at the beginning of the year about what is happening to the American economy," he added.
May's public borrowing figure was higher than many analysts' expectations of about £14.8bn.
The increase in borrowing was driven by a 7.3% fall in income tax receipts and an 11.7% jump in welfare benefits.
Economists said May's figure suggested the government would struggle to meet its target of trimming total borrowing in 2012-2013 to £120bn.
Vicky Redwood, chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said she expected the government to overshoot "significantly".
"The main problem remains a sharp slowdown in tax receipts. And with the economy probably still in recession, receipts are likely to remain weak," she said.
A spokesman for the Treasury said: "It is too early in the financial year to draw conclusions about the year as a whole, especially as today's public finances data include a number of one-off factors and temporary distortions."
Rachel Reeves MP, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said the figures indicated the coalition government's attempt to cut spending had backfired.
"As we consistently warned, if you choke off the recovery and push the economy into recession, the government ends up having to borrow more not less," she said.
Official data released on Thursday is expected to confirm the economy shrank by 0.3% in the first three months of 2012.
Britain's total public sector net debt, excluding financial sector interventions, rose to £1.013 trillion, according to the ONS. This is equivalent to 65% of GDP, a record for the month of May and the third-highest level on record since the series began in 1993.
Edith Cook, an exhibition parachutist from Ipswich, took her first flight in a plane in France in 1910.
Critics said the proposals for a statue of her in the town "overlooked" her role as a balloonist and a parachutist.
But the heritage group which put forward the plans said the sculpture needed to be historically accurate.
Suffolk Heritage Aviation Group (SHAG) said Cook could not be "seated in, for instance, in a Spitfire, or clothed in a recognisable flying jacket, just for 'aesthetic' reasons".
Members of the Ipswich Society had raised objections to the plans, saying the statue needed to be "sufficiently well designed to convey a clear message from a distance".
Born in 1878, Cook applied for a position as lady parachutist when she was 20 and completed hundreds of descents through her career.
She learned how to fly in France and had planned to fly across the Irish Sea but died after a parachute accident in Coventry in 1910, aged 31.
"Her significance in aviation history has been sadly overlooked," SHAG said.
Two years ago the group helped dedicate a headstone on her previously unmarked grave in Coventry.
Andy Taylor from the group said it "still very much intends to continue with the project" to install a statue of Cook "if not in her hometown, then in her home county" after the Fore Street plans were rejected.
The council said there had been full support from all committee members for a statue and it would welcome a revised design.
As pressure mounts on the UK to take more of those fleeing to Europe from Syria, the PM added that the UK would fulfil its "moral responsibilities".
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said she expected the prime minister to promise more action in the coming days.
Earlier, Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon accused the government of a "walk on by" attitude.
That followed the prime minister's comment on Wednesday that taking "more and more" people was not the simple answer to the current migrant crisis.
Instead, Mr Cameron said, the focus should be on bringing "peace and stability" to the war-ravaged parts of the world people were fleeing from, such as Syria.
But now, the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg says, Downing Street has "concluded the political pressure does require them to give an additional response" - though "no final decisions have been made".
Calls for the UK to do more intensified on Thursday after the picture of the dead boy on the beach sparked an outcry over the human cost of the crisis.
An online petition calling on the UK to accept more refugees raced through the 100,000 threshold, meaning it is now eligible to be considered for a debate in Parliament.
Mr Cameron said: "Britain is a moral nation and we will fulfil our moral responsibilities."
He pointed out that the Royal Navy had been involved in rescue missions in the Mediterranean and said the UK was the world's second biggest bilateral donor to aid Syrians.
He said the UK would continue to take in "thousands" of refugees, but he cautioned that this was not the only answer to the crisis, saying a "comprehensive solution" was required.
"We have to try and stabilise the countries from which these people are coming," he added.
Speaking earlier in the day, Chancellor George Osborne said he was "very distressed" by the image of the drowned Syrian boy in Turkey - and blamed his death on so-called Islamic State and human traffickers.
He cautioned that there was no "simple answer" to this crisis but added: "You have got to make sure the aid keeps coming - we have put £1bn of overseas aid in to help these desperate people.
"And of course Britain has always been a home to real asylum seekers, genuine refugees. We have taken 5,000 people from the Syrian conflict, we will go on taking people and keep it under review."
One minister told me: "We must not do the wrong thing for the right reasons. There's a danger, a real one, that a sudden, dramatic invitation to more refugees could result in many more thousands of people risking their lives coming to Europe."
But I expect in the coming days the prime minister will promise more action.
One option is increasing the numbers of refugees admitted directly from camps on the Syrian borders. Another is insisting other EU countries contribute more to the refugee crisis on the ground, in exchange for Britain taking a bigger share of those arriving in Europe.
No final decisions have been made and there is no one clear solution to a complicated and fraught situation.
It is clear that Downing Street has concluded the political pressure does require them to give an additional response.
But David Cameron may look for a way to do that while not conceding his central point that this crisis will only be solved by treating the problem at its source and finding long term stability in the region.
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Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, described the situation as a "wicked crisis".
"My heart is broken by the images and stories of men, women and children who have risked their lives to escape conflict, violence," he said.
There have been cross-party calls at home and from abroad for the UK to take in more refugees, as Europe struggles to cope with the daily influx of migrants.
Attacking the government's response to the crisis, Ms Sturgeon pledged that Scotland would "stand ready to offer sanctuary to refugees that need our help".
She said she was "reduced to tears" at the image of the dead child, adding: "I am very angry at the walk-on-by attitude of the UK government and I implore David Cameron to change his position and change it today."
Ex-party chairman Baroness Warsi was among the Conservatives calling for the government to do more, suggesting more women and children refugees should be accepted by the UK.
She told the BBC Britain had a "long and proud" tradition of helping in times of crisis.
Former Labour home secretary David Blunkett told Thursday's Newsnight he thought the UK should take 25,000 refugees over a six month period.
Tory MP David Burrowes said "thousands, not hundreds" of people should be taken in, while Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservatives, tweeted "this is not an immigration issue, it's a humanitarian one", as she called for more help for refugees.
25,771
people applied for asylum in the UK in the year ending June 2015
41%
(11,600) were granted asylum
14% of applicants were from Eritrea
9% were from Pakistan
8.5% were from Syria
2,168 applications were from unaccompanied children
Last year Britain accepted 216 people under a scheme to relocate the most vulnerable refugees, and almost 5,000 Syrians had been granted asylum in the last four years.
UKIP MP Douglas Carswell said Britain had a "duty to act" to help refugees and asylum seekers, but could only do so if it had control of its borders to cut immigration.
He also suggested that "in order to stop the horror, we need to stop the boats", warning that further tragedies would take place unless people were dissuaded from trying to make the journey.
Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman accused Mr Cameron of "lurking with his head in the sand trying to pretend that nobody cares and it's not our problem".
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The word migrant is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "one who moves, either temporarily or permanently, from one place, area, or country of residence to another".
A refugee is, according to the 1951 Refugee Convention, any person who "owing to a well-founded fear" of persecution is outside their country of nationality and "unable" or "unwilling" to seek the protection of that country. To gain the status, one has to go through the legal process of claiming asylum.
The word migrant has traditionally been considered a neutral term, but some criticise the BBC and other media for using a word they say implies something voluntary, and should not be applied to people fleeing danger.
Battle over words to describe migrants
Mamunal Islam was told by US online ticketing website Eventbrite the name "M Islam" matched one restricted by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control.
The accountant, who is from Bedford, said this was "beyond racist".
Eventbrite said it was "truly sorry" but "a person with a very common name is more likely to make the list".
The funds were released after Mr Islam, who is a British citizen, provided information confirming his country of birth.
Mr Islam was using the site to sell tickets for a film screening to raise money for a foodbank in Bedford.
He said: "Islam is a common name in the UK and around the world.
"It is counter-productive - discrimination like this can force young Muslim people, or anyone really, into the arms of extremists."
Eventbrite is a website that allows organisations to sell tickets to the public.
Mr Islam had used it nine times before for similar fundraising events without problems.
Eventbrite said the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had only recently added "M Islam" to its list.
Eventbrite denied the move was connected to President Trump's executive order banning travel by people from some majority Muslim countries, which was signed three days later.
A spokesman for the company said: "As a US company, Eventbrite must comply with US law.
"In this instance, a payment to the organiser was temporarily held because of a potential OFAC name match.
"Whether that is J Smith or M Islam does not make the slightest difference."
Bedford Conservative MP Richard Fuller has asked Eventbrite to look at the way it complies with the OFAC list, because "if you try to match a Mr Islam in Bedford, or in the UK, you can't find anyone - they're not on the list".
The 26-year-old tested positive for cocaine after the Super League win at Widnes on 14 July and was suspended by his club and Rugby Football League.
Scotland head coach Steve McCormack has added two players to his squad.
New Zealand Warriors' James Bell and South Sydney Rabbitohs' Campbell Graham replace Walker.
Scotland Rugby League chairman Keith Hogg said: "We totally support the RFL anti-doping regulations and the action undertaken by Wakefield Trinity.
"We will be withdrawing Adam Walker from our extended World Cup squad."
Bell and Graham made their debuts in the National Rugby League, the top tier for clubs in Australasia, last week and they join a 37-man squad for the World Cup in Australia later this year.
McCormack said: "We are always watching a number of Scottish qualified players at clubs in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
"We've known about them since last year and have been really pleased to see the progress that James and Campbell have been making.
"It was great to see them make their NRL debuts within a few days of each other."
The firm has said seven bidders were interested in buying its UK business, including its Port Talbot plant.
In a speech in Swansea, Mr Cairns said access to the European Union market was "fundamental" to steel manufacturers.
But Vote Leave Cymru called the EU a "barrier that restricts our ability to offer support to businesses in need".
Speaking to business leaders on Thursday, Mr Cairns said: "Although there are no guarantees, be in no doubt our membership of the European Union makes our chances of gaining that buyer, of defending our industry, so much stronger.
"Access to the EU market is fundamental to any steel manufacturer, with 69% of all steel exports from Wales going to Europe last year."
Mr Cairns warned that, after a Brexit, the British steel industry could fall victim to EU tariffs.
"The joint action taken across Europe to defend our industry from steel dumping has led steel imports from outside the EU [to] fall massively," he said.
"We've pressed the European Commission for firmer, faster action and there is still more to do."
But a Vote Leave Cymru spokesman responded: "When the Welsh steel industry needed intervention, both the governments in Westminster and Cardiff were limited in what they could do by the EU."
"We are almost powerless to set tariffs to protect Welsh and UK based businesses from dumping from China, and when an important Welsh industry needs help in the future, we will be in a far weaker position to assist if we vote to remain in the EU."
Cash earmarked for education in England is too often "disappearing into the back pockets of those in charge", says the Local Government Association.
Current scrutiny is ineffective, leaving the media and whistleblowers to uncover fraud, argues the LGA.
The government says academies and free schools are subject to greater scrutiny than council-run schools.
Council leaders are urging Education Secretary Justine Greening to restore local oversight of all school finances "providing democratic accountability so that parents and communities can be confident their children aren't missing out".
They say the Education Funding Agency, the official body responsible for the financial oversight of academies and free schools, lacks the capacity "to provide the level of scrutiny necessary to ensure value for money and catch out fraudsters".
The LGA highlighted two scandals this year at:
In April, a report by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee raised concerns that the rapid expansion of the academies programme in England had made it difficult to keep track of spending and land.
In May, the government abandoned controversial plans to force all England's schools to become academies.
The Department for Education says all academies operate under a strict system of oversight and accountability which is more robust than in council-run schools and ensures any issues are identified quickly.
"Unlike other schools, their accounts are scrutinised by an independent auditor and we have considerably more financial information about academies than we ever had for council-run schools," said a spokeswoman.
"The academy programme puts control of running schools in the hands of teachers and school leaders, the people who know best how to run their schools.
"They also allow us to tackle underperformance far more swiftly than in a council-run system where many schools have been allowed to fail for years."
Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's children and young people board, said: "We are told that academies and free schools are subject to more financial scrutiny than council-maintained schools, yet we keep hearing that millions of pounds of taxpayers' money, which has been earmarked to make sure our children get a good education, is disappearing into the back pockets of those in charge.
"The National Audit Office has raised serious concerns about the ability of the DfE to effectively monitor academy trusts' spending, even before the planned expansion of the academy programme, and we don't believe it can possibly have effective oversight of spending in more than 20,000 schools," said Mr Watts, who is Labour leader of Islington Council in north London.
"Centralising control of schools isn't working, oversight needs to be devolved down to local councils," he added.
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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.
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Jane Collins was told to pay £358,000 in damages and costs in February after being sued for libel and slander.
But, she appeared in court in Hull earlier on Monday after failing to pay.
A spokeswoman for Ms Collins said after the hearing that she will face bankruptcy proceedings if it is found that she cannot make the payments owed.
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Ms Collins claimed Rotherham MPs Sir Kevin Barron, John Healey and Sarah Champion knew about child exploitation in the town but did not intervene.
She made the comments in a speech at a UKIP conference a month after a report found that about 1,400 children in the area had been abused between 1997 and 2013.
She also expressed the opinion that they acted out of political correctness, political cowardice or political selfishness and were guilty of misconduct so grave that it was or should be criminal, as it aided the perpetrators.
Ms Collins argued it was a political speech which did not contain any allegation of fact but expressed an opinion to the effect that the MPs were likely to have known that sexual exploitation was a serious problem in the area.
She was ordered to pay a total of £162,000 damages to the MPs and £120,000 towards the £196,000 legal bill within 21 days, but failed to do so.
Ms Collins appeared at a private hearing at Hull County Court to discuss a demand for payment issued by the MPs' lawyers.
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A spokeswoman for Ms Collins said the judge has now ordered that an examination of her assets should take place before 8 June .
The spokeswoman said she would face bankruptcy proceedings if it was found she could not make the payments owed.
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The Church of Ireland parish invited Elvis impersonator Andy Rogers to lead the service through the music of The King.
American flags adorned the altar as Rev Paul Hoey took to his feet to encourage the congregation to "sing, dance, clap and enjoy the music".
Most of all he asked them "to be open to the message of the songs".
The opening song eased the audience in with Swing Down Sweet Chariot blending spiritualism and Elvis.
People had come from as far afield as Belfast and Dungannon to enjoy the night, and all denominations and religions were welcomed.
Rev Hoey, who organised the event near Londonderry, said the service - the first of its kind in Northern Ireland - was "partly an Elvis gig and partly an act of worship".
"Last year I heard Andy Rodgers sing at a concert," he said. "As I listened it began to dawn on me how many of the songs related to the message of the Church."
There was an excited if hesitant atmosphere among congregants.
"At first, I thought it was a bit unusual but I'm looking forward to it now," said one parishioner.
The Elvis-inspired service featured the rock'n roll hits Blue Suede Shoes, All Shook Up as well as gospel tracks Take My Hand Precious Lord and How Great Thou Art.
Upon seeing the church was packed to the rafters - and there actually were rafters - Reverend Hoey indicated that the church could maybe repeat the event, but change the theme.
"It's proven so popular, who knows what's next? Maybe Johnny Cash."
One official told the AFP news agency that the launch might be "for a satellite or a space vehicle".
But nothing indicated it would be for a ballistic missile, the official added.
It comes as the UN Security Council discusses imposing fresh sanctions against North Korea after it conducted a fourth nuclear test on 6 January.
Pyongyang said it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, but nuclear experts have questioned the claim, saying the blast was not large enough.
On Thursday morning, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported that Japanese officials were concerned by recent activity at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station, also known as Tongchang-ri.
Analysis of satellite imagery suggested preparations were under way for a missile or rocket launch, possibly within a week, the officials said.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency meanwhile cited a government source as saying screens had been set up at key areas at the site, probably to deter satellite surveillance.
Later, an unnamed US official in Washington told AFP: "The indications are that they are preparing for some kind of launch.
"Could be for a satellite or a space vehicle - there are a lot of guesses.
"North Korea does this periodically - they move things back and forth... There's nothing to indicate it's ballistic-missile related."
North Korea last conducted a long-range rocket launch in 2012, successfully putting into orbit an object Pyongyang claimed was a communications satellite.
Luis Reece made an assured 55 but the rest of the visiting batsmen adopted a frantic approach and paid the price.
Marchant de Lange (3-53) claimed three quick wickets, while Graham Wagg (2-14) and Andrew Salter (3-60) combined to dismiss Derbyshire for 160.
Glamorgan, left six overs to bat, aimed to survive but lost Jacques Rudolph lbw to the last ball from Jeevan Mendis.
Salter extracted plenty of turn in the night session, giving hope to Derbyshire's spinners, before a late assault from Mendis (27) was halted by Timm van der Gugten.
It was an unlikely few hours of action under the lights, which included the use of a nightwatchman for the third night running, setting up a fascinating finish to the first pink-ball game in Wales.
Glamorgan all-rounder Andrew Salter told BBC Wales Sport:
"They always say day three is moving day and it definitely has moved on, fingers crossed the batters apply themselves and take us to a win - it's very much in the balance.
"It was nice to have some assistance (bowling), if you bowl a good area there's rough there and that kept me in the game, but if you bowl poorly there's an opportunity to score.
"(The pink ball) has felt quite good in the hand, it feels a bit more like a white ball compared to the red ball, and at times it's felt quite soft later in the day so we've got to take these things into consideration in how we go about knocking them off."
Derbyshire batsman Luis Reece told BBC Radio Derby:
"With the wicket the way it is, being positive was a big thing we spoke about and at times it may have come across a bit frantic, but especially with this pink ball you always feel there's a ball with your name on it, you don't feel set especially with the wicket deteriorating.
"To get their senior player (Rudolph) is a massive boost for us and they know we're going to be all over them."
The FTSE 100 closed down 21.72 points, or 0.36%, at 5,950.23.
Standard Chartered shares turned from being biggest riser to lose 1.7% after its results.
Tullow Oil extended Thursday's losses , with its shares falling by 5.7% following an update on its Ghanian activities.
The oil producer had revealed that there could be an issue with a storage vessel at its flagship Jubilee field in Ghana.
On the currency markets, the pound ticked 0.03% higher against the dollar to $1.4344 while against the euro, it was down 0.2% at €1.2883.
Organisers believe 300 of the 1,200 competitors went an extra two miles during Sunday's Bournemouth Bay Run.
Bournemouth council, which runs the event, said it was investigating what happened to the marshal who should have directed runners at a turning point.
Runners were said to have "turned the air blue" while one described the event's organisation as "shambolic".
Hayley James, who is four months pregnant and from Poole, said: "To have a race of that scale with only one marshal on a point is inexcusable.
"We saw loads of people walking at the end, I felt so sorry for them - I felt like crying at the 10km mark when my husband told me I had to run a further 4k."
Andy Isaac, from Bournemouth, said the event was "mayhem" with one point where an elderly woman managed to drive on to the route and was flashing her lights at oncoming runners.
Runner Kirsty Weston, from Wimborne, added: "I was really quite shocked [by the route error], it's inexcusable... you just expect more. The whole thing was shambolic."
Spectator Steve Shuck said: "Whether the marshal got caught short, went home or got fed up, they weren't there so the runners went on past that point.
"Runners were angry, I knew a lot of people taking part; the air was pretty blue."
But Trevor Finnis said it was important to put the mistake into context.
He said: "I'm sure this won't happen again and I'm just remembering that at the end of the day it was for a good cause."
Competitors who think they were affected have been told to contact the council for a "goodwill gesture".
The overall event, which also included a 1km, 5km and half marathon race, attracted more than 3,000 runners.
Jon Weaver, head of resort marketing and events at the council, said: "Unfortunately there was some confusion with marshalling arrangements at one point, but it was a critical point. We apologise unreservedly to those front runners.
"In 33 years of running... this is the first time this has happened and as part of our debrief we will be analysing the arrangements carefully... to learn for 2016.
"We understand runners have trained for a long time for the event and it's hard for them and we do empathise with how they are feeling."
It is hoped this year's event will raise more than £70,000 for the British Heart Foundation.
The 29-year-old, who will be available to play in all formats, will move to Lord's when his commitments in the Indian Premier League are finished.
The left-arm seamer played four matches in the T20 Blast for Middlesex last year, taking eight wickets.
"Mitchell made a really positive impression in 2015," managing director of cricket Angus Fraser said.
McClenaghan, who has played 23 Twenty20 internationals and 47 one-day internationals for the Black Caps, will predominantly play T20 cricket for Middlesex.
"Mitchell gets modern limited-over cricket and the fact a bowler needs to be deliberately unpredictable," Fraser added.
"He has the skills and mindset to be constantly competitive in these forms of the game."
Middlesex have already signed New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum to play one-day cricket this summer.
Socialist chief Pedro Sanchez pressed the wrong button during the vote on whether to debate a law requiring minors to get parental permission before getting an abortion.
"I deeply regret my error," he said.
The move, proposed by the governing Popular Party (PP), passed easily due to its parliamentary majority.
"I am firm in my commitment to the freedom of women aged under 18. I have always publicly defended it. I apologise for the error," Mr Sanchez tweeted (in Spanish).
He faced ridicule on social media for the gaffe. Some users drew comparisons with Homer Simpson, the US cartoon character who once avoided a nuclear meltdown by guessing which button to press in an emergency.
The PP dropped plans last year to roll back the Socialist party's abortion laws, which allow the procedure to take place in the first 14 weeks of a woman's pregnancy.
It would have limited abortion to cases of rape or where the mother's health is at serious risk.
But the PP have continued to seek restrictions on 16 and 17-year-olds seeking abortions, and after the vote their proposal could come into law by June.
The airline said it expects 45,000 passengers will use the year-round service which will operate four times a week from April.
Easyjet already operates services from Ronaldsway to Liverpool and London Gatwick.
A spokeswoman said it would "further strengthen connections for customers travelling to and from the UK".
Ann Reynolds, Director of Ports, said the decision was an "exciting opportunity for residents" which could "bring in potential new tourism" to the Isle of Man.
The service is set to begin on 19 April.
"For us this technology holds the unimaginable dream of a cure," she says.
Her 13-year-old daughter Sohana has spent her entire life covered in painful blisters, the result of a condition called recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.
It is caused by two faulty collagen VII genes, which means her body does not produce the protein that helps anchor the skin in place.
I first met Sohana a couple of years ago. At the time she was having experimental cell therapy at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London.
That gave some temporary relief, but the greatest long-term hope may come from gene editing.
Techniques to edit human DNA have been around for some time. For the past 15 years there has been a gene therapy unit at the Institute of Child Health (ICH) in London.
Gene therapy involves using a disabled virus - known as a viral vector - to deliver a synthetic functioning copy of a gene into cells. There is no way for scientists to know where the gene will end up amidst the billions of letters of DNA code in the nucleus of our cells.
A gene therapy trial for adults with Sohana's condition is about to get underway at GOSH.
But the collagen VII gene is so big, it is difficult to find a viral vector stable enough to deliver its payload.
Gene editing offers something far more precise - adding a gene in an exact location. Unlike gene therapy, it can also be used to snip out a faulty section of DNA.
Explaining the science of genetic engineering is not easy, but Waseem Qasim, Prof of Cell and Gene Therapy at ICH has this nice analogy: "With gene therapy, it's rather like repairing a car with no lights by strapping a headlamp onto the roof, which would need to be switched on at all times.
"With gene editing you can change the bulb in the headlamps and the lights can be switched on and off as normal - a complete repair."
There is a huge amount of excitement among biologists at the potential for gene editing.
Only last month Prof Qasim was part of a team from GOSH and ICH who announced they had rebuilt a child's immune system using gene editing.
One-year-old Layla Richards had an aggressive form of leukaemia, which had not responded to any other treatment.
Prof Qasim says all the teams working on treatments for single gene inherited disorders are now using gene editing.
Most clinical trials are at least five years away but there is great potential.
"The gene editing technologies that are coming through could potentially be a game changer for those conditions because we can now, for the first time, go in and correct specific gene changes that we weren't able to do before," he says.
The conditions likely to benefit first are those affecting the blood, immune system or muscle, where cells could be removed, re-engineered in the laboratory, and then put back.
For RDEB, it would mean gene editing Sohana's skin cells and then injecting them back in the hope that the healthy tissue would take over from the faulty.
Her mother Sharmila knows the research is still at the laboratory stage, but is understandably anxious that it should accelerate.
Many patients with Sohana's condition go on to develop skin cancers.
"The potential for cures - for miracles - really is there. The question is how long is it going to take."
There are several types of gene editing, but the technology really took off three years ago. Profs Jennifer Doudna of University of California, Berkeley and Emmanuelle Charpentier, now at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Germany, discovered a cheap and efficient new system for editing DNA.
Known as Crispr-Cas9 it has been adopted by scientists around the world.
Crisprs (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) are sections of DNA, while Cas9 (Crispr-associated protein 9) is an enzyme.
They are found in bacteria, which use them to disable attacks from viruses.
Rather like a sat nav Crispr scans the genome looking for the right location and then uses the Cas9 protein as molecular scissors to snip through the DNA.
Doudna and Charpentier realised this bacterial cut-and-paste system could be used to edit human genes.
Almost immediately Crispr became the gene editing technique of choice because of its speed, accuracy and simplicity.
It has caused a quiet revolution in research labs across the world.
Experiments which once took months can now be done in weeks. And its potential is vast.
Last month scientists said they had used it to create a mosquito that can resist malaria.
Plant breeders are using Crispr to create disease-resistant strains of crops.
In April, researchers in China edited human embryos to try to correct a faulty gene that caused an inherited blood disorder.
The embryos used were never destined to be implanted, but the research rang alarm bells about the implications of gene editing.
Hundreds of scientists and bioethicists have gathered in Washington for an international summit on human gene editing.
Jointly organised by the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of London and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the three day meeting will examine the potential of gene editing as well as its risks.
I spoke to Prof Doudna, one of the co-inventors of the Crispr system, and she said: "The implications of gene editing for medicine are pretty profound. It is already enabling scientists to create better animal models of disease. In future, we hope it could be used not just to understand disease but to cure it. If we see a mutation in a cell we can fix it. That's very exciting."
Editing DNA outside the body, as was done with Layla Richards, is unlikely to be controversial.
But altering the genes of an embryo, even purely for research purposes, is a step too far for some, even though it might eventually yield cures for inherited conditions.
The Washington summit should end with a mission statement about whether such basic research should proceed.
Protesters say the bill, passed by the Senate on Saturday, will erode judges' independence and undermine democracy.
It gives MPs and the justice minister the power to appoint judges without consulting judicial circles.
The government says the move is needed because the judiciary is corrupt and serves only the interests of elites.
The bill must still be signed by President Andrzej Duda in order to become law. He has given no indication that he plans to veto it.
Since it came to power in 2015, the government of the conservative, populist Law and Justice party (PiS), has passed a series of controversial reforms, triggering mass protests.
Opposition supporters and human rights activists gathered in Warsaw under Polish and EU flags, and other banners, blowing klaxons, in a demonstration which continued after dark.
Police say about 4,500 people turned out in the capital while another estimate puts the number closer to 10,000. Smaller rallies were held in Krakow, Katowice and elsewhere.
Chats of "shame, shame" and "we will defend democracy" could be heard, correspondents say.
Instead of Law and Justice, one placard in Warsaw read "Lawlessness and Injustice", the BBC's Adam Easton reports from Warsaw.
Opposition leaders like former Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna of Civic Platform and Ryszard Petru of the Modern party took to the stage in Warsaw.
"Today we know that a great fight has begun and we know we must be together, we know we must fight against them together," Mr Schetyna told the crowd, Reuters news agency reports.
The opposition fear the law will give parliament - dominated by PiS lawmakers - indirect control over judicial appointments, violating the constitutional separation of powers.
Włodzimierz Wróbel, a Supreme Court justice, told the BBC Poland would lose its independent judiciary.
The leader of the PiS, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, says the reforms are needed because the judiciary is corrupt and only serves the elites. His party has previously passed legislation giving it control over the public media and civil service.
Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro said the current system of appointing judges was undemocratic.
"We want to end corporatism and introduce the oxygen of democracy there," he said. "Because Poland is a democracy based on the rule of law. This is not court-ocracy."
Many Poles agree with the government, our correspondent reports.
A separate bill was also presented in parliament this week, which would allow the justice minister to get rid of all of Poland's Supreme Court judges and appoint new ones.
This piece of legislation was not consulted on beforehand and introduced to parliament in the middle of the night, our correspondent says. It is still being discussed.
Under the PiS government, he adds, the justice minister already wields considerable power over the prosecution service in his role as prosecutor general because he can influence prosecutors to launch investigations.
The European Commission, which is already investigating Poland for a serious breach of the rule of law, will urgently discuss the developments next week
The Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner, Nils Muiznieks, said the reforms were a "major setback for judicial independence".
Manfred Weber, leader of the European Parliament's largest grouping the EPP, said: "Law and Justice is putting an end to the rule of law and leaving the European community of values."
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WBA, WBC and IBF middleweight champion Golovkin faces WBO light-middleweight belt holder Alvarez on 16 September.
Mayweather fights McGregor three weeks earlier in the same city, Las Vegas.
Golovkin insists his contest is the "true boxing fight" as opposed to the "circus show" of Mayweather-McGregor.
"This [Mayweather-McGregor] is not for fighters, but business," said the 35-year-old Kazakh, who has won all 37 of his fights with 33 by knockout.
"I think people understand what is a true fight, a boxing fight, like mine with Canelo or a big show, maybe sometimes for people a funny show, like a circus show.
"Everybody knows. Conor is not a boxer, just a show. If you want to watch a show please watch them, if you want to watch a true fight, a true boxing fight and you respect boxing, watch my fight with Canelo.
"This is business. Conor with Floyd is not a boxing fight because Conor is not a boxer. Money fight OK, show fight OK."
Golovkin-Alvarez is one of the most eagerly awaited boxing match-ups in recent memory that will decide the world's best middleweight.
Golovkin has made 18 consecutive world middleweight title defences and was taken to points for the first time since 2008 by American Daniel Jacobs in March.
Alvarez, 26, has won world titles in two weight divisions with one blemish during a 51-fight career - by a majority points decision to Mayweather in 2013.
The light-middleweight fight between American Mayweather, 40, and Ireland's McGregor, 28, has been described as a "farce" but could earn both men as much as $100m (£78.4m).
Mayweather, a former five-weight world champion and widely considered the best boxer of his generation, retired unbeaten in 2015 after 49 bouts.
That followed a successful defence of his WBC and WBA welterweight titles, a victory that meant he equalled Rocky Marciano's career record of 49-0.
McGregor, who has never boxed professionally, became the UFC's first dual-division champion in November 2016 and has previously challenged Mayweather to a fight under mixed martial arts rules.
His boxing licence was granted by the California State Athletic Commission in December, allowing him to box in the US state.
In total the company made about 9,000 silent or abandoned calls to potential customers in 2011.
They were made through two call centres during a telemarketing campaign to attract new subscribers.
TalkTalk said it had terminated its relationship with those businesses as soon as the problem was discovered.
Ofcom said TalkTalk had exceeded the limit for such calls on four separate occasions in a seven week period.
Abandoned calls occur when a person answers the phone, but the caller then hangs up.
A silent call is where the phone rings, but there is only silence on the other end of the line, and no information message is played.
Ofcom said such problems were often caused by answer machine detection (AMD) technology.
Sometimes the software mistakenly identifies an answer machine or voicemail, and terminates the call, even though it has been answered by a human being.
"Silent and abandoned calls can cause annoyance and distress to consumers," said Claudio Pollack of Ofcom.
"Companies must abide by the law and Ofcom's policies. If they fail to do so then Ofcom will take firm action," he said.
TalkTalk said it was fair that Ofcom had imposed the fine, and blamed the two call centre operators concerned, Teleperformance Limited and McAlpine Marketing Limited.
It said it was in the process of recovering the fine from them.
"TalkTalk demands high standards from the companies it works with and as a result TalkTalk immediately stopped using these suppliers," said a spokesperson.
Last year, energy firm Npower was fined £60,000 by Ofcom for a series of abandoned calls which were made in 2011.
Two years ago the maximum fine for abandoned calls was raised to £2m.
The firm said it had contacted AstraZeneca over a multi-billion pound bid for the UK-based drug maker.
If successful, the deal would be the biggest ever takeover of a UK firm by a foreign company.
Pfizer said it approached AstraZeneca on Saturday, after an initial offer in January, worth £58.8bn, was rebuffed.
AstraZeneca said the original offer "significantly undervalued" the firm, which employs more than 51,000 staff.
However, AstraZeneca said it was "confident" its strategy would create "significant value" for shareholders on its own.
"The Board remains confident in the ongoing execution of AstraZeneca's strategy as an independent company," it added.
By Kamal AhmedBBC Business editor
Pfizer's statement this morning is a love letter to AstraZeneca's shareholders.
It talks of "a highly compelling opportunity to realise a significant premium" and offers a "substantial cash payment".
Pfizer also pledges that AstraZeneca shareholders would be able to take up significant rights in any combined company.
Judged by other pharmaceutical deals, any bid of this size would come at a premium of around 30%, presumably on AstraZeneca's undisturbed 17 April share price of £37.81.
With a present market value above £50bn, AstraZeneca would cost Pfizer around £65bn.
Pfizer has the cash, with a multi-billion dollar war chest held off-shore to shield it from American tax laws.
If AstraZeneca does not engage, and it hasn't so far, this bid could turn hostile.
It will be quite a battle.
Pfizer said in a statement that AstraZeneca's refusal to engage meant it was currently "considering its options".
AstraZeneca manufactures drugs in 16 countries focusing on treatments for diabetes, cancer and asthma as well as antibiotics.
It reported £25.7bn in sales last year, with £3.3bn in pre-tax profit.
In the UK it has eight sites and about 6,700 employees.
Recently it posted a drop in first quarter profits - and laid off thousands of staff in an effort to reduce its costs to compensate for a fall in sales - due to patent losses on blockbuster medicines.
In April, it posted a drop in first quarter profits after its earnings were by hit by patents expiring on some of its older medicines.
Pfizer said its initial offer in January was a combination of cash and shares worth £46.61 per AstraZeneca share, worth £58.8bn in total.
At the time, it represented a 30% premium to AstraZeneca's share price, although AstraZeneca's share price has since increased and on Monday morning it jumped nearly 15% to £46.88p.
Pfizer said the deal was "a highly compelling opportunity" for AstraZeneca's shareholders.
It said if the takeover went through, the combined firm would have management in both the US and the UK, but would list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
"We have great respect for AstraZeneca and its proud heritage," said Pfizer chairman and chief executive Ian Read.
Pfizer said it would only make a firm offer if AstraZeneca directors voted unanimously in favour of the deal.
"The strategic, business and financial rationale for a transaction is compelling," it added.
Buying AstraZeneca would give Pfizer, whose drugs include Viagra, access to a number of cancer and diabetes drugs.
However, Justin Urquhart Stewart, head of corporate development at Seven Investment Management, told the BBC the price Pfizer is offering was still too low to secure a deal.
"It's too close to what it is priced at in the market," he said.
"They've tried to talk to the management and gain agreement but that's not happened so they are considering now going directly to the shareholders".
Citi analyst Andrew Baum said he believed there was now a 90% chance that Pfizer would acquire AstraZeneca for at least around £49 a share.
By Linda YuehChief business correspondent
Linda Yueh, the BBC's chief business correspondent, notes that AstraZeneca is a key UK firm in the area of research and development (R&D) and also in exports.
"AstraZeneca's £7bn of drugs sold every year accounts for a whopping 2.3% of British goods exports," she added.
Pfizer has made other major acquisitions, its most recent being the $68bn (£40.4bn) purchase of Wyeth in 2009.
However, this would mark its biggest foreign acquisition.
It would also be the largest foreign takeover of a British firm, beating some of the more recent deals which include:
However, the BBC's business editor, Kamal Ahmed, warned Pfizer's takeover approach could turn into a lengthy battle.
"If AstraZeneca does not engage, and it hasn't so far, this bid could turn hostile," he said.
Reacting to news of the bid, Business Secretary Vince Cable said: "My priority is to ensure that the objectives of this government's life sciences industrial strategy are fulfilled. This means ensuring there are high-skilled jobs and long term investment in research and development in the UK.
"On the potential merger, the CEO of Pfizer has made contact and informed me of his intentions and I have emphasised the importance of these points."
Governors at Ysgol Dewi Sant in St Davids voted unanimously to move pupils to Tasker Milward in Haverfordwest for 12 months from September.
A meeting for parents will be held on Thursday.
The school was threatened with closure in 2015 but councillors made a u-turn following protests.
The school will open as a new three-16 school from September 2018 as part of education shake-ups.
She qualified as a pilot in 1959, straight after graduating from the city's Government College. However, it took 30 years before another woman followed in her footsteps.
When Shukriya Khanum joined the country's sole airline, Pakistan International Airlines, female pilots were not permitted to fly commercial planes.
She therefore accepted the job of flight instructor at PIA's training centre, where she taught young cadets. She also took flying enthusiasts on joy rides at Karachi Flying Club.
But in the late 1970s, after the military government of General Zia ul-Haq took over and martial law was imposed, Pakistan became more conservative.
Renowned TV anchor Dr Shahid Masood, who Shukriya Khanum's nephew, recalls his aunt telling him that General Zia "could not digest the idea of a woman flying with a man together in the cockpit".
"He objected to that and Shukriya was barred from flying with men and restricted to work as a ground instructor."
Shukriya Khanum was rather flabbergasted by this, he said.
"I remember my aunt saying: 'I work with these men. Some of them are my students, others are colleagues and I spend a lot of time with them, so what is wrong in flying together? And there are stewardesses on board as well, so are they going to stop them too?'"
Two other women, Ayesha Rabia and Maliha Sami, faced similar restrictions after taking the PIA pilot test in 1980.
But after General Zia died in 1989, PIA called them and invited to attend formal pilot training.
"For nine years I waited, because rules did not allow women to fly," Ms Rabia told the BBC.
Ms Sami flew her first flight as first officer in 1990, the day before Ms Rabia flew her first.
In 2005, Ms Rabia became the first female Pakistani captain of a commercial scheduled flight. A year later, she flew the first Pakistani flight with an all-female crew.
Ms Rabia remembers the day in 1989 when she went to see Shukriya Khanum in Karachi.
She was happy to see her and offered up some advice, telling her "to focus on professionalism and never let anybody think that because you are a woman you cannot do that".
In one of Shukriya Khanum's famous photos, she is seen standing next to a plane with Qaiser Ansari, who was working as a flight instructor at a flying club in Rawalpindi.
He recalls the image, which was taken when she flew him to Pataro, a small town in Sindh's Jamshoroo district. The photo was taken at a small airstrip known as Bholari.
"Shukriya throughout her life tried her best to prove that girls can do anything," he said, adding that PIA had failed to give her the status she deserved.
Dr Masood voiced similar feelings, saying his aunt had been deprived of the chance to fly during her golden years. She was a "brave and bold woman and she belonged to an age that was more enlightened," he added.
Nathan Cameron opened the scoring with a bullet header into the top corner before Shakers substitute Tom Pope headed in Reece Brown's cross.
Bury had Chris Hussey sent off for a second bookable offence, and a Cameron own goal then gave Wigan hope.
Their comeback was complete when Craig Morgan drove in an equaliser from the edge of the box to earn a point.
Bury manager David Flitcroft told BBC Radio Manchester:
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"I'm looking at the game overall and we certainly did enough out of possession to win the game, we were in control.
"I never felt threatened until the sending off. I never felt they laid a glove on us, they got up to our 20-metre win and then if fizzled out.
"The inconsistency of the referee's performance - he was making it up in the end.
"Wigan's not beaten us, the situation of poor officiating has just ripped the heat out of the result."
Wigan boss Gary Caldwell told BBC Radio Manchester:
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"It wasn't great to be honest. When you're coming away from home you want to be solid and not give anything away.
"We said we wanted to be brave on the ball and dictate the game and I thought we were outstanding at that.
"We had a lot of composure, we played our game, but we can't defend our box the way we did and give teams a two-goal start.
"I know a lot about the character of the group, that's there in abundance, they never know that they're beat, but we need to be more ruthless in both boxes."
Filming started in Glasgow this week for a zombie movie starring Brad Pitt.
The city council has estimated production on World War Z could rake in more than £2m for the local economy.
And tourism bosses are hoping other blockbusters in the pipeline could boost the phenomenon known as "set-jetting" - tourists who visit places purely to see locations used in film and TV productions.
World War Z has come at a welcome time for those attempting to keep Scotland firmly on the movie map.
Location spend north of the border actually fell last year from £25m in 2009 to £21.5m.
Creative Scotland - the agency charged with maximising the economic benefits of filming - said the fall came despite a rise in the number of films made.
Location department manager Belle Doyle explained: "The amount being spent directly on location - crew facilities, car hire, hotels and so on - was actually growing up until last year.
"However, although we had a lot of filming, it tended to be quite low budget."
Tourism body VisitScotland is pinning its hopes on several forthcoming blockbusters - including one that was neither produced nor filmed in Scotland.
Brave, a 3D computer-animated fantasy adventure film made by Disney/Pixar, is set in the Highlands and features the voices of top actors such as Billy Connolly, Emma Thomson, Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walters.
VisitScotland believe the film, which is due for release next year, could well generate huge interest in Scotland from fans around the world.
Film tourism project manager Jenni Steele said: "We are really hopeful that Brave does inspire a lot of people around the world to see Scotland.
"Although it is an animated magical story, magic, myths and legends are something Scotland is really well known for.
"Scotland is not too far away from that magical world, with our mountains and lakes, forests and valleys and rivers. We hope Brave will inspire them to see what Scotland is really like."
Other Hollywood films on the horizon with a Scottish link include Cloud Atlas, a new Tom Hanks and Halle Berry vehicle which has been partly shot in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Bo'ness.
And a Scarlett Johansson film - Under the Skin - is expected to show scenes from the Highlands.
The direct economic benefits to Scotland from filming can be considerable, according to Creative Scotland.
It estimates a film like World War Z, which involves a production crew in the hundreds, can bring in a daily spend of £30,000 on hotels, car hire and other production costs.
Belle Doyle commented: "We don't want the crews to come just for a few days - we'd like them to stay as long as possible. What you want is 300 people here spending money."
Ms Doyle said being able to accommodate big-budget movies has encouraged others to see Scotland as a suitable location.
She added: "Every time we get something big here, the more it says Scotland can do it and facilitate a production, whatever its size - and that is a great thing to be able to say."
Set-jetting has proved to be a "good by-product" of Creative Scotland's drive to attract film makers to Scotland, according to Ms Doyle.
Examples of films which boosted local economies include the 1995 epic Braveheart, starring Mel Gibson.
Before the film was released, the Wallace Monument in Stirling drew 30,000 to 40,000 people a year - in 1996, nearly 200,000 people visited.
Rosslyn Chapel also saw tourist figures leap after the release of the Da Vinci Code, with visitor numbers rising from 118,000 in 2005 to 175,000 the following year.
And Pennan in Aberdeenshire still draws tourists to see a replica of a prop phone box featured in Local Hero from 1983.
However, while Hollywood blockbusters have helped raise Scotland's profile, Ms Doyle pointed out that "bread and butter" projects have in the past accounted for the majority of annual location spend.
She added: "Out of £25m, £20m is probably the run-of-the-mill stuff that no one ever thinks about - stills shoots and commercials, for example."
Some commercials can also be big business.
Sony's high-definition Bravia television advertisement, which showed thousands of litres of paint exploding onto a block of flats in Glasgow in 2006, is thought to have attracted a location spend of up to £1m.
Agencies such as Creative Scotland are hoping the weakness of the pound will encourage more overseas production companies to bring their business here.
That would come as a welcome boost for Dumfries and Galloway, where the 1973 cult horror film The Wicker Man was shot.
A legacy of the film was the creation of the annual Wickerman Festival in Kirkcudbright which has drawn an estimated 100,000 visitors over the past decade.
But recent location spend in the region has proved less successful - falling sharply last year from almost £920,000 in 2009 to just £778,000.
The local council said it had seen more filming but less spending by production firms.
A council spokesman said: "This demonstrates that while still achieving an increase in inquiries and number of projects filming, it is becoming harder to maintain a high level of spend in the region during the current economic climate."
It has been working closely with VisitScotland to develop a regional "movie map" in order to draw more visitors to the region.
Ms Doyle said: "When a film or TV drama or commercial is made, it can benefit local cafes, B&Bs and other businesses and this can have a big impact on a local economy.
"We would always want the local community to benefit in some way."
VisitScotland, meanwhile, is continuing to keep movies sharply in focus.
Ms Steele commented: "Films provide a fantastic advertising opportunity. Even if only a percentage of tourists are coming here on the back of a film, it is significant.
"If we can tap into that audience it is an additional opportunity to try to get them to come to Scotland."
The home side went in front inside the first minute as Clarke lashed home a low left-foot shot from the edge of the box after Chesterfield failed to clear a Lee Brown cross.
Gaffney doubled the advantage in the 18th minute with a clinical low finish, having been put in on goal by good work from Luke James.
James had the chance to net his first Rovers goal late in the first half when pushed by Tom Anderson inside the box, but his penalty was too straight and impressive Chesterfield goalkeeper Thorsten Stuckmann stuck out a strong left hand to save.
The visitors improved after the break and were rewarded when Sylvan Ebanks-Blake pulled a goal back in the 85th minute with a curling right-foot effort from the left side of the box.
But Rovers were never seriously threatened and it took a fine save from Stuckmann to stop Chris Lines adding a third for Rovers in stoppage time.
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Match ends, Bristol Rovers 2, Chesterfield 1.
Second Half ends, Bristol Rovers 2, Chesterfield 1.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Sam Hird.
Billy Bodin (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Faupala (Chesterfield).
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Thorsten Stuckmann.
Attempt saved. Chris Lines (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Billy Bodin (Bristol Rovers).
Dion Donohue (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Bristol Rovers 2, Chesterfield 1. Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Chesterfield) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Billy Bodin (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Ryan Sweeney (Bristol Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ryan Sweeney (Bristol Rovers).
David Faupala (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Lee Mansell replaces Ollie Clarke.
Attempt missed. Rory Gaffney (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Dan Gardner replaces Rai Simons.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Jermaine Easter replaces Luke James.
Connor Dimaio (Chesterfield) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Daniel Leadbitter (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Connor Dimaio (Chesterfield).
Jon Nolan (Chesterfield) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Byron Moore (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jon Nolan (Chesterfield).
Attempt missed. Rai Simons (Chesterfield) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Substitution, Chesterfield. David Faupala replaces Kristian Dennis.
Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jon Nolan (Chesterfield).
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Byron Moore replaces Cristian Montaño.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Tom Anderson.
Attempt saved. Rai Simons (Chesterfield) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Ollie Clarke.
Rai Simons (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers).
Substitution, Chesterfield. Connor Dimaio replaces Osman Kakay.
Attempt missed. Billy Bodin (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Rory Gaffney (Bristol Rovers).
Jon Nolan (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Jon Nolan.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Osman Kakay.
A report found most Syrians had lost their legal status since the measures were adopted a year ago, putting them at risk of exploitation and abuse.
Only two out of the 40 refugees HRW researchers interviewed said they had been able to renew their residencies.
Last week, the Lebanese authorities forcefully repatriated 400 Syrians.
They had arrived at Beirut's international airport with the intention of travelling on to Turkey but were unable to board connecting Turkish Airlines flights before new visa regulations for Syrians imposed by the Turkish authorities came into force.
Amnesty International called Lebanon's decision to deport the Syrians "an outrageous breach" of its international obligations to protect refugees.
Lebanon is home to more than 1.07 million Syrians who have fled their country since the start of the civil war almost five years ago.
Under the residency regulations introduced last January, refugees applying to renew their residency permits are sorted into two categories: those registered with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and those who are not and must find a Lebanese sponsor.
HRW found that prohibitive paperwork requirements and fees, combined with arbitrary application of the regulations, effectively barred Syrians in both categories from renewal.
There are no official statistics, but local and international aid workers told HRW that most Syrians they were assisting had lost their legal status.
Almost all the refugees interviewed by HRW's researchers said they could not pay the $200 (£139) annual residency renewal fee. The UNHCR says 70% of Syrian refugees in Lebanon fall below the poverty line and rely on aid to survive.
HRW said the need to find a sponsor increased Syrians' exposure to harassment and facilitated corruption.
One refugee was quoted as saying that sponsors were making a business out of the Syria crisis, selling sponsorships for up to $1,000 a person. "Potential sponsors wait on the Syrian border or at the airport to sell sponsorships to new arrivals," the refugee said.
Another told HRW that the fact that his sponsor was his employer had locked him into an endless cycle of abuse and exploitation.
"My boss makes me work more than 12 hours a day at his shop," he said. "Sometimes I complain but then he threatens to cancel my sponsorship. What can I do? I have to do whatever he says. I feel like his slave."
Five women refugees told HRW that sponsors and employers had attempted to sexually exploit them, and that they did not dare approach the authorities to complain.
"These residency regulations are making life impossible for refugees in Lebanon and are pushing them underground," said Nadim Houry, HRW's deputy Middle East director. "The last thing Lebanon needs is a large, undocumented community living at the margins of society, at heightened risk of abuse."
Alan Clarke, 57, from Norwich, backed four outsiders in races to beat odds of 570,000-1 at a shop in the city.
He said it was just "a little flutter", but, as reported in the Eastern Daily Press, Mr Clarke said it felt like "Christmas has come early".
He said he planned to replace his fridge-freezer, then renew his passport and book holidays in the US and Mexico.
The win was "the best pay day of my life" and a "life-changing amount", Mr Clarke said.
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He placed bets in four races at Market Rasen and Wincanton on Thursday, backing horses at 25-1, two at 18-1 and one at 14-1.
His four-way accumulator, together with a special promotion at the Betfred shop which improved the odds, netted him £57,268.
Mr Clarke, who had followed the results on his phone, said he had to make a cup of coffee to calm himself down when the last horse on his betting slip crossed the finishing line.
Ms Eagle plans to announce her bid for the leadership on Monday, triggering a vote by the wider party membership.
Labour's National Executive will decide later whether Mr Corbyn must seek fellow MPs' nominations for his name to appear on the ballot paper.
Union leader Len McCluskey has warned of "lasting division" in the party if Mr Corbyn's name does not appear.
Mr Corbyn is due to appear on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, with Ms Eagle appearing on ITV's Peston on Sunday and the BBC's Sunday Politics.
BBC correspondent Iain Watson says Mr Corbyn's supporters say they have legal advice that he should be on any ballot automatically as the incumbent - but some party officials believe he would have to seek nominations from fellow MPs, as will Ms Eagle, the former shadow business secretary.
If the National Executive accepted this, and Mr Corbyn did not receive enough support in Westminster, he may be excluded from the leadership race before party members can cast a vote on his future, our correspondent added.
A vote of no confidence in Mr Corbyn by Labour MPs last month was passed by 172 votes to 40. But in last year's leadership election Mr Corbyn was elected by the wider membership on the first ballot with almost 60% of the vote.
Labour leadership rules
Eagle confirms Labour leadership bid
By Iain Watson, BBC political correspondent
All week, Angela Eagle has tried to persuade Jeremy Corbyn to stand down voluntarily, but he has said he won't betray the party members who elected him.
So she'll trigger a leadership contest on Monday, as she has the necessary support of 50 of her fellow MPs.
Labour's ruling National Executive is likely to meet 24 hours later, and they will have to take a decision which could have serious consequences for their party's future.
Labour party officials say they have legal advice which suggests he would have to seek nominations from fellow MPs, just like his challenger.
If the National Executive accepts this, and Mr Corbyn then fails to get enough backing at Westminster, he may be out of the race before party members get a say.
The leader of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, has warned that this would risk "a lasting division in the Labour party".
Privately, some of Mr Corbyn's opponents who previously saw a split as undesirable, now regard it as almost inevitable.
Mr McCluskey, head of the Unite union which is Labour's biggest donor, said: "I must warn that any attempts to keep Jeremy Corbyn, elected just 10 months ago with an enormous mandate, off the ballot paper by legal means risks a lasting division in the party.
"It is time for everyone to commit to a democratic and dignified procedure as the only way to avert such a disaster for working people."
The developments come after deputy party leader Tom Watson called off talks aimed at ending the crisis in Labour.
Unite had been due to meet representatives of Mr Corbyn and Labour MPs in Brighton on Sunday,
Mr Watson said there had been "significant progress" during initial talks in recent days, adding it was his "strong belief" the discussions could have led to a basis for further talks.
But he said: "It is with regret and profound sadness that I have concluded there is little to be achieved by pursuing wider conversations with our union affiliates at this time."
Mr Corbyn's declaration to continue "come what may" meant there was "no realistic prospect of reaching a compromise" over the leadership, he said.
Mr McCluskey accused Mr Watson of an "act of sabotage fraught with peril for the future of the party".
Bencic, 18, fought back to beat the 21-time Grand Slam champion 3-6 7-5 6-4 - only the second defeat for Williams in 45 matches this year.
The American, 33, has won the first three Grand Slams of 2015 and will go for the calendar Grand Slam at the US Open, which begins on 31 August.
"I played like an amateur to be honest," said Williams.
"I felt pretty much in control until I lost the match."
Bencic, the youngest player to beat Williams in a completed match since Maria Sharapova in 2004, said victory was "an incredible feeling".
"I was very overwhelmed from the situation on the court, but I'm just so happy the forehand landed in [on match point]," she said.
Bencic will play Romanian second seed Simona Halep in the Toronto final.
Halep, who is playing her first event since losing in the first round at Wimbledon, beat Italy's Sara Errani 6-4 6-4.
"I'm completely dead now, it was a very tough match," said Halep. "She played amazing, she was running everywhere for all the balls.
"I did everything I could to finish in two sets because in the third one I don't know what would happen."
Eastwood, 27, rejoined the U's in June after being released by Blackburn Rovers and has made 42 appearances in all competitions this season.
He initially signed a one-year deal but impressive performances, including a penalty save against Newcastle in the FA Cup, have earned him an extension.
"I'm really happy to be committing my future to the club," Eastwood said.
Twelve-year-old Jack Russell Prince disappeared from the home of his owner's friend in Raby Street, Tinsley, late on Saturday.
He was found dumped near some garages, within half a mile of where he went missing.
The RSPCA is appealing for information to trace the driver of a dark-coloured car seen in the area early on Tuesday.
As part of its appeal, it released a photograph of Prince's body inside the suitcase.
Inspector Sandra Dransfield said a witness had described seeing a man get out of a car and leave something in the bottom of a hedge.
She said: "It wasn't until it was getting light that she [the witness] realised it was a blue suitcase and went to investigate. She found Prince inside.
"Whilst there are no obvious signs of trauma to Prince - he literally just looked as though he was asleep - but the way in which he was found is suspicious."
The find comes after Prince's owner, Jasmine Jade Ruby Armstrong, launched a campaign on social media to find him.
Victims were telephoned and told a fault had been detected on their machines and the problem could be fixed by giving the caller remote access.
The fraudsters charge £100 to "fix the fault" but remove up to £400 from people's bank accounts.
More than 120 people have fallen victim in the last two months, police said.
"The fraudsters claim to be from a variety of computer service companies and say they are from software tech support," said Det Insp Lee Morton from the Kent and Essex Serious Economic Crime Unit.
"If remote access is not granted, fraudsters may become aggressive.
"But once given access they will either load a fake virus on to the computer then give the impression that they have removed it, or they will gain access to bank accounts."
The force said legitimate computer companies would never make unsolicited phone calls to request personal information or to fix computers.
The 32-year-old man was found at a property in Nettleton Road in Gloucester in the early hours of Thursday. He died later in hospital.
Gloucestershire Police said three women and three men were arrested.
Four have been held on suspicion of murder and two on suspicion of assisting an offender.
Twenty seven of those are from Sucun village in Suichang county where homes were swept away.
A video on state media Xinhua showed a mass of debris sliding down the mountain.
The heavy rains came with Typhoon Megi, which hit China on Wednesday.
Local media also reported six people missing in Baofeng village in Wencheng county, where another landslide hit.
Local authorities say they have mobilised heavy equipment and over a thousand people to help with search and rescue efforts.
Residents have also been relocated to safer areas.
Thirteen people in the village have since been rescued, Xinhua said.
Typhoon Megi killed four people and injured 625 when it hit Taiwan at peak intensity earlier this week, before reaching mainland China.
At least one person has been confirmed killed by the storm in Fujian, with millions of homes left without power following severe flooding.
State media said some areas of Fujian saw more than 300mm of rain in two days. Similar levels were reported in Taiwan.
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Edie's Disobedience by Winifred Fenn was found in a house clearance in Kent.
Inside, there is a note saying it was a prize from St Dyfrig's Sunday School, Cardiff, which was awarded to Nina Davis of class VI at Christmas 1904.
Alan Smith, who found the book, said: "I would love to know the book has gone back to its rightful owner."
The note said Nina's teacher was Miss Frances and the vicar was the Revd Hector A Coe.
Mr Smith said: "It is in fabulous condition for a book which is now 112 years old. The note in the cover gives it a real history and I would be more than happy to pass it onto Nina's relatives free of charge."
St Dyfrig's Church was built in two stages between 1888 and 1904. It stood on the corner of Wood Street before being closed in the 1960s and demolished in 1969.
Anyone with information about the book can contact Mr Smith through Alison Young by emailing [email protected]
Muslim Women's Network UK demanded an inquiry into "systematic misogyny displayed by significant numbers of Muslim male local councillors".
"They don't like women to be heard, to be empowered," it told BBC Newsnight.
Labour said it had the best record of any of the parties in selecting female and ethnic minority candidates.
As Mr Corbyn prepared to speak to the Association of Labour Councillors on Saturday, BBC Newsnight spoke to about a dozen Muslim women up and down the country.
They appeared to point to a pattern of obstruction from within Labour Muslim ranks and back up Muslim Women's Network UK's complaints of sabotage.
Optician Fozia Parveen claims her efforts to become a Labour councillor in Birmingham in 2008 were scuppered by men within the party.
She said: "At the time, I was aware of a smear campaign against me.
"They said that I was having an affair with one of the existing councillors.
"I was quite taken aback. People were turning up at my family home trying to intimidate my mum."
Ms Parveen said Muslim men told her mother to stop her from pursuing becoming a councillor.
She added: "It would be members of the local Labour Party. I didn't see them myself but my mum did say it was them."
Shazia Bashir was the first choice for Labour in a seat in Peterborough in 2007.
She claims that when her father said he would not support her, Muslim men from within the local Labour Party made her step aside. They deny the claim.
"Because I didn't have my father's consent and support, I had to step down. I was pressured into stepping down," said Ms Bashir, who was 31 and married with two children at the time.
Jean Khote, a sitting Labour councillor in Leicester, said good women candidates were barred by the membership in some areas with high Muslim populations - and that was kept from people higher up the party.
She said they would say there were not adequate candidates among the women, which she said was not true.
"There were brilliant women on the panel. I've met them and had discussions with them," she added.
Newsnight was told similar stories by other women who wished to remain anonymous.
One said: "They spread this slander about me... It's the way they get to you."
Another said she had been told by Labour members "Islam and feminism aren't compatible".
An advocate for gay rights was told: "This is un-Islamic. Leave that for white people." And many spoke of being criticised for being too Westernised.
Shaista Gohir, from Muslim Women's Network UK, told Newsnight the tight-knit patriarchal communities operate a system of clan politics known as "biradari", in which votes are delivered in blocks.
"These men have a cultural mindset, which they've brought from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh," she said.
"They operate a biradari male kinship system and they've brought the system here. What I call an old boys' network.
"They don't like women to be heard, to be empowered, because we will then challenge the status quo, challenge misogyny."
Muslim Women's Network UK has also written to Prime Minister David Cameron calling on him to launch an inquiry into the barriers to political participation of black and ethnic minority women.
But Ms Gohir said: "From our experience, Muslim women are most affected by Labour Muslim male councillors due to the latter's number in certain towns and cities."
Labour said its selection procedures included strong, positive action such as all-women shortlists and rules to ensure women were selected in winnable council seats.
"We have the best record of any party in selecting women and BAME [black, Asian and minority ethnic] candidates and we will continue to do all that we can to make sure candidates are representative of the communities they seek to represent," it said.
"The Labour Party has a fair, democratic and robust procedure for selecting council candidates. Local Labour Party members select their local candidates within the party's rules and guidelines.
"Those wishing to become Labour councillors are interviewed by an independent assessment team and unsuccessful candidates have a right of appeal to the regional party board."
You can see more on this story on Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 GMT on Friday.
He said his next project would be an album of of rock'n'roll classics, but he did not rule out contributing his own material.
Speaking ahead of the publication of his memoir, I Am Brian Wilson, he said: "I can write rock'n'roll."
He said he did not know when the album would be released, but added: "Maybe by the end of the year."
As part of a wide ranging interview, Wilson, who is responsible for classics including Good Vibrations and God Only Knows, also talked about his struggles with depression and drug addiction.
At the age of 22 he had his first breakdown. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was important to be honest in the book about the mental illness he has suffered since then.
"I didn't want people to think I was a liar. I wanted people to know that I told the truth," he said.
"My biggest regret was taking psychedelic drugs because it screwed my brain up."
After taking LSD for the first time in his 20s, Wilson started hearing noises in his head. And he still hears them "every day".
He says they sometimes "threaten" to kill him.
When I ask him how he gets rid of them, he said: "I yell. I say stop it - and like that they stop."
But in the old days, at the height of The Beach Boys fame, those voices were harder to silence. One reason, Wilson says, why he never felt comfortable playing live with the band.
In the book he admits performing frightened him.
"It just makes me feel a little bit nervous to go on stage and have all those people cheering at you."
He said he was worried he might disappoint people or that he "might sing off key."
He stopped touring with The Beach Boys after suffering a panic attack on a plane to Houston in 1964. Since the late 1990s however he has been performing live again, with concerts taking place around the world.
When I ask him why, his answer is revealing: "Well there's nothing else to do with my time so I decided just to stay on the road and just keep plugging away."
He insists no one is forcing him and that he does not need the money.
Wilson added "it was not that easy" working on the memoir with a ghost writer for a year, revisiting the highs and lows of his extraordinary life.
Nonetheless, he "wanted people to know my life story, what I went through, what I learned what I sang and produced".
With hits of the early 1960s about cars, girls and surfing, Wilson created the soundtrack to the Californian dream.
He went on to see how far he could push the limits of the way pop music should sound with albums such as Pet Sounds and Smile.
Wilson says it is not for any of those songs that he would like to be remembered. Instead it is "as a good singer". At this point, aged 74, he thinks he is only "about average".
His fans will be able to judge for themselves when his new album is released.
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Karen Catherall, 45, met Darren Jeffreys, 47, on Plenty of Fish three weeks before he killed her.
She was found strangled and with head injuries at her home near Mold.
BT said its handlers acted in line with police guidance not to pass on calls where there is "nothing to indicate there is any problem".
Jeffreys, from Mold, admitted murdering the mother-of-two on 13 September after they returned from the pub, and was jailed for life in February.
Her family have since been told by police that Ms Catherall made a 999 call which went through to BT to deal with just after she returned home.
But the call was disconnected after around 13 seconds and police were not informed.
Detectives later enhanced the call and discovered arguing could be heard.
Her mother, Glenys Keir, 74, said: "Apparently the person who picked up believed there was silence at the end of the line. They must have assumed 999 had been dialled accidentally.
"It doesn't bear thinking about what might have happened if BT had connected the call to the police."
Her sister, Lorraine, said: "You regularly hear of toddlers playing with their mum's mobile phone and ringing the emergency services by mistake.
"In those instances, the police often seem to trace the call and turn up on the doorstep.
"We want to know why that didn't happen when in this situation Karen so desperately needed their help."
Detective Inspector Mark Hughes, of North Wales Police, said: "The phone call was received by the telephone company operator and managed in accordance with their policy but not directed onto North Wales Police, nor in fact any police force.
"I understand the circumstances surrounding the management of this phone call are now being reviewed by the telephone company following a request by Karen's family."
A BT said North Wales Police contacted them on September 24, 2014 about whether we received an emergency call from a mobile phone number and they were provided with full details including a call recording.
A spokesperson added: "There was no response to our operator's questioning and our operator heard nothing to indicate there was any problem before the caller ended the call after about 13 seconds.
"Police forces have requested that we do not connect such calls to them and our operator correctly followed the call handling process requested by the police."
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The University of Buckingham has also given local police passes to access the university at any time, as a deterrent to any drug use.
Sir Anthony Seldon, the university's vice-chancellor, says illegal drugs are a "key factor" in mental health problems among young people.
He has warned against universities "turning a blind eye" to drug use.
The search by sniffer dogs did not find anything illegal, but the university says that it wants to send a message that it is tightening checks and that it will not offer any tacit acceptance of student drug use.
There will be regular police patrols on campus, says the university.
The move is part of the university's project to improve students' well-being.
Sir Anthony has been a high-profile campaigner for universities to take more responsibility for the pastoral care of students.
He has argued that too many universities have neglected the well-being of young people who are leaving home for the first time.
As part of this, he argues that universities need to address drug use among students, which can contribute to mental health problems.
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Police said a red Honda Civic had hit a silver Audi A4 before mounting a kerb on Manningham Lane and hitting a bollard on the pavement.
Two 18-year-old men from the city were pronounced dead at the scene.
The 20-year-old arrestees, who were also in the car, were arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and released on bail.
A New South Wales (NSW) Health spokesman said at least 11,000 patients of two dental operators were at "low risk" because of poor cleaning and sterilisation practices.
Patients who had invasive procedures at four practices in the Sydney region could be at risk.
Authorities said they are now contacting all of those patients.
HIV and Hepatitis are blood-borne infectious diseases.
The clinics were operated by Gentle Dental clinics at Campsie in Sydney's south-west and in the central business district, and by Dr Robert Starkenburg at Surry Hills and Bondi Junction.
Local media reports said the 75-year-old Dr Starkenburg, who was stood down by the Australian Dental Council on 2 December 2014, admitted his hygiene practices may have been "lax at times".
Dr Samson Chan from the Gentle Dentist centres had his registration suspended in March this year, along with four other dentists who worked at the practice, according to an Australian Dental Council spokesman.
Conditions, such as ongoing inspections, were imposed on six more practitioners working at the Gentle Dentist centres.
A NSW health spokesman said anyone who had invasive procedures at any of the clinics should consult their doctor about tests for blood-borne illnesses.
"This is really for those people who had an invasive procedure, so not just a regular check up, but invasive instruments into the gum and more complex dentistry," he said.
"The issue is if a patient with a blood-borne virus attended one of these practices and the instruments used were not sterilised properly," he said.
But he said there was a low risk of infection in these circumstances.
The growth figure, a first estimate from the National Statistics Institute (INE), suggests the country's economy has finally grown back to the size it was before the credit crunch of 2008.
Spain was bailed out in 2012 by the EU at the height of Europe's debt crisis.
Its figures were among the strongest of a batch of European economic data released on Friday.
France's economy grew by 0.5% in the second quarter of the year, the same rate as in the previous three months, helped by higher exports, notably the sale of a 700m euro (£626m) ocean liner, the Meraviglia.
Confidence levels in France were boosted by the recent election of President Emmanuel Macron, although that has abated somewhat since.
Nonetheless, the country is on track to meet forecasts for growth of 1.6% this year.
Meanwhile a preliminary estimate from Sweden's statistics office suggested the country's economy grew by a faster-than-expected rate of 1.7% in the April-to-June period.
Spain's exports have been growing and unemployment falling in recent months.
The unemployment rate, which was about 25%, has dropped steadily, although it still stands at 17.2%.
Raj Badiani, economist at IHS Markit, said: "We believe consumer spending growth appeared to regain some momentum in the second quarter, continuing to ride on the back of strong employment creation and a comfortable financial climate."
The Spanish government has raised its forecasts for economic growth this year and now expects the economy to grow by at least 3% in 2017.
Separately on Friday, the European Commission said economic sentiment within the eurozone had risen again in July - the third increase in a row - to a new 10-year high.
The sentiment indicator in the 19-country currency bloc rose to 111.2 after an increase in confidence in the service sector.
Archaeologists digging at Durrington Walls - about two miles from Stonehenge - said they now believed the Neolithic site was surrounded by timber posts.
Last year they said a survey showed evidence of "a Superhenge" of more than 100 buried stones at the site.
But no evidence of stones was found during an excavation.
Pits that contained wooden posts have been found.
The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project has been surveying an area covering 16 sq km near Stonehenge for the past six years using geophysical survey techniques.
National Trust archaeologist Dr Nicola Snashall said ground penetrating radar had revealed "anomalies" that were originally believed to be buried stones.
"The response from the radar was so good that the team thought they were dealing with a whole series of stones lying on their side, buried beneath the bank of this ancient earthwork."
Two of the features have now been excavated, and the stones theory has been disproved.
"What we've discovered are that there are two enormous pits for timber posts. They have got ramps at the sides to lower posts into.
"They did contain timbers which have been vertically lifted out and removed at some stage.
"The top was then filled in with chalk rubble and then the giant henge bank was raised over the top."
Dr Snashall said it was thought the giant timber monument was was put up immediately after a settlement on the site, that belonged to the builders of Stonehenge, went out of use.
"For some strange reason they took the timbers out and put up the enormous bank and ditch that we see today."
The Durrington Walls monument, which is about 480m (1,500 ft) across, is just under two miles (3km) from the famous Stonehenge site in Wiltshire.
The 68-year-old had been in charge for four years after replacing Italian Fabio Capello but has won just three of 11 games in major tournament finals.
Iceland - with a population of just 330,000 - were among the lowest-ranked teams in France at 34 in the world.
"I'm sorry it will have to end this way but these things happen," Hodgson said.
"Now is the time for someone else to oversee the progress of a hungry and extremely talented group of players.
"They have done fantastically and done everything asked of them. I hope you will still be able to see an England team in a final of a major tournament soon."
Hodgson, who won 33 of his 56 games as England boss, would have been out of contract at the end of the tournament.
The former Liverpool and West Brom boss was due to discuss a possible contract renewal but Football Association chairman Greg Dyke said he would only stay on if England "do well" in France.
In a statement issued following Hodgson's resignation, the FA said: "Like the nation, we are disappointed to lose this evening and that our run in Euro 2016 has come to a premature end.
"We had high hopes of progressing through to the latter stages of the competition and accept that we have not met our own expectations or those of the country.
"We back Roy Hodgson's decision to step down as England manager and will discuss next steps imminently."
England qualified for Euro 2016 with a 100% record in their group.
They started the finals with a 1-1 draw against Russia before beating Wales 2-1 and drawing 0-0 with Slovakia in their final Group B game - results that left them in second place and in a tougher half of the draw.
Hodgson faced heavy criticism following the Slovakia game for making six changes to the side that had beaten Wales.
Under Hodgson's guidance, England had reached the quarter-finals of the last European Championship, losing to Italy on penalties, before a dismal showing at the 2014 World Cup.
They went out at the group stages without winning a game.
Speaking to reporters following Monday's defeat, Hodgson confirmed that assistants Ray Lewington and Gary Neville would also leave their posts.
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BBC Match of the Day pundit and former England striker Alan Shearer said of the Iceland defeat: "That was the worst performance I've ever seen from an England team. Ever.
"We were out-fought, out-thought, out-battled and totally hopeless for 90 minutes. It looked to me like Roy was making it up as he was going along."
Shearer, who revealed he wanted to become England manager before Hodgson was appointed, added: "Our players caved tonight. They caved and the manager caved."
Fellow BBC pundit Jermaine Jenas said Hodgson "didn't know" what he was doing, adding: "He didn't know his best team or system.
"His loyalty to players has cost him his job. It was a horrible way to go out of the tournament."
Captain Wayne Rooney insisted tactics did not play a part in England's loss.
"I can't stand here and say exactly why it's happened," said the striker. "There are always upsets in football. It's not tactics. It's just unfortunate.
"We know we're a good team. It's a sad day for us. It's tough."
Asked about his own international future, Rooney said: "I'm still available."
England goalkeeper Joe Hart said: "We worked hard but with no success. That is how this team will be remembered."
He added that the next manager "has a tough job on his hands".
The latest odds have England Under-21 boss and former Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate as favourite to succeed Hodgson.
Odds are also being offered on Gary Neville and Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew (10/1); Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe and new Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers (16/1); Arsenal's Arsene Wenger (28/1) and Manchester United's Jose Mourinho (33/1).
After a playing career that took him to Crystal Palace, Gravesend and Northfleet, Maidstone and South African side Berea Park, Hodgson began life in management with Halmstads in Sweden at the age of only 28, where he won two league championships.
He took over at Bristol City in 1980 but was dismissed after just four months, before returning to Sweden where he won five successive titles with Malmo.
Hodgson took over as Switzerland manager and led them to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup finals and Euro 96 in England.
There followed unsuccessful spells back in club football in charge of Inter Milan and Blackburn, before he took charge of the United Arab Emirates. He was sacked after finishing fifth in the Gulf Cup.
He also managed Finland, but quit after failing to qualify for Euro 2008.
In 2007, he was appointed manager of Fulham and took them to their highest ever top-flight finish of seventh, followed by a remarkable run to the Uefa Cup final, where the London side were beaten by Atletico Madrid.
He then moved to Liverpool in July 2010 but left just seven months into a three-year contract.
In February 2011, he took over at West Brom and guided them clear of relegation. The following April, the West Midlands club gave the FA permission to speak to him about the vacant England manager position.
In a dominant first-half, Harlequins' Joe Marchant danced through to score, before tries from Newcastle's Callum Chick and Worcester's Huw Taylor.
Northampton's Harry Mallinder scored twice under the posts and Marchant got a second, with Ireland's points coming from Adam McBurney and Shane Daly.
Beaten by New Zealand in 2015's final, England added to wins in 2013 and 2014.
Victory at the AJ Bell Stadium has completed a emphatic turnaround by England's youngsters, who picked up just one victory in the 2016 Six Nations at the start of the year.
Head coach Martin Haag joined from Nottingham in March after that tournament and he was won all five games in charge in Manchester.
Earlier in the day, Argentina overcame South Africa 49-19 in the bronze play-off to take third place in the tournament for the first time in their history.
Meanwhile, Wales won their second game of the five-week competition in the seventh placed play-off as they beat Scotland 42-19 at the Manchester City Academy Stadium.
New Zealand, who were the holders coming in to the tournament in Manchester, ended their campaign by running in nine tries in a 55-24 win over Australia to finish fifth, while France secured ninth as they beat Georgia.
Japan are relegated to the World Trophy tournament after losing 41-17 to Italy.
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Christian-Lee Thompson, 16, was found after reports he had been knocked from the moped.
A Hertfordshire Police panel heard PCs Stuart Francis and Rishi Patel did not seem concerned with treating his injuries.
The incident happened in Hemel Hempstead on 16 July last year.
Christian-Lee is now paralysed as a result of the incident on the Nickey Line cycle- and footpath, where he was riding in breach of the law.
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The misconduct hearing, which began on Tuesday, was told he had been knocked off the moped by a man using the footpath and that the two officers were responding to reports of this altercation.
PCs Francis and Patel denied using excessive force on the injured boy and of providing dishonest or misleading accounts of what happened.
One witness, Jared Reed, 18, said: "PC Stuart Francis's voice was aggressive - he said to Christian-Lee 'you may as well tell the truth as you're going to be arrested anyway'."
Another witness, Lisa Sandridge, told the hearing: "His [PC Francis's] behaviour was terrible. He didn't show any concern. He gave him no first aid.
"PC Rishi Patel was kneeling on Christian-Lee's legs as he was worried he was going to be kicked in the face."
The officers said they knew the boy was injured and were trying to keep him still.
PC Francis was found guilty of gross misconduct and instantly dismissed from the force.
PC Patel was found guilty of misconduct and given a written warning.
Two males, aged 19 and 17, were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the death of Abdul Hafidah.
The 18-year-old was hit by a car and then stabbed on 12 May in Moss Side, Manchester, and died later in hospital.
Police believe he was chased near Greenheys Lane before being hit by a blue Vauxhall Corsa on Moss Lane East.
A post-mortem examination revealed he died of a stab wound to the neck. Four others arrested in connection with his death, including a boy of 14, were released on bail until 20 July.
Police are continuing to appeal for anyone who may have dash-cam footage of the incident or the area and said the attack took place in a busy area during rush hour.
Scott Lamont, from Glasgow, was heard singing the words of the Billy Boys song on Cathcart Road on 1 February.
The 24-year-old admitted the charge at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
He was also given an 18-month football banning order and told his behaviour would not be tolerated.
Sheriff Paul Crozier told Lamont's lawyer, Joanne Gray: "Glasgow has developed a good reputation in recent years.
"We had the Commonwealth Games last summer, we haven't had an Old Firm game in years.
"What happened at the first Old Firm game? People like him let Glasgow down."
The sheriff described the words to the song as "inflammatory" an said it "could have led to horrendous violence".
He told Lamont: "Your conduct on 1 February was the sort of conduct that the authorities had asked football loving fans to refrain from.
"A message has to be sent to those people who would choose to ruin football for the vast majority who want to go to these games, that you cannot behave like this.
"This sort of behaviour will not be tolerated, certainly not by me."
Another man, Alexander Blood, from Saltford in Somerset, was given a community payback order after admitting acting in a racially aggravated manner.
Blood swore at police officers and called them "Jock".
As part of the order he will be supervised for 18 months and must carry out 160 hours of unpaid work.
He was also given a three year football banning order.
Vettel was 0.040 seconds quicker than team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, with Nico Rosberg in third 0.421secs adrift.
World champion Lewis Hamilton, who has been out-paced by Rosberg this weekend so far, was 0.056s further back.
The result raises the possibility of Ferrari mounting a serious challenge to Mercedes in the Gulf desert.
The two big teams are in a league of their own, with Williams driver Valtteri Bottas best of the rest in fifth place ahead of Romain Grosjean, driving for the new US-based Haas team.
The Frenchman's team-mate Esteban Gutierrez was eighth fastest behind the Red Bull of Daniil Kvyat, split from team-mate Daniel Ricciardo by the second Williams of Felipe Massa.
McLaren reserve driver Stoffel Vandoorne put in a highly impressive performance as stand-in for the injured Fernando Alonso.
The Belgian was 14th fastest, one place and only 0.04secs slower than team-mate Jenson Button despite missing the first three-quarters of the session as a result of an oil leak.
Vandoorne only discovered he would be driving here on Thursday, after Alonso failed a medical check as a result of a rib fracture sustained in his spectacular crash in Australia two weeks ago.
The 24-year-old flew overnight from Japan to arrive in Bahrain only hours before first practice on Friday, having never driven the McLaren before.
Renault's Jolyon Palmer was 20th fastest, eight places behind team-mate Kevin Magnussen, who has to start from the pit lane having missed a weight check in second practice on Friday.
Qualifying at 16:00 BST will take place against the backdrop of the setting sun, creating different conditions from those in final practice, held in the afternoon.
Ferrari had looked off the pace and struggling on Friday, with Mercedes appearing imperious.
But the picture looks different now and anticipation will be high for a close fight for pole between Mercedes and Ferrari.
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The former Conservative leader said people should not expect everyone to be "perfect or normal", as senior politicians publish their tax returns.
He warned Parliament would be "one dimensional" if made up only of people with the "simplest possible" finances.
His comments come after a row over the prime minister's financial affairs.
David Cameron took the unprecedented step of releasing a summary of his tax return last week, following days of questions and speculation about his financial affairs after revelations about his holding in his late father's offshore fund.
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Mr Hague told BBC Radio 4's Today programme "we live in an age of greater transparency" and "the answer is not to fight that age, it has arrived and it will come all the more".
But he said a "mature acceptance" was needed by the public that someone's personal finances will not necessarily determine their leadership abilities.
"The consequence of greater transparency in tax, in medical records whatever else it may be among leaders is that there has to be a maturity in the public debate about those things and a recognition that the circumstances and habits of people who are effective leaders will vary greatly.
"And that those personal circumstances are not necessarily a good guide to how good they will be as a prime minister, a chancellor or anything else," he said.
Mr Hague said previous leaders, such as William Pitt the Younger, had "chaotic personal finances" but were "brilliant at handling the nation's finances".
And he added: "We've had leaders who had tax returns like (Winston) Churchill that would have been more difficult to defend in public than Prime Minister David Cameron's tax returns - but Churchill was the greatest leader of modern times.
"So we're going to have to bear those things in mind and not expect everybody to be perfect or everybody to be normal."
He said suggested increased transparency should be tested in "careful stages" rather than forcing all MPs to publish their tax returns.
He warned: "If Parliament consisted of people who had the simplest possible personal finances, perhaps all having come through the public sector with no questions of business ownership or dividends... then you would have a very one dimensional Parliament."
The prime minister released a summary of earnings and tax going back six years after being accused by Labour of misleading the public over money he had invested in his father Ian Cameron's company, Blairmore Holdings.
Labour is continuing to press him to publish his full tax returns dating back to before he became prime minister and are questioning why the original investment was not disclosed in the register of MPs' interests.
Labour has announced a 10-point plan to "clean out" tax havens - including forcing MPs to disclose any offshore holdings.
After a motorbike accident in January, he should be in traction to give his shattered leg a chance to heal.
Instead he wanders the halls of Port-au-Prince's general hospital on crutches, long pins protruding from his knee, in search of a doctor or nurse.
But with a national healthcare strike now in its third month, the only people making regular rounds on the wards are the preachers.
Rather than drugs, all they can offer are hymns, Bible passages and their particular brand of evangelical hope.
Some patients need more than just prayers.
Sharing the dank, humid ward is Guinel, also injured in a traffic accident earlier this year.
His toes are fast turning black and he is in danger of losing his leg unless he is attended to soon.
"I can't sympathise with the strike at all because I'm directly affected by it," he says.
"It's not only me. There are people who have died in the hospital waiting to be seen."
One of the strike leaders, Dr Jhon Evenst, admits that as a physician it is hard to turn away patients.
With pay and conditions so dire, though, he says the medical staff had no choice but to stage a walkout.
"There is no water with which to wash our hands or in the lavatories," he tells me in fluent Spanish, which he learnt while studying medicine in Cuba.
"There are rats and swarms of insects all over the hospital. [The strike] is also about our security. Sometimes people come in with guns and demand we treat them."
Dr Evenst says they gave the authorities a 90-hour deadline to response to their problems but to no avail.
"We sent our complaints to the finance ministry, to the parliament, to the president's office, to all the government institutions to acknowledge our poor working conditions."
"They didn't do anything," he adds, resignedly showing us around the empty wards and shuttered treatment units.
The strike, like the wider healthcare crisis, comes at a turbulent time in Haitian politics.
The last presidential election in October 2015 was considered so riddled with fraud that a special commission recommended quashing the result and holding a fresh vote in October of this year.
In the meantime, the country's interim president, Jocelerme Privert, has decided, seemingly arbitrarily, to stay on beyond his 120-day term limit.
Lawmakers from other factions say that only adds to the uncertainty.
But Mr Privert insists he is doing it for the good of Haiti's political stability.
"My ambition is not about spending 120 days as president but to organize free and fair elections that can end the electoral crisis once and for all," he says, speaking in the presidential palace which was rebuilt following the devastating 2010 earthquake which left about 200,000 people dead and nearly a million homeless.
Mr Privert says he will happily stand down if ordered to do so by the parliament but argues that another political vacuum would be even more detrimental.
"Haiti is a country in crisis," he says of the task ahead.
"We have an environmental crisis, a political and economic crisis, and a crisis involving lack of access to clean water. These are not simple problems that you can solve in 120 days."
In downtown Port-au-Prince, in the shadow of the capital's ruined cathedral, the extent of the country's poor sanitation six years after the earthquake is laid bare.
Families gather around a burst water pipe to fill up buckets for washing and bathing.
In the street, rubbish collection is sporadic or non-existent with piles of garbage rotting in the heat.
Worse still, the rains have created large puddles and pools of sewage, the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes which carry Zika and other viruses.
Some 65,000 people still live in the same temporary shacks built in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake.
Joset Magali is one of them. She lives in a hastily-constructed wooden hut with her six children.
Outside many of the makeshift homes, hers included, the word "demolish" has been written in Creole.
The International Organization for Migration and the United Nations have supplied some funds, a one-off payment of around $350 (£263) per family, so those still living in the tent camps can move out.
In the case of Ms Magali, that barely covers her immediate debts and she is unsure of where she would go once the bulldozers arrive.
Her plight, though, is unlikely to feature high in the electoral campaign.
Supporters of one of the main candidates, Jude Celestin, say he was denied victory in the October 2015 polls.
They turned out in droves to cheer when he registered his candidacy for the fresh polls and to send a message that they will not tolerate any further fraud.
"People are watching them [the electoral authorities], we are watching them, we're watching everything," Mr Celestin told the BBC outside the electoral authorities' offices.
"We won't just give them a blank cheque. It will be different this time around."
The France international, 29, had a medical at The Hawthorns last week but has instead returned to Ligue 1 nine years after leaving Auxerre.
Diaby was released by the Gunners last month after making 182 appearances for the club since 2006, but just two in the last two seasons.
Marseille signed another former Arsenal midfielder, Lassana Diarra, last week.
No details were revealed by Marseille over the length or terms of Diaby's contract.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
On this occasion, a tweet by Google's data editor, Simon Rogers, alerted the world to renewed interest. He noted a spike of 350% in searches over a four-hour period for "how can I move to Canada" coming from the United States.
The peak in relative interest was at 05:32 GMT, around 20 minutes after Mr Rogers' tweet. Analysis of Google's own data shows that interest had apparently reached a plateau shortly before his tweet, which sparked considerable further interest...
Toronto City councillor Norm Kelly's helpful direction to the Canadian Immigration Service's website has garnered over 32,000 retweets, suggesting that there was also significant interest on social media...
The link to the "Apply to immigrate to Canada" page has been tweeted more than 29,000 times in the past 24 hours, a staggering growth in interest.
Some kind Canadians have offered to take in those fleeing the US.
While others recommended the move on the basis of Canada's finest cuisine.
What is poutine, you ask. The national dish of Quebec, consisting of chips, cheese curds and gravy. It looks like this.
Not that the website administrators will be thanking Norm Kelly or anyone else - it had a yellow bar warning about delays, which may or may not be related to the recent interest.
This is but a speed hump in the long and glorious history of American threats to emigrate or secede, which are at least as old as the internet.
The biggest recorded spike in interest was when George W Bush was elected president for a second term in November 2004. Back then the Canadian immigration service reported a six-fold increase in interest on its website.
Below we've shown both searches for "move to Canada" (in blue) and "moving to Canada" (in red) over Super Tuesday/Results Wednesday. The blue peak is at about 06:30 GMT on Wednesday.
In the past 24 hours, most interest has come from Massachusetts, where both the leading candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won their primaries.
The state with the most interest in a "move to Canada" - since Google's records began in 2004 - is Washington, which lies on the border. So, not far to go.
We've been here before. Studying the trends, there's an uptick whenever the country elects a new president. Barack Obama's two elections come nowhere near the peak of George W Bush, but there are still noticeable peaks around the time of both his victories.
Alec Baldwin is perhaps the most famous American to threaten departure in the face of an incoming president. He was besieged by email in the pre-social era for his threat to leave if George W Bush was elected in 2000. There is no indication he left the US after Mr Bush was re-elected in 2004.
It follows a review which recommended the need for two sources of evidence in criminal cases should be retained in certain circumstances.
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson confirmed the measure would not be included in the Criminal Justice Bill.
He said the government needed more time to consider the findings.
The plans to end corroboration were brought forward by Mr Matheson's predecessor Kenny MacAskill, who had said the "outdated rule" meant many victims were denied justice.
Ministers believe more rape, sexual offence and domestic abuse cases would be heard in court if the current need for two different and independent sources of evidence was removed.
The reform has been backed by police and prosecutors but there was fierce opposition from the legal profession, who raised concerns of an increased risk of miscarriages of justice.
The measure was part of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill, which has already been passed in principle by MSPs.
Mr Matheson said he was removing the proposal from the bill, while also deleting a related measure to increase jury majorities.
The move came after a review by Lord Bonomy said corroboration should still apply to evidence obtained by hearsay and confession.
The review also recommended:
Mr Matheson said there was still a case for abolishing corroboration, which should be considered as part of a wider review after the 2016 Holyrood election.
In a statement to the Scottish Parliament, Mr Matheson said he wanted to build a consensus on a package of proposals for criminal justice reform.
He said: "Given this approach, I do not consider there is sufficient time to complete this work before the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill resumes its parliamentary passage.
"On that basis, it is clear to me that proceeding with the removal of the corroboration requirement in that Bill would be neither appropriate nor feasible.
"The Bill should proceed with amendments to remove corroboration provisions from the Bill, and also to remove the related increase in the jury majority required for conviction.
"Removing the corroboration provisions from the Criminal Justice Bill will allow the other provisions in the Bill to go forward as soon as parliamentary timetables permit."
Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have all welcomed the major policy shift by the Scottish government.
The move has also been backed by legal bodies.
Alistair Morris, president of the Law Society of Scotland, said: "We strongly welcome the Cabinet Secretary's announcement.
"We consistently stated that the proposal to remove the corroboration requirement in criminal proceedings should be subject to a full review.
"We also expressed concern about the speed of the process in our response to Lord Bonomy's review consultation. Deferring this until the next parliamentary session will allow for further consideration of this complex area of law and further scrutiny of necessary safeguards within criminal proceedings."
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Faculty of Advocates said the issues raised by the Bonomy Report were of "crucial importance" and required more consideration.
Rape Crisis Scotland's Sandy Brindley, who campaigned for corroboration to be abolished, also supported the decision.
She said: "It's probably a good thing that they are going to take some time to properly look at the implications.
"In particular, it would not have been a good thing if the size of the minimum jury majority had been increased without the not proven verdict being abolished.
"This could have led to a reduction in the number of rape convictions."
Julian Ruck was hit on New Street just after 19:30 BST and suffered serious head and leg injuries.
He was taken to Swansea's Morriston Hospital following the incident.
Dyfed-Powys Police said the driver may have been aware of the crash because the car stopped briefly before driving away towards New Street.
Officers want residents with private CCTV systems along the road and Bridge Street to contact them.
Mr Ruck is the author of four books and a columnist for local papers.
Carlos Tavares suggests that with potentially high tariffs in Europe, where carmakers could be forced to pay taxes on exports and imports to and from the European Union, it could become more cost-effective to have manufacturing plants in Britain to supply parts for UK-made cars.
He reasons that such an approach would iron-out any volatility in the company's profits.
"A hard Brexit with custom duties and all that stuff, then of course it would be an opportunity for us to have a UK sourcing to source for the UK," he says.
"Of course for that to happen we also need to have the supplier base being devolved in the UK so that the cost structure would be in pounds, the revenue structure would be in pounds and therefore the sensitivity, the volatility on our profit would be lower."
But is the UK car market big enough to support its own components industry?
There are 32 million cars on British roads. And although the UK is the third largest car producer in the European Union, after Germany and Spain according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA), the vast majority of vehicles it makes are exported, while 86% of newly registered vehicles in the UK last year were imported.
Of the 1.72 million cars made in the UK last year, 1.35 million were shipped overseas.
According the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), 368,482 passenger vehicles were for the British market.
In terms of British-made components, steps have been taken in recent years to increase the number used in UK cars which, on average, are made-up of 6,000 parts.
According to the SMMT, the average content in a British-built vehicle has increased from 36% in 2011 to 41%. However, the majority still has to come from overseas suppliers.
Another rather puzzling aspect to Mr Tavares's plan is that it appears to run counter to the PSA Group's 2.2bn euro takeover of Vauxhall and Opel.
One of his main aims is to find cost "synergies" to improve profit margins. So the maker of Peugeot, Citroen, Opel and Vauxhall wants to share "more assets, platforms, features and systems".
Mr Tavares adds that exporting will be key to the company's success.
"For many, many years Opel/Vauhall could not export cars outside of Europe. That was something that General Motors didn't want them to do. PSA is going to unleash this potential, we are going to open the gates."
This will happen, he says "soon as the Opel Vauxhall models are using the PSA IP [intellectual property] but, if his earlier statements on a hard Brexit are to be believed, different supply chains.
The "defeat device" allows cars to pass lab testing even though they actually emit 40 times the emissions standard.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been taking a more aggressive stance on car pollution and violations of the country's Clean Air Act.
The recall and fines could cost the carmaker more than $18bn (£11.5bn).
It affects 2009-14 Jettas, Beetles, Audi A3s and Golfs and 2014-15 Passats.
"Using a defeat device in cars to evade clean air standards is illegal and a threat to public health," said Cynthia Giles, assistant administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.
The illegal system allowed cars to detect when they were undergoing smog emission test and lowered the rate of pollution. Those emission controls were then turned off during ordinary use.
The state of California which assisted in the investigation has also issued a notice of violation to Volkswagen.
In 2014 the EPA fined Korean automakers Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors $300m for misrepresenting the fuel economy in 1.2 million of their cars. That settlement is the highest to date.
The treatment loses effectiveness for a significant number of patients with secondary cancers.
Writing in Nature Medicine, US experts said chemo causes wound-healing cells around tumours to make a protein that helps the cancer resist treatment.
A UK expert said the next step would be to find a way to block this effect.
Around 90% of patients with solid cancers, such as breast, prostate, lung and colon, that spread - metastatic disease - develop resistance to chemotherapy.
Treatment is usually given at intervals, so that the body is not overwhelmed by its toxicity.
But that allows time for tumour cells to recover and develop resistance.
In this study, by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle looked at fibroblast cells, which normally play a critical role in wound healing and the production of collagen, the main component of connective tissue such as tendons.
But chemotherapy causes DNA damage that causes the fibroblasts to produce up to 30 times more of a protein called WNT16B than they should.
The protein fuels cancer cells to grow and invade surrounding tissue - and to resist chemotherapy.
It was already known that the protein was involved in the development of cancers - but not in treatment resistance.
The researchers hope their findings will help find a way to stop this response, and improve the effectiveness of therapy.
Peter Nelson, who led the research, said: "Cancer therapies are increasingly evolving to be very specific, targeting key molecular engines that drive the cancer rather than more generic vulnerabilities, such as damaging DNA.
"Our findings indicate that the tumour microenvironment also can influence the success or failure of these more precise therapies."
Prof Fran Balkwill, a Cancer Research UK expert on the microenvironment around tumours, said: "This work fits with other research showing that cancer treatments don't just affect cancer cells, but can also target cells in and around tumours.
"Sometimes this can be good - for instance, chemotherapy can stimulate surrounding healthy immune cells to attack tumours.
"But this work confirms that healthy cells surrounding the tumour can also help the tumour to become resistant to treatment.
"The next step is to find ways to target these resistance mechanisms to help make chemotherapy more effective."
Aruna Shanbaug suffered severe brain damage and has been paralysed since a brutal rape in 1973.
But the court said the medical evidence suggested that she should live.
However, in what correspondents are calling a "landmark" judgment, the court also said some cases of euthanasia could be sanctioned if doctors were to file a case in court.
Previously all forms of euthanasia were illegal in India. Following the judgement, India's law minister called for a "serious debate" on the issue.
The BBC's Jill McGivering says the court judgement puts the onus on doctors to petition to withdraw life support, under the supervision of the courts.
In a complex judgement, the court said "passive euthanasia", or the withdrawal of food from a patient, may be considered in certain circumstances.
The decision to open the door to assisted suicide is likely to be controversial, our correspondent adds.
The case for Aruna Shanbaug was filed by a journalist who had written a book about her.
In her petition, Pinki Virani said that Ms Shanbaug had been in a "persistent vegetative state" for 37 years and was "virtually a dead person".
It said that Ms Shanbaug's parents died many years ago and other relatives had not maintained contact with her.
Patients in a vegetative state are awake, not in a coma, but have no awareness because of severe brain damage.
But nurses at the KEM hospital in Mumbai (Bombay), where Ms Shanbaug is a patient, welcomed the Supreme Court verdict, the BBC's Vineet Khare reports from Mumbai.
They celebrated by distributing sweets and chanting slogans. They hugged and congratulated each other.
Matron Archana Bhushan Jadhav was a student at the hospital's training college for nurses in 1973 - the year Ms Shanbaug was attacked.
"We are extremely happy at the verdict. We were confident of this decision. We will celebrate more after our duty gets over. We will go to Aruna and tell her about the decision," she said.
Ms Shanbaug is fed twice a day by nurses at the hospital.
Ms Virani wanted the court to issue instructions to "forthwith ensure that no food is fed" to Ms Shanbaug.
In her book, Ms Virani describes how Ms Shanbaug's condition has deteriorated over the years.
"Her teeth had decayed causing her immense pain. Food was completely mashed and given in semi-solid form. She choked on liquids."
But hospital authorities told the court that Ms Shanbaug "accepts food in normal course and responds by facial expressions" and responds to "commands intermittently by making sounds".
India's law minister responded to the ruling by calling for serious political debate on the issue.
"There is no question of concurring or not with the judgement," Law Minister M Veerappa Moily told reporters in Delhi.
"The Supreme Court is right that without a law you cannot resort to this kind of a decision with a judicial order.
"The right to life is a right vested with a person. Therefore, there is a need for a serious debate into the matter. It has to be examined, it has to be debated," he said.
Ms Shanbaug was raped by a hospital sweeper at the KEM hospital on 27 November 1973. The sweeper tried to strangle her.
Her attacker was sentenced to seven years in prison for attempting to murder and rob Ms Shanbaug.
Paul McDowell's decision relates to his wife's role as a senior manager at Sodexo, which has taken over the management of a number of probation contracts.
Mr McDowell said it was "imperative that any inspectorate is independent and seen to be so".
He took up his role in February 2014.
Sodexo, in partnership with crime reduction charity Nacro, has been selected by the Ministry of Justice to run six of 21 probation contracts.
Under the new probation scheme, which started on Sunday, private contractors will rehabilitate prisoners who have served short sentences.
The companies will be paid by results and earn more money if offenders do not commit further crimes.
Mr McDowell said in a statement: "Although we have measures in place to manage any conflicts of interest, and I would always carry out my duties without fear or favour, it is clear that a perception of conflict around my post remains."
Before becoming chief inspector of probation, Mr McDowell was chief executive of Nacro and a governor of HMP Brixton.
28 October 2016 Last updated at 16:56 BST
Halloween Week is finally coming to the ballroom this weekend and our celebrities have been training hard.
In honour of this special occasion, Ore takes Newsround behind the scenes in the Strictly wardrobe department - and you can see how busy everyone is!
This week, Ore and his dance partner Joanna will be dancing the tricky Charleston - let's hope it's frighteningly good!
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The 25-year-old would have been out of contract at the end of this season.
Davies starred for Wales with five tries during their run to the 2015 World Cup quarter-finals after Ospreys' Rhys Webb had been ruled out of the tournament with injury.
"Interest from elsewhere has been flattering but I always wanted to remain here," said Davies.
Davies' deal comes after Wales team-mate Scott Williams signed a contract that keeps him at Parc y Scarlets until 2018.
Centre Williams, 25, was in line for a new national dual contract in which the Welsh Rugby Union would pay 60% of his wages.
But the offer was withdrawn amid an accusation of a bidding war among Wales' regions over Williams, and a dual contract was not offered to Davies either.
Centre Jonathan Davies will return to Scarlets on such a contract from Clermont Auvergne for the 2016-17 season to partner Williams in midfield.
Davies was the top try-scorer with 10 in the 2013-14 Pro12 season, but a knee injury prevented him from building on that the following season.
Webb's injury gave him the chance to shine at the World Cup, though, and alerted a number of clubs outside Wales to his potential availability.
But his decision to stay at Scarlets continues their building work for the next years, with the region recently tempting Rhys Patchell from Cardiff Blues and retaining a number of their Wales internationals.
"Gareth had a very successful World Cup campaign with Wales scoring some good tries," said Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac.
"But coming back to the region and having to compete for the number nine shirt with Aled (Davies) and Rhodri (Williams) keeps the players sharp and ensures that they're always developing."
The unusual visitor was photographed relaxing on a river bank in west County Cork at the weekend by birdwatcher and wildlife enthusiast, Paul Connaughton.
Mr Connaughton said he believes it is only the second recorded sighting of a bearded seal on the island of Ireland.
He described it as an "incredible find" and shared his photos on social media.
In a Facebook post - entitled Arctic seal holidays in west Cork - Mr Connaughton explained how he spotted the seal as he drove home last Friday.
"I was passing the estuary in Timoleague when I spotted what appeared to be a seal hauled up on a bank above the high tide mark," he wrote.
"I was immediately struck by the paleness of the animal. I did a quick u-turn and pulled in to get my binoculars and camera."
Mr Connaughton has a keen eye for nature: As well as being chairman of the west Cork branch of Birdwatch Ireland, he also runs his own company, Shearwater Wildlife Tours.
Speaking to BBC News NI, he said he was very familiar with other types of seal more commonly found along the Irish coast.
He immediately noticed there was something "quite distinctive" about this animal, which was very far inland along the estuary.
His photos were sent to the Irish Whales and Dolphin Group (IWDG) and the Irish Seal Sanctuary to get confirmation of the breed.
Mr Connaughton said the bearded seal appeared very healthy and had no trouble getting into the river and swimming off.
He said there have been "about 20" recorded sightings off the northern coast of Scotland in recent years but he believes it is the first such sighting in Ireland since 2002.
"In all of nature, there are vagrants," he said, adding that the most surprising thing about this Arctic tourist was that it had travelled so far south.
The bearded seal, (Erignathus barbatus), is a non-migratory seal that usually lives in coastal Arctic waters.
The IWDG's sightings officer, Padraig Whooley, told BBC News NI that when animals are swept or blown significantly off course from their normal habitat, they often struggle to cope with unfamiliar surroundings, predators and food.
However, he said this seal seemed to be "good and fat" and appeared in rude health, despite being thousands of kilometres from his usual hunting ground.
Mr Whooley added that he did not know how or why a bearded seal ended up so far south at the height of summer, but said it was the third Arctic sea creature spotted off the island of Ireland in recent years.
The group tracked a bowhead whale in Carlingford Lough in May 2016 and reported a beluga whale sighting off Dunseverick Head, County Antrim, in October 2015.
Since posting the photos, Mr Connaughton has heard reports from other people who saw a similar seal in the estuary about a week earlier, but who perhaps did not realise the significance of the sight.
Maybe the local food is so good in west Cork that the tourist decided to extend his stay.
Davoud Taghinejad, 58, who committed the crimes between 2011 and 2013, is being held in custody to await sentencing on Tuesday.
The assaults involved five girls who were aged between 13 and 17 at the time.
A jury of seven - three women and four men - delivered its verdict at Douglas Court House.
Deemster Alastair Montgomerie said Taghinejad was facing a "substantial" prison sentence.
He added: "It has taken a great deal of courage for the victims in this case to come forward and give evidence.
"They are all young girls and they should be proud of the dignity with which they have conducted themselves during these proceedings. I hope now they can move on with their lives."
During the two-week trial the jury heard evidence from the girls, some by a live video-link-up.
They told how Taghinejad introduced "games" into their maths lessons.
These games involved the children holding their breath while Taghinejad felt for their heartbeat - and indecently assaulted them.
One girl described how this "game" later progressed into rape.
Taghinejad taught at North Trafford College in Greater Manchester for 10 years before moving to the Isle of Man in 2009.
Leader Nigel Farage has claimed people with "bundles of postal votes" had turned up at polling stations and some wards had voted exclusively for Labour.
But Labour-run Oldham Council said it had not received any complaints.
It said it had "robust systems" in place to identify electoral abuses.
And Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson said the allegations sounded like "sour grapes" from its opponents.
Prior to the by-election, there had been suggestions that UKIP could run Labour close but, in the event, Labour candidate Jim McMahon romped to victory with a 62% share of the vote, polling 10,722 more votes than his closest rival.
Speaking in the wake of the defeat, Mr Farage told the BBC that "we will file a formal complaint against the abuses that our people saw yesterday".
He said Oldham's Asian population had voted for Labour in large numbers, even though, he claimed, some did not speak English but were signed up for postal votes.
He claimed to have seen ballot boxes in which "99% of the votes were for Labour" and "this does not seem to be consistent with modern liberal democracy".
"Some very odd things happened," he told BBC Radio 4's Today. "There was a 15% increase in the number of postal votes yesterday and stories of practices that should not be happening in a modern democracy."
"Some of the things we've seen before in Birmingham and Tower Hamlets I have reason to believe were happening in Oldham yesterday".
Some of those who voted for Labour, he suggested, had not heard of UKIP, the Conservatives "or even Jeremy Corbyn" and while acknowledging this would not have changed the result, he said Labour would have had a "massively reduced" majority.
He claimed Labour was at an advantage because it ran the local council and therefore "controlled council housing, social services and deep and very strong links with the mosques and other Churches".
He added: "It means that in some of these seats where people don't speak English but they are signed up for postal votes effectively the electoral process is now dead".
However, two hours later UKIP backtracked slightly and said it would consider the evidence before lodging an official complaint.
Mr Watson said that UKIP - who claimed beforehand that the election was a referendum on Jeremy Corbyn's leadership - were "crying over spilt milk".
"It seems like sour grapes to me. If he has got evidence of that, he should have told the police immediately. I have talked to my organisers and they have got no knowledge of that. If you look at the scale of the result it was pretty decisive."
And Oldham Council said there had been a "high level of daily scrutiny" of the by-election, the first to be run under the new system of individual electoral registration - where people have to sign up to vote themselves rather than being registered as a member of a household.
"We have a robust system in place for adjudicating postal votes which includes comparing the signatures and dates of birth in the submitted postal vote application to those within the postal vote statements," it said.
"Where those do not match, the postal vote is rejected and not included in the count.
"We take our duties in administering the voting and count process very seriously and if we receive any allegations of postal voting irregularities then we would be immediately reported these to the police so they can be fully investigated.
The Metropolitan Police is investigating 16 allegations of electoral malpractice in relation to this year's mayoral election in Tower Hamlets, relating to voter of registration and the improper distribution of election literature in the east London borough.
The election was re-run after incumbent Lutfur Rahman was convicted of electoral fraud during the 2014 poll and removed from office.
Conservative MP Stuart Jackson said he shared Mr Farage's concerns about "postal voting on demand" and would be raising the issue of the "integrity" of postal voting in a debate in Parliament next week.
He tweeted: "Timing unfortunate but Farage is right on "community" postal voting. Time to scrap postal votes on demand."
In a report earlier this year, the Electoral Commission named Oldham West and Royton as one of the constituencies alleged to have a "greater risk" of voter fraud.
The watchdog has said the move to IER will further reduce the risk of fraud but said it would not rule out seeking a change in the law to make it an offence for campaigners to handle any postal voting materials.
The Gunners successfully defended the trophy as Arsene Wenger become the first post-war manager to win the cup for a sixth time.
Theo Walcott volleyed Arsenal ahead before half-time against a poor Villa side who offered little in reply.
Alexis Sanchex scored the goal of the game before Per Mertesacker and Olivier Giroud completed the rout.
How did the players on both sides fare?
His record-equalling sixth FA Cup triumph in 19 attempts was also his most straightforward final victory so far. Wenger got the big decision right, by going with in-form Theo Walcott up front rather than Olivier Giroud, who had not scored for eight games, and also got the balance of his side spot on. His team controlled the game from the start, were patient until they made the breakthrough through Walcott's fine finish and then ran away with a one-sided Wembley win.
He did not have a single shot to save, such was Arsenal's dominance, so only had to deal with the occasional cross aimed at Christian Benteke. He was quickly off his line to help his defenders out, and only failed to deal with one delivery because one of them got their first.
Did you know? Szczesny is the first goalkeeper since Joe Hart in 2011 to not have to make a single save in an FA Cup final.
His rapid running caused Villa stacks of problems down the right when Arsenal got forward and he helped keep Jack Grealish quiet too. A performance that enhanced his growing reputation.
Did you know? Bellerín made more interceptions than any other Arsenal player (4).
Encouraged to come forward down the left from the start and touched the ball more times in Villa's half than he did his own. His cross led to Arsenal's opener.
Did you know? Only Santi Cazorla (100) and Héctor Bellerín (82) had more touches of the ball than Nacho Monreal (81).
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Has the "agility of a rhinoceros" according to Szczesny's dad but Villa never looked like exposing the big centre-half's lack of mobility. Benteke was supposed to be the one causing him problems in the air - instead he got the better of the Villa striker from a corner to head home Arsenal's third goal.
Did you know? Three of Arsenal's four scorers today had all previously scored for both club and country at Wembley (Walcott, Sanchez, Mertesacker).
Hardly troubled at the back and should really have joined Mertesacker on the scoresheet, another illustration of Arsenal's dominance. He missed one headed chance when he lost Benteke at a first-half corner and saw Shay Given brilliantly keep out another.
Did you know? Koscielny made seven clearances and two interceptions.
Did not even watch Arsenal on TV in last year's final after spending the season out on loan in Germany but now has a winners' medal.
Quietly did the dirty work to allow others to flourish. Never lost his positional discipline and never gave the likes of Charles N'Zogbia or Grealish a sniff on the counter-attack.
Did you know? Coquelin completed 92.3% of his passes.
One of several stellar performers for the Gunners - the only thing lacking from his game was a goal. The Spaniard played more passes (79) than anyone else on the pitch, with an accuracy of 93.7%. An outstanding display.
Did you know? Cazorla, who provided his 15th assist in all competitions this term, had more touches than any other player in this season's FA Cup final (100).
Kept popping up in pockets of space between Villa's defence and midfield to do damage. Others will grab the headlines but the German deserves praise. His work-ethic is sometimes criticised but not on this occasion.
Did you know? Ozil has never lost an FA Cup game (10 matches).
Last year's match-winner saw plenty of the ball on the right but was off target with both of his two best chances. He was not at his best, but it did not matter.
Did you know? Ramsey attempted more shots (5) and made more tackles (5) than any other Arsenal player.
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What a way to end his superb first season in English football. His scorching strike at the start of the second-half turned the rest of the game into a lap of honour for his team.
The Chilean is the only Arsenal player to have featured in every round of this year's FA Cup, was the Gunners' top scorer (with four goals) in the competition and, after setting up Walcott's opener, also provided the most assists (three).
Did you know? Alexis Sanchez is only the second Chilean to score in the FA Cup final after George Robledo for Newcastle v Arsenal in 1952.
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Took time to find his way into the game after being given his chance up front, but in the end he more than justified his manager's decision.
Was denied a goal by Kieran Richardson's point-blank block but persevered and scored Arsenal's crucial first goal with a superb finish on his left foot - supposedly his weaker side.
Did you know? Walcott has scored seven goals in seven starts for Arsenal this season.
Keen to get forward and helped maintain Arsenal's intensity until the final whistle.
Did you know? Nine of Wilshere's 11 attempted passes were in the opposition half.
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Started with the disappointment of only being on the bench, but ended it with the joy of scoring Arsenal's fourth to end an eight-game goal drought. It was that kind of day for the Gunners' players.
Did you know? Giroud has scored eight and assisted four goals in his 14 FA Cup appearances, and has scored in each of his last four games against Villa.
Only on the pitch for three minutes of injury time but still had time to join the Arsenal party by providing the cross for Giroud's fourth goal.
Did you know? Oxlade-Chamberlain has provided four assists in his last six FA Cup games.
A manager for less than 300 days compared to Wenger's 30 years, and it showed. His side seemed to have few ideas about how they could even dent the Arsenal defence and they eventually collapsed under unrelenting pressure.
One of the few Villa players to emerge with any credit. Made a superb reflex save to deny Koscielny with the score at 0-0 but could do little to halt the onslaught that followed.
Did you know? Appeared in the final 17 years after his previous appearance in 1998, also against Arsenal.
Preferred to Leandro Bacuna at right-back but could not offer the Dutchman's threat going forward and struggled to stop Sanchez and Bellerin. His most telling contribution was a meaty first-half challenge on Sanchez. It was one of the few times the Scot got near him.
Did you know? Picked up his 11th yellow card of the season, two more than any other Villa player.
Laid down an unfortunate marker with a clumsy touch in the first minute that allowed Walcott a run towards goal and more of the same followed. Made several last-ditch challenges but never looked comfortable when Arsenal came forward.
Did you know? His four tackles were the joint highest number for Villa along with Hutton.
His lack of pace means he would probably have preferred to have faced Giroud rather than Walcott and he was not helped by some unconvincing performances from those around him.
Did you know? Did not misplace a pass in the entire game.
Probably Villa's best defender, although that is not saying an awful lot. His superb block to deny Walcott earns him a mark and, at the other end, he was one of the few players to try to find Benteke in the box.
Did you know? Part of the first defence to concede four in the cup final in 11 years.
He has been much-improved since Sherwood took over in February but was unable to make any sort of impact between either penalty area as Arsenal controlled the middle of the pitch.
Did you know? One of only two Villa players to create a goalscoring chance.
Tried to hold things together behind Fabian Delph in midfield when his captain ventured forward but ended up chasing shadows.
Did you know? Made 41 passes, only five fewer than Ozil.
He was Villa's action-man in the first half, sliding into tackle after tackle, including one brilliant challenge to stop Sanchez breaking away. If anyone was going to be Villa's hero it was their skipper but he could not do it on his own. Arsenal out-passed him in the end, and he was also guilty of giving the ball away.
Did you know? No player committed more fouls in the final than Delph (3)
Was meant to be supporting Benteke but was starved of possession and also of support. Only touched the ball 12 times, the fewest of any player to start the game.
Did you know? Made only eight passes in 53 minutes.
Was looking to emulate his great-great-grandfather Billy Garraty, who won the 1905 FA Cup with Aston Villa. His recent displays had promised much but he struggled to get on the ball, let alone run with it. He was denied a late penalty, which kind of summed up his day.
Did you know? His blocked shot in the 86th minute was one of only two efforts Villa had in the entire game.
If this was his last game for Aston Villa, it was a truly forgettable farewell. The big Belgian was starved of service and did not even manage an effort at goal let alone bully the Arsenal defence. The only impact he made came at the other end of the pitch when his poor marking allowed Mertesacker to score.
Did you know? Failed to record a shot of any kind in the game.
Villa's longest-serving player was given a salvage mission when he came on soon after Sanchez's wonder-goal but his pace made little impact.
Did you know? This was his 19th defeat of the season - only Hutton and Benteke featured in as many.
His attacking play from full-back has been a big part of Villa's recent revival and he did at least get forward, but with no end-product.
Did you know? One of only two Villa players to create a chance.
Another to come on with the damage already done. Impossible for him to change the direction of the game.
Did you know? His 16 passes were double the number made by N'Zogbia.
Dobson & Crowther Limited in Llangollen, a manufacturer of bespoke envelopes, had to restructure in 2014 after the loss of its biggest customer.
Christopher Ratten of Baker Tilly, a joint administrator, said it had "experienced a challenging 18 months".
Llyr Gruffydd, Plaid Cymru AM for North Wales, said: "This is terrible news for the 79 workers."
Administrators are now considering the possibility of continuing the business for a short period in order to fulfil outstanding orders.
The Olympic diver and the Oscar-winning screenwriter, who got married in Dartmoor National Park in May, have shared pictures from Barcelona.
Daley, 23, wrote on Twitter: "So this honeymoon thing... I highly recommend it."
He also shared a photo on Instagram of the couple at the famous Sagrada Familia church.
Black, 43, also posted an image on Instagram, writing: "Thank you for a lovely start #Barcelona. #Honeymoon."
In 2003 in Scotland, there were nearly 7,000 phone boxes. Today there are fewer than 5,000 boxes - and just over 1,000 of them are the iconic red phone boxes.
As more and more of us use mobile phones, the number of call boxes will continue to decline.
But some communities across the country are turning to them for new and very different uses.
An old phone box in Comrie has a new lease of life... as a life saver.
Alan Moffat is the manager of the first response team in Comrie.
"It's a community access defibrillator site; we have converted it and put a defibrillator in for the use in the local community. I know it can save lives, it's probably one of the best chances people have of recovering from a cardiac arrest."
And that's the hope of the community who raised money in memory of a local woman, Irene McCartney, who died in 2012.
Her widower Gordon hopes it will make a real difference to someone in the future.
And art is in the spotlight in another phone box in Portobello.
Steven Wheatley had the vision to turn a disused phone box into a vibrant art exhibition space, the Porty Light Box, albeit on a small scale.
"I'm a bit nostalgic and I appreciate what they add to the street scene so I was keen to retain it," he explained.
Actually making a phone call from a phone box is becoming a thing of the past so will they eventually disappear altogether?
BT Scotland director Brendan Dick said: "Clearly as people adopt mobile technology, as those networks expand there is less demand for them in some areas.
"Yet in some urban parts some of them are used very extensively, so there is a future for pay phones in the broader sense."
Today BT operates 4,864 kiosks in Scotland - it had 5,251 in 2012, 5,896 in 2007 and 6,962 in 2003. It currently has 1,129 red kiosks in Scotland.
During the last 12 months, no paid for call has been made from 1,723 of Scottish payphones, including 684 of the red boxes.
And in Alyth in Perthshire another transformation is planned.
Marian Bruce is the project coordinator of the Story Box.
"The idea was that it would be a time machine, a bit like Dr Who's Tardis," she said.
"You would go into the box and you would be able to move forwards and backwards in time to hear about the stories from Alyth.
"We're recording oral histories from people and stories about the town now from people who live and work in the town and we're also working with young people to think about the future of Alyth and what the town will be like when they're grown up."
Khan al-Assal was considered the last regime stronghold in the west of Aleppo province.
The rebel victory comes after several defeats at the hands of Syrian armed forces.
The town lies on a route that links the province to the city of Aleppo.
Fighting in Aleppo itself was reported as continuing as both sides attempted to assert control over the city, which is economically the most important in Syria.
A rebel group calling itself the Ninth Division announced it had captured Khan al-Assal in an online video.
"We the leadership of the Ninth Division announce that the town of Khan al-Assal has been completely liberated," a rebel commander said in a video posted on Youtube.
Khan al-Assal was at the centre of allegations in March that chemical weapons were being used, with both sides blaming the other for an attack that left 30 people dead.
At the time rebels had launched a major offensive to take the town but were driven back, losing some 200 men in an eight-day battle.
The autographs were collected by Sister Helen Strang, who worked at the 1st Eastern General Hospital.
It was left to Sister Strang's housekeeper, whose niece has given it to the Addenbrooke's Hospital Archive.
Archivist Hilary Ritchie said she hopes to have the book on display in the hospital by October.
Miss Ritchie is now trying to trace the histories of the men who signed the book, which dates from 1916 to 1919.
She said: "We don't have any records - or can't find any records - for the patients of the 1st Eastern.
"We've contacted the Imperial War Museum, the National Archives and Army Medical Records but been told nothing survived.
"We do know there are several Australians, some Canadians and one Argentinean with a Welsh surname, because many of them gave their home addresses."
Miss Ritchie first heard about the book, which has not been valued, in February, when the housekeeper's family got in touch.
Sister Strang was a Scot whose family moved to a farm at Cardington, Bedfordshire, in the late 1890s.
She returned to Scotland after her marriage and left the book to her housekeeper.
The housekeeper's niece and her husband, Maureen and Capt John Watson from Dundee, inherited it and it was Capt Watson who contacted Addenbrooke's to find out more.
Miss Richie said Capt Watson was also helping with her research.
"He's found that one of the autographs was from a doctor from Addenbrooke's, but the majority of the autographs were definitely from patients," she said.
The 1st Eastern General Hospital was on the site of what is now Cambridge University Library.
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A new laboratory in the Thai capital Bangkok, equipped to gather DNA from elephant tusk, rhino horn and tiger skin, is on the front line in an increasingly desperate effort.
The move comes as wildlife trading moves into the major league of lucrative international criminal activities including the trafficking of drugs and weapons.
Rapidly growing demand for animal parts believed to have cultural or medicinal value has fuelled soaring prices and created greater incentives for poachers and dealers.
The lab's aim is to "prove the link between the victim and the suspect and support prosecutions", according to the scientists running the facility.
Conservation groups say the slaughter of elephant, rhino and tiger, along with other threatened species, has reached alarming levels and that only a concerted and sophisticated campaign will help.
The developments highlight the weakness of the only global agreement to halt the trade in endangered species, the CITES convention, set up 40 years ago. The latest round of talks on CITES opened in Bangkok yesterday.
The lab, located within the Thai Department for National Parks, was set up with the support of the specialist wildlife groups Traffic and Trace and the regional environmental organization ASEAN-WEN.
Its director, Dr Kanita Ouitavon, says the first samples of animals and animal parts have been analysed for their DNA and that a genetic database of Thai species is gradually being built up.
"It is very necessary to have new technology in my work - when we want to know about confiscated animals or animal parts, we can now find out about species or sub species or even learn about family links, the origins, where they're from and how they're related," she said.
"The illegal wildlife trade involves low investment but high profit and because no one owns the animals or the land it's so easy to commit the crimes.
"So I can consider this lab is a useful tool to crack down on this trade. Using DNA can prove a link between the suspects and the animals."
The lab, with 10 staff, receives samples almost every week including segments of elephant tusk, rhino horn, entire tiger skins and pieces of fur and flesh from a host of other creatures.
Each sample is catalogued and photographed before extracts are run through a DNA sequencing process. For animal parts from outside Thailand, the sequences are checked against an international database.
Dr Ouitavon acknowledges that her team will need patience - and larger numbers of staff - to build up evidence against poachers and smugglers
She also highlights the reality of being a small band fighting some very powerful interests. The gangs are expert at securing support from within the authorities - for example, officers from The Royal Thai Police are regularly accused of aiding the trade or being involved in it themselves.
In fact, during our visit to the lab, news came through of the seizure, in southern Thailand, of a load of ivory in a van actually driven by a police captain.
Dr Ouitavon is open about the challenge she faces: "We know from the beginning that those who are behind the illegal wildlife illegal trade are mostly influential and powerful people," she explained.
"If there is no check and balance like our unit so the problem will be worse… sometimes it may succeed or it may fail. That's not the main point. The important thing is we do it and we try to fight against it."
Customs officers also acknowledge that the Thai authorities have for years been notorious for turning a blind eye to wildlife smuggling, making Thailand an easy 'transit route' between Africa and China.
Now they insist that their procedures and intelligence have led to tightening up of controls, with better international cooperation, encouraged by the World Customs Union, and X-ray scanners to search cargo. Samples of hauls are now routinely sent to the forensics lab.
None of the customs officers wanted to be interviewed but they described a long list of recent seizures:
The total haul of ivory between 2009-12 at Bangkok airport alone weighs about 7 tonnes and is valued at least $7m, they say.
The officers believe their clampdown is successful because the smugglers have been forced to try new routes. Rather than flying their goods directly from Africa, they are now routing it through the Gulf or Europe to try to avoid suspicion.
I was shown six crates packed with sections of tusk, all seized on a flight from Kenya. A total of 79 elephants had been slaughtered to produce this one sorry haul.
The customs officer who led the operation seemed genuinely upset by it. The ivory, he said, "smells like a dead body" - it did have an intense musty odour and was a depressing sight.
But with more than 70 flights landing with cargo in Bangkok every day, maintaining a total screening is virtually impossible. I asked if the police would help them in the task, a question that produced a shake of the head and laughter.
Given the accusations levelled at them, I asked for a police response. Captain Marc Suranartyuth acts as a liaison officer with Interpol. He says he believes passionately in the need to fight wildlife crime and is clearly embarrassed by cases of police involvement.
"If I saw that I would feel really bad," he said, "since we are the government officials so we do our best to protect and serve people in our country and try to cooperate to solve crimes.
"That's why we want to solve the problem not create a problem."
Mary Rice of the Environmental Investigation Agency, an NGO specialising in wildlife crime, says one problem with international efforts is a lack of political will to tackle the biggest figures in the trade.
"They're catching foot soldiers and occasionally they're also catching the middlemen but to my knowledge they've never gone after the kingpins, the people driving the crime," she told BBC News.
"Since 2009 there's been a huge escalation in poaching and the current populations of elephants, for example, can't possibly keep up with demand."
Forensic science can play a part in saving species from extinction but only if governments are genuinely determined to stop the crime in the first place.
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They say the Lafayette meteorite shows signs of carbonation - where minerals absorb CO2 in a reaction with water.
Mars lost its protective blanket about 4 billion years ago, perhaps because of the loss of its magnetic field, space impacts, or chemical processes.
Carbonation may be the key factor, they write in Nature Communications.
The process occurs naturally on Earth - and has been proposed as a technique for mitigating climate change, by capturing CO2 from the atmosphere.
The 4.5cm Lafayette meteorite was discovered in Indiana, US in 1931, having plummeted to Earth about 3,000 years ago.
It formed in the Red Planet's crust about 1.3 billion years ago, and was ejected from the surface by a massive impact.
A team from the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) performed microscopic analysis on a section of the rock - borrowed from the Natural History Museum in London.
They found that silicate minerals, such as olivine and feldspar, had interacted with CO2-rich liquid water to form siderite crystals.
The team says their discovery suggests liquid water was present on Mars more recently than some had thought.
They also say it represents the first direct evidence for carbonation on the Red Planet - and ties in with the discovery of carbonates by Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover.
"Carbonation could be the main force that turned Mars to stone," said lead author Dr Tim Tomkinson, of SUERC.
"We can't say for certain it's the dominant cause - the loss of Mars' magnetic field may also have led to the stripping of its atmosphere by the solar wind. And CO2 is also frozen in the poles of Mars.
"But carbonates do seem to be very abundant on the Martian surface."
The loss of its carbon dioxide cloak is likely to have caused Mars to cool. So understanding how the CO2 was removed "could provide vital clues to how we can limit the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere and so reduce climate change" said Dr Tomkinson.
Mineral carbonation is widespread on Earth. For example, in Oman's Samail mountains, weathering of peridotite rocks has been estimated to bind more than 10,000 tons of CO2 per year.
Speeding up this natural process - by fracking rocks and pumping in purified CO2 - has been proposed as a technique for carbon capture and storage.
"From our analysis of the meteorite, it seems that carbonation occurs in certain orientations - we see amazing saw-tooth edges, all lining up," Dr Tomkinson told BBC News.
"It could be for example that if you wanted to frack rocks and introduce CO2 you should do it from a certain angle."
Dr Caroline Smith, curator of meteorites at the Natural History Museum, said: "These findings show just how valuable meteorites from collections like those we have here really are.
"There is so much important and useful scientific information locked away in these rare rocks.
"Our study shows that as we learn more about our planetary next door neighbour, we are seeing more and more similarities with geological processes on Earth."
Despite extensive and painstaking searches, the bodies have never been found of four out of 16 people listed by the commission set up to locate victims' remains.
Searches have been carried out by the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains, established in 1999 by treaty between the British and Irish governments to obtain information in strictest confidence that may lead to where the bodies are buried.
BBC News NI looks at the stories behind the Disappeared.
The IRA claimed that the 24-year-old from Belfast confessed to being a British provocateur and Military Reaction Force undercover agent in 1978.
Remains confirmed as Disappeared man
Abducted from his home in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast in July 1975, after being accused by the IRA of being an informer. It was claimed he was quartermaster in one of the IRA's three Belfast brigades and that his activities forced the IRA into calling a ceasefire that year.
His body was discovered in a coffin left at Faughart graveyard near Dundalk, County Louth in 1999 after IRA intermediaries passed information to the commission for the location of the victims remains. 'Disappeared' victim identified
Twenty-two when he was abducted with his friend John McClory in 1978, he had first gone missing a few days beforehand, but returned 48 hours later, beaten and distraught. He had allegedly admitted to stealing IRA weapons for use in robberies.
His parents made him give back the money and it seemed the matter had been "resolved", but when he failed to return home from work soon after, his family began to fear the worst. His body was uncovered in a bogside location in County Monaghan in 1999. 'My tears for Brian'
The 17-year-old was a friend of Brian McKinney and went missing at the same time. His body was also recovered at the same site. Body finds encourage searchers
The widowed mother-of-10 was killed in 1972. After numerous searches, the 37-year-old's remains were finally found at Shelling Hill beach in County Louth in August 2003.
Body is that of 'Disappeared' victim
IRA 'was wrong' over bodies issue
The west Belfast man went missing from his home in 1981. The IRA said Mr McIlhone was not suspected of being an informer but was being questioned about stealing weapons - it was claimed he was killed in a struggle with the person who was guarding him.
Remains discovered in the Wicklow mountains in November 2008 were confirmed as his. It followed two previous unsuccessful searches - in 1999 and 2000 - for his remains.
Family of IRA victim 'at peace'
The 57-year-old father-of-five from Crossmaglen in south Armagh, went missing on his way to Mass in 1981. His car was later found near a cinema in Dundalk. The IRA denied any involvement in his disappearance at the time. A team looking for Mr Armstrong found human remains in County Monaghan in July 2010. Two months later, the remains were confirmed as being those of Mr Armstrong.
Widow's relief as remains found
Fresh 'Disappeared' search
Described as a vulnerable person with learning difficulties, he vanished at the age of 21 from his home in west Belfast in 1973. Reports suggest he may have been abducted and murdered by the IRA. His name was added to the list of the Disappeared in 2009 after new information became available.
For four days before he disappeared he lived with an Army unit at their headquarters near his Falls Road home. At the time the Army was accused of using a vulnerable person to gather information on the IRA, but the Army said they wanted him to experience military life.
His remains were found at Waterfoot beach in County Antrim in November 2010. Fresh 'Disappeared' dig announced
Remains were 'Disappeared' man's
Inquest into 'Disappeared' death
Last seen hitch-hiking in County Monaghan in March 1979, no-one has ever admitted responsibility for the 24-year-old's death. In March 2008, his aunt was given a map claiming to identify the location of his body. Mr Evans' remains were found at a site in County Louth in October 2010.
A poignant conclusion
Appeal from Disappeared searchers
Remains confirmed as Gerry Evans
The 26-year-old went missing from his home near Castlewellan, County Down, on 1 January 1981. His body was discovered by chance in May 1984 in a bog near Dundalk, County Louth.
An IRA member, the Belfast man was alleged to have been a British army agent and member of its Military Reaction Force, an undercover unit. He was interrogated and murdered by the IRA in 1972. His body was discovered in Coghalstown, Co Meath, in June 2015.
The Belfast man was an IRA member, but in 1972 he was interrogated and murdered by his former colleagues who accused him of being a British army agent and a member of its Military Reaction Force. His body was discovered in Coghalstown, Co Meath, in June 2015.
The 19-year-old from Donaghmore, County Tyrone was abducted and murdered by the IRA in 1975 after allegedly confessing to being a British army agent with instructions to infiltrate the IRA.
Extensive searches for his body were carried out in 2003 at a bog in Emyvale, County Monaghan, but nothing was found. His mother, Vera, was a tireless campaigner for the return of his remains - she died in 2007. Mother of Disappeared victim dies
A specialist forensic team spent five months in 2013 digging in a bog in County Monaghan for Mr McVeigh's remains, but found nothing.
The 32-year-old from Newry, County Down, was working as a teacher in Paris when he went missing in 1985. It is believed he was killed by members of the INLA. Fresh searches were carried out in 2008 after his family were told his remains were in a forest in Normandy, but they found nothing. Family of INLA murder man misled
The SAS-trained officer was abducted by the IRA in Jonesborough County Armagh, in May 1977. The 29-year-old was abducted when he visited a pub at Dromintee, south Armagh. He had been in the pub singing rebel songs. He was seized during a struggle in the pub's car park and taken across the border to a field at Ravensdale, County Louth, and later shot dead. McGuinness in Nairac body appeal
A former Cistercian monk from the Beechmount area of west Belfast, he later joined the IRA. Mr Lynskey went missing in 1972, and republicans have claimed Mr Lynskey was "executed and buried" by the IRA. Commission to probe Lynskey death
The internal structure of Capel Aberfan, built in 1876, was destroyed and four homes were evacuated after the blaze in the early hours of Saturday.
The chapel was used as a temporary mortuary following the Aberfan mining disaster in 1966 and housed a memorial organ.
Daniel Brown, 26, will appear at Merthyr Crown Court on 28 July.
He chose to have the lower part of his right leg amputated and was fitted with an artificial limb.
Ben was born with a condition known as fibular hemimelia - giving him a foot with only three toes and a leg that failed to develop.
It left him struggling to walk and frequently in pain.
Ben was fitted with an artificial leg after his amputation - which he says was fine for walking around school, but which did not match his sporting ambitions.
Frustratingly for a boy already keen on sport in primary school, he could not keep up with his friends.
However, his prosthetist Clare Johnson recommended him to become one of the first children to be fitted with a false leg designed specifically for sport by the NHS - and now his sights are set on competing at a future Paralympics.
Ben, now 13, says: "It has turned out really well. All my PE teachers like it that I've got a prosthetic leg and that I'm still doing sport. They say I have a lot of grit and zest!"
He was fitted with his new blade just before Christmas and switches between that and his other prosthetic leg depending on what he is doing.
"Ben has been empowered by his blade," says Clare. "We hope it will give him a level playing field so he can compete with his peers and participate in more sports with a lighter prosthetic."
Clare adds that although she was able to make an attachment for Ben's disordered right leg as he was growing up, it was not possible to include the sort of components that could give him a spring in his step.
After three weeks practising with the blade, Ben returned to Clare's treatment room at Brighton General Hospital and tried jogging, running and playing indoor tennis.
He has also just taken on his able-bodied cousin in a straight race and won.
"The blade feels good," says Ben. "The spring of it is the bit that makes me go faster."
"I wanted the blade to do more running, so I didn't have to stick with cricket and stuff like that to do with upper body. I wanted to do more things with my lower body, run faster and get a bit more speed in football."
There are about 1,500 children in England who have lost all or part of a limb and 1,100 of them either lack a leg or have one which does not work properly.
It is the first time the NHS has fitted some of them - in Brighton, North Cumbria and Luton - with false legs especially designed for sport.
While Ben has his blade, a child from Cumbria has been given a water limb called a "swim fin" which will make swimming with friends possible.
The £1.5m programme is intended to help what the NHS says will be "several hundred" children each year.
The cost of a blade, together with the follow-up training and assessment, is estimated at around £1,000, but it could be several times that amount in the private sector.
Clare says that by preserving the health of the children who get prostheses, the scheme could actually save money.
She says it also supports the health service's campaign to encourage healthy lifestyles among children.
"I don't like the idea that there are a lot of obese children and couch potatoes. I like to think that I have given (Ben) the blade and that he will show to other children that if he can do it, then everyone can do it. Sport is for everyone, not just a small elite."
Ben's mother Kathleen is proud of her son's determination to play different sports, which have also included touch rugby.
"He's been up against it," she says, "but despite everything he fought back and he's a little fighter to this day. Now he's got the blade, the sky's the limit."
Don't bet against seeing Ben competing for Great Britain in a future Games.
The latest decklift means the remaining gap is about 50m - the equivalent of an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
The next stage of work involves using ballast and adjusting cables to ensure the height is aligned and ready for the final closure of the two sections.
Work on the final stage is set for January with the bridge connecting Edinburgh and Fife due to open in May.
Economy Secretary Keith Brown said: "Connecting all three of the Queensferry Crossing towers, from Fife right over to the south deck fan is another example of the good progress being made on the project.
"Despite the huge size and weight of the units being lifted, lifting them into place is a very precise operation.
"This is truly world class engineering taking place to bridge the Firth of Forth for the third time in consecutive centuries.
"Successfully building the new bridge and the road network requires careful planning and delivery of over 10,000 operations.
"The workforce continue to do an excellent job in often very tough conditions."
Michael Martin, Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors (FCBC) project director, said: "In total, we will have four principal deck closures on the Queensferry Crossing.
"Earlier this year, we closed the gap between the North Tower deck span and the northern approach viaduct.
"Then, in October, we achieved closure between the Centre and South Tower deck spans.
"We have now lifted the Centre Tower/North Tower closure section into place and work is on-going to fix it permanently into position.
"We are continuing to make considerable progress on the project as a whole. In fact, for the first time we can say that the three towers and their decks are now connected directly to Fife.
"The focus now is on achieving the technically challenging final closure between the South Tower and the southern approach viaduct which is planned for early in the new year."
Bordered by Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti, it occupies a strategic area in the Horn of Africa but remains one of the most secretive states in the world.
Tensions with Ethiopia remain high across a closed and heavily fortified border. The perceived threat of war is said to have been used by the government to clamp down on society.
Eritrea is a one-party state, and its 1997 constitution - which provided for the existence of multi-party politics - has never been fully implemented. Military conscription is mandatory and indefinite, according to Amnesty International.
Prolonged periods of conflict and severe drought have adversely affected Eritrea's agriculture-based economy and it remains one of the poorest countries in Africa.
In a damning report into human rights abuses, the UN accused the government of crimes against humanity. By UN estimates, hundreds of thousands of Eritreans have fled the country in recent years, making the perilous journey across the Sahara and the Mediterranean to Europe.
Population 5.6 million
Area 117,400 sq km (45,300 sq miles)
Major languages Tigrinya, Tigre, Arabic, English
Major religions Islam, Christianity
Life expectancy 60 years (men), 64 years (women)
Currency Nakfa
President: Isaias Afewerki
President Isaias Afewerki has governed Eritrea since it became an independent country in 1993. His People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDF) is the sole political party.
Presidential elections planned for 1997 never took place and a constitution ratified in the same year has never been implemented.
Mr Isaias has been criticised for failing to introduce democratic reforms.
Born in 1946 in Asmara, Mr Isaias studied engineering at the University of Addis Ababa but left in 1966 to join the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF).
In 1970 he co-founded the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) and in 1987 was elected its secretary-general. When the EPLF defeated Ethiopian forces in 1991, Mr Isaias was appointed head of a provisional government.
Following the 1993 vote on independence, he was elected president of Eritrea and chairman of the National Assembly, giving him control of both executive and legislative branches of government.
Media beyond the state-sanctioned newspapers and TV are non-existent. International journalists are routinely refused access. Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in its 2015 World Press Freedom Index placed Eritrea last behind North Korea.
Outlets run by Eritreans overseas - mainly in Europe, North America and Australia - provide alternative sources of information but their reach and influence inside Eritrea are limited, not least because of very low levels of internet access.
Some key dates in Eritrea's history:
300-600 - Present-day Eritrea forms part of the kingdom of Aksum.
1889-1941 - Italy colonises Eritrea.
1941-52 - British forces occupy and take over administration of Eritrea.
1952 - UN establishes Eritrea as an autonomous region within Ethiopia.
1961 - Ethiopia annexes Eritrea, triggering a 30-year war.
1991 - Eritrean People's Liberation Front wins war of independence, assisted by Ethiopian rebels who together with their Eritrean allies succeed in toppling Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam.
1993 - Eritrea votes for independence from Ethiopia in a UN-sponsored referendum and gains international recognition.
1997 - New constitution is drawn up but never implemented.
1998-2000 - Border war with Ethiopia. Tens of thousands are reportedly killed.
2009 - UN imposes sanctions on Eritrea for its alleged support of Islamist insurgents in Somalia.
2015 - UN report accuses the Eritrean government of crimes against humanity.
Every year on the 25 August his mind fills up with vivid memories of a night as a teenager which he was lucky to survive.
And memories return of all the friends he lost in a fateful minute and a half.
As a 16-year-old, he joined the Merchant Navy and found himself a place as a deck cadet aboard the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company's ship, the Pecten.
He was among crew in August 1940 when it was part of an Atlantic convoy bringing precious wartime fuel oil from the Caribbean back to Britain.
But engine problems meant it was straggling behind the other vessels as it got close to the west coast of Scotland and that proved to be a fatal situation.
"We managed to keep up with them right across but we lost a bit of speed when we came into The Minch," said Mr Carruthers.
"We were about two miles behind the convoy - so we were a sitting duck."
It was a shot which the U-boat U-57 would not miss.
"The ship just moved sideways - it was funny, there was very little noise," Mr Carruthers recalled.
"Sitting in the saloon you just felt the whole ship move sideways and she got two torpedoes in her.
"You realised you had been hit but you did not know how badly."
However, everyone on board - including the young man from Dumfries and Galloway - realised they needed to act quickly.
"My action station was the bridge and the other boys all headed for the cabins to get the emergency gear they had stowed," he said.
"They just got trapped because she sank so quickly that the water would have come in on them."
The teenager found his path to the bridge blocked by a "wall of fire", so he tried another route.
"I got to the captain's cabin - his last order to me was to cut away the starboard lifeboat," he remembered.
"I tried to cut away the lifeboat but by this time I was up to my knees in water.
"I realised that she was sinking very quickly and my life jacket had got caught."
Only by freeing himself from the jacket was he able to get off the ship and fight his way to the surface of the water.
"I knew I had a chance of being picked up because there was a rescue ship allocated to the convoy," he said.
"Whether I could last long enough before I got picked up I didn't know.
"I became a very good swimmer that night."
He reckons he had to stay afloat about three hours before he was eventually found, picked up and ultimately landed in Belfast.
Records show that he was one of just eight survivors from a crew of 57.
"She sank so quickly and rolled that it put the fire out - I was lucky," he said.
"If it hadn't put the fire out I would have burned.
"I later learned from other ships that they reckon from start to finish - from the time she got hit to the time she disappeared - was a minute and a half."
Mr Carruthers went back to sea just a few months later and several more times during the war before being medically discharged.
He received the Atlantic Star and the 1939 to 1945 Star for his efforts during the conflict.
And now, aged 91 at his home in Carrutherstown, he still remembers the night he was lucky to live through.
"What saved me was doing my duty," he said.
"If I had tried to save myself or save anything from my cabin I would have been a goner.
"My job was on the bridge and I tried to get there and that is what saved me."
His voice cracks a little with emotion, though, when he remembers his friends who were not so lucky.
"I lost every mate," he said. "And I lost a very good captain."
Concussion focuses on real-life whistle-blower Dr Bennet Omalu (Smith) and his confrontation with the NFL.
Omalu was implicit in diagnosing CTE, a degenerative brain disease arising from repeated head trauma - a condition which the NFL sought to cover up.
But Sony claims "nothing... has been 'softened' to placate anyone".
Earlier this week, the New York Times published a story stating that emails leaked last autumn, during the hack on Sony Pictures, apparently show the film was amended to avoid upsetting the powerful NFL.
"In dozens of studio emails unearthed by hackers, Sony executives; the director, Peter Landesman; and representatives of Mr. Smith discussed how to avoid antagonizing [sic] the N.F.L. by altering the script and marketing the film more as a whistle-blower story, rather than a condemnation of football or the league," wrote Ken Belson, in the New York Times on Tuesday.
'Hard-hitting'
On Thursday, Sony issued a statement calling the Times story "misleading", adding that journalist had not actually seen the film - due out in December.
"As will become immediately clear to anyone actually seeing the movie, nothing with regard to this important story has been 'softened' to placate anyone,'' the statement read.
"We always intended to make an entertaining, hard-hitting film about Dr. Omalu's David-and-Goliath story, which played out like a Hollywood thriller,'' said the film's director, Landesman, in a further statement to the Associated Press.
"Anyone who sees the movie will know that it never once compromises the integrity and the power of the real story."
Leaked emails published during the film's production last year suggest a degree of concern over the NFL's reaction to the film, with an independent consultant hired to deal with the organisation.
In early July 2014, Sony executive Hannah Minghella said, in a leaked email, that "rather than portray the NFL as one corrupt organization, can we identify the individuals within the NFL who were guilty of denying/covering up the truth."
The same month, former Sony Pictures boss, Amy Pascal, cautioned in an email: "We need to know exactly what we can and can't do and if this is a 'true' story or not. I know these can be dicey waters but none more than this one."
Accuracy
Director Landesman has acknowledged that a scene featuring NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was cut from the film.
Another email - from Sony chairman Michael Lynton - highlighted that Sony lawyer Aimee Wolfson "took out most of the bite for legal reasons with the NFL".
An email from Doug Belgrad, president of Sony's motion picture unit, in October last year reiterated the importance of fact-checking: "If we fudge or embellish the NFL's actions on this issue, it could compromise the success of our pic,'' he wrote.
The recently released trailer for Concussion portrays the NFL as a foreboding opponents, telling Omalu - "You're going to war with a corporation that owns a day of the week.''
The NFL which, in recent years, has donated millions of dollars to study the effects of concussion and develop treatment, has not publicly commented on the film's stance, limiting its statement to the health issues raised in the film.
"We are encouraged by the ongoing focus on the critical issue of player health and safety.. we have no higher priority. We all know more about this issue than we did 10 or 20 years ago. As we continue to learn more, we apply those learnings to make our game and players safer."
"My fifth album from now will follow 21. There's nothing I can do about it."
In her forthcoming interview with Graham Norton, to be screened on BBC One this Friday, she admits she nearly gave up music altogether.
"I just got really worried that I was never going to make anything that anyone liked again."
"I started to wonder if 21, being so successful, was enough for everyone," she says. "But I realised it wasn't enough for me. So, sorry, I'm here to make your ears bleed again."
So how does 25 shape up? Well, your ears won't bleed, but your tear ducts are going to get a workout.
It opens with the enormous, bombastic Hello - already a million-seller, but by far the most Adele-by-numbers track on the record.
When We Were Young is the real centrepiece, and a future standard. A soaring anthem about a chance meeting with an ex, it achieves the same intoxicating balance between regret and hope as Someone Like You, without sounding like a facsimile.
"You look like a movie, you sound like a song," she sings to her former flame. "My God, this reminds me of when we were young."
With that lyric, Adele introduces the record's key theme - her uneasy acceptance of adulthood.
"I feel like my life is flashing by - and all I can do is watch and cry," she sings on the mournful guitar ballad Million Years Ago. "I miss when life was a party to be thrown - but that was a million years ago."
Getting older also allows the star to re-examine her past relationships - but the angry, heartbroken woman who wrote 21 is now in a more reflective mood.
On Send My Love (To Your New Lover), she trills: "I'm giving you up. I'm forgiving it all. Send my love to your new lover... Treat her better."
A nimble pop song, produced by Taylor Swift and Britney Spears's hitman Max Martin, its playground chant of a chorus shows a fresh, playful side to the star.
We also get our first glimpse of Adele in seduction mode on I Miss You - a submerged, sparse groove, over which the singer purrs: "Treat me soft but touch me cruel. I want to teach you things you never knew."
Those two tracks, in particular, find the 27-year-old reinvigorated and willing to deviate from formula - and it's no accident they're programmed as the second and third tracks on the record.
Other highlights include the swampy River Lea, produced by Danger Mouse, and the closing track, Sweetest Devotion, in which Adele finally finds an unshakeable love: Her three-year-old son, Angelo ("There is something in your loving that tears down my walls," she sings, adoringly).
Despite emergency surgery in 2012, the star's vocals are undiminished, conveying sorrow, joy, sincerity and warmth, often in the space of a single phrase. And the A-list hitmakers who populate the record wisely build the songs around her presence.
Not every track is perfect - Water Under The Bridge throws half a dozen overlapping hooks at the wall, only to find none of them sticks - but, overall, the record is a worthy successor to 21.
Unlike Michael Jackson, who spent his career chasing the success of Thriller, Adele has avoided the temptation to make a "grand statement" with her follow-up.
Instead, she sounds relaxed, conversational and inspired, on a set of songs that come straight from the heart.
25 is released on Friday, 20 November, on XL Recordings.
Cookstown will have a second chance to go up when they meet UCD in a further play-off to decide the final place in the national league next Sunday.
Fergus Gibson and Craig Getty netted to put Annadale 2-0 up and after Ryan Millar's reply, Oli Brown made it 3-1.
Ireland star Peter Caruth set up two of Annadale's goals in Dublin.
Annadale went ahead in the 31st minute when Gibson converted a rebound after Caruth's initial shot had been saved.
Caruth was again the provider as Craig Getty made it 2-0 on the stroke of half-time.
Ryan Millar pulled one back two minutes after the break but Oli Brown's 48th minute insurance goal clinched Annadale's promotion after they were relegated last season.
In the women's round-robin event, Lurgan finished runners-up and will now face Belfast Harlequins in a further play-off next Sunday to determine which team holds down the last available place in the national league next season.
Lurgan needed a draw between Trinity and Old Alex in the final game to secure an automatic place in the top flight but the students beat their local rivals 2-0 to earn promotion.
Earlier in the day Carly Johnston scored both goals for the Ulster champions in 1-1 draws with UCC and Old Alex.
Jane Haining's jewellery was analysed by expert John Benjamin for a special episode of the programme to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
Her relatives had believed that the ring originated in Scotland.
However, Mr Benjamin said that on closer examination it carried an Austro-Hungarian stamp and might have been given to her as a gift.
Ms Haining - from Dunscore in Dumfries and Galloway - was arrested by the Nazis while looking after Jewish girls at the Scottish Mission School in Budapest.
She died in Auschwitz in 1944, aged 47.
The ring was shown to Mr Benjamin by her two nieces, Deirdre McDowell and Jane McIvor, from Northern Ireland.
"Someone, probably in gratitude for the extraordinary kindness, gave her the garnet ring," he said.
He described it as "something of a lightning conductor" linking the present day with the "redoubtable woman".
"I am very privileged to see it," he added.
The BBC One programme was filmed at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.
In a break from tradition, the BBC decided not to put a value on the artefacts that featured on the programme.
The number was lower than expected and is a sharp slowdown from December, when 292,000 jobs were added.
Job losses in transport and education weighed on the numbers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said.
Last week, figures showed that US economic growth slowed to an annual rate 0.7% in the final three months of 2015, from 2% in the previous quarter.
Trading on Wall Street suggests investors are concerned that the slowdown in job creation could be a further sign of a weakening US economy. The main Dow Jones closed down 215 points, or 1.3%, at 16.201.75.
But some analysts focused on the positive - that weaker job numbers meant another rise in interest rates was unlikely for now.
"I'm a little surprised the markets reacted somewhat negatively to it," said Sean Lynch at the Wells Fargo Investment Institute.
"It is actually a pretty good number that should be welcomed by the equity markets, it takes some of the concern the Fed moves too quickly off the table a little bit."
President Obama highlighted the low unemployment rate as he plugged aspects of his spending bill to be proposed next week. He plans to push for greater investment in clean energy, where jobs growth has been strong.
The president acknowledged that there was still anxiety among Americans, but said the US economy was "stronger and more durable" then before the financial crisis.
Retailing saw the highest number of jobs created in January, at 58,000, with healthcare adding 37,000 and manufacturing 29,000.
Some 39,000 jobs were lost in private education services, however, with a further 20,000 lost in transport and warehousing.
The net job creation pushed the unemployment rate below 5% - where it had stood for the previous three months - to its lowest level since early 2008.
The labour participation rate was unchanged, suggesting fewer people are dropping out of the labour market - a key problem during the financial crisis.
The average hourly rate rose by 12 cents, or 0.5%, to $25.39, which Greg Anderson at BMO Capital Markets described as "shockingly good".
The shop on Beach Road in Hemsby erupted into flames on Friday.
The building was completely gutted and other nearby premises were damaged.
Mike Peake, vice chairman of the parish council, said: "It's devastating for all the people here. I think it's an absolute disaster for Hemsby."
He added: "It's a blot on the landscape after the disaster in 2013 when the sea took the chalets all away. What more can happen in Hemsby?
"It'll be weeks before the smoke smell and everything else goes away from here."
At its height 45 firefighters tackled the chip shop blaze after it started in a deep fat fryer.
It was eventually damped down on Friday evening, leaving the shop as just a shell.
Hemsby felt the full brunt of the winter tidal surge two years ago when a number of homes and its lifeboat station were swept into the sea.
Since then the community has been raising funds to improve coastal defences.
Mr Peake said he was pleased holidaymakers were in the village, but did not think there were as many at this time of year as there should be.
Local business owners told the BBC the chip shop and its adjoining restaurant had just undergone an 18-month refurbishment.
Barry Cunniffe, who owns a nearby shop, said: "We're fortunate, we're saved, we'll have damage in the sense of smoke but that's all recoverable. It's a devastating loss to the [chip shop] owner.
"Every trader along here has lost a day's trading and I'm sure it will be affected in the days to come."
His death meant Friday's showing of Mack and Mabel at the Theatre Royal was cancelled.
His agent tweeted: "The talented and much loved actor @GianniniAlex died suddenly of natural causes yesterday."
Actress Anna Marie Cseh said on Twitter it was a "real pleasure and privilege" to work with him.
Giannini, 52, also appeared in Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Miss Monday, and featured in TV shows such as The Bill and Dalziel and Pascoe.
Agents Felix de Wolfe added: "An incredible life force has left the building."
Stephanie Sirr, chief executive of Nottingham Playhouse tweeted: "Shocking, terrible news. A lovely man with incredible zest for life. A great performer."
The performance on Friday evening was cancelled about an hour before the curtain was due to rise.
David Bloom, of the Chichester Festival Theatre production company, said: "There has been a company bereavement and so the performance tonight has had to be cancelled."
All remaining performances would go ahead as scheduled, the theatre said.
The theatre wrote on Facebook: "Thank you to everyone who was affected by last night's cancellation, for your patience and understanding."
Theatregoer Debbie Lumsden said on the same Facebook page: "Very sad news which was handled with great sensitivity by all the staff at the Theatre Royal last night."
Doctors at Glasgow's Beatson cancer centre spoke out in May amid a shake-up in services linked to the opening of the city's new south side hospital.
Their concerns were looked at by Healthcare Improvement Scotland.
It now wants NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to agree a new model of care for critically ill patients.
It also said that the NHS board should work to rebuild trust with senior staff.
More than 50 professors and consultants at the Beatson warned that patients could be put at risk by proposed changes to services.
Doctors claimed the changes would leave inadequate staffing in the event of emergencies.
They wrote to the health secretary in May to say the situation was "desperate" and called for action.
Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) said it established an inquiry team to look at the concerns and held a number of meetings with the health board and key staff.
It has now recommended that:
Robbie Pearson, director of scrutiny and assurance for HIS, said: "The Beatson is a world class centre of excellence for cancer care.
"The redesign of Glasgow's acute services is amongst the most substantial and complex in any hospital service within Europe.
"There is work to be done to make this an even more effective service that provides the best quality of care for patients."
He added: "We are confident that our recommendations will be used by the NHS board to provide guidance and support for those working in the Beatson to help them deliver the necessary improvements."
NHS GGC said it accepted HIS's recommendations and would work with management and staff at the Beatson to make sure they were implemented.
Dr Jennifer Armstrong, medical director at NHS GGC, said: "We welcome the report of the inquiry team and the opportunity this provides for NHS GGC management team and consultants at the Beatson to move forward in a constructive way.
"We are pleased that the inquiry has found that the High Acuity Unit is effective and a positive and welcome development which has improved the treatment of acutely unwell patients and also those whose condition is deteriorating.
"All those involved - our oncology doctors and nurses, our critical care doctors and nurses and the Beatson management team - reported to the inquiry that the unit is working well and providing a high quality of service to patients. Patient feedback has also been very positive."
Dr Armstrong added: "Our monitoring and review of the service has shown that it was safe four months ago when it was introduced and remains safe today.
"We do accept however that, while our arrangements are safe and patient care has not been compromised, we can do more to mitigate any risks of introducing this new way of working.
"We are fully committed to making these improvements in partnership with our clinical colleagues."
It becomes the fourth airline this week to announce the electronics ban has been lifted on US-bound flights.
The US imposed the ban in March on direct flights from eight mainly Muslim countries to address fears that bombs could be concealed in the devices.
Qatar Airways and its Doha hub airport said they had strengthened security.
The airline said that "with immediate effect, all personal electronic devices can be carried on board all departures from Hamad International Airport to destinations in the United States".
It comes after Etihad, Turkish Airlines and Emirates announced that the ban had been lifted on their US flights.
The airlines and their respective hub airports have worked with US authorities to increase their security checks.
Morocco, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are yet to announce the ban has been lifted.
Last week, US Homeland Security announced measures including enhanced screening, more thorough vetting of passengers and the wider use of bomb-sniffer dogs for US-bound flights from 105 countries.
Airlines expressed hopes at the time that the measures would pave the way for the lifting of the electronics ban.
Saudia, the flagship carrier for Saudi Arabia, said this week that passengers would be able to take the electronics on US flights from 19 July.
The elevation of the 43-year-old Indian origin American to CEO of Google is making waves across Indian media and social media outlets, with many seeing his rise as nothing less than a triumph for the country.
Mr Pichai was born and schooled in Chennai (formerly Madras), in south India.
Among the latest to congratulate Mr Pichai was Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who tweeted at him from his personal account.
The tag #Alphabet was one of the top trends in the Indian twittersphere following Google's announcement, but most of the tweets centred around Mr Pichai. Even the usually staid state broadcast channel Doordarshan could barely contain its excitement:
Other media channels followed suit, quickly pushing out profiles and factoids about the new Google CEO for the consumption of an excited public. And India's Twitter has been awash with tweets like these:
There were also these:
According to a profile in Bloomberg magazine, Mr Pichai's upbringing was humble. His family lived in a two room apartment. He didn't have a room - he slept on the living room floor, as did his younger brother.
The family didn't own a television, or a car.
After graduating from IIT Kharagpur, he was offered a scholarship at Stanford, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Mr Pichai's appointment has also reportedly triggered an online Wikipedia war in India, with the battleground being his school.
According to the Indian news website The News Minute, "Soon after his name hit the web as the new CEO, his Wikipedia page was witnessing nothing short of a web-war, with people altering his Wikipedia page to change the name of the school he studied in his hometown in Chennai. The surgery on his page, we believe, was motivated by (presumably) alumni wanting their schools to get the credit for grooming Google's top executive from India."
Wilson, 26, played for Super Rugby side Highlanders earlier in 2016 and will join the Premiership club after Otago's Mitre 10 Cup competition concludes.
Born in New Zealand, he has played international rugby sevens for England and New Zealand, and joined Saracens in December 2012 from Bay of Plenty.
His Otago teammate Paul Grant also signed for Bath on 30 September.
"Jack will be a fantastic addition to the squad. He's very fit from his time with the England Sevens squad," Bath director of rugby Todd Blackadder told the club website.
The museum is marking 15 years since its first Bollywood statue was created.
Kaif, the daughter of a British mother and a Kashmiri father, will be at the museum in London on Saturday for the unveiling, Madame Tussauds said.
Kaif made her debut in Bollywood in 2003 with Boom and has become one of the most sought after actresses in India, correspondents say.
For the wax statue, a team of about 20 sculptors and artists worked with the actress over four months - hundreds of measurements were taken and the museum said the statue cost £150,000 ($222,297).
In the wax model, Kaif will be in a dancing pose and dressed in a sequined outfit, BBC Hindi's Vandana, who uses only one name, reports.
Madame Tussauds unveiled its first Bollywood figure of superstar Amitabh Bachchan in 2000 when it asked the public to vote for an Indian actor who deserved a place in the museum.
Voted superstar of the millennium in a BBC Poll in 1999, Bachchan is worshipped by millions of fans in India and abroad.
Former Miss World and now Bollywood screen goddess Aishwarya Rai is often counted among the most beautiful women in the world.
Rai has worked in dozens of hit films and won several awards for her performances. She also starred in English-language films Pride and Prejudice and Pink Panther.
Her sari-clad wax model was unveiled in 2004.
Superstar Shahrukh Khan attended the unveiling of his model in 2007 and posed next to it.
Khan appeared pleased with the likeness and told the BBC: "What I like most are my eyes."
Bollywood heartthrob Hrithik Roshan's wax figure was unveiled in 2011 and soon became among the most kissed statues at Madame Tussauds, according to reports.
The star of hit films like Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai, Dhoom2, Krrish and Jodha Akbar visited the statue along with his wife and children.
Award-winning actress Madhuri Dixit's likeness was unveiled in 2012.
The museum said they commissioned her statue as they were "constantly inundated with requests" to feature her by her fans around the world.
Palmer, 21, has featured in all four of Burton's matches so far this season and has made a total of 110 appearances for the Championship club.
"He's certainly a big part of our plans," boss Nigel Clough told BBC Radio Derby.
"He was one of those we thought might actually find it better in the Championship with better players around him and a bit more time on the ball."
Palmer, who made his first-team debut for Burton in 2012, was not a first-team regular last season and spent part of the second half of the campaign on loan at Oldham.
"It's been a big turnaround for him. He's only young as well - he's 21 and there's plenty of time," Clough added.
"He's probably our most comfortable player on the ball. He gets moves started up and can play anywhere in midfield.
"He has to be better on the defensive side, but he did some work in the gym in the summer and we've seen the (physical) difference."
Jesse Richards, originally from Gloucester, died at Cleeve Prior in Evesham, Worcestershire, on 31 July 2009.
Five men were jailed in 2012 over the death of the 40-year-old father-of-three, who lived in Surrey, but his body was never recovered.
West Mercia Police said they believe his remains were taken to Warwickshire.
A £10,000 reward is on offer for anyone with information that leads to the recovery of the body.
Lucy Richards said she hoped someone would come forward and help find her son.
"If they could for one minute put themselves in my place they would know the heartache I am feeling and have felt for the last seven years," she said.
Supt Mark Loader, from West Midlands Police, urged people to "consider the pain" the Richards family endures.
He said: "His killers have been brought to justice for their crimes. However, his family continue to suffer and we want to give them the opportunity to lay Jesse to rest."
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The Englishman, 28, won his first major by three shots on five under to become the first British victor in 20 years.
Overnight leader Spieth, 22, led by five shots as he approached the 10th at Augusta, but the American dramatically dropped six shots in three holes.
He ended with a one-over 73, tying for second with England's Lee Westwood.
Westwood's three-under-par 69 gave him his second Masters runners-up finish on two under, with Paul Casey, another Englishman, one shot further back in a tie for fourth.
Spieth will be left ruing a remarkable collapse on the iconic par-three 12th.
He twice found the water in front of the green as he carded a quadruple bogey seven - to follow successive bogeys on the 10th and 11th holes.
That catapulted Sheffield's Willett, who was playing the par-five 15th, into the outright lead - a lead that he would not relinquish after signing for the joint-lowest round of the final day.
Willett is one of the golf's rising stars, having climbed from outside the top 100 to inside the top 10 in less than two years.
But few would have predicted a first major win in only his second appearance on the unforgiving Augusta course, especially because his participation at the Masters had been in doubt, with wife Nicole due to give birth on the final day.
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However, the early arrival of baby Zachariah meant Willett, who said he would have stayed at home if his son had not been born, was able to play.
Willett lay three shots adrift of Spieth on level par going into Sunday after opening rounds of 70, 74 and 72.
But he moved to within a stroke with a birdie at the eighth, his eagle putt just coming up short, on his way to a front-nine 34.
Three successive pars from the 10th and birdies on the 13th and 14th saw him move into the lead as Spieth stumbled.
A further birdie on the par-three 16th kept him clear of the field as he completed one of only two bogey-free final rounds.
The world number 12, who rises to ninth after this win, received a standing ovation as he walked towards the 18th green, on the verge of emulating fellow Englishman Nick Faldo, who won his third and final Green Jacket in 1996.
There was still a nervous wait for Willett though with Spieth needing to birdie the last two holes to force a play-off.
However, the Texan bogeyed the par-four 17th after finding a greenside bunker with his approach, allowing Willett to start his celebrations early.
Spieth was given a sympathetic reception as he trudged towards the clubhouse after a par four on the last but it was no consolation for the emotional two-time major winner.
As Masters tradition dictates, the world number two then had to help Willett into the Green Jacket.
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"It's been crazy," said Willett. "You can't really describe the emotions and feelings.
"We all try to play good golf and someone has to win. Fortunately today it was my day. It was a very surreal day when you look back at the ebbs and flows."
Spieth was aiming to become only the fourth back-to-back winner at Augusta.
He stood on the 10th tee with a five-shot lead after four straight birdies, only to see that advantage dwindle to one by the time he walked onto the 12th.
Dropped shots at the 10th and 11th, coupled with birdies for Willett just ahead on the 13th and 14th, resulted in a four-shot swing.
Then came Spieth's remarkable meltdown at the 12th.
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The world number two planted his tee shot into into Rae's Creek, then clubbed a heavy second attempt into the water, before hitting his fifth shot into the bunker at the back of the green.
He managed to get up and down in two shots from there, but the damage was done.
"It was just a lack of discipline coming off the two bogeys instead of realising I was still leading the Masters by a couple of shots," said Spieth.
"I have no doubt about my ability to close majors, I just think it was a very tough 30 minutes that hopefully I don't experience again."
Willett was not the only Englishman to impress in the final round.
Westwood, who also finished second in 2010, moved into contention with three birdies before the turn.
An chip-in eagle on the par-five 15th put the former world number one, 42, within a shot of Willett, only for a bogey on the next and two final pars to leave him short.
Former Ryder Cup player Paul Casey and young Yorkshireman Matt Fitzpatrick, the only two in the 57-man field to match Willett's final-round 67, finished tied fourth and tied seventh respectively.
Justin Rose, the 2013 US Open champion, finished in a tie for 10th on one over, alongside Northern Ireland's four-time major winner Rory McIlroy and Australia's world number one Jason Day.
McIlroy started the week bidding to become only the sixth man to win all four majors, but his chances of overhauling the rest of the field were slim after a third-round 77 left him five shots adrift of the lead.
The Northern Irishman then bogeyed the first after pushing a nervy opening tee-shot right into the trees.
The world number three, 26, birdied the third to go back level but slipped back again with dropped shots on the next two holes.
He finished with a scrappy round of 71 thanks to seven birdies and six bogeys.
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"This is the one that I haven't won and this is the one I want to win more than anything else," said the former Open, US PGA and US Open champion.
"Once I overcome that mental hurdle that I'm struggling with at the minute, then I know how to play this course."
German veteran Bernhard Langer, whose only major wins came at Augusta in 1985 and 1993, began two shots off the lead and dreaming of becoming the oldest major champion by a decade.
But the 58-year-old former world number one made a nightmare start, bogeying the first and dropping two more on the third.
Four more bogeys left him tied 24th.
It was a more memorable day for Ireland's Shane Lowry, US Ryder Cup captain Davis Love and 2010 Open champion Louis Oosthuizen, who all claimed holes-in-one on the par-three 16th.
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Jane Hutt told BBC Sunday Politics Wales that a funding deal offered by the coalition does not provide enough certainty for public spending in Wales.
She echoed comments of the first minister who said a promise of fair funding was short on detail.
David Cameron has pledged to protect the Welsh budget which ministers in Cardiff have long been demanding.
But the amount of money on offer will not be known until the next UK government spending review, due after the general election.
Instead of solely relying on an annual grant from the Treasury, the prime minister wants the Welsh government to raise some of its own budget through taxes.
He says the promise of a "funding floor" - designed to stop the Welsh budget being squeezed by the Barnett formula - means there is now no reason to delay a referendum on giving the Welsh government some powers to vary income tax.
But Mrs Hutt said the coalition could have gone further by offering more detail on the terms of the funding floor, "but they didn't. They took us for granted and they can't do that."
She added: "This is not about being told at the last minute 'We'll give you this, you do that'.
"That is not about an agreement. That is not about a respect agenda."
She said that if the Welsh government got "that reassurance, that clarity we can sign up to it, then of course you could consider beginning to make a start in terms of considering tax devolution".
The figures - from the Office for National Statistics - are for the first full month after the Brexit vote.
They show that he average house price across the UK in July rose to £217,000.
The eastern region of England remains the area with the fastest growing prices. The annual rate of inflation there was 13.2% .
Prices in London grew at 12.3%, although they fell in parts of Central London, like Hammersmith and Fulham.
Earlier this month the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said that the UK housing market had settled down after the Brexit vote.
There was a sharp drop in the number of sales immediately following the referendum result.
Surveyors now expect prices to continue to rise by an average of 3.3% a year for the next five years.
However other economists have predicted a decline of up to 5% in house prices next year.
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The incident took place within the grounds of Greyfriars Kirk at about 06:30 on Wednesday 26 August.
Rachid Lamrabet, from London, appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, charged with rape under section one of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009.
He made no plea or declaration and was remanded in custody.
The case was continued for further examination and Mr Lamrabet is due to return to court next week.
The company narrowly missed demotion in the last quarterly reshuffles in June and September.
The Bradford-based chain had been in the list for more than 14 years but its share price has tumbled in line with falling sales.
Its share price has fallen around 17% this year.
It currently has a market capitalisation of around £3.51bn.
The final decision on Morrisons demotion was made by the London Stock Exchange by the end of trading on Wednesday based on the previous day's closing price.
The move into the FTSE 250 is likely to trigger share sales by tracker funds which only follow the UK's biggest companies.
Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell wrote: "Morrisons' check-out from the FTSE 100 after fourteen and a half years shows the importance of pricing power.
"German discounters have come in and undercut the established big grocery chains, while the internet and changes in shopping habits have also altered the industry landscape ...More than 14 years is a good stint in the FTSE 100 and it is worth noting that only around 30 of 1984's original constituents are still in the benchmark index, showing just how tough life can be at the top."
Other companies which have fallen out of the FTSE 100 include the security group G4S and the engineering group, Meggitt.
The new intake were also announced and include the payment processor, Worldpay, Provident Financial and Irish Services Company, DCC.
Morrisons' new chief executive, David Potts has been trying to turn the supermarket group's fortunes around in a tough trading environment.
Last month it announced a 2.6% drop in sales for the three months to November, prompting a further fall in its share price.
In March, the company reported a 52% drop in annual profits to £345m, its worst results in eight years.
Morrisons is the fourth-largest supermarket chain, trailing Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda in annual sales.
Its struggles reflect wider problems within the sector, which has seen price wars among the big four supermarket chains following the growth of discount chains such as Aldi and Lidl.
In September, Morrisons announced it was selling 140 loss-making "M" local convenience stores in a £25m deal and closing 11 stores, as it sought to concentrate on larger sites.
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The German felt race winner Hamilton was driving unnecessarily slowly, backing him up into the chasing Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel.
Rosberg said it was "frustrating" and put them under "unnecessary pressure".
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Hamilton responded to the accusation he had done it on purpose by saying: "That's absolutely not the case."
He added: "I wasn't trying to back him up into Sebastian because ultimately we do need a one-two and that is a priority to the team. If he wanted to get close to overtake he could have done. I'm not really quite sure what his problem is.
"We came here to get one-two and we did. There shouldn't be too much aggro really."
But Rosberg, who finished second ahead of Vettel, said the two would discuss it with the team after the race.
"Of course we will have a discussion and we will see how it goes," Rosberg added.
It is the latest in a series of flash points that have tested the relationship between the two drivers, especially since the team became the sport's pace-setters at the start of last year, including a crash at last August's Belgian Grand Prix.
Rosberg's concern in Shanghai was that by bringing Vettel closer than he needed to be, it made Mercedes vulnerable to an attempt by Ferrari to either pass Rosberg by stopping first and benefitting from fresh tyres - called undercutting - or by forcing Rosberg to do a longer final stint than his tyres could cope with.
Vettel did make an earlier than scheduled final stop, but Mercedes were able to handle it.
Rosberg said: "It compromised my race massively at the time because the best possible race for Lewis was to back me off into Vettel so Vettel would try to undercut me and I would have to respond.
"It was very frustrating Lewis was taking it as easy on his tyres. Interestingly, he said he was just thinking about himself and that says it all.
"What upset me is we went through exactly that before the race."
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff claimed the drivers had cleared the air in their post-race debrief.
"It was a good debrief because it was a positive debrief," said Wolff. "There wasn't any animosity.
"There wasn't any intention from Lewis to slow Nico down in order to make him finish third or worse, 100%.
"He didn't know the gaps behind Nico. What he knew was that he had to take that tyre longer than we had ever run it the whole weekend. This is why he decided to slow down in the way he did."
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The 26-year-old Real Madrid forward insists Chris Coleman's side are feeling no ill-effects following their dramatic defeat by England on Thursday.
Victory over Russia on Monday would guarantee Wales' place in the last 16, while a draw would probably be enough.
"It would mean everything to us. The first goal is to get out of the group and it's in our hands," said Bale.
"We still have the chance to do that and hopefully we can grab it with both hands."
Wales made a winning start to their first major tournament finals since the 1958 World Cup, as a Bale free-kick helped them beat Slovakia 2-1.
Against England, he scored again to give his country a half-time lead, but they lost 2-1 as Daniel Sturridge scored in injury time.
When Bale was asked how long it took for Wales to recover from the disappointment, he laughed and said: "What England game?"
He added: "Obviously after the game we were very disappointed, especially to lose in that manner. But we had a chat straight away. Now we have to forget about it. It's over.
"Our fate is in our own hands. If you'd given us this at the start of the tournament, we would have taken it. We have it all to play for and we're still very excited."
Wales' match against Russia will have added significance, given their Euro 2004 play-off defeat against the same opposition.
Having hung on for a goalless draw in the first leg in Moscow, Wales lost the return fixture 1-0 in Cardiff.
A 14-year-old Bale was in the Millennium Stadium crowd on that night in November 2003, though he does not think the current crop will be affected by previous Welsh failures.
"I was actually at the game with my dad and a few of my friends," he said. "I was very young but I still remember it.
"But that was the past and this is now. No-one's even thinking of that experience. We want to go in with a fresh mind. We want to play like we've been doing and hopefully get the win."
The party's Plan A is a voluntary coalition with an opposition, operating initially on the basis of 60% weighted majority votes.
The party's Plan B would involve MLAs passing bills through the assembly, but British ministers exercising executive functions while remaining accountable to the assembly.
The TUV claim Plan A would ensure cross-community involvement, although they believe it should be possible to reduce the threshold to a straight majority over time.
In a new policy document, the TUV leader, Jim Allister, argues that "clinging endlessly to the failure of mandatory coalition is not serving Northern Ireland well".
Stormont has been in crisis for weeks following the murder of an ex-IRA man.
Kevin McGuigan Sr was shot dead near his home in east Belfast in August, and following a police assessment that Provisional IRA members were involved, all but one of the Northern Ireland Executive's unionist ministers resigned in protest.
Crisis talks involving Northern Ireland's five biggest parties, and the British and Irish governments, have been taking place over the past three weeks.
Earlier this week, Secretary of State Theresa Villiers told the Conservative Party's annual conference that the future of Northern Ireland devolution is under threat.
However, she said a return to direct rule would be a "severe setback" for Northern Ireland's political process.
The chief executive Anthony O'Sullivan, deputy Nigel Barnett and head of legal services Daniel Perkins have been suspended since 2013 after the Wales Audit Office declared their pay rises unlawful.
Misconduct charges were dropped last year after a judge dismissed the case.
It is not yet known how much money has already been spent on the dispute.
During a meeting on Tuesday night, councillors were given an update on the situation and were asked to approve a further £150,000 for legal costs, which was agreed.
A council spokesman said on Wednesday: "Internal investigations into three senior officers are ongoing and these must be conducted fairly and thoroughly in accordance with an agreed statutory process."
It is known that disciplinary proceedings are under way using an independent investigator.
Caerphilly county borough council has been asked how much the dispute has cost so far.
Neither the former One Direction singer nor the mayor of London are black, and have no African or Caribbean heritage.
Other public figures chosen by Kent Union, which represents students from the University of Kent, include Dame Kelly Holmes and Sir Trevor McDonald.
Union president Rory Murray has apologised for "not getting it right".
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Social media posts released for the union's Black History Month campaign featuring Mr Malik and Mr Khan were withdrawn on Tuesday night.
The event's official UK organisers tweeted that they were "deeply disappointed at @KentUnion's ill thought and misdirected Black History Month celebrations".
"With Asian Heritage Month being observed by a growing number of countries in May, will Black icons be celebrated by Kent University then?" they asked.
Mr Murray said: "I want to apologise on behalf of Kent Union to any individuals who were upset, uncomfortable or offended by the image shared.
"There was no intent for this to happen and I am very sorry to anybody who felt this way," he said.
"Whilst we made every effort to include black and minority ethnic students on the planning for the month, clearly, we haven't got it right on this occasion."
In a joint statement, Kent Union and the University of Kent said the campaign was in line with the National Union of Students' position on Black History Month which chose to "recognise and celebrate the immense contributions that people of African, Arab, Asian and Caribbean heritage make to humanity".
"In the planning stages Kent Union worked with students to develop a campaign that celebrated a range of ethnic cultures.
"However, we can see that many of our students disagree with the direction the campaign took and that a mistake was made," they said.
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He said MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski was "bleeding badly from a face-lift" during a visit to his Florida golf resort Mar-a-Lago.
In a Twitter salvo, Mr Trump also assailed Brzezinski's MSNBC co-presenter Joe Scarborough.
They are both his occasional sparring partners and she this week accused him of developing a "dictatorship".
"I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore)," Mr Trump tweeted on Thursday morning.
He also accused "low I.Q. Crazy Mika" and "Psycho Joe" of "insisting on joining me" at Mar-a-Lago over three days at New Year's Eve.
"She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!" he added.
Amid an outpouring of criticism from left and right, the White House rejected suggestions Mr Trump had done anything wrong.
"The president has been attacked mercilessly on personal accounts by members on that programme," deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told a news briefing.
"And I think he's been very clear that when he gets attacked he's going to hit back.
"The American people elected someone who's tough, who's smart and who's a fighter.
"And that's Donald Trump. And I don't think that's a surprise to anybody that he fights fire with fire."
Brzezinksi, 50, hit back earlier by tweeting an advert for a children's cereal, with the caption, "made for small hands", an apparent reference to a taunt often directed at Mr Trump by his critics.
During his presidential campaign, Mr Trump was a frequent guest on MSNBC's Morning Joe programme, which was accused by liberal voices of giving him preferential treatment.
But the relationship turned sour as the presenters sharpened their scrutiny of the candidate.
The pair have stepped up their attacks since Mr Trump's inauguration, deriding him as a "fake president".
In recent weeks, Scarborough has called Mr Trump a "bumbling dope", resembling "a kid who pooped in his pants", while Brzezinksi has mocked members of the administration as "lobotomised".
Mr Trump's latest broadside comes just a month after Scarborough and Brzezinski, who are engaged to one another, told Vanity Fair magazine the president had offered to officiate at their wedding.
She is the daughter of the late Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was an aide to Presidents Carter and Johnson, while Scarborough is a former Republican congressman.
Let's quickly review all of the people who have told Donald Trump to tone down his tweets as president. His wife. His White House advisors. His lawyers. Republicans in Congress. Even his own supporters have said they think his social media fusillades are counterproductive.
Yet here we are again. Another morning, another round of intensely personal Twitter invective that marks a dramatic departure from the (at least public) behaviour of past occupants of the Oval Office.
That this comes as no shock may, in fact, be the biggest shock of all. Mr Trump mocked people's looks (Rosie O'Donnell) as a businessman, and he was rewarded with reality television show stardom. He mocked people's looks (Carly Fiorina, Rand Paul) as a candidate, and he was rewarded with the presidency. Now he's mocking people's looks from his new home in the White House.
The president has hit the hornet's nest again, and he'll be roundly condemned by media commentators and Democrats. Republican politicians will express concern, then go back to their conservative legislative efforts.
This, too, will pass. As will the next round. Until the American voters - the only ones, it seems, with the real power - decide they want a change.
Mr Trump's tirade comes weeks after Ivanka Trump complained about nasty attacks on her father.
"There's a level of viciousness I wasn't expecting" in Washington DC, the first daughter told Fox News.
Online critics have noted the president's wife, Melania Trump, expressed a desire during the election to campaign against cyber-bullying.
But her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, said in a statement on Thursday: "As the First Lady has stated publicly in the past, when her husband gets attacked, he will punch back 10 times harder."
The Democratic National Committee described Mr Trump's tweet as "an attack on women everywhere".
Paul Ryan, the highest-ranking congressional Republican, told a weekly news conference: "We are trying to improve the tone and civility of the debate.
"This doesn't help that."
When asked in the past to clarify Mr Trump's social media postings, White House spokesman Sean Spicer has told reporters "the president's tweets speak for themselves" and they should be considered official statements.
This is Mr Trump's second high-profile spat with a female news anchor.
During a US election campaign debate in August 2016, Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly asked him why he had called certain women "fat pigs, slobs and disgusting animals".
Afterwards, Mr Trump said of Ms Kelly "there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever".
Sexual comments, wolf-whistling when students walked into lectures, heckling in nightclub queues and jokes about rape were all cited as examples.
The National Union of Students' poll also found two-thirds of students were unaware of how to report abuse.
Universities UK said sexual harassment had "no place" on a university campus.
Students who took part in the survey said the majority (59%) of these incidents of harassment had happened at social events or nightclubs, while a third (33%) had happened in university halls of residence.
It also found two-thirds (66%) stated they were not aware of the procedure to report these incidents and 12% felt they would not be taken seriously if they did.
And 61% said they were not made aware of any codes of conduct implemented by their university, with a further 29% not sure.
The poll of 2,670 students aimed to find out the extent to which students had either been victims of or witnesses to sexual harassment during their first week of term.
Of those who responded, 46% were male and 52% were female; nearly three-quarters (73%) of the respondents were aged between 18 and 20.
NUS women's officer Susuana Amoah said: "It's extremely worrying, but not surprising, that so many students in their first term of university have experienced sexual harassment or seen it happen to somebody else.
"NUS has been working over the last five years to bring sexual harassment on campus to the forefront of the national conversation, and make sure institutions are taking it seriously.
"Reporting systems for sexual harassment are either lacking or not visible to students in a lot of cases, and this needs to change.
"We are working with nine students' unions who have audited their own processes and those of their institutions, and we will be supporting many more to carry on this work until students feel aware of how to report sexual harassment, and safe and confident that their concerns will be taken seriously."
The university umbrella group Universities UK said that sexual harassment had no place on a university campus.
"These are serious matters where a zero-tolerance approach is required. Universities across the UK already have a range of initiatives and policies in place to address these issues," a spokesman said.
"Over the last few months, Universities UK has started work on a programme to see whether there is more we can do to support universities in this area and share best practice across all universities.
"A taskforce is being established to look at various forms of harassment, although specific emphasis will be given to tackling sexual harassment against students and 'lad culture', hate crime on the basis of religion or belief and homophobia."
The proposals come in a new report by a Commons committee which has also examined lessons learned from the Scottish referendum.
Last September's independence referendum saw an extraordinarily high turnout of nearly 85%.
The voting trend has been in the other direction in recent elections.
MPS on the political and constitutional reform committee have been considering how to boost turnout and back votes for 16 and 17-year-olds for all elections.
They concede that the reason for high engagement in Scotland was the importance of every vote to the outcome.
MPS say action is needed to make that the case in every election.
The committee suggest online voting should be piloted in the next parliament as well as allowing people to register to vote even on polling day.
It also recommends that election day is made a public holiday.
His side top Group M with 11 points and have already qualified for Gabon 2017.
The Belgian coach is looking to extend the Indomitable Lions' good run against bottom-of-the-group Gambia on 3 September and against the Nations Cup hosts three days later.
"I want to win, I like victory," Broos said.
"We are already in a comfortable position because the big work has been done.
"This gives me an opportunity to use players who have not played much before and experiment with new players."
Regular starters such as Nicolas Nkoulou, Eyong Enoh, Zoua Jacques, Aurelien Chedjou and Stephane Mbia will be absent for the September games and Broos explained that he called each player to explain that they would not be needed.
Among the players in line for their first cap is Robert Ndip Tambe of Slovak Super Liga side Spartak Trnava, who has played 15 league games and scored three goals so far this season.
"We are always on the look-out to find new and good players and build a new team, for now and next year," Broos said.
"We saw Ndip Tambe at his club. He scored four goals in five games and it was very interesting. I want to see him here.
"We also called up four local players because of their qualities. Maybe after the game I can conclude my standards are very high and we will have a good team."
The locally-based players in the 23-man squad include Moise Pouaty and Olivier Mbaizo of Union de Douala, Aaron Mbimbe of Coton Sport Garoua and Franck Boya of Apejes de Mfou.
Broos emphasised the need for victory against Gambia in Limbe, particularly to appease fans, after results like the 2-2 draw at home to South Africa in March.
The 63-year-old also wants to improve Cameroon's standing in the Fifa rankings and upcoming finals draws.
"I was surprise and disappointed to see Cameroon in the third pot [for the World Cup qualifiers]," he said.
"Cameroon is not a country to be in the third pot, but rather in the first."
Another player included in the squad, goalkeeper Andre Onana, made his debut for Dutch giants Ajax, as they lost 2-1 to Willem II on Saturday.
Cameroon squad:
Goalkeepers: Fabrice Ondoa (FC Seville), Andre Onana (Ajax Amsterdam), Moise Pouaty (Union de Douala)
Defenders: Ambroise Bitolo Oyongo (Montreal Impact), Mohamed Dhettei, (Gymnastic Taragone), Ngadeau Ngadjui (Slavia Prague), Mbimbe Aaron (Coton Sport Garoua), Mbaizo Olivier (Union de Douala), Teikeu Adolphe (Sochaux), Ngwem Jonathan (Progresso de Luanda), Nyom Alan (Watford)
Midfielders: Kom Franck (karlsruhe), Siani Sebastien (KV Oostende), Tchiani Tony (Colombus Crew), Djoum Arnaud (hearts), Boya Franck (Apejes de Mfou), Salli Edgar (FC Nuremberg)
Forwards: Moukandjo Benjamin (FC Lorient), Njie Clinton (Tottenham Hotspur), Choupo Moting (FC Schalke 04), Ndip Tambe (Spartak Trnava), Abang Anatole (BK Avarta), Toko Karl (Angers)
His death comes as a scandal over phone-hacking gathers pace.
The man left a suicide note admitting that he had deleted important information about the hacking.
It has emerged that mobile phones were tracked and monitored just before the presidential election in 2012.
Government and NIS officials have denied opposition claims that the spyware - bought from an Italian company - was used to monitor South Koreans in general.
They insist that its purpose was to boost the country's cyber-warfare capabilities against North Korea.
The BBC's Stephen Evans, in South Korea, says that the note left by the dead man implies that phones were monitored only to keep tabs on people connected to North Korea and not to besmirch opponents of the right-of-centre president.
The spy agency had a scandalous reputation in the years before South Korea embraced democracy in the 1980s, and was involved in abductions and killings.
The modern NIS is not accused of such serious offences but has nevertheless been embroiled in several scandals, including election meddling.
Opposition politicians allege that it is not politically neutral, breaks the law and is a political tool for sitting presidents.
Last week the Supreme Court ordered a review of the conviction of former NIS head Won Sei-hoon, who was sentenced to three years in jail in February for trying to influence the results of the 2012 presidential election.
It may be a long way from the standards of European football leagues, but the newly created Roshan Afghan Premier League has generated huge excitement and turned people across the country into football fans overnight.
It all started with a single reality TV programme on Afghanistan's main private channel, Tolo: the Maidan-e-Sabz (Green Field) programme offered aspiring footballers the chance to compete for a place in eight newly-formed football teams across Afghanistan.
The participants put their football skills to the test in a series of challenges, including one that involved running through mud and water.
By the end of the series, 18 players had been chosen for each new regional club.
"We want to improve professional football in Afghanistan," said Keramuddin Karim, head of Afghanistan's football federation and a key member of the Green Field TV jury.
"It is a new era for Afghanistan's favourite sport, football."
The new teams in the Roshan football league - named after the country's leading telecommunications company, which is jointly sponsoring the operation - have the support of the international governing body of football, Fifa, and the Asian Football Federation.
All the matches are played in a new 5,000-seater football stadium in the capital.
The first match kicked off on Tuesday, with Kandahar's Atalan-e-Maiwand soundly beating Shaheen Asmaee from Kabul.
"We had space for 5,000 people, but more than 10,000 turned up," said Mr Karim.
"They were shouting, cheering up and even crying during one of the first ever league matches in their country."
There is a long tradition of playing football in Afghanistan, despite the interruptions of war.
The Afghan Football Federation was set up in 1933 and it joined Fifa in 1948; the national team played its first-ever match against European opposition at the London Olympic Games in 1948, losing 6-0 to Luxembourg.
But the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the ensuing civil war put an end to international football for more than two decades.
The Afghan national team eventually returned to the international arena in 2002, when they played South Korea in the Asian Games, losing 2-0.
They had better luck in the Asian Cup the following year, beating Kyrgyzstan, but this was followed by a run of losses until 2011, when they were runners-up in the South Asian Games in Delhi.
The result was their best-ever and they were dubbed the Lions of Khurasan, a nickname which has stuck.
Evidence that the launch of the new Afghan football league has sparked a new wave of enthusiasm for the game is clearly seen in the decision by one expatriate to start a website updating the results of the league to the outside world.
For the fans, football provides a welcome relief from the violence and suicide attacks which are reported daily on the news.
"I am so lucky to be sitting here and watching my country's football league," said Jamshid Aziz, a university student in Kabul.
"It feels like I'm watching Barcelona playing Real Madrid. I know that sounds like an exaggeration but who would have believed we would see something like this in Afghanistan one day?"
Afghan women are getting in on the act too - the women's national team has recently had a run of good results.
Kabul student Samira Haidari, 19, says that football has replaced Bollywood soap operas as her television favourite.
"I am a big fan of football, I welcome this event in my country and I follow every bit of it on TV," she told the BBC. "I really hope to watch it live in the stadium soon."
When it comes to salaries though, Afghan football teams are certainly in a different league from Barcelona or Real Madrid.
None of the players have contracts - they are only paid basic expenses. Teams get their board and lodging paid and players from outside Kabul also get a tiny daily allowance.
"We pay them 500 Afghanis ($10;£6) for their expenses," says Mr Karim of the football federation.
"I know it's not very much, but if they play well and shine it could open a new chapter in their lives."
Although the players know all about the multi-million pound salaries and contracts of the world's leading footballers, they say that for now, money does not matter.
"I would never have dreamed that it could be possible to play in front of such a big crowd who all have smiles on their faces," says Mujtaba Faiz, who plays for Kabul.
"For the moment, that's all I want."
But there is good news for the teams that come first, second and third in the new league.
The victors will win a grand prize of $15,000 (£9,200) and some players will be offered the chance to join the national team, which is mostly made up of players from Kabul, many of whom are playing in the Roshan league. As yet, no Afghan team members play overseas.
The newly-formed league runs until the middle of October, but many Afghans hope that the feeling of togetherness that football seems to be generating across the country will last much longer.
Ferrari have told Kimi Raikkonen he has to improve to stay for 2016, and Ricciardo is said by sources to be the main target if the Finn leaves.
Ricciardo, 25, has a contract until 2018 and said "from my understanding it's not likely I can get out".
He added: "I would never rule anything out completely. I don't have experience with contracts. Things can change."
The Australian, speaking in the lead-up to Sunday's British Grand Prix, said it was "a compliment" to be "recognised" by Ferrari.
He said: "We're not talking about contracts or anything. But first and foremost what I want is to win.
"A lot of my frustration this year is because of that. We're not in a position to win. As a driver that is really the only thing you want, at least at this point in my career when I'm still young and hungry and I feel like I have a lot of potential in me."
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said: "Daniel knows the team's desire to be competitive, he believes in the team and there is no risk or discussion of him being anywhere else other than Red Bull for a minimum of three years."
Ricciardo, who finished third in the drivers' standings in his debut season, said Red Bull's struggles had been difficult for him to accept this year.
"It has tested my personality a bit more," he said. "I have always known deep down I have been a pretty fierce competitor. I have never liked losing.
"I have become a better sportsman with age. I have handled losses better. But still deep down my heart is very competitive. I want to win and proving what I did last year only makes that fire burn more. So it has been a little bit more challenging this year to take a step back.
"To accept that was not easy at first. But at the same time I know this sport can do those things and unfortunately it is a game of patience."
Ricciardo added he had confidence the team could become competitive again in 2016, when they hope for an improved engine from Renault.
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"I really feel Red Bull can make a change for next year and can get back up the front," Ricciardo said.
"We still have good people in the team and the ingredients to do it. That next step has to be the right step and I think we can get back up there."
Renault's engine is in the region of 50-70bhp behind the standard-setting Mercedes this season, and Ricciardo said there was little hope of a major step before the end of the year.
He said: "It is more looking towards next year. It's important for the team to set up a championship target next year."
Ricciardo said that, with a competitive engine, the Red Bull car was "in the ballpark" with Mercedes.
He said: "If we'd be faster than them, I don't know, but it would be close enough to put some pressure on."
London-based Farfetch has come up with the service in a bid to defend itself amid the upheaval in the retail sector.
Farfetch said it had developed technology aimed at collecting better data on in-person shoppers.
The site has also unveiled a design-your-own shoe tool for one of its brands.
The internet and other technologies are making near-instant delivery, customised products and laser-focused marketing increasingly common.
Farfetch, which has forged a reputation as an online platform for high-end boutiques, was founded in London in 2008 by Jose Neves, a Portuguese entrepreneur who began his career in software and shoe design.
He expects further melding of the online and physical shopping experience, even as traditional brick-and-mortar shops survive.
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The speedy Gucci delivery is available to online shoppers in 10 cities including London, New York, Dubai and Los Angeles. Farfetch already offers same-day delivery in select cities.
The site said it would start experimenting with the data tools at its Browns boutique in London and New York later this year.
Well-heeled customers can opt for customised loafers from Nicholas Kirkwood, which start at £425 a pair.
Farfetch employs more than 1,000 people and ships to more than 190 countries. Its most recent fundraising round valued the company at more than $1bn.
Longford led 0-4 to 0-3 after a turgid first half and then moved two up before James McGivney's red card led to the visitors losing their way.
Patrick McBrearty's four points helped Donegal pull clear after a first half when they had fired a dozen wides.
Donegal will learn their next qualifier opponents in Monday's third-round draw.
A large, predominantly home crowd of 9,915 turned up to watch the round 2A qualifier but the Donegal supporters were left bemused by their team's lacklustre first-half display.
Michael Murphy's sixth-minute free was Donegal's only score in the opening 23 minutes as they appeared short on energy.
When Donegal did get into scoring positions in the opening half, their shooting was poor as they also struggled to deal with Longford's physique.
Two David McGivney frees helped Longford lead 0-4 to 0-3 at the break and Robbie Smyth's second score then edged the visitors two clear after the resumption.
The sides were level at 0-5 apiece when James McGivney completed a hat-trick of enforced departures for the Longford half-forward line as he picked up a second yellow card.
Earlier, Daniel Mimnagh and Darren Gallagher had been black carded for the visitors.
As Martin McElhinney's introduction gave some badly-needed impetus to the Donegal attack, the home side hit seven of the remaining nine scores with McBrearty contributing four of those points.
Donegal boss Rory Gallagher admitted his side had produced a "flat performance".
"Longford made it difficult for us but we didn't do enough to break through them," said Gallagher.
"But we are in the draw for the next round of the qualifiers and that is what it is all about."
Saturday's results
Watson was shown a straight red card for taking full-back Alex Goode out in the air with half an hour to go.
By then Sarries led 18-3, Will Fraser and Mike Ellery with first-half tries.
Two tries for Ashton, banned for making contact with the eyes of Ulster's Luke Marshall, sealed Saracens' bonus point to move them eight clear of Exeter.
The 29-year-old, who was forced to miss the entirety of England's Six Nations Grand Slam-winning campaign, played the full 80 minutes on his first game back and will now hope to force his way into Eddie Jones' squad for the summer tour of Australia.
The former Northampton Saints wing displayed his trademark predatory instincts in finishing off fine team moves either side of Leroy Houston's consolation try for Bath.
Mark McCall's team, who beat the Blue, Black and Whites in last season's Premiership final, had looked in complete control from the moment Fraser bundled over from close range inside the opening five minutes.
They were already 15 points in front when Watson was sent off for what referee Greg Garner ruled to be a dangerous tackle on Goode, although the 22-year-old did appear to collide with Ashton just before attempting to challenge the Saracens' full-back for the ball.
But Bath, who also had scrum-half Chris Cook yellow-carded soon after, never seemed likely to mount a serious comeback even before their poor second-half discipline.
Defeat leaves Mike Ford's side ninth in the table, eight points off sixth-placed Harlequins.
Bath head coach Mike Ford:
"By the letter of the law, it is a sending off, isn't it? He [Watson] got underneath Alex, and Alex landed awkwardly.
"You get underneath the guy jumping, take his legs away and he lands awkwardly like he did, it's a red.
"Anthony is gutted. He was going for the ball, Ashton checked his run, and then all of a sudden he is underneath the player. It was an accident. We will have a look at it. We will fight his corner."
Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall:
"The letter of the law says it is possibly a red card, but I feel sorry for Anthony because it was not intentional.
"His route to Alex was slightly disrupted by one of our players. He had to change course, he doesn't time it well, but it was what it was. It didn't change the course of the game."
Bath: Watson; Rokoduguni, Joseph, Devoto, Agulla; Ford, Cook; Catt Webber, Thomas, Ewels, Attwood, Garvey, Louw (capt), Mafi.
Replacements: Dunn, Lahiff, Wilson, Houston, Denton, Mercer, Homer, Priestland.
Saracens: Goode; Ashton, Bosch, Barritt (capt), Taylor; Farrell; Wigglesworth, Vunipola, Brits, Du Plessis, Itoje, Kruis, Rhodes, Fraser, Vunipola.
Replacements: Saunders, Barrington, Lamositele, Hargreaves, Brown, De Kock, Ellery, Ransom.
Kazi Islam, 18, is accused of grooming 19-year-old Harry Thomas to buy ingredients for a pipe bomb and to kill two soldiers.
He used "flattery and threats" to incite Mr Thomas, the Old Bailey heard.
Mr Islam, from Newham, east London, denies preparing to commit acts of terrorism.
Prosecutor Annabel Darlow QC said Mr Islam had befriended Mr Thomas in October 2013 by pretending to sympathise with him over a break-up with a girlfriend.
He went on to encourage Mr Thomas to kill a soldier by telling him stories about innocent children being murdered by military forces, she told the court.
A series of exchanges on BlackBerry Messenger and social media sites were uncovered when police raided the house in east London where Mr Islam lived with his family, jurors were told.
In the exchanges, he encouraged Mr Thomas to buy the component parts of an improvised explosive device - referring to it in code as "cake", the court heard.
The Old Bailey was told Mr Islam's attempt to keep his plans covert failed when Mr Thomas replied: "cake? U mean the b o m b [sic]."
The court also heard how Mr Islam repeatedly praised the actions of those who had murdered Fusilier Rigby in Woolwich in May 2013 and actively encouraged Mr Thomas to take the life of one or more soldiers.
One message read to the court said: "When I give you the order I want you to kill a soldier..2 soldiers..not yet though."
Mr Islam allegedly asked Mr Thomas if he would carry out an attack similar to the one in which Fusilier Rigby was killed, asking him to "get a meat cleaver or a kitchen knife".
The Old Bailey heard that while Mr Islam was arrested in August 2014 and later charged, Mr Thomas was not arrested since a search of his home and examination of his electronic devices found nothing to incriminate him.
Mr Thomas will not be giving evidence as a witness in the trial.
Ms Darlow said: "As the messages between Harry Thomas and the defendant expose all too clearly, Thomas was a vulnerable, not particularly bright young man who was desperate to impress Islam and to try and forge some sort of friendship with him.
"Islam ruthlessly exploited to the utmost Thomas' vulnerability and obvious wish to try and ingratiate himself with Islam."
She added: "Rather than risk his own neck by going out and trying to assemble the necessary component for a bomb, he tried to exploit others - Thomas in particular - to buy the components for a bomb."
The case continues.
Uefa suspended the Istanbul side in March for breaching financial fair play rules, and an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport has been unsuccessful.
Galatasaray had qualified for the 2016-17 Europa League after winning the domestic cup last season.
Osmanlispor, who finished fifth in the Turkish Super Lig, will replace them.
In January, Uefa said 20-time Turkish champions Galatasaray had broken regulations on the level of financial losses allowed.
The 2000 Uefa Cup winners have played in the Champions League for the past four seasons, going out at the group stage of last year's competition.
They dropped into the Europa League but lost to Lazio in the last 32.
Carwyn Jones told BBC Wales the north-west needed "rural solutions" instead.
The north Wales metro would include trams, upgraded railway stations and better bus services, Labour says.
In February, Mr Jones told the Daily Post newspaper the network would be running by around 2035.
Labour's assembly election manifesto commits the party to "starting work on the development of a north Wales metro" if it retains power on 5 May.
On Thursday, Mr Jones said: "Bear in mind a metro is an urban concept for areas that are heavily populated," Mr Jones said.
"You don't apply an urban solution to a rural areas, you apply rural solutions.
"What does that mean? Continuing to subsidise bus services where they're needed."
Mr Jones said it also meant "connecting communities", ensuring long distance bus routes "continue to prosper", electrification of the north Wales main rail line and improvements to the A55.
Labour has not announced how much a north Wales metro would cost, but fulfilling plans for a south Wales metro have been estimated to require more than £2bn and take until 2030.
The Conservatives have pledged to create a new arm's-length body to ensure an integrated transport system across Wales, and promised a long-term strategy for road, rail and public transport networks.
Plaid Cymru has promised the "biggest investment programme since devolution in all parts of Wales" to improve public transport.
The Liberal Democrats say they would establish regional transport authorities responsible for "re-regulating" local buses, ensuring the completion of major projects such as the south Wales metro and improving connections.
UKIP has promised "major investment" to widen the most congested sections of the A55, and to upgrade the A470 and A483.
In a sit-down chat with the paper's Rebecca Black, he appeals to the public (as police do) for more help solving crimes.
He refers specifically to an alleged reluctance from the public to come forward with information relating to last week's gun attack on a PSNI officer at a filling station on the Crumlin Road.
"There's always a reluctance when these violent dissident groups - or indeed any paramilitary of terrorist organisation - is involved," he says.
Inside, the Belfast Telegraph revisits the story of a jogger who found and rescued a student who lay injured on Cavehill for more than 24 hours.
It reports David McCrum plans to climb 12 mountains across Ireland to raise money for the Air Ambulance service after seeing first hand the work they do.
Elsewhere, the News Letter delves in to its own crime scoop.
It reports that a previously convicted terrorist had only served a "light" jail sentence for a serious dissident offence relating to weapons when he went on the run.
Damien Joseph McLaughlin was due to go on trial for aiding and abetting the murder of prison officer David Black in 2012, but has absconded.
The paper says it has undertaken an examination of bail policy and the sentences applied in previous cases referring to Mr McLaughlin.
In analysis on the opposite page, the paper's deputy editor Ben Lowry offers his opinion on Northern Ireland's bail policy, calling it "hopelessly lenient" with regards to serious dissident offences and makes an appeal for tougher action by the courts on terror.
"Ten days ago a policeman could have been killed in a dissident attack in north Belfast," he writes.
"The terrorists were clearly determined to murder an officer, so it is reasonable to fear that in the coming weeks or months another PSNI officer, or group of officers, will be killed."
Sticking with the theme, the Irish News carries a story about an officer who faces prosecution for driving a police Land Rover dangerously.
The paper quotes a spokesperson for the Police Ombudsman, who says there were more than 20 complaints about "different aspects of police conduct" at a march on the Ormeau Road on the Tuesday after Easter 2016.
Finally, the Irish News reports Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Enda Kenny will raise concerns about President Trump's travel ban when he visits him in America on St. Patrick's Day.
"The blanket ban on any country and bans on the basis of religion are not morally acceptable and I disagree entirely with the policy that has been laid out," says Mr Kenny.
In one case, 11 children had to be removed for their own safety from one mother over 15 years, BBC Wales found.
Judge Nicholas Crichton said Wales should now adopt Family Drug and Alcohol Courts he helped establish in England to break the care cycle.
The Welsh Government said it is examining the issue.
"If you have a system that is routinely removing the fourth, the fifth, the sixth child - and often it's many more than that - then it's a failed system," argued Judge Crichton.
"Because you are in effect condoning the birth of more children who are inevitably going into care, and the emotional cost to those families and those children is immense, and the financial cost to the taxpayer is immense, and you just have to try something different."
Following a BBC Freedom of Information request to Welsh councils, it emerged several authorities had been forced to act to safeguard children felt to be at risk in the same family.
Sixteen of the 22 authorities responded, including:
Judge Crichton said the model of English Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDAC) was saving £2.30 for every £1 spent over a five year period, by giving parents a chance to change their ways and stop children being taken into care.
"If we had an earthquake in Wales, the government would immediately come up with millions of pounds - let's say £20m - to help the survivors and the people who suffer as a result of the earthquake," said Judge Crichton.
"The increase in the numbers of care proceedings over the last 10 years and the last 12 months are an earthquake around the corner.
"If they were to invest £10m or £20m in rolling out these approaches, that is money they will get back because we've proved that, and that's what I intend to be saying to ministers very shortly."
Responding to the judge's views, the Welsh Government said it was monitoring the rise in the number of applications to take children into care.
"We are looking at this issue and working with partners to develop a national approach to help reduce the numbers of children entering the care system," said officials.
"Our Integrated Family Support Service (IFSS) provides preventative, targeted crisis interventions to support families, including those affected by drug and alcohol issues, before children become at risk of being taken into care.
"IFSS works with parents to improve their parenting capacity and capabilities, build on their strengths and empower family members to effect long term positive behavioural change."
Alison - not her real name - was in an abusive relationship with a former partner, who took drugs.
Four of her children had been removed and social services had been involved early on in her first child's life, following an accident.
At the time, she said she did not appreciate the impact the abusive relationship had on her children.
"I didn't realise some of the stuff they were seeing until my oldest one took counselling after he'd been removed," said Alison.
"He saw my ex-partner punch me once. He heard all the shouting and screaming."
Since Alison has been working with Action for Children she has turned her life around, has married and gone on to have a child with her new partner - planned for two years with the support of her women's worker.
She said she felt like a different person.
"I feel like I've changed a lot for the sake of the kids. I just feel like I don't run in the same circle of friends anymore. I don't have same influences really."
She now hopes that her other children will be able to come and live with her in the future.
Catriona Houston is the Women's Worker on an Action for Children charity project underway in Carmarthenshire.
She told BBC Wales that about 60% of the women she works with have been in care and a similar amount have been sexually abused in childhood.
"They've grown up with low self-esteem and alcohol is their favourite drug of choice as a means of blocking out pain. They get into relationships with domestic violence, so often they're focused on survival and not on the care of their children."
The impact on a woman of having a child or children removed into care leaves the mother feeling "horrendous grief", said the charity worker.
"The social workers are there for the children and when the children are removed, who is there to support the mother? The mother has needs and that's why she's not parenting properly."
What are the Family Drug and Alcohol Courts?
Set-up in 2015, they bring together court services, social services, substance misuse and expert agencies to help resolve issues around why a parent might be at risk of their children being taken into care.
It takes a problem solving and therapeutic approach and can improve outcomes for children by helping parents change the lifestyle that puts their children at risk of harm.
A team of experts - such as psychiatrists, drug and alcohol workers and domestic abuse workers - support parents and produce an intervention plan for them.
They return to court every two weeks in front of the same judge and without the presence of lawyers to discuss their progress.
It gives parents the opportunity to make changes to their lives and if they succeed, they are able to keep their children in their own care. If they cannot or do not make the changes, the children can be removed into the care of the local authority.
According to Judge Nicholas Crichton this approach has had a success rate of just under 50%.
Currently, Wales does not have access to the FDAC system.
Statistics released by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) showed a drop of 956 staff since the creation of the single fire service in 2013.
The losses include 667 whole-time or "retained" firefighters and 289 people employed in support or control room roles.
The service had 8,547 staff in 2013. That fell to 7,591 this year.
There was an 18% drop in the number of volunteers in the service between 2013 and 2016, which saw numbers drop from 417 to 342.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said the figures reflected "planned organisational structure changes" to deliver a more "effective and efficient" service across Scotland.
However, the brigade is planning a firefighter recruitment drive towards the end of this year.
A spokesman said: "We inherited a range of crewing models from Scotland's eight former services and work has been ongoing to standardise these. Our resource-based crewing model will ensure we have the staffing capacity and capability to deal with all incidents within our communities."
He added: "As a national service, we are better placed to look strategically at the needs of the people of Scotland and deploy our resources where they are needed to ensure the safety of our communities across the country."
Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesman Liam McArthur raised concerns about the impact of the service merger in 2013.
He said: "Fire service staff across Scotland save lives every day. We need to ensure that they have the resources they need to do their jobs.
"Since the creation of SFRS, we have lost around 700 fire fighters. These are not only full-time staff but also retained firefighters who provide frontline cover in almost every rural community.
"These figures underline the scale of the impact that SNP centralisation has had on our emergency services.
"We know that more job losses are coming, with plans for the closure of control rooms in the north of Scotland later this year."
A Scottish government spokeswoman responded by saying that the SFRS continued to deliver the "high standard" of services required to "keep Scotland safe".
She added: "The SFRS has worked closely with the Fire Brigades Union to achieve the right level of staffing to meet the needs of a modern service with a greater emphasis on prevention and to remove the duplication of the previous structure, which was designed to support eight separate services.
"There have been no station closures and SFRS operates a policy of no compulsory redundancies. A further recruitment campaign will also begin later this year."
The attack, which was being treated as a possible hate crime, happened on Saturday evening on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan.
The images released by the New York Police Department (NYPD) show the man leaving the scene.
The 35-year-old woman, from Glasgow, was returning from sightseeing.
The woman, who has not been named, felt a warm spot on her arm and turned and saw the clothing on her arm on fire and a man with a cigarette lighter.
She was able to pat out the fire with her hands and did not suffer any injury.
The NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the incident. There have been no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.
The police said that two additional incidents had been reported in the same area on Saturday evening.
In one incident, a man appeared to ignite a lighter next to a woman's leg.
In another case, two women walking down a staircase to a train platform had a flame placed near their arms.
None of the women were dressed in Muslim attire.
The newly-released images from the attack on the Scottish woman show a black man wearing a black hat, black tank top, black trousers and black shoes walking in the street.
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "This must have been a very frightening incident.
"The Scottish government condemns all hate crime and hopes anyone with information about this assault contacts the NYPD."
Blash, 67, has worked for governing body the FIA in his role since 1996. Before that he was involved in the Brabham team and Yamaha's F1 programme.
Blash will be replaced by FIA safety director Laurent Mekies, who will split the role with his existing one.
He will work with Blash and F1 director Charlie Whiting for the rest of 2016.
Frenchman Mekies has previously worked for the Arrows, Minardi and Toro Rosso teams.
FIA president Jean Todt paid tribute to Blash, describing him as "instrumental in the seamless running of grand prix races for more than two decades".
Blash started working in F1 in 1965, with the privateer Lotus entrant Rob Walker. He joined the factory Lotus team in 1968, as race engineer to Jochen Rindt, who became F1's only posthumous world champion in 1970.
Blash moved to Brabham as team manager in 1972, beginning a long association with F1 commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone, and where Whiting was chief mechanic.
After Ecclestone sold Brabham, Blash became its sporting director in the early 1990s, a role he also occupied with Yamaha, which supplied engines to the team and subsequently to Jordan and Tyrrell, before joining the FIA in 1996.
10 October 2015 Last updated at 10:49 BST
It happened just outside of Beijing, the capital city of China, as people were returning home from a national holiday.
There are more than 30 lanes of vehicles, which then merge into fewer lanes - it can't have been fun being stuck in any one of them!
Watch the clip to see the gigantic traffic jam...
Despite spending most of the game defending, Ireland led 2-1 going into the final seconds of the match.
However, Germany's Nike Lorenz scored following a penalty corner as the full-time hooter sounded to salvage a draw for the Olympic bronze medallists.
The result means Ireland are still unbeaten in Pool A.
It was Ireland who made the brighter start, and they were rewarded when Zoe Wilson's 14th-minute shot was deflected into the net.
Germany grew into the game but found Ayeisha McFerran in superb form, the Ireland keeper making a string of saves.
With Rosin Upton on a yellow card, Germany finally equalised when Amelie Wortmann scored with a tap-in.
However, Ireland went on the attack and regained the lead when Anna O'Flanagan calmly tipped the ball to Deirdre Duke, who fired into an open goal.
Ireland celebrated as though they had won, but Germany surged forward in desperate search of an equaliser and claimed a share of the points when Lorenz struck in the last second.
After a battling 1-1 draw against Japan in their openingmatch, another draw leaves Ireland with plenty of positives as they target a place in the quarter-finals.
"I thought the girls executed the game-plan brilliantly and worked incredibly hard," Ireland head coach Graham Shaw said.
"They put a monumental effort in and made it very difficult for the Germans".
Ireland's other Pool A opponents are Poland and England.
Two Northern Irish teams and two from Wales enter the competition at the last-16 stage.
Bala Town welcome Alloa Athletic while Linfield visit Queen of the South.
Hibernian are at home to St Mirren, Dunfermline take on Queen's Park, Falkirk are at Ayr United and Stranraer meet Dundee United.
The ties will be played on 8/9 October.
Crusaders currently lead the Irish Premiership, with Linfield fourth. In Wales, TNS are top of the Premier League while Bala are seventh.
Ayr, Dundee United, Dunfermline, Falkirk, Hibs, Queen of the South and St Mirren are the remaining Scottish Championship sides in the tournament.
Alloa - who have a 100% record in all competitions this season - as well as Livi, Stranraer and Queen's Park are in League One with Forfar in League Two.
Premiership youth teams were involved in the earlier rounds of the Challenge Cup but Celtic under-20s, who were the only colt team to reach the third round, were knocked out by Livingston on Saturday.
Also on Saturday, Linfield lost 7-0 to Rangers in a testimonial for Windsor Park midfielder Jamie Mulgrew.
Alloa midfielder Jon Robertson says it is "exciting" to be facing a trip to Wales.
"It put a smile on my face," he said. "It's the unknown, isn't it? It's an exciting prospect in that sense, that both teams will know very little about each other.
"We're going well at the minute and there's a confidence throughout the club that we can keep this run going. Whatever level Bala are at, we're confident they're going to have to be at their best on the day."
Ayr United v Falkirk
Bala Town v Alloa Athletic
Crusaders v Livingston
Dunfermline Athletic v Queen's Park
Forfar Athletic v The New Saints
Hibernian v St Mirren
Queen of the South v Linfield
Stranraer v Dundee United
Games to be played 8/9 October
Bury's 3-0 win over Bristol Rovers means they have won four of six games since ex-Huddersfield and Birmingham boss Clark joined from Kilmarnock.
The 18th-placed Shakers are six points above the League One relegation places with six matches left this season.
Asked what Clark had changed, Leigh, 22, said: "I'd say the intensity of training and games."
He told BBC Radio Manchester: "As soon as a new manager comes in you want to impress, but I feel like his standards have pushed the squad and got players to their maximum potential, myself included.
"It's good that he has such high standards to push people because that is when you get performances."
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Police have yet to establish a motive for the blaze and have appealed for information.
BBC News NI's Keiron Tourish reports.
The message will be beamed on to screens at the world famous event just before midnight.
Edinburgh's Hogmanay is working with the Edinburgh International Science Festival, the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency,
Revellers from more than 80 countries will be at the street party.
Pete Irvine, director of Edinburgh's Hogmanay, said: "Edinburgh's Hogmanay is a truly global event with revellers joining us from over 80 countries around the world.
"This year we've gone one better and will be visited from space."
He added: "In a special message to Edinburgh's Hogmanay, Tim Peake, who is travelling high above us on the International Space Station, is expected to help us welcome in 2016.
"Revellers throughout the city centre should keep an eye on the event and stage screens just before the midnight moment."
Dr Simon Gage, director of the Edinburgh International Science Festival, said: "In the few hours that revellers enjoy the Edinburgh's Hogmanay street party the International Space Station, travelling at five miles per second, will orbit the Earth three times.
"If we are lucky we may even spot it going over. With UK astronaut Tim Peake aboard, 2016 will be a remarkable year for UK space science with much for us all to follow and be inspired by.
"We're delighted to have been able to extend the invitation to Tim and with the UK Space Agency and ESA to bring a little bit of science to this great party."
Edinburgh's Hogmanay is produced by Unique Events on behalf of Edinburgh City Council.
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Her dad decided to do something about it.
He created a comic starring Emily as a superhero called, "The Department of Ability".
Ricky went to meet the girl behind the superhero mask.
Helix Binders worked with the John Rylands Library in Manchester to create a "handling copy" of the 15th Century Gutenberg Bible.
The library wanted to provide scholars with a replica of the volume owned by the University of Manchester that they could view and touch.
There are thought to be only 16 complete copies of the bible.
It was the first real book to be mass-produced using movable type printing techniques - and so could be made in a fraction of the time it had previously taken scribes to write by hand.
The copy was produced by the owners of Helix Binders Iain Kirkwood and Robert McKernan and will be unveiled by the library in the new year.
Mr Kirkwood said: "Because the original copies are thought to be amongst the most valuable books in the world they cannot be handled, so the library began a search to find a print and bind company who could help them produce a copy that would allow people to get up-close to the work.
"We've had excellent feedback from the library staff who are delighted with the replica which was sent to Manchester in November.
"To have played such a crucial role in creating a copy of the bible, thought to be the first major book printed in the west using mass produced moveable type, is a privilege."
Peat bogs cover various parts of Scotland, including large areas of the Northern Isles, Western Isles, Highlands and Galloway.
Efforts are currently being made to restore damaged peatlands.
The Scottish government is working with others in using Earth Observation data, information gathered from air and space, to monitor the bogs' recovery.
Scottish Environment Protection and Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) are involved in the work with the government.
Minister of Business Innovation and Energy Paul Wheelhouse told the Data.Space Conference in Glasgow earlier this month of the usefulness of the data in protecting peat bogs.
He said images and other information gathered by satellites and drones could also help in monitoring for pollution.
Scotland's peatlands are considered important due to the plants and animals they support, and also because the soil stores an estimated 3,000 megatonnes of potentially harmful carbon.
The Flow Country in Caithness and Sutherland is Europe's largest area of blanket bog peatland, extending to 494,210 acres (200,000ha).
Aerial imagery is also being looked at as a way of mapping habitats in Scotland.
SNH commissioned an investigation into the use of false colour infrared stereo aerial imagery interpretation. The technique is used in Sweden, but is new to the UK.
A small trial was done in Scotland involving an area of Glenfeshie in the Cairngorms.
Inquiry chairman Sir Robert Owen's report will be published in Parliament on 21 January 2016 and will be sent to the home secretary 48 hours prior.
The report will be published on the inquiry's website and Sir Robert will make a brief public statement.
Mr Litvinenko, 43, died three weeks after drinking tea laced with the radioactive substance polonium-210.
The police investigation concluded the fatal dose of polonium-210 was probably consumed by Mr Litvinenko when he was in the company of former Russian colleagues Andrei Lugovoy and Dmitri Kovtun at London's Millennium Hotel.
UK prosecutors want both men to be put on trial for the murder of Mr Litvinenko but it has not been possible to secure their extradition. Both men deny they were involved in murder.
The inquiry was set up in July 2014 to establish the facts surrounding the death of Mr Litvinenko, a fierce critic of the Kremlin, including the possible involvement of Russian state agencies.
Who was Alexander Litvinenko?
The 14-year-old was found dead on the banks of the River Leven in Dunbartonshire on 25 August 1996. The killer has never been found.
Her mother contributed to the appeal which was broadcast on Monday night.
Police said some calls to the programme related to the identity of a hooded man seen near Caroline before she died.
Others were said to have offered information to the general inquiry.
The Crimewatch appeal was led by Det Supt Jim Kerr in a bid to generate fresh leads.
He said: "We have received a positive response following last night's appeal on the Crimewatch programme.
"More than 20 calls were received and the information given to police will now be followed up by the officers from the Homicide Governance and Review Team and I am hopeful that some calls could assist with the investigation."
Video contributions were made by Caroline's mother Margaret McKeich and the schoolgirl's friend Joanne Menzies, who was one of the last people to have seen her alive.
Mrs McKeich, 60, told the programme that she believed locals knew who was responsible for her daughter's death.
She said: "I would urge anybody to come forward, just to give me that peace and to give me closure.
Caroline, from Bonhill, was heading to meet her boyfriend in Renton, having spent an evening with friends, and took a short cut from shops along Dillichip Loan towards The Towpath and the Black Bridge.
On the Crimewatch programme, her friend Ms Menzies returned to the area where they parted for the final time.
Urging those with information to come forward, she said: "These people should now stand up and actually finally be counted as a human being and not hiding a sickening secret."
Police Scotland's Homicide Governance and Review team have begun a fresh investigation and forensic scientists are re-examining more than 300 items collected at the time of Caroline's death.
Intercity and commuter rail services and Dublin Bus and DART services were seriously affected on Friday morning.
Rail and bus services crossing the Irish border were also impacted as a result of the action.
But, Enterprise trains and Translink coaches between Dublin to Belfast have resumed and are running as normal.
Bus Éireann services from Belfast to Dublin Airport and Dublin city, and from Londonderry to Dublin are not operating as a result of the strikes.
Translink is advising people hoping to use its services to check its website and social media for updates.
Staff at Bus Éireann have been on strike since last Friday in a dispute over cuts to pay and working conditions.
Management has said the changes are essential to avert the prospect of insolvency at the loss-making company.
The company said the vast majority of services were not operating as a result of the action.
The National Bus and Railworkers' Union (NBRU) said it had told its members that the unofficial pickets should be removed as they had not been sanctioned by the union.
He added that all workers at Iarnród Éireann and Dublin Bus who are members of the NBRU should be at work as normal.
He apologised for the inconvenience to travellers and said he was angered when he heard of the action, which his union would not support.
Mr O'Leary said, however, that Bus Éireann drivers were frustrated and they way they are being treated by the company is an "absolute disgrace".
Irish Transport Minister Shane Ross said he was "actively monitoring developments" and said he regretted the impact on passengers.
Three missed tests equate to a failed drug test under doping laws and it means the 27-year-old is facing a ban.
"I've appointed a panel to hear his case," Jadco independent disciplinary panel chairman Kent Pantry said.
Russell is in the West Indies squad for the World Twenty20, which starts in India next week.
World Anti-Doping Agency rules say athletes must tell their local anti-doping agency where they will be for at least one hour each day, so they are available for testing.
Russell last month helped Islamabad United win the Pakistan Super League and was named man of the tournament.
He also plays for the Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League, featured for Sydney Thunder in Australia's Big Bash League and Nottinghamshire have held talks with a view to signing the player for this season's T20 Blast tournament.
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The first minister has said On the Runs have letters "stuffed in their pockets" guaranteeing that they will not be prosecuted for any offence.
The DUP has claimed that amounts to a general amnesty for those concerned.
But is that the case? What do the letters actually say?
We do not know if all of the so-called "letters of assurance" were couched in identical terms, but evidence presented in private hearings at the Old Bailey suggests they were, and that legal safeguards were built in.
In his judgement in the case of John Downey who denied the murder of four soldiers in an IRA attack in Hyde Park in 1982, Mr Justice Sweeney refers to the fact that on 15 June 2000, Jonathan Powell, who was prime minister Tony Blair's Chief of Staff, wrote to Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams enclosing letters representing decisions by the attorney general and the director of public prosecutions for England and Wales.
The letters stated that: "Following a review of your case by the director of public prosecutions for England and Wales, he has concluded that on the evidence before him there is insufficient to afford a realistic prospect of convicting you for any such offence arising out of..."
Anyone already convicted of paramilitary crimes became eligible for early release under the terms of the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement of 1998.
The agreement did not cover:
They went on to say: "You would not therefore face prosecution for any such offence should you return to the United Kingdom. That decision is based on the evidence currently available. Should such fresh evidence arise - and any statement made by you implicating yourself in... may amount to such evidence - the matter may have to be reconsidered."
There are a number of key phrases. The statement that the decision is based on "evidence currently available" clearly suggests that if new evidence was to come to light, the issue could be reconsidered.
That is reinforced in the next sentence when it is spelt out clearly that should any fresh evidence arise "the matter may have to be reconsidered."
The judge also noted that on 22 March 2002, a briefing note was prepared for the prime minister for a meeting with Gerry Adams.
By that stage Sinn Féin had provided a total of 161 names of On the Runs for clarification of their legal status.
Of these, the judgement notes, "47 had so far been cleared". In a further 12 cases it said the director of public prosecutions for Northern Ireland "had said there remained a requirement to prosecute, and in a further 10 the police had sufficient evidence to warrant arrest for questioning."
We do not know details of the alleged offences this note referred to, but what it does make clear is that by that stage 22 of the 161 OTRs who sought legal clarification were not given assurances that they would not be prosecuted.
In the same month, the judgement notes that a note was prepared by a senior legal official following requests from Sinn Féin for the administrative process dealing with OTRs to be speeded up.
It was noted that "it would be necessary to include in the NIO's 'comfort letter' a qualification as to the level of comfort given."
A suggested draft again stated that the assurance that an individual was not wanted for arrest, questioning or charge was given "on the basis of the information currently available."
It added: "If any other outstanding offence or offences come to light, or if any request for extradition were to be received these would have to be dealt with in the usual way."
Peter Hain, who was secretary of state when the process to deal with On the Runs was introduced, told the court that the key phraseology used in the personal letters was "in essence common to all, that on the basis of current information they were not wanted and would not be arrested."
There is also clear evidence, other than the contents of the judgement, that not all On the Runs received assurances that they would not be prosecuted.
The BBC has obtained a copy of a letter sent to the Northern Ireland Policing Board in April 2010 by Assistant Chief Constable Drew Harris, the PSNI officer with oversight of its role in the process, which was to establish whether named individuals were wanted for questioning or arrest.
In it, he told the board that:
"Of the submitted names, 173 are not wanted, eight have been returned to prison and 11 remain wanted. In the year 2007 to 2008, three persons were arrested and referred to the court service. Of the remaining names, 10 have been referred to the PPS for direction, 11 are proceeding through Historical Enquiry Team review and two are ongoing live investigations."
The letter sent to John Downey in July 2007 contained a caveat that his assurance could be reconsidered if new evidence came to light.
His letter said: "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has been informed by the attorney general that on the basis of the information currently available, there is no outstanding direction for prosecution in Northern Ireland, there are no warrants in existence, nor are you wanted in Northern Ireland for arrest, questioning or charge by the police.
"The Police Service of Northern Ireland are not aware of any interest in you from any other police force in the UK. If any other outstanding offence or offences come to light, or if any request for extradition were to be received, these would have to be dealt with in the usual way."
The key phrase is once again "information currently available."
The problem for the Northern Ireland Office was that at the time the letter was sent, John Downey was listed as wanted by the Metropolitan Police in connection with the Hyde Park bombing.
The problem for the PSNI was that it was aware of this fact, but had not made the NIO nor attorney general aware of it when it carried out a review of John Downey's legal status.
That meant Downey was wrongly informed that there were no warrants for his arrest, and enabled his lawyers to argue that there had been an abuse of process when he was arrested at Gatwick airport in May, 2013.
It also meant the caveat about "any other outstanding offence or offences" coming to light was null and void, because at the time the letter was sent he was wanted in connection with the bombing.
It was not an outstanding or new offence but one the authorities should have been aware of when the assurance was given because he was listed on the Police National Computer as wanted.
Likewise, the fact that he was wanted by the Metropolitan Police was "information currently available" when the letter was issued.
Legal sources say the problem was not a lack of caveat, but the fact that the PSNI did not highlight the fact that John Downey was wanted.
The result was that when he was arrested, prosecution lawyers could not argue that it was based on new evidence, or information the state was not aware of at the time the assurance was given.
Legal sources say that if the letters received by other OTRs contain similar wording, it would still be possible for them to be prosecuted at a later date if new evidence linking them to an offence comes to light.
That is of course, unless other mistakes have been made and assurances have been issued based on inaccurate information.
The PSNI is currently conducting a review of all OTR cases to determine if the information it gave the prosecution authorities was accurate.
But four-wheel drive vehicle, Idris, has been programmed to do just that by experts at Aberystwyth University's intelligent robotics group.
The electric four-wheeler, about the size of an Austin Mini, can pursue people, vehicles or anything it can "see".
As part of a series looking at robotics, BBC Wales finds out about the software which makes 400kg Idris run and why it could be very useful.
Dr Frederic Labrosse, who wrote much of the software, has acted as quarry for the all-terrain robot, walking ahead while it follows. He admits it can be "disconcerting".
"It's scary at some point, but you've got to trust the software. The problem is the faster you go, the faster it goes. So, you cannot escape, basically," he said.
"The trick is just to jump in front of it and that trips all of the safety devices and that will stop the robot."
Of course, in reality Idris is not as menacing or sinister as the concept might suggest, in spite of its detachable mechanical arm and gripper.
It is currently programmed to move no faster than 10 mph and halts whenever its laser scanners detect an obstruction.
Dr Labrosse said the main application would be for convoying, where a series of automated vehicles are led by a human driver or a smarter robot at the front.
In this way, the robots could be sent to places where its not desirable to have many people, such as war zones, areas used for mining and anywhere hit by a disaster.
The Idris platform was bought by the university from a French company for about £96,000 (130,000 euros) 10 years ago.
Using programming developed at the university, the robot was used to laser-scan a disused part of the Vivian quarry, in Llanberis, Gwynedd, for the Royal Commission of Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
The vehicle has a number of cameras to take in its surroundings.
But how does Idris "see" what it's tracking and differentiate it from everything else?
"Idris doesn't really recognise what it's supposed to follow," Dr Labrosse said.
"We give it an image of the object to follow and it just tries to find the same pixels or similar pixels in the image (it takes in).
"So, it does not know that what it follows is a person or a car or whatever. It does not recognise in that way we as human beings would do."
But what about the most important question?
"Does it work? Sometimes well, sometimes not so well," Dr Labrosse said.
During a demonstration for the BBC, co-ordinator of the intelligent robotics group Dr Mark Neal was enlisted as the "object" for Idris follow around a small lake while he wore a fluorescent bib.
Idris sounded "target found" when it detected the hi-visibility bib, which had been programmed in as its leader. It then followed Dr Neal along a rough path.
At points when the light changed or when Dr Neal left its field of vision, Idris said "target lost... lost... target definitely lost" and halted.
However, Dr Labrosse said adjustments to its software will improve performance.
The machine has already been made to follow Dr Neal's car over a considerable distance and has negotiated a cattle grid while driving on its own automated route without a target.
But Dr Labrosse is not content with the stark image of a robotised vehicle on Land Rover wheels rolling over the Ceredigion countryside, unnerving the sheep on a nearby hill.
"It could be a flying vehicle, for example," he said. "We're doing applications where we have flying robots that automatically follow a vehicle or a boat on the ground."
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The 1623 first edition of the bard's work was stolen from the university in 1998. Its bindings and some pages were removed to try to disguise its origins.
Visitors to the exhibition at the new Wolfson Gallery at the university can view it in its current condition.
It will be conserved to protect it from damage after the exhibition. It is one of the earliest examples of a gathering together of the playwright's work.
Raymond Scott, 53, of Wingate, County Durham, was cleared of stealing the book, but found guilty of handling stolen goods and jailed for eight years in July.
He was also convicted of taking stolen goods abroad.
The folio, which has an estimated value of £1.5m, will form the centrepiece of the Treasures of Durham University in the refurbished Wolfson Gallery.
The new gallery has undergone a £2.3m refurbishment, funded in part by a £500,000 donation from the Wolfson Foundation - a charity that awards grants to support excellence in the fields of science and medicine, health, education and the arts and humanities.
Chancellor of Durham University, Bill Bryson, is the guest curator of this first exhibition, which covers topics including culture, science, faith and religion, reform and rule, and local history.
The treasures have been drawn from collections across the university.
The Shakespeare First Folio will be on display until 6 March.
Six candidates have been barred from running in the September poll for failing to prove they are no longer in favour of Hong Kong's independence.
Three of the rejected candidates joined the march to the offices of the chief executive, where police met them.
Beijing considers the former British territory an inseparable part of China.
Jimmy Sham, head of the Civil Human Rights Front which organised the march, said the key issues protesters were highlighting were judicial independence, and the principle of political neutrality for civil servants, which includes the electoral returning officers.
A court, he said, should decide who is not allowed to run in the election, not the electoral affairs office.
The protest comes days after a court spared three student leaders who led mass rallies and sit-ins in 2014 from jail.
Joshua Wong, who became the teenage face of the protests, was given 80 hours of community service for unlawful assembly.
Nathan Law was sentenced to 120 hours, while Alex Chow was given a three-week prison sentence suspended for a year.
The movement called on Beijing to allow fully free elections for the leader of the semi-autonomous territory. However, it failed to win any concessions on political reform.
Hugh Henry has stood down as justice spokesman and has been replaced by Graeme Pearson.
Ms Dugdale revealed the line-up in Edinburgh, just days after she secured the leadership of the party.
Her rival for the top post, Ken Macintosh, has been given the community spokesman role, covering housing, local government and planning.
She has also maintained a gender-balanced team, with five women joining her, alongside six men.
Ms Dugdale said: "I am excited about the future. We all know the big task that faces Scottish Labour in the months and years ahead, but we're up for it. My new team has a good mix of experience and vision to start the task of renewing Scottish Labour.
"The most important goal of any party must be to ensure that the life chances of our young people are determined by their potential, work rate and ambition, not by their background. These values will drive my team in every portfolio."
Ms Dugdale succeeded former MP Jim Murphy, who resigned in June after Labour lost 40 of its 41 Scottish seats at Westminster.
If Labour's new team looks a lot like the old team assembled by Jim Murphy, when he was leader, then that's because it is.
The names and faces are mostly the same.
One exception is that Hugh Henry has stood down as justice spokesman, to be replaced by former police chief, Graeme Pearson.
Mr Pearson supported Ken Macintosh for the leadership but that has not prevented either of them making the frontbench.
Kezia Dugdale says she doesn't bear grudges.
She has retained Jenny Marra, Iain Gray and Jackie Baillie in the key roles of health, education and finance.
However, their remits have been expanded and their job titles rebranded to reflect Labour values - equality, opportunity, public services.
The new leader wants her team to champion what the party stands for in the run up to next year's Holyrrood elections while also holding SNP ministers to account.
Leader - Kezia Dugdale
Deputy Leader - Alex Rowley
Covering policy and strategy
Equality spokeswoman - Jenny Marra
Covering health, equalities, welfare, care and social inclusion
Opportunity spokesman - Iain Gray
Covering schools, childcare, skills, lifelong learning, sport, science, workplace issues
Justice spokesman - Graeme Pearson
Covering justice and policing
Public Services and Wealth Creation spokeswoman - Jackie Baillie
Covering finance, infrastructure, business, delivery of public services, tourism
Community spokesman - Ken Macintosh
Covering housing, local government, cities, planning, island communities
Environmental Justice spokeswoman - Sarah Boyack
Covering transport, environment and rural affairs, land reform, climate change, energy (including oil and gas)
Democracy spokeswoman - Claire Baker
Covering constitution, Europe, culture, power in society
Reform spokeswoman - Mary Fee
Covering party and parliamentary reform
Business Manager - James Kelly
Chief Whip - Neil Bibby
Vadims Ruskuls, 25, is accused of murdering Pardeep Kaur as she walked to work in west London, in October 2016.
Ms Kaur's body was found near Harlington Bridge in Hayes, nearly a week after she was reported missing by her husband.
Mr Ruskuls denies murdering the 30-year-old.
Opening the trial at the Old Bailey, Crispin Aylett QC told jurors: "This is a truly terrible case.
"The evidence in this case is distressing and you will have to brace yourself for what is to come."
Mr Ruskuls was thought to be sleeping rough with his mother beneath the bridge crossing the M4.
The court heard the waste ground by the walkway on to the bridge over the M4 was a "bleak spot" used by rough sleepers, drunks and drug addicts.
CCTV cameras recorded Ms Kaur at 06:33 GMT on 17 October as she walked towards the bridge.
Investigators also noticed a man under the bridge at the same time as Mrs Kaur.
Less than half an hour later, someone was picked up on CCTV dragging her body away towards the patch of ground where it was later discovered.
Mr Aylett said: "What happened in the 25 minutes between those two pieces of film?
"The prosecution allege that the defendant must have pounced on Pardeep Kaur at some point on the ramp, that he then sexually assaulted her and he murdered her."
Jurors were told Ms Kaur scratched her attacker but her screams would have been drowned out by early morning traffic.
Following his arrest, Mr Ruskuls' DNA matched samples taken from Ms Kaur's ankle, sock, and bra with a probability of "one in a billion", the jury heard.
The trial continues.
Shauna Davies, 15, died in the early hours of Sunday, shortly after emergency services were called to Caerphilly Mountain Road.
Gwent Police said the boy has been charged with supplying drugs while four others who were arrested have been released pending further inquiries.
Shauna's family described her as "a beautiful person inside and out".
The circumstances surrounding her death are not yet known and a police investigation is ongoing.
In a tribute, Shauna's family said: "She was loved by so many people, she loved her brother and sister and friends and was fiercely loyal to them. She will be missed by so many.
"We were very proud parents. Fly high our beautiful daughter."
It is understood the decision was taken after three panels installed on council buildings overheated.
A report to the audit, risk and scrutiny committee details so-called "thermal events" in 2015.
The switch-off meant the panels did not generate any income for the contractor, so the council had to pay £275,000.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) was notified and the council switched off all systems as a precautionary measure.
Fire risk assessments were carried out and work was undertaken to upgrade fire alarm systems and install fire detectors.
The 31-year-old man and the boy, aged six, were knocked down by a private hire taxi outside Glencairn Social Club in Rutherglen at 00:15 on Sunday.
Police said the car, a Volkswagen Golf, failed to stop but the 60-year-old driver was traced a short time later.
The man's injuries were described as "life threatening" while the boy is in a stable condition.
Both are being treated at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital after the incident in Glasgow Road.
Sgt Craig McDonald, from Police Scotland, said: "Inquiries are at an early stage to establish the exact circumstances of this incident and we want to speak to anyone who may have witnessed what happened.
"Anyone with information is urged to contact police on 101."
Prosecutor Alex Prentice QC told the High Court in Glasgow that Mr Whyte took over the football club using money that he was not entitled to.
During his closing speech, Mr Prentice also said Mr Whyte had tried to conceal his funding source for buying the club.
Mr Whyte denies a charge of fraud, and a second charge under the Companies Act.
The prosecution QC told the jury of eight men and seven women that the case was not a public inquiry into how Rangers was run at a corporate level, but was about whether or not Craig Whyte had committed fraud.
He said Mr Whyte and his company Wavetower had no right to money used to purchase the club.
Prosecutors state the sums said to have been "immediately available" actually consisted of money from Ticketus, investment firm Merchant Turnaround and the Jerome Group pensions fund.
Mr Prentice put it to the jury that Mr Whyte bought Rangers using money that he was not entitled to and that he actively concealed his funding sources.
He also asked the jury to discount testimony that related to the historical governance of Rangers before Mr Whyte became the club's new owner in May 2011.
He said: "Evidence in relation to historical governance of Rangers is irrelevant.
"It doesn't relate to whether Mr Whyte had the money on completion of the Rangers takeover."
Craig Whyte denies the charges against him.
The trial, before judge Lady Stacey, continues.
Wardpark Studios has four sound stages across 48,000 sq ft. It wants to add two more stages, a back lot and offices in a 30,000 sq ft development.
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said that a planning application for the Cumbernauld site was imminent.
Opposition MPs remain critical over the lack of film studio facilities.
Ms Hyslop told Holyrood's Economy Committee that ministers could provide up to £4m to help with the project - including £1.5m in grant funding and up to £2.5m of loan cash.
"Wardpark Studios Limited's decision to seek planning consent for new studio facilities in Cumbernauld marks an important milestone in our work to strengthen the Scottish screen sector," she said.
Opposition MSPs questioned Ms Hyslop on the scale of the development.
Former Labour leader Johann Lamont said: "It doesn't seem like it's huge amounts of money and and it seems to have taken a long time to get to that point."
Committee convener Murdo Fraser said figures from Creative Scotland showed Wales has 51,000 sq ft of purpose-built studio space, with Northern Ireland having 42,000 sq ft, while Scotland currently has only 5,800 sq ft.
The Conservative MSP said: "The 30,000 sq ft you are talking about sounds a lot, but if that is a purpose-built studio that leaves us still quite a long way behind Wales and Northern Ireland.
"It seems to me that there has been a lot of heat around this issue, the government's been under pressure, there's an election coming up in eight weeks' time, and what you have done is produce a rabbit from a hat.
"Except it's not a very large rabbit, it's actually quite a small rabbit."
Ms Hyslop insisted: "In terms of the announcement, I think it's good news for Scotland and good news for the film industry."
She hinted at more development to come, saying: "For a period we had no prospect of any studios and now we have got prospects for not just one, but a number of studios, depending on different decisions made by either ministers or other developers in other areas."
Terry Thomson, chairman of Wardpark Studios Limited, said the planned expansion of the Cumbernauld site reflected its success.
"Our existing facility has been a major success for Scotland, attracting Sony's award-winning historical drama Outlander's first and second series," he said.
"We want to enhance the existing four sound stages with a further two stages to expand and grow productions using the facility.
"Our planning application seeks to make the most of the existing facilities and land available. While we've reached agreement in principle with Scottish Enterprise and the Film Studio Delivery Group on possible financial support, there remain a few commercial details still to be finalised before we can move ahead with our plans."
Ms Hyslop also told MSPs that there had been "significantly increased activity" during 2014 with film and TV productions spending "an unprecedented £45.8m shooting on location" - an increase of almost £12m on 2013.
Examples of films shot in Scotland since 2011 include:
Dylann Roof should have been stopped from purchasing a weapon due to a felony charge, FBI chief James Comey told reporters on Friday.
But he said the charge was either incorrectly entered into a background check system or mishandled by analysts.
Roof is facing nine counts of murder over the 17 June attack in Charleston.
Speaking to reporters at FBI headquarters in Washington DC, Mr Comey outlined a series of missed opportunities and incomplete paperwork that allowed Mr Roof to buy a firearm.
Mr Roof, 21, was charged with possessing drugs just weeks before the attack on the Emanuel AME Church, and police said he admitted to the offence.
That admission should have been enough to stop him from buying a weapon, Mr Comey said, but the offence was incorrectly added to Mr Roof's record.
This meant the FBI analyst doing the mandatory background check on Mr Roof did not see it. "If she had seen that police report," Mr Comey said, "that purchase would have been denied."
He said he learned about the problem on Thursday night and FBI officials were meeting with relatives of the nine victims on Friday.
An internal review into how the agency uses criminal background checks in gun transactions has been launched. The FBI runs background checks for gun dealers in about 30 states, including South Carolina.
"We are all sick that this happened. We wish we could turn back time," he added.
Mr Comey's comments came on the same day that South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from the capitol grounds in a ceremony attended by some relatives of the church shooting victims.
The flag was the battle emblem of southern states in the US Civil War and was raised over South Carolina's statehouse in 1961 to mark the 100th anniversary of the conflict.
Critics have long called it a symbol of slavery and the backlash against it grew when pictures of Mr Roof posing with the banner were discovered online.
Mr Roof was arrested the day after the shooting more than 200 miles away in North Carolina and then flown back to Charleston.
He appeared in court via a video link for a bail hearing last month and is next expected in court in October.
Source: FBI fact sheet
Manchester United's fees nearly doubled to just under £14m while Arsenal's almost tripled to around £12m.
The Football League also published its agents' fees list with Cardiff City the biggest spenders in the Championship.
The Bluebirds spent £2,828,133, with the total outlay by Championship clubs amounting to £26,124,044.
League One clubs spent £3,167,964, with Wigan Athletic's fees totalling £1,461,088. The Latics were relegated from the Championship last season.
League Two's biggest spenders were Portsmouth, who spent £268,175.
League One side Bury, and League Two duo Accrington and Hartlepool did not pay any money in agents' fees.
The Premier League and Football League totals were calculated in the period from 1 October 2014 to 30 September 2015.
The mile race was a trial for the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket on 30 April and three-year-old colt Foundation, ridden by Frankie Dettori, was 4-6 favourite.
But Dettori could not find a push for the line and it was George Baker on board Stormy Antarctic who broke clear.
The three-year-old chestnut raced home by three and a half lengths, his third victory in six races.
Stormy Antarctic was narrowly beaten in a Group One in France last time out in November, and trailed to a steady pace set by Richard Hannon's horse Tony Curtis, who led by three lengths and was still in front inside the final furlong before eventually finishing fourth.
Baker moved alongside Dettori before pulling away in a matter of strides and trainer Walker said: "That was awesome, I've always thought the world of him but I never thought he'd win a Craven like that and beat Foundation like that.
"I've never had to prepare a Guineas horse and you only dream of horses like this, these are the reasons you get up at 4.30am, for horses like him.
"I never felt we came here for minor honours and he is by far and away the best three-year-old I've got."
Foundation's trainer John Gosden said: "Foundation is a mile-and-a-quarter horse, he did get tired on the ground but the winner won very well.
"I'm delighted with him, and I'd like to think he'll go for the Dante [at York next month] next."
It will become the first major US city to implement a so-called "soda tax", which supporters say will improve the health of 1.5 million residents.
But opponents say it will hurt small businesses and poorer people.
The measure will come into force in January and is expected to raise $90m (£63m) next year.
The city's Democratic mayor, Jim Kenney, says the tax revenue will be spent on pre-nursery and community schools, and recreation centres.
He said: "Philadelphia made a historic investment in our neighbourhoods and in our education system today."
The tax will be set at 1.5 cents per ounce (about 50 cents, or 35 pence per litre). Distributors will be required to pay it on all sugary or artificially sweetened drinks, and may choose whether or not to pass it on to consumers.
"Soda tax" proposals have failed in more than 30 states and the only other city in the US with a similar tax is Berkeley in California.
The beverage industry paid for advertising against the tax proposal, saying the tax would be costly to consumers.
Multimillionaire Harold Honickman, who made his fortune in the soft drink bottling industry, spent an estimated $1.7m (£1.2m) fighting the tax and said he would file a lawsuit against the case.
In Philadelphia, more than 68% of adults and 41% of children are overweight or obese.
The council had already approved the measure in a previous vote, and Thursday's 13-4 vote rubber-stamped the proposal.
Russell Burgess from Abersychan believes the council thought he had two household waste bins, so destroyed one. His home CCTV system filmed the moment it was thrown into a bin wagon.
Other residents claim their bins have also been destroyed.
In a statement, Torfaen council said: "Any household putting out more than one bin will have the additional bins removed and recycled."
The CCTV footage shows a council refuse collector throwing Mr Burgess' bin into the back of a refuse lorry.
Mr Burgess claims council managers initially did not believe his version of events, and said he only received a new free bin when he went to the council depot and showed council bosses the footage.
He said: "I was livid, why would anyone do that, why throw it in the back of a wagon?
"There was nothing wrong with it, there was no justification for doing that, what a waste of money - and I would have to pay for it, that was the real thing."
Torfaen council said it "initially had no record of a bin being removed, however, the issue was resolved and it was replaced free of charge".
Replacement bins normally cost £20.
Other Torfaen residents have used social media to claim their bins have been removed by the council.
Some say they have had to pay for a new bin, as they have not been able to prove their bin was mistakenly removed.
Torfaen council said between April and August 2016 residents have had to pay for 196 replacement bins.
Bins have also been stolen in the area.
The authority said: "We are currently looking into this incident and have provided the resident with a wheelie bin free of charge."
There is no suggestion any Torfaen council employee has done anything unlawful.
Alonso said De Ferran, winner of the Indy 500 in 2003 and a two-time IndyCar champion, would "coach" him.
The two-time Formula 1 champion said: "I'm sure it will be very useful for all these new things I need to learn."
De Ferran told BBC Sport: "I will try to mentor him through his introduction to the speedway and its nuances."
Indianapolis is a very different challenge from an F1 grand prix. The race is 200 laps of a 2.5-mile 'superspeedway' with four left turns and an average lap speed of about 230mph.
Alonso, who will race at the Indy 500 on 28 May for the Andretti Autosport-Honda team, said he was aware of the difficulties of adapting to racing on a high-speed oval such as Indianapolis.
During a visit to the IndyCar race in Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday, Alonso said: "I think it's quite different. It's challenging... the level of downforce, the feeling with the car, running with a car that is not symmetric on the straights, on braking. Traffic I think is a big thing."
De Ferran is an ambassador for Honda. Their engines were used when he raced for much of his IndyCar career and he was sporting director of Honda's own F1 team from 2005-7.
The 49-year-old Brazilian grew up in European road racing, winning the 1992 British Formula Three championship, before moving to race in the States. De Ferran is the holder of the world closed-course speed record, with his 241.428mph pole lap record at the Fontana oval in California in 2000.
Alonso, who has not won a race in F1 for four years because of uncompetitive machinery from Ferrari and McLaren, has set his sights on winning the 'triple crown' of the Monaco Grand Prix, Indy 500 and Le Mans 24 Hours before he retires.
But he has also made it clear his priority remains F1, where he still hopes to win a third world title.
"If I want to to be the most complete driver in the world or the best driver in the world, then I want to experience all the different cars and different driving techniques, and I need to adapt and grow up as a driver," Alonso said.
"And if I want to do that, I need to win it and if it's not this year then we need to plan it for the next event."
He added that he felt making the leap from F1 to Le Mans was not as difficult. He said: "Some of the F1 drivers that jump into the Le Mans car, they have no difficulties in terms of adapting.
"The 24 Hours is a little different [from Indianapolis]. It's a more relaxed race, you can do it at an older age."
The Publishers Association has obtained a High Court order that requires the internet service providers (ISPs) to act by 9 June.
The offending sites are based overseas.
The movie, music and luxury goods industries have previously employed similar tactics to cause more than 100 other sites to be blocked.
The Publishers Association said that more than 80% of the material it had found on the ad-supported platforms involved, had infringed copyright.
"A third of publisher revenues now come from digital sales but unfortunately this rise in the digital market has brought with it a growth in online infringement," said the body's chief executive Richard Mollet.
"Our members need to be able to protect their authors' works from such illegal activity. Writers need to be paid and publishers need to be able to continue to innovate and invest in new talent and material."
The sites affected are:
The administrator of Freebookspot - which provides links to others' uploads but does not host eBooks itself - has posted a message to the site claiming to have deleted more than 10,000 titles following the ruling, in an apparent attempt to avoid the ban.
However, its search tool still points users to download links for other copyright-protected eBooks.
The ISPs affected are BT, Virgin Media, Sky, TalkTalk and EE.
They typically require a court order before they will agree to block a website outright.
The Publishers Association also said that it had asked Google to remove more than 1.75 million links from its search results relating to material found on the offending sites.
She smiles despite her thin left leg that will not fully straighten, and despite the prominent vivid scar that runs down her forehead from the hairline to just above the right eyebrow.
And she smiles even though she - like her country - will forever be affected by the earthquake that destroyed so many lives.
Six months ago, Telia was lying on the floor of L'Hopital de la Paix, in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, wrapped in dirty, blood-stained sheets, her legs shattered, her head smashed open.
She had been crushed when her home fell on her.
Above her stood a desperate father, Astrel Jacques, pleading for the world to help.
The hospital had no medicine, and barely a doctor.
"Ca va?" he asked his daughter. "Oui," she replied, but she was not OK.
The next morning he realised he had to find a doctor. So he managed to get Telia into someone's car, and drove until he came across some aid workers. They helped him and his daughter across the border to the Dominican Republic.
There she spent a month and a half in different hospitals, and her life was saved.
Another daughter and Mr Jacques' mother-in-law both died in the earthquake.
"Six months after not one day passes when I don't think about the earthquake," he says. "When I don't think about how our life was together. We lost everything. Everything has gone."
On the surface there is little change here.
The building material of necessity - blue plastic tarpaulin - covers much of Port-au-Prince.
The slums that seethe under those tarpaulins were meant to be temporary. Now they house more than a million people and have an air of permanence.
So Fabula Gilme can count herself lucky - and that here is a relative term - in that she at least has a corrugated tin roof above her head.
Most of the time it protects her and her son Mackenzie.
"There are holes in the roof. Sometimes when it rains, it leaks on the baby - I don't know what to do," she says.
Mackenzie was born a week after the earthquake. He barely made it into this world. Fabula was almost too weak to give birth.
Outside her home there is a mound of rubble. The view from here has barely changed in the last six months.
"It's the same it was. Everyone is using corrugated roofs, and tents and tarpaulins. Houses haven't been rebuilt. There are still people sleeping in damaged homes. Some sleep in tents."
That pretty much sums up this capital city. Rubble still appears to lie everywhere. Small groups of workers - paid mostly by international aid - clear patches by hand. There is little sign of the much-needed heavy lifting equipment.
It partly explains why it takes so long to get up to Jean-Michel Fleurimond's home. Or rather what remains of it.
The paths in his village are blocked by rubble.
Jean-Michel has no family anymore. His two brothers are still buried under the rubble of their home.
"I lost my brothers and everything I own," he says.
Now he lives in a small tin shack, with bare earth for a floor. When it rains, the water runs right through the space, eroding the ground.
He pulls out two sheets of wood, and a thin white curtain. This is his "bed".
"Before, my life was good. I am an artist. I used to make artwork to pay for school. My mother used to help me pay, too."
"Since the earthquake, I've been on my own. I can't live how I want to because I don't have a job. I can't feed myself how I like to. It's very difficult."
He gets by thanks to the Red Cross. It pays him and others $5 (£3.30) a day to improve the camp. He helped to build the steps that lead through the shelters, for instance.
But they are squatters here, and they fear soon the landowner may move them on.
Help has also come for Iselene Celne. Six months ago she was trapped under the rubble - she lost an arm, and both her hands.
Now her children help her run a tiny stall she's managed to start up with money from a small British charity, Tearfund.
"Without them, I'd be nothing," she says.
She shrugs with the stump of her arm.
"I'd have no money. I'd feel humiliated. Without the business what could I do?"
On the surface, there has been some progress here. There's clean water in the camps to drink and to wash with. Educational projects are starting up. The Haitian police are starting to patrol the city and the camps.
But few, if any, of the Haitians here feel that things are actually improving. It is as if their lives have been frozen in time.
A day after the earthquake, Astrel Jacques stood beside his dying daughter in the hospital and said: "We are fighting."
And now, half a year on, with Telia smiling next to him, he repeats those exact same words.
He and the rest of the survivors know that they will have to keep fighting, if life is to get any better.
Of people who had experienced housing worries within the past five years, 69% said their mental health was affected, suggests research for the charity.
The researchers interviewed 1,050 people from across England who reported poor housing, rent problems or being threatened with eviction.
One grandmother, facing eviction, even considered suicide.
"It just felt like all the doors were closing in my face," said Brenda, who is from Oldham.
Her daughter, Helen, and granddaughter, Lily Mae, were living with her so she feared her whole family might become homeless.
"You blame yourself and you feel a sense of total helplessness.
"I remember not wanting to go on and wondering if I should end it."
The polling company ComRes carried out online interviews for the report in February this year with a representative sample of 3,509 adults from across England.
Of these, about 30% or 1,050 people, said they had experienced housing problems within the last five years.
Among this group the most common mental health problems were:
About one in 20 had visited their GP because of their mental state and a worrying minority had contemplated suicide.
Shelter says that if these figures were replicated across the whole of England's population, one million people would have sought medical intervention because of mental health issues brought on by poor housing or worries about eviction or affording rent or mortgage payments over the past five years.
Additionally, one in six said housing worries had also affected their physical health, causing symptoms like hair loss, nausea, exhaustion, dizzy spells and headaches, while damp or mouldy homes can exacerbate respiratory conditions like asthma, says the charity.
Telephone interviews with 20 inner-city GPs highlighted the extent to which housing has an impact on mental health.
Housing difficulties can be particularly harsh for people "on the line of coping or not coping. Then, they really do tip over the edge", said one London GP.
A Sheffield GP said parents could become depressed because "they're unable to provide a nice environment for their children".
"In the children, they tend to get a little bit, sometimes withdrawn, sometimes a bit anxious and angry."
London GP Andrew Carr said housing was a major contributing factor to mental illness.
"With evictions on the rise in my area, I've seen people with acute anxiety or severe stress because they're facing the threat of losing their home."
With support from Shelter, Brenda and her family eventually found stable, rented accommodation.
"It was the beginning of me taking back some control," said Brenda.
Shelter's legal adviser, Liz Clare, said people with problems like Brenda's seek help from the charity on a daily basis.
"We hear from people at breaking point because they can no longer cope with their unstable, unliveable or unaffordable housing.
"From families in fear of falling further behind on the rent to people dealing with the misery of raising young children in a tiny, mouldy, freezing flat, people can feel completely overwhelmed," said Ms Clare.
The figures until June did not include the £2.8m sale of Andrew Robertson to Hull City, or Ryan Gauld's £3m switch to Sporting Lisbon.
United had an operating loss of £114,000, a £14,000 increase from the previous year.
But the net profit - their fourth in five years - was £900,000 more.
Their biggest player sale during that period was Scotland forward Johnny Russell's £750,000 move to Derby County.
The Scottish Premiership club pointed out that the figures to June 2014 include "an exceptional gain" relating to the exit of banking arrangements with the Bank of Scotland.
Chairman Stephen Thompson said: "While pleased to report significant profitability again, the directors recognise that this most recent financial performance was made possible by the arrangements put in place to buy out the bank debt.
"Looking ahead, we expect to record a further profit in the current year as a result of effective player trading, which is an integral part of our strategy to identify, develop and manage young players and provide them with the best opportunities to succeed within the club and the football sector generally.
"This aims to achieve footballing success for Dundee United and the opportunity for players to improve and, where appropriate, enhance their earnings elsewhere."
Revenues increased by 3% to £5.6m, which "reflected improvements in league placing and Scottish Cup income, both of which helped to counter the loss of European participation and the commercial benefits of the Dundee derby matches evident in the prior year figures".
Wages increased to £3.5m from £3.3m, "largely due to improved performance payments".
"As a result of the latter, the wages to turnover ratio increased slightly to 63% from 61%," added the club.
United pointed out that they are currently re-investing a significant part of the profit to the redevelopment of their Gussie Park community facilities opposite Tannadice.
The new centre piece for their youth academy is expected to open in March.
The visitors batted first but struggled against seamers Anya Shrubsole (3-27) and Katherine Brunt (2-44) and were bowled out for 155 at Chesterfield.
England passed the target for the loss of two wickets with nearly 20 overs to spare, but batted on for the full 50 overs to reach 348-5. Knight reached her century while Taylor fell for 86.
Even with the game long over as a contest, it will have suited the England duo to gain batting practice at Queen's Park as Knight has just returned to action after five weeks out with a stress fracture of the foot, while Taylor is returning to international cricket after taking a year's break to deal with anxiety issues.
England have one more warm-up, against New Zealand in Derby on Wednesday, before Saturday's World Cup opener against India at the same venue.
In Monday's other warm-up game, New Zealand bowled India out for 130 before cruising to a seven-wicket win thanks to 52 from opener Rachel Priest.
There are 65,000 unemployed, 25,000 fewer than a year earlier.
The unemployment rate in Wales is 4.3% for the latest quarter, according to latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.
This compares to 4.6% for March to May. It is still lower than for the whole of UK, which remains at 4.9%.
Only the south-west, south-east and east of England have lower unemployment rates than Wales.
The unemployment rate is also down 1.7% on a year ago.
There are now 38,000 more people employed in Wales than in June to August 2015.
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said: "These figures are the latest glimpse of the jobs market in Wales post-EU referendum vote and they suggest the Welsh economy continues to power ahead.
"Welsh businesses and entrepreneurs are clearly getting on with what they do best - creating jobs and selling their expertise across the world.
"The record employment rate in Wales is testament to our outstanding companies buoyed by the long-term effects of welfare reform which means it pays to be in work."
First Minister Carwyn Jones said the decline in unemployment in Wales continued to outperform the rest of the UK.
"We have big ambitions for Wales and its economy and will continue to work hard to support business and ensure the economic conditions to create and safeguard sustainable jobs and training in Wales," he said.
David Bamford was found guilty of stealing fentanyl and diamorphine from Emersons Green NHS Treatment Centre in south Gloucestershire where he worked.
The 47-year-old, of Quakers Road, Downend, stole the drugs to treat his bad back, Bristol Crown Court heard.
Bamford, a lead operating department practitioner, was jailed for two years.
In June 2015 an investigation was launched after a quantity of ampoules were found to have been tampered with at the centre, near Bristol which is run by Care UK.
The ampoules had been broken, emptied and refilled with substances, including less potent painkillers and what is believed to have been water.
Det Con John Shanahan, from Avon and Somerset Police, said tests on Mr Bamford "showed he had both of these drugs in his system".
"He was frequently accessing areas where these controlled drugs were kept outside of normal working hours," he said.
"He was involved in an unfeasibly large proportion of the breakages which were recorded and he appeared to involve himself unnecessarily in clearing up after operations."
He said Mr Bamford had ordered diamorphine from the pharmacy which had not been "put into the centre's stock" and advised a colleague not to report finding broken ampoules.
He added: "Bamford's actions had the potential to put the public at risk but thankfully it's not believed anyone was harmed as a result of medication being tampered with."
Some Welsh Labour figures fear a Jeremy Corbyn victory in the Labour leadership contest will make it harder for the party to gain ground in May's poll.
Labour currently holds 30 of the 60 seats in Cardiff Bay.
Mr Jones said: "It's a Welsh election and it will be Welsh Labour fighting the election with me as its leader."
"It's early days, we don't know who will win the leadership election in September," he told BBC Radio Wales.
"One thing I can say is that next May, whoever is the leader in London, I'm the leader in Wales and Welsh Labour will be the party fighting the election in Wales."
Mr Corbyn's team say there is still no meeting arranged between him and Mr Jones, although Mr Corbyn is keen to meet him.
The first minister has met the other three candidates, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall.
Welsh Labour said it was "in the process" of setting up a meeting between Mr Jones and Mr Corbyn.
Mr Jones has previously described the left-wing MP as an "unusual choice" as UK Labour leader, but refused to endorse publicly any of the four candidates.
The result of the contest is due to be announced on 12 September.
8 January 2016 Last updated at 03:08 GMT
India is the only country with an economy that is growing strongly, the report said. What has that meant for people and businesses in the country?
The BBC's Yogita Limaye reports from Gurgaon in the northern Indian state of Haryana.
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31 October 2015 Last updated at 09:19 GMT
Yamaha Motors say they're making a robot that could beat even the fastest human motorbike champion.
Right now the Motobot is remote controlled, but in time the company want the robot to steer itself.
Owen Farrell responded to being punched in the face by Schalk Brits by lashing out at his Saracens club-mate.
We kept our composure and the scoreline reflected our dominance in the end
Brits was lucky to escape with a yellow card in Hong Kong and has been cited.
"Sometimes it is hard when someone lays a punch squarely on the side of your jaw not to react," Gatland said.
"But we are going to emphasise from the start of this tour the importance of keeping our discipline.
"It is a nice reminder that sometimes things happen and you need to take one for the team. If you get whacked and respond, the consequences for the team can be severe.
"We might find a similar situation in Australia if someone is grabbed off the ball and we have to make sure we don't react.
"From our point of view the good thing was that Owen wasn't injured or knocked out.
"I was pleased Brits wasn't sent off, and just given a yellow card. Had they played with 14 men it would have been less of a hit-out for us."
South Africa hooker Brits will appear in front of an independent disciplinary panel on Sunday at 09:00 Hong Kong time (02:00 BST) following the first-half incident.
He later took to Twitter to apologise for his actions, saying: "Lions played very well tonight. Sorry for the over-reaction brother (Owen Farrell), took it too far. Hope you have a great tour."
Gatland, whose men now head to Australia for nine further games culminating in a three-Test series against the Wallabies, declared himself "very pleased" after an eight-try victory against opponents who struggled badly in the oppressive heat and humidity.
Scrum-half Mike Phillips and wing Alex Cuthbert both grabbed a brace of tries, while open-side Justin Tipuric impressed in attack and at the breakdown, and lock Richie Gray and flanker Dan Lydiate both played the full 80 minutes to prove their fitness after recent long lay-offs.
"It was a good run-out, and exactly what we wanted," Gatland added. "It was a lot tougher than the scoreline suggests.
"We probably missed three or four tries when we were guilty of maybe trying to force it, but we kept our composure and the scoreline reflected our dominance in the end.
"It was tough out there. The players said the ball was like a bar of soap, with the humidity and heat.
"There is no-one I was unhappy with in terms of their performance. I thought our control was excellent and our kicking strategy was pretty good. We can't complain.
"It was disappointing to concede a try but going forward, the players who played today have laid down a marker. It was about us putting some foundations in place."
Captain Paul O'Connell described the energy-sapping conditions as "probably the most difficult I have ever played in".
"It was just hard to recover during the game," he added. "You would be huffing and puffing and generally you get a break for a scrum or line-out, but the heart-rate just didn't seem to go down.
"But it is great to have got that game under our belts. We did a lot of good stuff."
Barbarians coach Dai Young, a three-time Lion himself, believes the tourists will go on to beat the Wallabies in the Test series starting in three weeks' time.
"The Lions were very efficient," he said. "I would have thought they will feel there is still room for improvement, but they certainly starved us of possession, both at line-out and scrum.
"We were tackling for large parts of the game, and that was always going to sap our energy, but I thought our commitment was far better than it was against England [when they lost 40-12].
"I expect a Lions [series] victory in Australia - I think they have got too much strength in depth across the board.
"Competition for places is going to be huge, and that is only going to push up the performance levels."
Mr Trump also told NBC News it was his decision alone to sack James Comey.
Mr Comey was leading an inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election and possible collusion between Trump campaign officials and Moscow.
Mr Trump has dismissed the probe as a "charade", a claim directly contradicted by Mr Comey's successor.
In his first interview since firing the FBI director, Mr Trump told NBC News on Thursday he had asked Mr Comey whether he was under investigation.
"I said, if it's possible would you let me know, 'Am I under investigation?' He said: 'You are not under investigation.'"
"I know I'm not under investigation," Mr Trump told the interviewer, repeating a claim he made in Tuesday's letter of dismissal to Mr Comey.
The president also appeared to undercut the initial White House explanation that he fired Mr Comey on the recommendation of top justice officials.
"He's a showboat. He's a grandstander. The FBI has been in turmoil. I was going to fire Comey. My decision," Mr Trump said.
"I was going to fire regardless of recommendation."
Mr Trump recently tweeted that the Russia-Trump collusion allegations were a "total hoax".
But on Thursday he denied that he wanted the FBI and congressional inquiries to stop.
"In fact, I want the investigation speeded up," the president told NBC.
"There's no collusion between me and my campaign and the Russians," he said.
Mr Trump said he had just sent a letter via a law firm to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham stating that he has no stake in Russia.
"I have nothing to do with Russia," he said. "I have no investments in Russia. I don't have property in Russia. I'm not involved with Russia."
On Thursday afternoon Mr Trump retweeted a five-month-old post by comedienne Rosie O'Donnell, his arch-foe in the world of entertainment.
The White House has depicted the Russia inquiry as "probably one of the smallest things" that the FBI has "got going on their plate".
But acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe said on Thursday that it was "a highly significant investigation".
In testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, he also cast doubt on White House claims that Mr Comey had lost the confidence of his staff.
"I can confidently tell you that the vast majority of employees enjoyed a deep and positive connection to Director Comey," Mr McCabe said.
The acting FBI director vowed not to update the White House on the status of the investigation and to notify the Senate panel of any attempt to interfere with the inquiry.
Republican committee chairman Richard Burr asked Mr McCabe if he had ever heard Mr Comey tell Mr Trump the president was not the subject of investigation.
Mr McCabe said he could not comment on an ongoing inquiry.
The acting FBI director did not confirm reports that Mr Comey had asked for more resources for the agency's Russia inquiry.
Mr McCabe said he believed the FBI had sufficient funding to conduct the probe.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein - who penned a memo detailing Mr Comey's "serious mistakes" - brought a reputation for even-handedness and probity with him to the job of deputy attorney general. Two weeks later, that reputation is being put to the test.
Such is life in the Trump White House, where every appointee and aide is just one tweet, event or press conference away from the maelstrom.
On Tuesday night, as the administration press shop scrambled to explain the president's surprise decision to sack his FBI director, Trump supporters leaned hard on Mr Rosenstein's credentials to paint the move as a nonpartisan decision based on Mr Comey's overall job performance.
The deputy attorney general reportedly balked at the characterisation that he was the driving force behind Mr Comey's dismissal, however.
Mr Rosenstein's threat to resign is different than actually packing bags, of course, and his fate at this point is still tethered firmly to the president he chose to serve.
There is a way out, though. Due to Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recusal on the matter, it's Mr Rosenstein's call whether to appoint a special counsel to head the Justice Department's Russia investigation. It may be the one card he can play to sidestep the growing frenzy that spins around him.
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Chief executive Elon Musk told reporters on Sunday that his cars would soon make greater use of the on-board radar to detect obstacles ahead.
The car will also do more to make sure drivers are paying attention while in self-driving mode.
A Tesla driver died earlier this year when the technology missed a lorry.
As part of the update to self-driving mode, if repeated warnings to hold the steering wheel are ignored, the vehicle will need to be parked before the autonomous functions can be re-engaged.
When drivers activate Autopilot, the car takes control - keeping pace with traffic and even changing lanes. The 200-plus additions to the software come as it is being investigated by the US road safety regulator.
A Tesla driver was killed in May when the car he was driving hit a lorry that had been turning left - Autopilot was unable to spot the white trailer against the bright sky.
No date has been announced for the conclusion of the investigation, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told the BBC.
In a call with reporters, Mr Musk said the NHTSA appeared to be “happy” with the Autopilot update.
Mr Musk will hope that the update will appease those critical of Tesla's introduction of the self-driving technology.
In July, a consumer rights group in the US accused Tesla of an “aggressive rollout of self-driving technology”. It urged Tesla to rename the technology as it felt “autopilot” was “misleading and dangerous”.
The updates to Autopilot, Mr Musk said, will give the car the ability to make greater use of the radar to spot potential dangers.
"After careful consideration, we now believe it can be used as a primary control sensor without requiring the camera to confirm visual image recognition,” Mr Musk wrote in a blog post.
The challenge in using radar is in avoiding “false alarms”, he added, where small objects like cans could be interpreted as a threat.
Overhead signs or bridges can also be misinterpreted if the road dips. To combat this, Tesla cars are going to be used to “learn” about the road.
"Initially, the vehicle fleet will take no action except to note the position of road signs, bridges and other stationary objects, mapping the world according to radar,” Mr Musk wrote.
"The car computer will then silently compare when it would have braked to the driver action and upload that to the Tesla database.
"If several cars drive safely past a given radar object, whether Autopilot is turned on or off, then that object is added to the geocoded whitelist.”
Tesla did not give a date for the Autopilot update to be rolled out. The radar hardware has been a part of the company’s cars since October 2014.
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It was announced on Friday that Beijing would host the 2022 Winter Olympics despite the city's lack of snow.
No-one was available for comment at either the Beijing Games' organising committee or Disney.
But just how similar are the two songs?
Judge for yourself: have a listen to China's Olympic song 'The Snow and Ice Dance', and Frozen's 'Let It Go'.
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That was an early assessment of 2016 BBC African Footballer of the Year nominee Riyad Mahrez's skills by his childhood friend Madjid.
"We used to fight with one another so Riyad could play on our team," he adds, recalling France-born Mahrez's summer visits to his father's hometown of El Khemis in Algeria - where members of his family still live.
Now the whole world is aware of Mahrez's astonishing ability to seemingly manipulate a football at will - and it is the sport's biggest clubs, not children, who fight to have him on their team.
After inspiring Leicester City to the Premier League title in 2016 in what was probably the biggest shock in English football history, Mahrez was the subject of a large bid from Arsenal and also linked with Chelsea and Barcelona.
The Algeria international had just been voted Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year - the first African to win the award - after he lit up the campaign with his wonderful wing wizardry, 17 goals, 11 assists and multiple moments of magic in 34 league games.
It was the season when Mahrez, who joined Leicester from Le Havre for a meagre £400,000 in 2014, came of age and both he and the Foxes reaped benefits beyond their wildest dreams.
Perhaps one of the most memorable 'pinch yourself' moments came on 6 February at the home of reigning champions Manchester City, when Mahrez clipped the ball past Nicolas Otamendi, sold Martin Demichelis an outrageous step-over and lashed home a fierce shot to put Leicester 2-0 up.
Leicester won the match 3-1 and, with Mahrez contributing another three league goals after that, it undoubtedly spurred them on to a truly stunning success.
Hardly surprising, then, that he was much in demand.
Teams were queuing up to sign the slenderly built Mahrez, a player whose creativity, directness and end product breathed new life into a style of wing play that both excites fans and is a dream for his team-mates.
But the 25-year-old resisted their advances and has since said he was motivated to stay at Leicester to prove himself again.
There can be little questioning of his determination and resilience, with France-born Mahrez having grown up in the tough Parisian suburb of Sarcelles and coped, aged 15, with the death of his father, Ahmed, to a heart attack.
He has scored four goals for Leicester this season - including three in the Champions League - and he has played a huge role in Algeria qualifying for next year's Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon.
"Riyad makes the team bigger. Everybody now knows Algeria because of Riyad," says Algeria team-mate Mehdi Abied.
"In Algeria we are really proud of Riyad. It's not easy to be the best player of the Premier League. It's something big.
"Everyone in Africa likes Riyad. I remember we went to Ethiopia with Algeria, and they were supporting Riyad more than their team."
The 54-year-old takes charge of a team in need of a lift, with Pirates lying 10th in the league and having recently suffered a club record 6-0 defeat.
Jonevret has been named coach of the year in both Sweden and Norway.
"It is my sincere hope and desire that I can repay the faith the Chairman has shown in me," the former assistant coach of Sweden said.
"I greatly appreciate the opportunity to work as head coach of Pirates," he told the club website.
Jonevret, who won the Swedish league and cup double with Djurgardens in 2005, was then voted coach of the year in Norway in 2009 after his work with Molde.
His most recent job was with Viking Stavanger, who he left in November 2016 after four years in the job.
The former player takes over with immediate effect from Augusto Palacios, who had been working as interim coach since November following the dismissal of Muhsin Ertugral.
Pirates chairman Irvin Khoza said Jonevret will bring 'a wealth of experience and professionalism.'
"One other aspect which attracted us to Mr Jonevret was his loyalty to the clubs he worked for," Khoza told Pirates website.
"In an industry where coaches around the world have become accustomed to moving from one club to another, Jonevret has shown in (his) previous clubs that he is someone who wants to be involved in long term projects and not quick fixes."
"Success is a journey and not a sprint. It is our desire that the club goes back to its former glory and in Jonevret, we believe that we have someone who can achieve that."
Sweden's assistant coach between 2011 and 12, Jonevret will be joined on the bench by Benson Mhlongo and Herold Legodi as assistant coaches.
Pirates' only realistic chance of success this season is winning the South African FA Cup, which begins next month.
The Johannesburg club won the African Champions League in 1995 and were runners-up in the Confederation Cup in 2013.
Earlier this month, the club's supporters rioted when Pirates lost 6-0 to rivals Mamelodi Sundowns, the reigning African champions.
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